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'LINES TO AN EXILED HUNGARIAN
BY 0. T. BAIRD
'Though exiled, thou art not alone,
In every heart, thou halt a home.
'Neath every roof, mid this broad land
A welcome waits, shouldst thou command
4 GO where thou wilt, from shore to shore,
A stranger then, Alt ! nevermore.
Each mother's heart will sigh for the,
.lEac'h daughter will a sister be.
Each father will extend his hand
And bid thee welcome t) this land.
Long as our stars and stripes shall wave,
'They will protect the exiled brave.
Thy presence will our hearts inspire,
Rekindling that Promethean fire,
Which every freeborn heart will find
Ignited by thy sparkling mind.
- May angel whispers in each breeze, •
Bring solace to thy heart's disease,
And every moonbeam's silvery ray
Illume with Hope, thy weary way.
May morn and eve, each day disclose
A holier sense, of calm repose. . •
'While memory, only brings to view,
'The mimic diamond mid the dew.
The gem which long hath been concealed
Is being now to man revealed.
Bach heart is sighing to be free ;
:Cod grant this boon to Hungary.
II IR TIID A Y OF IVASIIFHTON.
A DOUBLE ACROSTIC
Blest to mankind and Freedom's cause, the morn
Which gave a glorious mortal being birth;
In childhood, trained in virtues to adorn
A life, that proved a life of active worth.
Robust in frame, which exercise improved ;
Staunch in integrity and spotless truth ;
Tried in that unabating zeal he loved,
He rose from trust while yet a youth.
His skill preserved the remnant of that bend,
Intrusted to a Braddock's chief command.
During the Revolution's lowering gloom,
Noble and firm, each trying hour he stood ;
A bulwark in himself, till Victory's plumo
Graced his high brow for anew nation's good
Yet not as soldier only was he great—
The sterling soul and mind was in the man
On free Columbia's well-filled chair of state,
Order and justice his impartial plan.
Formed as he was, so. true, that none excel,
Ne'er be his BIRTH forgot, nor his " FAREWELL
stnslffcrting 51-ortj
LILLY FORESTER'S
1-21 -EL IS 'X" 33 -EL la 3Ca .
' Here, Alice ! fasten those pearls. and clasp
'this bracelet. Quick it has struck nine. Now
give me my boquet. One kiss, dear mother,
and gooC-'iye, Do not sit up for me, as Alice
will let me in, and you need rest.'
Her fairy step is heard tripping down the
stairs. The mother's listening ear catches
~ the sound of the closing door, and the carriage
'drives off, bearing her still dear child to scenes
•of revelry and mirth. And sinking on her
knees, the mother's voice goes up in tones of
heartfelt earnestness to him who listens to the
prayer of the broken hearted.
• Watch over her when I am gone,' she said,
4 Nay she not wander in forbidden paths, but
prepare to meet me above,—Oh, my daugh
ter, my daughter, may God forgive you even
as I. do.'
Why, mamma, Lilly Forester is quiite the
hello to-night. Only see what a bevY of ad
mirers have already collected around her. And
with what queenly grace she receives the
homage so freely offered at her shrine. But is
it not strange, mamma, that Lilla is here to
night without a chaperone ? For you know
this is her first appearance in company since her
father's death.' .
Strange, Clara,' said the proud, aristocratic
%man thus itdflressed, why it is more than
strange. How 1 3 .1,..;.
_Forester can permit her
daughter to go into society ajoi;;.s., as she does,
is a probleni I cannot solve. But,' ann
smile of contempt swept over her still land•
some features, if, I mistake not she will have
cause to regret it ere long.'
Why, mamma, what do you mean ?'
Anna! where aro your eyes, that yOu do
not SOO WllO is even now pouring those honied
words of flattery into her, I fear, too willing
ear?' •
Will Miss Anna do mo the honor to dance
the next quadrille with me I' said a gentleman,
at that moment, coming up to where Anna
Wilmington and her mother were standing,
and consequently breaking off the conversation.
Anna bowed, accepted the gentleman's hand,
and was soon lost to sight in the mazes of the
dance. : •
Yes ! reader, Lilly- Forester was guilty of
leaving her Weary, heart-sick mother at home,
to come to such a scene as this ; but guiltless
of aught that would call forth tho censures of
the cold worldling who has . pronounced against
her. Bewildering was the sight—that ball
room• The soft light of the chandeliers reflect
ed upon the fairy forms that mingled in the
dance; the music playing. in tho intervals ;
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VOLUME IX.
all, all there was to intoxicate the sense. But
many a pang 'of remorse shot across Lilly's
bosom that evening, as she thought of her dear
sabring parent at home. And many a time
did :she wish herself 'once more there encircled
in that mother's arm ; and when, at twelve
o'clock, the carriage was announced,a joyful
exclamation escaped her lips as she hastened
to the dressing room, and was soon at the door
of her home.
Why Alice,' she exclaimed, as the maid an
swered the summons, how long you were.—
Has mamma ' But the face of the servant
alarming her, she cried, is anything the mat
ter with mamma, Alice ?' And rushing .for
ward, she \vas at her mother's chamber door
crc the affrighted domestic had time to inter
pose.
But who shall describeethat scene ? That
pale, dead face ; and too late repentant, erring
child.
Oh, mother she bitterly exclaimed, as she
knelt beside her, ' speak one word, one little
word only, to say that you forgive me, mother.'
But the unfettered spirit lied winged its flight :
and had gone to its home alovc where there is
no sorrow, no agony, nor death.
It vas a deep lesson which Lilly Forester
learned that night; bitter in its acquirement,
yet lasting in its benefits ; and though Lilly is
now the wife of a Senator, and has mingled
much in the world, yet the impressions of that
night have never left her. And even now,
when.she hears the young and thoughtless speak
in joyous accents of an anticipated ball, she
shudders lest some erring one will return to find
an earthly parent beVeft of life. For she thinks
of her own last ball.
United, States ship Pennsylvania.
The keel of the United States ship of the line
Pennsylvania was laid at the Mita&llhia navy
yard in 1822, but after being nearly completed
ready fur launching, was permitted to remain
on the stocks till 1837. On the 2Gth of July
of that year she was launched, in the presence
of the Hon. Secretary of the Navy and thou
sands of spectators (him the city and all parts
of the Union. She glided slowly and gracefully
into her destined element, and presented to the
admiring gaze of the multitude the gigantic and
beautiful proportions of the largest ship, at that
time in the world. In ,peeember of the same
year, she sailed from Philadelphia, under the
command of Commodore Ste‘Vart, for .Norfolk,
Va., at which place, soon after her arrival, she
was taken into the dry dock and coppered
after whicb she was dismantled. After remain
ing in ordinary about eighteen months she was
again rigged, and from that time to-the present
has been employed as receiving vessel at the
Gosport navy yard. Receiving ships are em
ployed in all naval services for the purpose of
receiving and retaining recruits as they enlist,
until they arc drafted for active service. When
a ship is ordered to be commissioned, a requisi
tion for the complement of seamen, ordinary
seamen, landsmen, and boys, is made out and
furnished by the receiving ship. The men on
board the vessels arc kept under wholesome
naval regulations and exercise, and the daily
routine of duty varies but little from that of a
vessel on sea service. The Pennsylvania is at
present commanded by Commander John L.
Saunders, U. S. N. She is rated as a 120 gun
shipthe largest class of war vessels,,gener
ally styled " three deckers.' She is the largest
ship in the United States navy, and one of the
largest in the world : is 3000 tuns burthen,
has four tiers of guns, and . pan mount 140.
Length from figure-head to steam gallery, 4471
feet ; breadth of beam, 58 feet, 9 inches ;
depth of hold to orlop deck, 15 feet, 3 . inches ;
height from water line. to top of rail, 36 .feet ;
height from water line to the main truck, 239'
feet. There . is required for one suit of sails
about 60,000 yards of canvass, or enough to
cover nearly seven acres or'ground. She is
daily visited by persons from all parts of the
!Tnited States.—.Sniurday Evening Gazette.
'Us s of il'Ola.
Iron, in some of its innumerable forms, min
isters to the benefit of all. The implements of
the _miner, the farmer, the carpenter, the ma
son, the smith, the shipwright, are made of
iron and with iron. Roads of iron, travelled by
" iron steeds," which' drag whole townships
after them, and outstrip the birds, have become
our commonest highways. Ponderous iron
ships aro afloat upon the ocean, with massive
iron engines to propel them ; iron anchors to
stay them in storms ; iron needles to guide
them and springs of iron in chronometers by
which they measure the time. Ink, pens, and
printing-presses, by which kuowledge is sbat;
tered over the world arc alike made of iron. It
warms us in our apartments ; relieves our jolts
in the carriage ; ministers to our ailments in
the chalybeato Mineral waters, or the Medical
doge ; it gives a variety of color to rocks and
soils, nourishment.to vegetation, and vigor to
the blood of man. Such are the powers of a sub
stande which chemists extract from an other
wise worthless stone.-- Youman's Chemistry.
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Propensities of Lions.
One of the most striking things connected
with the lion is his voice, which is extremely
grand, and peculiarly striking. It consists, at
times, of a low, deep moaning, repeated five or
six' time sending in faintly audible sighs; at
other times, he startles the finest with loud,
deep toned, solemn roars, repeated five or six
times' in quick succession, each increasing in
loudnesS to the third and fourth, when his voice
dies away in five or six low, muffled sounds.
very much resembling distant thunder. At
times, and not unfrequently, a troop may be
beard in concert, one assuming the lead, and
two, three or four more' singing a catch. Like
our Scottish stags, they roar loudest in cold,
frosty nights ; but on no occasion are their
voices to be heard in such perfection, or so in
tensely powerful, as when two or three strange
troops of lions approach a fountain to drink at
the same time. When this occurs, every men:-
bar of each troop sounds a bold roar of defiance
at the opposite parties ; and when one roars,
all roar together, and each seems to vie with his
comrades iu the intensity and power of his
voice. The power and grandeur of those noc
turnal forest concerts is inconceivably striking
amirpleasing to the hunter's ear. The effee4 is
greatly enhanced when the hearer happens to
be situated in the depths of the forest at the
dead hour of midnight, unaccompanied by any
attendant, and ensconced within twenty yards
of the fountain which the surrounding troop <f
lions are approaching. Such has been my sit
uation many scores of times ; and though I am
allowed to have a tolerably good taste for mu
sic, I consider the catches which I am regaled
with, as the sweetest and most natural which I
ever heard.
As a general rule, lions roar during the night ;
their sighing moans commencing as the shades
of evening envelope the forest, and continuing
at intervals during the night. lii distant and
secluded regions, I have constantly heard them
roaring loudly, as late as nine or ten o'clock on
a bright, sunny morning. In hazy and rainy
weather, they are to be heard at every hour in
the day, but their roar is subdued. It often
happens that, when two strange male lions
meet at a fountain, a terrific combat ensues,
which not unfrequently ends in the death of one
of them. The habits of the lion are strictly
nocturnal ; during the day he lies Concealed be
neath the shade of some low, bushy tree, or
wide-spreading bush, with the level forest, or
on the mountain side. He is also partial to lofty
reeds, or fields of long, rank, yellow grass,
occurring in lowly vial( ys. When he is succea
ful in his catch, and has secured his prey, lie
does not roar much that night, only uttering
occasionally a few low moans ; that is, provi
ded no intruder&approach him, otherv-ise, the
case would be very diflbrent.
I remarked a f..ct, 'connected with tlie lion's
hour of drinking, peculiar to themselves f they
seemed unwilling to visit the fountains with
good moonlight. Thus, when the moon rose
early, the lions deferred their watering until late
in the morning ; and when the moon rose late.
they drank at an early hour in the night.—
Owing to the tawny color of the coat with
which nature has robed him, he is perfectly in
visible in the dark ; and although I have often
heard them loudly, lapping the water under'my
very nose, not twenty yards from me, I could
not possibly make out so much as an outline of
their forms. When a thirsty lion comes to
water, he stretches out his massive arms, lies
down on his breast to drink, and makes a loud
lapping noise not to be mistaken. Ile continues
lapping up the water l a long while, and, four
or live times during the proceeding, he pauses,.
for half a minute, as if - to take breath. One
thing conspicuous about them is their eyes,
which, in a dark night, glow like two balls of
fire;—iltilfon's Natural History. .•
The Bones a Pagnini.
Paganini died at Nice about fourteen years
ago. The bishop refused to allow him to be in
terred in the consecrated ground. His execu
tors commenced legal proceedings. The court
of Nice having decided against- them, they ap
pealed to the Archiepiscopal court of Genoa,
which reversed the judgment of the loWer
court, and ordered the remains of Paganini to
be interred in the cemetery. The Episcopal
court of Nice appealed against this decision to
the court of Turin, which has since confirmed
it. Now, as three appeals are dllowcd in eel°.
siastical matters, the court of Nice has appeal
ed in the last resort to a tribunal of judges to
be appointed by the Holy See ; and there the
matter rests for the present. .A most ridicu
lous piece of nonsense.
13a - A husband, residing in a small village in
the interior, thus announces the departure from
his " bed and board", of his dearly beloved :
My wife, Anne Maria, has strayed or been
stolen. Whosoever returns her will get his
head broke. As for trusting 'her anybody can
do so who sees tit--for as I never pay my own
debts, it is not at all likely that I will lay
awake nights thinking about other people's."
ALLENTOWN, PA., FEBRUARY 21, 1855.
Potomac Through the Blue Ridge.
• The passage of the Potomac, through the
Blue Ridge, is perhaps one of the most Stupen-
I does scenes in nature. You stand on a very
high point of land. On your right comes up
the Shenandotth,'having ranged along the foot
of a mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent.
On your left approaches the Potomac, seeking a
passage also: In the moment of their junction ;
they rush together against the mountain, rend
it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first
glance at this scene hurries our senses into the
Opinion, that this earth has been created in
time ; that the mountains were formed first;
that the rivers began to flow afterwards ; that,
in this place particularly, they have been dam
med up by the - Blue Bidge of mountains, and
have formed an ocean which filled tho whole
valley; that, continuing to rise, they have at
length broken over at this spot, and
- have torn
the mountain clown from its summit to its base.
The piles of rock on each hand, but particu
larly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of
their disrupture and avulsion from their beds
by the most powerful agents of nature, corrobo
rate the impression. But the distant finishing,
which Nature has given to the picture, is of a
very different character. It is a true contrast
to the foreground. It is as placid and delight
ful as that is wild and tremendous. For, the
mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to
your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of
smooth blue horizon, at an infinite distance in
thb plain country, inviting, you, as it were;
from the riot and tumult roaring around, to
pass through the breach, and participate of the
calm below. Here the eye ultimately composes
itself; and that way, too, the road happens
actually to lead. You cross the Potomac above
its junction, pass along its side through the
base of the mountain fur three miles, its terri
ble precipices hanging in fragments over you,
and within about twenty miles reach PredCriek
town, and the fine country. round that. This
scene is worth a voyage across the Atlantic.—
Yet here, as in the neighborhood of the Natural
Bridge, aro people who have passed their lives
within half a dozen miles, and have never been
to survey these monuments of a war between
rivers and mountains, which must have shaken
the earth itself to its centre.--Jefferson.
George Washington. •
In - my boyhood, but old enough to consider
and remember, I saw George Washington ; iri
his coach going to church, and at other times
when drawn by six horses, wi7 everal ser
vants .in showy liveries; in his' gra ful and
commanding scat on horseback ; in 'a court
dress, small sword, and hair in a bag, deliver
ing his farewell address to Congress ; in his
drawing-room, with his secretaries, Pickering,
Hamilton and Knox, smoking the pipe of peace
with a tribe of Indians, and solemn as he was ;
and once, as schoolfellow and playmate of his
wife's grandson, Mr. Custis, I had the casual
honor of dining with him in the grave and
nearly taciturn dignity of his fannly circle,
with several servants in attendance, and a sec
retary, Mr. Dandridge, officiating as carver.—
General Washington's Revolution camp -table
chest, presented to Congress on the eighteenth
of April, 1844, as a relic to be preserved, is one
of many proofs that he not only loved good
cheer, but, as governor or manager of men,
promoted conviviality as an affair of state and
convenience for business. • Almost all accot3nts
represent him as grave and stately. But I
have known, intimately, ladies who danced '
with hint ; have heard companions - of his
pastime hours describe his enjoyment of not only
the pleasures of the table, but those songs of
merriment then so common a part of such plea
sures. I heard an officer of his military family
enlertain Lafayette with a recital of some of
the expressions which General Washington ut
tered with passionate outbreak, when disobeyed
and disappointed in battle ; I have seen his
minute written directions for the liveries of his
servants, and concerning the choice and rent of
a house ; and haye been assured, by a gentle;
man who spent some days with him at Mount
Vernon, when no longer on his guard, that the
once reserved and solemn statesman chatted
freely on all subjects.—lngersoll's History.
Pearl Buttons.
These useful little articles are mado from.the
pearly interior of certain large oyster's . ; found in
various parts of the world. The blanks of the
buttons are cut out of the shell by means of a
small revolving steel tube, the edge of. hich is
toothed like a saw. They are then flatted or
reduced in thickness by splitting, which pro
cess is assisted by the laminated . structure of
the shell. Being held by a spring chuck, both
sides of tho button are finished and smoothed
by a small revolving tool, and the holes are then
made with a small steel drill, which revolves
with great rapidity. The cuttings or figures
on ornamental pearl buttons are produced by
means of a series of small sharp cutters ; and
the final polish is given with rotten stone and,
soft soap, while-the buttons are kept in contin
ual motion.
Whence Comes the Coal ?
It has been abundantly shown, and is now
everywhere acknowledged, that the coal beds
consist of the charred or carbonized remains of
an ancient and most luxurious vegetation. The
primeval forests were probably swept into basins
and covered with mud, which became solidified
into rock, and in that condition the wood has
gradually altered to coal. The source of the
carbon was therefore the same as that of coal
or wood now-a-days. In its mode of growth
and the source of its elements, the tree is the
same now that it ever was, and we know that
the charcoal of wood now comes from the at
mosphere. It is derived from the carbonic ;sic'
of the air. We therefore reach the remarka'b'le
conclusion that previous to-the deposit . of the
coal formations, they existed in the form of a
poisonous gas in the air. The quantity of car
bonic acid must have been very great, and the
atmosphere in an excessively poisonous condi
tion. now could animals breathe that atmos
phere? Clearly enough, they could not, and
hence geologists have failed to find the remains
of any air-breathing animals in the rocks below
the coal beds. The animals that appeared be
low the coal inhabited the water and were of
the lowest organization. But as the coal was
deposited through the growth of a vastly ex
uberant vegetation, the atmosphere was puri
fied of the noxious element—its carbonic acid
was withdrawn, and thus the ancient atmos
phere underwent an alteration which fitted it
fur the appearance of higher animal races. At
the same time, by the formation of immense
reefs and islands in the ocean, vast quantities
of carbonic acid were locked up in the coral
formed limestone. Those little animals that
dwelt in the depths of the sea, were thus co-op-
orating with the colossal vegetation above, to
deprive the air'of its poisonous and deadly con
stituents.—Pcn and Pencil.
Facts about the U. S
The United States are composed of 32 States
and 9 Territories. •
They contain a popula,tjon of 25,000,000, of
whom 21,000,000 are white.
The extent of the sea coast is 12,060 miles.
The length of its ten principal' rivers is 20,-
000 miles.
The surface of the 5 great 'lakes is 90,0G0
square miles.
The number of miles of Railway in operation
s 20,000 which cost $600,000,000.
The length of canals is 5,000 miles.
It contains the longest railway on the globe
—the Illinois Central—which is 704 miles.
687 miles completed.
The annual value of its agricultural produc
ons is $200,000,000. •
Its most valuable production is Indian corn
vhich yields annually 400,000,000 bushels.
The amount of capital invested in manufac
urcs is $000,000,000.
The amount of foreign imports in 1853, wa •
8267,078,947—and of its exports $239,971
167.
The annual amount of its internal trade i
800,000,000:
The annual value of the products of labor
(other than agficultural) is ~ , 1 ,500,000,000. ,
Its mines of gold, copper, and lead, and iron
are among the richest in the world.
The value of gold produced is $100,000,000.
Tho surface of its coal fields is 138,131,
•
square acres.
Light Suppers.
One of the great secrets of health is a light
supper, and yet it is a great self-denial, when
one is hungry and tired at the close of the day,
.to eat little` or nothing.' Let such a one take
single cup of tea and a cold piece of
bread with butter, and ho will leave the table
as fully pleased with himself and all the world,
as if he had eaten a heavy meal, and be tenfold
the better for it the next morning. Takc.any
two men under similar circumstances, strong,
hard-working men, of twenty-five years ; let
ono take his bread and butter, with a cup cf
tea, and the other a hearty meal of meat, bread,
potatoes, and the ordinary et ceteras, as the
last meal of the day, and I will venture tb af
firm, that the tea-drinkor will outlive the other
by thirty years.
COLORS.
It was generally known of course, that the sun
was the source of all light, but it was not so
generally known or thought of, that the sun
was also the origin of all the colors presented
to the eye. It was not so generally known
that hence summer borrowed her green mantle,
and winter her vestal robe—that every flovier of
the garden wss not bright and beautiful of
self, but simply because it reflected the sun's'
rays, and borrowed all its tints and attire from
the solar beams. Nor was it well known that
all the splendid colors of the mineral kingdom
were but the reflection of the sun's rays—the
purple of the sapphire—the green of the emerald
—the red of the ruby—or the brilliant light of
the diamond, all came froth at so cc.—Pro
fessor Olmsted,
NUMBER 20
Purchase no friends by gifts : when thou
cmsest to give, such will cease to leve.—Fuller.
I hardly know so true a mark of a littlo
mind, as servile imitation of others.—Grevillr.
Time destroys the speculations of man, but it
confirms the judgment of nature.—Cicero.
The fewer our wants, the nearer we resemble
the gods.—Socrates..
Wisdom is the olive that springeth from the.
heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth.
fruit in the actions.—Grynestone.
Wit will never make a man rich, but there'
are places where riches will always make a wit.
—Johnson. •
There is this paradox in pride—it makes
some men ridiculous, but prevents others from
becoming so.—Callon.
Great towns arc but a large sort of prison to
the soul, like cages to birds, or pounds to
beasts.—Charron.
Trifles, light as air, arc to the jealous, coax.—
=lion strong as proofs of holy writ..—Shaks—
The covetous person lives as if the worla'
were made altogether for him, and not he for•
the world ; to take in everything, and part witht
nothing.—South.
Conimon horn is now prepared in European'
maniactories to servo all the purposes of
whalebone, and is quite as elastic. The horn*
are cleansed, split, opened out and flattened,
and immersed for several days in a bath com
posed of 5 parts of glycerine to 100 parts of
water. • They arc then placed in a second bath;
consisting of 3 quarts of nitric acid, 2 quarts ,
of pyroligncous acid, 12 pounds tannin, 5
pounds sulphate of zinc, with 25 gallons of
water. After leaving this second bath it wilt
have acquired a suitable degree. of flexibility
and elasticity for umbrella ribs and other purr'
•
poses.
67'21=x° other things to be desired are
-
the following : A method to mako . trUtli as
agreeable as falsehood ; a receipt for praising
a pretty girl without giving offence to her
older sisters ; some way of collecting a small
debt without having, to earn the money a
second time, in the attempt ; how to induce a
, constant reader' of a newspaper to become a
constant subscriber ; a plan of editing a paper'
without being considered dull by the giddy..
frivolous by the serious minded,' unapprecia•
ted by three•fourths; and chealed by tho other
quarter.
[l:7Wrtrzr young men have nothing to liver
upon but love, they commonly fall in love and,
get married—just as if hugging and kissing .
were a substitute for mutton chops, or as it
terms of endearment would supply the place of
mashed taters and fricaseed chickens.
a:7•Accomionniox.—Striet Business Han
Patrick, hereafter I want you to coinw
mence work at five o'clock and quit at seven:'"
Patrick—" Sure and wouldn't it be as well
if I'd commence in the morning at seven: and;
leave off at five in the evening?"
I:l7An editor who never thinks twice before.
ho speaks, says that the first dresses worn by'
our primitive ancestors in the Garden of Eden,.
wore bare (bear) skins.
if.:7lf our Maker thought it wrong for Adam"
to live single when there was not a women on
earth, how criminally guilty are oldlnehelOrn e
With the world ful of prettigirin t -' f=6:;,
-Battle or. New Oricant.
The daring Tendesseati, with a blanket ti
around him, and a hat with a brim of enormous.
breadth, who
.seemed to bo "fighting on his
own hook," disdaining to raise hiS rifle over•
the bank of earth and fire, in safety to his per
son, like his more wary fellow-soldiers, chose.
to spring, every time he fired, upon the breast•
works, where, balancing himself, he would:
bring his rifle to his check, throw back his.
broad brim, take sight andlfire, while the enemy
were advancing to the attack, as deliberately as.
though shooting at a herd of deer . ; then leap
ing down on the inner side ho would reload,.
mount the works, cock his beaver, take aim s
and crack again. " Thin did he," said. era
English officer, who was taken prisoner by him,.
and who laughingly gave it as a good anecdote.
to Captain D—, " five times in rapid sue-•
cession, as Ladvanced at the head of my corn-•
pally, and though grape whistled through the
air over our heads, for the life of me I could not
help smiling at his grotesque, demi-savage„
demiquaker figure, as he threw back the broad
flap of his castor to obtain a fair sight—deliber-.
ately raise his rifle, shut his left eye, arid blaze.
away at us. I verily believe that ho brought
down one of my men every shot." As the
British steadily advanced, though columns fell
like the tall grain before the sickle at the fire
of the Americans, this same officer approached
at the head of•his brave grenadiers, amid the
rolling fire of musketry from the lines of his
unseen foes, undaunted and untouched. " Ad
vance, my men !" he shouted, as he‘%reaChed
the edge of thefttsse—" fellow men !" and sword
in hand, he leaped the ditch, and turning amid
the roar of flame of a hundred muskets to en
courage hiS men, beheld to his surprise but a
single man of his company upon his feet—more
than fifty brave fellows, Whom lie had so gal
lantly led on the attack, had been shot down..
As he went about to leap back from his danger
ous situation, his sword was shivered in his
grasp by a rifle ball, and at the same instant
the daring Tennessean sprang upon the parapet
and levelled his deadly weapon at his breast,
calmly observing,—" Surrender, stranger, or I
may perforate: yen " Chagrined," said the
officer, at the close of his rectial, " I was com
pelled to deliver to the bold fellow, my mutila
ted sword, and pass over into the. American•
lines. "—flame Journal. • .
Flowers 'oisThought,
She neglects her heart who studies her glum:
7—Lai:wen
Frugality is founded on the principle, that all
riches have limits.—l3+ ./e.
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AAI ifficial Wita ieboner.