HUH J t.J.' terms or this " amhiucax.' SUMBUMT AMERICAN. AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL. I'HUT OF AIyF,KTI8M. I square 1 insertion, . i fO 50 t do 3 do . 76 1 dn 3 d.) - I OA Evary subsequent imertic n, - 0 Sf Yearly Advertisements : one rolums, 125 hulf culumn,f 18. three squares, (12 two squares, f!l ; one square, $ 5. Half-yearly i one column, St 1 p half column, 1 12 ; three squarra, f 8 ; two squares, f.r; one s.ttiirr, (3 fill. Advertisements left without directions si to tf e lencth of lime they are to he published, will le continued until ordered out, and charged accord ingly. fjj-Niiteen lines make s square. H. B. MASSER, JOSEPH ElSKl.Y. ? PvBLtsNltR AHB S Psofsiktoss. Absolute arquicscence in the decisions of the majority, the ilal principle of Republics, from which there is no appeal hut to force, the vit.il principle and Immediate parent of desp.itiam. JirrrRao. Hy Mamcr &. r.lsolj-. Sunbury, Aorlliumbcrlaml Co. 1'n. Katurtlay, 9Iay 21, 1 ol. 5--Xo. - UHulc No, J U 1.1 L-. A. JTMSSEH, Editor. Office in Centre Alley, in the rear of If. B. Mas ter'! Store.) THE" AMERICAN" isimbliidiedfVery Satur day at TWO DOLLARS per annum to be paid half yearly in advance. No paper discontin ued till A Lt air. urates am paid. N'tsuhscriptioni received for a Ips period than six mditmj. All communications or letters on bosin.'s relMinn lothe office, to insure aitrntion, must be POST PAID. SI I UC. EltT'8 1WTKXT TIHtS M irhiiie h is n.iw been tested by mure A than ihiny families in this neighborhood, and 'h.ia Riven entire satisfaction. It i o imile in its -construction, that it cannot Ret out of order. It contains no iron l tut, and no -ptinasnr rollera to pet out of repair. It will do twice an murh wash ins, with less thnn hall the wear anil tear of an) of the lite invcniiiiu, ami whit is of (troater in.por. lm.re.il costs but lit 1 le over half its much as other washing machine. The niihm riber has the exclusive rich! for Nor thumlteiliind, Union, Licnming, Columbia, Lu zerne, and Clinton counties. Prire of single ma chine B. H. U. MASMSK. The following certificate s fioin a few of those who have these nntliii.es in use. iSunbuiy, Auq. 24, IS44. We, the subscribers, certify that we have now in u-e, in our families, "Slunreit's rVitent Wsh in a M irhine,"uiid ilo not hesitate tvin. thil it is a moat excellent iuvenii n. That, in Wa-hing. it w ill rave nn r than one hall the uul labor. Tl.al it d.ii a ii.it reiiiiie more than one thiril the usual ipumtiiy of so p innl water ; and that there is n.i rubbing, an. I const qmnily. little or no wear, ins. r trarinu. Th.it it knock nlTno buttons, and Hint the finest rlo.h. s, sucfi sscnllur-, lace, lurks, frills, Ac, may be w;is! ed in a ve y churl time without the lei.i-t injui , ai d ill fai t without ny .ai'pa.ent wear and (far, wh.atev.-r. We ihercf.ir.- cheeifiillv ri unend it to our friends and In the public, as a most useful and In Kir saving m-irhine. t:il.Kl.i; W. HkULS, A. .IOKHA.N. t ils WKWER. Ills PLE SA.NT8, (ilUEON MAKKI.E, ll.ni. (iKO. I WUI.KER, UKN.I. MENDUIfKS. XJIDEON LEIiSENMNH. TIran's ITotki., (form, rly Tremont Hnu-e. No. 110 (,'h. siiut siuei,) Philadelphia, Kcpleiiibcr Slst, I H 1 1 . I have um iI Shuircrt's P.ilent Washing Machine in my hnue upward of rip-hl month-, and do not 'hi ciiate to tny that I derm it one of ihe mo t use ful and valuable labor-saving machines ever inven ted. I formerly kept two women continually oc cuued in washing, who now do as much in two oays as On y then itiil in one week. There ia no Wear or tenr tn washing, and il regimes not more than one-third the u-tml iiiimlitv nl soup. I lixve ha.l a number of oilur in .chines in my lam ly, hut HUB II or lliriliy riiin-iitii m r.nj iii.uk i"t i .a He bn.ile ., L 1, ,rf ,,o.. ihat 1 would Hot I lu without one il they t.houl.1 coal ten lmes the .Jirice they ares.ildfor. DANIEL DEKK. ' . B.2SST FE1T1TE?. & CO. Manufacturers "f ' UMBRELLAS, PARASOLS, ami SIS SHADES, A'o. 113 Mm ki t SlriH, I li I I a 1 c I p li I a , NVITE the aitentioh of Meichji.ts, .M.uii)f.i JJ Hirers, Ac.. cVc, In their vti y extensive, ele f ml, new stock, prepared with gre:it rsre, anJ of li reil at the lowest p.osihle prices fir cai-h. 'i'lie princi.e on winch ibis concern i establish d, is t.. coiifult l he miituul mti icst of tin ir cu-lo-nieis an. I tin melvi s, 1 m .nufiictui nig a g.snl r 4 r e, sellins it Ht the low. at piice bir c..sh, and . rea i7.iti) ihc.tr own r inuueiatiou, in the amount of s. saml qti ck renins. P,.sr. m-imk in ex ti.m-t il I.- facilities for m innfac lure, iliev are pirpaipd to o.ily orders to anv c t ol, ami r.si. c fullv m. licit ilie atr..n:igc of M 1 4'h.ir.l, Mki.iiI iiiurt rs and Dea'eis (Xj- A lame aoriiiient of the New Mjle Cur tain I'lMHMlK Pliilad.lpbia, June 1. 1814 ly KRXZOT EL, I'OP.MI'RLV TltKllOT IIOl'Sl Ac. ll( iH Niiut Street, PHILADELPHIA. . rTHE M:Usn;lHER. recently r.f yJk A Readme. P would inform the pule jjlf 'jl Ire llist he has fitted up the above rapi-jLUllS-lci 'ID. a. ..I eoriM iiieiit i sUMlslunent. and will always he r. ad lo ei.trrl in vi-ilors. His es l ibliFhe.l repuiHiiou o the liue.it Is h..pe.l, will efl'ord full aurnce, Ihst his giiesla will be sup plied wi li ewiy coinf rt and .rcouini-sltiion ; wbila' his bouse will ! c uiiluc nl u -tier uch sr iMUeim 1 1 a will scen e a ch .r i ter f. ibe first responsibility, awl smi-lactory etileilammcut for in diviiu il- and t on I e-. C'liaiue for buacdiuK fl iierd.y. DANIEL HERR. ri,iUdel,,ii. May 25, IS41 ty ' To Cotui.i-y .lli-rchants. Hoots, Shoes, Iicitmets, Leghorn and 1'nlm Leal' Hats. (;. W. & L. H. TAYLOK, at lie 8. ll.cttrmr of Murki t nml Fillh Sti., riIIt.ADEI.PKIA, OFFER f..r a e an t xlensne ut-oiiiiuul of the al.oe si'u l s, all of ubnli they m II at unusual Ij low piice. mid p.iili' tl. il invite tl.e (tlculioii of bun m vikiltiiu li e riti. tn an I -nn nati n of their stock. (J. W. Ai L. U. TAYLOR. PtuU.lelphin, May S5, IIS44. ly I.IK.I iitlt S.1 1. K.-'lUe binuli f.nm ctil.iitiiiiK atiou: 100 ai res, aU.ui 2 nn e alh.ve Noitbum r.l ,nd, ..oj.iui nu Umla of Jie C Ilurlon, Jo n Lehou and olbeia, will be ao'd th.ap, if apphca i"h i made ..oii to ihe subseiibrr, funbury. Aug 31. H.B. MAS.-LU. LiX SI'.i:i The higlict price will he given lor Flas Sued, by Aug. 31. 1844. H. B. MASSE H. C'OTTAUB BIBLE!. Five copieaoftiie Cot ' Line Bible, the cheapest book, ever published, containing the commentary on the Old and New Testament, just received and for aale, for six dulUra, ,y June IV H. B. MAS8ER. FOREST VILLB iiit iss i:igiit DAY CLOCKS. riHE subfCriber baa just leceived, for sale, a few X of the above celebrated Eight Day Clocks, which will be sol. I at very reduced prices, for cah. Also, i.Uietior 30 hour Clocks, uf the be.t nuke and qi.nbty, which will he sold fur ra-b, at f 4 60. Also, superior Biabs U0 hour Uoks, at f 00. Dec. 2, 1843. H.B. MAUSER. The Great Kn;llah Rail Rnnil. TheCrent Wpatprn Railroad in England, ia the rrn. piffantic work of the kind in the w orld I and wore it nnt for the onward prnrrrena of the ntp, it would hardly be exported to have ita par nl el in our day, in any country. It ia not on ly of jrrrat extent, and made to surmount the most formidable obstacles, btit it hi of the moat stupendous proportions, Ftirpassins every other Riil Rond which tins yet been built. It extend across the Island of Great TlrflBin from the Thnmes to the Severn, from 1indnn to Bristol, a distance ot U8J milea. TheRail Roads of Great Britain and the United Stiitm, with the exception of the New York and Erie Road, are 4 feet RJ inches wide, Grpat rx pense has hppn incurred to prpvpnt hifjh ffradrfi, and with the exepption of oneprade nar Bris tol, which ia feet per mile, the fteepeal irradieut is 151 loct pr mile, and this is but a short distance. There are 43 plinea,20of which are ascending from London towards Bri stol from 2 to 8 leet per mile. Twenty-two are deticeudinf; towards Bristol from 1 J to l." feet per mile, 1 for a chort dir-tance fi'JJ leet. There ore 14 levels. To reduce the line to these planes, required deep cuttings, hioli embank ment and 8 tunnels, Tl.e cuttings nre.'H feet wide at the level of the limb, with hanks il"P'iig from 3 to 1. The aveniye rost o( The earth work w.is 40 cts. per cubic yard. The Siilford cultinu, measures Wi tHMI cubic ynrds, costiiirr sji'JKI.OCKI, nd the Siiltord embankment fcal (HKI, coting n much larger sum. The Box Tunnel is the largest Rnil Rond or Canal Tunnel in the world- It is 31'.'3 yds., or, over 1 miles in length. The clear width of the tunnel, at 7 feet from the bottom, is 30 feet, and the clear height over the rail is 23 feet. The eastern cnttinsj contained l..r33.000 cubic yards, costing S;fV.3,-J(K). Where the tunnel is lined with bricks, the sides ate con structed of seven nnps, the arch of six r:ngs, , . - , , 8(1,1 t,,e "nv" ' f",,r ''''P"- Thefounti-t.lu 30 feet in width. At the eastern entrance, the surface isGOJ leet alxne the level of th rails, and at the western entrance CI feet. The lull was less than 3(K) feet high. There are 11 shafts fur airholes, varying from 04 to 'Ji)3 tert, tVotn the rail road to the top ot'the hill. They are 'St feet in diameter, and lined with brick or stone masonry. The brick work in mortal cost Al", and in cement, lfi ?." per cubic yard, in cluding the excavation for brick work. The total exeavition of the tunnel, which consisted of freestone, and I'roi-stnue and marie, wns 21?. ('(Ml cubic yards, coaling, exclusive of the 11 sbutts and the arcliinj, more lli.ui f(itHl,(KHI. As two sets of in -n could work in eiich sh.il't, n isr! one set at etirli end, nmkitig twenty four sets of men and as each set of men consisted of sixteen, ten miners and six fellers at eneh lieadinir, 3S0 tnen rntild woik at a ;ime, cr se ven hundred and s x'y men (Hiring the day and flight. The tunnel and sbatls were Commenc ed in lSlfi, and finished in June, 111, nntnn e five years. The quantity of powder used in the tunnel for blastitiL', w as one pound for each ri bic yard of freertoiie, coslinff about jWIMl.tHH) Three of the shafts, thu deepest ones, were worked by strain engines, and the others by horse gins, each shall having two gins driven by three horse. In one slialt were two en pines, one. for rnising and lowering the materi als and the other for pumping out the water. Such are some of the facts relating to this gi gautic tunnel, which cost, including every thin?, more than 1 fMKI.fKH), and employing more than 7(H) men, nearly five years. There are, besides this great tuntit'l, several others; the Brislmton, IUH) yards in length; another nur Bribtul, 330 yards; and another -Mo yards. There arc severnl viaducts, the principal ol which is one ovrr the valley tif the Brent, eon constructed of brick w ith etone iinpoct.-, cornic es and caping its length is Wi (eel, height 1. A bridge at Maidi nhead, ?fiS tftt long, and 5i feet liiir h. The land enclrwu tor this rail road averijes liacresa ir.ile, ciMHurH.tKH po i-ids ster liig.ore.Witl.:IKUHHI: and thewh.de road coil more than J5,M.W,ur iSrjti.4K,tKitl. The want of risim prevents tis from going more into detail in reference to this unpen long wi rk. It cost nearly ns much as all the Pub lic Wmks of IViiiis) Ivuiiia, nml cottlJ only have been constructed in a country uf great wealth, and connecting such a phceas lliiMnl with lindon, the rtutest city of the world. liar, Argus. BisaUTiPi'L. Invention. The Newark Adver tiser says that Mr. Crane baa recently added a nother ingenious conirivanco to his Twelve Month Clock. Il ehowa now the day of the month, and also of the year, and exhibits the Sun and Moon rising and setting every day in the year with the utmost undeviating accura cy and regularity. The Moon i the revjlvea in her orbit ia made also to revolve upon her axis, showing every day with equal accuncy, her different phases. The apparatus used fur this purpose is exceedingly simple, and is by no means liable to ret out of order. ! null In otltnde. The enthusiastic tem,ieramenl oftho violin ist, Ole, may be easily inferred from the pus sinuate character of bis musical compositions and perloriuancps. We bav only to add thnt his mind is no Ipss characterized by simplicity and singleness of devotion. He tsalmost boy ish in his enjoyments, while his expression of them is as impulsive as the breeze, and ipnte as refresh in if. IC'lTo. his mental city still befop;rrpd with Irinthmism, could step from the daily swept trottnir of the tourist, and dare the mud ol thp American Bottom,' to gaze through the 'lik ing Glass Prairie' windows, opposite, it is not to be wondered at that Ole should be equally ea ger. The afternoon succeeding hi t second conrprt here in St. Ixiuis, tire impraving bust of the horseman, clad in a particularly light and ele gant summer frock, and mounted on a no less spirited looking horse, was seen to dash off from the 'Planters'',' precipitate itself down Market street, and jerk itself tip as suddenly, opposile Phillips' Music store. Bull speaks Knglish ve ry well, but still there is something of the 'Dutch,' about it, as the St. liuis Satirists would say . The Prltnrip, Mistelir Thillips vat Vay vas I go to the I't liarii .'' Our advertising friend and, by-the hyp step in sod see his splendidly conceived alteration opened his tpiniut eyes and remarked, that Mr. Bull certainly did not think of riel inir twenty miles on horseback, within a few hours of sun set, loa spot devoid of habitat ton, or even shelter, with a thundering storm gathering in the west, moreover ! 'Yes, I moast sec the Vhmrir, and just now, I have play two nights in the hot room, aud i want air. I have got nothing but gasp all her -,' touching his broad chest; 'I must see the Prharie.' W ell, but,' said Phillips, you'll have to slay out all night !' 'Veil, I shall see the Prhnrie. in the night' 'There's a devil of a storm coining up !' 'I shall see the I'rharie in the storm.' 'But, you've gut a (bin coal on!' I can see the Prharie vitisjt any coat,' In short, it was spiritually an Migatn move merit on the part of the musician pr m.m'io at that.' lie could not watt liir a party that might be arranged next day; he irotrftnot per suade his usual ronirfion rti i-nyre to stay out all night ; and he thoultl not compel his setvaut ; the lit was i u him, and the Solitude of Ihe prairie' he was determined to enjoy Soli- lary and uloiie.' He procured a vast amount of tinuiti llioibte information, whirh he caul ye' to paragraphtcally, galloped down to the ferry boat, ro.le twice round thu engine apartment in the centre by way of getting nvrrin, and u a only stopped by the sudden halt of" his steed as hi eye cntiirht the riht of a piton-rnd. Dav waned, nijht fell, the storm held its revel till near morning, the sun rose beautifully, 10 a. m. saw the streets dry, and about meridian the anxious friends of the musician w ere made hap py hy his re-appearanre drenched, dried and bedracrrrd, but his eye filled with libt and h' heart with music, as ustiil ; he shall tell his adventure himself; 'Y'es, he vas fine fellow, dat horse, hn oive three kick ven he leave the fehrrv, and I feel jut like him, I five three kick Ion! No, d.rt ,,, know any road, but every body tel.! n.t, fn ri'ht on, and I o. Very tick mud to be sure, but I don't mind mud nn the prharie. I ride on, and after pond w',ile come to ever so many roads, and I a8 bother, but I link tn mvsell my borso has nue instink, and let him go; and vat find out he tink just like me he take the tick- est mud tis), and I goon acjain ; and when it got pretty near dark, I come out on the prharie all wide beautiful fine grass -flower so tunny bird all sing sing I feel lioltt as if I c.Mild jump up and lay di-re, and my boise be feel just like me again, he jump up, too, and den he sni'.T the gras,,iud k ck up ml his behind, and gn'.e hf-he-ht-t e ' Veil I lauy h ut him vher ry iniKiti'li, and get down to let h in eat dat fi.ie gras whilu 1 liten touiltlie sounds, nml look at de birds, O, dere vas one beautiful l.ttle kind all black, vid red bend, yellow vuiys and I vas surprise to hear to tunny il.tl'i rent song. Veil I vulk nvay, and vul you ttuk ! if dut horse fine itinlitik be run right after me and rub tne nil aver ; just aa if he like tnc for give him de grass t and be look tne right in de lace, and den he go 'he-he-he-e e !' again. Veil, he 'muse vherry mootch, sud 1 forget dat it get dark till I feel de rain, and den I say to tny borne, now ve go home,' and 1 ride back back back but it get quite dark, and ve have to valk to keep in de mud. Veil, I keep in de mud, for I say, vhile I keep in the mud, ve'ts ull right! but after long time, I no leel no more mud, snd I Vas tear I vas lost Oh, yes, I vas vherry vet. It rsin all do lime, but the clouds vas so beautiful, vid de lightning I snd the thun der roll so grand and my hone fine iiutink he st up to look, juel like tne I Oh, yes, I vas Come to 1 ttle hotie, at lnt vherry nice penp'e Vid nothing to eat, but Vat I care, my hore have belly full i.rfine grass, and lirk my face ven I put him in tie shed, and I go to bed up funny lad der dat 'muse me vherrv mootch, tis, only I vnke up all stilF in de niifht, fir tny chamber have vherry jjo'sl vindow but no fhiss in him, so I valk shout till tliyltrrht, ven I have joy to see de sun rise and my droll horse go 'lie-he liC' e-r-e ' for good mornintr !' 'Oh, yes, I know de prharie look better ill fine vetither, but I say to myself, if 'tis beautiful in April it must blrijrh' in May, and t'lorious all time ! It the mud vns tick the "rasa vas de richer ; if de storm not come to make me vet, I vas not see the liuhtninu ! and if I not t'pt stiff in the lint I vas lie awake discontent in the ho tel. It vas beautiful trip ! It make me Ihiil'Ii ven I link ; and that rascal horse, ask htm and he say 'lir-ltr-lir-e-e-r,' too.' We Ijbvp rot been 'drcssm? up' this story ; it is the musician's own: we only wish that we could present his mixiure of sitnpl icily and earn estness while telling it. ''Buz' may find 'ser mons in stones,' hut it is very clear that they must be Iinnilan stones; it lakes an Ole mil a Jnhiniy Bull to find music in the mini of tin "American B ittotn " St Louis liipult. Ah l'srlllnt Interview lit tlie Alllmlll I'l Lull. (ireen, the Reformed (r-tnliW, reeetit'v inadi an excursion ibrouh tlm Auburn State Prison He gives the follon ing necounl of his interview with a murderer : "On my return to the prison i ffke, I wns in trodured to the ch iplain. Rev. O K. Merrill, which reverend geiil'eiimn informed roe that a man by the name of Wyait, then confined in one of the cells, tor t hu murder ot (.onion, on the I'illi of March, in the Auburn Slate Prison, had confessed to him that he had lived a gam bler several years in the South and West, and lie would like I sin uld call uisin him. 1 ac couiiiiied li nil to the cell of the mutderer The dour was thrown upon its grating hinges, w hen the reverend gentleman introduced me as an acquaitilati-oot his who had truvelled South several years, and thought that he (Wyatt,) would be giad lo converse w ith htm. He said he was happy to see me, and asked too '.o he seated. After a short discourse, relative to the d .fferent classes of men then in confinement, I a-ked him what he followed in los travels throtiiih the South. He told me L'snihltng. I asked hiiii how lonj; u had been engsfed in ! that nefarious business 1 lie said twelve or I thirteen years. I in-kod h in if he. knew tuiun gamblers ! He slid he did, j -ked him if he en r knew one by the mine ! f Jreen. He said he did. I ii-kcd his name, I He snsweted 'Jnl.n ;' said he knew him in j 1:?' 3, J, and ft, and saw bun in 1-1J in St. I .oil is. avked him it he was intimate Willi (iieen. He raid In-kei bun as one I'atnbier knew another. I a-ked il I tiiVored him. lt. Snd if I W 'tlid stand in the Imlit In- w. ,, t. I, tne. I il nl so. I e said I looki-d It'ne the man I told hint I was Ihe nun, l,i t,,,t never knew hini by the name o! Wyatt. He said I did not t that Wyatt vas not his real mime, lie then told me 8ne,,.ri which was not his real name, and )u-'e.l me il I did not hear of a man heinj n, ordered near St. Ijouis, hi the year 14 and of two men being arrested, both trieil and convicted, one having a new 'rial granted him, the other beinir hung. I lold hi in tliat I thought I bad. He saul he w js the man lhl had trie new trial grained, and was ucip.nlted ; 'and,' said he, 'liny hung the wrong uiun ; lie was innocent ; I am the guilty man ; but they hung bun ami cleared me.' 'But, says I, 'you were under a ditlerent name still, at that tune.' He said, 'Yes, hy none of these names do you know me, but my real name yon are familiar with. Vi ur name,' said he, 'I knew in the year lSl'J ; the gamblers Called ymi John, but Jonathan is y.nir real nuino.' My curiosity was highly e.xc.ted at tlje slr.tnge nianaenieiit uf Ihe murderer. But yon may iunjrme the in crease ofii when he told nu his real name. I hsiked at the murderer and Could scarcely b.'lii ve my nW'i: eye ; yet he tood In-liire nn a I Villi; marvel. have pledged secrecy a to bis real name until after his cxecut mn. I in terr.ioated him on h's lir-l step in vice, an I bow he became so burdened. He t"!d me to remember tl.e treatment he h id received from tlie Lyncher' liirh at VicMmrg. I did, b it my eyes could scarcely credit reuliiy. I bad known him in 13', 3 4, and in the early part of '35, as a barkeeper in VieWlmrg. He was never a shrewd card-player , but ut that time he via considered an inuflent,ive youth. The coffee house he kept was owned by North, who with four others were executed on the olh ol Ju'y, lSoVi, by Lynch Law. Wyatt and three others were takeu on the morning of thu ?lh, ktrtpped and one thousand lushes given to the four, tar red and leathered, and put into a canoe sud sot drill uu Ihe Mississippi river. Il makes my blond curdle snd my flesh ijiuier to Ihtiik ut the suflering cumluiuQ ul these unlorlunate men, setsdrittcn the morning of the 7th uf Jj'v, wi'h the Smiling sun upon their mangled bo dies. 1'ivo died in about two hours after they were set nfioat. Wyatt and another remained with their hands and feet bound forty hours, suffering more than ton true can tell or pen de scribe, when they were picked up by some slave iiejrrues, w ho started the two survivors to their quarters. 1 1 is companion dietl before they arrived. Wyatt survives to tell the horrors of the Lyncher's lash. He toM me seven murders bad born isconioned by their oiimercitul treat ment id him, mid one innocent man bung. I know his statements tube true, for I had known him before and his truth in other pr:icu- lers cannot be doubled. He murdered his se venth man, fur which crime lie will bo execu ted." The Hanger's Adventure. A corresxndent of the Knickerbocker, after desci ibmg a visit to the residence of a very old gentleman, Dr. Bl ink, in the Western part of Massachusetts, relates the followinn details of nn adventure, during the old French war: 'At nineteen years of B!?e, he joined the ar my of the provinces, that in 177") essayed to take Crown Point from the French. He march ed to the lakes with Col. Fphraitn Will'atns, than whom a more gallant man never breathed the air of New F.iiolatul. The doctor (ought under his command at Lake (ieorge, i n the me inorable eighth of September ; saw, or inin- g tied he saw, the fall of his brave leader; and quite sure that he put a bullet into the French officer. Mons. St. l'ieire. The next year he j iiiud linger.-.' company of Bangers, and was stationed with a parly of them at Forte Ann, not tar frimi vi here Whitehall now stands. But ai '.ti it day it was a "dark and bloody erotind ;" a frontier station in the forests, which were fil led w ith rival savages attached to France or F.nglnnd. One day, in mid-winter, eight rangers, with a sergeant, were ordered out on some service; the doctor did not know what, but probably to seize some straggling Frenchman about Ticon ileroga tir Crown Point, and brinff hi.ntothe lort, for the sake of obtaining intelligence. I v was hinisi If on the party. A narrow road, or rather path, led northward toward Canada, and they followed il lor several hours. There had just been n heavy fall of snow; nil the pines nml hemlocks in the forci-t were loaded thick with it ; and as the nOcrnoon was still ami clear, oti'y occaional (likes or li jht mas ses dropped lYntn the burdened boeghs like fea thers. Tbesecireii'nslnnees ws-re stamped on Ihe old man's mind, seeming like a constantly recurring dream. The rangers waded in In dian file through the .-now, and n danger was apprehended, a 110111 was placed botne rods in ndiHt ce, one ,, each flank, and another behind. Tins la-t wiif, the doclnr hiutsclt, 'and this was Ihe .iiii I carried,' said he taking a short ilea- V p ece Iruiii a corner. I hey saw no signs of Ihe enemy ; there was no sou ml but the note it the little 'chick a-dee-dve,J so fu miliar to the pine w i nils in Ihe winter. At length they deocended into o hollow : the frozen sheet of Like (ieorge lay not fur on to the left, and a steep hill on the right. The ground a short distance before them, was low and swampy, and a liitte brook had spread it self out on the path, making a frozen space, tree ironi trees, ucros which their advanced man w is now slonly (rumpling, crushed his b. Kits into the ice and water at every step. He paused suddenly, turned shurply round, and g.ive the low w histle appointed as the signal of alarm. He ha.l st en the tracks uf uiiny mocu sined feet in the fresh snow beyond. Thote was not time to think ; the loud report ot a gun broke the stiluesu. The ranger gave a shrill scream, leaped four teet into Ihe air and tell Hit. InsUutly the Indian yell burst from the wimds on our right and left followed by the stunning mule of more than fuiy guns, and not a in in ot'the rangers but one ever moved alive Iro n the sp.it whore he stood transfixed with surprise ut tliosuJdcu death of their Comiade. Tint man wis oi.r hero, whoso position, far behind the rvM, save I mm. He remembered the panic felt at the fierce burst of yvlls and n.u-ketry, nn. I the smhleti ru-h of the savage swarnt t'r in their ainb'i-'i, upon his fillen com rudes ; and, in Ibe net instant, that his me mory could recall, he wns (lying back toward the fori, l heard sharp, sud. len yelps be'iind bun, and glancing back, t-a w twoludiitns bound ing oil his track. He ran a mile, he should think, without turning or hearings single sound; then turning bis bead, saw an Indian leaping silent as a spectre, v tthin a few rods of him. With admirable coolness, ln turned tpiick'v round, and raisins his gun with a steady band, fired with such good effect that the Abenaki pitched forward to the ground, and his shaven head ploughed lip the rimw for yards, by the iinnu'so 'f his headlong pur nit. The y. nine Soldier turned snd fl. d again, and as be din so he heard the repnpr of the other Indian's gun ol low ed by the loud loinun n? of t 'P l I . No alert and slluitivo were his faculties, that he obecrved where the tullet struck upon a loaded bough in (rout of him ; scattering tl.o glittering particles of snow. , The path now led downward with n strrji descent ; at the bottom sn nncient pine tree I; :. I fallen across it, whore sharp broken branch'-- rose up perpendicularly from the prostrate ttttvk four or five feet from the ground, blocking tip the way, like n Sristling chevnux-de frise. Tin rangers had previously turned aside to avoid it. There was no time to do so now. The doctor' limbwcre small and light, but as active n-a, deer's, and the Indian's tomahawk wasclo-o behind. Without hesitating he ran down tmt sprang into the air. Hisf t caught, so that lm fell on the other side ; but l.e snatched up h.s gun and ran again. In a moment, he hen I a wild and horrid cry, and turning ns I e ran u j the opposite hill, he saw s sight that has tnur dennl his sleep for tunny a night. The dariter savage had leaped like him, but not so well ; lm hid tripped, snd one of the broken btsnches had caught and impaled him on its upright point, passing upward into the cavity of his. chest ! lie stw the starting eye-balls, and the painted features hideously dislurted, and paus.'d to see no more. About sunset the sentinels of Forte Ann si w him emerging from the woods, runumg as if the Indians were still behind him. A strong party sent out next morning found the bud es of the rangers stripped, and frozen in the various positions in which they died, so thnt tl ev ap peared like marble statues. On a ire clo e by, the French officer who commanded tlie A benakis bad fastened a piece ol birch bark, in scribed with an insolent and triumphant mes sage to the F.'iglish. The bodies of the two Indians hail been removed, although the white snow around the o'd pine tree retained i.ief. tacahle marks of the tragedy that hid been en acted there, and was beaten hurd by the mora sins of a cruwd of savages w ho had gathered u hunt that place. The taste of wnr was enough for the doctor's mart ml zeal. He did not take the field nnin till twenty years afterward, when he came to Washington's camp at Cambridge, arme ' wA.i probe and balsam, instead of a mubket and pow der." (liitktloui anil Anwer. 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