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D iOTEID TO SOUTHERN RIGIHTS, DEMOCRACY, NEWS, LITERAT wn .. R.2 _Pop .. V. UMTERVILLE, S._O.,_NOVEBER_,_18 2. MISCELLANEOUS. From the lyswiih xipres. ROMYIANCE OF KtEAIL LI'E. -XTRtAORtDINARY 1.\llOSTUlt-1 AND CRIEDULITY. Shottiliam is a (quiet village in ~ufk, distant rr.im fiswieli thirteen nited, from Woodbridge five tuiles. *dsayhi Sqirirel (a small tea dealer) 1# his wife have long resi'ed there, nd were believed to he honiest, in JIstrious, an worthy leople. Alminrigst their family was an inter esting girl, named ElizbetI; who1. in aet,, is the lini'(ie of our tale. Yhilst a mere child this girl g;ave evidence of a siiiiuior nl. AL tie Sundlay selool she eve;- took a fore. %post place aoIl at eight or nine years of age her memory was so retentive that she was f1rerpiently sent for to ive lomg recitatiis before miier ons companies. At tenl she wis placed nioler the care of 'Mr. Os 'lunne, the village scloollaste (who, we tilderst and, is a good schil. ar and extensive reader,) who soon orceiv,-l that his pIupil was a girl (f 'great niatural ability. She was at taitive to her studies, and whilst oth ers were at play, would e lavosely ttviengacd in going over the boohks that comiposedI Mr. Osbinie's librarv. Iaving a religious turn of iinil, she eaud uplon-all thieulogical points; shie A 'also made herself acqutiainte'l wil thle 4nglish poets, With hist ov, with p-is botany, au-l with plisnography. I -u June. 1850, at the age of tiwelp, shte left the sehool from ill s~esi eensioned, it is said, hv too ose- attention to.her stwiodies. ~ li-r Ines.1asrisumed the shape of a Spinal tion, ifor.wlich she hal the l adice, meul ui as * eniv telt &the Elt SSot: il l, doilprived her, it was al0ege1i, of the power of swallowinl. S'le lived onl L206I't ni milk beiung poured dun iher tliit, but the qan'iiatities were so .7 MA'n a 'that- her death vas daily ex g. She?, hiowever. to le a - ; ishment of Ier, frieils :aiid th tirs, cntuile to live on, al thig' it was sail she did not take a single morsel of solidfod. A t mid suimmer*, 1851, she recoverC froi her lock-jaw, bit it was alleged that she hia:d previously been seizxd witih bllndn'huess nwl deaIness, feies which she did not reygain. The way in whieb she had lived begn to be talked of, ani some ex ciiement; was oceasioned amongst the gossips of the neighboring villages. But at about this time the wriiiiigs and Speceches of the child ocasionied *considerable iliterest , whiieh w ais heightened by the ai.;ertion that she still ate no fojd. Persons living in the locality came to visit .er, awl found the patient inl an hunnle apart ment, supportel on her bel hy Iil lows, with a couitenance which most o'' tI e n called 'algelie,' but which vertainly was renarikable foIr it-s sin gaular'ly devotional cast, and for' the' rneat intelligence whieb be:n neud frii it. Elthough it. wals alledlgedl slit conhll not see, her' eyes r-eiainedi open;, und biut litt e defect could be beer~intheon. To heri vis i-s who symipathised with her she wo'nll eay, whent lamenting her dealauess and blindness, that 'what she learnied dur-' ing health were the tools shie huel to make use of dhn-ing her ilhwa'ss.' Ivery hiour that passed aw 1y add edL to the exciionenot, awlu spriiead Ihe~'r f ae widler and ni It'er friomI her tna tive villauge. A t all himrs of' :he d a v parties wemlhed thir way to her ci't tage, and w> sooner had~' they' g:z'd on the clhIl tan the v were interest edl in her-an interest that ha'd a strange (lash of' mystery ini it, whlen they were assured that inearlyv two years past not a particle of fod Ihad passed her lipis. I ut the momni she began to speak she fairl en, chaied tho .sympathiues ofi heri lear ers. Unabule asi theyv wete ti solvec (the phlysical problemo, they were e.(q.lly unable to acco~unit foir lie ex traor'dinary seuntiences thi tshie utte ed. For' the moust part lher renauk applied to religimous sub j ects, on auhe he~ wyoiild d~eeanit wit h a bueat ty il language, powerC (if llhought, and' det votion of mid, to which il.l divine e mii make li tle pire tenion, anO hvlicht, to saiy the lea-u, werei I:traeri'i ~'i'thl. bi ir'ee'ilnee to the w h m~lei of' ail va ti wee hid. u . iwe thiaL tliildbehat tli.'sc W! 0 iiit g tpoit her i.S; ilnst her artgnjtstit For tit,! insiriatitiit of' tL il t ittCrs, hier lefIili iItils 4of t ruthl %iit att v ere So~ 'ea uti iil it'iitl vintin z ativiI hii tal. titat ,ill(! caime to) be reirdeil as a bieing who had SOMtUP direct mnissionl to accompl~tish oil lie'! ,III of Deitv. I 'rha1 s totiliiitg could wel ei e finer thanrillt pials. to those %I101 she li kdeetnieli to lite roiiiivers of, lth w oi' Si W2II SO l WL't0f'u wr ti(,%, an !ilsC tujttu I ihg wore't the prayers sll,' plot Foirtt ,IIll their bechalf, that at titiest lie %vvtdo cOZUi tally m-11t11 lbe 1 at hell in t('ttrs, qona' Ot* (liC lt 1elA tIn alt l n;.'O1) itof' mndlt, aiwl ottieS patkilltg of' (lie 0. 1t-rial lire that Seoiee t.) lbea'll lu-not hiet ttI. .ut lier itntellectual andit tlevoti''ttal t1Oivers we~re tI(vvbtii ell to thleir ut i-St v.-heti' ver Selp iw vitcile. A.*.fai tist th ; ite w(ITM tu 1is eltartc a whole patrk of* Sc~ipttztl ar.I tillery, tiuti ;vitt, her atnitijiil 1t til0l evr pC' P tiiii ui tie B ilfle. 11LI il ti vi v ovcrw .\I1(1 il lu' \NWi hc 1 il ownt appet'als to .11ht 1i'1 tier arg!.luznt. il i laor oii *. l-qiay- 1I a large gi a-~ iltIonjt to itSz chtiit'4-. Iitfmlhimt SetIed0 t) lie Owi~ tlititi.wi shte IllSt ahtorei,;ttiil reti I t't lie wou~tldt draw dot' i thle es1 ccial IVell Wt Wil teoite hut Et le suil r> W~.1ett Ive S:lv these e.\ rairlmutat at !It ~ ~ tqh l '.4 v l l~ ul her iwtiaiks %mrtvix htat, Wttit 1tnu 1 ati Itimiate ail-jiaiitaitil it tIlt it biry, antu Stae thle ItetltitS t.ti ' limlt Jttets. It is StiI )~2 wid -i f(! St (Iee~al)il1 t ii btil \\ 1e 3 satv that shv thiditj-i it t CiVel I g~reat Illt..jtitv I.i*\\t11itl cumlt Hit llv tl1ttsti)Ii that (iiic %Vit(tt Spoke So H .111 t2ItAII oilSt jtci 'Jlts IIi itl tteetltt1g thetm \lieul she Sta.'etL; t1, i itt'r litear t vo wt ets she 11,1i liv ci ex iii V .l tt fill tti 111t1 fat reztiiui bytie 'titete luiiiait sht tok \,. ! ~~only CiviviIl to Iit herh hici I Igi orIn asu e quallyciiiiitn n-. solislic l \611 o hil Z .ii ti mevi h-Ia 0tillyte ll ttt~ tt Eras el1;itl. He S:t itvI ierli~t Vta IiSweu all-, ]lt ititg ttIt '!1tS ia tt a C00 i i glas that S'~I i- s-l hal~ izit alil..k ono -Tut Nexc,(ite t1,1ite atit flejs(. te to l'oe(qu. i .tit a- i ;:iiitttlsti anct eait1,. ~L. St sttI cti Sh it not e l;tttittd.sh. lir hlciliii were not a few who eldeavorled to detect whether or not any impositiop was practised. :iome of these attend ed day after day, but all were fairly heaten, ald camte awav Convinced that it was physically,. itellectually, miad religiously a genuine case. Rather more than three montlhs since, she anal her parents stated that the milk ceased to afilord her any nour islimn t, and that, in fact, fi tam tt time she left off taking any sisten. ance at all, tuither food nor drink passed her lips. Visitors closely wvatclied her, and were convincel that sihe wais really living on from week to week, w ithout partaking of my niom-ishment. Meanwhile, the to an. Ider con tiinuel to ring more rrequleit.. ly, her tiomihts bired with warmer Idevotional41 fire . her prayers seemed to go direct, froi hkerI lips to heaven. while her angel seemeicd at her heek and call to htillil :ay iiniestatini an1d to occasion an v inilence she de. sirei. i'h.e excitelment out or doors, andil throutghouit i.aiv pais oif the ctountry, nas now at fvver hent. - Mealical men, clergyinei, dissenting mnlisters, earrnage :aistocracy, gi.. cart :nii Coot folk alike shaied in ithe inteine desire to gaze on this extia. orilinay v chil. :iad to list( it to Ol(e words which fell rom her with as muchl wveighdt as if she10 realy11 * . d I . Idipitable credentials Ihat s'io was ;iin 0)ra1cle f[romii heaveni. On bcin... asei wher. andel how tI.is in stfc mcie wohl enid, she rvipied, Oh in Inv triaumaint entrance into glo ry.2 SomIce gentlemn ha I1swichi, who had,1l become deely iterested in tie ease, at l-.inyIh heenmie interstcd in the cap . at W:Iy: ei that iA w: ihAV~ 6Vi! ir,4... lest exteniat. Thou~isands of peop cle a visited t i- - -' ri it, dies We hor, tha it "NaN ous ppol ci to rita an imihn s ron I s wieb :111i WVoodhridlgo to Shottishmn. These gentleinen joldged Aimt anl 2ight day's trial wonld Zettle the mat ter as to whether or not She ipar .k or 'any lim ri :luient. Aecord. :aigly, t wo femoales at loi~ eltau aeter were selected i-t the e ;arnest ena reaty of the fiahber or the gil-who Werx! instrictel to kvep watch over Il for eight iyalys aol eight Wi...hts, t beino :m ianatrucioll that th-e roomil never be -ft, without one of tlemaa boin:g laeselt. Three weeks sice tie V colanenceI their task, r% Levivi1m their instietiins fraom a medlical m1:m1, andh at the eiml of ei.lt ia is iret ed to ich, deelng that tiae chuld h:al iatt ha anit101 to) its lils <han-ing the wleIC tCIa, ialt" t!aat t:y w-re t!'rugly coav:n e it wats a eninecaas. This. however, dii n1ut I1 lsfV thle g.!ntleme~nah ldt;tetin was n.w am111 .vesVv talked of inl these localities. ail it was deterin. ed to tat -t. r i l ains ha tSt it t.i"s uitlost. Therv iarnwd theis, Ives ill toa : comtnittee of eight persons, nod drew "p i(DeG.bint li t their ai. .hmece; one0 was th:at f.r (UIt days\: moal ig~hts she u-hoihI neover he lefti unawatched:: 2.n 1 m o her- was, that each gent len'au (n Vnard lhaul akae a ura entru t heaVa 11 e vintS tha a~erredi everyv lhur, andi tiat heo sh-tuhl sign his naen to it. (Thbis caonlitteec will not iake thrir iej.ort iuntil thce. ing ofI this day. The ilio'r, lilt we llii 1 wae ii)", atle. tate their strict caorectnes) Ona S-iatlray week, \Au~s 'ai , thist wtat ih co l e te , tair wt (-1t wit' ing' Th'uraiy, whe italemrs. l'it enIii *andl Buratin (l.o s~je~ 5 we aeiee byI I i the flteviS. \\'ebb and1 \\~haihy. Thialnne geni'iian ha-l lon beenu at scejptie io the natter, a:1 l ton eniteinii the iroam, Itouht lha ulis co'vered ona unulhiasanut saowll. lIeI left for an1 houra's waulk, leavin~g \ir. \\'hithy illbage Thea aithera thena entere 1, and comif laaied of thea wanat oft failh whieh the w~;a~atcels ina chI:arge mianifilstedl, :and the bilesscings oh t bal. I he innuia2tel v 1:aelat dlowni andI pruayed witha greaut ap I i aent ( lleanenss and soleaaiity, andl tat cinsidealeat- leng.tha. \lr. \\'it byV was chose to) thei bedu, 211an di ing;. the praoer inoticed some tagita li-an of tiaai elaoe. \\'hen lr. \\'ebbl rejturnied , \ ha. WIhit h v riwn t , 11:.1 -i e1 .caiSti a i '- e _ that the bed should be searched. Two nurses, who were also present, proceeded to Imake tle cxanin.ation, a1111l they reported that all was right found. Mr. Webb, not being satis. lied, and feelinlg the delicacy of his position, weit to the clergyman's hcmu.se, and secured the assistance of a nedical gentlemian who was staying with him. The cirentostances were stNted to the surgeon,% who determin ed on instititing a further search in i r. sence only of the wmse. For sone titte their elforts had no result, but at. lei th a hundle was dir covered hetwein Ie chil's armn and body, which one of the nurses itmue diately laido hold of. The girl, as it is alledged , instantly Vcalled out, 'you 1must 11ot touch that l' 'But I Must have it,' sail the wonan. 'but,' sail the deaf child , '\ ou shan't have it !' 'I will have it,' exclaimed the iuirst atol aw vy wen t the bundle the chibi .% ith gicat resignation say inl,,. vll, if ye(t will. you mnst.' - The surgcon utnlid the parcel, and fouluil it to consist of about a Score of napok ills. These wel 2e spread (ut up on the Cou1inerp.:ane. rind the p 'arents and the two watchr wrc e called in. Of cour.Se the uitmost conster;uation was depicted on the faces of the ll'pa rents. Ti mother inoinediatelv ac eased the chill of deceiving, her, blt was I roperly stopped by the reimai k that this I art to the imposition couldi not have been carribd through with Iutl her ageney. The father seetrled inl an agon v of distress; and solemnly protested tent he wasientirely igrnor-. at that the niml kins wero.'ihere, and that S: far as lie knew that nei t her morsel nior drop ha -pa8sed the child's For sixteen weIels. Messrs. \\ eh andl Whiti ,v tho. nCeia genm. :cn 17 i''7 %ri:;. nedintely lo.t -ltn . * i the eXCI io T oI i ,he itupt.si n u ti-:ed. .It i t m ; ,,1 t o noltice thaint 1huing Satilray, Sunlay, \oioilay Tuistlav, Welnhesday, and1 TitIt4laye, she hadl hadl 110 of)ood or lhiink. nIeither was ally food foiuidl ill the bedding. I 'rob ~lel' it will be deernedto nieein m. to ' li e : 1 14i it r i .\; mlillu Ittll. lm I l I it e r -4011 (of the e4111111111tet bo pelI 1 il I n lv . Ii tliot wIt'l I. :.in Il;ja iitOl- o inlly Of ilt! Iie' h-: to tlais0 it lilt ih1-L '--Il i vbi be~l beon.er o hae it iwreIatisthetordve 1xoel 'e h- re unwilling. it, be '0 1 % tillo loll 1%1 Vliid tho 11,111d liretat ian--lo peri e'0olii ob the who. w"11b. 11h-lib tltIv :a-t thronll!h So l'evi It ito l: j MtI I ii lI-i li tvito lilt II Il o l - 11 ilt b11101 Io. *t iiiv ni the wwr!d vre obihevn de-cep :i0n 14l i 1 I t v il t!'. I i L 1 V ,li~ii d that he i I Io 1t. 'la t .1 . aI gt Ii 1il to n d illn with hi lr. Inger il <i I ht It it a b , ed I t . 01 I I* Il- -11 1 1 01 11 c I lo V VlI o 000 ba t - -n b ln. :oil hit conversa.l it1!) I ey~ I t Ld i lo- li I [ t I v0% 0. ' l0 ninrattd d thes :s po.sitive! 1) ui ta th h he nI - -f i/ then(t'It v. I ". ti h I ,- lo r iitg of tl h . <iii ~ t1 .li 91i th. l it e 'haiin h sr be.'. runs ii ihi bar. iiiubih.wa I 1g . nv bo 5i 10011n lii C be i. :nlcai 1wt li h to wit isv<. . a 4,iio oiisitel o. rio i i'..h wei a nt lie es.: gtit\ \l).t de. isth jloant by uII bil b. t he hl, ei it 0. %ii ' --% at i n 0 lien atl h tvis l fn;. !i'-. li uingloir bani under ihs hed1 li ti:,e hi- he i ters ltoi ab. i litrt oe ~iI br:-e kniii ow loe uhat is iho atoof the1 iu~ rig... in1101t at habt it vl contiisi smtI 'oreituim.by eiery pahirnlt0.nd guard thian 01,i in thelhu be nhi-Io~i very is w y ts oubl t loe is he.oad, nis ht and is it educa irltedhi. 'liet thiist tth onever ha fgtoteltio B * te tro r eiih ien of the he too, heoo tlu wha iiwseadwhti tois, ht ti~ .o tight and everyi wroin~ igtmA I byli 5i proper eduatin ofv thy hwol, e when enabledit seip ply hiswantsto addthscnfr, and o asistthoe aoundhim.Th in the hend, and love in the heart, the man is ever ready to do good; order and peace stmile around, and siln and sorrow are alost unknown." "K[ji mss, M1ausmn, dob lbns asse I cana't go to S?e' " ' 'The child who was so sensitive, so like that little shrinking plant, that curls at a breath, and shuts its heart from the light.' The only beauties she possessed, were ani exceedingly transparent skin, and the most mournflul, large ble eyes. I had been ttnined by a very stern, strict, conscientious notler but I was a hardy plant, rebounding after every shock. Mislortune could not daunt, though disciplinte tamed tile. I fantticl, alas; that I must, go throughi the same routine with this delicate creature, so, one day, when she had displeased "ie exceedinigly, by repenting nt offerice, I was deter imiled to pullish her severely. I was very se ios'all day, and upon send. inig her- to her little conch, I said. 'nw.,' my daighter, to inish you aid show yout Low very, vEIy nauglt ty you hlve been, I shall not kiss You to-night.' She stcod looking at me, asriensh ment personified-wiuh her great mnourtnfut eyes wide opien. I su~ppos. eiI sie had14 ftorgotten her miscorictiC till then; and I left her, uinh the bi-z tears dropping down her an her little red lips qir .*v Presently I was seit 1. 'Ohl inlalia, voui wi., kis.s me; I can't go to slcep if you doii't.' She Fo'Aed-every tone of her voice tremblinig, and shie held out her it le hands. Now came the struggle between love andl what I fllselv termed duty. My leart said give her the kiss of' penace; my stern nature urged ine to ptersist inl iy porrection. that I might a i t tI ve e Ado; :i. I reitel t il On Iln I hind thnki my.1 m6hewre her st ratigh t-f.oru d course. I knelt by !.er bedsitle. 1ohr can't kiss you, FEllen,' I whlipeed, though every wvorl choked me. lier hianid tokuclhed tme; it was very htot, but I attributedl it to her excitement. She tiI ted ier little grievin g face to the wall, I bldaied my)%s'lf1 as the ti ile form shwook with halfsurpress (d suhs. and sa:in, tmother hoptes her little E'ilen will lean111 to midll her after tils. leit tle rooi fr tle night. It migihdlt have becn about twelve, whenl I "as awakencd lby my nurs . Appruehensive, I ran eagerly to the child's chabtider. I had had a fear fitl dream. Ylett did not kiow me; she was SittLi tn'g up. Citushsne d ft omt the fo e heal to the her eves so briIghLt that I a back aghast at their h From th. Pigfver dranik up her life: Ald whttiE thintk you was the inceesait pliit puttrted into tmy anlguishel Iheat tL ?-'Oh, kiss tile, mother- do k Tis me-I cn't g to sleep. I won't be ntautyt if you'ill onmly kiss mte. Oh! kiss mue. dear inaitttma, I ca't go to sleep!' lilty little angel! shec didi go to sleepi one grey moirtiig, andi she nev* er. u lke a an-neverm !-1Icer handi was Iick el iiini mi, mid my veins grew tcy with its gradual chill. F'aitly thte light fadled otL in lier beautoiu ee ts-wi iter andi' wi ter21 grewi the I c tremuous lip~s. SKhe ne'ver kntew mte; butt n. i blher last breath she wh lisi eredl, '1 will be gouud, if you't IIntly kist tme. 1Kiss hter! G to. ltnws how pasin ate, buit uniavatiing, were miiy kisses upjon her check aftet that fattal niighmt. G d kinows how nil wer'e myi ptrayeus thant she imtight~ ktnow, it' but uitce, that I kissed het'. Goid kntows how) IV woubll havye 3 iehled utp tiy ve. ry life, coul I have asked f'oriv tness of that sweet chil. Well! griefI is all u tnavain g now. Shte lies int hter lit 11e tombid, there is a marn tbl urnt at hter hieadl, and a rose huInsh at her tfeet; thieie grtow Sweet fweris; die re wave s ...o gentle grass; thiere birds sineg their maiitinis andl respe' ; ther'e thec blute sky smiiles downii to-day, antd there lies bu-. tied thie freshntess of my heart. Pari etnts, y'ou shuild havye hea rd lhe pathtlos ini the vic ofCl tha t strie jhbuits tiat spr'ingu ito greaiter 'igr it' the hteav y pr1essure' f a fooitstep e~ ish them bt ut, oh!ti' tr arec other'e that even the per ils ot ble nighit den hendi' to theo ear th!' 1'rom Art17wr's ThC Texas TaranI BY AUGUSTIN. This Texas of ours is tin asto ingly prolific country. Every field stands luxuriant, crowded, so that it can scarce wave undei the breeze, with cqrn or sigir or wheat or cot ton. *Jvery cainn is full and over floiving, thiongh ll its doors rd wind~ows with white haired children. Every prairie abounds in deer, prai rie-hens and cattle. Every river and creek is alive with fish. The whole land is electric with lizards perpetually darting about among the grass like flashes of green lightning. We Lave too much prairic and too little forest fr a great multitude or variety of birds. But horned frogs, scori ions tarantulas and centipedes, we bent the mliverse. Evert b-dy has seen horned frogs. You bee them in jars in tlile windows of apoth ecaries. You are entreated to I ur chase them by loafing boys on the levees at New Orleans. They have been neatly soldered up in soda box es. and mailed by young gentlemen iml Texas, to fair ones in the old The fair ones receive the neat package from the post office, are de. lighted at thw prospect of a daguer reotype-peihaps jewelry-open the package eagerly and faint, as the frog within hops out, in excellent health, ui.on them. A horned frog is, simply, a very harmless frog, with very portentous horns. It has horns because everything in its region trees, shrubs, grass even, has thoris --and nature niakes it in keeping I with all around it. A menagerie of them would not be expensive. They are content to live upon air and can, if desired, live, I am told. for several wi even that. tiose of . lobster, exaCtly, only, not m0ore tla sonie three inches long. You are very ait to put one upon your face in the towel which you apply thereto After washiinig. If you d", will filId the sting about equalt J t of the wasp-n1h1g wrs . They are fu- less- pois~oous tha tliocor piglof thile East--in faet, none e. ccpt I(w coners dread them at e'l. But the tarantula! You remem her the astonishing elas-icity with whiich you sprang in the air that time you were just on the point of putting your raised foot dowI upon a snake coiled in your path. You were frigl:ened-through every fi bre of your body. Yeiy probably the snake was as haradess as it was beau;ifid. Spring as high, he as it terly frightened as possible, when yout just avoid stepping upon a taran tula, however. Filthiv, loathsome, abomiialde aind poisonous-crush it to atoms befre you leave it! If you have a var seen it-know henceforth that it is all eiorioxus sl ider--con centrating in itself all the venom and spite and ngliniess of all other spiders living. hiody is sonme two inches long, blaeas and bloated. It enjoys the possession of eigh t legs, a red miouthi, anid an abundance of stiff browni haiir all over i tsel f. W'heni standing. it covers an area of a sau. eer. Attack it with a stiek, andi it rent s on its hind legs, gnashes at the stick, and fights like a fiend. It ev en jumps forwardl a foot or two in its rage-and, if it bite inito a vein), the bite is deafthi! I have been tol of the hattle fought by one on lboard a steamboat. Discoveired at the lowier end of the saloon, it camne hoop~ing upn the saloon; driving the whole body of' passenigers before it, it almost drove the whole comnpanty, crew andi all, ovei board. The first I saw was at the bionse of a friend, I sl.ied it crawling .-low ly over the wall, meditating munrder uiponi the children la ing; in the room. hecessively preIL nt in re gtardl to toy fingers, I at last,. howev er, lad it safe'l Vi ipison~ed in a glass jar, mnu a. There was a flaw in the glas :. well as a hole through the corh , by Ihich it coul breathie; but in. lt niinutes it was dead ftrom ra ! So*on after I killed three up nmy lae, crawlinig abiout gtoundi tuedden every day by the hare feet of my little boy. A monfh after I Ikilled a whole nest of them. Theyv hadl foirmed their ftail y circle -ni der a door-step, upon wuhichi the afore said little fellow played daily. Ilad he seen one of them he would, ol coutrse, ha~ve picked it up as a re the- - saw. U was stru e con chance wasp. too, ad tarantula, and Nras around it. -The tarlrithIa - it as a foe, and, throwini its hind legs, -breth e For sonie time the Wa it, and then, like a f.'as --- against It, 11d 'stuwing bloated 'ellv. Whe ti t ed its red and Yenomedj threw its long hairy letsabou impotelit rageN while the a round and round it, %Tatubjihh other opportutity. Again 6n4 did it dash its sting into the' -1Pil and escale. After the sixth the tarantula actually fel its back, dead, and the wasp, t making itself sure of the fact inflicting a last sting to malk eptO ters sure, flew off happy; In d(ne a duty assigned It ih tit Il an hour -nore a colohy Ofhath. b carried it down piecemeal, un rosited k in their catacombs. But, deadliest and most ab06 of all our reptiles in en centipede. This is a kind of'a r0 from three to six inches long, exact'-' ly like an enormous caterpillar is green, or brown, or vellow 5O d ' heing found of each af these As its name denotes, has aloX side a row of feet, horny blh t er. Imagine that you wal night across your chamber floor, naked feet; you put you upon a soft Something, bhd it.coils around your foot in a stckg vey cl wv uP> to 11he 1,9d Ihave faite jg C01*. rw more, nnd you wil be dead.l deadly thing caninot b4 tprti t It has to bb cut bi, Whnd cla iv. plucked out. Even if it crawls Ave the naked body of a sleeping pCs ,hj without sticking in its claws; place will pain the peioh 'oi - var after, at least, so I have been told. I have seen the things-in whieI nature corks up her deadly poiad10' -only; yet,I have heard of(f i6 es in which they hidve bitten or Ile any 'one.-The kind Bein makes the butterflies tb lie hu im the same lovihg hihdhba i 1 makes them so beautiful and 8d abundant, makes all deadly creatured . to be searce. Lt t FAND EXISTENCE.-The mDr lapse of years is not life. Td eat, and drink? and sleptio- be exposed to darkncs iid the ligit pace round in the mill of habit and tutn thought into an impleit trade- this is not life. in al but a poor fraction of the Uo1WiusI ness of humanity i aivakeed the sancetities still sluinber a J" 4 make it worth while tb k:t edge, truth, love, beauty; boodne~ faith, alone can g'ive vaPly f?8 inahinismn of exiastenco. TJhe laugil of irth that vibrates throught '' heart-the tears that frehet' lm dry wastes within--the inusicVi tbo9 brinigs childhood back-th6 ~ay ' er that calls the future nedt.thd dloubit which makes' na meditafe-d the death whichl stitl6 Ad.dh mystery--the hardship nihth tercci 'Is to struggle-the anxiefy thas endls in trust-ara thie .true nuah~ menat of our natural beinm: PXY In the mnountaii 6f'y hundlreds of nomen and abdheU aoneot ni od tim e, t4nd ding tief4 national songs, until they hiear II'ae bands, fathers aind broth~ra dswoied them from the hill, on thieit retm't hiome. Upon the shaore 6f jk6 Ad~ riatc, the nives of th6 lisb~u'eft 46~ comec down, about sunmse*, afnd sin one of their melodies. They singli first verse, and theii fittff ff0 some time, then they sig &. econ~~ and so on, till they heai il swer frorr the fishernt, w 0 thsguided to their homes. Dn.:r.-A t hiis fesdti6'i tto1 of G.reenvill, S. C;, on fio MhO610' '~ hier, liev. W/AirAd1 TAYOn, R,017ERTSA in lie 410th year ofr his age' 16 ,4a born on thli ighi 11ill of Safieo, 22 '83 md was a son of Rley Mtehme Rol erts,. D.- D.)