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U For the Agitator,
modestly ashed if he coaid stand at my
6 door, and simpty hold out his hat I told
lo f Go( j>’ s name to stand there, and there yoa
'“fjHm” [HENSY WiHD BotCHM,
_jl3 fiod» * - ~ -
.fit stands beside our house of prayer, ,
® man forlorn and lonely,
■ward not then his dusky hue,
lesard your doty only.-
g-meraber Jesus Christ commands
To do uelo another,
~ „ would have him do to ns.
Then aid him as a brother."
find's blessing rested on'that hour.
And gcnile opirits
VVcnt gladly up to tell the tale
Ho« luring conquers hating.
Thc African, despised and poor
Alone in that great city
u.cametW one true-hearted speech,
The theme of love and pity.
And mmy who had passed him by,
perhaps that very morning.
And carelessly kept on their way.
His lowly station scorning,
tore made to feel, and deeply too
Ere they that house were leaving,
Jjj, far more West in Jesus’ sight
Is going, than receiving.
qji he who uses thus aright
His influence, and power,
toll grow in strength and holiness,
With every day and hour.
Etch truth proclaimed, each duly done,
Each fallen one raised higher,
toil lead him upward, till be gains .''
The home we all desire.
ft vcalts among his fellow men
Sol carelessly, or blindly.
He sees the suffering, then relieves
V,ilh action prompt, and kindly.
Bis life is crowned with noble deeds,
A crown of matchless beauty ;
Success to him, success to all
tt'ho bravely do their doty.
A Gourmand.
. following is a tale of gorma'ndizing
is related by M. Dumas in connexion
i desperate onslaught madeby his pel
lysouf, on the aviary. Mysouf, owing
•tecomemporary escape of three monkeys,
,j to the time spent in their recapture, had
•n "lulling herself with finches, canary
•*. and Other pet songsters, with all the
i,(Terence of a hardened criminal. She
i, in fact, like a certain Viscount V., made
dinner of five hundred francs. How this
opened we must leave M. Dumas to relate
i own words:
discount V., brother to Count Horace de
one of the most consummate gourmets
[France—not only of France, but of Eu
:pe —not only of Europe, but all the world
■ventured one day, at a meeting consisting
inly of artists and partly of men of fashion,
;e following proposition :
“One man shall eat by himself a dinner
at shall cost five hundred francs,” ($100.)
The thing was denied,
“Impossible!" exclaimed two or three
rices.
‘■lt must be understood,” replied tho vis
ant, “that in the word ‘eal’ the word ‘drink’
idso comprehended.”
“Certainly.” 1
"Weill, then, I say one man—when I say
nan, I do not mean a carter or a coal
uvet, I mean a gourment—can eal a din
irof five hundred francs.”
iourself, for example ?”
fes, myself for example.”
Vill you bet 1”
*ill bet."
have the five hundred francs,” said one
lose present.
tod 1 will eal them,” said the viscount.
dome, show ua how it can be done.”
It is very simple. I dineat the Cafe de
t. I make my selection according to ray
hand I eal five hundred francs worth at
dinner.”
The wager was accordingly made, and he
Sin to arrange his dinner for the next day.
The insure d’hote) was summoned. It
uwinter lime; the viscount wanted cer
3forced vegetables and fruits ; he wanted
ot, also, and the shooting season was over.
he maitre d’hotel asked for a delay of
days.
he dinner was accordingly delayed for
Mount of time.
he umpires were to dine with the viscount
5 5 Il 3l" and left of the table.
he viscount was allowed two hours for
dinner, from seven to nine. He could
!r converse or not, just as it pleased him.
hour appointed, the viscount made
a Ppcataace, bowed to the company, and
““ n to the table.
bill of fare was a mystery to the ad
!*ties. They were to have the pleasure
•surprise.
viscount sat down. Twelve dozen of
S' oysters were placed before him, with
of Johannisberg.
was in good condition ; he
ilf.jjl.f lwe * ve dozen more, and another
T( i 3 ( : ‘ l °f 'be same wine.
' ' iS 0 " 0K ’ e d by a soup of swallows’
,^" r «athe viscount turned into a bowl
„p s ”| U P ''ke a basin of hot milk,
' ea Ob gentlemen,” he then observed,
s , ?|ieille ' s excellent to-day, and I feel
10 ‘ndulge in a fancy.”
you like ’ you are your own master.”
u P on beefsteaks and potatoes,
“n biftek aux pommes.”
r '? J rcoD, astonished, looked iat the vis
‘‘Well »J ,
iq' 5 ' 1 be said, “don’t you understand 1”
’J ts ’ but I thought that the viscount
uf bis dinner.”
b>«,'ii bul lllis is extra - I will pay for
Tv '
bet 'osked at one another. A
'.'Hi r'„„ pom , rnes was brought, and the vis
the whole. B
T»s ss : No »for the fish.”
“Geiwi W&a b'ougbt.
* tnen > > said the viscount, “it is a
THE AGITATOR.
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trout from the lake of Geneva—a kind that
is only found there, but which still can be eat
here. -It was shown to me this morning
whilst I -was at breakfast, alive. It was
brought from Geneva to Paris in the waterof
the lake. ; I can recommend this fish Co you;
it is delicious, eating.”
Five minutes more, and there was nothing
but the bones on the plate.
“Garcon, the pheasant!’’ shouted the vis
count.
A pheasant with truffles was laid before
him.
- “A second bottle of Bordeaux, same vin
tage.”
A second bottle was brought.
• • The pheasant was discussed in ten minutes.
J “Sir,” observed the garcon, “1 think you
made a mistake in asking for- the pheasant
before the salmis d’ortolans. ’’
“Ab, true ! Well, luckily, it was not agreed
in what order the ortolans should be eaten,
or I had lost. N ow'for (he salmis d’ortolans,
garcon.”
The salmis d’orlolans were brought.
There were ten of these delicious little
birds ; the viscount disposed of them in as
many mouthfuls.
- “Gentlemen,” said the viscount, “the rest
of my bill of fare is very simple, asparagus,
green peas, a pineapple, and some strawber
ries. Of wine ; half a bottle of Constanlia,
half a bottle of sherry, that has been to In
dia. Then coffee end liquors; that is under
stood.”
Each thing came in its turn; vegetables
and fruit were conscientiously devoured, the
wines and liquors were imbibed to the last
drop.
The viscount bad been one hour and four
teen minutes at his"dinner.
Virginia*
“Gentlemen,” he said, “has all been loy
ally executed ?”
The umpires ex pressed their assent.
“Garcon, la carte?” -
The viscount cast his eyes at the sum to
tal, amounting to 506 francs, and handed
over the bill to the umpires.
The account was examined and found to
be correct.
The bill was conveyed to the viscount’s
adversary, who was dining in a cabinet.
In less than five minutes’ time he made his
appearance, bowed to the viscount, and,
drawing forth six notes of a thousand francs
each from his pocket book, he presented,him
with them. That was the amount of the* bet.
“Oh ! sir," exclaimed the viscount, “there
was no hurry; besides, perhaps you might
have wished for your revenge ?”
“Would you be disposed to give it to me,
sir ?”
“Most assuredly so.”
“When?”
“Why,” replied the viscount, with a sim
plicity that partook of the sublime, “at once,
sir, if you like.’’
The loser reflected for a second or two,
and then he said—
“I had rather not. After what I have seen,
I think you would do anything.”
A Cat Stoby.—A philosophical old gen
tleman was one day passing a new school
house, erected somewhere towards the selling
sun borders of our glorious Union, when his
attention was suddenly ottfacted to a crowd
of persons gathered around the door. He
rinquired of a boy whom he met what was
going on.
“Well, nothin’, ’cept the skule committy,
and they’re goin’ in.”
“O, committee meets to-day ? What for?”
“Well,” continued the boy, “you see Bill,
that’s our biggest boy, got mad the other
day at (he teacher, and so he went all round
and gathered dead cals. Nothin’ but cats,
and cats and cats. O, it was orful, them
cals
“Pshaw ! what have the cats to do with
(he school committee?’’
“Now, well, you see Bill kept a bringing
cats and cals ; allers a pilin’ them up yon
der,” pointing to a huge pile as large in ex
tent as a pyramid, and considerable aromatic,
“and he piled them. Nothin’ but cals cats!’’
“Never mind, my son, what Bill did ;
what has the committee met for ?”
“Then Bill got sick a haulin’ them, and
everybody got sick a nosin’ them, but Bill
got madder and didn’t give it up, but kept a
pilin’ up the cals and— ’
“Tell what the committee are holding a
meeting for.”
“Why, the skule committy are goin’ to
hold a meelin’ to say whether they’ll move
the skule house or the cats!”
The old gentleman evaporated immedi
ately.
“Let Me Kiss Him foe His Mother.”—
The editor of the New Orleans Advocate
has This incident about the ravages of the
yellow fever in that city, related to him by
one of the Methodist pastors:
“The preacher was called a few days since
to attend the funeral of a young man. Be
fore his sickness he was a stout, buoyant,
manly youth. He was from the Slate of
Maine, and had been here but a short time.
He was attacked by yellow fever, and soon
died, with no mother or relative to watch by
his bedside, or to soothe him with that sym
pathy which none but those of our own
“dear kindred blood” can feel or manifest.-
He died among strangers, and was buried by
them. When the funeral service was over,
and the strange friends who had ministered
to him were about to finally close the coffin,
an old lady who stood by-stopped them, and
said: “Let me kiss him .for his mother.’’
We have yet to find the first man or woman
10 whose eye this simple recital has not
brought tears.” I
SefcotcO to m Syttnsiou of if)t of jFmOom anJJ t&e SprraiJ of f&ealttts Reform.
WHILE THEBE SHALL BE A WRONG UNSIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN 1 ’ SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE.
WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 13, 1859.
Strange Story.
Ad account, it may be remembered, was
given in September of a very curious affair
having occuted at Calais. A young man of
gentlemanly appearance arrived in (hat town
to embark for England, but being prevented
doing so by want of a passport, spent sever
al days in the place under the surveillance
of the police. He then obtained permission
to go in an excursion steamer to Ramsgate
on promise of returning in the evening, and,
as there was a good deal of mystery about
him, a police officer was, unknown to him,
charged to watch over bim. During his ab
sence at Ramsgate orders arrived from Paris
by telegraph to arrest him on (ha chargeof
having attempted to commit a murder and
robbery in the department of the Siene-et-
Marne, and the moment he landed he was
arrested. Having been conveyed to the of
fice of the commissary of police, he jumped
through a window, took flight, and attempted
to commit suicide by leaping into one of the
docks, but was rescued when half drowned.
This man, whose name is Pesty, was after
wards given up to the authorities of the
Siene-et-Mprne, and the day before yester
day he was brought to trial before theK court
of assizes of the department on the charge
of attempting murder and robbery. The
case excited great interest. The prisoner,
who seemed much affected, said, in answer
to questions put to him, that he was twenty,
four years of age, and a farmer of Beaune
la-Bollande, in the Loire. The following
singular facts were then staled : A shep
herd named Masson was in the evening of
(he Ist of September last driving a flock of
two hundred and fifty sheep from Braosles
to a place beyond Nemours. At some dis
tance from the latter town he was overtaken
by a man In a light cart, who, putting his
horse into a walk, expressed admiration of
his flock and got into conversation with him.
Having ascertained the direction in which
he was going, the stranger drove on to Ne
mours, and after the shepherd had passed that
town again overtook him in his cart, and de
scending from the vehicle began chatting with
him. After a while, on passing through a
wood, he suddenly drew a double-barreled
pistol from his pocket and discharged it at
the shepherd, wounding him in the head with
the ball of one barrel, and in the neck with
that of the other, after which heal him about
the head with the bul-end of the pistol. The
shepherd fell bathed in blood, and his assailant
thinking he was dead dragged him into (he
wood. The man then examined the ?hephpyd»
as if to make sure that he was dead, fired his
pistol again at him, wounded him again,
and then left him. The shepherd remained
senseless some time, and when he recovered
he found that his flock had disappeared, but
that his dog was by his side licking his
wounds. He managed to gel to the nearest
farm-house, staled what had occurred, and
had his wounds dressed. The gendarmes
immediately commenced a search after the
assailant, and had little difficulty in finding
who he was. They learned that a man
whose appearance corresponded exactly with
the description which the shepherd gave of
him had a few hours after the attempted
murder arrived at a place called Chateau-
Landon with a flock of two hundred and
fifty sheep, and had there placed them under
the care of one Lejeune, shepherd to Pesty,
jr., of Beaune-la-Rollande, who was driving
a flock of one hundred sheep from Bransles
for his master. This Lejeune was found
at Beaune-la-Rollande with the two hundred
and fifty sheep, and he stated that it was his
master himself, young Pesty, who had con
fided them to him. He added that Pesty, on
arriving at the village, had joined him, and
remarked, “I shall gel into trouble about
those two hundred and fifty sheep ; they are
stolen, and ihe shepherd who was driving
them has been murdered!” Lejeune fur
ther stated that Pesty made a similar state
ment to bis (Pesly’s) father, on which the
latter, with great emotion, cried out, “If if
be you who have committed the crime, the
best thing you cau do is to kill yourself!”
On that young Pesty at once look to flight,>
and was no more heard of by his own peo
pie until after the arrest at Calais. The
shepherd recovered from his wounds, and his
recovery was mainly owing to the dog hav
ing licked them. After that incident ,Pesty
was confronted with Masson, and the latter
distinctly recognized him. Pesty himself,
after some vain denials, admitted bis guilt,
and also that he had deliberately premedita
ted the murder of the shepherd. This man
was, of course, the principal witness against
him, and he created some sensation after
giving his evidence by remarking, “It is a
sad thing to say that a fellow-creature at
tempted to lake away my life, and that a
poor dog was the principal means of saving
me!" Pesly’s crime, it was stated to the
court, is perfectly inexplicable, inasmuch as
he is the son of a most respectable man of
good properly, was in comfortable circum
stances himself at the time the crime perpe.
traled, married to a charming young woman
of nineteen years of age, is the father of a
child still in the cradle, and had received a
good education. It appears, however, that
last year he was tried for stealing nineteen
sheep, but was acquitted. The jury declar
ed the man guilty with extenuating circum
stances, and (he court condemned him to hard
labor for life, also to pay 6,000 f damages to
the shepherd.— Galignani.
Matthew Henry says: “Woman was
made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not
made out of his bead to top him—nor out of
bis feet to be trampled upon by him—but out
of the side, to be equal with him—under his
arm to be protected; and near his heart to
be beloved.”
The Way to Ruin.
BT BIT. T. H. TABER.
“Let me see, Ft is almost fifteen years
since I came from Brookville,” said a gen
tlemen, apparently about forty years of age,
to an old man with whom he was conversing,
just as 1 entered the cars.
“Doubtless many changes have taken
place since that, in' the adopted home of my
childhood.” “Yes,” said the old geotleman,
but (he place has not changed as much as
some of the inhabitants. Many of the oldest
fathers aod mothers have gone to their final
rest, and their wild romping boys and girls
now occupy their places, and have become
staid «md reliable inhabitants ; but this is not
the case with all, lot some preferred to travel
the way to ruin,and have long since reached
their destination.” This last observation at
tracted my attention, and as the conversation
did not pailake of the nature of secrecy, I
concluded that [ would listen, and see if I
could learn something definite about this road
to ruin.
The younger of the two gentlemen sat
some moments in apparent revery, and then
observed, “There t were many noble speci
mens of manliness and honor, among the
yonng! people of Brookville fifteen years ago,
indeed; I do not know that I ever saw a
community of young people, whose prospects
for the future were belter than theirs. They
were generous and virtuous, and as a general
thing had formed high resolves for the future.
There: was James Gorton, who was one of
the noblest of the band. We were almost
constant companions ; we played and studied
together days, and slept together nights,
without the least misunderstanding, for he
did not seem to know how to say no, or to
be selfish. And after I came from Brook
ville, I. heard that he had married Mary
Green, the loveliest girl in the town, and
bought the Allen farm just above the village,
with the means left him by his father, and
had settled there to enjoy life. Can you tell
me how they get along?’’
“Oh yes, I was well acquainted with them.
They got along fast, and reached complete
ruin years ago, and are nearly forgotten.”
“Is it possible? I have always supposed
that his punctilious regard for truth, and in
domitable energy would be a sure guard
against danger from that quarter.
“And so they would, if the danger had
come from a direction where there could
have been an available defence.! But as ill
fortune would have it, the temptation and
danger came at a point where-ha was unable
to say no—and that very inability, finally
proved his ruin.”
“But how was it accomplished?”
“I will tell you. About one year after
Gorton’s marriage, the old tavern in Brook
ville changed hands. The new landlord was
a shrewd, good nalured man, who bent all
his energies to (he prosecution of his;business.
He renovated and improved his house, and
made it a very desirable stopping place for
young men of leisure. And when (hey were
induced to spend an idle hour in his nicely
furnished bar-room, there was no want of
means to lake them a step farther; for he
never wanted on excuse to ask his young
guests to drink at his expense, and they
could never say no, be was so social and
gpod-natured. And the result was, that in
less than six tnonihs, several of the most re
spectable young men in town, formed such
ap appetite for intoxicating liquors, that they
did not wait to be treated, or urged to drink.
James Gorton was among the number, and
report frequently said that he drank 100 much,
though no one considered him in danger.
During these seasons of intemperate drink
ing, he associated with a dissolute spendthrift,
who persuaded him to become his surely for
a large amount, and finally failed, dragging
Gorton down with bim to complete bank
ruptcy, This almost drove him to madness,
and he sought to find insensibility in the in
toxicating bowl. His wife plead with him to
desist, but it was of no use; he only abused
her for the interest which the took in his
welfare, and neglected her and everything
else for rum. And she soon died in conse
quence of sorrow and neglect.
“VV’iibio two years from the improvement
of the tavern in Brookville, James Gorton
was laid in a drunkard’s grave by the hand
of charily, having become so degraded by
drunkenness, that no one mourned his loss.
And since that time, numbers have followed
in his; wake. He traveled the way to ruin ;
and it; led right through Ihe bar-room of the
Brookville tavern—the spirits in the bar drew
the train, and the landlord was the engineer.
And if everything was called by its right
name; every bar where intoxicating drinks
are scjld, would bear this inscription in large
letters —The way to Ruin.
Luther’s Opinion of Music. — ‘Music,”
says Marlin Luther, is one of the fairest and
most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is
a biller enemy; for it removes from the
heart the weight of sorrows and the fascina
tion of evil thoughts. Music is a kind and
gentle sort of discipline; it refines the pass
ions and improves the understanding- Even
the dissonance of unskilful fiddlers serves to
set off the charms of true melody, as white
is made more conspicuous by the opposition of
black; Those who love music are gentle
and honest in their tempers. I always loved
music,” adds Luther, “and would not, for
a great matter, be without the little skill which
t possess injthe art.”
John Wesley says : When I was young
I was snre of every thing; in a few years,
hawing been mistaken a thousand times, I
was hot half so sure of many things as 1
was before; at present, lam hardly sure of
•any thing but what God has revealed to man.”
eommum cat ions.
For the Agitntor.
Familiar Letters on Geology, £}c.
NUMBER SEVEN.
Dear Mary : I know that in a general
discussion in regard to the origin of the hu
man race, I would have no right to assume
that they all sprang from one original, but
this, recollect, is not such a discussion,! as it
relates only to the antiquity of this origin.—
The array of talent embodied in favor df the
oneness of that origin ought to be sufficient
to convince any reasonable man, and l|may
not, .1 trust, be considered as in any degree!
“begging the question” as it is called!, if II
take it for granted that at some time in the
past, one first pair was created, and from this
pair all others have descended. The question
is, did all mankind spring- from Adam and
Eve within the last five thousand eightlhuo
dred and sixty-lwo years, and from Noah
and his three sons within four thousand two
hundred and seven years. j
So far as physical difference of population
is concerned, the earth may be divided into
three great bells, or zones, —the Temperate,!
in which man appears in the highest state of
development, and the Torrid, and F-igidj
towards, and into each of which man appears
to degenerate. The departure however 1 from
the type of (he inhabitants of the lemferate
izone is greatly modified by the positron tri
which the race is found, whether in high
table-lands, or on low plains—in the interior
of the continent, or on islands or maritime
coasts. The Terra del Fuegian found on the
lowermost point of South America, ini latil
lude fifiy-two, where the race is exposed to
all the inclemencies of the southern siorm',’
and to the miseries almost of starvation is
sunk deep in the scale of civilization! ana
the wild, rugged, savage nature of his |posit
lion is stamped upon his features and bis.
character, and yet the general form of his
features possess much of the charapler of thp
tropical Indian of South America. Yet while
the indian of the tropic possesses a character
in a high degree savage, he is civilized! com
pared to the Terra del Fuegian. 1
The inhabitant of the Aleutian Islands in
the same latitude north is equally sunk in the
scale of civilization, both menially and phys
ically, yet he possesses many of the features
of the Rocky Mounlaio Indian, Ihooghlsunk
many degrees below him. The Terija del
Fuegian and the Aleutian Islander dwell
amid the storms and barren rocks of the
ocean in high latitudes, while the olhersiroam
on the broad plateau of the continent. | j
The inhabitant of the southern point of
South America and of the continental plateau
indicate an origin of comparatively recent
date. So with tho broad visaged Aleutian
with his stolid countenance, and the North
American Indian with bis equally broadfaca;
in a general comparison of the faces and
forms throughout the world one would iplace
these two in a nearer relation to each .other
than he would the North and South Ameri
can Indian, and still nearer than he would
the Aleutian Islander and the Terra del Fue
gian. As you approach from the two ex
tremes the difference in feature andj form
decreases; and there is similarity enough jn
the two extremes to refer them originally to
ihe same great parent. The character of the
region in which each dwells seems !lo he
stamped upon his form. So if you fromr
Circassia in Ihe high table land of central
Asia down through Arabia and along the
eastern coast of Africa, to the Cape of jGood
Hope, you pass from ihe most beaulifuj form
of the human face, through the Arab of the
desert, the tattooed native of the coast (of
Mozambique, to the Bassauto warrior of the
table-land of the South, all dwelling io| high
plateaux, and all differing in features, yet all
showing a relationship to each other. There
is, the same regularity o( features in the tat
tooed native of the high land of Mozambique,
as in the fair-haired Circassian—each partak
ing of the character of the region in which
each dwells. I
—‘The Circassian is a type of the balmy re
gion about the Caspian, and you would know
by his features that the Arab dwelt in tents
on the sandy deserts of Arabia. The dwell
er on the coast of Mozambique has, almost
the regularity of the features of the Circas.
sian, yet you can see there superstition and
voluptuousness, as you can equally seel in the
inhabitant of the southern coast the} fierce
passions of hate and revenge. Take tfiis se
ries and'place them by the side of ihelseries
from the Continent of America, and though
you would at once recognize them ks the
same species of animal, yet you would place
the relationship of the two series far back!in
the generations of the past. Between the
Terra del Fuegian and warrior
there is vastly more difference of form than
between the beautiful Circassian and the Ne
gro from the coast of Congo, 1 j
Take the European, rhe descendantjof the
brave and hardy Northman, and with him
cross over into the eastern part of Africa on
the table-lands south of the Atlas mountains ;
take an inhabitant of that region along with
you to the plateau of Senegambta, add! to
your company an inhabitant of that region,
and pass down 10 tbe high lands east,of (he
coast of Loango, and you have a company
of four, the extremes of which differ exceed
ingly, and yet you can trace a relationship,
though remote, between them all.
Let us take another series, the Chinese
Mongolian, the inhabitant of the Peninsula of
Malacca, the New Hollander, and the dis
gusting native of Tasmania, there is'a fam
ily likeness in many respects, and yet the
Mongolian and the Tasmanian side by aide
seem almost infinite generations from each
other. !
You' may lake the four series and cross
from one to the other east and you [see
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olherj points of likeness that you did not ob
serve* in passing from North to South, and
yet they all appear different. Place your
four series of human forms in a square and
then pass from the most eastern (o Ibe most
western, or from the most northern to the
most,:souihern line, and the similarity is hard
ly near enough to denote a relationship, yet
as you look over the whole group you sea
that general similarity of form and feature
that denote the same species, yet the most re
mote: varieties. Pass across the group from
the beautiful Circassian to the cannibal-look
ing 't'erra del Fuegian. The contrast would
almbsi justify the conclusion of those'who
contend far different original crealions ; come
up, however, diagonally from the Fuegian by
the New Hollander, and Ibe Cabyle of Mount
Allas to the Circassian, and they all seem to
slidej into, and blend with each other.
I said (hat even in the several zones, the
man!was modified by his position, as conti
nental, or maritime—as the inhabitant of
high l plateaux, or low plains. The Papuan
Negro of New Guinea, situated on an Island
of the Pacific, is in feature and form and
colof like his antipodean brother on the coast
of Guinea in Africa —situated twelve thou
sand miles away, and separated from him by
the jndian Ocean and the whole African Con
tinent. The Esquimaux of North America
is like his brother the Siberian of Northern
Asia. The Papuan and the Guinea Negro
dwell in the same zone and under the same
physical surroundings, and they are conse
quently alike. So the Esquimaux and the
Siberian, dwelling in the inner fastnesses of
the /rigid region, and though antipodean, are
alikje.
The native of Van Diemans Land belong*
to the most repulsive in form andfeature, and
yet he dwells in the same latitude South with
the gigantic and nobly proportioned Puelche
Ind an of Patagonia, who roams on the table
lands at thefoot of the Andes.
The native.lndian who has his birth place
and his dwelling on the high interior table-
lands of Brazil, between the equator add
twenty degrees of south latitude, is in almost
everything unlike the native of the lonl plains
of the western coast of Africa,'and like the
native of the high plateau on the east coast
in the same latitude. And all these dimilar
ilies, and differences —these modifications
zones, and climates, and altitudes, and kepres.
siops—these continental and maritime varia
tions have not sensibly changed within the
historic period. The Negro of the upper
Nile was the Negro that he is now more than
thrbe thousand years ago, and the Caucas
sian, as he bended the knee and handed the
cup ter his tawny master at Thebes, had the
same (features, and the same brow, though
noj the lofty bearing of the present day.—
Bui of this in my next.
1 Yours truly, J. E.
Horrid Butchery op Mexican Sol
diers. —A correspondent at Aspinwall write*,
under dale of Dec. 20, as follows :
fin ihe engagement between the Reaction-
fdrces and those of Vidaurri, four hun
dred of the latter’s men were captured by the
former, who, after seeing them disarmed and
taking from them their most valuable equip
ments, ordered his second in command to
take them from his sight and do with them
asjhe thought fit. This inhuman wretch,
who weld knew what would ensue from such
a course, placed them in the hands of bis
sojdiery, who were just then in a beastly
state of intoxication. They fell upon the,
captives, who were entirely defenceless, and
a horrible massacre followed. At the end of
thfa terrible scene, the lifeless bodies of four
hundred human beings were found stretched
upon the ground, mangled and weltering in
their blood—a patent sacrifice to Ihe bloody
cause of liberty. The Argentine Govern
ment has authorized the construction of a
ra’droad between the capitals of Santa Fe and
Santiago.”
jPHitopceNAS. —Barry Cornwall, who had
adeal.of sly humor, once said : “Igreatly
object to this one-sided game Philopcena—
this finding a double almond, sharing, it with
a ]lady; and then having to pay a forfeit
when next she encounters you. If you pay
it : firsi the little dgyils have such funny ways
oft getting off paying. Sometimes they will
give you a kiss—that’s something; some
times they will let you beau them to ball or
parly; sometimes they will como up like
naen—very -unwillingly. I philopoenaed a
girl; she acknowledged the debt, and pro
mised me an annual. The next day sba
sqnl me an almanac.”
I What profession does your brother follow
now, Julius ?”
| “Why, Sam, he am, lamin’ to be a wo
calist in New York.” .
I “Where is he studying, Julius V*
| “In de 'cad’my at Sing-Sing.”
| If our Maker thought it wrong for Adam
to live single, when there was not a woman
upon the earth, how criminally guilty are
old bachelors, with the world full of pretty
girls.
I God ’ in his providence, works by chosen
instruments. He gives us wisdom that we
may instruct the ignorant, and ha gives us
wealth that we may assist the poor.
[ An eminent painter was asked what he
mixed his colors with to produce such an
extraordinary effect. “I mix them with
brains, sir,’’ was hi^pswer.
} It is thought to be 3 question worthy of con
sideration whether a person whose voice is
broken, is not on account better quali,
tied to sing pieces. '