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1 AscUIVLTURAL.
JERUSALEM A RTICHOKE,
* ( Hleamethu Tubievoaus.)
W Iao=ivira Juaicious farmers that
=tera very,b tistimate upon this mei
a 'We observei that M.
of France. by actual. analy
s, hbe ve~at the conclusion, that am
Eoestqunnce oF' its powers of extracting
- We uinbanaregen fromn the air, the Jur
usdiem aieboie is entitled to all Ihe at
Notion that it is now commanding in i' a
best chivated parts of France. U e.
therefke, extracthe rollowing directions
for'itCIsVaion frotn that exiellqut pa
per~the**Nashville rientunst':
" he tact, that many inquiries
hatebeks -made of late in relation to this
-Ory vernrble and sf plant. I am
disposed to spak a few ibigs of its col
toresaid sesThe Jerusalem artichoke
is a naieetth6warmer partns of America.
and eoirse was iunkcowm in Europe till
*Arth erino in this country by
C s wdle coadjutors. Sios that
time~sts-eeneubuiiated to considerable
euten on the continent as well as in Geat
Buitaim, but the reports of its profits have
eetidsmy varied, in that, as well as
thin Iuunry . the old world some have
evttivamedmit to aford shade to the game;
otheto have converted the stocks and
eavesint fodder Orw cattle, and others
again, have encooreed its growth for the
sabrs-siue. Ia this country there are
two iprt objects to be kept in mind
as -ah g artlehokes; let. The improve
meat of land; dly. The use of the tu
bers. However, the frst matter is the
cabivation, and I-egia with
". Bei-Almost any kind of land will
p -see atiebobes, and it is remarkable,
ta they'wi grow in the shade, that is.
.ndefrresterin fence corners very well
indeed. Lad however, with a tolera
ly good sandy mould will give the most
abodas- crop. Low, wet soils, and
very venacions clay are not so suitable.
*'2. ieparetins of Lamd.-The ground
should Lbe bqrken as for corn, that is to
say, .ue good, deep ploughing, and
a thorough harrowing will answer the
purp M admirably.
' &. Laying O.-Rows laid of four
feeteas way wit a bul's otgue or shov
el plo~gh, in Os"soils, will be the proper
--4. ---m of &ed.-From tour to
five busbelswill be required to the sere,
ad unless the long roots axe broken to
pieces of threesor four joints, or eyes each.
this guandity will not be enough.
"5. Memwe of Plamtig.-Drop one
rees at eachemie ofth. plough and cover
fromn Se ist'wo or three inches with a
barrow, hioe, or plougb.
4". CaIrtion.-Bo soon as the young
plasts appear,. run round them, with a
alivassr, barrow or light plough to -des
ny the -yeasg weeds, and loosen rho
mrk Keep the ground free of weeds
- ad open to the Infloenes .of the atmos
plbits, difl*h plants are about three feet
MAbwen they should he haid by, by :liea
use(o esidiater ; or in the absence of a
c*afse and when the land has been
plge.tie harrow should pass both
w.to leave the ground loose and the
i levebiSL Generally, about the same
cg~tiatti~~ento corn well answer well
'~TIjjI~S~- Shthe most trou
bhiseb I.the uhd Cmn of utais
cogndIf the bo s'depn'asce,
jplabr-will be very tedious. The bet
ispm.1as lay oft'a land as for break
I Ilsgrouind, somuotp as the frost has
he~thupdeleaves of the stocks. Tue
pl~ghshW~t-from six to eine inches
doep ts~ibdhband,, big and little, pass
di sihWthephs b, to pik upthat
next"Qnow.
"3, Tfeld.--'Te predsc ? the acre
Is vaddisely esdmatedfri( fiwe hutndred
temitbousiad bushels, awets piebsabli
t8b$deroet on' orddium latd-*oid 6b:
t&9%fs4 Ethin&I and otherijerts
a 't. brs~ave been eeesi.
dkcoman~and withog
kis. ~3ttheir feelinpoance, in this
mseis theirse iai iifeeding bogs.
VreentiWddle of Octolier ro the-mldd le
w..f~ev w r t...g may. e. tur..ed ...
the artichokes, and with salt always in
troghs to whieh they can have access,
they *1 grow and thrive till next spring,
particularly, ifrbe ground is not too hard
fr rooting. I have not expedsmoted to
ascertain the quantity ofigs to the acre
ofrood artichoes ; hut from the observa
ton of two seasons..i am of the opinion
twenty head will do well an an acre- for
months. As some have complained their
hogs would not root after them, it may be
necessary, as hogs. like men, know not
much before learning, that they be taught
#o root afer them. This is done, by
safling-the hogs aer a plough that will
throw out the roots, till the grunters tearn
ibeir habitation, which will require but a
very abort time.
"10. Impoaneent of Land.-As the
stocks grow from ten to 6fteen fest in
height, and have thick, porous foliage,
much of tihe food of the plant is received
from the atmosphere, and thereby The
soil is not so heavily taxed as by other
crops. the ground is protected from the
killng rays of the sun and the stocks and
leaves fall and rot very soion.-These ad
vantages, with the manure from fogs, af
ord'tho theapest, and amongst the richest
coats In my knowledge.-44 ts my convic
tion, (in the absence of long experience)
that artichokes in summer, and hogs in
winter, will enrich our poor lands cheaper
and much beter tan upon aoy other pla.
To be sure. a farrer cannot have all his
land in artichokes. but every one shoul
have enough to support his bogs through
the winter, and I venture th-wo who give
this crop a fair trial, will relerantly abu
don it.
*11. General 'Remarks.-A few fair
mers of my acquaintance have informed
me, that they have succeeded % ith corn
and ar'chokes together, and it is highly
probable this will prove a successful mode
arculaiting these two crops; but on the
system bf -one thing at a time,' we wouki
prefer each crop separately. Some have
8tpposed the second year's growth on the
same ground would be more valuable
than the first; but this is a mdstake The
plants grow so thick the second year, that
not more than half a crop can be antici
pated. it might answer, to plough out
rows and cultivate the second year; but
the practice of putting artichoke landS in
soniekbing elhe the second year, is the plan
I much prefer.
"Amongst the arguments which might
be used in favor of this crop, it should not
be forgotten, that there Is no labor of dig
ging. but for seed. that more troublesome
weeds and grasses are completely swo.
theed out ; and last, but not least, the
young plants the second year are more
easily subdued than almost any weeds
known. 'rake artichokes all in all, I
think tiem worthy the attention of every
farmer who wishes to enrich his lands, or
raise his pork with a small o*tlay of
grain. T. F."
NISCELLANEOUS.
Wise Cowasels.-The following well
written and excellent items of advice,
are by Mr. Horace Greely, editor of the
New York Tribune. He is addressing
the young :
Avoid the common error of esteeming
a college education necessary to useful.
ness or eminence in life. Such an educa
tion may be desirable and beneficial-to
many it is doubtless so. But Greek and
Latin are not real knowledge ; they are
only means of acquiring such knowledge ;
there have been great and wise and sur
passing useful men in all ages, who know
no language but their mother tengue.
Besides, in our day, the treasures of an
cient and cotemporary foreign literature
are brouaht home to every main's dor by
translations, which embody the substance,
if they do not exhibit all they enable you
to enjoy the advantages of a college eil
ucatin. do not neglect them-above all
do not misimprove them. But if your lot
he difeuent, vaste n time in idle repin
ing, in humiliating be-gary. The stern.
self-respecting indeperi ence of your soul
is worth the whole shelves ofclnssies. All
men cannon and tieed not, be college bred
-ot even those who are born to in
struct and improve their mind. You can
never be justly deemed ignorant, or your
acquirement contemptible, iryou embrace
and fully iniprove thbe opporsunities which
are fairly efered yon.
Avoid likewIse the kindred, and equally
pernicious error that yao must have a
profession-must be a Clergyman, Law
yer, Doctor or something of the sort-in
order to be influential, useful, respected
or. to state the case in its best aspect,
that yo masy lead an intellectual life.
Nothing of the kind is necessary-very
far from it.- If your tendencies are Intel
destual-if you love Knowledge. Wisdom,
Virtue,-for themselves-you will grow in
thema, whether 7ou live by a profession, a
trader by tillkng the ground. Nay, in
may bedoubsed thatnibe farmer or me
chanie, who follows his intellectual par.
suite from a pure love of them, has not
somne advantages therein over a profession-.
al man. Hkencmes to his book in the
evening with hisi bead clear, snd his men.
sal appetite sharpened bdy the manual la
bor, taxing lightly the sidrt, or' brain ;
while the lawyer, who ,ifs- been running
over dry old hooks fer precedents, the doe.
Isr whib has been rackingbhis wits: for a
remedy adapted to some sew tiaodl~eation
disror -the diviane, 'iniamred in bis
elei, libe. been busy preparin h ,is next
sermeb, may well approacbh tU ening
vehimedwlth- senses jaed '3i1'd pelted.
There are fe'r menan perhaps ifew wo
men:: rno do not snand eltesly In seepn
or play or involous employments, more
time than wound'b regured to render
them, at thirty well vered in History.
Philosophy, Ezhe's, as well as Phisical
Sciences.
TU' fead ad the Keart.-'Plset my
lady, buy a'nmegay, or bestow a trifle,'
was tbe address of a pale, emacited tonk
ing woman, holding a lew withered low
ers in'her hand, to a lady who sat on the
beach at Brighton, -watching the blue
waves of the receding tide. --I have no
half-peace; say good woman,' said the
lady. looking up from the novel she vus
peraing with a listless gzae ; if I had I
wodi4 give them to you. *1 am a poor
widow with three helpless children do
pending -on me; would you bestow a
small rid. to help us oa our way?' I
have told you I have no half-pence reite
rated she somewhat pettishly, 'eally.'
she added, as -the poor applicant turned
meekly away, 'this is worse than the
streets of Landon ; they seould have a
police on the shore to prevent such anoy
ance,' were the thoughtless dictates of the
bead.
-Mamma said a little bluo-eyed boy
who was lying at the lady's feet, flinng
pebbles into the sea. I wish yo ad a
penny, for the woupan does look hungry,
ad you kuow we are going to have a
nice dinner, and you have promised me a
nice treat ?
The heart of the lady answered the
appeal of. her child,;. nnd a blush of oshamne
criumoning her cheek at, the. tacit reproof
-his artdess words conveyed. she opened
her reticule, placed a half crown in his
tiny hands and in another moment the
boy was bounding along the sands (in his
errand of mercy. In a (ew secnads he
returned, his eyes sparkling with delight.
and his couutoaance glowing with health
and beauty.
-0 mamma,-the poor woman was so
thankful; she wanted to tors [ack, hut I
would not let ber; and said, God bless
the nble lady, and you too my pretty
lamb, my children will now have broad
for these two days, and weshall go on oar
wa reocig.'
' eyes ofthe Jody glistened as she
heard the recital of her ehild, and her
heart toki her that its dictates bestowed a
pleasure that the cold reasoning of the
bead could never bestow.-Mrs. Cars
twou's Baron WilsOe.
. Rerage.-Revenge is as incompatable
with happiness as it is hostile to religion.
Lot him whose heart is black-with malice,
and studious of revenge, walk through
the felds while clad with verdure and
adorned with dowers.-to his eye there is
no beauty, the flowers to him exhale no
fragrance. Dark as his soul, nature is
robed in deepest sable. The smile of
beauty lights not up his besom with joy
but the furies of hell rage in his breast.
and render him as miserable as lie would
wish the object of his hate. But let him
lay his hand on his heart, and aay, "Re
venge, I cast thee from me-Father for
give them I forgive my enemies,"-aud
nature assumes a new and delightful gar
niture. Then. indeed, are the meads ver
dant and the lowers fragrant-then is the
music of the groves delightal to his ear,
and the smile of virtuous beauty lovely too
the soul.
A Nobe Litle Fellow.-Ahout a font
night since, as two lads. one aged thirteen
the. other eleven, sons of Mr. E-lward
Gusuifroy, of West Point, were skatug
upon the Hudson, the eldest, in passing
over a piece w here the ice was thin, broke
shrough and sunk. lia rose to 'tbe surface
and struggled with the ice, which broke
with him for two or three rods. As soon
as the younger lad, wlto bad glided a dis
tance down the river, saw the condition
his brother was in. he hastened to his res
cue, and withi much presetace of ti he,
called out. "DonJ't be afraid, Bob, I'll get
you out." ile skated as near na it wans
prudent to don-then setppinag of'his Eule
overcot, and taking it '.y the end of the
sleeve, he lay dnwn upuon the ico and
swung it out to hi. brother, who caught
holofit and was drawn safely out. Young
as the lad is, he saved two boys from a
watery grave ; one about a yeaesace.
Such acts of coolness and brotherly kind
ness should not go nnoticed. If any son
of one of " nature's noblemen" icerita a
place in the WVest Point Academy, this
same little Joseph Godfrey is entitled to
it.-N. Y. Aurora.
Marriage-The man is like the bee
that lies his hive, augments the world,
benefits the republic, and by a daily dili
gence withboua wronging any, beneoits all;
but he who contetans wedlock (for the
most part) is like a wasp wandering-an
oflfee to the worll. lives upon soil and
rapine, disturbs peace, steas sweets that
are not his own, and by robbing the hives
of others, meets misery as his due reward.
--Feuk~ae.
Sir W'dliam Jones, after a deliberate
ad-long investigation, decides that the
Aflfghaas are Jews descended from - the
ten tmibes, .and records a prediction
among them, and in hias time currens in
the Eust, that they are destined to re-es
tals joiJewish empire under their ex
peeted Messsiah at Jerusalem.
EIke-tsse.-Agentleman writing-a po
lhicamiletter to arietid, saysthe Balmore
Patriot, madpe flloiwing unintentional
pun :-i."Wise was rejected three times.
amnsbi.og like-,is.."
frn i~e N. Y. Esening POar.
The a2godo- ':ard sewnty fcct
Long.--Ma. En roa.-it will' noddlibi
be a matter ofiurprise to your readers to
learn that there have existed in yoor city
for'nearly a year. the fossilized brlies of
on extinct gigantic reptile. belonging as
geologists say, to a period of the earths his
tory. when it was unit for creatures of a
biaher organizatinO.
. These fosilremains werefound in the
tertiary fornation of Alabama. on the
plantation of Judge Creogh, in Claork coun
iy. by Mr. S. B. Iluckley. a native of this
State. who eeas then eugaged on a botai
Cal xceursion'. They were brouht ) tothis
city Iast April. and yesterday the writer
saw them in the garrekof a six story build
iWA at this foot of Pine-street. S me ien
of the appaiting magnitude of this animal
may be t(ormed from hiie faci. that its fos
sail remains fil foutween large boxes. It is
seventy feet in length ! So fortunate was
Mr. Buckley it discovering itie entire ani
mal, tha there is not a single vertebra
wanting from the head in the caudal cX
remitv. As all these houcs pre:erved
their nntiaral relative pasition. each of
them was niubered by Mr. IBek'ny as it
was itlken ouit of the grounl. Some of
the hirge veriebrie weigh perbapseach one
bandred inmds, diminishing do u to tihe
extremity fi ihe tail. the last one of them
being not larger than a man's 6!,t. On
the vertebra aunit some of ihe niher bones.
there exists in a 1wrtect state, the peit 4
Lanm, or covering of the bonaes, their isv -
stance bring wore or less rossilized into
warbenate ot lime. All the teeth covered
with their enathel, are still perfect. The
bead and jaws are six or eight feet long,
anl tbe.ribe haven' lenof st soie C r,-er.
Dr. Harlaau.of Philadelphia. took to
London, several years ago, a few of the
pones of a similar animal obtained frum
tbe same place. lie named it the B-isilo.
rauras, from its afflniy to thu Lizard
tribes: but in London it was pronounced
by Mr. Owen,from a microscophic exaiii
Inaion of the teeth, to lie an animal be
tween..he Cetacea (Whalesi and Sau
riaus (Lisards; and honee ho designated
it, (rota this circumstance, the Z3godon.
It is supposed to have bad large bruona and
mat paddles, adagving it to move in a
watery elemeit.
Mr. Buckldy is now engzaed in drawing
sp a prease descriptin -of thl, extitnct
monster. suited for publication in a scien
lific journal.
Compared with these reptiles, whose
bones.are often entombed in the solid sira
ia of tdib globe, (this one however, having
lain within six ester the surface.) the de.
scripions of the fahled monsters of anti
guity, which in our childbood have so often
been a subject of delight. lose all their
character of wild exaggeration- Quieily
reposing in their dark cemetaries, and un
conscious of the new ereatious-which have
since saccessively finuished over them.
we here tind the most wonderful organic
remains. One uites the wing #of an
enormous bat with tho skeletatm of a gi
antic Lizard; another, sonsewhat resem
bling a Sloth, but of the size of the Ele
pant, has enormous arms and claws for
sspeiding itsell to trees equally gigantic.
Again here are Crocodiles without feet,
hat furnished with fins, as well as qluadru
ped1 hearing wings on their toes.
Hence, in turveying the physical revo
latinns by which our nountains have been
upheaveol, thus unfolding page after page
of this great book. containing the won.
drous records of the changes which our
globe has undergone, duria a series of
perimis of long hnt unknown duration, be
fore it wait inhabited by man, who is con
paat~wely liut a ereature of yesterday the
geologist justly infers that therp exista an
inseparablea relation between thease suces
sie groups of animal and vegetabtle re
mins, each unilke all the others, and the
corresponding periods of the earth's con
diion. It follows, indeed, as a neccessarv
law, that successive changes of organic
life must have been attended with coinci
dnt changes of physical conditions.
Speaking upott the subject of modern
enlogy, ian a lute number of ile L-meknan
Quarterly Review, the writer happily re
marks :
--When we ponder over the great ce-ents
which they proclaim, the mighty revolu
tions which they indicate, the wrecks of
successive creations awbich they display,
and the inamerable eycles of their chmro
nology, the era of am shrinks ioto cian
trated dimensions, his proudest andl most
ancient dynasties wear the aspect of up
start and ephemeral group; the fabrics of
human power, the georgeous temple. the
monmental bronze, the regal pyramid,
sink into insigniceance beside the mighty
sarophagi of the brutes that perish.*
e The form, indeed, the key to the
hieroglyphics of the ancient world, they
enable us to reckon up its almost count
less periods; to replace its upheaved and
dislocated utrata; to replant ats foreuss to
reconstruct the products of- its charnel
ouse ; to repmople its jungles with their
gigantic denizena; to restore the condors
o its atmosphere, and give back to its
oceans its mihmy leviathans. And such
is the force with which these revivals are
presented ioeurjmdgmnent, that we alamost
see the mammoth, the megaiheria, and
the mastodon stalking over the plains or
passing ihro' the thuickeots; 'the giantostrich
leaing.i9 fot-wriuin yrt the sands; the
voraciotiehthyoqato. swallowing the
very meal which its fossil riba enclose; the
mnstrosplesiosaurus paddling through
the ocean,and guiding its lizard trunk and
rearing itsiaa meck as if in derision of
human swisdoro; and the pserodactyle,ahat
.nyeterions conpnnnd~ of id andl b.rue
and bats, asserting its triple claim to the
occupancy of earth, ocean, and the atmos
phere.,
A Beurreotype Imag malt by ight
aing.-Frum the Westover Manoscripes,
a work written by Col. William Bayd,e
Virginia, more than a hundred years ago,
and now fint published at Peerbmg. Va.
the following bingular account is extrac
ted :-"This rain was enlivened with very
loud thunder, which was echoed back by
the hills in the neighborhood, in a fright
futl maner. There io something in the
woods that makes the sound of this rmtent
more awful, aid the violence ta the light
Min more visible. The trees are frequent
ly shivered quime down to -the ruost, sud
sonetiues perfectly twisted. Hitt of all
the ef'ects the lightning that- ever I heard
of. tihe most amazing happened in this
country, ins the year J736. ha ghe sum mter
of that year, a surgeon ofa ship. whose
name was Davis. came ashore at York. to
vizit a pnient. lie had no sooner got inio
tml heiuse. than ii began to rain. nith many
teriblo caps of thunder. When it w.
aJmost dark there came a dreadrad dash of
lightning. which struck the surgeon ientd
ats he was waking aboat the room. but
hurt no othcr p-rson, thio"gh severn were
near him. At Lihe same i ime, it made a
large huhl in ail trunk aif a pine oree.whi'h
grew about test Ieet from the wind!ow. Bait
wrhat was motm surprisin:t in this disa-tor
was. that on the breast of The unfortunate
man-1h1At was killed, Was the tigure of a.
pine tree, as exactly de-lineated1 as any
limaer ia the nurld could draw it-nay.
the rosemblance wentsu ar as in repie
s-.it Ot color ni'the pite. as well as the
figur.-. The liOaining mnss prohnisly have
passed through the tree firt. biefre it
struck the man; und by dhnt tmanms have
prited tie icun el it on his breast. But
whatever nny have been the cause. the
e'ect was certain, and can be ntested by
a crowd of nine ies who had the euriosi
ly t go and sec this wunderful pheunme
ou."
Edacae #he Perodc.-Look ahrnad over
this country : mark her extent; her fertil
ity; her b aoundless resources; the giant
ruersics haich every day develops, and
which seems already bending an that fatal
race-tempmting. yet always fatal to repub
licas.-hc race for physicil greatness and
aggrandiznut. . Behold, ton, that coo
riuuus anal mtighly tide or population.
native and forei; which is forever rnsh
ing through this great Valley towards the
selling sun : sweeping away the wilderuess
before it. like grass before the mower:
wakening up industry and civilization in
its progress t studding the soplitary rivers of
ime West with marts anal cities; douing its
boundless parairies tvil human halbita
ius ; penetrating every green nook unad
vale; climbing every fertile ridge, and still
gaetheting auli pouring onward to form
new States in thmse vast amd yet unpeo
pled souiande4, where the Oregon rolls his
majestic flood and "hears no sound save
his own datihing." Mark all this; and
then say-by what bonds will you hold
togther so mignty apeople, and so im
meuse an empire ?What safe-guard will
you give us against the dangers which
must itaeviibly grow out or so .ast and
complicated an oipuiratiou I In the
swllaing tido or our properity. what a field
is open fbr political corruption! What a
world of evil passions to control and jar.
ring interests to reconcile ! Wha: temp
tations will there be to luxury and extrav
agance ! What motiyes to private and
ultictal cupielity ! What prize will hang
glitering at a thousand coals to daule
atad tempt ambition ! Do we expect to
fimi our -.ecurity a;;ainst these dangers, in
railroad aund canals ; in our circumvalla
tions and ships or wari Alas, when shall
we learn wirdom frotm the lessons of liis
tnry ! Omir most dangerous enemies will
grow up from Omur nWU bosom. We may
erect bulwarks atgainst foreign invasinn
kit what power shall we find in walls and
rieis to protect the people against
thcmsolves ?-There is bus one sort of in
termnal improvement." more thtomaghly in
ternal than tshalt which is cried up by
politicians, that is able to save this coun
try-I mean time improvement of thed
pminds and souls of her pgsple.
Gunanad Gunpewoder.-The power ac
cumulated withmin a small spae of gun
powmder, is weoll known.; yes saurn of its
effects under peculiar circumstances are
so singular, that an attempt to explain
them may perhaaps be excused. If a gun
is loaded with a ball, it will pot kick so
much as when loaded with emall shot ;
and amongst diferens kinds of shot, shat
which is smallest causes thegreatest recoil
against she shoulder. A gun loaded with
a quantity of sand, equal in weight to a
charge of snipe-shut, kicks still more. .(
in loading, a space is left between the
wadding and the cbarge, the gun eiter
recoils violenly, or bursts. If the mussle
of a gun has been aceidentally stopped up
with clay, or even with snow, or if is be
fired with its muzle plunged .into the
water ste monst certain result .is thaesit
bursts. The ultimate cause of these ep-.
parenmly inconsistent effects is, that every
force requires time to produce its effect ;
and if the time requsite for the elastic ve
per within to force out the sidee of the
barrel,,is less than that in which , het g
deusation of the air nearer the waddingis
con eed in vuffigiant force to drie the
imp' intent from sthe muszle, thea Mie
barrel must burst. It uomeipseausppe
that the barrel o'aly swells, ,the, obstgelj
giving way before the guma .s actually
bhnrst.
Mgtiny ot Boxrdt, hhesw.We :
oc"asou on four last to0a4 ce -1
I;shcd recently 1,y Mess.
Cu.. of New York, called a a p
American Scenery. From'ti.anks
selected the foi-owing a-1dWsw4iqb
derives special-Istees f. o .ia4'r(
the Soomers *-U. S. G (e e.
*-While the Eiwas lyags hPt
quesas Ibland, reiriisqif- cred iit
one of the long @nd ardsous eCnItimi
Pacific, Comumodwe Portr riiiasr
thWough a scrva't of one
Chat a mutiny had beeani
wag the inteation of thep n#d ca.
opou the oflicer,.-take - pehmssia of
ship-and, after having remained adjog
as they found agreeable at d i'
boist the black flag-e d.
own accouta." flav1g sag
f the truth of the informatin.,
dote Porter ascended to the ,qa I
and ordered all the crew toki4@4m
11t. Waiting till the last ma had Cmo
frue below, Ie itiformed them labu
drr.tood that a wutiny wash o
thut fie had summanonecd them for h.ie '
1100e of inquiring into *'s tath.
mlen who are in tavor fstaning
sbip and ber officers," said ab&
dine, --wii go over to the
-th.se who are against thelp 16
whera there are." The crew,
suoved over to the starbloardi,41 h
ship was still as the grave. 'PJ n
cyes o theta steadily and
rew "o-e d
ben White-step out." The ati
ei, stauding pale and agita A
stamped on e% ry lineament.of his
uSUce-in fouL tf his om11
commodore looked at him a te pgge
then sesa.ug a cuilass from .tha mU1t
rock, said in a suppieuet voc, baM
iones so d-ep they ruang l aklin. npolk
Lie eas of the gaifty among the crew-,
'Villaio !-yuu are theuingleer oi"
inuiny -jump overboard 1' -'The. mat
Jrupptd on his knecs, isoplor NAMat elg
-saying that he could not swim. "Thea
Irown, you scoundrel !" said the to
lore. springing towards him to cut hini
Jowu-"overboard iastanly!"-and
nau jumped over the side of the.s
theu turned ts the reamblip crew, ' ' "'
;ressed hm with much fe I ears
standing upon nis. brozed
sioke. Ie aisked them what.
[bat his s4ip shuldhe'
tny. lie asked whether- olsa sur
Monored the fla -wheter e
treated thea with'eihera kideis
whether tfpy had ever i64 wat I. fo
any thing to thircowfet, h gaf
ad the rules of the serVite wei i
iad which it was in his po'we'rog A,
Ihe close of his address, as said-- - S.
bCforc I caume on deck, I laid a traini th be
magazine!-and I would have bloi ll
on board to eternity before mby shh'euld
have been disgraced by a successfal,muti
uy-1 never would have survivedl;. dis
bunor 4f my ship '-go to yor Ig.'.'
The men were much afec e' be com.
modore's addresa, and Eait ds ?4 re
turned to their duty. ehowiug .ev~ uin
of contrition. They were a %ctew,
but had been seduced by.the alurements
of the islanda, and the plausible -top. n
tations of a villain. That they di their
duty to their ag. it is onaly necessary to
say that the same crew fought the ship
aoferwards against the ship Phebe. ind
Cherub, in the harbor of Valparaiso,
where though the Aneriean -I.g desce
ded-it decended in a blaze of gla which
will long abine on the pages of btery.
But inoik the sequel of this mntny
and let ihose who in the calm security ol
their fire sides. are an ieverftsi on the
course ot' conduct piwrsed by sears in
such critical siiuatio~ns,suee how much. itn
nocent blood would have been saved, if
White had bieen cut down instanily, or
hung at ahe yard-ara. As he went over
l-nard, he succeeded in reachIng acagos
floating at a little distance a rie
ashore. Some few months. alterwards,
-when Lieutenant Gamble dfithe farines
was at the islands, in cherge of 6eeofie
largest prices. short huied e an idisre,
thissutne White, at the head o~aja.of
natives, attacked the ship, i~S of
the officers and a number ofiquo~p
it weas with great difficly thja
prevented frum falliIR idto ' ds.
rThe blood of those iu' uetrnrp he
hives of Iwo meritoracs ohIcr*e
have been spared, if the wretch a a
put to instant death-as was toa
mnander's intmntion.
.Railroad AccdufOst~yat,
io consequence of este odkie lmg
a switch, the darg nthe ardatWs
weM."One man had hi i ~e.
betofe the 'knee, and the beoackP pp
and down. The backc of irlaar
ry much hart; one ~foot cut o, .aidah.
toes of the other foot. Several o othyWere
injured.--CAara..Mercsry. F
6re occursed iat.g
14th tit., whIeb d~o~a tii6
hSaratogae ii
the b~lird room, bow
log gallery, ofMr
lose to the compapyw
hinkthai~~g
woniloetirugh