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liTHIdWATZB FBOM THE WELL.
Jhrly on a sunny morning, while the lark was
singing sweet,
Cme, beyond the ancient farm-house, sounds
of lightly tripping feet.
'Twas a lowly cottage maiden going, why let
vonnz hearts tell.
with her homely pitcher laden, fetching water
from the well.
Shadows lay across the pathway, all along tho j
quiet lane;
JLaJ the breezes of the morning moved them to
and fro amiin.
O'er the sunshine, o'er the shadow, passed the
inaiden of the farm, j
Vith a charmed heart within her, thinking of '
ao ill nor harm
Pieisant, surely, were her musings, for the nod
ding leaves in vain
owtLt to pross their bright'ning image on her
ever-busy brain ;
Leaves and joyous birds went by her, lite a d:re,
half-waking dream,
AiJ her soul was only conscious of life's glad
dest aummer-gleam.
At the old lane's shady turning, lay a well of
water bright.
filnging soft its hallelujahs to the gracious cior-
ninjr lizht
fra leave, broad and green, bent o'er it where
its silvery droplets fell.
Aa4 the fairies dwelt beside it, in tho spotted !
jox-giove ueu.
Bock she bent the shading fern leaves, dipt her
pitcher in the tide
Irn it with the dripping waters flowing o'er
its glazed side;
2at before her arm could place it on her shiny,
waving hair,
By ker side a youth was standing! Love re-
3oieod to see the pair.
tones of tremulous emotion trailed upon the j
morning breeze,
fletitle words of heart-devotion whispered by '
the autumn trees;
Bt the holy, blessed ficcrcts, it beseems me
not to tell
LL'a had met another meaning fetching water
from the welL ; .
Xan the rural bine they eauntcred. He the
burthen pitcher bore ;
Bit with dewy eyes tlown-iookiug, grew more
beauteous than before 1 t .. . , :
IfUn they nearcd the silent homestead, vip he
raised the pitcher light;
L;ke a fitting crown be. placed it on her hair of
wavelets bright ;
Emblem of the coming burdens that for love of
him she'd bear,
CUing every. burden blessed if his love but
lighted there !
then, still waving benedictions, further fur
ther off he drew, ' T " :
his shadow seemed a glory that across
the pathway grew.. "
Sow about her household duties, silently the
maiden went, '
And an ever radiant halo with her daily life
waa blent.
little knew the aged matron, as her feet like
music fell,
ht abundant treasures found shej fetching
water from the well. .
THE BLOOD UEVJSXGK OFTHL
CAUCASIAN JIOUATAIAS.
Pro Bodenstcdt's Thonsand and one DavsYn I
the Morning Land. '
EMia-llAMSA, under Russian protecUou, reigned
Ter KatacL Tlt" &Imost unlimited power, without
However, venturing to assume the title of Viz
By. The bitter fate of his innocent and b'aoi
-v. urouier, or whom he knew not whether he 1
(r Kr :i , .... - - - . .-..-,. 1
. " "'" Dr a?ad, bad gone decpto the heart
" tte nobIc Emir-IIamsa. '.' Sirice the day of hi$
Pauoa from Bala-Chan,' no intelligence iad
prin f the fate of th0 unfortunate
erT h&d aIread7 Siwcn P all hope 6f
ns dTp1 S f hiS beloved brother again, when
"rival7 f attcndants naounced to" hira .the
ofbein . 6tranSe -Tartar, who was desirous
At he Tlht b-f0r th V"' on he Sond
wt imn, affa'rS t0 cotnmunicato of the great-
vTL ' Thc TartaV is itroducedand
t 9 Ule astonished Emir-Hamsa a letter
t-, . BWttes,as a messase from Ma lone
,ho dejcript
-vmer, Bala-Cban .'tk- wix ---t Z
ivuvt VMUlrtlll3 it
i of the' sufferings which the
Mterf e-t . lo enuur Q tue
Jim . 7 ' nucr ms I0t cast with the
tt xUcd GIowin resentment,
6west ,pr!nce caJIs on brother, as the
klood U fulfil the 8acred duty of
kismisfrrge0n Adcl-Chfcn' e originator of
evmb i and accordine to cnstom.'scnds
Uaoof tk tW fliQt-'st0Qea from the Emir's
brother- V Emir understood ! the will of his
Ai 'xr.ll vV48 he t0 fiQd opportunity
"9MrtS.aacBt of bucL a design? For
Adrl-Clmn, the victinr intended, dwelled in the
interior of Avaria, and waa far from the reach
of his arm. The opportunity for discharging
the debt of revenge thus cast upon him pre
sented itself more quickly than the Emir ima
gined, as in general happens to a man in the
achievement of an evil deed, fate' seems to
speed him on his way, and suffers the deed to
follow the thought. '
Adel-Chan, accustomed to a- luxurious way of
life, had himself compelled, in order to support
his family, to join fo the scanty revenues flowing
to him from the Aul of Balakany the greatest
part of the property he had brought with him..
The very last of thi3 was now gone; and as the
Sultan of Avaria refused him any further sup
port, he seized the only course that was left
j him, namely, to implore the help of his nephew,
Einir-Hainsa. He depicted to him in the most
vivid colors Lis unfortunate situation, begged
him to renounce tlx? throne in his favor, and to
use his influence with the Russian Government
to obtain for him the restoration of his parental
realm. In return he promised, the Russians
obedience, faith, and the furtherence of their
interests, as far as lay in his power. For the
sincerity of his sentiments he would answer
with his life.
Ou receiving this message, the Emir felt a joy
liie that of the tiger,, who descries in the dis
tancc a sure Pre.v- IIe hoped, in the negocia-
tion into which he should thus bate to enter
wjta Adel-Chan, to find a favorable moment to
execute the sentence of the blood revenge cast j
, . , ......
upon ins
soul
Without delay Einlr-IIamsa hastens to Lieut. I
Colonel Ashcberg, then residing as Commandant j
at Derbeut, informs him that, in a message just ,
arrived, the Utzmey has expressed the wish to '
hold a secret nightly meeting; the ground of !
this intended meeting is unknown to the Emir,
j although from his own experience, as well as j
rom tlie faithless bchaviorVitherto dis-Jayetf '
by- the Utzmey, he thinks he may venture to
conclude that the latter is again meditating '
some evil design against the Russians. The j
Emir therefore entreats, for the interest of the
Russiou administration, permission to proceed
entirely according to his own judgment in the
impending ' interview, even if circumstances
should render it necessary that the Utzmey be
captured or slain. The Commandant does not
hesitate to grant the desired permission. Forth
with Emir-IIamsa sends the Ctzmey his Assent
to the proposed interview, and appoints, as their
place of meeting, the upland village of Mendz-.
-halissa, on condition, however, that each of
them briug with him not more than Iwo follow
ers. The interview is to begin. with the dark
ness of night. . , , .
Emir-IIamsa, unfaithful to his own conditions,
had concealed in the rear fifty excilently-armed
horsemen, and glowing with revenge, awaited
his uncle, Adel-Chan, who likewise did not fail
to,make his appearance at the appointed time,
accompanied by his sou, Mohammed-Chan, and
a kuli (slave) from bis train. . Mutual expres
sions of friendship and honor having been pro-
fuscly lavished on both 6ides'with feigned cor
diality, both ' princes seated themselves over
against each other, on their broad burkas,'(a
short, felt mantle; with fur on the outside,) out
spread for the purpose. Both of them, however,
according to Daghestanian custom, 'used the
precaution of holding their fire-arms cocked
before them on their knees, in order, in case of
a treacherous surprise, to be ready in a moment
for defence; but the Emir's piece was loaded
with two balls, and in its lock was one of the
flints of Bala-Chan. . The negociation lasted a
long time. ..The Utzmey depicted, in strong ex
pressions, all the hardships he had endured, the
ill-usage "which his -son had experienced from
the Rassians daring his confinement atDerbent,
the deprivatiens to whioh he himself and all his
family had been exposed during' their involun
tary exile, and so forth.: He concluded his dis
course with the assurance that he had become
sensible of the ' foolishness of his 6tep in re
nouncing -the throne, and fleeing from his coun
try, and. would: repentantly submit himself to
the further direction of the Russian authorities,
if he could by so doing attain to reinstatement
in hid former rights.' Emir-Hamsa heard him"
quietly out, and only bow and then interrupted
the, stream of .discourse. ( by words of L approval
and attachment. He assured him that he would
use his influence with the Russians to procure
him a pardon- . He had also, he said, already
done all he could, to. give the matter a more fa-"
vorable turn, and had been- commissioned by
the Commandant of Derbent to - communicate
certain preliminary arrangements 'with respect
to this affair; .these, however, could only be-im-parted
in the. presence of four, eyes, on which
account he must request him to remove, for a
few moments, both his followers. Adel-Chan
commanded his son Mohammed and the kali to
withdraw until he should call 'them. . The 'Vali.
obeyed the command of his lord in silence; but
Mohammed, who seemed to entertain some mis-
giving, remained immovable in'hjs place.";
Now," asked Adel-ChaW,1 with curiosity, not
seeming to observe that his son remained behind,
-"wherein does thy charge consist?" '"I hare
told thee," 'rtplin'-Emir'-IIamsar displeased,
"that th? advices I have to communicate to thee
are destined for thee alone; wherefore dost thou
not send thy son away ? Ioe3 he fear, perad
venture, for his father's safety?" 44 Away,
youth1!" cried the old man impatiently to Mohammed-Chan.
"Dost thou think thy father
is afraid of a beardless boy ?" -
This time Mohammed obeys the strong com
mand of the Utzmey, but, nevertheless, remains
standing at some distance, with ever increasing
misgivings, and seeks, as far as possible in the
darkness, to foUow, with keen eye, the move
ments of both princes. Thc conversation still
continues a long while; at last he sees them
both rise, and, with, many manifestations of
tenderness, take leave of one another and sep
arate, ne hastens joyously towards his father,
who calls him; suddenly, a bright flame gleams
throught the .night, a loud cracking report Is
heard, and the Utzmey sinks pierced by two
balls, lifeless to the ground.
The shot came from the firelock that had in it
the flint stone of Bala-Chan. His deed accom
plished,' the murderer fled, with his followers,
to the place where the fifty armed horsemen
were lying concealed.
Dying with revenge, Mohammed pursues the
three fugitives, reaches them, and would fling
himself on his enemy, but cannot, in the dark
ness of the night, distinguish the Eui.lv from Ms
followers; for all three are of equal size, in
similar attire, and armed alike. The Emir had
contrived his plan well, and gone admirably to
work in the choice of his booty. Of firearms
Mohammed-Chan has only pistol and a musket
with him, ond must, therefore, first be quite
sure of his object, before he ventures to shoot.
At last he thinks he has discovered the traitor;
he discharges his piece, and one of three falls;
he bad seen falsely, the one he had killed was
not Emir-IIamsa. He fires his pistol, another
victim falls; he flings himself furiously on th
body, sure of having struck his foej but he has
mistaken again, the one he had killed was the
second follower of Emir-IIamsa, who himself
seemed as by a miracle to have escaped.
Gnashing with fury for his prey, Mohammed
springs up like a tiger of the desert, and leaps,
with drawn dagger, after his fleeing cousin; but
the latter, in the meantime, has gained a con
siderable 6tart of him, and been able to give his
horsemen the concerted .signal; he commands
them to fire in the direction in which he thinks
he discerns his pursuer; suddenly there flashes,
as it were, a blaze of lightning through the
night, and the thunder of fifty muskct-shota
rolls forth, like loud-resounding, scornful laugh
ter. Mohammed is still too far distant to be
harmed, but the unexpectcdncsa of the treach
erous discharge startles him; he sees that here'
his enemies are too many, hastens back, and.
arrives breathless again at the yet bleeding body
of his father. He throws himself ou it, and
covers the already. cold face with kisses, aud
with tears of fury grief; then he pulls out, ia
frightful remembrance, a long pistol from his
fathev's girdle, as a token" of blood-revenge on
Emir-IIamsa. - ...
' ' My lord, do you not hear the trample of our
pursuing foes?" cried the kuli, hastening up;
" we have not a moment to lose." They hurried
away to the place where their horses were stand
ing, bounded, into the saddle, and rode off, swift
as tho wind that sweeps over the ateppe. A third
horse stood saddled, but no rider was there.
. The corpse of the Utzmey was found, and, on
the following day, his nephew, Emir-Hamsa, or
dered it to be committed to the earth with so
much pomp and expense that the cost amounted
to more than a thousand 6ilvcr rubles. The
funeral solemnities lasted seven days long; du
ring which time, by the command of tbe Emir,
all the inhabitants of Katach had to lament
their prince, and put on the signs .of mourning:
After the interment of his uncle, Emir-IIamsa
despatched a message. Yto ;the Commandant of
Derbent, with the intelligence.',' that, be Wd, de
livered Russia from a mighty and malignant
foe:; The Russian Government, in order to tehow
the ? appreciation of this procedure,' nominated
the young Emir to the rank of captain ;. :C ' -
, '3Irs.' 3IowaU tUe Actress. ' '
.;-Thej Baltimore d'otriot says: Afew years
age Mrs. Mowatt engaged a little' English ' girl
"without any recommendation .but : her .'appear?,
ance, tojvait up6u Lcn ' The 'child had not been
many menths in her situation, beforo'her father
and mother, who-resided in Harlem, New York,
died leaving ; two 'orphan boys without friend or
protector iu the, world. Although the children
had' no more claim upon her than the whole
community, ' Mrs. Mowatt, 5 with a 'generosity
that many willBtyle ronymtjc, adopted, all the
three, childreni -placed ! the boya- with W honest
farmer, at Greenfield Hill, Cormectictit, and sent
them to school, and placed the girl in a family
where she.would be well educated and brought
up. ' For some six, ors?ven years -Mrs. M: sup
ported these children by her own Unaided efforts
and on her return from Europe her tare was
more than repaid by finding the boys grown into
.fine manly young men, able to help themselves,:
and the girl an accomplished and . estimable
young lady, . Recently. .Mrs. M, has received
accounts from England which render it probable
that these orphan children have a wealthy rela
tive, who has been ignorant of their fate, and
from whom they are likely to inherit a large
property:
"OUR DAILY BREAD."
A beggar-boy stopped at a rich man's doof
"I atahoaseless and friendless, and faint and
poor," -!u- - . i
Said the boy, as the tear-drop rolled
Down his thin cheek, blanched with want and
'''- cold. ' -
"Oh? give me a crust from your board to-day,
To help the beggar-boy on his way." - ' ' -
Not a crust not a crumb !" the rich man said :
Be off, and work for your daily bread P'
The rich man went to the parish church, ;
His face grew grave as he trod the porch ;
And the thronging, poor untaught mass,
Drew back to let the rich man pass." '
The service began the choral hymn
Arose, and swelled through the long aisle dim
Then tbe rfch man knelt, and1 the words he said
Were " Give vs this day our daily tread?
Opposed to Matrimony,
"Is your family opposed to matrimony ?"
"Wal, no I rather guess not, seein' as how
my mother has had four husbands, an stands a
pretty smar. chance for bavin' another."
"Four husbands? Is it possible?"
44 O, yes. You see my mother christened
name was Jiehitable Sheets, an' dad's name was
Jacob Press, an' when they got married the
printers sail it was puttin' the sheets t press.
When I was born the printers said I was the
first edition. An' you see mother used to be the
tarnelest critter to go to evenin' meetin's. She
used to go out pretty late every night, an' dad
l was afraid I would get in the same habit, so he
in ti A T , 1 - . - 1 11.. 1 - T x
cover me up with a pillar, and put me to sleep
with a boot-jack. "Wal, dad had to get up every
night an let mother in ; if he didn't get down
and ojen the door pretty darn quick when she
j cum, te'd ketch particular thunder; so dad used
, to sleep with his head out cf the winder, so as
to wale up quick, an' one night he got his head
a little too far out, and he slipped out altogether,
and down dad cum, caflumux, right down on
the pavement an' smashed him in ten thousand
piece!," - - -
TTlat ! Iras he killed by the fall !". ! '
" Wd, no, not exactly by the falL , I rather
kinder sorter guess as how it was the sudden
fetch ip on the pavement that kil'ed him. But
mam, ,she cum hum, and found him lyin' thar,
and sLe had him swept up together, an' put him
in a cdfin, an' had a hole dug in tbe buryin'
ground, an' Lad dad put in, an' hurried up, and
had a white oak plank put to his head, an' had
it whits washed all over for a tomb-stone."
i." Soyour mother was left a poor lone widow ?"
Wal,; yes; v she didn't mind that much;
't wasn't .long before she . married Saai Hide ;
you see she married . Jlide because he was just
dad's size, and she wanted him to wear out dad's
clothes. Wal, the way old Hide used to hide
me was a caution to my hide. Hide had a little
the toughest hido of any hide except a bull's
hide, wad the way Hide use to hide away liquor
in his hide was a caution to a bull's hide. Wal,
one cold day old Hide got his hide oo full o
whiskey that he pitched head first into a snow
bank, and there he stuck and friz to death. So
mam had him pulled out, an had him laid out,
an then she had another buryin, an' then she
had another white oak plank put up at his head,
an' white washed alfove'r an' UiL" "4
' ' So your mother was again a widow ?"'
- " O, yes ; but I guess she didn't lay awake
long to think about it, for in about three weeks
she married John Strong an' ho was the strongest-headed
cuss you ever did. ne went afish
in' tbe other daj-, and got drowned, and ho was
so tarnal strong-headed, I'll be darned to darna
tion if be didn't float right again the current, an'
they found him about three miles up the stream,
au' it took three yoke of oxen to haul him out.
f Wal, mam had him buried alongside of totlier
two, nn' bad a white oak plank, put up at his
head, an' white-washed all over nice, so that
there's three ion "-am 1I in 0.- '
- " And your mother -was a widow for the third
time." ; ; .- , ''' :
Tes,; bnt mam didn't seem to mind it a tar
nal sight The next fellow she married was Ja
cob nayes,- and the way mam does make liim
haze is a caution, how I tell you" If .die.' docs
anything a leetle outof the way, juani ; makes
him take a bucket an' white-wash brush, an' go
right np to the buryin' ground and white-wash
the three old planks, just to let him know what
he may pome to when she's ;plaatd.hini in the
same row, an' got married to her fifth husband.
So you pee our family arnt a tarnal 6ight op
posed to matrimony''
mvu .! ,c s-iisiaiiee oi- me sun. -
V Imagine a railway from here to the Sun. ' How
many; hours is the sun from us ? : Whyi if we
were to send a baby in an express ; train, going
incessantly a hundred miles: an' hour, without
making any stoppages, the baby would grow to
bo a boy the boy would grow to be a man the
man would grow old and die,' without seeing the
sun, for it is distant more than a hundred years
from us. But what is this compared to Nep
tune's distance? Had Adam and Eve started,
by our railway, at the creation, to go from Nep
tune to the Sun, at the rate of fifty miles an
hour, they would not have got there yet ; for
Neptune is more than six thousand years from
the centre of our system.
Woman's Rights.
A late number of the Boston Medical and Sur
gical J ourncl publishes a paper read before the
Boston Society for Medical Improvement, byj)rt J
vi . L. Coale, on the present fashion of dress
amongst our women, in relation to their health.
The following paragraphs merit the wise con
sideration of all whom, it concerns: ' r
With a view of improving their shape, the
lower part of the dress of women now consists of
six, eight, or even mere skirts, made of various
materials, cotton the stiff woolen materials, in
tended for curtains, called moreen flannel, and
at times quilted with cotton wool weighing,
together, as ascertained by actual experiment,
ten, twelve, and even fifteen pounds. Each of
these is supported by a string drawn very tight
ly round the body. We have seen the marks of
these strings for days after the skirts have been
removed we have seen them even after death.
Here, then, is the first source of evil the con
tinued pressure and constraint that these strings
keep up, evidently embarrassing greatly the or
gans within.
When to this, however, we add the weight pf
the skirts, we cannot bnt at once perceive how
great an additional force is set to work, particu
larly if its operation, as exerted upon organs
having amongst themselves a mobility almost as
great as that of fluid, be properly estimated.
To protect the abdominal viscera against this
pressure, remember there Is nothing in front at
least save a thin partition of woman's soft and
tensionless muscle. That these viscera bhould
be forced downwards is not surprising; they
must in turn exert an equal force downwards on
the pelvic viscera, is apparent.
ncre we have an explanation full, and we trust,
convincing, of the frequency of a disease in the
youngest and heartiest of the sex which twenty
years ago was considered peculiar to those whose
powers of life were greatly exhausted by demands
upon them, or were already en the decline from
age; an explanation, I may mention in passing,
not yet offered as far as I can ascertain, by any
I other writer.
Dr. Coale saya that until the la t fifteen years,
although the dress was at all times worn low on
thc chest, it was hung by broad shoulder-straps,
often coming from the shoulders high up towards
the sides of the neck. Trints illustrating the
fashions of this country prior to the time men
tioned, and the customs of England and France
for any period, prove this. , About fifteen years
since, as a ball dress, the $h-mldr-straps were
left off, so that the upper line of the dress was
perfectly horizontal j and this, with the elastic
views of .delicacy so peculiar to fashion, was of
ten low enough to disclose the edge of the armpit-
. In this style there was danger of the dress
slipping down, and it would do so but for the
ingenious contrivance of whale bone uprights,
the lower ends of which are supported at the ex
pense of the inner vital organs, over which they
arc placed.
IMiflosophy of a Carpet Bag.
Among the most common street sights is that
of a gentleman hurrying along towards railway
or river bearing with him a little carpet-bag.
So common it is that it fails to attract the slight
est attention. A little carpet-bag is no more
noticed than an umbrella or a walking-stick in a
man's hand ; and yet, when rightly viewed, it is,
to our thinking an object of no ordinary interest.
We feel no envy for thc . man on whom has de
volved the r charge of a heap of luggage.- The
anxiety attending such property outweighs thc
pleasure of its possession. But a man with a
little carpet-bag is one in ten thousand.' He is
perhaps the meet perfect type of independence
extant. He can snap his fingers in the face of
Highland porter extortionate. No trotting urchin
is idle enough to solicit the carrying of so light a
burden, "i While other- passengers, by ceaeh or
railway, are looking after trunks and trappings,
he enters and has 'the-. best seat.- He and his
little nH'V never part company. ' On arriving
at their destination, they are off with the jaunty
swagger "of unencumbered . bachelorhood. In
contemplating ' a gentle?rran with a earpet-bag,
we arc struck, to a certain extent,' with ah idea
of disproportion ; but the balance is all on the
easy side. There is far too little to constitute a
burden, and yet there is enough to indicate wants
attended to and comforts supplied.! No maa'with
a little carpetrbag in his hand has his last shirt on
his back." Neither is it probable that his beard
car suffer from slovenly overgrow th.: T - '
-When he-retires at night, the presumption is
that it will be in the midst oC comfortable and
cosy night gear.-! "A little carpet-bag is almost
always indicative of a' short and pleasurable ex
cursion. No painful ideas of stormy .'seas or I
dreadful accidents on far off railway lines are
suggested by it. 3 Distance is sometimes" 'poeti
cally measured by' a small bird's flutter," or
twb smokes of ajipe," or some such shadowy,,
though not altogether ; indefinite phrase. '-- Why
may not time; in like manner, be measured by
two shirts? A gentleman with a little 'carpet
bag may be said to contemplate' about a couple
of shirts' absence from home. : " ' '
JK2T TwOjieer a doe and buck, attached tea
light wagon containing two gentlemen, attracted
much attention in the streets of New York, a
day or two ag.
A Curiosity.
A little woman from Merida, Yucatan, is ex
citing much attention at New Orleans. The
ricajune. saya . that she, is apparently about
tnirty yeara of age, wish black hair and light
brown ?conplectioii, a regular iTecataea of tho
poorer. class, bora and raised in Merida. She
is about' three' feet high, with 'the head, face
and bodof a fill grown, woman. Her. lower
limbs are preposterously abort, and apparently
crooked. Iter feet are remarkably small; one
has three toes, the other four. She is without
entire arms. An inch or .two of what was to
be a limb, is scn at tEo loft shoulder; at the
right, the?e ae. about six inches of an arm.
The extremity is round and smooth, and near
it on the upper side of the limb is a small ex
crcsencc of fl'esh, "white colored, looking like
the end of a finger, and about the size of a rifle
bullet. This appears to 6ervo the woman in
lieu of a finger. We saw her hold a cigarrito
with it and smoke; and by its aid and that of
her toes, in thc use of which she is very dex
terous, thread a fine needle, make various kinds
of stitches, use scissors, ope the paper of a
a cigarrito, put the tobacco on the floor, pick it
up and replace' it, refold the paper, bend the
ends, tie the cigarrito round with thread, &c.
She sews all her own clothes, and very neatly.
too. A3 these operations are slowly gone
through with, exhibiting much patience on her
part, and considerable Intelligence, and she has
never been taught anything. She speaks Span
ish fluently, appears to be timorous and retiring,
but amiable and sprightly. She is under tho
care ef two Spaniards, who have brought her
ever with the intention of exhibiting her here
and in thc interior.
Mexlean Volunteers.
A writer in a Canadian paper, described the
peculiarities of the Illinois corps of volunteers
known as the Young Suckers, says:
. Thc way that thc young Sucker volunteer
fought in Mexico, may give you some idea of
Lis characteristics. He was there perfectly des
perate in a fight. One of thc officers related to
mc a little scene which occurred at Bucna Yista,
when the whole brunt of the Mexican advance
was borne by tho Illinois Regiment. It seemed
as though they would be annihilated by supe
riority of numbers, whea a young Sucker drew
his rifle deliberately, and dropped a Mexican.
'Set vp the pins.'1 and the whole regiment took
up the word, aad at every fire would shout 'Set
up the pies.' . The eSccr Baid they fought like
demons, and with as much drollery and fun as
if on a spree. At another time, when the charge
was .ordered, one of the officers could not think
of the word, and he shouted '.et her rip." when
the whole line buret eat with a yeTl, Let her
rip!' and dashed in among the Mexicans, laugh
ing and shouting the new battle-cry."
Opening a Mound..
The workmen on the Baltimore aqd Ohio Rail
road opened an Indian mound on Saturday, the
ISth ult., on thc farm of B. IcMachen, Esq.
The mound was about seventy feet in diameter
and eleven feet high. Nearly on a level with
the surrounding earth were found an altar of
stone, evincing the action of the fire; west of
north of the altar the head and body of an In
dian, extending west of north, at a slight de
clination from the head to the feet. This body
was covered to the depth of a foot er more with
ashes, in which the sals was still manifest to the
taste, as we are told. The body , was remarka
bly perfect, and was mostly preserved. Around
this body was twelve others, with their heads
centering toward it, and feet projecting. No ar
ticle of art was found except a polished stone
tube, about 12 inches in length.
t ' Mrs. Farnham ln California.
1 This lady, who went to California two or three
years ago, ; lives, psr-a farm ehc has purchased
near Santa Crnz... A letter to the New York
Tribune spcabsof -a. visit to her house by a gen
tleman, and says' r. - ' ' ' j . 1 -
He found her' equipped, in thc Bloomer, and
attending to thcluiies of -house and farm.
Owing to the difficulty of procuring labor, she
has been at times under the necessity of "putting
her hand to the, plough,- and even Sn'onc case
shingling, r her house. Butane pinching time is
now past, though hex life is far from an indolent
or inactfre one.' - i Away from home she wears
the ordinary dress.'. But when . shingling her
roof, she found th Bloomer highly convenient.
Her friend, -Miss Bruce,', is engaged with her in
harmonious co-opvratiMi. . - "
A'lVut Tor Clairvoyants.
'" - Claii-rtyarice will look up after this if we aro
to believe-the V New York Evening Post. So far
back as February, 1651, a elairvoyant, on being
interrogated reswearing' the Arctic expeditions,
answered that Captain Austin, who commanded
one of the English ' ones, was at that time, in
longitude 9o deg..4o in. west This prediction
was recorded in Dr. Gregory's work on Animal
Magnetism, puNished iu Edinburg last spring,
and re-issued here some time during the past
summer. We member distinctly reading tbe
fact in that work months ago. Since, that period.
Cant, Austin, as is well known, hat returned!
and strange to eay, his lopbook show that, cn
the day fpecificd, be actually waa ia the rlaca
mentioned by ths clairvoyant.