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4. Sabbath in the Country.
No sound of orashing wheel was heard.
The morning sun crept up the hills,
The twitter of the summer's bird,
And gurgling laughter of the rills,
And whispered woloome of tho trees,
And harp-notos of the gentle breexo.
The air was full of Sabbath song,
And Sabbath beauty robed the earth ;
There was no flaunting, fine dressed throng, '
No marring and unseemly mirth ;
But golden sunlight In the dolls,
And inusio of inviting bells.
The houio of God was everywhere ;
Wo stood in courts wboro Ho had been,
We walked across His meadows fair,
And down His aisles of evergreen,
And strayed besido Ilia river brim,
Where all our hearts went out to Him.
We linrered where the little bands
Knelt down together In Hie light,
With sun-burnt face*, toil atained hand*,
And simple voice that loved tho right:
And While wo breathed His holy noino,
Into our midst the Master came.
Wo looked upon the preacher's face, I
But baok to us looked other eyes,
Wo heard tho spoken words of grace.
But 'twas another mado us wise ;
For Qod took all eur thougths away,
And kept them to himself that day.
0 grand cloud-mountains, snowy white !
0 wilderness of tree and fern I
That through the windows mot our sight,
And made our peaoc>filled spirits burn 1
Into our hearts your joy we takn.
And love yon for our Father's sake.
$tortj for tjje ICniiits.
DARED AND DEFEATED.
.? " You will fneot l\rnltor Sutton
at The Roses ; enter in no rivalry
with hiin."
This was the postscript of my
father's letter, and the one cloud
in the bright horizxm of my hopes.
I was twenty-three years old,
just released from college, a little
pale and weary with study, and
bound for that paradise of the
earth, my widowed sister Margaret's
home?The Hoses. I was to
spend the summer with Mag; and
the prospect had been one of infin- ;
ito delight. But now I heard that i
Sutton was there.
. This Walter Sutton was a
younger brother of Mag's dcceas- <
ed husband, a millionaire's son,
and a Parisian bv education.
At twenty ho had been familiar i
with the Mabile. At twenty-six i
lie was pronounced the handsomest ,
and most dissipated man in London
; and now, a yc&r later, I was
to havo his companionship for the
summer at tiie house of my sister,
Mrs. Margaret Sutton.
The man bad always had a fascination
for me, whilo I despised
him. Ills Apolian beauty, his
knowledge of the world, his cool i
ness, daring and fearlessness, I regarded
with wonder. But I had
sense enough to weigh these
against his cynicism, his blackened
reputation, and his rakish manner,
which told its tale of unhappiness,
and to keep quietly on my
way, unenvious of his success.?
At the time I- went to The Roses
1 was, moreover, less liable to impure
influence, for I had just lost
the noblost and dearest of mothers.
It is true I did not relish meeting
Walter Sutton, but I was not
oue to borrow trouble. It was
Juno weather ; " green and blue
were glad together and I was
free. My horse arched his beautiful
neck, and trotted slowly and
proudly along the rood, while I
looked across the sunny fields,
watching-for the first sign of my
sister's mansion?trees rustling,
flowers blooming, and birds sing
IIIK HIVUIIU lira.
Suddenly I saw * carriage whirling
in advance of me. I recognized
the man on the box and
purred forward.
I gained it. The statoly lady
within it looked up, threw aside
her table veil, and cried, " Lewis 1"
M Ara you going home, Maggie
t"
" Directly."
w I am with you.1*
' At that moment I became consoioua
of the earnest gaze of a pair
of golden-brown eyes. My titter
was not alone in the carriage. A
young gift, with her lap full of
l water lilies, and a large straw hat
shading the taireet ana loveliest of
faat*. tat beside hor. Wo lookod
inrjnrrfogly at each other; but for
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once, my admirable siBter forgot
the demands of society. In her
pleasure at seeing ine she omitted
the introduction, and leaning from
her seat she questioned me eagerly
regarding occurrences at home.
She had not been there since my
mother's funeral had taken place
in tlio wintor
Suddenly a liglit pbieton whirl
ed by us, the drivor of which lifted
his hat as he passed, giving a
piercing look into the oarriage. I
followed it, and I fancied I saw the
young girl's hand tremble among
the lilies on her lap.
* You know Walter is with us,
Lewis f" remarked Margaret, a little
cloud on her face.
" Yes. lie Ms looking well."
" He always looks well," said
Mag, significantly.
Wo were entering tho avenue.
Two splendid rose trees guarded
the gato ; the rustic trellises held
an arch of blossoming vines above
their heads. I questioned Mag as
to tho garden.
" My gardoncrs say that they
have been very successful this
year. I think I appreciate the
roses more than usunl this year,
for Alice enjoys them so much."
My sister turned as she spoke,
with a fond smile for the girl at
hor side, and then remembered to
sav. " Alice, this is mv hrothpr
Lewis. Mr. Verner, Miss Lee."
So those golden-brown eyes came
up to mine again, and my look of
admiration was rewarded with a
little smile, so sweet that I then
and there fell in lovo with its owner.
We drove through clouds ot perfume
to the door. Thoro were ladies
and gentlemen upon the broad
terrace.
MI have other guests," said
Margaret, aside.
I had met some of thorn before
?all nice people. The summer
F remised to bo gay. I know that
was very happy that evening,
singing with Alice Leo. But there
was an evil influence in the house.
I soon felt it. Sutton's wealth aud
extravagance bred a spirit of envy
among the young men ; his sneering
smile blighted our puro and
simple pleasures, and it exasperated
the masculine portion ot the
company to observe tho influence
this Mephistophelcs had over the
beautiful, innocent, romantic girls
whom they loved. There were
those of tho men whom he seduc
ed at tho start. They copied his
vices in less than threo weeks.?
Then followed dissatisfaction and
heartache among men and women.
Tint T- who from tlin firnfdo/ilin.
ed to play cards and drink in Sutton'e
rooms, felt uncontaminated,
and freo to seek that priceless
treasure in life, a poro woman's
lovo.
I tried to please Alice Lee, and
succeeded. Iu July wo were engaged
; and then I ju6t began to
understand how good arid sweet
my darling was. I romcmber
that I cuine home from fishing one
day, with a face nearly blistered
by the sun. Alice, in her cool,
white dress, with violet ribbon at
the throat, peeped out the door at
me as I caine up the garden, where
I had delivered. the spoils of the
day into the hands of Mag's cook,
and held up her pretty hands in
mock horror. In truth, I was
something of a spectacle, with my
white linen suit illuminated with
the Juice of strawberries?the
pantaloons thrust into the legs of
my muddy boots?plentifully besprinkled
with the dust of country
roads, and fiercely 6unburnt. But
I had been gone all day, and A1
ice made up a face to kiss mo.
44 No," said I; 441 will cxcuso
you, since I have a blistered nose,
and am oovered with dust."
I was quite in earnest, and tried
to hold her off, fearing her delicato
dress would get soiled if sho
touched me; but sho won her way
to my breast, rubbed a littlo place
clean on my forehead with her embroidered
handkerchief, kissed the
spot and laughed in my eyes.
"Dear Lewis," said she, "its
you, and I'm not afraid of dirt
that will wash off*."
The merriment softened in her
lovely face.
" Lewis," she said softly,44 don't
think I love you for your clothes,
I our comploxion, or your whlsera,
which all the girls Admire,
but but because you are good and
true, and I feel that I can trnst
TV _ a
you. xjo yon Know wnac made
me love von at first f"
I shook my head.
M Because' all Sutton's wiles to
draw you ovor to his sot failed.?
You admire honesty and purity,
and havo maintained them so nobly,
that I honor and admire you.
It yon wore a blacksmith I'd marrv
you, and livo in a hovel 1"?
And with her beautiful eyes sparkling
with tears, my darling hugged
me, and then pushed me off, and
then ran away tohidohowshe was
crying.
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Blissfully bappy I stumbled up s
stairs, plunged into a bath, and di- a
vested myself of all stains of earth. 1
But when I went into my dressing c
room I perceived the fames of Sat- r
ton's cigars. Tbey were of a pe- r
culiar brand, and no one smoked a
tuem out inmseit. He was sitting *
in the sonth portico, close to the
door where I had met Alice. How o
long had he been there ?" \
My hand trembled as I brnshed c
my hair. Should I have ^een e
ashamed of it? I think not. 8ut- I
ton had a reputation of taking lior- c
rible revenges, and I had so much to
lose. _ 1
But after a moment I braced i
myself, mentally and physically, \
and sat down to read. I was too
tired to go down stairs. But the ]
fumes of that cigar seemed to c
have got into my head ; the page t
was hazy and indistinct; I could t
see nothing 60 plainly as Sutton's t
Greek profile and hyacinthe hair, ]
and suspecting I was ill I at length
threw down the volume and went e
to bed by starlight. 1
I was ill for a fortnight with a
low nervous.fever. My valet took
me in charge, but Alico came in- i
every day wit'i Margaret, and did 1
me more good with ten minutes' <
petting than Eugene's most pa- i
ticnt attention accomplished the 1
whole day. She kept flowers at e
my bedside, and stretched propri- ?
cties to the utmost to see me. At i
first her smiling eyes by my pil- t
low were delicious ; but one day I e
saw she regarded mo in a troubled, ]
wistful way, and afterwards I dis- ^
covered that she was growing pale, t
44 What is the matter ? tell me, s
petI said.
M Ob, you get well so slowly,"
sho said, with a transient flush on i
her delicate cheek. i
I did not dream what persecutions
she was undergoing while I j
lay there, but she would not wor- 1
ry me with any complaints ; brave,
faithful, loving little heart. f
I was nearly woll at last?eat up i
nil Hftv in tnv rnnm onrt onnt urnpd -
? ?J ? -"J - ?^?1 "v,u
to my friends below that I would
bo with them the following dav.
At midnight the radiance of the
moonlight awoke me from a deep
sleep. I could never sleep in a
room flooded with the light of the
moon. I rose, threw on my dressing
gown, and was preparing to
close the shatters, when I distinct
ly perceived the pungent odor, of
chloroform.
Now if I had been in the body
of the house, I should have decided
that some unfortunate person
among the many inmates of the
house, had experienced a midnight
attack of toothache; but
there were no chambers in the
south wing but Alice Lee's and
mine. Every pearly tooth in her
rosy mouth was perfectly sound, I
knew ; so I was puzzled. Thenext
revelation was the propinquity of
a horse's neigh.
The horses belonging to the
house were, or ought to have been,
at a distance from the house, in a
well-locked stable. T.iis horse?
nay, two of them and an elegant
phmton?I could perceive at the
front gate. At first I did not recognize
the equipage.
But I was impressed to believe
there was something wrong. A
lark of Sutton's set, I decided to
be, when I at length recognized
the carriage. I dressed and sat
down bv tlin nindnw <
tho liorses toss their heads under
the larches, their silver trappings c
glittering in the moonlight. ?
Suddenly Sutton went walking e
rapidly down the walk, bearing
something in his arras wrapped in
a cloak. It might have been tho f
figure of a corpse, for any life or t
motion it appeared to have. He .
sprung into the carriage, placed
himself so as to support his bur- 8
den, gathered np the reins, and r
whirled rapidly away.
The instant he was gone a horri- (
ble suspicion broke over me. I
sprang up and rushed down stairs, j
Ihe chamber in which Alice slept \
was full of the scent of chloro- j
form; tho window was open, and (
a large glass door leading directly (
into the garden. There was chlo- ,
roforra among tho rosee. Alice {
was not there 1 t
If an oath evor escaped ray lips j
it did then. Never thinking to <
alarm the house, I rushed into the i
stable, expecting to find the hostler A
awake. But no: tho man was t
in a deep sleep in his loft?Sutton's i
horses had not been*stabled that t
night?and only my violent belea^- j
ermont brought him down. Bri*
dling the fleetest and fiercest horse
in the stable, I sprang bare-back \
upon him, and tore out upon the t
trail. I
The long road leading over the t
hill stretched white and empty be- t
fore me, but bv that way he must
have gone. My noble black flew
after, suorting, and striking fire <
from the stones. 1
Tho birds were twittering all 11
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BNYILLB,-SOUTH CAROLIN
Jong the way. I noticed that,
>nd knew I could not be far betind
him. Suddenly I heard the i
lick -of a carriage wheel. The ]
text moment I pulled up, lor the i
oad diverged ; one path lay over i
i steep hill, the other entered the
roods.
I was close nDon him. I was sure
>f that; but 1 could not decide <
rh ether he had gone over the hill 1
>r entered the woods, which looked
dark and murderous enough? j
f I made a mistake he would es- i
tape me. Just then I heard a cry ]
?a woman's picrdOhg shriek.? i
\fy heart leaped op; I plunged i
nto the woods, lhat was his 1
vay. <
It was narrow and difficult, and j
. knew he had taken it in hopes to
scape me. He must have heard j
be thundering of my horse's hoofs <
>ehind him in the road. We
Kiunded under the boughs. Soon
^ saw the carriage ahead. i
It rolled rapidly along, yet i
waved heavily on its springs, as if i
>adly driven. i
I shouted, M Stop, stop P*
The next moment a pistol shot
whizzed by me. I coula make ont
die figure of Sntton standing in the
carriage for a moment. The next
instant it was gone. In my reckess
speed the bough of a tree
itruck me in the face ; but I heedid
nothing until I was beside the
ibseton. Sutton was not within; <
>ut my darling, all wild and white,
itretcbed ont her hands to mo.?
IIy horse, iu spite of his speed,
vas manageable ; I galloped close
o their heeds, and contrived to
itop the flyiug bays.
" Where is Sntton ?" I asked. i
" Ho fell or sprang out; I do
lot know which. Ob, Lewis, save
r % f_ -i it?
ne lrom uiiq J"
" You have nothing to fear
now," I answered. " My darling, i
be brave P
Though momentarily expecting
l ball through my head, I tustenea
ny horse to the back of the cariage,
got in, and turned the heads <
)f the horses. They wero white i
vitli foam, but obeyed the reins
vithont much excitement. I wrap- i
led Alice more carefully in a
jloak, and guided them swiftly towards
borne. j
8uddenly the bays swerved, and i
mddenly scorned to leap over 6ome ]
injoci in uie roaa, ana instantly
he carriage passed over some ob- i
.traction. Alice's wild eyes flash- i
?d their terror into mine; a sick- i
suing thought passed over me.? i
Reining in the horses, I leaped
int of the vehicle, and retraced i
ny way for a few steps. Some- 1
hing dark lay among tfie decayed
eaves. It was the corpse of a i
lead man?the dead body of Wal- <
er Sutton.
He had been flung from the car- i
iage. It is not probable that he <
attempted to escape, for he was *
ieavi!y armed, ana would have far
ooner taken my life than have
>cen defeated.
He had probably driven over a I
tump or log, and been thrown to i
he ground; and I had ridden over i
dm twice 1 There was a hoof 1
nark on his forehead, and the <
vheels of the phsetou had passed 1
lircctly over his breast. But that ?
ine, scornful smile was on his lips, i
is I gazed at the dead face in tho i
noonlight) as if, even in death, he
sherished his revenge, and was
ret confident of compassing it.?
3ut the abdnctioo of which lie had
lared, he had been defeated in; i
tnd happy in oar marriage, Alice I
ind I had no fear of the dead. <
SUBOTKTUTE FOE MANUUR. TllO
ollowing receipe for raising pota*
oca ia worth the price of any pa>er
for one yoar to a farmer who
a short of manure. It is as good
is the snperphate of lime, and will
lot cost half as much. It has 1
)cen tried two years, and is good
>n dry land:
Take one cask of lime and slake
t with water, and then stir in one 1
>nshel fino salt, and then mix in
oam or ashes enough that it will
iot become mortar ; it will make
ibout five barrels. Put half a
>int in a hill at planting. All inamres
containing potash are paricularly
snitable for the potatoe.
lushes contain more than any oth;r
natural fertilizer, and should be
freely used and carefully sajrod.?
\ny farmer seeing tho analysis ot
he ashes of potatoes can readily
magiue what fertilizers produce
lie greatest effect, and what the
>!ant most needs.
Carbolic acid is said to be death
0 mosquitoes. Saturate a few
ags with it and leave them in the
*oom and the moiqnitoea will leave
be room without stopping to sing
1 farewell.
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Ken* paco with the march of
time in the improvement of thv
heart. To fall behind it to fall in*
to perdition.
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A, JDLY 13, 1870.
Agricultural Truths.
1. All lands on which clover or
the grasses are grown, most either
have lime in them naturally, or
that mineral must be artificially
supplied. It matters but little i
whether it be supplied in the form
of stone lime, oyster lime, or marl, t
2. Ali permanent improvements
of lands mast'look to lime as its '
basis.
3. Lands which have been long
In culture, will be benefitted by i
the application ot phosphate of
lime, and it is unimportant whether
the deficiency be supplied in
the form of bone dust, guano, native
phosphate, oyster shell lime
or marl?if the lands need limo
slone.
4. No lands can be preserved
in a high state ot fertility, unless
clover and the grasses are cultivated
in the course of rotation.
5. Mold is indispensable in every
soil, and a healthy supply can
alone be preserved through tho
cultivation of clover, and tho grasses,
tho turning in of green crops,
or by the application of composts
within the elements of the mold.
6. All highly concentrated animal
manures are increased in value,
and their benefits prolonged,
by a mixture with plaster, salt, or
with pulverized charcoal.
7. Deep plowing greatly improves
the productive powers of
every variety of soil that is not
wet.
8. Subsoiling 6onnd land, that
is, land that is not wet, is also eminently
conductive to increased
production.
0. All wet laud should be drained.
10. AU grain crops should be
harvested before the grain is thoroughly
ripo.
11. Clover, as well as tho grosses
intfliidnrl liotr Kfl I
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mowed when in bloom.
12. Sandy lands can be most
effectually improved by clay.?
When such lands require liming
or marling, the lime or marl is
most beneficially supplied when
made into compost with clay. In
Blacking lime, salt lime is better
than water.
13. The chopping or grinding of
grain to bo feci to stock operates
as a saving of at least twenty-five
per cent.
14. Draining of wet lands and
marshes, adds to their value, by
making them to produce more,
and by improving the health of
neighborhoods.
15. To manure or lime wetlands
is to throw manure, lime and labor
aw a}'.
16. Shallow plowing operates to
impoverish the soil while it dc~
ureases production.
17. By stabling and shedding
?tr?/?lr flivnnnll llin u-intn. a oni>i'?i,.
vua VM^U IH\> fi IlK Vl ? OUT HI
cf one-fourth of tho food may be
effected.? Cor. Western Rural.
m
WuKN to castrate c0lt8.
Many persons hold to the opinion
that cold weather is the most suitable
time to castrate colts. Having
been engaged in this kind of
business for six or seveu ycais, my
experience and observation is that
May and September are the most
iuitable times. In May there are
110 flies or other insects to torment
a colt; and also, the weather not
being hot, tho animal does not re
sort to tho shade. Consequently,
keeping out in the open Held, it
naturally will pick grass and keop
up its flesh and strength, and
being kept in moderate exercise, a
colt will swell less than if it remains
too much of tho time stationary
under shade.
Thtaeame reason applies to September.
It done in cold weather,
the animal will be apt to be kept
housed, which should never be
done if it can bo avoided. I consider
gentle out-door exercise preferable.
I have operated on many
hundred colts, both horses and
tnulea,and have never yet met with
a serious accident or loss.
[Cor. Cincinnati Gazette.
Suort Rule to MeasureCraim.
a . 1 " ?- 4
ivn excnango says: "it is convenient
to farmers and purchasers
to have an easy and correct rule
by which to measure corn in cribs.
Here is one: Having leveled the
corn in the crib, measure the
length, breadth and depth, and
multiply them together, and deduct
from the product ono-fifth,
and you liavo the number of bushels
in the ear ; for shelled corn,
take one-half. To be strictly correct,
add half a bushel for every
one hundred, I'ersons who are
fond of cyphering, can test the
correctness of this rule, by taking
1128 solid inches for a foot, and
2150 inches in a bushel, and see
that the latter is nearly one-fifth
larger than the former."
Wuo you hear a man say,
"Lile is but a dream," tread on
his corns aad wake him up Life'
is real.
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ate attfr Coimtnj.
The Lad Who Had a Purpose in
Life.
Evory day furnishes some new
instance of the wonderful things
which have resulted from earnest
application to one thing at a time
by boys. The "Life and Letters
of Farraday" have lately been
published, and no one who reads
the book leaves off without feeling
what a good thing it is when a lad
has a purpose before him and a
settled love for one special thing.
Farraday began life as an arrandboy
at a book-seller's shop in London,
and had to take out the news
papers to customers. In his spare
time, instead of playing at eggv
in-a bush by himself, no would take
down a book and read. " When
an apprentice," he says, " I loved
to read the scientific books which
were under my hands, and amongst
them Marcet's * Conversation in
Chemistry,' and the electrical treaties
in the 4 Encyclopccdia Brittannica.'
I made sncli simple experiments
in chemistry as could be
defrayed in their expense for a few
pence per week, and also constructed
an electrical machine, first with
a glass phial, and afterwards with
a real cylinder, as well as other
electrical apparatus of a corresponding
kind." IIo told a friend
that Watts "On the Mind" first
made him think, and that his attention
was turned to science by
the article " Electricity " in an encycloptydia
ho was employed to
bind. And so, by steady industry
and the right use of his wits, the
newspaper boy rose higher, until
u? receiveu, "unsought, almost
every honor which every republic
of science throughout the world
could give." Make a noto of this,
boys, and think whether you are
going the right way to work in
your life-mission.
A Lamentable Accident.?
Robert Boyd, the son of Colonel
W. W. Boyd, accidently killed his
cousin, Jessie Owens, last night
about nine o'clock. The two young
men were about fifteen years of
age, and during the day had been
playing with each other. It socms
that Jessie had come to spend the
night with his cousin, and as the
family retired, they repaired to
their room with as bright and hanpy
hearts as loving cousins could
possibly have. The candle was
blown out, and they were about to
jump in bed?but, alas! in fun
Robert picked from the mantle a
pistol which he had shot the day
before, and which he knew was
unloaded when he placed it there
the day before, but which, unfortunately,
had been loaded in the
meantime by his little brother, and
saying, "Jessie, I'm going to shoot
you," leveled the fatal instrument,
drew the trigger, and his cousin's
brains were spattered upon the
wall. Medical aid availed nothing,
and Jessie drew his last breath
in an hour afterwards.
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i_^?itoiim j-nLciuiycncer^ 'A'oiu.
American Winks.?The same
conditions which produce pood
apples and peaches can produce
good grapes. Diversity of soil
and climate will give diversity of
product; warm sunbeams, clear
skies, end a dry atmosphere will
ensure sweetness and flavor in
the fruit, and richness*, body, and
bouquet in the wine In most of
our varieties there is in excess ot
flavor to boStampcrcd down by
cultivation. Jffany of them are
superabundant in sugar, while otli
era yield a juice whose color is so
deep that it too might be deemed
excessive, if it were possible for
wine to bo too red. And if the
inusky flavor of the foxes is by
many disliked, be it known that the
important family of frost grapes,
Yitis ccsiavilis, have none of it
whatever, but only such delicate
bouquet and savor as the most fastidious
European tasto may accept.
With snch materials wo must be
poor cultivators indeed if wo fail
soon to produce something bettor
than what Europeans now send
for our drinking, and in time something
equal to what they keep for
their own.?Harper's Magazine.
An Inspirtno Scene.?One of
the most striking pictures in the
last number of Every Saturday,
represents a female figure kneel:_l
i. :j- .? ?
mg ueviuo iwo graves, one 01 a
Confederate, tho other of a United
States soldier, and strewing each
with flowers. In the hack ground
appear two spectral figures representing
tho ghosts of two doparted
soldiers. One wears tho
gray, tho other tho bluo, and they
arc solemnly shaking hands in
view of tho scene. When the
spirit that pervades ttiis impressive
picture shall bo the animating
spirit of the men and women of tho
country, then there will bo perfect
reconciliation and peace.
[Richmond Whig.
L
ise.
VOLUME IVII?NO. 8.
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Tue Gbavk of Osceola.?In tho
lost number of Leslie's Illustrated
News, appears a sketch of the
grave of Osceola, the Indian chief,
near the walls of Fort Moultrie.?
Accompanying the sketch is an
account of Osceola's life and death,
from which we gatbor that he was
thirty-six years of ago at the time
of his death, and during his life
had slain a largo number of white
persons in the glados of Florida.
His father was an Englishman
named Power, and his mother thCi
daughter of a Cherokeo chieftain.
While on a visit to an American
fort, 6he was seized and sold as a
6lave. This aroused the anger of
Osceola, and from that time to his
capture, he waged a bitter war
against tho whites. On the 23d
of October, 1837, while holding a
conference with General Jessup,
near St. Augustine, ho was seized,
with a number of his followers,
and taken to Fort Moultrie, where
ho was elosely confined until hia
death. Osceola died as he had
lived, a hater of the raco from
which his father had sprung. Lie
lay on the couch in the Cell assignOf?
rrnr? irifli o
- ?j muv* ?? ivm u Aivnu tid vjui tv ua a
cloud on liis not unhandsome face,
lie folded bis arms across his ample
chest, and thus his spirit passed
quietly away to the happy hunting
grounds of the Seintnoles,
where his braves were impatiently
awaiting his presence.
Artificial Culture of Shad.?The
Commissioners of Fisheries
for the State of JTew York having
completed their arrangements for
the artificial culture of shad, an- <
nounce that they will be happy to
exhibit the process, in all its 6lages,
to any persons interested iu the
matter. They have established
their operations at and near Mull's
Fishery on the Hudson River,
about ten miles below Albany,
where they are now hatching 100,000
yonng shad daily. Mr. Sotli
Ol'fiHll llJlrt olmroro /"? ' tlir* notoKliali.
WO...W.OU"
ment, which is thoroughly and
practically successful, and will exhibit
the entire process, from tho
impregnation of the egg, through
tho various states of the embryo,
to tho production of the perfect
fish. The commissioners are particulorly
anxious that all who doubt
the feasibility of artificial pisiculture,
or who are about introducing
the practice in other waters, should
call and see the operation in all its
detail.? Guardian, 7th.
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A gentleman, tho other day,
stepped into the store of a Paris
merchant, followed by a servant.
The gentleman, who wore his right
arm in a sling, was taken for a
military pensioner, and tjie mer
clmnt gladly placed before liim
such articles as he asked for.?
When he came to settle the account,
however, ho found he had
not sufficient money, so he asked
the merchant to write a note from '
his dictation to his wife, which he
would send to his hotel by his servant.
The merchant unsuspiciously
wrote as he was desired, and on
a sheet bearing the name ot the
lirm, these words, 4'Send me immediately,
l>y the bearer, two bund red
thaiers. ion re, Robert." ilcsmilinglg
closed up the note with the
expression, 44 Ah, then, wo are
name sakes." The servant took tho
note and soot returned with the required
sum. The gentleman paid
for his wares, gave them to his
Servant to carry, and went away.
Some hours after, the wife of tho
merchant visited him, and, nftor
talking of sundry things, suddenly
asked him why he hud sent for
the two hundred thaiers. Tho man
was rendered speechless with astonishment
when he saw what a
cheat had been played upon him.
Flaw-Pickers.?Therd arc people
(do not limit them) who, if
they hear an organ, find, out at
once which aro tho poorest stops.
If they listen to a great speaker,
they remember nothing but some
sljp in tho construction of a sentence,
or break in tho consistency
of u metaphor, or flaw in the evolution
of an argument. While
their friends aro admiring the
wealth and beauty of a tree whoso
Ivrannlma 1 1 1
?.Huvuva aig weigllCU uown With
fruit, they have discovered a solitary
bough, lost in the golden affluence
on which nothing is hanging.
;
1 'WH^tant Denominations.-?
1 ho ?pf9)}mlian gives the following
statistics of tiic leading Protestant
DigaHtjninatioris in the United
Stated:
MetlWflist, : : : t 2,359,250
Baptists, (of all kinds) 1,861,005
Prosbytcrians, : : : 754,768
Lutherans, : i } : 416,500
(Jongrcgationalisits, : : 299,692
Episcopalians, : : : : 186,692
German Reformed, : 147,752
Reformed Dutch, : : : 59,908