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.
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TIIE HUDEHN BELLE.
fSung by tbe Brothers Hutchison; it should
be committed to memory, oud repeated oc
casionally.]
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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