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■'•S' r Itiji N imorcc, Agriculture and Gonornl Intollig-onco. MAY 30, 1860. NO. 31. made no difference in Texas then : Atrocities oi a Syrian Pacha, for die lieirs of heroic courage were con-1 'j'i, c j n htibiltitit« of Mount I.ebnnon imlercd peers—the clans of inferiors cm- having pleaded poverty it* an cxeuso braced none but coward*. for not paying their taxes, Djezznr, tin# Pre>ently two rifles exploded with. gy r ; Jin p HV lm, sent guards, to bring simultaneous cracks Colonel Morton ] || ielB u \\ t0 u marriage feast, where ln» gave a prodigious bound upwards, and r( ,g a | t .d them in noble style with pilufl, dropped to tho earth a corpse. lh’ ;, ‘j roast mutton, and spiced sherbet*.— - Smith stood erect, and immediately ho- : ^bey were further diverted by various gan to reload his rifle ; and then having | g, init . s R ud spectacles, after which, to finished his brief task, he hastened away , t . ac j, ,„ an ] IC gave a full suit of clothe* into the adjacent forest. ^ | and a new walking-stick. They were Throe days afterwards, General Horn*-, a jj M pleased as Punch; but alas! tlm ton, accompanied by Deaf Smith and or( | cr W ns given, and overy man was ten more men, appeared in Austin, and , conl p C llcd t 0 t*trip himself of bis old without further opposition removed the i nm p \ 0 throw down his wnlking ... State papers. ! stick. They were in a state of despair, :-ort of natural npolog\ for his own I Tlic history of the hero of the fore- f or gold wa* sewn up in their clothes. m t of politeness. !going anecdote; was one of the most ex an( j CO neculed in their sticks; but their j u dg C Webb took this paper, and j traordinary ever known in the >\ est. bewailing- 5 were of no effect, for all tin* rote a question. IKar sir- will v »m« . i f »* made his advent in lexaa r.l nu j 0 Id stick* and clothes were collected in p so obliging as to inform us wluit i* early period, and continued to reside j ft heap, the men were disarmed with Mir business with the present meeting? thereuntil his death, which happened blows, and the Djczzar’realized $100,- Pfhe other repsoiitled by delivering a | koiiic ten years ago; but although ^ IC j|>y the sspcseulatio,,, after dcduetin^ ttcr inscribed on the back, ‘To the bad many warm personal friends, no [ the expenses of the feast and the new JtizcuK of Austin.’ They broke the one could ever learn cither the land of j attire. On another occasion he mado a l-al and read it aloud- It was from his birth, or n single gleam ofTiis nro , j ottcr y nll( | forced the people to buy ■ on-ton and showed the usual terse vious biography. \\ hen questioned on Uj^j-ets at a high price. There were tevitv of his style : the subject, he laid bis finger on his lip; blanks; but the prizes consisted of vo- * 'Fellow Citizens:—Though in error, | and if pressed more urgently, his brow rious fcin „ Sf G f one hundred, fifty, and . . * it .1 . &" i !l T ? . 1 . .. .1 ....1 1.! . -I...-!-..,*., L-niiliiml i i\ ' . • ■ 1 i* .1 i* At the moment JuJpi Webb, n mini f Khrcwil intellect and courteous man- rs, Stepped forward, and oddre s-ed tlm |itrudcr ill a most respectful manner: ;My grant friend, I presume yon have liado a mistake iti llit; bouse. Ibis is I private meeting, where none but ineiii- lirs urc admitted.’ I Tho stranger did not appear to com- Iclioud the words, but could not fail to lidcrstand tho mild and deprecatory tamier. His rigid features relaxed, lid moving to a table in the centre of lie ball, where there were materials and liplouicnts for writing, lie seir.edu pen fid traced one line: ‘l am deaf.' lie en held it up before the spectators, ns I ill please let me know v.» | it"-....;, o ' | -ail eye to uu w»*u nut, ow your decision, although denied the exquisite pleasure p e j 0 pp C J f * a ud so forth. Djczznr pr«* Sam. Houston. and priceless advantages of the sense of j t)l0 nl0 „cy where due, am 1. „ ...nn w*n 11 . • 1. n I,...I ..I in.it Yiitu otnlrlo .1 * f . 1. After the reading, the deaf man wait- bearing, nature had given him ample j was 1 a few seconds, as if for a reply, and compensation, by an eye quick and far- j a c ^_ _ ^ = e on turned aud was about to leave the seeing as an eagle's, and a smell t«*P 1 mJjmnny possessor of a‘prize’ Inid »)■ sidy lost the limb whose .excision was and as witnesses to the punishment, mak ing a corresponding ehango when the suit me by your threatening looks ton sky; amt the rangers usuu to uccinrc ordcr to be put to dent .tauten ago; are you brave enough now that lie could catch the scent of a Mexi- trciM |,li n g Kiatib obeyed, m , eive me satisfaction?’ can or Indian at as great a distance as J()WI1 >ixt ,..„i nc or seventy of "The stranger penned his reply: ‘I am a buzzard could distinguish the odor of j ceM uf the i, 0 n»eli 0 II, when Colonel Morton interposed, and incredible as that of a raven. He ■ , ^ d sternly beckoned him back to tho j could discover objects moling miles J ;,y fa I e. Another day lie called, lie. The stranger obeyed, and Mor- away in the far-off prairie, when others ( om , uf ^ gBcrelar -, Wi alld said, ‘Write ..wrote: You were brave enough to ' could perceive nothing but earth and j 0W|1 l|lc IlaTncs 0 f sundry people l suit me by your threatening looks ten] sky; and the rangers used to declare alm || on ] t . r io be put to death.' The and wrote of the ofli- old. The a dead carcass. Pacha then said, ‘Count them/ Hr It was these* qualities which fitted j j;j • aml then the t>rant remarked, him so well for a spy, in winch capacity , u u m u(lt) lluln w l ct , ue sec, whom The stranger rejoined :—l am loo lie rendered invaluable services to IIous- 1 s , mU w „ t Jowll to mnlie it a rouud ncrous to seek un advantage, and too | ton s army during tile war of mdepend- i v , 'p] 1L . p oor yeeretnry awaited with rave to Tear any outlie part of others; J enec. Ho always went alone, and gen- ] j licllc0 tiU ,i le p llc li„ could call lereforc I never need the aid of a see- erally obtained the information desired, j s01 J lc l, 0 a y lo m i„d, but in vain. The His habits in private life were equally Pllc , m 4 cn addod .. Wc r ' I. Singular, lie could never bo persuaded ttlinU ol - anvb ody else, so a - leep under the roof of a Iiouhc. or . your service. J Morton wrote again :—‘Who will ho Imr second V Inti: oil, I cannot, ybody che, so add your own It was useless for the Kintih Morton penned:—‘Name your terms. The stranger traced,'without a mo- licnt’s hesitation :—-Time,’sunset this even to use a tent clotu. n rapped in |o j l0 thu 1110 „ s ter for mercy; tho lvcniug; place, the left bank of the bis blanket, he loved to lie out in the ];. t completed with bis own cogno- "(dorado, onposito Austin; weapons, open air, under the blue canopy of pure ' ud tho w|l0 , c wcro put to deallr .■mbT distance, a hundred yards, ether, and count tho stars, or gaze with lho d Tho wivcs ami children I, not fail to bo in timer a yearning look at the melancholy moon. ;£ f th(j bL .nip a dreadful uproar; life then took three steps across the t\ hen not employed as a spy or gunrd, v - r I cl l silence, and or lull, and disappeared through Hie win- ho subsisted by hunting, being <>f'«'Vf dcr . od (bat whoever uttered a murmur ns lie bad entered absent on solitary excursions for 'agtemnU, be instantly decapitated. There Twhat’.' exebiimcef Judge \\ebb, ‘is and even months together in the■ wM^ |dcntv „f !UC 1, m.eedotes to relate : Gnlonu] Morton, that /you nias. He was a genuine son of natr^*j u .;u elicl to light that man t He i.-a mute, a grown up cIiiIJ of-tlio wooa.H and p ~ V ' M " ' Junta possitivc luniiiuc. Such a meet-' ric, which he wcr.-hippcil iwlilv a Soi; , I fear, will saflly tarnbli your lau-, Pagan adoration. v Kxeluded hy , |l<.’ ° infirmities from a cordial fellowship witir \ ,, M n ^i ■ .. . , | \ f . i i ii , • . *, - 1 Ki.w.TiiinTT ov tin: Blood.—31. Hoi *lou are mistaken, replied 31 orton, • Ihk kind, lie made the inanimate tluncH • i m a i>i It!, a smile; ‘that mute is a hero, whose of the earth his friends, and entered by 1 h "^ T ' ?■ >“‘ J , , C , , ,| j . i ,i covered that the venous blood in oxen line standsm the record of a _ dozen the heart s own adoption into brother : Ilna | |CB , th a dc „ rcc 0 f ’; but therp will suffice to aliow. that in j>oii>t of humanity, tho £ut 1ii»h grcatlr ttle.s,ntid at lea-t half as many bloody hood with tire luminaries of heaven !— \ n . n ^ ‘ ^_ C ‘ L P» ^" ,s .^ c fe rcc icIh. Besides, he is the favorite emi- Wherever there was land or water, bar cle V lr,c, V ^ ,,al t0 'l'* 1 ° ! ,r ° n< ^ , , ’ e • i r i, . ie . • . , , , , - 11 crcise, the ftCftMins of tho year, or tlir. y and 1'OiOm friend ot Houston. Lt ren mountains or tangled brakes of wild J . , J . i j- . . i -,i i • i .. r ix r o m • different conditionw ot the atmosphere, have the pood fortune to kill him. 1 waving cane, there was Deaf Ninths., i. , . .,, fc . . , t> •, . , . j & , , . . have little influence on tins electricity; ink it will tempt the President to re- home, uiul there he was happy ; nut in t . t • ,, , I 1 . . . . . 1 but that age diminishes it m n small dt ^ ict his vow nj’uinst venturing nity more the streets ot great ernes, in all the , f. . . . , , • i , T r i i ® J . ,p , V i • gree, and that it m likewise diminitheo , the held of honor. tliorouglilare.x ot men, wherever thorc v ■ n . >• on , .. .. ,«.| . 7. .-1 in inflaniniatorv diseases. J he venous lou know tho man, then. ‘Who is was Imttcry or fawning, base cunning or , , , ,. lj... ■.. c .1 h r c ,i b Mood of horses and dogs does not con i' \N ho is he .' asked twenty voices craven fear, there was Deaf Smith an, . i , . • i ii ether. alien and un exile. tan. «i; much elcctneity, and raemblcs DcafSmith,’ answered Morton coolly. - Strange soul!—he hath departed on 1 ‘. at ° •* int,,,u,n 3* ‘ T cr,a * c<>1 f Why, no; that cannot be. Deaf the long journey, aw&y among those l "' m -V r'"v" V n Pr t, « n ,f litli was alain at San Jacinto,' re- high bright stare which wore his night H 01 rlcI n ' 1 . 1 |( V ',T' n '■ , 00n rked Judge Webb. lamps; and he hath either aolvcd^or d,,clor ofolccJneity. Hotl. arterial ami ‘There, again, your honor is mistaken, ceased to ponder tho deep mystery of id 31orton. ‘The story of Deaf Smith's the inagie word ‘life.’ He is dead— :ath was a mere fictiou, got up by therefore let his errors rest in oblivion, ouston to save the life of his favorite and his virtues bo remembered with the sworn vengeance of certain hope. Icxatis, on whose conduct he had acted i a spy. I fathomed the artifice twelve Causes or Chain Lightning.—In proportion m ity. Doth nrterial and venous blood retain the same quantity of clcctricitj after they have been drawn from tho vessels and the serum and enter seperated# Give a Dog a Bad Nasii:.—Kugemr Sue caused some of the terrible event* discourse delivered at the Koy.il Acade- in tllc Mytlertt <!» to occur in tlm my by Mr. W. It. Grove, it was staled J Alice des Veuves, a fine nromio m tlm i rapid flight, tilled Camunches and Mexicans at a listancc of two hundred and fifty yards !* ‘Say ^io more/ answered Colonel Mor- Ini, in tones of deep determination; th<’ lung is already nettled. I have agreed / , « . 7 ; i m< * ^ . r •. 1 . ~ 1 e meet him. Thorc can be no disgrace j onc of 1,10 termma! points of the coil The owners of iLs hun.^cs, and n.s few IvIlUo I" I MIUV.1 UlAtlllll 1 t’l (.ILL (I ILII \ I more-facile, and to enable them to pass : tioM • l ,c0 P lc shunned it as if it were ;t cross much larger space* than would cavern of cut throats—tho.-o condemned liter wise be the case. So strikingly !o H r< -' U> ^‘It tl.emsclrcs r/imsi- in fa acrosi otherwise be the case. So strikingly j * . was this evidenced with flame, that when ,nous —rents fell, its shops stood 1 the flame of a spirit-lamp was held near empty, its business dwindled away.-— . - . 1 . . . .. I mi.. . . e :... I .... i r t ' falling before such a shot, and if I |jeceed my triumph will confer the proa ter glory nl habi t of thought * mTh. Kill, 111 koff, the terminal! rcniniiijiig inhabitants and sliopkcopers//, cd tu a distance far beyond petitioned the municipality of Paris t/1 [ Suell w.i'dlle gTpl I " te - ‘ that period. apparatus of being sepernted lo a distance far hey . tliat at which tho »pnrk would jmt^iu i devise some means of restoring its fftllef v .| cold air, the -park darted along tho prosperity* *°d removing I lie monstro^ _juargin jif^tho lhune, and could be euTv- - s t*gma attached to it. At last, movei 1 cd or twisted about, in any direction,! hy compassion, tho municipality ga , . . , at the will of the experimenter, iriving pernns.-iou to have tho name cliangeiv Towards evening a vast crowd as&eni- i r . .. ; 7. ^ , , • »» c 1, , . ® a porfeot illustration of the crooked form to -V\cnue ilc .Montnigne. ■led at the place appointed to witness ... , . . ® I 1 1 .• 11 1 * 01 lightning, and the probable reason 1 7. ' , • ■ l ,u l,0 ’’ l,1 “ nractnig; and re great was • ^ do J„ ol insight lines- . 1 Bi.«^Tho Bible m.rat be lira popular wreeklusaucM an to affaire ' o( the air being different 1 »»ve..Uo.. of good men or angcli; of W If l!,e rert, that numerous and consider. I ^ ^ nnd mu f h of lhu men or devils ; or of God. It could Ido 1 Minis were wagered oil tlic result. vnritt(ioll „f lenipcrnturu being in all «°‘bo the invention of good men or an- lt length tho red orb of tlm nuraimr | ,, ahi i; t y occasioned by the uieeliani 8 U i 1 > fw they neither would nor could louebed the curved nm of tho western *. a| cffi . c ,-, jf dlyd , ; ,' ; lw , f ! make a book, and tell lies all tho time lorizou, covering it all with crimson tJ|C air . fc . 1 they were writing it, ntying, “Tima aaitli Indgold, and filling the uir with u flood ^ the Lord.” when it was their own in- bf burning glory; and then the twoj The Diiti.rtforiiKii and tiik Frunv vention. It could not he the invention ■aortal antagonists, armed with long, man.—A philosopher stepped on board of bad men or devils; for they could liopdcrouA rifles took their station back u ferry boat to cross a stream. On the not make a book which commands nil lo back, and at a preconcerted signal—, passage, he inquired of the ferryman if duty, forbids all sin, and condemn* lho waving of a white handkerchief— he understood arithmetic. The man \ themselves to all eternity. I therefore ■walked slowly nnd steadily off in oppo- looked astonished. Lite directions, counting their steps until “Arithmetic! no sir. leach had measured fifty. Tlioy both “I am very sorry, for one quarter of ■completed the given number about the your life is gone.*' ■Mitno instant, and then they wheeled. A few minutes after, he asked— Teach to aim and fire when he. chose. As “Do 3*011 understand mathematic*?'' [the distance was great, both paused for The boatman smiled and roplied— fSomo seconds—long enough for the be /‘No!" ■holders to flash their eve* from out* to “Well, then,” said the philosopher, |tho other, and mark the striking eon- j ‘‘another quarter of your life i» gone " Colo- Just then the boat ran on n s draw this conclusion ; the Bible must bo given by inspiration of God.—Simpioii. Ardor in Betting.—Two gentlemen at a tavern having summoned up n wait er, the poor fellow had hardly entered, when he fell down in a fit of apoplexy. “He’s dead !” exclaimed one. “He'll come to I” replied the other. “Dead, for five hundred ! M “Done*!" retorted tho socond. The noii»o and confusion which follow rd, brought up the landlord, who called Vmtaning. On the contrary, the countc- philosopher with great oarnestnors of out to fetch a doctor. Inancc of Deaf Smith was stern and pa- manner, i “No ! no ! wo must havo no interfer* |eionle*B ns ever. A sido view of his j “Sir, can you swim r" jence: there'* a bet depending." Itrast betwixt them. The face ot Colo- j Just then the boat ran on a snag, and loci Morton was calm and smiling, but was sinking, when the ferryman jumped ■the smile it boro had a most murderous; up, pul!ed off his coat, and asked the phi* • ‘ But, sir, I shall lose .1 valuable ser- f feature* might have been mistaken for “No/ n profilo done in east-irou. The one. “Well then," said the ferryman, ‘your 'ant!" f too, \vn:*drrfsed in the r^^^loth^h^whola life is h "t. for the hoatVgoing to : “Never mind, you can put him dovu ' utlivi i» lii'Og ill hill !
