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SELECT rOETKY.
THE WHIE FOOTED DEER.
BY WILLIAM CULLEN BUY A NT.
It was a hundred years ogo,
When by the woodland ways,
The traveller eaw lliu wild deer drink,
Ur crop the biruhon sprnys.
Beneath a hill, whose rocky side
O'erbroived u grassy mead,
And fenced a collage from the wind,
A deer was wont lo feed.
Sho only came when on the cliffs
The evening moonlight lay.
And no man knew the secret haunts
In which she wulked by day.
White were her Teet, her forehead showed
A spot of silvery while,
That liked lo glimmer like a star
In autumn's hazy night.
And here, when sang ihe whip-poor will,
She cropped the sprouting leaves,
And here her rusiling steps weie heard
On slill October eves.
Rut when the broad midsummer moon
Hose o'er that grassy lawn,
Beside tho silver-looted deer
There gra.ed s spotted fawn.
The cottasa dame forbade her son
To aim "the rille here;
"It were a sin," she said, "In harm
Or fright that friendly deer.
"This spot has been my pleasant homo
Ten peaceful years and more:
And ever, when the moonlight shines,
he feeds before our door.
"The red men say that here she walked
A thousand moons ago:
They never raise the war-whoop here,
' And never twang the bow.
"1 love to watch her as she feeds,
And think that al is well,
While such a gentle creatine haunts
Tho place in which we dwell."
The youth obeyed, and sought for game
In lorests far away,
Where, deep in silence and in moss,
Tho ancient woodland lay,
But once, in autumn's golden time,
He raned tho wild in vain,
Nor roused '.he pheasant nor the deer,
And wandered homo again.
The crescent moon und crimson evo
Shone with u mingling light ;
The deer, upon the grassy mead,
Was feeding full in sight.
Ho raised the rifle lo his eye,
And from the clilfs around
A sudden echo, shrill and sharp,
(Jave back its deadly sound.
A way into the neighboring wood
The stailled creature new.
And crimson drops at morning lay
Amid tho glimmeiing dew.
Next evening slmno the waxing moon
As sweetly as belore ;
Tim deer upon the grassy mead
Was seen again no nioie.
But ere that crescent moon was old,
By night tho red man came
And burnt tho cottage to tho ground,
And slew the ytuth and dumo.
Now woods have oversrown the mead,
And hid the dills from sight ;
There shrieks the hovering hawk at noon,
And prowls the fox at night.
J3iocjYrtpl)ical.
THE EMPEROR OF HAYTI.
Fausliii the First U now, according to
his own report and the general belief, sixty
seven years ol age. It is also a well-ascertained
fact, though not very freely spoken
of by his subjects, that he was born a slave
on the estate of M. Viallel at Pettit (Joave,
in the south part ol the island. If he has
given his ae cornclly, he must have been
six years uld when slavery was abolished
in the French colonies by the Directory,
in 17!'3, and when he, in common with the
ret ol his race in bondage in Hayti recei
ved their freedom.
lljtli the parents of the F.mperor are
supposed to have been natives of Africa.
M. ullit was a kind master, niiu opto
the close of his lie, w hich occurred only
a year or two since, was treated with Ihe
greatest veneration and respect by his dis
tinguished Ireedinaii. I heard a Well-atl-llieiilit
jteii instance of the r'mperor's de
votion to him, alter the revolution ol the
wheel of fortune had materially changed
their relations to each other.
Shortly after Souloiique' election to the
I'rr.idencv, in IM7, M. Vialcl, then a very
old man, journeyed to Port au Prince for
Ihe purpose n p4)inglu respects to the
new ".utcrniut-iil nd ifiviiii: in his adhesion
In lh new enecutive. As he was entering
the palace lie ws seen by the President,
uho went out, anl kneeled uown, biased
his hand. M. Vulh t begged him lo rie,
and Mid he was e.tumi'd lo havt tho Pres
ident ki forget hiiiiM-ll and his position in
eotu public puce, houlouipie replied
that he UV looked Uvii M. Vullel
his greatest living belli Ut'lor, and Ihooh
Pre.nlilit lo the fesl ol lilt subject, III
.hoold iievii Ci Id look uMiil him hi
iii4i r.
S..u!ouiie eiilned the army u toloirf
under )mIihs, h"iU n-ioniivdulely
Iter Ihe iuiioii bl Ihe i rriub, and
.lull liaHull) 17 yrsrsi-l ae. Ill
lout )ri. he h I I ' lle rent ol HuU
J.leul.iul.l i.d aid Id . I-'I'. U
(HI Ik w pioiiHitril Id a liKulnuiM.) U
i,Wy, i.J Id Hiuy
U I he ihul ol s,ueJi, i lU
ioii,iiuii.lul o( the I'UiMiice, id
( twloliil bl toH'pwy kI "'.
H geueui Ui.ed. e'4 il !
grualal 4 ditu.uH i4 wiU.iliJlil lU
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.1 lt n lUt id
short of sovereign power, before he was
sixty. But his career was not destined to
slop here.
In the following year the Presidency
became vacant under circurr,slancetoo ex
traordinary to be passed without notice.
Riche was elected to succeed Pierrot in
18i6, and when he was already 70 years
of age. He was probably the most expe
rienced and most highly educated, if not
Ihe most highly gifted, executive officer
Hayti ever hat!. During the second year
of his administration, while on his return
from a visit to the north side of the island,
he stopped with his retinue at night to rest
at Gonaives. While there, his attention
was nrrested by the charms of a young
creole of rare personal attractions, with
whom he desired to form a more intimate
acquaintance. His position, and a douceur
of a couple hundred Spanish dollars remo
ved whatever obMacieK were intersposed to
his advances, and lor '.he next seventy-two
hours nothing further was seen or heard of
Ihe President by his attendants. At the
end of that period he appeared among them
again, and gave orders to set out at once
for Port au Prince, but so feeble and ex
hausted was he that he required help to
mount his horse. He died the day after he
reached the capital.
The Senate were immediately convened
lor the purpose of choosing a successor.
They were so nearly divided between the
two candidates, that af!rr repeated ballot
tings there seemed an increasing improba
bility ol final agreement. A (ail lire to elect
was to restore anarchy and military rule.
The possibility of such a contingency ari
sing, naturally gave prominence to the
name of Souloiique, who was commander-in-chief
of all Ihe military force in and
around the capital. His name was sug
gested in the Senate, and he was immedi
ately, and I believe unanimously elected.
He had the reputation of being a good-na-lurpd
creature, with no taste for intrigue,
and not much intelligence. He was habit
ually taciturn, and during the conspiracies
which preceded and followed Buyer's
downfall, he had been made the confident
of all parties, without becoming the enemy
of either. He was, withal, a good cavalry
officer, and a brave fellow. What other
claims he had for the honor that was in
More lor him he had not demonstrated.
He was in point of education and personal
accomplishment, inferior to all ol his pre
decessors, for he could neither read nor
write, while most, if not all of them, had
been educated at good schools in France.
But his good nature and obscurity led the
mixed bloods to suppose they could soon
get the control of him, while the blacks
had confidence in his color, which they
supposed would make him wholly theirs.
Roth parties were mistaken in their esti
mate of him. He was not long in letting
them know that the man whom they had
chosen, without his own solicitation, to be
their ruler for life, was determined to be
their ruler for life. Intrigues and conspi
racies for his deposition, similar to those
which had kept the country convulsed ever
since laiO, and changed the head of gov
ernment five times in as many years, im
mediately recommenced. But they were
dealt with very differently from those
which had resulted in prostrating Boyer
and llerard and Pierrot
Souloiique's administration in 1817, ISIS
and IS I!), was the type of Louis Napoleon's
administration in 13:0, 18f)l and 18:2.
Every suspected man was banished or shot,
and no species ol terrorism was spared to
discourage the aspirations of the intriguing
race of politicians with which the unsettled
condition of affairs for the previous ten
years had tilled the country. At the time
of his accession, the bar, the bench, the
press and the various departments of the
public service were filled by mixed bloods
anil men ol education. hen (hey lounil
Soulouque was determined to be President
in his own way, Ihey began lo intrigue for
his deposition. He closed up that source
of mischii'f-by sending all whom he sus
pected out of Ihe country, and by shooting
those whom he convicted. He filled their
places as well as he coulu, being careful to
put no man whom he could not trust in a
place where he could make trouble for the
government. Jt cannot be x.iul thai in
point ol 'talent or competency for Ihe daily
duties of Iheir respective positions, the
bench, the bar or the press have been im
proved by the changes, but they answered
Ihe purpose for which Ihey were mailt.
Within a )eur after his election, Ihe Uy
tienshad ascertained to their entire Mtislac
lion, that Ihe lets Ihey meddled with poli
tic, under Soulouque' administration, the
belter lor them; and since that time, the
government his been comparatively tran
quil, and about as liberal a an absolute th s-
iHjtum t ver was, or can be, though, of
course, not to intelligent m it inilil be,
and, in au lar, lest briicficicnt.
Hut tint slave of M. Viallel hud not at
taiuej Ihe liei-lit of ht eminence which
hit desluiy had .si;inj hi in. During Ihe
teiond year of hit presidency he wat in-
tlc4 with the owvr and title o F.in ror.
Tlii ihaiijv in the cuusiitdtioii and form
ol government w nutUr ol crnvulaur
prise, and I beii, u irgrrl, to Ihe brltrr
iU.a o llayiieiu; but, iivvrrlhrlvM, Ih;
trull)! Wat made, a M.Ueqttr'Ully
mad iii Fraiiii, u I nil Ihe aliuoat untni-
llioilt 'allium ol Ihe prople, tiinie fllrlldt
o Ihe iv. id. ni, Mho hop J by llni piece
ol tycophaniy lotrtm a higher pUt id
hit Ira-aid, .lailrd tlx IhlUa. ud. under the
linpltaMuU that it al WUU Hie firttdelil't
loin ulltnie, Md one dauo) Id oiiiasw l
Ike h l it i. ii yM Ly about ")
pu ple, ioiiaislm, mcuiduig Id Ihe tpiv
,jll o Ibe UtUtul-IH-ihisf, Vll l.dlMil,
ol all lb! j lfu.tt.oWU in the plat,."
I'tlilioii ol mu.lai liuuuit nl id
niu4 ly 4 lb mitli i Liia'tJ L)4
J .ltl 4uL, au-l ell ll ealud.lt tj
. .i laii.t :l lb ui4 I he lust -.lileu
,U.siiii in iiu-u m tbt ''''! V';
At the session ol the Chamber of Repre
sentatives, on the 25th, the subject wra
brought to their notice, and a law was im
mediately pased cuferring Ihe title and
dignity of Emperor upon the President, and
continuing the existing laws in all their
vigor until the necessary changes could be
made by the legislative body. The bill
was sent immediately to the Senate, and
passed by them the same evening.
When it is borne in mind that Soulouque
was born a slave, and was the offspring of
slaves born in Africa, that he had no edu
cation whatever himself ; that he was
elected President of the republic before he
could read or write one word , that he
never visited any more civilized country
than the one in which he lived, and which
hod been distracted by foreign and intestine
war almost interruptedly from his birth ;
and that he had never had an opportunity
of hearing or learning any of the lessons
acquired by the experience of older and
more lortunate nations, one is constrained
lo admit that hp is no common man; and
that, measuring his present elevation from
his point of departure, and weighing his
successes against his opportunities, he has
proved himself entitled fo no inconsidera
ble prominence, among military heroes.
Ev. Post.
REV. J. II. CAKnil.L, KII.I.KII BY
I M'l.OMO.M OF A CASINOS.
THE
We regret lo s'nte that Hev. J H. Cnrgill,
of the Methodist Chuich, who had just been
tationed at Montrose by the Conference a1
ils recent session nt Waveily, was killed by
the discharge of a cannon on the Fomth of
July, nt Stisquehanun, Pu. He had but a
short time befoie came into the place to
attend the relebiation. There weie two
cannon, one large nnd ono smaller, stationed 1
nearly opposite to each other in fiont of the
Harmony Hotel, at the distance of a rod or
two from the road. The man in charge nf
tho cannon had applied the match once or
twice inafTectnally lolhe larger one, and wax
about appl)ing it again, as tho deceased,
coming up the load, ran across hastily in
front of it ; as he was in rango nf it, it dis
charged, blowing him over and over some
distance, shattering his left arm, tearing
open his side, and otherwise horribly disfig
uring his person. Ho was taken in great
ngnny to the hotel, and medical aid and
other assistance rendered him but ho died
in a few hours. Ringamton Republican.
THE DEATH OF Ml SS.t TArilA,
Various accounts of ihe death of the brave
defender of Silistria having oppeared, ihe
following from the reporter of the Times,
who was present during the seige of Silistria
is, no doubt, the correct version : "At one
o'clock this day (June 2) Mussa Pacha, the
commander of the fortress, was mortally 1
wounded in iho left side) by a piece of a j
shell, which burst near him while silting
outside of his quarters at tin; Slambonl g-ito. I
He lived about twelve minute? after receiving i
the wound. lie had just received intelli
cence that a messenger was at hand, bearina
tho Sultan's order of Medjidie of the scrim I
class, which had bepn sent to him, nnd was '
waiting for instructions as tn whether it was
his excellency's wish lo receive tho ilecnia
tion publicly, ami with the usual ceremony)
or otherwise. Mussa Pacha replied that it
would be better to bring it in quietly, re
marking at the same lime thai this was no
season for pomp nnd display. A couple of
hours after this his remain were intened.
lis had considerable natural quickness of
npprehension, intelligence, nnd nctivily, and
innj aiiinlniisi Qll.l am inn 1 1 tlienlinmo liia
r,i,hfll... .,i.i.i ,n ...l.;K l.. .,. .
kind, pood-heaMcd man, beloved by his do-,
pendents. Hi. death i. a great loss. II,.,-
soil. Pacha, who had been in charge of the I
foren.i ArahTabia. now assumed lb., ..,.;
maud of the foitress, and was succeeded by
Colonel I.atif Bey.
ViuniNiA Wukat Choi1. The Lynchburg,
Vu , Republican say '.--The wheal ciop in
I hi section of the Stale is iioa haivesled
and housed
Wo have ho dale whereby lo
lorm a correct talimule of tho breadth of
land aown and tho yield. -Il I however Ihe
inipiension ut I Huso i (Hiver-aiit wi II I lit)
uliject, that iheie wa in tint and Iho South,.
western section of iho Slate, lolly one-lbii.l
iiio.e laud uwii Ihi year, than in 150 and
thai the t'p I nioie than an uveiaye one in
m.ililY nud yield. Tho couiilie ul Amheisi,
Campbell, He. Kord, Fiankliii, Roanoke and
Appoiiiallo, produced in IVVi, OiJ.f.n
bushel of whual ; ihi year 11 can bo but
link, if any under million. The cuunlie
of Muui;onifiy, Fh')d and Gile which be
come Ihi )er expoilei ol wheal, pio.luced
id lMI, PlJIt bushel Tin year iheir
joint pioduollou caunol b lethn SOO.OOd
bu.h.l.-l"'("" I' - ' n'lma-
Tua 111 MIAN lluL KaIILV -The Kill-
peior ha in Ihe Ul lite niouiu ciowu viovi
il.u in the iinn-endm-l leu yeai, and en
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mi. S1IUH1.I1III
,1-oatic ami biilit I be hen Id Ihe
a a . .... .. a., k I
Ihiui.e, Aldui, I in '"d Utsliii, aud
M l mghl 'll'"ed Ul'h ly eat
ing Ikal be l l"""! ""Pll-y o I
cl."4 Ittite Ike tame i.i.lil. At he I
kuuM le te ia la the piescut evu
l tutu au etiexl lu l piyej hit lall.ti
uu kit kut Id desisi, JiUiiij ul tiuitiai. ai
uuu4 bah ii. I dai.l) l lh toiJuUuly ol
hi 1104 "ail4 Willi Mi pi oust liss.ioilai
utu i'(( iUjI kit Until) liy l ullvi4
(nod jut ! Ibe teiy liute bud' Lit kuaau
tuliuitnl l lliitui ilb I h"w il k
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SWALLOWIIVG A IIORSK.
Mr. Gardener, in his "Travels in Brazil,"
confirms Ihe eatly accounts respecting the
size and prodigious swallowing capacity of
the boa cnnstiictor accounts which certnin
naturalists, whose reseaches never extended
beyond Ihe galleries of a museum, aie in
the habit or treating with ridicule and unbe
lief. "The boa," said he, "is not uncommon
throughout the whole provincn of Goaz,
particulaily by Ihe wooded margins of lakes,
marshes and streams. Sometimes Ihey
attain tho enormous length of forty feet ; iho
largest I saw was in this place, but was not
alive. Some weeks before our arrival at
Sape, the favorite riding horse of Senor La
goeira, which hnd put out to pasture not far
from the house, could not be found all hough
stiict search was made for it all over the
hazienda. Shoitly after this, one of his va
queiros, jn going through the wood by the
side of a small river, saw an enormous boa
suspended in the foik of a tree which hnng
over the water ; it was dead, but had evi
dently been floated down alive by a recent
Hood, and being in nn inert stale, it had not
been able lo extricate itself from Ihe fork
before the waters fell. It wasdnuvged out
to the open country by two horses, and was
found lo measure thirty-seven feet in length.
On opening it, the bones of a horse, were
found in a broken condition, the head being
iininjuricd. From the circumstances it was
conceded that Ihe boa had devoured the
horse entire. In nil kinds of snakes the
rapacity for swallowing is prodigious. I
have often seen ono not thicker than try
thumb swallow a frog as larse as my fist ;
and I once killed a tattle snake, about four
fcel long, and of no great thick
ness, which
nnd swallowed no less than threo frogs, one
of which swelled out its side n.'arly twice
the thickness of other parts I have also
seen a very slender snake that frequent the
roof of houses, swallow an entire bat three
times its own thickness. If such be the case
with Ihe smnllet kinds, it is not lo bo won
dered nt that one Ihiity-seven feet long
should be ablo to swallow a horse, particu
larly when it is known that, previously to
lo doing it breaks the bones of the animal by
coiling itself round it and afterward lubri
cates it with a slimy matter w hich it has the
power of secreting in its mouth.
LETTER FROM HI It. lilt OW SON.
The Catholic Mirror of this week publishes
a letter from Mr. O. A. Brownsou in reply to
strictures on his article on Native American-
I ism which recently appeared in that paper.
We hnve room for only a brief extract from
! the concluding portion of the letter.:
I have attacked no Catholio foreign-bom
citizen or resident ; I have charged Ihe grow
ing radicalism of ihe country to foreigners
and foreign influence, but I have said that
Catholic foreigners are precisely those on
whom we must depend to neutralize that
radicalism. Why has your correspondent,
and why have you yoursulves, taken no no.
tire of this fact, but attacked mo as if I had
attacked wilh good set purpose all loreigners
indiscriminately 1 If you think the case nt
best is bad agains" mo uhytiy lo make it
worse than it be ?
But allow me, gentlemen, to conclude by
calling your attention to one or two fads
which should be known without my1 telling
them. We Catholics nto in a small minority
and Ihe sentiment of the country is strongly
anti-Catholic, Kvery measure that we op
pose as hostile tn us, Ihe rouutiy will favor
nnd adopt ; nnd every measure we support
' favorable lo our interest, it will reject
1
8m """V ,hal il is bul ' U ' a,u 1
,,'i"k " -:,ri1 ,n l,,a,,,'r "UWh 'ieVenA
u" l"1"' lim' wh,ch W8 Ure ,''r-
Catholics, ill more quiet we keep
the better it will bo fur us. You ought
from Ihi to understand me.
Hltilll.V lll,OllTT IKOM XICAHll.l
The hiop-of.nar t'yane arrived at San
Juan, on lh lllh inl., lo demand a full and
Mli.fael.i.y apology for tho ii.sull In our Mm-
r, Mr. Holland, me' uuimiriues nun
( inhabitant tclu.ed lo make mo ..ifc.msi
. . I . I. .!.. . .
apoioj
II, .llni. of I be Ciane. then on the
'!
IJih, issued a puielaination lo the mithonlies
and resident, thai unless an P"I"' M"
m ule by o'clock A.M , he should pmceed
lo tv.iinb.iid Ihe low ii.
No apolojy came, and Capl. II, in Ihe
liliaii!iii l""k Miseiou of Ihe Ti.insil Com.
pany ' sleainei and iheii wnl lliem lo Ihe
lowu, ollenui, a pioteclioii to all who chute
lo accept n.
PieelM'ly at t u'eloek oil the liminiim of
ihe I lib, ihe lime desiualod, Ihe cannon
a lio;! commenced and coiilinucd with bllet
Itlei mission lid 3 u'eloek, I'M. No di.po
tiliuu being slill uieiiiU'sled un Ihe put ol
Ihu inhabitant tu vume lo leiui, l t I'M
luly u- ,,, mviv lau ivd lioni liu i )ne,
v.0,,aiiJ,, by l.ieiiieuaiii. it ho buiul Ihe
. . . . . . ..
11114II building i the tlnut lo nuik Ihe
hi whale 11 iood. No lit ivie lust.
luiUo.t Jiuiua'a Ik Ck 4ii4-
Nt Vuat, July '.'J
lis u iual IUiiiiu,' ai-ilulhe IHb
iusl , bad bd lermd
A lin e Imiu liailadu Id Ike I till ol
June fctte eoiue le ki I Uy ite Ihe
u.usl l.i.kllul lp'H ol Ike latago t)
vbuleie ed lUl ilauj Id lb iiuaU ny bl
Ui,.lviiiM up-"' el Hood 4sib bate im
swiis 1 01 '.l'i Ja I'd Ibe 14 b tbi
'i 1 1 J.ib, (nlllt Utagi p(cii4
ta te J" I ni.'sj I isia.ta L.u,
i .u.i IViii I l.t t "it 1 .. Km
t: b nt
THfTrjIOW NOTHING.
"Where have you been?" nsk'd Mrs Snob,
A. SI. i, , i ., '
-,.i. oiiuo reel u in ino ooor ,
'A pietly time to seek your home ;
I'm sure its iwlv
These midnight revels will not do,
eume on you Snob for acting so !
Where have yon been I I ask again,"
cays lie, "dear wile 1 do not know."
"A pretty plight your hat is in !
ami see, your coal is muddied o'er;
our nose is like a tn-ma-Io,
And you can scarce Iv reach the door.
How came vou so von iiniiohtv man.
Say, Mr. Snob how nimn von au V
"My dearest wife don't bother me,
i on ve neard me say that I don't know.
I don't know how I met the hnv.
Anil how I made my maiden speech;
don't know what it was all about,
Or whether 'twas a crow I ur screech.
I don't know if 'twas pop we diauk,
ir wnisKpy, lager iecr or rum,
I dmi't know how I broke my nose;
vt now i uavigalcii hum."
"I nee it nil you cruel man !"
Cried Mis. Snob, excited quite;
"You've joined the men who nothing know,
And you've been meetinc them to-ni"ht.
Well I'll forgive you, if you'll tell
Why Ihey do meet in secret so?
Say, Mr Snob what do you do?"
"Why, Mrs. Snob 1 do not know !"
THE SI IILYLER FAMILY.
A New York correspondent of the Boston
Trauseript, in noticing Ihe Schuyler failure
and fraud in New Yoik, says: Mr. Hubert
Schuyler was well known in Boston doubt
less from his extensive business relations his
family connections, and Ihe circumstances of
his ccllegiato education. Ho was graduated
at llaivard University in 1817, in a class re
markable for the talents ol its membeis, as il
included, among others, George Bancroft, S.
A. Klliol, Rev Dr. Stephen II. Tyng, (of St.
George's church, New Yoik,) Caleb Cushing
and I think tho late Lyne M. Walker, Ihe
first editor of the Transcript. Stephen
Schuyler was of the class nt Cambridge in
1820. These gentlemen nie grandsons of
General Schuyler, of revolutionary fame, and
nephews of Alexander Hamilton. In addi
tion lo tho vast sums raised upon railroad
stock, it is reported in Wall street, that up
wards of 400,000 dollais in advance upon rail
road iron have been diverted lo private ose,
so lhat the grand total of funds misapplied
reaches lo the enormous sum of 92,305,000 !
In regard to Ihe social life of Mr. Robert
Schuyler, family reasons, it is said induced
him lo propose lo his lady-love a secret mar
i iage, and separate establishments in town.
They have recently lived in different houses
in 22d street. More than a quarter of a cen
tury has elapsed since this arrangement had
been made by Mr. Scuyler, and such had
been Ihe manner of his life, that bis most in
timate personal friends thought he was a
bachelor. Somo months ago, ono of his
daughters being about to bo married to an
Kpiscnpal cleigyman, her truo name and his
tory weie told to her lovr, before; ilia final
arrangements for the wedding were made!
We often heard it remarked that every house
has a skeleton in it, but in a house where
years of concealment havo been practised,
there must have been a skeleton in evert;
room! When will our people learn the po
tency of silenco in cases of trouble f I al
ways had a respect for Job's fiiends who did
not bore iiim wilh their gabblo n hcu they
found him in deep distiess.
"Millions for Dcfcsce. The original
of ihe famous saying of "Millions for Defence
nut a cent for Tribute w hich ha become
proverbial, is thus related on tho authority nf
Guv. Middleton, in a diary, of which extract
are furnished in the Soul hem Patriot:
"In Paiis (said Gov. Middleton lo the au
thor of Iho diary,) I became acquainted with
Pinckney and Marshall. They wciu not ro
ciM'iiized a Miui:urs. Il was iiilinialed tn
them by a lady, juillioiied by Tallejiand
lhat il ihey, would give piesent Ihey would
be received. I carried Iho lady lo toe my
uncle Pinckney, when she made Ihi famous
communication. It gavo lise lo his famous
expiession '.Million lor defence, but 11 ul a
cent fur tribute.' Talleyrand ttflciwai.ls de
nied lhat this lady was tuithonej tiy him to
male Iho communication. Geiiy lolj who
Ihe lady was, and the wa aiietled and no
piisouetl foi tome weeks. I taw her nut ma
ny yeai io, and spoke lo hci abeul thu
mallei."
Siafit IUmih ink I ii a a 1. no t. The lol
low in! piesciiplioii may be u lie l upon as
both haiililca and t'lhcacioi.s 111 case. i 01-
diuaiy bowel i-uiiipluuit. Much tulleriug,
ulieu lenitiiutui.; latally, would be pie, en-
led by keeping the medicine at Inn. I, so at
id make linn ly utj ol il .
Mi vtacl'y e.joal ipianlilie ul llot'lui o
ibut'Aib, tpiuls ul lamphid ao-1 laudanum
Twenty diop is 4 doMt l"i n aduli, an. I
il4 lull diop u4 I' aa lul llnl lKll, aoeoid
lug tu llivil ay. Il III I'uuiplainl coi.lnue,
ieat Ilia duM in an boui au4 hall.
A Fitaui.il A- I lha UolUU ( 1 I
IVutusial, ), lhal ul t'Jis.la y U.I,
uid if.iding iu lha lie""1) ul I uaiuani, I
tV , diute )ikfl uU Kpui, Iba li.tk ul
lb t..l V vslaiu U '4 I, Utituw l ibeiu b.a I
n4 ImuI, u4 llwd. Ib' lJ lhut un il. 1,
bavkt, It iheld dwd "4 b it 1 belli Iba
llld 1 bit II o l '1 "I"' "a ll. we i
vil tt'al J-)-"' ' l' i'" l. .1.4 g al
dautage 4a. U lb i..it I Ita .e.sb
be L t It. a. I i - I 'Is 4 I .1 . .
Is 41 4 s .fs,s 4 l I 1. 1 ... . u .
4 tlwtl i,t ' ' ' 'J
OLD SERIES, VOL. 14, NO. 45.
SSAKE FASCINATION
The St. Louis Herald of ihe 12th inst. re
lates a case of snake fascination which re
suited fatally. The Herald vouches for the
truth of the statement, the particulars of
which are stated as follows :
"A man by Ihe name of O'Mara had a
small child, a little girl, about thirteen yean
of age, who came to her death through lha
influence of a snake, one day last week,
under the following ciicnmstances : O'Mara
lesides on Copperas Cieek, in Franklin
county, nnd but a short distance from the
Pacific Railioad depot. Some nine months
ago, early Inst fall, his family noticed Iho
little gnl to be pining away, and becoming
very week and pale, although she had been
very fleshy and heaity and apparently with
out any cause or complaint of sickness.
By the lime winter had fairly set in, she
was wasted away lo a mere skeleton, but art
soon as the weather berame cold sho again
seemed to revive. She never complained of
baiug unwell, and in reply lo all Iheir in
quiries in regard to her health, she invaria
bly said she fell very well, only a little
week. As soon as spring arrived, she could
not be prevailed upon to eat any victuals in
her father's house, but would take a piece ol
bread and butter, or a piece of meat, and go
out to the edgo of the creek to eat it. Tho
family noticed her regularly, always going
precisely to Iho same place, and invariably
complaining of being hungry after her return i
when if more victuals would be given her,
she would again return lo Ihe ctcek, as they
thought, to eat.
Finally, some ol the neigubors having
heard ol the circumstances of the child's ex
traoidiiiary conduct, and also of her wasted
appearance, suggested to her father to watch
her movements, which he did last Fiiday.
The child had been sitting on the bank of
tho creek, nearly all the forenoon, until near
dinner time, when she gut up and went to
her father's house, asked for a piece of bread
and butter, and ngain returned lo Ihe same
place she had been. Her father kepi behind
her without making any noise. As soon a
the child was seated, Ihe father saw a huge
black snuko slowly raise its head into her
lap and receive the bread and butter (rum
her hand ; nnd when sho would attempt to
take a bite of the bread, Ihe snake would
commence hissing and become apparently
very a'ngry, when Ihe child trembled like a
leaf, would promptly return the bread to the
monster.
The father was completely paralyzed, not
iug, as most persons do, a great dread for
snakes, he fe it alarmed for Ihe safety of his
child, not knowing the nature of the snako
or the extent of Ihe influence on his child
His blood became clogged in his veins, and
he groaned in perfect agony, which caused
the snake to become alarmed and glide away
into the creek. The child then immediately
sprang lo her feet and ran home, apparently
much frightened. Her father fallowed her,
but she refused to answer any questions, and
he then resolved to detain his child at home,
but he was advised lo permit her lo go again
next day lo ihe cicck, and fullow her and
kill the snake.
Nel morning sho look a piece of bread
and again went out lo ihe creek ; her father
followed her wilh his gun in his hand, and
ns soon as the snake made his appearance
shot him through tho head. The child
swooned; the snake squiimed nnd worked
himself around awhile and then died ; tho
child in Iho meantime recovered from her
swoon, but was immediately seized with
spasms, acting in a manner resembling the
writhing of the snake, and finally died llr
same moment Ihe snake did, apparently in
the greatest agony."
Danlth 01 Paintku Paii.s. Tho rdilor
of Ihu Sdeiitijic Amnuan pnblishe llie ful'
low ing communication from Jauie Mauico,
ot New Yoik, with the udvice lor all porswi
1 1 avoid painted pails. A coat ol varnish on
I ihe outside, is ull ihe eiiilielli.hriiciil we ever
desiie lo ee 011 a watei buckel.
"The oxide ol lead with which pails am
painted, is 4 daugcrou poison, and I know
III il il l productive ul evil 111 many cases.
l..iil week, 1 1 1 v 1 1 1 ir occasion to lake a dunk
nl watei I10111 a painted p.ul, which bad been
111 use for some moiithf, I was cons meed I v
ihe la.ie ol the waiei, lhal 11 hnd taken up
siiiioii nl ihe paint, and having anli .ed ihe
water, I louiid II lo curtain 4 teiy iniiiu'o
q.iuliiy ol i, siillli lent, however, it 4 laio
aiiiuiinl ol walel weie lekeo, lo piuJni'M
llio.e I. ai I ul illsi.lses JH-V 0 1 lal lu la I Ji'lviu-
it..-.-'
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m I li total liuilibei el ,le Jit. lo. Il.u wee
ending la -I t.rniu W4.''l, b. an In
l'i ihi Ibe pivtioiit week ( I' lb'
l'l..l ul tholeia la 111, i'onsuil'p1."".
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I11.I1I It 11 y4iail ill liala d.u l, 41. I
uo b. i 11, ie y, ul 1 Ihi Ui I's'il) It 41 '
A l ihsu t sili il.c p. n l aeui ...to a b nsu
Id kloi.isiuau, II , Ui Ui so, au l ei'iit
1411 1.1 4 Ii ai 11 'f t'iulU"l H i t' Ibe
p.up.ic'wi, wba tttt uul 41 I ' I'U.r, t,p,.
bvainij ul lb i.iii I iil in, iiltb"t'l
lbui.ll.l4j Ui.' .1 bis le In.' j ul l I
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