MI C. F. READ Se H. H. PRAZI.E.Ri EDITORS. Fr,* Nam?* algatim. TILE rORF»iT OF. Tat DAZTIOO&S. The Kluft rode down And fu the buled drone : . Be Raw th ll e dark f nd onet bbnitellenty; • lle thought It en sesame fortune. Vni arra Gets.mi Mtamat.) The p ur e ! ra ther flowers are dark In the - hi) Tow of the Though far along the rocky peak , The sunlight/ towers still: . Dark hang the o 4 er the streiun-- • • " There is no Sopnd below, Save when the f*n by the night wind stirred Waves gently to and fro.; Thou old, wild forest tinny a drimm Orfar-off glamourv— ,Orgenaknight and solemn sage, Is resting still on thee. Still float the mists across the Mls As when those barons bold, Eir Tristram and Sir.Perciist • L Sped o'er the weary wold. :till wave the grasses o'er the bills, And still the streams below, Under the *sill" boughs thick with moss, Sing gladly as they go; Still over all the lonely land • The mountain elves are dwelling, • • And. oft times notes from fairy borne . On the free. winds are swelling. Then through the glens of the folding bills, And over the heath so brown. 'Ring Arthur leads his belted knigitts Homewards to Catiyoun ; : A "goodly baud, with long bright spears Upon their shoulders set, And first of all that Flower of Kings, • With his golden coronet. And sometimes, by the clear hill streams, A knight rides On alone: 11c rideth ever beside the river, - Although the day be done: For be looketh toward the - western land Where iratcheth his lads., On the shore of the rocky Ctirnewayle, In the castle by theses. And o'er the green paths of the moors, When the burning sun is high, - Queen Guetiever cornea Earth in state Ihmeatit her canopy. 11er srrire;„ln robes of sendal bright, Bear up in the silken shade, • Ainl the ringing of their bridle reins 4 Fills all the forest glade. . And when the stars are few above, And hills are dark below, • • The Fay Morgans sitsalone • Besidel6e river's flow. She sitteth alone beneath the boughs That look on the waters clear, And a low sweetsong she Singeth there— The lady of the Mere. . • She telleth M . free glad wanderings 13y.haunted spring and wave, - And how. beneath a fairy thorn,. She dug old Merlin's grave— All snowy white with blossoming" • . The knotted ruins outspread— All snowy *hite the blossoms fall rpm': his &Irksome bed. . Thou old, :msild forest through thy glens Once rang the hart's bell fete, The mountain wolf led forth her cubs Beneath the dark pine tree ; • And whore the buxom and the hirchen sprays Bang o'er the sparkling rills , The rant deer with branching horns Passed upirard to the hills. - • And now, thy rocks arc silent an, 'The kingly is o'er, Yet none nva3F take from thee, old land, Thy memories of rem In 'many's' green and solemn place Girt with the wild lulls round, • The shadow of the holy,.Cioia • Yet sieve% nir the ground. In many a glen where the ash keys hang • All golden 'midst their leaves, The knight's dark strength is rising yet, Clad in its wildflower wreaths. And, yet- , along themountain paths, Rides 'forth that stately band, A vision of the dim.old days-- A dream'of fairyland'. Pfnlees Spirit ofthe Tuxes. THE COLONEL'S STORY. "1 -suppose -you all- know that in almost every place where deer Ilk hunted, the same old story is current °fa spectral buck haunt ing some particular drive; Modified,ofeiturse, to suit circumstances and Abu tastes of the narrators. Well, up in - St, Stephen's, when I lived thcre,..some ten Ittlits ago, we had 91.1 :..v!trsi on olthe legend ;, and as you may nee t -,:i }lave besid it before, preface my adventure with the tide. " " - Many years sgo--pernaps a century, or longer—when the Catawba .tribe of Indians hunted over the Northwest portion of-, our State, there was, among them a beSutiful young girl, daughter, of the bead chief Of the nation, who was *own among the bra . cos by the title of atnan-o-ree.,, or the Bounding Pawn. Her black and lustrous eyes were tw , re terrible to the Catawba warriors than the watch fires of a hotile -war-party ; and many a Warrior, who puffed his:calumet' in stoical indifference When the Bounding Fawn passed near him, would have given his wealth ltor:es and viampurtex., de vite his affected stolidity, if she wilmld. have consented to share his lodge 'with him.. But in Wain did they - aspire to her hand. 'Pipe after pipe was smoked bdween - her father and the, elder: • !waves, but tea no pur pose ; . and many - a one the,)olinger warriors walked the wax-path of some gallant adventure,on ilia to base his claims—and still 0-man. e. rue remained la -maid. Wa-hue-pa alone, of the' young braves, had never sued fur her. hand. li. wits young and poor, but lie n-au proud, and he knett that his spit could nev ei• brook the seoraftdarhieit ha felt . so7 e would he lir' ~)otiftaitistatd to -s4 .the \Var.Eagle forAdstaWilfritt‘3oarirliiZa's five. had nevers_„, .AIWIPIOIII, hostile'sealt) yet. , . fooMitoilll_tIO: 10 61_11rb'. , - Pu 6 l•low s ism ther-skin ' whiai Seres:tietti4lo4ltmetee iris lodge, was Way, -than any.inAiseriii. —. :400W - • 7.1; monstii troin 140 it had , f [o lisd lallcn heflore his hunting4nite ult. - Om"' but. lwicp lad he deuriled theslts bear of her cubs, and slain her-with hitaiti ithett she rushed to avenge 'bar loss: The old -men lookt,d with pride on hitt. Sthietk litobt • splendid form, as he sat milked on his bum, armed for the ellase,and the . ' • . fearless and successful hunter *Mid Amin* - . day become a 'thunderbolt - to the esentiet of the tribe. - • • "1. have sa'id that litatimit•its had' never made suit furl UM Bounding r r*l ll l3. • then, did the'elyes of the mold* glisten with prid e , when she looked '4311 the smicessine * the belt, and the quiver orate iroaDif h e ath ,an d saw that they were formed (mum lap AVYmoru' coat of the beautifulenestunstrboisatilesfiehe, ; bore? or why did.litn blood go - her dusky ttheelc;Uraini, she glasseatikitie„ , 'Tear:stair,. which. tires jilanied.ik:Biakt his lodge; andiawiliVing - eine baeur staod fainaUhlal -Onillinuther • Lard, whence t ige that 'aall4 or yenianni'whielifwaa - hid'. • law* 'Unseen • htmd at the 4vor or OK War*lires *Or • . _ • . - • • • • • 1111;;:- . 1 • ' , , • . • _ 1 • _ • And on thatOright July morning, when{ 0- tnamisree was Waked from her shady slum beton the bank of the Catawba, by the welL knowirdreadful rattle, and stood transfixed with horror at the sight of the hideous rep tile, :Which was preparing to give the-fatal blow whose nervous arm and unerring eye winged the shaft which pinned the monster to the oak, at whose . base he was coiled ? Many asked these questions, but none could answer them, till the War-Eagle arose one morning, and called in vain for 0-man..)-ree to fill his pipe. "She's bathing with the maidens," said the chief; but the maidens had not seen her. Nur was it until a whis per reached hia ear that Wa-hus-pa, too, was missing, that the truth flashed upon her fath er's mind. "Then was there mounting in hot baste," antrthe war-Whoop rung through the ancestral pines, as the warriors scoured off its pursuit. t But evening brought them back again, with no trace of the fugitives.— The{old chief ((tamed with rage and sorrow, and ' { his brother; the prophet of the tribe,don ned ; his mystic - robe, and' with spells and in cantations, howled out his curse upon the fly ing ; pair. Meanwhile ,Wa-hus-pa's stout { gelding had borne the lovers gallantly on.— Three days and:nights, with scarce awinter val of rest, breught them to the neighbOr-. hood of old St. Stephen's :church, and here the ;avers gave oat: Weary and faint, the ; lovers agreed to rest here tr a while ; and{spreading his panther robe beneath a thick toughed holly, the young brave placed o.mar.{-o-ree upon it,.and left her to slumber, while he wandered offin search of some game for a meal. lie ,had not proceeded far, be: fore be cne - upon a lovely, half-grown doe, reposing beneath the shade ofa holly ; quick as,thought, his shaft was on the string, and the next instant 'was quivering in her .heart. lie sprang forward to secure his quarry,.and befOre him lay the lifeless form of his bleed ing {bride! The curses of the prophet had foll Owed him ; the speliVas upon his senses. He !gazed a moment upon the horrid sight; thee, tearing the garments from his body and limbs rushed into the depth of the swamp, a naked, bowling maniac, and noue - has seen' a trace .of Ws-bus-pi since. But front that hoer {the White. Spirit Doe of St. Stephen's has {haunted the holly bush by the old brick ebuech." •,. . " 1 . Bnavo - r Colonel!" cried Tom, 'knocking the ashes from . his segar, " you've almost brought tears to my eves." '..'' Now, kind friends,' drawled kit, in dole ful-tones, " we'll give.you a Kerry pathetic tetanus, in behalf of this unfurtinit young madine and her !Quer; the young moniae." "i nosh ! you heathen ! and let us hear the farm after the tragoiy." len a 'shirt story, hiCytt, and soon told," ' asi th rejoined' the Colonel . • "1 w out fire-hunt- Mg one ' night, With old IQua coo --pence .to his ',,ashes!—carryin . g the lig, We had walked a long way witMut seeing anything, andi twelve u cluck found us near the church .on our way home. ' ilate_isa,' whispered Quarcoo, creeping nearer•to me, ' I spec you . better go toder road; you find _ too much inudaiog 'long dis we". ' Why Quarcoo':' said 1; • I believe you're scared !" No scare manses, but he mighty bad luck for fire:hunt 'bout de old kolly-tree,"Come on,' .rejoined I ; •.:maybe -.we'll get a shot- at the (old white doe ' ki! mussel you nattier to talk dat 1 way ! •Ef you ebber raise you gun at dat deer, you sure .to be dead in less than tree week i' I paid no attention to him, but kept I on, t,lll - til suddenly a rustling .to my left ar rested me., - tuad made trie look around. I was within twenty steps of the old haunted holly, andi there, directly under it, were visible a pair of eyes, reflecting the flicker of the burn ing !pine4Enot, which almost fell from Qintr wolf trembling . har.d. lam not superstitious, butn strange feeling came over me,as nook ed it the eyes. . Could the story be true ? _Was there really a ' spirit deer r Just then the torch shot up a tongue of flame which,for an instant, illumined the tree. I caught- a momentary, glance at the deer, and, to .my amazement, saw that it was white! Boys, I • have said I was not superstitious; but had myndventure ended here, I should, to my dying day, have been a firm believer in' spir - its. i But, frightened as 1 was, I intended to see it through; so,muttering to myself Othel les*emark in a somewhat similar dilemma, which, by some unaccountable means, came into my mind. at the moment : •If that thou be'st a devil, I azinnot kill thee,' I raised .my _ - gun; and fired., 'The scuffling that . followed . , - stanved that I had to deal with real flesh and blond; and rushing up( to see what I had done, there lay, my o w - imported merino. rani, worth two hund red_ dialers, if a cent ! I gsr,re Quareoo, the carcass, on condition_ he would never briathe a word about the mat ter and promised him a sound dressing-off if should eter tell it—and, boys, I haven't .:fire-hunted since !" .1: L. The Colonel-having spun his yarn, we ruse to Prepare for recommencing our hunt; but the wind had sprung up, and the driving clouds warned us to be satisfied with our sport for the day. So, appointing' a day for our next meet, and taking a parting horn all around, we.separated, and each of us struck a lope for our respective homes.: So ended the day's bunt. Wmair ern Paovsans.--Tbere Is one - *Meg that the student will. be struck with, -the waive:rod want of gallantry manifested in the proverb' of all languages towards the female sex—" Woman's beauty, the fore st te6, and the . ritinbow ' soon passed away," say the ungallant Germans; who further un civilly must that, " Women and maidens meet be praised, whether truly or Zslsely ;" " Wow are watches that keep bad time;" and that "A woman's vengeance knows no ; bounds." The Italians are not so downright ' giant tort' as this; but their hints are almost aastrong,as the Teutonic assertimut, " Wo rm& .tears are a fountain of craft," and L" We. men always sped& the truth--but not the I whole truth," lay the Southern moralists, adding that "Women know ..a point more than theDeril," aid ;that _. " Women rouge dui, -111!ty may not 1410. 1 / 4 .". . _ Than " u tne th e elandenng.,Portagname .grintlain of maxims. WWI _ thirdelllffe,AmmArdiag to this , bad seenowes "Ton; vita...and aheep. toady, at bielitt7. And '":We'eam:Sad ems** lbws [is diagar.r. The;-ineghty:„Speniact ahem ithat:, "Woman :wind,- and ionise 'aeon gl 4 0 10 ,ge."%•ailiat Was gOter , .4 . 1 . r ather atesPraitecOtt4ie NZ , :',1402 he . /eye down the afadm, 14_* lit. Cupid," titat "tottn-lintwon 6 1 fuII WWII mitiVe fan .., - - IFfr Goulorrervilo is , goal for: ado, "FPEEDO AHD IROCGDTT ataaoK@lT @LAWERV ni6;gcl M0R10099 MONptoo., THURSDAY, NOVEMB E R S; 18j57e From the Non York Fribisme, A CURIOUS Now that "life" at the watering-places is over for the season, and , the returned absent• ees, a ft er several weeks spent in set t i ng things to rights, are entertaining their i intimate t a friends with reminiscencies of th ir enjoy. meats at Rockaway-, Newport, Na in, 4c., we occasionally. hear of a Sunnite incident worth repeating. A droll one occ 4rred at a marine resort at the head of Long Island Sound, to a couple of the 40 or '5Ol boat ders 11 in the hotel. A newly arrived g e ntleman and lady strolled &Way one day .in ugust to the lung • sand-beaeh far beyond- e bath house, to enjoy the grander sweep o the wave as it rolled majestically to, the, sh .re. The sublime solitude of the scene aopeared to be shared only by old ocean and themselves, but they were lovers just about to bpi, married, and wanted no other society thaw tl other. After walking' till they ha so warm that they looked wishful?, tempting • water, with its clean, at of each I 'become y. to tie tidy bed, and lunged to lave in ity cool tianmlucent depths, they decided tutap a bat had no swimming rig with _dem, 11 atelv there was a cozy nook on citli a little rocky promontory which into the Sound several rods beyond margin. The gentleman .modest, to the further side of this naturid the lady divested herself of her clO out a bit of fear that:he would inc ' ana-like ; "his. honor be suspicion, mid lar own being sai sons reprochc. Soon she heard biti in the - water on the other side, an was no harm in using their tongue.' they must not use their eyes, 'she to him cheerily Al ;he ruse like a ti the wave, and they had. quite a soc =I it; beautiful?" " Yes, it . was .' glorious.' " But, unfortunately fur thein.'a small but quick-witted and mischievous' bOy-t-a sort of marine Ike Partiagtoe—without tieing seen himself, saw it all. He had bc;en fis . -thing upcin a shelf of rock, at the extreme eini of the promontory, and not having very good luck had fallen ilito a sleep from which he was awakened by their exclamations cif delight. There are some youthful minds to which the conception of a rogui.h trick or pm:Lica] joke is as inevitable as lying. Unhappi t y; this lad was one of them. From the . point where he lay he could, with only a slight .move ment of his body, see the gentleman on one side of the ledge and the lady im the oth er; and not far away from each their respect ive heaps - of garments. What a jolly - good •joke, he thought to. himself, it would -be to hide their clothes - 1 or, still betters to change one pile for the other. With hin d to devote was to execute, and Ito went fearlessly about it, yet. with great caution lest he should be discovered and his fun be spoiled. Watching his opportunity, and taking advantage of their absorptitin in what they were doing, the little rogue managed by - consummate agility to ef fect the ominous exchange in thO t ituation of the unsuspecting bathers' elothes,.then stole away from the scene: • As he ran -behind a sand -hill' . his long shadowl;etwean her and the sinking sun attracted the laili's notice, and in Snow trepidation she hasteied to don her apparel.-- Fancy her . " feelink;s" on find ing, not her own clothes, but thew hat, coat, vest and other articles, in extelyto, kit the gen tleman-on the other side of the ptnontory ! lbw could it have happened—an what was tit to be'done 7.: iWas that fearfullyring shad ow some spirit of the sea or situ e, who, of fendial at her intrusion, upon his. ' littide, had rstrted to this method of pun' leg her te -1 merity 1 - It were better to jinni e her situ atiim than to attempt, to describe. t. - . In the Lomat time- the gentlem , too, re paired to the shore to dress. S eehless as tonishment was dealt:tad in his (mu tetuutee as im his eye fell upon a heap of _Woman t i clothing., "What in thunder," he muttered to himself, " does this meanl li the place turned around or am I crazy r In the greatest, perplexity he. took up one - article of ferhinine apparel after another to the number of aßout thirty, letting one after another drop egahl upon the lock where he stood, with many . half-audi ble ejaculation of wonder. Ttie e was no doubt in his tmind to whom the things be `lunged, but.how did' he get there, and where were his own clothes? With one l arm akim bo, he pressed his Other hand updn his Awe head to collect his bewildered sea, little thinking that the inischievOus el l -who was . the author of his embarrassment sr laughing at-him from behind the sand-hill. . After a few moments of has . tation, the gentleman shouted to his lady-lo e the awk ward intelligence, and in return wit informed that his clothes lay at herfeet. II that was I to be done was to exchange th lots; but how, in the name of delicacy, w that con summation, so devoutly a ished,•tr be effect ed ? The sun was now down, bu .. it was not _dark. yet. Finally e, it was Arran d that the A lady,ahould venture into the water, with her eyes seaward, while the lover show d exchange the clothes and return to his sideo the rocks. Unfortunately, just ett_he was . a tut to cut around. tothe other side to perfor that duty; be caught site of a couple of y ung ladies not far off, and' he felt compelled to retreat precipitately to the pl ace•again: is disown tifited companion Would have t come out hastily and allied to the ladies foil their help, but they were distant, and between herself and them she saw a boy passing-along. - To cut the story short, the "peculiarly unpleas ant predicament" Jested until the oung-ledy felt it necessary, to save herself tom being chilled to'dcath, to attire herself in her lov ees clothing.-: Ile, on his part, t her gar. meats to the same use for hiti F r o benefit, and a pretty good fit it was; thatwo friends were about of a size, and i but.for the discrepancy of a lull beizd, he ~ ight, in a less dusky light • than then '. - ailed; base passed fur a /lady. It was bit tendon, in dome way or another, but . be. , rdly knew how, to rectify the matter im -• '- y ; but when be bad Isolated 10 rejoin h. laughing and blushing sweethi!irt, hi attr the gni,. thievouSbfq a little distance nit with *grit' a - bis impish oxisktimenesodoect . witching their snotiolut - Q u ickly: p*4 a haidker doe( tan his foe to onion- Ilk e birds the - gentleman' took ' the : lady ' s ' arm, and they mustered on the slim. Until, t weeds*, then eateilithe ;betel as psi : al rad ! , blikead ma ki ng Ali host oktheit . yto their r iespeetiee — 'coma,: list *no , time . . in ekianing aliiiiectobiliniaiO4. - „ - .:*,. ... , . ~,:•. .• - .". , , ~ :1- . , : •! - •,;,.-;-,.:-,--... • -. fir Cmgoidesilikeills ate Antrim • . - There is $ beautiful spirit breathing now, Its mellow richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker 1141 of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the Autumn woods, And dipping in Warm light the pillared cloudi. Morn, on the monntsin, like a Summer bird, • Lifts up the purple wing ; and in the vales The gentle wind—a sweet and passionate wooer-- Kisses the blirshhrg leaf, and ours up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep•erinurowed. And sliver beech, and maple yellow-tarred,— Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the way-side a-weary. Through thi trees The golden robin moves: the purple finch, That on wild cherry and red cedar feelk— A Winter bird—comes with its plaintive whistle, And pecks by the witch-hazel ; whilst aloud ; I From cottage roofs, the warbling blue-bird sings; And merrily, with oft repeated stroke, Sounds from the threshing floor the busy flail. Longfellow. The Pastoral Region of the World. We make the .following extracts from a letter of Col. Gilpin. of Independence, Mis. souri, to, the New York- Tinies : " There is a• radical misapprehension in the - popular trind,• as. to: the true character of the 'Great Plains of America,' as complete as that which pervaded Europe respectibg the Atlantic Ocean during the•whhle historic period prior to Columbus. These plains, are notrnescirrs, but- the op posite, and are the cardinal basis of the future EIM t fortun r side of prileeted 1 the main ?• retired reen, and ing with r her Di• empire of eommeree'and industry now,erect ing itself upon .the North American eonti nent. They are calcareous, and forin the Pastoral Garden of the wurid. Their posi- ng above peur ;► plashing • w 4 there although cried out iarl from • able time thin and area may be ea4ily understood.— The meridian line which terminates the States of Lqui ; .iana, Arkansas.• lifissouri,and lowo, on the west, loritis their. , eastern limit, stud the R eky, mountain crest their western lim it. Between these limits they occupy a ton- " %Vasil% gitudinal parallelogram of less than one thous. and miles in width, extending from the Tex- an to the Arctie. coast. There is uo timber upon them, and single trees are scarce. They have a gentle slope from the west to the east, and abound in rev. ers. They- are clad thick with' nutritious grasses, and swarin with animal life: The soil is not silicious or sandy, but is a fine calcareous mould.' They run smoothly out to the navigable rivers— ' the Missouri - Mis sissippi, and St. Lawrence—and to the Tex an (exist. The mouetain masses towards the Pacific rutin no serious barrier between them and that ocean. No portion, of their whole sweep of surface is more than one thousand tuilt.from- the best navigation. The pros. peat is everywhere gently undulating and graceful, being bounded, as on the omen; by the hor;zon. Storms are rare, except during the inciting of the snows ti4 ; el the crest of the Rocky Mountains. ~14m climate is sum. paratively rainless; fhc4rers serve, like the Nile, to irrigate rather than drain the neigh boring surface, and have few affluents. They all run from west to east, having beds shal low and broad, and the basins through which they flow arc flat, long, and narrow. The area of the Great Plains' Is equivalent to the surface of the twenty-four States between the Mississippi and the Atlantic sea, but they are one homogeneous formation, smooth, uni form and continuous, without a single abrupt mountain, timbered space, desert or lake.— From their ample dimensions and positions, they define . themselves to be the pasture fields of the word:. Upon them, essroest AURICULTURIC will become a separate grand department of national industry: The pastoral characteristic, being novel to our:people, needs a minute explanation.— hi traversing the continent from the Atlnntie beeeh'to.the South Pais, the point of great est altitude and remoteness from the tea, we cross successively the timbered region, the prairie region of soft soil and long annual grasses, and finally the Great Plains. The two first are irrigated by the rains coming flout the sea, and ARAIILZ. The last is rain less, of a compact soil, resisting the 'plow, and is therefore pastoral. The herbage is particularly adapted to the climate and the dryness of the soil and atmosphere, and is perennial. It is - edible-nutritious throughout the year. This is the 'gamma' or 'buffalo' grass. It covers the ground one inch in height, ha, the appearance of a delicate molt., and its leaf has the fineness and spiral texture of a negro's hair. During the melting of tl - e snows in the immense mountain masses at the back of the Great Plains, the rivers swell like the. Nile, and yield a copious evaporation in their sinuous courses across the Plains ; storm-clouds gather on the summits, roll down the mountain sides, and discharge them selves in vernal showers. During this tem porary prevalence of moist atmosphere, these delicate graises grow, seed in the -root, and are cured into hay upon the ground by the gradually returning drought. It is-this lon gitudinal beltot perennial pasture upon which the buffalo finds his winter food, dwelling up on it without regard to latitude ; and here, are the infinite herds of aboriginal cattle pc. cellar to North Ainerica—bufrilo,-wild-hor ses, elk, antelope, white and black-taileddeer, mountain sheep, the grizzly bear, wolves, the hare, badger, porcupine, and smaller animals itmemerable. The aggregate number of this tattlN by adeulation from sound data, ex ceed one hundred million. No annual fires ever sweep over the Great Plains; these are confined to the prairie region. The Great Plains aliso swarm ?with poul try. The turkey, the mountain-cock, the prairie -cock, the sand.hill.crane, and the cur. lew ; water fowls of every variety; the swan, goose, brant, ducks, marmots, the'irmadillo, the peccary ; reptiles, the horned frog ; birds of prey, eagles, vultureii, and the small , birds of game Ind song. IDogs atni-wolves abound. The itnritese population of nomad ic Indians, lately a million in number, have from time immemorial in antiquity subsist ed upon these aboriginal herds, being unac quainted with any kind of agriculture, or the habitual use u( vegetable fetid or 'fruits.— From this source the Indian draws exclusive. ly his sxid, his lodge, his luel,harness. cloth ing, bed; his °raiment^ wespoits, and uten sils. Here is his sole depandeneei:frum the beginning to the end ditty existence;„ The . InnutneraWe carnivorous animals-also sabsist open them. The biellhktes slow' have .sp• peered to be as numerous as doe American people, sod to inhabit al Wiwi:2ly .se lase it epos of the mato% botrekt Jobe et .onceiegieste his piefilibility,to soristoroll! Tile. Great. Plains embrace s very_ ample, proporticm amble SOU for 6111)1.' 'The bottoms 'of the rivert are very bridid and let's' ? Whig anti a fear indica claratiQu %lived, above thewaters, which descend by a rapid and even current. They may easily and cheaply be saturated by all ihe various ay's tems of artificuil irrigation, aqueducts, arte sian wells, or flooding by machinery. Un der this treatment, the soils being alluvial and calcareous, both from the sulphate and carbonate formations, return a prodigious yield, sad are independent of the seasons.— Every variety of grain, grass, vegetable ; the grape, and fruits; flax, cotton, and the flora, under a perpetual sun, and irrigated at the root, attain , extraordinary vigor, flavor, and beauty. - . The Great Plaint abound in fuel, and the materials for dwellings and fencing. Bitumi nous coal is everywhere interstratified with the calcareous and sandstone formation ;.it is also.abundant - in the flanks ‘)f-the tnoun tains, and is everywhere conveniently acces sible. The dung of the btado is scattered everywhere. The order - of vegetable growth being reversed by..the aridity of the atmos phere, what show above.as the merest bush es, radiate deep into the earth, and form be; low an-immense arborescent growth. Fuel of wood is found by digging. Plaster and limestone, clay, and sand, exist - beneath al most every acre. -The large econom;eal adobe brick, hardened in the sun and without fire, Supeisedes other materials for walls and fences in this-dry atmosphere, and, as in Sy ria and Egypt, resits dewy for centuries, The dwellings - thus constructed are most healthy, being imperious to heat, cold, damp and wind.- _The American - people are about; then, to inaugurate a new and immense order of in• dustrial production—pastoral agriculture.— Its fields will be the Great Plains, interme diate between. the :oemns. Once commenc ed, it. will develop very rapidly. We. trace in their history the successive inauguration and ”,•stematie growth of several .of these distinct orders. The tobacco culture, the cotton culture, the rice culture, the itimiense provision culture, navigation, external and internal transportation by land and water, the hemp culture, the fisheries, and maniiiiic t 11 res. Each of these have risen . as - time has rip- . ened the necessity of each; and noiselessly taken and-filled its appropriate place in , the general economy of our industrial. empire. This•pastoral property transports itself en the hoof, and finds its, food ready furnished by nature. In these-elevated countries, fresh meats become the prderable food for man; to the . exclusion of - bread, vegetables, and salted articles. The atmosphere of the Great Plains is perpetually brilliant with sunshine '--tonic, healthy, and inspiring to the - temper. It corresponds with and surwtsses the histor ic climate of Syria and •Ararls, from whence we inherit all that is etherial and refined in our system of civilization; our religion, our sciences, our alphabet, our numerals, our written . languageS, -our articles of food, our learning, and our system of social nmnners., ''Coolne:s Shm Slink tells a story about an overgrown hulk of a Yankee. boy who was sent. to the wood pile by his father one cold; winter even: ing, for a "back lof .for the kitchen fire.— The youth went out, but instead'of bringing in a good substantial log, only brought a thin little stick—or " brail” as the Pennsylvania Germans say. -His father immediately gave him o good whipping, and sent him, after an. other log. But the youth .having his " clan. der" roused, left the house, went to - Bi'mton, and shipped on a vessel which- made a. voy age &several years: In course of time the youth came back.; and started home on - foot. It was winter, and just inch an evening as .the one on whreh he left home. So, remembering his father's or der, the young man picked up a huge log, and - staggering, into the house, threw it down on the heath before his astonished tither and Mother, and quietly said : " Father ; hero's that back log you sent me (Ur." ' • The old gentleman, not to be outdone in coolness, replied, with a touch of severity.: Well ! you's.* been a darned long time abont it!" • We were reminded of. thi4 story by the follnwing, which we find floating allow, -un credited : 1 " A certain distinguished citizen of Atilwau kie, Wisconsin, who has filled the highest office in the State, was once in The employ of a farmer in We - stern New York. Among other things it was his duty to "bring in the cows." One evening the cows and boy "came up missing." • Some years,rtfter the farmer . was passing down Eat Wat .r street, Milwaukie, and saw the name of his cowboy over the door of one of the largest hardware houses in the West. lie walked in and found his boy in the counting room. Ile stared a moment on the truant; and then' broke out with, "Ilalh,, I.en,• have you found them cows. yet 1" One can imagine what followed —a mutual reCnonition. It is said the old farmer was.pacifte e 'd without a breach of 'the peace." . - • . . Wiar MAIIONIMEDANS •FlllOl . l . Pena.—ln Europe, during. many centuries, the only an ima! food in general use was pork—beef, veal and mutton, being comparatively un known. It was therefore with . no small as tonishment that. the crusaderi, on returning from the East, told their siountrynien . that they had been among people who, like the Jews, thought pork unclean, and refused to eat it. But the feelings Of lively wonder which this intelligences excited were destroyed as soon as the cause of the tact was explained. The subject was taken up-by Mathew Paris, the .most eminent historian during tha thir teenth century,,and one of the rifest eminent during the Middle Ages. This celebrated writer informs us that the Mahommedans re fuse to eat pork on account of a singular cir cumstance which happened to their prophet. It appear's that .tifahommed, having on one occasion, glirged himself with food and drink till he was hi a state of insensibility, fell asleep on a dunghill, and, in this disgraceful condition was 'seen by a litter of pigs. The pigs attaelcod tbofallen prophet, and,suftica led him aintoat ,to death; fin which, - reason, his.‘ktl lower* abgtuitiate pigs and - refuse to .F4r0 1 101 0 ( *Sir..fieSb--- *Thin striking fact ex* Pla* 0 0 6 Vest, PennlisritY o l:tho:Aidn'in , maths and . angthor i ..faat, equally striking, iroblint hoar , ia was ..that ,their wet Cline into asistanon. : .Irat.,4;Eas.. known that.*; hatagao4. l Sak*iginniii iagaNiaal,„and .only became, a ..baflaia ha . What in . his 4 4Ork*f tory of Cioili.- f otiox isWpylOnd,- I H. H. FRAZIER - , PUBLISHER”--11:014.-8.No, 48. Faits about the Human Body. There are 200 bones in the human body, exclusive of the teeth. These bones are eom posed of animal and earthy materiali, the Curtner predominating in youth, and the latter in old age, rendering the bones brittle. The most important of. these blnes is, the spine, which is composed of 24 small bones, called the vertebrte, one on top of the other, curi ously hooked together, and fastened by elas tic ligarrients, forming a pillar, by which the human frame is supported. -The bones are moved by the muscles, of which there are more than five hundred.— The red meat of beef, - the fat being excluded, is the muscular fabric of the ox. Therq are two sets of muscles, one to draw the bone one way, and another to draw it-back again. We cannot better describe the muscles" than by comparing them to fine elastic threads,. bound up in their cases of skin: Many mus , cles terminate in tendon -I, which . are stout cords,•such as may be seen traversing the the back of the hand,, just Within the skis; and,„Which can be observed-to move when the 'hand is open or shot. Every motion we make, even the involuntary one of breathing, is performed through the agency of museleS. In adults there- are about fifteen quarts of blood, each weighing about two pounds.— This blood 'is of two kinds, the arterial and veinous. 'The first is the pore blood as it leaves, the heart to nourish the frame,'and is of a bright vermilion. color.. The bettis the blood as it returns to the heart, loaded with the impurities of the body, to be. there -re fined, and is of a purple hie. Every pulsa tion of the heart sends out about two ounces of arterial blood, and as there are frotri - 70 to SO beats in 'a minute. a hogshead-of blood passes through" the heart every hour. In fevers' the pukations are-,:uxelerated ;. the consequently death ensues if the fever is not checked. The stomach is the boiler, if we may use such a figure, which drives the himitm engine. Two sets •of muscles, crossing -each other, turn the fond over and flyer, Churning it. up in the gastric . juice,. till it has been reduced. tO the consistency of thin paste. This pro. cess requires from two to four hours. Etner. .ging from the stomach, the food enters the small intestines, where it is mixed with bile and the pancreatic juice, and converted into ehyle. These small, intestines are '24 tea lung,-closely packed, of course, and surround= od through their whole length Ikith small tubes, whickact like sockets, and drawing off the chyle empty into a large tiibe, mimed the thoracic duct, which runs up the back: and discharges its contents into the, jugular • vein, whence it passes in_the heart, to Assist in forming arterial blood. The lungs are two bags, connected with the open air bythe windpipe, which branches into innumerable small tubes, all over , the inside of the lungs, each terminating in a minute air cell. The other surface of these air cells is full of capillaries, or,- . infinitely small veins, a thin membrane only, dividing the air from the blood. The itnnure portion of veinous blood is carbonic acid, which ha,v. lug a stronger affinity fur air than fOrblOod, passes through this membrane, to a gaseous state, combines with the air in the air cells, and is expelled with the next expiration. Meantime the oxygen of the air unites with the blood arid. becomes purified, then passing' into the heart, being mixed with chyle, it is forced through the body as life-giving and ar terial The Serves an important purpoae, in carrying, off impuritiet of the system. It is traversed with capillaries which contain snore blood, in the aggregate, than all the other vt pillaries of the body. , It is also perforated with countless perspiration tubes; the united length of which amounts to 28\ miles. and which drain away from 3 to 4 pounds of. waste matter every 24 hours; or five.eighths of all that the body discharges. The nerves are another curious feature of the anima economy. They • are, however, but little understood. .They set asleelers to tell the wants of the- belly, and also a.; con- duetors to will the muscles to act. • They branch out for the brain and spine, over the whole frame in infinitely fine .fibres like branches or twigs of a tree...- ' REELECTIONS ON :METH tsp,Art.,--Ijow . many men are there who have ever taken into their minds the full moaning of those nine hundred sixty and nine years which: measure the life of the "oldest . inhabitant?" Figures of arithmetic are empty symbols— we meit.sure them by deeds.' One summer's life in busy, fruitful lands seems longer to man's heart than centuries at the frozen pole., Ye! though history records nothing of the labors of Methuselah, we know that his hours did not "sin - tuber nor sleep." They were the same wingel messengers' that outrun cashleiis debtors and cut short lovers.' dreams. They were the same swi ft -stepping elves, 0 faded beauty ! 'whose forked teeth trod thy dimples into wrinkles. The time that waiter] so long on Methselah was the same striding skeleton that swings a . pitileas'seythe in the pageS of the • New England Primer. His fields were mowed leis frequently than now, - but they' yielded heavier crops. ." For there Were giants in those dap." We have meas ured the age of Methuselah. only by the sun dial. Let us take 'the coil - of the life, the nine hundred sixty and nine years of, his pil 7 grimage, and roll it .out from this present over the past which history has lighted: It stretches back beyond the landing of the the Pilgrims—beyond the brightness of the reformation, into the dim twilight of the middle ages; back beyond the new birth of a continent; beyond . .Agincourt, ar.d Cressy, and Ha4ings, and'pver the graves of terenty five genertioni,-:to the very childhood of the English .William the' Conqueror, if he shouldtiSO-. at this day to confound the ambitious names which claim to haye "come over" with him, wouldhe 'younger, by one hundred years, than Methuselah was whew he died 1 • . • Vlstsoxies.—The Nora egiana are big a.. nough and strong t enough, to be sum ; but their carriage is awkwrird, and their tow nut only plain, but ugly.. Tbesointry women *elm* were remarkable in triiir latter. !Imbed, but nothing could exceed their developernatt nP *Ask bosom ON% - Here"is the stuff ofwltichltikiags *ere made;. I th o ught, ' but thorn has bortwee'refining or eanehtippii* those sisas4, Theie ire the 'rough pritiiitive Airmatteini Of the bamen boeptin , ,ke,atel, pelf*, frinn which 0pr0w5 . t54,11446 ant'renege; but at best a - 44 iiirnPle and hardy flowers.--Bayard Taylor in .fforthern Atrope. ' • ~`` .~ amtS& The Quarterly:Revieetrecerttlylaid a eery - valuable paper-on "Travels-ittilliut,"wbieb is copied into the last - number-of -!' Lfttell'a Living Age." The 48v/eater :eye v . -,---*- , 'The assertion.that' t he Chinese art a Emi . barbarous people is denied by - adritost - every -, trbieller who'-has penetrate(' -beicind - their- 1 ports and lived freelyi among thepeople.'.: In the refinements - of' life ; la opartisay t humaeity. - and domestic , re affection,. they. are, at !emit, caw equals. and iii4soeirOpeets :lihr eepartors ; and if we haVe,thr oet-Xtripped.. there in : -sei ince, we may yet- do well to.ieiiiill io'lnind how many of our arts,lieturies find pleapros came to us from the East, and that we_were once the pupils of those of whom we now boast ourselves the masters. TheAteme of the account - can tiowhererbe better - reed than in an admirable passage from an adtblrible - work by Dr. Draper, an American._ , • ' lithe European wishes to knowliovi much he owes to the Aiiatie, he luie only to'cast a &nee at an hour . of his-daily life; The clock which summons him from his bed in the 1 morning is an invention of the East, as were - also clepsydras and sun disk: The prayer for his daily bread, which - he has, said (roar ' his infency, first' rose frenilthe side of 'a -Syr ian' mountain. - .The linens - and. Cottons with -which he clothes himself, though they may-tei very.fine, are:. inferior to those—which, have been made, from time immernerial, in some silk looms , of -India. The siliristolep by some missionaries, for his benefit, _trim China.-- He could buy better steel than tbathe,shav - es - himself with, in the old city of Damaseas, where it was invented.. , The &dee he expacts at breakfast was first• grown by the Arabian., and the natives of Upper India. prepared the sugar with which he sweetetis it. A. school boy can tell the meaning of the*snacrit words sa.echara canda. If his tafiteig are light and be prefers ten, the virtue of that excellent-leaf . were first pointed out by the industrious 1 Chinese. They also taught him how, to - make Land use the cup andaancer in whicli to serve - it. His breakfitst tray was lacquered in Ja pan. There is a tradition that leavened bread was, first mhde of the -waters of the Ganges. The egg be is breaking was laid by a fowl whose anCesters were domesticated ,by -.the • Itlalaceans; micas she may have been,though that will not alter the case, a modern Sham hai.. If there are prererves and fruits orr,his board; let. hit-remember with than kfelness that Persia first gave him the cherry, the peach and plum. ..lt in any of those deli Cate preparations.he dist - covers the flavor of aleo ho4 let it remind -bite that' that substance was first distilled by the Arabians; who have set -him the praiseworthy example,- which it will be for his benefit to follow t ofabstaining from its use.- IV hen.lie talks about (sees and alcohol he is using Arable words. 'We grat• ity our tasta4n. personal ornament -in the way that Orientals have taught us With pearls, rubiis, sapphires, diamonds; Of pule tic a .musements it. is the ' erinfe; - The - nthst magnificent fireworks are still to be see ;its India and China; and, as regards the pia timesof private life, Europe--tuts prOiluded no - invention which can rival duSgiiille of chess. We hive no hydraulic constructions - as great as the Chinese canal , no forti6Otions as extensive us the Chinese Witt i ice-: ]sire no Artesian wells that can at all apOrittagin depth to some of theirs . ; We have not/..-yetire sorted to the ..prectiee of obtaining coal ,- gas from the intoner of the Earth ; they bare `buriegl 'for that. purpos* more than ,$ - ,41.00 1 feet dip.. Panay Nunes. One of -the clerks entploy-ed the indexes (or _indices, as.the tnatidloi ay - prefer to say) of the paid yolutneccif the-An nual Registration Of Birtils,'Marelagasilind Deaths in Maisachusettigi as - returned;ll ... the several town clerks to ..the - Oirce - Of the . 1 8eot rotary of State,:has - copleit, in The Titivelfax; the -following natitesltinn the retinue of births.: Slum Of tbentAiiiilde cfdedly sentimental. Anrpsrstittras. stowing verbal handles upon neyrAmrs oftiPring, will here And a convet4nt'llet ft'•Put -which to select . r , chnisTlAN ou. 'last _ „ _ Adalorenia, Adrouna, Lueyttis, Sfitivits, Merzelia, Mayida, Angretta, DortanthOls. ild a, Alphett a, Zeal led, Potentico*traniiriots, Reniab, Altberab, Rovaletta, Milora,A*tina,* Lovena, Eudora, Robertana, Senora, Octavio. Alfradine, Altana, Viella, Lavorilla;" Gisilan• tire, Patient', Ephraimetta; Serapbieuolla donia, Dulcona, AM /slam; Rinialth e - Lucyphine, Lauana, Anjatina,Melin. the, Phiclora, Retinia, Silva, Atbalinda t ,,Eti• sebia, Anintba, Dentin, Jette, ROMI . 1 112 1 4 Clarabal, Flora, Oslella, - Alm on,' Elgi ve Orselia, Carsildany, Ebrina,- Utisine, Zoa, latent", Albatine, Mations, Ilan. rahette, Ortentia, Zyra„Satruultha,Maiimk, Varetta„ LVeiphina, id orN ss antue y f oL or i. eua, Ervin, Elroy, A:quietist, 111.1fragis, Vl ann ' • Adalstte, Annum, Jessaline,, Ada, Wei as, Ellaroy, lltanilla, lttai,_Learatell,o4lll - Inre, Luellbs, Coraella, Orissa, _Liana, Odes's, - Sealun l / 4 , Annelle, „Mot* ~.,Ocontsts Ferendino, Alvahretta, Elde#4, Inonk_Latility Almarettu. Luona Matill4 Floretta, lola, Edis,_Leortlit P4loPik i Elenetta, Day nine, ..13nlyra Franeeltai- Floc. entinc, ldella, Hannossits, aoiens,, lbtoritt liatrassa. - - Silvernail, Potwino, C4x,n, Good1;00 aft. Woe, Walkup;: Yttcsengir. topOrtivi, Ruts #ll,, Rathbottom, Sackentinianl/4,Winterbot. tom, Proucifoot, .11elfrjik, 111tiettOi , am Crow. The roregaing,nemei are =pied. verbalise, from. the original ireforns, and esuk at, aoy time be verified, with 4 ' much tniiro,n, by , xis (erring to the index of -, vide. 34 and 35,Ath series. Clayman' 15.-Idr. Tn v elcerstiari4ofiltedAluia. balm) Miciattlarir JliritOry apprisirnikl*t. vat critical 'ensylst, - 00f1t;itc nP,lll(far itigniry wbA trilett: illustrious BibiliOter r sitfa-.-"o4:Pleectin• atimplsm,*; - Apo --RxcAaNS • _ Macaulay; if ask* kir' JO -. Oplitiorf of 44 illustrious ,Carlyle,-rnighi'-'isply,wloo`iirud taste and infinitely; gaiskar.l , truo—. inanity, sir took tip throu g h thik : 04 , worfd.k.'srl4746oiiville itoiroa4;.,l arTruth e nd holiness `( t niy. -_,Robsn 11414) are In the chrtitiett-ertesso **at& ly:allied, 11114' tbe warm' 4,44 tion or the ouo lays Ale only filundnihni . - 13 - MBE ME suas AVM. 111
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