Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 April 1857 — Page 2

THE RRVIE W.

CRAWFOBDSVILLE,

Saturday Morning', April 18,1857.

PRINTElf AND PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY MORSTNO BY CHARLES n. HOWE!*.

Pf The CnMrfordnrille Review, famished SabKriben at *1,50 in advance, or M, If not paid within the year.

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All kind* of JOB WORK done to order. To Advertisers. Hverv mi verti*einenf handed in for pnblicotion. ahotild Jinve writcn cpon it the number of time? the •d vcrtiner wi*lipc ti nscrted. If notsostatcd.it will be inserted until ordered out, and charged accordingly.^

TW Vft wisl. It distinctly understood, that we Iiave now the r.r»T and tho LARGEST assortment of xrw and FAXCT Jon TYPE ever hrontfht to this pluee. We insist on tho.c wisliintf work done to cull up. and wo will show them onr assortment of typs.rnts.

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have cot them and no mistake. Work

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THE UNION TO BE DISSOLVED. Ever since the decision of the Dred Scott ease, the Black Republican papers have set up a universal howl. We are glad to sec that one of their leading organs the New Albany Tribune has become heartily ashamed and disgusted with the silly autics cut by its cotempoaries, one of whom in this place denounced the decisions of Chief Justice Tanny "as windy and infamous." Read the following remarks from the Tribune:

A writer in tho Indiana State Journal, who is in favor of holding amass Republican Convention at Indianapolis on the 17th of .June, (the anniversary of the battle of Hunker's Hill,) is in favor of kicking overboard all the old fogies who undertake to calculate the value of this Union in dollars and cents. IIesa3's: "Away with all arithmetics, and politics, and all other ties that won't bring out freedom for an answer, UNION OR NO UNION."

And here ia another sentiment uttered by him:' "If the decision of the Supreme Court, lately made, is regarded as sound, what will the Union be worth to freedom?"

And here is'still another: "If wo can't have freedom and Union, one and inseparable, now and forever, let us have freedom without the Union, here and elsewhere, now and forever."

The plain English of this is—if we cannot have the freedom of the negro, here and e/seichere,—the freedom of the negro, as well in Kentucky as Indiana, and still maintain the. Union—why then, let us liave the FREEDOM OF THE NEGRO, WITHOUT THE UNION!

If such is the spirit which is to animate the proposed convention of the 17th of June may our tongue be palsied, and our right hand forget its cunning, before we participate in or encourage so treasonable a purpose. If the next anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill is to be thus desecrated, by subordinating the value of this glorious Union to the freedom of a few slaves of the South, it were better that the rccord of that memorable conflict of our fathers should be blotted from the page of history and remembered no more by their degenerate sons.

DR. PRATHEK'S NEW STORE. This gentleman is taking everything by storm in the way of soiling goods. He has not only one of the best assorted stock of goods, but is selling at astonishingly low prices. Ilis terms are eash. He believes in small profits and quick sales. We think the Dr. is about, to win by this judicious system of doinir business.

fHAWFOBl) .V MUM.IKIN. This well known firm have a splendid assortment of spring and summer poods which they arc selling at very low figures.

Wherever public confidence is re­

posed wo have a proof of the existence of merit that such confidence is extended to our friends CHRISTMAS & CRERO, is evident, from the fact that their trade is daily increasing and arc constantly adding large, supplies to their already extensive and well selected stock of Hardware in all its various branches. Give them a call.

1®* Mr. Gray, editor of the Cleveland Plaindcaler, has been reappointed Postmaster of that city.

BINKF1JSPIEL A- WII.E.

Thcso gentlemen arc now in receipt of their spring and summer stock, which comprises every variety of plain and fancy dry goods. In an examination of the stock we notice some very beautiful silk dress patterns, worked collars and embroideries in fact they have a splendid assortment of ,fancy dress goods.

CAMPBELL, GAI.KY&HARTER.—This finn have received their spring and summer goods. They intend selling at the very lowest figures. Their new advertisement will appear next week.

REW

MILLINERY ESTABLISHMENT.—We

eall the attention of our readers to an ad. Yertisement in another*column of this establishment.

M'ln New Orleans' on the 20th ult., the editors of the Picayune partook of airawberries grown in the open air.

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THE FUTURE OP CUBA III AH ERG. L1SH POINT OF YIEW. There is much *cope for reflection, in the minds of intelligent American citizens, in an extract which we copy below from a speech of an English member of Parliament, from East Sussex, a Mr. J. 6. Dodson, who has recently spent some time on the island of Cuba. This speech was delivered in the city of Brighton, and is reported in the Heraid of that place. There are many facts in it worthy of attention, which arc yet hardly appreciated as they should be in the United States. The im mense importance of the acquisition of the island of Cuba to the Union, and the advantages and benefits to be derived from it, only need to be set forth and explained to make it the most popular political measure that ever came before the people for their decision. The English member of

Parliament, Mr. Dodson, said: "The garrison of Cuba is superior in number to the regular army of the United States. Its coasts are protected by a considerable naval squadron. These material forces would, however, avail little in a contest with America, if the Americans as a nation were determined to obtain possession of the island. But Spain has other securities for her right than her own sin-gle-handed might. Havana is the Constantinople of the West—its unrivaled harbor the Golden Horn of the New World. Cuba, like Turkey, in the hands of a thirdrate Power, is equally open to the commerce of all nations, and affords a cause of jealousy to none. In the hands of a firstrate Power it would be a formidable stronghold, from which the liberties and rights of nations might at any time be threatened. As America grows in conscqucnce, as increased facilities of communication bring her into closer contact with the nations of the Old World, the balance of power may become as important a question on one side of the Atlantic as on the other. The maritime and commercial States of Europe will object to the monopoly, bj' a monster republic, of the command of the West Indian seas and the key of the Gulf Stream as justly as to the seizure of the Dardanelles and the appropriation of the Euxine by a giant empire. "There are, however, differences in the two eases, which, it is to be hoped, this country will not hastily lose sight of.— With lluss'a the primary object in acquiring territory is to strengthen her military power the increase of her wealth is only the secondary consideration. The reverse is the case with the United States. If Cuba were annexed, its productiveness and its trade icould be more developed in five or six years, under the influence of American activity, tlmn in ten times as many years of Spanish torjmr and misrule. In a pol itico-cconomical point of view, the world, and England especially, would be gainers. But, however much England (and the name applies, though in a less degree, to France and other great Powers) might, gain in wealth, she would lose far more in re spcct of position and prestige. The pos session of Cuba would add enormously to the influence and strength of the United States, and would hasten the day, which already seems fast approaching, when they will become the first Power in the world. Yet it scaredj', under any circumstances, will be worth England's while to plunge into a war with the American republic, solely to endeavor to prevent it from adding Cuba to its dominions. Even if successful in the immediate object of the war, she would inflict as great injury on herself as on her rival. "In the natural course of things, America must become, sooner or later, a far greater empire than the mother country.— The Americans have all the qualities that have made us what we arc, with one hundred and fifty times our national resources, and their spirit of enterprise is accordingly quickened and stimulated. The most desirable event for England would be such a peaceable dissolution of the Union as should leave two or more prosperous and independent powers, capable of holding the balance to each other.

"Mr. Dodson adverted to the various ways in which Cuba might fall into the hands of America, and concluded in these words: "There is yet another mode—one neither of conquest nor of voluntary annexation—by which Cuba may pass into the hands of the citizens of the Union.— The groat American business firm may find it, profitable to invest capital in the purchase of a sugar and tobacco estate, and haughty Spain may give up for gold what it wili not yield to bullying. It is true that she has hitherto rejected the offer with scorn, yet such a course is not without modern precedents. Spain herself has already parted with Florida to be released from a debt, and Napoleon ceded Louisana, and sold his reluctant countrymen at the rate of about jC60 a head.'

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"Spain may also give the United States such provocation as to afford a substantial ground for a war. If not, the folly and pcrvcrisity of Spanish officials will continue the succession of vexatious offenses they are perpetually giving the American citizens, till the accumulation is sufficient to justly entitle the Republic to demand a proportionate indemnity. When Castilian stubbornness shall have refused that, then the object of her enemy will be attained, and Cuba, seized as "a material guarantee,' will pass away forever from the dominion of tho mother country." [Loud and protracted cheering.]

A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT.—A little Swedish girl, while walking with her father on a starry night, absorbed in contemplation of the skies, being asked of what she was thinking, replied, "I was thinking if the icrong side of heaven is so glorious, what must the right side be?"

MEXICAN ANNEXATION.—The New Orleans Picayune prints a rumor from Mexico to the effect that Vidaurri, the insurgent chief, had despatched an agent to Washington city, with proposals of annexation. Circulars were issued throughout the country, commending the policy of annexation, and everywhere received with shouts of enthusiasm. Men, women, and children panted to repose under the broad shadow of the American eagle.

MT' Don't care much about the bugs," said Mr. Wormley to the head of the genteel private family in which he resides, vfcut the fact is, mum, I Meod to spare yoa tee that

hain't got the yowaeif."

JURY TRIALS—-THE CASE OP THE BET. MR. KALLOCII. It is stated (says die Cincinnati Enquirer) that the jury in the ease of the Bev. Mr. Kalloch, the Boston Republican clergyman, lately tried in that city for adultery, have disagreed, eight being for ac-

3oubtful

uittal, and four for conviction. It is whether any body but the eight jurymen, who read or heard the testimony, have any doubts whatever of his guilt, the evidence being positive on that score, which was not at all rebutted or weakened by the testimony for the defense. In the estimation of the public he has been tried and convicted, and his character blasted, so that the non-action of the jury and their failure to convict will have no moral effect in the premises. The failure to agree upon a verdict, however, is to be regretted because of its tendency to still further impair public confidence in that long-consid-cred admirable judicial institution—the trial by jury in those cases where the criminal can make any pretensions to wealth or previous respectability. This distrust of the institution, and its liability to be perverted to bad uses, has been growing since the acquittal of Ward, the Kentucky murderer, of Herbert, the assassin of Keating, of Lee, who shot Hume lately in Washington City, of Magee in Boston, and in a number of other eases equally flagrant, where the most notorious villains have either escaped all punishment or got off with punishment ridiculously dispioportionate to their deserts, through the action of kind and lenient jurors. To this black record the case of the Rev. Mr. Kalloch will be another notable illustration of the glorious uncertainty of the law, when it is invoked to subserve the ends of public justice. When the criminals are poor and without influential friends and social pres tige, their convictions are generally summary and their punishment speedy, if anything of a case can be made out against them.

In this case of the Rev. Mr. Kalloch powerful interests and motives were earnestly desirous of procuring his acquittal.— The Freedom-shriekers and Pharisees of Massachusetts, with their extraordinary pretensions to virtue and godliness, from the first sought to discharge and hush up the prosecution against the clerical apostate, because of the scandal it was likely to throw upon their cause to have one of their greatest apostles couvicted of a heinous and disgraceful offense against decency and morality. They acted precisely upon the same motives which induced their friends in Congress to oppose investigation into the conduct of the corruptionists and robbers in the House of Representatives.— No sooner was the Kalloch villainy brought to light than a committee of his church was forthwith raised, which entered into a whitewashing investigation of the matter, and sought to screen it from the public gaze. Remembering the facts and knowing that this influence was used against public justice, we had little hope of a righteous verdict being given, and are not much disappointed in the result. We fully concur in the following, which we take from the Boston correspondent of the Springfield (Mass.) Argus: "Whatever may be the result of the trial, conducted as it is by a Frcesoil Judge, a Freesoil Prosecuting Attorney, and a jury largely Freesoil, Kalloch stands before the community a guilty man. We can very easily conceive what will be his position in society hereafter but who will be able to estimate the cruel wrong he has done the cause of Christianity who calculate the amount of skepticism his conduct will engender This shocking and disgusting affair is but the natural result of the recent wholesale prostitution of the sacred pulpit. When men, professing, to be ministers of the Gospel, lower themselves to a level with the dirtiest and most unscrupulous demagogues, and spend their Sabbaths dealing out the vilest slanders, they not only demoralize their 'congregations, but they fit themselves for just the career which this man Kalloch has chosen. Every day develops some new villainy— some fresh piece of licentiousness, as the legitimate fruit of the late Fremont movement. The whole movement was initiated and conducted by a set of the most unscrupulous politicians that ever this or anyother country has produced, who all depended on the glare of success to blind the eyes of the people to their enormous rascalities."—New Albany Ledger.

A NEW WOKK.

.Johnson's New Illustrated and Embellished county Map of the. Republics of North America, is the title of a new work which we have had the pleasure of examining and from the many testimonials from competent authority with which it comes reccommended we have no doubt the citizens of Crawfordsville will give the work that attention its merit demands. We may point ont some of the features of this work which to us makes it superior to any other extant:

It is much larger than any we have seen, hence, the scale admits a more minute delineation of our country, this we conceive to be a prominent merit over other works. It has a fine and accurate view of the counties. The territorial delineations are the most satifactory of any map that has yet been introduced, showing all the exploring routes, of those whom we are indebted to for the geographical information of our territory between the Mississippi and Pacific ocean. The several proposed Pacific R. R. routes arc defined. The work extends nearly to the Equator—giving a splendid view of Central America in its proper position—and the intervening Mexican Republic is beautifully laid down. In short the work is one of fine merit and will speak for itself, to those who will examine it.

The agent will exhibit a sample of the work to all who arc interested in the great Republic of Modern times.

I®" Bos well once asked Johnson "if there -was no possible circumstance under which suicide would be justifiable 'No," was the reply. "Well,'1 said Boswell, "suppose a man has been guilty of a fraud that he was certain would be found out?" "Why, then," said Johnson, "in that case let him go to some country where he is not known, and not to the devil, where he is known."

J8T Cucumbers and green peas were abundant at Savannah, last week.

For UuSeTiew.

DEATH OP AL1IE.

Vjxm th* bier they laid her,... In a proud, ancestral hall Wbere tbe stately wax-lighta tickerad,

And waa draped tbe pictured wall There were Vindred forms sronnd her, Bat there hanghty brows were hid And tbe wreath that late had crowned har,

Lay upon tbe coffin lid.

Ah! those snowy bnds and blossoms, IIow they kissed the gorgeous pall! Ah I those proud and guilty bosoms,

Draped in darkness, like the wall They bad borne ber to a bridal, With an willing heart, and band But tbe solemn farce was idle,

For she sought the ''Better Land."

How the censor waved above ber, When tbe anthem dirge was sung! There were many hearts to love ber—

There was ono, Despair had wrung— Then they laid ber in tbe marble, Where no sigbiug leaf may wave Where no tender blossom weepeth,

O'er the maiden's early grave.

Where the soagster never wsrblea, In tbe drooping willow'sscreen, Lies the bride of stately A*or,

Sleeps the sunny-haired Aline And her name hath ne'er Veen spoken, In her father's castle hall, Since the day her heart was broken,

And they draped the pictured wall.

THE LITTLE NE IS DEtD. Smooth the hair and close the eyelids, Let tbe window curtains fall With a smile upon her features,

Sho lias answered to tbe call. Let the children kiss lier gently, As she lies upon the bed— God hath called her to his bosom,

And the little ono. is doad.

"I always sing to please myself,

said a gentleman, who was humming a tune in company. "Then you are not at all difficult to please," said a lady who sat next to him

"Bridget, whcrc's the teakettle?"

"Please, marm, Mr. O'Neil, the new boarder, is washing h's feet in it." The last seen of Mr. O'Neil, he was going down the front step, about six inches in advance of an empty coal-scuttle.

8©" "Come, Bill, it's ten o'clock, and I think we had better be going, for its time honest folks were at home." "Well, yes," was the answer "I must be off, but you needn't hurry on that account."

Solomon, I fear you are forgetting

me," said a briglit-eyed girl to her lover, the other day. "Yes, Sue," said slow Sol, excusing himself, "I have been for getting you these two years."

I®" A most interesting sight to see is that of a young lady with 'lips like rubies,' with "teeth of pearly whiteness," with cheeks that, have stolen the "deep carnation of the deathless rose," and with her mouth full of gingerbread!

"Boy," said a visitor at the house

of a friend to his little son, "step across the way and see liow old Sirs. Browji is." The boy did the errand, and on bis return reported that Mrs. Brown did not know how old shfe was.

I©• An editor having heard that to persons in a drowning condition all the events of their past life suddenly rise vividly before them, modestly expresses a wish that some of his delinquent subscribers would take to bathing in deep water.

'Great men," says Aristotle, "are

always of a melancholy nature." If this be true, the tax on greatness is more than the property is worth. .For our own part we would rather be merry with Sam Weller than dismal with Plato. We had, indeed. S5S

W^"An Irishman meeting a countryman, inquired his name. "Walsh," said the gentleman. "Walsh." responded Paddy, "are ye from Dublin? I knew two ould maids there of that name was either of 'em your mother?"

8®"A country cotemporary puffs Ross, the soap-man, and his soap, concluding as follows: "The manufacturer of the best soap ever used for cleansing a dirty man's face. We have tried it, know.

ere ore we

#6?" "Ah," said an Englishman, the other day, 'I belong to a country upon which the sun never set." "And I," said a Yankee, "belong to a country of which there can be no correct map it grows so fast that surveyors can't keep up with it!"

A young man who was desirous of

marrying a daughter of a well-known Boston merchant, after many attempts to broach the subject to the old gentleman, in a very stuttering manner, said "Mr. O are yo-you willing to le-let-tet me have your daughter Jane." "Of course I am," gruffly and quickly replied the old man "and I wish you would get some other likely fellows to marry the rest of them."

•SF" A Western lawyer thus delivers himself: "We would say to the individual who stole our shirt off the pole, while we were lying in bed waiting for it to dry, that we sincerely hope the collar may cut his throat!"

A GALLANT PERSIAN.—The Persian Ambassador at Paris is the leonine novelty of the season. He is said to have eyes like a gaxelle, but cannot speak French, and does not drink wine except on very extraordinary occasions. One of those occasions is thus recorded by the Paris correspondent of the New York, Herald:

Feruk Khan dined at the Foreign Minister's, and according to his custom resisted all inducements to taste the wine. But suddenly a young English lady—a niece of Sir George Dallas—who happened to be of the party, and who hhd learnt a little Persian, addressed him with a quotation from Hafiz, the favorite Persian poet, in which he says that a banquet without wine is like spring without flowers. The Persian's eyes flashed fire at the sound of his mother tongue from lips so fair, and at words so familiar to every literary Persian smiling his acknowledgments to the fair speaker, he for the first time filled up a glass of champagne, and dashed it off with a heroism which seemed to desire no other paradise than the preaeat.

HUGGED BY A SHAKE! I .waa brought up near the Canada line in Vermont where my father owned a large farm. Not far from his farm was quite a lake, where we used to enjoy ourselves at fishing and sailing. One' afternoon I saw flock of black ducks fly over die house, ited on the lake and

and I was sure the, so I seised my double-barrelled iw ammunition, and started off. When I reached the landing, I saw the ducks away off by the opposite shore. I at once cut some green boughs with my knife and having rigged up the bows of a small flat-bot-tomed scull we kept on purpose for such work, I jumped in, and started off. I had got near enough for a shot, and had drawn in the scull, and was in the act of taking up my gun, when the ducks started up. As quickly as possible I drew one hammer and let drive. I hit two of them, but they didn't fall into the water. They fluttered along until they fell among the tall grass up in the cove. The water was low, and the place was dry where they were. I pulled up as far as I could, and then got out and walked up. I knew very near where one of the ducks had fallen, and very soon had my eye on it. As I ran to take it, I saw the head of a black snake pOp out and catch it by the wing. I saw only the head and neck of the reptile, and had no idea how large a one it was or, if I had, probably I should have done just as I did, for I had no idea of fearing such a thing—so I just run up and snatched the bird away.— I had left my gun in the boat, and had nothing to kill the chap with but as I took the duck I just put my foot upon the thief's neck.

The ground was moist and slimy, and as the snake-had his body braced among the roots of the stout reeds, he took his head out from under my foot about as quick as a man could comfortably think. I thought I'd run back to my boat and get my gun and try to kill this fellow and I had just turned for that purpose, when I felt something strike my leg as though somebody had thrown a rope around it. I looked down, and found that tbe snake had taken a turn around my left leg with his tail, and was in the act of clearing his body from the grass. I dropped the duck and gave a smart kick, but that didn't loosen him so I tried to put my right foot on him and thus draw my left leg away but I might as well have tried to put my foot on a streak of lightning!

I had forgotten the proportionate size of the head of this species of black snake. I had expected to see a snake four or five feet long but instead of tha?ne was nearly eight feet and a half! Still 1 hadn't any great fear, for I supposed when I came to put my hands on him, I could easily take him off, for I was pretty strong in the arms. In a few seconds he had his body all clear, and it was then that the first real thrill shot through mc. There he held himself by the simple turn around my leg, and with his back arched in and out, he brought his head on a level with mine. I made a grab for him, but missed him and then, as quick as you can snap your finger, he swept his head around under my arm, clear around my body, and then straightened up and looked me in the face again. I made another grab at him, and another, as quick as I could but he dodged me in spite of all I could do.

I next felt the snake's body working its way up. The turn of the tail was changed to my thigh, and the coil around my stomach began to tighten. About this time I began to think there might be some serious work, and the quicker 1 took the snake off the better. So I just grasped him as near the head as possible, by taking hold where he was around me—for he couldn't dodge that part, you know—and tried to turn him off. But this only made it worse. The fellow had now drawn himself up so high, and stretched himself so, that he whipped another turn about mc. Ilis tail was now around my left thigh, and the rest of him turned twice around my body—one of them being just at the pit of my stomach, and the other one above it. All this had occupied just about half a minute from the time he first got the turn around my leg.

His head was now right around in front of my face, and he tried to make his way to my mouth! What his intention was I cannot surely tell, though I have always believed that he knew lie could strangle mc in that way. He struck me one blow in the mouth that hurt me considerably and after that I got him by the neck, and there I meant to hold him—at least, so that he should not strike me again. The moment I grasped the snake by the neck, he

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tighten his folds about my

body! I soon discovered that he'd soon squeeze the breath out of me in that way, and I determined to unwind him. He was wound in this way -thc turn around the thigh was from left to right—then up between the legs to my right side, and around the back to my left, side—and so on with the second turn—thus bringing his head up from under my arm. I had the snake now with the left hand, and my idea was to put his head around my back until I could reach it with my right, and so unwind him. I could press the fellow's head down under my arm, but to get in around so as to reach it with my right hand, I could not. 1 tried —I put all my power into that one arm, but I could not do it.

Until this moment I had not really been frightened. I had believed I could unwind the serpent when I tried. I never dreamed what power he had. I tried it until I knew I could not do it, and then I gave it up. My next thought was of my jack-knife but the lower coil of the snake was directly over my pocket, and I could not get it. I now for the first time called out for help. I yelled with all my might and yet I knew the trial was next to useless, for no one could easily gain the place where I was, except with a boat. Yet I called out, hoping against hope. I grasped the snake by the body and pulled I tried to break its neck. This plan presented a gleam of promise but it amounted to nothing. 1 might as well have tried to break a rope by bending forward or backward.

A full minute had now passed from the time when I tried to pass the snake's head around my back. His body had become so elongated by his gradual presure around my body, that he had room to carry his head areund in a free and symmetrical curve. He had slipped from my grasp, and when I next caught him, I found that 1 was weaker than before! I could not hold him! The excitement had prevented Jie from noticing this until now. For a few moments I was in a perfect frenzy. I leaped up and down—cried out as loud as I could—and grasped the snake with all my might. But it availed me nothing. He slipped his head from my weakened hand, and made a blow at ray face, striking me fairly upon the eloced lips. This made ae

mad and I gave the infernal thing another grasp with both handle trying once more to twist his neck. The result was, that I got another blow on the wrath.

But the moment ofneed Was at hand.— felt the coils growing tighter and tighter around my body, and :my breath waa ^fitting weak. A severe, pain was beginning to result from the preAure, and I saw that the snake would soon have length enough for another turn. Ho waa drawn saintly that the centre of his body was no bigger than his head! The black skin was, drawn to a tension that seemed its utmost, and yet I could tell by the working of the large hard scales upon the belly that he was drawing himself tighter still!

Stricken with absolute terror, I gasped, "What shall I do What could I do The enemy for whom I had at first held so little thought was lulling me—killing me slowly, surely-—and I had no help! I, a stout, strong man, was being actually held at the deadly will of a black snake! My breath was now short, faint, and quick, and I knew I was growing purple in the face My hands and arms were swollen, and my fingers were numbed! I had let go of the snake's neck, and he now carried the upper part of his body in a.graceful curve, n: head vibrating from side to side with an undulating motion of extreme gracefulness and fascination

At length I staggered! I was losing my strength rapidly, and the pain of my bod}'had become excruciating. The snake's skin where it was coiled about me was so tight that it seemed almost transparent.— He had found me, or I had found him, in a state of hunger, his stomach free from food, and his muscular force unimpaired. A second time I staggered, and objects began to swim before me. A dizzy sensation was in my head, a faintness in my heart, and a pain the most agonizing in my body. The snake had now three feet of his body free. He had drawn himself certainly three feet longer than before. He darted his head .under my right arm, and brought it up over my shoulder, and pressing his under jaw firmly down, there he gave a sudden wind that made me groan with pain. Each moment was an age of agony—each second a step nearer to death.

My knife! O, if I could reach it! Why not? Why not tear it out? My arms were free. Mercy!—why had I not thought of this before, when my hands had strength in them? Yet I would try it. I collected all my remaining power for the effort, and made the attempt. My trousers were of blue cotton stuff, and very strong—I could not tear it! I thought of the stitches.— They might not be so tenacious. I grasped the cloth upon the inside of my thigh, and gave my last atom of strength to the effort. The stitches started—they gave way! This result gave me hope, and hope gave nie power. Another pull—with both hands—and the pocket was laid bare!— With all the remaining force I could command—with hope of life—of home—of everything I loved on earth, in the effort. —I caught the pocket upon the inside and bore down upon it. There was a crackling of threads—a sound of tearing cloth—and —my knife was in my hands! 1 had yet sense enough to know that the smallest blade was the sharpest, and 1 opened it. With one quick, nervous movement I pressed the keen edge upon the tense skin, and drew it across. With a dull, tearing snap, the body parted, and the snake fell to the ground in two pieces! I staggered to the boat—I reached it, and there sank down. I knew nothing more until I heard a voice calling me by name. I opened my eyes, and looked up. My father stood over me with terror depicted in his countenance. I told him my story as best I could. He went up and got the duck I had taken from the snake—the other one he could not find—and also brought along the two pieces I had made of my enemy. He told me he had heard mc cry out, and at once started off in the large boat after me, though it was along while ere he saw my boat. 1 had lain there over half-an-hour when lie found me.

When we reached home, the snake was found to be eight feet four inches in length? It was a month before I fully recovered from the effects of that hugging: and to this day there is something in the very name of snake that sends a thrill of horror to my heart!

COLUMBUS AND 1)U. KANE.—The Rev. Dr. F. H.Chapin, of New York, lately delivered a lecture at Albany, in which he made the following allusion to Columbus, his burial-place, and the death ot the late Dr. Kane. We copy from the Albany Evening Transcript's report: "Columbus possessed a restless spirit, ever seeking new objects on which it might fasten itself. Even in death, his bones have not been permitted to rest. They were interred first in Spain, then in San Domingo, then in Cuba, and as he now lies, the steamer which cleaves the water of the bay may shake the roof-covering of his long last home. How fitting that the bones ot the first great discoverer should be buried in the island from which have gone out the remains of another great navigator one who, measured by his accomplishments, was proved not to young to die. Rise up, eternal barriers of Greenland ice, the architecture of six thousand years, to bar the entrance to the pole! Shut in the huge secrets of ages, and lock them fast in your a Ye arc the undying monuments which tower to the memory of brave men and a philanthropist, gone to his reward. Ye are the mementoes of a great and mighty spirit, crushed in its early bursts, and withered when it had but begun to bloom. Hang over them, bright curtains of the northern light, for he who traced the path of discovery among their icy fastnesses has ceased to be on earth. Fit place for thy transit, loved Dr. Kane, was the island in which lie mouldering the bones of the other great navigator who first gave America to the world."

•STMr. Buchanan has distinctly announced that he will remove no Democrat until his commission expires unless for want of capacity, fidelity or character. At the expiration of the commission he will consider the office constructively vacant, and will give the incumbent up to that time an equal chance with other applicants for the same place. He will then appoint that man from the whole having the largest claims upon his Administration, and best calculated to subierve the public interest.

VERT USEFUL.—In a pool across a road in the county of Tipperary is stuck up pole, having affixed to it aboard with this, inscription: "Take notice, that when the water ia over this board^tke ro*d ii impaasable" 1tt»

From the Cmnberlaftd TUitfrijft.

A FEARFUL MBE IX A VAtUiOAO TRAIN Off Aft INCU1TED PLANE—* HORRIBLE SITUATION OF AN E*«

CllVEKm. On Wednesday morning, about 4 o'clock, as the early coal train from the mines of the Cumberland Coal and Iron Company was coming down the grade, tbe traih'ifch over a large boulder whioh had rolled down from the embankment immediately open the centre of the track. The locomotipassed over it with slight damage, b~ balance of the train, including the ten had every brake ripped out. The men becoming aware of the fact, and ing in a moment that the cars eoold not controlled, going down a grade of over on hundred feet to the mile, at once left th train. On it went, and at each revolntio of the wheel the momentum increased til the velocity became frightful. T* whistle sounded to pat down the brtkfet but the only answer was a wild, unearth! whistle reverberating among the bis hills, scarcely heard before it died away, or was drowned by the rattling wheels upon the track. At length the engineer be* came convinced that something must the matter.

Adjusting the valves, he began eantiooa ly to pick his way to the rear of the train As he advanced through the thick dark ness he tried to put down the brakes first one and then another of the cars. All were broken off or damaged. He at length felt his way to the two cars at the rear of the train. Pulling out the coupling pin, he felt sure that he could control 'them when detached. But they were in the same condition. The train was now ran* ning at a frightful speed. The jump seemed like certain death, while to remain promised no exemption from the late. A moment's thought determined thei of the engineer. Clinging to the ri he commenced climbing down could feel the ground with his fa then let all holds go, falling ground with much violence, but with a few painful bruises.

On went the train at a furio The two detached cars were th" the track before going a great distance— One of the other iron hoppers had the tracks knocked from under it, and was dragged some distance, completely ripping out the bottom, but finally checking train some three miles above town. ing it altogether, it was a frightful rencc, and seen in the darkness of tne mountain, with the sparks issuing from the locomotive in a vast column, with a solitary man clinging for life to the rear car, or cautiously climbing down to escape from almost certain death, it must have presented a scene of fearful import. The name of the engineer wss Geo. 3Iyers.

EUGENIE A FAILURE.

A Paris letter-writer says: The Empress, by an unexpected weakness of mind, has gradually lost' the hold she had on the Emperor's affections. She has exhibited lately a degree of frivolty, and of lightness totally unbecoming her elevated position. Thus her time is spent in discussing and getting up fine robes she wants to revive the system of court pages and other expurgated fooleries of other centuries she wants her court to dazzle, but her inventions are thos« of the milliner. It appears that Eugenie is one of those de icate and premature organizations which reach the actnc of brilliancy early, and then rapidly decline into ineffective mediocrity. It would be absurcd to suppose that Napoleon, with his practical turn of mind, and a full knowledge of difficulties that surrounded him, was going to unite his fortune to an unknown woman, merely for her beauties of person for he might have found plenty of beauties who were known and esteemed in France. But ly? married Eugenie because he believed' lier a brilliant woman in point of intellect, who would be able to lend him material assistance in the management of that part of his affairs more particularly belonging to her sex. But however much cleverness she may have had younger, the hopes of the Emperor appear to be sadly deceived, and it is said that lie cannot even trust the organization of the palace fetes to her Majesty. He ia opliged to be a tyrant in his own house.— In fine Eugenie does not come up to his standard, and he is growing tired of her hence the numerous infidelities of the Emperor, which form the theme of Paris gossip just at this time.

THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND'S HEAD DRESS. This pretty affair has 20 diamonds in circle, worth $7,500 each, two large ones worth $10,000 each, fonr diamond crossea in the same, worth $60,000, four large diamonds on the tops of the crosses, wvrth $200,000, twelve others in fleurs de lis, worth $50,000, eighteen small ones, also worth $10,000, pearls and diamonds upon the crosses and arches, worth $15,000, 141 small diamonds,worth $2,500, twenty* six diamonds in the upper cross, worth $1,500.

All these stones arc set in gold, and eost, aside of tha precious metal, $559,500.— Within the limited shores of England, whose government supports a woman who wears this bauble on her head on state occasions, there are at least one hundred subjects per day who die of actual star» ration.

SOLAR. ECLIPSES.—Calculations have been made at the Paris Observatory, that, from the present time to the year 1900, there will be only six total-eclipses of the sun, not one of which will be visible in France, viz: in 1860, 1861, 1870, 1887, 1896 and 1900: so that, from the year 1000 to 1900, there will have been 225 eclipses of the sun.

A correspondent of the New Tork

Herald sends particulars of the assassination of nine American travelers in Brazil a few months ago. They were going down the Amazon, and when near the fort of Tabatinga they were surprised and murdered by a party of Brazilian soldiers, by the consent and connivance of the Brazilian authorities. The writer appeah strongly for some official action on the part of oar Government relative to this atrocity.

THE RELIGION OF THE ST. Louis EDITors.—We find the following in the St. Louis Herald io regard to the religion of the brethren of the press in that city. The Herald'aays:

The editor of the Leader ia a Catholic^ the editor of the Democrat a Jew the editor of the Republican an old fbgy .the editor of the Anseiger an Infidel: and th* iter of the New* a Mohammedan^