THE STAR OF THE NORTH. B. W. Wtinr, Pr*piitr.] VOLUME 9. THE STAK OF T|IE NORTH fS PUDLlfllfcl) HHVWtMW)** MORMIMU Bf It. W. WEAVER, OFFICE— Up i tairs, in Ike new brick build ing, on Ike so<ilk side oj Main Street, third square below Market. T KR BIS :—Two Dollars per annum, if paiit within six months from the time of sub scribing ; two dollars and fifty cents it not , paid within the year. No subscription re- j ■reived for a less period than silt mouths; no | discontinuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. AdvehttscsienTs not exceeding oue square will be inserted three times for One Dollar, end twenty-five oents for each additional iu seition. A liberal discount will bo made to those who advertise by the year. TIIE HUDEHN BELLE. fSung by tbe Brothers Hutchison; it should be committed to memory, oud repeated oc casionally.] ..ISC The daughter shs tn tne parlor, And rocks in her easy chair. She's clad in her silks and satins, And jewels are in her bair ; She winks and giggles and simpers, And simpers and giggles and winks, And though she talks but little, Tie vastly more than she thinks. Her father goes clad in his russett, And ragged and seedy at that; His coals are all out at tne elbow— He wears a most shocking bad hat, He's hoarding and saving bis shillings, So carefully day by day, While she, on the beaux and poodles Is throwing it all away. She lies a-bed in the morning Till nearly the hour of noon ; Then comes down snapping and snarling, Because she was called so soon. Her bair is still ir. the papers, Her cheeks still dabbed with paint— Remains of her last night's blushes, Before she intended to faint. She doats upon men nnshaven, And men with the "flowing hair," She's eloquent over moustaches, They give such a foreign air. She talks of Indian music, And falls in love with the moon, And though a mouse should meet her, She sinks away iu a swoon. ller feet are so very small, Her hands so very white, Her jewels so very heavy, Her head so very light, Her color is made ol cosmetics, Though this she will never own ; Her body made mostly o'cotton, H :r heart is made wholly of stone. She falls in love with a fellow,' Who struts with foreign air; lie marries her for her money— Sba nr.artiaa him for hilt hair; One of the very begt malohas— "Bolh'are well mated"in tile! She's got a fool for a husband, And he's got a fool for a wife ! Attend to Your Eyesight, Sir David Brewster, iu the North British Review, says that no opipion is more com mon, and cerlanily none is more incorrect, than that it it prudent to avoid the use of ar tificial help to the eyee so long as they are not absolutely indispensable. The bnman eye is 100 delicate a structure to bear con* tinned strain withont injury; and the true rule is to commence the use ol glasses as soon as we can see better with them than withont them, and always employ such as will render vision most comfortable and pleasant. The spectacles Habitually used for ordinary purposes may not be adequate to certain occasional demands, such as reading very fine prim, examining maps, &o. To j meet these cases, a hand-reading glass, two ! and a half inches in diameter, to be nied in with spectacles and never wititooubem, is strongly recommended. A almilsr use of the reading-glass is also recom mended to short-sighted persons, in conjunc tion with the concave spectacles, when ex amining minute objects. Extraordinary Delusion. A most remarkable raso of delusion has just been brought to light in Philadelphia. A large number of ignorant Germans have, it seems, permitted themselves to be victim- 1 izad by a woman of their own race, named , Ann Maister, who pretended to be tbe sister of Jesus Christ. She appears to have exer cised unlimited control over them, extorting Urge sums of money, jewelry, See. Accord ing to one of the witnesses, Mrs. Maister waa prepared to go up to Heaven, seated on aI white horse, and at the right aide of God, | and that angels were all around her. She could not go, however, at she had to have a gold watch, a gold pencil, and a gold ring before she could get into Hesven. Money was furnished her by her friends, to enable her to procure these articles. Crinoline Doae For. Tbe last news from Paris, is, that the Em press Eugenie appeared in the at reels recent ly without any hoops. Louts Napoleon ts ■kid to be opposed to hoops, aßd is deter mined to crush crinoline as be has done tbe liberty of the press snd freedom of speech in Franoe. As the Emperor rales Paris, and Paris rales the fashionable world, tne hoops mast yield to this pressors, for there is ooi independence enough among tbe votaries of fashion to wear anything but what is a-la- . mode, do matter bow convenient, healthful or beautiful it may be, and hoops scarcely leoBS in either category. But if hoops are to ■e tabooed, we hope the ladies will have re- Hard enough for their health to stick by the ■log boots, and at their petticoats diminish, ■heir indie rubbers will lsugthsn—at least lbs sloppy wtmlher lasts. Br General Washington bed a set of art!- tseth, for which ho psld *SOO. MLOGMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNVHfJWSTwEDNESDAY. MARCH 4. 1857; THE STOLEN NOTE. ST A RXTISKD ATTOHNIT. Except that be indulged 100 fmely iu the use of tho intoxicating cup, John Wallace was an honest, high-minded and exemplary man. His one great fault hung like a dark , shadow over bis many virtues. He meant' I well, and when he was sober did well. I He was a hatter by trade, and by industry and thrift had acquired money suSoienl to buy tbe house in which he lived. He had purchased tt several years before for three thousand down, and seouring the balance by mortgage to the seller. Tbe mortgage-note was almost doe at tbe time the circumstance made me acquainted with tha affairs ef the family. But Wallace was ready for the day, he had saved up the money; there teemed no possibility of an accident. _ ~ 1 was well acquainted with Wallace, hav ing done some collecting, and drawn up some legal documents for him. One day his daughter Annie came to my office in great dietress, declaring that her father was ruined, and that they should be turned out of the house in which they lived. "Perhaps, not, Miss Wallace, I said, try ing to console her, and give the affair, what ever it wus, a brighter aspect." "What has happened V' "My father," she replied, "had all the money to pay the mortgage on the house in which we live.!—but it ia all gone now." "Hae he lost ilt" " "I don't know; I supposed so. I.sst week he drew out the two thousand dollars from tha bank and lent it to Mr. Byrce for ten days.*' "Who is Mr. Byrce t" "He is a broker. My father got acquaint ed with him through George Chandler, who boarded with us, and who is Mr. Byrce's clerk." "Does Mr. Byrce refuse to pay it?" "He says he has paid it." "Well, what is the trouble, then !" "Father says he has not paid it." "Indeed! But the note will prove that he has not paid it. Of course you have that note ?" "No; Mr. Byrce has it." "Then of course he has paid it?" "I suppose he has, or he could not have had the note." "What does your father say ?" "He is positive that he has never received the money. The mortgage, he saya, must be paid to-morrow." "Very singular I Ufa* yew* fthur— - i ' ' 0- f- "• JOUiflfeVwnt_Jor'lii. which must have grated harshly ou the ear of the devoted girl. "Mr. Byrce says that my father was not just right when be paid him, though not very bad." "I will see see your father." "He is coming here in a few moments. I thought I would see you and tell you the facts before he came." "1 do not see how Byrce could have ob tained the note unless he paid the money.— Where did your father keep it?" He gave it to me, and I put it in the sec retary In the front room." "Who was in the room when you put it in the secretary ?" "Mr. Byrce, George Chandler, my father and myself." The conversation was here interrupted by the entrance of Wallace. He looked pale | and haggard, as much from '(he effects of | anxiety as of the debauch from which he was jnst recovering. "She has told you about it, I suppose," said he in a very low tone." "She has." I pitied him, poor fellow, for two thousand dollars was a large sum foe him to accu mulate in his little business. The loss of it would make the future look like a desert to him. It would be a misfortune which one must undergo to appreciate it. "What do you think about it?" asked be, very gloomily. "I know he never paid me. 1 I was not much in liqnor at the time. I re member very well of going home as regu larly as I ever did in my life. I could tell how I passed the time." "What passed between yon on that day?" "Well, I merely stepped into his office it was only day before yesterday—to tell him not to forget to have the money - ready for Ime to-morrow. He look me Into hi* back : office, and as I sat there he said be would ' get the money ready the next day. He then left me and went into the front office, where I beard him tend George out to draw a oheck for two thousand dollars; so 1 supposed he was going to pay me then." "What doea the clerk say about it?" "He says Mr. Byice remarked, when he eent him, that be was going to pay me the money." "Just so." "And when George came in, he went to the front office again, and look tbe money. Then be oame to ma again, but did oot offer to pay me." "Had you the note with you t" "No, now I remember, be Mid he snp poeed t had net the note Willi roe, or be would pay it. He told me to come in the next day and he would have fc-aaady—that waa yeateiday. When I came to look for the note it could not be found; Acne and I have bunted tbe houee all over." "You told Byrce eo?" "I did j he laughed, and ehowed me the note with hie eignature crossed ever with iuk, and a bole punched through it." "It ia plain, Mr. Wallace, that he paid you the money as he alleges, or hsa obtained fraudulent poseeaeioo of the note, and in - ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ lends to cheat you out of tne amount."— 'Tie never paid me," replied he firmly. "Then he baa ftaoder.tly obtained the i note. What eort of a person ia this Chan dler, who boards with you?" "A fine young man. Bless you be would not do anything of the kind." "I am sure be wooki not," repeated Anne, earnestly. "How else could Byrea obtain tho note but through him ? What time does he come in at night?" "Always at tea time. Ha never goei out in the evening," answered Wallace. "But, father, he did not come home till (en o'clock tbe night before you went to Byrces. He had (o stay in the office to poet the books, or something of that kind." "How did he get iu ?" "He bss a night key.'* "I, must see Chandler,", I aaid. "No harm in seeing him;" added Wal lace. I will go for him." In a few moments he relumed with the young man. Chandler, in the conversation I had with him, manifested a very lively in terest in the solution of the mystery, and proffered himself ready to do auythtng to forward my views. "When did you return to the house on Tuesday night ?" I asked him with the in tention of sounding him a little, i "About twelve." i "Twelve!" said Anne, "it was not more than ten, I heard you." . "The clock struck twelve as I turned the : corner of the street," replied Chandler posi i lively. i "I certainly heard some one in the front room at ten," added Aone, looking with as tonishment at the group around her. "We are getting at something," I remarks i ed—"How did you get in Mr. Chandler?" i The young man smiled as he glanced at Anne. "On arriving at the door," be replied, "I found that I had lost my key. At that mo ment a watchman happening to come along, I told him my situation. He knew me, and i taking a ladder from an unfinished house op t poaile, placed it against one of the second story windows, end I entered in (hat way." "Good! Now who was it that was heard in the parlor at ten, unless it was Byrce or > oue of his accomplices. He must have ta ken the key from your pocket, Mr. Chandler, and stolen the note from (he secretary. At any rate, I will charge him with the crime— -1 lei what may happen. Perhaps he will con fess when bard poshed." orore-vn iliis LUonafat, I wriote a lew- L. ysr's.fetlet 'liWrrri - i ' ' which was immediately sent to Byrce. Cau tioning the parlies not to speak of the affair, t I dismissed them. Byrce came. "Well, sir, what have you against me ?" he asked rather stiffly. "A claim on the part of John Wallace, for two thousand dollars," I replied poking over my papers, and appearing supremely indif ' ferent. "Paid it," ssid be, as short at pie crust. "Have you?" and I looked him in the eye • sharply. The rascal quailed. I saw that he was a ' villain. "Nevertheless, if within an hour, you do not psy me the two thousand dollars, and one hundred dollars for the trouble and anxiety you have caused my client, at the end of the next hour, you shall be lodged in jtil to answer a criminal charge." "What do you mean, sir?" "I mean what I say. Pay, or take the consequences." It was a bold charge, and if he had looked I like an honest man, I should not have dared to make it. "1 have paid the note I tell you," said he, "I have the uote in my possession." "Where did you get it?" "I got it, of course, when I paid (h6—" "When you feloniously entered the bouse 1 of John Wallace, on the night of Tuesday, February twenty, at ten o'clock, and look the said note from the aecretary." I "You have no proof," stammered he,grasp ing a chair for support. , "That i 6 my look out—l have no time to waste. Wilt you pay or go to jail?" ( He saw that the evidenoe 1 bad waa too r strong for hit denial, and ho immediately , drew bis check on the spot for twenty-one | hundred dollars, and after begging us not to mention the affair, he sneaked off. I cashed the check, and hastened to Wal lace's house. The reader may judge with what satisfaction he reoeived it, bow rejoioed was Anne and her lover. Wallace insisted that I should lake the one hundred dollars | for my trouble; bnt I was magnanimous | enough to take only twenty. Wallace kept hia promise, and ever after was a temperate man. He died a few years ago, leaving a handsome property to Chandler and hia wife, the marriage between bim and Acne having [ taken plaoe shortly after the above narrated circumstance occurred. Docroas Evoooh.— ln Philadelphia there are no less than oine medical schools, five of them being irregular. Fifteen hondred stu dents are claimed by the nine colleetively ae being (he atlendaaae this winter. Of these the Jefferson College ia aaid to have 500; the old University School 400; Pennsylvania College 150; aed the Philadelphia 100. > Or The Missouri Democrat stales that ' there are iwauty-threa wild oat banka in the State of UUooia, keeled in the swamp* of i Egypt and tbe forests elsewhere, with a air- I eolation amounting in tbe aggregate to three - and a half million*. tilth hi Right M fiat ottsfontrj. Correepondent* of ike Boston TrweUr. LKTTMI FROM TUB BART. THE LATE EARTHQUAKE—rrs EXTEHT, DAMAGE, ETC. Beirut, Nov. 17, 1856. Editor of tk* Traveler: When I informed yon of ihe earthquake which shook Lebanon, October 12ih, I intimated lbs probability that mora would be heard of its desolating power. That expectation had been fulfilled, and I will now proceed lo complete the record of that nneeen bat almost omnipotent energy, which underlying earth and ocead, hekvks up both aa in sport and la ctbel derision of the puny being* who sail oxer the one and build their palaces and strongholds on Ihe other. These terrible phenomena have a peculiar excitation to Americans happening to be in the East, who have never beard any thing of the kind beyond the rumbling of the pescefut t and.bena&mtM* rt wheyle, though the "oldest inhalfflTOs" say there is no such thing as becoming acctetomed to them: every one turns and tremblrs, for the next moment he may sink icto fie gaping ear.h or be crushed to death by the falling of bis stone dwelling. According to Intelligence sitltt received, the earthquake which 1 described, occurring about midnight in Mount Lebanon, where 1 was then residing, was felt along the entire seacoasl ol Syria and Palestine, in some pla ces breaking the walls of houses, as in Tri poli and Beirut, which hare repeatedly been destroyed by soch occurrences, while the city of Jaffa, the ancient Jappa, still the port of Jerusalem, and several times levelled by earthquakes, was violently shaken bnl not essentially injured. It was felt in Egypt, but wi'hout disafer, and also as far west in Africa as Algiers. To the north it toa# pe r cept|ble -JHW nearly the T h "le ft' Brooza, situated near the sea of Marmora, which was ruined by successive shocks con tinuing from Feb. 18b5 to June of ike pres ent year, and again tumbled, and its popula tion with it. Westward all the islands of the Archipelago felt it, and Greece and all the lonian islands on its western coast. The isl and of Malta was violently shaken, and Val etla, its capital, seriously htJßred in its church es, wills, and dwellings, the people being awoke from their slumbers and flying into the streets in frantic desperation. It was also ' fell with disastrous results in Sicily and Cala bria In Italy. The field of the earthquake was, therefore, fully 2000 miles in all direc tions, and at all points it was felt, as reported, between midnight and 2 o'olock in the morn ing. i Veß uvius bad, forwag^l^Mjves^^ns above the crater, atmos- j phere all around. When the ehoek came in ! Naples and along the coast, it was so violent i that in some houses the bells rang, the clocks I were stopped, and Ihe doors opened and shot i continually; crockery was dashed together ' ar.d broken, or rolled off tbe-tables, while the iron bedsteads rattled and shook as though a 1 strong man had hold of them, the terrified occupants springing lo their feet on the floor. A hissing noise was beard at the same time, like the sound of sleaar~ncaping from en engine, while a rumbling noise was heard like that of a train of railroad cars. The ad jacent sea was violently agitated, as though tossed by a storm, and a mariner, unable to decide whither he was going backwards or forwards, concluded he was drank. In fact, he was very dizzy from the commotion, and glad to gain the land and sitdown to recover himself. Along tfr? etMTMMNticEv were rent asunder, and thousands of thousands of tons, <n huge blocks, lay scattered around Superstition naturally came in to give pic turesqueness to the scene of terror. Madon nas, bones and reliques were paraded through the streets in long processions, as thongh the exhibition of a coltossal deft with a flaxen wig, as in the representatios of St. Urania, was to suspend the ectivity trf the mighty energy blazing onl in Vesuvius, upheaving the eatth and dashing the waves of the sea. But my aoecial design was lo relate ihe catastrophe st Rhodes, sn island celebrated in early history, and equally tain ihe history of Ihe Crusadei. There was an undying po etry about it; I had seen it two years since, and gazed with admiration upon ila tall and graceful palma, the first I bad seen —upon the harbor, which was once overreaobed by the gigantic brazen CQiißppsA'ion ,h. walls of the city and the lowers, still bearing the marka of the Crusaders—and, most of all, upon the famous church of Bt. John, bnilt by tbe Knigbta, and standing iupon a graceful riee in the eity, presenting jha noble propor tions and isdl steeple, converted into a Mos lem minaret, as the chnrck into a mosque; fully to view, both as yea Ascend the wide street on which it stands aad as viewed from the pott. More than any oi ter island of sea or ocean, I bad cberiahed iu name from the day of my boyhood dreamin [>; I had at last seen it, only more to admiiit j and now I had the purpose and the pros ieet of (pending a weak or a fortnight in it, M study its mon uments and reoall its history! But Abodes is a hetp of ruin* I Tbe aanie shook under which Lebanon trembled,' demolished its walls, toppled its renowned church, and spread desolation over the entire islaod. It is a curious coincidence ihpt Stantowia, in whose bay is Ihs new slmqt iHrots was raited by aneanhqnake ; seats two dred yards of il may be said to be almost in the very neighborhood of Abodes. The state ments I shall now giva came from a resident of tbe island, who saw much of what be de scribes. The earthquake occurred Sunday morning, Cot. 12ib, at past 2 o'clock. Tbe shook was undulatory from south lo west, and-lasted 75 seconds—an unusual period—and was atten- ded with a violence as remarkable aa its da ration. Three other shocks bed been felt before, bat they were of less foroe, and did bul little damage. 8b long was tbe fatal ■bock, tbat many people, awoke by ilk vio lence, bad time to go in and oot of their hou ses agaiu and agaio daring the terrible phe nomenon. Uadolalioos were felt from day to day for some time,but unaccompanied by aeriotls disasters. Had another occurred like ' the fatal one, not one stone in tbe city, appa rently, would have been left upon another. The walls of the castle, tbe towers, the chur ches, the mosques, and tbe bells, were all in jured more or less. Tbe Jewish and Turkish quartets of the city were very much damaged, and their bouses, whose walla were cracked and ready to topple, demand instant repair. In tbe Eu ropean quarter, about 50 bouses were thrown others rendered tto'.nbabhacle. — The Greek quarter shared the same fate; and of above 1000 booses in it not two escaped all injury. A greet part of the inhabitants of tbe city are without shelter, and deprived of everything. Some individuals, the number not ascertained, were buried in Ihe ruine of houses which were their houses and graves Besides tbe destruction of Ihe houses, the walls which surround the city in various pla ces were thrown down, and give free ingress through the wide gaps to other crusaders, if they choose to enter. The damage to the city is estimated at two millions of dollars. But it was not this beaolifal oity alone which suffered ; the whole island, still more beautiful in tbe season ol its gloty, is a des olation. There are more than 40 villages on Ihe island, and of which nine are utterly destroyed. A great number of the inhabi tants were killed, while still more were woun ded. The villagers, deprived of both houses and provisions, wander about iu the open fields and subsist as :bey are able. The vil lage of Kiada built up.it< a plain and surroun ded with vineyards and olive yarls, contained 3000 houses, of which 250 were completely demolished, and 2000 rendered uninhabitsble, while Ihe remainder are in a deplorable con dition, and demand instant repairs. Four persons only perished, for the reason that some days before the laborers bad left the village; otherwise there must kave been a I greater destruction of life. All the islands in 'he Achipelago felt lbs shock, but some did oot suffer anything, while in Stalchi forty hooses were destroyed, wiib some of the inhabitants killed acd oth ers wounded, and in Scarpeatas about 800 houses were thrown down, and whole fami lies bwtied under their ruins, and in Capeoa, j iWtiiW.Hi ..IB images, lUiee were utterly I destroyed, and 20 persons killed. On the ; continent, nesr and opposite to Rhodes, a ; mountain tumbled in pieces, and the trees ! upon it were carried into tbe open sea. Besides this, the sea itself gave evident signs of feeling tbe shock. The captains of 1 j vessels, coming in different directions, agreed , I in affirming that al the moment of the shock they thought their vessels bad ruu aground. An Austrian steamer which arrived tbe next day from Alexandria, al the distance of sev enty mile* from Rhodes received so violent a shock that the captain, thinking tbe steam er had struck a rock, ordered the engine lo be slopped, while for a moment the greatest panic prevailed on board. Another Me<ner j entering the port from Smyrna, at the verv moment of the earthquake, experienced the same effect; and uulee; the captain had in atantly ordered the engine to be reversed, the falling walls of the tower of the Angels, situated at the entrance of the pott, would have come tumbling upon bis boat. Many parts of tbe city walls which are as yet standing, are cracked and ready to fall, and unless immediately repaired by the gov ernment will bring down new destruction. The inhabitants, kept in fear of Ihe repetition of the shocks, are in a slate of utmost anx iety, many of them being without houaes, and others without houses or provisions, and a great number of others in extreme misery and destitution. But this is not the entire record of the ea itmitiee of ilMated Rhodes. About ten day* since a more terrible disaster still occurred. The first came from beneath, tbe second was from above, and both equally beyond the control of human power. A large powder magtxine wae situated near tbe church ol St. John's, which was also Ihe Turkish quar ter. A thunder storm burst forth; the light ning flatbed ; a stream penetrated the maga zine; an explosion followed which demol ished many of tbe remaining houses aud St. John'* lo its foundation stones; while worse than all, it it reported that seven hundred Turks perished ! Travelers inform me who ■lopped a few days in tbe harbor as they came down in the last steamer, that little is now lo be seen of this famous and beautiful oily but frightful neaps of rains. RModoefaiL THE CALIFORNIA VIGILANCE COMMITTEE AND THE LEGISLATORS.— It is stated in the Saa Francisco Snn that the late Vigilance Com mittee of California will apply to the Legis lature of that State now in session at Sacra meuto, foi an aot of amnesty in regard to their proceedings in San Francisco. The Democratic members, who compose a large majority, are said to be bitterly opposed to the committee, and will relate to pass any soch act. We do oot see bow auy Legisla ture could grant an amnesty for arte subver sive ol the consthotioa and lews, the only se curity for a government administered by tbe sovereign people. a*" Chicago, 111., is said to be becoming lbs religious metropolis of tbe Weal. There will soon be, within and around it, not lee* than five theological seminaries. AN ARCTIC ADVENT DEE- Kane's Arctic expedition abounds in ad vent u res like lbs following, which makes one shiver to read. Dr. Ksue and an Esqui maux bonier lake a trip after seals: "I started wi'b Hans and fire dogs, all we could muster from oar disabled peck, aod reached the "Pinnacle Berg'' iu a single hour's run. But where waa tbe water? where was tbe seal ? Tbe floes had dosed, and the crushed ice waa all that told of oer intended hunting ground. Ascending a berg, however, we could ace to the north and west the dark clood strains, which betoken* water. It ran through oar battle-ground, the "Bergy Beh"—the laby rinth of out wandering after the frozen party of last wiater. I bad not bean over it aince, and the feeling it gave me waa any thing but joyous. tn a cocpfa of bedn we emerged upon a ptein, unlimited to the eye, and smooth as . a billiard table. Feather.' of yonng (matins . gave a plashlike nap to its surface, aod to i wards tbe borizop dark eolaros of from -1 smoke pointed clearly to the open water.— This ioe was firm enough: our experience satisfied us that, it waa not a very receni freezing. \Ye poshed on without hesitation, cheering ourselves with the expectation ol coming every minute to tbe seals. We passed a second icegrowtb, it was not so strong as the one we bad just coma over, bat still safe for a parly like our*. On we went at a brisker gallop, may be for another mile, when Hans sung out, at tbe top of hi voice, "Posey ! puseymul! seal, seal!" A< the same instant the dogs bounded forsrard, and, as I looked up, I saw crowds of gray nelsik, tbe rough or hispid sea! of lie whaler, disporting in awepen sea of water. I bad hardly welcomed the spectacle, when I saw that we bad passed upon a new belt of ice thai was obvioosly uosaiie. To the right, and left, and front, was one great expanse of snow flowered ice. Tbe nearest solid flos was a mere lump, which 1 stood like an island in the white level. To turn was impossible; we bad to keep opoo j our gaiL We nrged on the dogs with whip and voice, the ice rolling like leather be neath the sled runner;; it was more than a mile to the lump of solid ice. Fear gave to the poor beasts their utmost speed, and our voices were soon bushed in silence. ' The suspense, unrelieved by action or ef ' fori, was intolerable. We knew that there was no remedy but to reach the floe, and that every thing depended upon our dogs, ami oar dogs alose. A moment's cheek wouk] pltu>ge_iqe whom emuwrc. isto the j ! rapid tide-way. No presence of mind or rs j source, bodily or mental, could avail us —! j The seals—for we were now uear enough to ' | see their expressive faces—were looking at I us with that strange curiosity which seems jto be their characteristic expression. We must have passed some fifty of ibem, breast i high out of water, mocking us by their self- ] complacency. This desperate race against fate could oot : last. The rolling of the tough salt water ice ; terrified our dogs, and when wiihi u fifty' paces of the floe tfcy fqsmti. j*. fefc , baud runner Toot through ; our leader, Toed-: lamiPck, followed; and io one second the i entire left of tbe sledge waa submerged. My ' first thought was to libsrate the dogs. I j leaned forward to cot poor Tood's traces, aod the noxt minute was swimming io a IA- . tie circle of pasty ice and water alongside him. Hans, deer, goodTeflow, drew near to help me, uttering piteooa expressions io bro ken English ; but 1 ordered bios to throw ' himself oo his belly, with his hands and legs extended, aod to make for the island by coggiog himself forward with hit jack-knife. In the meantime—a mere instant—l was floundenag about with sledge, dogs, aod lines in eor.fased paddle around me. I succeeded io catling poor Tood's fines. ' and letting bim scramble to the ice—for the poor fellow was drowning me with his pile-' oos caresses—aod made my way to the sledge ; but I found that it would not buoy ' me, and tbat I bad oo resoorca bu to try tho circumference of tbe hole. Around this I paddled faithfully, the miserable ir* always yielding when my hopes of a lodgment were • greatest. During this process I enlarged my circle of operations to a very uncomfortable diameter, and was banning to feel weaker after every effort. Hins, meanwhile, had reached the firm ice, and we.ton bis koees ' like a good Moravian, pre.yiog in incoherent I English and Esquimaux ; esery iresh j crushing in ot the ice be wonld ejaculate! ' God I" and when I recommenced my pad- j dliog, he commenced bit prayers. I I was nearly 'gone. My knife had been j lost in cutting out (he dogs, and a spare one i which I ca'.rtsd io my trowser's pocket was j so eove'.oped in the wet skins that I could i not reach it. I owed my extraction at last j to a newly broken team dog, who was still ■ fast to the sledge, and in struggling, carried j one of the runners chock against the edge of | the circle. All ray previoo* attempts to ess , tbe sledge as a bridge bad tailed, for it broke j through to the much greater injury of the I ice. I felt that it was a last chance. I threw ! myself on my back, so as to lessen as much I as possible my weight, and placed the eepe I of my neck against the rim of the edge of tbe ice, aod tnec with camion, slowly beat my leg, and placing the ball of my mocca tined foot against tbe sledge 1 pressed stead ily against the roncer, listening to the half yielding crouch of the iue'bojiiath. Presently I fek my head was pillowed by the ice, and thai my wet fur jumper was sli ding up the surface. Next came my shoul ders—they were fairly on. One more deci ded push and 1 was launched up oo the ice and safe. I reached the ice flos, sod was friction ed by Han* with frightful zeal. We saved all the dogs; but the sledge, keyack, tent, guns, snow shoes, and every thing be sides was left behind. Tbe thermometer at eight degrees wilt keep them from fast is tbe sledge tilt we can come and cm there out." [Tw# Mian ftr larai, fiUMBER 7. Ueal AffßcillM M CriHfrlM. IT *—IAM uvezer, a.. , I Much difference of opinioa seems to exru . I among medical men in regaai to the Ipeal treatment of erysipelas; and amidst this , great diversity of sentiment, tbeslndeat. as I well as the young pnciliomr, mast regret i that medicine does not partake more of the i principles of the exact sciences, so that the practice cam be pntsaed with mere positive I results. If authority be taken, or books bo consulted, ke is led Into n mist of doabt in , reference to a selection of the moat appro priate remedy, for. simply a layer of eet ' ton, warm water, mecilaginoos iafaworrr. solution of mntsale of lead, am recommend - , ed equally with tincture iodine, eoliodiea, nitrate of stiver, or even a blister. Ked ' are mentioned, perhaps, meicnrial oint ment, simple oisuaeet or laid, Kentish | ointment, solutions or chioridq uf lime, sul : pbale of iron, corrosive sublimate, ctcom, etc. , Now, I bare bad considerable experience with many or all of these—and experiment ed with them too, with the view to test in dividual superiority—and am constrained to say that whilst no one application baa proved infallible, or answered my expecta tions at all times, the tinec of iodine is the most reliable, of the above, in counteract ing the specific inflammation of erysipelas. Bat this application should be preceded by ; an emetioo-calhartic, particularly in bilious cases (which most abound), followed by the mnriated tincL of iron, held a specific by some, though honesty makes me say that, in my experience, it is only a specific "fta the bilious as well as thg high inflam matory symptoms have been removed; and then quinine U equally effectual. But my purpose in making these obser | rations on erysipelas, was to introduce to the profession the use of an application that | is seldom or never mentioned in the works ' of our standard authors, viz., tincL lobelia. | A strong saturated tincture of the whole , P l *™, applied by means of fine liaea or | muslin cloths, saturated, frequently renew , ed, I believe will prove more satisfactory than any of the above applications, acting i on this inflammation specifically, as it does upon the inflammation induced by the rhts toxicodendron, which 1 hold is similar to the other—each alike capable of being ar rested by his local application- the gastre enteric affection being always attended to. j c t only in these, but in all affections.—Bos ton Med and Surgicii loomed. Tuv Httir'r llmrea—Tk human heart is a wonderful piece of mechanism - 1 a steam-engine is a clumsy contrivance ; compared with it. Man has two heard. ' and each of these U double, so that he mar be said to have four hearts. Two of these are for bright red Wood, and two are for ' purple or dark blood. It in books j tocaU red blood aneriii. and the purple j blood venous; ba each of these two double 1 hearts has ,ts own set of arteries and veins, i the arteries of the one are always filled 1 with red, and the arteries of the other with j purple blood. The reins, in like wanner, of each are in inverse order—the veins of the red heart being purple, and the veins of the purpic i being red; for if the blood goes out red it : comes back purple, and if fa goes out pur ! pie it comes back red. It always goes out ' red from the heart on the left side, ai d conies iu purple to the heart on ike right Side : and it always goes out purple hem I on the right side, aifQ cotut-s in red to the hean on ike left side. And aus it makes iu everlasting round, being convert, ed frojn purple tD red by passing through I the lungs. * | Each heart has iu going arid returning I &en< * 5 vessels, infinitely numerous and ramified; and the blood is forced through them in such a way that it must go forward, I and can not return, except by going round . the circle: for these vessels are all supplied ! w th valves that open only one way and shut the other; and therefore were the blood j to make an effort to return, the valves would close immediately and stop it. The elastic nature of the blood-Teasels, j also, j such that they squeeze the Wood ia undulations or pulsations along, I upon it, and then opening to lei mora fo*. { ward; and all this they do spontaneously and regularly, the will of ma- having noth ing to do with fa, and no power over their movement.— Exchange. A tVoxn re a TOOTH.—A medical gentle man of BaJlymcna, Ireland, was employed recently to extract a patient's tooth. It was j a grinder, of large size, apparently sound, and so hnaly sealed that it Woke' ia the effort of i s removal. On ——lining that portion of the tooth which came off with the instrument, a very extraordinary worm shaped living animal was found sitting to the center of it. On being carefully removed without injury, it proved to be five eighths of an inch long, lively as an ewl, and of a. blood red-color, and about the rt c t a woolen thread. On viewing it through a microscope of linured power, fa appeared to be ringed or jointed in fas formation. So legs were risible, and fa moved by eveming iu body, arch like, in the center, nod pro jecting either end at pleasure—for a appear ed to hare a bead at each extremity One of the hands was largo, flat, and broad in proportion to the creature's aim, with a capacious mouth, and two Mack eyes, set vary widely apart, and projecting from the upper part of the head. The other hand was smaller, with a lengthened smret, and a mouth opening from underneath— Ex
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