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Oaee In the National Bank Building1, - ; . third $!ury.) . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS $2.50 PFRYEAU,i ABfAcc ': ' i jr KOT filO IV ADTAXCC. No posfa-pl on papers delimsd witbia . County. . . N . " NASBY. . . Mr. Nisbyat Home-HowhJi Pcopfewcro uuiragea. " Tost Orris", Co.-o-tDntT X Roads, ") ' (wich is in the Staitu Kentucky, w . . September IG, 1SGÜ. ) I found my flock in a terrible atato uv dep ressloo, it which, when I wuz told tho cause, I didn't wonder at. There wuz, lack uf the corncri on tho side hill, over towards Garretstown, about three-qaartera uv a milo this eido of Abbott'a grocery, (we estimate distanco hero from one proeery to another,) five or nix families uv niggers." The males uv this ecttlcueot had all been in the Federal army cz böiger, and bed saved their ray and bounty, .j i t .i i i . .r. nu situ, bqu ueu douui uv a uifsustia r1. 1,.:- ,ltr,,Tr A.l tn Innen I the country, didn't care who ho Bold Lis plantashen to eo cz he got preenbax, three hundred acre?, wich they hed' divided up and built cabins onto em, and wuz a cultivate it. There wuz a store-keeper at the Corners who come here from Ulinoy, and who hed been so greedy uv pin, and bo graspin. ez to buy their p7odoose uv em, and fell etu bich supplies ei. thoy needed. These accursed sons and daughters of Ham was a Jivin there in comfort. Tho thing wa a pittin unendoorablc. They come to the Corner.'! dressed in clothes without patches, a&d white shirts, and hats on; and tLe i'tuiales in dresses and hoops under em in shoTt, these apes lied aoomed po much uv the ftyle uv people thit cf it hudu't biu for their black faces tLey wood have pa.-ed for white folks. Our people become indignant, and ez SJOU cz I returned I was requested to call a meeting to consider the matter, which I uv course did. The horn wnz totid, and the entire Corners wuz assembled, c-gs-ceptiiig the lllinoy stJre keeper, who diJu't attend to us much. I stated briefly and tlukently, and' asked the brethren to c3 their miuds. . Squire (Javitt hc l clervcd the ptcgrc?3 uv thtiu lii'gers with the most ptofouudest alarm, .lie hed no'iced cm comiu to the Coiners de.cd tetter ror his family tkcsFed, nuJ sell: n tLe produx uv their land ti that wretch At thi point the lllinoy store keeper cjiue iii, aud the Üquire proceeded : ho should say Mr. Pollock, and he bed ij:i3o inquiries and found that one family hed soTJ three hundred aud tevenly the dollars worth uv track thij season, uv which tbey bed laid out for clothes and looks two hundred dollars, lenvin em one bundtcd and tevcbty-üve dollars in cash, which wuz more money than he hed made tense the accursed Liukin pacJ the emaneiiaheu Vrociauailon. And hit hcd driv the iron into his fcoul wuz tho fact , that wuu of them niggers wuz his nigger, 'i'i.c money they lev," pur.-ood theKquire, 4 is my money; that man woith $1,01)0 is in v man ; his wife is my womau ; her children my children" -That's ii literal fact," shouted Joe Uiger, a drunken returned Confederate sjer; they Lev yoor lioj egg-actly, and they're .thu meanest v aller-brats in tho ecttleThis unhappy remark endid in a hUe pnplea-antnes!, which . rc.-ultid ia the qtiae' teiu carried out minus one car, und his nue Muashcd. Joseph remarked that he'd wanlid to git at him ever hcnso he woodu't leud hua a half-dollar two month ago lie was now uti--ücd. and l...ptd this little episode woodu't mar the harmony uv the meetin. Jllder Üuiutbcra observed that he htrd uotist with pain that them niggers aliuz bed money, and wuz alluz dresst well, while we, their oqeriors, bed no money and nuthin to boast uv in the way uv close. He wood sayPollock the lllinoy etore-kecper put in. 1'f the K'.der wood work cz them niggers wuz workin, and not loaf over half the tune at Uascom's grocery, he ruito possibly he vi hull soot uv close, and now and then a dollar in mouev. It wuz here cz it wuz in all ttrickly JHmckratie communities, the grocery keepers absorb all the floatin capital, and Ho wuz not allowed to proceed. Pascorn flung a chair at him, and four or five uv his coustitooents fell on hiui. He wuz carried 'outjr dead. 'Pascom remarked that he wuz for tho utmost 1'rcedonj uv speech, but in the discussion of a grate constooshnel question no lllinoy ablishnist shood put in his yawp. Tho patriotic remark wuz cheered, but when Hajcom askt the whole meetin out to drink, the applause wuz uproarious. Pascum alluz j.cts applainc lo knows how to wove au audience. Pcckin Pogram ecd he'd bore with them niggers till his patienco wuz gin out. lie endoored it till last Sunday. After service he felt pensive, ruthef, and walked out towards Garrcttstown, tucditatin as he went on tho scrmou he hed listened to that mornin on tho necessity uv the spread of tho (Jospil. ilournin iu sperit over tho condition of the heathen, he didn't notis where he wuz till he found hissclf in the nigger settlement, and in front uv ono uv their houses. There ho saw a sito wich paralyzed him. Thcro wuz a nigger wich wuz wuust his nigger, wich Liukin deprived hiui uv, tcttia under hi porch, and a profanin the Holy Bible by teachin - his child to read it! Kin this be indoorcd? the Dcckin asked. Dcekin Parkins scd he must bear his unworthy testimony agin these disturbers. They hed, ha knowd whereof ho spoke, hired a female woman from Massachusetts to teach their children I lie hed bin in their school-rooci and with his own eyes witnest it. Pascom, tho grocery' keeper, hed hin üh'ocked at their conduct. lie wuz convinst that a nigger wuz a beast. They conae to tho Corner to sell the produx of thurUnds do tbey leave their money at .hi barf'aryl They spend sum uv it .at thettre disorpanizer from lllinoy, who is hex?intcrfexia with the biznis uv

VOL., 5, NC tmo Hoathern n:r one uv em Inaido 1( pashenco with em ehood Iq done to ich yooaelcpa InK,' pit votes theyr-o' dodges my bar $vc risy. v ' utnral Punt wov to wunat proceed j clean cm out. t1 Kentucky. Ofct, cn( and savage, wood fall -to the I wuz which, and ho i vide. All he want ct yv chairs he he Tho tuotion wuz Pollock, the Illioo wnz tt wnnt nrn.r . I.I I n in ;.fT I I id in, and in a jiffy tl a contarmnatin our pc tributed among the . sich as sooted cm. that ez thev wuz mad thero wuz contamina.-l'. cm, and that they bo b hooted down, our 'veo tion. The contan.inashtV for cm gittia cm gratou cu?s off. Elated, tho crowd starteu mcnt. I never saw more ze.1 A half hour brought us thercy geeno ensood wich filled ine v. spcckable. The niggers wnz r and their goods wuz bundled al'tei The Piblcs and skool books wuz Jesu first, coz we bed no. use for em ; 1 chairs, tables and bureaus, clothin beddin wuz distributed. A woman the impudence to beg for suthin she fai, cied, when the righteous zeal uv my nexU door neighbor, Pettus, biled over, and he i struck her. " Her husband forgettin ,hi. color, struck Pcttus and the outrngo wuzf completed. A nigger hed raiacd his hand agin a white maul The insulted Caucashcn blood riz, and in less than n minit the bodies uvsix male Ethiopian wimiu wuz layin prostrate on the ea-th. The children wuz spared, for they wuz siill young, and not Levin bin taught to read so far that they could not forget it if kept circfully from hooks, they kiu be brought up in the proper Fpecr cz scrvance to their brethcrn. (Uy the way the inspired writer mut hcv yooscd this word "nigger" figuratively; the nigger bein a beast cannot be our brother.) Some may censure us for too much zeal iu this matter, but what else cood wo hev done? We oro high toned and can't stiiid everything. These niggers hed no rito to irritato us by their presence. They knowed our feeling on tho tubjiek.'and by buyiu land and remain?!' ir'l visinfty, they kindled the flame wich resulted cz it did. Ez they did in Memphis and Noo Orleans, they brought their fate onto their own head.-'. Pollock recovered, and with tho Yankeo school nmriu who wuz a tocchin tho nigpcrs. left for the North yesterday. It specks people ut all. well for tho forbearance uv our that they wuz permitted to depart Petroleum . Nasbt, P. M., (wich is Postmaster.) PROCLAMATION BY , DENT. THE PRESlNational Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 29. By the President of the United States A Proclamation : Almighty God, our Heavenly Father hasboen pleased to vouchsafe to us, as a people, another year of that national life which is ai indjpcn?ablo condition of peace, seem ity and progress. - That year, moreover, has been crowned with many peculiar blessings. Tho civil war that has so recently ceased anion? us hss.not bceu anywhero reopened. Foreign intervention has ceased to excite alarm or apprehension. Infruivo pestilence has been benignly mitigated. Domestic tranquility has improved, sentiments of conciliation havo largely prevailed, and affections of loyalty and patriotism have been widely renewed. Our fields havo yielded quite abundantly, our mining industry has been richly rewarded, and wo have been allowed to extend our railroad system far into tlo interior recesses of tho country, while our commerce has resumed its customary activity in foreign seas. These national blessings demand a national acknowledgment. IS'ow, therefore.-!, Andrew Johnson, Prcsidcut of the United .States, do hereby recommend that Thursday, tho 20th day of November next, bo set apart and bo observed evcry-whcri) in the several States and Territories of tho United States, by the people thereof, as a day of thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, with duo rc rue m bran co that m Hi templo dotu every man speak iu His honor. I recommend, also, that on tho same solemn oceasiou wo do humbly and devoutly implore Him to grant to our national councils, and to cur whole people, that divino wisdom which alone can lead any nation into the ways of nil good. In offering theso national thanksgivings, praise and supplications, we Lave the divine assurance that the Lord remaincth a King forever. They that aro meek shall He guide in judgment, and such as are gentle shall He learn His way. Tho Lord shall give strength to His people, and the Lord shall givo to His pcoplo tho blessings or peace. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and cansed the great seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of( Washington this eighth day of October, in the year of our Lord ouo thousaud eight hundred and sixty-six, and of tho Independence of the United States the ninety-first. AXDKKW JOHNSON. Py the President fW, II. Seward, Secretary of State.

There is an old kitcr7ü"---uiewhere in the past, and an old fashioned: fireplace therein, with it smooth old jams of stone; smooth with many knivc3 that have been sharpened there; smooth with many little fingers that have clung there. Thero arc andirons, with rings in the top, wherein many temples of flame have heed buildcd, with spires and turrets-cf crimson. There is a broad, worn hearth broad enough for three generations to cluster on worn by feet that havo been torn and blcediug by tho way, or been made "beautiful," and walked upon floor of tessellated gold. There aro tongs in the corner, wherewith wo grasp a coal, and, ''blowing for a littlo life." lighted our first caudle; there is a shovel, wherrith win . drawn forth tho glowing embers, in which wo iaw our first fancies and dreamed our first dreams; the shovel with which we stirred the logs until the sparks rushed up the chimney a if a forgo were in blast below, and wished wc had so mauy Iambs, or so many marbles, or so many somethings that we coveted; and so it was that wc wished our first wishes. Thcro is a chair a low, rush bottomed chair; there is a little wheel iu the corner; a big wheel in the garret, a loom in the chamber. Thcro uro chestfull of linen and yarn, aud quilts of rare patterns and samples in frames. Aud everywhere and always tho dear old wrinkled faco of her whose firm, clastic step mocks the feeble saunter of her children's children tho old-fashioned grandmother of twenty years ago. - She, tho very Providence of the old homestead; sho who loved us all, aud said she wished there were more of us to love, and took all the school in the hollow for grandchildren besides. Agrcat expansive heart washers, beneath that woolen gown, or that more stately bombazine, or that solo heir-loom of silken texture. Wo can see her to-day, thoso mild blue eves, with more of beauty in them than time could touch, or death could do more than hide those eyes that held both' tears and smiles within tho faintest cull of every one of us, and soft reproof that seemed not passion but regret. A whito tress has escaped from beneath her stoowy cap; sho lenpthcued the tether of a vine that was stravinp over a window, as she came in. and plucked a four-leaved Clover for Ellen. She sits down by tho little wheel a tress is running through her fingers from the distaffs dishevelled head, when a small voico cries 'Grandma,' from the old red cradle, and 'Grandma,' Tommy shouts from the top of tho stairs. Gently sho lets go the thread, for her patience is almost as beautiful as her charity, aud sho touches tho little red bark a moment, till the young voyager i in a dream again, and thcu directs Tommy's unavailing; attempts, to harness the cat. The tick of tho clock sound faint and low, and sho opens tho mysterious door and proceeds to wind it Up. We are all on tip-toe, and we beg in a breath to bo lifted up ouo by one, and look ia the hundredth timo upon tho tin cases of tho weights, aud tho poor lonely pendulum, which goes to aud fro by its little dim windows; and our petitions were all granted, aud we aro all lifted up, and we all touch with the finger the wonderful weights, and tho music of the wheel is re sumed. Was Mary to be married, or Jane to be wrapped in a shroud? So meekly did she fold tho whito hands of tho ono upon her still bosom, that thcro seemed to bo a prayer in thcui there, and so sweetly did sho wreathe tie white roso in tho hair of the other, that one would not havo wondered had more roses budded for company. How she stood itrX ween U3 and appreheuded harm; how tho rudest of us softened beneath tho gentle pressuro of her faded and tremulous hand! From her capacious pocket tuat nana was ever withdrawn closed, only to be opened in our own with the nuts she had gathered, , with the eher rios sho had plucked, the little egg she bad found, tho "turn-over" she had baked,

tl. blessings' lie of. ring of her X treasures of 'story'; M from those PS of cood fairies od evil; of tho , timwrwbcn sho was a gl' 1; but we wonred if ever but then A coulJn't lo andsomcr or dearershe a ever littlo. nd then, when we.beggc hor to sing ..u r.nA ftf ihn kO! VOU Used to iU UB VUU J aw vw r-- J -" ':ip for mother, granamn. l"Children, I can't ih.V," fihe akays id, and mother used to '' ways lay her itttng softly down, nuJ,y nuron-stop '1 ...! .!t. ). vir. on tho floor, in the correr, w, like an Jd , ior dead, and - 7; re, it would u r laving .wim ;id tha clock ticked lowe 'nd th ßro died out to a oart that is neither chil?Vandtcotlicr ang iot do for the pa ts?. yv Tfttfcrn novr V rt and flu nlil.f ihinnpil irrnnrliiinlliPr nnil 0 uld ballad, in the dear old time?, and e an hardly seo lo write fur tho memory Sem, though it is ajiand'a breadth to .unset. ; 11, sho sang.. Her voice was feeble ).ravering, like a fountain just ready but then how sweet toucd it was, became deeper and strongr; but Id not grow sweeter. What 'joy of r it was to sit thcro arouud tie fire, us, excepting Jane, and ier we .t we saw when tho door was opened )'nt by the wind; but then e were id, for was it not her old suiio she To sit there around the re, aud Zver the woes of tho babes in. tho jwho laid down sido by side in tho Solemn shadows; and how strangely y it felt when tho robin red-breast covthem with leaves, and last of all when angel took them out of night into day lasting. We may think what wo will of it now, flmt the 6ong and tho story heard around the kitthen nro have colored tho thoughts ard the lives of most of us, havegiveu the germs of whatever poetry blesses our hearts, whatever of memory blooms in our yesterdays. At ribuie u hatevcr wo may to the school and tho school-master, the rays which make that littlo day we call life, radiate from the God Ewept circle of the hearth stone. Then she 6ings an old lullaby she sung to mother her mother sang it to her; but she docs not sing it through, and falters ere it is done. She rests her head upon her baud, and it is silent in the old kitchen. Something glitters down between her lingers intthc fire-light, and it looked like rain iu the soft sunshine. The old prandruothcr i thinking when she 'first heard the song, and of tho voice that' sang it; when a light-haired and'light-hearted girl, she sung round that mother's chair, nor saw tho shadows of the year to come. Oh! the 'days that are mvTsro'i'ct- "V.'hat words. uusay, what deeds undo, to set back just this once the ancient clock cf time! So our little hauls were forever clinging to her garments and staying her as if from dying, for long ago sho had done living for herself, and lived a'.ono in us. Put the old kitchen want a presence to-day; and tho rush bottomed chair is tenantloss. ' ' How she used to welcome us when wc wero grown, and carno back onco uioro to tho homc'stcadl We thought we were men and women, but wo were children there; the old fashioned grandmother was blind in her eyes, but sho saw with her heart, as sho always did. We threw our long shadows through the open door, and sho felt them as they fell over her form, aud die looked dimly up, and said: "Edward I know, and Lucy's voico I can hear, but whoso is that other? It must be Jane's" for she has almost forgotten the folded hands. "Oh, no! not Jane's, for she let me set sho is waiting for me, isn't she?" and the old grandmother wandered and wept. "It is another daughter, grandmother, that I'd ward ha brought for your blessing,'' siys some one. "Has sho blue eye3, my son? Put her hand in mine, for she is my late born, the child of my old age. Shall I sing you a song, children?" and she is idly fumbling; ior a uy, a woicomo put tor tue cuuurcu that havo come apain Ono of us, men as we thought wc wcro, weeping; she hears tho half suppressed ! Fh, and she says, as she extend her feehie hand, "Here, my poor child, rest upon your grandmother's shoulder ; sho will protect you from nil harm." "Come, children, sit around the lire agaiu. Shall I sing you a song, or tell you a story? Stir tho lire, for it is cold; the night aro growing colder." The clock in tho comer struck nine, tho bed time of thoso old days. Tho song of life was indeed sung, tho story told. It was led timo at last. Good night to thee, grandmother! Tho old fashioned grandmother was no more, and we miss her forever. Bat we will set up u tablet in tho mid.-t of tho heart, and write on it only this: Sacred to the memory of tho Old ti.i? ii i....i ... i i i.i . i. .. Fashioned Grandmother. God ble.53 her forever." Hunting tho Ottor. "Argus-with-thc-dog" was continually passing over the country liko the shadow of a cloud. If be had a home at all, it was situated at Ardvaser, near Armadale; but there Angus was found but Seldom. Ho was always wandering about with his gun over hii shoulder, his tcrricFs, Spoineag and Fruieh, at hi heels, aud the kitchen of evory tacksman was open to him. The tacksmen paid Angus so mush per annum, and Angus spent hi time in killing their vermin, lie was a dead shot; he knew tho holo of tho fox, and the cairn in which an otter would be fouud. If you wanted a brace of younp falcons,. An- ; gus would procure them for you; if ravcus were breeding on one ot your ciiu, you had but to wait till tho young were halffledged, send for Angus; before evening the entire brood, father and mother included, would be nailed ou your Jiaru door.

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e knew tho Hhlon-viiilei -lch up'ani of!,r.t the hi'h which wi haunted by the is ; . iii, the cliff tf tho Cuehullins on wjiich thir eagles dwelt, the. place where, by moonlight, you could get a shot at tho sky heron. He knew till tho races (K dogs. In tho warm lind pup ho taw, at a. planen, the future terrier or etng-hotind He could euro tho diHtcnip'jr, could crop ears and dock tail.. Ho could cunningly phut all kinds of fishing tackle; could carve rjnaicha, and work you curioualy-pattorncd dagger hilts out of black dog oak, .-If you wished a tobacco pouch mado of the skin of an otter or a seal, you had simply to opply to Angus,. From his variety of accomplishment ho was an Immense favorite.The old farmers liked him because ho was tho sworn foo of pole-cats, foxes nul raven?: tho sons of farmers valued jp.fn'i hi-Huso Ii was mi authority in rifles td foilinv pittx, atKi-kncr-tW-rv?iii shelving rocks on which bullct-hoaded seals slept, and the cairns on tho sea shoro in which tho otter lived; and bocause if any special brcod of dog was ; wanted, ho was sure to meet tho demand He was a little, thick-set fellow, of great physical strength, and of tho most obliging nature; and he was called Angus-with-the-dogs, because without Spoineag and Fruieh at his heels he was never sejn. The pipe was always in his mouth to him tobacco was as much a matter of course as peat reck is to a turf hut. ' One day, after Fellowes had gone to the landlord's, where I was to join him iu a week or ten days, young M'lan and myself waited for Augus with the dogs on one of the rising grounds at a little distanco from tho houso. Angus in his peregrinations had marked a cairn in which ho thought an otter would be found, and it was resolved that this' cairn should lei visited on a specified day at noon, iu tho hope that some little sport might be provided for the Sassenach. About eleven A. M., therefore, on the specified day, we lay on the heather smoking. .'It was warm and sunny; MTan had thrown beside him on the heather his gun and shot belt, and lay back luxuriously on his fragrant couch, meerschaum in mouth, his left leg stretched out, the right drawn up, and hi brown hands clasped around the knee. Of ray own position, which was comfortable enough, I was not atithe moment specially cognizant, my attention ocing aosoroeu Dy the scenery around, which was wild and strange. We lay on couches of purple heather, as I have said; and behind were the sloping birch woods birch woods always remind one somehow of woods in Iheir teens which ran up to tho bases of white cliffs traversed only by the shepherd and the shadows of hawks and clouds. The plateau on which wo. Jay ran toward the sea, and suddenly broke down to it in littlo ravines aud gorges, beautifully grassed ud injs.-ed; anil ptursvd wth -Lun4 of ferns. Occasionally a rimlct came laughing and dancing down from rocky shelf to shelf. Of course, from the spot where wo lay, thi breaking down of the hill faco was invisible, but it was iu my mind's eye all the same, for I had sailed aloug tho coast and admired it a couple of days before, llight in front flowed in Loch Eisbar, with it islands and white sea bird. Down in the right hand corner, reduced iu size by distance, tho house sat on its knoll, like a white shell; aud beside it wcro the barn and outhouses, the smoking turf huts on the shore, the clumps of birch wood, tho thread of a road which ran down toward tho 6tream from the house, crossed it by a bridgo a little beyoud the turf huts and the boat shed, and then caoio up toward us till it was lost in tho woods, llight across the Loch were the round red hills that riso above Broadford, and tho cntiro rango of tho Cuehullins tho outline wild, splintered, jagged, as if drawn by a hand shaken by terror or freuzy. A glittering mesh of sunlight stretched across the Loch, blinding, palpitating, ever dviug, ever renewed. Tho bco came booming past, the white sea gull swept above, silent as a thought or a dream. Gazing out on nil thi, somewhat lost in it, I was suddouly startled by a sharp whistle, and then I noticed that a figure was cros'intr lau uruipo uoiow. u lau goi un. "That's Anpus," ho said: "let us go down to meet him." And so, alter knock ing tho ashes out of hi pipe and filling it anew, picking up hi gun and slinging his shot belt across his shoulder, ho led the way. At tho bridge we found Angus seated, with his pun across his -kuce, aud Spoi neag and Fruieh coursing about and boat ing tho bushes, from which a rabbit would occasionally bounce and skurry off. Angus looked more alert aud intelligent than I ha l ever before scon him probably because ho had business on hand. Wc started ut onco along the shore at tho foot of the cliff above which wo had bceu lying half an hour before. Our way lay across largo boulders which hd rolled down from t .e bight above, and progression, at least to one unaccustomed to fuch rouuh work, was by no means easy. An gUuud MTau sLcppcd on liphtly cuough, r. ... rt .. .. . tho dogs kept up a continual barking and yelping, and wero continually disappeari ing iu rents aud crannies in the cliffs, aud emerging noro ardent than ever. At a likely platjAngus would stop for a morneut, speVf a word or two to tho dogs, aud then they rushed barking at every orifice, entered with a struggle, and ranged throuph all tho passages of tho hollow cairn. As yet tho otter had iiofNbccnj found at home. At last, when we come in view of a spur of the higher ground which, breaking down on the shore, teruii-' natcd in a sort of pyramid of looso stones, j Angus dashed across the broken boulders at a run, followed by his dogs. When they got up. Spoineag and Fruieh, barking as they had never barked before, crept iu all kind of holes aud impossible fissures, and were no sooner out than they wero agaiu in. Angus cheered and encouraged them, and pointed out to M'lan traces of the otter's presence. 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dog, it was Fruieh and barked, and (bat day; she jumped got into the cairn by holes through which no other do" could go, and canio ont by holua throuph which no other dog could come. Fpnincug, on ho other Fand, was comparatively cgm ptiföd; ho vtjuH 6cca4onaliyYif down, and taktng a VVieaV view of the, 'cairn, run barking to a new point, and t-j that point l'Vuich would tush like a lvrj and disnp. rear, Spolr. Ca g w n i a o m u, a i d c r i n c hi e f, Fruieh was a gallant general of division. Spoineag was Wellington - l'ruich was the fighting pic!6ri. Fruieh h'iJ disappeared for a time, and from the niufllcd Larking wo concluded sho was working her way to the center of tho eitad;!, when oil at onc'u SriDinpn" n if mnvfl hv n aii.tilnn inti !. ration,' rushed to the' top cf the cairn and f -" Mf - . ... ..(.I. began tearing up tho ho tuif with teeth und feet. Spoincag's capcrness now was as ti-t8i..a-e vat -l i .Lulu. ii ilLty . who had implicit faith iu Spoilieng" geniusclimbed up to assist, and tore away at tho turf with his hands. In a minute or so Spoineag had effected au entrance from tho top, and began to work hi way downwards. Angus stood up against the sky with hi gun in readiness." Wc could hear tho dos barkinp inside, and evidently approaching a common center, when all at onco a fell tumult arose. The utter was reached at last, and was using teeth and claws. Ahg'u mado a signal to MTan, who immediately brought his gun to his shoulder. The combat still raged within, aud' 6ccmed to be comiug nearer. Oucc Fruieh came out howling with a bleeding foot, but a cry from Angus on the .bight scut her iu again. All at once the din of barking ceased, and I saw a black lurchiug object flit past the stones toward the sea." Crack weut M'lau's gun from the boulder, crack went Angus's gun from the bight, and the black object turned half round suddenly, and then lay still. It was tho otter; and the next moment Spoincar and Fruieh wero out upon it, the fire of bättlo in their eyes, and their teeth fixed in it bloody throat.' They dragped the carcass backwards and forwards, and seemed unable losate their rago.upou it. What ancient animosities .existed between the families of otters and terriers? What wrong had been doue never to be redressed? Angus came forward, at last, tent Spoineag and Fruieh howling right and left with his foot, seized the otter by t hetail, and then over tho rough boulders we began our homo. lard march. Our progress past the turf huts nestling on the shore at the foot of the cliffs was a triumphal one. Old men, women, and brown,: half-naked children came out to gaze upon u. When we got home the otter was laid on tho grass iu front of tho house, where the cider MTan came out to inspect it, ana was pouto enou.'h to ex-1 press uis approval, anu to declare tliai it war not much inferirr Jithk anj strrnrh to the otters ho had 'hunted and küied at tho close of last century. After dinner young M.Tan skinned his trophy, a it J nailed and stretched the hide on tho garden gate amid the dilapidated kites and ravcus. In the evening, Antrum, with his pun across his shoulder, and Spoineag and Fruieh at his heels, started foi that, mysterious home of his which was supposed to be an Ardvasar, somewhero ia tho neighborhood of Armadale Castle. A Summer in Skyc. World-Making. There is nothing to distinguish our sun from tho multitudinous stars which shine in a firmament. Astronomer readily admit that the sun is a star of middling magnitude, emitting light which is nearly white, with a very slightly marked character of periodical variability. We are, thcrcfo're, in tho presence of a phenomenon which is undoubtedly of great importance to us, but which is at the same lime extremely common in the stellar universe. Starting, therefore, with the simplest and most general ideas, and the inot applicable to tho aggregate of stars, wc have ti e successive uuiou of matter iu vast mas.-es, under the empire of attraction, out of the material primitively disseminated throughout space. The star iu a state of nebula," but at length a cooling takes place at tho surface; tho disunited' elements gradually acquire tho power of approaching each other, mi l chvinieal afiinilic arc Jeveroped. The particles thus formed, acted on by pravity, wilt oe-eona toward the v n ji ..... - lower strata, whero, meeting with the Iviu-' pcruture of dissociation, they will be sent j up again as masses of gas. There arc! thus produced vertical movement. of rej ciproeal exchange, which in.ressantly ro new tho emission of heat and light. At the outer circumference will be formed thO apparent limit of the sun. The er tical curreuts which agitate hoc miss casily explain tho appciranco of the spot, hencver tho asccudinp currents Und an outlet, they open a sort of vista into tho interior, which appears to tho eye comparatively black, in consequence of ils lower radiating power. Father Secchi aoccitainc l, by means of thermoelectric measurements, that the central portion of the spot ou thosuu is

less hot than tho supciiieial rpion. It source of niriely e'uht jior oeut. uf the would appear thin (hat a star passes j real crime in the country such a England through several distinct phu-e. The first j or the United S'at-js lieii 4t the doof if the is the nebulous condition, iu which our j p ircnt. It is a fearful reflection. We sun no longer remain. In the second j throw it let 'me the minds of the fathers place, tho strata aro sufficiently coolo I to i and nrothcrs of our land; and there leavfl allow tho play of certain molecular afani- tit to bo thought uf in wisdom, remarking tics to le possible. T. ere is then formed I only as to tbt early see l of bodily disa sort cf superficial laboratory hich de-1 case that ihey are in ncsily fvcry case, termincs tho apparent outlines of tho star. : sown between sundown and bedtime In Tho emission of light and heat is e msid- absende from the family circle; in tletnperablo, and is hiaiuuincl at thy expense ply of spending money icvr earned by of the outiro mass, by lha uotion ol a- the &pondcr, opening the doors of confeecending and descending curreuts which tionaries find soda fountaius, of beer and aro established beUcon tho dvcp strata' ubacco and wine shop, of tbo eircos, the and surface. This phase lats for au im- j i cgro minstrel, the restaurant and dance; mouse lapse of time, and presenta great, then follows Ihe Sunday excursions, tho fixity iu its phenomena. Our jun is now j Sunday drive, with tho easy transition to passing, through this very ph isu. Tho the company of those whose waya lead to vertical curronts iu this ih.iss surt.-e to ar-' the gate of social physical and moral count for every appefuauce hitherto b-' mir. From eight to sixteen in these fewf served. The third phi.-o anivo when iu jtars are the destinies uf children fixed, cootequenco of cooliig, tiro wriieal move- iu forty-niu; casus of filly äsed by the uivttt bcius lo slacken; bou, t.w wutile arwitU.

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11 09 u& iart. two lbPrtiiM. ..... 1 0 0 Ob auii, ihr JoitrtJoB. All uliaeiit lairUot., riqur YKARLY. j On column, clnjtMb! qoMUr! Vi 09 ! Tbrr'0irirt of abluent ........ it Oinhulf of column..:. Ji On qutrttr of column 2" M Ogt .Itfutb. cf coldiuu ...... 11 04 Tmitflont dmtUttucuU issvld in 11 ohm t paid fur Id Jbc. Po!t.i a particular tluit Ii ipsolfiod L ei. -J In, sdr rllioiiiunU will b pullliWt 6U! r dffpil otit, nd chatgod ftcefirdlugly. Win mmm . . . . i I mn" gradually contracting, the luminoua "urfiei little ly litilo acquires a liquiU, i Püfcv ana eoha consistence. I roiu this couditiuu. the uu. u tili far uiMPur. , iy contiuuca coojing, atlast Colno tho phenomena uf dclinito tt tiiutinn. Although the iutcribr i.uy 1 inenn descent, tho exterior u covered with an Opaque, cool aud . balitihlo. crusi. T hix is tho geologici.1 phase. Examples aro lecorded in bi.tory. The seventh annual star of. the Pleiades. vfttfrlunpuisuing lor conturio., wrt out' tbo fall of Troy. lUveilus, t bclehrated German astronomer, mention vi i tars whone expiring rays he bad th glory and sorrow to catch in his tclesc-op Herschd, after acertaitjiiig the disabDeai1!.. . . ,,ncc. of, ootablo n umbt-r f stars, by the i comparison oi aueient wittr recent fata-. ivyuca, upu uino mo imiior ci neinp present ut a star's last moments, and of rei-IcrTngnf-dj'easö. "IV wal 1W ETtT.ttP-Tf-Hercules. For some time ha had observ- ' cd it glowing paler, it then turned red; , und alter flickering some dozen years; it. yielded up its flume, ahd disappeared forever ill the shades of night. The 25th of March, I7U1,' wras the date on which tho prent astronomer entered this remai kable phenomenon in hi journal. The , earth . and the uioou, ac aic told, offer en tuples of this successive evolution. Evideutly, the earth was once a veritable S-iu for tbo moon, whose mass is ery much urn aller," ' and was naturally the ürt to cool. Then ' tlii eal th, in her turn, after passing through the very same phases as our actual sun, at last acquired a trust aril became entirely ' solid at the surface. After a considers- : bio lapse of timo orpaniß life became man- ' iiest. Tho sumo transitions havo been passed through by tho moon,, only much uiorc rapidly. It i ptoballa that lite was developed in the ruooh when it had scarcely yet appeared on earth. We are informed that the moon represents tho" -earth's future, the sun her past. We aro j b.hiud-haud Wich our satellite, a&d Very . much in advance of uur sun. And thu4 worlds have their corresponding condi- ' tions of lifo. Each star passes through -its successive transformations ia the eter nal harmony of the universe. Desperate Encounter with a Deer. Ono of tho most daring encounter! incident to hunting life llrough fortunately resulting in nothing serious that we have heard of for a long time, occurred iu the vicinity of Mud creek one day last week. Mr Ed. Nicholls, formerly of this place, started out one morning with hi dog, through a piece of woods near his farm. Scarcely had he entered the forest, over a mile from his habitation, when suddenly up sprang a large buck from his concealii. cut, and confronting him faco to face for an instant, mado a fearful dash at him.

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defense, never once thoiipht of retreating," liUtunmy grasped one ot the animal b gigantic hums, while the dog took hold of his throat. For a while the struggle betvreed the three was most fearful. One moment the man had the deer down, but the deer; possessed of that dcxrerity and nimblencss peculiar to thvin, sprang to his feet again und apain. using all his endeavors in twirling hi antagonists around. Mr. N. dare not lose his hold, and the only hope td save his lifo was by encouraging his dog; which meanwhile hung on to the buck' throat with canine tenacity. To worry the buck to exhaustion, with the assistance cf the djg, was the only meaus of conquering his adversary, aud after a long and tiresome struggle was finally successful, when he Went and gvt a club and knocked the animal in tho head. At tbo end of the combat, Mr. Nicholls' clothing was entirely torn from him, and ho had nothing to cover the costume tfhitli nature furnished him. He returned home through by-ways and called lustily to his wife to furnish vhim with clothing, and (hen rtlurninp ho brought his vcnisuU home, which, after Ic'iig dressed, Weighed over pounds. hen we take into consideration t!i9 fact that Mr. N. is a very small man, weighing only about lUO pounds, his was a courageous undertaking and courageously did he meet it. Kau Claiie (Wis.) Free Prus. JCiT h rd SlwifKbury recently stated in i - - , - - i. crso-nal observation, ho has. ascertained a r.uoiif nifcnnp nt ionuon, mat iroiu that of adult male erifiua.s of that city, nearly all had fallen in a course of crime between the ages of eightand --- -) - j -- Kirtrpn i r r and that if a voung man 1 ved an honest j life up to twenty y?ars of uge, thcro were j forty-ninechanccs in favor, undone against j hiiri. as to an honorable life thereafter, 'Ibis is a fact of singular importance to j fathers aud mothers, and shows a fearful responsibility. Ccitainly a purent should secure and exercise alsolötö control öier tho child unuer lb. It can not be a diffi cult u.aiUi' to do this, except in very rare Aa.ct if r A If Si f .- i .,. I j v..f) .... ......' ' Iv and iVu-itnitl v xiTri-!'. it miiKf hi hn .j , ... - parent a lauu, n is uiu- to uiv jarciuai neplec t or renii;eiic:t. Hence tho real neglect

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