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VOL. Ill*
ATHENS, GEORGIA, AVGUST 2, 1834.
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TOcdical College of Georgia.
T HE thin! Course of Lccturcjpin this School of
Medicine, situated in Augusta, will commence
on the third .Monday, (the 20th) of next October, and
continue until the week preceding tho third Wednes
day of the following April, which will lie Commence,
niant day. This includes a term of six months, in-
.Scad of the ordinary period of only three and a half,
c: four.
One of the Professors is now in Europe, procuring
additions to the Anatomical Museum, Apparatus, &c.
and is expected to return by October. The new Col
lege Building it in a state of forwardness, and will,
ly contract, bit in readiness for the reception of the
next Class. It will accommodate 250 Students.—
'flic Professors are:
I,. A. Dugas, M. D. ) Of Anatomy and rhysi.
Geo. M. Newton, M. D. S ology.
Paul F. Eve, M. D. of the Principles and Practice
of Surgery.
Milton Antony, M. D. of Obstetrics and Diseases of
Women and Infants.
Alex. Cuxvingiiam, M. D. of the Theory and Prac.
ticc of Medicine.
Josrni A. Eve, M. D. of Therapeutics and Materia
Meilica.
L. D. Ford, M. D. of Chemistry and Pharmacy.
G. M. Newton, M. D. Prosector and Demonstrator.
The requisitions of candidates for tiic Doctorate in
this Institution, are the same as those of other Mcdi.
cal Colleges in the United States.
Tho expenses arc :
Matriculation Tickets, to be taken once, So 00
Tickets for full course of lectures, $100 00
Demonstration Ticket, to be takon once, $10 00
Diploma, $10 00
Good Board, with Lodging, is usually obtained by
Students, at $10 per month.
JOSEPH A. EVE, Dean of Faculty.
Augusta, Ga. July 10, 1831.—18—3t.
MEDICAL, COLLEGE
OF Tlir.
State of South Carolina.
fTSAlIK LECTURES in this Institution will begin
-lL on the second Saturday in November next, and
• lose on the first Nlonday of March following.
Anatomy—J. Edwards Holbrook, M. D.
Surgery—John Wagner, SI. D.
Institutes and Practice of Medicine—S. Henry Dick
son. Af. D.
Chemistry—Edmund Rarenel, SI. D.
Materia Monica—Henry R. Frost, SI. D.
Obstetrics—Thomas G. Prinleau, SI. D.
| Physiology—James Moultrie, Jr. SI. D.
JAMES MOULTRIE, Jr. M. D. Dean.
July 12.—17—cow6w5t.
From the Baltimore Visiter.
MONODY ON THE DEATH OF LAFAYETTE.
BY J. II. HEWITT.
Spoken By Mrs. S. Chapmen, at the Museum.
There is a wail upon the ocean wind,
A light-winged barque from Europe’s sunny shore,
Has left, the old world sorrowing behind
To tell tho new “ Lafayette is no more ! H
Land of tho eagle ! mourn the fatal hour
That envious death stole from th*adoring world
Tho man whoso sword sealed Freedom’s holy dower
Whose arm turned oil'the blow a tyrant hurl’d.
Oh ! hallow’d earth!—take to thy silent breast,
All that our souls held—noblest—dearest—best!
Mourn, mountain, vale and solitary wood,
Weep ripening fields- -enriched by patriot’s blood ;
Bird of our pride! sun gazing eagle l spread
Thy mighty pinions o’er the hallow'd dead,
Shrink to the heavens—till the Starry Shore
Echoes tho wail—“ Lafayette is no more !"
Monarchs who vaunt on their imperial thrones,
Imbued with gore and built on human bones,
With all the vanity of regal blood,
Proclaim themselves tho “glorious and tho good,”
While at their nod the sword spits forth its ire.
Fields smoke with blood and cities inclt in fire ;
Altars profaned, and temples razed to earth,
High heaven muck’d ; its mandates themes of mirth!
Ye splendid urns that tell such impious deeds,
Crumble to dust! th’ exploring eye that reads.
Can learn no moral, though the trump of Fame,
Proclaims them great—but great in acts of shame!
While on the ungilt urn and sculptured bust
Of one who lived—the good—the brave—the just,
Posterity shall send its brightest tear and twine
Fame’s greenest laurels round his hallowed shrine—
Mourn then, Columbia ! from thy bosom’s core,
*Tis frecdom’9 wail—*• Lafayette is no more!’’
imgccllaug.
University of Georgia, )
"i. 1
Athens, June 18, 1834
COMMENCEMENT.
T HE Freshman Class in this Institution will be
examined on Wednesday, the 3,1th July; the
Sophomore on Thursday, the 31st; the Junior-on
Friday, tho 1st of August; and candidates for ad.
From the Boston Slereantile Journal.
GROGGY HARBOR.
Or a Smooth Stone from the Brook,
and a Shepherd’s Sling. This is the title
of Number five of a series of Temperance
Tales published by Ford and Damrell, and
Perkins, Marvin and Co. of this city. The
preceding numbers have deservedly acquired
a great degree of popularity—and some of
them have been republished in England, and
have met with an extensive sale. -They all
advocate the cause of Temperance and Reli
gion, and embody a pleasing vanetv of in-
teresling incidents. VVe think Groggy Harbor
will become a great favorite with the public.
It is particularly calculated to be useful in
small maritime towns on the sea board—where
idleness and Intemperance sap the foundations
of virtue and health—and we hope that in such
places ibis little tale will bp widely circulated.
A master* of a ship returns to Groggy
Harbor, after having been absent for thirty
years. He is attached to the place from ear
ly associations, and wishes to settle there for
life, but he is shocked at the scenes of intem
perance which he is constrained to witness at
all hours of the day. The following extract
will give the reader an idea of the habits of
the people of this Fishing town.
As he sat down to breakfast with a good
relish, “ Mother,” said he, “ I have just been
across the harbor ; the sun isn’t two hours
high; I've been in a multitude of cities and
towns of all sizes, in almost every part of the
world ; and I never saw so many lazy, in-
temperate looking people, at this hour of the
morning in any place upon earth.” “ You
know it always was so my child said she,
“ Groggy Harbor will be Groggy Harbor ; the
name will slick, till ye change the nature. It’s
had enough to he sure. There arc few old folks
Poor lad, he died a drunkard.” “ What be-
came of Peter Watson, who lived over the
way?” “Watson became intemperate, as
well as his wife; they came upon the towu ;
both arc dead ; and their children are in the
poor house.” «And Barnes, the black
smith ?” continued the captain. « He yet
liveth,” said the Quaker “he was put in
to the workhouse more than ten years ago,
and is subject to that kind of delirium, which
afflicteth the intemperate.” “ What a scourge
intemperance 1ms been upon the earth,” ex
claimed the captain ; “ why poor old parson
Mcrrit must have had ill luck in turning the
wicked to repentance.” “ It is not agreea-
ble,” rejoined the old man, “ to speak that
which is evil of any, especially of those,
who preach the gospel; but few had greater
occasion than friend Mcrrit, to cry out, in the
words of holy writ, Pray for us. lie was ver
ily a man of like passious with ourselves.
He fell into intemperate habits before he
died.” “ Is 'it possible !” exclaimed the
captain. *****
“ And where is the man who kept the lav*
ern, at the sign of the Demijohn ?” « Dear
me, Billy,” said father Ephram, « which one
do’sl thou mean ? nearly twenty, I should
think, have kept the Demijohn tavern, since
thee wentest away ; and 1 do not remember
but two temperate men among them ; there
was Gookin, I never heard that he was ever
drunk ; he had an amazing strong head.
He had kept the house only three days, when
he was arrested for stealing a horse the year
before. And there was a Mr. Barker, who
tried it for a fortnight; and, hearing that a
man hung himself, after getting drunk at his
house, lie became conscience stricken, and
gave up the business.” “ Do tell me, father
Simpson,” continued the captain, “ what was
the end of Windsor, the barber ?” “ His
was an awful case,” replied the old man ;
he became intemperate, and cut so inanv of
his customers, that he lost his business. Thee
rememberist Miah Fidget ; he was a fiery
little fellow ; Windsor, once when he was
shaving Fidget, and very tipsy, cut him ter-
rihly. Fidget did not bear it like a Christian,
Billy, but gave the poor barber a terrible
flogging. Windsor became a miserable sot,
lost every customer, murdered his child, and
his wife, and cut his throat, with his own ra
zor.” “ Mercy on us,” said Captain Lane,
“ I should almost think you were reading the
log book of Gomorrah ; hut do tell me what
became of Archer the apothecary ?” « Died
a Drunkard,” fi.thcr Ephraim replied. “ He
was rather careless long before he died.
Person Mcrrit applied to him for a dose of
magnesia, and he gave him a hcapiig tea
spoonful of tartar emetic, and it nearly killed
him.” “ I will ask after one more ; how
did Moses Mattock, the sexton, turn out ?”
“ Very badly, Billy, I am sorry to say it. It
was thought he would have done pretty well,
had it not been for the unchristian practice
of treating at funerals. The Poodle faintly
who, thee mayest remember, were very poor,
and stood in great need of every thing hut
pride, never forgave Moses, for his shocking
misdemeanor, when their grand mother was
swain,«I’ve come down here by the cap
tain’s orders; and if there be any thing
stowed away in my old weather-beaten sea-
chest of a head, that may be of any use to a
brother sailor, or a landsman either, they’re
heartily welcome. If it will do any good in
such a cause as this, that you’ve all come
here to talk about, ye may go down below,
and overhaul the lockers of an old man’s
heart. It may seem a little strange, that an
old sailor should put his helm hard.a-port,
to gfct out of the way of a glass o’ grog ;
but if it wasn’t for the shame, old as I am, I’d
he tied up to the rigging, and take a dozen,
rather than suffer a drop to go down my
hatches.” By this time, all eyes and ears
were riveted upon the speaker. Hi9 voice,
though he spoke at the**natural pitch of it,
was remarkably clear and strong ; and his
whole manner was calculated to create a fee
ling ol respect. He stood as firmly as a main-
mast;and a well carved image of him,pea jacket
and all, would have made a glorious figure
head for Old Ironsides. Father Ephraim’s
countenance began to lose its expression of
anxiety, and the old sailo* continued as fol
lows :
“ Please your honor, it’s no very pleasant
matter, for a poor old sailor to go over a shoal
where he has lost a fine ship; hut he must
be a shabby fellow, that would’nt stick up a
beacon if he could, and fetch home sound,
ings and bfearings, for the good of all others,
who may sail in those seas. I’ve followed
the sea for more than fifty years. I had
good und kind parents—God bless ’em both.
They brought me up to read the Bible, and
keep the Sabbath. My father drank spirits
sparingly. My mother never drank any.
Whenever I asked for a taste, lie was always
wise enough to put me off: * Milk for babies
my lad,’ he used to say ; «children must
take care how they meddle with edge tools.’
When I was twelve, I went to sea, cabin hoy
of the Tippoo Saib ; and the captain promis.
ed my father to let me have no grog ; and
he kept his word. After my father’s death, I
began to drink spirits ; and I continued to
drink it till I was forty two. I never re
member to have been tiosy in my life ; but
I was greatly afflicted with head-ache and
rheumatism, for several years. I got mar
ried when I was twenty three. Wc had two
hoys ; one of them is living. My eldest boy
went to sea with me, three voyages, and a fi
ner lad”—just then something seemed to
stick in the old boatswain’s throat, hut he
was speedily relieved, and proceeded in his
remarks. “ I used to think my father was
overstrict about spirits, and when it was cold
or wet, I did’nt see any harm in giving Jack
a little, though he \v*s only fourteen. When
lie got ashore where he could serve out his
own allowance, I soon saw that he doubled
the quantity. I gave him a talk. He prom-
iscd to do better ; hut he didn’t. I gave
him another, but he grew worse ; and finally
in spite of all his poor mother’s prayers, and
my own, he became a drunkard. It sunk
my poor wife’s spirits entirely, and brought
mine to the water’s edge. Jack became ve
ry bad, and I lost all control over him.
threw it out of the window. Tom promised
to take no more. I never have had. reason
to doubt, that he has kept his promise. He
19 now first mate of an Indiaman. Now,
your honor, I have said all I had to say about
my own experience. May be I’ve spun too
long a yarn already. But I think it would
not puzzle a Chinese juggler to take to pie.
ces all that has been put together on the oth
er side.”
The Boatswain then went on, and exposed
the fallacy of the arguments which had been
brought to oppose the formation of a Society
—and his conclusion was listened to with a
roar of applause, which continued for several
minutes. The question wa9 them put, and
carried by almost an .unanimous vote. A
Temperance Society was formed on the spot,
and one hundred and tliirty-two individuals
signed the pledge. The cause rapidly gain
ed ground, and the next year licenses to sell
ardent spirit were refused, and the ‘ Demijohn,’
as a matter of course, became a Temperance
House. The occupant, however, being a man
of some humor, retained the old sign, merely
turning it bottom upwards, to signify that the
liquor had all run out. Suffice it to say that
health, industry, and prosperity afterwards
cheered the temperate inhabitants of Groggy
Harbor.
The concluding extract will show the na
ture of the change wrought in a few years
among the inhabitants of Groggy Harbor:—
A neighboring clergyman, on a visit to the
Reverend Pastor, after a residence of several
days, witnessing the universal indications of
industry, health and good manners, in the in
habitants, and the general appearance of neat-
ness and comfort about their dwellings, lifted
up his hands and exclaimed, “ Can this be
Groggy Harbor!” “No, my frbnd,” said
the Reverend Mr. Sterling, “ this is no long
er Groggy Harbor. Its nature has been
changed, and the name may well be forgot
ten. This change, which fills you with ns
tonishment, and which has given us peaceful
firesides for temples of discord, beauty for
ashes, and the oil of joy for mourning, has
been produced by the simple remedy of to
TAL ABSTINENCE FROM ARDENT SPIRIT, Which
has proved as effectual, in our warfare with
intemperance, that giant of human evils, as a
SMOOTH STONE FROM THE BROOK AND A SIIEP-
nERD’s SLINC.”
buried. When the old lady had been lifted, One day, I saw a gang of men and boys po-
left among us now. There is our next neigh-
mission into College, on Saturday, tho 2d. Sunday, • bor, Wiley, dying of consumption, all owing,
tho 3d. tho Commencement Sermon; on Monday, I as tj, e d oc t or says, to hard drinking, Ilis
the 4th, the Board of Trustees will meet. On Tues
day, the 5th, tho exhibition of the Junior Class in
Oratory will tako place ; and on Wednesday, the Gth,
the Annual Commencement.
For admission into the Freshman Class, a ennui-
date must havo a correct knowledge of at least
iunc of Cicero’s Orations, the whole of Virgil, John
and the Acts in the Greoli Testament, tho whole of
Grxca Minora, English Grammar and Geography,
and be well acquainted with Arithmetic.
The studies of tho Freshman year are Livy, 1st
vol.Graca Majora,French,and Day’s Algebra through
dtio and proportion.
Tho .‘“tudits of tho Sophomore yoar are Horace,
ej ’ j Q ra >-v *J“»ora, Algebra concluded, Gcom.
ctry, Rhetoric" Modem tankage*, Plane Trigonom
etry. Mensuration and Botany. ,
O' During tho Commencement V ee ‘ : * tlicre ’ Vl11
bo offered at Public Sale,
A W timber ofl* Town Lots,
Immediately adjoining the present improvements of
this village, containing pour Acres each, embracing
the ruost eligible situations for private residences—a
plan of which may bo seen at my office.
ASBURY HULL, Secretary.
June 21—14—tf.
FOR SALE,
4 valuable TAN-YARD, located in the town of
Social Circle, Walton Co. now in good op.
oration. Possession given at Christmas. Also, on
reasonable terms, a number of excellent BUILDING
LOTS. The place contains flourishing
Male and Female Academics,
Its location is healthy, and tho water good. Any
person wishing to purchase said Tanworks, or a sit.
uation combining the advantages of education, and
health, can bo accommodated by calling on the Sub.
scriber, novr living at tho place.
DANIEL INGLES.
July 5—I 6—It. >
MILLINERY.
T HE subscriber has just received on consignment,
and offers for sale, an assortment of Ladies*
Tuscan Straw and Silk Hats
E. L. NEWTON.
July 26.—19—2t.
father died just so. Watkins, tho miller,
watched with poor Wiley, last Friday night.
Ye know, my child, they always leave re-
freshments for the watchers, and Watkins
drank a whole bottle of geneva, and was
found in the morning, dead drunk upon the
floor; and poor Wiley groaned all night,
with nobody to help him. Parson Twist
preached a sermon against drunkenness,
last year; and he crew a picture of a drunk-
en man, in his discourse; the next day a great
many went to him, and each one told him, if
he made any more fun of him in the meeting,
house, he would never enter it again.” “Moth,
rr,” said the captain, “ this is too tough for
me ; I shall heave up my anchor, if it’s going
to blow a drunken hurricane, at this rate, all
the rest pf* my days. I’ll go up to father
Ephram’s and C.nlk with him about it, and see
if we can’t boxhaui Spmfi of these craft, that
are head on for destruction, since there s. no
mode of getting ’em about by the old fashion
ed way.”
He found the Quaker and his wife reading
their Bible together. « Sit thee down, Bil-
Iv,” said the old man, and continued to the
end of the chapter. When he had finished
and laid aside the book, the captain observ.
ed, that he. should like to hear a few more
particulars of those whom he had once known.
“ Pray,” continued he, “ what has become of
Sam Legget, who worked with me in your
shop, father Simpson ?” “ Poor lad,” said
the Quaker, “ he did very well till they made
him a corporal in the miiitia ; his whole soul
seemed then to be absorbed in militaiy glo-
he never made a good joint after that;
ry
he was out treating and trooping a great part
of his time, and became good for nothing. 1
have often caught him, after I had laid out
his morning’s work, shouldering firelock, and
going through his cxerciso with the handsaw.
and put upon the hoarse, Mosc-s who had ta.
ken more spirits than usual, for the Poodles
treated very freely, to keep up their respect
ability, instead of driving to the gravo yard
at a decent pace, forgot himself and the oc.
casion entirely, and setting off upon a trot,
drove the old lady, to the scandal of the
mourners, to the door of Deacon Atherton’s
grog shop. This conduct was more offensive
to the family, because it was the very shop,
where the old lady had all her Jamaica.”
Capt. Lane finally resolves to make an at
tempt to form a Temperance Society, and he
requests his friend Ephraim Simpson to give
due notice that a meeting will he held at an
appointed time to take the subject of intern-
perance into consideration. This aroused
the ire of the grog drinkers, but more espe
cially of the grog sellers, who got together
and passed the following resolution:
“ At a large and respectable meeting of the
Grocers of Groggy Harbor, held at the store
of Mr. Simeon Spicket, it teas unanimously re
solved that toe view with deep regret the procee
dings of the self-styledfriends of Temperance.”
However, on the day appointed, a great
many people collected. A clergyman from
a neighboring town opened the meeting with
prayer, the minister of Groggy Harbor hav.
ing excused himself on account of indisposi
tion, and a fear that the friends of Temper,
ance were going “ too fast and too far." The
description of this Temperance Meeting is
executed in the author’s best style. Many
arguments were used pro aud con, but the
best speakers were all opposed to innovations,
and it was doubtful how the affair would end,
when Captain Lane expressed a wish that the
Boatswain of his ship would favor the meeting
with bis opinions on the use of strong drink.
“ Ay, ay, sir,” said the old Boatswain;
and all eyes were turned upon him as he
rose, in his shaggy pea jacket ; and with his
clean shirt collar, and tidy black silk neck,
cloth, loose gray locks, and sedate expres.
sion of face, he might have passed for the
very patriarch of the flood. So far as exter
nal appearance and professional relation
were concerned, this was the very orator for
Groggy Harbor. It was clearly indicated,
in the countenance of friend Ephraim, that
he was fearful of the result. But the confi
dent expression, on the features of Captain
Lane, seemed to say, “ it’s old Morgan’s
watch, and I’ll sleep at my ease.”
•* Please your honor,” stud the old hoot*
king fun at a poor fellow, who was reeling
about in the middle of the circle, and swear
ing terribly. Nobody likes to see his profes
sion dishonored, so 1 thought I’d run down
and take him in tow. Your honor knows
what a sailoi’s heart is made of—what do
you think I felt when I found it was my own
son ! I couldn’t resist the sense of duty ;
and I spoke to him pretty sharply. But his
answer threw me all aback, like a white squall
in the Levant. He heard me through, and
doubling his fist in my face, he exclaimed
‘You made me a Drunkard!’ It cut the Inn.
iards of my heart like a chain shot from an
eighteen pounder; and I felt as if I should have
gone by the hoard.” As he uttered these
words, the tears ran down the channels of tho
old man’s checks like rain. Friend Simp,
son was deeply affected, and Parson Sterling
sat with his handkerchief before his-eyes.
Indeed, there was scarcely a dry eye in the
assembly. After wiping liis eyes on the
sleeve of his pea jacket, the old sailor pro
ceeded.
«I tried night and day, to think of the
best plan, to keep my other son from follow,
ing on to destruction, in the wake with his
elder brother. I gave him daily lessons of
temperance ; I held up before him the ex
ample of his poor brother ; I cautioned him
not to take spirits upon an empty stomach,
and kept my eye constantly upon him. Still
I daily took my allowance ; and the sight of
the dram bottle, the smell of the liquor, and
the example of his own father, wero abler
lawyers on the other side. I saw the break
ers ahead.; and I prayed God to preserve not
only my child, but myself; for I was some,
times alarmed for my own safety. About
this time I went to meeting one Sunday, the
minister read the account of the overthrow
of Goliah. As I returned home, I compared in-
temperance, in my own mind, to the giant of
Gath ; and l asked myself why there might
not be found some remedy for the evil as
simple os the means employed for his destruc
tion. For the first time, the thought of total
abstinence occurred to my mind ; this then
said I, is the smooth stone from the brook :
and the shepherd’s sling ! 1 told my
wife what I bad been thinking oil She said
she bad no doubt, that God had put the thought
into my mind. I called in Tom, my youngest
6on, and told him I had resolved never to
taste another drop, blow high or blow low. I
called for all there was in tho house, and
Snake Story.—The story of the late mar
vellous feat of the Anacondain theNew-York
Museum, in swallowing a seven quarter blan-
ket, is fully confirmed by the testimony of
Mr. Peale, who avers that his shakeship
does not appear to be in the least degree in
commoded by his extraordinary supper. A
still more extraordinary story is related by the
New-York Times. It is as follows:
A number of years ago, a gentleman who
had charge of a public niusuem in Baltimore,
exhibited, among his other living curiosities,
a couple of beautiful garter snakes. There
is something about a garter snake peculiarly
attractive, perhaps from the associations con
nected with its name. They are the most
voracious of all the small sized snake family,
and pounce upon their prey like starved
hawk9. They have a truly French appetite
for frogs, and it was upon these slimy um-
phibials that the garter snakes in question
chiefly made their suppers. The keeper of
the musuem was one evening giving them
their daily rations, when he observed that the
big snake was so voracious, as to devour all
the little snaked supper. He accordingly
separated the two animals by a thin partition,
and threw a frog to the younger and weaker
of the two. The little snake seized the ani-
mal and commenced swallowing it, and had
succeeded in bagging its head, fore paws, and
the greater part of its body, when the parti-
tion was taken away, and the big snake made
a dash at the hind legs of the frog which yet
protruded from the mouth of his younger
brother. He obtained a hearty grip of these
projecting members, and slowly swallowed
his way towards the head of his supper com
panion, who clung sturdily to his savory
mouthful. The heads of tho two animals met,
and the issue of the struggle for a moment
seemed doubtful, when the big snake’s mouth
expanded,' and slowly closed on the head of
the small one, and again he went rejoicing
on his swallowing course. SloWly but sure
ly he went ahead, the longitudinal dimensions
of the young serpent constantly becoming less
until they were sucked into his maw, until he
had swallowed him from nose to tail. After
displaying this unnatural preference for his
own flesh and blood, the garter snake coiled
himself up for his nap, and took a comfortable
snooze. The next morning the keeper wil
led to view “ the two single gontlomen rolled
into one,” when, to his astonishment, he found
that the younger snake had left his close quar
ters, and was gambolling about by the side of
his big play mate. The only reasonable way
of accounting for the manner in which he had
managed to leave his prison house, is that he
coiled himself regularly round, and left his
lodgings by the same door through which he
entered them. He could not have backed
out, fur his scales would not have permitted
him, nor was an egress in any other manner
at all possible. The fate of the poor frog
was a matter of grave speculation; bat the
probability is that the little snake held f° st to
him and secured not only a snug night’s lodg
ing bat a hearty supper.
The above account is stri«dy authentic.
We received it from a gentleman who was
an eye witness to the transaction. Immedi
ately after its occurrence, be prepared a state
ment for one of the journals of the day, but
he was dissuaded from publishing it oa the
ground that it was too marvellous to be believ
ed. As the late feat of the Anaconda has
opened the eyes of the public to what snakes
can do, wc publish it as a well substantiated
snake story.
Taking Things Coolly.—“ Your’e an
infernal scoundrel!” said a fierce looking gen-
tleman, the other day, coming up in great
wrath to a Yankee,who was standing quietly on
the sidewalk, “you’re an infernal scoundrel,
sir!” “ That’s news to me,” returned tho Yan-
kec, quietly. “News! you scoundrel—-do you
call it news ?” « Entirely so.” » You
necd’nt think to carry it off so quietly. I say
you are an infernal scoundrel! and l’U prove
it.” “ I beg you will not. I should’nt like
to be proved a scoundrel.” “No, I dare
swear you would’nt. But answer me direct
ly—did you, or did you not say, in the pres
ence of certain ladies of my acquaintance,
that I was a mere—” “ Calf? O no sir: tho
truth is not to be spoken at all times.”—
“ The truth / Do you presume to call me a
calf, sir ?” “ O no, sir, I call you—nothing.”
“ It’s well you do; for if you had presumed
to call me—-” “ A man—I should have been
grossly mistaken.” “ Do you mean to say
I am not s man, sir ?” “That depends on
circumstances.” “What circumstances?”
“ If I should be called as evidence, in a court
of justice, I should be bound to speak the
truth.” “And you would say I was not a
man, hey? Do you see this cow-skin?”—
“ Yes—and I’ve seen it with surprise, ever
since you came up.” « With surprise ! W T by,
did you suppose I was such a coward that I
dare not use the article, when I thought it
was demanded ?” “ Shall I tell you what I
thought?” “Do if you dure.” “ I thought
to myself, what use has a calf (or a cow-skin?”
“ You distinctly call me a calf, then?” “ If
you will insist upon it, you may.” «You
hear, gentlemen,” speaking to the bystanders,
“ you hear the insult. What shall I do with
the scoundrel ?”
“ Dress him!. dress him !” exclaimed
twenty voices, with shouts and laughter.—
“ That I’ll do pt once.” Then turning again
to the Yankee, he cried out fiercely, “ Come
one step this way, you rascal, and I will
flog you within an inch of your life.” “.I
have no occasion.” « You’re a coward.”—
“ Not on your word,” «I’ll prove it, by flog,
ging you out of your skin.” .“ I doubt it.”
“I am a liar then, am I.” “Just as you
please.” “Do you hear that, gentlemen?”
“ Ay,” was the unanimous response ; « you
can’t avoid dressing iiim now.” “O heavens
grant me patience! I shall fly out of my
skin.” “ So much the better for your pocket.
Calf skins are in good demand.” “ I shall
burst.” “Not here in the street, 1 beg of"
you ; it would be quite disgusting.” “ Gen
tlemen, can I any longer avoid flogging him?”
“ Not if you’re able,” was the reply. “At.
him! at him! at him!” Thus provoked—
thus stirred up and encouraged—the fierce
gentleman went like lightning at the Yankee.
But before he could strike a blow, he found*-
himself disarmed of his cow.skin and lying
on his back under the spout of a neighboring
pump, whither the Yankee had carried him.
to cool his rage; and before he could recov
er from his astonishment, at such unexpected
handling, he was wet as a thrice drowned rat,
from the cataracts of Water which his gray©
antagonist had liberally pumped upon him.—
his courage, by this time, had, like that of
the valiant Bob Acres, «oozed out at tho
palms of his hands and he declared, as he
arose and went dripping away from the pump,
that he would never trust to quiet appearances
again ; and the devil might undertake to cow
hide a cool Yankee, for all him.—New York
Transcript.
Anecdote.—There lived, somewhere in
the land of steady habits, a Parson Strong
and a Doctor Bacon. The paison was fond
of a joke, and so was the doctor. Passing
one day beside a load of dead hogs, said Doc.
tor Bacon to Parson Strong, as he tapped the
head of one of the porkers with his cane—
* Why is it, Mr. Strong, that this part of the
hog is called minister’s face ?’ * For the
same reason, I suppose,’ retorted the parson,
«that the other end is called bacon.’—Ni E
transcript.
The following amusing dialogue occurred
between two sailors who happened to be on
the military parade when the soldiers were at
drill, going through the evolution of marking
time—a military manoeuvre by which the feet,-
as well as the whole body pf the person, are
kept in motion, presenting a similar appear
ance to that which they exhibit when they are
actually marching. One observed the other
watching the corps very attentively, with his
eyes fixed, and his arms a-kimbo: “ What
aro you looking at?” he inquired. “Why
Jack.” replied his companion, “In* think
ing there must be a strong tide running this
mornin".” “Why?” answered the other:
“ Whyrbecause these poor beggars have been
pulling away this half hour, and haven! got
an inch ahead yet.
Receipt for making Castor eti very
palatable to Children.—Take the quan-
tity of od you propose for the dose, and boil
it for a few minutes in an equal quantity of
milk; then sweeten it with a little sugar.
When the mixture has cooled, stir it well and
give it to the child. There will bo no neces.
sity of giving the child any thing to drink after
taking th© mixture, for the taste of it is more
pleasant than any drink you can jgw«*