elye. fal)41). •Register Is published in the Borough of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pa., every Wednesday, by Haines & Diefenderfer, At $1 50 per annum, payable in advance, and $2 00 if not paid until the end of the year.— No paper discontinued until all ermines are paid. Cl'Ogricts in Hamilton street, two doors west of the German Reformed Church, directly oppo site Moser's Drug Store. o:7Letters on-bleiness must be rosy PAID, otherwise they will not be attended to. JOB PRINTING. Having recently added a largo assortment of fashionable and most modern styles of typo, we are prepared to execute, at short notice, all kinds of Book, Job and Fancy Printing. p 0 1t al. THE SLEEPING CHILD• BY LEIGII 11UNT. A brook went dancing on its way, From bank to valley leaping, And by its sunny margin lay A lovely infant sleeping. The murmur of the purling stream Broke not the spell which bound him, Like music breathing in his dream, And lullaby around him. It is a lovely spot to view, Within this world of sorrow, One spot which still retains the hue That earth from❑ heaven may borrow And such was this—a scene so fair Arrayed in summer brightness, And one pure being resting there One soul of radiant whiteness ! What happy dreams, fair child are given, To cast their sunshine o'er thee ? What cord unites thy soul to heaven, Where visions glide before thee ? For wandering smiles of cloudless mirth O'er thy features beaming, Say, not a thought—a form of earth Alloys thine hour of dreaming ! Sleep, lovely babe l—for time's cold touch Shall make these visions wither ; Youth and dreams which charm so much Shall fade and fly together. Then sleep! while sleep is.pure and mild, Ere-earthly tics grow stronger, When thou shalt be no more a child, And dream of heaven no longer. 3111gre1intun Dacotah's Captive. A TSLE OF THE LEAD MINES OF lOWA While . the Spanish colonists ravaged the southern portion of North America in quest of gold, and the English planted the germs of self governing on the eastern coast, the French were but the agents of home merchants, who enjoyed a monopoly of the various traffics, and were sustained in the enjoyment of it by the strong arm of military power. To the trading association in particular, we owe the discovery of the Mississippi to—by the son of one of the members—the intrepid La Salle. In his day lead was discovered within the present limits of the State of lowa, but the noted Julien Du Buque was the first•who taught the Indians to collect the ore, and make an article of trade of it. He was not only a brave, but crafty man, and after his death, the savages, in compliance with his dying wish, deposited his remains upon tha summit of a high cliff overlooking the "Father of Waters,','. securing the mouth of the mausoleum with a massive leaden door of a ton weight. They then burned his dwellings and erased every trace of civilized life around his settlements, except the orchards planted by his own hands. Vandal whites aftefivards cut up the door to sell, but the name of Du Bugtio will ever be remembered in lowa. Years passed away. The white flag of Franco no longer waved over the Mississippi valley; and the bold frontiersman, advancing on the foremost wave of civilization, crossed the river in quest of lead ore, game or fertile soil. One of the first settlements thus estab lished, was formed by a party from Kentucky, led by the grandsire of the younger generation Joe Bates, a noble specimen of a fron tiersman. Seventy years had whitened his long locks, but ho was still hale and hearty, able to wield an axe with any of his sons, or to draw a bead on a rifle with that accuracy of aim which had enabled him to render good service at the battle of Now Orleani. Selecting a good locality on the very shore oP the Missis sippi, old Joo and his sops built a log cabin, sur rounded by a stockade to keep off the Dacotahs. They then surrounded a . ' clearing' with a worm fence, 4leadened the standing trees by the fatal axe circle, and planted corn. When their corn was well above ground and freed from the weeds, they began to 'prospect' for lead Ore. Thus far they had seen no Indians, and be gan to flatter themselves that the redskins' had left the country to their peaCeful posses sion, but the wily savages had kept a constant watch over their movements. Perhaps; had they confined themselves to agricultural labors, the intruders might have gone unmolested, es pecially as the Dacotahs wished to conciliate the United States government into a profitable treaty; but when pickaxes were wielded in search of;lead Oro, the destruction of the pale faces was resolved upon in council. Tho first object of savage vengeance was the oldest son, Frank Bates, who had built himself a cabin about five hundred yards from head quarters,', despite the warnings of old Joe.— Frank,. hemmer, had no fear for Indians, and lived with his wife and their babe in great hap piness, until one summer's night, when ho was 'Straitened 'by. the loud barking of his dogs.— pringing from his bed, be looked through the , • . . • c ... . • • -.. - • . . „ . • .:. : 1 , •,-, , .... '''''•-,..-:;,,:,,,,,, ~.7,,,..,., 2 5., . -..,. .. . -;A- , c - -..- , ~ E „..,....,„,, ~ , , J.:. :, .....„ ..., ~.4.,• ,"4,..... '"". '""r 44Y:',..'''‘i,"'').: Dui%) to 3Com! nnh I t 35.timg, Igriruffurt, Ohriitinu, Mari*, VOLUME IX. opening in the logs, and saw to his horror, at least fifty Dacotahs, in full war costume, ovi. dently seeking the easiest way to force an en trance into the cabin. Arousing his wife, he raised a cellar trap door ; and was about to send her down, when the child she had left in the bed began to cry. I cannot leave my babe,' said she. Nay,' lie exclaimed, will take caro of the boy,' and almost forcing her down into the small cellar; he closed the unhinged door, over which he drew a large chest. Then, stizing his rifle and hatchet, he took the infant and as cended to the loft of the cabin pulling up the ladder after him. A moment more, the door wits forded from its hinges and the Dacotahs en tered, eager for their prey. But Bates did not remain to watch their movements, for lashing his boy to his shoulders, he cautiously opened a shutter in the gable of the loft, and seeing that no Indians were beneath, jumped to the ground, rifle in hand. Ere he had traversed his little garden, the air resounded with the blood chilling tones of the warwhoop, and a volley of arrows rained around the fugitive. happily only one struck him, and that in the fleshy part of the aria, so that he kept on, straining every nerve to reach the stockade around his father's cabin. But ere he had gone many paces a gigantic Indian overtook him. Turning, like a stag at bay, he faced his antagonist, knocked him down with the butt of his rifle and then sped on his way. But now, to his horror, he saw a large body of the Dacotalts around his father's dwelling as lie approached, firing over on to the roofs of the cabins with arrows to which burning tow was attached. He passed—but the cries of his boy aroused him to a sense of his own (hanger and his wife's perilous situation. Directing his steps towards the river, where be found lthi dugout.' safely moored, he soon was paddling across the river to a settlement where there was a large num ber of whites. Day had scarcely dawned on the stulceeding morning, beflire twenty Miners, good men and true, were ready to ae.amipany him across the. river. They cared no more fn• Dacotalip, than for prairie dogs, and acted upon the spur of the moment, regardless of consequences.— Crossing above his residence young Bates led them towards his clearing. but on arriving there, nothillg remained of his house but a mouldering pile of ashes. his beloved wife had evidently perished in the flames, for among the ashes and charred beams in the cellar they found some blackened bones. Just then they were joined by old Joe Bates and two of his younger sons armed to the teeth. They were delighted to see Frank alive, for they feared the column of smoke that had risen from his cabin was his monument, but now they did their best to condole with him in their rough way. He said but little, secretly vowed to avenge his wife's death, and well did he keep his work.— To have seen bim, no one would have supposed that the mild looking, slender • built Frank Bates was an incarnate demon in the fight with the Dacotahs, yet within a year after• his cabin was burnt, he had twenty . scalps hanging at his girdle. Vengeance' seemed his only thought— his life's desire. For some time after this outrage, the Daco tabs kept away from the miners, but at last a party of them .came prowling about, and the miners determined to have a brush with them —who was as competent to head the party as the sworn enemy of 'the redskins,' Frank Bates ? The party engaged two IVinneba. goes as guides, and then struck into the forest, following a recent trail. The third night of their 'journey, the weary •leader insisted on being sentry, and about midnight the clear crack of his rifle awaked every sleeper. In au instant, every man was on his feet, rifle in hand, ready to repel any lurk ing foe, but a low whistle from Frank an. nounced there was no danger. Morning came, and as the party crowded around the sentinel to learn the cause of the alarm, he Merely pointed to what appeared to be a huge bear ; a nearer approach to the object discovered to their astonishment the grim visage of a dead Dacotah, enveloped in the skin of a gigantic bruin, who, thus disguised, had attempted to reconnoitre the position of the frontiersmen. Frank now felt assured they were near their enemy, and followed the trail in silence.' On reaching the summit of a knoll, they saw the village becore them—a collection of high, coni cal tents made of dressed buflitlo skins sewed together, and ornamented with rude representa tions of the battle and the chase. On the outskirts were the squaws, engaged in the laborious occupations which fall to their lot. Their infants, tightly bound to straight strips of bark, were tied to small bent over birches, whioh gently danced them to sleep, and the boys of the village, with bow and arrow, were firing at the representation of a Kansas hunter. In the centre of the village, before the towering tent of the chief, sat the braves, smoking their tomahawk • pipes with social grayity. a a a ail . 110411110111-11V1191ill U 1 11“0111911130 The white men looked at the priming of their rifles, put their sharp hunting knives between their teeth, and Is ith a- deafening yell rushed down through the frightened squaws, ere the Dacotahs could comprehend what caused the alarm. Dashing into the startling group of warriors with fierce warwhoops, they dealt des truction around them. The chief was the first slain, bravely defending himself and encourag ing his warriors, who nobly struggled to avenge his death, but all in vain. Frank Bates fought like.a demon, but at one time was nearly a victim to a stalwart warrior. But on glancing at his opponent. Frank recog nized in a gay red handkerchief around his head, his marriage gift to his lost wife. This added renewed strength to his body and in creased activity to his fury, as he seized his as sailant with his left arm; lifted him from the ground, and at the same time with nervous forge thrust his knife into his heart. This de cided the battle, for the surviving Dacotahs, panic struck at the sudden attack, rushed to the spot where their horses were gathered and escaped into the forest. Upwards of fifty dead warriors remained on the bloody field and others grievously wounded, but not a single white man was seriously injured. The women and children fled to the woods, and the whites found an adundance of plunder, comprising blankets, rich furs, horses, dried meat and tents. .But Frank Bates felt sad at heart, for the sight of this memento of his wife made him fear she had been tortured be fore perishing in the flames. Night came on, and feeling positive he could not sleep he volunteered to keep watch. It was a bright moonlight night, and as he was pacing his solitary round, pl,,nning new schemes of vengeance, he heard a light step approach from the thicket. Frank at first raised his rifle to shoot the intruder down, but a secret influenced him to call out, Who goes. there ?' Are you a white man ?' was the reply in tones that produced an indescribable elliict upon the stout pioneer. Yes, and you ?' ' I am Frank Bates' wife, who was taken prisoner on the Mississippi,' and as she spoke she advanced. The rifle NI to the ground, and Frank stood as if under the influence of a magic spell. His hands were convulsively clenched; his hair stood erect on his head, a shiver ran through his frame, and he tottered back several steps. But not so the female, who had recognized her husband as she drew near, and now exclaimed as she threw herself into his arms, Frank ! my own Frank ! Do you not know your wife ?' Yes, it was his long mourned• bride, her fea tures stamped with sorrow, but still retaining her early beauty. Mutual explanations fol lowedi- and when the delighted wife learned the safety of her boy, all her hardships van ished. It now appeared that when the In dians had entered Bates' house;they found a keg of whiskey, which they drank freely, and then plundered everything, removing the chest in their researches : oon two of them quarrel led for the handkerchief Bates had seen the day previous, and drawing their scalpingb knives, one of them speedily received a mortal stab, and fell directly on the trap door, through which -the blood ran upon the hidden wife. She, be lieving that it came from the veins of her hus band, shrieked aloud, thus betraying her place of concealment. Dragging her forth, her cap- Lori bound her, then rifling the cabin, applied the torch. The body of the slain Dacotah was consumed, and over his bones Bates had mourned as for those of his wife. That day they packed the plunder upon what horses the Dacotalis had left, and started for their 'homes, which they regained in safety.— The proceeds of Frank Bates' share of the spells enabled him to rebuild his house, but this time close to that of his fathe'r, and enclosed with a high stockade. The Bacotahs however never returned, and in course of time were driven to the Bar West. Frank Batel l ls now one of the wealthiest landholders in „lowa. Time has dealt leniently with him and his wife, but neither forgets her captivity. Their son never passes the scene of his father's flight on that memorable night, without feeling a renewed sense of his filial obligations, and a deeper love for his boyhood's home. Parental Constitution. It is a very prevalent opinion among the on • professional that those persons who are most fresh and rotund in appearance, possess the best constitution. As these appearances very fre quently depend upon plethora, we have • the reason why so large a proportion of fine healthy-looking persons die during the preva lence of severe epidemics. Women with such constitutions, though well and healthy looking, have usually but few children, and they are of an inferior quality. On the other hand very many feeble and in firm women have many frpqh and rosy-looking children, but their appearance is deceptive— tbeir condition is ono of obesity —a cenStitn- ALLENTOWN, PA., JUNE 6, 1855. tional weakness of the van! forces which has been entailed upon them. The rich or those who live high, are too plethoric to be fruitful, and hence such people hp° usually few children. The poorer classes, or those who have enough, such as it is, con. sisting mostly of vegetables, arc much more prolific, and the children have the best promise of health and longevity. But the most prolific women, for the time being, are those who are laboring under some slow, chronic, but cer tainly fatal disease, as consumption. This rip pears to be a law of the vegetable and animal kingdoms, that in proportion to tho danger of the species becoming. extinct, so far as the in dividuals are concerned, is the increase of fecundity. Fruit trees, so battered and bruised that they must die in a year or two, are certain to have a full crop of fruit the year before they die. ' Women thus circumstanced should not mar ry ; and if after marriage they should become so, they should cease to become mothers. The amount of disease and premature death that is entailed upon society by marriage of un healthy persons, is such as to demand, on the part of society, the enactment of some protec tive ordinance. If the consequences were con fined to the parties themselves, or even to their children, the evil would be comparatively small; but the multiplication of it is so rapid, that, in a few generations, a very large extent of country becomes similary aillicted. Because a man or woman has acquired a predisposition to consumption or some other form of disease, It does not follow that the privilege should exist to entail it on others. There is scarcely an individual in society who has not witnessed the deplorable consequences of the marriage of those who have had entailed upon them a predisposition to consumption, to insanity, to apoplexy, etc. ; then what should we think of those who, knowing themselves, by what they know of their ancestors, to exist with such predispositions, place themselves in such a situation as to visit the mischief upon unborn hundreds, perhaps thousands ? We must con clude that they have never seriously thought upon the subject, or else, that they are super latively selfish or inexcusably dishonest. There has Become broadcast in our country, a predisposition more mischievous than con sumption, insanity, or any form of disease that now occurs to us, though not so suddenly and speedily fatal—it is interpemance in the use of ardent spirits. A drunkard is almost sure to be the grandfather of drunkards, through the female part of his children, and it is probable that he may also be the father of them. A practical phrenologist rarely fails to detect this predisposition. Indeed, it may be truly said, that all predispositions to disease, as well as to crime or moral depravity, are advertised upon the outside of the head. All predispositions may be removed by ap-' propriate physical and mental education, and by judicious marriage alliances ; but who is to direct these ? All that we can do is to an nounce their existence, and to admonish all young people against forming au alliance with theM. There is yet another predisposition, which has hitherto, so far as we know, entirely es caped the notice of physiologists; and yet it is one which every person shoUld avoid, in a mar riage alliance, and every one would avoid it who entertains 'ambitious hopes of his children, if he knew it. We allude to those women who very closely resemble their mother's, and in consequence of this entail upon them, they will entail their own likeness and constitution upon their daughters, and those of their husbands upon their sons. Such children never equal their parents respectively—the fact indicates that-the work of degeneracy is in progress, and if continued will result in physical infirmity and mental imbecility. To this law there is possibly an exception in 'the sanguine tempera ment. The Arabians seem to have understood this long since-t-they Maintain that the blood in any species of animals is transmitted through the female ; hence they will cheerfully sell their stallions to foreigners,•but not their mares. As a very general law with all classes and species of animals, man included, males inherit through the mother, and females through the father. Daughters, though inheriting tile men tal pecultarities of a father may never manifest them; because of their more restrained position in society, but her sons will. The character of the sons may be inferred from that of the maternal grandfather. • These rules are always applicable, except when the elements• of both parents are blended in the children, which is frequently the case.— W. BYRD POWELL. Visit to a Slave Auction. The Utica Herald, under the head of Edito rial Correspondence, 'publishes an account of a visit to a slave auction at New Orleans.— The sale touk place in the Rotunda of the St. Louis Hotel, which the writer describes as an " elegant and most fashionable airair—throng ed.with speculators,, buyers, dealers, and look- NUMBER 35 ors on. Some were smoking their Ilavanas —somo were taking their toddies—some were reading their morning papers—some were chat tering on politics, the money market, and the weather. Tho auctioneers were slowly walk ing to and fro under their elevated rostrums, like men who appreciate their importance, and occasionally stooping to answer an inquiry from a customer. After stating that no less than a hundred and fifty " chattles" were here offered for com petition, and describing one sale the writer pro ceeds : The three other gentlemen auctioneers were driving on an equally flourishing, though not quite so rapid a trade. One of theM, a very handsome, youngish looking man, was devot ing Wins& exclusively to the sale of young mulatto women. On the block, at the time I approached his stand, was one of the most beautiful young woman I ever saw. She was aged about 16 years, was dressed in a cheap striped woolen gown, and bare headed. I could not discover a single trace of the African about her features. She was much whiter than the average of Northern white *omen, and she carried in her head a pair of eyes that pierced ono through. Unlike many of her fellow cap tives, she seemed fully sensible of her degraded position, and shrank with true maiden timidity from the impudent Stare of the hard-featured throng about her. Sensitive reader ! what do you think became of that beautiful girl ? She was struck off for $1,250 to one of the most lecherous looking old brutes I ever set eyes on. God shield the helpless victim of that bad man's power—it may be, ere now, that bad man's— •lust ! But I was destiited a moment afterwards to witness a far sadder and more heart rending scene. A noble looking mulatto woman was sitting on a bench holding in her arms two little childern, one an infant and the other a beautiful bright eyed little boy of some seven or eight years. Tier face showed a troubled and frightened look, as if she was conscious some great evil was about to befall her. When her turn to be sold came, she ascended the platform, the babe in her arms and the little boy clinging to her skirts. The auctioneers offered to sell the " lot" together, but no re sponsible bids having been made, the mother and little boy were put tip separately and sold to separate partics—the one going to Texas and the other to Mississippi. The final separation of the mother and child took place a few mo ments afterwards. I shall never forget the horror and the agony of that parting. The poor frantic mother begged and implored of " masser" to " buy little Jerninie too," (and I will do him justice to say that he was much moved by her appeals,) and when she found that her pleadings were in vain, she burst forth in the most frantic wails that ever despair gave utterance to. At last mother and child were forcibly separated and hurried off to see each other no more on earth. My heart is not ad amant, and I execrated with more than former ardor a system that could even permit such fiendish atrocities. Thus I saw with my own eyes—thus I had thrust upon me almost—two, of the most de testable andhorrible features in the slave system —the sale' of beautiful young women to, lustful male owners, and the forcible separation of pa rents from their•offmring. • These things have been grossly denied by Northern prints and by Northern clergymen. That they are exception al I believe to be true ; but that they are tolera ted in any civilized or Christian community, is a sadeommentary upon the humanity of the age. it ROMAN FUNERAL. I have seen nothing in Europe which has im pressed we more than a Roman funeral. They always take place at night, and are conducted in a most remarkable manner. When I had been in Rome but a few days. I heard one evening in the street a prolonged wailing sound, unlike anything to which my ear had ever be fore been accustomed.. On flinging open the window, I discovered that it came from a pro cession of priests and monks, bearing a body to burial. There must have been several hun dred, for the train extended nearly the length of the street. ' The priests led the way with un covered heads, and wearing their long black gowns, over which at the shoulders, was thrown a sort of jacket oflace. A long line of monks of different orders followed, with the strange looking habiliments, of coarse brown cloth, cowled heads and sandaled feet. Every tenth man carrying a great candle of wax, the light of which falling upon the dark vestments of the priests, and casting shifting shadows be fore and behind, like another procession of spirits, gave to the whole an aspect of .inex pressible mystery and gloom. Add to this the voices of the monks, chanting in deep, solemn tones, the funeral dirge, and it is not easy to imagine anything more mournful'or impressive. The body was carried at the end of the proces sion upon a bier, covered with a superb pall of cloth of gold.. This was followed by two men bearing upon their shoulderS what looked like long wooden boxes, upon which the bier was to r •t. Each priest who carried a torch was at ended by a man holding a small paper screen: tached to the end of a stick, which served to - ecp the wind from the flame. Other men and boys ran along at the sides with shovels of tin, to collect from the pavement the drops of mel ted wax _continually falling. Evidently the do. ceased was s person of considerat:on, for-the re tinue of priestly attendants was large, even for Rome, where it is easy at the shortest notice to. get together hundreds of ecclesiastics of reli gious brothers of one or another order: Aa soon as I saw this novel spectacle, I obeyed my first impulse, and ran out and followed, to• see what the end might be. There was in the. sounds of the dirge a strange charm, and in the• whole dark pageant a fascination quite unearth ly. A certain sort If romance inspired long; ago, by I know not what wild and poetical and prose recitals, was roused again. Slowly the mournful cortege wound through several nary row, dark streets, until it reached a heavy look ing church near the Fountain of Trevi. I con trived, with several others not of the proces sion, to steal in, expecting to witness in the.fu neral ceremonies something surpassing in dread ful gloom what I had already beheld., But that. was the end for the time, of the matter ; for the bier was , deposited in the centre of the church, the chant ceased, the torches, which% were the only lights in the building, were ex tinguished, one by one, and the crowd of monks and priests hurrying out, the doors were closed, —Cor. Providence Journal. Young Man You're Wanted. A woman wants you. Don't forget her.-- No matter if you are poor. Don't wait to be• rich ; if you do, ten to one if you are fit to be married at all, to any body that is fit to be married. Marry while you are young, and: struggle up together.—Ex. But mark, young man, the woman don't; want you, if she is to divide your affections , with a cigar, spittoon, or a whiskey-jug.--. Neither does she want you, if you can't take. care of her, and any little after-thoughts, which are pretty certain to follow. Neither does she. want you simply because you are a man, the definition of which too apt to,. be,—an animal that wears bifurcated garments on his lower• limbs, a quarter-section of stove-pipe on his head, swears like a pirate and is given to, filthy practices generally. She wants you for a companion, a helpmate—she wants you, if you have a noble spirit—she wants you if you have learned to regulate your passions and ap. petites ;—iu short she wants you, if you are• made in the image of God, not in the likeness of a beast. If you are strong in good purpose,' firm in resistance to evil, pure in thought and action as you require her to be and without which inward and outward purity, neither of you arc fitted for husband or wife—if you love virtue and abhor vice ; if you are gentlemanly, forbearing and kind, and not loud-talking, ex acting and brutal, then young man, that woman wants you—that fair, modest cheerful bright looking, frank-spoken woman, we mean, who fills your ideal of maiden and wifo—it is she, wants you ; marry her when you like, whether you are rich or poor ; we'll trust you both on the conditions named without further security. —Mailer:on Gazette. The Ungrateful Son. The following incident was related last year by Rev. R. Weiser. " The eye that mocketh at his father, the• ravens of the valley shall pluck it out." Prom xxx., 17. This is a terrible denunciation against ingfatitude to parents, and even in the present day is sometimes virtually fulfilled. Some years ago, an Irish gentleman who' was an extensive contractor on our public works, was reduced to poverty by the prolli gacy and dishonesty of an ungrateful son. The old man lost his wife„and to add to his calami ty, his health fiiiled, and to fill his cup of sor row, he lost his sight. Thus poor, friendless, blind and forsaken, he found an asylum kill's Franklin county alms-house,, Pennsylvania. While an inmate of this refuge for the afflict-- ed, his wicked and ungrateful son traveled that way ; lie was informed of his father's situation, and that his parent wished to see him ; and although he passed within two hundred yards of the alms-house, he refused to stop and see the kind father he had ruined. Now, mirk the result. The very day he passed the alms-house on his way.to Gettysburg, in an open carriage, he was overtaken by a storm, and took a severe cold, that resulted in the destruction of his eyes. .1k lay at Gettysburg in a critical situa tion until his funds were exhausted, and those who had him in charge took him to the Frank• lin county alms-house. The very day he was brought in, his father, having died the day before, was carried out.-- . lie was•put in the same room, occupied the same bed, and in a short time followed his neglected and broken-hearted father to the judgment seat of Christ. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God. BLIND PEOPLE. Stanley th organist and many blind cians leave been the best musicians of theii time ; and n schoolmistress in England could discover that two boys were playing in a dis tant corner of the room instead of studying, aL. though a person using his eyes could not detect the slightest sound. Professor Sanderson, who., was blind, could, in a few moments, tell how many persons were, in a mixed company, and of each-sex. A blind French lady could- dance in. figure dances, sew, and'lliread ber own needle. A blind man in Derbyshire, England, has ac tually been surveyor and_ planner of roads, his: car'guidieg him to the - distance as accurately as the eyes ofothors ; and the Into Justice Field-: ing, who was blind, on walking into a room for the first time, after speaking a ibw words, said,. " This room is about twenty-one feet long,. eightten wide, and twelve feet high," all of which was revealed to him with accuracy. through the medium of his ear.
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