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Qatarterly and Monthly Atlvcrti se inents will be charged the sane as a single in aurtion, and semi-monthly the saine as new ones Extraordinary Jug ' gling F eats. In the early part of the last century, a physician named Agricola. living at Ratisbon, in Germany, obtained great celebrity by certain discoveries which he declared he had made as to the nultiplication of plants and trees. He could produce, he .said, from a small branch, or even a leaf, large forest trees in the course of an hour, through the sole instrumentality of fire. I-Je wrote several works on the subject, one of which was published at Am sterdam in 1720. Its title was. "Agri. culaure par gaite on Nouville De courte," etc. It has been supposed that he learned the secret of the Hinl doo jugglers, whose feats in the same line are of the most extraordinary char acter.. They actually sow seed of ainy tree the spectatur may call for, ir the earth, and ,after agivigMayn4to worda pr6nounced over it. a mullher. ry, plum, or a walnut plant, is grad tuily seen springing upward, until it becomes a large tree, with its natural' fruit depending from its brhe. No. is this all. The fruit is plucked and given to the spectator to eat, and while he is engaged eating of the. c chanted dates or walnuts, the branch es of the miraculous tree arc covered with birds of .every plumage, who fill the air with their melody. A signal is given, and the tree with its feather ed inhabitants disappears itn an instant, icaving beind it no trace of its existence. The author of the "Oriental An nual," an English gentleman of un questionable ve'racity, gives an almost incredible description of a juggling Performance at which he was present. The operator introduced into the middle of the circle, a naked lit tle girl about eight years old, in a wicker basket. The little girl is shown to all the spectators. The op erator then enters into conversation with her, which soon assumes an an gry tone; he threatens to kill her with a drawn sword; she supplicates for mercy, and while the piteous cries grow louder, he plunges the weapon into her bosom two or three times successively. The earth is dyed with her blood, while her agonizing groans announce dissolution. The specta? to-. are ready to fall on a wretch whom they suspect to be guilty of so barbarous a murder, when the lit tle girl entered the circle from with ont, dressed in her usual attire, and as gay as if nothing had happened to her. A still more extraordinary feat than that was performed in the presence of the Mogul Emtperer Jehanegrie, who gives an account of it in his auobiogra phy. The performers produced a living man, whose head they cut off in the ftrst instance. They then divided the limbs from the trunk, and the mu tilated remains lay on the ground for some titme. A curtain was then ex tended over the spot, and one of the performners putting himself tunder the curtain, emerged from it again in a few minutes followed by the individual who was supposed to have been so completely dissected. His Mogul Majesty gives the fol lowing minute account of some oth. er performances by the sanmejuggler, which are very wonderful: "They-took a simall bag, and hav ing first shown that it was entire. .ly empty, one of thenm put his hand into the bag; on withdrawing his hand agaiun, out came two game cocks of the largest siz~e and great beauty, which immediately assailed each oth pr, and fought with such force and fury, that their wings emitted sparks of fire at every stroke. This continued for the full space of an hour, when 4hoy put an end to the combat by * throwing a .sheet over the animals. Again 'they withdrew the sheet, and there appeared a brace of partridges, with thme most brilliant and beautiful plumage, which immediately began to tune their throats as if there was nothing human present, pickin'g at worms with th sm~ somrta o ch..kle d&Q 619U13 4SI; U MiIU LUV Ua%; V49( ULEU Jlii side. The sheet was noN thrown, U in the other instance, over the pai tridges, and when withdrawn, instea of those bcautiful birds, there appeare two frightful black snakes, with fai heads and crimson bellies, which, wit oped mouth and head ercet, and coile together, attacked each other with th greatest fury, and so continued to dt until, as it appeared, they becam quite exhausted, when they fell asui der, "They made an excavation in th earth in the shape of a tank or reser voi r, of considerable dimensions, whic they requested is to fill vith wr ter. When this was done they sprea a covering over the place, and after short interval, having retmoved th cover, the water appeared to h one sheet of ice, and they desired th:t some of the elephant-keepers might b) directed to lead the elephants acrosS Accordingly one of the mIen set hi elephant upon the ice, and Lhe ani inal walked over with as much eas< and safety as if it were a platform c solid rock, remaining for some time 01 the surface of the frozen pond, with rut occasioning the slightest fractur, in the iee. As usual, Lhe sheet wa tirawn across the place, arod beig re moved, every ve. -ige of ice, and evei moisture of any sort, had complete ly disappeared. "They proet. .d a blank voluire (I purest white paper, which was place< in iy hands to show that it container 1o figures, or any colored pages what ever, of wich I satisfied myself am ill arouid. One of the mien took th, volum] hand, and tire first openrinr exhibited a page of bright red, sporink led with gold, forming a blank tablet splendidly elaborate. The next turn ex 11i bited a beautiful aure,.spriukled it the. samerrr& mainner, and exhibiling or thec margin numbers of meni ant women a; various attitudes. "Tie juggler then turned to anoth I... InA? jiu.Ig:gU. Iolor and fabrie, and sprinkled in tlt aine manner with gold, but oni Jelineated herds' of cattle Ond lions tLe latter seizing upon the kine ina manner that I never observed in an2 >thcr paintings. The next leaf exhibi ted was a beautiful -green, sinilaril powdered with gold, on which wa represented in lively colora a eardel with inumnnerous Cyp1esses, rosCs, an< )ther flowering shrubs in full bloon mrid in tie nmidst of the garden at Alegant pavilion. The next chang -xhibited a leaf of orange, in the sani mianner powdered with gold, on whiel the painter had delineated the repre sentation of a great battle, in whiel two adverse kingsr were seen engagc im the struggle of a nmortal combahrt In short, at every turn of tire leaf, a (lit ferent color, scene, and action, wa: exlibited, such as was, indeed, m1os pleasing to Jehold; but of all the per forrmances, this latter of a volume o paper afforded me tihe greatest de light, so ranty pictures and extraor Jinary changes having been brough ander my view, that I murst cofis iny utter inability to do justice t4 le description." In observing upon the extraordinar, nature of these 1- ribrincaecs, tire Erl peror puts aside the supposition tiha they were to be ascribed to mere vit ual deception. "They very evideintly partake," hi says, "of somrethring b~eyonrd tire e., ertion of' human energy. I have heari it stated that the art has been callec the Asmnayanr, celestial, arnd I an informed that it is also known arn practised to a considerable extent mnong tire nations of Europe. It rma be said, indeed, that there exists il some mnen a peculiar anid essential fa< ulty, which enables them to raccomv plish things far beyond tire scope hruman exertion, such as frequentlyt bafil tire utimost subtlety of' thr understanding to penaetrante."'-N' York E'uensng Post. A DEArH! BED REvELATION.a large wine dealer in London, recentl on his death-bed, being in great di: tress of mind, acknowledged to h friends that his agony was .occasione by tire nature of thre business hre ha followed for years. lie stated that hand been his habit to purchase all thi sour- wines ire could, arid by miakirn use of sugar-of lead, arid other delete r'ious substrances, restore sihe wine to palatalble taste, lie said bre did ml doubt, he bad been the means of de troying hundreds of lives, as he hra from time to time noticed the injur ous effect. of' his mixtures on thios who drank them. He had seen ii stances of this kind where tire urncor .eious ,vIctims of hris cupidity, aft< wasting and declining for years, dei pite of best medical aidvices, went t their graves, poisoned by the adulte ated wvine she had sold them. This man died rich, but alas, whn a legacv (lid he leave for his cildre perance s I stood beside a dancing rill, as it came s'nging from the distant hill-side i-a bright crystal stream, sparkling as a gem on a crowni of silver. . Its lim t pid waters laved the smooth pebbles 1 in its shallow bed, and seemed to pol I ish themt as tiny mirrors to reflect 0 the fieCes of twittering birds. Merrily ' the little streamlet played through the U vale and woody dell, and the sweet flowers, peeping out from the grassy banks, smiled as the sprightly rill im a printed a kiss, and danced alon,. The - lively warblers of grove and garden l dipped their bills in its censer, and struck their harps to sweeter I notes, as if in praise of Him who l taught the rivulet to play. The wild , hare sported upon its flowery borders, a the busy bee sung amid its tufts of t mit and cow'slip, and the gentle gale wafted the fragrance of myriad flowers . over its winding pathway. But one voice asceided to the skies, and that - was the voice of' gladness that God lhad made the ntlU. The rill itself, in f unison with the song or shower and i dashing waterfall, the pealing voice of - river and ocean, seemed to exult that (tod had mingled no poisonous cle inent, w ith its delicious beverage. I looked al-oad over the wide (10 I minion of nature, and every living . ereature was teiiperate but, man. Iirds, beasts, fishes, and even the his f sing reptiles, rejoiced in the abundaice of sumie- showers and gushing i springs ; and all sported in the full tide of luxurious health. No destrov ing pestilence ever swept throuigha their . leafy canibers in grlove or forest, 1,nd (,eep, sorrow never crushed their mer ry hearts. On wings of i imlagiinationa I rose to see the clouds pri' out " liquid poisoin," instead of rain. mai.l the fuir muornig distil into.ieNUi diug. In .st of- < ; aiid U1rd i a ecn trarth vas withered frma moitallin to main, the blushing flowers dro.ped and perished for wiait of' tile crystal dew dron. anid Oh eo.luir bi-- folded their tiny wings amd died. I s.aw a child, filir as the morniiI when the gilded mountain-tops pr claim a bright and cheerful day. The. lusli of the suumner rose was upo her cheek. and the elastic bound of de deer was in her step. Beauty. trim med its roseate garland upon her brow, and she ipled and sung as a creature too fitir anI beautiful fihr ear-thI. I gaz ed, and said, surely this is a divine plea for temperance ; for the w ning child lhas never sipped the tempting wine, nor poisoned her healthful blood by drinking f'rom the riveri of death. De fore the withering breatI of intemper ance her beauty would fiade away, and all her bewitching charms perish as verdure ina the path of a si:oeco. The angel child, in the hand of this demon vice, would part with the last trace of' hunan lovelinmess, mid sink to a hope less grave as a revolting mass of cor ruption. I saw an aged man t remblin" at the - portals of the drunkard's grave, with all the kindly affetions crushed out of his once devoted heart. As a cring i iag slave he bowed belore the sway of insatiate appetite, and seemed to love, as iusic, the sound of his clakinag ebains his framie trembled in every muscle anod fibre ;his eye-balls, blood - shot and glaring with inward heatt, rol led fiereely in their sockets; and through every vein and artery rivers C flaming fire seemed to un in angry -tides. As he stood at the door of death, his body burned anid searredh firoim head to foot, aiad his heart empti ed of' love and v'irtaie, ia loathasonme frighitfaul specimen of rinied hmnzanl na ture, I exclaimed What a thrilling plea for' the ciause of teimper'ance ! It, Sis Ia Diviine ]ecturec, beyond the power ofgenmus or- unagination to report, written ini burning chiarac-ter's upon fthe human fr'aime, and iead to us in Sblaspheming words and cries of agoI e ny. it is the sti'ong uatteranc(e of (God, ,-fell, cleai', and terrific, to at w'reckless aiid disapatted -world. Not all the leaning aind eloquaence ofsehiools and f'oruim can poa'tray the evils of inteim peranace witha suc-h power as d1ehaovah Y does ini the bloated, scathed, and per -ishaing frame of' the drntkard. Stand s aside ye gifted orators, upon whose :1lips of glo wing eloquence, iiighty au il ditories' have hung entranced, iaiid let t the God of naaturie speak through his ei broken Jaws ! Lift up the scarred in 's ebriate to the view of' meii, and let thec tongue that is in every festerinig sore a amd wounded muscle pi'oclaim the ruinu t and death that, mainigle in the wine cupl! Lay bar-e his haearit, and show that eve. di ry noble charity is withered up, as' ii I- the lightening's fie-ry bolt had struck 0 ad shaivered the ianmy virtues. f'oiin I-branch to r'oot ! What more convinc. -ingarguiment can mortals hav'e, unaless r r darunikarad should arise from the deadi -to portr-ay his doom ini hell ! To place wit bef'oi'e good sense, it at placinlg the superfluous bef'ore thae lue auIse oU. 1bfl uest Indeustr'y Ina .6ojj ern Cou We often hear persont spei of the great and inexhaustile agricult. ral resources of our Southern eountrg,. as if there was much morn for im provement, aind much h d work t' be done, before we can full realize the benefits that would'r'esu fromi a more extensive cultivation of 'the soil. In this we fully coincide. It has. often beeni a iatter of great wondelqwith us that hundreds and tho\isands muore acres of land are not undbr succcssful cultivation, than there are in the South. One great evil is, we h1 ive too much. land, that does not yield a profit, and if our firiends were to have less land and improve it as they ,should, they would realize almost twite the amoun of real profit. Look at the inealcula ile resources of the Southern country --look at, the unoccupied land that the foot of man has scarcely ever touched -look what mines of wealth could be procured fi-om her soil, were it manur ed--were it. well tilled-mid in trav. ellinug about through the country you can find great emIibanuk muents of manure decayiing for want ofs>i.e one to take it away--they will not so Inuchu as put, it upon their garnlens. We do think it a shalet imned, when we looilk at our frieids inorth of us, that have to buy aiaure and have to liaul it a great dislance, and ience we hear of' the hea vy yield of their crops.-Take Ken. tucky, Tennessee, Ala.hama, NUIth and South Carolina, Ge66irgiau, Missis si p11i, A rkans a I i inois, Louisiana and Alisouri. And vhat an hinense num ber' of inlabi tanits Could b en.:: pc. conimodated in these S p whero a ftr ow has nevcr- beren imul; and ..where domestic 'niLetories could )e established. giving fonod and raiment to at least a million of hard wor king people. Wer th peldein our utheron count ry taughlt.toworkw t h itei jwn hadinstead of* relying too mluchl up a rs, we Would prosper more an we do, a Id we may all see the ' when we will be ncCC;arily com-l. 1ed togo to hard work ,and the sooner the better. There is no country on the fatce of the earth that has better advantiages thaun nOurs, but it is a la ilimetahle fact, that we do not innmprove them as we ought. Where one uan raNises-Cottbnm, let another Raise Iflenmp -where one miani raises Wool let another raise Grass, Cattle, Ihorses, Hogs, poultry, Vegetables, &c., and thus citable each other to plt upon a inmore solid Nsis, the cause of' A gri culture and donestie industrv-a cause that lies ,.t the veryN' ' tundatio of' ourn blesse C gvernlmnt. Let manutfh-C tures be erected in dilferent parts of our country, and let the people go hard to work, (f'or we love to see men and women work hard) than imein and maners will clhange infinitely fhr the better. Let a man travel through the above States-let him go into each coumty-let him gather all the int.rm ation he can, antd he will Soon find that time resources ar1e inivaluable, an.1 still wc would rathern spccula'e or d. alythiny 'lse thau Iwed work. But the days of' specum!ation are partly gonile anti we are much rejUiced to See a gnreater' disi 'si tion to encouraage nman ul labnr tham heretof'oe. and had tlhiA been tine ease ten years ago, wve would have such a timies as never was seen bneibre. While thnousanids of pneole in some pnarts oft thne wonrld are perishing for' thne necessari'es of' life, we are watst ing enough to f'eed imillions. We do thinnk it, high tinnn that l~ne Aimeirican p~eople were arousing fn onm theirn gre(at lethnar'gy anmd ptinmg fonrthu all their en ergies as a band of brothers atnd sisters, c'alliung ito reCquisi tion nallie pihysi cal powers of' n.ain, in cultivating his nmothen' ear'th, and pilacing A grictulture, atnd D..omeist ie idustry:, upon a fim, solid1 basis, thnat will defy all hinder aince in tuimc tnn conne. Stuppose we had mn aunufacturnes in all pnarts of onu' Son uhen Co'nuntr'y, mnu- n fihetur 'iing Cottoun, Woolk in itndi Sinlk fhbn'ies, raising at the s:umne tie, all thtat we woul wisht to eat ; we 'would thtus sav~e millions of dollars thatt are continually sent f'romt anmong tis. \Ve all see thne prnoprie4ty oft these thnnigs, butt it is a hartmd matter indeed f'or us to gn tnn workA and work?. I harnd with our' own Ihands. We mustit have enqupage of' the most costly order, on' else we are poo indeedn, when perhatps a friend next door' that wvoaks hard, is ahunost in waint of daily (find. W\ here is there a natimi (nt the whole hablitable globe, that has more andvantages thtan this, and at the samie time less appireciated. '1To those tha~t muuch is giv~en, much will be reqtiired." XV ill our corrnes pnden~i1ts sp eak out upon~f these subjects that we may kntow thne f'eelings that perva'&des out' fiends anrounnd us ? Telnn. Agriu'tl/arist. A elear cnncience is productive of' more han~ni ness t han btoarded gold, i'There are, i all, sixty si oks which comprise, the volume o' Holy Writ, which are attributed to mbre than thirty different authors, or writers of the whole." Half of the New Testa. ment was composed .by St. Paul, and the next largest writer. is the gentle and beloved St. John. With the sin gle exception of-St. Paul,.neither his tory- nor tradition has testified that those powerful thinkers- and writers ever enjoyed the benefits of education, or were trained to scholarship and learning; yet how ably have they writ ten, what eminent eblaracters have been chronicled by them, and what great events recorded, both for time and eternity ! .Moses, with his vast knowledge and profound intelligence-the reforner, the deliver-commenced ,he work; and John, with his depth of' feeling, and exquisite tenderness and simplicity, completed it. A Would Be Fashiona ble. 'What is the life of a would be fash ionabije young lady ' It is to go to a model boarding school kept by ani ex Frdich niilliner, to be ptm into a roomti with four ltpro miscuous young lLdies, and to learn in three days more mischief than her grandmtotlere-vcr dreamt of. It is to stay there at' the tune of .15 per week, fbr several quar:ers, and come Wmne finished' and superficial, with a taste of Latin, a touch of'French, a smattering of Italian and (erma, & 1)o't f'olio off crooked horses, distorted houses, lame sheep, and extraordinarv !ooking beasts (f tihe lield and fov. is . the air twotyls of' which u as nu. er. !'om dn~NOZnI genagerie. It. is. tosit in tl rawing room. in a 11' uniced silk dra-i,, with a wait hal an inch in cireumi'erence, be curled, be scented and bejeweled; to receive morning calls, while matmma looks tirough Ier spectaeles, and tries to mend nadermoiseiie's stockings. It is to have Mir. Fitz Itliaan, some fine day, get on his knees, and request. nidemnoiselle to make him, what she has all along been desirous to do, 'hap. piest of' mIei.' It is to wvear a white satin dress, an orange w'e:itl, a long, Iley veil, a diamnopd pi, and respond 'Amen,' to at qImilitity of tilill's & v'mil Ial a quntit of hing o' which made miiselle does not understand the full import. It is to commence housekeeping where 'the old folks ' leave o01' it, is to patronize fast horses, ruinous uphol sterers, operas, concerts, theatres. 1)als and iftes of all kinds. It is to bring a 1ew sickly children into existctice, to be tortiecd into etern ity by, careless hirelinlgs. It is to find, after a f'ew years, pro bation, that, Mr. Fitz-lluman is just what his name imports. It, is to have a1i 'execution' in the house; it is for madame to go into lis teries, and on 'coming to,' to find ter seif in lodgings in the attic story, with a 'tight.' imsband, a loose wrapper, a miiserable fire!, spa'e diet, and a erying baby. W'ivesfSave Yor imus bal (Is. The ibllowing should be read by every womnm ini the country, married or unmarrid-yes, it shuld( be comi initted to memoi'y and repeated thr'ee timues a day, for it contains more truth than manty v'olumes that have been writteni on the subicet: "I low ofttn we~ hear a man say I am going to California, Australia, or somnewhei'e else. You ask himt the reason of' his goinig away, and the an swer is, in nime cases out of' ten, I am not happy at homte. I have been un l'ortnate in business, and I hatve made up) my mind to try my luck in Cali fornia. TIhe world seems to go against mue. W hite f'ortuine fivored me, there we're those whomi I thought to be my l'rienids, but. when the scale turned, they also turned the cold shoulder' against. mue. My wife, she that should have been the first to have stood by me, and enicourage moe, was first, to point the finger of' scorn and say, 'it is your' own fault; why has this or that one been so fortunate? If you have attended to y our' business as they have, you would not be wher'e you are now.' TIhese antd, other like itnsiniuations, often drive a mani to find other society, other p)las uires, in consnencime of' beitng unhappy ait home, lie imay) have chil dren that he loves-, he cannot enjoy life with thienm as he would; lie may love them as dear'ly as ever; yet homne is made un pleanat, in consequence of' that cold inill'erence of'the wif'e. Now, I wvould say to all such wives, sisters , and in Ihet, all f'emuales, deal gently with him that is in trouble; remteimbei' hat he is very easily excited. A little wvord, carelessly thrown out, imany inflict a wound time never can heal. Then be canicious; a ma~n is but. hinnt an-thetre f'ore lhe is liable to err. It' ou se him going won6'everio simile, and evithifle igI~ ot~a show that you love him by W e acts of kinduces; let your friendship be unbounded; try to beguile his un ,happy hours in pleasant conversation. By so doing, you may save yourself ,and children from an unhappy fortune. "Wlien at man is in trouble, it is but a little word that may ruin him.". Merchants, Ledger. READING. The ability to read well is to iome extent a gift, and all cannot attain it. The great difliouilty with many, is the absence of quick perception iii grasp ing at a glance, the idea of the whole s9ntence, so as to grasp it in their own minds, and feel it in their hearts, and therefore be able to express its mean ing to their listeners. Inldeed, the chief cause of monotony and of poor reading generally, is the fict, that very often, the miid of the reader does not com prehend the thought of the author, nor his heart sympathize with the feelings expresed, and he reads therefore mere words hardly attaching more meaning to them, certainly giving to then no more expressious, than though they were of a ,foreign tongue. There nmust be enthusiasm in the reader, to produce cifect upon the hear er. Yet the noblest enthusiasm, the deepest feeling, and the highest appre ciation of the thought, cannot alone make a good reader. The voice must be trained. The instrument must be in tune. The organs of speecl must be so drilled, that they will habitually aceommodate themselves, to the con dition of the reader. Thero is much that is mechanical in reading, which every one may acquire, and wiho lt uirin;; which, no one es read well. 1houghits are expressed by wo'rds, aond he fails,,who, fur whatever ra:ison, does not give full fo:ce to words, sounding each one distinct, yet as a unit made up of several elements. Feelings are expressed by tones of the voice, and he, who cannot sensibly change his voice from one tone to another, fails in producing the legitimate efrect of good ratding. Two persons, of the 'same natural musicul talent, may play upon the pi ana-forte the same tune. The one, haviig comparatively but little prac tiee,s obliged to give his whole atten tion to mechanical execution, in order that the proper notes may be struck in the proper time, and lie performs the piece without positive fault, and yet alrods but little satisfaction to his His teners. The other, the master of the instrument, who has praticed upon the scales till the mechanical executioI of the muiost diliieUlt music requires of him but little thought, looks through the imere melody and rythmn of the music performned, to the theme upon which it is fbunded, and gives it such expres. sion, that his hearers are often melted ito tears. Now the voice is the in strumnct by which chiefly we commu nticate thoughts and feelings to others; and accordingly as we are or arc not masters of its powers, shall we be ena bled to express eifectually our own feelings and those of the author we Cad. 0 i These two elements in good read ing-the mcchanical and intellectual are hardly kept enough distinct in the instructions in reading in our schools. The mechanical part may and should be acqjuired chiefly by the pupil-s, when in-the lower classes. For the organs of speech are miore flexible ini early years, and caireless habits in pronunciation and articulation cain then be more ens ily corrected, than when they have been e, firumed by habitual practice. We were sorry to see in sonme of our schools carelessness 'n this respeeccasional Jy on theo pait ot' teachers, ~en on the part of pupils in the younger classes, and somietimes among the pupils of the tirst class. For example, words ending in ing' pronounced without sounding the finmal letter-words end ing ini es pronmounced as though spell. ed ess-the letter 1 omitted in woads like subject mnd beasts. We all know how diflicut it is for one, who has not paid particulair attention to articula tion, to pronouncee, for instance, the word acts, so that it can be distinguish ed, except by the context, frm-ei the word a.rc. Yet our language abounds in such difliculties; anlfi they can only be met and conquered by constant practice and watchfulness in early years UCffnnmonl School Report. A young man was enlarging to a lady frrend the character and qualifica tiotns of a young lady, wvhoM~was a mu tual acquaintance. Th'le youth wishing to commetnd the goodness of lher heart. laid his hand upon the recgionm of his own heart, and said." She is all right here." " Oh, fudge,'1 was the reply, " thnat is hlf cotton." aD' The proportmon of Catholic churches to P'rotesmant, in the United .Statee, is one to thirmyv-f tN age among the E 4ough P stopped at Taura,whe44id tacked by about' one hdind u savages frm the north el " 1 Ilnd. Joseph Maiden hiA ing officer, thus narrates the figlt The captain was also on de16 l18 (Mr. Maiden)took several clubs froin the savages. He then went to the main hatch to speak to the men .eft in the hold, when he received a severe blow oi the head from a club, which knocked him down the hatchway. While in the act offadling. he saw two natives attacking Win. Sheen, cooper, who shipped at Sydney. The war whoop was then raised, and Mailen re covering his blow, and not being in. jured by the full, directed the men in the hold to make for the caUin,(thero being a door through the bulkhead,) with a view to getting arms. They could not find any ammn tion for some time. At length Emaiin ucl Raiose discovered a keg of pow der, and afterwards a parcel of shot. IHaving now loaded some muskets they shot five natives from the cabin skylight, and Maiden, standing at the foot of the conpanion-ladder, and see ing the king's son passing on the- deck, ran him through with a bayonet. They then left the cabin and att.empt ed to rush the natives overboard. Two natives were struggling with the captain, one w th the cook's hatchet, and the other with a piece of sharp ened iron, like a long knife. Maiden raised his musket at the men, but it !:1_scd fire, and lie killed one of thei with his bayonet. In falling. the natlre dropped the hatchet on Maiden's foot, which it cut severely; both in the struggle went down the hatchway together, till the savage was overpowered and killed. Maide'n afterward shot another native. By this time many of the natives were driven overboad, and, Laving hoised the jib and cut the cable, the vessel stood off from the land. After get ting the -Wslhder weigh; Miiiden found that the captain, the boatswain, the cooper, and one of the scamen. were lying on the deck, their bodies being mutilated in a horrible manner by wounds from the hatchets and clubs. Ile thent stood N. E., to endeavor to fetch Taura, with the hope of find ing the schooner Black Dog, and get ting assistance to navigate the vessel. The Current, however, drove the ves. sel to the westward, and eventually Maiden bore up for Sydney. The murdered men were buried at sea. Mi TuRNo OF BAYARD TAYLOR,-- r. Taylor arrived in New York on Tues day, in the clipper ship Sea Serpent, which sailed from Whampoa on the 6th of September. Of Mr. Taylor,s travels, the Tribune says: ''Mr Taylor left New York on the 28th of August 1851, and has been gone two years and four months. In this time he has visited most of the countries of Europe, he has ascended the Nile further than any other Amer can or Englishnman traveler, journey ed iu Palestine, Asia Minor, and India, visited China twice and taken part in the American Expedition to Japan. le has traveled altogether some fifty thousand miles and in allhis adventures and mnteourse with mna of every clime and race has been received with kindness and 'attended by nniform good fortune. From the time of leav ing till his return lie has met iro acci dent, but has everything to favor his purpose and help him on. HeI retnrns to America ins excellent health and spir it ready to apply to use the varied experience and ii.formation gathered mn his long tour." 'na MAINE .bAIN lUAsarn.-Vast prepa;rations are biortr made by thre teimpe rance p~arty to,. pass through the Legigla ture a mo~st stringent law againet ihe Mnle of spir its, in any shape or form. Tier. is however, a chance of its defeat, if all we hear he correct. It is said thait Gov ernor Seymour entertains strong constitu tional scruples against anch a measure, anid may, nrew arguments be not addressed to altcsr his belief, deem resort. Should lie do so, there can be little doubt of his being presented re-elect ion by a strong, energetic arnd wealthy party in this State. As mratters now stand, this is the last' chance for those wvho are opposed& to te mecasure.--[New York Hferald Nsw IiNTON.-NVe learn from the Scientific American, that J. F. Fin.. ger, of Marioni distict, has invented a miachine for cuttsinsg thre curved portions/ at the end of saalfstil, technically cal led "copping." ~The novelty of the invention consist in ctutting sash stuffs by mreans of a chisel or cutter scured to a vertical arbor, having a recital pro eating motion. The sash stnff is p~rop. erly adjusted or pilaced upon the upper surface of a box, by means of a guide and adljusted strap. Tlheo inventor apnlied for a natent.