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VOLuilE XIV.
ATHENS, GEORGIA,—THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, 1847.
NUMBER 43.
MISCELLANEOUS.
from the Pkdaidpkiis Saturday Courier.
LEGENDS OF THE REVOLUTION. #
BY GEORGE LIPPAKO.
Palukl.
It was at the battle of Brandywine that
Count Pulaski appeared in all his glory.
As he rode charging there into the
}; thickest of the battle, he was a warrior to
>f their l Jook upon butonce, and never forget,
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e bear ii
the clouds of battle—a warrior, convuls
ed with passion, covered with blood,
leaning over the neck of his steed, while
his eyes seemed turned to fire and the
muscles of his bronzed face writhed like
serpents—that picture, I say, filled many
a heart with new courage, nerved many
a wounded arm for the fight again.
Those retreating men turned, they fac
ed the enemy again—like greyhounds at
hay before the wolf—they sprang upon
the necks of the foe, aud bore them down
by one desperate charge.
It was at this moment that Washingt
came rushing on once more to the battle.
non of the British, bis sword gleaming
over bis head.
For the last time, they heard that war
cry—
“ Forwarts, Brudern, forwarts !”
Then they saw that black horse plung
ing forward, bis fore-feet resting on the
cannon of the enemy, while his warrior-
rider, arose in all the pride of his form,
his face bathed in a flash of red light.
That flash once gone, they saw Pulaski
no more. But they found him : yes, be
neath the enemy’s cannon, crushed by
the same gun, that killed his steed—ves,
they found them, the horse and rider,
American General, who call him the
J i ed in a white uniform, that was seen from American Fabuts, |hat is, a general com-
bth.T Advert's*meats wilTb^ebTwfVti on for ev-ry afar, relieved by the black clouds of bat-1 pounded nfptudeatfe and ‘caution, with
twelve tinea dTWrt or teU. fird •*■*»«•*», and so jjo. His face gr/iil^lfi the scars of Po- j hut a spark of etrtefprize. American Fa-
«em« for each weekly eoreinuance, if pubimi.r-d awy ; j an d, was the face ofa man who had seen I bius! When vdu will show me that the
ell on^mo^ ^wlnCchwg^TJfenta each lime.— much trouble, endured much wrong. It j Roman Fabius had a heart of fire, nerves
(ingle liwrtinn, 81 00 per
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j was stamped with an expression of ahid-! of steel, a soul that hungered for the
id and chare! • *■»§ melancholy. Bronzed in hue, lighted • charge, an enterprize that rushed from
| by large dark eyes, with the lip darken-! wilds like the Skippack upon an army
be’ hy bliaLed ' C, l a 'hick moustache, his throat and like the British at Germantown,or start-
pu * i chin were covered with a heavy beard, j ed from ice and snow, like that which lay
! while his hair fell in raven masses from 1 across the Delaware, upon hordes like
i beneath his trooper’s cap, shielded with a those of the Hessians at Trenton—then I
1 ridge of glittering steel. His hair and ! will lower Washington down into Fabius.
rr n
Ordtnart
li«h*d rn
it Applic
r Negroes
of beard were of the same hu
, This comparison oft
hen
Those people know hut little of the i resting together in death, that noble face
glaring in the midnight sky with glassy
e y p ‘ . 'a . <
So ia Ms glory he died. He died while
America umj Poland were yet in (chains.
He died, in the stout hope that both
would one day be free. With regard to
America, his hope has beeu fulfilled, hut
Poland
Tell me, shall not the day come, when
yonder monument—erected by those
warm Southern hearts, at Savannah—will
yield up its dead?
For Poland will he free at last, as sure
God is just,'as sure as he governs the
MALLORY, FERRY & CO.,
A. & T. W. BAXTER,
pub- j The sword that hung by his side, fash- j barbarian derni-gods of Rome, only illus-
— 1 ioned of tempered steel, with a hilt of iron trates the poverty of the mind that makesit.
j was one that a warrior alone could lift, j Compare Brutus, the assassin of his
wholesale abo r eta it. dealers is | It was in this array he rode to battle, j friend, with Washington, the Saviour of
ii % ts caps, boots, mioi;s, trunks, &«. j followed by a band of three hundred men, i the people ! Cicero, the opponent ofCat-
Jun *28 Broad Street, Athens, (iaj whose faces, burnt with the scorching of aline, with Henry, the Champion of a
s ~ ~ Thom a * w "ba'xter a tropical sun, or hardened by northern ; Continent! What beggary of thought!
j snows, bore the scars of many a battle, j Let us learn to be a little independent, to
j They were mostly Europeans ; someGer- know our great men as they were, not by
I mans, some Polanders, some deserters J comparison with the barbarian heroes of
| from the British army. These were the ! old Rome.
| men to fight. To be taken by the British j Let us learn that Washington was no
! would be death, and death on the gibbet; j ncnative thing, but all chivalry and genius,
therefore they fought their best and It was in the battle of Brandywine
! fought to the last gasp, rather than mut- j that this truth was made plain. He came
1 ter a word about “ quarter.” I rushing on to battle. He beheld his men
| When they charged, it was ns one man, 1 hewn down by the British; he heard them
their three hundred swords flashing over shriek his name, and
th the j Universe. Then when re-created Poland
R. J. MAYNARD,
uook-uixdi:k,
{Over the Southern Banner Office.')
Jan 28 ATHENS, GA.
ALBON CHASE,
BnOKMELLRK nnd KTATIOYEB,
Jan. 14. Broad Street, Athens, Ga.
rears her feagle aloft again, among the
banners of nations, will her children come
to Savannah, to gather up the ashes of
their hero, and bear him home, with the
cliaunt of priests, with the thunder of
cannon, with the tears of million?, even
pentant Franee bore home her own
Napoleon.
Yes, the day is coming when Koskiusco
and Pulaski will sleep side by’ side, bc-
ueath the soil of re-created Poland;
From the Saturday Courier. " *> i 1
Brief Blorraphr of Richard KIcnrjr Wit do.
The success of this gentleman as a law
yer, politician, poet and biographer, may
be referred almost exclusively to his own
unaided exertions, which received their
first impetus in earlv boyhood, from the
affectionate solicitude of his mother. He
is believed to be a native of Baltimore,
and was born about the year 17S9. His
parents were natives of Dablin, and em
igrated to Maryland at the close of the
war for Independence, leaving a prosper
ous business and a large capital, which,
in a few years, were lost by the bad man
agement of a partner. He was taught to
read by his mother, whose example gave
him a passion for.books, to the perusal
of which all his leisure hours were
tejj. Alter the death of bis father, which
occured while he was yet very youti:
his mother removed to Augusta. Georgia,
and engaged in a small business for the
support of her family, and amidst its
drudgery, young Wilde taught himself
book-keeping, and became familiar with
general literature. Inconsequence, how
ever, of the failure of the business in
which his mother was engaged, he deter
mined to study law, which he did by bor
row*
forth his hand toclasWbeit-A-fend he thrust
her frbm him as fie yelled bbnrfbis agony,*
and his limbs writhed beneaflir the torture’
of the passing spasm.
And she bore it all unshrinkingly, and,
even amid her misery, she tell a thrill of
joy as she discovered that pfain and mad
ness hail alike failed to' blot her image
from bis memory. And there were mo
ments less cruel than these, in Which rea* ?
son res timed her temporary sway, and"
the devoted girl was pressed to the fe^
vered bosom of her fated lovpr; and in!
these, brief as they Were, she felt that shq[
was overpaid for all. . „
But the struggle even of .youth and
strength against the most baneful of att
diseases, could not last long. Theta)**
tient expired in the arras of his devbted
mistress, and as he breathfeiFhfcTTasf. be-*
u:., .mila oVwl tkrt 'fwiiT
queathed his dying smile a’nd the ftUit
poison which was coursing through hie*
veins. She saw him laid in his narrow
grave; and then she turned away with'
the conviction that she, too, was plague
smitten.
She did not return to her home, but
she stood a few paces from one of the
companions of her youth, and hade her
bear to her aged parents her blessings’
elementary books from his friends, J anr ^ pruver; this done, she fled to the
r fils design, ns far as possible, a' mountains and sought out a solitary spot
'their heads against the clouds of battle,
j They came down upon the enemy in ter-
2.EW1S j. lampkin. john ii. coru. r j|^| e silence, without a word spoken, not
LA!QPKI!t A. COBB, even a whisper. You could hear the
DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, &c., &c.,! tramp of their steeds, you could hear the
rattling of their scabbards, but that was
all.
Jan. I f
t. BISHOP,
JKimrmt Wf* Retail Grocer,
No. 1, Broad Street, Ache.ns, Ga.
Jan. 14, 16 47. tf
JOHN H. NEWTON. g FREDERIC W. LUCAS.
NEWTON & LUCAS,
Yhslraaln and Retail Dealer* In Dry Goods
Gracerirt, llurdwarr, Ac. Ac.
Jan. 14. Mo. 2, Granite Rmr, Athens.
C. & W. J. PEEPLES,
3ttanwt>s at Rata,
Office* In Aiken* nnd Gainesville, (
Will continue the practice o( Law in the com
Clark, Walton, Jackson, Gwinnett, Hall, Habersham and 1 ' . . , •,»
Franklin, of the Western Circuit; Cherokee, Lumpkin and then the ground WHS covered With
ond Forsyth, of the Cherokee Circuit; and Cobb, of the j dead, while the living enemy Scattered
Circui,. rlhe atn „ of w w p^nic before their path.
A. F.. P. Clayton.
Y’ct when they closet? with the British
. >u cotild hear a noise,like the echo ofa
kuttdre}} 1mmmors the hot iron,
on the 4|nvil. You couid see Pulaski him
self, riding yonder in his white uniform,
his black steed rearing aloft, as turning
his head over his shoulder he spoke to
his men:
“ Forwarts, Brudren,forwarts!”
It was but broken German, yet they
understood it, those three hundred men of
sunburnt face, wounds and gashes. With
one burst they crashed upon the enemy.
1 For a few moments they used their swords.
From the Grenada Chronicle.
Beat, By Golly-
A RARE GEM.—THE RICHEST YET.
Our Machine “ knocks under” to the
author of the beautiful Stanzas below.—
far into
. jardless of bts | p^r thing, after being thrown
personal safety, lie rushed to join them. we f car ; t w {|| *« the buck
les, it was in the dread havoc ot that et « ant | noV er grind another grai«.”
retreat that Washington, rushing forward j The „/, W . came wri<len ln a Micalc
.nto tlm very centre of the .nelee, ,vas , haI1( | on a dcVlcn , ,;,. ce of famcd
e.itanale.1 ...the enemy 3 troops, on the :ln ,l were a iclicU morsel tons, as wc
top ofa high lull, south-west of the Meet- ; ( ] ol ,Ut not they will be to our reader?—who
ingHoose, while Pulaski was sweeping W e must heg to excuse our want of eaer-
oa will.his grun smile to have one more , priu an( | in nnt issuin „ „„ estra
bout w.tl. the enger red cools. ‘immediately. They canni.t accuse us of
Wasb.ngton was in feroble (longer— ^ jj )r we adlIl j re ,| ap( | ^: zed ,h B
his troops were rush.ng to the bduth—the enough to hate issued tico extras—
British troopers came sweenmg up the But read and enjoy the rich treat as we
hill around him—while Pulaski, on a hill did . If we co , dd get another just such a
some hundred yards distant, was scatter- one Christmas, we could afford to do witli-
mg a parting blessing among the borde3 , out a .. Christmas pie.”
of Hanover.
It was a glorious . prize, this Mister
keepi .. 0 _ .
secret. When he had prepared himself; wherein to die. None knew how long
for an examination, so fearful was he of: s ^ e lingered, for she was never seen again
the result, nnd the efK-cts his probable I in lile i ljul t'" was found a few
rejection might have on his mother, that, J ,l:l . vs afterwards beneath a ledge of earth,
pale and emaciated as he was, with a ' n 11 doubled up position, as though the
Consumptive cough, he sought a distant j ,a “ spas™ had been a hitter one.
court for that purpose. Accordingly, in I She who had sacrificed herselt to soothe
the March term, 1S09, lie made his a p-1 the last hours ofhim whom she had loved,;
pearance, unknown and friendless, at the j P e ri$hed alone, miserably, in the wild
Greene Superior Court, and was at jo-j s *ditude of the Asian hills; and her air
tervals, during three days, subjected to a 111051 Roraa, ‘ virlue l, as met with no oth-
most rigorous axntninntion by Justice i er recor d than the brief one in which I
Earlyi whose suspicion had been excited \ ^ ,ave here attempted to perpetuate the
by the circumstance ofhis leaving his own | memor y of her devotion and her late.—
circuit; but every question was answered j Furdoc.
to the perfect satisfaction and admiration
of the examiningcommittee.andihe Judge
declared that the young inan could not
have left his circuit because he was un-
G. Peeples, Athena,
W. J. Pur.n.Es, Gum
4 Office o
PLEASANT STOVALL,
Rare House and Commission Mrrchnnti
Sept. 24, 1946. ly AUGUSTA, GA.
VAN HOUTEN & BARRETT,
Carriairr-.ilaker
ATHENS, RA,
\V. H. H. WHITE,
Xlerclaant Tailor,
HEXT DOOR TO A. ALEXANDER, COI.T.EOt ATENCI,
May, 1345. tf ATHENS, GA.
J.J. RICHARDS.
Wholnalr and retail Bookseller A stationer,
AND DEALER IN PIANO-FORTE* A MUSIC,
Broad Street, next door to J. J. Huggins’,
ATHENS.‘GA.
Washington, in the heart of the British
oy.
Suddenly the Polander turned—his
eye caught the sight of the iron grey and
his rider. He turned to his troopers;
his whiskered lip wreathed with a grim
smile—he waved his sword—he pointed
to the iron grey and its rider.
There was but one moment.
With one impulse that iron band wheel
ed their war horses, and then a dark bo-
bv, solid and compact, was speeding over
the valley like a thunderbolt sped from
the heavens—three hundred swords i
glittering in a faint glimpse of sunlight
and in front of the avalanche, with his
A. J. BRADY,
IVheleMlr and Retail Dealer la
GROCERIES & DRY GOODS,
College Acraar, next dear to the Poet Office.
August, 1844 tf ATHENS, Ga.
the battle-day of Brandy
wine that the Count was in his glory. He
understood hut little English, so lie spake
what he had to say with the edge of his
sword. It was a severe Lexicon, but the
British soon learned to read it, and to
know it and fear it. All over the field,
from yonder Quaker meeting house away
to the" top of Osborne’s Hill, the soldiers
of ihe enemy saw Pulaski come, and j form raised to its full height, a dark frown
learned to know his name by heart. ^ I on bis brew, a fierce smile on bis lip,
That white uniform, that bronzed vis-j rode Pulaski. Like a spirit roused into
age, that black horse with burning eye j life, by the thunderbolt, he rode—his eyes
and quivering nostrils, they knew the war- were fixed upon the iron grey and its ri-
rior well; tbej T trembled when they heard ; der—his band bad but one look, one will,
him say: one shout, for Washington!
“Forwarts, Brudern, forwarts?” The British troops had encircled the
It was in the retreat of Brandywine, American leader—already they felt se-
that the Polander was most terrible. It 1 cure of their prey—already the head of
was when the men of Sullivan—-badly
HESTER & HABERSHAM,
Attorney* at law,
April. 1815. Ijr ELBERTOX. GA.
WILLIAM A. LEWIS,
A TTORNEY-A TLA W.
Camming. Fonjrib couaty, Ga.
W ILL poetic* ia lb* coamics cucnposinf th* Cher
okee Circuit.
AH professional and other business entrusted to his man
ajement, will meet with prompt and faithful attention.
December 3 6m
DENTAL NOTICE.
W REGRET ihat I am anahle to return to Athens
JL soon as I expected when I left, and am nor now p
pas*rftos*vpret>*eiy when lahal] be able to do to. I shall,
hoai^trer, make alt possible exertions for a apeedjr
as aoott «s a releaaa from my present engatrenw
bad.
. Dec 31. tap
armed, poorly fed, shabbily clad—gave
way, step by step, before the overwhel
ming discipline of the British host, that
Pulaski looked like a battle-fiend, mount
ed on his demort-steed.
His cap had fallen from his brow. His
bared head shone in an occasional sun-
that traitor, Washington, seemed to yawn
above the gate of London.
But that trembling of the earth in the
valley, yonder. What means it ?
That terrible beating of hoofs, what
does it portend ?
That ominous silence—and now that
shout—not of words or of names, but
LINER SUGGESTED ON WITNESSING A MARRIAGE
She stood, And by her Side
stood the Bridegroom by His Bride
She was a Lovely Maiden, yes
Oh May The lord, them Both bless
Ten years is Passed Forever gone
and StiP i Remember that bright One
Who stood By the alter and Made A Vow
Ten years is gone But I remember it now
Long May they live in Piece and Joy
They have now one Son a pretty Boy
And may They enjoy Life till it shall end
is the wish of Their Friend
Fanny.
Coffeeville, Miss., Dec. 1st, 1846.
beam, or grew crimson with a flash from : that half yell, half hurrah, which shrieks
the cannon or rifle. His white uniform 1 from the Iron Men, as they scent their
was rent and stained; in fact, from head .prey? What means it all?
to toot, he was covered with dust and' Pulaski is on our track! The terror of
blood. # # the British army is in our wake!
Still his right arm was free—still it rose) And on he came—he and his gallant
there executing a British hireling when it ] band. A moment, and be had swept over
fell—still his voice was heard, hoarse and
husky, but strong in its every tone—“For
warts, Brudern!”
He beheld the division of Sullivan rc-
r r in\iRinn treating from the field ; he saw the British
yonder, stripping their coats Irom their
backs in the madness of pursuit. He look-.
DR. WM. E. BEARING, I ed to the South for Washington, who, with
NTENDING to rends in Athena, ofien his Profet-'the reserve, under Greene, was hurrying
-uu — lo lhe rescuCj but the American Chief was
«to his friends and the public gene-
,j. __ —i be found at the office on the lot of W.
Dealing,'or at bis residence. Mar 4 I9
1 t y THOMAS G. HALL,
Coach JJnfccr,
TXAVING located at Athens, will receive orders
XX for any description of PLEASURE CARRIA
GES, to be bnilt to order, delivered at Athens—war
ranted to please—and on the moat reasonable terms.
Athena, Oct. d,'184& tf.
•NOTICE.
_ The eabecriber still continues to keep open
I his HOUSE in Jefferson, Jackson county,
April 30,1846. ‘ = 1 tf J. B.'NABRRS.
not in view.
Then Pulaski was convulsed with rage.
He rode madly upon the bayonets of
the pursuing British, his sword gath
ering victim after victim; even there, in
front of their whole army, he flung his
steed across the path of the retreating
Americans, he besought them, in his bro
ken English, to turn to make one more
effort; he shouted in hoarse tones that
the. day was not yet lost!
They did not understand his words,
but the tones in which be spoke thrilled
their blood.
That picture, too, standing out from
the Britishers—crushed—mangled, dead
and dying, they strewed the green sod—
he had passed over the hill, he had pass
ed the form of Washington.
Another moment! And the iron band
had wheeled—back in the<fitne career of
death they came! Rouveti, defeated,
crushed, the red coats flee from the hill,
while the iron band sweep round the form
of George Washington—they encircle him
with their forms of oak, (heir swords of
steel—the shout of bis name shrieks
through the air, and away to the Ameri
can host they bear him in all a soldier’
battle joy.
It was at Savannah that night came
down upon Pulaski.
Yes, I see bitn now, under the gloom of
night, riding forwards toward yonder
ramparts, his black steed rearing aloft,
while two hundred of his own men fol
low at bis back.
Right on, neither looking to right or
toft, be rides, bis eve fixed upon the can-
Fillat Affectloi
The following truthful and beautiful par
agraphs we extract from au exchange.—
The author is not given :
A dutiful and obedient daughter always
makes a devoted and faithful wife. Let
no man, as he values his own happiness,
marry a woman of an unfilial nature. In
spite of the guile of Iago, there was much
wisdom in his remark to Othello, when
exciting the Moor to suspicion of Desde-
mona’s integrity, “ She has deceived her
father, and may thee !”
There is no trait of endearment more
pleasant than the confiding tenderness of
a young maiden in the care and vegilance
of her mother. It she be an only child,
the pleasure with which we contemplate
her silent and cheerful acquiescence in
i every maternal dictate, is greatly enchanc-
j ed. When the sentiment of love is first
awakened in the heart of such a one, it
seems rather to deepen than to divert
the stream of her filial affection. No
man should be so selfish
Household Treason.
BY BULWER.
„„„ u,.-i Heaven support il.ee, old man! thou'
prepared. He was at that time onlv * ^ S3t to P ass trough bitterest trial
twenty years of a*o. " which honor and affection can undergo—
Having in this‘necessarily brief sketch 1 housebold treasoni! When the wife lifts
presented a bright example of what may high her blushless fn.nt, anti the woridbte
lie effeeted under the most adverse c i r _ onsout hergudi; whenthecl.ild, with loud
cumstances, bv perseverance nnd true 1 voicelhrowsoffullcontrol,andmakesboast
moral courage, it remains only for us t n () fd .suited ience,in an revolts at the audacity
allude to the honorable course of Mr. Ins spirit arms against Ins wrong; its fatSe,
'Wilde "in after file, tire 'fnnn.iatrnlls'Vif T* l *V.‘ ” “ e Mow,.*fsacr.fegi.us.
which we have seen were laid by a mo- 13 1 ! L '* But, when mild words and
tl.er*s love nnd bright example. After s,, * t kisses conceal (he worst foe. Fat®
his admission to the bar, he applied him- can arm—when amid the confidence of
selfto l.isduliesas an advocate, nnd tothe Bet heart starts up the form ol Perfidy
study of belles lettres, and in a few vents > vl, . en out fronl ', llc re P ul “ swelU the fi ' n “
was made Attorney General of the Stale. 111 ds terror—-when the breast on which
In 1815, when scarcely eligible, lie was m ? n k ’? nCT f f°mfort, has taken coun-
elccted a member of Congress, in which lo deceive linn when he learns, 'hat,
station he was greatly distingaished at Jay after oay, the l.fe entwined w.th his
which much light has been thrown upon ; md m »f e withering than rage; it is a
the life and writings of the Poet. While h ? rr " r ,hal n Pl ,,lls ; T ne heart does not
abroad, he mode the discovery of a bleed ; the tears do not flow, as in woes
veritable portrait of Dante, in the prime to winch humanity is commonly subject-
of his days, which produced a great sen- ei1 * >t ts as if something out of the course
salion throughout Italv, and in whose biog- °* nalure bad taken place ; something
raphv it is said Mr. Wilde has been ea- monstrous and out of all thought and fore-
gaged since his return to the United States. “"*! > f or lh ? d, ™ es “ ,r ?"? r ‘. s a
The following “ Stanzas” are beautiful > n S il P im lrom the " rb ' 1 <* f criminals 5 the
specimens of Mr. Wilde’s style of poetry. fe lT has no tear of his innocent children}
* i W11 ^ a P rice on ” ,s ° eao ’ ae la y s 11 * n
I safety on the bosom of his wife. In his
i home, the ablest man, the most subtile and
{ suspecting, can be us much a dupe as tho
simplest. Were it not so as the rule, and
I the exceptions most rare, this world
! were the riot of a hell!
TI»e Yoons Greek Girl.
A young Greek Girl, whose lover, smit-
unwise as j ten with the plague, was conveyed to the
to desire the lessening of the pure and temporary hospital at the Seven Towers,
holy obedience, which is the best assur-1 and no sooner ascertained whither they
ance ofhis own enduring felicity. Hap- 1 had carried him, than, without saying a
py is he who has won for himself the I won! to her parents, (who would, as she
fond love of a young creature, whose life j well knew, have opposed her design,)
has been guarded by a mother’s prayers, she left her home and presented herself
and into whose spirit the gentle influences j at the portal of the infected fortress, as
ofa mother’s mind have descended, like; the nurse of the young Greek who had
dews into the petals of a flower which been received on the previous day. In
STANZAS.
My life is like the summer rose
That opens to the morning sky,
But ere the shades of evening close,
Is scatter'd on the ground—to die!
Yet on the rose’s humble bed
The sweetest dews of night are shed,
As if she wept the waste to see—
But none shall weep a tear for me 1
I»Iy life is like the autumn leaf
That trembles in the moon’s pale ray,
Its hold is frail—its date is brief,
Restless—and soon to pass away!
Yet. ere that leaf shall fall and fade.
The patent tree will mourn its shade,
The winds bewail the leafless tree.
But none shall breathe a sigh for me!
My life is like the prints, which feet . ..
Have left on Tampa’s desert strand;
Soon as the rising tide shall beat,
All trace will vanish from the sand;
Yet, as if grieving to efface
All vestige of the human race,
On that lone shore loud moans the sea.
Bat none, alas! shall mourn for me!
Electricity o( Human Bodies.
The following wonderful and astonish
ing method of electrifying the human bo
dy, is froma late number of theScientific
American. The mauner of experiment
ing is as follows: Let a person be seat
ed in a chair the four legs of which are
placed in as many glass tumblers for the
purpose of insulation. Then if a horn or
wood comb is rapidly drawn through the
hair by another person, (who must care
fully avoid touching the subject, or the
electricity would be thus carried off*,)
sparks may be readily taken from any
part of his body by the application of
one’s finger. By means of a Leyden jar,
a number bf sparks may be obtained,
from which several persons formed in a
circle may receive shot-ks. If a metal
comb be used, flashes of light can be dis
tinctly seen in a dark room, coursing from
the hair along the comb to the hand of
lhe operator. What is worthy of notice,
as tending to prove that all living organi
zations throw offelectricitycontinnally at
every effort of muscular exertion, is the
fact that if the insulated individual cpmbs
else have faded in the morning of life.
Woman.—The restraint which the cus
toms of the world have put upon the coil*
duet of females renders the best among
them more or less hypocrites. How
hard this is—that the ingenuous confiding
qualities of woman’s heart should be thus
tortured and spoiled; and so it must be,
while the present order of things lasts. It
is true, they have looks for those who
are skilled in such lore; and as the wise
ones tell us, two eyes to say yes, and but
one tougue to say no.—HooFs Cousin
i WiUiam,
vain did thegoverner, imagining from her ^ ,s own h a,r » no s P ar ks can be obtained,
youth, and the calm, collected manner in Persons unacquainted with the phenome-
which she offered herself up an almost na electricity who make the above ex
certain victim to the pestilence, endeav- periments, may need lo be informed that
or to dissuade her from her project. She a cold room is the best in which to make
was immovable; and was ultimately per- them,
mitted to approach the bed-side of the
dying sufferer.
Not a tear, not a murmur escaped her,
as 4he took her place beside his pillow,
and entered upon her desperate office.
In the paroxysms of his madness, as the
poison was feeding upon his strength and
grappling at his brain, be spoke of her
fondly—he talked to her—he stretched
An Excellent and Cheap Pdddino.—Qn»
pint of rice; twelve apples of good size,apd
sour; pare, core, and slice them; mix.the
rice and sliced apples, and put all into * bag
and boil for half an hour. The bag. must-bo
large enough to allo w the rice to swell, and yet
no larger than the rice, when swelled, will fill.
Eat with any sauce that suits the taste ; buUsr
sad sugar are excellent. , , . H i