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lkI, '3 j ;a 'YJveII utrile ot-aoN 2 ::. The Sumte 8r 4 S9D BRYMD ORNING, BY WILLIAM J. FRANCS. T E RM S: .TWo Dollars in advance, Two Dollars and fty -cents at the expiration of six months, or MgDollars at the end ol the year. No'gaper discontinued until all arrearages zd, unless at the option of the Proprietor. I.vertisements inserted at 75 cts. per (ure 14 lines or less,) for the first and -s that sum for each subsequent insertion. D'The number of insertions to be marked biafll'Advertisements or they will be publish ,until ordered to bo discontinued, and itged accordingly. D'Oe Dollar per square for a single in bertion. Quarterly and Monthly Advertise )ndnts 'ill be charged the same as a single inseztion, and semi-monthly the same as new )1l O'ituary Notices excesdingsix lines,i an (Unimunications reco:nmendi ng Cand d&es for public ollies or trust-or puffing Exhibitions, will be charged as Advertise ments. ICrTAll letters by miil must be paid to in sure punctual attendance. .is Cri till. A DANGEROUS CHILL1INGE, 43LATED FRX.O THE G. DY, MRS. ST. SIPN -.. ri the fing'o *01iwi, 6 rs who took ~ ehe c vjn ign o the I.nglish pon i, was a Frenchman, t .o 'Benzeval. Although P apnd.twenty years of age, aeoioly eighteen; and his 4ir.eamplexion, and his almost the op. n aiuise. Not sh~vasa imanf ~ex-, b;pah o ay- fu. ery ei~tinand do. gibAtafition of .every recldhim' toDobi ~ oC~a.~alaveq Aoup.lg. m wit pard ser lqisarrival n ma r h t e y u -a]other n ctu.ion ha readily1 f3 t)tpeaance oh < ' n- Y kpol hl . Ym iemd, howover, to profit by the C firstportunity thati ol'ered, to leave he. lin Ili an endu ring memia! of his visit I to N#ttiaiy. AV- hC took his seat n1i table, -he aiilsed if hie uniilerstood minglishm, 2 indi, hilthough le wis periielly wtelIl aic quainted with that hlanguage, he de!clared t that he was entirely igioraint of it, an1d begged them to converse with him in his native tongue. Relieved from nil restrainit Iy this "f- 1 sertion, the Engl islimtn coin versed twogetl I er ifrecly, aind the Counit de llenitziva soon 'nnrked that he was 11he object of their 1nccssant iockery. Ile controlled his I indignation, however, anid listeined withl' a caln and smiling miien. Du1iiring the des. sert, their'tongues were relderedl still re Voluble by the. chaminpagnie; 1mo:1 r thiigs, the discourse turned un ii hase, and they asked theCouit what of game, and in what way, le huin. ted in France. Jenzevl, in order to per. fotm his part to the end, replied that he sometimes hunited thle wil hour on honrse'. back, sometimnes ha res aind part ridges, wvith pointers, sometimes fJos andi deer in the. forest. -Ahl' cried one of the comnpany, 'yon hunt foxes, bares, amnd deer! We, in this country, hunt the tiger.' "'And in whet way?' 'Mounted upon elephanms, necomipani ed by sl'aves, some of whom, airmed with spears, go before to rouse the beast, whmile the others reload our muskets when w have disohargod them.' That must be glorious sport,' rejoined the Count. '1t is a pity,' remarkedl one of the En g lishmen, 'that you leave Ilombaiy so soon; otherwise we could gratify you with such ap entertainmenit.' - 'Well,' rejoined Benvzenl, 'if I nam not obliged to wvait too long, I will dlefer my departure for awvhile.' 'Fortunately. it so happens,' said anoth er, 'that, just at this time, a tigress with her young has taken up her abode in a swamnprabout three miles from here. Some Tadlans, who have hind several sheep killed.hy. the beast, biroughlt us the news ye~sterday. We resolved to wait until the wvholps were grown, in order to nrrange a regular hunt, but sinco so favora ble an opportunity occurs of procuring you a . pleasure, we will defer it no longer.' 'I am greatly obliged to you, replied Benzeval, 'but is it certain thiit the tigress r Is to be found in the spot where she is slip. posed to be, and is this spot accurately * k*nown.' ' 'There is no doubt about it. From the topof a hill wvhich overlooks the swa mp, you gan plainly see her paths through the - .. reeds; they all lend to a common centre, likdthe rays of a star.' 'Well, then,' cried the Count, tilling i glass,.and arising, as if to propose a tast, 'tgithe health of him who shall seek *utwheigress aloney on foot, through the reeds, and slay it, amid its wholei, wil no other'Wapon.than this poiginard.' With these words, 'the Count dre from tho girdle of a slave a Malay poii nard, and throw it upon the table; 'Have you lest yotr senses? 'By no menans, gentlemen,' cried tl Count, in a tone of bitter orn, 'and -1 proof of it I repeat my pledge. , Listen t me well, that the man iwho -accepts th challenge may. kaow.,,to .what he bind himself.. To thehealth of him,'.he cot tinued, 'who shall -seek 'out the tigres alone, on foot),through the reeds, and sla, it, amid her wIelps, with no otherv on thau this pdlgnard!' Universal. silence followo-oI theso.wordh during which the Count gazed in turn a all presen; every eye was cast to thi ground. . 'No one answers!' he continued, with i sinile. 'No one ventures to nacept .ml challenge? No one has the courage lo di honor to my pledge?' Well. thon, I mus undertake it mysnlf, and ifn do not, yot may call mo knave, as I now call yot cowards!' With these words, Bonzeva drained his glass, then set it calmly upor the table, and said, as he approached tha dior-. 'Adieu, until to-morrow, gentlemen! and with these woOsg ho disappeared. At six o'clock, on the fullowing morn ing, the Count had completed his prepa tions for the ftprful hunt, when his com panions or the preceding day entored ,hi: chninber to entreat him to give up an m dirtaking, tle result of which couk not but prove fatal to him; but the Count would not listen to them. TheN acknowledged the impropriety of theil conduct at table the day before, and own, od that they had behaved hicedlessly anc rudely. The Count thanked the gentle, men for their excuses but refused to ac. cept them. He answered, abruptly, thi 1h:is principles did. not permit him to shec the, blood of his fellow.men, and that he ret racted the epithet which ho had applied .o hilem, but that nothing could induct nim to give up his intended adventure At thesamne time he Invited the 'entio. menot mount their horses, assuring them howeve', thrit .if they' refused :to, honoi hiin!th their 'company, he -would!"gC Ilone im search of the tigress. This dd. _irtj.Joriwsuterod in..so firm atone, hat no one aqtnIptedtooppose his pur. ose, mt l..mpunte lkjiair horses,in or jai-roo.n din oogrempntjt1o ~Otalon was4with ut a wea,1o:. HIe was dre.ssed like a OunIg fop when lie takes iis morning ride I the Bois de Boiougne. The officers azed at each other with astonishnent; o one could believe it possible, that the ,outit would persevere in this calmness the end. Wheni lte reached the cdge of the wamnp, the otlicers made another altempt r prevent him from pushing the adven. tire fhrther. In the midst of their ex. iostiulations, and as if to warn him, a lotd 'ouir was lieid at a distance of about a 1imdred paces; the terrified horses begun o pIunig: anid rear. you see, gentlemen,' said the Count, we are observed; the animal knows that ve are here, and upon (Ilitting the East ndilics, which I shall probably never visit ignin, I do riot wish to leave an unfavorn )C opiliotn behind ie.-even with a ti res<. Forward, gentlemen!' With these words the Count struck the ipirs into his horse's si.les, in order to sass nlonig the cdge of the swamp and reach the hill, from the summit of which bey~ could see over the reeds which hid he tieress anid her wlAps. Wh len th1ey had1( reached theL root of thec mill, a seconid roar was heard. hut now .sr lud and nrear thamt one of the horses star lced asidie, and almost threw his ride: rrom the saddle; the others, with foamin' mouths, dilaited niost rils, fixed and~ gla rin' eyes, t remibled ini every Iiimbl. The en ie party now dhimouinted andui gave itheil horses into the han~rds of the shaves; theo Coirnt wazs the first to clarmer up the hill From its summit lhe coul lihow the tracks of the wild beast through the crush ed reeds. Pathls, about t wo tfeet in width were broken amid ilhe tall sterns, arid, a the otlicers had said, all led towards common centre, where the reeds -wer tramprled dIown, leaving a spot of har earth. A noi her roar from this directioi dlissip)ated all doubt, and Blenizeval nti0 knewv where to finid his enemv. The oldest oft lie otlicers once more ap proachled the Count, but thme latter divin ing his intenitior,motioned him cobilvy awn with his handh. Hie thea buttoned heis com andi requestedl one of his cousiins to lemi himni the silk sash that was fasted nbout hi waist, in order to wrap it around his Ic airm; lie then beckoned the Malay to renc him his poignrd, and directed the latte to fasten it firmly in his hand by moans< a wet cloth; ihe throw his liat upon th ground, smoothed his hair cnlmuly from hris face, arid took thme shom test wayr i< wvardls the reeds, amid which hie <Iisal pearedh for some moments, while his coii panions gazed upon each other in disri' as ifte earcely creditedl the reality lie scene which wans passing. Slowvly and cautiously, the Count at vaneced upon the path, which w'as so plair ly marked otit that it wvas impossiblo1 err either to the right or to the left. WVh1 ho had nroceeded about a hundredm nace ho child of the whiteflower(he old Bour bon dynasty) on his thronei" There. mainder of the pre-visions. are somewhat tromendous, but more obscure--referripg to the Church as well as to secular affairs So mitch for the Solitary of Orval - The-next French prophecy is ascribed to a Jesuit priest of Poitiers, who died at Bordeaux towards the close of the last century. It was made prior to the first French revolution, Which it predicted, and other events, (as in the case of Orval) to the present time. Hence it is popularly depended on for thefutur.-It predicts, among other things, a terrible convulsion -the formation of two parties in France -that convulsion shall extend to other lands (it has done so)-and that Paris shall be "so utterly destroyed, that when twenty years afterwards, furthers shall walk with their children, and the children shall ask-why is that desolate spot?' they shall answer-My children, here once stood a great city, which God les t royed fur its crinies.' A fter this fearful convulsion, all will return to order, and the counter-revolution shall bs made. - Then shall the triumph of the Church be such, that nothing like it shall ever 1)e seen again, for it shall be the last triumph of the Church on earth." The commen. tator says thiatthe " events foretold ought to receive their fulfilment (calculation given) befbre 1859. And so much for the prophecy of Poitiers. Then comes the prediction of Bug do Thilas,of the pyrenees, in the sixteenth century, who predicted the utter destruc tion of Paris, entering into details of the great fire, and fixing the epoch for the disaster in the nineteenth century. SThe." Prophetie Lorranine" in verse, foretells the same event, with minute de'. criptions and details, warning the Paris. ian " that he will perish entirely by his own fault." But when is this tremendous conflagra. tion to occur? An alphabetico-numeral calculation is given, which places it in the year 1849! The Rev. Robert Fleming's (Minister of the Scottish Church) predictions, pub. lished in 1704, are then dwelt upon at great length in which he foreshadows events to 1794 as the opening of the Fourth Vial of the Revelations--and that the opening ofthe Fifth Vial ofthe. Apoca ypse, (under the wrath of which the world. now, of courso, supposed to be suffering, as to the periodbetweea1794 -and 3ec rs of the 1uturo d oidt et I e n. rention-of the steam engine, of railway ocomotives, the adoption of steam navi. ration on the ocean-and more wonderful till, the discovery of the Magnetic Tel. 1graph-as being all and each, of mord mportance to mankind at large than the )urning of Paris, or even a French revo. ution? However, we will not quarrel Aith the predictors of the dark future or 6 heir expounders-as it is probable that hey could not see erery thing in the time o come. fBesides, a thought strikes our 'find-and that is, that Paris with its solid valls of mnonry, its tile and brick loors and stairs.eases, would not prove prove sufficiently combustible to produce t general conflagration. By fire, at east, it could never be more than par. ially destroyed. DROLL FUNERAL PROCESSION. Mr. Kendall, writing from Hamburg, says: Lest some of my readers may think liat tle term droll, as applicd to a funeral procession, may nppeanr strange, let me tell them that in Hamburg the friends and re. lativesof the dead do not follow the re. mains to the grave, but in their stead ma rch along sonme t welve or sixteen hiired: mourners, with curled and powdered wigs upon thecir heads, short cloaks upon their shoulders, and swords at their sides, while the very quaintness of their costumes, and a species of mock gravity upon the coun. tenance of those whose trade it in to mourn for pay, combine to give anything hut that solemniity to a scene which the stranger meets ini other lands. A ANsas CounTs.-THJE wAY THEY no rr.-A correspondeRnt of' the New York Spirit of' the Times, writing from El-Dorado, relates the following "good un." ft. II. .M.,an Attorney of bigh stand. ing at our lBar, being counsel in a case then pending, was called by the Sheriff' from the Court House door three times, di st inictly -R. H. NM., Esquire! R. H. M., Esqjuire! hut no answer toeithier call, and it was impossible to proceed with the case, without hini; some inquiry wvas maide by the court "in person,'' when one of the crowd walked up to the bench, say. ing:-"Ef you want him pretlokeler, Judge, hie's over at B's, playing poker." Here was a fix. The Court had too much respect for such sport to break up the game, but could not conveniently ad. .ourin; so afler reflect ing a moment, he ve. ry coolly remarked to his informant, " Ge over and play his hand awvhfo and toll him to conic into Court." Macfarland, the celebrated vaulter, ac-. complished the herculean feat of throwing serenty-t wo sommersets, without resting, on Saturday afternoon last, at the Broadwvay Circus. This is the greatest number ever thrown anywhere. TIho average height of each sommterse wna over ten reqt fron the h he boaurd-a low groiI which itl him that his onemy was upon the -atob, 6n and that, if she had 6i son, ih ad t nstcoited him; he stopped for a soon, and, as soon as the noise ceased, contin. ued upon his way. He soon reached the a bare spot, which was strewn with 1'ones n. to which remnants of flesh weroe still o clinging. le glanced around the circle, D and in a cavity of a fe feet in depth, s which was over-rdrched, as it were, -with . reeds,.he perceived the tigress, half erect, w with open jaws, and her eyes fixed upon him, while her whelps were playing be nenth heir like young kittens. The Count alone could describe what , passed, at this moment, in this moment, in t his boson; but his soul was an abyss a which locked up every emotion. The two antagonists gazed upon' each qthder t steadfhstly for a while, but when. the r Count remarked that the animal, fearing > to leave her whelps, did not attack him, t he resolved himself to be the assuilant. He approached to within a few phkes of her, and as he saw at last th.at she made I a movement to rise, ho at once rushed up P on the animial. Those who wutchelj and ) listened, heard at onco a roar and a cry; for a moment they sw- the reeds agitated, then perfect silence followed. All was over. They waited for a few seconds, to see if the Count would appear again, but they. waited in vaim. They were now ashamed at havidg suflered him to enter the swamp alone,:end I resolved, as they had not prevented hlin from throwing away his life, at least to rp; cover his body. They advanced eagerly into the swamp, rand at last reached the bare spot, where they found the two anta. I gonists, lying one upon the other; the ti. gross was dead, the Count in a swoon. The two whelps, as yet too votng to de. vour him, were licking his blood, The tigress had received seven poigtb ard strokes, the Count a bite which h4d crushed his left arm, and a stroke from the animal's paw which had lacerated Iis breast. The officers bore away the body of 'the tigress and the senseless Count; man and beast were cafried upon the same litter. Dhombay. The Mglay sav bouid . Voung whelps with strips of muilin, a' ngurgthenover-hia hors, -on eitheris" ofthe saddle.v . When, at t8ezitt p Ef~ the Co~ogne' - re rtanent In w te t . G O cousai served. No mant has since Ventured to mock at the Count do Benzeval. MODERN PROPHECIES. A STORY FOr THE CREDUJ.OU.-It is somewhat singular that the usually grave pages of Black wood'slould (in the Decem. ber number) contain a chapter on dire and fearful prophecies, as connected with the time in which we live, and particularly as involving the destiniies of France. It' all ages the orgin of wonder has been strong. lV developed in the human race, and this te!ndency of nian's nature has oftien been| turned to profitable account by the design. ing and ambitious. Who can doubt that with the ancients, the mystic vaticinations of Delphos and Dordona were frainmedgo suiI the aspirations of power? Wlherenot the Sybilline Leaves also consulted, in most instances, with the certainly of a fa. vorable answer? And is it not a sad and sober truth, that the publication of a pro phecy, real or pretended, contributes to its ownt fulfilnent, by prompting mnanUnd even to evil acts, unider the pretext or be lief that in nidintg to fulfil a predieiont, they are obe'ying a Divinie behest? 'Ihums wvas iniche'th stimiulated to the perpitra tiotn of rtntny multrders by. thte all/hail! and " Thou shall/ b'e King hecreafter!'' of time Weir'd Sisters. But it is not our intentiotito wrib nn essa.y ont paroEphecy, and therefore,up~ will at onmce p)rceed to thme so.called forehtad owing of e'vents in France. It ailppearts thamt for some titme pant, and even previous to the recent revolutlon, a librochura called t he " Prophecy'of -Ival," toget her ~withI other aind subsequ et pre dlictionis, hass beent circulated in Pajis and throughout !'rance-anrd that it c aited a great sensmition.i. No wondr-w enci the aental excitement p.roduted~t by til revo. lutioni and thme events of.Iune, is taken in to due consideration. The "Provbions of v a Solitary." (Monk or ilermit)ofl'me Alb. bohy of Orvnt, in thie Diocese of'ITres are said to have beent first pitnted at Luxemn -hbouirg, ini 1544-and re printed in 1702. I The laniguage uisedl is of a "' mystic' chiar *acter-ofthtat clouidy andI shadowystyle in which oracles attd predictionsj haa in nl anges been shrouded. The evets of the IF'retnch Revolution, the then fadl of the ht Bourbons, the career of Napoleon the re r storation-thc accession andt reigatof Lou. fis Phlilippe, his dothtronemaett. paty strife Canid the presenit revoltution, appealto have beeti foretold-at least so reads i e inter - protatin of the predict ion, in i 'iiihby -* mfoons, evena the tim iiit s catlculat ~. Thie tendettev of the article liethre uf is evi denl'ttly to prodnice the impressioij that if so lairge a portion of the jppet hats nl. ready bteetn realized, it is proltle thant I- the remaining pre-vistons gidl prove t- equall y trite. Now whait are gthehv "lv o -civil wvar, slaughter, thme destruction of n thec cityj of Paris b'y fire! a revolution i'n s. England-andl the nem osblia,maru ofr rround, clear. Te 40A ani" of Englauid ill 4. o c6liar tile of "Prince of 'Valera. MIXED -USBN RY. By the adoption of iijed husbandry say h Seabrook, te fallow syste will be abandon ei,-and fallow crops tako its place. Tho culz "Ar tivator will become oubstantially a farnie and no longer wear the insigia'lof a plantr. It follows that one-third, In cases, one haliof the real estate in possession of many of our profession, might, in suchain eve"fh be il and'tho profits appropriated, to the improve nient of tho remainder; or cobverted into leg.: aci6s for their children, instead of compellinw them for the supposed want of room, to seef their bread in foreign climes. The amount of cayital invested in land by individual pro prietors, ought to be diminehed. There Ad perhaps no barrier to agricultural progres which ha. attracted so little notice as the dis. position to hold landed property incommensu rate with the force actuall engaged in. its cultivation. No fact is better establiid; than that any quantity of gi-ound, under the supervision and control of an int6lligeut prac tical man, will give larger returns and insure' more comforts, than three times the area,- in unskillful and imp'ovident hands. Ab** rule universally to be observed, it is bettei to cultivate one acre, systematically nanured; than three acres unprovided with appropriate pabulum, or only partially, aided in othei words, to o% n a sna'l:plot of ground, capable of being put in a garden-like condition, than the boastedoccupierof imensetrgpts astra - ger perhaps to the plo rh 0 oor h tainlj to the artificial food des ned for t ~ inte nance and support of vultivable p! Th. secret of the accumulation of weaitl' 6not. in disbursing the profits of the farm, in add ing to its size, or in increasing the number of laborers, but in expaiding them in sucl' improvements as the skillful and experience4 eye may point out. This li the true and 64y mode of permanently enlarging the produe.; tive capital of an estate. -ly this means the. owner of 100 acres: may be the proprietor of as much land as the holder of flV times that quantity, with ihe,advantageo among the m&. ny others, in favor, bt the formerithat he pays less taxes and Is c'ertain of a progressive improvement in the value of his property. Lot the excess of income, then, be appropinted in draining-in reducing to culture evey pon and mornes within the incieoure-in good bull dings-in substantial and; durable fences, and, where there is a necesuity, to rehase in mineral or animal manures, and judic ous and'economical .e!piMdents. a' i.ij 463 " T.HEBNDNE TO 1PPIT There is an impeytant featule lationgoft astrr~hp ul1t6 soinek ' 46t4 everej at itat, but soon bec t, agreeable; auid, when his mi' i es diseteady habits and industry are establib: mnd he comes forth a man, the,, masteota rade, of fixed principles and good habiti flessing to himself and the community. - If parents would but look at it arighthey. vould declare that, had they many sone,'they :hould learn trades. Contrast the youth jusf illuded to with him who, having a h6rror - mn apprenticeship, is allowed to runat large. At the most critical period of life foi forming iabite, he in forming those that are the reverse >f industry. le is not fitting himself to be a nan, but wearing away his boyhood in idle-. )ess. The partial parent sees this, yet has iot fortitude to avert it. At twenty-one years' )f age, when the frst-named lad comes out a ood echanic, it is wonderful if the other' ias not fattened habits upon him that will be iin ruin, if he is not ruined already. More han one excellent man in our community :an say with thankfulness, that it turned out to that, to his half dozen years' apprentice. ' thip, he is indebted for the habits of Industry d sobriety he has obtained; that, when he was put to a trade, he was on a pivot, as it were. Had it not been for the firmness of >f his parents he likely would have been a ruined lad ere his mmnority expired. This' ,ras the turning point.-Charles W. Holden. CURIOUS. Until a year or two since, the lagoon ox tending from the entrance of our harbor 'to within half a mile of the Perdido Blay, a dis tance of eight or ten miles, had an entrance into our bay at a point near the residence -of Major Chase, the channel at one time admit ting vessels drawing seven foot, and all tho' vessels laden with brick for the building of Fort Mc Ree passed through this channel In to the lagoon to discharge their cargoes. By' the action of the surf rolling in Tro the" ocean, the entrance was gradually closed. Thus the lagoon remained for three months, constantly receiving accessions from the lit tle streams making into it, until it was two' or three feet above the level of the bay and sea. At this time a young man residing , the neighborhood, "just for the fun of the' thing," cut a little dItch through the sand at a low point near the fort, .-when the water' commenced running, and in a few hours It was cutting away everything before it, and in a day or two there was a channel of -over a hundred yards wide, and in the deepest place twelve or fourteen feet. The channel has ever since been encroaching upon thel fort,-and a few months since began to wash its base. Major Chase, seeing that the beautiful fort that lied been erected under his supervision, at a cost, probably, of over a million of dollars, was in danger of boin blown up by an unexuw'eted enemy, and knowing that the structur-e ".ested- upo sandy foundation, turned -hIs attentint6. stopping the breach, and used a - nujnbers of methods; but all failed,-nrtl the ha'ppy ext pdient suggested itself of procuring, some 20,000 corn sacks, whichll were filled, wi sand, sewed up, and tumbled into the~h ' nel, and in a short time the watet wasn suc cessfully stopped, and the -fort "satved. T'he, Major is nowv endeavoring to divert -the wat f ter Into another channel, but at a point where! the fort is not in such dangerous pron~i ty.-Pescla (Gap,