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SATURDAY MORNING, IHECEMBER 21, 1867.
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?Highr,?
a FABODY OK lOROrELLOW's "excels toi?.."
J ,?ii ; tiffiiii,. -..fr r.rl'!
Tb? shades of night were n-comi'n down swift,
And the dasilin' saew lay drift on drift; W
When through a Tillage n youth did go .
A-c*rryin' a flag with this motto,
??Higher."
Of er forehead high curled copious hair,
Hia nose a Roman, complexion fair;
O'er an eagle eye au auburn lash,
And ho never stopped sbeutin' through his mus
tache,
"Higher."
He saw through the windows as ho was getting up
per,
A number of families sittin' at supper;
Ho eyed the slippery rocks very keen,
And fled while he cried, and cried while a-fleeln',
?Higher.?
"Take care, you there !" said an old woi.,nn "stop!
It's blow Id* gales up there on top;
You'll tumble off on t'other side!" '
Dut the hurrying stranger loud replied,
"Higher,"
'Oh ! don't you go up such n shocking night!
Gome sleep on my lap !" said a maiden bright,
O'er Iub Roman nose a tear-drop come,
But still he remarked, as he upward dumb,
"Higher."
"book out for the branch of that sycamore tree, '
Dodge roll in' stones if any you see;"
Sjiy in' whioh, the farmer went borne to bed,
And the singular voice replied overhead.
"Higker."
About quarter past six the next afternoon,
A man accidentally goin' up soon,
Heard spoken above him as often as thrice,
The very same werds, iu a very weak voice,
"Higher."
And not far, I believe, fron? quarter of Heven?
He was slow get tin' up, the road belli* uneven?
Found tho stranger dead in the drifted suow,
Still clutch in' the flag with the motto,
, , "Higher." ^
Yes, Hfcless, defunct, without any doubt,
The lamp of Inn bein' decidedly out.
On the dreary hillside the youth was a-layln',
And there was no more use for him to be uayin',
"Higher."
SELECTED STORY.
Extraordinary Nerve.
While the French Marshall, Murat, was in
Madrid he wna anxious to communicate with
Junot in Portugal, but all the roads to Lisbon'
swarmed with guerrillas, and with the troops
composing Castano's army. Murat mentioned
hia embarrassment to Huron 8trongonoff, the
Russian Ambassador to Spain.
Russia, it is well known, was at the time not
only the ally but the friend of France. M. de
Strongonoff told Murat that it was the easiest
thing in the world. "The Russian Admiral,
Sinaivin," said he, "is in the 1 port of Lisbon;
give me the most intelligent of your Polish
lancers ; I will dress him up in a Russian uni
form, and entrust him with dispatches for tho
I, Admiral. All will go well even if he should
be taken prisoner a dozen times between this
and Lisbon, for the insurgent army is so anx
ious to obtain our neutrality that it will be
careful not to furnish a pretext for rupture."
Murat was delighted with this ingenious
scheme. He asked Krakinski, the command
ant of the lancers, to find him a brave and in
telligent young man. Two days afterwards the
commandant brought Murat a young man of
his corps, for whom he pledged his life; his
name was Lcckinski, and ho wasjbut eighteen
years old.
Murat was moved at seeing so young a man
court so imminent a danger, for if he were de
tected his doom was sealed. Murat could not
help remarking to tho Polo the risk he was
about to run. The youth smiled. "Let your
imperial highness give me my instructions." ho
answered respectfully, "I will give you a good
aocount of tho mission I have been honored
with. It thank his highness for having ohoson
me from1 among my comrades, for all of thorn
would have courted this distinction."
Tho prince augured favorably from the
young man's modest resolution. The Russian
Ambassador gnvo him his dispatches ? he put
on a Russian uniform and sot out for Portu
.
gal.
The first two days passed over quietly ; but
on the afternoon of the third. Lcckinski was
surrounded by a body of Spaniards, who dis
armed him and dragged him before their com
manding officer. Luckily for tho gallant youth
it was C as tan oh himself.
Lcckinski was aware that he was lost if he
was discovered to bo a Frenchman, consequent
ly ho determined on the instant, not to let a
single word of French escape him, and to
speak the Russian and German, whioh he spoke
with equal fluency. Tho crios of rage of his
captors announced the fate that awaited him,
and the horrible murder of Gon. Rene, who
had perished under most dreadful tortures but
a fow weeks bofore, as he was going to join
Juuut, was sufficient to freeze the very blood.
suWho are you f" said Castanos in French
which language ho understood perfectly well
having been educated in Franco.
! Lcckinski looked at the qucstiouer, made a
sign,.and answered in German, "I do ho* un
dersUnd you.
, Castanos spoke German, but he did not wish'
to appear personally in the matter, and sum
moned one of the* officers of the staff, who
went on with the examination. The young
Pole answered in Russian and Germau, but
never let a single syllable of French, escape
him. Ho might, however, easily havo forgot
ten himself, surrounded as ho was by a crowd
eager for his blood, and who waited with sav
age impatience to havo him deolarcd guilty?
that is, a Frenchman?to fall upon and murder
him.
But their fury was raised to a height whioh
the General himself could not control by an
incident which seemed to cut off the unhappy
prisoner from every hope of escape. Ono of
the Caslanos' aides-de-camps, one of the fanati
cal patriots who were so numerous in this war,
and who from the first had denounced Leckin
ski as a French spy, burst iuto the room, drag
ing with him a man wearing the brown jacket,
tall hat, and rod plume of a Spanish peasant.
The officer confronted him with the Pole,
and said:
"Look at this man, then say if it is true that
ho is German or a Russian. He is a spy, I
swear by my soul."
The peasant meanwhile was eyeing the pri
soner closely. Presently his dark eyes lighted
up with tho fire of hatred.
"Es Frances! he is a Frenchman," ex
claimed he clapping hands. And he stated
that, having been in Madrid a few weeks be
fore, he hud been put into requisition to carry
forage to tho French barracks, "and," said he,
"I recollect that this man took my load of
forago, and gave uie a receipt. I was near him
an hour, aud recollect uini. When we caught
him, I told iny comrade he was the French
officer I delivered my forage to."
This was correct. Castanos probably dis*"
cerned the true state of the case, but he was a
generous foe. He concluded to let him pur-r
suo his journey, for Lcckinski still insisted that
he was a Russian, aud he could not be niado to
understand a word of French. Rut the mo
ment he ventured a hint of the kind, a thou
sand threatening voices wore raised against
him, aud he saw that clemency was impossible.
"But," said he, "will you thou risk a quarrel
with Russia, whose neutrality we arc asking so
anxiously for ?"
"No," said the officers; "but let's try this
man."
Lockinski understood all, for ho was ac
quainted with Spanish. Ho was rouioved and
thrown iuto a room worthy to have been one of
tho dungeons of tho Inquisition in its best days.
When the Spaniards took him prisoner he
had eaten nothing since tho previous evening,
and when his dungeon door was closed on him
he had fasted for eighteen hours. No wonder
then, that with exhaustion, fatigue, anxiety
and the agony uf his dreadful situation^ that
the unhappy prisoner foil almost, senseless on
the hard eoueh. Night soon closed in and loft
him to realise in his gloom the full horror of
his situation. He was brave, of oourse ; but
to die at eighteen?'tis sudden. But youth
and fatigue finally yielded at the approach of
sleep, and he wob soou buried in profound
slumber.
He had Blept perhaps two hours, when the
door of his duugeon opened slowly, aud sotuo
one entered with cautious step, hiding with his
hand the light of a lamp ; the visitor bent over
the prisoner's couch, the hand that shaded the
lamp touched him on the shoulder, aud a sweet
and Bilvery voice?a woman's voice?asked
him:
"Do you want to cat?"
The young Pole, awakened suddenly by the
glnro of the lamp, by the touch and words of
the female, rose up en his couch, aud with his
eyes half opened, said in German, "What do
want ?"
"Givothe man something at once," said Cas
tanos, when he heard the result of the first ox
perimont, "and let him go. lie is uot a
Frenchman. How could ho have been so far
master of himself? Tho thing is impossible."
But though Lcckinski was supplied with
food he was detained as a prisoner. Tho next
morning he was taken to a spot where he could
sec tho mutilated corpso of tho Frenchman,
who had boon cruolly massacred by the peasan
try of Truxillo, and he was threatened with
tho sarao death. Rut tho uoble youth had
promised not to fail, and not a word, not an ac
cent, uot a gesture or look betrayed him.
Lcckinski, whon taken back to tho prison,
hailed it with a sort of joy ; for twelve hours
ho had nothing but gibbets, and death in its
most horrid forms, before his eyes, exhibited to
him by men with tho look, and passions of do
mon8. lie slept, howevor, after the harrassing
excitement of the day, and roundly, too; when,
I in the midBt of his dcop and deathlike slumber,
the door opened gently, some one drew near his
couch, and the same volco whispered ia his
ear: :
"Arise and come with me. Wo wish to save
your life, come." tie answered still in Ger
man, "Whai do yon want ?"
i Castanoi, when he heard of tbia experit?ont
i and Us results, said that the ijwil was? ao
I * young msn 5 lie saw t&e trao"state of the
case. .. . .
The next morning early, four men came to
take him before a courfc-martial, composed of
officers of Castanoa' staff. During the; r?alk
thoy uttered the most horrible threats, against
him; but, true to his determination, lie pre
tended not to anderstand thorn.
When he oame before his judges ho seemed
to gather what was going on from the arrange
ments of the tribunal, and not from what he
heard said around him. and he asked in Ger
man where his interpreter was. Ho was sent
I for, and the examination commenced.
It. turned at first upon the motive of his
journey f.-om Madrid to Lisbon. He answered
by showing his dispatches to Admiral Sinirivin
and his passport.5- Spite of the presence and
vehement'assertions of the peasants, he persist
ed in the tsamp story, and did not contradict
himself1 once.
"Ask him," said the presiding officer at last,
"if he loves the Spaniards, as he is not a
Frenchman:"
The interpreter pnt the question.
"Certainly," snid Lebkinski, "I like the
Spanish nation, I esteem it for its noble char
acter ; I wish our two nations were friends."
"Colonpl," said the intrcprotor, "the, prisoner
says ho hates us because we make our war liko
banditti; that he despises us, and his only re
gret is that he cannot unite tbo whole nation as
one man to end this odious war at a single
blow."' ?
WhiloJit was sayiug this, the /eyes of the
whole trSajBal wore attentively watching the
sliyhtcsfeB?venieut of tho prisouor'a couuten
anco, inJBjr to see what effect tho interpre
ter's " trdHjcry would have upon him. l?ut
Leekins^Had'expected to be put to tho tost
in somcH^iy,-and So u'ia determined to bu?lc
all thcirVltcmpts. *
"Ccutleincu," said Castanos, "It seems to nie
that thiayoung man cannot be suspected; the
peasantliust be deceived. The prisoner may
pursue lps journey, aud when he reflects on the
hazard of our position, he will find the severity
we have been obliged to use excusable."
Leckinski's arms and dispatches were re
turned j he received a free pass, and thus this
nob Jo youth came victorious out of the severest
trial the human spirit can be put to.
VARIOUS.
A Wonderful Story.
The following wonderful story is snid to have
been taken from the log book of a vessel which
arrived in New York !
In tbo course of the voyage, that dreadful
disease the ship fever broke out among the
crow. One of the sailors, among the first vic
tims, was accompanied by his son a lad of four
teen years who was strongly attached to Iiis
father, and remained with him day nod night,
and never could be persuaded to leave him for |
a moment.
A large shark was seen every day following
the vessel evidently for the purpose of devour
ing any ono who should die and be committed
to tho deep.
After lingering a few days, the sailor died.
As was custom at sea he was sewed up in a
blanket, und for the purpose of sinking him, an
old grindstone and a carpenter''. r?xo were put
in with him. The very impressive service of
the Episcopal Church was then red and tho
body committed to the deep.
The poor boy, who had watched the pro
ceedings closely, plunged in after his father,
when tho enormous shark swallowed thorn
both. Tho second day after this dreadful
scene as the shark continued to follow the ves
sel (for there were others sick in the ship),
one of the sailors proposed as thoy had a shark
hook on board, to make an effort to take him.
They fastened tho hook to a long ropa aud
baiting it with a piece of pork, throw it into
the sea, aud the shark instantly swallowed it.
Having thus hooked him, by means uf a wind
las they hoisted him on board. After ho was
dead they prepared to open him, when ono of
the sailors, stooping down for that purpose,
suddenly paused, and after listening a few mo
ments, declarod most solemnly ho hoard a low
guturnl sound, which appcarod to proceed from
the shark. Tho sailors, after onjoyiuga hearty
In ugh at his expense, proceeded to listen lor
themselves, whon they heard n similar sound.
Thoy then proceeded to open the shark whon
tho mystery was explained.
It appears that the sailor was not dead,' but
in a trance; and his son, on making this dis
covery when inside tho shark,| had by means
of a knife, ripped open the blanket. Having
thus liberated bis father, they both went to
Work and righted up the old grindstone?the
boy was turning, the father was holding on to
the old ship carpenter's aze, sharpening it for
the purpose of cutting their way out of their
Jonah, like prison, which occasioned the noise
heard by the. sailor. Ah it was the hottest
season of the year, and yery littlo sir .stirring
whero they wore at work, thoy were both
sweating tremendously.
Time at Hfa Work.
I saw a temple, reared by the hands of man,
standing with high pinnacle in the distant
plain. The streams beat about it?tho God of
nature hurled his thunderbolts against it, yet
it Btood as firm as adamant. Revelry was in
the halls ; the gay, the happy, the young, the
beautiful were there. I returned?and lo!?
the temple was no more. Its high walls lay in
scattered ruin ; and at the midnight hour the
owl's long cry added to tho deep solitude. The
ybuug and gay who had reveled there had
passed away.
I saw a child rejoicing in his youth, the idol
of his mothor, and the pride of his father. I
returned and that child had become old.
Trembling with the weight of years, he stood
the last uf his generation, a stranger amidst
the desolation around him. . ?>
I saw an old oak standing in all its pride
upon the mountain ; the birds wero caroling in
its boughs. I returned, and tho oak was lcsf
less and sapless, and the winds wore playing at
their pastimes through its branches.
"Who is the destroyer," said I to my guar
dian angel.
"It is Time," said he. When tho morning
stars song for joy over the new made world he
commenced his course; and when he has de
stroyed all that is beautiful on earth; plucked
the Bun from his sphere; veiled tho moon in
blood; yea, when he shall havo rolled the
heaven arid earth away as a scroll, then shall
an angel from th? throne Of God come forth,
and with one foot upon the sea and one upon
the laud, lift up his hand*towards heaven, and
swear by Heaven's Eternal, Time is, Time was,
but Tune nholl be nO'lonROr.t*
'Every Day Philosophy.
Hans Patrick G. Conner, formerly known
by the nom tie plume of "Beau Hacket," con
tributed tho following to the St. Louis Uome
Journal:
Never insure your life for the benefit of
your wife for a greater sum than ten thousand
dollars. A widow with more money than that
is a dangerous legacy to leave posterity.
The "game of life" is very like a game of
cards. Time deals, death cuts, and everybody
is waiting for the last trump.
I think men drink in crowds because they
are afraid to drink by themselves. It requires
a good deal of courage to stand up alone and
pour a glass of whiskey down your throat.
There arc sonic inconsistencies in this world
that I don't exactly understand. Everybody
is anxious to go to heaven, but nobody is in a
hurry about it.
If a man is without enemies I wouldn't give
ten cents for all his friends. The man who
can please .everybody hasn't got sense enough
to displease anybody.
Whon an acquaintance says, "How are
you ?" and rushes by you without pausing for
a reply, I wouldn't if I was in your place, fol
low him more than a mile to tell him I was
well.
A convenient way of testing the affect ion of
your intended is to marry another woman. If
she don't love you, you will find it out imme
diately.
Do unto other men as they would like to do
unto you, and they won't have enough money
in two weeks to hire a shirt washed.
Tho song "Dear Mother, I've Come Homo
to Die," always struck me as a happy illustra
tion of American assurance Our young go
abroad to spend the hard earnings of tho old
folks, and whon thoy are dead-broke return
home to be buried at the expense of their im
poverished parents. ""??asw
Horrible Barbarities by an African
Kino.?The latest news from Abyssinia dc
vclopcs King Theodore in a still moro blood
thirsty aspect. He had mado an expedition to
the small Island of Met rata, in the Lake Tana,
and put cvory inhabitant to death by fire;
then he made a trip to Ifag, a flourishing town
in Fogfjara, seized 1,500 peasants, placed them
in five large houses and burned them alive. It
is said there is now not a single man, woman or
child, alive, betweeu Dobia Tabor and EmfraB,
on tho borders of Dombca. In tho camp, his
Majesty lms been pursuing tho samo game.
Having heard that 2,000 of his troops wished
to desert, he had them surrounded by tho oth
ers and their throats cut liko cattle ; tho moth
ers, wives, children and nearest relatives of the
men boing pistoled by tho soldiery. 2G5
chiefs of districts havo had their hands and
fect cut off and have been left to starve.
The majesty of the law was vindicated on,
Friday, 6th inst., by the execution of Nat Fra- (.
the murder of young licnm
sure, colored, for the murder of young
cut. His accomplices, five in number, go' to
the Penitentiary for stated periods, the' longest'!
tefeni of which for December Gadsden ia." five
years.?Picken* Courier.
A terrible tragedy has occurred in Austrian -
Tyrol. A farmer after effecting a heaVy eJn** >- ft
smrauco on his house and barns, set fire to the ; m
latter, bnt Was discovered in the set by ono of
hb shepherds. Ho therefore killed the shep
herd and murdered his wife and infant son,
finishing by cutting his own throaty , ,
The- New Orleans Picayune is (opposed, to ,.f
((procnring white labor." It says : "We want
white men here to go to work themselves and
not procure labor. Tho system of mercantile
farming which so long cursed the Sbuih,'and 'j
bred debt and idleness, must cease, or our de- '
eay will become ruin." ;ii;*l'.
Decapitated.?We learn that under or^Le
of General Howard, Gilbert Pillsbury, (white
and R. C. DeLarge, (colored,) of Charleston;
S. A. Swaiis, (white,) of Kifigstree; J. jn.,,r>
Wright, (colored,) of Beaufort, have heenMis^
charged from further service in the'Freedmen'p
Bureau on account of having been elected to :..
the Convention. .o" .
HUMOROUS.
"Owed to Lake Ontary.? ? >
? . V'cv ,>A "
Grxf.sb air thy waters, Lake Ontary, >
Green as bottle-glass!
Behold 'em. stretched thar J , ., ^
Fino muskfllonges and Oswego bass
Ts chiefly kctched thar. : < W.jw t v
Tlmr onct tho red man ?
Took his delite, . ^
Fisht, fit, and bled; ? \
Now most of the. inhabitants . ? '
Is whites, ? . ?? i u iiii y~ .
Wi*nary?d! ?./ ' ^??$S
i I ?j>g
j SION8 'ppk'HANDKEBCHlEF $XIBTATi6i<8. .
?Drawing across the lips?Desirous of getting :
Taking by the centre-~Yoti are too - wtlIF?|fr:"? _
Dropping?We will be friends. ;y
Twirling in both hands?Indifference. \ ..;*r
Drawing aoroes the cheek?I love yon,( ?(,, u i -t
Drawing through the hands?I bato you.
Letting it rest on the right cheek?Yes.. ,, ..jf
Letting it rest on the left check?No,, 'i?m
Twirling in the left hand?I wish to get rid
of you. ..;.? ,
Twirling in the right br.nd?I love another.^
Folding it?I wish to speak with you. ' y
Over the shoulders?Follow me.
Opposite corners in both hands?Wsif'?r
me. .. j : <
Drawing across the forehead?We are watch
ed.
Placing on right car?You have changed.
Placing on left Car?I have a message for
you.
Letting it remain on the eyes?Yon arc
cruel. ??".-..; ict
Winding round the forefinger?I am epi,
gaged
Winding round the third finger?I mn.mar
? 4 ?? ? ?? ??? /r.a e?avv
ned.
N. B.?Practice makes perfect.
Saved from Drowning.?A little man, in
the west of Maryland, rushed to the Potomac
river last summer, swearing that he would
drown himself. > When he had waded in to the
depth nf his waist, his wife, who had followed
him, seized him by tho hair of his head, and
then, as n spectator describes it, "she led htm'
back until he hod reached a place where the
water was about two feet deep, where she
pulled him over backwards, sousing his head
under, and then pulling his head up again,
'drown yourself, (down he went,) leaving me
to take caro of the children, (another plunge,)
get druuk I (another souse,) and start for the
river. (Another dip.) Bettor uso the water
instead of the rum. (Another dip and shake
of tho head.) I'll learn you to leavo me* a
widow !' " .After sousing him to her,, heart's}
coutcnt, she led him out a wetter if not a wiser
man, and escorting him to tho house, shut the
door.
A Joke on "Court."?A short time ago a
lawyer, who rejoices in a largo share of work
house patronago, came into the City Court
drunk. His Honor addressed him thus :
'?Sir, I nm sorry to sec yon in that situation;
It is a diFgrnce to yourself and tho profession
to which you belong."
"Did yom Honor speak to mo ?" I
'??Yes. sir. I said that in my opinion you
are n disgrace to yourself and your profession/'
"May it please your Honor, I have practiced
in this court ever sinco you have j>roic>?j)<>ri\e?
in that scat, and permit me to pay, your Honor,
this is tho first correct opinion ever I know
you to give." ; "r>f<mi
In less than an hour frbm that time ? Alnnxo
was picking rocksMthe corporation.nursery.