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MR11-1 V4 71 ta )~~ ', . '4 MM 2 it: DEVOTE TOSU11R IAC IE "L"~~~~~ Vile s A E- i DEVOTED TO~~ SOTHR RItS DEOAC\ NEWS, "lTEATE , 11EN MISCELLANEOUS. '_-1?f7 TUJR IMARION. 1r MRS. CAROLINE OILMAN. rilmtr Marion had my secret. Hoe--hid transferred the cherished itovnym finger and pressed his moment upon its glittering There was no need of -okart whipered to heart, and el upportirgy -quivering form, Sspoke oJoi arid fond words which wore sweeter to my heart than the fresh air of heaven to thidefaint spirit. nnnts passed away, and then Sly in )ther must see you, Cornelia,' ho said 'I s'rall feel like a miser until I have revealed my treasure to her, and to sister Ellen, and my fa ther. I, thank heaven that you will be appreciated in my home,' Mchi has been said of the mancov. ring of mothers to obtain matches Cfor their daughters; but the class is iinfiitely larger of those parents who -ees if their girls were still in child. ho4id, and who wake up as if from a dllrn on.finding that the beings Wlh" lain in their boons, anl tell the path of opening life, a surrounded the household hearth, and,ben close as the very air they breathed, are suddenly wrenched fromn them by a stronger tie, the love of years torn up by the very roots dand, transplai:ed to a straigei's S1h was the shuck that mamma roceived in her tranquil routine of di ty.: The possi'bil'ty of my belong rug to another was like an earth I quake to her. I had been cherished like a tree of her own plauting, be neath nbich she was to repose; it was -trange to her that other hands pL~uul her its blossoms and fruits. My di inotheri she took ine in her arms ahid wept-shte to wl1m tears were so rare ! All that day she droopedl in her duties; her brow wai ttig'itfil; she sighel often, anot seemed like one struggling with a harden. But Arthur soon reconciled lir to love's destiny by tender assi duities, aidt she felt that she had gained a son in the partiul loss of a daughiter. She gradually came, however to bol apmn-~7ryiiETEa a uintei fixed upon ani settled; and an early lay was chosen for my visit to Win napep, Mr. Marimoi's plantation, situa. t-d in .owm of the eastern dist-icts. M I brother accompanied mc. and Arthur also. Before nightfall I was folde I in the arms of Arthur's family, aid was welcomed by his sister Ellen itk thre sweetest and brighest (if s iles. How quickly young thoughts Lleap to each other ! Eien and I talked the whole nights almost through; topics growing as we liftel the veils of our hearts, and revealed their fresh hope: .d memotics. We had marked the srme passages in books; we preferred the same songs; we walked the piazza with interlacing ms, loving the sanie glow aid the ame shade. It was sweet to lavish m>lien the treasures of tenderness aIired rnot bestow on her brothber Athut-; to look on her as his seftened - ~ge, while I turned my eyes fromi -)h n, and to hear her unwearied paises of his goodness arid beauty, e hn imparting a glory to the other. 1J shall call you my own sister, soon,' said Ellen with a whispier that sent a blush of joy to my cheeks, as with embraces, such as dear friends giwe, we parted. Arthur accompa nuid us, telling me lie could not be satiled if I did rnot permit him to re - ~turn mue safely to my mother's home. S On reaching the close of our jour nej-indeed, we wvere al.nost at the house- we observed a field adjoining the avenue on fire. This common and, very necessary occurrence ini !~. Southern Agriculture did not sur pr e us; but on entering the avenue leading unp to the dwelliing. we were startled arid terrified. at finding the Cherokee rose-hedge in flames. In winter this hedge is very combursti. hle. Iy the unipardonable careless. imeAs a the negroes, they had rnot guarded it frm the flames at the two -exkd~mities, where it had caught and _2 raging furiously; thus shuttinig -- anh~ out from all 1hope of escape, ept through the hedge, whiwh, in jnany parts, wvas totally inaccessible. e'Vbard their cries fomr help without 0thr v~er to aid them. Fortunately * *om'fr~*-our plantation adjoined an h~''the avenue of wvhicih r an par. nith our oi a the he ec ou tho left had not thoroughly caught; a slight etnbanktilent separdted the two with ditches between, and the wind blew onward, not across the road, thus giving us comparative security in proceeding. Arthur himself ta king the reins, struck at once into this avenue and drove at full speed. The wind increased, while the crack ing and roaring sound, the flying cinders, and the growing heat, gave us a new motive for flight. Tie hope of escaping the flames was soon jnore faint, for Frank the coachman, cried out, 'Fire ahead inaussa ' Arthur checked the horses; it was true, the flames were about to ieet on the right hand hedge of papa's avenue; still, the left was but partially igai ted. and the current of air continued to blow from the path we had taken. In the mnomentary pause for delibera tion, we heard a shriek from the en closure on the right. Merciful Hleav en ! it was Binah's voice, raised to a yell of horror, crying 'llelp, help, God Almighty ! help Biiah, for Christ's sake I I elp lit tle Alias Patsey ! We guine for burn up; help, help !' Arthur hesitated not a moment, but I saw that lie turned deadly pale. 'You can remain here a few inin utes in snfety-,' said he; the windl still favors us. I will soon return ' Aml scarcely allowing himself to look at me, he threw Frank's cloak over his head as a Protection against the briers, leaped the litch, asceLndhed the baik, w ith his strong arm forced a passage through the hedge ad dis appeareL I searcely r1nenumber what next occurred; but a frantic violence took jssessioi of ile, and would have feb Iowud but for Fraiik's restnaiiiing ar-i. I watched the flakes that Curlel, rose, anid sailed off in the dis tance, or cilight some neighboring tree. t saw the young trees fall, and flames curl round the old, the sound st-etned like the hissing of ser petit's torg'tes in imockt-rv, and I chattered anl mocked at them in return. Those mioments seccet to concentrate ages of feeling. A t length I heard a voice, Arthur's voice, calling for aid, but so straine :and1l untna tural ! Frank had been in luiitrious. in m a clearance thr-ough the hedge, whowse top bezan to bunt inl various directions. 'e climbed the bank, sprang through and found him. Ie had rescued Patsey', and pro-tected her with Frank's cloak; Biinah had clung to him as long as life lasted; but there she lay, a witherel corpse, while he staggered and fell. I took Patsey in my arms; the frightened child elung sobbing to my neck, while Frank bore Arthur to the carriage. The flames were now around us, but love and fear gave is power. Frank drove furiously. Poor Arthur spoke not ; blackened by the smoke awi torn with the briers, he lay helpless acro-ss the seats. We were near hoie, but tlhe seconius seemed hours. I could I(t caress my poor little Patsey, wh11o pressedl hei.r check to myv beoiom in si lencee, and1( tremtble.d like an aspeni lear. The ruashinig smolike stifled, thle heated airI Opp sla ed m~t ae ; ;ad t he si lenice w as only intterruapte.d by Art huri's groans. Gti entterittit the cuotart I tttade one mor ae eflart to atrouse (lie sulTe1rer. 'Speak to mie, A rthurn,' I said, 'one word, only onte,' but his patched lips a ttmpted tteLrantce ini vaina. Ont our arrival lhe was carriedi to bedl, and meadical aid called; iimana, in the mtealtn tie, preiblin g for him n, andi~ ai Ih witng mae to sit by his side withI hter. h coua~ld not bear a ray (of light, and I at tenaded him in dark ness. A las, I counldanot press hais udear hand, nor ctol hisbran, ortouchel his paarecd lips; all was agony, burinug, rest less atgony . W ho htas tnt, at sonme mom)flents oIf their lives, felt willing to lie dotwni and die fhr a beltoved one ! At suchi p'er od~s the grave hams seentwd aL sweet bed of arepose, and death a precious nminis ter of love. For niany days I saw not the face (of thy deatr A rthut. I reti red with maninta while the physicians dressed his wounds, atnd returned algain to sit by his side. G raduailly lte begani toa uitter wor-ds, and called nmy name. wep t fort joy at the blessed sound; then one~ poor hand cotuhl prtess miie fh at ly anid beamr the soft langunago I reiproentedI. Slow~ly thie light wvas admtfitted, v.nd I saiw him; bitt--oh my hetart -how, c-hanged ! 'The beauty <tf which I was so proud was goneC ! The rich hair no longer lay onm his noble brow, onice so serene, wams fitrrowed bv dlee-per lines thani ageL or sorrow cant enagrave. I shsould not haave known /. im ! God fitrgivei me, but I thought hhiu haiduous. I fit, nmv blood eurdlo, and my head swim with an indefinite terror. The poor sufTerer did not heed me, for his eyes were closed to the light. I thought my heart would have burst, and rushed to mly own apartment. I- traversed it with rapid steps; I crushed my hand upon miy bosom to stop its beatings, and pressed my .forehead to the wainscot to stop its burnings. I stamped hi i kInd of* vindictive wrath, and uttered words of' impious fury. I think I was going mad, but I grew thint; I was iot left to blaspheme; I was soflened; they fell like rain, and my spiritual triumph prevailed. What, thought I, is this perish. ing clay to an immortal? His frail beauty would at best have lasted but a few years. Who knows but I should have loved too fondly those dark eyes, whose intellectual bright. ness struggled with their mellow ten. derness; that mouth chiselled to the most perfect turn of manly symme. try? My poor Arthur? I have some times feared that your grasping in tellect and exquisite person united, placed you too much above me, that I must worship you like a bright, distant star; it is not so now. I shall not fear to liy your achitig head against. my heart, to smooth the lingering curl on your fevered brow, and call you mine only. With these thoughts I kneeled in prayer. Earth seemed a vain thing to me; duty and Christian hope mny birth-right. 'Arthur,' said I cheerfully, as I sat by his bedside a week af. ter, with'his hand in mine, parting the scanty hair on his forehead, 'you are not aware how much you are altered by this sad accident. You asked yesterday for a glass: 3ou must. be prepared for a change.' le started. hesitated for a mo ment. and sail, in a low tone, 'I feared this. Can you endure me?' 'If I had loved your beauty only,' I replied, 'I might not have bore its loss so well as I do; but whiile God spares your intellect and heart, I have stil enough to be proud of.' lie looked thoughtful, and said, 'Is it really comne to this? I have had fearful suspicious of it.' His hand shook in mine with sudden tre. mor. 'I have frequently desired to introduce the subject,' lie con. tinued maournfully, 'but Lad nnt courage. You arc n>t invare that vanity has been my besetting sin. I can recollect the earliest praise of my beauty. I remember ladies tak. ing mae inl their arms when I was a child, and bestowing on me ex travagant expressions of endearment and praise; I remember my power over young girls, who flattered me with their eyes, when their lips were too modest to speak; ny quick ear has caught voices inl public, even of rule boys in- the street, proanouncing me beautiful; and, yes, I will con fess, all, I have lingered over my own miniature with a kind of idol. worship. I struggled wiih this weakness, and thought it imastered; God's will be done if this dispensa tion is sent to punish me.' 'Not to punish you, Arthur,' said I fondly, as I perceivedl the ner vous irritability of his feelings, -but it may be to try you, to perfect you, and to reveal to you my true love which asks for nothing in return but yours. Oh, if you knew the warm and brooding teniderness that has settled on my heart since your misfortune, you too would say, it is enough for me, it is worth moure than external charnis can buy.' Arthur imnprovedl in his appear anen and health. I kept the mnir ror from him, telling him that eve ry day dimniashed his disfiguremuent; and lhe cheerfully assented to my wishes, while his nmnd appeared to be regaining its tone. 'You will 1)e almost what you were, dear Arthur,' I said to himn one day when ho began to despond; 'ind~eed I forget that von arc not the same. Judge me b~y yourself, would you look at me with less of true love's preference, if I wvere to be altered by miisfortune?' lHe shuddered, and exclaimed, "Do not mention it; I cannot bear to think of it.' (I repeat his lan guage not with vanity, but to show his intense love of what lie thought beautiful.) 'Let me gaze on you;' and he fixed his mnelan choly eyes full on mine, 'lest some awfuil power should ebange you. So long as those fringed orbs beanms in their speaking sweotness; so long as I can trace the rosc tints on -your cheeks, and the deep brilllanvy of your lips; while y'our braided hair lies th'us in its glossy folds; while these soft hands are white as sun tin ged ivory; while your step glides around me and I can catch the fine propoitions of your modest form; while your voice falls in sweet mod. ulations on my ears, stirring up love's echoes, I will bear God's dispensa. tions on myself; but, pray, pray that they stop before they reach you.' Arthur was at length able to walk a few steps, though in great weakness, about his apartment. In my earnestness to assist him one day, I forget that he might approach the looking glass; he-did 8o, inadver tently glanced at. himself. exclaim ed, 'My God!' and fell sens'eless. He was removed to his bed, re quested his room to be d rkened and the curtain drawn aroun4J- it.- while, with out repulsing my atientions he seeied to prefer comim n1ing with himself in silence. I saw that. a violent struggle was goinaWon, render ed overwhelming by hts physical ueakness. This lasted sone days. Cornelia,' said lie to Ii at length in a tone of bitterness, '1 - fatendd to have surprised you witlh 0. gift f.-on ny poo- Ellen-a likene4 ot' A rthur Marion; do you remeirbrl Ai!m? T ook in My writing-desk ann, bring it to me.' I went and presented it ith a trem bling hand, not daring to Once at it. Iie told ine to open a sht ier; I did, and the bright light burs hia on the niniature ot him. 'Coie here,' said lie, st Tly;"come and look.' I oieved; the l.Beness was perfect. The girl who dred.k s of En dyimin never pictiretan iiig'hint-e beautiful. I glauced atA rtli t was diefigured wvith eCor sioni. I perceived lis last great trial, and h fur the restlte-ile saL %hich lie land beei n since his ^all, gaired miug and earnestly on the picture, theia elinachlg it \viti upIaais ed arm, dashed it agai1st the ceiling. lie watched it aS it Was shivered to atois; then drawing the lied clothes over his thee, wept, aid subbed aloud. I kneeled beside him, clasped his miands in n.ine, laid mly head tn his .illow, and inoaned as a noth er w it h her sufIering child. I prayed to God to colafort him, at] the pray er wts accepted. It wias his last great striuggle, and lie rose from it like a rania aid a Ciaristian. Witi aeturning health, Arther re. gained 1a1ut1 hf 'his iriginal manliness alld beit y o' featiure. The radiance and soft ness aof his ' ves were utn njiaieebed, and the sarmle bright smile played 1upotn11 his lip. We -re mar -ited .shotrtlv afier, at(d ne er lba e I lead eause to regret that I loved his heart and his inid better than his 'orim and his fe-atures. My Wife is the Cause of it.' It is now more than forty years ago that Mr. L-- called at the house of Dr. 3- , oiae very cold morning on his way to 11-. '6ir,' said the doctor, 'the weath. er is very frosty; will yeti not take somiethAing to dtrink before yau start?' In that early day, ardenat spirits were deemed indlispenasabale to warmth in winter. When commncaing a journaey, and at every stopping place along thec road, the travel ler used intoxicatinig drinaks to keep himn warm, 'No,' said Mr. L-, 'I nev or touch any thing of thie kinad, tand I w'ill tell you the rei. a-myI wife is te ca-tse of it. I had been in the Ihabit of tnecting some of our neigh bors every evenaing, for the pur pose of playing cards. We assem bled at each othaer's shop, and li qjuors were introduced. After a while we met not so much for the playing, as drinking, atnd ! usedh to return homec Iato in the evening, more or less intoxicated. My wife always met me at the door affectionately, and whena I chidued her for sitting uap so late for me, shte kindly replied, 'I parefer dloing so, for I cannot sleep whena you arc out.' 'This always troubaled moe; I wish ed in my heart that sheO would on!y begin to scolad me, ftar then I coul have reto--ted anid relieved my con scce. But she always met mue with the same gentle aind loving epirit. 'Things passed on thus for some time, when at last I resolved that Iwould, by remaining very late amid retuarning much intoxicated, pro yoke her displeasure so mutch as to cause her to lecture me, when [ meant to answer her with sever ity, arid thus by creating another is sue befween ' unburden bo som of its present trouble,..,, 'I returned in such a plight about four o'clock in the moi ning. She met me at the door with her usual ten; derness, and said. 'come in, husband; I have just been making a warm fire for you, because I knew you would be colo. Take off your boots and warm your feet, and here is a cup of hot coffee.' Doctor, that was too much. I could not en dure it any longer, and I resolved that moment that I would never touch another drop while I lived, and I never will.' le never did. le lived and died practicing total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks, in a village where intemperance has ravnged as much as any other in this State. That man was my father, and that woman my mother. The facts above related I received from the doctor himself, when on a v'tsit to my native village, not long since. May we not safely assert, that were there more wives like 'my blessed mothorl there would be fewer confirmed drunkards? [From tie Turks Island Royal Gazelte.o The Saint Domingo Movement. For sote tine paia.t rmnors have been in cireulation that a third expe dition would sail hon the tuited States for the urpose of again in vading Culbn 'hese runors have At length taken i tangible form-and the infiorknation that. another grand ex pedilloi N pirpna ing to leaye the shores of the United States, in nmw confirmed. Our information is de rived froiti an unduubted source. This ipowerful expedition is lilhig out in the United States, under the pretext of availing thsemselves (of the emigration decree just publishedby the Dom in ican Comgress, wiie -ethinly Sen r Baez did nut intend for the Americais, but Ibr the French-it has opened the doors to the American advent urers who project the establishnent of a foot hold ii St. Domingo, where the ixpeditions might assemble, andt thence concert their attacks more con venienitly u ipaon Cuba. Their litentiotns are to land as eimaigrants, tunider tue protection (if tih laew, with a-slidied p rok-fssilns also of assisting the Douninicuns againust So uletinqe. The drift of the object cteniplanted is to subjugate both the Doiniicans anld thle aytielts, to comtipel aill th blacks to aibur. necording to the code rural, and time naly too flood the :ouotry with a white population. Cuba is to be tre~ate-d inl thle samle mlannler, and Im Aiiericnts holip thereby t'e4abli sh at inopoily of tnopical productts bich ai they notltw enjily inl the article of cottam. No doubit great nuiainbers of blacks would also be transported to tile islands. An associationti oa company lia-. been firied for the purpose. Ales srs. Green, lather and son, teit lait ter recently taam especial ageit of thet United States at. St. Donminago, Col. White, elewated in the Loj.ez ex. peditioi. Mir. Picket, late conmer. eial agent ot thc Uiited States at these islaiads, and various others, are pa rtnters ini thea schemaie. Thie lasso eintiona intenad to emiip1loy chiefly steam eras, anid ini order to cnecalh thae ean terparise. hanve already got the Legis hatuatre of Georgia to gant aun act of incorporaltion, ini suchi a miatner thaat thue sailing ofi. these steamers wit h proposetidh inunigrants fromlt aniy of the Atmericant ports canniot he initerfered with. A per'son by the tn ame of Wells, is said to be figutrinag ini New Yot k ats ian aigenat of t he Doiniana re'~lilic, to give thec slcine an air of reality. I'The Sp'antisha Gover:imnent senms to be i iitted of the maeasures, anad thte Spaih Minti-ter at Washlington hias commitunaicated to thle Secretnary of State, that the exptditioni (a Ieaivinig he Amutericant coast, w ill he closely watchet), andl if their couarse bie direet ed towarids St. Doinugo, Iher Caith olie Majesty's go~vernment will be comttpelled to taike po~ssesiont (ot St. Domningo, which site would htave eve ry righat to do', as site hais ntever re Ilimiished by anty formtal tact, her' doinat tioni over the eastern pairt of the island. It is probable thaut Spaitn itn sutch a ease will thrtow a lage force into) St. Domtitngo. 'The enmmigr-ants. it is said, will be auccomnpainied by Itur or five t hitu sand TIexains, Kenatuck ians, &c., to pro teet the "settler-" aigalinst t he attnack S of Soloaqute, whIo sems determ ined uponu an invasiona. The British Ctonisul at Port au Prince has strenm:ouasly en deavored to induace him to give at. least six months, notice, butt in vain, lHe is just now much irritated, it is said, by those foolish remarks ina the Echo del Organia, thr-eaten-. ing the inavasion of his territory. Frin th .&$Wxer' upih esici,' Ot.6;& ConpAsat of Half a X, 'N'eJate Iratioda fBetween One ltnau on Poo aIl Eleven- Robbern 1 onu Horseback. At a time liko this of ours, when there are so few who know tlat valorn is a sentitrent sprung from love of glory and the desire to acquire re nown, auid that it prompts its pos sessor to brave and even to seek the greatest dangers, we shall perhaps be excused if we6gihu our readers the details of a cbmbat which only came to our ears yesterday.: In.our narrative we shall studiously avoid all exaggeration it deserves implicit confidence although it presents facts certainly very improbable; and if we produce it, it is to prove the unques tionable truth of the Latin adage, audaces fortuna juvat; and to incite travellers to defend themselves when ever they are provided iwith arms. Some four or five days since, at. half past one in ohe afternoon, the mail coach or diligence from Arroy aizaico was attacked near Tepeji del Rio. It had been raining slightly just before, dnd the coach was closed on one side. In the interior of the diligence were an Englishman, three Spaidards, one French lady, and our hero, Mr. Albert Speyers, a wealthy merchant a German by birth; on the top were seated three Mexicans. All the passengers at the time of the attack were dreaming of anything but danger, and the first news of the arrival of the robbers was the inser tion through one of- the windowis of the coach, of a pistVl, and the cry, 'Give up your arms, or you are all dead.' 'Yes,' answered Speyers, leaning forward 'but bullets and all,' and he showed the robber a small two-barrelled pistol. On seeing this the robber crouched- down to shield himself behind his horse. Speyers, who had taken his aim, ditcharged his weapon while the robber with five others stationed on the other side of the vehicle, did the same.-The dis charge was without. fatal rcsult on either side. Speyers, upon this, heedless of the entreaties of the passengers, who sought to restrain him, opens the door of the ccaceh, leaps to the ground, and, pistol in haln, pursues the robber that had fired at him, and who, in company with five al ready mentioned had gone to join six more, who were stationed at some little distance on the road. Regard-' less of numbers, Spevers, with his other pistol, fires into group, and thou returnis to the coach ' ( uest of more weapons. Wlel ed it, lie found all the other passen gers accumulated in the bottom of the coach. Ile speaks to them-en touraes them; but in vain. Ile then takes out his wateh, and all the mno ney in his pockets, and lays the whole under the cushions, when lie draws his other two barrelled and one six barrelled pistol, with which lie pur posed to pursue the campaign. The former weapon he presents to one of the passengers, exhorting him to leave time coach and defend himself. Speyers himself prepares the pistol, and offers to pla1ce it in the hands of the passenger, but he trembles so with fear that he cannot grasp it. On seeing this, Speyers bec-ome still more excited, and exclaims: 'Since you are all cowards I shall defend myself alone; remain where you are.' Meantime the highwaymen. were erying, 'lie is loading again: fire, firec!' and they poured in the coach a deluge of bullets, which respeccted thes valiant Speyers. The latter, however, loses no time; seizing a firm hold of his revolver he dlarts forward in pursuits of the eleven robbers, wvho, on seeing him leap over the wide trench on one side of the road, there to re-load their- weapons. Shortly after they return towards Spoyers, surround him at some dis tance, and cry to him, 'We see that von are a brave man, so nare We surrender. We do not wish to kill so a valiant man.' 'ery bravo, you are, indeed,' answers Speyvers, 'eleven ag'ainst one.' TIhis said he pets forth in purguit of tho robbers, who fly at his ap; roach. 'Why do you fly?' he cries; 'did you not say you w'ere bravc ? Come, cowards come, every one of you-one by one; I await you lhere.' But their only answer is I, Eliower of bullets and slngs, which whistle around thme undannted Speyors. H~e replies by a discharge of four barrels, that prove ineffectual, iiinsqenncen Thsgnera.*dise iar been imnadef:'a- thjdpasbe a vance tow'ards Speyer; the holdof,, him; they entreit4ifrhri yield :up his armai-for they going to 'e victims; lie sius - lect that theie is a lad Speyers resists; the ,rbn round-him once more;.ten,4pi4'fb in hand, cries: 'Comeiyou you are. brave; we will see I shall surrender my arms 0 c6nditions.' 'What are the robbers; 'we sweai-Pfasiifu Y" respect them.' 'Well ,then'" as Speyers, 'the first is that i make no attempts against nP the second is, that iou wl t nothing belonging to we., ,esiW6 swear it,' exclaim all the robbvrs a breath. -'Here, tlen,is on,' answers Speyer 'tlIre a e two barrels loaded.', The captain of the.band then e ceived the pistol, and all. proccedq together towards the -diligence. one instant all the trunks were" open, the carpet-bags turnedins d' out, &c., the banditti respecim', nothing but %hat Speyers ildted Iut as his property. Meanwhileur hero, spated on a case containingi samples of the goods which he carri ed, was drawingfigure in the. sand with a coolness and sangfroid so thing more than admirable. 'The robbery being completed, highwaymen having-, resunied ir seals on- horseback, saluted -S oy ert' taking leave of -him in tlhsedtids -'Farewell, brave man; -remombu that even we robbers krioi'2l$6h.6 # keep our word. Farewl;t-'a" ed Spoyers, 'God granttliat iy not be fofiver.' In this fight more than thirtyshots were discharged at Speyers. Tv half spent balls were the only Ii, that reached him, when .he was searching for his revolver in the di gence-one struck him on th arm and the other in the back; a- rd i found in his boot on going to bed without knowing whence it came. The Englishman had his hmand bal injured by a bullet, wiach even no cannot be extracted- the driverw. also wounded, and 'the French lad -I received in her dress four bullts which did not, uowever, injureober., Mr. Alber. S.eyers lost, in thIn affair nothirg but his watch and som money, deposited in the diligern and whienl he did niot claim, having 1i10rm to back. inad 1*1 'iorm ed that 31 Spevers is a inerchant, established at New York, and accustomed t travel in carnvans among the Indians of the North, and on one occasion, behind his wagons, with ten compan.' ions, sustained from sunrise till suI set, leaving more than twenty.five otz-' them stretched on the ground. We sincertly wish that there wero ' in Mexico a few hundred men of the Speyers stamp, in order that .. tho - highway banditti might receive'.th only treatment and the only indul genice they deserve daily, notwith standing the philanthropic tender ness of the honorable representatives - whlo, at most. prescribe a change of climate for the cure of what they ' deem a local inifirmity. Doumnestic Guanbo.4 Ilecently there has been mneh dr ten in regard to the Lobos guano qies. ' tion, which has caused no' small stir aimoing the importers, venders and con.i 1 surmers of this important manure, inL . Enmghmid and this counti v. The annu ali removal of organic id inorganic mat ter, coantainied in the pruoductions of' the field, dairy, and stalis of the rural districts of our count ry, will, no doubt, im process of1 time oblige every thrifty . tiimer to use imported nmanui-e, cona tainng those ingredients especially whic h i a' be wanting in his soil, for the product ion ot' re1munerativye crps 'llTe cheapness at which these foreigr~~~ mnanures of a good quality can* -o be tor'ded ini the Armerican arke-t, wil~ he a subject of great interests to-thd~~~ agricultural producer, in -all parts et our country. Yet every A merican thrmer shul be cotnstaintly iimpress~ed with thie a interests conn<o -ted w id hiis proisio'. in saiving aid mak~ting all the ?I.Jdizign . ma)tterV .t hiomet, on his own p~m ait he possibly can; therebt' savx his money, to be othnvie-epe ifb~poe net, oriia 4tieess of his lands, and thusp Itifngr withi his reacehat a small outl~. the nyans of repderitig thbemn moa f nore'fertile~ a\-ery suceeding cop