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The whole art of Government consists in the art of being honest. Jefferson.
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,Fef fe rsonian Republican.
From the Philadelphia Sun.)
X Like an Open, Honest Heart.
J like an open, honest heart,
Where frankness loves to dwell,
JVbirh has no place for base deceit,
Nor hollow words can tell ;
Sot in whose throbbing plain are seen, ,
The import of the mind, ,
Whose gentle breathings utter nought, .
But accents true and kind. . ,
I scorn the one whose empty acts,
And honied words of art
Betray the feelings of the soul,
With perfidy's keen dart ;
No more kind friends in such confide,
Nor in their kindness trust, A
For black ingratitude but turns, if
Pure friendship to disgust.
Contempt is but a gentle word,
A feeling far too mild,
For one who confidence betrays,
And guilt has sore beguil'd ;
That hate which hellish fiends evince,
When in dark torments toss'dj
Is not more loathsome to the soul,
Than one to honor lost.
Then give me one with heart as free,
And gen'rous as the air,
Whose ready hand and greeting kind,
Give proof that truth is there ;
Whose smiling countenance well shows,
Affection warm is found,
And spirits pure as Saints, whose notes,
Through heaveans' vaults resound.
Souther it Cholera Anecdote.
One cannot be struck with the great dispropor-
I :i m the iiuraoer 01 wnites anu DiacKs carnea
liuv the cholera at the south, and the Richmond ,
'pillican says that at least five blacks die to
lie white; and gives as the reason, that they do
N control their appetites and live prudently. In
.uition to this, they nearly all believe that t man's
-eisnxea, ana mat it is .scarcely wprtn ms
wjr aim avuiu u. x.w wMun iviait;
umowing
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"nans amusing even in su Btriuus a luauuri
fsn attack of the cholera, is the uniform peftin'ac-
jrcith which the colored subjects will deny to
5ir medical attendants that they have eaten any-
R which could make tbem sick. An eminent
ajsician of our city informed us that oji beingitoo. Wonder if I'll ketch that Jim Sparks, jew
to a necrro suddenly attacked with cholera J
J asked him whether he had been eating fruit or
Mgetables. ' Oh, no, Sir,' wasthe reply, 'nothing
Kftekind.' What, have you eat no apples or
Perties! " No, rib,' said the negro, I never eats
eiD any time of the jear.' Well, I believe you
't'said the Doctor, 4 and I'll prove it in a short
"ne.' ThA nVivcirinn nrJministfirprl a rnmit. th
palt of which was the ejection of about a quart
Mapples, stems, seed and all ! ' Well ;' jsaid the
lor, 'I thought you told me, you had not . been
ping apples. Look at those. Are they not ap
ples!' 'They does look like 'em, Sir.' Are
kV not apples V ' Yes, Sir, they are, that's a
act. 4 Well, how did they get into you, if you
pilot eat 'em ?' 4 Please God, Massa, I don't
k bi'U I never ate anything of the kind.1
'The conclusion to which our medical friend
jan Was th st ' tlie only way to get. the truth put of
ySro is to vo.-nil it out of Awn.'if he won't own it."
I
l&Qne of the most Beautiful Gems in oriental
feature is contained in a passage from .a-ger-
R post, Sadi, quoted by Sir W. Jpnes. theiSen-.
pnt of which is embodied in the followingtlines:
The sandal tree perfumes when rwen;
The ate that laid it low.
man who hopes to be forgiven, 1 ;-J'-Forgive
and'- bless his foe.
Mmed, Et $ieetbwriyMn Bear' county,5 F"ebr.-!,-byRev.
Mr, WdiCUt. Silas" Lion to. Miss
From the New York Spirit of. the Times.
How Capt. Sinioh Suggs Escaped
from an Alabama Sheriff.
It was a bland September morning, in a year
that need not be specified, that the'Captain, stand
ing in the West door of the court house at Dade
ville, perceived Sheriff Elils merging therefrom,
a bundle of papers in his hand, and looking as if
he desired to execute some sort of a capias. The
Cap. instantly betho.ught him that there was an in
dictment pending against himself for gaming, and
began to collect his energies for an emergency.
The sheriff hailed him at the same moment and
requested him to hold on,
Stop, Ellis right that in your tracks as the
bullet said to the buck,' Suggs responded, them
dockyments look venernious.1
1 No use,1 said the officer sooner or later you
must be taken ; dog-face Billy Towns, is here and
hell go your security
Keep off, I tell you'Ellis ; I ain't safe to-day
the old woman's coffee was cold this mornin' ;
it fretted me. IfyouVe got anything agin' me,
keep it till court I'll be thar waive all formali
ties you know.'
D- d if I waive any thing,'' replied the sher
iff advancing. ' I'll put you whar I can find you
when wanted.'
Suggs drew ah old revolving pistol, whereupon
the sheriff paused.
' The blood,' shouted the captain, of the high
sheriff of Tallapopsy county bb upon his; r own
head; -If he crowds on to me, I give fair warnin,'
I'll discharge said revolvin pistbl seven several
and distinct times, as nigh into the curl of his fore
head as the natur of the case will admit.'
For a moment the sheriff was intimidated ; but
recollecting that Capt. Suggs had a religious dread
of carrying loaded fire arms about his person, al
though he often sported them for effect, he briskly
resumed his stride, and the captain hurling his
" revolver" at his head at once fell into a " killing
pace," towards the rack where stood his pony
Button."
The sheriff's horse; by chancei was tied at the
same rack, but a wag of a fellow catching Suggs'
ideaj unhitched the pony, threw the bridle over
bis neck, and held it ready to be mounted ; so that
the captain was in his saddle, and his hag at half
speed, ere the sheriff put his foot in the stirrup.
The chase was a long and a hot one, and the
sheriff gradually gained on Suggs until their arri
val atuhe crossing at Eagle creek, when the latter
suddenly turned his pony's head down the stream,
and before the sheriff had arrived at the brink, he
was out of sight in the bushes.
Poor Ellis was fairly beaten. He plunged his
horse into the swamp to, try and head off the vic
torious Suggs, but the mud was so soft that after
floundering. about a little while, he gave up the
chase in despair, and. turned his horse's head
t,m.,j
, ljwiiic n aiu.
Meantime Capt. Suggs kept his cours'e down
the creek, talking to himself :' Wonder how fur
'tis down to the Bend ! This creek makes into
the- river about a mile below it they say. I judge
jfmv old woman knew whar I was iroin'; and wlib
j wag g0,ng tQ seQ gheM he yearlh shake.
But she don't know: its a DrinciDle that Providence
I ' T "
nas put iiho me oosom oi a man leastways an
. n. i -r i x ji
raenrto run on, and talk a heap afore their wives,
to nriak'em believe they re turnirf wrong side out
before'' em and yet not tell 'em the fust blessed
Vord of truth. It's a wise thing in Providence,
larkin' round Betsev. down at old Bob'tf!'
On the morning after the occurrence of the ad
ventures we have, narrated, Capt. Suggs sat in
long trim built Indian canoe, which was moored
to the north, bank of the Tallapoosa river. Near
him sat Miss J3etsey Cockerell. She sat facing
the captain, oh board laid across the gunwales
of the boat. Miss Betsey was a bouncing girl,
plump, firm and saucy with a mischievous rolling
eye, and a sharp word forever at her tongue's
e'nd. She seemed to be coquetting with the pad
dle she held in her hand, and occasionally would
strike it on the water, so as to besprinkle Captain
Suggs, much to his annoyance.
Oh, Captain, you do persuade me to promise
you so hard: And Jim Sparks says you're mar
ried ; and if you ain't you mought 'a been twenty
years ago you're old enough.' (Splash.)
' Dang if, mind how you throw your water I
Jim Sparks is a triflin' dog if I have got a wife,
Betsey, she's goin' mighty fast.'
' Goin' whar?' asked Betsey, striking the water
again.
''Confound your paddle ! can't you keep still?
Providence, is, goih' to take her home, Betsey
she's dwindled down to a shadder with that cough
and one thing and another. She ain't long for
(this world,' he added mournfully ; ' and if you
will only make up your mind the devil take that
paddle f. you'll turn over the boat and throw me
into the river ! make up a mind to step into her
shoes it looks, like jt would" 'sort o' reconcile me to
lose her ;' and here a tear leaked out of each cor
ner of the captain's eyes.
i Oh, captain,' said Betsy, half shutting one eye,
and looking quizzical ; thar's so many good look
ing yohtig fellows about, I hate to give 'em' up. I
like you captain, but thar's J3jll Edwards and Jet
Walli3 and Jim Sparks, and'
; Good l'obkin' ! Jet Wallis -and Jim Sparks !
Why, Jet's mouth is no better than a hole made in
the fore part of his head Vvhh a claw hammer
and as for Jim Sparks, he's got the face of a lar-
rier dog.'
'Do you count yourself good lobkin?' asked
Betsey Tvith great naivette.
1 Gal !' replied Suggs with dignity, ' did you
ever see me in my uniform 1 with my silver eppo
lets on my shoulders 1 and my red sash round my
waist ! and the sword that Governor 'Bagby give
me, with the gold scabbard ahangin' V
Just at this moment a step was heard, and be
fore the captain arid Betsey had recovered from the
shock of the intrusion, sheriff Ellis stepped into
the boat, and asserted that Suggs Was his pris
oner.
Treed at last,' said the captain ; ' but' it's no
use frettin'', the ways of Providence is mysterious."
but whar did you cross, Ellis V
'Oh, 1 knew you'd' be about the old lick log,
fijJhin' with Betsey. I'll turn the kunnoe loose,
and Bets will take us across. I crossed at Ham-
brick's ferry, left my horse' on t'other side, and
come down on you like a mink on a satin' lieri.
Come ! come ! its ti me we were off to Dadesville.'
' Providence is agin' me,' sighed the captain;
'I'm pulled up with 'a' short jerk iri the middle of
ray kurreer. Well but,' he continued musing
' SpOse a feller tries it on his own hook rio harm
iri takih' all chances I ain't in jailyet.'
A few yards below the boat landing there grew
out of the bank an immense water oak, projecting
over the river at an angle of about forty-five de
grees. A huge' muscadine vine enwrapped 'the
oak in every part, its branches and tendrils cover
ing it like net work." The grapes were now ripe
and hung over the river
-u in bacchanal profusion
Purple and gushing."
Betsey allowed the caride to drop dovvn. slowly,
just outside ofwHere the tips of the lower branch
es of the tree dallied ' with the rippling water
The fruit attracted the sheriff's eye and appetite,
and reaching but an 'arm he laid hold of a branch
and began to " pluck arid eat." '
Dang the grapes !' said Suggs' angrily; 'let's
go on !'
'Keep cool,' said the' sheriff, ' I'll fill my pock
ets first.' '
' Be in a hurry, then? and if you will, gather the
darn'd things reach' Up and pull down them big
b'uehes tip thar' pointing to some fine clusters"
higher thari the sheriff cbuld reach, as he stood
up in the boat "pull the vines down to you !'
The sheriff tried but the vines resisted his ut
most strength ; so crying steady !' he pulled him'
self up clear of'the boat, and begatrto establish a
footing among the foliage.
At this moment captain Suggs ra;ade no remark
orally, but his eye said to Betsey as, plainly as
eye could talk, 'hit her a lick back, my gaH'
Silently the paddle' went into tho water Betsey
leantng back, with lips' compresse'd atod in js sec
ond the canoe shot back ten feet out from the tree,
and the sheriff was left dangling among the vines!
' Stop your blasted jokes !' roared the-officer.
' Keep cool old Tap-my -shoulder ; thar's jist
the smallest grain of a joke in this here, that you
ever seed. It's the coldest sort of airnest.'
What shall I do ! How shall I get out of this!'
asked Elli3 piteously.
' I can't swim a lick how deep is it V "
Suggs seemed to ruminate, and then replied,
From-say-fifteen-yes,Jrftea;rf fifteen-to-about
-twenty-five feet. Ugly pTace !'
' Great God,' said poor Ellis, 'you certainly
won't leave me here to drown, my strength is fail
ing already.'
' If I don't,' said the captain, most emphatical
ly, ' 1 wish I may be landed into a5 thousand foot
ditch,' and saying a word to Betsey, the boat shot
rapidly across the river.
Kissing his companion as he stepped out of the
boat, Suggs sought Button, who was tied in a
thicket near by, and mounting,- pursued his home
ward way.
Never despair he said to himself, as he jogged
along ' never despair ! Honesty, a bright watch
out, a hand in your fingers and one in your lap,
with-a little grain of help from Providence, will
always fetch a man through ! .Never despair !
I've been hunted and tracked, and dogged like a
cussed wolf, but the Lord purvided and my
worst inimy has tuck a tree ! , Git up, Button, you
blasted flop-eared Injun ..
A chap was asked what kind of a 'gal' he
preferred for a wife ; one, he said, thai wasn't
prodi-aZ but Uu-gal-a truo- gal and suited 10
his conju-erJ lasle,
The Bull and the Anaconda.
We find in an English magazine an account
by a British officer,. of an encounter between a
wild bull and the .immense serpent, called An
aconda, of whiiyh the writer says he was an
eye witness. In the first meeting the bull
thinking the snake an ugly custumer, cantered
off and left him trampling down the scattered
fallen branches with a tremendous crash. But
on a sudden, a still louder ana rattling rush
was heard among the palms, and with a single
spring the shake .darted down, like a thunder
clap, and twisted itself with her whole body
round the devoted bull. Before the animal
was yet aware of his danger, he already fell
his dewlaps inclosed between the widdspan
ded jaws of the monster, and her teeth struck
into it deeply. Roaring aloud he endeavored
to flee ; and succeeding in, dragging his tor
mentor, a. few yards wiih him ; but instantly
she coiled herself around him to three or four
wide folds ; and drew these knots so close to
gether that the entangled beast was incapable
of moving; and remained as if rooted to tho
place, already strugling with the terrors and
pangs of death. The noise of this extraordi
nary contest had been sufficient to put the re
maining wild cattle to flight.
Unequal as was the strife it was not over in
stantly. The noble beast wanted hot spirit to
defend himself, nor was his strength easily ex
hausted. Now he rolled himself on the ground,
and endeavored to crush the enemy with his
weight ; he swelled every nerve and exerted
theipower of every muscle to burst the fetters
in which his limbs, were enveloped ; he stam
ped, he bit, he reared, he pawed up the earth,
he foamed at the mouth, then dashed himself
on the ground with convulsive struggles. But
every moment the Anaconda's teeth imprinted
on his flesh new wounds ; with every moment
she drew her folds tighter, till after struggling
for a full quarter of an hour, I at length saw
the poor animal stretched out at full length and
breathless totally deprived bf motion, and life
Now then 1 expected to see the Anaconda
gratify the hunger by which she had been so
long tormented ; but I was ignorant that it is
hot the custom of this animal to divide its prey;
but to swallow it in one enormous morsel.
The size of the murdered bull made this impos
sible without much preparation ; and I now
learned from the snake's proceedings, tho ne
cessity which, there was for her always re
maining in the neighborhood of some large tree.
She again seized the bull with her teeth, and
dragged it to the foot of the palm. Here she
endeavored to place it upright leaning against
the trunk. Having effected this, she enveloped
the tree and the carcass together in one great
fold, arid continued to draw this closer, till she
had broken every in'dividual bone iri her vic -
lim'a body into a thousand pieces, and had ac
tnallv rp.durnrl it tnlrt a mans nf ffnuh
In due time the Anaconda had fully prepared
her victim for gorging, by covering the entire
carcass with her slime. The act of swallow
ing, however, was not accomplished without
violent efforts ; a full hour elapsed before she
had finibhed her dreadful meal; ait length the car
cass was entirely swallowed, and she stretched
herself out at full length in the grass, with her
stomach distended to' the most astonishing di
mensions. Every trace of her fdrmer liveli
ness and activity had disappeared.
Her immoderate appetite had now yielded
her up, impotent and defenseless, a prey even
to the least formidable foe. I did not hesitate
to discharge my musket at a moderate distance.
T;he ball struck her close by her eye. She
felt herself wounded ; her body swelled with
spite and venom, and every stripe of her varie
gated skin shone with more brilliant and vivid
colors. But as to revenging herself upon hef
a'ssaiIant, of that she was now totally-incapable.
She made one vain attdmpt to regain her old
retreat among the boughs of the palm' trees,
but sank down again upon the grass motionless
arid helpless. The report of my musket was
the signal agreed upon to give notice to the ex
pectant crowd that they might approach with
out danger. Every orie now rushed towards
the snake with loud shouting and clamorous of
joy. We all at once attacked her, and she soon"
expired Under a thousand blows. The carcass
of the snake was then cut up and divided among
the natives who had assisted in the slaughter,
as the flesh of this enormous snake is there
looked upon as' most delicious food.
Steamer New World Great Speed".
Tho Qtnnmknnl ATi.t VVrlfl P.nnl Rvw r,.,l..
uu uicouiuipai i.-cv iiuiiu, wuu.. iivci ujauo
mu..j, eh. i J. i.;..!!':,
nt ,o ry . . .
pr.v xuiK m 10 ijiiiuica jmai i i. m. mm lan
ded hef passengers in Albany at 3 P. M.,
making all her landings, and running through
in 8 hours and 1? minutes f She came to
Caldwell (45 miles) in 1 hour 55 minutes ; to
Newburgh (60 miles) in 2h 42m. She Ios;t
more than 3& minutes in landings so ih? her
running time to Poughkeephie was w'Vnin three
hours ! From Poughkeeirsie op her speed
was gradually slackened, a she came into the
narrow channel and shallow water.
Beware to- whcmi you commit the secrets
of yourcuiihd, ;
Remerkable itatnral Curiosity'.
t One of the most remarkable natural curiosi
ties in the vicinity of xMobile is what is called
the "Thundering Spring about twelve miiea
frornthe city. The country is considerably
elevated above the level of the rivers, and id
mainly of a sandy formon. Tha spring oc
rather its enibouchere is apparently about three
or four feet in 'diameter, and the fluid has art.
uncertain motion, like tlie ebullitions on the
surface of boiling water, throwing up with it a
pure white sahd. The remarkable character
istics of it are L low, rumbling, irregular none
exactly like distant thunder, and a tremulous
or nervous motion of the earth, which is aUb
irregular. The ground for many yards in thV
vicinity of the spring is constantly shaking iu
this way, leaving an impression of insecurity
and extensive hollows beneath the suiface.
The water issues from the side of a declivity;
which presents the appearance for some du'i
tance of having sunk several feet below the
origihal surface. 'The volume of water thai
issues from it is hot ao great as one would sup-i
pose wunout examining tde stream a it ruiU
IT rrL ! 1
on. mis aecepuon originates in the parox
ysms of the spring, which dasts up huge bub
bles mixed with sand that falls back into tho
basin, without being carried oft. There Had
been a good deal of philosophy uttered on this
subject by the numerous visitors to tfie placbj
but hone that seems to give a very clear solu
tion of the phenomenon If some one had cu
riosity enough to open a sluice so as to let the
sand that is thrown up be floated off from the
source, in a very short time we should have the
cause exposed to the eye. That, however;
would destroy the charm of the blace. and riiit
an end to the many pleasant parties which con
gregate there in the summer. Wb have ht
doubt that the surface of the spring has beea
much higher than it is at present, and that it.
has sunk several feel. From the rumbling
sullen noise, too, tKefe are in all probabiliiy
great hollows beneath, which will cause tho
surface to fall many feet farther, the spring
certainly is worthy of visiiing. It furnishes
we imagine, a very excellent notion of an
earthquake in a small way. jjfofi. Tribune.
Massachusetts Figs.
The Boston Transcript, in an interesting ar
ticle on the -subject of horticulture, in a descrip
lion of the garden, green-house, and varieties
of fruit, of Mr. Allen, of Salem, whose suc
cessful devotion to horticultural puratiils ia
well known, says :
" Mr. Allen has a fig tree ihai is a cUrioaiiy.
Ii fills the entire back wall of one of his hou
ses, and is trained in the same way as a beach
me orancnes streicning right and left from
tha
llrunk some 30 or 40 feet, arid is very vigorous.
This variety is the black fi? of St. iT
It is now in fruit with the ihird crop foi the
TT t . .
! eason- Upwards of 3000 fig8 by count, have-.
beetl gathered the present season, and it is.
still yielding its delicious fruit in abundance.
When fully ripe, this fig bursts with its own.
richness. The fruit is ffne, and a good variety
for forcing. There are several other varieties
of figs growing in the house, but none so pro
lific as the St. Michael.
" The growing of fruit under glass is quite
extensive in Massachusetts, and a vast amount
of wealth is invested, in this delightful branch
of industry. There is probably more fruit
growing in Massachusetts than in all the other
States of the Union, and there is a ready de
mand for all that is grown. Our cultivators fre
quently have orders from the South and the
West Indies for grapes, which1 command a high
price. No grower has been more successful
than Mr. Allen, and his establishment is such,
at the present time, as to yield him a handsome
return for hia labors."
Be kind to the old. Be kind to those who
are in the autumn of life, for thou knowest not
what suffering they may have endured, or how
much it mtfy still be their portion to bear. Ar
they querulous or unreasonable? allow not ibTine
anger to kindle against them, rebuke them not,
for doubtless many arid severe have been the
crosses and trials of earlier years ; and per-v
vuauce meir uisposiuons, wnne in trie sr.
time of
than ihfi
rnr
1 nen rei
the lime may come when thou ' in!
the same assistance from oth rB ,1 8e
fenderesi unto ihem. J J,, V'ual.now
ifar I He old. 8 II d do 1 - : . L -
inat 1 noprlfiil
i Will' .1.,..:, ,. . , i
1 nt Krfrd if much alacrity, and ihmk It
vijwn floft h - Ted at thine hand, lest
when age h .
filled Xh
HC'. Ills sea mi ihv hmw uml
wai H'mbs with trembling, others may
upr: thee unwillingly antj feel relieved
me comn lid has covered thy face for
rM.Ex. Paper.
A few we'ek3 since, a good humored Irishman
applied to an English merchant to discount a bill
of exchange for him at rather a long, though not
unusual date, and the merchant having casually
remarked that the bill had a great many days to
run : " That's true." replied the Irishman, " but
then you don't consider how short tho days are a
this time of the year,
riner
life, were more gentle and ftexihle!
ie owri. Do they require ai'jt of ,1, ,
ider it cneenuiiy, and for?-, ,
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