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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:
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!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
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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."
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" 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 !"
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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
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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. - „ - .:*,.
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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. '
•
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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
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