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NI2IV 8 & PUANTJSKS’ GAZETTE. . COTTING, MS flit or. No. 47.—NEW SERIES.] NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE.: ■; ‘ I | —I . terms: Published weekly at ‘l’hrec Dollar* pet annum if paid at the time of subscribing; or Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid till the expi ration of six months. • No paper to be discontinued,unless at the option of the Editor, without the settlement of all arrearages. ID” Letters, on business, must be postpaid, to insure attention. ‘No communication shall be published, unless we are made acquainted with the name of the author. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements, not exceeding one square, first insertion, Seventy-Jive Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will be made of twenty-five per cent, to there who advertise by the year. Advertisements not limited when handed in, will be inserted till for bid, and charged accordingly. Sales of Land and Negroes by Exec ulors, Ad ministrators and Guardians, are required by law, to be advertised, in a public Gazette”, sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sales of Personal Property must be adver tised in like manner, forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published/orft/ days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be published for four months— notice that application will be made for Letters of Administration, must be published thirty days; and Letters of Dismission, six months. Mail Arrangements. rOST OFFICE, > Washington, Ga., January , 1843. $ MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at f>, A. M. CLOSES. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 12, M. MILLEDGEVILLE MAIL. ARRIVES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. CLOSES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M. CAROLINA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday; and Friday, at 11, A. M. CLOSES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 6, A. M. LEXINGTON MAIL. ARRIVES. Tuesday and Saturday, at 2, P. M. CLOSES. Monday and Friday, at 9, A. M. ELBERTON MAIL. f ARRIVES. CLOSES: - Thursday, at 8, P. M. j Thursday, at o, P. M. LINCOLNTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Friday, at 12, M. { Friday, at 12, M ——————— eggflßeyeta^3—wy. COTTING & BUTLER, ATTORN IKS, HAVE takeiman OFFICE in the rear of Willis & Hester’s Store. January, 1843. 28 CANDLES : CANDLES I ; boxes best. Sperm Candles, at 33 cts. per lb. 10 “ Hull &. Sons best Patent Candles, a: 17 cents per pound, just received and ior sale by HEARD & BROTHER. June 1,1843. 40 Sugar and Coffee. 0 Ilhds. best New-Orleans Sugar at 8 cts. per pound, 2 Hhds. 2d quality do. at 7 cents per lb. 2,000 lbs. Rio and Java Coffee, at 12.) cents. 1,000 “ Refined Loaf Sugar, at 12) “ 1,000 “ best Steam-refined Sugar at 14)- cents, I Just received and for sale by •HEARD & BROTHER. June 1,1843. 40 Just Received 9 OF the Athens Manufacturing Company, a few thousand yards very heavy White and Blue COTTONS, a very superior article for Servants wear—low for Cash, by HEARD & BROTHER. July 13, 1843. 4G ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE. WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Sep- \ tember next, before the Court-House j door in Appling county, agreeably to an order of the Inferior Court of Elbert county, when sitting as a Court of Ordinary, one Tract of Land, con taining four hundred and ninety Acres, in the fourth District, number four hundred and eighty three (483,) of Appling county. Sold as a part of the Lands belonging to the Estate of George Wyche, deceased. Terms will be made known on the day of sale, this 29th day of June, 1643. AGATHA WYCHE, Adm’x.with the will annexed, on the Real Estate of George Wyche, deceased. July 6. m2m 45 FOUR months after date, application will be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of Elbert county, while sitting as a Court of Or dinary, for leave to sell all the Lands belonging to the Estate of John S. Higginbotham, deceas ed, late of Elbert county, this 26th April, 1843. JOHN G. HIGGINBOTHAM, ) . , . JOSEPH SEWELL, ) Aamrs May 4,1843. m4m 36 “Ej'OUR months after date, application will be -*• made to the Honorable Inferior Court of • Wilkes county, while sitting as a Court of Ordi nary, for leave to sell all the Real Estate of John ’ S. Walton’s minors, lying in said county. I. T. IRVIN, Guardian. June 15,1843. m4m 42 FOUR months after date, application will be made to the Honorable Inferior Court of Wilkes county, while sitting for Ordinary pur poses, for leave to sell part of the Negroes be longing to the Estate of Abner Wellborn; late of ‘ said county, deceased. NICHOLAS WYLIE, Executor, j June 22,1843. w4m 43 BOOTS AND SHOES. ICO pr. Kip peg’d. Brogans, at <sl to 1 124 cts. 100 “ Calf, Lasting, and Morocco Gaiter Shoes, from $2 to 2 50 cts. per pair, a fine ar ticle, and made to order. 15 dozen Ladies’ Kid Slippers and fancy Chine Buskins at $1 to 1 25. Ladies’ Calf and Kid walking Shoes, Children’s Brogans and Slippers, of nearly variety. Just received and for sale by HEARD & BROTHER. June 1, 1843. 40 Georgia Mankecns. 100 pieces Georgia Nankeens; at $1 12) cents a piece. Just received and for sale by HEARD & BROTHER. June 1,1843. 40 MclaSSCla, St,o, 15 barrels New-Orleans Molasses, Cider and White-wine Vinegar, Ginger, Pepper, and Allspice, Wceding lloes, Scythe Blades, Collins’ Axes, Trace Chains, In Store and for sale low for Cash, by HEARD & BROTHER. June 1,1843. 40 Bles&elaeit Sheetiaag-’i, A superior article, of 42-4 Sea-Isiand, “ “ “ “ 12-4 Linen Sheetings at 87; cents per yard. For sale by HEARD & BROTHER. June 1, 1843. 40 Mails! Mails! 25 kegs Nails just received, and for sale at 7 cents per pound by the keg. HEAP ./ & BROTHER. June 1,1843. 40 Sheetings and .shirtings. 12 bales Brown Sheetings and Shirtings, just received and for sale at sto lOcts. per yard, by HEARD & BROTHER. June 1, 1843. 40 14m 20 cases latest style Hats, consisting of black fasioliable Fur, Siik and Cassimere, , Black and white Broad-brim Hats, just received and will be sold at 25 per cent, below the ordinary pricer, by HEARD & BROTHER. June 1,1843. 40 ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. i/ST’i.LL he on the firs. Tuesday in Scp * * ‘ember next, before the Court-House dour in Washington, Wilkes county, between the le gal hoars of sale, the follow ing property, to-wit: One Negro Girl named Elly, about sixteen years old, sold s the property of Edward deceased, for the purpose o. paying the debt- • said deceased, by order ol the Houurabie inferior Court of Wilkes county, while sitting for Ordinary purposes. Terms made known on the day of sale. FELIX G. HENDERSON, AdmV. de bonis non. June 29, 1834. 44 ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE. ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Ecp * * tember next, before the Court-House door in Cuthbert, Randolph county, a Lot of Land known by number (131) one hundred and thir ty-one, in the (8) eighth District of said count v, as the property of James Sutley, Jate of ; : county, deceased. Sold for tiie purpose of a c.- vision, and by an order of the Honorable the lt furior Court of Randolph county JOHN M. CHRISTIAN, Adm’r. Randolph co. June 22, 1843. 9t 43 GEORGIA, \ To Thomas O’Kelly and his Elbert county. $ wife Elizabeth O’Kelly, Thom as.l. Sandidge, Richard S. Sandidge, Albert G. Sandidge, John Q,. A. Sandidge, Louisa A. Pace, Elizabeth Jane Pace, and Martha Pace, heirs at law and distributees of the Estate of Claborn Sandidge, deceased, late of Elbert county, you are hereby notified that we intend to apply to the Honorable the Interior Court of Elbert county, while sitting as a Court ui Ordinary, on the first Monday in November next, for an order and to divide the Negroes belonging to the Estate of Claborn Sandidge, deceased. JAMES M. SANDIDGE, ),, , ANDREW J SANDIDGE, < Adm rs June 22,1843. ni4m 43 ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE. ’ViI'ILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Sep * * tember next, before the Court-House door in Elbert county, agreeable to an order of the In ferior Court of Elbert county, when sitting as a Court of Ordinary, the one-fourth part of an un divided Tract of Land, containing four hundred and seventy-eight Acres, in Elbert county, ad joining lands of William Penn, and others, and one Negro woman by the name of Fanny. Sold as the property of the Estate of George Wyche,. deceased. Terms will be made known on the day of sale, this 29th of June, 1843. AGATHA WYCHE, Adm’x. on the Perishable Property, and Adm’x. with the will annexed on the Real Estate of George Wyche, deceased. July 6. m2m 45 ‘C'OUR months after date, application will be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of Wilkes county, while sitting as a Court of Or dinary, for leave to sell a part of the Land and Negroes belonging to the Estate of William Hughes, deceased, late of said county. BARNARD H. HUGHES, Ex’r. June 22,1843.’ m4m 43 FOUR months after date, application will be mdde to the Honorable the Inferior Court of Wilkes county, while sitting as a Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell the Real Estate be longing to Mary Hughes, deceased, late of said county. BARNARD H. HUGHES, Adm’r. June 22, 1843. m4m 43 EXECUTED AT THIS @ IF F 0 © E*.” PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) JULY 20, 1843. DttCsrcU.-mcouo. From the Citizens Soldier. THE GARRISON GHOST OR THE RIVAL SUBS. A SKETCH, BY THE COMPANY’S CLERK. During the year eighteen hundred and something, there was posted at old Fort N , a company of troops belonging to a regiment now experiencing the delights of dying according to law, and being buried according to regulations, in the pleasant summer residences and sylvan retreats of South Florida. It was officered by an old bachelor captain, whose chief delight lay in the gun and angle, and two subs, both la(e graduates of “The Point,” an i who, of course, could not appreciate the propriety of being condemned, by the War Bureau, to vegetate at a post better adapted to the extensive rearing of cabbages than soldiers, j The only society enjoyed by them was found within themselves, and from a feeling of ennui, dashed slightly perhaps by an e- j motion •of spite against their superiors, they devoted a major part oftheir time to prac- ! tising, with the field sixes, upon empty bar rels moored in the lake, not one of which, it may be well to state, was ever in the slightest degree injured by their shot. But ill due time a rather formal, though polite note reached the post from the bureau of or dinance, intimating that even contract pow der was not to be procured short of some slight disbursements, and that therefore the gentlemen had liberty to suspend further operations upon the unoffending flour casks; so that the sons of Mars were left entirely without diversion. You may well, there fore, immagine their joy to learn that an assistant surgeon, with a wife and an angel ic daughter, had been ordered to the post, and that he was to arrive early in the month of June ! A few evenings previous to the antici pated advent the young officers were seated beneath the porch of their quarters, and as every thing discussible beside had long since been exhausted and worn to shreds, the conversation naturally turned upon the i important event about to transpire. ‘Well! De Lancv,’said the eldest, a tall, fine-looking fellow, with the bronzed fea tures of a southern clime, “as the lovely lady must of course have one of us, and can have but one, let us in the most ami cable manner, push the siege to the utmost; and as all is fair in love and war, and any thing to relieve the tedium of our mushroom existence is a godsend, let us at once be come rivals—what say you ?” “Fin agi it said the other, coolly tap ping.bis boot with His rattan, “for as I saw •r a: Washington, and flirted with her an entire evening, I think I am a little in ad vunoe of yourself, Harvey.” ‘Then let my” superior tact be offset u gainst your prior attachment; and as we •are both young, and, I flatter myself, good looking, we stand upon aboutequal ground.’ ‘Where be their quarters—did you learn■?’ asked De Lancy. ‘Yes—in the old mess house ; and now, by the by. I hope the family may not be su perstitious,’ responded Harvey, with a sly iook at his fellow sub. ‘Superstitious ! why what can there he iti this old barrack to excite their fears V ‘Why—bless you ! the ghost !’ ‘You speak as though he were a particu lar and familiar friend of yourown—pray, where does, his ghostship harbour V ‘Throughout the month of June lie ap pears nightly in the old mess-house ; and it is related pf the last detachment .posted here, that their commander sought and ob tained orders to remove solely on that ac count.’ ‘Thank heaven ! I am not superstitious,’ said De Lancy, a slight pallor, however, overspreading his face, and giving the lie to his words, ‘but, egad, should he- appear to me, his wanderings may be stayed—l shall assuredly fire upon him.’ ‘As well fire upon the sprays of Niaga ra ; for, as you must know, ghosts are sel dom tangible—at least none that I have e ver seen wore so,’ said Harvey, as he strol led across the parade. Foor De Lancy ! his superstitious fears were wide awake ; and though as brave a soldier as ever fought a Seminole, vet the prospect of a tete-a-tete with a ghost w as no joke, and he thought with a serious c ounte nance upon tlie honors of such an encoun ter. Dinner was despatched, and the subs were smoking their cigars under the porch, on the day when the long-awaited coming was about to be verified. Both were clad in the undress of their profession, their tight frocks buttoned to the chin, and presenting rather an uncomfortable contrast with the mercury at ninety in the shade, to their ease-loving captain, who, with coat thrown off, and attired in dressing-gown and slip pers, was smoking his meerschaum, and lounging out of a window nearby. A wag on now came in sight which had been for some lime rumbling down the road, and piled upon it was luggage of that peculiar description and look possedonlv by milita ry traps. Another and another like vehicle followed, until the captain bounce and from his seat, exclaiming ‘Some mistake must have been made—instead of an assistant with a wife and daughter, we are going to ! have the entire hospital department on our hands—but as I live, there is my old friend Gayland !’ and the antiquated campaigner leaped through the window to greet his ac quaintance, who at that moment rode up on a fine horse to attend to the stowage of his I “belongings,” and the arrangement of his | quarters. The young gentlemen threw a ! way their cigars, and. were introduced, while all the available force of the garrison was put in requisition to discharge the bag gage trains. Soon all was arranged, that is to say, the meuhles were all thrown top sy-turvy into the building, in such an ad mirable state of confusion, as would have carried joy to the heart of the deity of Cha os, and the coming of the ladies was pa tiently awaited over a julep of Captain Sea ton’s own concoction. At last they too ar rived, driven into the parade by a negro servant, who officiated over sucii an estab lishment as never was owned by any one save an army surgeon. Contriving to raise a consumptive trot, the two animals who drew the article facetiously termed a car riage, brought it up in front of the mess house with a grand flourish ; and as the door was thrown open, all the gentlemen rushed forward to assist the ladies to alight. The doctor lifted out his lady, and each sub ex tended his arm that lie might do the same for the daughter, but the captain, whom old acquaintance and advanced age entitled to the privilege, trot only handed her out, hut actually kissed her fair check ! The lieu tenants looked foolishly at each other— daggers at the captain—and loving at the lady, although 1 shall not stay to describe it, was overpowering. They followed the cortege into the house, did their best at the agreeable, and when they retired, found that not only were they pleased, but that Dan Cupid had actually shot each of them directly through the heart! Several days passed on, and Captain Sea ton found that morning drills were dispen sed with for rambles on the river hanks, or excursions to the woods ; while evening pa rades gave place to picnics, or rides over the pleasant scenery in the vicinity. All this was winked at, but one morning Cap tain Seaton discovered that Mr. Harvey, in lieu of mounting the guard at (lie proper time, was actually engaged in pointing out the beauties of the lake to a young female companion, from the roof of the house, to tally forgetful of all duty save that of a cavalier amant. ‘Mr. De Lancy,’ said the old captain, ‘have the goodness, to apprise Mr. Harvey that it is now half-past nine, and the guard not yet mounted.’ Mr. De Lancy did so— and assumed the duty of cicerone, vice Har vy ordered to duty. As this latter descen ded, lie met his captain in the passage, who looked sharply at him, and accosted him with—‘These continued derilietions will not do sir—you need not trouble yourself to leave the garrison for a week to come, but confine your promenades to the limits of the parade. Confound the youngsters,’ iie exclaimed, as his mortified sub left him; ‘one would suppose them both run mad with their newlv arrived beauty.’ That evening Harvey was doubly pro voked by seeing the lady ride from the gate accompanied only by De Lancy, who, us he thought, cast a glance, half of triumph, halfofderisio.il, at him, as he rode by.— ‘Never mind, I’ll soon be even with you,’ he muttered, as he found himself standing upon the wall, the limit of his domain, and gazing upon the reoedirtg forms of Julia and his rival. The ensuing morning, how ever, the captain’s ire having subsided, he released his lieutenant from arrest, and, as if to conciliate him, insisted upon the company of De Lancy on a fishing excur sion. De Lancy, whose knowledge of the piscatory art was rather exceeded by his acquaintanci with the social amusements, of the Grand Kliam, bottled down and corked up his excessive wrath, in conside ration of his captain, and taking his rod upon his shoulder,sallied forth ; it was now Harvey’s turn to laugh, and he did so with right good will. And what a grim pleas ure he had, as, in company with Miss Julia, he passed their location, and saw his rival seated upon a hot rock, with the most exem plary patient cast of countenance, and en deavoring to convince himself that he was fishing! ‘All ! gentleman, what luck?’ Harvey enquired, as they approached the Walton iuns. ‘Glorious !’ exclaimed the captain ; and he held up a fine string, while he tipped ihe wink to Harvey to ask his brother sub the same question. ‘And you—Da Lancy ?’ enquired Har vey, in obedience to the signal. •Not a bite! growled tiie other, looking bayonets and regulation swords at Harvey, while the captain thrust his tongue into his cheek, and Miss Julia smiled. Now wheth er it was that smile which seemed to he all on his side, and in a manner accessory to his own, or whether it was the peculiar weather, or any other of the hundred cau sesconducive to the full growth arid de velopenu nt of Cupid’s plants, certain it is that Harvey, on liis return from the stroll, was in a most delectable and quiet over powering state of love, and fearful lest from its effects he might collapse a flue, or in the plain parlance of the day, ‘burst his biler,’ he determined on making a bold stroke. What he did nous verrons. The month of June was far advanced, and the weather becoming excessively hot, so that all midday exercises were interdic ted, and pronounced a bore. Meanwhile De Lancy was 4ting on finely, owing to a temporary indisposition of his rival, and every thing appeared, in his eyes, favora ble. Late one sultry evening he strolled into Harvey’s quarters, arid found him groaning w ith the toothache. ‘All ! Ned,’ exclaimed De Lancy, ‘you must relinquish the field—take up anew position, as the English say when they re treat ; Julia is mine, sir, beyond the posi bilit y of a doubt.!’ ‘Damn Julia !’ rashly imprecated the suf fercr ‘What do I care whose she is V ‘ Tis well you do not, for she is mine, j and lam glad to see you thus calm ; as 1 did not know that I should not have to shoot ; you ;’ and ho skipped out oftlie room. ‘Not so certain—have my doubts,’ soli liquised the patient, as he threw .off th muffles about his countenance, and stood j forth as handsome as ever. When De Lancy had reached his room, lie examined, critically, in his dressing- j glass, a small plantation of whiskers, to j which he had devoted a great part of his m- i ergies for some weeks, hut which seemed as yet to he iu that crude state denominu ! tod among the tillers of the sole, a. ‘slash j ing.’ Having fully satisfied himself on i this point, lie next proceeded to sc derober, j which having accomplished, lie rolled int > | hod. The night, as we have said, wassul i the room close, and for the purpose of ventilating the young gentleman had raised up the sash. After turning over for about the twenty-fifth time, his sleepless eyes ‘■ were attracted by a bright blue light, which j shone in at liis window, and illuminated the whole apartment whith a ghastly glare. Then the aperture was suddenly darkened, a rustle was heard, and the long-dreaded object of his apprehensions appeared before j him 1 “ Good Heavens ! the ghost !” h# ex- j claimed, and drawing his pistols from be neath his head, he discharged both at once in the direction of the individual in white, who stirred not save to “grin horribly a ghastly smile.” and to toss upon the bed both halls! ‘ Listen !’ said the minister-plenipoten tiary from the spirit land ; ‘ twenty years since your father, then a subaltern like yourself, shot me in a duel at this very post; since which I appear, on each anniversary month of that event, to whomsoever dwells within these walls. As his son, you shall he subjected to my presence until you leave the post. Promise ine that you will do so, and l disturb you no more.’ 1 1 e-ye-yes, most assuredly. I’ll leave tomorrow; of course, anything to oblige you, who have a prior right ; oil! of course, but where do you stay—live—reside V ‘ Mortal, at present my abode is in the cistern, .at the end of the mess-house, I where ’ ‘ Bless you ! isn’t it wet V gasped out ! •tiie poor haunted sub. ‘ Ignorant man !’ thiqk you that I, who have lain in the grave Tor years, can feel the damps of a poor human cistern V and the water-proof charge d'affaires sneered in quite a sardonic manner. 1 But it must certainly he cold—do take a blanket !’ said the feeling officer, benevo lently tendering some bed-clothing. ‘ No !’ shouted the ghost, in a most aw fully sepulchral tone of voice, which made DeLancy’s hair to bristle up with such vi- ‘ gor as nearly to dethrone his night-cap, j ‘No !’ and infuriated by the request, the spirit seized a pillow, and leveled the | young man to the ground. When he arose | the apparition had disappeared. ‘Killed by my father in a duel, and at - this post—never heard of it if n was so; j but no matter, I’m off—and “his ghostship is | welcome to the cistern’s quiet precincts for I all of me.’ • The next morning saw I)o Lancy on his way to head quarters, situate about forty i miles distant; and a few days later his post was filled by a subaltern with three chil dren. The ensuing fall the quondam rivals met at Old Point Comfprt, Harvey the husband of a pretty blooming wife, whom he add tvs ed as 1 Julia,’ and De Lancy still a bach elor. ‘ Well, Dick,’ said Harvey, as he accos ted the other, ‘she’s mine, you see !’ • Yes, Ned ; but it’s all along of that in fernal ghost, no earthly means could have done it.’ ‘Does he still continue to inhabit the mess-house cistern V enquired Harvey, fa cetiously thrusting iiis thumb into the oth er’s side. De Lancy bolted. A few days subsequently, he enquired of liarvcy how it was that the pistols were harmlessly fired. 1 Why your servant had previously re moved the balls, at my request.’ ‘ Damn the fellow—then had you not the tooth-ache V ‘All a ruse!’ ‘ Well, Mr. Harvey, you may consider thisa capital joke, hut 1 must confess I can not see the point of it !’ A Wife of the Proper Spirit. —The New York Aurora is giving some reminiscences of the band who went from New-York to aid Texas. A journeyman mechanic form ed one of the number, who went from New York so suddenly, that he left his wife on ly two-and ixpence lo support herself till he came hack ; in fact, she did not know what had become of him, and, like an in dustrious woman, went to work to support hersoU'and child comfortably, and laid up money A'tout a year after his mysterious disapw itice, she received a letter fioui her “ ■ iord,” dated somewhere in Tex as, see : g that he was almost starved lo death, and requesting her to send him SIOO, so that he might come home. His wife very deliberately wrote in large letters un der his communication, “ stay and be star ved !” and re-directed the letter to his ad dress in Texas. The husband has not 1 reached home up to this day .Ti. J. k Pr liter. SNAKE CHARMING. From “ Extracts from my Indian Diary,'’ n the New Monthly May zinc. When I was on General D’s stafi’ai Tricliiriopoly, there was a dry Well in the pai den, which • the favorite haunt of snakes, and m which I shot several. One morning 1 iscovered a large cobra capelin at the bottom of this well, basking in tlu sun ; hut while I ran to fetch my gun, some of tin native servants began to pelt him with stones, and drove him into his hole a niong the brickwork, i therefore sent for the snake-charmers to get him out. Two of these worthies having arrived, we lower ed them into the well by means of a rope , one of them (after performing .sundry meat: tations, and sprinkling himself and his corn panion with ashes prepared from the dung of a sacred cow,) began to play a shrill monotonous ditty upon a pipe, ornamented with shells, brass rings, and beads : while the other stood on one side of the snake’s hole, holding a rod, furnished at one end with a horse-hair noose , At first, the snake, who had been con siderably bullied before he took refute in ins hole, was deaf to the notes of the charm er; but, after an hour’s con nut playing, the spell began to operate, and ti snake was heard to move. In a few minut more he tli rust out his head ; the horse-hair loose was dexterously slipped over it and drawn tight, and we hoisted up the men, dangling their snake in triumph. Having carried nun to an open space of ground, they re leased him from the noose. The enraged snake immediately made a rush at the by. standees, putting to flight a crowd of native servants, who had assembled to witness the sport. The snake-charmer, tapping him en the tail with a switch, induced him to turn upon himself; and at the same moment sounding his pipe, the snake coiled himself up, raised liis head, and appeared about to strike ; but, instead of doing so, 1: remain ed in the same position, as if fu.-cinated by the music, darting out his slender forked tongue, and following with liis head the motion of tiie man’s knee, which he kept, moving from side to side, within a few inch es of him, as if tempting him to bitp. No sooner did the music cease, than the snake darted for ward with such fury that it re quired great agility on the part of the man to avoid him, and he immediately made off’ as fast as he could go. The sound of the pipe, however, invariably made him stop and obliged him to remain it! an upright po sition as long as the man continued to pi at After repealing this experiment several times, we placed a fowl within his reach, which iie instantly darted at and hit. The fowl screamed at the moment he was struck, but ran off’ and began picking among his companions as if nothing had happened. I pulled out my watch to know how long the venom took to operate. In about half a minute, the comb and wattles of the fowl began lo change from a red to a livid hue, and were soon nearly black, but no other symptom was apparent; in two minutes it began to stagger, was seized with strong convulsions, fell to the ground, and contin ued to struggle violently till it expired, ex actly three minutes and a half after it had been bitten. On plucking the fowl, we found tiiat he had merely been touched on th extreme point of the pinion ; the wound not larger than the puncture.of a needle, was surrounded by a livid spot, but the re mainder of the body, with the exception of the comb and wattles, which were of a dark livid hue, was of the natural color, and I afterwards learned that the coachman (a half caste) had eaten it. Tin charmer now offered to show us his method of catching snakes, and seizing the reptile (about 5 feet long) by the point of the tail with liis left hand, lie slipped his right hand along the body with the swift ness of lightning, and grasping him by the throat with his finger and thumb, held him fast, and forced him so open his jaws, and display his poisonous fangs. Having now gratified my curiosity, I proposed that the snake should he destroyed, or at least that his fangs might be extracted—an operation easily performed with a pair of forceps ; but the snake being a remarkably fine one, the charmer was unwilling to. extract his teeth, as the operation sometimes proves fa tal ; and begged so bard to be allowed to keep him as lie was, that 1 at last suffered him to put him in a basket and carry him off. After this, he frequently brought the snake to the house to exhibit him, and stilt with his fangs entire, as 1 ascertained by personal inspection, but so tame that he handled him freely, and. apparently with out fear of danger. On my return toTri chinopoly, after an absence of some weeks, 1 inquired for my friend the snake-charmer, and learned that he was dead, having been bitten by this identical snake. Matrimony. —in a circulating library of five thousand volumes, four thousand and some odd hue ireds describe how some man and ivor. after various mishaps, got I married. of plays. There cun . ce !y bes, aso striking an illustr aof the ruling ; ission in both sexes. ■ .s a shock ing thing; .o surmise, but eiuiu the fact be ascerta n i we would wager our existence, that nil irried persons out often never puss r. _k, alter ilie honeymoon, without think who they would have, should the loss • , heir present partners ohlig them t lot. -it for new ones. ,ie largest diamond k ■:t isin the pos si on of the Emperor of Brazil : it is vai *. aat £5,500,000. Tne Emperor of Rus sia has the next in worth. [VOLUME \AVIII.
