13 THE BLESSINGS OF GOVEKNilENT, LIKE THE DEWS OP.'nEAVEW, SHOULD EE 3)ISTUBTJTED ALIKE UPON THE HIGH ANE IBS IG"V7, "(KE RICE AjNT) THE TCOS. EW SERIES. EBENSB' , NOYEMBB11 10, 1858. VOL. 5 NO." 51. WIDOWS AND CHEEKY PIE. Or,e Saturday night twas a beautiful nigfct- I don't know the reason why; I liiuht a morsel of appetite, 12 ut 1 longed fjr a cherry pie. widow- -with a most benignant face; And a moelest but beautiful eye, g..nl in graceful proximity to a glass casa Tlir.t contained a cherry pic. 1. Hiked at the case 'twas . u, i ' " i x Wit; ti.c I thought but I'd try; case ,. l I.K.Rcd into her beautiful face ,. -;d asked for a cherry pi?. Js the lawyers all say, she "opened the case" And I opeued from my bosom a sigh; 'Twas then I felt I was in love With that charming cherry pie. The flower from which the honey-bee sipa Its nectar so sweet, in July, la net so delicious as the cherry iu lijt Of a widow and cherry pie. Header, I den't very often indulge In telling a wicked He, 15 t it took me one hour and twenty-four min- io i; 1UA -cherry pic. utcs From the Home Journal. LETTEr. AEOUT EDGAE POE. UU-tcihl, October 17, 2S58. I 'HA k Mounts : The splendid volume you snt mo, (The Toemsof Eogak Poh, published by our friend Keofferd, with tai-to and costliness so suited to the rare gems of which it is the sotting,) las vividly re opened to mo one of the lone closed chambers cf the Past so trying to brth of us Tn our harassing and exhau; ting days if "l'aily" Editorship. Poe, for a time, you roir.t-iid.er, was our assistant the constant rind industrious occupant of a desk in our of fco. The light shining from this volume Cf e.in. of a diamoud-lustro, wh'ch I think wholly unsurpassed justifi("5 fully to me, i.oiy, tho estimate I then formed f:om th! presence of the man. Of the poems, it would be to me the delicious alcbymy of lore to write ii criticism. TL"y are among the few that I dc!if to read to a friend, for a feast in an hour cr id.'e: ess. But it is cf the or.cn lining man as here pictured in the biographj- pre facing the book that I wish ,to make re mark or two which shall stand for vour to'.cc and mine. Of the ably written, but (in its impression) erroneous biography, which is placed at the beginning cf the volume, I will quote the opening paragiaph: "It would bo well for all poets if nothing more were known of their lives than what, they themselves infuse into their poetry. Too tl..-.se a knowledge of the weaKncssos and er- rors of the inspired children of Parnassus j ment announcing news, condensing ftatc cannot but impair, in some decree, the deli- mem, answering corwpondenis, noticing rate aroma of their songs. The inner life of amusements everything but the writing of tli r,t. the secrets of his insniration. the a "leader," or constructing any article winch mvstorious m-ocesses bv which his pearls of ! thought are produced, can never be made ! iniprcssed. let you remember how abso known. aud the accidents of his elaily life lately and how good-numoredly ready he waa t-.,.t infnmcf tlnn linqn whlfh I fall to common men. Under all circumstan ces the poet is a mystery, and the utterances of ids fancy are but the drapery of the vclied stutue of which still leaves the fi-iure nn knoTTi. A dissection of the song-bird gives toinpight into the secret of his mehidious notes. Some of the great modern poets have Ml their whole lives exposed, with minute accuracy; brtt in what are we tho wiser fer l-'ic knowledge we have obtained of them? We only know they lived and suffered like other men, and their inspirations are stdl a cause of wonder and dedight. The subtle fccret of their power is still hi. Men from our fearch; and though we know mere of the dailv habits of the men, we know bo more of tho hidden power of tho poe t. Hut there i? till a yearning to know how the men lived whose "genius has charmed and instructed us, r.nd a vague feeling exists, that, in probing the lives of poets, we may learn something fjf :he art by which they produced their wcrk. "Of all the poets whoso lives have been a puzzle and a mystery to the world, there is no one more difficult to be understood than KijfiAR Allan Pok. It is impossible to carry iu die mind a double idea of a man, and to believe him to be both a saint and a fiend; W. such is the embarrassment felt by those who have first read the poems of this strange Vine, and then read any of the biographies him which pretend to anything like an ac "'T:de account of his life. Like his own 'Raven,' he is, to his readers, 'bird or fiend,' they know not which. But a close study of 'ia works will reveal the fact which may ktvc, in some degree, to remove this em WraRment that there is nowhere discover hle in them a consciousness of moral re frfiibility. They arc full of the subtleties f f pas?ion, of grief, despair, and longing; but 'ry contain nothing that indicates a sense rr.orrd rectitude. They are the produc tion of one whose religion was a worship of beautiful, nnd who knew no beautv but at which was purely sensuous. There were ' of her life to privation and sorrowful tecder fcattwo kinds of beauty for him, and thev I uess, her gentle and mournful voice urging yvo Form and Color. He revelled in an its plea, her long-forgotlen but habitually i'iool world of perfect shows, and was made and unconsciously refined manners, and her 'retched hv an- i,r,r.rfi;Ma irf Tho anpealinsr vet appreciative mention of the T J.OOnr.rn Tr-l-. 1 U. J 1 J v. u j5o iuf3 uu uopiurcu nua a uciug j.lr to the eye, a beautiful creature, like Un J'ns, without a soul. With this key to tho character of the poet, there is no difficul y iu comprehending the strange inconsisten ces, the basenesses and nobleuess, which his wayward life exhibited. 'Some of the bloerrnriTipro nf Pniliawlioon Wall J Judged for the view given of his char- r;--t- . aeter, nd it haa naturally been supposod that I pnnta pique hai led to the exaggeration of . xi.cvn, uut eucu imputations are ursju't : a truthful delineation of bis ca reer would give a darker huo to las character than it Las received from any of his biogra phers. In fact, Lo has been more fortunate than most poets in his historians. Lowell and Willis have sketched him with gentleness and a reverent feeling for his genius; and Griswold, his literary executor, in his fuller biography, has generously suppressed much that lie might have given. This is neither the proper time or place to write a full his tory of this' unhappy geniu'; those who scan his marvellous poems closely may find there in th? man, for it is not possible; for the true poet to veil himself from his readers. What he writes he is." The biographer then gives a brief memoir, of which the following passage is intended to picture truly hi. connection with us. Poe, he says, "was soon installed as editor of Gra ham's Magazine. As a matter of course, he quarrelled with Graham, and then went to New York, where he engaged as a sub-editor on the 'Mirror.' But he did not long remain at this employment, which was wholly unsuited to him, and he left the 'Mir ror' without quarrelling with the proprietors " I do not think that the casual reader would get, from this passage, (in which there ic no positive incorrectness,) an impression which at all corresponds to tiie picture Mi, by the same period, in your remembrance ind mine. PoK crime to us quite incidentally neither of u, ifl remember rightly, having been per sonally acquainted with Lim at that time and his position towards us, and connection with us, or course unaffected by claims of previous friendship, were a fair average of his general intercourse and impression. As he was a man who never smiled, aud never said a propitiatory or deprecating word, we were not likely to have been seized with any sudden partiality or wayward caprice in his favor. I should preface my avowal of an almost reverence tot reminding tl the muu, as 1 knew hiui, by i reader of th- strange iionilr, common to the presence and magnetism of a man of fireniui. and the almost totally di.Tor- i.nt tt limare wu'ch may be thus formed of i iho same individual, L-y two strangers cr ac i qnaititauces of equal intellectual acumen and liiscsimiijHtson. The r.:yterior;s electricity j of mind, where it is negative, is more npt to ' be entirely antipodal m poets than in men j equally gifted in other ways. The nature of i the poet is wholly unrevoaled to those upon ; whom his electric ii.kic-nce is lost or amounts lo.an antagonism. What could be more liif-. j feicnt thau are often the tvt.o honest opinions j entertained by good judges, cf the nature of ! the same gifted man': I It was rather a step downward, after being the chief editor of several monthlies, as Poe J had been, to come into the office of a daily journal ns a mechanical paragraphia. It i was his business to sit at a desk, iu a corner i of the editorial room, ready to be called upou i for anv of the miscellaneous work of the no i . .... his peculiar idiosyncrasy of mind could be for any su;'gostic.n, how nunclu all v ana iu- dustriou:-!v rtdiaido, in tb feilov.inir out of tb wish oneo expressed, cnee ful an present-minded in Lis work when he might excusably Lave been so listless and abstrac ted. We loved the 11 an for the cntiieness of fidelity for which he served us himself, or any vanity of his own, ho utterly put aside. When he left us we were very reluc tant to part with him, but we could uet ob ject, as il was to better his foi tunes. He was to take the lead ia another periodical. 15ut. on one of the pages of the splendid i vo lumc bvfore mc, is the key to an inner : C:iau:ufci" ct t'."0 Leait of that gifted man. : There is the Sonnt.t to his whu's mot::i;k; ; and, in rny opinion, the enqueue beauty of ; the relatiousliip between tho two J'l'O.r. P01: and Mrs. Clemm, thesaiutcd woman who ' so devot' d lcr entire existence to a tender j care and worship of her unhappy boy will I embalm hin iu tho poetical heart-memory cf j mankind. Let tie here recall the picture, I which I Lave already drawn, of hor aud her j affection writing of them at the time of his 1 death : ! "Put there is another, more touching, and far more f ireibie evidence that there u:as I yoodnrss in Edgar Poe. To reveal it, we are I obliged to venture upon the lifting of tho ! veil which sacredly covers grief and refine- ment iu poverty ; but we think it may be ex cused, if so, we can brighten the memory of ' the poet, even were there not a more needed i and immediate service which it may render to the nearest link broken by his deatn. "Our first knowledge of Mr. Poe's remov al to this city was by a call which we receiv ed from a lady who introduced herself to us as the mother of his wife. She was in search of employment for him, and she excused her errand by mentioning that he was ill, and that her daughter was a confirmed invalid, and that their circumstances were such as compelled her takiog it upon herself. The countenance of this lady, made beautiful and saiutly with an evidently complete giving up claims aud abilities of her son, disclosed the presence of one of those acgcls upon earth that women iu adversity can be. It was a hard fate that she was watching over. Mr. Poe wrote with fastidious difficulty, aud in a style too much abore the populai level to be well paid. He was always ia pecuniary dif ficulty, and, with hia sick wife, frequently in waut of the merest necessities of life. - "Win- ter after winter, the most touching sight to ua in the wholo city, has been that tireless minister to genius, thinly and insnfiioiently j clad, going from office to office, with a poem, j or an article on some literary subject, to sell sometimes sharply pleading in a broken voice that he was ill and begging for him mentioning uothing but that 'lie was ill,' whatever might be his reason for writing nothing aucl never, amid all her tears and j recitals of distress, suffering one syllable, to j escape her lips that could couvey a doubt of j him, or a complaint, or a lessoning of pride i in his genius and good intentions. Her daugh ter died a vcar and a half since ; but she did not desert hiui. She continued his minister ing angol living with him caring for Lira guarding him against exposure, and when he was carried away by temptation,, amid grief and the loneliness of feelings uureplied to, and awoke from his sclf-abandoament proftratcd ia destitution and suffering, lrg fij for him still. If woman's devotion, born with a first love and fed with huir.au passion, hallow its object, as it is allowed to do, what does not a devotion like this pure, disinterested end holy as the watch of an in visible spirit say for him who inspired it ? "We have a letter before us, written by this lady, Mrs. Clemm, on the morning on which she heard of the death of this object of her untiring care It is merely a request that he would call upon her; but we will copy a few of its words sacrud as its privacy is to warrant the truth of the picture we have drawn above, and add force to the ap peal which we wish to make for her : 'I have this morning heard of thedetlh ofiay darling Eddie. Can you er.ve me any circumstances or particulars ? Oh do not desoit your poor friend in this bitter afflic tion. c AtkMr. t3 come, as I must f-ce ldrn b Ed.lie. urn i.r a mcssii 1 need not ;:e to him frv.m i-o.t a.sk y. u to notice his of him. I knv yon i.Tectionato son he was ,1 !catn rn-1 b Hut sav i oak wel VI what an to me, Ijisi jjoor, desolate mother." "To hedge round a grve with respect, what choi -e is there between (he relinquished wealth, and honors of the world, and the story of p'ich a woman's uureardol devotiou ! Risking what we do, in delicacy, by making it public, we feel other reasons aside that it betters the woild to make known that there are such administrations to ire crrin-r and gif-?d. What we Ji2ve aid will spak to some hearts. Th-cre are those who will be glsd to Irnow how the lamp whose liht cf poetry has toamed on their fer away rfcogni tion, was watched over with cere and pain that they may send to her, who is more dark ened than they by its extinction, some token cf t'.K-'r sympathy. Sh - is 4 'dc tiro Is and alone. If any, far or near, will pe3 i to tts what may aid and cheer her through the re mainder of her life, we will joyfully place it in her hands " And now let me aid, to so tottehiug a pic ture, the Sonnet from this beautiful volume, addressed to his moth'T-indaw, which so em balms her for immortality in his genius : "Be-caus? I feed that in the heaven ab-.ve, The angels, whispering to one another. Can find, among their burning terms of love, None so devotional as that of 'Mother,' - Therefore by that dear name I long have called you You 'who are more than mother xuA me, And fdl 103-heart of hearts, where Death in- tt.lllc-d vol 1 Tn SOttln JJv rioth-r ! my Yirfrinia" -it inv own mot..er who died ear:v, .1, :is out the To.oti.er r-i nuveii ; Out you Are mother to th" one I I ved to dearly, And thus are dearer than ths mother I knew By that aiuaity by which my wile Wa.-j uea: r to my s Tiio reader of ui t;um its soui inc." this .Son n ft, who has the volume in his hand, tarns back to look musingly upon the features of the poet in whom resided such inspiration. 13ut, though exceedingly well engraved and valu able, for the recalling of his features to those who knew them with the angel fchiuing through. The picture is from a daguerreo type, and taken; by the superficial sunshine, at the moment wheu the dark spirit cento: ted the lineaments. It gives no idea of the beauty of Elgar Pee. The exquisitely chis elled features, tha habitual but intellectual nr.laccholy, the clear pa lor of the complex 1 iu, ana tin 1 . 1 calm cy-r like the molten ttid- ! r.css or a siii.noering voicano, composea a countenance of which this picture is but the , i . 1 , 1, skeleton. After reading "The Haven," "Ul aluine," "Lconorc" and "Annabel Lee," the luxuriast in poc-ty will better conceive what his face might have bceu, It has been one of our privileges, my dear Morris it is one of the usually unreckoned and outside privileges of our present day's toilsome profession to be thought guides and wardens to that "Fountain of Egeria" at which gifted hearts long to be uuburtheDed. The youug poet, the genius unappreciated, the crushed hope or ambition, over which the iucrrernaut of the world has driven its hard wheel these and like sufferers are apt to come to u? with their tears or their story. Wc stand at the public car. We can reach the vague and undefined throne befors which thev desire to be heard. I have always esteemed it an interesting privilege, I say, to be thus able to r?ad, nearly, truly and confidingly, the hearts of the less common of man. Weak-voiced for themselves, as the most fitted are oit?n like liest to be, it is a great happiness to know them first, and speak for them to the world, to urge their claims, and strengthen their confidence, and reverently to grade and es tablish their descrvings. There is much to counterbalance it, it is true; for there are (oh how many !) mistaken and false claim ants, for whom the kindness of trutkful dis couragement seems both cruel and certain to be misunderstood. Uut the heppier side of it the first recognizing, appreciating, and assuring to itself, niodegt tud true genius is. I have always thought, to "walk with angels." Willi the monotoy of assured and established intercourse ; the dulness of tlmil itude in men unmistakably tlassed, labelled and acknowledged ; the btrdDess and shal- Jownesa of commonplace character and feel ing; it is indeed, (the exceptional privilege I speak of,) a relief an inner knowledge of other ,&nd better minds and hearts,- by winch life,-this our daily life, is apt to bo stale and weary, is inexpressib!ynriched ! I hare torn this leaf out of your experi ence ; and -mine, my dear Morris a little too jiutobiographically, perhaps you will .ay, considering that I was writing for two but Poe was one cf our "boys" We both loved him':'.' lie was re-baptizei and adopted over our imcstand of appreciation and ndmir- anew, even by such a trumpet of fame as this superb volume, without giving our ae cent to the echo. - Closing somewhat in haste, I remain lours as ever, x r. W. Only Tight. "How flushed; how he is ! Whai's the matter with him?" "Only tight." "Tight?" "Yes, intoxicated." reak "Only tight ." Man's host and greatest g'itt his intellect, degraded; the only power that raises him from brute creation, trodden under the foot of a debauclungtppctito. 'Only tight!" The mother stands with pale face and tear-dimmed to see her only son's disgrace, and in her fancy pictures the bitter wee of which th's is the fore-shadowin ; 'Ouly tight The getiMe sister, whose Btronges-t love through life lias been iven to her handsome, talented brother, bhrinkswiih contempt and disgust from his embrace, sv.i brushes away tho hot impure kiss he prints upon her check. "Only tight!" And his young briuu Stops IU Uie giau uuce fcuu is ui.u.iL!g . . , i i .7 t : , !.: to meet ; him. aud ci.ecks the welcome on her lirs to gaze in terror on the reeling form and Hush ed face of him who was the "god of her MjI- try. tii'hi !' And the father's face grows dark aud ead as with a bitter eigrt he stojps over4.be sleeping form of his first-born. Ue ha brought sorrow to all those affec tionate heart; he ha opened the door to & fe tal indulgence; he has brought himself dowu to & leve l with brutes: he has tasted, exciting the appetite to crave the poisonous draught egfcin; he has falle-n from hi-h nd noble manhood, to babbling idiocy and heavy stu por; brought grief to Lis uiOth.T, distrust to his itcr, almost despair to his bride, and bowed his father's head v,ith sorrow, but blame hiia not, for be is "only tight.'" Srsccr.AH Affair in Cincinnati. A we'll known and respectable citiien of Cincinnati. Mr. John T. Elliot, broker, has been arrested ou a eharge of conspiracy to blo up the house of his father-in-law' family, with gun powder. One of three men who are sai 1 to have been employed in the matter, has testi fied that, six weeks aro, Mr. Elliot employed the three to cover the whole front of the house of Mr. Sedam, his father-in-law, rith tar and filth, which they did, and subse quently he applied to them to blow up the house, furnishing tnera with a jug of powder and other things for the purposs Tho wit ness savs his heart failtxl Lira in this last work, and Le gava it ur and informed the police. The ocly evilenoo against Klliot is tins confession of" 0:1 of the parties, but Mr. j Sedani believes the story, and says it is the j result of a long standing difi'cuHy with hid I son-in-law, whom he has assisted at various times very liberally. SwK.vr.iNO. If ever I wish I had no cars, it is when I hear a boy swearing Who made you? Who keeps you alive? Who gave you a tongue? Who gave you speech' Who clothes and feeds you? Wiio put a soul m 3'our body ' Who- sent his Son to be your Saviour and friend ? Who opens hcavcu to you? Whose earth do you live on ? WLono skv is ovvr 3-our head ? Whose sun shines upon you? Whose Sabbath do you rest on ? All the answers will 'be Clod. Is he not great and good? Should j-ou not love him and thank him, and iniud him aad enjoy him ? let what does the swearer uo t lie taiccs Gcd's name in vain. He uses it upon a thoughtless and wicked toague. Did Go! foresee that there would be swearers, and did he make any law rgainst swearing ? Yes : "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord. will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name iu vain" that is, God m'll hold him guilty who takes his name in vain Poison of tiik Common Toad. It is au ancient and common opinion that toads and salamanders possess a subtile poison; this, however, has been generally deemed fabu lous by those engaged in scientific pursuits. MM Gratielet and Closs, in a report to the French Academy, show that there is iu real ity some foundation for the common belief, and that toads and salamanders do secrete a deadly poison. These gentlemen inoculated small animals with the milky fluid contained in the dorsal and porotid posfulcs of these an- imals. and found it productive of fatal effects in a short space of 'time. A turtle-dove slightly wounded in the wing, and inoculated with the liquid secreted by the salamander, died in terrible convulsion in eight minutes. Five small birds inoculated with the laiescect humor of the common toad, died in five cr six seconds, but without convulsions. The liquid of the pustule of fha common toad, even after being dried.kills birds, though not with the same rapidity as when fresh. A Good Ccstosi. A Kentucky papr says it is getting to be very fashionable in that quarter to enclose a dollar with marriage no tices, when sending them to the printer. A good custom that ought to prevail every where. Six dollars to printer and priest No sensible man could refuse Five dollars to render him b'st And one to publish tht news. INDIAN BRIDGE. IiELATED KY PAXIEL WETSTEK. Many years ago there lived a man in Ccnte cock by the name of Dowtn I'ctcr IJowen not a man of largo substance, but still what we would call in New Hampshire, "a fore handed man.' Living on the frontier, he necessarily caujo much in contact with the Indians sometimes in hostile contact. Fear less, and abounding in resources, he had gained a name anions them, and there were few of him singlc-hnnded. Not naturally quarrel some, he had avoided unnecessary hostilities with the savages, and, indr cd.. had gained no little of their good will by many acts of gen erosity, for with no people more than with them, were bravery aud liberality held in high estimation. ''Sabati'3 and Plausawa were the two princi pal chiefs cf the tribe, the smoke cf whose wigwam arose nearest, the settlements of the English colonists. The first was of a sullen and vindictive disposition., and when excited by drink, intraetible and savage. Plausawa was of a milder temperament, and felt better disposed towards the English. He had inter changed kind offices with them, and warned them more than once of plots against their safet v. At this time there was a truce between the Indians and the colci.ists. and both parties l had njrrcfcd to puntsh arsv violation of it. lf) an Indian should be killed by an Eujlishman, tho coli uists prc mi. ed to treat it as a capital crime, ana tne inauLs, on tntir part, made a c rrespouu'mg stipulation. There was peace Letweeu the crowns of France and Pngland, and their respective colonics affected to keep it at feast iu naice. lledyiiij? upon this present good understand ing, Sabatis and Plusawa one day made a hunting excursion upon the shores of the Mf rrirua:, ia which thoy were very successful. They were encountered, late in the afternoon, loaded with the fkins of tho animals tbey had killed, by two Englishmen, somewhere near lJeseaweu. Sabatis Lad procured drink from the settlers, always too eager to barter it for j furs, and was in a quarralsoras humor. Plau- j sawa, therefore, cautioned these men against any attempt to trade with him, and advised them to go heme. "There are others of the tribe about," he said, "who would support Sabatis in any hostile demonstration." As they were departing, Sabatia cried out to them. "we want no :tcre cf you English hert? 1 have evil in my heart, and if you do not leave our teriiiories, and abandon them forever, we will take land and life from you. We will drive the pale fac:s into the big water!" One j of the men replied, "there is no fighting now j between us. English and Indians are all brothers. They had not gone far on tueir home ward road before they met Peter Uowen, and telling him of tho threats of SaVatL, en deavored to peruadc him to accompany them homo. 1'owen laughed. "Threatened men," he suiJ, "lived long. I would not priza a life held at the mercy of these savages. I will meet them in friendship, or light, as best suits them." The Indians had got into their canoe before he overtook them, and were go ing up the river, Uoweu hailed them, and uracil them to go to his house, whero they would have a frolic, aad pass the night. Al ter some reluctance on the part of Plausawa, ! thev assented, and accainpanicd bowen to his house in Contoeock. iSovcu had many a dee p carouse with the Indians, and understood ho-v to manage them. lie sat before them drinking cups and bot tles of rum, and leaving lis w:ie a woman as fearless and courageous as himself to cn rnteit:iin them, wont out of tho room on pre trxt of peine to the well for water. But i while hewas absent he drew the charges from i their guns, which they had unsuspectingly ' left behind the dotrin tiie entry. The night 1 wore on, and their potations were deep and 1 eft rorcatc I. A: first the Indians were great -j l- pleased laughed at Do wen's stories, and j ca'kd him brother; but by degrees, as tho y I drank more deeply, they began to grow quar j relsome, abused the English aud threatened 1 their cJ.t rmiuatiou. Powin .fleeted to treat the threats as jokes, but had all the while a watch ful ec cn their moticns. At Jast tue sun rose and the Indians said it was time to go j heme incy uaa no.nrauu e - only affected heir brains. Bowen consented to take his horse and carry their baggage to the place where they had left their cauoes. Oa the way, Sabatis proposed to run a race against Bowen mounted; but the latter, judg imr from Sabatis' eve aud manner that some y , . - , mischief wasinteu.de - at firt declined to run, urging, couseuted to but fiuallv. on much taking however good care to let tho In- run, dian outrun the horse, fcabatis seemed nmca pleased with his victory, aud laughed heartily at Lowen lor owning so sorrv .i aimuai. they traveled along alter this in x or a w uu annp.rentlv good humor, until Sabarib, ns they ! wt tue river, turned around to Bowen and said, "the pal walk the woods with us" -that is go with them as j a prisoner. Bo v. en re-plied, in seeming un 1 concern, that Lc could not walk the woods, for Tr.diAns and Euirli.shrnen were now brothers. Whereupon Sabatis proposed a second race, and that Bowen should unload his horse aud Btart a little before Lim, "because," he said "the horsi of the pulo faco could not run so fast 'as Sabat'13." Thi Bowen refused to do, but couscuted to start at the same time. They started, but the horse had not got far ahead cf ihe'fndian before Bowen heard a gun snap, and looking around, saw tha smoke, and the gun pointed at him. lie turned, and buried his tomahawk in tho Indian's head. He than went back to meet Placjawa, who. seeing the fate of his friend, took nitu at Bowou and fired: his gun flashed. - Then ho beggeu Bow- cn to paro his life, pleaded iiu innocence 01 1 Sthaiis' intent, and called to ciiod the many kiD 1 acts he had done to Englishmen, the lives of many to whom his intercession had kaved but all ia vaia. Dowen knew very well that there would never be safety for him so long as the friend of Sabatis lived. One must die-, aud to secure himself, it was ne cessary to put Plausawa to death, and as tii? latter turned to fly he struck Lis tomahawk into his skull. The dead bodies he hid un der a small bridge, ever after called Indian Bridge, where they were discovered the next spring. The colonics at this tiie were desirous cf bcing on good-, terx-c wi;h the Indrl.s, for whenever war broke out between them, the latter were alwajs aided by the French i-. Canada The sudden disappearance of ra:i of such note as Sabatis and Plauava occa sbned the borderers no little alarm; for socvo time their deaths were undiscovered, and when the manner of it became known, serious apprehensions were felt of Indian retaliate u Bowen was arrested and placed ia Exeter jail, and the Indians were isiurcd that proper pun ishment should be inflicted on him, accoidii, to tbc terms of the treaty. But the people ; i' the vicinage assembled hastily and in largo force broke into the jail and released the pris oner. In those days, killing Indians was no murder; and in this . case, Dowen's fricreis maintained that the act was committed in self-defence; so, perhaps, it might be consid ered, upon Boweu's account, without any re butting circumstances. The feet that the In- diatis had large quantities of furs in their ca noes, wlucii Bowea appropriated as opim-t yofia, threw pome su-picion upon his pro- ccedings. However, he returned quietly t his home, and as the French war, called in Europe the Seven Years' War, soon aftt broke out, no further notice was taken of the act, and Bowen died at a good old age. But the most extraordinary circumstance attending the transaction was its effect upon Bo wen's son a youth at the time of some dozen years Either remorse at the father's deed, or apprehension of Indian revenge, kept his miod in continual agitation, and he grew up a reserved, W33ward, incomprehen sible person. He shunned intercourse with his fellow men, guarded his house with re doubled bolts, and slept with his gun beside him. Soon after he had arrived at man's es tate, his anticipation of Indian revenge had become a monomania He heard their voices in the sigh of the winds, the rustling of the leaf announced their stealthy tread, and he saw their dusky faces in the waving grain. He dared not leave his house for fear of an ambush, cr look out cf a w indew lest a bullet cf the lu.king foe should hit Lim. Mortal fear sat at his table, pursued him like a phan tom through the daj-, and iu the deep watches of tle eight startled him from his unwhole some slumbers. This became, after a whilo, unendurable, and he at last determ lDed upon an act of seeming desperation. C't-suhing or informing none of Lis friends, he loft his home, journeyed into Canada, and surrendere himself to the tribe of the murdered men, as au expiatory sacrifice. The Indians, barba rians often in the treatment of their captives, seldom maltreated a voluntas prisoner. They tock Bowen into their tribe, and the mother cf the slaughtered Plausawa adopted him as her son. He became acquainted with their customs, joined their expeditions, participated in their fortunes, end, indeed, became one cf them. Iu his old sge, however, a desire to revisit the seenos of Ins chiidhood overtook him. and the Indiacs interposing no obstacle to his wishes, he left them, his Indian mother beiug dead, returned to Contacock, ard died in peace among his kiusfelk and neighbors, lo whom his adventurous life famished a nev er -failing theme of interesting conversation." - - mmm m Haw Mkat in Dyshxtkry. Dr Weisso, cf St. Petersburg, firat ia 1845, advised the r-mpioyrncnt ei tue lean 0: raw meat, very finely minced, in the chronic diarrhoea of children, given two teaspoecsful four times a day. Since theu the same practice has often been extended to various forms of obstinate dianheea with good effect Mr, Per.sa, now practising in Egypt, reports the benefit ho has derived iu several cases of severe dysen tery occuriicg in adults, from the employ ment of raw, or nearly raw, mincemeat, civen iu doses from two to three times a dav. A Ncv Sect. A new body of religious enthusiasts, called "Coogrcnrezites,' have established themselves about seventy miles north of Council Bluff?, Iowa. The"VeeIety comprises about SOO members, and all their property is held common. Thctr scot profess to believe the Bible as the word cf God, but also that it is in a measure done away with by new revelation mado tdnce the year IS4S, by the voice of Baueemv', through the medi um of the Chief Apostolic Bishop." The nor revelations are styled "the Law and Cove nants of Israel." Stlph en GrnAiiD cn Ai klusim';. "l have always considered advertising liberally and long to be the greatest medium of auc cess iu business, and the prelude to wealth. And I have m-idse it an iavaiiablc rule, too, to advertise iu the dullest times, a long ex perience having taught mc that money thus spent is well laid out, as my keeping my busi ness continually before the public has secured me many sales that I otherwise would have lost." its' Speaking of cheap ihiogs it coats but a tride to get a wife, but doasn't she sometimes prov "a little dear?" The " Scientific American' ays '.ockjaw in hordes can be cured by wrapping them in blankets which have been wrung out of water of two hundred degrees temperature. For the week ending on Saturday last thcro two hundred and sixty-fivo deaths from 1 yellow faver in is'cw Orleans. Prepare for wiuter. 3
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