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TO W.A N . DA:
s o lrap itlortuno, April 1. 1854.
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eletttl:l Vcietrg.
THE MURDERED TRAVELLER.
R Y, c. •RTAIIY.
p, h e n spring. to twoode and wastes around,
/homily bronni aryl joy again,
Th.• m urdered truvetier'. bones were found,
'Fur down a narrow glen.
The fragrant birch. above him, hung
Hcr in‘selq,in the sky
And many a Vernil t•lossom sprang,
And nodded careless by.
The red•bird warbled as be wrought
11,. hanging nest t,'erhend.
And fearless. near the fatal spot,
Her young the partriage led.
But there" was weeping iftri away,
And gentle eyes. for him,
W it s w mghing many ari anxious day,
Were sorro w ful and dim.
They little knew, who loved him so,
The fearful death he met.
When s houting o'er the desert snow,
Unarmed, and hard beset;—
:Cur how, when round "the frosty pole
The nonhe•n dawn was red,
The mountain waif and willtl-eat stole
Ta banquet on the dead
Nor. how, when strangers found his bones,
They dressed the balmy bier,
And martte , l his grace Fith nameless stones,
Unmotstened by a tear.
B at long they /onkel', and feared, and wept,
N'nhrn hr. th.tant,hotnet
And dream.ll and started as they slept,
Fur joy: that he was xotne:
So long they looked—bat never spied
H.s welcome step again,
kne.w the feolul death he•died
Far down that narrow glen.
stittte)l gait.
THE INTREPID MOT tIER.
• A THRILLING SKETCH.
The ilil4ence from Paris to Chalon stopped one
erecting, just alter daik, some miles beyond the
l!ehle , own of Rourarp, to set an'Enclish lady and !
.ter child at alonely roadside Auberge. Mrs Mar
expected to Chid a carnage ready to take her
:I) Chateau de lienard a distance of some leagues,
whither she was rep wig; on a visit ; but eras told
It had not arrived The landlady, a tall, coarse
onking woman, who showed her into the vast hall
SPfreLf al duce as a sitting.room and kitchen,
I.:•erved thai lie roads were so muddy and dial
alit at night, there was little chance of her friend
"4.r . i . vihg before morning " You had be tier, their.-
- .VP:: said she, 'r make up your Mind .0 sleep here.
'd'e have a good room to offer you, and you will
a mug i more comlortable between a pair of clean
'dal sheets, than knocking' abtint in our rough;
•ttlYr). espec.ally as your dear child seems sjek•
Nlartiii. though mnch fatigued by her jour•
it! lit , ita , ed A gorkl rughe. rest was refrain!) ,
tempting prospeci, but r.he felt ro confhlent
that
0..4.1.11t1 not tptieet tier. that alter a ma
ghi. replied : '• thank yon, mmlame, I
an hour or so. it is not late and the carriage
it come after all Should it not. 1 shall be glad
pia room, which you [wry prepare for me at any
se.
The hostess, a fin seemed anxious , her guest
muld not remain in the great room, suggested that
tare nit2ht be Made above; but Mrs Mattin Ivor,
intelf so comfortable where she was—a pile of
s4ots was blazing on the hearth—that she de
3:‘+‘.l at first to move Her daughter, about five
reati Of .rge. soon went to sleep in her lap; and
ne arr..-11 Inund 'fiat while h-r ears were iiiiligu4-
lv4viting for the t oll of harriage velieelS, her eyes
:us., many do-ed . :and
. sleep began to Make its
^twLmt• 41),1 _
In anler.to prevent herself from giving way, she
anleavored to direr( her attention to the ohjerts
cocoa her The apartment was vast, and lighted
zatet•y 'lle glare of the hie than by the dirty can,
APitncit i n to a filthy tin candlestick, that stood on
the of the Inny, table*. Two or three huge beams
rfersel across hallway up the walls, leaving a
}duehlled with flittering shadows above. From
fusee depended a rusty gun 'or two, a sword, sever.
at 3, l,%.lkattiza of onions, cooking utensils, Br.c.
T 6 fY vete very few signs that the house wan most[
rFrril thinn„lh a - pile of old wine bottlestay in one
corner. The landlady sat at some distance' from
15 e fire place with her two suns who laid their
!lead. tozether, and talk in whispers.
Mrs. l'Aattin becan to feel uneasy. The idea en-
tered her must she hail falen into a resort of rob
bers, and the Wools " C'esf elle." (is it she,) which
t ' as all 'hat Ole heard of the whispered conversation
ton ribu'ed to het alarm The door leading into
:h e road was slat; And - tor a moment she telt an in.
diaanon to start up and 4.l.crpe on foot. But she
gra. tar from any other hatwatiun, and it the peo
pie of the house 4 :filename,' any evil designs, her
attempt' would preetpirste the catastrophe. So she
evolved on patience, but li•tened attentively for
he approach of her mends. All she hearel* was
,ne whitchno.ot the wind, and the dashing of the
caw. w•ha:h had begun to tall jug' after her arrival.
About two hours passed in this uncomfortable
' , ay, At length the door was thrown open, and a
Man dripping wet came in She breathed more
irtely ; for Ibid new comer might frustrate the
Nklesigna.oi her hostess, if sheintertaihed any.
lie 111 .1 a red-haired, jovial-faced lookirfgman, and
'"Ptretiber with confidence by the . frunkneas and
e a's of his manners-
A fine night tor - walking!" cried he . , shaking
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himself like a dog who had scuibbled ouipl a pond
4 ( What , have you 40 give me Salute Messfeure et
Mesdames• I am,vvet In the skin. Hope [disturb
nobody. Give me a bonte'ot wine."
The hostess, in 'a surly PI eepy lone, tole her el.
deal son to serve thy. gentleman ; and then addres.
sed Mrs Marlin, said:
Yon See your friends will not come, and you
are keeping ue up to no purpose. You had better
go to bed."
" I will wait a little longer," was the reply ;
which elicited a kind of a phony, of contempt.
The red haired man fini.hed hie beide of wine
and then said: 3,
44 'Show me a room ; Bond woman—l shall Bleep
here in-nrght."
Mrs Martin thought u he pronounced these
words, he cast a protecting glance towards her, and'
title felt less repugnance at the ilea of passing the
night in the haus% Whep, therefore, the red hair
ed, after a polite bow, went up stains, she said, that
ae her friends had net arrived, they might ae well
show he to her bed room
" I thought it would coma to that at last," said
the land,lady. Pteyre, take that lady's trunk up
mains."
InLa_few minute& Sirs. Martin round herself alone
in a spacious room, with a large fire homing on
the hearth. Her first care, of 4r putiingthe child to
bed, was to examine the dour It closed only by
a latch. There aas no bolt •inside She looked
around for something to barricade it with, and per
ceived a heavy chest of drawers. Fear gave strength
—She Inid lifted, half pushed it against the door.—
Not contente. l with this, she seized a table to in
crease the strength of her defence. The leg was
broken, and when she touched it, it fell woth a
crash to the floor A Inng echo went sound through
the house, and she lelt her heart sitik within her
But the echo died away and no one came; so she
piled the fiagments of the table upon the chest of
drawers. Tolerably satisfied in this direction, she
proceeded m examine the walls. They were all
papered, and atter examination seemed to contain
oh seers t doors.
Mrs. Martin now sank down into a chair to think
on her position As was natural after having all
the-e precautions, the idea suggested itself that it
might be superfluims, and she smiled at the thought
of what her friends would say when she related to
them the terrors of the night. Her child was sleep
ing tranquilly, its row cheeks half buried in the
pillow The fire had blazed up into a bright flame
while the unsnuffed candle burned dimly The
room was full of pale trembling shadows, but she
had no superstitious leans. Something positive
could alone raise alarm She listened attentively,
but could hear nothing but the howling of the wind
over the rod', and the pattering of the rain against
the window panes. As her excitement diminished,
the fatigue—welch had been forgotten—began
again to make itself telt, and 'she resolved to undress
and go to bed.
Her heart leaped into her throat For a moment
she wemed perfectly paralyzed. She had undress
ed Mid put out the candle, when she accidently
dropped her Watch. Stooping topick t np. her eyes
Ivoluntarily glanced towards the bed. A great mass
of l ed hair. a hand and a _teaming knife were re
veale•l by the light id the fire Alter the first mo-
merit of terrible alarm, her presence of mind re
turned She felt that .he h.id her-elf cot off all
means'of escape by the door. and was entirety left
in her own resources Without uttering a cry, but
treethliog in every limb the poor woman got into
the bed by the side of her child An idea—Fl plan
had suggested itself. It had flashed through her
brain like lightening. It was the only chance left.
The . bed was so disposed that the robber could
get from beneath it by a narrow aperture at the
head without maktn a noise; and it was inottahle
at he would choo.e from prudence. this means
of exit There was no curiain in the way, @r.
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Martin, with terrible decision arid noiseleis enemy.
made a Tanning noose with her silk scurt, and held
it poised over the aperture by which her enemy
was to make his appearance She had resolved-to
.inmate him in defence of her own life and that of
her child
The position was an awful one ; and probably
had she been able to direct her attention to the cur.
rounding, circumstance., she might have given way
to her fears, and attempted to raise the house by
her screan.s The fire on the hearth, unattended
had fallen around, and now gave only a dull,
sullen light, with an (irrational bright gleam. Ev
ery object in the vain apartment gioweV wilt a rest
less motion._ Now and then a mouse. advanced
stealthily along the floor, but, startled by some noise
under the bed, went scouring back in terror to its
hole The child breathed steadily in its uncon•
scions repose; the mother endeavored also to im
hire slumber ; hat the man under the bed, uneasy
in his position,, could not help occasionally making
a slight noise.
Mrs: Martin was occupied with only two ideas.
Finn she reflected on the extraordinary delusionby
which she had been led to see enemies in the pet).
pie of the house ands friend in 'the red haired
man ; and secondly, it struck her that as he would
tear no resistance from a woman he might posh
away the chairs that were in the Way, regardless
ot the noise. and thus avoid the snare that was laid
for him. One she thought that, whilst her anew•
non titatrierongly'diretted tonne spot,ite bad made
his exit, and was leaning offer her; tot she was
deceived by a nickeling shadoW on the opposite
wall. In reality ,there was no danger that he would
compromise the success of tits sanguinary enter
prise, the ihrieka of a victim put on its guard might
alarm the hawse. •
lime - You 'ever stood, hour after hour with your
gshingTA in bad. waiting with the ferocious pa
hence
ot-sn angler, !f you have, you
have some saint idea of the state of mind in which
Mrs. Martin—with' other inte passed
reits'aistehtpaise
the time,
until an old clock on the ehicnneyitiecit
told -one atter midnight. Anothereoutee of anxiety
now:presented WNW—the fin, had nearly butted'
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6M' Her dizzy eyes Could ecarceli see the floor,
as she I ego with fearful sktentimiovey the bead of
the bed—the terrible noose. hanging like Ahe sword
of Damocles, above the gloomy aperture. 4 * What,"
thought she," it delay his appearaneenntil the light
has completely Alit! away 1 Will it not then be
impossible for me to adjust the scarf—to do the deed
—to kill this assassin—to save myself and child?
0, God! deliver him into my bands!"
A. cautious movement below—the .dragging of
hands and knees Wpne the floor—a heavy suppres
sed breathing—announced that the supreme mo
ment was near at hand. Her white arms were
bated to the shoulders; het hair fell wildly around
he; face, like the matte of a lioness about to leap
upon its prey; the distended orbits of her eyes
glared down upon the spot iwhere the question of
We and death ware soon to be decided .
Time seemed immeasurably lengthened out, ev
ery second assumed the proportions of an hour
But at last, just as all lines and lorms began to float
before her sight through an uidistinct medium of
Blending light and darkness, a black mass interpos
ed between her eyes and the floor. Sno - pense be
ing over, the time of action having arrived, every.
thing seemed to pass with magical rapidity. The
robber thrust his head carefully forwaid. Mrs Mar
tin bent down. There was a hall-choked cry—the
sound of a knife falling to the floor=a convulsive
struggle Pull! pull! ! pull !!! Mrs. Martin heard
nothing—saw nothing, but the scant parsing between
her two naked feet. She had half thrown herself
back, and holding her scarf with both hands. pull
ed with adesperate energy for her life. The con
filet had begun; and one or the other must perish
The robber was a powerful man and made turmoil
efforts to get low.e not a sound escaped his hits—
not a stood' horn hers. The dreadful tragedy war
enacted in silence.
Well, mother Guerord," cried a yo . ing, mail,
leaping out..of a carriage that stripped before the
door of the Anburge nest morning," what news
base you got tor met Has . my mother arrived ?"
" Is it your mother'!" asked the landlady, who
seemed quite good humored she, her ntgto's rest
" There's a lady up stairs waiting forsome Iriends.
but she does not speak French easily and seemed
unwilling to talk We ceuld scarcely persuade
her to go to bed."
"Show me the room !" cried Arthur, running in.
to the house.
They soon arrived before the doot.
" Mother ! mother !" cried he, but he received
no answer
" The door is only latched, for we have no rob
ber in this parr of the country," said the land
lady.
But a formidable obstacle opposed their entrance.
They became alarmed, especially when they heard
he shrieks of the little girl, and burst open the
door •
The first object that presented itself was the rare
of the reuber, violently upturned Irrrrn beneath the
bed, arid with prolrudiug longue anif eyeball"; Ilie
next was the lorm tit Mr. Mailin In the Posolult
which we left her She was still pulling with both
hands at the waif, and glaring wildly at trie head
of he bed The child had thrown its arms around
her neck, and wa- crying. but She,paid no atten
tion. The terror of the dreadful night had dmen
her mad
Wins - mum. —We can scarcely imagine a bore
capable of itiflic.irig more twis , ing misery than an
intolerable witouler. A fife we can mend when
all the nation is' " armed and equipped." &c on
tea d day, and a drum, weir r s flitua ; ftirsig.barig.
serves to drown its screams ; but JO Innen to a poor
air badly murdered by a prior pucker—we preler
dear!' in some easter if riot quicker way al•
way's think of the French stager, who being very
rough annoyed by such a bore, suddenly turned
upon him with
"My Wend, vat you all lime visael yon lost
your dog eh?"
LITTLE TO Do.—The Cleveland plaintlettler says.
an athletic specimen of a man, from the Em
erald Isle called into the counting room of one of
oar river tdreet merchants. He took off his hat to
make his best bow.
"The lop o' the mornin' to ye, Mister P., I've
been mkt ye're in want &help "
" I've but lode to do," replied P—with mer
cantile gravity
"I'm the very boy for yeea. It'a brit linle I
care about Join'—eUre, lie the money I'm alther "
The riaiiive reply procured him a !situation.
Oz:' A friend who loves a good thing and .has a
keen sense of t'he ludicrous, tells a story al an
Irishman of the better class, nho thought he must
conform to the fashionable mania in paying a visit
to the Falls of Niagara. • Paddy airiierat the Falls
and taking a look at the stirrOubding wonders, ail.
Jresat4 himself to a gendeman :
" And lathes the Niagara Faller
" Yes," was the reply.
" And what is there here to make such a bother
about V'
Why," said the gentleman, ado you not see
the mighty Viva, the abyss, the great sheet of wa
re pouring down " ,
Pat looking at the water, replied beihatingly :
" And what's to hinder it !"
Cc:l' An old gentleman once said, in speaking of
the bad consequences of disparity of fortune—
especially on
. the wife's bide—in marriage, that
when lie married / be had twenty gents, and his
wife twenty five-and that, she was Mowing up
that extra five cents to him ever _ afterwards.
TheVe ie an oltTledy' in Virginia who behaves
it to be a Bible dootrilitYtheit, fotettien gears before'
the end of theworlcT, ea:lto ,be born,
aittllet gives her cOrrifert, tar at:every . 6o4 'With
she hears, she Rap. to herself--“Welle. the WOO
rata itinoi irate not betdrt." • • •
•
MEE
''ll4 E arßtlrT D
Had I met thee in thy beauty
W) en my heart and hand were free,
When no . other claimed the duty
Which my soul would yield to thee;
Had I wooed thee—had I won thee—
Oh. how blest had been my fate;
111 thy beauty bath undone me—
I have found thee—but too late !
For one my vows were plighted
With a faltering lip and pale—
Hands our cruel sires united,
'Hearts were deemed of slight avail !
Thus my youth's bright mom n'ershades,
Thus betrothed to. wealth and state#
MI Love's owo sweet prospects faded,
I have found thee—hut too .late!_
Like the fawn that finds the fountain
With the crow in bia brew
Or like light upon the mountain
Where the snow must ever rest.
I have found tbee—hut forget met
tor I feel that ills await ; -
Oh! rtia madness to have met thee—
To have found thee—hot too late !
Adulterated . Drugs, Drinks, and Diet.
It would seem as it some men contodered it a
sin ever to sell a pare artite if it be possible to
adulterate it with somethingoleaper. Adulterations
have came to be the living of large numbers, _and
the potence ot it takes a place Maui: the. Arts,—
though it can be reckoned neither as fine nor use•
lul Everybody knows hoW great and open is the
eduitera of thugs and medicines, because this
has been the subject of tecent legislation' at the Na
tional Capital; a n d yet of the extent to which it
has.been wattled vety few are aware " Brewers'
drawn-1s" were tong ago recognized a. a distinct
class of Iditidrat tradesmen ; •• wine doctors" abound
in all wine thinking communities where, the grape
is tint extensively cultivated ; and it t . vnold be an
interesting question whether huger fortunes-have
not been realized oat of the manufacture and sale
of spurious medicines than of thegennine. It is bad
enough in be blistered with flies, bur to tlirquovP,
afterward that a poitton 01 the vesicant was simply
glass heads finely ground, makes one suspect that
tus cure was cheat. and his sickness. of imaginary
°right. It is never pleasant to take rhubarb, but
when we have paid the price of the trot Ru-siatt
and afterward discover that it was only the Chinese
pared down to the Size At the Russian pieces, with
its distinguishing, wormholes neatly bored with a
(Outlet, and filled with a cheaper powder still of the
French root. tt•ie enough to counteract all its ac
credited. tonic effects.• Gmeourrr says that they
"make over the'opiorti again at Marseilles." Al
that pleasant spot •enterprising manufacturers add
enough to every pound ot•Turkey opium to make
twenty five pounds of the commercial opium
sand, sand, ashes, seeds. extracts of the peppy and of the
lettuce, liquorice. gum arabic. and aloes; do not
exhaust the manatees of this very profitable addi.
tion Nor when n leaves Marseilles is the job com
plete. In our " Mother country" they know how
to extract 'he morphine, to aduberato that skill:
fully before it is sold to us, and bring to our mar.
keta the opium deprived of its most valuable com
ponent.
Everybody knows what contemptible beverages
Englishmen and Germane learn to love and grow
sleeps over. that pass by the names of their various
beers Indeed the beer-barrel would seem to he
the lavorne field .•1 practise for the tribe from im.
memorial lime Hops are not very cosily. but they
cost something; and it beet been the sorely of the
" brewers' di.ugLisi" to replace them. In Paris they
use the hitter - leaves of the box !acted ; in Germany
the tape•of the broom; in Norway and Swe en the
heath plant; iii " Me‘rie England" muttwort and
wormwood. quassia and gentian. sweet flag, and
horehound, catectin and aloes Except the last
perhaps the presence or absence of all these may
be reckoned matters rasher of taste than of health.
But tO give it is intoxicating property as well as to
increase its bitterness they add the powerful extract
of nux vomica—strydinine, the poison of which
poor GARDINER lately took to drown out of memory
thoughts it his doubted mine in Mexico and all
his troubles together. This pleasant ingredient,
Maciesore taught us has a pe.uliar power over the
paralyzed nerves of motion. obliging Muscles thai
had lain inactive lot months to violent contractioes.
True it is not customay to use any great quantity of
it ; since one sixth of a grain is sefficient to kill a
dog. and the solution of a single grain in five gal
lon., of water .communicates the bitter IRMO to the
whole Good old porter they improve, and poor
porter they make Arnie; by the addition of such
substances as cocculus indices, graini of paradise,
opium . , tobacco and henbane Now cocculus mdr•
cos to used for no other purpose than the adultera
tion of bees ; yet in one year there was imported
into England 154,864 pounds of it. But, say the
lovers of porter, " whether it is the hop or.the cog.
culus Milieus we knoW not. neither do we care ; it
is a very pleasant drink at any rate ;" and lest it
should prove too serviceable and satisfy with sou
small a mug, the shrewd sellers add a little salt,
that does not-spoil the taste, but excites your thirst
and letches you back rti an hour or two to the por
ter-house again But taste
,pr .act as it may.
you say it is not good without the "fine, frothy,
creamy head ;" but upon the poorest You shall have
as pretty a cream as upon the bets if to each barrel
you add only. half an ounce of a cuizture 01 green
vitriol, alum and salt. , .
The wines as everybody
_knows are so adultera
ted that it is a matter of much marvel to some free
dimicets. whether they have ever enjoyed ihe 'taste,
of pure wine. The triclis . of the 'trade have so of
ten been worn to before Parlismentsry Camrriittees,
and published bif . Mninbersol the craft of their own
accord, that doubfrio'l64,iii aitiChi4 tp the'truth of
such statements. Most of " doctoring" is done
after the wines leave the fields Whers,thitfarit'Oul
tiveted. The great an if out (414 lasi-price& weak
wine" to produce a 'likh-Prieed . imitation, aver
whiehlhe judge" Shill midi" their lipit,tud.pre.
• aohnie - there' rad: To mit*" Pent' *hid; nine
Iligffi
ME
judges out of ten will say is excellent, it is only ne
cessary to mix mock cider and a little brandy, the
juice of ripe aloei, a tincture of red Saunders and
port enough to show the mixture what it is required
to resemble. Gooseberries and cochineal make a
fine champagne, frothing and sparkling abundantly,
.whir•h will make a quiet company offish and se
cure a high appreciation of very feetble wit. A
poor French red wine mingled with rough cider
and colored with cochineal, makes a passable clar
et. The " Vintner's Guide" for doctoring wines
tells us that bitter almonds are added th give a nut
ty flavor. sweet briar, orris root, cherry-laurel wa
ter, and elder-flowers, to form the bouquet of high.
flavored wines; alum to render y oung and meager
red wines bright; brazil wood, cake of pressed el
derberries and bilberries, to render pale faint port
of a rich, deep, purple color; oak sawdust and the
-basks of filberts, to give an additional stringency
to unripe red wines; and a tincture of the seeds of
raisins to flavor fictitious port. But the most dele
terious of all the ingredients of adulterated wine, is
the sugar of lead, which, though not in i.self, arid
in just that form, a poison, is convened in the sto
mach into one of an exceedingly serious character
It is not pleasant at any rate, to think, that when
you insist upon drinking your friend's health, you
pledge him in a liquor which bears into the system
small doses of wrist-palsy and painter's colic It is
to be hoped that this adulteration is not very exten
sive. But it is generally supposed that we ere up
to all the tricks of our fathers and they were so gtv•
en to it, dim four bundled and twentv-ei4ht years
ago, the Lord Mayor of London condemned 150
butts of adulterated wine to the kennel.
Brandy which has come to be esteemed for the
color first given it by old casks, is brought up to the
necessary by burnt sugar, oak chips, or saffron.
Tha mellowness pretiumed to come by age, is nom
mu:floated by free : additions of water, and the fiery
spirit wbich old topers so much enjoy, by the tine.
tares of black pepper and red.
But if adulterations were confined to our drugs
and strong drinks, a portion of community might
leel themsetveo-oxempt from their 'Rails But they
invade our pantries, and put their cheapened stuff
upon the tables of the moat temperate. Often what
we buy fur good vinegar is sharpened with sulphu
ric or nitric acid', and spiced with pimento and rims:.
raid. Our tea is the refuse of the true herb, heigh
tened to the right color by copperas, mixed t% ith
the leaves of other plants in which the them is as
hard to find as jewels in modern toads' heads
Oor coffee is chicory, our chicory Venetian red,and
our Venetian red brick dust, in which, lost is the
labor that attempts in discover either thein or celeine
Not here, but a little to Ike South, they say that
some of their well smoked hams ba'e proved ,o be
carved kindling wood, and whet seemed to be hand
some specimens of the myrisfica maschata, kernels
of pitch-pine turned in a la he.
Our be ter has its golden color not because of the
green and watered pastures where the cattle feed,
but because the dairy-maid understood the virtues
.ot saffron and the yolks of eggs. Some of our Or
ange County milk is supposed 13 be milk and wa
ter merely, but the milk of which our 9,847 chit.
dren under two years old died in the City last year,
was a most noxious compound 01 milk, water and
distillery slops run through the system of diseased
cows. Even the staff _of lite they take into their
polluted hands. When flour is high the baker is
tempted to buy poor and inferior qualities, since he
has an article which will make even spoiled flour
rise, and bleaches dark flour to the requisite snowy
color. Alum answers both purposes, and in adilt
lion it causes the absorbtion of water so that die
weight ,11 a given quantity is increased, and we
pity for simple onnutritious water the price of bread
Whether something still more absot bent than alum
has been discovered, we do not know, but we see
it stated that from 314 pounds of flour a Paris baker
makes 400 pounds of bread, while the baker of
Lvoris makes 440 pounds of it. if it is done sim
ply abstfibing water into the loaf, the French have
no cease to promise themselves any benefits from
the discovery. For waver in the loaf is worth no
more than ont of it. %Viten bakers give us potatoes
in their bread, inasmuch as they improve it there
by,
,we cart forgive them for making a penny oat
of us. Put alum, at the rate of an ounce per be
sliertif wheat—and less than that would scarcely
answer the purpose intended, if fed out at every
meal, day by day—can hardly be entirely innueu
one. In itself, it is a little too astringent for an ar
title ot diet, and then most alum has the impurity
of copperas iq it, in which aspect this particular
adulteration puts on besides the appearance of a
swindle, that of a wicked cheat. ,
WARN'T STINGT.-A, green-burn, IrOm some
where, standing carelessly upon the end of nue of
the East river piers, watching a, Brookly terry
boat, accidentally lost his equilibrium and found
himself suddenly in the " damp" He, however,
soon clambered op again i and while blowing off
the supcifluous brine, he was asked by a byfiander
how he relished Neptune's soup, to which he re
pliett--m %Val, I hirin't got much agin it ; but all 1
have to say is, that whoever put the salt in tcarn't
stingy."
Yonne Mcsyscit ts —Clarke, of the Mancliesier
Mirror, speaking of the " beard movement," says :
" Some:of ous4oung friends, with A sort of fleecy
down upon their upper lip and chin, have the face
to say " that the growth-of their beard is essential
for their health." Now it is obvious to their friends
that their health ma-t be very, very delicate to be
at all affected by so trifling.° circumstance."
fry- Ono of the beat puns we !have heard was
perpetrated by aelergyman.. He.bad just united in
marriage a couple whose Christian names were re.
spectively Benjamin and Anne. " How did they
appear during the ceremonyl" nivired a friend
"_They, appeared both anne•nruted and benifitted,"
was the ready reply.— I
An Old. Man a Mitch for Tiro Indian
David Moigan, arelation of the celebrated Gen•
eras Daniel Morgan, h'ad mauled upok . the Monon-
gahela riser, in Virginia, during the earlier period
o 1 she revolutionary war; and at this time had veil.
Lured to occupy a cabin at the distance of several
miles hour , any settlement Otte morning in May
1781, having sent his youngest children out to a
field as a considerable distance from the house, he
became uneasy about
,them, and repaired to the
spot where they were working armed as usual with
his rifle. • While sining.upon the fence, arid giving
some directions as to their work he observed two
Indians upon the otber side of the field gazing ear•
neatly upon the [arty. He instantly called to the
children to make their iescape, while he should at
tempt to cover tneir retreat. Thenddi were greats
ly against him, es in addition to other circumstan•
ces he was nearly severity years of age and of
course unable to contend with his enemies in run•
nmg. The houselwaspore than a mile distant,
but the children having Iwo hnndred yards the start,
and being effectually covered by their fattier, were
soon so far in front that the Indians turned their at
written to the old man. lie ran for several hundred
yards with art activity which astonished himself,
but perceiving that he would be overtaken he tinily
turned at bay and prepared himself for a strennuous
resistance. The woods through which they were
running were very thin and consisted mutely of
small trees behind which it was difficult to obtain
proper shelter. When Morgan adopted the above
mentioned resolution, he had just parsed a large
walnut, which stood like a patriarch among the
sapling; that surrounded it and it became necessary
to run back about ten steps in order to gain it. The
Indians became startled at the sudden advance of
the fugitive and were compelled to halt among a
eltniter of saplings, where they an tactility strove lo
shelter themselves. This however was impossible,
and Morgan who wait eicellent marksman, saw
enough of one of them to ju.tily him in risking a
shut. His enemy instantly fell mortally wounded
The other Indian taking advantage of Morgsn a
empty rifle sprung from his shelter and advanced
rapidly. The man having no time to reload bi.
rifle, was forced to fly a second nine. The Indian
gained rapidly upon him. arid when within twenty
steps fired, but with so unsteady ant aim. that Mor•
gan struck with the but of his gnu and the Indian
whirled his tomahawk at the one and the same
moment. Both blows took eflect—and both were
at once amended and disarmed.
The breech of the rifle was broken against the
Indian's skull, and the edge of the tomahawk was
shattered against the barrel of the rifle, having cut
off two of the fi-igers of Morgart's left hand. The
Indian then attemp ing to draw his knife, Morgan
grappled him anti bore turn to the ground. A furl
one struggle ensued, in w melt the old man'sstrengih
failed, and the Indian succeeded in tenting fine.—
Planting his knee in the breast of his enemy and
veiling loudly, as tit usual w ith them upon a turn
of fortune, he agairf felt for his knife in order to ter
minate/he struggle at once ; but having lately stuleh
a woman's apron and tied it around his waist, his
knife was so much confined that he had great diffi
culty in finding the handle. Morgan, in the mean
time being a regular pugilist, according to the custom
of Virginia, and pettecaly at home in a graced
struggle, took advantage of the aa kWardnessofthe
Indian and got one of the fingers of his right nand
between his teeth The Indian tugged and snared
in vain, struggling to exiiicate it. Morgan held
him fast, and began to assist him in htititing for the
knife. Each seized it at the tame ummem, tLe
Indian by the blade,. and Morgrm by the handle,
bu,i with a slight hold. The Indian having the firm
est hold, began to draw the knife further out of )Ls
sheath, when Morgan suddenly giving his finger a
furious bite, twitched the knits dexteroasly through
hi hand caning it severely. Both now sprang to
their reel Nlorgun brandishing his adversary's knife
and still holding his bingeo between hi s teeth, i n
vain the pour Indian struggled to get away—roaring
plutigtng and bolting like an unbroken colt The
teeth of the while man were like a vice, and he at
length succeeded in giving him a stab in the aide.
The Indian received it without feaing ,. he kntle
having snuck his rib:, hut a second blow, aimed at
his breast, provtd more -effectual, and the savage
1 LI. Morgan thrust the knife, handle and all, into
the cavity of the body, directed downward ; and
starting to his feet, made the best 01 his way home.
Ile neighborhood was quickly alarmed, and hurry
tog to the spm where the struggle bad taken place,
they found the first Indian lying where Le had fall.
en, but the second had tlisa e peared. A bumd trail
of blood, however, conducted to a fallen tree top,
within a hundred yards of :he spot, into which the
poor fellow had dragged himself, and where ha
now lay bleeding, but still alive. 114 had plucked
Cie - knife from his wound, and was endeavoring to
dress it with the apron which had cosi him his life,
when his enemies approached. The love Of life
appeared still strong within him, however. Ha
greeted them with what was intended for an insin
uating snide, held nut bis hand, arid said in broken
English, " How de do, broder ! how de do!—glad
to see you!!' But. pool fellow, the love was all on
one side Their brotherhood,. extended only to
tomahawking, scalping and skinning him, of which
operations were performed' within a few minute*
after the meeting—to such an extent had mutual in.
jury inflamed both parties.—Siketches Western Ad-
venture.
Gentility is neithei in birth, wealth, manner not
fashion, buf.in mind. A high sense of honor—a
determination never to take a mean advantage of
another—.an adhereneet o troth—delicacy and pc ;
litenesstoirards those with whom we have riealingo o .
ate the essential characteristics of agenda/Inm
Ot;•." Biddy, hid that *tidy tellow cleated adz.
snow from the pavement !''
" Yes, air."
" Did he clear it ofT with alareity, Biddy t"
" No, air-.with zehevel." _
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