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I Alld o flutootalle efJ Importiwil WIDOW • • Tobacco, Prult, Irisb, Oil, aod Avesta . .111•• o. liostwU Block. State street Vie, JOHN W. A YMCA. and krtail Dealer Ln all kinds of Fancy, ' , fa , * and Litning Chabot, No 4 Key MA IRJ4ltat alla Lay, • Lai ra an Tammany Flail building, `• • 4.4•1«, to 14 •cible itenUlle4 Wbi.key.lsk tbe t:. BAHR CO.. t Wheqoailo wad RwWI , at Xo 142 'trip. F'sk - - - P %RK ILI.. t%li f.r Concert*. Le...tures, sad Public. 4.1 tb. PIO% Rcacitbtro at thpliazklag - R. Rood Hoorn Eris. Pa. 0 1.1).• `°'• M ' , Area/v..od Retail Scsiers to 6144 • thr cheakeot and beet Bev fu ••• • n ..r w t near Koch, Zvi.. PL. • t • •,..r laa i r *al.( lot fittalf, (arm or casellani- ityutrelf ft . VISIKAillme Jr, I ~,,, —One* in the mar of , .tro44, trip, Pa. All bastaaaa la and faithfully ate...oiled ta ,st - -- 1) "E iv 2 - . I s ir ze..z_ 1/11. O. • - 4,14 Dwelling in month Pant Ran. itruil lune 1.114111,e- July 10, 1868. 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App's, or Atm&lom's Valley, &i willed after Absalom Looney, the first white man who gazed upon its sylvan bounty, lies upon the waters of the Blue Stone River, in Virginia, at the south• western pert of that State Under the shadow of mieity hills, with a climate as warm and genial as the Bermudas, a ant rich and yielding, and an expanse of scenery, almost unrivalled in its immediate neighborh.xtd, it was no wonder that this valley presented the strongest induce meats to a few of the struggling and hard.work. ing settlers who had !andel on less inviting soil. Among these were two families, named Moore and lying, who removed to this beautiful valley in 1775, each having large families of children to support, and finding it difficult and almost lin peti,thle to raise for them the ordinary means of subsistenOe. Here, however, the difficulties seemed to vanish at once; and the rude log cab. ins, inhabited by the two friendly families, were the abodes of more real happiness than is tat u found in the palaces of the great Here, in a abort space, they became the own• ers of many horses and cattle; and the abundant fields of the delicate Virginia white corn, the ea• tensive tobaece patches, and the abundant pas. ture laude , attested to their growing prosperity For miles along the half made and irregular roads, extended thick shrubberies of the fragrant peavtue and sweet myrrh, and vr,ld loses and the white flowers of the older perfumed the air with their sweet odors. I=l I= James Moore was a true, good, Christian man. Every day on his tended knees, be blessed God for letting his lines fall in this goodly place; and the aspirations of his bean were, that his chil dren might live out their lives here, in undis turbed serenity, far from the !snares and tempta tions of the busy world. .1 . 4111 Ivins counted eight children, and .James Moore ten, when they had lived nine years in App's Valley, and happier sod better children the sun never shone on Sometimes, it is true, they would shudder sod cower at the thought of the hands of savages which w ere se b=teln Stie borders or the State; and the gentle mothers would turn away their own pale faces, when they were spoken of, lest the little ones should gather new terrors from their looks still they had been bore so long, and no iu• trusion having ever been wade on their prenit sex, that they naturally gathered eiurage with each passing year, and when Mary Marc was sixteen years old—a fair, gentle little maiden as ever graced such a sylvan abode—and baby Mar garet was just beginning to walk ib.tie, the law. ily had attained almost teimpleto security. The boys of the Moore family were .trong, hardy, brave and courageous; giving good and efficient help to their (allot, and emulating the. y o u ng ions of John 'vine in every enterprise of athletic labor or sport. Circumscribed as ihey must necessarily be iu the mean, of education, and be enjoyment of society, they were never thelees, neither ignorant Our lonely in their se• elusion. Tu Mary Moore, e-pecially, ktriwledge came appareutly by lutuition, and ale imparted it us all around her. Her days were devoted+ to the work of the household in which she miasma her mother; but the law evenings saw her teaching her brothers and those of Martha tains, who was her friend and almost constant companion. Of these broth. era of Mary, James, the neat to her in age was the meet dearly loved. Fur him and baby Mar• garet, Mary wad have given up her life, if re quired, without a murmur; and although kind and good to all, the choicest of ber gifts—the finest fruits, the most delicate stockings which she spun and knit, and the whitest of her cloth, when it came from the bleaching ground—were alwsys . for these two She bad given the last polish one morning in ironing a blue and white striped linen suit which she had woven expressly for James, bad careful ly turned over the broad white shirt collar, End daintily wound his shining curls over her finger, preparatory to his setting off for the mill, with a peat sack of corn, on the back of Brown Peggy, who was thus named out of compliment to the baby She looked at the handsome lad with an expression of love and pride; and a feeling as if be particularly belonged to her, came up in her heart more distinctly than ever, on that morning She lingered at the door, until she saw him ride down the bill, turning round to bid good by in his own free and affectionate way. Nor did she quit gating after him natal a clamp of trees quite hid him from her sight; and even then she wao only recalled by a laugh from Martha Ivins,whs bad been wakihiog her. "Nay, now, Mary dear," said the good.hamir ed girl, "obe would think that Jemmy win de parting to a far off oountry, instead of simply riding over to the vial Why, you are as thought ful and silent. as my mother is to, dal Pray, what has oome over you all?" r i Mary looked up to Mrs. Ivies, who stood at: the window of the log house opposite, and saw that.she had a sad look, such as she never saw her wear before Almost mechanically, she fol lowed Martha in, saying, as she did so: "I cannot tell Martha, but I felt a terrible sinking of the heart this morning—l think &their calls it a presentiment—that I cannot amount for. I could not tele to see James go away this morning; for, although Peggy is so eure•footed, still I could not help feeling that an accident might happen, even to her. Bat don't tell moth er that I feel so, Mrs. tying," she continued, "for I dare say it is all a mere notion." Mrs Ivies could not reply. She too bad bad the same presentiment of coming evil, all 'kat 'morning: and she longed to see the families to gether, the day's work over, and all in safety.— Mary returned to her ironing table, but there was no bright polish on the clothes, no strength in the band that held the iron; and two or three times the sat down and turned so pale that her mother bade her leave the board, and lie down on the old high backed settee. Mr. Moore came into dinner, and "the boys came with him. They sat down at the table, but one seat was empty. "Where is James?" be asked. "Surely he must have some from the mill. Go, and look for him, William." M. 1.. Low. I V V*IMAM, "fie has not °owe home yet," said Mrs. Moore. "&t still, Willy,you seed sot go. He will emu eetme, adore iamb keep the dieser hot FOUND DEAD They found her deed One snowy riewsiss is the open sbeet, "" Her sold dwelt renting on the puny sheet Amend bar ■peed. And on her Lips • quiet mile reposed, As Inn sleep, Wes weary dream had cloned Sba inapt the lair, bud "deep; Death's seal was on her brow, and aka had paned, Ti nod and maduing, to hew home at last, Leaving no Mend" to weep, io% on ones to coma at nonet hours To 'prickle on her bosom tears and dower. No warm and pale hand Clasped her in tenderness, as in the night She went oat gently from thin world of light Tato the abadowy Lad, No earthly watcher Ilseetwl at her stde To beer her Wet low murmur whoa she died Bat d 44 stse di, stone No not ►loo.• Ow Prtend kept watch with bee OW fetal. Void, one I oirtag Smile wa• near The deoulate unknown. One hand of moony led her o'er Death's fo►tn tutu the better laud to Mende awl home eke BY MAKY A. LOWSLL for biro." ((Very strange," said Ms. Moore; but apps reati be forgot all about it, for he was soon ea• criin dimming a new-feehioatia plough with , who had been reading of the novel inven tion, and wished his father tamed to Jamestown to get it. Dinner was finished, sod the afternoon wore slowly on. The father and sons had returned to the field, and Mrs. Moore, busy, at first, in mix ing oornoskes for supper , did not aeon to think more of the absent one than onee in a while to look out of the window and wonder that he was detained so long. Mary, usually to) waive. and industrious, lay all the afternoon upon the set tee, with her hand over her eyes, as if suffering from hea4aehe, but in reality weeping. TIN sun was almost down when she sprang from her bard couch, and ran out to the field. "Father," she said, trembling all over with excitement and terror, "father, do for the love of !leaven, go and see what bas become of poor James. Perhaps ho is drowned in the river; perhaps, 0, father, toe Indians-." She drop. ptd lifeless to the ground as she spoke. Mr Moore, now thoroughly alarmedi told the youngest buy to call his mother, then ,shouting to lions and his boys to join him, they 41l moun ted on horseback and made their way to the mill. The miller said be bad delivered the meal to the kpoy almost immediately tie had sot waited louger than I.) reactive it, place it upon the horse, and was oft "Uood kleavewl Mr Moore, I remember now that my tittle troy came in at the seine moment that James left, and began telling me that be saw an Indian miming up the river in a uauoe. was buoy and thought he wan mistaken, as I knew he never caw one in his life." Mr. Moore shook his head mournfully. Flow could he go borne and bear this news to his wife and Matey. flow could he return at all, with out his son? lie motioned to John Ivins to gn d.iwn the valley and search for him, and Jobe understood him, though he heard no sound from his lips The ,earth was iu vain, but an empty canoe lay ou the bask of the river, and a horse's footsteps were; plainly seen embedded in the soft earth, quittlinto the forest; and the night shad_ ows were Ming too deep far any farther exam• ination, until they could go home, procure lights and reinforce their party Every man and boy in App's Valley turned out, with torches made q( pine knots, and scoured the wood wherever there was a bridle path; but without effect, sod thenceforth Tear and imeourity were their cow panions day end night James - Moore did not return, and the absence of the horse precluded the ides of an widest, since the animal would have found his way home. There we only one conjecture, and that pointed to the !admits. [lns strangely hid that sad event changed the whole aspect of the valley!— Mrs Moore and Mary were worn to shadows with anxiety; and the little children of both families, who had roved at will through the fields, were now shut up in the close- houses, and soon began to pine fur the fresh, sweet air No ono bad any heart to work. The fie'ds exhibited traces of careless tending: mud. it. ate...44' 0 1b wheel and the loom“ were silent from sheer in ability and,want, of siteenstli to guide them , war ., tem or Three months of this oppression berm and Ildesitnde; and the heats of There Bummerinereasing in unusual intensity, subdued all who attempted t work, to a state of utter weakness The -ltf of July—it was then in 1796--opened upon, them with a glowing heat, stranger thau arty! preceding morning The broad, red sun buti i i in the heavens like a hall of fire The field s wire dry and parched, and the e a rtle stood in tie muddy brooks, sod seem ed piteously to ask or water One by one, the boys, Willy, B. 'her and Jobe Mote, (slue ote, up i . free the ti !Id, and itrow themselves nailer the she It of a large tr , e, riop in the gr-lis Their fatlier-soou Olowei , and then Mr li.tris and his solve an I b. f ire keg, every member of the two (seek , . wlB not up,ti tie. green, vainly trying to get air, except Martha tvina and Mary Moore, and baby Margaret' • , Suddenly a wild shoutAras beard, And Mary pepping through a crevice , in the *all, for she dared out go to the window, saw a party of In dians surrounding the group upon the greet:l.- 811,0 ring in every limbs, she lifted a hoard from the floor, under which was a hollow cavity that served them for a eellar; and with Martha and the little out, she suAght, its shelter, and repla ced the board as well as she was able. She Beard moans and shrieks, and knew that the savages were doing their terrible work; awl after a long time in which she had succeeded in kinetkiag Mararet to sleep, she heard the Indians enter. T ey passed round through all the rooms, and i at last they seemed to be all marching out again, with a slow, heavy tread that shook the floot,ail• though, with the exception of the board &beim her, tt was:composed of timbers. Their weighty wad awoke the baby, and finding herself in the dark, she btgan to cry, even though Mary put her band on her little lip, to arrest her cries, and tried to hush her in her arms It was too late.. Ihellndians had heard that first wild cry, and had turned back; and when the board was lifte , a group cif frightful looking objects stood l &bow . their hiding place, and dragged them rude y from it, and out upon the green. Mrs. Moore sod:four of the children were tied to the tree; three others, with their Esther, lay dead up on the grabs. Of the lying family, none had escap e d death, except Martha. ' It was well perhaps for the poor girls, that they passed into temporary insetoolelity, other. ' wise insanity must have suoceeded this terrible sight. When they revived, ebb was in the arms of a stout savage, and others were driving Mrs Moore and the'obildren aleing before them, while baby Margaret was slang iiudely across the shoulder of one of the tallest the tribe, the child lying, or rather hanging 1 . e one dead.— The( horrors of that day were e ffieient to quell thelstouteit heart, yet the poor ildron endured it With a fortitude that man fight equal, bat never 6urriais John, the giros , apparently, of the four who were tied with e mother, gave out , first, and be was left dead b the wayeht. They hod now eotere.l the forbst, and the cool shade reviled themi, Margaret held out her lit• tie arms to Mary, to be taken, Pita the Indian who carried the obi, interpretg her look of fear avid disgust at imself, held her out to Mary, with the expression of a demon ppm) his face.— She took bee in h arms, and fiat that moment she saw the infant head droop, and a terrible shadow or bet littlo brow. „lift cunning blow ei cl had Wen , the p‘eing of the !child in Mary's or arms, and; o ,ly the bCwutifial ills* of what Mary bad leved,scr well, wu there.' Baby Margaret bad gone where bar eyes would "'continually be hold the Father who is in beavuu;" and the be, reeved sister was compelled to be thankful that the little innocent was at rest; shred from a more terrible fate. , Jas., sobild of four years, clang as closely to her mothir ha the savages wauW allow her, her white lips quivering' with fear, sod her ayes turned sway frets the frightful sights artesad her. Mother and child dragged feebly after their raptors, and whea suture Gould beer so further eiertioa, they were both despatched. " aly God, Meryl" shrieked poor Martha loins, as eye watched the "stages making allege ire t t of d Waves and branches, "whit eta they be go'. o dor M harped abodderro . Aly' away, for she bad beard 'of the horrible - sactis of the t he sad trembled lest the living, ketrell its the dead, 11 60 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. ERIE, SATURDAY MORNING, DECEMBR 25,1858. were to feed the &nee. Bat, oae by one, the captives were alldisposed of, not:piing the two young girls. They held out watil they reached the camp of the savages, part of the way being by water. Their captors had come up Sandy River, and their canoes were ready on the beaks. The few thin garments worn. by the maidens, were tattered by their long walk through the woods, and their feet were torn by the sharp rocks. Never surely were there two so sorely to be pitied. They who bad died were's& and et rest; but what horrors might await these helpless maidens t When they arrived, they wore put wader the care of the squaws, who immediately separated them, thus cutting off their last gleam of comfort or consolation. Both were set to the lowest and hardest tasks, and as they were darkened by the sun, in their long journey, and were now obliged to wear the Indian costume, because their own clothes had literally dropped to pieties, they were hardly dis., tingaishable from the young females of the tribe. Certainly no one would have recognized sweet Mary Moore in the bronzed maiden who waited upon her lords like a slave Here she spent several years, each of which was harder than the last. A morbid indifference to life, a mechanical performance of her tasks, a recklessness of offending her masters, probably hoping that they would be tempted to end her miseries by death, denoted her state at this time She had lost the feeling of terror in the supreme aeosation of utter weariness, that weighed heav ily upon her soul as well a• frtine. A morning came this reminded Mary of the one on which she was captured. A fieroe heat burned the grass around the tents, and the breeze came scorchingly to the parched skin, like the breath of fiery furnaces The Indians succumbed before it, and stretched themselves about lazily, at a distant*, under what alight shade they might find. Even the squaws rested from their almost interminable pounding of corn and cooking of venison, and !tilled into gecuricy about the cap . tiva of so many years, they seemed not to think of Mary, who, when all wore asleep, wandered off among the shrubbery that grew not far from the clearing. Suddenly she saw a face peeping through the laurel hedge. It was no Indian, of that she felt secure. Four jean sr, Mary would have at. tered a joyful shriek, and perilled herself and others. Now she was aub<luod to calmnees by thh length of her cap,tivity and the hardeuing prixess she had undergone; and she waited quietly for the event. A young looking man, in the garb of eivilised life, passed round the hedge and silently beckoned her away. She meet's°• ically obeyed the motion of his band, and with soundless steps, she followed where he led On the banks of the Big Sandy River, a light canoe lay, fastened to a rock He drew her into it, and giving her an oar, be rowed rapidly out into the broad river, landing at the spot where the town of Louisa, in Kentucky, now lies Not until they were safe, and ander the ro if of friendly white people did her deliverer make himself known; but when sbe had rested from the excitement of itarawana.-.6.......v0red to Sew life and happiness by finding that the owed all to her long let brother James ! Escaping himself, after years of terriVoi capt iv ity, and learning the desolation of his home and the fate of his sister, from a friendly Indian who had assisted his own flight, he had gone to re. oonnoitre theplace, without a hope of rescuiog her, until he ahcold form some mature plan from hi s se cre t ob,iervation• Fortunately he was not obliged to return Should our readers wish to know what after,' wards: became of sweet Mary Moore, they Aro told that she became the happy wilt, of a Clergy man (Rev S Brown), and that in the society of her husband and brother, she was enns.iled for the memories of the beloved APT'S VALLEY A TOOCILI MO 1 NCIDILNT. —A correspuudent writing from Philadelphia to the I,,eieville born. wrai, relates the following: Whilst an aged and poorly clad female was uhing alms at the corner of Fourth and Chest nut streets, a smart looking young sailor passed within a few feet of her, gazing intently for sev end seconds on her haggard face She approach ed him, and extended her hand in silence In guiltily his band found its way to his capacious pocket, and as he drew it out, it was filled with gold and sifter, which he forced her to acooept, saying-7 "There, good mother, take this: you may as well have it as the land sharks. The last cruise I bad out of'New York found me with four hun dred dollars on band; but as the keighbors told me my mother was dead, I got on a spree with the money, spent it all inside of a week and then shipped again." "Oh! good—good air! you are too kind to an old body like me. For your sake, I take it.— Oh! yen remind me of my poor son, George, who shipped and was drowned. Oh! George—George White! where are you now?" "George White!" hurriedly exclaimed the now excited sailor. "Why, that's my name! And you--you are my mother!" With this he seized her in his arms, and caressed ber affectionately, whilst the big tears of joy ran down his bronzed cheek. The poor woman was entirely overcome by the recovery of ber long lust child, sus wept and groaned alternately. A. carriage shortly af trif eortireyed the mother and son away, leaving many a moistened eye among the crowd who witnessed the scene. WONDILIMIL PHINOMVION. -Nesi roes Scared Whit..—W• chronicled on Tuesday the killing of an elephant, recently escaped from a mane gerie. We regret to learn that before be was killed he did great, damage, and utterly ruined one planter in Hinds nianty, Miss. Passing through his plantation, the huge beast came across two stacks of fodder—one of the stacks he devoured instantly, while he hoisted the other on his trunk, and bearing it before him, a shield for him, he marched on at solitary grandeur. He soon reached a point where the negpoes of the plantation were taking their-dinner, when the unusual sight which met their eyes so fright; ened them that they all turned white I When their fears subside', finding that were all white men and women, they deliberately walked off, and left the owner of the plantation without a solitary darkey. This remarkable phenomenon may seem pith. er mugs to the incredulous, bat if any one doubts thotruth of our statement, a highly re spectable gentlesso of this city is fully prepared to substantiate it in every particular We base often heard of pertons' hair being instantly turn ed from sudden and overpowering fear, but do not-reinteber before to have heard of an Afri estei elan turning white from the b same cause,— While we sincerely sympathise with the owner of the negroes in his severe loss, we earnestly hope that this remarkable ease 'will be thorough ly investigaW by Philosophers.— Tricksberg True &isthmus. Jonas. --The philosopher Jones—has disoov ered the respective natures of s Distinction and a Difference. ffe says that /ga little Difference" frequently makes mw, enemies, while a little Distinction attracts hosts of friends. is. "B 3 titiecia another rupture of Mount Voeiferoua,'► said Mn. latingtoa, u she put up ber epees, "t►e paper This us about the bura ing tuber ruseive down the nionatain, bat it don't tell hem lilies aim" Irma the Heise Journal. THE SNAKE TAMER. it ?ALS or 1301:1Til One day, towards the close of the fashionable solemn at one of the most celebrated of the Vit.. ginia watering places, a mac, carrying a large box coder his arm, ade his appearance in the frost yarl of the visitor's hotel. He was tall and sinewy in person, with the air and deport. meat of a foreigner. • The steady, gray eye, and the rigid mould of his features, indicated'vigor of will and energy of character. In other respects, there was nothing noteworthy in his appearance or movements. Having approached to within a short distance of the hotel, he deposited his box upon the ground, uncovered it, and cookout • large rattle. snake, which be held in his hand, grasping it tightly around the body about six inehes from the head, and fixing a steady gaze upon its glit tering eyes. The reptile coiled its body around the arm of the than, or writhed in slow, wavy motions through the air, darting its 'snowy tongue with a sibilant sound through the half openedlaws In a few moments the erect head drooped, the mouth closed, and the subdued ser pent lay motionless in the hand of the operator, who, during the whole performance, stood, erect and silent, in the position be had first taken A spectacle so novel and exciting, attracted at once the attention of the visitors at the Springs. The ladies crowded on the front gallery of the hotel, and the men and boys gathered in a dense Circle around the mysterious stranger, In witness his perilous feat. To convince the spectators that the exhibition was not a decopi ion, the performer drew forth another large rattlesnake from his hos, played a short, blunt stick upright in its m ulth so as to hold the faucet apart, and then, inserting anoth er stick beneath the fangs, he pressed them out wardly until their fall length was exposed to view In thus condition he carried the reptile round the circle of men and boys, and through the cr iwd of ladies, that all might see it was a veritable snake, armed - mith fang and poison, with which his experiments were performed.— This done, he returned to his first position, placed the su)ke upon the ground, and commenced kicking at it with great violence, taking care, however, not to strike iv with his foot Quickly irritated by the simulated assault, the snake threw itself into a coil, shook its rattles, and seemed eager to strike its assailant, who, leaning forward, seized and held it up, writhing and hiss , ing, in his grasp. He looked steadily for a short time into its eyes, when, as in the first eiperi , meat, the head drooped, the passion subsided, and the serpent remained solelied and stilt in the band of the tamer die next emptied upon the ground the con tents of his box, cronsisting of a dozen or more large, venomous looking rattlesnakes The rep the mU4S coiled, or glided, hissing and tierce, at, his feet Ile picked thin/ up, one by one, gigtel intently, for a abort einiie,, , into their eyes, and then placed some of theta in hi. t,n.oet wiih th eir heads and necks pyotruding DJ from a deo ; others he twined aruuud hie neck and arm-, and the rest be seized auil hold aloft in his b tud The reptile:4 writhed and twisted and tightening their hold upon the porson of the per. former Their eyes glittered, and their tongues shot forth and bank, like tiny arrows, from their mouths Rutthe ominous rattles all were sti:l, betokening that curiosity and not anger elicited these reptile demonstrations The snake tamer, begirt with this serpentibe girdle, remained not only unharmed, but apparently quite unconcern ed. Ile had radiated the mysterious spell of the human eye up in them,: and man asserted his ord.hip over the must cunning of 311 11i• beast of the field l'he report of tlicsa wondcrful feat,, having spread through the neighborhood; with the of. fer of a liberal Floe, by doe rrfortner,' fir live venomous snakes, of every d-scription,. a lad came in one morning to the Sprinv, hringitg a large rattlesnake which he had just caught in the neighboring mountains. The snake tamer paid the promised reward' for it, and proceeded at once to subdue it in the presence of nearly all the visitors Raving cautiously removed the lid of the hoz in which the snake was 1 4botinell, and turned it over upon one side, ho withdrew a few Steps and awaited the result. In, a few moments, a rusty and most venomous looking rattlesnake, of eery large size, crawled leisurely out upon the grass with which the yard was covered. It is the na ture of this species of the serpent race to-betray neither (ear nor excitement at the presence of man. Deeming tbeluielves secure in the posses. sion of enormous (sags and a supply of virussuf ficiently copious and doadly to produce almost instant death in ID in or beast, they neither hast en to escape from sight -when discovered, nor betray the leAstulerin when asstiled. It is even the popular faith that they in igolnim.msly give warning bt.4..re thvy •,akiug their rattles, whici., pr..dii‘• • I...eitliar, whinnin.g sound, startling to the nerves and alarming to the mind. The presence of the performer and of the large crowd which surrounded bun, seemed not to dis turb or evcu to arrest the attention of the scaly monster, which, havinglcrawled forth nut of this box, lay motionless and erterl , 4l to its full length apnn the grass The snake tamer ap• proaebed and stimulated an attack by repeated and rapid motions t..iwards its head with his feat The reptile became furiously irrate in a mote-ni. :lemming the coil, whieb is its natural position both for attack and defense, it darted forth its tongue and shook its rattles with the rapidity and violence which produce their moat alarming sound As the performer continued, at a safe distance, the motions With his foot, the snake soon became almost blind with rage- Its head flattered, its eyes glittered like diamond paints, and a fearful, prolonged hiss issued from its month The man made one step towards it, when, unable longer to control its passion to strike, it leaped forward and fell, full length up on the grass, close at his feet • Before it could throwtself again intb l a coil, be seised it with a firm grasp, about six inches below the head, and holding it off at arm's length from his person, lifted it up from the ground. The rage and contortioni; of the now imprist oned reptile were terrible to behold. Through the air, and round and round the arm of the per former, it twisted and writhed the etude extre mity of its body, making, all the time, monoto nous and fearful whit With its rattles, and essay lug every moment, to strike his arm or his pen son. The spectators shuddered with hoiror and I alarm at the sight; but the intrepid uperiment_ er,, confident in his art, betrayed neither fear-nor doubt sa to the certainty of his triumph. From the moment he first seised the snake, he had looked, with a fixed, almost an unwinking gaze, into his eyes, which the serpent apparently retfrned with a look equal Mealy and Berm. By degees the 'contortions of its body became lees violent, and its efforts to strike less frequent.— The arm of the man was gradually bent, so as to tiring the snake, by eIOW approaches, nearer to his flee. At length, Gemeome by the magnetic fascination of his look' it lay harmless and Imre sistiog in his grasp. a placed it kills bosom, twined it around his n and fondled it with his bands. The subdued) creature, shorn-of its na tive ferocity, yielded 'itself to the power:pi its *tor, and Wed him to caress and _handle it with . The broke forth ism estribie ewe& et SilltifS6llll et ahe OlMORAftileit pl this remarkable feat. The perfermer posed his bat around for a collection, and soon bed the sat isfaction of reoeiving it ad tr.o repiestabed with Goias—the enthusiasm of the ?Weis prompting them to make a liberal daIIIMAIMI reward for the peril be had braved, and the Wier• tainmeat he had, afforded. Satisfied with his access, the snake tamer van• ished from the Old Sweet Springs an suddenly as he had oome. In a few days, however, he made his appearanee at smother and not very dis tant cateringplatie in the• Old Dominion, where he repeated, before a wondering crowd of spots, tors, the same feats with his snakes. A new and most perilous addition was destined to be made at this place to the almost fabulous list of his achievements. • A countryman brought him, one day, &rattle. snake, recently caught, which was said to be pen culiarly vicious and chevrons. He bought it, and announced kis intention to tame it upon the greensward in front of the visitor's hotel. A large crowd assembled to witness the fat,. vacant apace being left in their midst for the eat perltuent, the snake—a very largo sod most ugly. looking cue—was placed upon the ground sad provoked to anger by a feigned attac k with- the foot of the performer. At the proper moment be seized it, bat almost immediately threw it -vi o l en tly upon t* ground, exclaiming that he was bitten-, inth/t hand. The crowd quickly drew batik, and the stunned reptile lay motions less where it fell. i The man at ones applied his lips to the wound, and sucked it witch great eagerness for sever a l minutes. Riding no relief from the pain which he endured, he next made several incisions, with the point at his knife, in the flesh of his woundt eel hand and arm Theu, taking from his pock. et a large white b-an, he iiersped and pounded a portion of tit into a thin, impalpable powder, which ho rubbed into the punctures upon his hand and arm. Ile hit off and swallowed an• other porii•iu of the same bean. This specific ho called the 0-41 r )0 bean. "It grows," he said, "in the Est, and i 4 an infallible cure for the bite id yen town.. reptiles." i n the wean time the virus, haiing become diffused throughout his system, began to produce painful and alarming effects. The arm and band, SWolletl to enormous size, assumed s livid lute.— Vertigo, nausea and stupor—the three meet latal symptoms in oases of assault upon the powers of life by reptile poisop—began to supervene.— Death seemed inevitable, and almost at band. The courageous man refused either to sit or 'lie down, but walked backward and forward, at. tering occasionally a suppressed groan of anguish. The torture of the pain he endured forced the perspiration in streams from his forehead and face To the enquiry of one who asked if be suffered much, he replied, "Tee,. more than tongue can express, or yon can conceive." 'file landlord of the Springs, alarmed at the fatal result of the experiment, and apprehensive that the snake.' might escape to infest his prem. imam, rushed out, cudgel in hand and with loud imprecations, to kill them. The sick man, whose fir,: care, after being bitten, had been to replace ail secure all the snake, including the untamed ill their boxes, seemed to forget his own sufferings in the iinininenee of the peril which threatened his uncouth favorites. Confronting the landlord with bold look and menacing gee. ture, and protesting loudly against the aneditac ted assault upon the snakes, he threatened to int flint immediate and summary punishient for any harm that might be done them. Awed by the stern visage and fierce words of the man, the Landlord demisted from his undertaking and re r trod within the hotel. Such an outburst of pas. and combativeness from one who seemed to be already dying from the bite of one of the monsters which he was so prompt to defend, struck the livheiders with mingled astonishment and aw.• Was it the delirium of approaching death, or the madness of a wild attachment to the reptile companions of his wanderings, that tired his passions and led to the spectacle which they had just witnessed ? No one could tell, but all looked on, nmued and perplexed at what they saw and heard. It was with the snake tamer, now apparently the last extremity, se with other mortals in the final hour—the ruling passion prove& strong to death. Being interrogated as to his feelings and hopes in prospect, of impending dissolution, be said that he experienced neither hope nor fear in the contemplation of the great hereafter. Lie was not afraid to die, and desired' to live only that be might be able to prove the supremaey of MI art in the tubjugation of the sualorwisich had bitten h im."f b.at accomplished, he nareci neither bow nor when !he inevitable mamma tame. When first bitten, he had been inanood, by the persuasion of otherg, to swallow a small draught of whiskey, whieh ia deemed a valuable antidote in eases of poisoning by the bite of a suake But no entreaty could prevail on him either to rupeat the remedy or apply other epeci fie known to medical science'. lie had unshaken confidence In the efficacy of the Cedron bean; and should that fail to cure him, he felt persuaded that it was feted for him then and there to die t iu despite of all human aid to save him. By this time the virna bad produced its moat fearful effect. , upon the system. The pain Watt he endured becime agonising io the extreme His sight gr, w dim, his pulse sank to fifty feeble beats per inmate, alternate flushes of beat and cold pa...4,A ov..r his toady, his articulation be t awe thick and in Itstiuct, and both the pallor and th e stupor of death seemed to be rapidly spreading over both mind and body. Unable longer to walk or even sit emit; he bad fallen prostrate upon the floor, and was lifted by the bystanders and placed upon a low emelt, in one corner of the bari room of the hotel, to' din—. Fortunately his reason remained undistarbed, and he o6ntinued to bite off and swallow porticoes of the (ledron bean, whieh, he still believed and asserted, bad power to save him. ih4 yet it had produced no pereeptible effeeta. To all oppose anee the poison was steadily eaorooebiog epos the citadel of life, whieh seemed already *Morin beneath its furious assault. Several gentlemen of the medieal profession who were prompt as speetanne, now isterposea sad begged to bo permitted to use other romediee as the patient himself would not fail to see that his own antidote had failed, Housed from his stupor by the discredit thus attempted to be thrown upon his been; the apparently dying moo repelled, with vehement gesture and same, words the insinuation against its eillesoy, protested his unshaken faith in it, and etraeWed hit expoiaa lation with a blunt refusal to permit other soli dotes to be applied, at the same tithe biting .ellf another portion of the Owilros bean. The speatators could do no more, than leave him to his' fate. Gellert* in a dame ate 'dose to hie sough, they inewil, silent end** onarrered heat, awaiting the 'departure of a !turban spirit: to tile her of thorlheil•jadge.--- Stringer though be was to • these all, and dying,. as they believed, bye rub pereitereee bailie sou of au ineflicacions antidistri, the feet- thaille wee undergoing the exhume percent emigre* to hu manity on amount of the primal ant, made his fate and his suteringobjeets of adietiolliailier• eat, fat the tainaellt, to every ono ht Death is not only die leealer.ani i t he easekiliee, but its memo. Nikkei elf beholders het -et hie to the vied= "Whit has nisei end ieheeling to the jaws °Om remersaimmiren4._ Apporestly intheneted by theielltie 'dish is B: P. SLOAN, EDITOR. hod 7a ins& ht speaking, Masotti* tamer mak bask %um his mach sad remained lot a fen tic. /Oeab, silent aid Mill. A fresh paroxysm d pais bevies supervetiad, be groaned heavily, inroad bis tam to die wall mad began to matter like one who talks ins disturbed sleep. Impe rial reason had, as length, teemed 14100 its throne aid the wild delirium, pro4lneed by a fevered brain and it' tortured body, had come over the nearer. Be babbled long and incoherently of snakes and - Cedron beans, performing his feats with the one aver again, and recounting the marvellons emu made' in eastern climes with the other. As the shades of the mental eclipse grew deeper, be spoke lass and less audibly, waif his Tome sank to a whisper, and then, by degrees, his lips ceased to move, and he was, to all appearance , dead. Alter the lapse of ball auour he began to rewire. The rmOration deepened, the puha quickened and swelled in volume, the stupor lift ed like a cloud, front toted and body, and, in a short time, he opened his eyes sad The vigor of his ecestitiation, or recsaWj power of his Cedrvo beria,bni more probably beak oom. blued, bad triumphed. fie rapidly eausaleseed and in a faw:daye wee able to go about ea nivel. His inakes.bad bees We undisturbed in their. ,boxes, and be proposed to resume his experiment of taming the one that had bitten him. But the. landlord and the visitors, satisfied with wilt they bad seen, protested against its intnpestv ed, and he, gathering up his hoses carpet hg, vanished from the theatre of his repeat suf. ferings as be now does froo L ts talc • A SELF- MISS TTED DURO LAE. —Recently, of a cold night, an old man named - Treadwell, occupying a lonely situated house s'llhort dig , tattoo frnin the village of Mount. Vernon, in Westchester county, was disturbed soon she; he bad retired to bed, by a strange ,noise at inter vals, as of a person hallooing at * distance Be ing alone and having some money in his posses. stoo, be was somewhat alarmed, but with (atuxo, tie resolution, got np, procured a light, and sought to ascertain front whence the noise came, and the cause thereof Slightly attired, sod shiv ering with cold, but not with fright, he was led hero and there about the bowie in his search— the noise sometimes seeming to be out doors, and then again in between the rails. Finally, be Removed the *board of the capacious. kitch en fire place, carefully introducing the light first, and cautiously his head next, and there saw dang ling a pair of cowhide boots. "Halloo!" he in tern/warily exclainiedf"who does these belong to?" "Me," replied a sepulchral voice; "I'm hall:oast dead—'elp me /mutt" "stay there," the old man rejoined• The old4tentleman then. replaced the fireboard and again returned to bed. During the night ha beard the no longer mysterious voice severat times. In the morning he got up at his usual time, coolly ate his breakfost, and then went to the village. Soon he returned with Constable Saw, and other persons. They had to break away a portion of the briekiwork to release the chimney bird, who proved- to be one Thomas Wilson a young Englishman, who bad on him a pistol loaded to the muzzle with powderand ball. The young gentleman bad been stopped in hie supposed burglarious errand 'by an iron ernes bar, of which he had got astride, •by attempting to descend too rapidly, and was unable to move either way. He was taken before a magistrate and subsequently to White Plains, where he was placed within walls much cleaner and less con fined than his late chimney quarters. 14 ED AT LA ST. —A Romance.—More than three years since one Oliver Wolcott, get ting tired of his wife, 'cold her for a valuable con sideration to a man who liked her better and could live with her more amicably than the first husband was able to. The parties being provi• dud with a legal document, drawn up in teebni• cal phraseology, sad not being deeply read in Blackstone or Chitty, teems to have considered the first marriage dissolved, and proceeded toad as if the second bed been legally mususimated. Here the offitters of the law stepped in, Ind Dont signed the sinning patties, except the sinner of all, to the State prison. Mrs. c f =tt was pardoned out by tie Legislature last spring, and Mr. Case served his time and came out by expiration of time this' fall., Ars. Wolcott ob tained a divorce from Oliver by the aid of Es quire Ohapmais, and dile next act in the drama la the regular reunion of the lovers, by a regular elerg7man, in the holy bonds of matrimony.— Considering that a child was born of this union in our Hartford jail, aid that while in the State prison both parties were sustained and eoinfhtted by the mutual pledge Of fidelity to each other, and an unfiinehiog determination to be reunited whenever the very eeriius obstacles court be re moved, we think the marriage obroniole below worthy of note and cr9ditable to both parties.— The course of Lucy's love ran through a Eftate prison and a terrible persecution from a diem lute husband, which made her long for the ,pro testier' of the prison malls. Bat Lucy Lai. tri umphed, and we give the : happy couple our con. Lratulsti.m Wolcott is beaten out of sight.— ucy seats a loaf of Mke:and the following no tice: ' Married, io Cantoo ‘ 'ffovember 2Slb, by bib Rev. Mr Fisk, 11fr Salmon D. Cue, of S 1 a. bury, and Mimi Lucy trench, of Canton.—Hari ford Courant RY.I.IBP or NzuttAust.t.---As this dreadful disease is bveortung wore prevalent than former ly, and as the doctors have not atAtroverea any wetbod or medicine the, will permanently cure it, we simply state that for some time pact a member of our family has suffered most imense, ly from it, sod could find no sure relief from talky' remedy applied, until we 'saw so artiele k whieTi recommended the application of bruised horse radish to the face, for toothache. As the neural gia and the toothache are both nervous diseases, we thought the remedy for the one would be likely to give relief to the other, so we made the application of horseradish, braised and applied to the side of the body where the disease was seated; it gave almost wawa relief to the severe attack of neuralgia. Bioce then we have ap it several times, and with the same ying results. The remedy is simple, cheap, sad be within the reach of every one.—Lawn Herald. ISTRANOR PRIUNTMINT.-At, the Neil fp-, tory, Troy, N. Y., on Sunday week, s lad six years of age, died-of Group, baling suffered ter kW, for several days. Two dila before blades% he sailed his - father to his bedside, and told bin the. be Ws., not gang to lire, for be had a *Mi. Int dream Wheelie. was asleep that told him so. He dreamed that he stood upon the wit* he :saw God in heaven lookinutweetli *pm As! 'bias; that Ito tat down a goldeb ohm, Witioltieli epos the gonad at his feet; Inui tlisk ijaio s ti tg ' stooped .to look st it,, God tol4 kink 'of the altaii4. oaf U. wool* dpi jiiklip 4p • heaven and give him a erown.of gold. Sands, week the Aids spirit jesit set tree,. sad the prom , pee fultillinttl't W, ruling s blooming flistilterner i i you Ins* bar what atado - bor to mall' Hop she *plied faloaantli, filmy titbit Jett sugar plaster." Mots editor is liiissmois Arabia" le bask bau=dgebeiiiv with his ski is NUMER as. ME!
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