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The Beaufort Republican. / ' f, XV INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLTTICS, LITERATURE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR. .?* i YOL. III. NO. 2. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1872. I ????????* They Two. The vesper bells were ringing sweet In the sultry Summer weather, When they climbed the mount with tired feet To kneel and to pray togetner : To kneel and to pray where the tender Bkles * Bent low to the pine trees' sighing ; With only heaven to hear their cries, And heaven to make replying. " Onr hearts, O father! are one," they said, " But we go two ways to-morrow : And life will linger, and lovers will wed, And what can we beg or borrow Of earth or heaven to bridge the years? Drtarier than dreariest night is^~ Lving between the Valley of Tears And the city where Fhy delight is?" Over their cold, cross'd palms a light Struck sharp through a coal-black shadow ; And silences not of the day nor night And sweets not of moor nor meadow, Folded them fast, while a voice sung clear From the scml of the silvery arches : " They are true soldiers who feel no fear ; God knoweth how hard the march is!" Only a dimming of patient eyes, A smiling of lips that quiver, And blue behind them the mountain lies? UJue nerore tnem-tne river. ' Burdens for both of them?battles for each, And the wild and the wearying weatner ; But?further away?a Paradise beach And two ways winding together. TOM'S STOEY. " Did you ever bear of mv oriental adventure said Tom, perching hiinseil upon tbe counting-bou?e desk. " Your oriental adventure V' asked Ned. amazed. " Well, it's worth hearing," said Tom, " if it did happen to me. It was wben I was in Damascas, a mere attache of a grave diplomatic pirtv, a boy of twenty, who might as well have been lett at home, I suppose." "I should sav so." said Ned. "When ^ / you belonged to a diplomatic party, and were in Damascus. You?well ?" " I was in a bazaar," said Tom. "Englishmen always hunt bazaars when they arc in Damascus" "Oh," said Ned, "do they?" " I had bought cigar cases and smoking caps and tobacco tags, and all' sorts oi tilings," said Tom. " I had slippers and scarfs and a shawl for my mother, and a garment of red silk and gold thread of which I did not know the name. And I was buying a pipe of oriental style, with a long stem, and a water bottle for the smoke to pass through, when a great puffy bag of black silk which enveloped a lady paused near me, and squatted down before the shop of a young jewel merchant, for the purpose of examining his bracelets " Only the eves of this figure were visible, but thev were blacker and more beautiful than those of any heroine of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, and they lit 011 me once, twice, three times, and sent a sensation through my heart to which it was happily as yet a stranger. ".Behind the figure stood the less carefully vaded poison of an old female servant. Soiue gray hair struggled over a wrinkled forehead, and the vail even levealed thi upper pait of her high no^e. She was the guardian of the young beauty probably. That it was a young beauty thus hid under the silken balloon I had 110 doubt. It was like an oriental tale. "The jewel merchant was busy with his wares. The merchant of hubble-bubbles with bis and my money. No one but the old women saw the beauty make me a little $j<>n with her exquisite hand; but she did it. The sign seemed to say, 4 Wait." I waited. "What I waited for 1 hardly kuew. I understood the customs of the counrry well enough to be awaie that I could not speak to this damsel, or be addressed bv her, in the open streets; but 1 unlerstood y untr women well enough to know that something was in ?tore lor me in the way of an ad venture. Mv repertoire ol gesture is not large. No Englishman's is.. 1 nodded a 'Yes.' It sufficed. As she went away, guarded by her old attendant, she repeated the motion. '' Wait,' it said again. "1 Yes,' replied tny nod. "There was acol'te-liou^eclnseat hand, on n to the street like all the other shops. There, with mv bubble bubbles in my banu, 1 squatted on a cushion, and sipped and smoked. I also ate something. It may b.ive been the conserve of pomegranates without pepper, of which we read in t ie Arabian Nights. It was sweet; it melted on the palace. It left behind a d iiciou* taste an I fragrance. It was oriental to the last degree. 'Near nie, one smoked something stronger than tobacco?hasheesh perhaps ?'tut sent liirn. b\ and by, into a strange sort of sleep, his eyes halt opened, hi* bands dropped on their backs, half shut, a ainst the cushions, the pipe still between " Within the coffe?-shop, a story-tellei thr-uv dowu a little fl.it basket for conti i but ion-, and began his narrative with, 4 In the nam- of Allah !' "It was a')out tb genii; but I had litth: comprehension of the tale, my knowledge of the I<v.?guag< b< ing so poor. " In its md-t I saw a figurepa>s?pause | ? make a sign to me. " It was the oM woman, the servant of nv: mysterious beauty. I flung aeoiu tj tiie story-ieller, and followed her. "She went on for a long while, until 1 began to think that she would ne.< -p ak tome; hut at last she piused under the shadow of the blank white-plaster walls ol a house in a quiet part of the city, ami suddenly letting down aloug wispoi gray hair, to ik trcm it a letter?a little crooked t ing written on bright paper,and drenched w ill perfume. UI to?c it open. It was written in j queer English. "'I a little English know,' it began, j 4 My mother she English. Most beaiui- J fi i! I wait for you. Come.'" | 4'Wbcc she said 4ino-t beautiful.' did she moam y>u asked Dick, in amaze. n Yes/'sa'd Tom, "of cou se." ' "What do the geutlemeD look like them ?" asked Dick. 4'' Where shall I go ?' I asked of the old I woman. 44 She beckoned. Again 1 followed. We walked on, she going be fo;e, I following, until si.e paused before a white-plastere ' wall, in which was a narrow door. ' Unlocking this, she motioned me to enter,! &nd almost treading on my heels in her baste, instantly slipped in after me and relocked it. , " I found myself in the most beautiful garden imagination can depict. A fountain played in the'center, and flowers of the dii most gorgeous colors bloomed in thesplendid vases and urns that surrounded it. ^ Beyond it was a rose arbor. Obeying the old woman's motions, I entered the door of ne this fragrant retreat. pr " On the instant, two beautiful irms fa| were cast about my neck, and a voice like tbat of a nightingale softly breathed these words : ut Oh, how long I have waited for you, v?l joy of my soul!' tai " It was the girl whom I bad seen at m, the bazaar. I knew her eyes aud her ' bands at once, and I knew also that I had 111 met mv fate. I loved her on the instant til as well as she seemed to love me." sn '4 Brother," said Dick. pr " 1 can't make yon understand that delicious emotion," said Tom, sighing. "There a? we sat together, talking as lovers woo had ^ been parted lor years. She slipned & ring th upon my finger. I gave her one from CQ mine. I vowed to bear her away to the land where lovers wcienot the slaves they were there, and she promised to meet me at at the little garden gate at midnight, when lei in disguise, I would convey her to a place of safety, procure the protection of our coun?ul, with whom I was intimately acquainted, and marry her that very night." ea " Going it fast," said Dick. th Tom sighed. 0f u Suddenly, as we sat there," said he, (4 " the old woman rushed into the arbor. | She whispered a word to my beautiful lady-love, who wrung her hands in terror." us "' Fly for your life !' she said. ag " 11 Allah spates my life, I will meet UT you at the gate at midnight. If uot, adieu until we meet in Paradise." "Then the old woman seized me by the sp arm, hunted me to the gate, pushed me G' out, and locked it behind me. a? <k The garden vani.-hed. 1 saw mv love |r - ... * ,iic no more. 1 sat bewildered upon a rough ^ stone bench. It had been like a story of the Arabian Nights thus lar. How would <li it end i I knew not. ^ " Don't ask me what I did with myself ^ during the remaining hours of the day. I know nothing of them. ^1 " At midnight I sat upon the stone in bench again, clad in a coarse oriental dress, f0 but with a pistol hidden beneath it. I liad resolved rather to die than to allow her to be torn from me. 11 was love at 30 first sight that I felt, but years could not pi have made it stronger. \[ " I waited. The moon arose round and p( yellow iu the sky. The feathery heads of the date palms seemed to nod to me. A strange bird uttered a shrill cry. A Tc dog barked. I heard steps within the gaiden, and shrank back into the shadow. They were not the steps of women. As tit I listened I he gate opened, and four black {n -laves, bearing a burden, emerged there- y from. As the moonlight fell upon them,l } saw that they held the sides of a great ,)C sack. Tl "They maijchel away toward the rivet, tu As I watched them, dreading I knew not what, the old woman, with her hair dishevelled, rushed out of the garden; and : wring'ng her hands, pointed after them. di Wuat has happened V I shrieked. ^u " She threw into iny hands a little note, .tj] the counterpart of the one I had received that day. "I tore it open and read these words: w 4 Adieu ! the Caliph has discovered all. 1 was his wife. The fate of an unfaithful wif in this hnd is to be sewed up in a bag ot of lime, aud cast into the river. Adieu, ^ foiever. Naida. ^ " With a wild shriek I rushed after the letreating slaves and?awoke." *r,ti * saiu in *a; "awose r "Ye>," said Tom. '-That was when I pi was down with that had fever three years qq ago, and Sam. had been showing mc a Turkish pipe, and my black haired cou>in l! Belle had read me to -deep with the* ' Ilowadji in Syria j1 and out of these three " tilings, an oriental pipe, a pretty burnette i< and an exquisite book, my adventure in (4 Damascus with the beautiful maiden wa> born." pa A Chinese Custom.?A most curious a ( Chinese custom is that of releasing spirits Mi of the departed from hell. If a medium or "reports to the survivors of any one de- fe ctased that their relative is gone to the ru regions of everlasting punishment, it at o\ ouce becomes their bounden duty to re- C ease him from his pains. With this pa object certain priests are consulted, who pa N it. X?l A * -V provide nve common carmen mes, wuuui p:i are placed on the ground, one in the pa center ami four at the corners ; in the pa miilst are placed a number of images of k persons cut out of paper, and some mock money?the tiles represent hell, and the paper images a portion of its occupants. Each priest tl en takes a kind of stufl in SH his hand, and they solemnly walk round 1>( repeating formulas, and after a time the mock money is s t tire to, and the in- 111 stunt it is consumed each tile is broken by Idows from the staves, and each priest 1 *" 'f r seizes and rushes ofi with as many o^the paper figures as he can grasp, the attendants beating gongs aud firing crackers to frighten the devil away, should be at- *r t mpt to fo'low them. After this bur- u br gularious effort on the part of the priests. the relatives are quite satisfied that the ^ om? i<a mil nf limbo or if lip isn't, that's his lookout, as they have ^ done all they can. Scpp ).se a Case.?Suppose some cold '1( morning you should go iuto a neighbor's 'll house and find him busy at work ou his ^ windows, scratching away, and should u tl ask him what he was up to, and he should reply: "Wiiy, I am trying to ^ remove the frost; but as fast as I get it 1U off oue square it comes on another," a would you not say, " Why, man, let 11 your windows alone, and kindle your m fire, and the frost will soon come off." Q< And have you not seen people who try ro to break off their bad habits, one after another, without avail ? Well, they are like the man who tried to scratch the frost from his windows. L?t the fire of love of God and men, kindled at the tt altar ot prayer, burn in their hearts, and tli bad habif& will soon melt away,?School- ^ day Visitor, pj The Pain of Death. The pain of dying mast be distinisheil fr.im flip nain r?f the orevious jease for wYu'eh life ebbs, and sensibilr declines. As d^ath is the final exiction of corporeal feelings, so numbss increases as death comes on. The ostration of disease, like healthful tigue. engenders a growing stupor?a nsationof subsiding softly into acovetrepose. The transition resembles lat might be seen in these lofty mounins, whose sides exhibiting every cliile in regular gradation, vegetation xuriates at their base, and dwindles in e near approach to the regions o\ ow till its feeblest manifestation is reessed by the cold. The so called ony can never be more formidable thar aen the brain is the last to go, and e mind preserves to the end a rational gnizance of the state of the body. Yet persons thus situated commonlj test that there are few things in life 3s painful than the close* " If I hac rength enough to hold a pen," said illiam Hunter, "I would write hon sy and delightful it is to die." "I! is be dying," said the niece of Newton Olnev, "it is a pleasant thing to die the very expression," adds her uncle which another friend of mine made ;e of on her death.bed a few years o." The same words have often beer tered under similar circumstances, lich are only varied by the name of the eaker. " If this be dying," said Lad} lorency, "it is the easiest thing im inable." " I thought that dying hac :en more difficult," said Louis XVI I did not suppose it was so sweet to e," said Francis Saurez, the SpanisL eologian. An agreeable surprise wa< e prevailing sentiment with them all ley expected the stream to terminal the dash of the torrent, and the\ und it was losing itself in the gentlesi rrents. The whole of the facultie.1 em sometimes concentrated on tin acid enjoy merit. The day Authoi urphy died he kept repeating from >pe : Taught half by reason, half by mere decay, > welcome death, and calmly pass away." or does the calm, partake of the sensi rones-? of sickness. There was a swel the sea the day Colliugwood breuthet s last upon the element whiek hat ien the scene of his glory. Captair lomas expressed a fear that lie was div rbed by the tossing of the ship. "Ni lomas," lie replied, " I am now in i ite wliere nothing in this world cat sturb me more. I am dying; and an re it must be consolatory to you, ant I who iove me, to see how comfortablj am coming to my end."?Book of Days A Dispute With a Doctor.?Mani her anecdotes could be told o e eccentric and talented Peter Cart iglit the venerable Methodist clergyan who lately died, and there is on< tt i . 1 _ .1:. o good to let pa-s. ne once uau a uis ite with a doctor relative to religion le doctor sai 1 he wanted honest and (equivocal answers to a few questions, Did von e\*fer hear religion ?" " No.' Did you ever smell religion ?" "No.' Did you ever taste religion ?" " No,' Did you ever feel religion?'5 'Yes.' N >w then," said the doctor, with ap irent triumph, "Ihive proved beyond loubt, by four respectable witnesses, at religion is not seen, heard, smelie I tasted, and but one solitary witness, cling, has testified that it is an experi ental fact. The weight of evidence it erwhelming. and you must give up.' irtwright asked, *' Did you ever see ? lin ?" ' No." "Didyou ever hear ? nn ?" "No." "Did you ever smell i lin ?" " No." " Did you ever taste ? iin?*' "No." "Did you ever feel ? iin?" "Certainly, I did, sir." Tin >ctor and his family were converted. Cheap Food.?Three pounds of flour i id to contain as much nutriment as nim tunds of roast beef. A pint of whit ans, weighing one pound contains a uch as three pounds and a half of roas ef. A pound of cornmeal goes as far a pound of Hour. If corn and wheat wer ound, and the whole product, bran am I, were made into bread,fifteen per cent nutriment would be saved, and mucl eater heal hfulness secured. Of all ar des that car. be eaten, the cheapest ar ead, butter, molasses, beans, and riee,e cheapness being rated by the amoun nutriment contaiued, compared witl e cost. A Knowing Shekp.?In a slaughte rnse in one of o.ir cities, a pet sheej ls been trained so that on the arriva a fresh flock this sheep goes ou eekly to meet the new comers, ani en, taking the lead, makes directly foi e slaughter pen the poor dupes follow g. The decoy sheep then slips out bi secret door, and repeats the operatior t arrival of the next victims. She savei uch labor of driving to her owner and u- own mutton, but she destroys all th< mance of the lamb character. A country merchant went to Chicagi few days ago to purchase a bill o >ods. The last that was heard of hin 5 was in his room, surrounded by seven en drummers, who bad crawled throng! e transom, while an energetic reporte as below stairs pumping the clerk fo le age of the unfortunate man, andtbi robable circumstances of his family. Following the Fashion. How attentively, and with what pru ent eagerness, the fair sex adorn the selves alter the fashion of the day. T greater tbe absurdity of dress, the im gigantic the innovation, and the grea conspicuousness involved, the more ferve the desire to adopt it. One and all foil i with a rapidity as incredible as amazii Should tbe adoption of the dress hav i ludicrous effect, verily the more precise observance. Compare the dress of a yot lady nowadays with that of one twei years ago. What a remarkable chan< l Bonnets as now worn are simply strips f ribbon, bristling with variegated flow and artificial ornaments, devoid of i I If it were not lor the abundant profus i of hair with which the fair ladies [ favored, we are disposed to think t their liability to take cold would be c sidcrably increased, as the article ui r which they bestow the title of bonnet } most inadequate covering for the he I Of rnnrse we are aware there are whe I within wheels. In like manuner tlier r hair beneath hair?or some other mate t to represent it?though it is not at , necessary the former should have bi ' planted, nourished and perfected upon , same cranium as the latter. The rul i the reverse. Perhaps the internal sub > tute obviates the necessity of conform i with usage and wearing a covering to head, as for hats, they are not madt J wear upon the head but upon the hi ' Size is immaterial. In some instan they are affixed upon the hair in a nea I perpendicular position. Perhaps we in error. It may be the shape of the lac 1 head which involves the unnatural posit i in which the ornament is placed. ' ' absurdities exhibited by ladies in tl style of dress is apparently illimital i nothing is too outrageous to appear i r it be authorized by fashion.? Timl f Magazine. 5 A Hungarian "Wife Market.?In a extreme eastern part of Hungary, thei a little mountain province inhabited clusively by herdsmen. Shut out by ture fiom the rest of the world, the pec retain the customs aud traditions of c turies ago. Among other pictures customs of this strange race, is a lair, wt i is totally unlike anything of the kind i Europe. Every year, on St. Peter's L 1 may be seen on the plains of Kalinasa, 1 1 trains of carts, accompanied by troupe peasants, arrayed in their best at > laden with lurniture, and hou;e keef 1 utensils. They are followed by drove 1 cattle and sheep, decked out with ribbi 1 and little bells. The young girls, ei 1 cially, are dressed in their newest i 7 gayest. The carts, having arrived on plain, form a line, with the herds belo ing to them. From the opposite side the grounds come, arrayed in their ha some goat-skins, the young men; t pass along the line of carts, and quesi the fathers with regard to the numbei ducats and cattle. The dowries are played and compared, and the cattle sheep are carefullv examined. During I this time, the young girls sit motion spectators of this inspection, upon wf | their future lives depend. There are n , riage brokers on the ground, who e? , themselves, for a consideration, to ef , negotiation-, which however, are not frequently interrupted, by the discov that a pair of oxen have seen their f days, that a cow is intractable or that iiouse-keep'ng utensils are incompl When a bar in is struck, the priest, ^ ' walks about gravely, is called. He cha a hymn, gives the young couple the nup , benediction, and the ceremony is 01 The bribe embraces her parents and r cives, mounts her cart, and the hush i drives her away with the rest of the 1 I stock, to a village she has perhaps no seeu. i An Experiment with a Rifli Alexander Hammil, of Silver City, } formed a most ingenious experim with a United States breech loud rifle with which he had previoi e been practising by firing at a target. e appears that he in some manner got I s sets of cartridges into the gun, and < ^ covering this to be the situation, he 9 not care to fire oft' the double char e Having duly studied over the matter, * took the gun to a blacksmith's sh ' screwed the barrel fast in a vice, 2 i, then opening the breech, he picked all the powder till he came to the lo e ball. Then he h< ated an iron rod hot and with it commenced to melt 1 ball out. By frequently heating 1 rod he succeeded admirably till melted a hole clear through the ball i r touched the powder of the cartri , beyond, when there was a sharp and 1 expected explosion. It shot both wf t one ball going out at the muzzle i 1 the other at the rear. The ball wh came out at the rear took but a sr . piece out of Aleck's cheek, and Dr. I . bv lino everv confidence that the pouli i in which Mr. Aleck's head is now bo; s np will draw out the ounce or two I powder blown into his face. 3 Canoe Rob Rot.?The owner of canoe "Rob Roy,"' in which be mat ^ cruise through Holland a few years age [ a communication to the London F i states her dimensions to be as follu * | Fourteen feet long, turce feet beam. * , eighteen inches in depth, with a th *" inch keel. Her weight was one hunc r and thirty pounds, and she could be | e polled with a single paddle three milei hour. Manufactures of the United States. n* The tabulation of the statistics of manm_ ufactures of the United S^afcs for the rear hc ending June 1, 1870, as retained at the )re ninth census, has just been completed at t<?r the Census Office. The number of estabint lisbments is 252,148; number of steam ow engines, 40,191, with a horse-power of 1,ift 215,711; number of water-wheels, 51,017 p a with a horse-power of 1,130,416. The its average number of hands employed during mS the year was 2,053,988, of whom 1,615,itv 594 were males above sixteen years of age, 5e 5 323 763 females above fifteen; and 114,626 1 ?i children and growth. The amount of ers capital invested was $2,118,257,059, of ise. wages "paid $575,621,598. The value of ion materials consumed was ?2,488,291,952, of are products ?4,232 625,892. Of this produchat tion $13,040,644 is returned from Alabama, on- $185,410 from Arizona, $4,629,234 from eon Arkansas, ?63,594.556 from California, $2,is a 852 820 from Colorado, ?161,065,747 from ad. Connecticut, $178,570 from Dakoto, $16,?elb 791,382 from Delaware, ?9,292,173 from e is the District of Columbia, $4 685,403 from rial Florida, $931,196,115 from Georgia, ?1,all 047,625 from Idaho, $205,620,672 from een Illinois, $108,617,278 from Indiana, ?46, the 534,322 from Towa, 811,775,823 from Kane is sas, S54,G25,809 from Kentucky, ?24,161,sti 605 from Louisiana, 879,497,521 from ing Maine, 76,593,013 from Maryland, ?553, the 912,508 from Massachusetts, 118,394,670 } to from Michigan, 23,110,700 from Minnesota a.ir. 8.154,758 from Mississippi, 200,213,421 ices from Missouri, 2,494,511 lroin Montana irly 5,738,511 from Nebraska, 15 870,539 frorr are Nevada, 71,038,249 from New Hampshire Iv's 169,237,722 from New Jersey 1,489,86? ;ion from New Mexico, 785,194,651 from New The York, 1,921,327 from North Carolina leir 2G9,713,G13 lrom Ohio, 6,877,354 frorr ble. Oregon, 712,187,941 from Pennsylvania n if 111.481,354 from Rhode Island, 985,89? ey's from South Carolina, 34,362,626 from' Ten ne*see, 11,517,302 from Texas, 2,343,OH from Utah, 32,134,606 from Vermont, 38, .P 364,322 from Virginia, 2,851,052 frorr Washington Territory, 24,118,051 froir ^ West Virginia, 77,214,326 from Wisconsin k 765,424 from Wyoming. en- * que A New Sense.?When passing along i lich street I can distinguish shops from privati in houses, and even point out the doors arit ay, windows, &c., and, this whether the door ong be shut or open. When a window con s of sists of oue entire sheet of glass, it is mor tire difficult to discover than one composed o >in" a number of small panes. From this i s of would appear that a glass is a bad conduc jns, tor of sensation, or at any rate of the sensa spe- tion specially connected with this sense and When objects bel ow the face are perceived the the sensation seems to come in an obiiqu ng line from the object to the upper part o i of the face. While walking with a friend ii ind- Forest Lane, Stratford, I said, pointing t< hey a ferce which separated the road from tion field, ' Those rails are not quite as hig' of as my shoulder." lie looked at then dis- and said they were higher. We, however and j measured, and found them about thre< nil i inches lower than mv shoulder. At tb less j time of making this observation I wa neb about four feet from the rails. Certain!; iar- in this instance facial perception was mor cert accurate than sight. When the lowci feet part of a fence is brickwork, and the up un- per part r<?.ils, the fact can be detected ery and the line where the two meet easil) )cst perceived. Irregularities in height an< the projections, and indentations in walls, cai ete. also be discovered. A similar sense be vho longs to some part of the animal creation nts and especially to bats, which have beei tial known te fly about a room without strik srer ing against anything alter the cruel c.\ cla- periinent has been made of extr 'tiuj and their eyqh.?Levy's Blindness and th? Blind ive ver Goon for this Date Only.?Tin Railway ticket agents are bothering theii ' brains over the question whether passen >C1* gers may "lay over" aud resume theii i/?tirnpv nt nleasure. or whether, wher .Iv -- i - - / 11J? they have once quitted the car?, they hav< ls^ forfeited tlieir tickets for the remaindei of their journey. The courts have alread] 'wo decided that a man who buys a ticket, a: ^s* it were between Boston and New York has the undoubted right to stop at anj '8e* place on the road and to resume his jour "e ney at his leisure, without buying anothei ?P> ticket. The legend, "Good for this dab m<^ only," has no value in the eyes of anj out save railway officials, and the law has de "(>r cided that any action taken by conductor re(^ with a view to enforcing the implied con tract is illegal. There the matter shouk *'u> lie allowed to rest. The public are satis ^1(> tied so to leave it, and the railway com in(^ panics ought not to complain. If a mat age buy a ticket for Boston, and the company nu~ receive the money for it, there is no rea son why they should refuse to carry hiu in<^ thither, or why they should wish to fort l'c him to do it to suit their convenient na^ instead or his own. vir- ' tice r*- tta. _ T If ind I Indians.? ine jri-uie inuiaiis are i of practical people. One of their medicim men said that when he died, if the ludian! would cut him to pieces the pieces wouli the unite again immediately, and he woulc le a ascend into the heavens in a cloud o >, in smoke. This was too* much for Indiai itId curiosity to stand, and a bystauder dis ws; patched the doctor with a blow of hi.1 and knife. The body was then cut to pieces |*eeJ but, much to the disgust of all present,th< pro remains of the poor wretch refused t< i an move, and were left on the ground as foo< for the wolves, A Rom&ntio Case. Something has just happened in Mail that recalls several well-known poen and romances, and with them a story ; real life that transpired a generation ag Gov. Perham, by and with the advice his Executive Council, has pardoned man named Thorn, who has been t inmate of the State Prison atThomash for twenty-nine years. The wardens the prison have repeatedly pleaded f Thorn to Gov. Perman and his pred cessors. They represented that t] man's behavior was most exemplary that the circumstances nnder which ] committed the crime for which he w condemned were exceptional and tryin and that he had given long and since evidence of repentance. Only, howevi after an imprisonment exceeding by fi years his whole previous life, after 1 prison doors being flung open I Thorn walked forth a free man. Thirty years ago Thorn was a jov young sailor. Roaming about the coa< of Maine, he met and fell desperately love with a young girl named L< Alexander. This was at a village call Harpswell, and here the two becai betrothed. Thorn is and Lois agre that he should make one long voyaj * t _i i i and on bis return tnat iney snouia man . He sailed, and time rolled on until t ; period fixed for bis return was long pa The girl was either persuaded of ] > death or otherwise beguiled ; at a , rate, when Thomas came back, which i did a year late*, he found his affianc , the wife of an elderly, well-to-do juj } named Wilson. By one of those fati r ties which so often occur in life, The , became a resident under Wilson's ro i A close intimacy sprang up once m< , between Lois and Thomas?and rep i said that it was criminal. On the mo ing of Sunday, February 5,3843, Wih ) was found dead in his bed. His sk was broken, and investigation sho\* i that the deed had been committed w i a pair of tongs. Attendant circu , stances connected Thorn with the m der, and appointed to Lois Wilson accessary. Both were tried ; and he found guilty and she acquited. H< 1 Wur P. Fessenden and Francis G. ' Smith being assigned by government his defence, made a hard fight to s: Thorn, but in vain ; and the end have recorded. He was first condemi to death, but the punishment was cc muted to imprisonment to life ; i now, at the age of fifty-four, he received a pardon. When first put in jail Thorn co ' neither read or write ; and he is n ' said to be a tolerably well educated m ^ Some of his letters to the Goverr reciting his early career,the bitter pr< 1 ocavation he had received,and praying ' be released, are said to be exceedin a well written. To pass a generation 1 confinement, to be thus immured dur 1 those years commonly reckoned the I 1 of a man's life, is certainly a terri - 1 -1 4U.-. puui.sumenc ; unu, uuun iuo tuti stances, few will say that Thorn's c was not a fitting oue for the exercise ^ Executive clemency. , r Heroic Obedience to Duty.?Mj . can still recollect when tidings came the silent heroism with which more tl r five hundred soldiers, in the wreck j the Birkenhead, met death in the sp of obedience to duty ; and that, t when there was noue of the excitemi of buttle and of victory to cheer th on. The soldiers stood in their rai on the deck of the sinking ship wL the women and children were quie put into one f the boats. " Every c did as he was directed," says Capt; Wright, one of the few who escaped tell the tale ; " and there was no murmur or a cry among them till I vessel made her final plunge. All I officers received their orders, and 1: them carried out, as if the men w< embarking instead of going to the b torn. There was only this differen | that I never saw any embarkation c< ; ducted with so little noise and confusi< 5 When the vessel was just going dov > the commander"? not of the soldie ' but of the ship ?" called out, * All tin ' who can swim jump overboard, a r make for the boats.' The officer begg J the men not to do as the commant ' said, as the boat with the women mi " be swamped. Not more thin thi s made the attempt. And so they sa " among the waves, carrying the habits 1 duty, which they had learnt as soldie ' into that last act of self-sacrifice."?? Ed tear d Strarhfy in Good Words. ViPiiRS.?The Indian Doily Nt cites the following statement of 1 Short of Madras : "Allow me to recc a most interesting occurrence that to ] place in my house. A Rusel's viper tl I have had for seven weeks, being t same that I exhibited at the recent 1 tures at the medical college on the 24 x of June last, aud following days, me i nring three and a half feet in leng" 3 lino t-irnrlnrni/1 f hirt v-n infi vouner. En 3 fcJttO |yivw?vv? v?. v j 0 1 little one measures eight and a h 1 inches in length, and one out of thi f about six hours old, in an experime i killed a young partridge weighing ni - and a half tolah in ten seconds. T s proves how very prolific these dea< , snakes are, and when the young are j 3 together they will exceed the motl j nearly eight times in length. I am g i t add the mamma and babies are doi ! nicely." Brevities. ie It is proposed to tax dogsln 'Selma, as Ala., to pay the city debt. .< *< . _ in A cow lias been poisoned^ by eatifig 0 peach leaves in Alexandria. 0f In the district of Ruhr, Belgium, not one illiterate miner can be fonnd. a The rindeipest has appeared among 111 the cattle in Lincolnshire, .England. 50 A man*is not like a chicken : the old?* ?* he gets, the tenderer he becomes* A|1 or the young ladies please note ! .e- Bears are causing a great deal of troupe ble among the Wisconsin farmers. They r . are getting numerous and bold. 1 ' Coal is higher now in London than it lL has been before for forty years. In *3 1851 the price was about one half what g; it is now, f. f^a ie A St. Louis rat recently made 9 corner ? fortable bed out of one thousand five. hundred dollars government six '"per . cent bonds. 11S ' A T.nnilnn nronfloman Mr TllOmaS ias Holme, has bequeathed to the British society for the prevention of cruelty to ia] animals fifty-five thousand dollars. . A Nevada paper tells of a herd of stock j cattle, numbering 4.600, which passed . through a town out there bound to Cali318 fornia, having been driven from Texas. et* If you desire to measure an exact acre, ne within a square, you must form a square ed of 209 feet on each side. An acre conye,f tains 4,840 square yards, and a square mile contains 640 sqnare acres. lie Since the occupation of Metz by the German troops the emigration from that s;' place has been so heavy and continuous his that the population is now said to be ny but one-third of what it was before the lie war,e(l Papa?"I'm sorry to bear, my dear boy, you have failed again ifl.obtainln? ing a prize this quarter. You must be ili very wooden-headed." Dear Boy?"Yes, >rn pa, I'm afraid I'm a chip of the old of. block." )re The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided that certificates of naturali0 zation issued by the United States or State courts are not such certificates as ion require stamps under the Internal Revu]j enue laws, and are therefore exempt fiom the stamp tax. ... When John Adams was ninety years of age lie was asked how he kept the vigor of his faculties up to that age. He reur plied: " By constantly v mploy ing them. a? The wind of an old man is like an old horse ; if you would get any work out of it you must work it all the time.*' 3D. * ~ In the United States District Court at Boston, Horace S. Russell retracted the for plea of not guilty and pleaded guilty to ave abstracting letters from the Charleston we Post-office. He was sentenced ,to two """ imrvricnnmunl i n lull ftfc KorlhllllD led Jcai? ? ... r ton. Tbe amount embezzled in tliia case >m- was only 812. The national debts of the principal has nations of the earth, we believe, now rank about as follows: The United , 1 Slates, S2.453,559.0(10 ; England, 83,758( 420,0(10 ; Fiance, S2,613,600,000; Russia, 10W 81.230,600.000; Austria, 81,210.000,000; an. Italy, 81,094,040;000 ; Spain, $793,760l0r 000; Prussia, 8325,560,000; Canada, 3V.' 872,600,000 ; Switzerland, 8774,400. r A man walks per hour, 3 iriiles ; a 1 horse trots, per hour, 7 miles ; i'fclorse 8y runs, per hour, 20 miles ; a stpamboat i in runs, per hour, 18 miles; a vessel sails, ing per hour, 10 miles ; rivers run, slow, )es? per hour, 4 miles; rivers run, rapid. per hour, 7 miles ; an ordinary wind l)*e blows, per hour, 7 miles ; a storm moves, im- per hour, 86 miles ; a hurricane moves, ase Per hour, 80 miles ; a rifle-ball moves, j. per hour, 1.000 miles; sound moves, per hour, 743 miles; light flies, per hour, 192,000 miles; electricity moves, Uy per hour, 288,000 miles. of ? x ... iau Frsn.? Mr. Livingstone, a Government . Commissioner, is engaged in California in int taking and packing Salmon spawn for the ?0, purpose of stocking rivers in the Atlantic 3nt States. lie is now on the McCloud River cm at a point of about 25 miles above its J^s confluence with Pitt River, in Shasta county. He takes from 50,000 to 100,000 ^-V salmon spawn a day. The salmon are me very abundant at this point and in all the rj m larger affluents of the Sacramento Pdver. t The salmon are easily caoght and j "stripped," and some are returned to the river, a few being retained for food. The the . * j eggs are placed in boxes or vats, the wood of which has tiist been charred so that the water may not be tainted by the boards. The eggs are kept in these vats ' tor several days, with clear water running over them, during which time such as are worthless are separated and thrown away and the remainder are carefully packed in lavers of wet moss, boxed and otherwise dsc ^ j made ready for shipment. ;ed lor The Baldwin Apple.?Not more tlian tst one in ten of those who enjoy the supe*ee rior flavor of tiie Baldwin apple, knows uk from whence it originated. For the enof lightenment of the ignorant nine, we rs, will inform them that this peculiar Sir species of fruit came from a seedling planted by Josiah Pearce, Esq.A of the ,trs town of Baldwin, Me. From this stock )r innumerable grafts have extended the )nj fruit far and wide; but from a welll0j. known law of extension, the Baldwin . apple is rarely found in perfection when r jje far removed from the place where it ec_ originated. In Maine, the color, texture, A aroma, and solidity of the apple leave ^1 as> nothing to desire, being in truth so delicious, that it migb, have been akin tp IC^ tlie one said to have bronght difficulty upon our mother Eve. In other Jocalie8e ties, where the soil, climate, or culture n? may have proved unfriendly, what is jne called the Baldwin apple may often be found a total failure, being puf?y, insipid, jjy and subject to early decay. )Ut ? ier Francis Vinton, D. D., Assistant i^j Rector of Trinity parish, and officiating minister at Trinity Church N. Y., di?.a ^ at his residence on Brooklyn Heights, after a lingering illness.