f,BY: A. :A 0. H:,,BUBBLER,
voi,ohtE, xxyl.l!,
TUC ROBBER.,
if! C.' BRYANT;
"te,:i4e a lonelitruntaits . pa;, ' .
mosay *mid,
Tbit . dmetved ihe beaten Olin;
i•A lurking robber mond;
Big foreign gash. hie Kb:loom ley*, .
;„ chaeis.ofitwaothv
*Anoka ftins ona,who might hoes bee;
A pigite on the mein.
"Or haildit an the fa r4l`
" Of Cuba or oraroin.
tray rash piitnl is In Ms' hood.
A shadowing b'ough be ralPed,
tilttred forth, as crouching tiger glom.
'And muttered actio gaud—
Gl'iihire he must sleep.upon, his steed—
. , dismal the near . ;
.111. him. tor, the gold he wvkrs,
A 'minder elonther here
Big chute's, liken I knit hie lank,
f , ;Shall leap' lige mountain deer."
Una, long he %stalled, and listened long
There eame no traveler hy.
ThErrudian growled * harsher-curse,
• And gloomier grew his yen, -
While o'er the sultry, heaven,. began,
A leadon blue to spread,
And past his nixm, the summer sun
A dimmer brim to s Ned ;
' And 'on that moun Min summit fell'
A silence deep and drestl. • •
Then sewed the hriatling'Pine to sigh.
'still hung the birchnit 'prey ;
' The air that wrapped Ulnae Mai eliira
Was motionless as they.
Mute,ssa the erisiet in his cleft—
But mountain torrents round
Fent hollOse murmurs from their glens,
Like soiree under gniund:
A chants came o'er MO robber's cheek,
He shuddered at the sound.
'Teas vain tn. ask wird fearful thought
Couvuliwil his brow with pain :
4"The dead talk not," he said at length.
And turned to watch again.
Skyward he looke.l—a lurid .cloud
flung lost and blackening there ;
And thniugh its Skirt, tile innabine came.
A strange malignant glaie,
His ample chest drew in. with Lull,
The hot and stifling air.**
Ills•ear caught a distant viand—
• But not the tramp of steed—
',A 'Mar as of a binent stream
-Swain into sudden speed. •
The,gatherod vapors in the wmt,
Serum a rushing blast.
Like lii - ang monster of the air,
•
liblek, req.ent.like and tad '
Writhe, roll—and sweeping O'er the sun,
A• frightful shadoir east.
ark to that ' nester. mightier crash !
As if a giant crowd,
Trampling the oaks with iron feit,
Hadissued kern the,clepd
White Irwirmtnta of dissevered rock
Go thundering' frorri On 'high,
A iftreastlattl,,fmm theiPey rie.r Mrs,
•• ' The shriekinieagles ay: • •
-And kr! the expected traveler coatis,
• Sparrinthis.chsiger by.
'To that wild warning of the sir **.
Theasisiain hauls nolseed . . •
Ho lifts the pistol to his eye..
He nat es the horsemens speed,
Firm is his hind sod sure his aim--
, Gut me the 'Bulb is given,
Its istdiei tilled with woods upturn,
And Spray from torrents driven ;
The whirl wind sweeps the crashing wood.
The giant furs are neon.
Riven and wrenched up from splintering clitrt,
They roe like down in air,
At once the fonrat'iltocky door
Lies to the tempest bare.
Rider, and steed, and robber, whirled
O'er Pre'cipicei amt.'
'Meng trunks and hough/and oh a ttered trsp,
Mangled end ereshed; are cast,
The catamount and eagle ,made,
At morn, a grim repast.
Pretty Thaughte.
What is edam? Awratched vagabond,
traveling from. pima to place in fruitless
endeavor to escape justice, who is engaged
i n h o t, pursuit ; a .tim to ; poor innocence,
which is too often wade .to suffer for the
guilt . _ ,
What 4 Ilytughkr..,4.._fouotaiu ,from,
which, dow all good and evil intentions—
a mental flood electrical in the force and
re/tidily of its movements, silently.flowing
onsocn.within avoutes—yet it is the
controlling power of all, anitnated nature,
aud the chief .nueinspring of all our AO-
Wbat, iq happiness?.A ibutterfly that
:ores (row flower to ,flower in the rest
garden of;existeuee, and whialk is eagerly
pursued by the vain multitude, iq bope..of
(obtaining, the priso ;, yet ,eantiatuttly,
vsides,thuir grasp.: , .
~What fashlon 2. A. beautiful enva.
lope for mortality, presenting .a glitrarbig.
and polished exterior, the appearance, of
whio,gives no commie indication of , the
real, 7alue of what, is containell therein. ,
What.is ?,A sparkling beverage,
ttratis highly exhilerating and agreeable
whien.partaken at. the expense of others;
but when used at our own coat it becomes
bitter and , unpleasant. ,
• Nita!, is knew:edge ? A. key that .an
ravels all mystery, which unlueks the en.
trance, and discovms DOW, nod unseen, and
nntredclen paths.in the Ititkerto unexplo.,
red llnld,of scieirao tutd literature. ,
.
WhamsA frightful substance
to the !ally , guilty. but a vain and harm
leas shadow, to the Onnseientious, honest
and upright. ,
~What is joy ? , The honey of existence,
really Intuc#eial and agreeable when par
taien of in iioderation,iit. highly injit
rilOsirliep tise'd to excess.
•-BUYS?, Suon As. HELP TIMM
••
~.
stagEs,-r!erne talk about difficulties with.
oat, making epri to overcome ibern I
Qintaiely such'tiilk ie unseemly for a ha.
leA.teste. Reader , ffx it into your mind
that it is irrational to complain abont diffi
,eidtree while as yet you are not in earnest
'about overcoming them. .1i you would
eativer obstacles am! gain the victory
over 'self, you must - make some serious
aria to do it. You must address your
the buisiness and duties of religion
with earnest 'effort, trusting in the Lord
'your heart,' and' help will come.
God ii . yourstrength, In his almighty arm
sh'ere is help for the weak. - • He offers free-;
ly ,his Holy Spirit. We must 'bear in
- mlid that tho Spirit never works without
mit willing and doing. When we are in ,
ostiteit to 'do hod's will, then he will be
gpiiified in making strength perfect in Owl
'eretainetss:'
••
'Ypithltiakquiat bite*. •
, • • . • : r".
- • • • ( Font the
TIIE,EVTNI7I pf . A 41191111%
When itfartin,Luthev, conversing with a
friend,..wallted 'elle field's!: Eisellien, anrf
suddenly beheld the partner of hlettuitighte
struck IstAlti?:cartit Jjghtning- r a• jiyid
terinOt wi?re his,feeltngs I • , ,
Or. sow excited' was the mind of Mi
chael Angeto."When, eheillber
of the Medici inanition, lie pure .iin+
mortal. labors at • midnight, ith ope ed
coffins and ghastly mortal, remains around
him to assist the workings of his kotoup 1
You have read; moreover, of The Reba•
dean fisher whip descended a horrible pro.
eipice, in search, of 'eagle's ••egga; and,
swinging in mid air, was attacked by the
enraged, birds--a thrilling circumstance
which blanched his dark. looks, and de
prived hitn, fora time, of raison.
Bat ynti have never heard the Story of
that night; and mine save Peen tell it.—
Give me, then, your beet attention, and do
not doubt me. for I do. not , doubt my
self.
I had taken
,supper, and found pleasure
it. Amiable with the finely flavored
coffee; and frPsh Finnan haddocks, I rang
my bell. "Now, landlady," I said, "sup.
pose I ttirn in. And by the way, I was
rather cold last night: If you would give
me another blanket I'd thank you."
"Eh I yes, sir; yell no' lash me !"
And' good Mistress Wilson departed.—
She was a kind Scotch soul, and therefore
had not hesitated to prefer my request.
Presently she told me all was ready. I
took my candlestick, bade her good night,
and in a second was in my , chamber.
Before jumping into bad, I studiously
arranged several fifth) articles which I had
colleited in my rambles. I bad lately ar
rived at Leith from Rotterdam, .and being
fresh from Waterloo. rnaturally wished to
"straighten" the various relics, etc.;lvhich
I had brought in my enfre. Mrs. Wilson
had loaned me a drawer, and business be
gan. The chorines from Hougomont, the
French: eagles, the views of La' Flaye
Sainte, Mont St. Jean, La Montagne do
Lion, etc., were severally placed in my
drawer, together with guide books, pocket
compao, and other et xeiera.
"Now I'll to bed !" With that thought
my outer shell was speedily' east off. I
did my devotions, and turned 'off the - gas.
The next Moment, I leapt into bed.
Come gentle sleep ! ether's! mildness. come.
Exquisite warm sheets I I plunged my
feet down into their reeesies. flow de
licious ! how ----Heavens! what was
it? What could it be my'right foot en. '
counteted ?, Frozen with vague horror,"l
Arming from the bed. My brain •poitively
whirled • my teeth .oltatteredrlbut nq
with co& Grid: 0, I 'would nitheratep
um-un- :t an iceberg, than again experience
the thrill which I then 'endured. There
was some' objeet in the bed.' A rade
grasp, a secret robber, would have chilled
me. lean— Its mysteriens feel was not of
aught human.
Momentary, relapse into a desperate
mood, and my spirit said within me, "Got
iti again and' kick it out!"
Sick nut=what ?
Searching in the dark, I at last found a
chair. My next thought was to examine
my
,foot. Nn ! it was not lacerated—not
even scratched. True, I had not 'at the
moment experienced a' sense'of pain ; but
so horrible a surprise would not allow of it.
Mental excitement often deadens physical
suffering. Yet, as I believed. • there was
no laceration. I could not detect the
flow tif blond'; and, though in the dark, I
could have felt this. •
With .hand clasped on nirforehead. I
1 strove,to think. , What wore my ' best re.
Icollectinits of the contact f I romembe'red
flute the loft foot had touched nothing, but
i as the leg went down it received - a gentle'
rub. I recollect also that the sole of my
I right foot had been visited,with the feeling
of hat breath, as though it were {he
I breath of an animal. But then h had not
touched any rough or furry creature. At
this point, Impressed, with a tread of the
supernatural, I removed my chair to
the most remota corner of the .reoni; and
there pursued my train of reflection.
Was it a sleeping cat t :Entangled, in
one of the sheets, its fur might , have boon
covered. 1 allied to mind man y instinees
of cats which,. ferAhe Warmth ; ' had 'Crept
into beds. Still, one so rudely:aroused
would have extended its' claws ; and I . —:-
had'l been wonnded T Not to the best of
imy belief. •
In tirofirst place, I watt ohnfident that
the plunge of, my feet would have awaken l
ed such eh animal.lts *pulse then
[would be to bound away. Hut no move-
I moot apparent to the ear had taken
place
On'the "
other hand—.
Theist - were two married ladies staying
at the house. One of them had - a' small
baby.,.. Her servant-maid had ...been en
;joined to put that precious infant WNW...-
, I had heard this through ruy, opened door
at the moment when supper was served.
Before taking 'supper. I bad accidently
• -
caught a glimpse of the servant girl en
route to her mistress' apartment, and her
physiognomy Oansed mo to think her a i
stupid blundering lass.. Now, he* easily
midt a , mistake have occurred I The
stupidity or forgetfulness of the moment
might have led her to place the little ba
by in the wrong bed. Its mamma slept
in the chamber next to mine; how facile,
then, to open the wrong door!
Certainly I had not felt anything of tho
shape or substance of .a baby. But, in
that horrible moment my mind had been
completely unhinged ; and could I now
say what I had felt.?
Thought, beats the electric telegraph.—
These reflections occurred in less tithe
than I take to narrate them.
My first vague horror had given way, to
a feeling of calm fright. By this time my
body was benumbed, for in one's shirt the
cold strikes in with effect":
Huddling myself togother. , —and still im
pretieed by the aupernatural—l resumed
wy chain of analysis. Thus, foisomemo.
menu—but you shall not be troubled with
more detail. After turcitig over every
horrible probability, and glanol4 tho
dark towards *the had (as believed,) '
GETTYSBIIIO, PA:, FRIDAY gVENING, MARCH 30, 1855.
went into the committee (ill alone), on
lays and means—..what to do I
Should I awaken the landlady,?: . ;By, no
therms v , even. though . the circumstances
wamnted it, I wduld not.:• After the first.
herror,4l3 I have , told you, a calm fright,
sueeeeded and I folt-that—fcarful as was
the positbrin—l would have to ,brays .it
alone..:
No
No 1 I would light the gas., and-400k
Slpwly / quitted my chair—but at this
moment a strange, unearthly,khisaing
Bound came from the bed. 'lt might ,be
the hissing of a serpent, (and Mr. ,Wilson
was, I had heard, an amateur•oolkotar of
ouch creatures)
,9r the suppressed' breath.
ing of a dog. - It wara sound at thotigh
blood wore letting! Saint Bartholomew,
flayed to death as. thou *est 1 how my,
hsir stood up as I thought of sickening
passages in Frankertein I Shaking with
the palsy, as it seemed, I tottered to my
chair.
But something must be -done 1. Screw
ing up my courage .to the sticking peinr.,'
and murmuring a prayer, I 'again react—,
found my trousers, and searcued :for my_
box of anagram. (which, as a emoker;, I
invariably carry.) It. was barreu I trot a'
single match remained! What should. I
do 1 To cross the spacious landing, and ,
reach the kitchen was an early thought.—,
The firo would perhaps be smouldering;
, I might perchance obtain what I required.
Mrs. Wilson's matches I could not hope to
find ; I knew 'not their locality. put an
old newspaper (which I had put into the
drawer loaned me, as mentioned,) would
do. Could not I carry it. biasing, froin
the kitchen embers F Yes, I could, but
what then F The glare of the lightould
arouse the sleepers; and then—th e' sec
ond married lady was,l had heard
Mrs. Wilson say, fearul of fire; and
I felt persuaded that, after the manner of
others whom I know, she slept with her
'drier ajar I
I felt for mj cane,--rho one which I,
brought from Hougoumoot. . Desperate, II
thought of striking thu coverlet until Mal
()yea moved. But suppose it were l ap in
faut • Ah'! rcould pass my 'cane gently
over thesurfitco, anddo no harm.
I approached the bed and did so.. Then,
starting. back. ,my
,summoned resolution
left me ; I know, I fell, that theohject was
still there With a beatnik heart I dressed
myself' as I could ; and , cautiously feeling
my way to the sittintroom, lay dowu on'
tho sofa, and drew my coat over me.
For a time I was unable to sleep; my
nerves were too much
k strained ; at lent!,
off intri 'an uneasy *Umber.
The chick dais adjacent 'elliirch 'struck
f0u1... , I awoke: • Noniin g .had cense ; gol
den and rays were , fiashing .thrpugh
the crevices of the, shutters, • I arose-.
with a perfect memory of last night's' 'o'c
nurrences=shook tnyielf,. and (reasinred
by the day) proceeded to' my chamber.
I was not at ease when I. entered., I;
stopped on the threshold-but ut last I
slowly wont in. With bated hreath ap.
proached the bed. Oh I shall I ever
rase from 'memory that revelation
Ghoul vampire 1,, monsters misshapen,
and creatures charged to freeze the blood
No marvel that I had thought of ye I
My terror had' bein acutely eieited ; my
nerves awfulltstartled ; and , " discovered
the cause at the bottom of the bed, in , the
shape of a "foot bottle !" . illrs, : Wilson,
ptay for the 'future inforni 'yoor guests
When you give them 14 bedfellotr, which a
bad, conscience or' as entire imagination
can conjure into a frightful : and mysteri,-
ons monster. ,
Deotiiib* Scalding tine niurnini.
,
We stank(' reported, 'altruist' daily;iin
a ppallitg numbers of deaths by burns and
.scalds, not.obe.orwhich we lido. it .upon
ourselveklesay. need prove fetal, or would
do so, it a few , pounds tif, wheat flour could
he proMpily applied to the Wound made by
, fire; and repeated' until . the •inflionmatory
stage has passed. !We have never known
a fetal case ofecilding or burning; in which
this pratice has been pursued. during more
than thirty years experience, and imiing
Initial huhdreds in both; public end; private
practice.
.. We have known the mosteltett
xi ve borne, by. falling intiicaldiins. of bid.
ling'itil;'atitl'eten molten 'capper; end yet
the patients Were ,rescued by'this :Simple
and cheap remedy, which kdm its infalli•
,hle encecss, yhould supplanted the fashion.,
able noetiums, whether oil, cotton lead.w at !
er, ieit; turpentine imttain eittractote;Cieei
one of whiekAse been tried 4 . thottiand
times'' with : laud results, , and tthe :victims
have died in excruciating agonv, while .a
few hand fulls of, fl oor, would,h'ave calmed
them to sleep, and rescued:Mein limn pain i
and death. Humanity should prompt ilia
profession. to publish and, ievtililivlt ;:the
facts . onAliis subject which are
,establieliell
by the authority of etindardjtiedical Witiks
on btith side's Oldie Atlantie.' FlOUr is ihe
remedy, and the only one, in several maims
of raiding ind'hurning, caeunities which
else sO often 'destroys life. Get .tur keep
it before the .people, while the exploiting
of steam•boilers,. and burning fluid lamps
are an rife all over the country.-Riese's
Medical Gazette. ,
. .
A lintle'incident occurred in mie of the
schools. in Massachusetts, a few• days
since, which is, :perhaps, worth relating.
One of the classes was reciting. and the
teacher, asked a little American girl who
the' first man was. She answered thatihe
did not kuow.: The queition was put to
the nett scholar, an Irish child, who an
swered—“ Adam sir," with apparent satis•
faction. .!lA;' said the first scholar,
'•you needn't feel so grand about it, he
wasn't an irishmatir
CLASPICAL ANECDOTE. -A certain pe-
Jamie gentleman once presented himself
at Cambridge for a doctor's degree; and. , as
is usual on such occabions, the question
ing was commenced in Latin,' when the
following classical-wit was exhibited :
Questioner:—Quid eat ereare? (What
is it to created)
Pedant.—Ex nihilfaceee F (To ma
out of nothing.) •
Questioner.—Ergo, le doetorenVerea4
111U11 1. (Thetiloiff tailelOu eidoo•
(TEARLESS AND FREE."
Under ' the Patent Oace.
Everybody knows that there are aeon
mutated' in the Patent Office, seVerel thou
sand, Miniature models of all sorts of pat.
anted machines. But everybody does not
know that in the vaults underneath, there
era nearly double, the number of models of
njecleil inventions. It is a bugo mauso.
departed ingenuity. Here lie the
mortal remains of such machines as per
ithed in their early. infancy., Thera- aro
, little locks and puliy.blocks, silk reel') and
iwater-wheels, power looms and mill flumes,
windmills and Jones' pills, sawing ma
chines and mowing , machiumt, fanning ma.
chines and tanning machines', shingle.
,splitters,andStpek-kuitient, rocking chairs
and winding.stairs, c,ultivatois, dumb
4faiters 'and refrigeraiors," u rlllse-tra ps and
aster-strops: life.preserving boats and In.
dia.rubber civercoats i iron doers and grain
sowers, latches 'and , Weiler matches, gas
hunters and bedstead turners,. spark ar•
restori end whiskey testers,: bls:oksmith's
vices and utonlds' for water reps ; !utiles,
cradles, lamps, clamps, flails, palls, scales,
rails ; and all -of for e.."
winding,: be
blasting, el
flax breakit
and 'portrith
over fifteen
onouglkille;
little wheelt
And all ailet
.There is sot
it, aid sons
But each. oat
exulting in
"manifest.
rious flank
bcanylisse'd
story of disi
ted with el
wasted days
ied-in these
scription,
dream a
books that
that. was not „Ante, _ grt.
repository of machines that never were in.
vented.
What's the use of .keeping them ? It
is intended when "Uncle Sant",gets rich,
to , bring them all upstairs, build cases and
shelves for them, and arrange ;them sys
tematically. Theik when a inalk comes to
the office with the reputation brawn° old
invention, 'they Will say to'b'it's, "Sir,
you model is not patentable.:*jt is not
new. , You will find one .on ,exactly the
same principle in case B, ort:th6.sixth
slielf, deposited by Peter Stokes in 1843."
The disappointed applicant got ( to Mist) B,
reconoittes shelf No. 6, , beholds c Stoke:
Sianfailure.,—and departai itir with
Solomon, that there is indite "nothing
new under the Sun."
Your inventor is a. man of high Lopes
and uabounded expectations. Iris doubt.
ful whether anything was ever, patented,
yet, that the owner did not, believe to be
worth a'qbarter of a million. Offer him a
thousand dollars to stay at home, When he
is about starting for Washidgton, arid see
if ho will. take it. Not be. He looks
further.. The gift of soe.ondsightis upon
him. Visions of bank notes, contracts
and licenses, float before hiS 'mental eye--
visions 'of a's tately. mansion and equiptge,
With a whole -,stroet of' busy, rattling,
smoking factories, employing hundreds of
handS; and turning out,' annually, dozens
and seam; of the - Pr ' Sulfa
Compound Stet
So sure is be of
tin scruple of e:
meets. SO get
trittltipb, that ii
'partnership, thi
It is :not eau
dreatis:' It is '
the work he has
elaberating, has
bettor by some!
atniners tell hi
them, When
them, down as pi
The Ccinunisstor
'him:
Or:if'convint
Hes'of, the sal
Nothing,but r
satisfy
,bitn of ti
tlemonstat
treasured up against his coming. No man
knows, unless be has tried it, what "ill
onteued shapes" lurk privily t in wait , for
'him,, in , those vaults. • ;
biscnieries, , like' misfortuhes, seldom
come single.- They are in pal s, or threes,
or dozens. It is true of , gre o ti unetiespe
eially.• fialf-a-dozon nations have dispu
ted for centuries who worked
l
o first print
ing press, and • tho dispute not settled
yet. Half-altiosen'clahn the odor of hay.
ing ushered into the world th first electri
i
cat machine. The Origin of 6 steam en
gineis still shrouded in m' . Who can
say, with certainty which of the rival claim
ents 'first put a railroad oar on wheels Y
What mile can affirm at this day, without
fear of contradiction, that; s and so dis
covered, the wegnetio tolegra . We even
remember . to have once lieu a lecture to
prove, that if Columbus had otrn found A.
t
merica when he did, soeb y else would
have discovered it in a year two.
Commerce Comorce or Art nets an obsta
cle, various parts of the world set about
studying how to get over it. It is not sur
prising, perhaps, that two or ore of them
so often hit upon the same rocess, about
the same time. But they ue d not. If ev
very man who thinks ho is p educing what
has not been invented, sh Id first visit
the Patent hall to see wh has been in.
vented, in two cases out ott ree he would
save himself time, money, a unprofftablo I
t in
labor, and have no cause , grudge his
journey. % '
The following tlsieriptio
ed topir is worthy of being
all the woutl•he poets withi
and metes!! of uncle Same.
inserted in every young lady
album :'
His mime Watt it terrible name
!Twee Timothy
emptied
Mu
And whenever he ri:t
He always Wanted It jut! a'
True tiobiliti ireitipt
A Paradise for a Lazy Plan.
Lieutenant Gibbon , in his account of
his recent exploration of the Valley of the
Amazon, gives the following accountol the
daily life of a Creole family, in the town
of Santa Cruz, the Capital of the Bolivian
department of the„same name : •
"Very early in the morning, the Creole,
getting'out of bed, throWs himself into a
hammock ; his wife stretches herself upon
a bench near by, while. the children seat
iliemselveiewiththeir legs under them. on
the chaira,Pllin their night dresses. The'
Indian servant girl enters-with a cup of ;
chocolate for each member of the family ; I
after which she brings some coals of fire
in a silver dish. The wife lights her, lens
band a segar, then one fur herself. Some I
time is spent reclining, chatting and ie.;
gating. The man Slowly puts on hie eotd
ton trowsers, woolen coat, leather shoes!
and vicuna hat, with his neck exposed to'
the fresh air—silk•handkerchiefs are scarce
—and walks to some neighbor's, with ,
Whom he again drinks some chocolate and'
smokes another segar.
At mid day, a small low table ie.tiet in'
the middle of the room, and thedaMify go
to breakfast. Th e wife sits next' to her
husband ; the women are very pretty, and
affectionate to their husbands. He chooses'
her . Iron five, theie being about;
that number of women to one man in the!
town. Time children seat themselves, and
the dogs form a ring behind: The first l
dish is a chupe of potatoes, with large
pieces of meat. The man helps himself
first, and throws bis bones straight across
the table ; a chilli dodges his head to give
a free passage, and the doge rush behind
her. The second dish holds small pieces
of beef without bone. Next, comes a dish
of finely chopped beef, then beef • soup.
vegetables and fruits; finally, coffee or
chocolate. After breakfast, the mil pulls
off hiti trowsers and Coat and lies,down in
the hammock'. His wife lights - him a se.
gar. She finds her way back to bed with
her segar. The dogs jump tip and lie on
the chairs—the fleas .htte, them on the
ground ! the Indian girl closes both
tloois and windows, taking the children
out to play, while the rest of the family
At tweil". M., the church bells ring, to
let fife people know the priest is saying a
prayer for them, which rouses them. The
man raises, stretches his hands' above his
head
. and.gaps ; the dogs get down and
whinningly stretch themselves ; while the
wile sits Up in the bed and loudly calls out
for fire ;'the Intlia,n girl re-appears' with a
for het-mistress to light her mas
ler another segar, and she smiles again
herself.. l,lie dinner, which petty place
beiweeo three ona' ve,i nearly:die entire
as breakfast . : except when a beef is reeent
ly killed by the Indians. when they have
,a boil. Tire ribs and ether long bones of
the animal are trimmed of flesh, leaving
the bones only coated with meat ; these
are laid across a fire arid roasted ; the
membirs of the family while employed
with them, look as if all were practicing
A hnrset, is brought into the house by an
Indian man, Who holds him whilst "the
patron" waddles and bridles him ; he then
. .
pubs on alerge pair , of silver spurs., which'
costp forty drilla - re, arid, mounting, he rides
nut the:front door to the'opposite house ;
halting. he takes 'off his'hat and cries out,
"Buenas tardes, senoriins"—good evening
The ladies make their appearance
at the door ; one lights litin,a segar, anoth
er naives him ri glass of lemonade• to re
fresh himself after the ride. He 'remains
in the saddle talking, while they lean graft..•
fully against the door post, 3111iling with
their bewitching eyes. Ife touches his !
hat and rides id to another neighbor. After
spending the afterno . im in this way, he rides
into the house again. The Indian holds
the horse by She bridle, while the
master dismounts. Taking alike saddle,
lie throws it into one chair, the bridle into.
another, his spurs on a third, and himself
into the hammock; • the Indian leads nut
the horse, the dogs pull down the riding
gear to the floor, and lay themselves on
their usual bedsteads, Chocolate and se
gars aro repeated.
A FAITHFUL GIRL:—k. CaßB Of WO.
man's devotion has recently been brought
to our knUwledge, 'Which certainly equals
anything that we have ever met with in
the realms of romance. The circumstan
ces occurred in this city, and are perfectly,
Well authentica ted.. While the small pia
was raging here a few weeks ago, a young
man employed a !store on Lake street
was seized with, the disease. It was of
course, improper for him to remain there;
end the n'enple with whoni lie lived. :OM
where distant relative., of his, refused to
permit him to stay in their house. 'rite
result was, that he was taken to the kiesti
house. It so happened that he 'was engag, - 1
ed to be married to a most estimable and !
amiable ybung lady, No sooner did site
hear of his condition than she determined!
at once that she would nurse him. • She I
underwent vaccination, and then went!
where they had taken her betrothed', m!
the pest house. Here she found hica.l
alone, sick, wretched, deserted by all the •
world. And here she remained like, a
ministering angel, waiting beside his bed ;
of pain, soothing his distresses and attend.
lug to his wants. He died. Bin how
consoling must have been his last moments.
Though - all the world - had forsaken h i .
she; whom ho loved better than all thief
world,,rentained faithful to the last. Her
hand it was that soothed his pillow ; •her,l
eyes still beamed upon him with mourn- ,
ful but unabated affections; into her ear lie!
poured his last words of love, of sorrow,
and hopes that in this world might never'
be fulfilled...
It recalled to our mind, when we heard, !.
it, the words tlial..Belwer puts in the mouth
of one of his charaeters:- . --“To.be watched ,
and tended by Maple we love, who would.
not' walk blind and barefooted, aver the
World t"—Chicago Tribune; March PA.
, of eonfirtn.
agiarized by
dip "bounds
'a form, and
1- roae•colored
The rich fool is like a pig that is chok
ed with its °wit fat—ftuealy.fortho sham.
bles."—ninese Saying— :
I deed,
abler of pdach,
b.
..
Profit is the crown 'Of labor.
To a young Lady ou her Alsurrlage.
BY O. M. ITIZOERALD
They tell ine..gentle lady, that they de& thee for
• bride. '
'Chat the wreath is woven for thy halt, die bride•
grnom by thy side ;
1 And I thinitl heal iby fatherest,h, thy WIWI!
t7planer. tune;
! As they give thee :o 'mother's *tins—their braid':
ful, their awn,
I never saw a bride hut mirrrelida have been watt
And it illwayi seemed to me mill a joioui croeid
hnd met
To see the saddest sigbt.of alla gay and girlish
thing • ,
Lay aside her maiden gladness tor a name and for
And other , cares will claim thy thoughts, end oth-
et heath thy love.
And gayer hienda may Le around and bluer skies.
• " above.
Yet thou, when T behold theio next, rnsy'si wear
upon thy brow, : • ' • • -
Perchance a mothe•'a look °fare, fur that which
decks it now
And when I think how often I hive awn than;
with thy mild I .
And lovely look, and step of air, end bearing like
. a child,
Oh ! how moumfully.how mournfully the thought
comes o'er my hrain. ' ' •
When f think thou if r'er may'at" be that free and
' Qulieh thing again.
I would that as my heart dictates, just such may
be my' lay, " •
And my voice should be a voiced mirth, a music
like the May.;
but it may not be ! withip_thy.hreast ill iroutn
one the springs ;
The murmur dies upon thy lipa--the music on
But a voice round me=end it' tellsme
in my rec. -" • "
,That sunshind may illume my path; that joy
be thy attest. .•
That thy lire shell be a summer's day, whose
evening shell go down . •
Like the evening id the eastern clime•:—that never
knows a frown. • •
When thy font is at the alter, when, the ring ,has
proosed thy hand,
When thnitelhou,lovest,*and three that Wee thee,
weeping round the Amid.
Oh ! may the verse that friendship w , like a
spint.of the air,
Be o'er thee at Ma, moment, fora, blessing and •
Wonderful Freak of a Snake..-
Cittraordinary•Circumstance.
The , Albany Evening, Transcript of
Monday says, most of all.onr readers have
heard of. the celebrated "Killkenny , .Cats,"
who fought• with such desperation that
both were eaten up by the other ! :Grant.
ing that' they have, and the story to he
trite, we have to.chroniele a story equally
as wonderful, and which in consideration
of oar grantitig the cat story. to he a. fact,
we wish believed as implicitly true.
Mr. John Gehhard, Curator of the Geo.
ligical Rooms, well known for his pen
chant tIM "study Natnial
recently made an experiment with a snake
and mouse with tr.e most wonderful re.
sults. Ills suskeship was sortie eight feet
long and proportionately large ; but sisal
lowed his food whole, be the article of
provender large or smi,ll. Mt..Gebliard
being of an hiquisitive , turn of mind, de-.,
%ermined to test the Not whether, in the
process, of deglution the snake -managed,
by some unknown process, to
. masticate .
its food or tvlietlies it was bolted whole.
Accordingly )s mouse was procured and
placed-ii,the cage with the snake, which.
at firet did not appear ttit notice ti c allow.
ing the animal to _run aben l ,-IPaiii over its
body.and cut up other antics in its haste,
to get _away. •lii a few hours, however,-
the snake apparently "smelled a, rat,", and
felicitating itself upon its -good fortune, in
thus being furoislied with a,delectablemor
sel for its supper, began to move about with
great gratification, eyeing the infinitesimal
lump of life with intvaril delight. 500n,. 1
by the, use, of most potent %%harming pow.
era. the mouse sat upright, gazing-at-its
"lord and master" with irresistible sod
evident delight. This, however, was:dan
genius pastime, for suddenly the- snake,
Making a dart at the mouse, took it in its I
extended jaws, and merely winking its "I
glaring eyes, swallowed the. animal as easi.
ly as woulii a ctild a sugar plum, and then I
curled itself up into its listless, indolent
way.. Mr. G. believing,that the. mouse
was forever "gene from his gaze,"
,paid no
more attention to the snake until the next
morning, when going to look-at it-.he was,.
surprised to find a mouse' running about
the cage, having the • appearance of being
saturated with blood..
Upon looking at the snake, a hole was
found in its body near its tail sufficiently i
large to allow of the egress of the mouse.]
and front the freshness of the wound' t
was evident' that the itioese'sviallowed a-
live had eaten its way out! This being the
only hypothesis upon which to base a
conelusion; mid not being certain, Mr. G.
determined- to watch and see if the snake
would again attack its diminutive though
life loiritig 'prisoner. With patience did
Mr. G. keep, a vigil over the ,box until his
suppositions were Verified, the snake again
'swallowed the moose, which eat its ,way
out of the bodyra few inches. from the
place where it had before regained day
light! Sixteen,titnes was the experiment
Sepeated but the :seventeenth time the
snake was so completely perforated that
in the attempt to again swallow the mouse,
giving 'a sudden twitch 'of the hotly,
it was .snapped in twain.. .The 'mouse
died the next day, but the snake lived a
week after.
Muse Sucu Bisoe NicktpeD.—A Buffs ;
lo paper relates an extraordinary anecdote,
as loltows
friend °lnnis' has had for. a long
time a very superior c a nary bird, which
has been celebrated for its excellence as a
rongsier, and for efliice,he has been offer
ed large sums of money. - About three
weeks ago, oar friend, being awakened
from a *tits ' s" by its voice, rose and !testi.
ly exclaimed, 4.(1--it that bird !" The
bird; then at the height of its song, sud
denly 'cease:l it& nine, and from that time
to the present hell natirr warbled or even
chirpetl, but has maintained an unbroken
silence. What philosophy or instinct, or
of mutual 'affection between wan and his
pets, can account fcir'this
the choicest *stkes of life lie
within the ranp,sinactdocation,_ • •
TWO DOLL!MP=
I NUMBER
Casting a* 4 llll9illf`P eal oiraeliardli
--A Blellhodlia falolitOr Arintotsdr
for Assaulting a. DIJOINtor.
We are 'indebted to'our friends"
Eel'', of Marietta, Ohio, for the Mowing'
graphic sketch. We are assured that the
faits transpired substantially as narrated
- "A Methodist clergyman, who has been ,
laboring in this airway, war not lung
- since, preaching to his people ott.the mi
raculous power of the Apostles over the
demoniac Spirits of their 'day. As he was
pursuing his theme, the audience were
ritiddenly startled by a voice from some
One in the congregation, demanding, in t
half querulous, half authorative tone t
' , Why doia!t preachers do such things now
a days 1" •In an instant every, eye in the
helm was turned upon the indiyidual who,
had the effrontery thus to invade the sacred-
nese of the sanctuary. .
The speaker paused for a moment, and
fixed his penetrating gaze full upon the ..
lace of the.questioner. There was an
terval of intense silence, broken atfitat.br
the speaker in resuming his subject. Ho
had not proceeded far with his reinarks,bes
fore he was again interrupted , by the same
impertinent inquiry. Again he paused,
for a time, again resumed his subject. Not
content with a silent rebuke, our redoubt
able questioner demanded again t "Why
'don't' the preachers do such things new
allay's 1" and curling his lips with a Inger
of sell complacency. drew himself up
pompously in his seat.' ' , Our reverent
friend, (who, by the way, is a um or
great muscular power.) camly , left the desk
and Walked:deliberately to the pew, whet*
the interrogator sat, and fastening one hand
firmly upon the collar of his. coat, end ; the;
other on the waistband of his ''unmention
iibles," lifted him square out , of hieseer
and bore him down the aisle to.theentrence.
Pausing tor a moment there, he then,
turned his eyes upon his audience, and in
a clear, lull voiee. said, "and they east out
the devil in the loop of a distiller," and
suiting 'the action 'to the word, out went
knight of the mash tub, a la leap frog lash
•
ion, into' the street.
The good pastor quietly ' returned to his
desk and completed his diseoturse. After,
closing the services; as he was passing out
of the church, the out cast distiller with an
officer of the law, escorted our clerical friend
to the office of a magistrate,to answer for'an
assault upon the person of said
After hearing the case the magistrate dia.
missed the clergyman; and after ruuadly
reprimanding the complainant, fined him'
for molesting the services of the sanctuary.
Since that day we believe helms never.,
fora moment doubted tlt power 9f the ;
Methodist preachers t 9 cast nut devils, at
least within the limits olthe Ohip confer-,
ends." - • ' , -
AN ADVOCATE OF PIERCE ON T ut erairl.
OF REPENTANCE:--the . editor of the, •N.
Y. lkmocrat, after quoting I,he
Journahnid the Richmond Enquireeupon
the indebtedness of politicians to the presii .
makes its own remorseful 'confession ets ,
follows: ' ' ,
'lt is not unfiequent that the kientlaktp
Of an edinir is the politleal sto r k in - trade
upon which he, draws fo r every step he.
{.takes in the ort!y of (cuff.. e, a
' Witness, for instance, the tremendous mask
the pities Made of Mr- Pierce derintil:l! :
campaign olltiselention. We confess that
we look back with shame upon the , parr wc: .
'bora in that business during the tour
Imonths: of that caliv,a'ss. We wrote fur a •
'campaign 'paper which circulated more
than sixty , thousand coptex , a week, vsliaY
would make a bunk sit tint leasthan three hun
I t ir e d f u lio pages, all Proving must deafly,.
that he' was in intellect,. geninus.
• ciples and firmness of chareicter; a second • . „
! Jackson. Our heed 'almost aches- now
.
when we remember the weary days and
nights of editorial labor in which we 101 l
ed him through the battle smoke, over
the plains of Mexico, and initiated hire into . •
alremendous and most frightfully brasS
general, who never did faint from, fear
under the blaze and whiz of the salt-petre
anti bullets of the enemy. And now
see 'that bulrush thing he has turned out
to he, bows our Own spirit with shame
and regret. •
GFIAFTING.--Grafting is performed in
the spring. The last ol March is the prop.
ei time lor pluinti•and cherries, and April
(Or all others. In grafting, thrifty young
stalks should be preferred. The opera
tion is simple, 41 consists in cutting cid'
the stack at the point where 'we wish to
insert the scion, and splitting, the 'stalk,
down the centre ; the scion is cut at the
Iciiver end, in the form of a wedge, and in
serted in a split in the stalk ; the outside
bark of the scion should fit nicely in the
bark on the stalk. A, sarve made of one
pound of heesivax, six of rosin i melted
with one pint of linseed oil, is then used
to cover the seams made in the operation. `
so as to render the whole airtight the
salve should be looked to occasionsfy. and '
kept smooth and tight on the seams. (or it ,
sometimes gets open and lets in the sir,
which will destroy 'the scion. • Scions'
should be of the last year's groth, and' ups
each two or thee buds.
ICH AC ,AN ANAESTHESIA •-•-• 1 barna"!
Wakely, editor, we believe, of the I,entlee
Lancet, writes to the London idustraced
News, ~ T he 'experiment of the past fey
weeks proves to . my complete conviction
thaflocal antesthesia can be obtained by
the benumbing influence of ice, without
resorting to the — administration of chloro
form; which by its subtle power, renders
insensible the system generally ; and nice.
sionally produoes, those fatal effects to
which almost every surgeon can bear test.
imony. I have tried the ice in several
case, in both hospital and private practice.
and in almost every instance the success
was evident, the.pattent. when blindfolded.
being ignorant of the use of the knife." '
A. beautiful and chaste watese-lie the
perfect workmanahip of God, 3b.
glorrof ausehy the rue sheaf. of
earth sad wonder of the *aid;
Onib isOs &coma by it• arm kook