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MAfiSER la removed hi oHice. to the office formerly oo pupiorj by H. H. Ma-r,a the printing omo of the nunoury aiikihwi of H Maiwera tore. IHinoUt-. FcK 24, 1840- SVEHV MAN HIS OWN FATBXf T I'NN On, puUUhPri of tho "KCIENTI- FIG AMERICA", nave m.... .' .I.,., i.o.io.r the Patent Law of the Phamplilet eoniainiiiH ii-i.. tmrethcr with all the fi rmi iiftT4wm- i' fur a lui)iL informatimt w wguru TJ "IT'.'- .7 A. :,. etc.. tt- SJTi wi- Office,,., y od'crinfonnauimthat i. .u-aary to Uinlruct nrraoli in makinff own application. C, .... .;.,.,lo or 12 conio lor one dol- n . vmuir v, March 10, 1649, -rr-JHE ,Wrilr will continue to receive .ml r rK:.-t t or u.e cation . - fth- UoMueball- ' . . . ... mho wuh to penu a i:7.hec;undurin? the summer aea. on, Bunoury v mim. IUitAlO.lS19.r-6n .. . A.- nhiliil reircai SELECT P0ETltY. Gi;ORf;lA'., BY rXOF.NK TKncY, M. X). On the banks of tho Savannah, Long time ago, Dwr.lt the maiden Gcorgi.tna, Free from nil wo; For she was my mml's Susannah, lleudy to blow, On the banks of the Savannah, Long time ajro. Sino, ko, ho, ho, For my pcntli; Georgiana, Long time ngo. Pure ns snow on Hymnltiyuh, In Iho sun's irlow, Was tliis beautiful bright Haya,t Uinl white as snow ; For sliu made, in. life's Saharah, Green grass to prow, nioottiinu there, like tho Elcnyast Loiiy; time n-ro. Sins, ho, hn, tin, For the beautiful bright Bnyn, Long time ago. Warmer than the south in summer, Was her heart's glow, When to mine she used to murmur Love's words so low ; Torn, alas! by sorrow from her, Whom I loved so, Making winter tif my summer. Long time ago! Sing, ho, ho, ho, For that beautiful blight summer, Long time ago. Like two violets in the morning, Dewed ns they blow, Were her blue eves ever burning In her soul's ".four. Ah! the world she was adorning. Mourns for her now. As it did for her returning, Long time ano. Sing, ho, ho, ho, For that lily of the morning, Long time ngo. While the Moon, her first quarter, Meekly did glow, At her image in the water, Like lurid snow, Lay Astarte, Heaven's sweet daughter, On her couch low, Like tho young lamb for tho slaughter, Long time ny;o. Sintr, ho, ho, ho, For the death of I leaven's sweet daughter Long time ago. Flown to Heaven is that bright l!aya, Bird white as snow; By the cypress wells of Marah,!l Lonely I go ! Who can make, in life's Saharah, Green grass to grow, Like that beautiful bright I5aya, Long time ngo. Sing, ho, ho, ho, For tho loss of my Elcnya, Long time ngo. 'Surfinnah menu, tin- t.ily. fThe Jl:iyn iMli liiiiiutirnl bird of 1lind"Ston. JTIie Klcuyn ii h beautiful odoriferous flowi inir on the Mill, of Yemen. r, prow- HMiiriih melius hitleritef. 0 c I c c t Calc. CLARA VALTO.. r.Y MRS. IMI.E. Iive, and love only, i. the loan lor love. Young. Fray, can you tell me 'who owns yon der pretty cottage? I am sure it must have a history,' said Mrs. Conant to her landlady. Ah, yes. Is it not a love of a place, with its pillars and porticoes all round V said Mrs. Bell, advancing towards the win dow. 'It is called a cottage ornee, you know, and belongs to JUr. .' JNo, no, I don't mean that flaunting pa goda, which is just such a vulgar, expen sive looking thing a, anybody who has money may buy or build, said Mrs. Lonant. I mean that dear little cot on the hill side there, nestled in among the green vines and shrubbery, and peeping forth from among the leaves and .lowers like a timid bride from beneath her veil. Who lives there V 'Oh ! that is Woodbine Cottage, you know,' replied Mrs. Bell j and the Waltons live there you know.' Yes, I know it, now you have told me, said Mrs. Conant, smiling at the repetition of you Ahoic, which better educated people than .Vis. Bell are sometimes in the habit ol using. 'It is a charming place '. exclaimed Em ily Conant; 'and good old Isaac himself, with his refined taste for the beauties of na ture never described a more delightful spot. I hope .Vr. Walton loves fishing.' '. Vrs. Walton is a widow,' said .Vrs. Bell, and she added, compassionately, 'her son, poor fellow, could not be persuaded to hurt a lly, much less to pull a struggling jisn out oi me water.' Why, lie must be romantic, indeed,' said hiimly vonani. Mvnai is ne a poet y The landlady shook her head. 'You have never heard, then, of .lira. Walton's idiot son V .Vrs. Conant assurred her she had not. Well, then,' said Mr. Bell, in her ramb ling way, 'Clara Walton is very beautiful and very bright, and that makes it more strange Unit poor Henry should be so ill ihaiien and dull. But then he is a kind. loving, harmless creature, and his mother and sister think all the world of him, you know. Some people gay tt was a judgment unon .lrs. Walton for her nride, when she - ... . . . t , was so rich in tier nrst nusuanu s uay j out that is over now, and she is poor enough, vou know. But I must say, that she has borne all her sorrows like a Christian, as iilif is. vou know.' 'Indeed. I know nounng oi jura, nnuuu J . . . ... r . r lirl. or her affairs, except what you have now communicated.' replied Mrs. Sonant feel an interest in her from these circum .t.nre. a widow, noor. with an idiot son ,tin-;no-n her tor the protection which from such relation, it would seem natural he should give, makes a touching appeal to ruy icclinjjav And she has a lovely daughter,' said Emily Conant. I wish, mother, we could make their acquaintance.' That would be easy enough, if you were sick or in distress,' said the landlady. 'Mrs. Walton is famous for her broths and possets ; and as for Clara, why, she shinks nothing ff going miles to carry something nice to the sick, or to watch with the poor, while she wourd not spare an afternoon from her work or her books to visit a neigh bor, sociabty.' 'Oh, what a eulogy!' exclaimed .Vrs. Conant, turning to her daughter. 'How glad I am to find that the moral beauty of the dwellers in that lovely cottage is in unison with the charms of nature around them ! What a Paradise we might have of this earth, if all were good and kind!' 'Clara and her mother are good and kind,' chimed in the landlady; 'that everybody allows; but people said they are over proud, though certainly, as Mia. Walton is not able to go out much she has the asth ma terribly at times except to church, it is not strange that Clara stays at home with her, and to take care of poor Henry. But then, she never seems to care about going and that is strange ; and now as she has managed to catch the richest match in the State of Vermont, 1 suppose she will hold her head higher than ever.' Then I presume Mm Walton is soon to be married,' remarked Emily Conant. 'I hope so,' replied .1rs. Bell ; 'for thev say her mother is urging on the match. But indeed, poor lady, who can Manic her, when .Vr. Palmer is so rich, and they have nothing ?' 'But the cottage,' said .Vrs. Conant. 'Oh, that is not their own ; thev live there on suflerance,' replied the other. 'The place is owned by the Rev. .Vr. For rester.' 'What Charles Forrester ?' inquired Emily Conant. Yes, I believe his name is Charles. At any rate, he is a southern gentleman, and camn here with his invalid mother, who had been ordered to try our bracing cli mate,' said the loquacious .Vrs. Bell. 'He fitted up the cottage which he bought, and ornamented the grounds, and lived there two year's or more, and became very inti mate with the Waltons. I told you thev always visited the sick ; so .Vrs. Forester had Clara with her nearly half the time; and .Vr. Forester gave her lessons she was a mere girl when they came; not more than fifteen, you know so he gave her lessons in music and drawing, and all sorts of languages ; some say he taught her Hebrew; and when the)' went away, they put the Waltons info the cottage to take care of it.' 'The Foresters have been absent near three years, 1 believe,' observed ..Vrs. Co nant. 'Thereabouts, said .Vrs. Bell. 'But news has just cotne that the old lady is dead, and Vr. Forester is coming back soon. So I suppose .Vrs. Walton will hurry Clara's marriage ; otherwise they would have go into cheap lodgings, which would terribly mortify her, after living so long in such a lovely place so people say.' And thus, under the shelter of that con venient oracle, the sayings of the thought less, the idle, or the envious, did Mrs. Bell virtually bear false witness against her neighbor, and yet they both knelt at the same altar, and took the symbols of the Sa vior's dying love from the same pastor's hand. Nay, more than this, Mrs. Bell, in her own soul, believed Mrs. Walton to be a pious, humble christian. Truly, evil speak ing is the tin which, in social life, requires our most constant watchfulness. Let us pray, each morning, not to be led into this temptation, but that we may have our hearts filled with that charity which sufTereth long and is kind, which believeth no evil, and givetli tongue to no slanderous report. At the very time when this conversation etween the Conants and Mrs. Bell occur red, a scene was passing at tho cottage, which, could they have known, would have read them a lesson never to have been forgotten. Mrs. Walton was sitting ly her work- table, which stood not far from an open window that overlooked the river, called, n poetic lore, the "soft-flowing Connecti cut," (but which here, compressed in its channel, was deep and rapid,) and the green hills beyond. It was a soft June evening, the sun had disappeared behind the western mountains, but his beams yet rested on the heads of the tall cliffs that bordered the river, and brightened the old ever-greens that clothed the broken hills on the eastern bore. The flowers that surrounded the cottags wri filfed with fresh fragrance as the evening drew on; and the birds that thronged, unmolested, in this sanctuary of peace, were pouring forth their sweetest songs of thankfulness and love. But all these beauties and perfections of nature were lost on Mrs. Walton. Her thoughts were busy with the past, while her heart yearned towards her daughter. She felt the lime had come when deep les sons, which errors nnd sufferings had en graved on her own heart, must be told to Clara. Tho sweet girl was leaning beside the open window, the pale roses that droji- peu over head were not so white as her cheek Yet she shed one tear, breathed n sigh ; her eyes were, in truth, bright as though she had hurved her soul for some deep sa- cniice ot selt at the snrme ol duty. She had that day, received the reiterated and urgent offer of marriage from Mr. Pal mer, with a pledge that it she should bo come his wife, her mother and brother should be amply provided for Should have Woodbine Cottage, if it could be oh taincd, or one equally as good, and a yearly allowance, besides, of a thousand dollars, , . Clara, my darling child, como here to me ; I want to see you smile once more. You have not smiled of late. Come sit here tktc beside nic, taid Mrs. Walton. Clara obeyed, nnd seated herself on a cushion at her mother's feet : but she did not look up. Her mother took her hand ; it was cold and trembling. 'Clara,' said Mrs. Walton,' impressively, 'you must not accept this offer.' 'Mother!' i No you must not. You do not love Mr. Palmer, and without you can give him your heart, you must not become his wife.' But what will you do? What will be come of you and poor Henry? You have no longer strength to work nay, hear me, dear mother we must leave this cottage immediately. Mr. Forester will come soon, nnd I would not for the world he should find me here.'' She spoke hurriedly, for there was a rust ling among the shrubbery near the win dow, which opened to the ground, and she thought some one was coming in. They listened. ' ' 'It is only Henry, gathering his evening offering of flowers,', said Mrs. Walton, and Clara resumed : , I have thought of evpry plan, but I do not find anything I can do will support you in comfort. And then poor Henry ; he so loves these trees and flowers, that he will droop and die if we take him into a close room, as we must do, should we go back to boarding again. But do not fear that I shall deceive Mr. Palmer. I have told him that I do not love him ; that if I accepted him, it would he for the sake of my mother and brother. To-morrow I shall tell him 'That you loved another,' said Mrs. Wal ton, in n low, sad tone. 'No but that I have loved, I think,' continued this heroic girl, 'I hope 1 have overcome the weakness I ought never to have indulged !' 'O! it was my fault; I ought never to have permitted you to pass so much time with the Foresters. The excellence of that young man's character seemed to me, then, a guarantee that he would not abuse my confidence; would not seek to win the heart of my child, and then cast it away like a worthless weed!' said Mrs. Walton, in a tone of deep anguish. 'He did not he did not, O! mother, you wrong him,' said Clara, weeping for the first time. 'He never attempted to win my affections. He never paid ine a com pliment, or said a word which a good bro ther might not have said to a voung sister, whom he wished to guide in the way of everything pure and holy, I gave him my love unsought, unknown by him unknown even to myself. Till Mr. Palmer address ed to ine, to whom, except that he is not a religious man, I could have no reasonable objection, 1 knew not that I had no heart to give. But I must int be. thus weak,' she added, wiping the tears .front her eyes. 'My resolution is taken. To marry Mr. Palmer ?' ' 'Yes if he continues to deturv it, after I have told him all.' . ; ; Here the rose tree, by the window, was again agitated. 'Clara,' saiil Mrs. Walton, solemnly, 'listen to me. I dare not allow yon to make this sacrifice on my account neither would it be for good. All mere worldly prosperity is unstable ; even while it lasts, it is hollow and unsatisfying, I married Col. Meredith because he was rich and my pa 'rents insisted on the connection; while I loved only Edward Walton, your father. The consequences were most unhappy. I lived in splendor, it is true; and became so absorbed in the dissipations of fashiona ble life, in which I plunged to avoid reflec tion, that 1 left my dear little Henry, one of the most beautiful children I ever looked upon, when he was only three years old, at home, to the care of hired servants, and made the tour of Europe, not for health, but amusement. When, at the end of two years, I returned, I found him a poor crip ple and idiotic. A fall he received, which was neglected, because his mother was not near to watch over him, was the cause of this! My husband, knew that I did not love him ; and after our return, and he found his hopes in his son thus destroyed, he grew morose and unkind. His aflitirs, too, were deranged ; and the failure of a large banking-house in England, where he had placed most of his money, completed our ruin. He lived but a few weeks after this loss ; and thus, in less than seven years from the time I married one of the richest men in New York, I was left ' a ' poor widow, with a sickly, deformed child to provide for. And, Clara, during these seven years, I was never happy: for my heart was not in my duties, and Cod was not With me. 'But then you married my father, and he was good and kind to you, my dear mother,' said Clara sobbing. 'He had always loved you.' He has always rememhered me,', replted Mrs. Walton, 'and my sorrows revived his affection. But Edward had lost his health, and was hot able to take orders as he had intended; his lungs were so weak that hi- could not preacln When wo married, his income, gained by his writings and giving lessons in the languages, was only sufficient to furnish us with the mere necessaries of life. But then We loved each other, and had faith in God. I had learned that earth was a broken reed ; Edward taught me to look to heaven and trust in the Saviou Our humble home was the temple of prayer and praise ; and then we had you to crown our happiness. There was still One bitter drop in my cup -poor Henry's1 state, and the thought that it was my fault. But your father was so kind to him, and Henry always seemed so happy himself, that though 1 mourned, 1 did not repine. ' Uh Clara, I can bear witness from mypwn ex perience, that better is a dinner of herbs where love iav-i I mean love to God and to each other than a hrMtse full of sacrifices without life. ' '' 1 'But when my father died' said Clara, hesitatingly. Oh, that was a sorrow which Oodlnflict J ed, and he alonn could comfort,' said Mrs. Walton, looking upward. I bowed to his will j I trusted that he would sustain me, and he has never forsaken us. We have been poor, but God has raised up friends to help us when We have done what we could. We will trust him still. ', Let us only do right, and then we shall have faith to pray for his blessing. But if, from hio tivesof expediency, of selfish, or indeed, of generous' feeling, "we violate his law, how can we expect to prosper ? And the law of God bears witness, in every human heart, that those who marry together, should love each other. I dare not allow you, on my account to violate this law. You must send a decided refusal to Mr. Palmer.' But will you, mother, leave this place directly ?' As soon as possible, my love.' Oh, let us go to morrow, dear mother. I so fear Mr. Forester will come while we are here, said Clara. I don't think ho would turn us out of the cottaje,' replied Mrs. Walton, half smiling; though, to be sure, he has been very negligent about writing.' Oh, lie has quite forgotten us, mother; and ' 'Clara, dear Clara!' said a deep manly voice, but in a tone of the softest tender ness, and Charles Forester stood before them: . . 'Clara.' satd Mr. Forester, as he pressed her hand to his bosom, after she had be come tranquilized, 'Clara, you little know how severe was the trial of my soul, how painful the sacrifice, when I left you with out declaring my love, and attempting; to secure yonrs in "return. But I was going to attend on my dear, feeble mother, who required nil my time and means; l Knew not how long this filial duty would be upon me. loung, lovely ana attractive as you were, should I, ought I to have bound you in a long engagement, which might, as you saw more of the world, be irksome to you, and prevent you from choosing, among others, the rich and distinguished, who, I foresaw, would bow before you f 1 thank God that he'strengthened me to do what I felt to be right to leave you free. But, dear Clara, I have prayed every night and morning on my knees, that, if it could be, I mi'jht find vou thus; and I bless God, he has granted my prayer ; he has brought your heart to love him supremely, while its tenderest earthly affections have been kept constant and pure. Forget you, Clara? I can truly say, ! 'I've wunderiil ea.t, I've wandered weat, I've borne n lonely lot ; Hut in my wanderine, fai or near, You never were l'or.l(., " . And they were married, Mr. Forester and Clara Walton, united in that true affec tion and sympathy of heart, soul and mind, which constitutes the holiness of the rela tion, and makes it a fit typo of tho union between Christ and his church. Mrs. Conant and her daughter, who Were distant connections of Mrs. forester, re mained in Windsor till after the wedding ; and Mrs. Bell ' acknowledged she had wronged Mrs. Walton, and never would again make an evil report of her neighbor on the mere 'they y' of the world. Ul difn Booh; OPISIOX OF WOLFF. ' Many of our readers will no doubt recol lect the Kov. Joseph Wolff, the converted Jew, who visited the United States several years ago nnd preached in all of our principal cities. He left tho impression upon those who heard him of being one of tho most ex traordinary men of the age. Since his return to Europe he has immortalized himself by his journey to Bokhara, in search of intelli gence respecting tho two English officers murdered there. Tho narrativo of his suffer ings and perils, endured in that expedition, will send his name down to posterity as one of the biavest, as most humane of men. Wc find, in the lato English papers, a letter from this remarkable individual to tho Roman peo ple. Ho claims with thorn tho affinity of early association and education. In the course of his remarks he speaks thus of the Pope : ,;Our blessed Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, was led to the cross. Peter, whose successor the Human Pontiff" affects to be, drew the sword and struck a servant of the High Priest, and smote off his ear; and tho' tho sword was hero drawn to save the life of the Lord from heaven himself, Iho Lord said to him 'Put up ngain thy sword into its place.' But whnt did Pius IX.! He leaves his chil dren ut Home like a coward, escapes to Gaeta, and from thence ho exhorts his children iu France to unshenth tho sword against his children In Rome; not for tho purposo of saving either Christ or his Church, but for re taking a paltry temporal dominion, which his predecessors in dark ages have grasped, and which he blasphemously calls tho patrimony of Peter, aint after General Ondinot regained it for him, he sends his congratulations." , While upon this subject, wo notice that M. du Tocquevillo has boldly avowed, on the part of the French government, the resolution ( restore tlie Pope to his temjtoral jiotrcr, on tho plea that, if this is douo, Austria or Naples may oblaiu a greater ascendency over him than France. In other wotds, the republican leuders of Franco will extinguish liberty in Rome, iu order to keep up their political in fluence in Italy. Alas', for human freedom. . AreaorauTB Epitaph. A lady who bad died of cltolera in Sandusky City, was laid out by her friends, and found tho night fol lowing standing by the cupboard eating cu cumber pickles; whereupon the Louisville News says; ( They left her "laying" in while, ..... Prepared for tiie gie'quiot slumbers ; fiut they found her Ihe very same night I A hsui' pickled cucumbcis. WOMAVS Cl'MOSITYl Week before last, the brethren of the Lodge of Odd Fellows at Woodstown, N. J., determined to have their Hall swept out and cleaned, when it was unanimously re solved, that Mrs. Keep Secret, should be called upon to do the jobi After the lamplighter, who well knew the inquisitive character of Mrs. Keep Se cret, went and procured a monstrous Billy goat, and placed it in a closet which was kept' as a reservoir for all secret things, he then proceeded to the domicil of the good lady, informed her of the job of cleaning and sweeping tho Hall ; and requested her to come early next morning, as he would be at leisure to show her what was to be done. The morning came, and with it, Madame Keep Secret appeared according to prom ise, with her brooms, brushes, pails, tubs, &.c. Door keeper in waiting for her. Now, madam, said the mischievous door keeper, I will tell you what we want done, and how we come to employ you. One of the brethren said it would be difficult to get any body to do the job, who would not be meddling with our secrets in that closet, because we've lost the key and can't lock it. I assured them that you could be trusted, nnd so they ordered me to call on you, as I knew you could be de pended upon. "Depend upon," says Madam, "I guess I can, my poor dead and gone husband, who belonged to the Free Masons, or Anti Ma sons, I don't know which, used to tell me the sercets of the concern, and when he showed me the marks of the gridiron, how he was initiated, and told me all how they fixed poor Morgan, I never told a livin' soul to this day, and if nobody troubles tho closet till I do, they'll lay there and rot, that they will." "I thought so," says the door-keeper, "and now I want you to commence at that corner, pointing with his finger to a place where some undignified and indecent bro ther had thrown out quids of tobacco, and give the whole room a decent cleansing, and I have pledged my word and honor for your fidelity to promises Kdon't go in that closet,'" and left our lady to her self. No sooner had she heard the sound of his feet upon the last step of the stairs, than she exclaimed, the closet ! what on earth can be there ! I'll warrant there's a gridiron, or some such nonsense, just like the Auti Masons for all the world ; she stepped soltly to the door of the forbidden closet turned the button which no sooner done, than baba, ba, ba, went Billy, with a spring to regain his liberty, which came nigh up setting her ladyship. Both started for the doorway, which was filled with her imple ments of house cleaning, when all was swept clear from their position to the bot tom of the stairs, and drew half the town to witness Mrs. Keep Secret's effort to get from under a pile of goat, pails, tubs, brooms and scrubbing brushes. Who should be the first on the spot but the rascally door-keeper, who after releas ing the goat, who was made a cripple for life, and unpiling the other rubbish which bound the good lady to the floor, anxiously inquired if she had been taking the "de grees." "Taking the degrees," exclaimed our lady," "if you call tumbling from the top to the bottom of the stairs with a tarnal goat to jump upon ye as ye ha me, nnd hurt 'em to boot, I'll warrant yd they'll make as much noise as me" 'I hope you din'nt open the closet, Ma dam," said the door-keeper, "Open the closet! an' sure I did, and did'nt Eve eat the apples when forbidden." if you want a woman to do any thing, tell her not to, and she'll do it sartin. I couldn't stand the temptation. There was the secret, 1 wanted to know it, and as I opened the closet, out pipped the tarnal goat, right in my face. I thought besure it was the Devil, and I run for the stairs with it at my heels, when I fell over the tubs, and we all arrived at the bottom as you found us in a heap together. "But madam," says the doorkeeper, "you are in possession ol the great secret of the order, and you must go up and be initiated, sworn. Sworn and ride the goat in the re gular way." "Regular way," exclaimed the lady, "do you suppose I am going near that tarnal critter again without a bridle or lady's saddle no, never, don't want nothin' to do with it, or a man that rides it. I'd look nice perched on a goat, would'nt I ? I'll never go near it again, nor your hall nutti er, and if I can prcvcnt.it, no lady shall ever join any ot the Udd tellows. hy I'd sooner be a Free Mason or Anti Mason, and be broiled on a gridiron as long as a fire could be kept under it, and pulled from garret to celler with a halter, m pairol old breeches and slippers, just as my poor dead nnd gone husband used to tell me they served him, and he lived over such a ride as I took with tho goat to day, and you may rest assured" I shall never see a goat again but what I shall think of the Odd Fellows." Wntu 1 am forward, says the Rev. Thomas Adams, to apeak the evil I know, or perhaps ouly surmise, of others, what can it proceed from hut a desire that llioy should be universally doupisod, or fear le&t they should not f How diabolical I Leave an evil report to shift for iUelf you ueed not tar a word to set it forward. ' Death fbom Ether. Mrs. Orus Field, of Detroit, died suddenly at Port Huron, Michigan, on the 10lh of August, from the effects of inhaling ether, administered by physician, for the purjxse of. extracting a tooth. , t ; .. , . , v A Lai (.h is worth a hundied ,m nans in any market. ' REPORTED BATTLE BETWEEN TUB Indians and the Catij 'ornitt Emigrants' Tho following account of a reported battlrj on the plains, is from the Ski Lonis Reveille) Extrnjoftho 19th inst. The ReVeilltJ doei not appear to have much faith in its trlithi From the Flains--1laUU betitec tht Indians ami California Emigrant Twenty jXTsenJ A'ifcd mid H oundrrf IPagotiJ Scid no Emigrants taken Prisoners. Tho following letter was received hi We pendente hy a merchant of that plate, frorrt a California emigrant, which we believe is the only intelligence received a8 yet, giving any account of tho horrible affair j and we can liardly credit it on this account; for there" would have been most certainly Bomb other letters coming through at tli9 same time , as we have the letter, we give it for what U is worth; although the story appears to be a lit tle doubtful: ' . Sot'Tii Tas, June 13, 1849. Dear Sir .-This morning at 2 o'clock, wd were aroused from our slumbers by an ex press rider, who states that the emigrants at Fort Hall (on Snako river,) were In a fierce) strife with tho Indians. The express rider did not stay with us long, and nil 1 could learn from him, was in substance the following:-1 He states that when encamped at Fort Hall; a tribe of Indians (the name of which he did not know,) numbering about two hundred attacked them about day-break ; on Sunday morning, and after turning all their mules and oxen loose, and making a general search of the wnzuus, they were put to flight by about a dozen of tho emigrants, who fired upon them, killing one or two and wotintling some half dozen. But while tho emigrants were capturing their stray cattlej the Indians returned with a greatly increased force, and commenced a desperate attack upon those that were in search of their mules killing threo of them, but he only remembers one of their names--James Welby. Tho emigrants ut this time mustered alt their men toirellter, numbering from one hun; died and fifty to two hundred, nnd under command of Capt. Cunningham; of St; Louis, were determined to protect their lives and properlyi They stationed themselves in and around their camp ; and about 4 o'clock; ill tho afternoon, the Indians made their ilp pearence, and after lurking around for a half hour, srtUck up a tremendous yell; Which could hnve been heard a mile on the plains, nid rushed into the camp, whereupon, Cap. tain Cuuuinghan ordered his men to fire upon them, which ther did with great affect kill ing four Or live and wounding eighteen o? twenty. Tho Indians were prepared aid fully determined upon their intent; they sef up their war-whoop, nnd fought bravely, anoT caused the emigrants to retreat some dislansSy killing a Mr. Juhn Ransom, Joseph Sprsr Joseph Xevland and two or three Others, whose names are not recollected ; wounding' Capiaiu C. Tood, Gray Dunlap, and King, and a number of others, but none, he be lieves, dangerously. In the course of a half hour after their re treat, the emigrants again rallied, and with renewed vigor and strength, met the red skins face to fnco in open combat, but were) again repulsed ; nothing daunted, they ap proached the Indians the third time, aa4 commenced a deadly attack, and after a tierce struggle of forty minutes, the red skine were obliged to retreat, and leave the fieVi to the couqiiorers. . lie further slates that ho does not believe) there were more than five or six of the emi grants killed three of them he said were teamsters. When he left the camp, the doad and the. dying Indians were still oh tho ground, and several were made prisoners. How to fcr.T Kin or Bad SmeIls, farce. tiox, kc. A scientific gentleman states, through the Boston Journal, that for a disin fecting agent for general use, where the sur faces whence noisome exhalations arise can be reached, one pound of common Copperas, dissolved in one gallon of water, forms ft fluid which, when sprinkled on decomposing mat ter, or any changing surfaces, immediately destroys putrescent exhalations. In extreme eases, two pounds of copperas, in one gallon Of wafer, may be used, and in some situa tions tho nddition of so much ground plaster as will form a thin paste, will be required. Tho weekly sprinkling of cellar floors, paved yards, drains, nnd all filthy recoptables, with this fluid, will render the atmosphere above them pcifectly salubrious, In sick rooms and confine s-paccs, the colorless liquid should bet placed in shallow vessels, freely exposed, when its power of absorption will soon change) tho character of air around it. Thb Bikr A well-known sexfori at On of our city grave-yard a son of Erin, of course not long since, upon the arrival of a funeral at tho ground, was interrogated by the undertaker in charge, an old acquain with the query, "Where is the bierl" To which he replied, "is it betr, did yon tmjt The divil a drop of beer is there upon the! ground, atall ) but you step into the tool -house) and say nothin' about it, y'ill find a little) whisky in tho jug in the corner, to which y're) welcome." The undertaker explained his mistake, and that he wanted something w heron to convey the corpse to the grave. The sexton, no little confused, replied, "and why didn't ye say that at first, and ax for the hand-bai row at once, and not be pokin fun al me by talkiu about 'betr,' known' at ye did that I'm a timpirate man." The "hand-barrow," as ho called it, was therenporl led it, was therenporf it prcxeeded. VVnsv of ihe "jug in 1 eitainedi Iieoduc-ed, and (hp liiiwnd bcam) of the contents crruci'1 we have uot abcei
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