7TV . 'II r j: . : -rrz:: ' ' TERMS $2.00 A TEAR, IS ADVANCE. : A LOCAL AND FAMILY JOURNAL. . .T P.. T.TTTHEli. EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. - - sis - 1 ' - ' ' j V ;yoL. ii. VCRTHEH LANGIAGK FROM TRUTH" . .. , , FUIi JAMES. , , nr. UBBT HARTE. Do I leep j Ao I rtre.ro 1 Do i wauder and doubt 1 Are thin s wnat Hi -y oem. Or t. vision, about 1 I. our civilization f illnm , . Or is the Caucasian played out 1 ' Wliich expression, arc strong ; - - Yn. w.mld feehly tmplv Some account of a wrong Not to call It a lie As was woriced off on William my pai-Juer, Which hi. name It was W. Xve. ' .v I He came down to the Ford On the very same day Of that Lot ery, ornwert l '. By tho.3f.harp.at the Bay ; And he uy a to ine, "Truthful, havt goes 1M J 1 replied, - it is lar, m iroui gay " For the camp ha. (rone wild On this Lottery fcsiue, And a- even b.-gntltxl ' Injln Dick ' hy the same." Wliluh said Nya to me, ' Injln I. plzcu Do you know wuat hi. number I. JaruesT" I replied, "7,5, 1 9. H, 4, is hia hand SVhU.h he started and drew Out a 1. at, whlcu he scanned ; ' Then he a jfily wml for his rovo'ver, . With language i cannot command. ' Then I said, " William Nye!" But he turned upun ine, And the look In his eye 1 Was quite painful to see. And be says: ' Yon mistake ; this poor Injtn 1 protect f ram such sliarps as you he !" I was ahocke land withdrew ; But I grieve to rtlnte. When he next met my view Injln Dick was his mate, And the two aiound town waalylug Ju a fruitfully dissolute state. Which the war-dance they had Bound a tree at the Bend, Was a sight that was sad ; And it seemed that the end Would not Justify tlte proceedings, " ' Am I qulut remarked to a Irlenil. l'nrthat Injln he fled The next day to his band ; And we found Wi.Uam apreud Very louse on the strand, Wltu a peaceful-like smile on hia fen t urea. And a dollur greonback in his hainl. Which, the same when rolled out, Wa observed with surprise, Wnat the Fnjln, no douut, Had believed waa the prize Them figures in red in the corner. Which the number of notes specifies. Was It gnilo, or a rtrcnm 1 Is it Nye tunt I doubt I Are thing)) what they seem, Or U vision about 1 la ur civilization a falltirel or Is tue Cancss-an piaved ont ! Overland Monthly for January. V I t. K A NIGHT ADVENTURE AT SEA. A Curious Iitciilenl. A short time since I happened to be iu Valparaiso, where I made the acquain tance of an American, one of the officers of the United States whaling-ship Xan- tucket, which had run in from her nan mg-grounds in the i'aciho to obtain a supply of water and fresh provisions: and one day, in talking over the differ ent events ot the cruise, which had lasted tsvo years, ho narrated the following curious incident which had Delallou rheni : One morning at daybreak, when lying becalmed, they found themselves in the midst of a shoal of sperm whales, and U four of their boats were speedily I lowered and chase civen. Two of them j proved successful, and by the afternoon ! had returned to the ship, towing their I captured prey ; but the others were not so fortunate. Having by some blunder )' missed their iirst chance, it was not un til after an arduous chase f many hours that their leading boat at last succeeded in overtaking and making fast to the whale. A long and desperute struggle ensued, the second crew quickly coming to the assistance of the first; but line after line from both was expended by the animal, which proved to be of the largest size, and of immense strength and tenacity of life. He tried every means to escape ; sometimes "sounding," that in, dessending perpendicularly to a vast depth into the recesses of the ocean, until the enormous pressure of the superincumbent water was more than even its huge strength could bear, and it was forced to return to the sur face, along which it would then rush with such velocity, dragging both boats after it, that the water, divided by the sharp bows, curled high in two solid walls on either hand. At length, however, its speed began to slacken, and the whalemen, anxious to secure their prize before darkness set in advanced to hmsh him, and tour more lances were rapidly hurled into the body of the monster, whioh, apparently ex hausted by its preceding efforts, lay pas sive on the water. .No sooner, however, had the last steel penetrated, than, as it' the stimulus bud aroused anew ail its vital energies, it hurlei itself half out of the water, and swinging its ponderous flukes high up in the air, struck two tremendous blows in quick succession, one of which full upon the foremost boat, cutting it completely in two, and scat tering its occupants (one of whom had his thigh broken) in all directions. After doing this mischief, it again sounded ; and, hastily picking up their companions, and placing the wounded man in the bottom of the boat, the rest, undaunted, impatiently awaittd the coming up of the animal to breathe. But they waited in vain ; their prey . had escaped them. In his last desperate effort to free himself, he had (so I was told, at least,) dived so deeply that, with his strength exhausted, he was unable again to rise, and dying below, sank still deeper. The disappointed whalers gat in silence, watching their lines disap pearing fathom after fathom, until their last yard was gone, when the bowman, who held his tomahawk uplifted ready to strike, was compelled to let it fall and sever the rope, lest the weight of the descending body should drag the boats down with it into the abyss. Wearied with their long day of fruit less toil, and depressed at their ill-fortune, the men prepared to return to their ship, which had long before sunk beneath the horizon ; for, being calm, she could not make sail to follow them. After pulling for some hours, however, they felt a slight breeze spring up, which they knew would briag her down; and, after a while, a rocket ascending showed her position; and this signal was repeated every half hour, until the Teasel waa within ft few miles. They had been resting on their oar for some time, but had once more resumed view upon noticing that the breeze was dying away, and their ship likely to tjo again becalmed, when all at once a sounu struck upon 'their ears which made each mau pause in astonishment, it was a groa'h, or rather a hoarse, heavy, smothered kind or. moan, whicn seemed to be borne to them from across the wa ters ; but whether from near at hand or far away they could not tell. The men stood up in their Doat and listened. The night was cloudy and dark ; but the line between sea and sky was suihciently distinct to show to their practised vision the form of their own vessel, which was only three miles away; but no sail was vimble on that part of the horizon from whence the sounds appeared to come. Thinking it possible, however, that some shipwreck ed boat's crew might be in their neigh borhood, they joined together in a snout, but there was no response audible. All at once, however, some flashes of light gleamed across the distant darkness, and a bluish glare shone out tor a minute or two, flickered, and disappeared. At the same moment a distant, piercing cry, followed by moanings similar to the first they had heard, rose on the night air. In all their experience, whether on sea or land, they had never heard sounds like these, and, amazed and startled, and with all the superstitious fears ex cited to which sailors are prone, the men in the boat whispered their con jectures to each other. " There's nothing as I know of that swims the sea or hies in the air could make those sounds," said one. " If there was any craft anywhere within miles, we could see her sails plain enough; we are too far out at sea for any coasters carrying cattle. Beside, there's no such trade on this coast, and we're eight hundred miles from it. " If it's from a boat, what kind of a crew must she have? That's what I want to know," said a second. " I know what it is to be adrift and perishing. was one time on a raft with twenty more for two-and-thirty days, and a whole lot of 'em went mad and died raging, from drinking the salt water, and yelled and fought and throttled each other till they were pitched overboard : but, then, these here sounds aren t human like. " Couldn't be a whale, Bill, that made that moanin' noise '(" asked another of the boat-steerers, who was a veteran salt, having followed his calling as sealer and whaler in all parts of the world. " Well, it might be that noise might; though twarn t exactly like it, neither, I've heard 'em too often not to know them. Sperm whale don't roar much; but right black, or Greenland species, common all over the world, you cau hear, at times, miles away. 1 remember once, when I was in New Zealand we was a Bay whaling near Hokianga we killed a cow whale and her calf and towed 'em into the bay. Well, the old bull, he came in from sea at nightfall, and kep up such a moanin' and roarin' it was pitiful to hear him. He knowed his missus had gone in there, you see, and he was a callin' on her to come out; and for -nigh-hand on to a week, evory night, he'd tack about in the offing until daylight, waitin and caliin her, 'Twarn't till we stripped the blubber off her, nud towed the carcass out to sea, that he gave in and left. For some time the men listened, but nothing further was heard or seen, They also rowed for some distance in the direction of the sounds, and again shout ed, but got no reply; and an hour after wards they were picked up and taken on board. The captain, when he heard their story, swept the horizon with his night-glass; but detecting no sail, he concluded that the vessel from which the light had proceeded (if they really bad seen it) had passed out ot sight in the interval; and as for the sounds which had startled them, he made light ot them. " You heard a grampus grunting, or some seals suorting, or maybe some pen guins trumpeting," he said. " You were all knocked up and half asleep. Turn in, the whole lot of you, and take snooze till daylight, for we must finish stripping; and trying out this fish. A set of lubbers you were to lose that other whale ; The men did as they were ordered but were perfectly convinced that the sounds they had heard were not caused by any such agencies as their command er had mentioned. The tight, strange as it was, certainly might have proceed' ed from a passing ship, although in that case it was odd they could not see it, Each of the noises separately also might ba thus accounted for, perhaps ; but the whole occurring together, and proceed ing from one quarter, was to them inex plicable. rney had Deeu asleep some hours, ana day was about to break. The breeze had slightly freshened ; but the ship, al ter having picked up the boats, had been hove to, and consequently had re mained nearly stationary during the night, the carcass of the whale having been placed alongside, secured by tack les, preparatory to stupping the blub ber, or " Dlannetpiece, as it is technic ally called. Some of this had already been taken on, noisiea on aeck, cut up, and placed in the huge coppers used in the sperm whale fishery for boiling (or " trying out," as it is termed) the oil these coppers being imbedded in brick work, on the upper or open deck. The fires beneath them being laid ready for lighting, the mate was busy with his reparations, when the captain, who ad been in bed, turned out and came on deck. "Do you know," said he, "that I really think that there was no mistake in what the hands said? There's some thing out of the way going on, or afloat near us. My cabin window was open the head of my bunk is close to it and as I lay there 1 heard something I can't make out what. Did you not near any thing V" , No ; we've been busy knocking about the decks. What was it like r' - f . WelL ftt first it was like what the men said deep groaning, moaning, and rumbling kind of noises, a good distance off apparently. Then I heard ft scream ; then some one laughing rum sort of RIDGWAY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1871 - - zzzzz - I aueh it was. too. I should have thought myself dreaming, only for what the men bad said. How long since was thisr asked the mate. " Within this last Quarter of an hour. But is everything ready for trying out, Mr. Smart V" And the captain exam ined the preparations made. " Call the watch as soon as it is ligni enougu, auu ri,o miuri a. charged, bo you may as well light the fires, and then pass the word along for silence fore and aft. I want to listen, set all hands to work. and try and make out what those noises maan He went out and stood by the talirail, while the men on deck, ceasing their work, went to the side or mounted the riccine". For a short time they remained thus, looking and listening, when the captain, bearing again the deep moaning ne nau described, raised the speaking trumpet he held, aud hailed. As the hoarse sound died away, a startling reply was given. A burst ot strange, harsn laugnier came ringing across the water, graauauy chansinsr into a wild cry, which rose upon the night air, sounding inexpressi bly sad and mournful. At that moment, as the seamen, thrilled and awe-struck, listened, the fires which had been light ed beneath the coppers, and which had been fed with pieces of refuse blubber. began to burn up brigntiy, tue names presently shooting up half way to the tops, and casting a broad red glare over tho surrounding waters. And, as if the flame had been a spell to conjure up tho demons of the deep, from the thick dark ness beyond the verge ot tho circle oi light issued a succession of sounds of the most extraordinary character. Yells and howls, shrill screams and roars now commiugled. now separato at times dviner awav. and again, as the flames shot up fiercely, rising in hideous chorus assailed the ears of the astound ed whalers, while at intervals, mingled with the uproar, was what seemed to some on board to be the sound, indis tinctly heard, of human voices. This continued until the -vessel had passed on her wav some distance, when the nniaua riirfl.mn more and more indistinct. nn-l finally? fliori ftWAV. Before the fires had been lighted the ship had been put before the wind, in order that the smoke and flame might Tmss forward and not endanger the rig ging or incommode the men at their la bor. Some of the latter, alarmed at the sounds, would willingly have had her continue her course and leave the vicini ty ; but the Yankee, skipper was not so superstitious ; and, being determined to ascertain thoir cause, he ordered the fires to be put out, (so that the vessel might sail against the wind), and re turned. While the lookouts aloft were trying, to catch sight of any vessel or other obiect in the neighborhood, the sounds again reached them ; and, sailing in their direction, the ship was hove to, and a boat lowered ; but vhe men hung back when the captain ordered a crew in, and wished to wait for daylight. " Why, what are you afraid of, men '( uo you think mere are evii spirits crui insr r" He paused iu surprise, and all hands uttered a cry. A strange phenomenon was presented to their view ; a pale blue, phosphorescent light gleamed out of the darkness, and showed them a wreck, dismasted and drifting. Through the open ports and breaches in the bul warks, broken by the waves, me un-eaithlv-looking radiance shone, glim mering and flickering on the stump of the mainmast, the only fragment of a spar left standing. Its bows were to wards them, and from their own mast heads they could at times, when it pitched and rolled, look down on to its dock. Close to the after hatchway burn ed a blue, tremulous flame, sometimes shooting up vividly, and at others sink ing down until nearly extinguished, by the light of which all on deck was ren dered visible. All hands looked eagerly for signs of a crew ; but nothing in the shape of a man was to be seen. The deck was cleared, the long-boat and spars gone ; there was nothing to con ceal them from view, had any men been on board. But although nothing in the guise of mortal man was visible, other objects presented themselves to the view of the awe-struck sailors. Gaunt and weird- looking Bhapee of hideous animals were plainly seen flitting restlessly to and fro in the ghastly light of that unnat ural illumination of a lonely wreck at sea. " I can tell you, sir," said my infor mant, at this portion of bis narrative, " that I for one was scared, ana no mis take about it. I was brought up in a part of New England where a belief in the supernatural prevails. I had heard that evil spirits appeared at times in me form of beasts, and haunted the places where they had when on earth commit ted their crimes ; and we were off that coast where, for two hundred years, the desperadoes ot every clime pirates and buccaneers had pursued, when in life, their horrid calling. As the blue light flickered and the veils once more broke out, these tales of my early days might have made me fancy myself in the pres ence of some phantom Rhip with its phastiv crew. - A But daylight soon came, the blue light went out, and we then saw that the wreck was a real one, and that a boat was towing astern ; and when we pulled to it and hailed, voices from the cabin aft replied, and we rowed round and saw a man with nis nead ana snoui Aura nroieeting out of the window. " I say, strangers !" he shouted, " don't Tinn of vou offer to"come aboard. Some nf the critters got loose last night, and they're dangerous." Aud dangerous enough they appeared to be, for at that moment came to me laurau uu ieuou down on us several hyenas, whose eyes, SDarklinar with famine, glared most ferociously ; and no wonder ; they had bad no food for nearly week. The brig was in faot complete me nagerie, which ft speculative American was taking to California, visiting all the South American ports on his way. He had been blown out to sea by ft hurri cane, which ftt last carried ftwfty his masts, and be had been drifting about ever since, till his beasts were nearly starved, lie had a miserable crew, half of them being his showmen, and ne nim self was his own captain, trusting to his mate to navigate for him. They had prepared the long-boat for leaving, should no vessel fall in with them, but had made freauent abortive enorts to ricr iurv-masts as well. In their last at tomni. t.hfl snar had fallen, and the heel of it smashed the cage containing the hyenas, and all hands had to make a speedy retreat to the after cabin, and Keep oeiow im uayugu them to shoot or otherwise seoure them. Onr fire, bv exciting the beasts, attract ed their notice, and at first they thought it waa a burning ship. The light Been hv the boat earlv in the night was made by burning some spirits of wine out of the cabin window, ana tnoy now pre pared to repeat the signal, hoping to at tract our attention ; but this time, in stead of hanging it out of the cabin window, they managed to open ine hatchway and push it out on the deck, where the beasts were prowling about, restless with the hunger which torment ed them. The crew stayed three days with us ; we rigged tneni up jury-masis, aim, what was of greater consequence, sup- Elied the captain with plenty of the eef from the whale for his animals, and thus saved him from ruin ; for the poor man bad invested all be had in the me nagerie. We heard afterwards that he got safe to Callao, and I suppose is in California long betore this. The Chinamen. A common Chinaman has no other idea of life than to work steadily, do his own cooking, washing, ironing, and mendine-. and spend a great deal less than he earns. His father and all his ancestors, as far back as to the time of Aaron or of Abraham, had no otner idea of life. A hut, a few yards of cloth, a double handful ot rice and wheat, slice of pork, a frying-pan, and a strip of rush matting for a bed these are what ho is born to, and with these, in his own land, he expects to die, and die content. When he comes to America, his simple aim is to lay up a small sum ot money on wnien he can live at ease when be goes back I saw a miner, fifty- two years old ; ho looked thin and worn, as though he had never known anything but steady toil and rougu iare. iie nas been here five years, and has three hun dred dollars in gold. Last Monday he took the steamer to Uanton. no win go home to his wife, and be a man in easy circumstances the rest of his days. They make no eight-hour protests ; they have no strikes; they cannot understand what a trade-union means. They will work for fifty cents till they hear of some man who gives sixty. Then they go to work for him till they know of a chance to make seventy-five. They have no bar-rooms; they drink no strong drink ; they do not fight, or curse, or break things. But they love to smoke in the evening, and it amuses them greatly to throw a pile of little brass coin, ten of which make a cent, on tho middle of ft table, and bet that, when the heap is counted off, it will turn out odd. Some bet a dime that it will count out odd, as twenty-seven or thirty-one. Others bet twenty-five cents that the count will be even. I did not see any body bet over twenty-five cents, but I was told that late at night they grow reckless and bet their pipes and their clothes, all their tobacco, and at last a wife. But the class ot gamesters is not large. Most of them, after work, cuddle down by a little fire, where rice and the legs and head ot a nen are coning, auu chatter about tho day s work, about what some other miner or laborer has found, about what some wicked " Meli can man " has done, about home, and having their ashes carried back to China to sleep besides tue oones oi meir ances tors and under the grim smile of some ancient wooden god. Presently the chatter lulls away, the little rush beds are spread, and Uhang-iy, in dreams, is far away in the Flowery Land. But, with davliirht. he ties up the little roll of rush carpeting, lays it on a shelf, eats a cup of boiled wneat ana sucks a chicken-wing, and anon the pick, with slow but unceasing swing, is hacking into the bank ; the barrows are filled, the planks are handled, the rails are spiked, and the work goes on as fast as though pushed by Irish muscle or Amer ican nerve. How It was Done. A man cannot well describe that which he has never seen nor beard ; but the absolute words of one such scene did once come to the author's knowledge. The couple were by no means plebeian, or below the proper standard of high breeding: they were a handsome pair, living among educated people, sufficient ly given to mental pursuits, and in every way what a pair of polite lovers ought to be. The all-important conversa tion passed in this wise. I he site ot the passionate scene was the sea-shore, on which they were walking in autumn. Uenueman" Well, .Bliss , tne long and the short of it is this : bere I am you can take me or leave me." iMaii iscratuumg a truiwr iu me sauu r i , J with her parasol, so as to allow a little salt water to run out of one hole into another! " Of oonrse 1 know that s all nonsense." Gentleman "Nonsense! By Jove, it isn't nonsense at all. Come, Jane, here I am ; come, at any rate you can say something. Lady " x es. I suppose I can say something. ' . uentuman " well, which is it to be ; take me or leave me f Ladu (very slowly, and with a voice perhaps hardly articulate, carrying on at the same time her engineering work on a wider scale) " Well, I don't exactly want to leave you. lrouope. A new line of steamers is to be estab lished between Portland and Boston in the spring, to run in connection with the .Portland and Ogdensburgb au- road. Compressed Air as a Motor. TTnvftftn H. Dav writes to the Peterson Preu in reforence to compressed air as a motor: .... Perhaps less than two per cent, ot me water power of our vast country nas yet been utilized. The force now run ning to waste is destined to add untold wealth and play no mean jjuii. hi mo nation's destiny. The time has indeed come for a fuller investigation of this most important subject. Thanks to Bommeiiere ana nis associ ates ; thanks to France ana xtaiy, wnose money was at his disposal j we can to day, and with great profit to all who will engage in tne Dusiness, uuiuo up and transmit to places where wanted, and use this waste torce turougn com mon engines, without nccetmrily adding anything new. Ao-day a company lor mis purpuso is nro-B.ni7.inff in the city of Rochester, New Ynrk. It has purchased the Lower Genesee Falls, one mile from the R. E. depot.. and can utilize five hundred horse nnwpr. Thia company will place pipes through the streets, similar to me orui nary gas pipes ; these will always have r . - .- ' .. .- - -j. a regulated pressure of condensed air, nfT.-ir.linor -nowor to factories and work shops, and carrying large profits at less than ten dollars per horse power per annum for its use. Every other building every dwelling may have a small pipe connecting with the main and then avail itself of the recent discovery at a trifling addi tional cost. The cooking can be done in the kitchon : gas-light sent through out the house, and never-failing streams of cold, pure air. to lower the tempera ture and for ventilution, with no other trouble than to open and close a small stop-cock. Our churches need no longer be closed against the excessive heat ot summer. The pipes through which the gas Hows to illuminate may in time be channels for conveying streams of very cold air regulating the temperature at will. By the discovery in both Europe and America of machinery to be run by steam or compressed air, the drilling of rock, its raising and removal, tunnels, canals, and all rock excavation, muBt in the future be done bv machinery. The Biirleich Rock Drill Company, of Fitch- burtr. Mass.. is building thousands of these simple machines, whose perform ances are as wondertui as tney are cer- tain, and of liuht COSt. The nation's necessities, the demands of increasing commerce, the completion of the Northern Pacifio Railroad, the stoadv increase of population penetrat ing the nroductive North-west, will soon combine to override all local oppo sitions. and make indispensable the con struction of the Niagara Ship Canal and the other connecting links through Lake Champlain and down the Hudson Kiver to the ocean. When this time comes the power Niagara Falls, by the aid of compressed air. will operate machinery to bore the rock and raise it from its bed, and the whole work will only afford amusement for a hundred men for loss than twenty months, and when completed the ma chinery used can bo turned to account in running mills upon its banks and the lakes, united at a cost so much below the estimate of engineers by old pro cesses of work as to make its construc tion a certainty. A Russian Wolf-hunt. The programme of a regular " wolf- huut" in the provinces is always the same. At some abnormal hour " be twecn the night and the day, you are aroused, (almost, as it seems, before you are well asleep) from a rough couch in one of the little log-huts of some outly ing village, by a violent shake of the shoulder, and a hoarse voice admonish ing you to " got up, and look sharp about it, tor there s no time to lose. You make a hasty toilet, and, sallying forth, see in front of the hut, in the dim light of the coming morning, a huge, dark, shapeless mass (which, as your eyes get used to the darkness, assumes the lorm ot a broad, heavy, three-horse sledge, with very high sides, not unlike an enormous washiug-tub), around which are flitting three or four spectral figures with lanterns, the fitful glare making their grim, bearded faces look grimmer and less human than evt-r. Guns, ammunition, haversacks, are stowed away in the bottom of the con veyance and (last, but not least) a young pig ; your query respecting which elicits from the leader ot the party only the oracular answer that " it 11 come in handy by-ond-by;" and, ell being now ready, the hunters squeeze themselves into their places, the driver shakes his reins with a " wo-o-oi 1 and away we go into the darkness. Mile after mile of the frozen waste goes by like a dream, till at length the spectral Bhadows of the forest slowly gather round us, and the squeals of our unlucky pig (whose ears one of our party is now pinching lustily) begin to be answered by another sound, which no one who has heard it will easily forget not the long melan choly howl wherewith a supperless wolf may be heard bemoaning himself on the outskirts of Moscow, almost any night in the week, but a quick, snarling cry, as ot one who sees his dinner coming, and wishes to hasten the bringer of it. And there they come at last, the gaunt, wiry, slouching fellows, with their bushy tails, and fiat, narrow heads, and yellow, thievish, murderous eyes. There is perhaps nothing on earth more thor oughly mean and hateful-looking, at first sight, than the genuine Russian wolf; but the rascal has ft certain pic turesqueness of his own notwithstand ing, though of ft disagreeable kind. There is something grand in the dogged and sinister tenacity of his pursuit; coming on, with head thrown forward, and sharp white fangs unsheathed, un tiringly and unrelentingly, like a haunt ing Fate, " With his loug gallop, which can tire The hound's deep hale and hunter's fire." But there is no leisure for moralizing now; for the wolves are already almost level with our sledge, end it is time to let fly. Bang 1 The foremost of the . pack rolls over on his side, kicking con vulsively ; but the rest gallop on un heeding. .Bang l bang l ana two more fall dead, blotting the snow around them with a smear of dull crimson. Some of the boldost pursuers swarm up to the sledge, and attempt to leap over the encircling barrier; whilo we ham mer them with the butt-ends of our pieces, and chop at their paws with hatchets, and siasn mem acrots iu eyes with hunting-knives the two hindmost of our party meanwhile cracking at them ovor our shoulders as fast as they can load. So for a time the runuing-ngbt goes fiercely on, making altogether a very striking tameau. inn wuno, nun- oton tracery of the trozen toresi; me lorig, snaky line of the pursuing pack, shadowy and spectral, as if bodied of the mist from which it emerges , mo wuui-ino- fiornrfis of the foremost wolves amid the tossing spray of snow and curling clouds of bluish smoke; the ceaseless flash of the buBy rifles; the steaming horses, urged to their utmost speea ; me driver, with his broad, sallow tace all ablaze with excitement, shaking the mini, nnrl banking forward to ply the whip; the huge, cumbrous sieage, ruck ing and reeling over the bhow with its crVif. of atrnecrling forms all this, seen in the dim, uncertain light of the narlv dawn, has a weird and ghostly ap pearance, suggestive of an attack of gob lin hie-hwavmen upon one oi mose phantom mail-coaches in which the bag man's uncle made that marvellous jour ney which so much astonished Mr. fick wick. But " the pace is too stiff to last," as our leader observes with a knowing grin. A run at full speed through halt tries the feet of even a full- grown wolf too severely to be continued hpvnnd a certain time : and, in the face of a stout resistance, the beast's inherent cowardice is sure to come to the surface sooner or later. Already three or four gaunt, shaggy-haired veterans, who have nrnbablv made a good supper over night, begin to hang back, as if doubt in a the wisdom of risking their lives for a hypothetical breakfast ; the speed of the rest slackens by degrees; and at length the whole pack drop oft, as it by tacit agreement, leaving us to pursue our way unmolested. As wo emerge again into the open plain, across which . . I . , .1- ,1 : ,.n ...,,l the nrsi oeams oi me rising sun mo ju beginning to fall, we see the last of our grim followers slinking away like a be lated Bpectre into the ghostly shadows of the forest that we have quitted. I Acknowledge tho Coi n." This popular phrase, it seems, was first used in Congress, being a remark made by Hon. Charles A. Wickliffe, Member j of Congress from Kentucky. It was in acknowledgment of the deductions of an argument for protection made by Hon. Andrew Stewart, just elected to Congress from the Westmoreland District (Twenty-first) of Pennsylvania. Mr. Stewart was in Congress when Henry Clay and Daniel Webster were there, and advocated protection. He recently made a speech, in which he referrod to the fact. At tho same time he related an incident which gives the origin of the well-known phrase, " I acknowledge the corn." In 182S forty-two years ago this subject (protection) was before Congress, and we were discussing it. I was try ing to show to the farmers of the coun tay that they were purchasing foreign agricultural productions in the form of goods, while they left their own pro duce at home without a market. I said Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky sent their havstacks. corn-fields, and fodder to New York and Philadelphia for sale. Mr. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, jumped up end said : " why, that is absurd, ivir. opeaKer, I call the gentleman to order, lie is stating an absurdity. We never send hay-stacks or corn-fields to New York and Philadelphia." Well," I said, " what do you send ?" ' Why, horses, mules, cattle, hogs." " Well, what makes your horses, mules, cattle, and bogs ? You feed a hundred dollars' worth of hay to a horse, you just animate and get upon the top of your haystack and ride it off to market, f Laughter. ) How is it with your cattle ? You make one of them carry fifty dol lars' worth of hay and grass to the Eastern market." Then I came to the hog question, Said I : " Mr. Wickliffe, you send a hog worth ten dollars to an Eistern market; how much corn does it take at thirty-three cents per bushel to fatten it ?" " Why, thirty bushels." " Then you put that thirty bushels of corn into the shape of a hog an4 make it walk off to the Eastern market." Mr. Wickliffe jumped up and said : " Mr. Speaker, 1 acknowledge the corn." The Sew Paris Police. Among the other changes which the revolution of last September effected in Paris, was the reduction of the police force of the city from the military-looking being he was with cocked bat, long sword and enormouB mustaches, to tne simply dressed citizen. The police of Paris in their old uniforms were obnox ious to the people because they had learned to look upon them as instruments of the Imperial tyranny and intimida tion. In this the ijommittee ot baiety acted with unusual discretion. They doubtless prevented a second revolution, and " saved the Republic The oom s pondent of the Loudon Standard thus describes the new Parisian police : " I saw three of them this evening, and thought at first they were undertakers' assistants out of place. They are got up most funereally, in pilot coals, with enor mous trowsers and cheese-cutter caps, all raven-huud, and just one little bit of color in an unhappy little tri-colored cockade in their bead-gear. After look ing at them, for some minutes a light broke upon me. ' The new guardian of the public peace is the old terfent-de-nilU with clean-shaved face, his pocked hat and rapier removed. A history of tobacco is announced in press, illustrated with nne cuts. NO. 12. JUSCELLASEOUS ITEMS. Territory wants to be pro moted to the " State of Ocmulgee." A fon.wpar old bov of Cario, lib, has cultivated whiskers four inches long by taking great care of them. Peanut oil, used in the South during the war as a substitute lor butter, is again coming into use in view of the high price of the latter. In an obituary notice of an elderly cit izen of a village in Maine, it is stated that he had killed forty-seven bears within the limits of the town. The Predmlerian Banner advocates the addition of sacred music to the studies to be taught in the theological semina ries, and says every minister should know how to sing, and to sing wen. In Canada the mink fur season is said to be very productive. In some sections of the Dominion minks ara so plentiful that they approach the farm houses in largo numbers without fear. A couple out West have been divorced on account of a difference of opinion on the subject of baptism one maintaining the necessity of immersion to salvation, the other, the suffiency of sprinkling. Large numbers of the officers of the French armies in the field are said to be votaries of absinthe a species of decoc tion which takes the mental and bodily pith out of a man faster, probably, than any other known deteriorative save opi- Mark Twain, in o letter to a friend, speaks of bis baby in this wise : " He, fancying that people down hero dress as they do up there, has come without his bandbox; and I wish you would buy hiin a cloak and cap, and order the groceryman that you buy them of to send them express to me." An Atlantic paper of last week says : " A lady in this city tied her hubby's hands and foet, the other day, just for fun, and then went through his pockets for a certain billet-doux, and found it. His physician tells him that his face won't be badly scarred, tnougn ne may remain permanently bald." The bulk of the American families who used to spend the winter in Paris and Rome have emigrated to Germany. Ber- lin, Dresden, Stuttgart, and Munich are all full of American idlers, and the result is that the proverbial cheapness of living in these cities has become a thing of the past, the tendency of an influx of trans atlantic tourists being to make shop and hotel keepers more extravagant in their pretensions. Grand Kuulil", Mieh., is tirft- 3trong- - hold of tho women-righters. The city physician is a woman, one of the city pulpits is occupied by a woman, who has a good salary, the city library, con sisting of soveral thousand volumes, has been gotten up by women, and to crown all, they have a history class, composed of ladies, which has been organized sev eral years, which has regular lectures by a lady from an adjoining city. The unsatisfactory nature of winning a case at law is evidenced in a suit re cently tried in Cincinnati. A young lady sued a shoemaker for making her a pair of shoes too Bmall and ref using to givo her another pair, ine litigation has wasted a great deal of the time of the parties, who can ill afford to lose it. Tho young lady gained, after a long le gal tight, a verdict tor $ i.zo. ine costs amount to $25, and the lawyers' fees about twice that sum. What is gained by such going to law as that ? Mrs. Stover, the daughter of Andy Johnson, who presided with so much quiet dignity tor three years at tho White House, is now Mrs. Brown, the wife of a country storekeeper in Green ville, Tenn. Mr. Brown is a plain and elderly-looking gentleman, well to do in the world through his dealings in dry goods, groceries, and notions. Andy Johnson's only living son, a youth sev enteen or eighteen years of age, is a clerk in Mr. Brown's store. There is a curious condition of affairs in Rutland, Vt. All the hotels have been closed, even to the exclusion of the regular boarders of the various estab lishments. The cause is the enforcement of the prohibitory liquor law, the pro prietors having been repeatedly prose cuted and fined for the sale of liquor. They therefore combined and closed their doors. The town authorities have leased a house in the outskirts of the place and opened it as a hotel; but whether the Mayor and other officials do the honors, and whether the place is run on temperance principles, we are not informed. The Kngbieer states that when the Rus sian American telegraph is completed the following teat will be possible: A telo grnm from Alaska for New York, leaving Sitka, say at 6 40 on Monday morning, would be received at Niooleaf, Siberia, at six minutes past one on Tuesday morning; at St. Petersburg, Russia, at three minutes past six on Monday even ing ; at London twenty-two past four on Monday atternoon ; and at JNew xors at forty-six minutes past eleven on Monday forenoon. Thus, allowing twenty min utes for each re-transmissidn, a message may start on the morning of one day, to be received and transmitted the next day, again received and sent on the afternoon of the day it starts, and finally reaches its destination on the forenoon of the first day, the whole taking place in one hour's time. A New Haven dentist has reconstructed the face of a person who had suffered from a cancer. The left cheek had fallen in and presented a very sunken and hag gard appearance ; so much so that one side of the face seemed at least fifteen years older than the other. By means of this artificial appliance the cheek is brought out again to its original fullness, and made an exact counterpart of the other. The invention consists in a wing of elastio rubber, whioh is attached to the ordinary rubber plate, and readily yields to the various movements of the face. This wing is about one inch in length, takes an upright position, and is about half an inch outward from the ex treme back tooth. J
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