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XV INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER, DEVOTED TO POLTTICS, LITERATURE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. OUR MOTTO IS-TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR.
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YOL. III. NO. 2. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1872. I
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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.