T11....t. BUEHLER, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
VOL X.-37.
[For the "Star ■nd Dinner."
TO 14188 A. M. H •
klir I how could my ,heart elm learn to forget
:bee: , „
As a Bower of beauty and fragrance I've art thee,
To brow thetit, and bloom there, end breathe there
a gladness,
Wbieb 'link,. may knish thence morrow and sad
ness.
I had placed some sweet roses within my heart's
sale,
To (resit it, ere Iveve with a pride led you there;
They had, beentj end fiagrance g but soon were
'they' torn
Prorn'the offitv of Honor they'd gratefully borne.
The aunahine no more ratite their hope to awaken—
The fifth dew 'or Passion their leaves bad fonia.
ken
In
teary, the proud 'troop,' they saw at their Ode,
Codiuming their love and ■rray'd in their pride.
f
I'm cure ' twee '
not 1. but my heart did the wrong:
'twai one to (eke flier! whst there 4id belong—
Inn who would dare blame it for choosing a flower
'Thus prim:did more beauty and Milts tolls bower.
NOW. what shall be done with the sorrowing ro-
Le a v e them to wither I Ah ! no, there reposes
A fragrance upon them that sweetness will hear
're my heart's warden even while thou lived there.
Oh ! why should my heart ever learn to forget
Ilas it moutm'd a sad tear that it ever there act
thqe I
Did sunshine ever come with so glad an await'.
nine!
Wes sadness e'et seised with such. sudden for
saking I
Have the apirita of Beauty, of Love and of Dlisi
er gathervd ground such • dower as rins /
Alan My heart such a place of iMportanee before?
Three spirits within it—for aught I know, more.
Then Heil be the day and the Genius, my guide
Tuthe ►pot where I found such a robe by my side
Imre pluek'd it, •tul set it, why should it depart
From it• goals! held in the soil of my bout
Gettygburg. November, Itbitt. U. C. J.
WHERE; RE-3T THE DEADI
Answer, thou star. u hose hright'ning ray
Fortells the gutheiing elm es of night,
lf so 'tie given thee. where are they
Who pass from morial sight?
We know in some von isle of bliss,
' "Wfi6l - O elfotils soiTtempzits newer roil,
There is a holier home than this—
A triumph for the soul !
The early girds. the summer flower*,
• The tearful Spring time has restored
BUt *hen shall they attain-he nuns.
IYerwhoin our love was poured I
We look to are the spirit'. track,
'Anil hear the Air of wings above
Anil call, hut win no answer back,
Nor token of their love
While kindred smiles and tones of mirth,
Are mingled brightly e• the waves,
There still rests darkly on our hearth
A shadow from the graves
A ll.Prer, , dir. whose Itrizhettiott roy
Fortelle thotrotterittg , hotles ttfitight,
If so 'ha glee. thee, where are they
Who pass from mortal sight?
_Fearful. Dream.
some ninety years ago, there flourished
in Glasgow a club of young men, which
from the extreme prodigary of its mem
bers and the licentiousness of their orgies,
was commonly called the 11011 Club.—
Besides their nightly or weekly meetings,
they held .ine - grand anneal Saturnalia, in
;sm hich each tried to excel the other in
drnakenness and blasphemy ; and on these
occasions there was nu star among them
utilise lurid light was more conspieuotis
than that or young Archibald 8., who, en
dowed with brilliant talents and a hand.
softy person, had held out great promise
iit his boyhand, and raised hopes which
had been cOmpletely frustrated by his sub
sequent reckless dissipations.
Me morning after returning from the
annual festival, Mr. Archibald B. having
retired to bed, dreamed the following
dream :
, tie fancied that he himself was mount
ed on a favorite black home, that he al
ways rode, and that he was proceeding to
ward his own house—then a country seat
einhoweted by trees, and situated spun a
hill entirely built over, and forming
the eity..—when a stranger, whom
the darkness) . of night prevented his dis
tinctly descrying, suddenly seized his
horsisis Mine saving, "you must go with
me!' .
" And who •are you I" exclaimed the
young man with a volley of oaths, whilst
he struggled tolras himself.
That you will.see brand by," return
ed alio other, in a tone that excited unac
countable terrorih the youth; who, plung
ing his spurs into his horse, attempted to
Ily%. bar in rain. HoWerer fast the animal
dew, the stranger was still beside him, till
at. length, in hit desperate etTorts to escape,
the rider was thrown; but, instead of be
ing dashed to the earth, as he expected, he
tOund himself still,
as if Nittking into the bowels of the earth.
At length, a period being put to this mys
terious descent, fie ['mod breath to inquire
of his nompanisa, whin was still beside
him, whither they were going. Whore I
am I l'..,.4lrhere are yos taking me r" ho
exclaimed.
To hell ! ""replied the arranger; and I
immediatelyintern,iinable echoes repeated'
the fearful' sound "To hell! to hell I to
hell!"
At length o, a light appeared, whieh soon
increa!ted, to a Waxer but, instead of the
criest'grnains, end famentings, the,terrided
traveller,expected, nothing met his ear but
tidrtiCaud foynd
himself at theentraime of a buieri)Mildik,
far exceeding any he had seen constructed
bPqitillian' Hinds. Within, hid; whet, a
scene 1' 'NO' iinnsertient, ,erriplOmerit 'or
pursuit' st'er'n on oink but *iitiaii,be
carrieditht With viditiinencsi thinl4-
cited hliiiiitittirliable'amixenielit:- . 4. Tbere
the iyourig initi•lirveltstill manta throligh
the mikiwtifihe giddy 'dance! 'There the
ditilit
panifitillid,!etn ,
r bore hii Mar
through the. eixeitenientir of the goaded
TairiaTlThere, over the 'Midnight bowl,:ilie
intetnperate mull Itliawled out the Wanton
song or sattuAiin. blasphemy'! The gam
bler plied forever , his endless game,. and
the alairetwotlistninen toiled through eter
nity their toilsome leek; 'Oils' all the
magnificence of 'smith paled "before that
whieli'new met his view."
litV , twen perceived that he was amongst i
old stir/4+llounces. ahem ha knew to be
dead ; and each, he observed, was pursu
ing the object, whatever it' was, that had
formerly engrossed him, ' when finding
himself relieved of the presence.of his un
welcome conductor, he ventured to ed.
drew his former friend, Mrs. D......, whom
he saw siuing, as had bean her wont on
earth, absorbed at loo—requesting her to
rest from the game, and introduce him,to
the pleasures of the
. plece, which appeared
to him to . be very unlike what he had ex
pected, end indeed an extremely agreeable
one. But with a cry of agony, she an
swered, that there was no rest in hell;
they must ever toil on at those very plea
sures; and innumerable voices echoed
through the interminable vaults, •" there is
no rest in hell I " Whilst throwing open
their vests, each disclosed in his bosom an
ever-burning flame ! These, they said,
were the pleasures of hell ; their choice
on earth was now their inevitable doom I
In the Midst of the horror this scene in
spired, his conductor returned, and, at his
earnest entreaty, restored him again to
earth ; but. as lie quitted him, he said—
„ Remember! in a year and dilay we meet
again !"
At this crisis of his dream the sleeper
awoke, feverish and ill; and, whether from
the effects of the dream or of his preceding
orgies, he wee so unwell as to be obliged
i to keep his bed for several days ; during
which period lie had time for-many seri
ous reflections, which terminated in a res.
lotion to abandon the club and his licen
tious companions altogether.
He was no sooner well, however, than
they all flocked around him, bent on re
covering so valuable a member of their
society ;
.and, having wrung from him a
confession of the cause of his dejection,
which, as may be supposed, appeared to
them einineutly ridiculous, they soon con
trived to make him ashamed of his good
resolutions. Ile jinned them again ; re
sumed his former course of life, and when
the annual saturnalia came round, he found
himself with his glass in hits hand at the
table ; when the president, rising to make
the accustomed speech. began with saying,
•• gentlemen, this being leap-year, it is a
year Ind a day since our last anniversary,"
&c., &c. The words struck upon the
young man's ear like a knell ; but asham
ed to expose his weakness to the jeers of
Ins companions, he sat out the feast ply
ing himself with wine even more ltherdlly
than usual, in order to drown his obtrusive
thoughts : till, in the gloom of a winter's
morning, he mounted his horse to ride
home. Some hours afterwards. the horse
was found, with his saddle and bridle on,
quietly grazing by the road-side about half
way between the city and Mr. B.'s house;
while a few yards off lay the corpse of his
master
Now, as I have said in introducing this
story. it is no fiction ; the circumstances
happened as here related. An account of
it_was published at the time, but the copies
were bought up by the faintly. Two or
three, however, were preserved, and the
narrative has been reprinted.--.lira.
Crowe's Night-side of Nature.
FALLING FROM GRACE
Z .dAialt Broadhead was a man some
what less of stature than Goliath of Oath,
though possessing perhaps as much phys-
I ical strength. So the village wrestlers
thought, when out of spurt, he took up a
while handful of them and dashed them
nn the ground. During a religious revi-
I val ' Zedekialt was converted and joined
the Methodist church. One evening,
while on his way from his class meeting,
I he was assailed by half a dozen of hls for
mer companions, shouting :
Now Zed has become a chistian and
cannot fight : let's give him a threshing."
"Hold a moment," interposed Zed, put
ting forth an srin as long as a rail : "I know
a Christian cannot fight ; but I belong to a
denomination who believe infallingirom
grace—and," continued the convert, plant
ing his foot more firmly on the earth, and '
towering up like a giant in the moon-light,
his arms falling back to en angleoffortv-five
degrees, - "if I should fall from grace,' l here
he lowered his voice .to a tone of ominous
solemity, and sadvanced three paces to
wards his retreatedassailants—"lf I should
fall from grace, too be to you.
The scamps overawed by lidmibt of the
saint's perseverance, decamped with pre
caution, leaving Zed as Apnllyon left
C hristian, to go on his way rejoicing.
Too OOOD TO BE Loar.—The Boston
Post claims that the girls are for Case, and
I has the impudence to instance IVliss I. Sip
' pi, Miss Souri, Louisa Anna, Virginia,
Mary Land, and the two Carolinas. This
lis a Sam. Louisa Anna begs us to say to
Mr. Case that she won't be ..at home" if
he calls ; so •sit's no use knocking at the
door. Miss I. Sippi and Virginia think of
cutting him. Mary Land declares that
she has no acquaintance with the gentle
!man, and don't.want to be introduced.,—.
One of the Carolinas says the same thing ;
and the other protests that she would send
him about his business, only that she is
"bound" to mind her pa. DislialVare.
and Georgia, and Flora Day tell us they
.kuow a. stout old soldier worth kitty of
So the vixen with the vinegar name,
Miaa Souri, is the only one of the whole
bevy left to console the. unfortunate beau its
the dark days now crawling about hint,l
•Puscaloosa Monitor.
noluttime 1i txmi.—A young man, na
med Davie, aged t 8 to 20 years, was kill
ed ia.Carniel. •1110,. it few .dity,s.sinoe, by
Coming 111•900tnet with .a circular saw. It
atrtck him un,ilie 4lit of the head, nut
down fretween.theeye and nosec navered
both , upper, and jpwer jawe And by, the
Wc4614 fuIa.PPFO 4 I I4 / 1 otilia A:4l*s% • the
6 41.'4 .the wfruAg Angit hove been coven
inches in depth. tre fell dead without
struggle.
SMALL P0M..71F0 from the Wil
iningto4 Chicken. thit this disease has
broke, out ie Smyrna, Delaware, and ex
tended to the whole fainily of Peter Wyn,
the postmaster. On Tuesday last, Airs.
Wyn died, but it was a great while before
any One 'could be procured who, would as
sist in burying her. Ninety persons were
subsequently vaccinated in one day.--
The pusi-othce has been removed. and is
now under the &urge of Mr. F. Wilds.
GETTYSBURO, PA. FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24,:1848.,
The Dead Sea Expedition, and the west coast present 'eVident marks
of dieiruption.
We mentioned Testerday that the September ..There
are unquestionably birds and in
number of the Sondlern Ligurul Meswaasr con- sects upon she shores, and ducks are comer
Wined an article from Limit. M. T. kiwi, uu the times upon the sea, for we have seen them
Dead See Expedition. The Richmond Repatiti- - -but cannot detect any living thing with
eau furnisbe• the foDowinf synopsis of it..-..8ahl- in .its although the • salt streams flowing
more Porrus. into it contain salt tlsb. I feel sure that,
"Lieut. Maury gives a history of this the results of this survey will fully sus.
expedition brief but lucid, and which will triadic scriptural ,sceounts of the cities of
increase the anxiety of the public to see the plain."
the report of Lieut. Lynch, who has made He thus speaks of the 'Jordan " The
a successful survey, and who. we are glad Jordan, although rapid and impetuous, is
to learn, is expected to return soon to this graceful in its windings and fringed with
country. luxuriant vegetation, While is Waters are
We learn from Lieut. Maery's article sweet clear, cool and refreshing."
that this expedition was planned by Lieut. Alter the survey of the sea, the party
Lynch, and authorized by Secretary Ma- proceeded to determine' the height of the
son.. both Virginians... In the spring of 1847, mouiimins oti itirstuirtiti SturtO run a level
Lieut. Lynch first addressed the Secrete- thence via Jerusalem to the Mediterranean.
ry on the subject, recommending a cir- They found the summit of the West bank
eumnavigation and exploration of the Dead of the Dead Sea more than 1000 feet above
Sea, and its entire coast, stating that the its surface, and very nearly on a level With
expense would be trifling, as our ships the Mediterranean.
frequently touched at Acre in Syria, forty "Itis a curious fact," says Lieut. Man
miles from the lake Tiberias or Sea of Gal- ry, that the distance, from the top to , pie
lire, from which the river Jordan runs and bottom of the Dead Sea, should measure
debouches into the first named Sea : that the heights of its banks, the elevation of
the frame of a boat with crew and provis• the Mediterranean, and the difference of
ions could be transported on camel, from level between the bottom of the two sees,
Acre to Tiberias, and there put together and that the depth of the Dead Sea should
again. Only one traveller, Mr. Costigan, be also an exact multiple of the height of
had ever circumnavigated the Dead Sea. Jerusalem above it." ,
and he had died at the termination of the Another not less singular fact, in the
voyage, without leaving journal or notes opinion of Lieut. Lynch, "is that the bet
behind. It is contended also that indepen. tom of the Dead Sea forms two submerged
dent of the eager curiosity of all Christen- plains, an elevated and a depressed one.—
dom in regard to this mysterious lake this The first, its southern part, of slimy mud
expedition was valuable to the interests of covered by a sloe/low bay ; the last, its
navigation. northern and largr;st portion, of mud and
The Secretary of the Navy received la. incrustations and rectangular chrystals of
vorably the proposition of Lieut. Lynch. salt—at a great depth, with a narrow ray.
and an opportunity soon occurred by which ins running through it, corresponding with
it could be conveniently carried into effect. the bed of the river Jordan at one extiem- 1
It was necessary to send a storeship to ity, and the Wady •el Jeih,' or a wady t
the Mediteranean Squadron ; and, as after within a wady at the other."
her arrival, she would have no employ- The slimy ooze," says Lieut. Maury,
ment for months, the Secretary determined upon that plain at the bottom of the
to scud Lieut. Lynch and his party in her, Dead Sea will not fail to remind die sacred
so that, after meeting the wants of the historian of the slime pits, in the vale
squadron, she could proceed up the Levant, where were joined in battle • four kings
and land I j ieut: Lyncki and his compel). With five. , . "
ions
This was done. The store-ship, the
"Supply," was provided with two metallic
boats, one copper, the other iron—the for
mer named "Fanny Mason" and the let
ter "Fanny Skinner."
On their arrival at their destination their
:mu blew began, and in their march to Lake
Tiberias their boats had to he transported
over the most formidable mountain gorges
anti heights, and to be lowered down pre
cipices with ropes. But these difficulties
were surmounted with true sailor skill and
perseverance, and on the Bth of April, the
two Fannies, each with an American en
sign flying, were afloat upon the beautiful
blue water of the Sea of Galilee. Em
blematic of its Master, it alone of all thingi
arround them, remained the same. .List
as the Apostles saw it when our Saviour
said to it, "peace, be still," this little band
of rovers now beheld it.
• The navigation of the Jordan was found
to be the most difficult and dangerous, from
its frequent and fearful rapids. Lieut.
Lyr,elt solves the secret of the depression
between Lake Tiberias and the Dead Sea,
by the tortuous course of the Jordan, which,
in a distance of sixty miles, winds through
a course of two hundred miles. Within
this distance Lieut. Lynch and his party
plunged down no less than twenty-seven
threatening rapids, besides many others of
less decent. The difference of level be
tween the two Seas, is over a thoustitod
feet.
The water of Jordan was snobet to with
in a few hundred yards of its mouth. The
waters of the sea were devoid of smell, but
bitter, salt, and nauseous. Upon entering
it the boats were encountered by a gale,
and “it seemed as if the bows, so dense
was the water, were encountering the
sledge hammer of the Titans, instead of
the opposing waves of an angry sea."
The party proceeded daily with their
explorations, making topograpical sketches
as they went, until they reached the South
ern extremity of the sea, where the most
wonderful sight that they had ybt seen a
waited them.
"In passing the mountain of Ozdom,
(Sodom,) we unexpectedly and much to
our astonishment, says Lieot. Lynch,
"saw a large, rounded, turret-shaped col
umn, facing towards S. E., which proved
to be ofsolid rock salt, capped with carbon
ate of lime ; one mass of chrystalization.
Mr. Dale took a sketch of it, and Dr. An
derson and I landed with much difficulty
and priteured specidienit front it."
The party circumnavigated the lake,
returned to the place of their departure,
and brought back their boats in as com-,
plete order'as they bid received them at
New York. They were all in fine health.
This is a specimen of the skill, system and
discipline of the American Navy. No na
tion in the world has Stich a Service. "The
time is coming. when it will give proofs
of that fact palpable to the most dull Of un
derstanding.
Thanks to the good Management 'of
Lieut. Lynch, the whole coal of this seien
title exploration of the Dead Sea, was but
seven hundred. dollars.
From the letters of Lieut. Lynch, quo
ted by Lieut. Minty, we transcribe the fol
lowing interesting acts elicited by the ex
plorition : •
The battom of the . Northern half of this
pea is almost etit entire "hen. Its meridi
onal lines at a 'Mott deltaic° from the
allure scarab, ery its depth. The' deepest
soundings thys far 188 fathoms, (112$$ feet)
Neitr the 'shin* the 'bottonl is geherially an
incrustation of salt, but' the intermediate .
one is soft' out with' many .reetangWir
chrysiabr---mostly enbea—of pure salt.—
At one time fitellwapsfs lead brought up
nothing but ehrytals.
t*The Southern belt of the Sea is as
slmllow as the Northern one is deep, and
for about one forth of its entire length the
depth does not exceed three fathoms, (18
feet.) Its Southern bed has presented no
chrystals, but the shore; are lined with in
crustations of salt ; when we landed at 14.-
dont, in the space of an hour foot prints
were coated with chrystalization.
••The opposite shores of the peninsula
.rsiatuces AND riust.
THE SEA SERPENT
We copied a paragraph (rain the London Globe
last week, alleging the appearsce of a tinge sea
serpent to persons on board the 4titiali 'frigate De
dales. The following official announcement of
the fact is copied from a late paper brought by the
biteffigrorer.
Hsu lel ' Slur Menaces,
liamonze, Orrober 11.
SIR : In reply to your letter of this day's
date, requiring information as to the truth
of a statement published in the Globe
newspaper, of a sea serpent of extraordi
nary dimensions having been seen from
her majesty's "ship Dtedaltis, under my
command, on her passage from the East
Indies, I have the Inittor to acquaint you,
for the information of my Lords Commis
sioners of the Admiralty, that at 5 o'clock
P. M. on the 6th of August last, in latitude
24 deg. 44 min. S., and longitude 9 deg.
22 min. E., the weather dark and cloudy,
wind fresh from the N. %V., with a long
ocean swell from the 8. W., the ship on
the port tack heading N. E. by N.. some
thing very unusual was seen by Mr. Sar
toris, midshipman, rapidly approaching
the ship from before the beam. The cir
cumstance was immelately reported by
him to the officer of the watch, Lieutenant
Edgar Drummond, with whom, and Mr.
Wm. Barrett, the master, I wag at the time
walking the quarter-deck. The ship's
company were at supper.
On our attention being called to the ob
ject, itstvas discovered to be an enormous
serpent, with head and shoulders kept a
bout four feet constantly above the surface
of the sea, and as nearly as we could sp.
proximate, by comparing it with the length
of what our maintopsail yard would show
in the water, there was at least sixty feet
of the animal a /hut (Pewi t no portion of
which was, to our perception, used in pro•
palling it through the water, either by ver•
tical or horizontal undulation.
It passed rapidly, but so close under our
lee quarter, that, had it been a man of my
acquaintance, I should easily recognised
his features with the naked eye ; and it
did not, either in approaching the ship or
after it had passed the wake, deviate in the
slightest degree from its course to the S.
IV., which it held on at the pace of horn
12 to 15 miles an hour, apparently on some
determined purpose.
The diameter of the serpent was shout
15 or 10 inches behind the head, which
was, without any doubt, that oil snake ;
and never, during the twenty minutes that
it continued in sight of our glasses, was ,
below the surface of the water; its color
a dark brown. with yellowish white about,
the throat. It had no' fine, but something
like the mane of a horse, or rather a bunch
ofsea-weed.washed upon its bark. It wa s
semi by, the quartermaster. the boatswain's
mate, and the man at the wheel, in addl.
lion to myself and officers above mention.
I am having a drawing of the serpent
made frein a sketch taken untnediatly after
it was seen. which I .hope to have neatly
for transmission to my Louie commis
sioners of the Admiralty by to-morrow's
I have, &a. Pimps M'Svuo, Capt.
NATVIIIAL Gas.--41 vein of highly in ,
dantabler gas was strtleir a fete day' since,
while baring for weir in Franklin county.
(Ky.) Alter penetrating with an Auger to
the depths of ninety-seven feeOlearly ills
the distaneir through solid nick, the Os
found its *I? in ilaiivoluine to the sun
teeth itad - when burnt hrillisntiy =:
The ditidoverer has introduced it into his
dwelling, and thinks Abe quantity' whieli
escapes front the auger hole auffloient to
light opal cis
ELECTIONS VI N. Omtoutuk.Col.
J. A. RowLeto, the Whig candidate, ice
lected in the Richmond Senatorial district
by a large majority.
Capt. 'BERRY is elected Senator from
Orange by a majority or T valts-401 we
have understood that Mr. WADDELL Will
contest his pat, upon the grounds of pal
pably illegal votes having been cast. In
case that Capt. Battey takes his lest, the
Legislature will be tied on joint ballot.—
Raleigh Reg.
Tits Caut.stesew , The4 4 fgew York Ex-,
press,"•refecring to Weed Vieln brought by:
the steamer America, says thal the Ohol ,
era, though , fully as. fatal as per lag arri.
val. in London, Edinburg. and •in various
other cities in the two kinOnnisolciep not
seem greatly to ex tend. In Edinbdt, Celth,
and NOWhaven, the malady Prevailed tirs
considerable extent, and ihe deaths eppears
ed to be. far more numerous in that quarter
than elsewhere. They Amount to 112.
since the 4th. Hull and Sunderland Op
nigh occasional fatal cases. The pesii•
lenee is making rapid and fatal progrelis in
Koningsberg, however. and in 'Heflin id
very great. The London beilY Igewe, of
the 27th, says a case o f Asiatic rholet
had been discovered bit koerd the cierigee t
of 84 guns, at Shierneie. sib - roll - bed pro: ,
ved fatal. 'The man returned to the Gans
gee on Saturday and was taken ill and died
on Sunday, Ihaling been unwell only Ig
hours. •
TINS C o uram— Ojkial Despatch....
Advlces bave been received by our Gov
ernment from the U.S. Consulate atldttn
don, in regard to the prevalence of the
cholera in Great Britain. Accompanying
them are valuable documents and informa
tion from the General Board of Health in
regard to the disease. These papers (says
the Journal of Commerce correspondence)
Mr. Buchanan will, no doubt. coon make
public. The advices are up to the 20th
of October, from London. Forty races
had occurred in London. but no new rates
were reported on that day. Two.thirdt of
those attacked had died, but the disorder
did not appear to be spreading. It was
worsts in Glasgow end Edinburgh than
else where.
RENII.DV TOR The CHOLSRA......The
lowing valuable prescription for the effect
ive cure of the cholera bas bel:yr received
from J. Booker, Esq. Vice Consul , at
Cronstadt, Russia: "The principal point
is to attack the disease at the first in.
slant it is suspected; take- a stimulating
dram, with peppermint, and a, few drops of
laudanum.; cover.. yrunself-upwits. swoon as
possible,, to promote perspiration ;..apply
hot substances, such as water, bran, salt,
and even sand, to the limbs, and put a
mustard poultice over the whole stomach,
As soon as perspiration breaks out, and the
heating of the pulse is restored, the com
plaint mny be looked on as conquered ; if
it is neglected till its last stage, recovery
cannot be expected." By strictly attend.
ing to the above simple means, Mr. Bunk
er says that no one need fear fatal conse
quences,
OLD ZACH'S HAT.--A correspondent o
the N. 0. Delia, at Baton Rouge, thus gos
sips about the Presideht elect : ,
,We saw him u alking abouttown, chat
ting Very familiarly with the citizens, with•
out distinction of party, and
,wearing the
same old immense bitat-shapecr hat lent
him by some friends in Tennessee. By
the by, we are puzzled to divine what mo
tives could have prompted the Tennessee.
ans to bestow such a gift upon the Old
General, who •certainly, however people
may differ upon his political qualifications,
has deserved better treatment than to be
condemned to wear this, misshapen, heavy,
uncomfortable, and ungraceful chapeau.--
lied this hat been sent to General Taylor
after the battles.of_the Bth and oth of. May,
he would never have had any reason to
complain of the absence of his pontoon
train—for he' might have converted 'this
wonderful production of Tennessee skill
Into a'boat of sufilcientdimensions to trans
port a whole regiment at once across the
Rio Grande. We were smutted• at a dry
response of a citizen of Baton Ronge, of
whom, we made inquiry where the Gen
eral wits to he found, wrou tee that big
white thing looming but down there on the
levee 1" "Yes 1' "Well, that's old
Zacharee,hat, and pit' will. find the old
chap somewhat in the neighborhood."
A Wino or. Savrixr-stx."--.The Boss
ton Journal saves Jonathan Harrington,
of Lexington,
.the last survivor of the Bat-
de of Lexington, who is now above nino•
ty years of age, walked one mile and a
half on Tuesday, and deposited the first
vole for Zachary Taylor in that town.
Ray. -lawn Gtdoen.—The recent de
cease of this esteemed minister of the Ger
man Reformed Church, at. Manchester,'
Carroll Go., Md.; the place of his residence,
at the age of 5 years, was announced a
few, days ago in this paper. By a• private
record kept by him with,grest care, ii ap
pears that during hie ministry, he athrtiont
tared the sacrament of hely baptism .te r
8714 infants, received into full communion
with the Church 1008. memherit by the
rite of confirmation, solemnized 772 mar
riages, and officiated at 1030 funerals'
A Ideesecauserre Onactcrreatsitc--,..
In the list of 917 voters in the town of
liingham, Mass, Were are only. 230 dif-
ferent names.; There t0re , 156 blerseye,
Cushings, 88 . Sprague*, BO Unpins, 3
Gardners. VI Stodtlere c Si Whitone, end
so on. The maid , pimple of that goodly
town catch mackerel in summer, and make
buckets in winter, ppraning the even tenor
of their way without perplexity .tor care.
Rpm* giosiilit;-;-:A /now storm prevail
ed in Buffalo, on election' day, and in Pro
videnee, Rhode. lebted, Wedneaday;h—
The Buffalo. Courier learns by, telegraph
that titers was s violent =snow storm at
Paineville,Ohio, meow, falling to the depth
of iiixteen inches. In • other sections ,of
the country , our exchanges chronicle rain
and,tittow !storms of recent occurrence.—
goi ow _ fell at elmeltbridge, Massachusetts,
rub Wednesday night, to the depth of three
itudies.; There was a slight fall of snow
at I:linton, Thuisday morning, being ten
days after the commencement last year.
SILAS WRIGHT'. COMM.-A telegraph
mornenurtication from Buffalo, Bays that
81, I,,awrence county, New York, hae given
Van. Buren a majority over both Taylor
and Cage of 2141,
Gen. Boom it is said, has received ex
planation 4 from the administration, and
will resume the advisory duti/Lattited so
Isis rank and station.
SUFFERING. AND, TRIUMPH. OF AN A.
MR IP AN.
We hnd the following remarkable narra
tive of tha "offerings, perseverance, and
final teems of pare 'American geniue in
Httltt i a Merchant!' Magazine for Novem
ber, addressed to the late Hon. Dixon Lew-.
16. the 11. Et Senator who died a few daYs
Skied ha Nen Yitik. 'hie writer is a na
tive pf ' Virginia , and he tient to Zugland
J
in ahaary, i lB47, to, look for the appreci
ation which he hati , not found in Washing,
trattopre,thastaani, Aug 14, 1848.
Myßean Sin i-1 should have written
simie rbut ihktl - 1 had nothing
pleasant to
may. '..'l reache d
taindon on the Ist of Jan
uary, 1847,' without money or friends.
. whit . * Winkled the,thing I desired when I
left America, sad just the thing, I assure
you, I Will never desire again. I coin
menced opet'ation at once, on the ouppusi
don thak, in this overgrown city, I would
it least enlist ohe man. ''But Englishmen
are not Americans. An Englishman will,
advance any amount on an absolute cer
tainty;litit-tiiir Vie penny where there is
the slightest risk, if lie grit the whale world
by it. I spent the first five months look
' ingfor this man with unParallefed perse
verance; andindottry, liviit,g_for less then,
three pence per day. lem convinced that
few persons in Loudon know so-much of
that oterimprallensible large city as myself.
But alas I my wardrobe was gone to sup- 1
1 ply me with wretchedly baked corn,bread.
on which I lived entirely,
,I. slept on
straw, for which I Paid a hot Penny per
night. I becaine ragged ard_,Althvaud'
CYJlLd... l lo: l 4. 3l. 49lwouidw.og..buqineee.'
Up to this unto tey spirits qeittranuk.,nar
did they then; but my , sufferings: were
great. My limbs distorted 'with theuti.a
hem, induced by cold :and ,exposure. --my
lace and dead ewelledinitimast unnatural
I size with cold and Witham and those who
I slept the 'Same horrid den.. 4 'ilir myself
were wretched street beggatsi the very
cleanest — of thentliterilly" iiii*iir:Willi all
manner of creeping thing* But I was no
beggar. I 'never begged; nor` ever asked
a favor of any Man since l' came to Eng.
land._ Ask George ftincridl, whom I call
ed upon two dr three times; 111 ever naked
'the slightest favor, or-even presumed Upon
the letter yen gave ..me to hittil 1 did
write him a note, asking him to come end
witness the triumph of opening the_ br4dge
at the Gardens, and delivered the note et
his own house 'myielf ; , and althigeb.
Prince Albert came I never gat even a re',
ply to my note. If Bancroft had come,end
been the man to haVe"otaly , recognized we
in toy rags'illi• I . Viill, it would have,eaved,
me tench subsequent elifteirltle- 'i •4 41 4
not believe that Bancroft ever paw qty.nom;
for his deportment was ever kind.
The succeeding three Mmitlia allel;.,ihe
first five, I Will not detail, pp to the time,'
commenced to build a bridge. i will not
harrow up my ,feelings to writik nee pain
your kind heart to reed...the intlidentat or
those ninety daya. , . AlTheadaumed grey,.
and I meat have died bet for the Jews, who
did give me one shilling clown.for mr ad
knowledgottint for a@lo ontlemsed. , These
wicked robberies have amounted to several
hundred pounds, every peony of which I
had to pay subsequently ; for. since any
success at Stafford, not a man in England
who can read, but knows rny'addrese: :It
cost me ten pounds to obtain the shillings
with which I paid my admittance into:the
Royal ZuolOgical Gardena, whom 1 eno•
ceeded, after much inoitifirationi in getti '
the ghost .of at model , Inade of the brid
The model, although a bad nue, asto •i
ed every body. Every engineer of celeb
rity in' London was' called in tin &tide
whether it Wu practical I. throw is bones
the lake, Four or five ofilienth`at thell;-
nal decision, declared'that the on" dot Wore
them was passing etridge,but that it scold'
pot be carried in's' much reateflengiti
than the length of the Model. Tide Was
the point of life or death td no. 1 vies
@handing amidst men of thesupritisedgrest
est 'ideate as civil engineer; that the Wp a rid
could produce, end thevoint deaded'ailainst
me. This one time atone were my whrile
energies ever aroused. I never telktd be
fore-1 was haggard and fatiitTair went of
fond—my spitits sunk in eihrinit 'in vieW
of my mournful protipertiL-41iitheirl had'
none—yet, standing Over thiintodel, did I
battle With those men," Every 'word,that
I uttered came from my inmost tibuk, end
was big with truth-- , everY argument
conviction, The effect on those, limn
was like Magic—indeed, they, Muth here
been devils nut to hire belief/et! underthia .
. , ,
~.
circumstances.
,/stirteener,t. • my agree
'ti
agree
ment with the'prOprietor wad, dim I should
so r perinteedthe construction of the:bridge'
without any pert whittever r imearirlag, the
titre, of the building ' I might sleep in'the
gardens,': and if the bridieshbufd atuceeed;
it thoeld baCillitdßeinington'it Bridge. "
I to
din an old Mayes ca ge, not strong
enough for alinn, but by pining sothe straw
on, the fluor, it beld me very well, and in
deed was a greater luxury than I had for
mouths. The carpenters that worked on
the bridge shmetimesgave me part of their
diem* , Oa this I lived, and was corn
paiti,tl;lY happy. It was a little novel,
however, to.see a man in rags directing
gentletOttnly looking head carpenters.—
The bridge triumphed,and the cost was XS,
mid was the greatest hit ever made in
Londini. , ,
The money made by it is astonishingly
great, thousands and tens of thousands
crossing it, paying toll. besides being the
great attraction to the Gardens. Not a
a publication in London but what has
written largely upon it. , Although I have
never received a penny, nor never will, for
lanildi lig the bridge, I have no fault to find
with Mr. '('vier, the proprietor. for he has
done fully all that he promised to 11,i—that
was to call it “Remington's Bridge." The
largest wood cut perhaps ever tnade tit the
world, is made of the bridge. Every let
ter of my name is nearly as large as myself.
The bridge to this day is the prominent cu
riosity of the Gardens. You can't open a
paper but you may find "Remingtoit's
Bridge." Bonn after it was built, I have
frequently seen hundreds of men looking,
at the Large picture of the bridge it ties'
CIMEZ
corners of the streets, •and itnrYinf
mington, when I have stood unknovEn ,
the crowd. literally starving.,
.llnworor,..
the great success of the budge Aare ma
some credit with s tailor. I' got a, suitor.,
clothes and some shiria—a, clean shin"
'Any shirt was great, hut a clean shirt—cck
Boil, what a luxury ! Thousands of eaithi
were left for me at the Gardens, and Rea
came to see the bridge froii anions 4„
the kingdom. But with all my due4illa
in the hands of the liell-botn newt , of
course I had to elope, and come Own to
Stafford.
I first be the mill, which is the meat'
popular patent ever taken iit ', England.
1 lie entree pot, and many nutter smell pa
tents, take exceedingly well. Tliedrito-' -
age of Tian!' Meadows is the greateit ;
umph I have yet had in Er4;and. 'ro
carriage bridge for Earl Talbot is a most
majestic and wonderfully beautiful, thing,
Dukes, marquisses, earls, lords, Ate., and
their ladies, are coming, to see it
,fruin all
parts. I have now more orders forinidge*
from the aristocracy than I can execute in
ten years, if I would du iltem. Indeed,
have bees so much ailiong the iris
tiwracy of late, that, with ,Ingh
being so sudden a transition from starving,
I have been compelled to go through a
course of inedieine, and am just now con
valescent, Ufcourse,nny thing onnebuitt
precludes die possibility of taking', a ,
tent in England, but its twits and value'`"
are heyond all ratulatiiin. ' A pettniment,
beautiful and steady bridge may lie thrown'
.
across a river half a 'mile wide out r
reach of floods, and without .any 'thing
toueltitig the water, tit a Masi ;ineongidern
ble expense. The American filitentle well
- seenFitt at home, I know. I shell' enntin
'us to build 'a few mire bridges of larger
spaitii, and one of them n railroad bridge,
in order that I may perfect myselfin them'
so - ie etiiiimeniV fair when Ireach
althea. I have a great many 'Mort. I+o4
counts of 'mv exploits shire' I came to
Siaffordi bur I must defer w riting them - turf- 1 '
tifnext time. I beg you will write ma, I
for r new,;since acnrrespomlence
1 shall be able to tell you sonlething about'
England. I know it well. I have dined.
with earls, and (rain that down
'dittifn to where the knives, forks and plateit
are'ehained to he table for fear they should
be tttolen I am,'my dear sir; 'ytnirobe-
Pervatit. ' J. IL REMINGTON:
; -Mittourcinni.v ACCIDtNT.—On Wednes-
day last, tettilst a negro man named Jim..
:belonging to Cold W. H. Spieknall, , nlCal.
Nitmentinty, was employed in feeding the
:threshing.ms
chi„e, the tyle iderburst with ,
:tremendous violeoce, throwing fragrueter,
Of Iran end
_w,00,4 to the diettulel)r 2
from Ate thresher, A piece of wo od.
Altruuk...bra on. he forehead, Shivering the,.;
Skull fr9m the right eye bone 19 lop or
, revived in an hour . or tw0,,,,
artd littgereti., : in great pain until Friday
when he expired,
WILFUL MUUDF.IIfiIt
The intelligencer 'states that, a few days
Ago, enitned Man on the' island, in Was h'
/von 'city, having becn induced by an ofd '
feoo treat; Made by dome idle fellows', hid
tichOitritotts, to drink several pints of '
hous liquhr, killed 'himself by this ftioliali;
act oflutempentnce. •
ITWEFFItcT•ALRBADY.—The looney ,*r
Oslo of the. Lodger of the 10th lost., coin
menses to follows, viz ;—=
wTbere was a light business yesterday
itiantekscbut, under the hope• and belief .
among operators of increased confidence
aniung capitalists, as the remit of the elec.
tionof Gine Taylor, there were buyers:
tr. 'rather -higher prices. Pennsylvania
fiver nisei r Morris Canal/ ; Reeding
shitiresir ; and Chesapeake and Delewuco
Canal loans
WAlin FOR STlrr Joitstre.—.Sult brine
Ii etiid to be the beet waoh for stiffliTiots
ht 'homes: alio good far hard hoof. ,
sit' It itiriels inoiature. and tlius keeps the
hoof soft: It eau easily be tried by any
Witter. ,
' '4Has your tom Timothy • failed? 4 ' en
quire(' Gultbine of Stalltieos, the other day.
" , 011t. mu 81 all; he hue only assigned
owsr•itis property, and fallen brick to, take'
abetter position,' was the reply.
1.704111 o v Aaars.-.-Thendore Parker, in'
a lite sermon, laid that the grantlfathera of
many 'Men, *lin now-a.daya are studying
heraldry to get at their patent at itubtiiiy,
had' not even a coat to their arms.
Davoar VOTERb- h. Clergyman of
Norwich, COOlt., who voted at the elec.
lion, wrote on the back of his ticket the
following prayer, which should be re-cell ,
oed by every honest voter;
•• My God grant. that this rote, given
with extreme reluctance and matte fesr►r
ma y" not contribute to-perpetuate- a shaseir
and crime of my beloved country, nor 4#
bring upon her the curse of Heaven." -
SKRINI OF Russts.—it is generally knowtt
that if a Russian noble buys en estate he
buys the serfs with it. Dr. Baird, in
lecture at at New York, on Wednesday
evening, says :
"If the serfs acquire wealth shay OM
remain in bondage. One of the nob* in
Moscow has a serf who is richer s thim his%
master, but canuot purchase his freedom
because the noble prides himself on .tbe
richest serf in Russia waiting at his,table,
The prevent Emperor desires to liberate
this class. but is opposed by loans of the
princes.
AN IMPORTANT Inaerettote.s.'lll*;Wir.
cheater Republican has been abown , tho
model of a furnace, (foe which a patent has:
been taken out by Mr. Lorenao Barbtat).
for the purpose of making malleable iron.
from the ore. It seems calculatod bp•*
dove a saving of $4O .par ton over else pit •
sent mode.
MORMONS--The steamer Grand Tharke.
on her last trip from New Orleans. brought
up 225 English emigrants, Irk& rrl i rs
the Mormon faith, antl ire deing4 W OA
Lake. It is said that betitreirr spd,foq•,
c i ll
nuns are nit their wily fri!ni' i ftiviit 4 : 1,
having taken passage of OHS lid ' ts;
Prince, which sidled slinitiskslanor keb.
ber.— St. Lodi ikriON&II. ' ' " . '
' ISerts'l,2llo4,l)o4* .4. - 41 C AV%
liu:y it, ifire--;
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