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All Obituary Notices exceeding six lines, and Communications recommendi ng Cand dates for public offices or trust--or puffing Exhibitions, will be charged as Advertise ments. IlrAll letters by mail must be paid to in sure punctual attendance. ___ ~ itell~ali.__ HINMTS ron CoitESPONDENTS.-A contemporary lays down the following pithy. code of newspaper by-laws. They are the best we have ever seen drawn up. 1. Be brief. This is the age of Tel egraphs and Stenography. 2. Be pointed. Don't write all round a subject without hitting it. 3. State facts, but don't stop to mor alise. It's drowsy business. Let the reader do his own dreaming 4. Eschew prefaces. Plunge at once into your subject, like a swimmer in cold water. 5. If you have written a sentence that you think particularly fine, draw your pen through it. A pet child is always the worst in the family. 6. Condense. Make sure that you really have an idea, and then record it in the shortest possible terms. We want thoughts in their quintessence. 7. When your article is complete, strike out nine-tenths of the adjectives. The English is a strong language, but won't bear two much "reducing." 8. Avoid all high flown language. The plainest Anglo-Saxon words are the best. Never use stilts when legs will do as well. t 9. Make your sentences short. Ev. cry period is a mile stone, at which the reader may halt and rest himself. 10. Write legibly. Don't let your manuscript look like the tracks of a! spider half drowned in ink. We shan'tI mistake any one for a genius, though write as crabbedly as Napoleon. AN ANCIENT CITY.-The famous city of Petra, in Arabia, has been a theme of admiration and astonishment to all the tourists of recent times; but another town, apparently far more an cient and of greater extent still, exists in the north of Affghanistan, and is known throughout the east by the name offBamecan. The city consists of a greater nmmber of apartments cut out of the solid rock. It is said that in many of them the walls were adorned -with paintings which look still fresh, after centuries of desertion and solitude; some of them are adorned with the rich est carved work. Thtere areesupposed to be more than twelve thousand of such habitations in B~amecan, but the natives who are Mohommedans, enter tain a superstitious predudice against inhabiting such homes. They have old traditions which declare them to have boen the first habitation of mankind, and that strange city is casually men tioned by some of the classic authors; yet by whom its rocky abodes were excavated, who were its inhabitants, or what - their history-all have passed from the recollection of the world, and -exist only in fabulous or uncertain tales. *FORCE OF CHIARACTER.-Man im putes to himself the ability to be con etant by his own proper force, and pla ces his honor in that ability. A man of his word, and a man of honor, are synonymous terms. He who can em -brace a purpose and persist in it, who can act from a resolve, unsupported by present inclination-nay, even in oppo. -8ition to present inclination, emotion or passion-of him we say, "He has a character?" "Heb is a man," We xdespise the man who is always only what things, accidents, circumstances *make him; the fickle, the inconstant, the 'wavering. We honor him who can re 8ist objects and the impression wvhich theg make upon; who knows how to maiain himself in the faco of them; who lets himself he instructed but not harged bythem.- F. II. Jacobi. F cioLaresc." THE YEZIDIS. BY A. It. LAYARD. No. 1. The mysteries of this sect have been traced to the workship introduced by Seimiramis into the very mountains they inhabit-a workship which, impure in its forms, led to every excess. The quiet, cleanliness and orders of their villages, do not warrant these charges. Their known respect of fear for the evil principal has given them the title of Workshippers of the Devil. Some years ago they were a powerful tribe. They recognize one Supreme Being, but do not offer any thing direct prayer or sacrifice to him, and appear to shun with superstitious awe any topic con nected with the existence of attributes of the Deity. The name of the evil spirit is never mentioned, and any allu sion to it by others so vexes and iriita. tes them, that they have put persons to death whohave wantonly outraged their feelings by its use. So far is their dread of offending the evil one carried, that they carefully avoid every expression which may resemble in sound the name of Satan, or the Arabic word for ac cursed. Whenever they speak of the Devil they do so with reverence. They believe Satan to be the chief of the an gelic host, now suffering punishment for his rebellion against the divine will -but still all powerful, and to be res tored hereafter tohis high estate ir the celestial hierarcy. Christ according to them, was also a great angel who had taken the form of man. He did not die on the cross, but ascended to heaven. They hold the Old Testament in great reverence, believe in the cosmogony of Genesis, the deluge, and other events recorded in the Bible. They do not reject the New Testament nor the Ko ran, but consider them less entitled to their consideration. Still they always select passages from the Koran for their tombs and holy places. Mahommed they lock upon as a Prophet, as they do Abraham and the patriarchs. They expect the second coming of Christ as well as the re-appearance of Imaun Mehdi. The origin of the name is traced to the celebrated Omuminde Caliph Yezid, a great persecutor of the family of Ali in their own religious history; but there is reason to believe it must be sought for elsewhere, as it was used long before the introduction of Mohammedanismn, and is not wit. ut connection with the early Persian appellation of the Su preme Being. It is diflicult to tiace their ceremonies to any particularsour ec. They babtize in water, like the Christtians, if possible with seven days after birth. They circumcise at the same age and in the same manner as the Mohamminedans, reverence the Sun and have mnany customs in common with the Sabeans. They have great rever ence for the Sun and have built a tem ple and dedicated it to that luminary. They are accustomed to kiss the object on which its first beams fall. For fire, as symbolic, they have nearly the same reverence. They never spit in it, but frequently pass their hands through the flame, kiss, them, and put them over their right eye-brow, or over the whole face. Tfhe colour, blue, to them is an abomination and never to be worn in dress or to be used in their houses. The place to which they turn their eyes whilst pe forming their holy ceremonies is always that part of the Heavens in which the sun rises, and toward it they turn the faces of their dead. Lettuce and Hii bicus esculentus, and some other veg etables, are never eaten by them; por-k is unlawful, but wine is drunk by all. They have no religious observances on marn-iagve, nor- are the number of wives limited. The men and women rinerely present themselves to a Sheikh, who ascertains that there is mutual coun sent. A ring is then given to thme brnide or sometimes money instead-a day is fixed for rejoicing-they drnink she bet, dance, but have no religious eer monies. Their year begins with that of the Eastern Christians, whom they follow also in the order and nme of their months. Some fast three days at the commencement of the year, but that is not considered necessary. Wed nesday is their holiday. Some fast on that day, yet they do not abstain from work on it as the Chirstian do on the Sabbath. Their names, both male and female, are generally those used by Mo hammedans and Christians. The namec of George is however objectionable, and is nevor given to a Zoridi. Tennessee is said to be the only State in the Union that had not a foot of rail road on the 1st of.Tanuary, 184 THE ORDER OF JESUITS. BY MACAULAY. Before the order of Jesuits had e isted an hundred years, it bad filled ti whol world with memorials of gre things done and suffered for the fiit No religous community could produ a list of men so variously distinguish4 none had extended its operation ovi so vast a space; yet in none had the ever been such perfect unity of feelit and action. There was no region the globe, no walk of speculative or active life, in Jesuits were not to 1 found. They guided the councils Kings. They deciphered Latin inscri tions. They observed the motions Jupiter's satellites. They publisl whole libraries, casuistry, history, tre ise on optics, Alcaicodes, editions the fathers, madrigals, catechisms at lampoons. The liberal education ( youth passed almost entirely into the hands, and was conducted by them wil conspicuous ability. They appear have discovered the precise point I which intellecual culture can be cart it without risk of intellecual emancipatioi Ennity itself was compelled to oW that in the art of managing and fort ing the tender mind, they assiduousl and successfully cultivated the el quence of the pulpit. With still grea er assiduity and still greater succe; they applied themselves to the ministt of the confessional. Throughout Cat olic Europe the secrets of every .o ernment, and of alost every fImil were in their keeping. They glide fron one Protestant country to anotli under innumerable disguises, as ga cavaliers, as simple rustics, as Purita preachers. They wandered to com tries which neither mercantile avidit nor liberal curiosity had ever iimpcllc any stranger to explore. They wet to be found in the garb of Mandarin: superintending the observatory ( P kin. They were to be f',unl, spade i hand, teaching the rudiments of agr culture to the savages of Paragua) Yet whatever might be their residene< whatever might he their cmplovmei their spirit was the same: entire dev tion to the common cause. implicit oh dicnce to the central authority. Non of them had chosen his d wellin d-plac or his avocation for himnself. Whetht the Jesuits should live under the arti circle or under the equator, whether 1: should pass his li'' in arranging go and collating manuscripts at the Vat can, or in persuading naked barbarii in the southern hemisphere not to ei each other, were matters which he le with profound submission to the decisiJ of others. If lie was wanted at Lini: he was on the Atlantic in the next flee If lie was wanted at Bagdad, lie wa toiling through the desert with t lie ie. caravan. If his ministry was ieede in some country where his life w: inore insecure than that of a wolf; whet it was a crime to harbor him, where t1i heads and quarters of his brethen, fi: ed in public places, showed hii whi lie had to expect-he went without r( monstrance or hesitation to his d'joon Nor is this heroic spirit yet extine I When in our own time a new and te rible pestilence lass around the glob when ini sotme great cities fear had di solved all thte ties which hold society gethier; whetn the secular clergy h:1 Ideserted their flocks; whtetinmedicalh nu cor was not to be purchased byv geh when the suiotigest natural aIUfetim had yieldeli to) the love of life, ent then the Jesuit was found by the pall whlich bishops and curat e, phtysici: and nurse, father and mtothier had d serted, leaninmg over infected li1 s catch the faintest ncenmts of confjessit amnd holdinig up to last before the e'Xl ring penitent the image of thme expith Redeemer. Ct'nious Fac-r.--An Inmdiani, s'i an observitig writer, had tamted a blhu sniake, which lhe kept about him dutib the summer months. Inm autunm lie I thme creature go whither it ch. se crawl, but tohil it to conie to hmim aga upon a certain day, which lhe nmaume in the sprinig. A white imn was p ent, and saw what was (dite, and lien the Indian atlirm that the serpenit wou return to him the very day lie had poinitedl, had not faithi in the truth of I Ipredictioni. The next sprinig, retaii the day in his memory, curiosity I him to the p'lace, wherte lie founmdi Indiaii in waiting', atid after remaii with him about two hours, the serpa came crawling back, and put hims under the care of its old miaster. The case has been accoutnted for supposing that the itndian had ohseru' that black snakes nsually eturn to thm old haunts at the same vernal season; and as he had tamed, fed, and kept this snake in a partic.ular place, experi ence taught him that it would return on a certain day. This may be one way of accounting ' for it; another is, to suppose a real mag. notic connection between the Indian and r the snake, of the fascination and charming between serpents and birds, which, upon a certain, drew the snake to his master. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than art >e dreamt of in our philosophy." A W. M. T. S DANEL Boo's CounTsr.-In the immediate neighborhood of his fathers' new settlement on the river Yadkin, another adventurer, named Bryan, so~n d inade his appearance, and platted him. self upon a beautiful spot, washed on i- one side by a lovely mountain stream, h near which lad been the favorite hunt inig ground of the young sportsnan. On a certain evening. Boon engaged a d friend to meet him at that spot for the pur6pose of engaging in a "fire hunt.'' In this wild sport, one of the parties usiillv rides through the forest, with a pine torch borne on high, which, shed. ding lih t through the gloomy precincts, so dazzles the eyes of the (leer, that the other party, wl o is on foot, shoots the anie between the eyes, while the be wildered animal is stating at the blaze. Boon's companion was to bear the torch, and accordingly appeared on the field, ad conineieed the usual round. They r had not proceeded far, when Boon gave the conerted signal to keep the light stationary. The horseman obeyed, and waited in momentary expectation of,, hearing the sharp and fatal report of his friend's rifle. Not hearing it, how ever, he turned his horse to ascertain the caiis. of the unwarrantable delay, when hie saw his friend drop his rifle, anl set ofl in pursuit of sonic shadowy object over brush and briar, fence and Whein Toon gave the signal to his friend, lie indeed saw the flame of the torch reflected by a Ilair tf brilliant eyes, and lie iminediately cocked h's gun, and brought it to his eye; but instead of standing stujpified itt, the supposed fawn wheeled precipately and fled. During this usial rioveient, Boon caught a glimi se of tie tloning folds of a petti. coat, dropped his rifle. and made chase after his game. So intense had been his interest in the pursuit, that lie was little less surprised than his new neigh . bor Mr. 3rvan, when lie found himself standing in te oorway, having driven te Object of his chase into the paternal Boon's einbarrassncit and surprise m easily !e imagined, when he saw the consteriatioi of the father, and the panting terror of his beautiful daughter, who had se:reely tuned her sixtecith e nmnerti, and1lwiose lustrous ringlets were flyig about her faiee, neck, and palpitating hiosom, in the richest con trast of light aind shade. Strange as it may appear of our ardnbckwoodISman1, hie becalie agit.t ted ina his tni, with all the stern and r. ruged qua :iliti--s of' Ihis tiatuite, lhe was taen cap:tivye lby a tuaiden's charms. An wha~ i t was' no less strange, the hhi'*hing Ii'c, who had rutn itnto her falter's arims. declaring that she was Ipursue'd by a tatherci, no0w perceiv'ed tha t he. was no't suc(h a frighitfid atimral as hier' fir1st imprumessionm in the dark had led heri to suppose51. I-eed, IIloon was at this tim'e just in the first flush of' youth; his peso stri.;h*~t and( well pro otioned, and the who~'d~le zpearance fth a pr'esented suchi a here~ to the eye of the u nsophis gtienttedl girl, as her imagination was likel .' to cr"eate f'or itself in that remote and ~seecied seene-ini shioi't, they lov'ed mrnutually,. aind Miss Rebecca Bry s an inm a ver'y short time became Mr's. kg - on t A 'T .s :t.v IhItvr.-''Th editor of the to Ciihivalor n-indsuti his read'ers that cater. 'a~ p1i1lhr, shoiuld he' tatide to ini season,1 iiodi I halt when't t Is Iilonei the Iabor' of e. easy' tmade of dtet ruetiiont is to itpply Sit rongi hI a -ads~l toiS i the nest-if' the trcee is large P.' ~omtplishi the0 purpose0 el'ectuaoly. Sudis us whichl haive beent tsed hv ;the washI womanti ig ar a cis goiod as anyt, anid by r'ubiig a swa b, ott ithe nestl, after it hats been dlippied into lie thei suds, the worms ar iutick ly destroy. ut 21f' An ai'ticle in a Southern paper, an inouncitng a pers's1' decease, says, "is~ by mneis were( connitted to that hournte ed whenee ino traveler returns, attended Lir by hisf(riends. A STREAK OF SQUATTER LIFE. BILL SAPPER'S LETTER TO HIS COUSIN. LIBERTI, Missury, May 6th, 1 forty 6. Cousin Jim, tha aint nuthin' occur red wuth ritin' about in our settlement fur a long spell, but about the beginin' of last week, thur war a rumor sot afloat in town, which kept the winien for two or three days in a continooal snigger, and it war half a day afore the men could find out the rights of the marter-sech anuther fease as all the gals got inter, war delightful to con template. The boys kept a askin' one anuther, what in the ycarth wur the marter, that the gals kept a whisperin' and laffin round town so?--at last it cum out! and what do you think, Jim, wur the marter?-You couldn't guess in a week. It aint no common occur rence and yet it's mighty natral. Lit tle Jo Allen, the shoemaker, had an addition to his family, amountin' to jest three babbys-one boy and two gals! His wife is a leetle cretur,' but I reck on she's 'some' in coluntin' the census, and sech anuther excitement as her lit tle brood of pretty babby's has kicked up among the wimen is perfecEly intic in' to bachelors. When the interestin' marter wur first noised about, the wim en wouldn't believe it, but to know the rights of it tha put on thur bonnets and poured down to see Mrs. Allen, in a perfect stream of curiosity; and, surr, enough, thar tha wur, three raal leert lookin' children, all jest alike. Bein' an acquaintance of Jo's, he tuck me in to see his family, and it wur raaly an interestin' sight to see the little creturs. Thar tha wur, with thur tiny faces iside each other, hevin on the prettiest -aps,-all made and fixed by the young vimin, as a present to the mother, md then thur infantile lips jest openin,' ike so many rose buds poutin,' while hur bits of hands, transparent as spar nacity, wur a curtin' about and push nI', all doubled up, agin thui little nos s, and thur mother all the time lookin' t'em so peert and pleased, jest as ef ;he war feelin' in her own mind tha war ard to. beat-added to which, thar ;tood thur daddy, contemplatin', with i glow of parental feclin', the whole ananimous pictur! It ain't in me Jim, to fully describe the universal merits of sceh a scene, and I guess it couldn't re :cive raal jestis from any man's pen, cept he'd ben the father of twins at least. 'Gracious me!' sed Mrs. Sutton, a very literary womin, who allays talks iistory on extra occasions; 'of that lit .le Mrs. Allen ain't ekill to the mother f the Grashi!' She looked at little Jo, the daddy, 7ur a spell, and tuk to admirin' him so hat she could acarely keep her hands >ff on him-she hadn't no babbys, poor xominl! 'Ah! Mr. Allen,' ses she, 'you are mthin' like a husband-you're determ ned to decend a name down to your inces' .!' I roaly believe she'd a kissed him ef hur hadn't ben so many wimen thar. T'he father of the babbys were mitely tickled at furst, 'cause all the wimen wur a praisein' him, but arter a slell lie Vin to look skary, for go whar ho would be found sooume wiumen tryiin' to git a look at him-tha1 jest besieged his shop winder all the time, and kept peepin' in, and lookin' at him, and askin' his ag~e, and whar he cum from? At last sumi of tihe gials got so curious tha asked him whar he did conme from, anys hou', das soon as ho sedl Inmdianee Dick Masin becumm one of thme popularest young men in the settlement among the wimen, jest 'cause ho war from. the same state. T1hings went on this way for a spell, till at Iast tha heerd of 'ema in the count try, and the wimnen all about found somec excuse to come to town to git store goods, jest a purpose05 to see tihe babby's and thur parents. T1he little daddy war wusser lamgnmed now, anmd they starr'd at him so that he couldn't work--the fact wur, his Ifmit wur gettin' troubled, and some of the wimnen noticed the ska ry look he had out of his eyes, and kept a wonderin' what it mneanta. One mmrin' it war noticed by some of thle gals that his shop warn't opceed, so tha got inquirin' about him, andi arter a sarch he cum up missin'-well, l'in of the opinion thur wur an excite menit in town then, fully ekill to the president's election. Every womin started her husbind out arter Jo, with orders not to cumn back without him, and sechm a scourin' as they gin the country round would a caught anmy thin' human,-it did ketch Jo-on his road to Texas! Whmen they got him back in the town agin, a committee of muarried men held a secret talk with him, to mar what the marter wur, that he wanted to clear..ute and Jo tod 'em that the wimen kept a starin' at him, so he couldn't work, and ef he iar kept from his bisness, and his family clinti. nooed to increase three at a time, he'd git so, cussed poor- he'd starve, and tharefore he knew it -ud be better to clear out, for the wimen would be sure to take good care of his wife and .the babbys. Old Dr. Wilkins wur appointed by the men to wait on a meetin' of the wimen, and inform them of the tact, that tha wur annoyin' the father of Vfie three babbys, and had almost driv'en him out'n the settlement. The docto-, accordin' to appintment, informed: Itho wimen, and arter he had retired tha went into committee of the ivhole upon the marter, and appinted'three of thur number to report at a meetin', on the next evenin', a set of resolutions tellin' what tha'd do in the premises, and -gov ernin' female action in the partickler case of.Jo Allen, his little wife,, and three beautiful healthy babbys. .a When the hour of meetin' had arriv. ' Mrs. Sutton's parlors wur crowjded with the wimen of the settlement, and arter appinten Widder -Dent to the cheer, th a reported the comittee on re. solves reddy, and Mrs. Sutton bein' the head of the committee she sot to work and read the followin' drawn up paper: Whereas, -It has been sed by, the wise Solomon of old,. that the world must be peopled, tharfore, we hold it. t be the inviolate duty of every [man to git married, and, moreover, rear up cit izens and future mothers to our glorious republic; and, Whereas, It is gratifyin' to human natur', the world in genal, Missury at large, and .Liberty in partickler, that this settlement has set an" example to the ancesters of future time, which will not only make the wimen of this en lightened state a pattern for thur chil dren, but a envy to the royal wimen of Europe, not forgettin' the proud moth er the Lions of Ingland, but will ele vate and p lace in and among the furst families, fur ever hercarter, the mother that has shed such lustre upon the sex in) general; and, Whereas, It is the melancholy lot of some to be deprived of doin' thar duty in the great cause of human natur', be cause the young men is back'ard about speakin' out it is time that some mens ures be taken inimical. to our general prosperity, and encouragin' to the ris in' generation of young fellars round town; tharfore,. Resolved, That, as married women, our sympathies, like the heaving of na. tur's bosom, yearns with admiration and respect fur that little womin, Mrs. Allen, and as we see her three little babbys reclinin' upon thur mother's fe male maternal bosom, our beatin' hearts with one accord wish we could say ditto. Resolved, That in the case of Mrs. Allen we see an illustrious example of the intarnal and extarnal progress of that spreading race, the Angel Saxons; and time will come, when the mothers or the west will plant thar glorious shoots from one pinnacle of the Rocky Mountains to the tother, and until thar cry of liberti will be hollered from one pint to the next in continooal screetch,! Resolved, That Mr. Joseph Allen, the faither of these three dear little babbys, shall receive a monument at his deth, end while he is livin', the. winien shall ony visit his shop once a week to look at him, 'copt the married wimen, who shall be permitted to see him twice a week and no .offener, per v'ided and eceptintha want to.git meas-* uredl fur a pur of shoes.4 Resolved, Mister Joseph Allen sh1 hay the custom of the whole settlement, for he is a glorious livin' example of a* dotin' husband. Arter these resolutions had beena unanimously passed, Mrs. Sutton ad dressed the meetin' in a stream of ele gance, whariai she proved, clar as a whistle, that a family wvar 'the furst conisideration for a settler in a now country, and town lots the arterrques tion. 'She ackuowledged -the corn,' she sod, 'that it war soothin' to look offen at thur neighbor Allen, but his peace of mind war the property of his family,~ and she hoped .the ladies woln't disturb it, 'cause thb lost of soch a husbhind would be a sufferiidca lamity to the settlement.' Th'le mneetini' adjoured, and Jow*ent back to. work, singin': an~d :whistlin', as happy as usual, and. over since- he's had a perfect shower of work, *for .the gals all round the :country keep goin' to him to git measured, tha say be, de sarves to be incouraged. , Your frurst ousin. - ir1 SiPPER.