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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY
VOLUME xm.
ATHENS, GEORGIA—THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14,1845.
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Poeltn.
fiom titt Home Munonarg Magazine.
« There sras Silence in Heaven.”
Can angel spirit need repose,
In the full sunlight of the sky !
And C4UI the veil of slumber close
A cherub* bright and blazing eye ?
Have seraphims a weary brow,
A fainting heart, end aching breast ?
No. fur too high their pulse flow.
To languish with inglorious rest
How could they sleep amid the bliss,
The banquit of delight above ?
O* bes r for one short hour to jnifs
"•’he vision of the Lord they love ?
Oh ? not the deathlike calm of sleep
Could hush the everlasting song :
No fairy dream or slumber deep,
Entranced the rapt and holy throng.
Vet not the lightest tone was heard
From angel voice or angel hand,
And not one plumed pinion stirred
Among the bowed and blissful band.
For there was silence in the sky,
A joy no angel tongues could tell,
As from its mystic point on high
'lhe peace of Goa in stillness fell.
Oh ! what is silence here below 7
The quiet of concealed despair,
The pause of pain, the dream of wo,—
It is the rest of rapture there.
An’ to the way-worn pilgrim here,
jXore kindred seems that perfect peace
Tlnn the full chants of joy to hear
Roll on, and never, never cease.
From earthly agonies set free,
Tired with the path too slowly trod,
May such a silence welcome me
Into the palace of my God!
MISCELLANEOUS.
April.
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Common consent is a very queer sponsor.—
Common consent makes wits of stupidities; fools
of wise men, gallants o! Josephs, and rascals of
honest individuals. Common consent stamped
“ Yankees”—in their first days—as shrewd, in-
comparable tricksters, and common consent was
pretty near right just at that time. Whether the
Yankees sre a match for opposition now, wo
leave to older and wiser heads to determine.—
Wc gained our independence by sheer force of
arms. Now and then fortune would favor our
i side with a little extraordinary good event of cir
cumstance, but not very frequently. It was fight
twenty times where it was manoeuvre success
fully onro. 'The English, always on the look out
for “ squallf” and 44 Yankee tricks” not unfre-
quently deceived themselves in the most ludic
rous manner.
In the n^th of May, 1814, Sir James Yoe,
with a fleH of vessels to the numbeT of thirteen,
of various sizes, appeared off the mouth of the
Genesee, threatning to annihilate Rochester, and
destroy every improvement and person in the
Great alarm was created by this.—
Messengers>'t»r? ^"-matched at once throughout
the country for aid. The peoj.Iw :-«w. aroused
Hkc.tbe fiery cross of Rlioderick Dhu the buu»-
raons aped,.and what think ye, was the result?
In Rochester there were then just thirty-thre<
people capable of bearing arms,' atid about half a
dozen came in to help them. Truly a formidable
army .to repel an English fleet, and oppose a clev
er offshotofthc British forces. . The first thing
that the little band, of Americans did was to throw
up a breast, work—rude and slight-near the
deep hollow, beside the Lower Falls. This
j breast-work was called Fort Bender. They
then hurried down the junction of the Genesee
[ and lake Ontario, because there the enemy de
clared they would land. They left behind them
I two old men, with several small boys, to remove
I the women and children into the woods in caso
; the British should land for the provisions, and the
destruction ofthe bridge at Rochester.
The Rochester forces were commanded by
Francis Brown and Elisha Ely, who acted as
capt&ins. Isaac W. Stone was appointed major.
The Americans were elegantly accoutred in va
rious garments of shapes and makes almost an-
tcdcluvian. No two men were dressed alike.—
No two men were armed with like weapons.
Certainly they had all firearms; but they were
not fashioned in the same style. -The discipline
of these troops were as carious as their costume
aud equipments. But if they displayed an awk
ward front to the warlike eye, they also exhibi
ted sagacity and courage—two qualities quite as
much needed as a pretty uniform and good tac
tics. The enemy watched the on-shore pro
ceedings with considerable interest. They be
held, as they supposed, numerous bodies of mi-
Utia marching to head quarters, and preparing to
give them a warm reception. To deceive the
English, the forty men marched and counter
marched incessantly throughjthe woods, from point
to point, in such manner as to convince the sol
diers in the vessels that the whole country' was
aroused and preparing for action. The English
thought it was high time tobe cautious, and
therefore sent an officer with a flag of truce to
theshore. One of the militia captains, with ten
ofthe best-looking arid most soldier-like men,
were sent to meet the officer. The men earned
theirTmns as upright as might be consistent with
their plan of being ready for action, by keeping
hold ofthe triggers.
The British officer was astonished. He look-
ed all kinds of things, ntterable and unutterable,
and with a ••welling crest said:
“Swvdo you receive a flag of truce, tinder
amis and with triggers ?”
"Excuse me, I beg,” said the American cap
tain, “ we are not soldiers, only backwoodsmen,
and know more about felling timber and follow,
ing the plough than of military tacticssaying
which the American, to rectify the first error, or
dered his men to ground arms /
This, of course, still more astonished the Brit,
u Ho looked indignant—then suspicious-
then a little terrified—and at last delivered a
brief message in haste, and iucontinently sought
the fleet again. He declared that the ignorance
of tactics was feigned to draw the commodore
into some snare, and informed those
The British wanted the spoils, but they were
too suspicious to attempt a landing, if by making
a compromise, they Could secure apart of them.
Accordingly another officer, with another flag of
truce, was sent to parley. Captain Francis
Brown was this time deputed to receive the offi
cer. Brown took a guard with him.
The British officer looked very suspiciously
upon Brown and upon the guard. He conversed
with the utmost caution,f and walked as though
he expected either to find a trap door, or a spring-
mine, beneath his feet. After spending a short
time in conversation, the officer suddenly discov
ered that the width and clumsy aspect of Capt.
Brown’s garments betokened something not ex
actly right. He thought Brown was a regular
officer ofthe American army, and that bis regi
mentals were masked, for some stratagem, by
clumsy and hastily made over-clothes. Impress
ed with the idea, the Briton suddenly fg3«>ed
Brown’s pantaloons by the knee,exclaiminghalf
jocosely, while he bandied the cloth most firmly.
“ What a pity such excellent cloth should be
spoiled by a bungling tailor.
Brown smelt out the object of the officer’s
movement, and quick witted, he carelessly re
plied—
4 * Oh! I was this morning prevented from
dressing fashionably by my haste to meet and
salute distinguished visitors.”
The officer then made a proposition that il the
provisions and stores which might be in and about
Rochester, were delivered up, Sir Jas. Yoci
would spare the settlements around.
“ Will you accept and comply with this offer,* 1
inquired the bearer of the flag of truce.
44 Blood knee deep first!’* replied Francii
Brown, with startling emphasis.
While all .this parley—the last clause of which
was enough to affright the oldest and toughest
soldier—an American officer with his staff, re
turning from the Niagara frontier, was accident-'
ally seen passing from one wooded point to an
other. This, with other very curious circum
stances, confirmed the Britons in the 'belief that
a large American army was collected, and that
tho Yankeeofficers shammed ignorance forth©
purpose of enticing them on shore to be slaugh
tered and annihilated. They had not proofs as
strong as holy writ, but they were irresolute, un
decided, and frightened, and were thus couquer-
ed. No sooner had the flag of truce got back to
Truth |a Stranger thOXI Fiction.
BURYISG alive.
There can-.be little doubt that burying alive is
much more frequent than the world supposes, oi
has any inclination to believe. There are con f wv w w
ditions of suspended life so closely resemblingj whoever Lore arras:—
death, and of such long continuance,as todeceive i ~ ‘
tho physician, and induce sepulture. The late
eminent and most worthy Philip Doddridge was
within an ace of meeting the dreadful fate of be
ing buried alive, and what made it worse, with
a perfect consciousness of all that was passing.
He was supposed to be dead, having fallen into
a state exactly resembling death, so far as the bo
dy is concerned: His pulse.' and respiration
ceased, his limbs became rigid,'his face assumed
the sharp outline characteristic of death, and ho
remained in this condition until the family, phys
icians, and friends (all but one!) supposed that
his spirit had passed. That one was Mrs.
Doddridge ; her love refused to despair, and she
continued to use remedy after remedy to restore
animation Fiualy she poured a spoonlul of brandy-
case of breach of teetotalism which we think
Murat.
The following is token from a Sketch of Murat,
by J. T. Headley, which appears in the Ameri
can Review for June. It is a life-like picture of
one of the most daring and chivalrous characters
Persons who don’t like the way papers are edi-*
ted ought to ask leave to put in a specimen of
the right sort. Any editor 'will be glad to give
such persons a chance at any time. We would
—-just for the fun of seeing them cut and lashed
by the critics, afterwards. Everyman who thinks
We said the three great distinguished traits
of Murat were high chi valric courage, great skill , ¥ ,
a9 a general, and wonderful coolness in tho hour j it eal&to edit a paper exactly right, and to uni-
of danger. Napolean once said, that in battle he I versa! acceptance, ought to try"t. May be he
was probably the bravest man in the world, j would succeed: and if so, he would be better
There was something more than mere success to entitled to a reward than tho discoverer of per--
him in a battle. He invested it with a sort ol
glory in itself—threw an air of romance about it
all, and fought frequently, we balieve, almost in
an imaginary world. The device On his sword,
like tho h night of old—his very costume copied
from ^fbsc -warriors who lived in more chivalrous
days, and his heroic manner and bearing, as ho
led his troops into battle, pro*-N? U5*n to be wholly
unlike all other generals of that time. In bis per
son at least he restored tlic days of knighthood.
He himself unconsciously lets out this peculiarity,
in speaking of his battle on Mount Tabor with
tho Turks.—On the top of this bill, Klober with
"000 men, found himself hemmed in by 30,000
Father Mathew himself would excuse)-down his
throat, and the powerful stimulant almost immedi-
ately dissolved the trance, and restored Mr. Dod- j Turks. Fifteen thousand cavalry first
dridge to the command of his limbs, and to many i thundering down on this band ot 5,000 arranged
years of distinguished usefulness. But tor it, he i n tho form of a square. For six hours they
had in all probability been buried alive ; for the j maintained that unequal combat, when Napoleon
weather was warm, and he already shrouded for arrived with succor on a neighboring hill. As
his last abode. He used to relate, with thrilling he looked down on Mount Tabor, ho could see
effect, his sensations during tho time of his sup-1 nothing but a countless multitude covering the
posed death. He could not stir a little finger to j summit of the hill, and swaying and tossing amid
give notice of being alive, but his sense of hear-! the smoko that curtained them in. It was only
ing remained perfect and his mind collected. Ho : by the steady vollies and similtaneous flashes of
heard the fact of hU being dead announced, and j musketry, that he could distinguish where his
tho outburst of grief that followed, the directions . own bravo soldiers maintained their ground,
for shrouding him, and the usual preparations in i The shot of a solitary twelve pounder, which he
the chamber of death! Desperate, but vain as i fired toward the mouataiu, fust announced to his
desperate, were his efforts to give some token of exhausted countrymen that relief was at hand.
the fleet, than a shower of bombs and balls was
sent from each vessel. Tho attack was imme
diately acknowledged, with great spirit. Howl
Why a rusty old six pounder had been mounted
on a log and scoured up for the occasion, and as
soon as it could be charged it was 44 let off” on the
thirteen English vessels. A few hours were spent
in this manner, and Sir James .Yoe, assured that
he could not be in safety In that vicinity, (and
with one of his vessels badly shattered by the
aforesaid log-mounted six-poundcr,) run down
to Puyltneyville, about twenty miles east of Gen
esee river. There they learned how thirty-eight
or forty green militia men had beaten off a large
British fleet from landing, by a very succeisnil
Yankee trick !
As soon as tho keen edge of mortification was
worn off, Sir James and all his people laughed
heartily at the stratagem and its result. It was
a noble Yankee trick, that.—Noah’s Weekly
Messenger.
life—not a muscle could he move. Even despi
and the immediate presence of fate more appall,
ing probably to the conscious, than Hell itself,
could not rouse his dormant body to perform the
slightest of its functions. At last he heard Mrs.
Doddridge call forthe brandy, with a delight and
rapture of love for her which the horrors of hig sit
uation may easily explain. He felt that he was
saved, and he was saved. He himself witti
ly said, that it was as little as the brandy
could do to accomplish his resurrection, as it had
produced his living death 1
When we reflect, that of the buried, the coffiin
of probably not one in many millions is afterwards
examined, and that yet among these few sev
eral instances have occurred in which it was ob
vious (as from the deceased having turned on his
ide) that the dead had been buried too
Tho ranks then, for the first time, ceased acting
on the defensive, and extending themselves charg
ed bayonet. It was against such terrible odds
Murat loved to fight, and in this engagement he
outdid himself He regarded it the greatest bat-
tie he ever fought. Once he was nearly alone in
the centre of a largo body of Turkish cavalry.
All around nothing was visible but a mass of tur-
baned heads aud flashing scimetarS, except in
tho centre, where was seen a single white plume
tossing like a rent banner over the throng. . For
a while the battle thickened where it stooped and
rose, as Murat’s strong war-horse reared and
plunged amid the sabre strokes that fell like
lightning on overy side,—and then the multitude
surged back as a single rider burst through cov
ered with his own blood and that ot his foes, and
his arm red to the elbow that grasped his dripping
Taking the Census.
Some rich scenes occured in taking the census
ufider. the late law of the State of New York foi
that purpose. The following from an eye-wit
ness,is O..C.
44 Is the head of the hxi,Aly. homo V* asks the
inquiring Marshal.
• Here’s the devil with his book again for the
tTredry,” shouts a Junior of the family to the
maternal head above stairs, who presently ap
pears. 44 Is it the heads of the family ye want
sure ; but last week ye wanted our names foryer
dYectory, an’now ye want out heads? A free
country this, sure, when one’s head is not safe.
Bo off, and bad luck to ye, and all like ye.” Af
ter some explanations, the questions in order are
asked.
.Who is the head ofthe family ?— 44 Ann Phellrn,
yer honor, the same in ould Ireland and foriver.”
How many males in this family? “Three
males a day with prateys for dinner, an ”
But how many men and boys? “Och, why
there’s the ould man and the biy, and threechil-
der who died five years ago, Heayin rest their
dear souls, the swatest jewels that iver”——
. Bui how many are now living ? « Meselfj and
me daughter Judy, ye see them, and a jewel of
a girl she is, indeed.”
But have you no males in your family ? “Sor-
ra the one; tbe_ ould man works hard by the day,
and Patrick is not at home at all, but to his males
and his bed,
How many are subject to military duty —
“ Niver a one; Patrick and the ould man, be
long to the Immiis, and sure, finer looking sol
diers were niver born; didye not see thira when
cannot well reject the horrible conclusion that j sword. His steed staggered under him and
the occurrence is not so rare as our shuddering j ed ready to fall, whilo the blood poured in streams
natures would desire it. An examination of the • from his sides. But Murat’s eye seemed to burn
catacombs of Paris, some years ago, (where the ' with fourfold lustre, and with a shout, those who
dead are stowed away in open boxes, or simply j surrounded him never forgot to their latest day,
deposited in the vault,) led to the discovery that) he wheeled his exhausted steed ou tho foe, and
some had turned over on their sides, and others 1 at the head of a body of his own cavalry trampled
had quit their places and died at a distance in ' everything down that Opposed his progress,
the agonies offamine, having gnawed away their Speaking of this terrible fight, Murat said that in
own flesh. the hottest of it he thought of Christ, and his
The following authenticated and affecting story transfiguration on that same spotinearly two thou-
has suggested these reflections j and )-ears before, and it gave him ten told cour-
In the year of 1810, a case of living inhuma. j age and strength. Covered with wounds, he was
tion happened in France, attended with circum. i promoted in rank on the spot. This single fact
stances which go far to warrant the assertion | throws a flood of light on Murat’s character, and
that truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction. The j shows what visions ofglory often rose before him
heroine ofthe story was Madamoiselle Lafouscade j in battle, giving to his whole movement and as-
a young girl of illustrious family, of wealth, and , pect, a greatness and dignity that could not be
ofgreat personal beauty. Among her numerous ! assumed.
suitors was Julien Bosuet, a poor literateur, or j None could appreciate this chivalrous bearing
journalist, of Paris. His talents and general; of Murat more than the wild Cossacks. In the
amiability had recommended him to the notice of, memorable Russian campaigh, ho was called
the heiress, by whom ho seemed to have j from his throno at Naples to take command of
hssr froly. beloved; but her pride ofbirth decided j the cavalry, and performed prodigies of valor in
her, finally, to reject- -him. and to wed n Mon-1 that disastrous war. When the steeples and
sieut ReneUe, a banker and-fimplomiut** ofsomc towers of Moscow at length rose on tho sight,
eminence; After marriage, however, this j M,*rat, looking £t his soiled and battle.wom gar.
tieman neglected, and, perhaps, more positively j rocnts, tiovlsserl. them n-fo’cmning so great
ill-treated her. Having passed with him some — • L -' v -'—*—— ' ~
wretched years, she died,—at least her condition
so closely resembled death that she deceived
pctual motion.—I?icA. Star/
We do not insert the above because we have
reason to find fault with the importunities of such
friends as are therein complained oft That class
have pretty much concluded to let us conduct our
paper according to our own notions ot propriety*
The remark, that ‘overy man who thinks he can
edit a paper exactly right, had bettor try it,’ re
minds us most forcibly of an instance ofa similar
kind which occurcd once within our own knowl
edge. A certain captious brother in the Metho
dist Church, had grown so wondrous tvise in his
conceit, end (bund it impossible to be pleased
with the pulpit efforts of the clergy. Finally he
resolved to be independant and do his own preach
ing. Accordingly, after the usual preperations
his application to Conference was granted, and
tho pompous gentleman armed, as he suppo
sed ‘with the sword of tho spirit,’ went forth io
the coaflict.
His first grand effort was before the very peo
ple who had listened patiently to his criticisms
and regarded him as a 4 mighty man in tho Scrip
tures.’ The services commenced in a clear dis
tinct tone of voice, manifesting only that degree
of pompousness which is excusable among gentle
men who are conscious of their own superior
powers. The reading of the text and the in
troductory remarks, passed off with the same air
of self-possession. As the thread ofthe discourse,
however, was drawn out, evidences of its becom
ing somewhat entangled began to multiply.
Every effort oi tho speaker to recover from his
dilema, only increased the difficulty. Abandon
ing the subject in hand, he attempted a digression
in the shape of an exhortation, but some disor
derly children attracted his attention, and he was
drawn off into a kind of 4 Caudle Lecture.*
That ended, he had lorgotteh not only the place
where he left off, but the very subject of his dis
course. He vainly attempted by rowing tho tone
of his voice and by accompanying his peculiar
nasal tones with the. most violent action of both
hands and feet, to divert the attention of his bar
renness of ideas. Finally, as if in a fit of des
pair, and with the forgo drops of perspiration!
standing on his brow, he suddenly stopped short,
and after every eye was fixed upon him, said in
a subdued tone, 4 My brethring, I havo hcam
that any man embued with the proper ijperit can
preach—^most of you hare Jiedrti fnd express that
opinion in your time I am now satisfied with my
experience. If any of you thinks! a ill mistaken
and preachin’s an easy business—why just let
hini come up here and try it !* The concluding
remark was full of practical wisdom even when
applied to other professions beside preaching.
VVc are inclined to think with our friend of the
Richmond Star, that if all the gentlemen who
regard it as so easy a matter as to conduct a pa
per ably, fearlessly, impartially, and yet so easy
as to please all parties, were only compelled to
take a hand themselves, they would soon arrive
at about the same conclusion as did Brother
Roberts about preaching. Should ftny ohe think
differently, all we have to say is ‘just let him
come up hare and try it.*—Sav. Reps
your heart beat to see two such fine looking, gin-
tale, wellbehaved boys.”
How many are entitled to vote? “ Why the
old man and meself and Judy, and warn’t it we
that bate the Natives an* the Whigs an* all, and
elictod ould General Jackson over *im all. Sorra
the day when he died and disappointed us all, for
i fine man he was.”
•~Hqw many colored persons in your family ?—
“ Nagers, did you name Nagers ? Out man, an*
don’t be insultin’ me. Out widye, an* niver ask
.me .for. me senses agin—-don’t ask about me senses
—whither I have nagers in my family I Yer
out of yer senses yerself; begone, and don’t
bother me.”—Knickerbocker.
Nice Ladies.—Tho nice old lady in Virginia,
who scrubbed through the. floor, and foil into the
kitchen cellar, is but one among the many ofthe
nice females with which our country abounds;
we know a good old lady in New Jersey who
whitewashed all the wood she burnt ; and an-
other in Connecticut who used three times a day
to scour the nose of her lap-dog, to keep him
from soiling the dish out of which he regularly
eat his meals. .
who saw her. She was buried—not
vault—but in an ordinary grave in the village of
her nativity. Filled with despair and stiS in
flamed by the memory of a profound attachment,
the lover journeys from the capital to the remote
province in which the village lies, with the roman
tic purpose of disinterring the corpse, and posses
sing himself of its luxuriant tresses. He reaches
the grave. At midnight he unearths the coffin,
opens it, and is in the act of detaching the hair,
when he is arrested by the unclosing ofthe belov
ed eyes. In fact, the lady had been buried alive.
Vitality had not altogether departed ; and she was
aroused by the caresses of her lover, from the
lethargy which had been mistaken for death. Ho
bore her frantically to his lodgings in the village.
He employed certain powerful restoratives sug
gested by no little medical learning ; In fine, she
revived. She recognised her preserver. She re.
mained with him until by slow degrees, she fully
, recovered her original health. Her woman’s
the old Ginend was buried'; ’twould hS f iB^wfe-^ heart Waa not adamant, and the last lesson of love
The Consummation.—*Twas twilight. Seat;
ed at the door of a moss-covered cottage, was
tho pride ol the village, lovely Phccba. Hct*
finely moulded form—her exquisite and voluptu
ous bust—her classic and beautifully chisselcd
--—_ — —„ - features—-her sweet lips—teeth of pearly white;
occasion as the triumphal entrance into the Rus. j ness——and such eyes 1 two drops of liquid azure
sian capital, and retired and dressed himself in I set in snow ! all combined, ’twaa enough to invlt
his most magnificieilt Costume, and thus appa- [the v«y qoiflof tin anchorite! ‘
sufficed to soften it. She bestowed it upon Bos-
suet. She returned no more to her husband, but
concealing from hitn her resurrection, fled with
him to America. Twenty years afterwards, the
two returned to France in the persuasion that time
had so greatly altered the lady’s appearance that
her friends would be unable to recognise her.
TTiey were mistaken, however, for at the first
meeting, Monsieur Renello did actually recognise
and make claims to his wife. The claim she re
sisted; and a judicial tribunal sustained her in
her resistance ; deciding that the peculiar cir
cumstances, with the long lapse of years, had ex
tinguished not only equitably but legally the au
thority ofthe husband.”—Richmond Whig.
relied rode at the head of his squadrons into the
deserted city. The Cossacks had never seen a
man that would compare with Murat in the splen
dor of his garb, the beauty of his horsemanship,
and more than all, in his incredible daring in bat-
tie. Those wild children of the desert would
often stop, amazed, and gaze in silent admiration,
as they saw him dash, single-handed, into the
thickest of their ranks, and scatter a score of their
most renowned warriors from his path, as if he
were, a bolt from heaven. His effect upon these
children of nature, and I he prodigies he wrought
among them, seem to belong to tho age of
niance rather than to our practical times. They
never saw him on his magnificient steed, sweep*
ing to the charge, his tail white plume streaming
behind him, without sending up a shout ot admi
ration before they closed in conflict.
In approaching Moscow, Murat, with a few
troops, had left Gjatz somewhat in advance of the
grand army, and finding himsel/constantly
noyed by the hordes of Cossacks that hovered
around him, now wheeling away in the distance,
and now dashing up to his columns, compelling
Reside tiffs Yagel,
cheek, pale as ashes
love ! “ Tell me*-
cents, “ tell ffie this night my
agony no longer. Tell me what sarjince
I shall undergo for you—you, my soul’s
idol! Command me to perform a pilgrimage
around this earth oh burning coals, and it shall
be done. Anything, but cast me not off. Plant
a dagger in tny heart, but keep me in suspense
no longer!—Say, lovely Phceba-—Will you—■trill
you be mine ?** He trembled——1)13 heart throb-
beU-jhe saw he was roidy to swoon-*-a
crimson flush mantled her cheek—
“ Like the rich sunset, ’neatli Italia’s sky*”
She took his hand in her tiny finge.rs, put her
smiling lips to his ear, and whispered—Obed, I
shan't be nothin else.**
Oxe Hundred People Killed oh WoCndeO
by the Falling of a Church Roof.—The
commune of Albe (Rhone) has been thrown into
, „ ■ , j .v,the utmost distress by the following frightful
them to deploy, lost all patience, and obeying I event , Sunday, June 8, being the fete of St. Me-
him that some 44 Yankee trick” was under pro-
ccss ofdeveinp-mcnt. i His life!
In the good old State of North Carolina a gen-
tieman sent his son to school, at an institution
situated on Tar River. The teacher asked him
what branches he wished his son put in. The
laughable reply was, that he didn’t care a d—n
what branch he put him in, so that he didn’t put
him into the uror, for he never swum a lick in
Inconvenience of a bad Character.—A
mortal fever prevailed on board a sl ip at sea, and
a negro man was appointed to throw the bodies
of those who died from time to time, overboard.
One day when the cap&in was on deck, he saw
the negro dragging out of tho forecastle a side
man who was struggling violently to extricate
himself from the negro’s grasp/ and remonstra
ting bitterly against the cruelty of being buried
alive.
“ What are you going to do with that man you
black rascal V* said the captain.
“ Going to throw him overboard massa, cause
he dead!”
“ Dead! you scoundrel,” said the captain,
don’t you see he moves and speaks V*
“ Yes, massa, I know he say he ho dead,-hut
he always lie so, nobody neber know when to
believe him. j' v } - U ‘iflilf
of those chivalric impulses that so often
hurled him into the most desperate straits, put
spurs to his horse, and galloping all alone up
to the astonished squadrons, halted right in front
of them, and cried out in a tone of command,
“ Clear the way, reptiles!” Awed by bis man
ner and voice, they immediately dispersed. Du*
ring the armistice, while the Russians were evac
uating Moscow, these sons of the wilderness
flocked by thousands around him. As they saw
him reining his high-spirited steed towards them,
they sent up a shout of applause, and rushed for
ward to gaze on one they had seen carrying such
terrors through their ranks. They called him
-their “hetman,”—the highest honor they could —Gazette deWraice.
confer on him—and kept up an incessant jargon
as they examined him and his richly caparisoned
horse. They would now point to his steed—now
to his costume, and then to his white plume,
tard, the parish church was filled with the inhab
itants ofthe village, and the cure had just began
his sermon, when the roof ol the church suddenly
fell, covering the people as with an iron mantle.
Tho scene was terrible, upward of two hundred
persons being hidden beneath the ruins. For
tunately, the cure and two other persons at tho
end of the church escaped, and they immediately
ran to a timber yard close by, and seizing axes,
Succeeded, by the aid of some other persons, in
extricating a number of the victims to * this de
plorable calamity; many, however, had perish
ed, crushed by the weight, or suffocated by the
pressure, and but few were without somo injury.
while they fojriy recoiled before his piercing
glance. Murat was so much pleased by the
homage of these simple hearted warriors, that be
distributed among them all the money he had,
and all he could borrow from the officers, about
him, and finally his watch, and then the watches
of his friends. He had made many presents to
them before; for oflen,Tn.battle, he "would select
out the most distinguished cossack warrior, and
plunging directly into the midst of . the enemy,
engage him single-handed, and take him prisoner,
and afterwards dismiss him with a gold chain
about his neck, or some ether rich ornament
attacked \o his person.
Speaking ot the elections yet tobe’ made in
several States for Representatives to tho present
(twenty-ninlh) Congress, the Baltimore Ameri
can very well remarks as follows:
“The majority in the next Congress will be
against the Whigs; but it is their duty, neverthe
less, as the holders of tho conservative force of
the Republic, to do their utmost in behalf of their
principles. No yielding, no despondency,should
be allowed to enfeeble the energy oftheir action.
A solid and firm minority, with the high vantage
ground of position which the Whigs occupy, may
do much in the way of arresting illjudged and
hurtful measures. Our country is to be served
—a high calling, whose summons is saoredundw
any aim all circumstance*.” - *