THE SPY COLUMBIAN. SATURDAY - MORNING, Feb. 5, IS4S. AGENCIES. V. 13, PAINIT.It t < duly autliorited in receive auliiirrip how, tmd ailverti-enti•tita for this paper., itt the eta,. of Philadelphia. New York, Baltimore, and 130-ton. and receipt diereair. 11,13 ,l. ‘V,TII.SYCF.M. TAII,II4OCr city. A l'oritrE. Travelling Agent. Tae COLUMBI s Macau:se fur February has been received. It is one of the best numbers we have seen lately. One of the engravings is a large and truly splendid portrait of the great poet, William Wordsworth, whielsol itself is worth more than the price of the book. Wordsworth is now nearly eighty years of age, and report says he has notyet entirely abandoned his vocation, but occasionally strings together a few pearls, in remembrance of days gone by. The contributions aro from the highest literary sources. Subscribers by paying 4 .43 in advance, will receive, in addition, a. full length portrait of Washington. New Yong Minaon.—We cannot bdieve that Me. Fuller, after securing notices of the im_ provements and attractions of his paper, could stoop "tu the small business operation of striking off his ' , exchanges ; but it is certain that we have not received the Mirror for some time. We shonld be glad to know the reason, and when we do know it, shall " govern ourselves accordingly." = THE HOME JOURNAL.—This paper, which makes a printer's mouth water, just to look at it, comes regularly to our table—a feast of good things. Morris & IVillis may certainly be considered the intellectual Kitchen Cabinet of the literary world. Lunch, consibting of every variety of foreign and domestic viands, served regularly every Saturday at Ec?.,110 per annum. =IL= JOll VSTON ' S DAGCERREOTYPE ROO , t S.—We are gla d to see that the people appreciate the elegant and of course perfectly correct likenesses produced by our eloquent friend," the gentleman from Texas." Those who have not availed themselves of this opportunity, will find it to their advantage,(provided ahvays that they arc at least moderately good look ing,) to procure a miniature, fora Valentine. We would bc willing to be a daguerrotypo our selves, to receive half the kisses we have seen showered upon one of these silent but speaking pictures. Rooms in Iferr's Halal Du SOLLE Muterem—Col. Du Solle has been beaten in a libel suit, and stuck for $l,OOO, fur soinething which appeared in the Spirit of the Time., during the Col's. absence. "Plcezlic tell me, Mr. Shoodge, izb that shustice?" " Don't know about that, but it is certainly the Liw of libel." —..,,e.,,,,.,.. AN ODD WONIAN.—in Westmoreland, according to the last census, there arc 23, 234 males, and 2S, 235 females.—Sot. Courier. We commend this fact to the attention of our friend "F, X." I=ol= DA UK " GREIIN" Tit AN.; %CTION.---WllO arc they that meet in the vacant chamber adjoining our office ; and du they know of the anti-gambling la ? Hon. John Davis, of Mass. did not die at Wash ingtun last week. =ILICZI TH sr POLISH DVST.—We noticed some few weeks sines ho, ing, received a letter from a chap away up in the northern part of Pennsylvania, saying that he had forwarded to our firm a half barrel of the real " Poland Polish Dust." We expressed some ruspieion about the fellow, at the time, thinking his letter was all a hoax, which he wished to play off oil the good natured editors of the Spy. But sure enough, true to the letter, the other day a carter hacked his cart to the door of our office, and rolled therefrom the veritable half barrel which our kind and generous correspondent had told us about.— Now, we have heard of ghost stories, when we were little, which frightened us considerably, and we have heard, too, that once upon a time, one friend wished to give another a blowing up (we don't know whether lie was an editor or not) and accordingly, sent him a keg, which the receiver no doubt thought contained something eatable, but which was in fact a keg of powder and so arranged that when the head should be removed, explosion would take place. Now this was certainly one of the limit efectual means we !WIC ever heard of to give u pour fellow a real sky high blowing np, and consequently, ghost stories and powder kegs, have made us savimicious concerning our present. Yet we know that if that half barrel contains dust; dust of the character of the " Tripoli"—and the writer says it is far superior—then it is worth lots of money ; lots of money for an editor! Our stars! what a temptation logo right into it. But then the fear that it might be powder makes us regard the as dangerous, and so between the risk of losing our life, and the prospect of converting the precious dust into gold, we are in a fix. We wouldn't care to go to Mexico and run the risk of bung shot through with one of those cursed Mexi can copper balls, or be laid in the dust as a victim of the diseases of that country ; but we would be sorry, and we know that our thousands of readers would be sorry to Ica ;hat on overcoming our misgivings, and in a( opting tc open the barrel, in which we expected to find the valuable gift of our friend, the celebrated "Polish Polii h Dust," we hail been blown, soul, body, intellectual, and editorial qualifications, with the ceiling and roof of our devoted (Ace, away up into mid heaven. No! no! this would be cruel; and our loss would tie a great m.blic calamity. We wish the old barrel was nit of our office; the mere mention of barrel iii.thes us afraid, for we remember we were within an dee of being killed once by an old musket bar rel, nliteli exploded with an old revolutionary load, Jii,t by putting the breech in the fire. ' Oh, for some isrw•er by which we could enforce the com mand : " Dust thou art and untodust thou shalt re turn," how soon would we apply it to the contents of this barrel, and relieve ourselves of these tor menting fears. There appears to be a sacredness' about the barrel, fur we are never inclined to go mar it, and never shall until we arc rattly convinced it contains nothing but dust. We are suspicious, th it's a fart. Monument to Lieut. Cochran. The blocks forming portions of the monument to be erected by the citizens of Columbia to the memory of Lieut. Cochran, have arrived and have been conveyed to the ground whereon they are to be erected. The committee have employed men who are busily engaged in making preparations for its erection, and in a few days all may have the pleasure of seein g its parts connected and standing as a beautiful whole. The spot selected, we think most appropriate, being nearly in the centre of the burial ground, and from its elevated position com mands a fine view of the surrounding country and the beautiful Susquehanna. The monument itself is composed of four pieces. The first of these is a base 4 feet 6 inches square, and 21 inches high, which is champered or bevelled from about 2 inches down the side to a square of three feet on the top, un which rests a plinth 3 test square and 3 feet 9 inches high. This is finished by a reversed scotia, and a small bevel to a square of 2 feet, on this square rests the obelisk, whose height is 14 feet, with a base of 2 feet, diminished to 1 foot at the top, which is sur mounted by a cap 20 inches high, the four sides being bevelled to a point, making the whole height of the monument, from its base to its apex, 23 feet 2 inches. On one of the sides of the obelisk is re presented a short, straight broadsword, the hilt of which is surrounded by a wreath of Laurel, and on each of the four sides of the plinth, is a raised escutcheon, on which arc chissellcd the following inscriptions : In memory of Lieutenant Richard E. Cochran, of the 4th Regiment, United States Infantry, who fell at the held of his command in the hour of victory, at the battle of Resaca do la Palma, Texas, May 9th, A.D., 15.16. In honor o His virtues and his p.triotism, his fellow citizens have erected this monument. Born Nov. 16, A. D., 1818. Died, May 9th, 18-16. The fourth side lying next the ground, we could not read its inscription. We think the design, which we presume originated with the committee, is a good one, conveying, in its plain simplicity those feelings which prompted the citizens in their praise worthy object, of erecting to the memory of one who grew up in their midst, and who suffered a soldier's death on the field of battle in the service of his country, this tribute of grateful respect. Solitary Celebration. In looking over an old file of papers, we stumbled on the following account of the celebration of the 4th of July, by a gentleman who "kept company with nobody but himself." It is a good.natured hit at the bombast of sonic of the reporters of doings at public festivals, and, no doubt will prove as good as new.—Ed. 13alto.linterprize. At about three o'clock, 1 served up a rich re past consisting of a portion of a cold leg of mutton, two slices of bread and butter, six leeks with the accompanying salt, &c.. I acting as President and vice president. ‘ l ..lien the cloth was removed, 1 uncorked a bottle of bid inuirLat reserving one of chainpaign for the winding, up; after several patri. otic songs by nlysolf, in which t I,titlect in the chorus, the following regular toasts were pledged in bumpers; they arc presented to you on account of their singularity. let. Tire day SO gloriously celebrated.—Supe rior to Day & Martin's blucking,or the Dry of Al giers—To-morrow's Sunday, so let us "cat drink and be merry."—Tunc—' Slowly wears the day, love." 2d. The Man in the Moon.—Wonder bow long he intends staying there'( The hypocritical wretch Etas shown so many places that one is mild think tan a lunalic.—Tune—Rise, gentle moon. 3d. The Memory of Sam Patch.—The last of the !capers, who rose to fame all the while he was going down.—Tune—The deep, deep sea. 4th. The Journal of an Actress. A few truths shaken up in a budget of falsehoods—the " finis" the best part. —Tune—Fanny dearest. sth. English Writers on America.—Fools, as vain of their own stupidity as they are blind to the merits of American Institutions.—Tune—" Tim Roast Beef of old Englaiid." Glll. Our Creditors. A thrifty set of people who live on promises and die dunning and undone.— Tune—Cull to.morrow. ith. 3latrimony.—A hook baited by little Cupid with ambrosia and gold, and thrown into the sea of life to catch gudgeons with.—Time—llopc told a flattering tale. Bth. A Woman's Tongue.—The last evil that came out of the Pandora box—a lever with the ful crum in the middle.—Tune—Bid me discourse. 9th. Banking Institutions. Lancets placed in the bands of the rich for the purpose of bleeding the poor.—Tune—Ye banks and brays. 10. Party. The proboscis of a politician, used for the purpose of smelling out a fat ollice.—Tune —Money Musk. 11. The " lingo." An exclusive genus of the lizard tribe, who flourish by the wing of a goose, and backed by the "devil."—Tune—The " devil amongst the"—editors. 12. The scoop shovel. The pride of Baltimore, an ingenious machine, under the patronage of the authorities, used for the purpose of displaying artificial water works and bumbling the pride ofthe lashionable.—'Tune—"Meeting of the Waters." 13. The Ladies. A beautiful specimen of the liandy.work of nature—like candied pyramids at a feast, to be looked at but not touched.—Tune— Ply away pretty moth." The foregoing toasts were received with enthusi astic applause by 1 and myself: The following are some of the Volunteer masts. By myself. The orator of the day. The thun der of his voice shamed the mighty cannery of the clouds, arid the power of his eloquence drew the ; corks from the bottles. Hereupon I arose, and in a feeling and appropri. etc manner addressed the multitude in a spirit-stir , ring ?peceli as long as a rope yarn; at the conc h .- of which be offered the following sentiment. Myself—A gentleman of taste and refinement, he will one or these days set Che.apcake Bay o n fire with the splendor of his talents. 3lyself modest!y replied to the compliment in a chaste and racy speech of about two hours length, in which he remarked largely on the importance of a general system of education, touched on the doe. trines of phrenology, the utility of rail-roads, the probability of intercourse With the ninon, Muck's pdnacea, Webster's dictionary, an improved method of conking eat folt,snd the deleterious effects of crude vs goables at this season of the year. When tic had concluded his speech he found that I was under the table, and he thought it but right that he should follow suit. An ingenious mechanic of Paris has invented a wooden arm, which is said to beat the natural limb itself. Of course those who have 4)4 a side wing will be all up in arms.—Spirit of the , Times, .ectters from Mexico. The following extracts from a letter written by an officer of the Voltigeur Regiment, will be read with interest, especially by our readers in Columbia, as information is given respecting many of the volunteers from this place, as well as of other mat ters of general interest. Quarters of the Voltigeur Regiment, Col. legio de Minerva, City of Mexico, Nov. 23, '47. Understanding within the last few hours that Gen. Twiggs., with an escort of Dragoons and the 4th Regiment of Artillery, to relieve the Ist Regi ment of Infantry, now stationed at Vera Cruz, will leave here on or about the S...ith instant, I again embrace the opportunity of communicating with you by letter. Gen. Twiggs, I understand, goes to Vera. Cruz, to take charge, as military and civil Governor, of the affairs of that State and Depart ment. Since I wrote to you last we have had a mail from the States. I received five letters,—it was only a letter mail,—by this arrival—four from you and one from Thomas—making in all eight that I have received since leaving home in March last.— Two of them I shonld have received on the Rio Grande, and the others, with one exception, at Pu ebla, besides innumerable others which you say you have written. I am utterly surprised that not one of the letters, which yoti remark John has written, have ever reached me, except a single one which I received from him at Pittsburg, long ago, and which I answered. Truly, we ought to be thank. ful when we receive any. Your last is dated the 20th of July, wherein you begin to express a sort of fear for me, as you had not heard from me at that time, since our scuffle at the National Bridge. I:M:M21 And now for the men who came out with me from Columbia: James J. Woodrow, whom you write particularly about, was sent from the Palo Alto encampment to the Matamoros hospital, but as his disease was not very serious, I am in hopes that he has recovered. Ito must be doing duty at that place, as it must be almost impossible for them to send single individuals to join companies in Scott's column from Matamoros. Woodrow was a good soldier, tell his mother, and I have often re gretted that lie could not come with us. Joseph Allison is not dead, but is as big as ever, as good a soldier as ever, and Commissary Sergeant of the Regiment. He says that lie has written many letters to his friends at home; but,—like myself— as nobody writes or sends papers to him, he does I not see that lie is obliged to keep up a one-sided correspondence, especially as it is so very difficult to get letters from us home, and hard to procure materials, or time to write. You do not think, at home, that on a campaign such as this terribly tr 3 - ing one, that we have other "fish to fry," and plenty of fish of that sort too. Andrew Hays, as good a young soldier, tell Frank Ilsys, his father, and I Henry Hays, his brother, as ever shouldered a rifle, is here and well. So is Jonas Steinliciser, from Strasburg, Lancaster county. John Gillen was left sick at Puebla, and I have not heard from him. Stewart Elliott is very well, of course. Joseph S. Derffinger was wounded ro. Rey,,, hut has got quite well,and is a good soltlie% too. Jacob) S. Denlinger was left sick at Vera Cruz—so was Peter McCardle. (Prudy,) and John Kull and Peter Seibert. Stout and Duck went down with Col. Harney's train as part of the escort, and will return to this city perhaps. Hall, from Strasburg, also went down with the escort. John L. Hass, and Isaac Korb, from the neighborhood of Paradise, are here and well. Samuel Waite, of Capt. Biddle's (F.) Company, has always been well, and is a pretty fair sort of a soldier. Tell old Joe, of Marietta, John Barr, and others, including Sheriff Waite of our town, of his welfare. There, I believe you have the history of all those whom you will be asked about. I perceive by articles in the Sear that Horace Huldeman's company is at last coming up, and that Henry M. Black is also on the road. I shall be very glad to meet them again, and if poor Frank Mahaffey could only be with them, we would do quite will here. 4 " Patrick Morris we left very sick at Puebla, but is well now, I bear. Jacob Suydam is here and quite well. They belong to the Howitzer Battery, which now forms part of our Regiment. John Murphy, I have not seen lately, but presume be is in a nourishing stale. Be belongs to one of the Artillery Regiments. " There are many pretty women in this country, have at length discovered. They are, however, among the aristocracy and foreigners, as a general rule. The vast mass of the people arc in a state of the lowest ignorance, and are more degraded than you can imagine—these are the leperos. There are all shades of color in this land—from the fair haired Castillian, with a beautiful complexion, to the black haired, black shined African or Egyptian. Every shade and variety of complexion—every shade and variety of intelligence. The principal beauty of the pretty women—the majority of them I mean—is in their large, mournful, melting, dark eyes—in their beautiful raven hair—in their pearly teeth, small hands and feet. lint their complexion— God help me l—they are not as fair as our mu. hail:ice—except where the old Castillian blood pre dominates, as I have stated above. You state in your letters that the thermometer has been as high as 98 and 100 in the shade et home. I have experienced that with you mysolPin Columbia in years gone by. Since leaving the terra callientha and entering the terra templada have felt nothing like that, and I do not think it was that hot even at Vera Cruz; (it was at Palo Alta.) Since leaving Jalapa I have been in a most. delightful climate, except that our march across the prairie from Perote to Puebla, about the •tth of July, was pretty warm work. Here in this rich basin, while you are freezing at home in November weather, it is like our Indian stammer, and green peas, beans, new potatoes, cabbage, cauliflowers, etc., are daily on our table. We have strawberries, peaches, apples, oranges, fresh figs, and all other fruit, the products of the temperate or torrid zones, with the exception of plums, which do not seem to he cultivated here. We have game in abundance— wild ducks from the lakes, with snipe as fat as butter, and venison from °Fixate. We have splen did beef and fine pork, geese, turkeys, chickens, &c., in abundance, but very high in price—plenty of butter, too, which the creatures will not learn to salt,—we having to do that to suit ourselves—and, altogether, if we do not live now to pay up for privations in the good line, I wouldn't say so.— From old Popocatepetl we get the finest, cleanest sort of ice, and luxuriate on delicious icc-cream, mint juleps, sherry-cobblers, &c , when the eternal, never-ending, never-ceasing guard and drill duty permits. So you, who sweltered up north during the heats of summer, had better come to the torrid zone to cool yourselves off! The only difficulty here is, that being so high up in the world, we are occasionally at n loss for a whole mouthful of air, it being too thin to afford a person such a luxury. r;J The train has not gone yet, but will go to-mor row, I presume. Lieut. Haldeman arrived here this morning in Gcn. Patterson's train. They brought us some newspapers, and I got one letter from Thomas, dated Sept. 6, and I have the scent of another which has strayed into the Pennsylva nia Volunteer quarters,and is in possession of Lieut. Col. Brindle of that Regiment. I got about OM ty papers, but none for the months of May, June, July, and part of August. They have gone to the bow. wows, along with my letters I suppose. I have quite a number of York Republicans in this batch, three Columbia Spys, two or three Lancaster papers, (but none of Carber's,) and two or three National Intelligencers, for all of which I am ob liged to my friends. v I do not know whether Lieut. li. Ir. Black or Lieut. 11. G. Gibson have got up with this train. If they are not here, they arc now on the road— Lieut. Black at any rate. I forgot to mention before that among those I enlisted, Samuel Wiltsie, is here and well. He used to work at Shawnee Furnace for Capt. Myers, and is as good a soldier as one need want. Serg't. Adam N. Baird, died since we emerNt the c ity o f Diarrlara, Cornelius Winters is as hearty as a buck, and makes a first rate soldier. It has got to be very cold here—as cold almost as your November weather, but there is no frost nor snow off of the mountain tops. Every norther on the coast affects us here, and we freeze, and shiver, and shake all day and all night, for the Mexicans build no fire places, and we can do nothing else. I have caught u first rate cold—tooth ache, car ache, jaw ache, bone oat., and all other aches, since I wrote the first part of this epistle. lam nearly over it now, and if I do not have to expose myself too much shall he quite over it directly. Yours &c I=C==l The Peril of England. The financial panic has subsided in Great Bri tain, only to give place to another panic connected with the subject of national defence. Steam has changed the world. It linq, virtually, destroyed the empire so long cl,,imed by England over the seas, and, at the same time, robbed her of the insula rity, which, in former—now the old—days of ships and sailors, was her sine or sufficient protection.— All this Englishmen arc beginning to learn, and to feel, and admit that the sublime boast of Camp bell,— Lisha.•ris No los, et, :1188'8.4 the %It cp.— in now loom song and emptiness, a peril:ins flat. tory and self deception from which me people must rouse and buckle on their armor, or wake up one fine morning and find the Gaul thundering at the gales of Loudon. We mentioned, a month or two ago, the first dawnings of this new feeling in England, which were first caused by certain portentous extracts, that got in the papers train a mysterious letter attributed to the hake of Wellington, although some of the papers affected to treat it. as a labrica. tion. The impression it was calculated to produce, I Was interrupted for a time by the sudden convul. sion in the monetary world, during which individ uals were driven to to think of their own rather than the public perils. As money gets easy, the subject is renewed, and it is now in inithst that a great and painful interest, affecting, the minds of Englishmen, high and low, is beginning to be at. traded to the present defencelessness of the islands, and the substantial—it is no longer considered visionary—danger of the invasion from France, under which they lie. The newspapers have taken the matter in hand, which has been alluded to at public meetings and is about being discussed in Parliament; and the Earl of Ellesmere, a peer of the realm, prevented by ill health from sounding the tocsin in the House of Lords, has come out in the journals with along letter, expressly written as an alarm to rouse the government and people to the necessity of preparation. •• 1111 , •, Or hi' 101 el er arc the ominous words with which he introduces the subject to the community. A snore powerful letter for effecting the purpose he has in vicw,eould scarcely have been written; but it sounds strange, and even melancholy, as coining from the lips of one of Britain's proud and haughty nobles, so long accustomed to defy and despise all the world in general, and France in particular. It would seem almost as if the spirit of Cressy and Poictiers had vanished, and A4Tincourt and Waterloo were for gotten, when an Englishman discusses the ability of France to revenge those fields of her humilia tion, within the sea•girt walls of Britain itself. But Lord Ellesmere discusses it, notwithstanding, and he does it in a very honest, out-spoken manner, not hesitating to treat Johnny Crapcau as a brave and formidable fue,—who has it almost, if not quite, in his power, at at any sudden moment, by a terrible surprise, to avenge in the flames of London, perhaps with evils still more fearful, all the defeats heretofore inflicted upon him by his island neigh bor. "I do not believe," says the Earl, "that it would he impossible, in our present state of preparation, for a French Minister of War, favored by eircum. stances, to land on British ground a force sufficient ' in numbers, discipline and equipments to march in any numbers along the turnpik,p roads of England. That direction might depend on the place of land ' ing—it might be Portsmouth, it might be Chatham, lit nught be the capital. In each, in any case, with our present means of defence, I believe resistance would be useless, and an attempt at armed opposi tion only productive of useless bloodshed. To op. pose in the field such a handful of regular troops as we could muster, scarcely provided with artillery, and totally destitute of a reserve, to a French army, such as, under my supposition, would be brought against them, would be an act of useless desperation. If the French were to appear at one end of London, the wisest movement the Guards could make would be to march out at the other. For the rest, three howitzers would he sufficient ; and the Lord Mayor would soon be busy with the details of billets, and whatever contributions might be accepted as a commutation for indiscriminate plunder." The Earl does not write with the tone of terror. Ile believes in "the dormant power of England, such as no other country ever yet possessed," if that power can be only awakened to preparation. What he fears is "surprise," and the deadly feeling of animosity and revenge, growing out of the "burning memories of the past," which he is sure is universally cherished in the bosoms of the whole French people. Ile hints that the expense of a - ------------- ! proper preparation (by an increase of the standing Clippines and Comments. army) might be provided for by a diversion of the A proposition to raise $5,000,000 annually, by moneys now "annually lavished, not in the proven- taxin g personal property, Atc the exp ~ to pay tion, but the aggravation of the horrors of; the slave enses of the war, is now under consideration in Congress. trade." In short, there is getting to be a pretty general solicitude felt on thissubject in England, connected, in some quarters, with a growing suspicion that France is secrelely meditating an invasion.—in others, a melancholy foreboding and presentiment of coming evil. The suspicion is illustrated by a letter in the filightau Gazelle, complaining of "a whacking French corvette" lying in Harwich har bor "for the protection of the fishing trade," with an unsual complement of officers, who improve every spare hour "by surveying and sounding the harbor." The foreboding seems to be expressed in one of Tupper's Sonnets to America, published in a recent number of the New York Literary World, in which the poet-philosopher appeals with pathos to the filial affections of America, in favor of "poor old England" s% omicron: chili!! The glorie- of illy de-tiny 1111111• Shelter her 111 flan lelllpe -I. 0 "rritly VIII stana thou wait N% hen nit the nation, rage :•••it titrionsly tog - ether—we nre one! It were, indeed, an evil day for England to he exposed to the calamity of invasion which site has often, in past days, inflicted upon France. Besides the want of armed defence, there is the invitation of universal suffering in the kingdom generally, from the hideous increase of poverty and pauper ism, and the state of quasi-insurrection and altar city in Ireland, which must be or itscir a dangerous temptation to an angry neighbor conscious both of her power and her opportunity.—.Phiholelphio N. American, DECEMBER 7.18.17 Profit the Millet,lvlati Saturday (boner. Remarkithle Phenomenon. roar 111 LL, Ark., Dec. 12, 1817. Dena :—One of the most extraordina ry circumstances transpired immediately in this neighborhood, on the Bth instant, perhaps, I that has ever been witnessed on this side of the' moon, which 1 hasten to comma:lie:ate to you.— About a quarter past 3 o'clock, P. M., the sky,which a few minutes before and during the whole of the day, had been perfectly clear, became suddenly overcast with a most awful darkness; the clouds (if they were clouds) whirled in the strangest con tortions, and presented the appearance of a solid black fleece, lighted from above with the red glare of many torches—though this lurid appearance did not scent to reflect through nor penetrate the cloud, so as to impart any light to the under stratum of t the dark mass rolling above, but scented to be ab. sorbed, and was only visible through the sczni-trans parency of Ole portion rolling below. Whilst hun dreds of spectatots in our little village were spell bound in Moodiel suspense, the most tremendous explosion that ever deafened the ear of n o tats, em anated from above, shook the earth upon which we stood, and caused such a rocking of the houses, that the now bell on the village church tolled three several times, which, as may readily be illumined, contributed to the general consternation. I",nme (timely following, or rather accompanying the ex plosion, a fiery I MSS, which appeared, whilst in the air, to be about the of a hogshead, de.c e nded with the rapidity id' lightning, and fell about twen ty feet on the cast side or a cotton gin, which statids just et the outshirts of the village—and in less titan twenty minutes the clouds lied disap peart d, and the shy was us serene, and the sun shone as brightly as it had done all the forepart of the day' When we repaired to the spot where the body had fallen, an excavation, or rather a hole was dis• covered, which was exactly round, and measured 3 feet 3i inches in diameter, and b bet deep, ut the bottom of which was a black mass, which teas yet an hot that when water was thrown upon it, it lilse hot iron. After considerable labor, in iv hick all our citizens participated, we exhumed from the place a sold mass of something which was about as heavy as so much rock, completely incrusted a black coot, which smelled like sulphur. The most astonishing of all is that the mass presents the exact resemblance of ths bust of a human being .'—or rather it would be supposed to be a steno idol, executed by some barbarian scalp. tor, hi the early Pagan ages. Such a eircumsrance is truly astonishing to every one who hue witness ed it, and had it descended a few centuries ago, or fallen among any portion of the heathen world, it no doubt would have been regarded as the descent of a god;—but many of our citizens regard it as a meteoric substance, and the only thing which I seems to puzzle the most learned among them, is its shape. As the moil is waiting, you will excuse ray not revising this . ,:statement, but so far as filets arc con cerned, you may rest assured it is, in every par ticular, true—as hundreds ofour citizens are crowd ing around Dr. CAlang,'s office (where the wrolitc is) to see it. A UMINAL Taavimmun Is Slam s.—We made our first journey en train , au here; and bad enough it was in that way—on wheels it would be impossi ble. The road was very inountainous, nod lay through forests fur eight or ten verst% together, where the S 11•1111 was drifted to the height of many feet; through which we had to force our way, it not being, sufficiently , hard to resist the horses feet. In the rapid descents we constantly rolled over and over; and three horses to a light troinesu had the ' greatest difficulty in getting up the long steep hills of snow, where there was 110 solid footing for thorn. What we should have done with our carriage on such roads we know nut; and we had still a long journey before us before we should come to any town where we could leave it till our return from the far East, and to take it on the whole way was out. of the question. The next day a council of war was held; when it was decided we should go on to Bernoulli on wheels, a distance of two hun g dred and eighty vends; but the road was repro sentedas good and we were told we should find much snow, it being mostly over a dead fiat. According ly the carriage was fortified with very strong ashen shafts, which were fixed all around it, so as to force a passage through the snow in the case of need; and thus we started for Ilarnaoul. Bad as I our journey bad been for sonic time past, it was evident we had not yet reached the maximum and that every day the roads would be worse, till the snow had settled down into solidity, which, in parts where there is little communication, requires some time. We had generally ten or twelve horses ' the whole of this journey, and did not with all average above limo versts an hour. Our first stage was mountainous ; but after that the steppes began again, with driving snow and wind, almost amount ing to what is called in this country a bum an, or whirlwind, which is often fatal to travellers if ac companied with snow in any quantity. Having tried the effects of fire, water, and air, under their most fearful forms, we arc inclined to give the pre. eminence in point of horror to the latter. A baron which overtakes you in a forest is less formiable, because you cannot well get out of the right track, and the only danger is being buried alive in the snow. But in en open steppe country, when it is very violent, the snow which is falling becomes whirled and mixed with that which the wind raises from the ground; so that in broad daylight the driver cannot see an inch before him, and does not know whether he is going to the right or to the left. Many fatal accidents occur in this way ; car riages being rolled down precipices, or men and horses frozen to death in the drifted snow, which naturally collects around the only object which in terrupts its course for miles and miles.—Coltrell's Recollections of Siberia. People in want of high wages and roast beef, should mizzle to Oregon. Laborers get $3 a day and carry hods made of ruse wood. Pork is worth 18 cents a pound. Cider 8 cents for licking the spigot. Bakers charge 1.9. i cents for "looking in the windows." In haste, your uh't servant, HENRY HICKS, P. M ==IIII Thomas Painc.—The anniversary of the birth. day of Thomas Paine, was celebrated in New York, on Monday evening, by' a boll and supper at the Minerva rooms. The Duke of Devonshire has an income of el ; 850,000 ; Louis Philippe is said to be worth $130,. 000,000; Sir Robert Peel $90,000,000; and John Jacob Astor $30,000,000. Grimes was asked, the other day, if be eTevibit ed Paris, " Why no, not exactly," replied he old wag, "but my mother's maiden name was F nch." Our Minister in France.—A Paris correspondent of the Charleston Courier writes :—" Our Minister; Mr. Rush, has at last made himself •at home' in Paris. tie has leased a fine hotel in the aristocra tic quarter of St. Germain, No. 63 rue de Lille, and, after the manner of other great folk, he has appointed his reception day. It, is Wednesday, when respectable countrymen who intyn compliment of a call will be sure of a courteou, welcome." In Cincinnati, a few days "since, after hearing tine testimony in a certain case, the Cella adjourned until the next day. On opening the Court, tho !ewers employed in the case, were not on hand. Alter waiting a reasonable time, the Judge changed the jury, and sent them out. Just as they were coming in with the verdict, the counsel appeared, loaded with law, and cocked and primed for speech.. ifying. It is feared that this case was decided more in accordance with justice than law. ==2 Izl•nov.-11Niar's lial-rmt of NV 1117 or e I reelect!. tor \ 7l'lo\. tied the lte,t tiNitvl7 1.1: II 11, 1111111 (Or .% , theitt of es cry , t.tue. Liver -Corn •ltitet.. liemehate.. letluclvn. rotigir4. Cobb, 111.4,1114 ell 11,, Lena. hi, --tole, . :011 ether of the I= sers I loworiant .I,e;ese user srliu.:). thin •11ril-nni' I.‘ , 11.1 ui :1 I.llllc, la till , I . IIIIIIINIint a ha , micharl,l,ll% pro‘ed 1,111f.' I`ll.l, lit 1110 1111111 . 1 . 41. 11110 111 1111111.. pl.ltuuro• is Lru i II:nu•ul, 111111 Vlllllll4 11 11111 g ad. nag from Ili• di.ra.... Ihr lwa, 111 111,111 ,11.1•11- n iat 1111.-. 111111 I AIII,I lirAtcriz% 1,.. Li ,a: n,-onf,.! to m vnn. 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' 4 4 ,4 , 1• 4.44 utiltp• 1111I4••• I. 111 - 1" I'S 4/11 the syropt 1 . ", ...tie 1,4 It IN,. Fr4,llt I. COlllllll.l. All the (Idiom. big . articles which have obtained or bruntded pbroolartly, are sold by I.V. A. Leader. the :woo for the gemoitex articles in UM:onion , 011111 , y Lone , . Soul h. Lanranter. and John .1. rt. Moriiioa. Con. non —INV only of the above persons ns all others ore caunn•rh - u UN RENIEDV, 'an Almanac for ISif °rot., —lot—For Colds mot Female!' fnelings• nail pre renting Pryers 2nd—For Asthma• liver compl itul no I Minna atrections. 3rd —For Ilinrrlma, Indigeminn nail 7.. j, of Apertne. ittlt—For Costiveness in knoll, emit bas. ht h —For Stomach a flee:me, Dyspeonia and Pile, 771 , (7 not Monte are, it la not bad to lake, ner , r give! pa in and neerr leave. one rostire! For all tln•se tblaiga It iv warratiled r noqualled, and all nob., do not fool it so may return the bottle and gel their muPty• 11IN mo.dwinn is Loxor..nrs ore E. 97 IVF:S77:II.\* 1.1, - 1)1.d.‘"1 . .T.V.9CEJ1. Fuller description in an Alma , nac fir ib ln, gratis. Baba if CoCambia lisle 7 . 001.—Tn the Hal& and Grey— If y on synill a rich luxuriant head of hair, free from don ilrnif and scurf. do tint fait to procure the genuine Mild of Columbia. in rases of It ildnass it wilhounre 'him ex- Swear exprtatlons. Many. is tin have Inst their hair fir lit eta y years have Ilan it rob - toted to its ()mull) pi,r fertoin by the 11,e of this balm. Age, state or cnudition appear. in be. no obstacle wholeVer— it also catices the dont to flow with Moon the delicate hair tube to tilled, ti- iv hob mean- thin...ls (in InisC hair Was :IS grey as Ik'' A•1:1:le 12,101) tild had their hair restored to its oatural rhhlr ley the use of this invaluable remedy. In pll call's of (0.,.:" it teal be found toe ilkileantilit wag!) that rui be used. A few appinations ordy 111,1 neces,iry to keep the hair from falling not. ft strengthens the root. end never fall. to impart a rich glnsse none:lrmo e and a. 0 pert - nine b,r the toilet It Is 11111.18 three thee, its thltch a Other nu-Nailed hair re•lnralives and is more etre, teal. 'I he genuine nialinfactiired only by Coin stork Ac. 'n.,dl, roortland .ire, I, Sew York. Connor:- .11,:v - trul flirt b, t rat r—lt. is now conceded by medical uteri that Ces Eitrartor, ma nn f• et tired by Coins/ed. Co.. 21, Court:and st.,-Vot is the greatest wood”r of it.. Nth Century. Its edecls are truly nnrarulon.. All pains are removed flea hero.. srnlds, 6,,c.,and all external sores in a few [ninnies after its apple:Minn, healing the 5:11110 011 the ino•t deli cate Pkin. leaving tie ...tr. It IS equally beneficial in ON kinds of Intl i minatory disease.. .11s II Os sore Nipple. and EyeA, Spraius, Itherunelli.in, 'iv Inle Sin cling and Ulcer,. Itruoies, I'lllllo.llreii Erystpelds,lliles.Ttes Dolnreali, kr. SVe might add as tomato :kit we say the 11.1111eS of 1110115 •ml/rlll jth)sh..llltha who n.e it in !lietr practice, nod hun dred.: of the clergy st ho pron., it to their people. Kind parent keep it constantly on hand, in cases of occident by fire life linty be lost without Mho! by its line all ha"s are siihject to its control, Ma,. the Vitals are destroyed. talltlMl-111.11/Cllthe: and ask nor Conners .I,fogien/ Pais /:Its.ictor, inanalai-tured by c,,,..0ud. 4- CO., eVe 10 York and take tin other. fnens Cured—Dr. .1D Allies Attu:Win Od—Those deaf from old age and from infancy often receive their hearing /n a client miraculous manner by the woe of tin/ oil. It has the i-treet to restore the tension and bring loin the Hamra] action antic parts nut an to restore the hearing wh e y lost or impaired. The. will he done In all cases of recent acid Will of long standing. All deaf persons should nor this oil. Comstock 4. Co. 21 Court land . are the wholesalers. Prire 51 per flask. Sores so—The Genuine Rues Ltaisient to at ar ticle more jiy.tly celebrated as a cure for the above, than an) or all !abets. Ito cares are almost innumerable, and it is only necessary to let those who know the article awl used it w ith ouch great success that it is to lie had true and genii ine of Canlntod. 4 . Cu. 21 Couraand street, Xeia herd, sole pinprielnin. De. Sphon's ocn. Ileadarhe Remedy—Why'w ill ytm suffer with tha distressing complannt when a retnedy is Miami that o 11l not fail to rilre you? This remedy will eller!. rially destroy rioy attack of beads rise, either ntrvuits or bitimw• It has cured cases of twenty years' standing. 111”114,'A Retirf—lnilian Diseseery—A II expertise In be come mothers and aIIXIOIIA In avoid the Pai....., Itletress and Hangers of child-hearing., are earnestly entreult d to Cainl their fears. allay their m•rvatisnes. and soothe their tiny by the use rifth or most extraordinary vegetable pro duction. Those who is ill candidly observe its virtues., must approve °fit in their hearts—every kind and OW tionate husband will feel it his most solemn duty to ails viate the dl-tress his Wit . .e is eltpost..! .0, by a safe an 1,11.110 method, which is the use of tills mother's retie , . Further particulars in pamphlets intended fur the female eye, are to he had gratis where this humane cordial is to be mond. The Mother's Relief i• prepared only by the nmv rile proprietors, Comstock & Co. 21 Courtland n. ten• York. For IVorrns—liohnstock's Vcrsofuhre will eradicate and cure children and adult's win, hove worms. Caution— !leo are of a tine name. IC spelled Kohortorit, the old hutch name of the inventor. Price 25 cents per Na ti, T .-fit cannot injure, the child should there be no %, tun., not it tt In fin it good. T the Holt sport taint, Comstnek's Nerve and Bar , Linn/lent and Indian Vegetable Elixir is the must edi•ct ual care for Illientitallstil. contracted cords or Milfrlea. and 1., warranted to cure any case of ItlieUinatiaal Or Gant. i Erpertorant Syrup—J/are Yours Cough—Dri not neglect I it—thousands have met a premature death for the want 1 oratteotinn ton common Cold. (lave you a cough 7 flee. Dr. 11,irtholomew's Erpectorant Syrup, a safe medical prescription, containing foe poisonous drugs, and used in 11 1% extensive practice for several years, will most rend lively give relier.and save you from that most .01111 , disease, Pulmonary Consumption, which usually sweep. into the erase hundreds or the young, the old, the lovely and the gay. ; All the above firIICIOP are sold by W. A. Lender, the only agent for the genuine arth les in Columbia, and by ' James elm ult. Lan roster. and John 3. Libber!, Marietta - Castro, —Bev only of the ribose persons as all other. are counterfeit tiorb,l7.oot
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