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- .4--6 ?p. - - - --. - -r.5 4. 10 r.1-1 4 At rs advancs sadaeruisements o ed~~untU.' ~ li d 9k , Motn'dai ~o~o~tAlyOM e Ji iis, er 14r 38mhettater ob is. . iiisemen i t .h~1 AM ' CROKHAK e q e -i M u hil r n rg nhy e a' rag -i onhy A e as new 7-V bi 6TUE C IBCD AXE m O okIvn recois o' ad afgies or r or'pnfon ha ete caged a-Advertise. All lette by mail mustbe paid to in. i tual attendance. SAM CROOKSHANK; :04 THB NED(94PTRD EB Smie erookshank wasi his mother's pride and efatherll; rief. Havingno tase Ifor lylgurg o, he ommen th te char 'ar> the ntia g entlemanll thi ct set uparthlim, thle bonlest people oeve seiorhood in which e .reseed ca Ie tel;adte aver, in the home. Iy lagae of the place, tha't it Attqed I.limn 1ik w'shirt -on a hoe handle.'.' -gu the condition of a gentleman,, how. ever desirous it may be in several respectE is not entirely free from miseries and vex. tion . It is expensive, without bc-ing proftable;and is 'apt to produce envy, itathout gaining respect. At least. such is theonse in the country where the peo. 4,Imostly get their leaving by the sweat d Ie brow, or by some active businiess - ofession. But among other troubles 'ch'gentility brings, is that very pro. valentdisease, called Dyspepsi, _'?am Crcokshank proved that he had at lgast one tio to the character -he had as. mel h-e wvaN wofully troubled with the esp grew lale and ivan; hi, -bo bnes,.whielr had ever been a mosi pitin pt. part of his face, seemed to pro. jetftfiirtherthan over; his under lip, whieli wps riatur6ally one of the rather pendan1 rt, Viuiv hung most lauckaduically down, niid his.calliger gs whiph were nevei .theleasflioticeable part of his person, be. pout, if possible, more than ever, in,' said the wondering neighbours 'What the torment ails you? you look foi slV~Iith rld as ghastly and wo.begone a. ,peenimber ghost.' 1I- e'got the dispepsery!' repliet Sam. Tfiel ispepseryl' said farmer Whip pletree, with a elok pf contprnt-hvwhal might, that bell 'tWhat mougbt it be?' returned Sam 'whyjf(you do not know what the dys pepsery is, you're no gentleman. 'Ijope not, in all conscience,' replie thearme, 'but I should elic to knowi what sortof a thing this is you call thl y,.its a kify4 Af p-sort %..f a com plaint. 'Umph! so it app'ears,' *lt'sa kind of a-sort of a-as it wer< -auer feeling, which I never felt in al tiy ~,until I became a gentleiman. "I' right dowvn gentleman's comn plaint, thon. But what is it like? 'Lk!wyitslk omk notomy of m - do t it ettr o itretty soon. "Yo e make amonstrous pretty noto my, ould'nt you? But hoqw does you gentilly complaint feel?' (Why, It makes me feel all over solem choly and down-in-the-mouth like, asi I dlet all my friends, . In short, Mr Whippletree, it's a kirdf ofa-sort of au affection of the somadi and indigestibh no.fgifs, as it'were.' TKIhe o ~plainrt is in your noggin' I've nodih aid'the farmer, pointing to his h esCi k~iit began there-but I cai j~J~iomich for you, if that's al ~?~'e~caimd Sarn, 'can you cur< i~g~1I~pny,' oulfl'd give any ~thei~bfathousand dollars i ~d from this.dreadfu ~ips~3v. thebo only drawback asi IA'llrfte of both, your gentility an< rrdi esery too, if ydu'll follow my thra'jf~ink of it no howv at all,' re n~~4~m pullingu p his false colla1 a twhiars-'Ihlke the life of a gen 1,lIout, if I could only get rid o ~t &ie dIspepsery.'. ~d twarkyou'lazy varmunt.. rlhioMr W1pletree, S'hnk of' that-4 do"a .n,'pni ~1~ny thing eld tliafydtill pro ej tor, I$l stake.-ut .as .fo yQpt y veto on that long ago, ~4gvyop up for one of the .Dev ut6aesreturned the . farmer ani (6~tJ i varlety' pf means ti e phtint 'He ate largely c ;~tyonnoe pepper, horse.radisli 4ha'nund powerful condiment e afhisstomac . eal 6dd 1 detVoe st'nr na koy, a Iloihtlil psd .hid tot ispdestitie iipo o li~4 qua ttofIsefabbage, ,q$4ther in tys, didnowin the lcagaid, 'i, etingtliosgtinggs into odi o u rt anod noush tile.f s giilem ib'pssoD. On the onstrayy, te.rtris edd In the ead, io render hicomplaint worse and worse. He niext lidrecoursetto all the root qctors and doctresses, within,fiy miles. took likeis allthe patelt medicines he &sild hidr of-oih'panaceaa, the oath oliconis, and the infallible' specifie'.He even took a;nwspaper forthe sole-pur pose oifreading the adyirtisarna~nte of new and imporntn mdicines; and the certi ficates. ofaonderful cures doe aipe.r formed through the agency the-of uoot after all, poor Sem-o 'Gentlemaft'enj' as the neighbors onlled him had the dyspepsia as bad assever. But though hgogpat heartily bated all study, a' fomnd t ohe , eschewed read ing i general, ie acoidenly deried one advantage from taking anewsaper. - In looking, as usual, for infallible cures, he chanced to meet with the followig recipe, fromn a Down East paper. 'Take 1 o~r. Qamphor, 1 oz. Myrrh pulverize and mix them together. Then bore a holen the upper end of an axo helve, sufficient to contain the mixture, hich putin and stopolose. When this has stood 26 hours in a warm place, it will be fit for use." Such was the sgbatance of- the eastern recipe.-Blut the manner of using it Sam did not much admire. It was no other than this-namely, to get up every morn ing before the sun, and use the axe-be ginning moderately at first, and increas ing the exercise by degrees, until the hIeat produced by his, hands should dissolve the ei.dtuo vwithin the helve; which ooz ing through the wood, should enter the pores of the skin, and so diafuge itelf throug hui whole frame adding new life has vigor to his enervated constitution. "A ma~rraain take the WoR!' said Sam, 'if' twasn't for that, should'nt mind takia the medicine at all.' lie deblated. wvith hilmself- for some days what to resolve upon. Though he dis liked the mode of takung it, he had full faith in the medIi!in, as he had in all sorts of newspaper recipes. His father advis ed him by all means to take it; and so likewise did farmer Whippletree, and the rest of his acquaintance. The neighbors, wished, above all things, to see 'Geatle man Sam' brought to labor again. 'IflI could only git the ingrediencics into the pores of my hand without chop. ping for it,' said Sam, 'I should'nt care. But, however, wvork, or no work, I must take it, for l'm persuaded it's the only thing that'll cure mem' He accordingly Iepared him an axe strictly in the manner prescribed, not omitting to set it in a warm place twenty si hours befrec using. His father took caeh that the instrument should be w ll groundl; and that there should be no luck of materials to work upon, assigned hitn an acre of the priitive forest, thickly covered with oaks, beeches, and maples, to be cut dogn and wrought into fire wood. 'Condemn it!' said Sam, as he reached the thick and lofty wod, this is a pretty business for a gentleman! But jumping Joseph, it's a good week's work to cut down one of these trces, to say nothing of chopping and spliting it up. And then what the deuce has the ingrediencies in the axe helve to do with the chopping, I should i e to know. But howsomever, as I said afore, that's nyther here nor there: it's to set down in the newsprint, and there's no disputing wha. that says.' Sam now pulled off his gentleman's coat, and fell too. lie worked according to the recipe, with a degree of moderation at first; nevrthleslcs he was obliged to sluck away in order to recover his wind. He tok special care, however, not to let go of his axe for a minute, lest the handle should cool, and thereby ho shouk' loose the buenefit of what he had already done. Besides getting out of breadth, his hands began to get sore, and numerous blister were seen elevating the skin like puff paste. 'Consarn it all!' said Sam, as he sat doIwn on a log to rest; 'this is a hard med cine. I'd rather take three bushels of the bitterest roots and herbs that over I grew. This work will kill me, as sure as I live. I may as well die with the dis pepsary, as to he cut off in the prime of .my days by chopping these infarnal big trees. I'll give it up for a bad job. I . never can endure these bloody blisters; r besides i'm so tired 1 can scarce stand on my feet, let alone pegging into the tree. like a rotten red-headed woodpeckers |Good bye to the chopuing! I say.' SAs Sam said this, he shouldered his -axe, and was about quitting the wood, rwhen a deep voice came, as It were from a hollow tree close lieside him, saying; - 'S-a m! S-a-mi stir not an Inich, i f yotg i do, the devil wvill have you for certain. Work twvo hours to-day,' and to rniorrow > e hero bright and early.' f 'What!' exclaimed Sam, 'if the trees be ,gin to talk, it's time to look about me.' SWith tht hn turned bank and fell to m ant thenoment is d exclahned~i 'a led,9a14~ ~td~ metmea fotaIot Idn T read h ai7ro'6ha h PmeC contda t'! rotly "'t sign fornd y ghoar ' an iche putoinoetion a f wronhtbs.1 teW:bf atbdiotl i; in favor of his brothe Ferdin in.d. The famous" y, thefrietid.$0 jiei ton, determinel, prbit of' t U) et which itshas b d wato that followed by tfifu'Qme-1 t 1i-' appeared in 1264.7Prom thenicaite' been conclUdedihat the .i661ii:t : was a return 'oftheoet of 1 64; h this comet'imployed 292 years i acc6di. plishing its.revolution round the sunignd thus it'must ppea-r in 1 I82 tn5 lo4'rde; mains to be seen whet!ie1he com'et will conform to human provisions' or decei've them; whether tie appearanco of jdentity be a delusion, or the expression of a real ity. At all everit, it is fitting attention should be excited t an event which, if-it be pealized, would be of very.great. aqro. nomical importance. [Londo&'Nemi. Amoy, CmNA.-Rev. H. A. Bro wn writes, October, 16, that the efforts of-the missionaries at their station, to instruct the people in the-truths of Christianity. in the chapel and elsewhere, had been:vig orously prosecuted. . He mentions an incident which shows how the knolledge 9f t Gospel iscarri ed to places which the miesionaries them. selves have neyer visited: "Thigi, orgiing we had a call.fron five - intellige.t men, vrsiters to Ihe pitfjom a dlstrict perhaps sixty miles distant-The. manifest an intelligent inter ,tn learning something about us, especial y in reference to books, pot only for themselves, .lut for .their neighbors. We gave them "an assort ment, with some extra copies, as tley de sired. From the sob6r chafacter and-lntelt ligence of.these rmen,wefe6lstrong .con fidence that the books will not be neglect ed." .. The Mountain Arabs, on the .sides of Lebanon, though ,formerly regaded as among iriw.iost unpromising subjects ol Christian civilization, have recently shown themselves capablse .of appreciating':the efforts of American missio aries for their spiritual andteriporil go*. The -lab r of ReX. Meqas. eWhiting, Smith and Cal. hodn, (brother of the Hon. Senator frorm fassachusotts,) vith other associates, have resulted in the conversion of many of these "Ishmealites" to the Christian faith. "Many of them may now," (saym Mr. Whiting in a letter to the .American Board,) "be qpen going out among their less-favoredlcountrynen, .ithrue-lodi of Arabic books," real Christian Colpor teurs, circulating Bibles *id treligious books among the millions speaking their noble language, nany of whorrf are ali ready prepared to read it- intelligently" From the N . Picayune Extra, March . A Week Laterrn IYgestee. C(aL. BiscoE's CONFLleT MITH Guniit L.a...The sleamship leyv. .Qrleans, Cap tain Edward Auld, arrived,. at an early hour this 'marnaing from Vera Cruz, hav ing sailed thence on the 2d .inst. Our accounts by the ship. ~France lefi Lieut. Col. Biscoe and a small command engaged with a party. of'guerrillas five times their number. The isswe was as wo anticipated; the guerrillas were dis persed, but not without severe loss on our part. The gallant Lieut.' Henderson and twvelve men were killed on our side, and the Mexican loss is supposed to have been about the same. Col. Biscoe charged the guerrillas thmre several -times. I'is teams are said to have stampedoeand we regret to say that the colonel was compel led to leave his killed add ivounded'be. hind and make his way to Cordova. *His wagons, or the greater part ofthem, wvere burned; the mules.a iere taken by the guer rillas. Col. Biscoe reche rzb h evening of the 22 ult. 9e9lzbth The Free nietica inccoe that the remamnsof Lieut. H'enidersonwere brought back to Vera Cruz on the '1st of March, by Captain Taylor company, Who volun teered to go out, with Capts. Fairchild'and Connolly, Lieuts. Pearson and Kelly, ol the Louisiana volunteers, and Lieut. An. derson, of the Georgia volunteers.. In the some pumnber hFree Ame. rican we find the follot "to this brave Louisiana soldier, wrifk ari vato in~ Captahi Filrchild' ai which we copy:':iT To the Editor of the Free ...tc~ Lt. Henderson, of Capt. Felichild'slociu isiana Mouited Men, died' on the'finid'd battle as a hero. He wag eggqd pitizse a brave soldier,a good officer, aid l St d to the soldiers. Pride+9~evoeete-e~ .bii heart; kind to the poor; h6 Is regretted by all who knew him,. a~dareoay it .ii be linpossible to'i ~ a e tfilhoja canoy~oeonsioned ay,4 , --Hro - 40 riis iaI~ aled onhs t'nd 9w oVit recei~ethoine' *hitcr 6d'eito case1 We dci ot .think that.jJo (bove inment o entS8ctte~iio~i skoild take -him fromi rnt1 2 'mcli and dgain suthode Albd~~bt We regret toQ in panions .in rg ehnda Ista. tion in sayilng that sa oh arp ie eati Arnerican arr It rnal vi&hbd.' cornplisedid lim hn inesr ay" be, under theroi-umtaaejgjih an. not be filedg arnd if w iioe i Bat'iir we believe that hie willehtht 'ti mnfo.eis ns a bye auiigit aW though the act' ~l~sh hii naa of. the poudest arfny he o Wifield Sott' hid nGmirg1 takes leave officially lhe a;~l t 1 lantbriad'wit Whigh and their names o hek it of farne's ceaui 'a will i11 with tears t;is- ar . gh. readt his laira od'ier.? lowing deseried dom a )a ii estr.ta' brother Ofe I a h companiori iri arnis nl~2 aash as here intil1idayn '' shas Inkkrhid thOi._1 'mmand n an duu am small partffljfbn lievedby a gene erit - Gen. ashing had le N cp; pnder any escort of D on'WP6 bla, to atteitd the nut The latest'dates freni Q talmotq the 17th'ul?~thaisie meI a~a8 of'h 19th thus s'ie tles cefted frbm thelia' 6~oen~, u2 tco Thisda' liat.see) .'wdpti bad ari-ived, but thesehing aof Coness asrgoing anverslowly a.6 beginnng to lose al'p'atien . tor's correpeida says'he'shaflliiad' the names of all lioe who bea pres ted thbemyesand - bio the names ofs those who have noty with the 'pinion Iu regard to thle matter, of the States to whloh the latter belong. At the maceting o Monday last, thirty, deputies were. presents though ge iniferg from previova e tiers ot th~e crrespondeng refrredtoethat moi-e thAn, ts'nudber have presented themselves. and a ad for action assoon asthero is4a 1ropect a quorum. A commnunicatIon was re ceivAd fronthe'Misser oflhteinal R~ela~ statin that he was t o gressefri h~'a previous rneetin oh. mn brg an sipch as ho 4an vooitetod~I,4 with. Letters 161W fra deputy, substitute frornCollrna and fro i the mom. ber 6f~ ajapa. The former states thi s oed was n ge ry'.(& his p~nia o b'e qualifie before .he. tk hid as. hi4 design, he 0 propoed stri b at t e A mercars, f order e oredI' with his countign'en.---The A''otrik put aslittl.faith n this poect we do; hs that Santa Arina is att .rkin~ about Te. bgacan there woyld'appeal but ittle' as b's has the neceesary meanshe shosl4 repairto the seat ofgaeninent. It Pas o ered to have the o n iu.n formed, that he h4 been das depy y to dischargehis d b a tIre pace ofINdraza, eet4 t He will, there Thaeiated ae yr0 tk for SantatSr bteep xadgoui~b J~~ Thedro ITsi~ti/$ I ha ru - thed~thdMsi min ng about ln-vea owInhar ho wa ttoo t taaotT to de' SiR' '" la oh taidhis 1ae, Wkfu '40ilVha nih he~ii e ac Id f ty. He'si sou i 't drearlms.: -lhd netd f re terribley ore d ivis land ii neai 6very joint;'ut _isapireiievas good,~atd hitwas able t6eat hiomeat without either .peppe r to reut Hle Woul WTI,,howeveni hive declined goingtd th fi d:ldit"ellee, voiceuwas 1till r1 t Isiiisi M. id the D6iI seemed in hs hedatd imaginationr, ieqdg to catch him. He once more, therefore, took iis medicated-axe and Tepaired to the forest. * ornw lo6geo than the day, before, but so sore were his hand,: that every stroke he struck gave him s. vere Iama; and he' was once or twice on the poiit of giving the matter up, when' the same deep voice from the hollo.v tree again warned him of the danger of such a course. In sJprt.. Sam Crookshank repaired to the wodfaFily; working longer and hard er each day than the day pfoire, sleeping soundly. at night, -and eating his meals with a constant!y increasing appetite. His hands by degrees became hardened to this work, and his whole frame so strengthen ed that he could labor from morning till night without feeling halfas much fetigt. ed as he endured the first day from a sin gle hour's work. 'But what a plague ia the reason,' said le, applying his nose to the axe belve. 'I can't smell the eamphire and the mur rer oozing through, as the newspaper said? I'm sure I've het the axe-helve -nearly red hot every day for a month, and yet I can't perceive ingrediences come through at all. The pothecary must a cheated me in the articles.' Full of this idea. hoe vent to scold th apothecary for putting him off with bad medicines; when the latter throw his pes. tie at his head, and called him a fool for his pains. But though Sam could'nt perceive by any outward signs that the medicine had come through the axe-helve; yet, inas much as he daily grew better by handling the instrument, he finally concluded that the virtue of the remedy had insensibly the pores of his hand, and withoy hi. knowing it difIuseditself over ki hole system. He did not, however, relax his endeav -ors, nor lay aside the medicated axe, un til his acre of woodland was completely chopped, and his dyspepsia most thorough ly cured. He was of. his gentlemanly pretensions; and is now one of the most industrious young men in the neighbor. hood. Therm is one thing, however, which seems to him not a little mysterious, and that is the voice from the hollow tree. But some of his neighbors are thought to be wiser on that subject than he; and it is shrewdly suspected that Jack Whipple tree, a waggih son of t'he farmer above mentioned, knows more about the voice than the one that heard it. G. STATUE OF JACKSON.-Our readers are perhaps aware that there is a design on fbot to erect, at Washington, a bronze equestrian statue of ANDREW JACKSON. A mong those who iotepd J9 present mod els to the committee, is our ingenious and enterprising fellowcitizen, Mr. CLARK MILLS, who proceeded to Washington yesterday afternoon on this errand. The modlel of Mr. Vills has challenged the admiration of all who have seenm it. There is a spirit and Jife abo, it that cannot bo surpassed. It represents the General on horseback and in uniform, in the api t' p akppwledgipg the salute of- a body of troops whom hie is reviewing. The attitude of the horse is exceedingly spirited. He is. taken just at the moment when he has been checked in full career, andl thrown back upon his haunches-and just, as if anticIpating the next movement, he is turning to dash down the line. Sev eral of the best horsemen of our city, who have examined it, are of opinion that the horse is free from all exception, and that nothing could be more admirable thati the attitude of the rider. We have seen the engravings of the statue of Peter the Great and of the Duke of Wellington, and net. thier of them will compare, in point of spir it and action, with this model. One pe culiarity of this statue is, that it is self. poised-while in that of Peter the Great (where the attitude is similar to this) it was necessary to fasten the tail of thme horse to the rock, in order to retain him in his rearing attitudle. The conceptioni of this model is in~ the highest degree creditable to Mr. Mills. If; it does not secure the approval of the ceom mittee, they must be exceedling difficult to please." Theo artist acknowledges that this is a labor of love with him, and that it has engrossed his attention for a year past. He took casts of the limbs of a horse in the positions lhe has chosen, that lhe nmight not be mistaken in the anatomy of the animal. We really believe thqt if the execution of this work is placed in the hands of Mr. Mills, to be carried out according to his design, ho will accom plish an eqnestrian statpe more striking and spirited than any wvhich has come to our knowledge.-.mze. Ne.Wc AN APPROACHING CoR'r.--If we can giveany credit to the oninian nf carnato.