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A STERLING OLD POEM.
Who shall judge a man from manners?
Who shall . home him by his dress?
Paupers may lin fit for princes,
Princes 11: :in. something less.
jacket
Mayshirt and dirty
May bcclutho the golden ore
llf thc.deopest thoughts and feelings—
Satin vests could do no more.
Them are springs of crystal nectar
Ever welling out of stone ;
There are purple buds and golden
Hidden, crushed, and overgrown.
God, who counts by souls, not dresses,
Loves nod prospers you nod me,
While he values thrones tho highest
But us pebbles in the sea.
Blatt, upraised above his fellows,
Oft targets his fellows then ;
Masters—rulers—lords, remember
That your meanest hinds are men !
Men by labor, men by feeling,
Men by thought and, men by fame,
Claiming equal rights to sunshine
In a mans ennobling name.
There arefoamembroidered oceans,
There are little weed•clud rills,
There are feeble inch-high saplings,
There are cedars on the hill ;
OA, who counts by souls, not stations,
Loves and prospers you and tne :
For, to Him all vain distinctions
Are as pebbles in the sea.
Toiling hands alone• are builders
Of nation's wealth and fame;
Titled laziness is pensioned,
Fed and fattened on the same.
By the sweat of other's toreheads,
only to rejoice,
While the poor mntt's outraged freedom
Vainly hfteth up its voice.
Truth and justice are eternal,
Born with loveliness and light !
Secret wrongs shall never prosper
While there is a sunny right ;
God, whose world-heard voice is singing
Boundless love to you and me,
Sinks oppression, with its title,
As the pebbles in the sea.
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SHEARING Smear.—A patent has been
granted to Palmer Lancaster, of Burr Oak,
Nlichigan, for nothing less than the shear.
jpg of sheep by machinery, instead of a
pair of sheepshenrs—the common iv/v.-
11w machine which js small and neat, is
hung by a strap to the arm of the operator
and placed on tho body of the sheep to be
shorn. By simply turning a handle back
and forth, and moving the machine over
the body of the sheep, the wool is made
to fly in double quick time. It is well'
Ipown that the most skilful hands at sheep
Shearing do not cut the flecco even ; and
besides, the skin of the animal is invariably
Clipped out by the shears in many spots.
This instrument cuts the• fleece rapidly
mid evenly, never cutting any part of the
wool twice, and it avoids cutting the skin
of the animal '
• it is therefore a tutnanc as
•vcil ar a Good contrivance.
I SEE NO STAR ABOVE THE MORISON, PROMISING LIGHT TO GUIDE US, BUT THE INTELI4Imppa, PATRIOTIC, UNITED WIIIG PARTY OP ME UNITED STATES.V.-- [WEESTEM
Visatianurns.
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LAST WORDS OF NICHOLAS ABOUT
THE UNITED STATES, ENGLAND,
AND FRANCE.
The Xew Oilcans Beo publishes the follow.
hug passage Irons a letter addressed to an emi•
nest foreigner, now in that city, by a Ruisian
friend, residing in St. Petersburg. The Bee
says it may bo " regarded as entirely molten.
tie:"
Sr. PF.TiIitSBURO, Fobrtutry,..Bss.
Before my letter reaches ,
yon, you will prob.
ably have received intelligence of a loss that
will spread a gloomy veil over all Russia, for
the death of such a noun is a blow that not only
strikes his own country, but resounds from the
shores cf the whole world. In my last letter
I did not dare openly declare what we were
expecting from day to day, for we were unwil
ling to accustom our hearts to an idea which
our minds were incapable of conceiving. The
last days of the Czar are a whole century in
the history of Russia, and will never be forgot
ten by those who witnessed them. Do not im
agine that be was exasperated with foes.—
Quite the contrary I Impartially, like a propti.
et, he gazed upon the present situation of the
different European powers, and predicted the
future with the accuracy of one who looks far
beyond the present. •
'England," said he "has reached her eultni.
tintinglioint either for life or dead'. There is
no middle point for her to pursue. One thing
alone may save her, and that is a free confes
sion, not only by the Government, but by the
whole aristocracy, made to the people, that
they have been absurd, from first to last, that
the Crown is no longer to maintain its power,
mod that the people must rise and unite togeth
er as ono man, to save the honor or preserve
the independence of the country. A candid
acknowledgment of the truth may even now
save England, if her corrupt aristocracy can
be brought to the stool of confession. Prance,
on the contrary., can maintain herself only by
falsehood and deception. The Emperor may
Proclaim to his subjects that he goverxs and
influences the affairs of Europe ; that not a
shot call be fired without his permission, and
Franco is the first power in Europe ; but a sin
g!e shock, one speech of a demagogue may
overthrow him and darken the star of Napoleon
forever. I had offered him my hand, the hand of
reconciliation, but he refused it. He wishes to
avenge Moscow upon me, and St Helena upon
Euglatod. Ahort.sighted man, who seeks to
avenge the sins of the fathers upon the chi'.
dren 1 As for Germany, Austria and Prussia,
they would not now exist, if I bad not saved
them, whenAhey crouched at my first six years
ago they think to strengthen themselves in
the mighty struggle between the natio. of Es•
rope. But they have been and never will be
more than secondary poWers,seArdps holdime
authority by the clemency of my "louse; or by
permission of the Wester& Powers. Yet one
consolation is tell to me in the midst of all this
ingratitude and villatiy, and that is the silent
sympathy of the high-hearted people on the
other side of the Atlantic, the only hearts in
which I hear an echo of tiny struggles against
united Europe. Never have I forgotten the
least kindness shown to moor the least of my
subjects ; let my children never forget what we
owe to America, nnd if ever au hour of danger
darkens around the UlllOll, let her find a faith
ful ally in my family."
These words may be of intorost to yon, my
friend, because you ore now living, among the
America.. ,• and I mention them knowing your
sympathies have bound you to to foreign land
nearly half a century. One learns to recognize
his true friends in the hour of danger, and you
unity rely upon it, that as long us a It omtonolf
sits or. 'tussle's throne, the American States
will never need a friend.
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The above (says the Pee) is a faithful and
almost literal translation from the letter which
is written in German, by one of the nobles of
Courland, residing in St. Petersburg. Prom
the source who nee we receive it, we have no
hesitation in guaranteeing its authenticity.
Eloquent Speech•
FELLER is a great main'.
It is a sponteraneous bustin' out of feelin'. It
is a portinashus hub& and bilen' over Law,
that is roreitr' thro' the land like a mimed() or
a megnetie penegraff broke loose ? This, fel
ler citizens, is what we've met this ere night to
consider. What is it then, lan yer again 1
Is it a combustntion of the diurnation of the
lager beer barrels ? Say ? Why its abouttho
onholiest thing ever sheered up in a free, un
mitigated country. It's agin the constestusion,
it's again the naeral stud inexplicable rights
and parquisites of civilized man, and-is calker
lated to onbang the instertutions of the whole
world and the rest of mankind in general.—
This Mane Law of public endurance. What
is this Mane Low, to hethenish abominashun of
desternation. Whar did it cum from? Why
feller citizens, from till the hernia' I have upon
the subject, it was dug up about a year ago, in
a little town called Mane, on the very outspirits
and tip•eend of this great illminous republican
empire, and is now spreadite over theland with
the speed of a bullgine on n down-hill track,
with the cars onhitched, had accordin' to all
accounts, it's just the pisonest thing ever set
Feller Citizens I pause .d reflect on
your ignominious siterashuns, your penliferous
posishuns. Will you submit to have nothin'
but cold water put down your free and indepen
dent throats, 'till they ain't no better than town
pumps, and your abominablosreguns are big
reservoirs ? I know you won't. I see the ofd
fire of Liburtee sparklin' out front your noses,
I see your bosoms swellin' with eternal indigna
alms cotnmoshen, like mountaneous billow oft
the specific oshun. Feller citizens, strike for
your rites t •
Strike, till this orful foe conspires,
Strike for your liberty and sires,
Strike for your keedom to swallow just
what kind of liken you roost admires
And when you strike be sure you hit, and knock
this comprehensive measure into the ontuitiga.
ted shades of the future. It threatens to on
derpitt the very touthook of hams idly and sap
thu foundoratiuns of intlividooal generations,
besides brealcin' things in general. Feller cit•
icons, will yet' do it ? Will you, echo repetos
the cry, will -
y, ••• • Yu',
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 1855.
From the Phrenological Magazine.
The Life of a Giantess.
Miss Sylvia Hardy, the lady now being exhib.
ited at Barnum's American Museum, as the
"Maine Giantess," is a woman of peculiar and
remarkable characteristics. She was born in
1825,10 the village of Wilton, Franklin county,
Siete. of Maine. Her father, who died at 36,
and before she was six years old, was born in
this same village. Her soother, who still lives,
and is now 57, *a born in Falmouth, Maine.
Her grandmother was born is the same town.l
Her grandfather was born in Martha's Vine
yard, Mass.
Miss Hardy was, at birth, one of the gmallestl
of infants. Dr. Barker, of Wilton, who attend...!
ed her mother at the time, used to remark that
he had never seen anything, even of the twin
kind, so diminutive. Her twin brother died at
a very early age. Both together only weighed,
we are assured, three and a half pounds.
Miss Hardy remained a child of very online.
ry size until she was twelve years ofage, when
she suddenly took to growing with a rapidity
that alarmed her friends, and startled all her
acquaintances. As she had five sisters, one of
whom was older than herself, all of whom were
rather below than above the common stature of
the sex, her growth was the more surprising.
At thirteen Miss Hardy was tall. At four
teen she was a novelty. At fifteens, she was a
wonder. She increased in this extraordinary
manner until she attained her twenty-first year
when she remained stationery fur about four
years. During this period of rapid growth, it
was impossible to make her clothes with any
common accuracy. She seemed to alter each
day. She probably altered each week.
The dress that became her one month was
therefore useless the next ; nod thus, for nine
years, it was necessary to make all her apparel
with superfluous tucks and folds, in order to rte.
commodute them to her condition.
One effect of this elongating process was, of
course, coustant ill health. Sho was excessive
ly thin, and could not, under the circumstances
become any stouter. She was so weak as to be
almost unable to stand.
Her bones could not strengthen in substance
sufficiently fast for their rapid expansion, and
so grew painfully brittle. In attempting to
walk, therefore, one day, else fell to the ground
.d fractured a leg seriously. Nature however
in the celerity of her physical developmmits,
soon remedied the evil, and thus the cause sub
sequently aided in the cure.
Bliss hardy is now about 30 years of age.—
She has grown about seven inches since she
wire twenty one, and is nearly eight feet high at
the present moment. She weighs thine hun
dred nod forty.six pounds, is massively propor
tioned, robust, natrouly in her appearance,
symmetrical in figure, but inclined to stoop,(as
most people are,) a habit acquired in her na
tire village, where her gigantic height subjee
ted her to a scrutiny on the part of strangers,
most annoying to her bashful nature.
Her features are large. The expression of
her face, if not !med.., is amiable i her dis
position is mild and gentle to .a pleasing de
gree. Her voice is somewhat coarse but not un
musical. Her movements are easy and grace
ful, although, having never before left her vil
lage home, she its as yet unsophisticated in fan
hionable ways, and mores and acts with a tim
idity that a little more acquaintance with politic
life will readily remove.
The Rev. Win. Badger, of Wilton, Dr, Dar
ker, Dr. Peaselee, Columbus Gray, Esq., attor
ney at late, of the same place, indeed, all of the
vespeetable portion of the population of Wilton
.d East Wilton, know Miss Hardy well, and
speak of her moral character in terms of the
highest regard. She certainly is one of the
most natural phenomena of the age.
What it Costs to Bombard a City,
That war is an expensive occupation the Bri
tish Government and People are beginning to
understand by means of augmented taxes, and
the opening of the fires of the Allies suggests a
calculation as to the cost of the iron balls which
have been thrown into Sevastopol by the five ,
hundred cannon which have vomited them in
what Gortschakoff called "sin infernal tire."—
The accounts of the Asia represent that each
of these guns fired one hundred and twenty
rounds a day, which gives a total for the fi ve
hundred or sixty thousand rounds. This fire
had been continued for thirteen days, and ma
king an aggregate of seven hundred and eigh.
ty thousand missiles rained upon the city.
The weight of the shot fired from the guns of
the Allies varies probably from nineteen to one
hundred and forty pounds, and the shells from
fifteen to one hundred and ten pounds would
probably be a lOW estimate for an average.—
Phis would give a daily delivery of iron to the
11.ussians, amounting to two million seven hun
dred thousand pounds, and a total for the thir
teen days of thirty-five million one hundred
thousand pounds—the prime cost of which in
the rough, at the average price of pig iron in
England for the last year, was not less than
three hundred mid thirteen thousandthree hon- ,
dred and eighty dollars. This is, of course,
without any regard to the CllOllllOllB cost or
transportation to the Crimea.
If the cannon balls fired from the Allied
lines, during, the thirteen days, were rolled into
rail bars, weighing sixty pounds to the yard,
the bars would extend three hundred and thirty
two miles kor if laid as a railroad, would Bur-
Pica for a single track road 150 miles, with all
the necessary turn-outs.
The charge of powder for each gun would
probably average about six. pounds, which would
show gn expenditure for the thirteen days of
four million six hundred and eighty thousand
pounds of powder. Suckpowder in worth here
eighteen emits a pound, but iu England would
not, probably, cost more than fifteen cents, at
which price the powder cost seven hundred and
two thousand dollars.
Strearing.—The-absnedity and utter fully of
swearing is admirably set forth hille following
anecdote of 'Beelzebub and his imps. The
latter went out in the morning, each to com
mand his set of men—one the murderers, nn•
other the liars, and another the swearers, Ac.
At evening they stopped at the mouth of a
cave. The question uruse among there who
commanded the meanest set of men. The sub
ject was debated at length, but without cowing
to a decision. Finally, his Satanic Majesty
was called upon to decide the matter in duo
pule. Whereupon he said : "The murderer
got something for killing, the thief fur stealing,
and the liar for lying, but the swearer was the
:fleeing of all, he served without pay." They
were his majesty's best subjects ; for while they
were costless, their name was legion, and pre
scnted the largeg division in his (Satan's) em
ploy.
Kansas Tetritory.
The St. Louis Intelligencer states as a fact
within its knowledge, that agents are out from
Western Missouri, striving to excite the people
of the rest of the State to join them in the vw•
lent ploceedings they have already started i❑
Platte county.
Aletter front Witshingten Speaks of the pro,
epoch of a famine in the new territory—there
being no supplies of provision/4 and the sea•
son being very unfavorable fur a crop. It ob.
serves that tins must prevent the immigration
of mess from the North—aud many of the Nor.
thorn settlers have already left the territory on
account of its disorders and turbulence.
It appears that in the new city ofaiekapoo,
paper has been started in the pro-slavery in.
terest, and named the Piiiiver. It is full of vil.
lainous suggestions and bitter reviling.; against
the abolitionist settlers. Speaking of the new
election to take place en the 22nd inst., to sup.
ply vacancies, it states this will be another op
portunity fur the pro-slavery party to prove
true to their principles, and observes :—"We
must again make a clean Sweep—we must
prove to thefriendS of the ‘deardepressed black'
that wo do not-intend to sleep as long as there
is work to be done—a; long as there is an she.
litionist in Kansas."
We find the following important statements
made, upon' the authority of ass eye-witness,
by the editor of the Cincinnati Democrat:—
The scene of the most bitter state. of feeling,
in reference to the settlement of Kansas, has
been located in the six counties of Atchison,
Godawav, Holt, Andrew, Buchanan tied Platte
These counties ferns a triangle, extendingfrum.
the junction of the Kansas river on the Misses'.
ri river, to the north line of the State, the base
resting upon the south line of lowa. The ter•
ritory of land comprising the six counties
above stained was once free, under the Missou
ri compromise, and was laid open to slavery
through the agency of Benton, by . act of Con
gress in 1837, and was the first violation of the
Missouri copmromise.
It is composed of a very fertile, rolling coun
try, and contains some tit the most flourishing
and populous counties of Missouri. Platte
county is the mostly densely settled of any in
the State, nod the most populous, aside from
those containing the large cities.
The old boundary of Missouri was the meri
dian line, and was changed, as We have stated,
to the Missouri river lit 1837, Col. Benton ta
king advantage of the careless inattention and
apathy of Congress to secure else abject.
About July let, 1851, four slaves fled and es•
caged from Weston and its vicinity, when a
public notice of the fact wa; put iu the news.
papers, in which all Northern men were denoun
ced as to he suspected and watched.
A meeting was called in the Platte Argus,
Atchison's organ, and the Platte County Self-
Defensive Association was formed, the consti
tution of which made every member a secret
agent, to inquire into the views, opinions,
plans, business and pursuits of every man ;
nod make all northern men's affairs—and es
pecially then' of clergymen—their own t and
empowered' each member to mit upon the et).
I are to help him to drive net, hang, drown or
I kill, in any way, all who teem suspected of tam
pering with Ida.. or of inculcating abolition
or freesoil principles.
Tho expression of the opinion or hope that
Kamm might be free, was deemed and decla
red conclusive evidence of abolition opinions
upon which the Association empowered them
' selves to seize upon and try any Individual, be.
fordis committee of three or snore of the Asso.
elation, and to fled him guilty upon the testi
'
moray of any person ; and to punish bins at
once, without appeal, and without recourse, by
such penalty as their selkonstituted tribunal
might judge fit, from hanging or di-owning, to
tar and feathers.
sTl;oinnsA:Minard, formerly a Sheriff in the
State of lowa, was the first man arraigned be.
fore the tribunal consisting of members of this
Association, on July 10th, 1854. Ito was trig
ed upon his own evidence. Ho was a man of
influence and character, and had many strong
friends among that portion of the pip ulation
not ultra upon slavery. Ile was seized and
bound and carried before the tribunal, end
there upon being questioned, stated that he
had said repeatedly thathe hoped to see Kansas
a free territory mid a free State q that he he.
Roved it would he for the best interest of the
country that it should be so.
lie was solemnly pronounced an abolitionist,'
and was sentenced to receive forty-eight lash.
es unless nt the end of tbrtreight hours ho was
found missing from the State of Missouri. lie
choose to take another course; rallied his friends,
armed himself, and openly defied them. Ile
lives among them yet, and the =Once has
not as yet been curried out.
Mi. Osborne was tried, and convicted upon
testimony of a slave----testimony not admis ;ile
in any southern court—of the offence of eel ,
big to write a pass or permit for n slave, showing
that the slave was about his regulwe business in
travelling from place to place. He was impri.
, toned three days, and had his head shaved.
The Association has had up before them
men of the most quiet mil respectable chant c•
tars, who have been constantly assailed by ab
use, vilification, obscenity and insolence; have
been roughly treated, and dismissed with boots
and jeers, after every effort has failed to impli
cate them, oven in the ready judgment of this
slave tribunal.
A Sphinic in the Cabinet.
A Washington paper says that Mr. De Leon,
the 'United States Consul Gentral in Egypt,
has sent over to Mr. Marcy, for the State Do.
partment, an antique Sphinx, having the body
of a lion and the thee of a young woman, and
carved all over with hieroglyphics and repre
sentations of bulls, beetles, scorpions,
dogs,
crocodiles and other monsters.. It is of sand.
stone and is about two feet high. Mr. Marry
has taken the Sphiux to his embrace, and itis
probably destined to beeons an important
member of the Pierce adminisflatien. In the
first place it must, however, declare its listen.
lions to become ass American citizen, and al.
though the gender of the Sphinx family has
been disputed from the most remote antiquity, '
we presume the Democracy will have sus
culty in establishing die tact that this one is of
the proper sex, in spite of the feminine head,
and that it will before long be quite 4. lit to
exercise the rights of citizenship no many of
our newly arrived emigrants from European
countries. lts sandstone head can be no ob
jection, for we have had wooden heads in high
' planes, and there seems to be a title opening m
the Democracy fur a head of solider snuff.
But the public would respectfully ask to be
informed what. office the Sphiux is declined to
till at Washington. If it is to resume its old
business of propounding enigmas and devour
ing the inhabitants whoa they cannot solve
them, it will find its proper sphere in Washing
ton. For we have bad puzzles and bother,
Lions without number since the 4th of March,
1833. The people hare.never yet heels able to
understand the Nehru:An enigma, the Grey.
town enigma, the Ostend enigma, the St. Do.
mingo enigma, and many others; and if the
Sphinx of the White House has not devoured
them, it has been simply because such food
disagrees terribly with the Presidential digest.
Coil. Bat the people are working out a soils.
tion of all these puzzles, and When they have
arrived at it, our Presidential Sphinx will be
quite ,ready to dash his head against a rock.—
In the meantime our Egyptian Sphinx must
have work assigned him in the Cabinet. Mr.
Guthrie might employ. such a hard shell indi
vidual Intim Treasury Department, for he would
be very useful in getting up Treasury reports
and proposing insoluble problems of Free
Trade. Mr. Campbell might engage him in
the Post Office service, to assist in the perplex.
icy o f our: mail business, Or , if he' did not
fancy duties with these
.Departments, or those
of War, the Navy, or the Interior, Mr. Marcy
might put the Sphinx on diplomatic service.—
He will answer very well to send to Madrid,
should Augustus Camay Hannibal Dodge fail
in his mission. He could resume the Spanish
negotiations where Snide broke them ctr, and
. there is no reason why an expatriated Sphinx,
With a' sound stone hem], should not he as good
an ambassador as An expatriated Frenchman
with a cracked head. Let us snake the most
of our Egyptian Sphinx, and let the public be
intoriudd immediately on what business hi;
sand.stinie brains are to he employed.
The Birde.
a.outainong lhu trees in the orchard or
ttiough tire grove, or_look into the hedge•rows
or peep under the old Midge down the lune, or
go to the barn ; go anywhere, everywhere,
where you will, and at this season—this lovely
May season—you will find is a birds—busy,
merry, singing birds ; hard at work they are
too. building their houses—cradles rather—and
all the time keeping up a concert of erect mu
sic. Various too are their tastes in selecting
their sites fur their nesting places, some hiding
away from man, Borne coming up to the very
door; or like the martin and swallow, under
his roof and protection. Robin-red-breast al
most invariably comes into the orchard, some
times on the trees, sometimes on the fence,
sometimes where kindly treated under the shed
by the barn or house.
The woodpeeker—the same one that was
"tapping the hollow beach tree"—makes lotus
in tho old apple trees, into which for yeses af
terward the pretty blue-bird, creeps and rear its
annual brood. _ .
...... _
The blackbird, the most numerous of the
family of small birds, mostly nests in the
swamp ; except one variety, imitating the crow,
that goes into the highest trees, such as the
spruce with a dark thick top, where boys nor
small shot cannot come.
In the meadow we find the sly nest of the
quail and lark and several small birds; and in
the thickest bushes - the home of the brown
thrush. He is a natural musician, a sweet bird
full of glee and cheerfulness; but the merriest
and most amusing of the whole family is the
noisy little bobolink.
We look upon birds as among the essentials
of.tt Imolai:op*, nod would a.) noon aid": of
chopping down the orchard, shooting tho tar.
beta and wringing the necks oil of the barn.
yard fowls, or maiming mutton of the sheep or
giving the lambs to the dogs, as tu.think of
destroying or driving them from the premises.
"Going a gunning" with the murderous in •
tent to kill such birds ought to consign a man
to the infamy that we are apt to attach to n
savage or a brute who wantonly kills the finest
of Gud's creation.
Without birds a country •is desolate; with
thin it is always cheerful. Their songs would
enliven the heart of a stone or make a miser
for the moment forget his money.
The association of children with birds, when
taught to love them and notdestroy their nests,
has as direct and certain a tendency to improve
their natures us the church or family fireside.
Teach a child that birds are among the good
gifts of God to man, and it is hardly possible
that the child will grow up to manhood with.
out being possessed of some of the attributes
of the sweet songsters of the grove.
And yet there ore parents who allow their
children to wage incessant war upon the birds,
never thinking of the injury they aro doing
their young minds, or how many destructive
eueintei they are entailing upon the crops in
shape of countless caterpillars, grubs and
worms.
We don't know of a higher Christian duty
for a minister to engage in than an clfort to
preserve the birdsin his parish.
We would impress upon the mind of every
child that the command ''thou shalt not kill'
meant these dear little birds as well as things
-of a higher degree. Thou shalt not wantonly
kill a single thing of all election that is not
necessary fur man's sustenance, or that is tint
detrimental to his interest. .
Children should be taught not only to love
the music of birds, but to look upon them as
models of beauty and affection to their mates
and to their young. Instead of driving them
away, from the house, encourage them to come
IttO perch upon the window-sill and build their
nests nutter the caves.
Don't tell us they destroy the small fruit.—
Plant miough for you and them. If they do
cat fruit, so they do cat worms,
and you can
well afford to give them a few cherries and cur
rants for what they have done fur you,
Around the. City there is a difficulty in pre
serving the birds because nll the groves, are
infested with an abominable nuisance in the
shape of trig boys end prowling loafers "out fer
a day's shooting."
They ought to be out for a day's shooting,
and that should be at their own idle carcasses,
with fine.salt and pepper-cures, and every own.
er . of land should be allowed by lure thus to
saleand'pepper and of these idle vagabonds
who come upon his grounds without leave to
doom the birds to destruction. . .
Furniurs I let your motto be—nnd impress it
upon all your family—Never kill a bird.
Discovery of a New — i!cople on the Wee.
tern Continint,
A discovery ;liieltJett ittTliis age of almost
daily revelations of antiquities and wonders of
remote times and people, must strike the world
with wonder, has just been made by the officers
of the sloop.of.war Decatur.
It will be recollected that the Decatur sailed
from His in company with the Massachusetts
Ipropeller)—that they ported company, and
that for sQUiP weeks the loss or the Decatur
was looked upon as certain. Situ was after.
wardS discovered by her cousin, part way
through the Straits of Magellan, and totes tow.
.ed into the Pacific by the Massachusetts. • The
New Orleans rico/vim of the lot inst., pub
fishes a letter, received from O. 11. Green; da•
ted on board the Decatur, 'NA' the Straits of
,
Magellan, Feb. lb," and which contains some
statements so startling that we make the hi:-
lowing extracts. From the apparent respect.
bility of the source, we see no reason for doubt.
leg the narrative, remarkable a., it i.,. The
writer -
There being no appearance of a change in
the weather, Lobtained leatie of absence fora
few days, and accompanied by . my classmate
and chum, Dr. Bninbridge, Assistant Surgeon,
wan landed on Terra, del Fuego. With-great
labor and difficulty we scrambled up the moun
tain-sides, which line the whole south-east shore
of these Straits, and after ascending 3,500 feet,
we came upon a plain of surpassmg richness
and beauty; fertile fields—the greatest variety
of fruit in full bearing, and signs of civilization
and refinement meeting us on every side. We
had never read any account of these people,
and thinkiutr, this island was wholly deserted,
except by a . few. miserable cannibals and wild
beasts, we bad oome not well armed, and you
call judge of our surprise.
The inhabitants were utterly astonished at
our appearance, but exhibited no signs of fear
nor any unfriendliness. Our dress amused
them, and being the first white men ever seen
by them, they imagined that we had come from
their Clod, the Sun, on some particular errand
of good. They are the noblest race I ever saw,
the men all ranging from 0 feet to well pro
portioned, very athletic and straight as an ar
row. The woman were among the most per
fect models of beauty ever formed, averaging
5 feet high, very plump, with small feet and
hands, and with a jet-black eye which takes
you by storm. We surrendered at discretion,
and remained two weeks with this strange peo
ple.
The ship is in sight that will carry this to
you, and 1 must now close ; only saying that
the official report of lie. Bainbridge to the De
partment, will be filled with the most interest
ing and valuable matter, and astonish the
American people. The vessel proves to be the
clipper ship Creeper, from the Chinchi Islands,
with guano, for your pout, and I will avail my
self' of this opportunity to send a specimen of
paiutiug on porcelain, said to be over 3000
years old; and an image, made of gold and
won, takes in one of their wars, many years
before the Straits of Magellan existed.
They tell us that this Island was once at
tached to the main land; that about 1900 years
ago by their records, their country was visited
by a violent earthquake, which occasioned the
rent note known as the Straits of Magellan
that on the top of the mountain which lifted
its head to the Sun, whose base rested whore
the waters now flow, stood their great temple
—which, according to their descriptien, as
compared to the one now existing we SAW,
must have been 17,200 feet square, and over
1100 feet high, built of the purest pantile mar
ble.
They number about three thousand men,
women .d children, nod I was assured the
population has not varied two hundred, as they
prove by their traditions, for immemorial ages.
As the aged grow feeble they arc lett to die,
and if the children multiply too rabidly they
are sacrificed by the priests. This ,Irdetottin
prises about one-tenth of the population, and
what the ancient d reeks called "Gymitophists. 9
'They are all of one peculiar race, neither trill
they admit a stranger into their order. They
live fur the most part, Dear the beautiful stream
called Mune., which takes its rise in the
mountains, passes through the magnificent val
ley of Leuvu, mid empties into the Atlantic at
1 the extreme south-western point of the Island.
This residence is chosen for the sake of their
frequent purifications. Tteir diet consists of
tuilk, curdled with sour herbs. They cat ap
ples, rise, and all fruits and vegetables, esteem
ing it the height of impiety to taste anything
that has life. They live in little huts or euttit
ges, each one by himself, avoidire! company
and discourse, and employing all their time is
contemplation, and their religious duties. They
esteems this litb but a necessary dispensation of
Nature which they voluntarily endure as a pen
ance, evidently thirsting after the dissolution of
their bodies; and firmly believing that the soul
at death, is released from prison, and launches
forth into perfect liberty rand happiness,—
Therefore, they are always cheerfully disposed
to die, bewailing those that are alive, and cote
brating the funerals of the dead with joyful so
lemnities and triumph.
Know Nothing Oaths or Obligations
The charge of" midnight conspirators" .Cc.,
is constantly made against the Know Nothings
by those who are members of numerous other
secret organizations hottnd together by the
strmigsst oaths and discipline. One or the
charges published by the revilers of the Know
Notlittnts is , that they lake the following oath :
" Yon do promise and declare that you will
not vote for nor give your influence for any
man fur any office in the gift of the people, un
less he ho an Antericttwherit citizen in favor of
Anterican.born citizens ruling America."
This seems to be the stun and substance of
thu hostility to the Know Nothings. For this
they are constantly assailed with the epithets
of midnight conspirators,' and other lan,guage
of vituperation. But what, crime is there in
the above declaration ? Is there any " treason
to the country in it? Where do you find
gunge breathing more truly the sentimhts of
Washington, than this ? Is there an honest
man in this country, whether born here or not,
who will not say, that it contains the true spirit
of patriotism and love of country ? We do not
think that the American cause can be thjirred
by the protnalgationof such obligations, in the
minds of the intelligent Ippi friends of
I,therty.
The acrimony and viohniOc with 'thick such
sentiments as the above ate assailed, show
those who denounce them not only as being de•
ethnic of them but unstrongly opposed to them.
Ily this the people can see what prniciples and I
views are entertained by the opponents of Am
ericanism as well as by the order. It will take
no Solomon to discover that those who are
loud its the condemnation of the American
movement, with few eNeeptions, ;re the cop,
timed hubitual, political gamesters, of the qid
parties, whose welllatown seven principles, (five
loaves and tee fishes) are the only standard to
fight snider, and whose corruptions have stink
the ceantry in debt and degredatioo.
. . . .
As it regards the principles of the AllteriColl
party, it ih alleged that they are glemt in full
to the pub . t..., •and more distinctly defined
than were ever those of the old Whig or Dem
ocratic iutrties. Let them therefore he judged
by them. If they hare forgotten the teachings
of the immortal fathers of the Republic. If
they have cast aside the memories of Wn,lting
ton, Jefferson and their compatriots. 'ff they
are umindful of the warning and instrnetions
bequeathed to us for our guide.. If the
American party are not worthy of the name
they have assumed. If they are not actuated
be a love of country, then let them be crushed
and let the story of them go down to posierity
us a warning. lint if on the contrary then
motives are good, their principles right, and
they can show that they desire. and, tabot tar
the best interests of our countiy, and for ate
cause of true Liberty throughout the world,
they must and will receive the approval, the
applaube and the co.er-ration of all true pa-
Ir~~l„. - -I,an roo:tcr Al.
VOL. 20. NO. 26.
Aim 6124) (asliet.
Bubbles of Fun.
Kr. Jonah wrote to his father, after the
whale first swallowed him, stating that he
thought he had found a good opening for
a young man going into the oil business
—but afterward wrote for money to bring
him home, stating that he had been 'suck
ed in.. A good many Jonah's live in theme
latter days.
Fiainttso.---An English mathematician
named Bailey , has been for some time past
engaged in weighing the earth. Remo are
his figures : 1,250,195,675,000,000,000,-
090,000—0 r in words, one quadrillion, two
hundred and fifty six thousand one bun.
dred ninety-five trillions, six hundred and
seventy-five thousand billion tons avordu
pois.
A LUDICROUS Mtsa•AtcL.—A short-sight,
ed deacon recently, in giving out a hymn
to be sung, when he came to the lines
"The eastern sages shall come in
With messages of
- grace,"
put the audienoe in a roar of laughter by
reading out in a loud voice:
"The eastern stages shall come in
With sausages and cheese ?"
CONTENTMENT.-4C that animal better
that hath two or three mountains to gaze
on than a little bee that feeds on dew or
manna, and lives upon what falls every
morning from the store-houses of heaven,
clouds and Providence Can a man
quench his thirst better out of a river than
a fall urn, or drink better front the foun
tain which is finely paved with marble,
than when it wells over the green turf
ALL IN FUN.—AI a baptism in the Wes
tern part of this State, a few weeks since,
a girl of a shy disposition about to be
emersed, very naturally resisted the at
tempts of the minister to lead her into the
water; and after a short stregght• began to
sob and cry with great violence. At this
moment, while a crowd of spectators were
anxiously watching the result, a younger
brother of the girl stepped op to her and
exclaimed in an under tone—.non't be
scared, Sal, they're only in fun
pr - j". Our acquaintance Miss Auburn
Ringlet, is a queer creature. She is not
ugly but fair and fat, and says she never
will get married—never. Says the men
arc 'brutes,' &c. The fact, however, is,
Miss Auburn like others of her admirable
sex, marked herself at too high figures in
her youthful Jays. The consequence was
the goods didn't sell. They've since sow--
ed. Let her fate be a warning to all young
ladies. Don't be foolish maidens, but be
come seusible wives. That's oar ndrire
without money and without price.
‘Speaking of snuff,' said IV. Pill
tington, smiling, 'such as this can never
be dilatory to health. The flavor is beau•
tiful as the bum of a thousand flowers.—
Palk of the injurious tenderness of snuff,.
indeed ! I say it has the effect to extenu •
ate life ; for there was old Mrs. Aims, who
took snuff all her life, lived till she was
nearly a centurion, and then at ninety-sev
en had her days shortened by leaving off
taking it. don't think there is anything,
harmonious in it, and many it poor creatur e
with a guitar in his head has been cured by
it.'—Boston Pod.
'Courtship is a queer invention.—
Much has been written about it, and a great
deal more Enid. The best 'trifle' in that
way which wo have come across fora long
time is the following.:
Joni: . 6 %4'0, and Rubin squetrhed her •
Pretty ljttic trembling hand,
Then with outstretched arms he seized her
Half-reluctant form, and-and-
"Loose me!" but he grasped her lighter—
"Jeimic, say, wilt thou - be mine?'
Then her bright thee grew much brighter,
4 , t3 sac whispered, "I am (lilac."
Then they clasped each other fondly,
Close together as two bricks,
And they kissed each other soundly,
A net 3left then in that fix.
oil Encl. ANSWER."—A college s'udeY,t,
proud of his logical acquirements, was am
bitious of a private disputation with lien
derson, a famous scholar of Oxford. Some
mutual friends introduced him, and hay_
ing gheoen his subject, they conversed for
soor time with (vial candor and modera
tion ; hut at length Ileuderson'e antagonist
perceiving his confusion inevitable, in the
height of pacfton. -threw n fill glass of
wine iu Henderates face. Thu latter,
without altering his features„or changing
his position, gently wiped his face, and
then coolly rephed,—“This, sir, is a di
gression ; stud now for the argument." A
greater victory thou success in any argu
ment could have given him. Christian
forbearance is a troublesome grace for ro.•d
dlesomc and impudent logicians