VOLUME 1. The New Militia Bill. .The following bill iu reference to the organization of the Militia, has passed both houses and is now in the hands of the Governor, viz: A SL'PLKMKNT to the act for the or ganization, discipline and regulation of the Militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, approved May 4th 1804. SECTION 1. Ji < it enacted by the. Sen ate and limine of Representative! of the Vommonirealth of Pennsylvania in (ien m-a! Aitemhlg met, and it ihere by enac ted by the authority of the name, That tho Governor and Slate Treasurer be and they arc hereby authorized and empow ered to borrow, on the. faith of the Com monwealth. at such time, iu such amounts and with such notice as they may deem most expedient for the interest of the State, any sum not exceeding three mil lions of dollars, and issue certificates of loan or coupon bonds of the Common wealth for the same, bearing six per cen tum interest per annum, payable semi annually in the city of Philadelphia, which certificates of loan or bonds shall not be subject to State or local taxation for any purpose whatever, aid shall be reimbursable at any time after the expira tion of ten years from their date; and the sum borrowed, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be and tho same is hereby appropriated to defray the ex penses which may be incurred under the provisions of this act: Provided , That, no certificates of loan or bond shall be is sued for a less sum than one hundred dollars : Provided further, ' hat no cer tificate shall be negotiated for less than its par value; and there shall be inscribed on the face of said certificates of loan or bonds that the debt thereby secured was contracted to repel invasion and defend the State iu war, and to be transferable on the books of the Commonwealth at the Fanners' and Mechanics' Bank in the city of Philadelphia; l*rovided further, That the Governor and State Treasurer are hereby authorized to use for the purpose of this act, temporarily, any funds in the State Treasury not immediately required, or, if necessary, to make a tcinpory loan, to be paid from the proceeds of the per manent loan hereby authorized. SEC. -. That the bonds or certificates of loan issued under the provisions of this act, shall be signed by the Governor and countersigned by the State Treasurer aud Auditor General, aud a correct and accu rate registry of the same shall bo kept in a book to be provided for that purpose in the office of the Aftditor General, who shall in ike annual report thereof to the Legislature; and tht Governor is hereby author.zed to draw warrants on the State Treasurer for such sums as may be neces sary to p;wy the proper expenses incident to the negotation of such loan ; the prep aration of the bonds or certificates of loan authorized to be issued by this act, and said warrants shall b« paid out of any moneys in the treasury. SEC. !5. That the Governor be and he is hereby authorized, by and with tho eon sent of the Senate, to appoint a compe tent person of military education experi ence and skill, to have command of all the militia forces of Pennsylvania to be raised under the provisions of this act, with the rank of major general who while in actual service, shall be entitled to the pay and emoluments of a major general in the United States; and he shall also have authority, in manner aforesaid, to appoint two persons of like military education, experience and-skill to be brigadier gen erals, who, while in actual service, shall be entitled to the pay and emoluments of officers of the §auic rank in the army of the United States. Provided, howevei, that Much general officers shall not be ap pointed to duty by the Commander-in- Chief, except when the force herein pro vided for shall have been called into actu al service in sufficient strength to require Burti officers. SEC. 4. That whenever the military force provided for iu this act shall be call ed into service by the Governor of the Commonwealth, it shall be the duty of the Adjutant General to notify, in writ ing, the Quartermaster General and Com missary Geueral of the point or points where the men are to rendezvous, with the number, as near as may be, and said officer shall forthwith advertise for pro posal* for supplying to the Commonwealth such supplies, ordnance, and ordnauce stores an may be necessary for furnishing {lie troops aforesaid, as are provided by the laws of the regulations of the United States, said proposals to be directed to the Commissary General aud Quarter master Geueral respectively, and to be opened after live days' notice, aud the contracts to be awarded to the lowest bid der by the proper officer inviting said proposals, aud adequate security to be ta ken fur the faithful performance of the contract before the same is awarded, uud AMERICAN CITIZEN. said officers shall publish and keep one file in their several departments for pub lic inspection, a list of all the proposals offered, including those rejected as well as those awarded, and before the accept ance of any supplies, ordnance, ordnance stores, or other military stores of any kind whatsoever, purchased upon contract, as herein before provided. It shall be the duty of the Quartermaster General or Commissary General as the case may be. in connection with the Auditor General and State Treasurer, to appoint from time to time as required, one or more disenter csted and competent inspectors, familiar with the value and quality of thesupplies, ordnance, ordnance stores, or other mili tary stores, so contracted for, whose duty it shall be to examine and accept or re ject the same, aud if accepted to give a certificate thereof to the contractor or vendor, and no bill rendered for any such supplies, ordnance, ordnance stores, or other military stores shall be paid untilso certificated and approved; the inspectors so appointed shall each receive five dol lars per day,for every day necessarily em ployed in the discharge of their duties, and shall severally be sworn or affirmed to discharge their duties with fiidolity: Provided, That the Quartermaster Gener al and Commissary General shall respec tively hive authority, if practical, to ob tain the supplies, ordnance, and ordnance stores, or other military stores, or any part thereof mentioned in this section, from the United .States Government paying them, if required, the cost"prices thereof. Provided, further, That the Commissary- General slial have power to purchase di rect, when actually necessary, and when there is not time to advertise for contracts, all "commissary stores actually needed for the 4roops: Provided, also, That no more than the actual cash price shall be paid for ( any article purchased. SKC. 5. That the Governor of the Com monwealth is hereby authorized and em powered to organize a military corps, to be called the Pennsylvania State Guard, to be composed of fifteen regimeuts, in ilue proportion of cavalry, infantry and artillery, or such portion thereof as may be deemed necessary. The said regiments shall severally be composed of companies of like number, and to be armed and equipped, clothed, disciplined, govoYned and paid while in actual service, of simi lar troops iu the service of the United States, and shall be enlisted in the ser vice of the State for a period not exceed ing three years, unless sooner discharged, and shall be liable to be called into the service of this State at such times as the Governor of the Commonwealth may deem their services necessary, for the purpose of suppressing insurrections, or repelling invasions ; and the Governor shall appoint all the regimental officers, and the compa nies shall have the right to elect the com pany officers, and said Major General and Brigadier Generals, and all regimental and company officers shall be citizens of this Commonwealth: Provided , That such portions of the said corps as shall be called into actual service, shall be sup plied and provided with ordnance stores, as provided for in this act, but when not called into actual service, such supplies, ordnance stores shall bo withheld until required. SEC. 6. The Governorof the Common wealth is hereby authorized to provide the necessary hospital arrangements, cauips of instruction, arms aud accoutre ments, garrison and camp cquippage, transportation, and all things necessary for the arming and equipping and putting into service, subsistence when in service, quartermaster's commissary and ordnance stores of the said Pennsylvania State Guard, and to make and adopt all need ful rules and regulations, to take and use horses for cavalry aud artillery service, for which full compensation shall be made within six months after the takiug of the same, and the person by whom the same shall be taken shall exhibit to the owner thereof his authority for such seizure, and shall at the time give to the owner a certificate statingthc number of hor ses taken, and the time when and by whom, and the service for which the same are required, and such supplies as in his judgmeut may be necessary, and to seize such railroads aud other means of trans portation as the exigencies of the case may demaud. SEC. 7. The Governor of the Com monwealth is also hereby authorized aud empowered to cause to be made au imme diate enrollment aud classification of the militia of the Commonwealth; and it shall be his duty to call and keep in ser vice, as loug as he may deem necessary, from the body of the said militia, or from such portions of the Commonwealth as he may deem necessary, the said Pennsylva nia State Guard, by volunteering or draft; Provided, That auy persons who may be deeiued by the board of examination able " Let us have Faith that Right makes Might," and in that Faith let us, to the end,dare to do our duty as we understand it"— A - LINCOLN. BUTLER, BUTLER COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1804. to do military duty, may be received as volunteers in the regiments provided to be raised by this act, without reference to age. SEC. 8. That if practicable, until the time fixed by law for making the enroll mentof themilitiaof the Commonwealth, the Governor is authorized and empowered to organize the military force authorized by this act, on the basisof the enrollment made in tho several districts of the State by the enrolling officers of tho General Government, but if practicable, the Gov ernor is hereby directed to cause au im mediate enrollment of themilitiaof the Commonwealth, to be made as provided for in the act to which thi3 is a supple ment. That when the assessors refuse or neg lect to enter upon the performance of the duties of enrolling the citizens of their respective districts, for a period of five days after being notified of their duty, the Governor shall appoint a competent person or persons to make the enroll ment. It shall bo the duty of the Governor to appoint one competent citizen in each county, whoshall be a physician, who, in connection with the county commission ers or city commissioners, shall constitute a board, three of whom, the physician be ing one, shall make a quorum, with pow er to determine who are exempt from en rollment under this act, and the act to which it is a supplement; audit shall be the duty of the enrolling officer to give notice, by publication in a newspaper of the county, of tho times at which such application shall be heard, and to notify said board when they will be required to hoar such applications. That all other duties in reference to the enrollment shall be performed as directed in the act to which this is a supplement, and that the physician so appointed to hear and decide on application for exemp tion shall receive for each and every day so employed tho sum of five dollars, and tho county commissioners or city commis sioner the sum of three hundred dollars per diem, to be paid out of the State Treas ury. That the Governor shall have authori ty to make and enforce all orders which may in his judgment be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act, and to effect a speedy enrollment and organization of the militia of this Commonwealth. SEC. 9. That the Quartermaster Gen eral be and he is hereby authorized to sell any unsuitable or unserviceable ordnance belonging to the State, the proceeds of which shall be paid into the State treas ury, and applied, if deemed necessary by the Commandei-in-Chief, in addition to the appropriation aboved named, towards the purchase of ordnance and ordnance stores. SEC. 10. That where the brigade fund of the county is not sufficient to pay tho assessors, as provided by the third sec tion of the act to which this is a suppli uient, the said assessors shall lie paid by tho several cities and counties in which such assessment is made. MATRIMONY IN THE CAMP. —The other day it was stated that a private soldier, named Kick,had married a re lative of the late President Tyler, a few days after he returned to camp near City Point. He says that his bride is a niece not a daughter of ex- President Tyler. During the transit of the army from the Chickahominy to the many of our officers vis ited the mansion and saw the young lady there, whom they suppos ed from her name (Miss Tyler) to be the late Chief Magistrate's daughter. Indeed, if lam not mistaken, says a correspondent, the aged relative in troduced several of our generals to her as such. Be the facts as they may, it was the the report here whet- I wrote that the soldier was married to a daughter of President Tyler. Chapter II of the romanco is one the conclusion of which leaves the happy pair in anything but a happy condi tion. After marriage they made their way up the James river to Bermuda Hun dred or City Point, where the bride remained while the bridegroom start ed for his regiment to engineer a fur lough. llis application was I believe, backed by General Butler and came thro' tho headquarters of General Pot ter, who returned it to the regiment for a statement of the man's character as a soldier. Alas ! for his bright dreams of bliss, the contemplated bridal tour of thirty days to Niagara Falls here received a sudden quietus. Private John Kick, for some reason, was con signed to the tender mercies of the Provost Guard, and is now under ar rest. - Report says some naughty things of him ; but, lest I should give publicity to the unfair charges, I will refrain from stating them, lleport also has it that Mrs. Kick was at Ci ty Point at last accounts, awaiting the return of her liege lord. From Waverley Magaziue. 41 SLANDER.'' VIK-II the storm of life is raging, And the tempest scattera wide; When our enemies are waging War on iw from every *ide; When the evil tongue of Blunder rob us of our all, We muffionly he the firmer, Or amidst the struggle fall. If our conscience do not chide ns We can safely stem the gale; And, though evil tongue* deride us, They can never make us quail. We will then lint rise tlie higher, And on enemies look down; For, when tried, as If by fire, We can belter stand the storm. Injured innocent, no longer l,et rile slander grieve thy heart; Walk straight forward, you II be stronger To sustain the martyr's part, goon the evil tongue will lire. And the breath of slander reaae, While you steadily rise higher Till you gain a lasting pence. ANFIIK M. Plllltf. ' WIT AND WISDOM. MODESTY is a quality that adorns a lady, but frequently ruins a gentleman. NAPOLEON says that "bayonets think." Yes, and few thinkers have so much kccncss, point and penetration as they. "MINE got? vat vil de Frenchman make next 112" as the Dutchman said the first time ho saw a monkey. Dlt. MADDEN thinks the momentum of the blood is owing to the pressure of the atmosphere on the skin. " FATHER, is a parrot that talks adumb animal ?"' "My dear, children should not talk while tlicy are eating." MH. SNOOKS was advised to get his life insured. " Won't do," said ho " it would be my luck to live forever if I should." "WHERE are you going?" asked a lit tle boy to another, who had slipped down on the pavement. "Going togetupl"was the blunt re ply. THE meanest man in the world lives in New Jersey. In ho ping him out of a river once, a man tore tho collar of his coat. The next day he sued him for as sault and battery. THE man who put up a stove-pipe with 6ut profanity has been found, and a com pany have secured him for exhibition in the principal cities. He will draw better than any pipe. A YOUNO lady, whose name was Patty, being addressed by a Mr. Cake, accepted him on condition ho would change his name, declaring she would never consent to bo called a " Patty Cake" AN American tourist was visiting Na ples, and saw Vesuvius during an erup tion. " Have you anything like that in tho New World ?" was tho question of an Italian spectator. "No," replied the other, "but wo have a Niagara that would put it out in five minutes." "THE tuau who raised a cabbage-head has done more good than tho metaphys ics in the world," said a stump-orator at a meeting. " Then, replied a wag, your mother ought to have a premium." THE following stanza, on the marriage of lleubeti Wise with Matilda Chcevis, is exceedingly well told and witty : At length she seized the profler'd prize, (A happy one, believe us,l For matrimony made her Wise— Before she was Miss Cheevis. A MAN advertises in the New Ro chellc Pioneer that whereas a certain girl had agreed to marry him, but now keeps out of his sight aud avoids him, there fore, if she does nqt come to his cabin within four days, he shall consider the bargaiu " broke," and hold her for all damages. "CAN you tell me where Mr. Smith lives, mister?" "Smith—Smi'li—what Smith? there are a good many of that name about in these parts; my name is Smith." " Why, I don't know his t'other name —but he's a sour, cross and crabbed sort of a fellow, and they call him Crab Smith." " Oh, I 'spose I'm the man !" AN old Yankee, when told by an Eng lish tourist iu this country, that the cele bration of the Fourth of July would be extinct, replied,— " Sec here, stranger, don't talk that way. I tell you, when the resurrection day comes round, the first thing done in the morning will bo to read the Declara tion of Independence." " First class Oriental philosophy will stand up. Tibbetts, what is lite? " " Life consists of mouey, a horse, and a fashionable wife." "Good. Next. What is death?" " A paymaster who settles everybody's debts and gives them tomb-stones as re ceipts in full of all demands." What is poverty ?" "The reward of merit genius generally receives from a discriminating public." " What is fame ?" " A six line puff iu a newspaper while living, and your fortune to enemies when dead." THE CONDITION OF TJIE SOUTH. Fast Failing from Exliaustation, 'HIE DI'TIOF THfc \ORTII REINFORCE THE UNION ARMY. RE-ELECT PRESIDENT LINCOLN. Brigadier General T. Seymour, lately released fVoru " under lire" at Charleston, has addressed a patriotic letter to Wnt. E. Dodge, Jr., of New York, in which he gives his impressions of the present con ditionof the Southern Confederacy. tleu. Seymour is a graduate of West Point, was with (Jen. Anderson at Sumter, and was stationed at the South for many years, so that he knows the Southern people well. The General says the rebel cause in fast failing from cxhaustation. Their two grand armies have heen reinforced this summer from the last resources of the South. From every corner of the land, every old man anil every boy capable of bearing a rifle has been impressed, will ingly or unwillingly, and hurried to the front. I.cc s army wasthefirstsostrength encd. It was at the expense of Hood's. The writerquotes from Gov. Brown's proc lamation of .July 9th to the Georgia mil itia, already published in our columns, to show that Leo's army was reinforced at the expense of the South Western I'ebel army, and says, "there must, indeed, have been desperate weakness when Georgia, and the Southern cause with it, were so neglected that Lee's army might bo made equal to the task of holding Grant to the l'otomae or the James, and the people of the South are intelligent enough to un derstand, and to appreciate the fact, and they have lost heart accordingly." The following is from a letter written by one rebel to another, that accidently fell into thehandsof one of the General's fellow-prisoners: " Very few pers ms are preparing to obey the late call of the Governor. His summons will meet with no response here. The people are soul-sick, and heartily tir ed of this hateful, hopeless strife. T1 ey would end it if they could; butour would be rulers will take good care that no op portunity be given the people to vote against it. By lies, bylraud, and by chi canery, this revolution was inaugurated ; by force, by tyranny, and the suppression of truth it is sustained. It is nearly time that it should end, and of sheer depletion it must end before long. We have had enough of want and of woe, onough of cruelty aud carnage, enough of cripples and corpses. There is an abundance of bereaved parents, weeping widows, and orphaned children in the land. If we can, let us not increase the number. The men who, to aggrandize themselves, or to gratify their own political ambition, bro't this cruel war upou a peaceful and pros perous country, will have to rendera fear ful account of their misdeeds to a wrong ed, robbed and outraged people. Earth has no punishment sufficiently meet for their villainly here, andjicll will hardly be hot enough to scathe them hereafter." This is certainly a no small proportion of the Southern people (despite the lying declarations of their journals, as wo have good occasion to learn,) that not only fa vor the progress of our arms, but that dai ly pray that this exterminating war may soon be brought to a finality by our com plete and perfect success. They have had too much of despotism—not enough of the triumph promised them. Many in telligent Southern gentlemen, do, indeed, express strong hopes of their ultimate in dependence, but such hope is not shared by the masses. Disappointed from the first in not having been acknowledged by foreign Powers—more bitterly disappoint ed in theirgeneralexpectation that Nort hern cowardice or dissension would secure their cuds—but a single chance remains, and that is the result of our next election fur J'retulcnt. If a Democrat succeeds to Mr. Liucoln, they profess to feel sure of negotiations, and sure of their Confeder acy. They believe a Democrat will be elected. In Mr. Lincoln's re-election they see only subjugation,annihilation, for the war must then continue, and continuance is their failure and ruin. In military affairs itisan excellent rule never to do what the enemy desires—is it not equally true iu politics'( Certain it is that the only remaining hope of the South lies in Mr. Lincoln's dejeat. Now, I am of a politician to know whether the election ef a Democrat cau result as favorably to the South as it an ticipates. The wish alone may be the pa rent cf their belief. But, I assured all who expressed that belief, that the North, asa mass, is as united*as the South—that no Democrat could be elected on a peace platform—and that any President who would inaugurate any measure leading to peace on the JJasis of the Southern inde pendence. would be promptly hung, by loyal acclamation, to the lamp posts in 'rout of bis own presidential mansion. However that may bo, if wo are but true ourselves, there can bo but one re sult. What we now need is men —only men—not substitutes or hireliugs who go forth for any motive but the country's good, and produce but little beyond depre ciating our armies,—but MEN —such as really constitute the State, and boast of being freemen and the sons of freemen. If these fail to support their country's cause in her hour of peril, tliey are un worthy of continuing freemen, and should blush ever to exercise a freeman's privi lege. But if bounties must be paid, lot it be iu Southern land, not in Northern gold; and armies of emigrants, whoso sons may aspire to even the rule of tho pation, will cross the seas to win the broad acres that disloyalty has forfeited to the State. To every intelligent soldier who has fought through all these indecisive cam paigns on almost numberless indecisive fields, the question constantly arises, with touching force, why not overwhelm our enemies. Tens of thousands of lives are lost because our array of strength is so disproportionately lees than that against which we battle. Everywhere we meet on nearly equal terms, whore we well might have four to one. The cost to us in blood and treasure, of a prolonged war, can hardly bo foreseen—the economy is infinite of such an effort as will fight as long as the strugglo is equal; it icill sub mit to such preponderance as we should show in every field. Glance at the summer's campaigns. If Sherman had but 50,000 or 75,000 more men near, the South would be lost, bo cause Ilood- would bo annihilated. If Meade had moved iu tho spring with re serves of 75,000 to 100,000 men, Lee would have been hopelessly crushed. Ev en at this moment a third column of 40,- 000 to 50,000 rightly moved, would give unopposed blows to the Confederacy from which she could never rise. What folly to struggle on in this way, when wo can send to the field five times tho force already there. What weakness to think we cannot conquer tho South. Behind the 'amos only boys and old men are to be seen, while here men buy and sell as in tho olden days of quiet, and regiments of able-bodied citizens crowd the streets of our cities. There is but one course consistent with safety or honor. Let the people awake to a sense of their dignity and strength, ami in a few months of comparatively trifling exertion, of such effort as alone is worthy of the great work, —and the rebellion will crumble before us. Fill this draft prompt ly and willingly, with goodaudtrue men; send a lew spare thousands over, rather than under the call, and the Summer sun of 1805 will shine upon a regenerated land. There arc some who speak of peace!—■ Of all Yankees the Southron most scorns is those who do not fight, but are glad enough to employ them, as they do their slaves, to perform their dirty work. Peace for the South will be sweet indeed ; for us, except through Southern subjugation, but anarchy and war forever. The Paci fic, tho Western, the Eastern States would at once fall asunder. The South would be dominant, and the people of the North would deserve to be driven a-field under negro overseers, to hoo corn and cotton for Southern masters. But no faint-hearted or short-sighted policy can set aside the eternal decree of the Almighty, who has planted no lines of disunion between the Atlantic and the Western deserts—between the great lakes and tho (Julf of Mexico—that signify llis will that we should be separated; and unless so separated peace is a delu sion, aud its advocacy a treason against the wisest aud holiest interests of our country. llealtufl'l Effects of the tomato. —The tomato is one of the most health ful, as well as one of the most universally liked, of all the vegetables. Its health ful qualities do not depend on the mode of preparation for tho table; it may bo eaten thrice a day, cold or hot, cooked or raw, alone or without salt or pepper or vin egar, or altogether, to a like advantage, aud in the utmost that can be taken with an appetite. Its healthful quality arises l'rom its slight acidity, in this making it as valuable, perhaps, as berries, cherries, currauts, aud similar articles. It is also highly nutritious. The tomato season ends with the frost. If the vines are pulled up before the frost comes, and hung up iu a wcll-ventillated cellar, with the tomatoes hanging to them, the love apple" will continue ripening until Christ mas. The cellar should not be too dry nor to warm. The knowledge of this may be improved to great practical advantage for the benefit of many who are invalids aud who are fond of the tomato. NUMBER 37. Singular Cave Researches. Some years ago interesting discoveries of human remains wero made in caves in the South-western partof France, and tho British Parliament has appropriated £l,- 000 to purchase one ot these oaves, to be placed under charge of I'rofessor Owen on behalf of the British Museum. The Man chester Guardian gives the following par ticulars about these caves and their con tents : " The locality of the caves is the de partment of Dordogne, in tho province of I'erigord. It is chiefly on the banks of tributaries of tho river Dordogne (which reaches the sea a little North of Bordeaux)! that the caverns pre found. In tho val ley ol the \ azere, one of -the principal of these tributaries, are several caverns, one 01 which, that of Kyaics, was bo't last year by Messrs. E. Lartet and 11. Chris ty, two eminent geologists. These gen tlemen divided the floor of the cave into Compartments, and, with a gcuerosity wor th V .of all praise, they have sent speci mens of the blocks thus obtained to tho principal museums in Europe and else where. In this way Mr. Plant received, about a fortnight ago, for tho Salford Koy al Museum, a slab weighing about five hundred weight. It was broken in the journey info two parts, each of which has been mounted under a glass shade. Tho shaking it had received on the way rub bed oft a quantity of debris weighing 20 pounds, and this Mr. Plant has carefully washed and sifted, and separated atom from atom. IFis patience has been fully rewarded, as lie has found articles of tho deepest interest. Before enteringintode tails it may be well to say that by far the largest number of bones found in the eav urns of Pcrigord are those of tho reindeer, an animal which has not been knowu with in the historic period south of tho north ern shorosof the Baltio. It is impossible even to approximate to the antiquity of an ago so remote: but Sir Charles Lyoll, iu bis " Antiquity of Man," estimates that tho cave-dwellers, tokens of whose man ners of life we are about to describe, flour ished not less than from ten to fifteen thousand years ago. These tokens consist of u compost mass of earth, charcoal, flint weapons and tools, bones, needles &c., which have been hardened into a solid ag glomerate chiefly by the action of tho cal earous droppings from theroof of the cave. This agglomerate, or breccia, as it is tech nically styled, has formed an artificial floor to the cave of various thicknesses, from three to ten inches. The practice of the. ancient inhabitants of throwing down the bones and other remnants of their feasts upon the floor of the cave in which thc-y continued to dwell, receives illustration from the description given by the Danish missionary of tho last century, Ilans Egodc, of tho habits of the Exquimaux. fie says their huts were veritable char nel-houses, heaped up with fat and the raw flesh of mammals and fish, which, to gether with the remnants of former feasts-, created a smell which a European could not endure, but which did not incommode a native iu the least. " At some period subsequent to the hu man occupation of the cavern a flood has rushed through it, blinging in its coarso, and leaving iu the cave, a number of boulder stones. These have been fixed to the artificial floor of breccia by the slow but unfailing mason—the droppings from the chalk strata overhead." The articles in the Salford Museum in clude flint knives, bone needles, broken teeth, and similar objects. The conclu sion deducted from theexploration of these caves is that a human race inhabited the caves in tho region since called Pcrigord at the same time as the reindeer, the au roch, and other animals which are now only found iu extreme latitudes ; that this people had no knowledge of the use of metals, their only arms and tools being either of broken and unpolished flints, or of bones or horns of animals ; that they lived upon the produce of the chase and by fishing; that they had no domesticated animal, neither dog nor eat, else some por tions of the bones and sinews that have been found wou'd have been eaten, and some remains of the dog would have been discovered; and that they were clothed in skins, which were sewn with bone nee dles and string inado out of the sinews and tendons of the legs of their prey. " What business does your ' husband follow ?" asked a person who wus engaged in noting the oc cupations of our citizens lately, of a female. " Why sir," she replied, "he follows drinking rum." Tho canvasser at on«e entered opposite his name, gentleman. \\ hy ought a carpenter nev er to allow himself to be ehuselled out of his dinner ? Because he can al ways chop a stake out of a piece of wood, or lay his hand on a saw's edge / (»au»agp) at a moment's notice.
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