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Quartbrly and Monthly Advertise ments will be charged the same as a single in surtion, and semi-monthly the same as new ones Extraordinary Jug ' gling Feats. 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 multiplication of plants and trees. Ile 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. Me wrote several works on the subject, one of which was published at Am sterdam in 1720. Its title was. "Agri culaure par guile on Nouville De courte," etc. It has been supposed that he learned the secret of the Hin doo jugglers, whose feats in the same line are of the most extraordinary char acter.. They actually sow seed of sany tree the spectatur may call for, in the earthi andatter q ftwai ain worM pronounced over it, a mulher ry, plum, or a walnut plant, is grad uaily seen springing upward, until it becomes a large tree, with its natural' fruit depending fron its branches. Nor is this all. The fruit is plucked and given to the spectator to eat, and while he is 'ngaged eating of the. en chanted dates or walnuts, the branch es of the miraculous tree are 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 in an instant, leaving behind 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 itto 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 boson two or three times successively. The earth is dyed with her blood, while her agonizing groans announce dissolution. The specta4 tors 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 thtan that was performed in the presence of the Mogul Emperor Jehanegrie, who gives ant account of it in his autobiogra phly. The performers produced a living man, whose head they cut ofT in the fast instance. They then divided the limbs from the trunk, and the mu tilated remains lay on the ground for aome time. A curtain was then ex tended over the spot, and one of the performers putting himiself unider the cutrtain, 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 lowinag minute account of some oth. er performancees by the sanme juggler, which are very wonderfuzl: "They-took a small bag, and hav ing first shown that it was entire ly empty, one of them put his hand into the bag; on withdrawing his hand &igain, out came two game cocks of the largest size and groat beauty, which imediately assailed each oth pr, and fought with such force and fury, that their wings emitted sparks ~f fire at every stroke. This continued or~ the full space of an hour, when 4hiey put an end to the combat by throwing a .sheet over the animals. Again 'they withdrewv the sheet, and there appea~red a brace of partridges, with the most brilliant and beautiful plumage, which immediately began to tune their throats as if' there was ~othing human present, picking at worms withith~e samne sort of chtuckle as wuCy are neara to use on tne m side. The sheet was now thrown, 1 in the other instance, over the pa tridges, and when withdrawn, instea of those beautiful birds, there appeare two frightful black snakes, with flt heads and crimson bellies, which, wit oped mouth and head erect, 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 resei voir, of considerable dimensions, whic they requested us to fill with w, ter. When this was done they sprea a covering over the place, and tfter short interval, having removed th cover the water appeared to 1 one sheet of ice, and they desired tha soeIC of the elephant-keepers might b directed to kad the elephants tcros Accordingly one of the men set hi elephant upon the ice, and the ani inal walked over with as much eas and safety as if it were a platforn . solid rock, remaining for some time o1 the surface of the frozen pond, witi out occasioning the slightest fractur in the i'e. As usual, tile sheet wa drawn across the place, and being re moved, every vestige of ice, tmid evel moisture of aMy sort, had complete ly disappeared. "They procured a blank volume 0 purest white paper, which was plae< in my hands to show that it containce no figures, or any eolored pages what ever, of which I satisfied mysei an all arou id. One of the nien took tl, volumldl hand, and the first openin exhibited a page of bright red, sprinlk led with gold, firming a blank tablet splendidly elaborate. 'T'le next turni ex hibitedi a beautiful .z.ure,.5prit)klud i thi :mme mn and exhibitimr oi tl:e: Inarginl numbers of meul aM4 womien :i various attitudes. "The juggler then turned to anlotih er leaf, which appeared of a Chiles, color and fabric, aind sprinkled in th same mannter with gold, but on i delineated herds, of cattle dad lions the latter seizing upon the kine in I manner that I never observed in am other paintings. The next leaf exhibi ted was a beautiful -green, similarl powdered with gold, on whicl wa represented in lively cohns a gardei with nunerous cypresses, roses, a:n< other flowerigi shrubs in full blooi and in tile mlidst of the garden ai elegant pavilion. The next chang<I exhibited a leaf of orange, in the same manner powdered with gold, on whie the painter had delineated the reprc sentation of a great battle, ill whiel two adverse kings were seen ellgagr ill the struggle of a ortal combat In short, at every turn of tile leaf, a dit fIrent color, scene, aid actiun, wa exhibited, such as was, indeed, m1os pleasing to behold; but of all the per foramances, this latter of a volume U paper afforded me the greatest de light, so many pictures and extraor dinary changes having been brongh under my view, that I must coifes mny utter inability to do justice tI tile description." i observing upon tile extraordinar, nature of these perfbh rianlces, tile Em peror puts aside the Slpposition tila they were to be ascribed to imere vit ual deception. "They very evidently partake," h says, "of somlethling beyonid tihe es ertion of human eniergy, I hlave hear< it stated that the art hlas beenf callel the Asmaayan, celestial, anmd I an inuformed thlat it is also known an' practised to a considerable extent mnong the nlations of Europe. It ma be said, indeed, that there exists i some ihen a peculiar and essential fa< ulty, which enables thlem to acecomi plish things far beyonld the scope human exertion, such as frequentlyt bafile tile utmost subltlety of' tha understanding to penietrate."-Neu York Euening Post. A DEATH BED REvELArION.J large winie dealer in London, recenlti on his death-bed, being iln great di tress of mind, acknowvledged to h friends that his agony wats.oecasionec by the nature of the business he 11a followed for years. Hie stated that had been his hlabit to purchlase all ti1 sour intes lie could, and by mlak in use of sugar of lead, anld other delt< rious substances, restore &he winle to palatable taste. ie said lie did mt doubt he had been the means of de: troying hundreds of lives, as lie 1a from time to time noticed the injur ous effets of his mixtures on thos who drank them, lHe had seen ii stances of tils kind where the unco: -cious ,victims of his cupidity, af't< wasting and declining for years, de: pite of best medical advices, went I their graves, poisoned by the adulte ated wine she had sold the m. This man died rich, bot alas, wvh a leaev did lhe leave for his childrei - ___- _-__ - %& w a jC~ g p ermace s I stood beside a dancing rill, as it canc singing from the distant hill-side -a bright crystal stream, sparkling as a gem on a crown (if sihver. - Its limin pid waters laved the smooth pebbles h in its shallow bed, and seemed to pol. ish them as tiny mirrors to reflect e the fhees of twittering birds. Merrily the little streamlet, played through the V vale and woody dull, and the sweet flowers. peepiig out from the grassy banks, smiled as the sprightly rill im e printed a kiss, and danced along. The lively warblers of grove and garden [I dipped their bills in its censer, - and struck their harps to sweeter I notes, as if in praise of' Him who it taught the rivulet to play. The wild a hare sported upon its flowery borders, e the busy bee sung amid its tufts of t mint and cowslip, and the gentle gale a waifted the fragranice of myriad flowers over its wind*.ig pathway. But one s voice ascended to the skies, and that - was the voice of gladness that God had made the nULL. The rill itself, in f unison with the song of shower and i dashing waterfall, the pealing voice of river and ocean, seeied to exult that God had in izigled no poisonous Ce. Sittent with its delicious beverage. I looked abroad over the wide do linlullon of iature l, and every living creature was temperate but an. Birds, beasts, fishes, and even the his f sing reptiles, rejoiced inl the abunldanlcC of sumumer showers aid gushinig springs ; mind all sported ill the full tide of luxurious health. No destroy illg pestienice ever swe)t through their leaf'y ebanbers in grove or foret, iund deep sorrow never crushed their mer ry3, hearts. On wtiugs of iiimaginatioun I rose to see the clouds pour out " liquid poisvon1," instead of Jain. :i the f*uir mIlliurkiig distil into.iea'.i: diug .n. stdda M rdAew ; and f :u.th!i. geen earth was withered from mountit to main, tie blushing flum ers drooped aid perished for want of the crystal dew drop, and the caroling birds folded their tiny wings antud died. I saw a child, fair as the Iiornin2 whe In the gilded mountain-tops prci elaim i a bright and cheerful day. Th blush of the sum1er rosO was upo her cheek, and the elastic bound of the deer was in her step. Beauty trin iued its roseate garland upon her brow. and sie ,4 ed and sung as a creature too fair aid beautiful Ihr earth. I gaz ed, and said, surely this is a divine plea for temperance ; for the w nning child has never Sipped the tempting wine, nor poisoned her healthful blood by drinking firom the river of death. De fore the withering breath of intemnper anlce herli beauty would ide away, and all her bewitching charms perish as verdure in the path of a sirocco. The angel child, in the haud of this demon vice, would part with the last trace of human loveliness, and sink to a hope L less grave as a revolting mass of cor. - ruption, f I saw an aged man treimbling at the - portals of the drunkard's grave, with all the kindly atleetions crushed out of t his once devoted heart. As a cring 5 inig slave lie bowed lefore the sway oi ) insatiate appetite, and seemed to ove, as mii usic, the sound I of his clanking ehains his frame trembled in every in uscle and libre ; his eye-balls, blood t. shot an1d glarinig with inwvard heat, rol - led fiercely inl their sockets; and through every vein and artery rivers Sof flaming fire seemjed to run in angry tidles. As lie stood at tihe door of 1death, his boudy burned anid scarred 3 from head to foot, and his heart emipti Sed of love and virtue, a loathisomte frightful specimen of ruined hun ina ture, I exclaimed What a thirilling Splea for the cause of teimpeirance ! It, a is a Divine lecture, beyond the power .of genius or imagination to report, -writtein in burning charaeters upon ,j' the human fr-amie, and read to us in o blas-pheing words and cries of ago. e ny. It is the stronig utteranzce of (God, .fell, clear, and terrific, to a wrecless amnd disapated 'world. Not all the leairning and eloquience ofschools anid forum can portray the evils of iintemi perance wvith such powyer as d1ehuovah Y does in the bloated, scatthed, and per e ishuing framte of' the drunkard. Stand saside ye gifted orators, upon whose Ei lips of glo wing eloquence, miighty au d1 ditorieshave hunig enutraneced, and let it lie God of niature speak througvh his e brokeni laws ! Lift uip the scarredl in g ebriate to the view ofl memi, anid let thle tongue that is in every festeriiig sore a and wounded muscle proclaimi theruini >t and deaith that, min gle in the wine cupi! SLay bare his heart, aind showv that ev'e d ry noble charity is withered up, as' if I-the lighteiiing's fiery bolt had struck e and shivered the mny v'irtues. from 1-branch to root ! WVhat mnoire convine -iing arguiment enni mort als have, unless a ~r druiikard should arise from theo dead -to portray his doom ini hell! 0 Jluass. 1L1b Bout. r. - - - - -- To place wit before good sense, is it placing the superfluous biefore the i.I ,ic0f..-i5:*1P Tine Cause of tk-ik -i Industry Is thlt titl. cnCountiy We often hear person speaking of the great and inexhaust'ibl agriculti. ril resources of our- Southern dqontry as if' there va-s much ~omrn fr in prO)vcint, and much hnd work to be done, before we canl fulli realize the benlelits that would'resu fro a ore extensive cultivation of 'the soil. In this we fully coincide. 'It has often been a mnatter of great wvOndcravith Us that hundreds and tholIsands more acres of land are not undL'r successful' ecultivation. than there arijn the South. One great evil is, we h ive too much land, that does not yield 'a profit, and if our friends were to have less land and improve it as they shiould, they would realize almost twine the ainoun of real profit. Look at the incalcula ble resources of' the Southern country -look at tile unoccupied land that the foot of nait has scarcely ever touched -look what mines of wealth could be procured foi-i her soil, were it manur ed-were it well tilled-and in trav ellilng about through the country you can findu great embiiankmnents of maurie decaying for want ofsosim one to take it away-they will nut, so nuch as puit it upon their gardens. NWe do tinik it a shalile indeed, when we look at our fricinds imath of us, that, have to Imy iaure and have to haul it a great distance, azlu hence we he'ar of the hica vy yield of their crops.--Take Ken tucky, Tennessee, Alabama, North and Smith Carol ina, Gergia, Missis _ippi. A rkaIsas. Ii nois, Louisiana and Alisouri, dnd what an ii'lmetnse num her of' iihabitaits could Ibe v 'V Ie. commtodatedl in these S t7 r-Tha ~m whewra a furtow las nle\'r hern ini1, and swhere dornestie Ma' tthetorie: could be establisied. giving foomd aid r.im ent to at least a million of hard working people. Were the people in our Southern country t aught. to wurk with their own /leds, instead of relying too illuch up rs, we would prosper inure a we do, aid we may all seu tile , wlel ve vill be necessarily Comn led togo to hard work,anmd the sooner the better. There is no country on tle ithee of the carth that has better advantages than ours, but it is a la inlenLtable feet, that we do not inuprove them as we ought. W here one min11 r'aises-Cotton, let aniother aui.se i1ep:1 -where one mani raises Wool let, another raise Grass, Cattle, IIorses, Hogs, poultry, Vegetables, &c., and thus enable each other to planu1t upon a 11100 solid basis, the cause of Agri culture and do:nestic industr v-a cause that lies t the very foiundatIonm of' our blessed' gvernmeit. Let muannfhc tures be crected inl diferent, parts of our country. and let the people go hard to work, (fur we love to see men and women work hard) then rlieni and manners will ch'anre infinitel fir the better. Let a miin travel through tile above States-let him go into each county-let him gather all the inform ation lie Can, and lie will soon find that the reonre'es are invaluable, and still we would rather specutle or db atfl/liny is thIn Ir work. Ihit the days of' speculationi are partly gone and we are much rejoiced to see a g'reater disposition to cue'.u rage man u labior tham netofore. ad had this beeni the ease teni years algo, we would have such a timzes as never was seen befbre. W ile thiousanmds of' peoiple in some parts~ of thle worcnld ar'e p erishini' for' the nxecessariies of' life, we are wast ing enough to feecd illiions. We do thsinkl it, high timeo that the Anierican peolewere aronsing f'im thiri great lethargy an d pu ting f'orth all1 their en ergies as a band of brother's and1( sisters, calling into reqluisition all the phyvsi cal powers''' of nman, in cultivating his mlother' carthI, andl placin'g Ag'ricultunre, andli Doimesti in dulstr u;> joni a firm, solid bacsis, thamt w'll1 def'v all hinider'. an1ce ini tinme to comze. Supp~lose we had mi anuifactures0 ini all parts of' our1 Souittern Country, mianu. theturing Cottoii, Woollhui and Silk Ithbries, r'aisinig at the same time i, all that we would wish to eat; we woul thus sauve miillions of dollars that are continiually sent from among us. We all see the propriety of' these things, but it is a hard matter indeed f'or us to go~ to work'A and wornk ihard wi/th our' otwnf hantds. We miuist, have eqjupage of' the most costly order, or else we are( poor) indeed, wvhen perha~ps a friend next door that wvoaks hard, is ahnouist in wan1t of' daily fod. W her'e is there a naition onl the wholo hiabitable globe', that .has more ad vantages than this, and at the same time Iess appr~ieciatedl. " To those thamt much is given, much 'will 1be reqjuir'ed." w ill our1 corres polndenuts speak ouit. upon)1 theseC subhjects that wve miay kniow~ the f'eelinigs that piervtade'j our friends ar'ounud us ? Tennt. Ag ricutlturist. A cleal' conicienee is productiv'e of' mlore0 hiannines~s thtan hloarde'd gold, *AUTURk8UW P NEWEIBJ ' There are hn all sixty ol oks which comprise. the volume oF. Holy Writ, which are attributed to mre than thirty dif'erent authors, or writers of the .whole. H al f of the New Testa ment was composed by St. Paul, and the.next Jargest writer. is the gentle aid beloved St. John. With the sin gle exception ofrSt. Paul,,neither his tory nor tradition has testified that those powerfil thinkers- and writers ever enjoyed the benefits of education, or vere. trained to scholarship and learning; yet how ably have they writ ,ten, what eminen t claracters have been chronicled by them, and what great events recorded, both ibr time and eternity ! Moses, with his vast knowledge and profound intelligence-the reformer, the deli ver-coin nienced .he work; and John, with his depth of feeling, and exquisite tenderness and sinplieity, completed it. A Would Be Fashiona ble. 'What is the life of a would be fash ionable young lady V It is to go to a model boarding school kept by ain ex Frcheb miliner, to be put, into a rooi with four pro. lxisculous young ladies, and to learn in three dlays miore mischief than her grandmIother*Vcr dreatnt of. It is to staV there at, the tune of $15 per week, for several quarters, and coume home 'finished' and superficial, with a taste of Latin, a touch of French, a Smattering of Italian and German, :, port fO' of crooked horses, distorted houses, i mc sheep, and extraordinarv !okin g b, 'sts ci the field and la is (i the oir, ti. N ty rs of which %as ne - It is to sit in - d raw ing ioom,, in a fl'*unmced silk dras-, wiL a waLit halt ai iich in circunference, be curled. be sicented and be jeweled; to recee; c morning calls, while mamma looks through her spectacles, anid tries to mend mademoiselle's stocking. It is to have Mr.Fitz II umxan, some fine day, get on his knees, and request niadeimoiselle to make him, what she has all along been desirous to do, 'hap. piest of ien.' It is to wear a white satin dress, anl oragile wreath, a n, flecey vel, a diamond pin, and respond 'Aien,' to a quaitity of thiigs of which made noiselle does not understand the full import. It is to commence housekeeping where 'the old folks ' leave olF, it is to patronize itst horses, ruinous uphol sterers, operas, concerts, theatres, balls and Jievs of all kinds. It is to bring a few sickly children inito existelce, to be tortiured into etern ity by careless hireling-rs. It is to find, after a fevw years, pro bation, that, Mr. Fitz-.llumian is just, what his name imp'irts. It is to have alli 'executioni' in the house; it is for madame to go into hys. teries, and Ol 'coming to,' to find her self inl lodginxgs inl the attic story, with a 'tight' husband, a loose wrapper, a mxiserale fire, spare diet, and a crying baby. "Wives, inve Youir Bius Iands. Th iollowing should be read by every wonum in the count r,, married or um xar rid-yes, ;t should be comn mitted to memory' aind rep~eated three t i mes a day, for it contains imore truth than marny volumut~ that haxve been written on thme subiict: "I Iow oftenx we~ hear a man say I am going. to California, Australia, or somiewhere else. You ask him the reason of his going away, and the an swer is, mi nme cases out of ten, I am not hiappiy at homeii. I have been un fortunate in businmess, and I have made up my mind to try my luck in Cali fornia. TJhe wvorld seems to go against mue. Whlile fortune favored mec, there were those Whom I thought to be mty frienids, but when the scale turned, they also turned the cold shouldcr nxgainst ime. Mly wifeu, she that should have beeni the lirst to have stoodl by me, and encourage meh, was first, to poinit the linger of scorn and say, 'it is your own fault; why has this or thaxt onie been so tfortunatet If you have axttended to your business as they have, you would nuot lhe where you are now.' These and other like insinuiations, often drivo a mnii to find other society, other leLas ures, in consequxence of' being unhappy at hoiie. le maxy have clhild reni that he loves; he canniot enjoy life with them xas he would; he may love them as dearly as ever; yet homxe is made unpiileasanit, ini consequence of' that cold indtiflrencee of the wife. Now, I would say to all such wives, sisters , anid in flhet, all fenmales, deal gently with him that is in trouble; remexmber that hxe is very easily excited. A little word, ecrelessly thrown out, may inflict, a wound time never can hieal. Then be cancious; a mani is but, Iiunan-there fore lie is liable to err. 10 yon see hi m gdilng tbgi show that you love him by rep acts of kindness; 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. "gWheii a man-is in trouble, it is but a little word that may ruin him." Merchants, Ledger. RE A DIN The ability to read well is to Some extent a gift, and all cannot attain it. The great diflieiilty with many, is the absence of quick perception in grasp ing at a glance, the idea of the whole sgntence, so as to grasp it in their own minds, and feel it in their hearts, and therefore be able to ex press its mean ing to their listeners. In deed, the chief cause of monotony and of poor reading generally, is the fact, that very often, the mind of the reader does not coi. prehend the thought of the author. nor his heart sympathize with the feelings expresed, and lie reads therefore mere words hardly attaching more meaning t to them, certainly giving to then no more expressious, thaii though they were of a foreign tongue. There must be enthusiasm in the reader, to produce cllet 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 speech must be so drilled, that they will habitually accommodate themselves, to the con dition of tihe reader. There is much that is mechanical in reading, which every one may acquire, and with out a . uiring which, no one eQUz rmud % ell. 'iroug ts are expressC by wf r1, ard he fili . who, for whatever re:ison, does not give full force to words, sounding each one distinct, yet as a unit made up of several cleienits. Feelings are expressed by tones of the voice, and lie, who cannot sensibly chainge his voice 1rom one tone to another, fails in producing tihe legitimate effect of good reading. Two persons, of the -same natural musicul talent, may play upon the pi. a-forte the same tune. The one, having comparatively but little prae tiee,.is obliged to give his whole atten tion to mechainical execution, in order that the proper notes may be struck in the proper time, and lie performs the piece without positive fault, and yet alfords but little satisfaction to his is teiners. The other, the master of the instrument, who has praticed upon the scales till the mechanical execution of the most dihficult Music requires ofmhim but little thought, looks through the imnere nielody and rythm of the music performaed, to the theme upon which it is fbunded, and gives it such expres sion, that his hearers are ofti melted into tears. Now the voice is the in struiment. by which chiefly we commu nicntte thoughts and feelings to others; and accordingly as we are or are not masters of its powers, shall we be ena bled to express effectually our own feelings and those of the author we read. These two elements in good read ing-tho mechanical and intellectul are hardly kept enough distinct in the instructions in reading in our schools. The mechanical part may and should be oc'uired chily by t hie pupils, when in-the lower classes. For the organs of specechi are imore flexible in early years, and careless habits in pronunciation and articulation can themn be more eas ily corrected, than when they have been confirmed by habitual practice. We were sorry to see in somne of our schools carelessness in this respee ceasional ly on the part of' teachers, !en on the part of pupils in the younger cl asses, and somectimes among the pupils of the first class. For example, words ending in ing pronounced without soundling the linmal let ter-words end ing ini ess, p~ronoiunced as though spell ed ess-the letter I omitted in woids like subject and becasts. We all know how dillieut it is for one, who has not paid particular attention to articula tionm, to pronounce, for instance, the word acts, so that it can be distinguish ed, except by the context, from the word azec. Yet, our language abounds in such difficulties; anti they can only be met and conquered by constant practice and watehifuness in early years. Commonl~l Schtool Rep)ort. A young manm was enlarging to a lady frrend the character and qualifica tions of a young lady, wvhoa~was a mu tual acquaintance. Th'le youth wishing to commend the goodness of her heart. laid his hand upon the region of his own heart, aiid said." She is all right here." " Oh, fudge, ' was the reply, "'that is half cotton." 11. Th'le proportion of Catholic churches to lirrtesmnnt_ in thm United Sasion ~A.'late Sohv..1 jl ~aut. ge among the outhbP topped at Tauora, wlie r e acked by about one hund id 'an avages from the north en Ai sland. Joseph Mailenc iehaet - ng officer, thus narrates thefigtr The captain was also ondeck' I10 Mr. Maiden)took several Clubs from he savages. He then went to the nain hatch to speak to the men left n the hold, when he received a severe >low on the head from a club, w'hich mocked him down the hatchway. While in the act of falling. he saw two 1atives attacking Vm. Sieen, cooper, vho shipped at Sydney. The war Vhoop was then raised, and Mailen re :uvering his blow, and not being in. ured by the fall, direced the men in he hold to make for the eabin,(there >eing a door through the bulkhead,) vith a view to getting arms. They could not find any ammunj ion for some time. At length Eman el Rainose discovered a keg of pow ler, and afterwards a parcel of shot. laving now loaded sonic muskets hey shot five natives from the cabin kylight, and Maiden, standing at the out of the companion-ladder, and see ng the king's son passing on the- deck, an him through with a bayonet. 'hey then left the cabin and attempt ,d to rush the natives overboard. l.wo natives were strugglin 5 with the aptain, one with the cook s hatchet, aid the other with a piece of sharp. ned iron, like a long knife. Maiden aised his musket at the men, but it aTssed fire, and he killed one of then ith his hayonet. In falling. the nativeropped the :tchet on Maiden's foot, which it cut everely; both in the struggle went lown the hatchway together, till the avage was overpowered and killed. 4aidenu afterward shot another native. 3y this time niany of the natives were iriven overboad, and, LIaving hoisted he jib and cut the cable, the vessel tood off from the land. After get ing the vassauVhder weigh, Maiden 'ound that the captain, the boatswain, he cooper, and one of the seamen, rere lying on the deck, their bodier Icing mutilated in a horrible manner >y wounds from the hatchets and clubs. Ile thent stood N. E., to endeavor o feetch Taura, with the hope of find. iig the schooner Black Dog, and get mug assistance to navigate the vessel. .he Current, however. drove the ves el to the westward, a-d eventually Ifaiden bore up for Sydney. The nurdered mien were buried at sea. lrTURN (IF BAYARD TAYLOR,-Mr. 7aylor arrived in New York on Tues IV, in the clipper ship Sea Serpent, vhich sailed from Whanpoa on the th of Septem ber. Of Mr. Taylor,s ravels, the Tribune says: 'Mr Taylor left New York on the 8th of August 1851, and has been ;one two years and four months. In his time he has visited most of the ountries of Europe, he has ascended lie Nile further than any other Amner mn or Englishman traveler, journey td in Palestine, Asia Minor, and India, ,isited China twice and taken part in he American Expedition to Japan. Ie has traveled altogether some filty housand miles and in allhis adventures nid intercourse with men of every lime and race has been received with indness anid 'attended by uaniforrm ood fortune. From the time of leav ng till his return lie has met no acci lent, but has everything to favor his >urpose and help him on. H-e returns ,o America in excellent health and spir t ready to apply to use the varied 3xperience and ii .formation gathered ni his long tour." Tuj MiAINE IjAwIN DANGE.Yast )rep)arationas are bioiar made b~y thie tempo ance party to.. pass through the Leg-sla 'ure a most stringent law against. iho 'e le f spirits, in anay shape or form. Thaere as however, a chance of its defeat, if all re hear be correct. It is said that Gov ~rnor Seymour eniteri ains strong conlstit u innal scruples against anch a measure, mnd may, new arguments be not addrossed o alter his belief, doom resort. Shouldl c 410 so, there can be little doubt of his semlg presented re-election by a strong, ~iergetic aind wealthy party in this State. Ase maatters now stanid, this is the last' :bannce for those wvho are opposett to the iesure.-[ New York Hferald NEw INVENTION.-We learn frnbi heo Scientifio A merican, that J. F. Fin ;er, of Mariona distriet, has inventedl a nachine for cuttinlg the curved portions tt the end of sa~1tstuffI, technically cal ed "copping." The novelty of the nvention consist in cutting sash stuflis ymeanus ofa chisel or cutter seesved to a vertical arbor, having a recital piro :ating motion. The sash stuff is prop. 3rly adjusted or placed upona the upper murface of a box, by means of a guide md adjusted strap. The inventor ipplied for a patent.q