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MY MOTHER'S VOICE.
mOther's voice! how often creeps
Its cadence on my lonely hours!
Like beatings sent on wings of sleep :
Or dew upon the nnconscious flowers
1 might forget her melting prayer
While pleasure's pulses madly fly;
But in the still unbroken air,
Her gentle tones come stealing by—
And years of sin and manhood flee,
And leave me at my mother's knee.
Tne . bNok of nature abd the print,
Of beauty on the uhispering sea,
) Give still to me some lineament
Of what I hate been taught to be.
- My heart is harder and perhaps
My manlines has drpnk up tears,
And there's a rnildew.in the lapse .
Of a few miserable years—
Vitt nature's book is er:en yet
all my mother's lessons writ.
I have been out at even tide,
Beneath a moonlight sky cf Rpring
When earth was garnished like a bird,
.And night had on her silver wing—
When bursting buds find diamimds.grass,
And waters, leaping to the lighta
And all that makes the pulses pass
Ahd uider dee:mess thronged the i.eglit—
When all was beauty then have I,
With friends nn whom my love is Bung,
Like mvrth on winds of Araby,
Gazed up where evening's lamp is hung.
And when the beauteous spirit there,
Flung over me its Olden chain.
TVIv mother's voice cane on the ste t
Like the light dropping of the rain.
And resting on some silver star,
The spirit of a bended knee,
Fre poured her deep and fervent prayer
That our eternity might be
To ri,e in Heaven like stars at night
And tread a living path of light.
A Blacksmith's Revenge.
INCIDENTS OF THE FRENCH REV OLUTION
It was a summer's afternoon in Champagne, that
host delig;aful provinceo( a beautiful country "La
Belle France.T The tipe and bnesting grapes hung
in lien and tempting clusters on the graceful wreath
-ins vines, half concealed by their bright and luxu
riant Miage. The declining sun appeared to be
hurrying with accelerated pace to his gorgeous and
rose curtained conch in the western sky, ar.d the
gontle breeze murmured through. the branches of
die flue old patriarchs of the forest, changing or va
ry inc die, its:kering and fantastic shadows their
sinewy arms across the retired lime country road.
A party of peasants emerged from a neat cottage
that stood about a half a stone's throw from the
hrghway. and proceeded quickly but quietly in the
direction of the humble little village chute) iit was
het the Sabbath . , yet they were dressed in their ho
liday attire, and a casual observer might easily have
seen they were bent on a mission of more than or
Binary interest. The foremost couple were a young
man and a beautiful girl„ and with a small hand of
friends they were proceeding to the chapel to be
united in the holy and silken chains of wedlock.—
Ile was a model onmitffiy slren.,4 - th and beauty, and
although only a village blacksmith, his broad, ant
pie and massive brow. deep and thouslatul dark
grey eye, arda large but firm and well prop .:ting
ed mouth, more evidence of a noble and m.yettor
mind. The contrast was great. between his sinewy
limbs, ant massive chest, displayed to full advan
tage by the beautiful costume of „his country, and
the krasile figure by his side. NM. hair was a rich
'dark brown, and tier eye, were black, but not the,
li“ty and passionate hue of Italy or Spain ; they
had a most e erea.ing• expression, and her whole
,appearance had that wistful. depending and coufid
cis spirit so flattering to the heart of man. Guilt
lds-. from the hour of her birth, of the many inven
tions with which the city dames ruin their figures.
,'ln was all that unstudied grace could make her,
tlpt. middle bei2.lll, and of a delicate but full
a•ul voluptuous fi4ure.
it tint ww w
alerfal,with .thee chiums, that
Adieu the pun.; SWlLflleur Gonsalve cane down
with a party of his /115A/dote companions, after a
ivlnter spent in die cusionialy orgies and debauch
cries of the metropolis, she should have attracted
admiriie , eye : nor was she long without find.
ing.she had become possessed of a lave more hor
tiule tha^ hate, the love of a cold and heartless li
bertine.. She had repulsed his insulting proposals
as peremptorily . as she dared, for she well knew
in the then state of society, the fate of her father
and mother, and every one belonging to her, was
completely at his mercy ; she' knew how hard it
was for a peasant-to obtain redress against a person
of gentle blood ) and hox ridiculous it would be to
hope for such a thing, when the injurer was a weal
thy and noble .Montinorence. In consulting with
her parents and betrothed, they determined on an
immediate marriage, hopir g that, bad as he was,
he would not dare to transgress so fragrantly the
lettotr of thq law as to tear ait from the bosom
Of tier husffand ; they had chosen the afternoon for
theoporemony. kwowing that the young noble and
hisOmpanions spent the after dinner part of the
day s . in drunken revelinga . The aged cure had been
apprised of their intentions, and waiting to receive
them at the sacred altar, fearful.of interception,
there was no time spent in delay, and the core
mai; wasmearly completed, when
, a tall and rich
ly attired form very suddenly stepped in the door
way.'
"Stop !" he shouted, in a voice of authority.—
"A marriage in my seigneure without my leave!
Who has dared to•do this !"
- The bridegroom beard this insulting speech with
lowering brass and flushed cheek, but the bride's
lather hasfiq , stepped forward, hoping' by excuses
and t.ubruisSion to conciliate the young lord.
" May it - please your lordship, we did not wish
to intrude on your lordshipTs leisure with such tri
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'ryiitg a pretty girl without my leave a trifle ? Out
of the way, old dotard. -As to you, Monsieur," he
said, turning with mock respect to the blacksmith,
"a poetry-writing blacksmith is an animal we have
no ambition to meddle with, but I must take thin
pretty damsel to the chateau to teach her
° better
manners." At the last words, he was advancing
to seizo the bride, but the smith sprang forward
and placed himself before her.
" Back !" shouted be ; " touch her not with your
polluted hands."
The young nobleman halt drew his sword, but
immediately replacing it, eicclaimed,," Come, my
friends, come and see the eighth wonder of the
world, a villain who has dared to beard his lord ;
truly the days of Jacquerie have come again."
At this call,' four or five of his friends entered the
church, followed by about double the number of
servants.
Turning to the father ; the young nobleman stied,
" Seize that boor aid bind him, and give him four
dozen of lashes with a riding whip, to mend his
manners."
The terrified peasants shrank back appalled from
a.conflict with the power of a Seigneur, but the
blacksmith rethained motionless by the side of his
bride; the servants rushed upon him ; but numer
ous as they were, three times he dashed them to
the ground 'like children, and seizing the half faint
ing Mary, attempted to escape ; but encouraged by
the voice of their lord, the , servants again sprang on
him, and finally, overpowered - by numbers, he fell,
and his hands and feet were instantly tied; the no
bleman then placed his heavy riding whip in the
hands ot the stoutest ot the menials, and desired
him to apply it to the blacksmith.
The man had a grudge against the blacksmith,
and with the entire streigth of a vigorous arm he
laid on his blows; unflinching they were borne;
not a groan, not a sigh escaped the victim, not even
the quivering of a limb or feature betrayed the tg
ony of his proud spirit, lor.his bodily pains were
nothing in comparison.
In the mean time, the young lord had seized the
fainting Marie and left the chapel, and immediate
ly after the outrage on the smith, the servants fol
lowed their master to the chateau.
Oue of the tertitied peasants now advanced, and
cut the bonds of the smith, while the remainder in
vain endeavored to comfort the agonized father and
mother of the unhappy bride. But the blacksmith
was not the man to waste his time crying; he at
once saw that uo effort of his could eave his.lost,
his gentle Marie, and he was terribly calm. Kneel
ing down on the hallowed spot beneath the idtar,
he vowed a vengeance so horrible that his com
panions' blood curdled in their veins as they heard
him, and then, -leaving the chapel involuntarily,
took his way towaids a neat little cottage, to which
he had loudly lived that day to carry back his
bride as mistiess.
Pa-sing hastily through to his own little room at
the back of the cottage, he opened the drawer of a
neat and old fashioned bureau, and taking out a
small paper parcel, he opened it; it contained a
luck of dark blown . hair. Oh ! how well he knew
it—how (then had he kissed it: how often, gazing
on that little curl, had he dreamed of the happy
e would spend there with-his own, his beau
!dal Marie; how devoted she Waft, how gentle,
'how kind, how mild, how forgiving, arinfoh ! how
he loved. her ; and now, Great God of heaven !
now. when lie thought of what she was enduring,
his blood felt like molten lava, his brain reeled
and burned, his eyes blazed like coals of fire in
their sockets, the strength of a strong mind 'pie
way : there was no one to see him, but 'his God,
and lie rolled on the,floor in speechless, helpless,
utter agony, tearing out handstall Of hair. Ile tried
to speak. he tried to cry, but could not; his tongue
was.dlied up; his very heart strings were crack
mg ; lie could have borne it manfully were she
dead, but now; oh God ! and he could do nothing,
no nothing, for the ravisher,' the fiend in human
shape, was one of the nobility:
Daylight the next morning found him many
miles from the beautitul village of Bun Sejour, and
far on the road to Paris: a sinal bundle hung over
on his back, on his smith's hammer; his face was
calm, but he had lived ten sears of agony and sub
feriitg in a single night.; he paused on the summit
of a hilt many miles from his home ; it command.
ed a view of the whole cSuntry; and with a shud
der, he turned to contemplate his * birthplace. The
towers of the distant chateau glistening in the morn
ing sun' first greeted his eyes; for a moment he
gasped for breath, then, raising his clasped hands
over his head, his face black with passion, his
parched lips -receded from his' tightly clenched
teeth, through which one word came hissing gut
turally, as if the sound was from his heart—not his
tongue—and that word was sevrasar.!
About a month afteithe abduction, Marie, came
back to her father's house a raving maniac, nor did
she Inng survive; she found a peaceful rest in the
old churchyard, and 11er gentle spirit fled to the
land where nobility is- not respected.
The scene changes to Paris ; it is the dawning
of the revolution, and the dark masses of men move
sullenly thronghte.streent; _knits of individuals,
afterwards famous in the,rajwi of terror, were col
lected in retired coffee-houses, and even then dis
cussed the system of a Republic At - the corner
of a street in the Faubourg St. Antoine, a man was
telling a story toe crowd ; it was a story they had
frequently heard before—tray, that some of them
had eitperienced the - truthcit- 7 a tale of the nobles'
oppression, and the people's wrongs. Bat never
till they heard it glowing and vivid, from the lips
of that earnest orator, bad they felt the shame of
letting such injuries go uaavenged. 13e *imbed,
and from that grim arid Amity crowd Wee' loud,
hoarse and fierce, the glorious and ever memora
ble cry, " Bait, bas av,echitsarirtocrats." The ora
tor was the blacksmith of Son Sejour. •
It vrati the morning of the taking of the Castle;
a crowd - had collected in the great square • a than
sprang upon the hitchers' etaU and spohc to the'
peofte—he told Ihcan a►'grcat and good man e the
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pwple's friend —..he MW them how he gained the
bate of the nobles by denouncing their licentious
ness; he told them how the " lettte de cachet" was
'issued, and he was tortured to death in the dun
ge...ni of the Bastile ; there was a silence when be
had finished for half a minute; at length a man in
a carpenter's garb spoke; be waived a large axe
over his head, and the words he uttered were—
" Down with the Bastile." That evening a mass
of smoking ruins showed the place where the
strong hold of tyranny had been, and the tyrant in
his castle, to the farthest end of Europe, trembles],
when he heard " the Bastile is down." The speak
er was the blacksmith of Bon Below.
The national convention sat in judgment on the
king; the people, the "Sans Culotte," were collec
ted in the marketplace; a man sprang on a earl,
and ad 'reseed them, " Fellow citizens," said be,
" l•will tell you a story- you have heard when you
was young. There was once a , king and a queen"
—be sprang to the ground, but the listening crowd
took up the word, and the wind bore the cry of the
sovereign people to.the national assembly in their
judgment hall—" there was once a king & queen."
The story teller was the famous blacksmith of Bon
Sejour.
The army of the Directory bad marched ipto La
Vendee. Conceive de * Montmorence had one vir
tue, reckless and dauntless courage ; desperately
had he stood by his king, and by his order and gal
lantry had he sustained the honor of the Crz.lden
Lillies, in many a hard fought field ; he was, in La
Vendee, one of the leaders of that brave butimis•
guided peasantry. The tri-color was sweeping all
before it, and the Vendeans bad collected their
whole force for one desperate conflict; the iirmies
met, and fiercely contested was the battle.
Desperately Gonsalve de Montmorence sustain
ed his hariLearned reputation on that bloody field,
but at length he had to turn his horse's head to fly,
for the day was irretrievably gone ; he fled to a
wood, and bad just gained it, when he beard a
hoarse voice calling on him to stop: tie turned to
look; but one horseman followed him. ~Montrnor
ence never fled from one man," he proudly ex•
claimed, and toured on his pursuer; desperately
they fought ; 31ontmorence wounded his antagonist
three times severely, for he was a better swords.
man, and, certain of victory, he made one unguar
ded pass, and the sword of his antagonist entered
his heart, nor did it stop till the hilt struck against
Slontmorence's breast; he fell, and his 'opponent
drew out his sword, tore open his vest, and taking
a small lock of hair from .over his heart, dipped it
in the lite•blood of Gonsalve,de Mentmoreuce, ex
claiming: • -
Marie, Marie, at length thou art avenged ;"
then, feeling his own end approaching, he feebly
raised his head and shouted, " Vive la Republique !
Vive la France ! Marie, Marie, Je veins, Je veins,"
and fell forward on his face, dead.
It was the blacksmith of Bon Sejour.
THE TRA TEL *RCM THE ISTHML7B,-.-A cones.
po cadent or the Tribune writing from Cruces; on the
Bta nit , gives a dread ful account of the journey across
the Isthmus. He says :
We remained two days and one night at Chartres
—paid Si for each meal and 'SI for a place to slep
—it has taken us three days to come up the river.
We slept the first night at a town called Ratoon:
for two shilling a bed—that is to say some had bad
hammocks and others myself included hard board.
The. next night nine of us slept at a Coop, (the
houses are all alike, large chicken coops, but clean
enough,) on the banks of the river. We got up
a supper of two hens and,: some yams, and did
very well.
The nest night we slept arGorgoha in hammock,
at the house of the Alcade—board t 2 per day,(2
dieals and coffee) and board very good. Houses
nearly all coops-2 or 3 adobe At Corgona there
is an adobe house called the Hotel Francais, which is
tolerably well kept. At this place a woman (native)
died of cholera and was buried the day- we exriv.
ed. Yesterday we arrived here, (houses all coops
bat one or two.)
Our joumenup the river was really very pleasant :
the scenery is beautiful We hired a canceler four
persons and baggage for 850—one half in advance,
and the bargain made before the Alcade of Charges .
When others come this way tell them. to do the
same thing, that is take their_ boatsmen to the
Alcade and make dui bargain before him, taking
a receipt - for whatever they pay. • They should be
careful also to make the natives understand that they
FLED themselves by the way and also to arrange to
go to Cruces, PO that they may either go there or
stopif they choose at Gorgon. The boatmen al
ways wish to stop at Gorg,ona, as it saves them some
trouble.
We saw plenty of alligators, and many beautiful
birds; if it were not for the troublesome rain the
passage would be pleasant. As it was, it did not
rain all the time and we enjoyed things' amazing
ly. The alligators did not prevent us from bathing
twice iri the beautiful river.—The water of the river
is as good as Croton in Summer without ice.
SYMPATIIT.—it is sweet to tarn from the chilling
and heartless world—the world that re often mis-
judges our nsotives—te seek in souse , sympathising
heart for crinsolation—to find, congenial Souls that
can feel oar sorrows, can share our joys, can un
derstand and appreciate the feelings which actuate
ns. In sorrow, how consoling firths biassed voice
of sympathy. In our greatest trials it lightens mir
burdens--making smoother per pathway before, us,
and pouring a healing balm into our hearts, endow
lesser afflictions are forgotten is its presence.
Lscomas.—Grief, - idter WI, is like'smoking in a
damp country—what was at first necessity beimmes
afterwards an indulgetice. • •
Au_apt quotation is like a lamp Which flings its
light over the whole sentence— t-.
The history of mow lives May be briefly compre
hended under thtee heads -= our follies, our 'tanks,
and our inisfertimes. • I • ,
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islike money —ecom to , walk*, lad
you never re it, • t
fi
What constitutes the belongings of royality is an
unsatisfied question with many There is a vague
idea of crowds of servitors, from the noble down
to the meanly born, attending upon majesty, and
making up a great show at a great cost, and to ve:y
little purpose, except as regards show. The fol
lowing extract of a letter !tom the London corms
pondent ofthe Ne - x York Courier and Enquirer,
will furnish interesting information in the matter:
Although, as far as respects the personal exer
cise of political power, the British sovereign can
hardly' be called a substantial entity, yet their isone
way iu which she makes her existence obvious to
the dullest sensibilities of tier subjects: The civil
list conferrei by act of Parliament on her Majesty,
as her regular annu.d allowance, is £385,000 ster
ling, or nearly Iwo millions of dollars. Of this en
ormous sum £BO,OOO are assigned for her own pri
vate use, and the remainder is expended in the de
partments of the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Stew
ard, and the Master of the horse and in royal
bounties, charities, pensions, and special services.
The function of the Lord Chamberlain, who is
always a peer of the realm, is to exercise general
supervision over the Queen's apartments, and to
make arrangernests in regard to chaplains, physi.
clans, artisans, musicians, physicians, and in re
gard to funiitme, wardrobe, &c. The appointment
is always political, and terminates at the close of
every administration. The Lord Chamberlain nev
er performs the duties of his office in pea-on, but
his salary is none the less on that account. It
amounts to £2OOO, or nearly $lO,OOO annually. In
his departments are a vast number of functionaries,
or rather dignitaries, since very many of the offices
are meresinecures. A master of the Robes, whose
station is merely honorary, receives annually:2s,oo
—I reduce it to Federal money for the conveni
ence of your readers; eight Ladies of the Bedcham
ber, whose only duty is to visit and dine with het
Majesty t .ree fortnights in the year, and who in
variably are the wires or daughters of peers, have a
salary of $2500 each; eight Maids of Honor, and
eight Bedchamber Women, who are also ladies of
Melt birth, and whose duty is merely to give the
Queen the " pleasure of their company" for a few
weeks in the year have each an annual salary of
$1500; eight Lords in Waiting, and eight Grooms
in Waiting, whose business is simply to visit and
dine with the Queen three fortnights in the year,
have, the furmer $3500 each, and the latter $l5OO
each ; a Master of Ceremonies, who introduces
Ambassadors' to the Sovereign or state oceasims,
ha r t 81500: sixteen Gentlemen Ushers, with no du
ties, have froth 5600- to $lOOO each; fourteen
I Grooms of the Chamber, and eight Sergeants-at-
Arms, whose offices are complete sinecures, re
ceive salaries ranging from $2OO to $5OO. •
Four Officers of the Robes, three Kings of arms,
six Heralds, two State Pages, five Pages of the
Backstairs, six Pages of the Presence, four Queen's
Messengers, all receive salaries as large as most of
our State Governors--same having real and others
merely nominal duties. The poet laureate, at pre
sent Wordsworth, receives 500 dollars per anum,
the Examiner of Plays 2000 dollars, and. the Sur
veyor of Pictures and the Master of the Tennis
Court, each high' salaries. Sixty chaplains and
twenty diflerent• physiciaus are attached to the
Court, some performing service and receiving pay,
and others not. One hundred and forty yeomen of
the guard, whose only duty is to attend upon her
Majesty on State occasions, in the King's guard
costume of the sixteenth century, enjoy salaries
amounting in the aggregate to 60,000 dollars. The
entire sum expended in the Lord Chamberlain's
department, including household salaries and
tradesmen's bills, is 350,000 dollars.
The Lord High Steward always of noble birth
has a salary of 310,000 ; his dot) which Is alWays
performed by proxy, is to govern the Queen's
household, and to provide for the culinary depar:-
meat. He has under him quite a little army of
treasures, comptrollers, secretaries, clerks, -store
keepers, comics, table deckers, porters, &c. He is
also chief judge of the Court of the Marshalsea,
which consists of nine marshalmen, whose busi
ness is the administration of justice between the
Queen's servants. The total • expenditure of the
Lord Stcgird's department amounts annually to
about :600,01:10.
The Master of the Horse, who has charge of Her
Majesty's horse and stables, has a salary . of $l2,
500 ; and be has 'tinder him a large number of
equerries, pages, postillions, coachmen, grooms,
footmen, &c., all paid with liberal salaries. In his
department, there is no want of sinecures. A Mas
ter of the Buckhenmds, who has no duties whatev
er, receives $BOOO annually; and a Grand Falco
ner, although Her Majesty possesses not a_ single
hawk, has an annual salary of $6OOO. The total
expenses of the Master of the Horses' Department
is 8324,000 annually. The office is now held by
the Duke of Norfolk, the peer next in precedence
to the Royal Family. Hisancestms, clear back to
the Reformation, were, us he himself is, of Ihe Ro
man Catholic faith, an I suffered heavy eisabilities
and amercements on account of their religion. It
was a sight. curious and suggestive enough, to be
hold, as I did, last Sa?tember, on the Ocelasion of
the royal prorogation of Parliament, this sturdy dis
ciple ntßome. seated in hie. official capacity, in
the Royal Slate carriage, as the special attendant 'of
Her Majesty, the Head of the Established Church
•Besides the enormous list, specified above, large
apitroptiations am constantly made tor the maim*
mince of the royal palaces, castles, pavillione,
mein, parks, gardens, pleasure-grout:l4 stables,
Br.e. The royal family also draw heavily elan the
public purse. Prince- Albert, as: Royal Consort, the
dudes of which station are-pretty much limited to
the *halation at Somerset - 414MM of the additions
to bi t s Cilia?, receives strmnally T 30,00, Or nearly
$150,000 ! And as field Marshal in, the Army, a
Coker - el in the FootThianis, Conirttible or 'Windsor
dimger'imilitiocl PAO, P44lll4,Yrni4jell
of the tOoogiiesi, ;44e1i . ~,p (lo,4sof Arm
=II
Royalty.
lutee9ecures, be obtains every year at least" t-ia,
000. mom. Adelaide, the Queen Dowager, relict
of the late William 1V.,, has an &metal allowance of
$100.006. - The Duchess of Kent, the Queen's moth
er, receives XlO,OOO. One of the Queen's uncles,
Duke of Cambridge, receives £27,000; another,
the Duke of Cumberland, now Kiug of Hanover,
.£20 7 900. Another member of the Royal Family,
Leopold, King of the Belgians, receives ,C 50,000;
and the Duchess of Gloucester, the Queen's aunt,
.f16.1)C0.
The grants made by' parliament from year to
year, for the Royal accommodation, and kir- royal
salaries -ard pimsions, do .not average less than
three millions and a half of dollars. For the mairs
tenarice of the Royal dignity, a very large sum
which does not appear in this calculation, is sm k
in plate, jewels, &c. The Queen's plate, at Ft
James's palace alone, is estimated to be worth ter o
millions of pounds. The Crown jewels kept ut
the Tower of London are valued at three millions
of pounds. The crown worn by her Majesty on
state occasions, is worth about 8115,000! and _that
used by her at her coronation, as I. was told by its
showman, is prized at one million pounds. For
the consideration of a single sixpence, my repub
lican vision has been dazzled by the sight of this
latter magnificent diadem. The ground work is
red - vclvet, and it is covered with oneblazing mass
of opals, sapphires and diamonds. Around this
imperial crown, were ranged various diadems,
sceptres, orbs, swords of justice and mercy, gulden
spurs, a golden wine fountain three feet high and
of the same circumference, a golden baptismal font .
chalices, tankards, salt cellars, spoons, and many
other massive utensilS of gold used at the corona
tion of the sovereign, or at the christening of chil
dren 01 the Loyal family.
Besides the annual appropriation's made by Par:
'lament, the Crown receives large revenues from
other sources ; from the immense estates it posses
ses in a.I parts of the kingdom, from admiralty
droits, from Gibraltar duties, from a a increase of
vacant bishoprics, from escheats, forfeitures, waifs ;
estrays, treasure-trove, &c. The revenues of the
Duchy of Cornwall amount to £2O 000 annually.
and go to the support of the young Prince of IVales :
the revenues of the Duchv of Lancaster amount to
110,000, and are, paid into the privy purse of roy
alty.
Tug HigNA.—Mr Bruee says that the hyenas
are very numerous, and so bold that they come in
to the streets of the cities.—Fronr. evening till tow
ards morning, they go howling:about, and seeking
the carcasses of dead animal's. Mr. Bruce had
several aimed men with him, when he was oblig
ed to kill one or more of those animals in their
own defence. One night, while he was very busy,
he thought he heard something pass behind him
towards the bed, but on looking he saw nothing.
Haring finished what be was about, he went out
for a few minutes, and on his return, was met with
a pair of •large blue eyea;glaring at him in tne dark.
When a light was brought, ate tound a hyena stan
ding near,the head of his bed with two or three
large bunches of candles in his mouth. Air. Bruce
struck him with a pike or spear, on which the crea
ture dropped his candles and attacked him with the
greatest ferocity. His servant coming rip at this
moment, the fierce beast was despatched without
doing further mischief. , This hyena had stolen in
to Mr. Broce's room while hisdoor happened to be
open, and hid himself behind his bed, to wait for
an opportunity for stealing away with his candles
which he had smelled.
Dr. Spairman tells us a curious story of a hyena,
which was told him at Cape of Good Hope. One
night the soldiers had a feast near the Cape when
one of them, who was the trumpeter, drank so much
that he could not stand up. His companions nbt
wanting him in the room, carried him our of the
floors, and laid him down by the side .ofthe house,
to get cool and sober. The trumpeter lay there and
went to sJeep,when a hyena came along, and think
ing him dead, began to carry him away so as to
make a meal of him without being disturbed It
was some timerbefore the man awoke; to as to
know the danger of his situation. When he did so
he found himself on the back of the hyena, who
making off towards the mountain with him, Ls fast
as possible. Being horror struck at fin iinghirnsei fin
the power of the beast, his fear brought him to his
senses, and seizing his trumpet which hung around
his neck he sonnied the alarm. The beast think
ing he had only a dead man; was as much fright
ened at the sound of tho trumpet, as the man was
at his situation, so dropping his prey, they scam
pered away from each other al fast as possible. It
is not probable that any other man but the trump
eter could have escaped so easily.
AGRICULTURE es. Catmg.—We hearda fact re
cently, which shows in an intresting manner the
elect of ag,ricultmal pursuits upon the morals - We
should like to know if an examination of all prison
ers would confirm the report.
A person who owns a tract of ,marshy land on
was a standing crop of gran, applied tothet. keeper
Of a house ofcorrection, to sell the stantling gran
thinkinghe would take it on favourable:AO% as
the convicts ander his care could cut the. grass.
The keeper answered that net one of. the prisoners.
brew how to wow; and he seldom, if •ever, had
any convicts who did know how.
This statement goes to show the healthful influ
ence of agriculture upon morals, and the , elementa
rymtlm chainet almost who engage in it. It is evident,
tot itiie , as well a s many others, that it would
well if of our young men choom the occu
pation of far th er, instead of going to the cities,
where tin Clotliemand . !: false tiintil ity 7 allure them,
and wheri so manjr are caught in the net of vice,
and tarried to destruction- The farmer's: life is the
most independent of all, sad. it-may ,be the -happi
est: - It isifie Most lealthfuil to theliody,Taiiirisit
not strange that _so. large a _proportion • of the.yOnih
whoshould_learn to -earn% on theirlatherlifains,
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MY OWN THOUGHTS
Oh. would this entailed andbeatisitibeasd
Could cease to strugele and be cnsl;
Long has it served., and been a Inark
For the world's scorn and. Intim will,
let now it breaks ; bear no mum*
'Twos over-bunhened hum before,
Oh tell me not ! Let me not heaf
The scorn they-showered upon thy time ',a.
Fur Mt ° tilt whispered in. mine pr,
-And thrills to madness my poor brain.
'A.nd then are times at Whitt I crave
The drear, dark mystery ut theoravet
Am! must it ever be as mw?
And ant I never to be free
From slander's maple and 'envy‘s vow V.
Ah! is there no sweet charity
Dwells in the earth-born here below—ft
That thus they smile . apint the blow
Which stripe* a ' , Rung girl to the dust—.
Aud'ilash'd forever from her heart
The dreams orbliss .he long had nursed
• And bade them all disperse, depart....
Have they no pity for the fate
Of une..thus made .o desolate 1
They do not know—They eannisffeel
How deep the wounds their slight words make••
Vi'nunds which, once gicen, nought eau Leal.
Or ease the 'enslave bosom's ache.
But ah. it is my lot, to bear
Of this world's ills, a heavy share. P. M.
The Great Serpent, Adams Grimy, Ohio.
Probably the most extraordinary earthwork thus
tar discovered at the West is the Great Serpent.—
It is situated on Brush Creek at a point known es
"Three Forks," on Entry l,Ola , near the north lints
of Adams county, Ohio. No plan or description
has hithero been.published nor does the fact of its
existence appear to be known beyond the seclud
ed vicinity in which it occurs. The notice'first
re
ceived by the authors of these • researches, was
exceedingly vague and indefinite,"and- led to the
conclusion that it was a work of defence, with bas
tions at regular intervals;. a feature so extraordi
envy as to induce a visit ; which resulted in the
discovery here presented The true character of the
work was apparent on the first inspection.
It is situated upon a hit - . 11 crescent-form bill or
spur of land, rising 150 feet about the level of
Brutal Creek, which washes its Wee. The side of
the hill. next the stream presents
,a perpendicular
wall of rock, while the other subsides rapidly,
through it is. not so steep as to prielnie cultivation.
The top of the hill is not level but slightly convex,
and presents a very even surface, 150 feet wide
by 1 ; 000 long, measuring from its extremity to the
point where it connects with the table laud. Con,
forming to the curve . of the hill, and occupying its
very summit, is the serpent, its head resting hear
the point, and its body winding back for 700 feet
iu graceful' undulations, terminating in a.triple coil
at the tail.. The entire length if extended, would
be not less than 1,000 feet. , The accompanying
plan, laid down Item accura te survey cur alone
give an adequate conception of the outline of the
work, which is clearly, and boldly defined, the
embankment being upward . of 5 feet in height,
by 30 feet base at the centre of the body, dintin
ishing somewhat "toward the head and tail. The
neck of the serpent is stretched out and slightly
curved, and its mouth is opened wide, as if in the
act of swallowing or ejecting an oval figure, which
rests' partially witifin the distended jaws. - This
oval is formed by an enbaukment of earth, without
any possible opening, Ann feet iu height, and is
perfectly regular in outline, its transverse and cun
jugate diameter being 16 and. 80 feet respectively.
The ;pound within the oval issl4htly elevated ; a
small cineularelevatkin of white stones much burn
ed once existed in its centre; but they have been
thrown :town and 'scattered by some ignorant visi.
tor, under the prevailing- impression probably that
gold was hidden beneath (hem. The - point of the
hill, within which this egg-shaped figure restsseems
to have been artificially cut to conform, 10' feet
wide, and somewhat inclining inward, all.aroudd
it.
Upon either side of the- serpent's head• extend
two small triangular elevations ten or twelve feet
over. They are not high, and although too distinct
to be overlooked, and yet too much obliterated to
be satisfactorily traced. Besides a platform or ler.
el'oval terrace, and a large mound in the centre of
the isthmustonnectiog the hill with the table land
beyond, there are no other remains, excepting a
few mounds, within six or ei 3 Ot miles; none, per
haps, nearer than the entrenched hill in Highland
county, thikeen milei distant. There are a nuns•
ber of works krver down on Brush Creek, toward
its month: but their character is not known. The
point on which this effigy occurs, commands an
extensive prospect, overlooking the " bottoms" at
the junction of the three, principal tributaries of the
creek. The alluvial terraces are here quite eiteu
sive, and it is a matter of =prise that uo works
occur Upon them.
This serpent, separate or in combination with the
circle, egg, or globe, has,been a predominent 'yin- .
bol among many of the primative nations.
.It
vaned in Egypt, Greece, and Assyria, and entered
widely into the superstitions of , the Celts the Ilia
door, and . the Chinese . it even penetrated into
America, and was conspicuous in the Tnythology of
the ancient Mexicans among whom its significance
does not seam* to have differed mateaialy tram that
which it possessed in the Old World. The fact that
ancient Celts, and perhaps other nations of the • ohl
artinent, erected temple *meter** kijhe tom. of
the serpent 9.1 e, Of Of this dee.
crjptiott is the, great 01100191 Abury,,_in ;England
in many.renwtsfise,mon inkßosiug aneies4 mon,
ament of the 4ritishiscandi:
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It is imposWe, Wolk" eatmemion, to tteowths
apakip'es whiehlbe Phi* *ltem sibitlits to the
lierpnA tempt 91,julaad t ,Or to poiotoot the as.
untto,whielt4he symbol Was applied in America,
art.inye,fracgit with the• ipeateet intim*
both,' reepectio the light which ft reflects upou
the krheiliTe eePers4 l o: IWO Teleete 4 9..e.J
.103910, , mol.esimciolly,opoo.Mo otk4 of thi
slam mot. • • 3 •
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