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SELECT POETUY.
MY MOTHER.
BY M. P. WILLIS.
My molher's voice! How ofli'ti creeps
It cadence on my lonely hours,
Llk if healing on Ihx li d ul sleep,
Ol dew Oil the) UllCOlM IOUS fiuWelS.
t might foiget the melting piuyer,
While 'wi'ilem.g pleasiiies madly fly;
Bui in the still, unbroken air
Hei g. ii. e loin a cuine sienling by;
An enr nf am and mm liotnl flee.
Ai.d leaves me bl rn m i h r'c knee.
t have been out at evpn ti.le,
Heneath a monnlii i-ky ol spiing,
VVhe i car h una garnished like a bride,
Ant niahi had on her ilver wins;
When huiatinj bil l Hint dewy crass,
A (I Waters leapinU to the light,
And nil thai nmkes the pules pass
Wiih wililei fi'-etness rniwiied the night
When all whs h. antv, then have I,
Willi Irn nils tin hum niy l"ve is flunn,
Like myrih on winds of Amby,
Giized on where evening's lamp i hung.
And when the beartious spirit there,
Fltintf ovei all its golden chum.
My mother's voice came on the air,
Like the light dmopine of the rain ;
And, resting on some silver star,
The spirit of a bended knee,
I've poured a deep and fervent prayer,
That our eternity might be
To rise in heaven, like stars by night,
And tread a living path of light.
Stovn for tlje abtC0.
THE MECHANICS' REFUSAL.
BY RALPH RING WOOD.
Rtissel C. was a young mechanic of
promising expectations. He had acquired
a competent knowledge of his trade, and
at the time or which I write had just attain
ed his majority, having "graduated" from
his employers shop with the highest hon
ors. He had established a little workshop of
his own and commenced his career with
blight anticipations of (uture success. He
possessed but little capital, though his cre
dit was good for any amount. His word
could be relied upon, and his credit once
pledged was always redeemed at the stipu
lated time. He had acquired the habit of
rigid punctuality, and would never suffer
others to keep him in waiting, nor would
be inconvenience them to wait for him.
His strict fulfilment of engagements gave
him a good reputation among business
men, and such a good reputation is invalu
able t a young man entering upon a life
of business with a small capital on which
to rest his hopes.
Kussel L. had been at work during the
wpek a, ,;e jh an(j ha(J ,carcey
. ,. . k.,ur'ol(rJa ;,,, t,aj
in.iil llllic- lu uir.iur, uhiiiimuj ' j
slowly come around again, and as he closed
his shutters preparatory to leaving for his
boarding-house, a half formed resolution to
attend the singing-school came up in his
mind, and while he was reflecting upon it
he passed the residence of a wealthy mer
chant, and glancing at the parlor window.
he observed the pretty face of Ellen May,
a slight acquaintance of his which cir
i cumstance decided the question.
He well knew that Ellen May would be
I present : as she was in the habit of punc
I tual attendance upon the evening meetings
of the choir, of which she was a member.
Reader, remember that this happened in
"our village," and fashion here allows the
wealthy as well as the poor the privilege
of Miiging in the church choir, and as that
wonderful bodv was composed of men less
talented than Pazanini why of course re
hearsals became necessary, or else the die
nitv of the old Deacon down stairs would
! be distill bed by the discord of some not
I "attending to harmonv divine."
I Rnssel hastily despatched his landlady's
r . i i i. . .i . . ii... . . . ,
provisions, arid maue ins uiiiei in uic muei
approved styles.
The new bell of the village churrh be.
pan to ring the modern "fire alarm fashion,"
as the signal fur the singing-school, and
away went our hero attired in his best "bib
and tucker." The chorister, a noted char,
acter of our village, arrived in due season,
and alter an indefinite amount of scraping,
squeaking, screwing and re-screw ing of a
certain old black fiddle ot his, the singing
commenced. Three hours of incessant
screeching rendered all parties interested
sufficiently fatigued to permit an adjourn
ment.
As the girls crowded together in the en
try, preparatory to pushing their way
llirouEH me ouur, gin ivuiu .rv a vuimn-
. g .
' tion of sweet sounds that set our chorister's
through the door, one could see a constei
highest and most sublime musical attempts
very far in the back-ground ; and then
such lips as could be seen in that crowd
sometimes ah ! it makes my heart beat
strangely fast to think of those kisses we
used to steal when we were young, anc
waited unon the sweet little Hatty, and
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- , "-w
, But my memory wanders,
',ri . i
II..I me memnrv wanders.
- . .;. a,m anA
company to Ellen May, and met a decided
and insulting refusal, sne wouia not trou
ble a mechanic for an escort.
The voung man turned look of min.
gled pity and contempt upon her, and
thanked God that b was honest and hon
ored enoucrh to be a mechanic. I heard
the taunting reply ot the ipiriteo gin as
, . .. i
she took the young pnysician-a ouerru arm,
and I began to fear lest the anti-mechanical
fever should (Dread among tn angeia, anu
finally result in my Hattyi changing her
mind, In regard to my pointeu ui.irca.ra.
and aure enough belort many oayi recm
ved a rwilite invitation to be engaged else
where about the usual time of my weekly
visit tn Sduire Smith's.
Soon afterwards I left the village, and
was absent about twenty yean. I often
thought of the village maidens durir g my
SUM.LKY. NOit I IIIJMin:i(I,M) COUNTY. HA.. BATL'ltDAY. AUGUST 27. 1833.
absence, recalling to mind many of them
with love-like particularity. Years passed I
on, and manhood brought with it the usual
allotment of cares and perplexities.
At length 1 made up my mind to return
home. Then came the thought how I
should be received by my old acquaintan
ces. Many of them, doubtless, were mar
tied and few, perhaps, would remember
their old companion nf the "village chuir."
On my return I found Rnssel C. a mem
ber of the Legislature, and a very wealthy
man.
He lives in a lare mansion house near
the church, and has in his family a tutoress
of his children, around whom lingers the
traces of early beauty. Her name is Miss
Ellen May.
Let the young ladies take warning and
despise not the honest because they are
pnor mechanics, for such is the nobility of
the earth, and she who "mitten.," a worthy
mechanic almost always dies an old maid.
A TOLCHINO LITTLE STORY OF ROMAN
Al l ACHME r.
Among the great number of persons who
were proscribed under the secern! triumvi
rate ol Rome, were the celebrated Cicero,
and his brother Quintus. When the news
of the petsecution was brought to them,
they endeavored to make their escape to
Brutus in Macedon. They travelled to
gether for some time, mutuaily condoling
their bad fortune; but, as their depaiture
had hern very precipitate, and they were
not furnished with money and other neces
saries for the voyage it was agreed that
Cicero should make what haste he could to
the sea side to secure their passage, and
that Quintus should return home to make
more ample provision. But, as in most
houses there are as many informers as do
mestics, hi return was immediately made
known, and the house, in consequence, fil
led with soldiers and assassins. Quintus
concealed himself so effectually, that the
soldiers could not find him. Enraged at
their disappointment, they put his son to
torture, in order to make him disclose the
place of his father's concealment; filial af
fection was proof in this young Roman
against the exquisite torments. An in-
oluntary sigh, and sometimes a deep groan,
were all that could be extotted from the
generous youth. His agonies were in
creased, but, with astonishing fortitude, he
still persisted in his resolution not to betray
his father. Quintus was not far off, and it
may better be imagined than it can be ex
pressed, how the heart of a father must
have been aftected with the sighs and
groans of a son expiring in torture to save
his life. He could bear it no longer, but
quitting the place of his concealment, he
presentea himself to the assassins, besearh-
ingthem with a flood of tears, to put him
to death, and dismiss the innocent child,
whose generous behaviour the triumvirs
themselves, if informed of the fact, would
judge worthy ol the highest approbation and
reward. 1 he inhuman monsters however,
unmoved by the tears of a son, answered
that both mu-i die the father because he
was proscribed, and the son because he
had concealed his lather. Upon this new
contest of tenderness arose, who should die
first, which, however the assassins soon de
cided by beheading them both at the same
lime.
AMERICAN MANNERS.
Dr. Potter, i.i a recent address at Albany,
said : "1 am a little afraid that a great ma
ny people in this country are rather too
prone to undervalue this part of education
Certainly we have no admiration for any
thing finical or affected in manners. Ve
don't want the manners ol a village dance-
ing school. But genuine good breeding,
gentle manners, ease, modesty, and proprie
ty f hearing, we do exceedingly value.
When shall we cease to be described as a
spitting nation 1 as a lounging people 1
When shall we cease to be known by our
slovenly speech, by our practice of sitting
with our leet higher than our heads 1 L)u-
ling an excursion of several months in Eu
rope last year, met hundreds of English
at home and on the continent, in every
sort of situation. I never saw one spit.
I cannot remember that I ever saw any
one, however fatigued, lounging or sitting
in an unbecoming manner. S long as the
State shall feel obliged to provide 'spit
toons' for its legislative halls so long as
the directors of our railroads shall find oc
cation to attach to the inside of their car
riages printed requests to the passengers to
'use the spittoons,' and not the tloor, and
not to put their feet upon the seats so
long as we shall continue to fill our con
versation and our political harrangues with
the slang of the fish market, let us not be
surprised, nor angry, it foreigners some.
time make themselves witty at our ex
pense. And in the meantime, let all those
who are entrusted with the care of the
young, use their utmost eltons to correct
those national barbarisms, and to form the
manners of the rising generation after a
model more elevated and more refined."
THE VOICE OF CONSCIENCE.
What does she say is the great end of
life ? Listen to her voice in the chambers
of your ewn heart. She tells you that
there is only one stream that is pure, and
that stream Hows Irom the throne of Cod
but one aim is noble and worthy of an im
mortal spirit, and that is, to become the
friend of God, so that the soul may wing
her way over the grave without fear, with
out dismay , without condemnation. There
is only one path passing over the earth
which it safe, which ii light, and which is
honorable. It is that which Jesus Christmas
marked out in bit word, and which leads
to glory. Let conscience speak when you
are tempted to waste a day, or an hour, or
to commit any known am, to neglect any
known duty ; tnd she will urge you, by a
the high and holy motives of eternity, to
l.fe tor uod. to give your powers to mm
t seek bis honor in all that you do. -Todd,
iXLt'sioni or life.
Man is never satisfied with his lot.
The heart demands something more, some.
thing higher, lutnething better, whatever
blessings it may already enjoy.
I tie scriptural Adam and t,ve are typi
cal of the human race. The garden of
Eden is ours; we bak it in its sunshine;
its fragrant flowers are all around us;
plentiful fiuils invite us to partake of their
riches Well were it for this physical
liame, if we knew of no fruit forbidden us
taste. But what is beyond our reach
tempts us more than anything else; and
in obtaining it, we exile ourselves from
Paradise. Remorse for our transgressions.
the flaming sword that prevents our re
turn.
Children are not contented with their
young feet, which fail to overtake their
lour-looted pets in chase. They wish to
scale the air like birds. Every boy has at
some time attempted to fly from a gate
post We remember when a mere child,
we forsook all our toys, to look out of our
window at night, and weep because we
could not grasp a star in our baby fist.
Men are alwaystrving to fly, and reaching
to lay hold of the girdle of Orion, and the
mane of the Bull.
Realities never content tis. The pre.
sent is probably as fine a valley as there is
in the whole region of lite. Hut the
woods are nothing but woods ; shady, it is
true, and green, but quite ordinary. The
streams are excellent, but we would have
eds of pearl in place of those deceitful
ebhles. Ah ! there must be better woods
and sweeter streams beyond the blue hill
yonder. So we travel ; but the soft and
Ireamy future becomes plain and bard re-
lity as we proceed. 1 hose very rocks we
tread once looked lovely under the warm
haze of hope ; so shall the charm of goodly
eights before us melt away, and show us,
as we climb, just such ledges, gnarled oaks,
chasms, morasses, wild pine, and barren
lopes, as we have passed.
It is not without design that jNature
cheats us with those illusions. Continual
ly striving for more exquisite beauty and
higher happiness, we fulfil a law. It is
well that no material parardise is a sufli-
cient paradise for us. In this circumstance
of his being, the man differs from the ani
mal. The lion in the desert, the tiger in
the jungle, the ape in his native woods, has
no aspiration above his state. But the
tendency of the soul is upward, upward
lorever. What a mockery this life would
be, if the grave were the end of all things ;
if, after chasing the golden butterflies ol il
lusion through ail our summer days, Death
only met ourembrase; if the actors in this
drama emerged not from behind the scenes
in their true characters, alter the funeral
curtain falls upon the last act.
THE UNGUARDED MOMENT.
Yes, my lips to nieht have spoken,
Words I said they should not speak ;
And 1 would I could recall ihem
Woukl ( had not been so weak,
Oh, that one nnpuarded moment!
Were it mine to live again,
All the strength of its temptation
Would appeal lu me in vain.
True, my lips have only uttered
What is ever in my heart :
I am huppy when beside him,
Wrelched w hen we are a pin t.
Though I linteii to his praxes,
Alwuys longer than I should ;
Yet my heail can never hear them
Half so open as it would.
And I wnnM not, could nnl, pain hi in,
Would not I or i lie world niTeiid ;
I would have him kiinw 1 like him
As a tuo.her as a frien.l ;
Bill meant to keep nne secret
In my bosom alwuys hid,
For I never meant to tell him,
That I loved him bin I did.
BEAUIIFIX EXTRACT.
When the summer day ol joulh is slowly
waistiug away in the niyht-Ull ol age, ami
the shadows ol past year giow deeper and
deeper, us lilo w ears to a close, ii is pleusunl
to look back through lh visia of time, upon
the am rows and feliciliesof our earlier yeais
If we have a home to shelter, and huaits to
rejoice with ua, and friends have been gath
ered together around our firesides, then the
rough place of wayfaring will have been
worn and smoothed away, in the twilight of
life, while the sunny sputs we have passed
ihrouph, will grow briyhler and more beauti
ful. Happy indeed are they, whose Inlcr-
course with the world has not changea tne
lone of their holier feelings, or broken those
musical chords of the heart, whose vibration
are so molodious, so tender and touching, in
the evening of age.
Tmv Ought to Have Spared Them.
The National Democrat says the two old
cannons used by Geueial Jackson in the bat.
tie of New Orleans, which had been objects
of cuiioaity in the Navy Yard at Brooklin,
were suld under a general order made to
sell all the old guns. These guns were
highly prized in the Navy Yard as relics of
the memorable 8th of January, 1815, and
were objects of much curiosity on account
of their singular construction. The officers
of the yard appealed twice to spare those
two old guns, but the order was irrevocable,
and they were sold.
Retirement or Proteso Sillimak. At
the exercises of Yale College on the 27th
ult., preliminary to the coramenoemeot,
Prof Silliroan, Sen., anuounced bis resigna
tion of ihe chair of Chemistry and Geology
in that institution. In doing so Prof. S. said s
"This step is not laken because of the In
firmities of sge, I oan say Ibat my 'eye is
not dim nor my natural force abated,'
but because t deem it wise to retire while 1
can go out of the camp with toforsying. .
science ana the arts, aflrtculturc, ittar&cts, amusements, 4fcc
A NEGRO VETERAN
Few persons, we think, have travelled
In Texas who have not heard of Thomas
Savoy, altos Black Tom. aliat the Special
Citizen of Baxal county. He wnsby trade
a Barber, but by inclination a soldier, end
liia history is intimately connected with the
warlike part of that of Texas. He was much
fonder, too, of the company of white men
than of that of persons of hi own color.
Tom was a native of Maryland, then a
citizen of Washineton, D. C, then a resident
nf Mississippi, whence he emigrated to Tex
as, at the beginning nf the Revolution there,
with a company of Mississippi volunteers,
his razor in his pocket and a cun on his
shoulder. They joined Gen Houston a short
time afier the battle of San Jaoiuto, but
Black Tom's subsequent conduct as a soldier
elicited the prnise of his bard-fighting com
rades and superior officers.
The year 1939 was distinguished in Texan
annals by the expedition under Jordan to
Saltillo, to assist the treacherous Canales in
his armed Federalist attempt against the
Mexican atiti.Fedcraliats He betrayed his
little baud of Texan allies, but they and
their gallant leader cava the untold Federal
ists and the Slates' Riiiht Mexican army two
nt thoiough consecutive drubbings as they
ever received, and then returned leisurely
home without interruption. Black Tom was
one of Jordan's men, and if he bad little oc.
casiou or time to use his razor, he made up
for it by a skillful handling of his offensive
weapons.
In 1842, Gen. Woll invaded Texas with a
Mexican army, and got a good beating at
the battle of Sallillo. Tom was in the midst
of i!, and was wounded. He participated in
several subsequent conflicts with the Indians,
fighting bravely as usual.
He followed his old Texan comrads under
Taylor's banner and hurried along with
them into battle at Monterey. He was also
in the memorable struggle at Buena Vista
Black Tom then returned to Texas with
the Kentucky volunteers, and nfter that San
Anionio became his headquarters. He was,
of' course, a general favorite, and lived like
a lord, but the wandering spirit that ten
years' adventures in Texas had made second
habit with him, would now and then break
out, and Black Tom would be missinif. The
next thins heard of him he was at a frontier
pns! or far up in the Indian country, in the
midst of danger.
On the 5th ult., the body of a man was
found two miles west of San Antonio. A
coroner's inquest was held and a verdict re'
turned of "came to his death from cause un
known." The body was that of old Tom.
N. O. Picayune.
ENCOUNTER WITH A CROCODILE.
Letters received in this city, state that
Rev. John A. Builer, formerly of Souih Bos
tun, now a misHonary of the American Board
in South Africa, met with a narrow escape
from death
He was traveling to Amah Congera, and
was forced in his way, to cross the river Um
kumazi, which he attempted on horseback
Wtien about two-lhird of the way over,
crocodile seized him by the thigh.
Mr. Builer was dr.igyed off, but clung to
i tin mine of his hirse; and both he and
the horse were floundering in the water of
lerudragged entirely under and rapidly going
down the stream. Al hrat the crocodile drew
Ihem again to the middle uf the river; but
at last the hntse gained shallow water, and
approached the shore. As soon as he was
within reach, native came to his assistance.
and beat off the crocodile with spears and
clubs. Mr. Butler was pierced with five
deen cashes and had lost much blood. His
horse was also terribly mangled; a foot
sqniu e uf the flesh and skin was torn fiom
his flanks. The crocodile, it is supposed
first seized the horse, and when shaken off
he caught Mr Butler first helow the knee
and then in the thigh. There were five or
six wounds on Mr. Butler's person from two
to four inches long, and irmn one and a half
to two and a half inches wide. For eight or
ten days he seemed to recover ss fast as
could be expected, but was then seized with
fever, which threatened lo be fatal. There
was a tendency to lock-jaw. He passed this
ciises, however, and in Apul Mr. Bull
wriiea thai he was nearly recovered from ih
ellecu of the frightful affray. - Button Jour
Touching Case or Conjugal Affection
A touching case, illustrative ol conjugal
love, occurred al Memphis, Temi., a fe
das since. A man and his w ife were com
lug up ibe river, when the husband look sick
and w as supposed to have died. When they
arrived at that eity, the wile had a enflin
purchased and her husband was deposited
ihui last home of the dead. Just before the
moment of closing the coffin, however, and
tbe final interment ol the deceased, the be
reaved and agonised wife insisted upon once
more looking upon and embracing the cold
remains of the deoeased partner of her bo
som Whether it was her warm embrace or
reluming consciousness, certain it is thai the
aupposed corpse suddenly evinced signs of
life, and the proper restoratives being ap
plied, within twenty-four hours the invalid
was enabled to proceed on bis journey, with
very prospect of a speedy recovery, owuing
bis life to tbe untiling devotion and love of
bis true and faitkful wife.
For Ladies A golden rule for a young
lady, is to eouverse always with her female
friends as if a gentleman were oi me pariy
and with young men, as if your female com
pan ions wet present.
P o ctr ii .
WOULD YOU.
it alfsed ward.
Baby crowing on your knee,
Whil you sing some little ditty,
Pulls your hair or thumbs your "ee,"
Would you think it was nt prell) 1
Tell me, could you '
If you owned "tbe baby,' would you 1
Wife, with arm about ynur neck,
Says you look just like the baby ;
Wants some cash to make a "spec,"
And you would refuse her may be 1
Could you 1 should you ?
If you owned "the woman," would joul
Little labor, little strife,
Little care and little cot ;
Would you sigh for single life!
Would you murmur at your tot 1
Tell me, should you 1
If you owned "tbe cottage," would youl
Health and comfort, children fair,
Wife to meet you at the door,
Fond hearts tliroblng for you there ;
Tell me, would you ask foi moisl
Should youl ceuld youl
If yon o'Aued "ibe baby," would yout
A NI.W ORLEANS INCIDENT.
Let every man who has a comfortable re
sidence tn retire to, and who is not compel!
ed to hard labor this season, be thankful lo a
kind and beneficient Providence Among
the large class in this city who are compel),
ed lo Ubor lor a mere rubsistance, there are
instances of suffering few would imagine,
and incidents of positive heroism which ma
ny would scarcely conceive. A friend of
ours, who lives on Apollo street, arose the
other morning, just before daybreak, and
from hi balcony beheld a man actively and
nimbly putting out the gas lights. On ihe
same evening, about 8 o'clock, our friend
was on his way home, when he saw a sight
that deeply affected and interested him.
It was his active lamp-lighter of the morn-
ing, dragging hi now weary body along,
follnwint! his wife, whn held ihe lamp in her
hand, and on her shoulder bore Ilia ladder.
She was doing the duly nf her husband, who
was suffering from the first weary symtoms
of the prevailing disease. When through
the duties affection prompted her to perform,
she put ber husband's arm within hers and
led him hnme. We have not heaid the con
dition uf the suP' srer since, but sincerely pray
that ho may live to reward the devotion ot
that wife, and support her w hen she may
need his arm to lean on, and the word of af
fuel ion lo cheer and encourage het.New
Orleans Delta, 7th.
FASHIONABLE SINS.
Among the most fashionable, and far from
the leaal of crimes or peccadilloes, which
are daily committed in society and bv
these too, who in other respects are almost
free from spot or blemish is thai of talking,
and talking about other people's affairs.
In this disgraceful and mischievous employ
ment, some seem to be more engaged than
in any other pursuit of life that of laying
up a treasure in another, better world not
excepted. Among those, I do not mean to
include those wholesale dealei in scandal
and malice, whose breath passes over Ibe
face of society like a sweeping tornado, pro.
trating everything which happens to be in
its progress; but I mean those petty retailers
who deal out mai vellous stories, conjectures,
and surmises in small quantities like the
pedlers who, ton pnor to pay lent for a shop.
travel about the town and bring tbeir two
penny commodities te your own doors.
mean those people who seem to have a mint
in their own imagination, wheie they can
coin such small change as best suits their
purposes, and manufacture such tales as they
think may exuhe a little wonder in the hear
er and entitle them to the praise of being
their first propagator. By such foil v and
reprehensible indulgence, they often wound,
deeply wound, the characters and feelings of
those persons in whose welfare they are so
busily engaged.
DISCOVERIES IN IRON WORKING.
The National Intelligencer says thai an im
portant announcement in E .gland, and which
is exciting great attention, is a developement
of new uriuciples in iron metallury. The
general opinion of those who aie competent
to judge, sa sihe Jlintng Journal, is thai
the inventions and discoveries leferred to
will open an entiiely new era in the manii
faoluie of iron, hot only wiih regaid toils
vaiious multiplications, but to the co iMiue
tion and arrangement of appnratit- ilo. Im
mense quantities of very valuable ore have
lately been discovered in Norhamplunsbire
also in Yorkshiie and west of England, with
in easy reach of the iron masters nf Mon
mouthshire and South Wales. If half these
rumors be coriect, the iiou trade will indued
be revolutionized.
No Place roH Kissino We were much
amused by an incident which s friend of
ours telated to us the other day. A gentle
man who bad been absent for some lime, and
who during hi absence, bad raised s preliy
luxuriant crop of whiskers, mustaches, tc ,
visited a relative, whoso child, a little gnl
of aix years, he was very fond of. Tbe little
girl made no demonstrations toward saluting
him with a kiss, as esual.
"Why child," said the mother, ''dost yoo
know your uncle Ed-vsrd! Why don't yoo
give him a kiest"
' Why, ma," returned the little girl, with
the most perfect simplicity, ' l don't see any
place!"
OLD SKIUK8 VOL. (3,; NO. 40
""bTtTkIoTTaIN THE HORRORS'
OF WAR.
A letter from Canton, under data of Msf
2, says that it would be difficult to dtarrib
all the barbarities and horrors perpetrated al
the taking of Nankin. Of the Turkish gar
rison, more than 20,000 including the fami
lies of the soldiers, wemen ami children,
were either put to the soif or Committed
suicide, it being a point of honor with that
singular people, to perish rather than to yield.
Every one ef tbe pri-sts, whether ef the
Budbist or Toouist religion, and who were)
very numerous there was massacred. Their"
number could not have been less ihan I 509
or 8.000, while those killed in the assault,
tne memng of the wall, and the entry of the
rebels, are said to amount to over 80 000
men. Very many families were completely
annihilated by suicide. The streets were so
blocked up with dead bndies, that in passing;
trom point to point the conquerors burst nnenf
doors of houses, private a well as public,
and tnrew them inside a the -Chinese ex
pressed it, as they had been logs of wood
The insurgents had no w ish to proceed to
such extremities, nor have they shown any
cruelty towards the Chinese people, priet
excepted, unless in rases, where they bad
co-opernted with the Imperial tro. ps. At
Nankin, in consequence of the fn.igni'n.le of
the Harrison, and a consequent resi'anee,
many shared a fate hich they otherwise,
and in other places, would not have suffered.
THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS.
The Baltimore American gives the MUtw
ing description of ihe E nperor Nichols's of
Russia :
"The personal appearance of the E-"rrnr
and his manners so digmfiod, and . so
graceful, struck tne al once, and in a. r y
near approaches lo his person and i i t. .--
ciety, these feelings acquired new for e I
regard him as a most extrnOili',ary p s;n-
age. In stature six feel and two inches but
with the symmetry of a man five feet i nn
inches, wi;h a face oniting, what is rnr-!y
found in the same person, remaiknble per
sonal beauty andmaiked indications of me.
lect I cannot better describe his n.,-.Ua-Hon
of manner than In say that it he were try
sink all recollection ot liis position, his detii.
ny and associations, and enter one of our po
litical assemblage he could make as many
friends in an hum as any slump orator in our'
country. He is dis iigiii-hed for inergy
and high order uf tuleut. Hi plans for the
amelioration of the condition of hi ut j. els
are worthy of his aucestoi Peter and Catha
rine. The measures adopted benefit the
serfs as well a- the ancient nobility, and hie
vast designs as to railroads, will reign an eia
in the Empire. Besides the road lo Moscow
ol 430 miles, he design to make one to Co
lumbia on the Oka, 100 miles from Moscow,
below which there is constant steam nuviga
tiou to the Caspian Sea. Another is projec
ted from this point to the head of siesm
uavigalion on ihe Don of the Black Sea,
and from this point on the Don easi iO Sara-
tot, near the mouth of ihe Volga, and Missis
sippi of Europe. The domestic relations of
the Emperor are the subject of constant com
mendation by his subjects, exhibiting in this
respect favorhtle contrast to tbe days of
Catharine.
His intrepid charactei is tbe theme of every
observer. He walks the streets alone, or ie
met often in a single sled or drorkey superin
tending in person ihe condition of the city.
He is tbe first at a fire, and I have been
struck by the power and distinctness of hie
voice in giving order lo 30,000 men under
arms. He exercises a supervis ed over vast
details in the afiairs cf ihe Empire. He en
joys very able ministers, especially in the)
foreign and internal affairs of Ihe Empire."
Steeltard Weights. Yankee ingenuity
has dona a great deal in this country, and s
little over the mater. Spring steelyards aie
used more or less by every one having any
thing lo sell, but are moie used lu buy with
by those who understand ihein. Every one
conversant with spi ing slreijards. isauaro
that they are nnl reliable for any length of
time The itetl spring adjusted for cold
weather, will give correct weight in warm
weather, and il iijusted for waim, will not
ive conect weight in cold weaiher. In
taut, they are a changeable a ibe wea her,
end are not lo be trusted. II )oti toy
puce of meat at the maifcel lo-dajj nth
iiig 40 lb., it is jnt as likely lo rn,li 11 io-
muriow. The tension o' sleel, or t her
wolds, its baidne ur soflnesa, Vaifcawnh
the temp. Miure, and it i upon the quality .f
tension or eUmirii) that il is used hi all as
measure of weight
The eUsliril of steel is efjccle.l by i
use Ihe more Ihe sleeljard is used, the ea
sier it yield to the preesne ol w, ien A
ieelatd may be perfectly foirtet v. u ii
tii st put inte ue, tui li cauiioi nolr 1 1 in .
it suits afltr having been used a Ie : ii..
and Its variation In III correct w ei.'ot m .e:
.e in propoition lo the nun V"'r of i -,n.j
coiled spnug h been forced fion i 1 1. si
lion in a state of resi Peoria . . r;g
Sue:
Chinese Lsfucsux.--Who wot i liivct
I bong hi sit'y year au that the laws ul ...
of the Slate ot the Union would In v.- lo 1 1
published lu Engllh ami Chinese, tor genu'
al circulation ! Yet it i so. The m: h c
tion of an act passed by ihe Catiton ia Ltg
ialwture, for the collection of foieign mil era'
tax, has to be printed in ibe Cim - s- lan
guage, for the information of moie ll.an lhir
ly thousand Chinese in ihe ti f5.te.
Tong'k Achich, a Cbinaiiii.n, retnfu that
the translation is "faithful and good."