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5 ; Hi iiiii MiHim, TWO DOLLARS FEB ANNUM.J ' titj-2 pnics of i.ibj3iity is btxihisaii vioiijAiJoit." [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE BY DAVIS rt, CREWS. ABBEVILLE, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1859. VOL. XVI \r> 2ft HEALTH AND WHAT PROMOTES IT. ]>r. II. Frank Hamilton, in ail address on hygiene, to the graduates of tlie HulYalo Medical College, O/scusses tlio subject of health and the causes which promote or injure it. We make a few extracts : STOVES AND FURNACES. "Within a few years the air-tight stove lias been substituted for the iron dogs, and for the first time since men begun to live hi bouses we have no " fireplaces." The cbrir?e of tbc Lures lifts been removed, and bur houses have been literally pillaged? robbed of the domestic heaath, toward ivliicli so many associations have always Centered, for which the blood uf nations lias been poured, and which in nil iigcs has been regarded as the symbol of home 1vith all its social comforts. Not content with this these enemies to our race have still more lately taken away the stores which, destitute of the essence, fctill occupied the places, and still served io reminu us al least ul the ancient lireplaccs ; and instead, tliey liave built for us iron furnaces?./Etnas?under ground, so that now what of the oxygen we are not nble to consume and convert into carbonicacid, is vitiated by impure ^ 'aping froui its hidden chambers, by invisible particles of coal dust, and by other impurities which clog up the air cells, and close the avenues of life, or stick along the parched sauces as if reluctant to convey their poisons to the lungs. Stovea hare no doubt abridged the sum of human life, but by these subterranean iron furnaces wo are truncated?cut short in I \\a> m f?lt IL* 1 * on i \... * ... V..V . iuu*v. XV 10 an c iuj IU Lilill hot air furnaces can ever l>o so contructed or managed, at least in private houses, as not, in any way, to prove detrimental to health. We wish we cauKl persuade ourselves that tlkis is not so, for it is certainly very agreeable in a climate like ours to enjoy throughout all the looms and passages of the house warm and uniform temperature ; but it is just this even warmth which is one of the sources of mischief. The inmates are so little accustomed to the cold, and become so morbidly sensitive, that the)* shudder at the idea of going out, and if they ever do venture into the air, the iiusi. ciiiers imo uieir open pores, and tliey hasten back to their shelter, chilled, exhausted and discouraged. Tln-v are no better able to withstand the storms of winter tlian a plant reared in a hot-house. It was the venerable Ilede, I think, who said, u When Jneu lived in houses of willow they were of oak ; but when they lived in houses of oak they were of willow." HOUSEDACK KXKIICISK. My friend, a well-known and very dis tinguished doctor of divinity, believes that ] also ride n hobby, since 1 will prescribe no medicine for him but ahorse; and I frankly confess he has good reason for his belief. It is part of the speaker's creed thai all religious congregations should build a barn, und buy a horse, with a saddle and bridle ; all which should bepufticicntly endowed so as to cover every future necessary \ ? I . _ A. - - - - '* ? K*jicnbL-1 ituu ;n;ti as soon us uic norse is properly installed, and not before, tliev may proceed to install a pastor. This doc. trine, in \Vhieli we fully believe, has reference no less to llie interest of the church than than to the interest of clergymen. It will secure one original sermon on every Sabbath morning; it will obviate the necessity of assistant chaplains, and save the expense of a voyage to Europe once in live years. .The utility of horse-back exercise is not limited, however, to clergymen and their congregations. It is, in our humble opinion, the best exercise for both men and women, whether within or without the church ; combining, as it does, the largest amount of active and passive emotion, with agreeable excitement. The trout may refuse to nibble and the game to start, but upon the horse there is certain pleasure be yound all contingencies. Tlie rider is above everybody else, he goes faster than anybody else. He has for the time a kind of ideal and not actual being, and rides his horse as a poet rides his pogasus. At one moment he imagines himself a general at the head of an army ; at another an Emperor making a triumphal entry; now he is a knight, returning from conquest, and now, perhaps, he rushes to battle, or he is riding a firce race, and he springs in his saddle as if ten thousand bright dollars depended upon the result.? Not that he actually believes all tbii*, but only that he feels somewhat as if it were so, or might be so. Wlion lie presses the spur ??lo the tender flank, and his horse plunges and prances, he also plunges and prances like the horse, lie feels as if, in riding him, he is a part of the noble animal liim?elf, and that he is !_ J 1 ?1 -i -I - HI- ? niuueu \viiiiL me luessanaus were reputed to be, half a man and half a horse?a real Centaur. We cannot tell what a horse will do with that precision and minuteness with which an empiric recounts tho diseases which his hobby will infallibly cure, but we are certain that our hobby will teach a great variety of cases; and we believe that a horse?one horse a day?is good for aline fit every body, if properly administered. Some will require to be cautioned against riding too violently, wliile for the benefit of others you must add tlie directions usually giv^n in the olil polypbarinic prescriptions : " Well taken to bo well shaken." n RESCUE OF A BURIED MINER. Correspondence from Lancha Plana, Amador County,California, dated June 27, to the San Joaquin Republican, describes the following exciting scene : "One of tlioso excitements incident to a mining camp lias jtist tfatispircd. Soon after two o'clock this afternoon word was passed that a " cave had taken place in a i tunnel, and a man was shut in." The warm, sympathetic hearts of the miners were touched, and they gathered in crowds to aid in the possible rescue. Hut, was tlie man dead or alive? If not crushed 1. - 11* . I 1_ | iiu must soon sunocaie : oiguais wciu ' made by tapping upon the roclcs with a pick, and they were answered, 'llioti comj ineuced the work of rescue in good earnI est. ! First, lumber was procured to hold back i j the friiperincumbent earth, which was con- j 1 stant'iv dropping; then a long iron tube, j with an iron bit attached to one end, with : which to penetrate the fallen drift and convoy air to him. Some thirty feet of the tunnel was filled with loose sand and gravel and the tube was too short to reach. It is hozaidous work to labor in a falling drift. The earth overhead often continues to peel ofT, sometimes in large masses, until j an immense dome is arched off several feel ; in height. The miners also were appre- j hensive that if they commenced to move ; the fallen drift, they might be interrupted ! by further slides. To make sure, another set of hands ' commenced a side drift, to run at right angles through the solid earth. An exciting race begun, stimulated by the double ambition of beitig first in, and first to rescue a fellow mortal from impending death. Determined hearts gave vigor to strong arms, and the drifters worked with unparalleled energy. But one could use the pick Ht a time; and reeking with sweat and exhausted, lie fell back in turn, to give t.l.w.A i.-. i.:? r..11 a:.. i - iv ins itiiwu, oia ii'ci ]?er a.iy is me usual task, but here tliev performed that amount of work in ati hour. Signals were occasionally exchanged with the buried man. lie was still alive, and they worked on with rcnewd energy. After five mortal hours he was reached?alive, safe and sound! Word was passed to the crowd above, and the welkin rung with cheerful and exultant ahouts. " Dutch Ned" was a popular character, and the hearts which had been kept tense with alternate fears and hopes found vent, some in tears, and some in other extravagant demonstrations. VT I - .1 -m;u suucs tnai me cavc commenced some tliirtv feet from the spot whore lie was at work, and left him a space but six by twelve feet. There was water in the tunnel, awl some danger from drowning. Ilo threw up a broad bed of gravel, upon which he lav down. The vitality of the air became rapidly exhausted, and he was also in danger of suffocation?a stupor came over him and he fell asleep. The buried man was aroused by the signals befuic mentioned, and hope succeeded the despair which had settled upon him. Just then his candle, which had been burning dimly, went out. Jie was afraid, he said, it would consume the oxygin of the air, but as long as he lived lie wished for light. lie felt great relief when the tube had penetrated, and fresh air was introducod. Another fear came over him just as they were breaking through, for the earth commenced falling again, and he yet might bo buried for' Ovor U'IIAVI n~/?o ?w? caa*Me/\ ?? > ? I I v w.? < mvii ovuntcu au Iiciii i JJtll the drifters persevered, and both lines broke through almost simultaneously. 1 Io was | safe !" ^ Mrs. Partington On Ikes Conduct (it Church.?"What do you think will become | of you.!" said Mrs. Partington to Ike, as tliev were going home from church. The question related to the young gentleman's conduct in Church, where ho had tipped over the cricket, peeped orer the gallery, attracling the. attention of a boy in a pew below by dropping a bencil, tied with a siring upon his head, and had drawn a hideous picture of a dog upon the snow-whito cover of the best livmn book. "Where do you expect to go to ?" It was a question which the youngster had never before had put to him quite so closely, and he said I'o didn't know, put he'd like to go up in a balloon. "I'm afraid you'll go down ?f you don't mind your ways, rather than go up." "You have been acting very bad in' meeting,'' continued she, "and I declare I could hardly keep from boxing yuur ears right in the midst of the Lethergy. You didn't pay no interest' and I lost all the thread of liie ser mon through your tricks." "I didn't take your thread," said Ike, who thought she alluded to the string by which the pensil was lowered to the boy; M that was a fishing line." Oil, Isaac." continued she earnestly, "what do you want to act so like the probable son, for? Why dont you act like T"V ! J -1 IV -1 ? " juiiviu miu uuieronomy, inni we read about, and act in a reprensiblo manner?" TIio appeal was touching, nud Ike was silent,thinkof tiie sling that lfcivid killed Goliah wilh, and wondering if he conln't make one. Woman and Patriotism?The fellow who offered the following toast at the Ellington Fourth of July Celebration, ought to be hooped in:? "Woman?The lorer of union and tho friend of annexation. Like our country, her manifest destiny is to spread b er-skirts." THE RIGHT TRAINING OF WOMENThe church of England Jfeviww has nti article on Female Education, from which We take the following passage : " Much remains to be done in winnowing out of people's minds ridiculous ideas of a certain purely factitious style of living, without which it is impossible to lcet-p house. There arc plenty of young men who have yet to unlearn the foppery of expenses disproportion^ to their means, and the sordidness of luxuries which feed, not self-rcspect, but gluttony and pride.? i ne possibility must be secured to daughters aud younger sisters growing up to l?c rational, appreciative companions; girls who, if they ever married, will choose and value their husband for what he is, and i>e interested in his calling and his opportunities for observation ; women who will estimate the grave and sweet realities of wife and motherhood, beyond any accident . of precedence or supcrlhiily. 1 ?y dismiss- i ing false and foolish notions of respecta- < bility, by refusing the cheap fascinations i of a paltry education of display, by dis- | countenancing restraints misdirected or loo i rigorous, by cultivating an intelligent and < unassuming mode of intercourse, by a care- i ful foresight in assisting young people to < prepare themselves for the exertions ami i cost of one day being the centra of a < peaceful, hospitable home; in these and ! ether ways much may be done to remove I obstructions to tliiit gradual acquaintance, i and that unaffected respect and attachment i which lead on to happy ma t riage. " In the meantime, it may ho well to think with not only the sympathy, but the veneration they deserve, of many among those who will never marry ; to assist in multiplying the too few occupations suit- | able to women, or open to them ; above all not to preach by implication or otherwise that a woman's life need ever be dwarfed to a negalion or consumed miserably away i by causes absolutely out of her control.? There arc women strong enough to keep their womanly dignity and sweetness, and to organize around them the moral fie- I incuts of an independent existence. Thev I whose steps arc feeble need the more to be I helped, rather than hindred, in the slrug- i glo with their fainter and more yielding i self. If they fall here, is it at all ccrtsiin i that in wedded life their lot would have | been auspicious ? Alas! low many a t faltering will has bent and 'given' beneath i sanguine, unfulfilled resolutions, to reclaim ' and humanize the husband, who has pulled | the wife down instead to his own mean and wretched level; Marriage is not a lottery, but it is mere wilful blindness to for get that, in all its higer .aspects, it may be wofully inverted or appallingly debased.? I Not all the grand provision of tender ties and gracious instincts which surround one i of the greatest 1 ivi g ordinances, will make i people pure or 1 nippy who insist on being I peevish or frivolous, or worldly, sensual or I devilish. i " Wedded life is a great and holy mys- I tery, and a sou tee of power for good, often < far beyond estimating; but unless there he at least ono soul filled with unselfish love aim strong in an unflagging faith, the for- 1 innl union of two persons is no guarantee whatever for a will ennobled or affections enlarged and cleansed. And the faith which so works by love can make sunshine in a shady place, without an infant's or a 1 husband's eye to look into. The harmonies of a developed and transfigured womanhood have been set many a time to other music than that of wedding bells. She who is enthroned never, under any roof, in a mother's holy sovereignty, may earn the light iu many a house of compelling every soul to iove her. She will create or find an atmosphere in which to keep unwithered and in full pulsation, ' the heart out of which are tho issue of life. Her hands will redeem the time, and her brain not be idle. Living singly, yet not solitary, when she dies it will not be till, 'smote' by many a touch of gratitude and cheerful, reverential sympathy, 4 tlic chord of self lias, trembling, passed in music oul of Bight.' " Niaguru.?For many days I lingered in the purlieus of Niagara. 1 ofien walked from the Suspension Bridge along the Canadian shore, getting at every turn a new glimpse of lovhness ; and on other oc. casions have sat for hours on Prospect Tower, with no companions but a favourite book and the eternal music of the Falls. In storm, in shine, in moonlight, and in mist? in all weathers and at all hours?I have feasted on tho beauty and tranquility of the scene ; for, as soon as the ear becomes accustomed to the roar of the waters, tbey descend with a lolling and soothing sound. And when 1 was compelled to tako my farewell look' and travel to new regions, I repeated to myself, neither for tlie first nor tho last time," I have lived, and loved, and seen Niagara."?IB. A veneraple grandmother, after return? ! ing from church one night, aaked her grandson Cur a gourd of water "Give mo a light " ?he said, wishing to know what she wlias drinking. "Thero ain't nothing iiv it it, grnnro?,,rreplied the young hopeful. "IIow do you know, Johnny?-' 'Case I felt it!' The old lady fainted^ THE TOAD AT HIS REPAST. A Ft!of our readers, niosl probably, have ever observed the toad at bis repast. It is i*1 performed with electric rapidity, and with more than (elegraminie precision. The l' tongue is doubled back upon itself, and is tipped with a glutinous secretion. The w moment the beetle comes within range, g the toi gue is shot forth with an unuerring fr aim, and quick as lightning the captive is O' withdrawn. They arc invaluable in a garden. M. Jesse, in his irleanincs. comnlains li of gardeners destroying them, of savagely cutting them in two with their spades.? Wo hope not. Horticulturists of such tl "gross ignorance,1' ought themselves to he in extirpated. The beauty and vigor of our L flowor-border we have long ascribed, in a P1 measure, to a select famil\' of toads, which tl we tenderly protect, and some of which a have now reached a patriarchal age. M. Jesse mentions that Mr. Kn:ght, tho emi- b nent Nurseryman, keeps a great number tl i)f toads in his stoves, for the purpose of il destroying the wood-lice that infect his l>< plants, :iu<l that they do not seem at all nfFec- w ted by the heat, even when it reaches 130 ':i degrees. We are surprised at this latter tl statement, which docs not agree with our fu observation. "We have observed that the h< load in very hot weather seeks shelter un- to tier foliage, or buries himself amongst the si soft mould, in the evening he emerges bt from his concealment, and no donht then sr employs his protusile tongue. Mr. Buck- hi laud mentions a curious use of toads.? l>< They are employed as inject traps. C( A brigade of marauding toads arc con- tl< J noted into the garden in the evening.? ? They make a famous supper; but in the I] morning their entomological employer, by a w (Tenlie squeeze, compels them to disgorge Cj their evening meal, " and in this way many in cut ions and rare specimens of rare and p minute nocturnal insects have been obtained." " There is jusl now," says Dr. Buck- t land, " a plaguo of ants in tunny of the | London houses, which defv extermination- j T s'rongly recommend those who are tiou- . hied with those plagnci to try whether a | load or two won't help them." Most cor- j Laiidy. They clean melon frames of these insects, and why should thcv not perform j ihc same friendly nflice in the drawing? ^ rooms of London citizens? Nothing hut . 01 (irejudicc can prevent the adoption ol the ^ L-Ncellent suggestion. And yet the preju- (| lice exists, and thev are a loathed snecies. " ai Toads from time immemorial, have been , n persecuted l?v schoolboys, and vou cannot 1 . . ai ivHiider through a village on a dimmer day j . without seeing defunct and and llattcued j specimens of these unoffending creatures. . . di Innocent of literature, it would he tracing y ihe cruelly of the urchins to too high a source to ascribe it to the " ufjlv and ve- . tl rcomous" toad of Shakespeare, or yet the more odi us imagery of Milton. And yet from the erroneous uatuial history of the ^ two great national poets the i<lea ma)' have . originated, and thus been handed down r From one race of school-hoys to an? . nther.?Tilticliieooil. lv Uses of Ice. ? In health, no one ought l' Lo drink ice water, for it has occasioned 11 inflammation of the stomach and bowels. l' iiml sometimes sudden death. The templation to drink il is very gieat in summer; 10 use il at all with any safety, the person sliould take but a single swallow al a time, take the glass Irom the lips for half a minute, and then another swallow ; nnd so c on. It will Lm found that in this way 11 becomes disagreeable after a few mouth- t. fuls. I On the other hand, ice itself may be taken as freely as possible, not only without injury, but with the most striking ndvantage in dangerous forms of disease. If j broken in sizes of a pea or bean, rtnd swal- jt lowed as freely as practicable, without much v chewing or crushing between the teeth, il \ will often be eilniient in curing various S( kinds of diarrhoea, and has cured violent jt cases of Asiatic cholera. s| A kind of cushion of powdered ice h kept to tlic entire scalp, lias allayed violent tl inflammation of ihe brain, and arrested ei fearful convulsion", induced by too much li blood there. Water, as cold as ico can it tnako it, applied freely to the throat, ueck n and client, with a sponge or cloth, very of- l! ten affords an almost miraculous relief in a cases of croup ; and if this be followed by n drinking copiously of the same ice-cold element, the wetted parts wiped dry, and ^ the child be wrapped up well in the bed- P clothes, it talis into a delightful and life- ^ giving slumber. All inflammations, inter- vv nal and external, are promptly subdued ly si ttie application ot ice or ice water, because it i9 converted into steam, and rapidly con- b veya away tho extra lioat, and also di- li minishes the quantity of blood iu tho ves o] self* or the part. A pieco of ice ' laid on the wrist v will often arrest violent bleeding of the nose. 13 To drink any ico cold liquids at meals l< retards digestion, thills tho body, and litis tr been known to induce the most dangerous C internal congestions, U If i?? ia put in m4k or on butter, And tncse nr? noi nswi no me time, they lose their freshness, an^ becomes sour and w 8tnle ; for the-essential nature of both ift cl changed, when once frozfen and thou thaw ed.?Ha IV9 Jour ml of Health. a REMARKABLE AND AFFECTING INCIDENT11 is seldom wo hear of such a remarkable lanifesiation of filial devotion or heroism on ]e( ie part of a cliild as is evinced in the allec* j? Hg incident we are about to relate. The Qf to of the child was two years, which point, hi e much nuestioiied until our informant i? ? 1/1 ave us the minutes which ho took down om tlio lips of its parents, as they Blood ar i'cr its remains soon after the occurrence. UJ( The child is disunited as being very intel- (u gent, and as possessing a high and broad j1(J nehead, ?uch as would iudiuMto n mind of ari i) ordinary model. ISnt to proceed with s|, le narative: On the afternoon of tlio 4th ist., Mr Nash, the keeper of Orinnul J'oint ,j(J ight, Islesboro,'started with a skirt' for the Wi, ill-pose of mooring a boat a few rods Irotn t|, ic shore. While in the act of casting over i kedge anchor the skirt" capsized, overturn? ! Ba ig him with it Because of his lameness j cx e was unable to swim, and, upon lising to j -pj ic sun ace, seized hold ol lliu gunwale of tii le skill', and at once hallooed to his little pa jy Klisha, who was looking out of tlie open iik indow, (the house being but u short dis? du inee from the shore,) to give his niolhcr to ie alarm. Mm Nasli, who had been con? sh ned to the house by illness for a fortnight, pa eard her husband's voice and at once star- efl .1 e .... I _ 1^ r - uiur mo roicu j. r>oiuro leaving Uie house i vo le charged Klislia to remain on tlie door- j ar op until her return. Seeing no hopes of ca iving her husband herself, slio ran to the ill ouse of a neighbor for assistance. Elisha ea . holding his father's perilous situation du >uld remain quiet no longer, and so ran J't awn to the shore, and at once I egan to loj adeinto the water to attempt to help him. ro lis father bade him to keep out of the &h ater anil sit on the shore until his mother w| line. Seating himself upon the shore he w' iipatientlv waited for his mother's ap- sp roach. 9l< Mr. Nash, by struggling hard to main? 'u! tin his positon. had well niirh exhausted * ' o I iinself, and while clinging to the ai<le of 1 ic skill* it again turned over, and lie there- 111 y lost his hold. Bidding h:s child fare? c,i ell, he sunk beneath tlie waves with the 111 1 ^ J idiet that he should never arise alive.? lit to his joy. as he sunk he caught hold ftlic rope with which the boat was moored , 'e nd by this means drew himself nji and got, S" i board. Upon looking for his child lie iuikI he had disappeared. The little fel low 1,1 linking to render his father the essential vt d, betook himself to the water as he saw im sink, and waded out as far as he could of id then reached forth his hand to-ward a is father. '11:e strong tide bore the 1 ittle pi ero beyond his depth and in the quiet of h< I'ath he relinquinished his hold upon life. O Plien the neighbors arrived they found w [r. Nash in the boat quite exhausted,and at le body of his devoted Kliaha floating near in le beach. oi Our informant, who saw the corp?o of the 'a lild soon after it was recovered, says that s tiny h inds were still outstretched, and P1 s eves opened wide, as still anxiously lookig in the direction of its father. As the w ?nd and hart?stricken parents bent over ie cherub-like form of the darling one as 3" was arranged for burial, many eyes like i - i r s" wu^f uyiu T71VH tCrtM, uut'iunu Ul t 10 palli'sliu tale connected with its death. j -Uef/nnt (flfaine) Aye. ft ruddock's Suah.?It is said that Brad ock was borne oil' the field in a tumbrilt nd then put upon a horse,but was at last arried on a hammock or litter. Doubtless Kr ic latter formed by his sash fastened > poles.This sash has an itercsling history. I was of red slik, very largo and strong. j In lung after years it is said to have come . . \\ 1 ) the possession of a gentleman in New- j Means, wich is probable enough, for Brad- ^ ock died with no near relative to reclaim ?fatherless, motherless, childless, and ithout brother or sister. After the Mexican Var of 1846 had begun, this gentleman int the sash to General Gaines, with an in j motion to present it to the General who ^ liould bear himself best in that \va\ Afier e battle of 13ucna Vista, Gains believed l'' tat the trophy "had been won, and hasten. tr< a to present it to lien era I Taylor. With re u lclancc, and after much persuasion, he took =>r , put it into liis military oliest. and kept it w' til ho died?on the 9th dnv ol July, 1850, sl( ?e 95th anniversary of Braddouk's defeat, nother of the ?ad and singular coincidence on ritli which our story of to day abounds su It had wrought in it "E. B., 1707 and ad upon it stains of blood. Addition 1 roof of its authenticity is in tlie fact that iraddock's father, whoso name he bore, 6E as made a Brigadier General in the Cold* ? . tei .reams in 170V. It is said that when Braddock died he equeathed to Washington horse and j.u,, olsters, and b? faithfnl body servant Bisli. |(j, p, whom he had bouglit in Virgiunia. ^ This is probable. Washington's t.vm ca*. ? ? 1)1! ant in these campaigns was Alston?John. But in after years ho had a searvant C'. lishop. Ho it was who held liia bofse so e| >ng in 1758, while he courted and plight- ^ J hie trout to his future wife, Mrs Martha iustis. Aud in his wdl he gives legacies ^ ) daughters of both Alston and Bishop. . tIb A young lady, n few evenings since . j. .. ?j.i! . ? . wf *ui 10 ner cavener, pienso clasp illy loak.V W' Certainly,' said bo, clasping l?is* run fttouud her,4 aud the cou touts too!- ha POWER OF IMAGINATION. I)r. Noblo, iu n very able ami analytic jture at Manchester, 'On tlio Dynamtie <] rtuencc of Ideas,' told a good anecdote s Mr. lioutihouse, a French savant, in il c stration of the power of imagination. As f p. Noble says? ' ' Mr. Jiont'honse served in Napoleon's s my and was picsent at. many engage- u snts during the early part of tb?: laslceJi- t ry. At the battle of Wagram, in 1800 <. was engaged in the fray \ the ranks f r>und htin had been terribly thinned by s oi, :tu<l at sunset he was nearly isolated- j s lulu re loading his musket lie was sho*- j nil by a cannon ball. His impression j is that tliu cannon ball bad passed rough bis legs below bis knees, scpara" g them from the thighs j for be suddenly nk down, shortened, be believed, to the tent of about a foot in measurement.? le trunk of the body fell backwards on e ground, and the senses were completely ralyzed by the shock. Thus he lay Dlionless among the wounded and dead iring the rest of the night, not daring move a muscle, lest the loss of blood ould be fatally increased. He felt no .in, but this lie attributed to the stunning feet of the shock to the brain and ner >us system. At early dawn be was oused by one of the medical staff who me round to help the wounded. ' What's o matter wilii you, my good fallow ?' i id the surgeon. 'Ah! touch me ten t rly,' replied M. liouliiiouse, ' I beseech i ?u, a cannon ball has cairied otV my : 2js.' The surgeon examined the limbs ' (erred to, and then, giving him a good \ ake, said, with a joyous 1 ugh,'(let up lb you; you liavo ...nitiiig the matter i tli you.' M. Houtihouse, immediately i rang tip in utter astonishment, and c iod firmly 011 the legs which lie thought, l 5t forever. ' I felt more thankful,' said | . lioutihouse, ' than I had ever been in c e whole course of my life before. I had, 1 1 deed, been shot down by an immense ! 1 ,1111011 ball; but instead of passing through 1 y legs, as I firmly believed it had, the 1 ill had passed under my feet, and hail \ ottghed a hole in the earth beneath, at s ast a foot in depth, into which my feel i ddeuly sank, giving tne the idea that 1 ] id been thus shortened by the loss of t >' legs*" 'J',c of tliis story i* 1 niched for by Dr. Noble. | Pulpit Anccdvlcs.?The Rev. Mr. Peters, ' Tennessee, was preaching, ami, having largo gift of continuation, was somewhat olracted in his discourse. Several of bis jarers left in the midst of the sermon.? ' no young man was on his way to the door hen Mr. Peters pointed hii long linger him, and said, " Brethren, (hat young an has just as good a l ight to go out as any ' ic." It is needless to say that be was the st disseiter. At another time, while Mr.Peters was 1 reaching, a young man started to leave 1 io house, and making some noise as he 1 cut, Mr. Peters paused, and said :? 44 I will lilt- (liii/miii-j/. M-t.A.i ?!...# - "'j uiowuiov ? ?ICI? lllilk >ung man gels out," i Hie fellow very coolly took his seat ami i?l? i 'Then it will be some lime before you get ; rough !" . The preacher, however, was tip to him id remarking, "A bad promjseis better ( oken than kept," went on with iiis ser ( on. The following is attributed to the cele ] ated Rowland Ifiil : " Two strangers passing tho church in ich he was preaching, entered, walked up c aisle, and finding no seat, stood for a j die and listened to the sermon. Presently ey turned to walkout. HL-foro t!vy reach the door the preacher said?"But 1 will ! II you a story'" This arrested the strangers, and they ' Used, turned, again an I listened. Once there was a man, said the speaker " 10 said that if lie had all the axes in ' o world made into one great axe, and aJ e trees in the world made into one great ;c. and ho could wield the axe and cut ' f >wn the tree, ha would make it into one ?.,i .i:?i. >i it ? 4 cai. iv iiiiiisii iiifoo un^uui) IIIUII 10 turn their backs upon the Gospel, ami ip to hear a story. ^ Tho Btrangers thought they had hear J f ough to satisfy their curosity, ami ro- c med their walk in tho street. f A Father with Three Dozen Children.? I Markhcrdenfelt, a village situated on 1 0 river Main, in Bavaria, the/e Fives a man 1 1 years of age, named Johannes Suhot- L ubeck. lie is a master chimney sweep, 1 vocation inoro boncraWe in Germany ' an in this cocrntry, and for half a cen J iy he has given his personal attention to ' i brrsiness. I/e is now living with his !i ird wife; and on the 16th of June last ' s 30th child was christened at the !1 ri&h church. By his first consor8 he had c , by liis second 11, and by bio third 18? = whom half are girls and one half c vs. 1 When somo one wror lamenting Footed 1 lucky fate in being kickud in Dublin, 1 hnson said lie was glad of it; 44 is e ing in the worhl,^ added he, '* when ha ^ is in England, no one thought it worth ' lile to kick hhn." 1 * It is exceedingly bad husbandry to 1 rrow up the f<J6lingp of your wife. ' n 1.1 i win, -ij * . -i -ir-1 - "''Tfiii.rn^? ? MOHAMMED. Mohammed i-< said to have boon of rtiicfllti stature; to hate had a large head, trong heard, round face, itixl reddish-brown heeks. 11 is biographers siale that hia orehead was high, his mouth wid^vhis lose bi'ig ati'l somewhat of r.:i it'juilitie hape ; that lie had large black eves ; that t vein which extended from his forehead o eyebrows, enlarged when excited by anfer j that his spk'ffdidly while leeih ntood^ ar apart; and upon his lower bp' .1 mall mole, ilis hair, hanging over hia hotiblerSj retained its dark color to the day if his death he sometimes dyed it brown; >ut more frequently applied to it odorifeutis oils. It was oi'ly Jit l.'is last j.'llgfimigu that he had his head shaven. ]to rimmed his moustache and his ringer nails vo Friday before prayer. His neck, it is aid, ' rose like a silver bar upon bin ?ro:ul chest.' Between liis shoulders ho tad Ji largo mole* which was looked upon' is the prophetic senli A physician oucB vishing to remove it, Mohammed <?bected, sa) ing,' lie who made it sluii! also' teal it.' His hands a d feel wero Very urge, yet his step w;!s so light as ' to eave 110 mailt on the sand.' mined poke hut little, yet occasionally permit'- ^ ed himself a joke. A woman once came o him, sa\ ing,' My husband is i. , and >cgs thee to visit him;' upon w li nquired, ' lias not thy husband s<. inking white in his eye ?' Slie returned in >rder to examine it. On her husband isking what she was doing, sliu replied; I must see whether you have anything vhite in your eye, for the Apostle of Jod asked the question.1 Her husband' it once recognising the joke, convinced her hat this was common to all eyes. On one iccasion, when an ohl woman conjured him o pray for her that she might enter >aradise, he replied, 4 No old woman tlfi'feS" :nter paradise!' As she began to weep, le reminded her of I he verse in the Koran vhich declares tlint perpetual youth' will >e rcstoied to women. The Arab ; roph'ct ,vas compassionate towards animals, and' vould wipe down his horse, when it peripired, with his sleeve; but this was nothng extraordinary among his countrymen/-*.^ His cat was lifted up to share his owifr lish ; and a white cock which lib hnd,y^S le called his friend, considering him a c-J protection against devils, genii, witchcraft/ jw ?nd the evil eye? Wasted Life.?When his host followed ,fl liiin out on the staircase with a candlpj Lo light him down the stairs, the day was coldly looking in thv-ough its gfihVy windows. When he got out of the house Lhe air was cold and raw, the dull sky jvercast, the liver dark and misty, the whole scene like a lifeless desert. Dull wreaths nl dust aure spinning round and round before the morning blast, as if the - 1 I... J -! 1 itsvi k .-iiiiKi 11.in i iscu mi iiivay, ;iuu me ursc spray of it in its advance had begun tbs overwhelming of the city. Waste forces within him, aiul a deBert ill around, this man stood still cm his1 way across a silent terrace, and saw for a moment, lying in the wilderness before him t \ mirage of honorable ambition, self-denial ind perseverance. In the fair city of this vision there wore airy galleries" from which' llie loves an 1 graces looked upon l.iltf, gfar- * lens in which the fruits of life hung ripening, waters of hope that sparkled inf lis sight. A moment, and it was gone/ Jlimbing to a high chamber in a well of louses, lie threw himself down in hi? doilies on a neglected bed, and its' p51ow was wet with wasted tears. >. -j ; J Sadly/sadly the sr.*n rose; and it rose^v? fpon no sadiler sight than the man o *ood abilities and good ctmitioiia, inenr-f ..II ..< .1 i;. .1 ' * ui meir uirccieil exercise, tm*apal>le; >f his own lie!|t Mil l liis own h:ippiue5-:?.. Cg icnsiblu of the l?li?;hl 'in li.it>, and K'nigngii* n?* liiniselt* to let it cat 11stil ;r.v: f ? JJic/jf:',\3 'HA-' Talc of T(Co Cilif?, ' 'Vfli Dittpisiny RtdicuU?I know of no prin :iple which it is of more imp<?rtanco lo li* n the minds of yoirtig people, thun' tlial )f tlie most determined resistnnoo to tho iiHToacliinente of ridicu'o. Give up to the' ' vorld, and t<> tlie ridicule with which en. i;| orces its dominion, every frilling question' >f manner and appearance; it is lo toas\M :ourage and firmness to slit* winds, to conv- ; ^ >at with the mass upon- such suhjycUasV (j?j ltp.afl. HiiL li'urn frrun tln? nm-liait -w? o insure your principles agaiust the porija<?|gE >f ridicule;- you tim rt'o moie exerciie yoiiif'- v -ii eason, if you live in the constant*dread of^l augliter than you can enjoy yow life, ou are in the eowtaht terror of?de?lb.^V$3| f you tliink it right to differ from md to make a stand for any valuable poibfcj?<3| >f morals, do it, however rustic, howeVerKjjQ iniiquated, however pedantic it mayappear lo it, not for insolence,- but seriously ftfldHaajfl grandly, as a man who wore a seul-.of V.i?i#^9 >WI1 bosom, and did not wait until J[t >reathed into him by the breatjj on. Let men call you tnQan.- ifev'^urgQo^^B mtly religious; ptisillaniinous^^^^^^^^H^ ou are firm ; resistance smi> >rincij>letl wit mto sincere reftftett ? ^ - jwjjH cr-tiwo can tear froi# you those- feeflflgi vhich every man carries ihs made a noble and BUccet^gfeJBTOM^ia?:. meS