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ATHENS, THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 1849.
VOLUME XVII. NUMBER 3.
IJffetrg.
T««, l( y«m UTiWinrM,
Dew Torn, my brave, free-hearted lad.
Where'er you go, God bln* you !
You'd better apeak than wish you hod,
IT lore for me dutreM you!
To m they toy toot thought* '
And pottibly they may so;
Then on for all, to quiet mine,
Toa, If yoo loro bm, My oo I
Ob that oou&d heart aod mtbly frame;
8iu bchdyaport or labor—
1 Oood-hwaorod, frank, otill the Mine,
f To parent, friend or neighbor;
* Then, why pottpooe your loro to own
For om, from day to day ao;
And let me whisper, atlU alone,
Tom, If you loro km, my ao!
How oft when I war tick, or oad
With iuw» law—toriafoHr.- - -*•
The tight of you baa made me glad—
And than moat melancholy;
Ah 1 why will thooghta of one so good
Upon n»r apirita prey ao I
PyyouUmould be understood—
Tom, if you lore me, say ao!
Last Monday, at tbe cricket match,
Ko viral stood before
id before you;
i for a uick despatch,
all adore you.
Though ow _ _
And 1 sleep nightly murmuring,
Tom, if you lore me, my so!
Whats’er of ourayou chance to aeek,
Almost before you breathe it,
I bring with blushes on my check.
And all my aoul goes with it.
Why thank mo then, with voice so low,
And faltering turn away ao;
Whan next you come, before you go,
Tam, if you lore me, my ao I
When Jasper Wild, beside the brook,
Resentful round oa lowered,
1 oft recall that lion look,
That quelled tbemrage coward.
Bold words and free you uttered then;
Would they could find their way a
tV bat these moist oyw ao plainly mean.
Too, if you lore me, my ao I
My friends, tia true, are well to do,
And youra are poor and friendless,
Ah, no, for they are rich in you.
Their happiness is endless.
Too oarer let them shed a tear,
8are that on you they weigh so-,
There's one who might giro better cheer;
Tom, if you lore me, my so!
My unde’s legacy is ail
For you Tom, when you choose it;
In better hands it cannot Call,
Or better trained to urn it.
HI wait for years but let roe not
Unwoo'd, unplighted stray ro;
Since wealth and worth make erefl lot,
Tom, if you lore me, my so I
afe stalled in the mddhole—broke an
axle, longue—-something out of fix—
away you tug, sweat, fret, aod tear up
tbe ground, .but all to no effect; your
steers won’t pull—onb has a sore leg,
another lame; one gives out, aud none
to pul in bis place and you are in a bad
fix.
Metbinks, about tbe 20th Of April;
1849, a thousand wagons spreading out
from Independence and St. Joseph, on
the road towards Fort Laramie, with
some three or four thousand emigrants
—men, women, and children—all wend
ing their way to the gold regions of the
Sacramento, straining every nerve and
urging on their teams to their greatest
speed, in order to be tfrtTfirst to arrive;
the grass thinly scattered here and there,
and in spots and places few and far be
tween; the ground yet cold, tbe waters
high, and, still further ahead, the snows
of the past Winter unthawed. In yon
der creek, some dozen wagons, horses,
mules, and oxen, all tangled up in the
harness; wagons broken,* lame and
crippled animals—all in a perfect jam—
miscellaneous.
Jh tart tor the California Fever.
We have seen published in the papers
various cures for the California fever,
but if the following sketch, communi
cated to the ^t. Louis Republican, does
not act as a specific, we know nothing of
the healing arti Let all who are suffer
ing from the disease, whether in its in
cipient form or in its more advanced
stages, read and tttakfc the proper im
provement of it:
Hi, Ho, Foil California!—I say,
stranger, whither bound T 44 California.”
Not with your family? “Yes.” Bo
you expect to get there with that old
mare and colt, thrisd poof. Weak oxen,
and that old rickety wagon ? “ Why, I
reckon so.” Where did you crime
from? “Hlwassee district, Tennbssbc;
I was fotched up in Bunkum; North
Carolina, but when I grew up, 1 moved
to Hiwassee and raarriedi but fletcr
could gel ahead there, and whert I
heard tell of tbe California cduptry, and
gold to be picked up there; l sold but
my improvements and took this wagon
ana team in payment, we packed up our
duds# and ore on our way there. You
know that Fortune’s blind j there’s no
telling tbe luck of a lousy calf, so I
thought it might be my good fortune to
get some of the gold as well as any otb-
^ But, sir, your team cannot go there'.
You will neither find grass, grain, nor
food for them or yourselves on the
plains. It is along, dreary road; no
booses# no woods; and it will be two
months yet before there will* be grass
eooogh to fill those oxen and beasts on
tbe whole route{ and, further, it is a
long lime, after before any of account
will be up beyond, and tbe further you
go tbe worse.
44 Well, I’ll stop awbile-»lurn in arid
work till it grows.’’ But where will
you work ? There is nobidy to hire, or
work to do—what, then ? You are too
far advanced to return, yon cannot go
ahead, and you are in a dreary desert
country, without wood, water, or any
thing to eat, with a wife and children
looking up to you for relief and support 1
old men frisking about, children squall
ing, men raving, cursing, swearing
about their bad luck. A little ahead
appears a portentous black cloud, the
lightning flashing, thunders roaring,
peal after peal; the rain begins to de
scend, the wind blows; thicker and
faster fulls the watery elmenl; the
whole Caiiopy of heaven becomes black
ened and darker grows; the creeks
swell, the water rolls and pours down;
rivers run, whete, a few hours before,
all was seemingly drjr; Your goods are
wet, your wagon covers Shivered, tat*
lered.and torn to threads j your clothes
all Wet, and without tent, house, dr shel
ter, stand up and sleep, and let ii rain.
Your cattle# horses, and mules, discon
tented, snort and snuff the breeze, fly
the picquet, and aWay they go; hdrses
and mules without a rider, died witfa-
wagon, pell mell, over hill and
dale, far away.
The wolf, with his hideous growl,
breaks in upon your ears, and he sings
you a nightingale song, hoping to share
the titbits you will leave. The flavor
arising from the fried bacon# sharpens
his appetite, until his notes become
shrill and near. When darkness hov
ers o’er, his snuffing and growling be
comes nearer. The guns being wet,
priming out, and no sentinel shot Id be
heard, then comes reflection* * l O!
what a fool was 1 to leave houfe and
suffer here—nothing to shelter ms from
thi northwestern blast of an April’s
shivering rain, sleet, and hail, and all
the imps of the evil one come to sing
psalm tunes over my distress and mise
ry. I wish I had stayed at home, as
dad and mamma said—ploughed the
old fields, learned a good trade, and
been contented when I was well off,
instead of coming to this * wild goose
chase.’ However, a fellow may as
well be 4 hung for an old sheep as a
lamb;* 4 my fist is in,* and this is only
a beginning, and it is said 4 a bad be
ginning makes a good ending’—so here
goes, through thick or thin, thunder,
lightiling, or rain. But stop, where in
the name of seuse have those infernal
brutes run to in this storm ! They’ve
got started back, and all creation can’t
get that thunder storm out of them un
til they reach the settlements; and just
here, among these wild varmints—
snakes, lizards, wolves, and the Lord
only knoWs what—these women, chil
dren, and wagons most stay until they
afe brought back. GewhillikinS; how
they run! Cfld Zurubabel could’nt
catcb them.”
How are you, stranger? Whose
company is this?
u Captain Busbafler’s/'
I see you are in a bad fix tbere-=*your
wagon in that gully half buried in wa
ter ! Where's jtfiir stock ?
“ All rtfn off last night iri that storm,
like tbe devil tFris alter them. I nev
er see horned horses run so before itf
my boru days, and the mules took after
them, and it was raining so awful hard
we could not see. But such . a startf-
pede and clattering of hoofs of four-leg
ged animals; it fairly shook the yearth,
it did!”
Don’t you know what started them ?
“No! I thought it was the thurtder
and lightnin’ or the cursed wolves, that
kept up such an infernal barking j it
scared tbe children into fits/*
fudge! man. It’s no wolves, bat
some roving bands of Lipans and Ca«
What’s the matter, old woman ?
44 Matter enough. This baby’s goin*
to die, I railly believe.”
“O, jest hush up! give it a drop o’
Whiskey, and 4*11 git well.”
44 And there’s Molly, what picked up
a lizzard, tbinkingit was a bird, and it bit
her band so oriul hard that it has swell
ed clean to the shoulder. And Jim
says there’s Snakes all round here, for
he seen them crawlin’ under the blank
et just a little bit ago. I’ll tell you, old
man, we’ll all die here, or be eat up by
tbe varmints. I wish we bad stayed
back, .and let this gold go to old Scratch.
Hadn’t we better turn back Iratore we
all die?”
“ Well, I believe I can do well enough
any where in 4 Elenoys* or 4 Misery ;’
but how’s a feller to git back ? Here
we’re three hundred miles from St. Jo
seph, all the oxen gone, wagon broke
down, and no one to lend us a team—
and too poor to buy, if we could !”
Old woman. I believe I Can walk, if
you’ll only try to git back. We can
pack all that’s worth takin* on the old
lame steer, and let the wolves have the
rest; for to go ahead—we cau’t..
Old Man. Agreed ! by hokey ; ’nough
said. Hurra for the settlements ! You
don’t catch this child agin with vour hum- k«P Providence U goin’
■ ■ ° EZEL take her home, Betsy—3he s dwindled
I away to a shadder, with that
A Chapter frolil Capt« Srtfp.
On the morning after the occurrence
of the adventures tfb hare related,
Captain Suggs sat in a long triin built
Indian canoe, which was moored to the
North bank of the Tallapoosa river.—
Near him was Miss Betsy Cockerell.-^
She sat facing the Captain, on a board
laid across the gun waleS of the boat;
Miss Betsy was a bouncing girl, plump,
firm and saucy, with a mischievous
rolling eye, and a sharp word forever
at her longue’s end. She seemed to
be coquetting with tbe paddle she held
in her hdrid, and occasionally would
strikb it ,on the water, so as to be
sprinkle Captain Suggs Liuch to bis an
noyance.
4 Oh, Captain, jrau do persuade me to
promise you so hard. And Jim Sparks
says you’re married ; and if you ain’t
you mought *a been, twenty years ago;
you’re old enough.’—(splash!)
4 mind how you throw your
ter! Jim Sparks is a triflin’dog—if I
have got a wife, Betsy, she is going
fast.*
4 Goin’ wharf” asked Betsy, striking
the water agairi.
Confound your paddle ! can’t you
What shrill I ilo ? How shall 1 get j Romance In Real Lite,
out of this?* asked Ellis, piteously. J In the N. Y. Star, ot the 29ih ult., we
4 Let all go, drop in the wdltr# and find tbe following incident:
swim out,* \frds the reply* I A few days since a young man alri-
I can’t sWim a lick—how deep is it ?*! ved here, from one of the Eastern cities.
bug!
Lot’s Wife ! one thing and another. She am i tong
From a Narrative of‘the late EttpeJ J“ f n 't
dilion to the Dead Sea. edited by E. P. I and ,l >. u> ? eU * WlI1 -° ,,ly mat ?.. u P
Montague,” a notice of wb : ch we find in
the last Literary World, we extract the
igh and
l long
following:
Wednesday 26th.—This morning we
are examining the hills of Usdom, and
seeking with a good deal of curiosty the
ever-famous “Pillar of Salt.” which
marks the judgment of God upon Lot’s
wife. On pulling round the shores of
the sea, we saw an immense column,
rounded and turret-shaped, facing to
wards the south-east. This, we were
told by our Arabs, was the pillar of Salt
in which Lot's wife was encased at the
ovehbrow of Sodom. With some dif
ficulty we lauded here, aud our. esteem
ed commander and Dr. Anderson ob
tained specimens from it, and Mr. Dale
took a sketch of it. Our boat’s crew
landed also, and their curiosity was
gratified by their gathering specimens,
some from. itri summit, and others from
the base. It was measured, and found to
be sixty feel in height and forty leei in
circumference. YVe cannot suppose
that Lot’s wife Was a person so large
that her dimensions equalled those of
this column. Many think that the stat
ue of Lot’s wife was equal to the pillar
of salt which the Bible speaks of, let
that pillar be where it nfay, arid what
ever be its size. They will riot pfo’ha-
bly credit that this is the pillar, their
preconceived notions having much to
do with the matter; and they would
have every b’ody think that she was at
once transformed into a column of very
fine-grained, beautifully while salt,
about five feet, or a few inches riiore,
in height, and in circumference that of
commonsized person of tbe nineteenth
century.
Be that as it may, no two rh'ibds
have perhaps formed exactly lire same
opinion on this matter who have
visited the spot. But here we
around this immense column, and we
find that it is really of solid rock salt—
mass of cryslalizalion. It is in the
vicinity which is pointed but in the Bi
ble in relation to' the rifalter in Question,
and it appears to be the only one of its
kind here. And the Arabs of the dis
trict to whom this pillar is pointed out
declare it to' be that of Lot’s wife—the
identical Pillar of Salt to which the Bi
ble has reference—the tradition having
been handed down from each succeed
ing generation to their children,
Americans will hand down id sncceed-
ing generation^ the tradition of Bunker’ri
Hill Monument in Boston. My
opinion of the matter is, that Lot’s wife
having lingered behind in disobedience
your team exhausted and become food ! mauche Indians, who are all over the
for wolves, and before long yourself and
family will follow your team. Thus
uads tbe mad career of a Hiwassee pi-
^ oncer and family.
rNext comes a company of young men
from some Eastern city, with* fine ap
pearance, strength, and talent, yet un
acquainted with tbe life of an ofd cam
paigner, unused to lie on the ground,
cooking, and a thousand other little in
cidents attending a long, monotonous,
tlveaiy march. In a lew (rights, pain
seises hold of you m every bone, mus
cle, and part, and you feel scarcely ablb
{•.move; yet the time has come to be
ap and moving'abead, another duy'sjovr-
icy.. Hunt up your oxen, yoke them,
pack in year fixms, and gee-wo-haw,
Buck, Bright, get along you Brindle,
what are you about, old Bawley ? Zip,
vou dog, hie »p—lend a hand here, John,
Jake, Josb, for these darned horned
horses can’t budge an inch. While oth
ers are setting on in tbe distance, yon
plain; for our boys saw them in the
distance just before tbe storm, and they
have run offonr best horses and mules ;
but our cattle were so tied they could’nt
run. We lost at least fifty horses and
mules last night, and I’m oat in search
for them, while others have gone in dif
ferent directions on tbe same errand.-
Did you see any come this way after
night ?
ogee j couldn't see my shad
ow, ii was so dark.”
How far ahead is yoer company ?
44 About ten mites, on a small branch.'
How many do you number ?
4 * fifty/*
Who commands?
44 Captain KoowsaflL Gfood-bye i t ar
orH."
44 Hell’s afloat, and tbe rivet’s ririo* f*
“ Nancy! O, Nancy! fell yottr^ dad
to come lire. This child is rar~*“-
powerful sick, and Pius afcara ft
die-”
your mind—the devil lake that paddle!
—you’ll turn over the boat aud throw
the river!—make up your tniud
to step into her shoes, it would sort
reconcile me to lose her*—and here
tear leaked out of each corner of the
Caplain’s eyes.
4 Oh Captain,’ sf^d Betsy, half shut
ting one eye, and looking quizzical;
4 thar’s so many good lookin’ young
fellers about, I hate to give ’em up. 1
like you, Captain, but thar’s Bill Ed
wards, and Jet Wallis, and Jim Sparks,
and’—
Good lookin’ !* and 4 Jet Wallis’ and
Jim Sparks! Why Jet’s mouth is not
better than a hole made in the fore part
of his head with a claw-hammer—and
as for Jim Sparks, he’s got the face .ot
a tarrier dog.*
•Do you count yourself good lookin’ ?*
asked Betsy, with great naivete.
4 Gall!’ replied Suggs, with dignity,
4 did you ever see me in ray uniform ?
with my silver eppulets on my shoul
ders ? and my red aasb round my waist ?
and the sword that Gov. Bagby give
me, with the gold scabbard a hangin.”—
Just at this momenta step was heard,
aud before the captain and Betsy had
recovered Irom the shock of the inliu-
sion, Sheriff Ellis stepped into the boat,
and asserted that Suggs 4 was his pris-
4 Treed at last!’ said the Captain;
4 but it’s rto use frettin* ; the ways of
Providence is mysterious. Bui where
did yo'U cross, Ellis!*
4 Ob, I knew you’d be about the old
lick log, fishin’ with Betsy. I’ll turn
the krinrioo loose, and Bets will take us
acrosfl. 1 crossed at Ham brick’s ferry,
left my horse on t’other side, and come
down on you, like a mink on a selti.i*
ben. Come! come! it’s lime we were
off to Dadeville/
4 Providence is agin me,’ sighed the
Captain; Pm prilled up with a short
jerk, in the middle of my kurreef. Well,
but’—he continued, musing—spose a
feller tries it ori bis own hokik—no harm
i« takin’ all eftarites—I riiri’t in jail yet!
A few yards below the boat landing,
there grew out of tbe bank, an immense
Suggs fleeriled to ruminate, and then
replied-^-
Yrom—say—fifteen—yes, at least, fif
teen—to about—twenty-five loot.-*-
Ugly place !*
Great (Jod,* said poor Ellis, y
in search of his father, whom he had
never seen, the father having left the
place of his nativity, in England, before
he was born. For years, ihe young
man had been endeavoring to discover
the \Vhereabouts of his parent, vvitliout
certainly won’t leave ine here to drown j success, and at last by one of ihose
—my strength is failing already. j ling incidents which give n character of
* If I don’t/ said the Captain, most. rncriarice Id the truth itself, he found
emphatically, 4 1 wish I may be landed j liis patent tinder cirdutristances as pairi-
o a thousand foot *,* and sayirig Jul as they were peculiar. In walking
word to Betsy, they shot rapidly {through one of the principal streets of
across the river. j our metropolis, he tnei u gentleman
Kissing his companion as he stepped j from the same city in which he resided,
out of the boat, Suggs sought Button ! dnd who was acquainted 'with his lii.sio-
who was lied nearby, and mdriuiing \ ry, and who thus accosted him: Well
pursued his homeward way. JJ , I believe I .have discovered
4 Never despair/ he said to himself as j where your father is,” and proceeded to
he jogged along— 4 never despair. Hon- | relate ibdt in looking over a copy of the
esty, a bright watch out, a hand in your j Lites of the Felons” he was struck
fingers and one in your lap, with a Hi- ! by the resemblance which he bore id the
tin grain of help from Providence, \Vill j portrait of Honeymati, the barge robber,
always fetch d man thrdugb! Never j The yoang man laughed at the idea,
despdir ! l*ve been hunted and track-land regarded it alibosi as an impossi-
ed and dogged like a cussed \*olf# but • bility that Hlfl father should be an inmate
the Lord has purvided, and my worst I of ilie Slate prison ; but finallv*, a copy
t array has tuck a tree! Git up Button,! of the book was purchased. The youth
you blasted, flop eared iiljrin!’ j was himself struck with the resemblance
The sail Lake of (be Bock, OTonu- 1 h ® 10 '•>« pottrait of tl.e convict,
taim. j an “ induced to read the biography
On one of the southern spurs of the I accompanying it, when incidents and
Rock}’ Mountains, there is a valley, frill! totalities recurred to his memory, which
of geological wonders dnd curiosities, j impressed him with the painful con vie*
and at present surrounded with roman-! li°n that he had at last discovered his
tic interest, as being the place Where j father, in a convicted felqrt. The ago
ny of the young man may becoririeivecl i
he resolved to visit Sing-Sing, and ob
tain an interview with Honeyrhan—he
did so, and when brought into each
other’s presence th'e resetnblance be
tween them was still more apparent.
Honeyman trembled with agitation as
he admitted that when He left England
in company wfth the fenhu|e who passed
here as his wife, the ffertiale to who
was actually married was cncienta and
that he bad heard that she gave birth
a son, who, if alive; would be of the
same age as the young .man Who stood
peeping and agitated before frim.—
There can' Sedrfcely hb a doubt as to bi3
identity, but as his mother is some when
in the western part of the State, meas
ures have been taken to solve the riiVs-
lefy Which how surrounds' the matter.
that strange people, the IVlormons, have
taken up tfceir residence. It is well
known tnat a peculiar religion, founded
in the enthusiastic ndture df ri great
number of men and women df all na
tions, seperated the Mormons from all
other people in the Slate of Illinois,
where they once had a flourishing Colo
ny. It is also well known, that perse
cution on the one hand, and bigoted re
ligious feeling on the other, expelled the
Mormons from the borders of our Re
public. Taking up their march, like
the Israelites of old, they have be
come dweiiers «n a straftge fa’rirf. Sun
dering forth from the United Slates,
they took up their line of march for the
far.far West, and ii portion of them have
settled in the valley of California, in
which there is a lake of salt water, so
salt that it is impossible for a man to
sink himself in it above his arm piU;
and after bathing there awhile, arid thy-
ing himself, lie will be encrusted over;
Into this lake there empties a fresh wri
ter river, cold and sparkling, from the
snowy mountains, and which the Mor
mons have named the Jordan, in the
striking coincidence of that river flow
ing into the Dead Sea. There is rid
rain in that part of the world, arid the
land is watered by turning tbe cooling
brooks from their “ watef courts,”
among the fields. They have no tibed
ofice-houses, as they dwell only four
water-oak, projecting over tbe river, at
an angle of about forty-five. A huge
muskndine vine enwrapped the oak in
every part, its branches and tendrils
covering it like net-work. The grapes
were now ripe, and hung over tbe river
•In bacchanal profusion;*—
•Purple and gushing.’
Betsy allowed the cauoe to drop down
, dlowly, just outside of where the tips
to the express Command of God—given ; Q f ihe tower branches of the tree dat-
\tt order (6 insure her safety—that while Ked with the rippling wfcter. The fruit
so lingering she became Overwhelmed I attracted tbe SherifTa eye and appetite
in the descending fluid,* and formed arr( j reaching out an arm he laid hold
tbe model of foundation lor this extra- j Q f a branch', and began to 4 pluck and
ordinary column. If it has been pro- j eat /
duced by common, by natural causes',
it is but right to suppose that othefs
might be fourid of a similar description.
Cfnc is Scarcely able to • abandon tbe
idea that it stands here as a lasting
memorial of God’s punishing a most de
liberate act of disobedience, committed
at a time when he was about to straw
distinguishing regard fer the very, per
son. YVe carefully brought away orur
specimens, intending to show them 1 to -
our friends m America, vffoen We sbaH
have tbe good fortune to arrive there,
awl talk with them on the subject.”
*tkelifenfan exquisite “ Gentleman.”—*
He gets up leisurely, breakfasts com*
fortab’y, reads the paper regularly,
dresses fashionably, lounges fastidious
ly, eats a tart gravely/ talks insipidly,
dines considerably, drinks superfluous-
S r, smokes elegantly# lives uselessly,
ies reluctantly, b buried lugubriously,
and b mbsed by nobody.
Messrs. Tick nor & Cta, of Boston
have received through the Post Office
$&, accompanied with the following
note. Without signaiose :
‘Sirs—Tbe within is yours# and I can-*
tot beep it uty longer/
i the grapes!’ said Suggs,
grily ; 4 let’s go on !’
* Keep cool,’ said the Sheriff, 4 I’ll fill
my pockets first/
4 Be in a hurry; then, and it you will
gather the —things, reach up aud
pull do'Wri them big bunches up tliar’—
pointing to some tine clusters higher
thari the Sheriff could reach as he stood
up in the boat—pull the vine down to!
you I* . 1
The Sheriff tried, heft, the vines re
sisted his utmost strength ? so crytug
4 steady !* he pulled himsetf up clear of
the boat, and began to try to establish
a footing among tbe foliage.
Auclcut Tyre.
We had parted from Marita iin hou
before daybrak, and ascended several
barren ami rocky hills, stretching into
(lie Seri. From the siirrimit of the last
and most elevated of ihesfe ascents,
Tyre is beheld, appearing at the fexlrerii-
ity of a vast and barren elevation. Be
tween the sea and the last heights of
Lebanon, which liefe rapidly diminish',
extends' it riakcd-Jb'rirrcn plain of about
tweuty miles in lerigth, and four or five
in breadth, of a yellow lint, covered
e , • - r -.'ii , only with thorny shrubs, browsed by
miles from the region of snow, ami the • 3 , ^ Pl .i
. , • . . . the camels ol the caravan on their pas-
water does not get wand before it is j : u.v.r,
dancing at their lors. P*™ I B^thin^inm th/ttd. and connected
hot springs on the mountain, boding hoi i wi h , h( ." ci)llli „ en[ by „ narrow neck nf
commoally. tbu* .indicating .ublcrra- L, covcred w i lh a golden sand,- wafl-
noan fires which «, I one day banish the ei , h he „. illd fr ^, E t . this
Mormon* fron, that land bj afar fiercer' j rl caltei , S ,r„ r bv the
a4,. «at <». &»!*« •»<«».
lance of filly paces. ffotti the rock, wo
saw one of the five figures display an
immense pair of wings, which flapped
With a noise resembling that of a sail
shaking in the breeie; and it now be
came clear that the figures were ihosa
of five eagles of the largest kind \ have,
ever seen in the Alps or menageries of
cities. They did riot take flight;
but remained Unmoved at orir approach.
Seated like kings of the desert, they
seemed to regard Tyre ris their proper
prey. I could not cease contemplating
this prophecy in action—this wonderful
fulfilment of the divine menaces, of
which chance had rendered ris witness-
Never had ariy thing triero super-
riritural struck my eyas or riveted aiy
mind ; and it required uri effort of red-
ion, not to See behind these five , gigrirfa
tic eagles, the great and terrible flgtfrri of
the poet of vengeance—of Ezekiel—ris
ing above them, arid pointing cirit lo them
with art ejre and hand the clijr which
God had given to them for d prey.
I now found that iriy poeiical imagin
ation had exhibited to me the eagles of
Tyre less faithfully, less impressively,
less supernatural^ than the fact war
ranted.
We rirri^ed at noon, after a march of
seven hours, in the midst of the plain of
Tyre# at a place called the wells of’Sol
omon. Alt iravellers have described
these \^ells; they consist of three reser
voirs of limpid, running Writer, wFiitTi
issue, as it were, by enchantment, fftun
a low, dry, and barreri soil, at tije dis
tance of two miles' from Tyre, fcach of
these reservoirs, raised artificially about
twenty feet above the level of fhe plain,
is tuil to the brim, and.,is indeed contin
ually running over. The excess of the
fluid is employed to turn the wheels ot
mills, and the v^ater is conveyed to Tyre
by aqueducts, half ancient, half modern,
which have a beaUlifdt effect, seen ou
the horizon. It is said that Solomon or J
dered these wells to be made, to record-*
perise Tyre arid its King Hiram lor the
services he had received from that trion-J
arch’s riaVy and its artists, during the
b'uildirfg of the Temple.
These immense wells are each from
severity to eighty feet in circumference j
ih’eif- depth is unknown, and indeed is
said to be bottomless. No 60e has eveY’
been able to learn by what mysterious
channels the waters from the mountains
arrive, and there is at least every reason
to believe that they are immense Arte
sian we!!s.coustf ucted thousands of years
before their discovery by the moderns^
—Lamartine's Pilgrimage.
them from our midst. The hot waters
rush out in great volumes. The water
ulphurous smell, but it n
has i
clear blue colour, and the p’eople go
there to bathe for variorig diseases.—
There are but few natural fruitri in the
valley, but the soil vfrill bring forth an
abundance by good cultivation, and
there the strange Mormon may enjoy
the fruit of his toil in p>eac6, if be be
peaceful himself. From this religious
outcast Saxon race there will spring a
stock, vvhich, in the Course of two cen
turies, will b’e found to possess none of
the characteristics of fheif forefathers.
Religion and Climate produce strange
mutatioris m the physical ami mental
economy of men.—Scientific American*
tiy of the above-mentioried peninsula,
and seems to rise out ofthe waves. At
a distance; you would still imagine il to
be a nfew, beautiful, white and animated
city; but it is nothing more than a fine
shadow, which vanishes on approaching
it. A few hundreds 6f frilling houses,
in which the Arabs foi l large flocks of
sheep, arid black goals, with hanging
eafs, Which defiled before us on the
plain', are all that remain of Tyre! She
lias no longer a port on the sea, no lon
ger roads upon land: the prophecies
respecting her have been long since
UCcomplis! ed.
YVe truvt lied ori itt silence, occupied
by the thoughts of this desolation, and
iff the dust of an empire Which we trod
under our feet. Passing along the
paths between the ruins and the gray
and naked hills of Lebarton, Which here
ved at the
Indian WiL
1l ?s iri'any years since We have seen'
lira annexed in print, arid we think it is
high lime that it shonld be set a going | descend to the pi:
again—at any rate, ii is asgoWdas riirie-
tenths of the 4 old Joes’ thrit rife daily I seems its only existing rampart,
dug up from old newspapers, and start- I Which will doubtless ere long, bury tbe
ed into life by peony-a-lining resriffec-' town under ifs Mass. 1 thought ofthe
tionists ' prophecies, und endeavored to bring to
John Seq'uasaquash. an Indian of the I nfry recollection some of those eloquent
leinfainr's of a tribte in Connecticut, was j warnings with which the divine spirit
Some yertfs since brought befofe a j inspired Ezekiel. 1 could riot recall the
justice ofthe peace ow somte charge or j wofds. bin ( discovered the meaning in
other, which I do riot iroW recollect.— the deplorable Waste befofe my eyes.
Jolmr happened to be drunk at the lime, 1 bad now before me the. 44 black”
arid instead of rinsweritfg directly to Lebanon f but I said to myself, my im-
questiofos put by the justice, riiferely agimn fori tra* deceived me; I see nei-
in utter red ottt-u- 4 tfour honed is very [ firar the eagles not the tttllures which,
wife j very wise f~ve»y wise^-y-y-yonr according to Ura prophecies were to de-
h'onrni is very wise, I auyJ Sceiftl unceasingly front the mountains
Anecdote of Gc'ri. TtvIggsJ
Much has beeri sriid of the peculiar
manner and characteristic daring of thifr
officer, but we have beeri told art rineC-
dote in regard to his fearless spirit;
hich equals any thing of the kind w6
have heard. After the city of Mexitof
had been taken, or, at least surrendered
by the authorities to Gen. Scbtt, a se
vere fight ensued in the streets of, the
city, in consequence ofSanla Anna haw
ing turned loose several thousand fcriri-
viets, and armed them, ori canditirirt that
they should keep the Americans at bay,
and thus prevent a pursuit of him.— 1
They fulfilled their agreement; and a
severe fight took place, in Which many
individual actsofbrave^ took place on
both sides. It was on the morning of*
the first day’s fight, that a portion of the
cavalry, were sent Odt from the main pla
za on the street leading to the Garita de
San Antonio, de Abad, to ascertain
whether the Mexicans were hanging in
force afound the entrance.
They had not proceeded over two or
three blocks, before, from the tops of the
houses and tbe corners of the streets, a
heavy fire was opened on them by the
enemy, and being mounted, they were
unable to return it with any effect.—*
Several horses had fallen, and the ranks
were considerably thrown into confusion#
when a rumbling noise was heard to
wards the plaza, and looking in that di
rection they beheld Gen. Twiggs thun
dering on Wilh a six pound cannon at
his heels. The Mexicans had taken up
Being unable 16 get auy other answer
from him, tbe justice ordered hint to be
At tins moment C/aptain Suggs made locked dp rill tbte rte*t day; when John
no remark orally but bis eye said to j W as brought before him perfectly sober.
Betty# us plainly US eye couki talk# 4 bit j
ber alick back my gall !'*
‘ Silently the paddle went info the wa- j
tftr# Betsy leaning back, with lips contf-j
pressed# rind in a secoud tbe cauoe shot
ten feet out from tbe. tree, aod tbe Sher
iff was left dangling among the vines!
•Stopr your Wasted jokes!’ roared tbe
officer.
4 Keep -cool,, old Tap-my-shoulder ! _
thar’s jist tbe smallest grain of a joke ‘.Then/ replied John 4 1 must have
ro this here that ever you seed. Its tbe. been drunk# sure enough/-*-Yankee
coldest sort of air nest'/ BSlute.
Why, John/ said the justice, 4 you
Were as drunk as a beast last night/
* Drunk ejaculated John.
• Yes, drunk as a beast' When 1
asked von any question, the only answer
yon made was—Yon r Honor is very
wise—-very wise.”
“ Did t call your honor tffise ?’ said tbe
Indian, with a look of incredulity.
Yes,* answered tbe magistrate,
position behind an old gateway# which
!* j iteoceml irt the plain, we arrived at the ^njplett-ly raked ibo cross-street next
j tin , rtow flanked by a sand bank, which >° ,he '■•ayalry, and down Wrb.ch they
v seems ilsunlv existing rampart, but kept an incessant Ere, filling it with
whistling bullets. Tbe old General
came rapidly forward, and motioned for
the horsemen to retreat, and one after
another, both officers and men, dashed
across the street, bending down to the
saddle bow to escape the flying missiles.
In the mean time Twiggs advanced
into the middle of tbe street, with his
p thrown back; his white hair slream-
g in the wind, his form- towering up
right, and his eagle eye flashing with ex
citement at the seene around him. Hi»
commanding form and bright epaulettes
made him a conspicuous mark, and the
enemy turned their whole fire upon him#
while the bullets flew like bail in the di
rection he was standing—killing two or
three artillerymen, and rattling fearful
ly on the pavement behind biro. After
gazing for a moment steadily at the
gateway, be rose up in his stirrups, aud
exclaimed r-^ 4 1 believe the yalter dev
ils are shooting at roe—bring forward
the cannon.”
The piece was limbered forward be
side him, and a few effectual shots drove
the Mexicana from tbeir position.
to des|H*il even the remains of the city,
accursed of God# aud enemy ol his peo
ple. At the moment I made these re
flections# something huge, grotesque,
nod motionless, appeared at our left, ou
she summit of a pointed rock, which ad
vanced into the plain not far distant,
close to the ronte of tbe caravans; it
looked to me like five statues of black
snme placed on tbe rock as on a pedestal;
lint from certain motions, almost imper
ceptible, of these colossal figures, we
fancied, bn approaching nearer, that
they were five Becfonin Arabs clothed
| in their, sacks of black' goats* hair, who
were looking at us as we passed.
I When, however, we came at a dis-
Gold aud silver mines, said to yield
from 75 to 80 percent., have be«a dis
covered in Benton county, Tennessee-