The Wabash Courier, Volume 16, Number 19, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 8 January 1848 — Page 1

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It iaa lyre, whoae every string Shall vibrate to the praiae of Man Such tribute to hia genie* bring

Al ne'er wa» paid aince Time began.

Jt iathe master-piece of Earth— The climax of all human might— When Man, forgetful ef his birth,

Infringes oo Jehovah'a right.

It ia the path where lightning's fly. Obedient to Man's lordly will, Who forced them from their net iv* sky.

Ami chained tbem down on every bill.

ftfany a b**utioo* flower decays, Though ws tend It *'er so much. Something sewet on it prey*.

Which human aid can teach! So, la many a lovely bra*at, Lie*som*eank*{?feri*f ameealed That if toochod. i* mora oppraat I

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ID9T VI INPN»IVH»

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One* they were meaeengera of God, And flashed through heaven** remotest span. But now they've left their high abode.

To herald out the way* of Man.

No more we'll truat be carrier deve, Or iron steed, or lagging gate. But call the lightnings from above.

To apread the newa and tell the talo.

They far outspeed the rolling Earth, And put the ear of Time aback,— Before tint Future ha* it* birth

Tie past upon the apirit track.

That track—the great highway of Thought— Where dia'.ant nationaconverse hold Ere word ia aaid or dosd ia wrought, 'Ti» whiapered round and round the world.

From Eaat to West—from pole to poleWherever man haa pressed thesod— The every tbnught of every soul,

Is omnipresent like as God.

it binda ih* nationa alt in on*, And thrill* its pulse thrvugnout the union. Till every kingdom, tribe and tongue,

Shall live and aci in full communion.

TIN TO MK. BY cmua awiiw.

Tim* to m* this truth hath taught, 'Tia a tr«ili that's worth revealing 31 "re oflead from want of thought.

Than from anr want of fading. 11 advice we wouldcoovey There's a time we abould convey it

If we've but a word to say, There's a time in which, to ny itt

Oft unknowingly, the tongo* Tou*h*s on a chord eo aching. That a word, or aeoent, wrong.

Pains the heart almost to breaking. Many a tear of wounded pride. Many a fault ol human Windnsso, llad been aoothed or turned aaid*,

By a qotat voio* of kindnoa*I

Tims to m* thi* truth hath titaghr, Tia a troth that* worth revealing s— Mora otiend ffom want of thought

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THEMAGJIKTICTBLBGRAPB. What mean the mile* of cleaning wire Stwcbed out afar o'er hill and plain, A» if to airing »oine maseiv* lyre

To ring out Earths redeeming etrain 1

any want of fcaltng!

/'rem (A* Lmif't JU*kW O A N S E A IT PACLMX.

As tb* viae to th* arbor doth cKag, Or knit in tb* lane** bower— Or ita branches around tb* o*ktr** fling

With strong* iayat*rioaa pow*r— 43o cling* to tb* loved on* womanli heart, Ok! weak as th* t*od*r fineSo knit* in her bo*om p*arieni dart,

Or flings o'er her bitter eriw*« Then blame her not If her eh**k b* wan, Which once bor» the b'oom of vowth.

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th# eye which sparkled bri^tt b* oal«They are emKlema of b*r truth Tar better tb**y* aheald calmly beam,

And t*!l ot a Heavenly fiam*. .And tb* ebe*k grow pal*, than bright* Niath the conet^lotts bt ash of sham*.

HYMN.

I eaanet always tn« tb* way Where Ttows, Almighty One,deal am Bat I can alwars, always say,

That God it love.

When fear b«r lilting mantle dmgt Of earth. »r sow! to Heaven above" Ae to Imv sanctuary spviHS,

For Ged ia lev*.

"Wheal ifatarv elaada my Maulptk, I'UeMck dread, way daalti im*m In this my seal »w*« aa—tart katk, ^TWt Oed ia tee*.

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And tanv ill tear*, all wea* btta»ForGod ialov*.

How TO H*M—A ftniw 'ho %•*. fivos Ih* foikwinf hie opmam Of what csoaalimtee porfeet Miaa

Ha contented at km§ T*w wweth fell «nd fWf hody warm, romemhor th* poor, kwa the pretty rr*^

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neighbor** hen ronet. mitt pick su «dt tor's pockot oor wiwttifl iho idn thit ho Is foinf 10 iroat, lick doll »ro to tho dooce, black yew hoot*, sow on year own buttpos, tod ho *m to tokt p»p§r.

MISCELLANEOUS.

TK1BHOLT LARD*

Br niimrr MABTINSAU.

THE JORDAN AND DRAD MEA.W This day, (April 6th.) wo were to vittl ihe Jordan and tho Detd Sea. la the early morning, about five o'clock, I as* ©ended a steep mound oear our encampment and saw a view as different from on'the

that of «bo preoeduig day as a change

of lights cooid make it. The son bad Dot risen but there was a hint of its approach in a gush of pale light behiod the Moab mountains. Tho strip of woodlaod in tho middto of tho plain looked black in contrast with the brigtheniog yellow proci* picee of Quarantania on the west. South* wards, the Dead Sea stretched into tho land grey and claar« Below me, our teats and homes, and tho moving figures of the Arab* enlivened the shadowy banks of the stream. \V« were off soon after six. and were to reach the banks of the Jordan in about two and a half hour*. Our way led through the aame kind of forest laod as we had eoeam|*'d in. It was very wild and almoat the only tokens of habitation we met with, were about Rihhab—hy some iup|Kwed to be the exact site of the ancient Jericho. This is now as misera» ble a village a* any in Palestine and its inhabitant* nre as low in character as in wealth. Nu stranger thinks of going near it who i* not well armed and-guard ed. Yet there is no need to resort to any means but honest and very moderate industry. to obtain a comfortable subsistence here—if only honesty were encouraged, and industry protected by a good sociul state. The fine fig-trees that are scattered around, and the abundant promise «f the few crops that are sowo, show that the soil and climate are not to blame. A: thi* plnce there is a square tower, conspicuous from afar above the trees, which iome suppose to be the sole remnant of the great city but it can hardly be ancient enough to have belonged to old Jericho.

On a hillock, in the midst of the brushwood, we saw a few birds of such size that one of the party in a moment of forgetfulness, cried out "Ostriches?" There are no ostriches in this country but these cranes look very much like them, while on their feet. One by one they rose, atretching their lone legs behind th«m— certainly the largest bind I ever saw fly— or probably shall ever see.

Though we had been told, and had read, that the river coold not be seen till the traveller ranched its ve.-y banks, we could not help looking for it. Three broad terraces hnve to be traversed and then it it is sunk in a deep bed, where it rushes hidden among the woodland. Iu dep'h of water varies much at different seasons though less now than formerly. The Scriptures speak so much of the overflow of the Jordan, and of the lion coming up at tho swelling of the Jordan, that it is supposed that formerly the river was subject to inundations which may have formed the thren terraces above* mentioned, and caused the extraordinary fertility of the plain in old times: and that the wild beast which then harbored in the brakes, came up to terrify the dwellers in the fields. However this may have been, it is ool go now. The channel is no doubt deepened and the river now, at its fullest season, only brim* over its banks into the brakes, so as lo stand among Ihe canes, and never reaches the terraces.

Though we were all on the look out, and though we reached the river at Ihe spot which i» clea red fur tho approach of the Eastern pilgrim*, we could not see the water til) wo could almost touch it. The first notico to me of whero it was, was from tome of the parly dismounting on the Pilgrim's beach. When 1 came up— O! how beautiful it wss I—how much more bonutiful than all the pictures and all descriptions led me to expect. The only diawback was that tho stream was turbid) not only whiti*h from a sulphureous admixture, hut muddy. But it swept nobly along, with a strong and rapid cur* rent, and manv eddiss. gushing through the thick woodland, and flowing in among the Hi reeds, and now winding out of aight behind the poplars and acacias and tall reed* which crowd its hanks, !t is not a broad river hut i* full of majesty from it* force and loveliness. The vigoroo*. up-springing eharacter of the wood •long it* margin struck me much, tod we •aw i: now in its vivid spring green.

Tho pilgrims rushed into the sacred river in such numbers, and with so little ptveau'iofi »a to the strength of the current, that no year pa sees without some lost of We and usually several perish.— This year only one was drowned. Whatever superst it ton there might have been among our company, it was not of thit wiW *ort and we bathed in safety. I made a way through Ihe thicket with difAcuity, tin 1 found a little cove which the current did not enter, and over which hung a sycamore, whoeo lower branches were washed by the rippling which^the etrreitt sent io at it passed. Oh theos tranche* the bather might staod or art ft hoot touching the mod, which laytcft and deep below. The Umenooe precipice and wooded promontory opposite made the river particularly baautiifol here} llld sorry I w§t to leave ii at laaf. it it wales* to attempt make out whore the baptism of Jew* took ph»ce, of where his disciples tad John administered thorite. And on tho tpot one has no pleasing wist* to know. Tho whole of the river ts to sacred and to sweet thftt it it enough to ht,ft solved ia toy P*r-

He eoorte. v" One Ihiag wore we did bored friends far away, and carriod away tome of the wator far them, having pro. vtded tia cases lor the pur pose. The

Queen's children are baptised ia Jordan water and I brought away a easeful for the baptism of tha ohild of a friend who lives further away from tho Jordan than our Queen dor a. Thit bustnett done, we were summoned lo horse, and toad away towarda tho Dead Sea.

The belt of woodland toon turned a* way eattwaids, and we found ourtelvet exposed to extreme heat, on a desolate plain crusted with salt and cracked with drought. There had been a closeness and murkiness in Ihe air oH the morning, which was very, oppressive and now it was at our uiual slow pace, almost tnloN treble. I pot my horse to a fast canter, and crossed the plain at quickly as possible, finding this pace a relief to my horse as well as myself. The drift on the beach of the sea looked dreary enough ridges of broken oanea and willow twigs waahed up, and lying among theaalt and little unwholesome awtmpt of the thore but the watert looked bright and clear, and to tempting that our hortet put their noses down repeatedly, always turning away again in disgust. 1 tasied (he water —about two drops—and 1 almost thought I ahoold never get the taste out of my mouth again. And this was the water poor Costigan's coffee was made of.

Costigan was a young Irishman, whose mind was possessed with the idea of exploring the Dead Sea and giving the world the benefit of his discoveries. It would have been a useful service and he had zeal and devotedness enough for it.— But he wanted either knowledge or prudence and he lost his life in the adventure without having left us any additional information whatever. He had a small boat carried overland by camels and in this he set forth (in on open boat in tho month of July) with only one attendant, a Maltese sorvant. They reachad the aouthern end of the lake—not without hardship and difficulty but the facial struggle was in gelling back again. The wind did not favor them, and once blew such a squall that they had to lighten the boat, when the servant stupidly threw overboard the only cask of fresh water they had. They were now compelled to row for their lives, to reach the Jordan before thev perished with thirst but the sun tcorclied them from a cloudlets sky and the air was like a furnace. When Costigan could row no longer, his servant made some coffee from the water of the lake, and then they lay down in the boat to die. But the man once more roused himself, and by many efforts brought the boat to the head of the lake. They lay helpless for a whole dsy on the burning shore, unable to do more than throw the salt water over each other from lime lo time. The next morning the servant crawled away in hopes cf reaching Rih* hab, which he did with extreme difficulty. He sent Costigan's horse down to the shore with a supply of water. He was alive, and was carried to Jerusalem in the coolness of the night. He was taken care of in the Latin convent there but he died io two days. Not a note relating lo his enterprise was ever found and during his illnese he never spoke on the subject. Any knowledge he might have gained has perished with him snd DO reliable information could be obtained from his servant. Costignn's grave is in the American burying ground and there I saw the sione which tells his melancho ly story. He died io 1835.

There appears to be no satisfactory evidence as to whether any fiah are lo be found in the Dead Sea. Our guides said that tome tmall black fish have been teen there, but othert deny this. A dead fish has been found on the shore near the spot where the Jordtn enter* Ihe lake but thit might have been cast up by the overflow of the river. It it said that small birds do ool fly over the lake on account of tha deleterious nature of its at* mosphere. About small birds 1 cannot apeak but I taw two or three vulturee winging their way down it obliquely.— The curiout lights which hung over the the surface struck me as showing an unusual state of the atmosphere—the purple murky light retting on ooe part, and the lino of silver refraction in another.— Though the sky was clear aft er the morning clooda hid patted, the tunthine ap* pea red dim and the heat wat very oppresetve. The gentlemen of the party who remained behind to bathe declared on rejoining us at lunch time, that they hsd found the common report of the buoy, aocy of the waier of this sea not at all exaggerated, aod that it wat indeed tn oaty matter lo float io it, and very difficult :o etnk. They ai*o found their hair and skm powdered with salt when dry. But they could not admit the greatiness or sttekinese which is said to adhere to the skin after bathing in the Dead 8ea. They were very positive about thie and they certainly did obeerve the fact very carefully. Yet, I have teen einoe my return a clergyman who bathed there, and who declared to me that hit thin was so sticky for tome doyt after, that ha coo Id not get rid of it, oven from hie bond*. And the tra*worthy Dr. Robmmo, a late travel, ler there, says: "After coming ool, I pereoived nothing of the toll crott upon the body of which eo many sneak. There was a alight pricking aenaetioo. especial* ly vharo tha skin had bee» chafed and a sort of greney feeling, aa of oil, upon the Ate. which lasted for eeveral hours.'*

The contra at of these letltmeaiea, and the drverwiy whie* exit! among the analiraes of (he water* which have be«» made by chemist*, seeass to show that At qoofcty of the waters of the Dead See varies. And it appear* iiieaanahls that it ahoold for it mart main a great difference whether fresh watert have been peortttg into the batia of the lake, after the winter mint, or great evaporation haa fceeo going on voder the summer's ana. In Wlowiog the margin of Uwata, we had lo cross a

ctsek, where my skirt was splashed.— The splashes turned prosently lo thin crutlt of sail and the moitture and titck« a a a at the moment.

We wound among the salt marshes ana brakes, in and out oo the dwolale thore of thit tea ihii sea which it not the less dead and dreary for being at clear and blue aa a mountain tarn. As we ascended the rangea of hills which lay between us and the convent where we were to rest, the Jordan valley opened northwards, and the Desd Sea southwards, till the extent traversed by the eye was really vatl.— How beautiful muat it have been once, when Ihe Jordan valley, whose verdure was now shrunk into a black line amidst the sands, wss like an interminable gar. den and when Ihe cities of the plain ttood bright and busy where the Deed Sea now lay blank and grey I As 1 look mv la it look back, from a great elevation, I thought that to mournful a landscape, for oso h^ing real beeuly, I had never teen.

From ikt Scien/ifc Amtrica*.

MINERAL WRALTH OF RUSSIA. Many have been turprised al the a* mount of gold which the Emperor of Russia has been able tn throw lately into the French and English funds. But as regarding the extent and resources of that vast empire, there is so much ignorsnce and so little knowledge, that no wonder that we were surprised when Douglni Jerrold declared, that if Nicholat st the present moment demanded his pay, England would be bankrupt to the biggest despot in the world. We have been imbued with the idea that Russia generally, was a cold, barren, pine clad country, but instead of this nature has endowed her profu*ely, with spices from all her kingdoms, and not less so with metals and minerals, as the following statistics, which we have collected from various source! will abundantly testify.

Nearly all the metals are found in Russia of a superior quality. Mining hat been rapidly progretting there, more especially since 1815, when tho Duke of Leuchtenberg, the supreme hend and director of the mining works in Russis, by his scientific knowledge, profitably explored the mining district*. Tim princi. pal mines are in the Ural mountains, and in Siberia. Ever since 1815, very rich gold sand has been found on the Ural, upon an area ofabout 3000 English square miles. Alexander Humboldt calculates that Russia gains annually, upon an average, from het mines $€,'772,000 in gold and $1,684,000 of silver. In recent limes. Russia's gain in gold (to which is added ever since 1830 a considerable amount of platioa,) has progressed to an enormous rate. In 1841 the total weight of gold gained in the Ural nnd Altai mines.nlready amounted to 53,633 lls., while that of platina hnd risen to 3960 lbs. The gold mining works of the Ural had furnished in the same year 1242 lbs., while the gold of Eastern Siberia amounted to 20,729 lb*. The richest mines,are now, howevor, in Jhe district of Tnglisk, be. longing to the family of Prince Dsmidoff. From 1824 till the end of 1833, platina was coined to the amount of $6,339,770 of silver. Platina, however, having been found more useful for chemicftl ends, a atop wat entirely made in the coinnge of that metal by an ukase in 1846. In cop-, per, Russia gained already, in 1840, about 9.232,000 lbs., and in iron nearly 480,000,000 lbs., but hat considerably increased of late. The lead found there it not of a mperior quality, nnd the quantity hardly covert the contumption of the country. Granite, porphyry, malachite, and other apeciea of stone are found in vast qusntiiies, snd superior io nze and beauty. Finland it pecnliarly rich in granite, and ihe lofty Alexander statue before the winter palace nt St. Petersburg, and the pillars of thn Kazan church are erected of that stone. In 1829, the first diamond was discovered in the gold tandt of Couniett Polier neither is there any lack in prociout stones. Universally known is the Russian is tnglass, which is found upon an islel in tho While Sea. in tables of the tize of a square foot. Porcelain and argilaceoui earth are furniahed by Siberia and Tauria. Extremely rich is the country in tali, and more especially in Ihe boundary provinces towards Asia, and the produce may he calculated to amount to about 1.600.000,000 Ibt.

Tha whole of Europe together with Asistic Russia furnishes $3,278,00(7 in gold and $2,476,000 of tilver.

Veins of Platina have lately been diiooverad in Franca, which we hope wilt lessen the price of thit moial, aod confer sn everlasting boon upon chemical and electric actanoa.

Ml IVOR MORAY* FOR X4DRII0 PKOPLC. "The last word" is tb* most dangaroe* of infernal meefcnas. Hnbaed and wife should no mot's fight to get it than they woald atraggl* for the possewioo of a figbtsd bMBb*b*ll

X*ep aa Epictetaa ia your diaiag-raom to rtsd wbiW waiting for tb* completion of yo«r wife's

Married people shook! stady e*eb othert wssh points, a*skater* look out for the w*ak partrof (be ice, iiTonfor to keep ofl* them.

Ladtar who married for love should remember that th* ante* of angels with woman has boast IbcbidMcai *»«e* the flood.

Thewiftw the sen ef thi Sft&t srtuwn. tfnIMS *H* attract*, (fee** WHWII( W keep M**Y bodiee. like hush*ad*. Warn living off info spscfe.

Wires, b* lenient W the marital eursr Tbe MX** always bides thCRMtt dtssgrstsbis pert of

wife who woald proper!* dtsehsifl tar dStim. mast asver tavoa soot**abov»betum* The liber tie* el feagtaild have bee* woo bv matoaf *uou—inaw Im th* bwbwvtwbo mkl Msqirin the privtlea* of asking friend# to witheet noties, isaiuthsr fhi* whea bu wife hi»« iiaaevkasMt. Th* Wife"* waart It the Sae-

^StmSKlSne dw ••asrtlon* of m*tfto»S*rt tiaas. tb# marriage-ring ts a eir*l* whit* hus*M»J end wife have tha prohfoea sat tham of a»kuc sqaait-

TUB ENRAGED BLIPBART. Tt!« TItaiBLS eC««E AT THI PBILADIL* MIA MaifAoaaia.—Thia unfortunate and frightful affair which greatly excited oor cititam tb* whole of yeeterday afternoon and evening, ia otili tha angrowing subject of conversation, every whereto-day. The morning papers are full of the dettilt of the occurrence, and furnieh the particulars to minutely at to leave room for eoarcely anything adduiooal to ha added by tit.

It appears that about 1 o'clock, P. M. the keeper of tho Elephant, Wm. Kelly, wat cleaning him and preparing him for the afternoon's performance, in the recess lie re ho ii kept, when being onchained, he etarted toward# the ring.-* The keeper apoke lo him. and aa he did not itop aa tooti at he ought to have done, the keeper itruck him with hit tpc»r.— Thit exasperated ihe enimal.and he made a pest at the keeper with hit tutks, throwing him twice in succettioo to a contiderable height.

The keeper fell in front of a cage, and at he did to, the elephant made a third pan at him, but mining him, ttruck the •age which contained email docile animals and alto captized a atove filled with fire, that ttood in front of it. The cage fell with Mr. Kelly under it, and when he wat rescued, it war found that the unfortunate man bad received teriooe fractures of both of his legs, ooe of which, the right it wno decided laat evening to amputate but an unfavorable change taking place in the saflferet's symptoms, it was subsequently deemed unadvisable to perform the operation, lest death ensue under it.

Mr. Kelly was conveyed from the me. nagerie to his hotel, the Former's Inn, in Market street, where every attention was paid to him that hia situation required— the moat eminent turgeoni being celled to attend him. Hit tpine and other parts of his body escaped uninjured. Mr. K. ii a poor, but very worthy young men.

The enraged beast after thus venting his fury on his keeper, and every thing else in thie part of ihe house, then passing towards ihe ring again, the elephant dogs were introduced and succeeded in driving him back to his place. He now became more furious, and broke to pieces two cages in ihis recess, containing the small animals referred to above, and which were let loo«e. Thence he returned to the ring vomewhat damaged the curb of it, and likewise did a trifling Injury to the seats. He was at last secured by dropping rope noose from ihe top of the dome of the building, into the ring, and drawing Ihis, when he entered the room, around his fore legs. While thus entsngled, in making pusses towards those on the platform and in the saloon above him, he got into the narrow western gangway, leading to the upper door on Walnut street, where by the effectual application of the har« pnon. he WHS goaded into submission, ana surrendered.

After fastening his lusks to his fore legs, and securing his legs together with strong chains. Herr Driesbach, the celebrated Wild Beast Tamer, made his a p. pea ranee, and taking the subdued beast in charge, bore him in triumph into the ring, where he caused him to lie down in perfect submission. Herr Driesbach, ihen, standing on the conquered mammoth of the forest, addressed the spectators present in the following impromptu speech "Gentlemen—Unaccustomed as I am lo public speaking, I feel impelled to say that llm is ihe proudest day bf my life.— Napoleon and other gront men have their monuments in akulls—I have mine in a conquered living elephant."

Of course this burst of eloquence from the hero of the ring was responded to by immense cheers from the assembly, who hnd witnessed Ihe daring of the renowned linn tamer, tnd beheld with proud *ntiafaction his triumph over the infuriated animal.

At the lime tha elephant was in the western gangway, the Mayor who wee presont with a body of police, actively engaged throughout the whole trying scene, had a loaded six-pounder, mannged by volunteer artilleriats, pointed at the door, ready to fire at him, in the event of his makings rush for the it reel. Another six-pounder was placed at the rear of the building on George street, and a company of musketeers were kept in resdinets to act as emergency may require.

The Circos Company of Gen. Welch were present assisting, and the General himoelf was especially active, and con. tributed much to the mastery of the eler phsnt.

Two monkeys, we believe, were tha only snimala killed by the elephant, orrd one or two other little animals were det« troved by tho dogs. Tho animals thai escaped were all caged without doing any harm. The damage done to the cages snd the interior arrangements of the jrtace were at once put in repeir, and the Institute wat open and the performance went on t* usual, Inst evening.

The truly fearfol scene Issted from a quarter past one until half past four, P. during all of which time the vicinity of ihe Zoological Institute was crowded twith people, among whom a inliag of the moat intense an*iety prevailed. 1 hM no worte consequence! followed was indeed fortunate, anal may be «j»«.idered »*ton. ishiog. Per hap* a mora fhrdltng event, or one fraught with mora danger has aeld«m, if rvef. happened io America, tti the exhibition «f wifd beasts.

The occurrence gaf« fM id minors without number but, we b*heve, the facu at we have given rtratn are merulty correct.

Upon maliog inquiry at (m htfei or Mr. Kelly, Ihe injured keeper, !hi* morning, we worn poitted to learft that hit «tuation wat daogeroue, and that feara were ontarlainad for tho tafeiy of hie life. He appeared, we were informed, to ho em** jO| fiut. ts 5. "s"

Wa may farther odd that the elephant baa bean reduced to tbe moot perfect s6b mission by Herr Driesbach, and beiftg DOW at docile at a child, will be introduced into the ring at heretofore thotfgh ha will not bo able to make quit* at prelty a bow to his audience, owing to his bating shattered in his onslaught a portion of bit tutici. The injuriee inflicted on him by the harpootti will not ho pereeptiblo after a day or two.—PkiUd. Bulletin*

A BEAUTIFUL LETTER.

T£s following exquisitely ferainin* nod *loquant «pi*tl* WM written by tb* celebrated Mr*. U*dolphia to h*r hasband, a few day* befor* b*r desth. Sh* had b**a on* of tb* b*autie* ol Cbarle* thoSsosadlCoart.but wasaaasfolly resisting th* blandiahniMtt* of ibat corrupt circle, had resigned snd marrtod Mr. Godolphin, afterwards the celebrated Lord Godolpbin. Evelyn, who knew Mrr Gu*ll, calls her "hi* d«ar saint.** It is needles* to sav h*r boabaad never married again—how could be after tb* lo** of such a wife! "My dear*, not knowing bow God Almighty may dasls with me, I think it my best court* to sett!* my *(f*ir»,*oe a* that, in ease I be to l*av* thi* world, no* earthly thing rosy tak* up my thoughts. In tb* 6m pises, my deatre, believe me, that of all aarthly things yod were and are moat dear to me aod I am convinced that aobo* dy *v*r bad a better or haife so* good a bu*b*nd. I begg your pardon for all my Tmperfections, which I am seuibt* w«r* many but each a* I could h*lp, I did *ed**vor to subdue, that th*y might not troubl* you. I know nothing mora I have to deeire of you, but that you will •omctyme* think of me with kindness, butt n*v«r with too much grief*. For my Funerall, I desire ther* may be ooe co*t boatowed upon it att alt but. if I might, I would begg that my body might lye where I have had such a mind to go* myself, at Godolphin, among vour friends I believe, if I were carried by sea. tb* expense would not be very great but I don't inaiat upon that pises, if you think it not reasonable Isy me where you plea**. "Pray, my dcare, be kind to that poore Child I leave behind, lor my Sake, who loved yon soe well butt I need not bidd yon. I know yon will be ooe. If you should think fitt to marry again*. I humbly begg that little fortune I brought may be firet aettled upon my Child, end that a* long a* any of your Sisters lite, you will lett it (If they permitt) live with them, for it msy be so. tho* you will love itt, my successor may not be so* fond of it a* they I am aur* will be. "Now, my deare Child, farewell."

WBEICK DO QUIT RETOSXS

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Sntu*E—In socio-

ties, the order of reformations will be found to be the eame from the n*tive force snd inspired insight of some individual mind, that kindlee. first itself, *nd then, by us irresistibl* intensity, a wider and wider sphere of aoulr, spirit being born of spirit, thought of thought. A higher civilisation by which I und*r*und neither superior clothe*, nor better houses, nor richer winee.*nd *v*n more destructive gunpowder—but a nobler system of ideas snd aspirations, possessing a community, most commence, where alone ideas and aspirationa can have a beginning, in somebody's mind.— Hence, of all the more remarkable eocial revolutions, the seminal principles, the primitive type, may be traced to some one men, who** spiritual greatness had fore* enough to convert generation* and conr.itut* an era in tbe world's life, who preached with power some mighty repentance or transition of sentiment within the hearts of men, snd thus render more near at hand that "kingdom of hesven," for which al 1 men sigh and good men toil- Private'•repentance," individual moral energy, deep personal faith in some great conception of duty and religion, are the prrqu»si»es and causes of all social amelioration.—Re*

JMartinmu.

PROFESSIONAL BRBVITY!—When Mason was preparing the case of E. K- Avery and had examined about two hundred witnesses, somebody called to see him.— The legal gentleman sent word that he was occupied and could noi be interrupted. "But the man is a wit nee*, a Methodist Minister." "Call him up," said Mason. "Well sir, what can you testify?"

havo h«d a vision two angel*

hnve appeared to mo and told me thst brother Avery ia innocent." "Lei thent be summoned," aaid Maton it he returned hit work.

A Scientific Congress assembled al Venice during ihe preaeni year, and fourteen hundred and teventy-two men of science, and about two thousand lovers of science, met in the Ducal Palace, commencing on the 18th of September, and continued three weeks. The assembly had under its consideration questions of physics, mathematics, mechanics, geology, min« era logy, geography, erchaology. agriculture, technology, botany, vegetable physiology, chemistry, Zoology, comparative anatomy and medicine.

UNHEALTHY CALLING—SWORD MAKING. —Mr. Morton has stated at the Academy of Sciences, that among the numerous professions that shorten the duration of human life, that of the knife-grinder is one of the most murderous, in the sword manufactories of France, almost all the workmen die before the age of forty-five. Soldiers it seems are not all that fall by the sword. ————————

A Dutch member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, having returned home from a ses*ion, Was asked by ne.ghfr.r what had been done in th" Assembly! '*1 don't know vat oders hash't doTie, but 1 hti cleared one hundred dollars for mine self."

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drowfted by tha trpseiting or a boat, and he alone was saved. eacape the fate of the re*tf" asked one of his hirers. "I lid l*ot gom te post," wss the tftitchman'a placid answer.

A MATTE* of DoWf.-®^ one of the Peflsylvania Coofts last week, an Irishman on being arraigned for ooma petty crime, was asked the usual question. ••Cfailty or not guilty?" The culprii very promp ly answered—"Ah I how can 1 veil, yer honor, until I hear tha witoMi* as?"

EXCAVATIONS IN FOFTFEU. The political itate of Italy hat lately engroeted to much atteotioa, thftt ftttW time haa been fouod for ita tntiq'uiltos.—•' Since tha discovery of tha 41 gold coins, and mere than 350 silver coias, together wifh gemmed ear ridgt, necklacat and collar*, pear la, aod coitly ringt, a dwelling houta hat been extavated near delta Ftirtonai Which lurpastes in richness and elegaoee all that haa hitherto been diseov* ered. The ope if Vestibule is pavsd with mosaics, the wafls decorated with tasteful paintings. Tha Atrium opent into tho Ti'olinurtif a Ad the reception room, and tha latter leads into tho dining room/

Which is painted with mythological eub' jects, the tite of life. Here were aeveral triclinic Couches, not unlike our modern Sofa*, ridhly ornamented with tilver. Thtf reception room fjpki into a garden with a beautiful fotfntafn adorned with numerous mosaict and a tmall statue of Silenus the basin is tor rounded with tb6 most ex quisite sculptures in marble. Adjoining the dtrelling is another four wheeled car* riage, with iron wheels and many broozef ornaments. In the kitchen, alto, are many ornaments and utensils of bronze, and the traces of imoke are viaible in many placet, after a lapse of 18 centuriee. The aperimenttof the dwelling house contain, ed numerous elegant utensils of gold and silver vstet, candelabra, bronze, coim/ teveral cotet of turgical instruments, dec. What is extremely rare is. that there is a second and even a third ttory, which ara aicended by a wide flight of etairi. Oil a tmall painting near the ttaircaie ia tho' name and rank of the owner, in scarcely legible characters} and from which it ap« pears that he was one of tha Deeurii or Senators of Pompeii. All tha walls and the rooms are ornamented with comic and tragic piirrfings, one of which represents a young girl with a mask and flageolet.— This ia the moat recent eftcavatiatf id

Portxpei^Literary Gaxeae,

"the fady whtf btfore a tub, Is ntrt ashamed to wring atfd rti, Or OB the floor aeham'ed to Stfub,—' And carea not who call* in ttflee Her laboring so industriously, Will nuke a wife for you or ta*. WIVES and LADIES.—flow Jr. in chid of his sermons sayS: T)fo kind of wifef you want is on£ of good morals, and knowt how to metfd trowiert—who carl reconcile pealing potatoet with practical or fashionable piety^-who can Walts? with a dash churft, and sing with tha tea kettle —who understands broomology and tho trufl science of rrfftpping who con knit stockings without knitting her browt, and kfti: up her hnaband's "ravelling tleeve of care"U-who prefer* sewing tears with a ffeedte to sowing tnres (scandal) with thtf tongue. Such is decidedly a betttt half. Take her, if you cart get her, when yod find liar be tip to the elbcfWt in the iuds of a wash-tub, err pick geestf itt a dow-tla' ble.

My hearers our text spvsks of a lady before a tub. You may think it absurd^ but let me assure you that a icldfl before a tub in the kitchen, ia as well as in thtf drawing-room or parlor. What consti* tutr* a lady? It is not the costly dress, paint for the cheeks, false hair, and still falser airs, but it is hef general deport' ment her intellectual endowments, and ihnt evidence of virtuo which command# thf respoct and silent adfnirafton of the world. She vtould be recognisedBS a lady at once it matters ftot where, or in what situation, she be foond and be regarded as uuch, whether scotching bedbugs with hot pbker or hollering hnllertujnh st a cn mpfmeeting. All that (have further io say, fellow bachelors, it, thft whert you marry, see that you get a tady, insidd snd out one who knows how to keep thef pet boiling, and looks well after hef us S it

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Was relating his marvellous escapes entered the army prejudiced against Gaff when thirteen of his companions wore jfcott, ha Cbrtiidarid him, after his e*peri .. mt

This is a subject of great irtrportaftds^ if* order that stock of all Mods mny bd comfortable and thrifty, they should havtf constant access to pare water and if possible they should be supplied with wafer in ihe barn ysrd, ai mutfh manure ia wasted, beiidet animalt being likely to accidents, iff going at a distance fot water. When it is near, animals will drink often, hut when st a distance they ofteri go without, and suffer in consequence, and fo the disadvantage of tha owner* too for no animal can be profitable without thef requisites to its growth, health and productiveness. Even sheep, that some farmers think can use arrow and ice as a substitute for wafer, Will drink ,,ffeely when water ia near.

When animate have constant accrss 10 witer, they usually drink a Tittle and drink often, but when not properly supplied they will often injure themielvet by drinking to excess.

Some farmers have prepared watef worki to at to have a constant supply of good water in the barn vard, at an ex* pense of some 26, fitf, 75 or 100 dollars, and they would not be deprived of it for the interest, anftvoally, on time* the cost.

Gen. Shields, speaking of (Jen. Scoff* at Augusta, remarked, "that though^ ho

ence under hia command,

A HftMAW TtoR*-—W® notice English paper that's jeelous wife recently tied her husband in bed while he a»ep and then poured boiling water over him. When arrainged for trial, which resulted in transporisiioo fojrlife»she boldly coo* fessed the crime* .. ,%*

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