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Remarkable Plicnoinnnoa.
The Hemsted, (Long Island)
the 13th, gives an almost supernatural narra
tion of tiie corpse of a young lady which was
exhumed a fuw days since in that village for
reinterment in anotlier spot. The coffin was
in a good state of preservation—and on exam
ination of tiie corpse, which yet presented its
original shape, there was found to be growing
from its surface, a vegetable substance in the
ahape of filaments of grass, but of a whitish
color, with a small bud on the end of each one.
These spires of grass had risen from various
parts of the face, the forehead, upj»er lips and
•cheeks. Several were plucked, and are now
in the possession of the gentleman who in
formed us of this remarkable fact, and who has
promised us an inspection of them.
It is well known that in all dry, gravelly soils
like that of Hemstcd plains, tlic body under
.goes little or no dccoinjxxsition even after the
japseof centuries. Under the tower of the
church of St. Michael, at Bordeaux., (the fa
jnous grave or gravelly country which raises
tlie choice wines,) bodies are shown that are
dried into mummies, and are several hundred
years old—-their features, expression, &c., still
femaining. The same, we believe, exists in fi
church at Palermo, as described so grapically
in one of N. P. Willis’ letters. In the above
case, however, the fluids of the body appear to
have been preserved, and to have afforded nu- :
jtriment to the invisible germs of some of those
-cryptogamous plants whose proportion is but
little understood.
Anecdote of the late King of Prussia.
A Prussian lieutenant-colonel, whose regi
ment had been disbanded at the end of the war
of 1750, was constantly soliciting his majesty
to be again put oil the establishment, and be
came so troublesome that he was forbidden the
court. Soon after, a libel appeared against
his majesty; and Frederick, however indul
gent he was to transgressions of this kind, was
so much offended with the audacity of this, that
he ode red a reward of fifty gold fredericks to
any person who would discover the
Tne lieutenant-colonel sent in his name
king, signifying tint he had an
of intelligence to give. He was a<iinittß~~-
“ Sir,” he said, “ you have promised fifty* fPIP
fredericks to the person who would discoved
the author of such a libel—l am the man ; I
lay my head at your feet; but keep your royal
word, and while you punish the criminal, send
to my poor wife and wretched children the sum
you promised to the informer.” His majesty
already knew who was the author of the libel:
he was affected with the desperate extremity
to which necessity had obliged an otherwise
estimable officer to have recourse; but he had
owned himself guilty.—“ Go (said the mon
arch) instantly to Spandau, and under the locks
of that fortress, wait the just effects of the
wrath of your sovereign.”—“ I obey, sir ; but
the fifty gold fredericks.”—“ In two hours your
wife shall receive them. Take this letter, and
deliver it to the governor of Spandau ; but en
join him not to open it until after dinner.”—
The lieutenant-colonel arrived at the dreadful
castle assigned him for his abode, and declared
jiimself a prisoner. When the desert was
upon the table, the governor opened the letter;
jt contained these words :—“ I give the com
mand of Spandau to the bearer of this letter;
be will soon see his wife and children arrive'
with fifty gold fredericks. The present gov
ernor of Spandau will go to B in the same
quality : I bestow that recompense upon him,
jn consideration of his services.”
SINGULAR FATE OF A MISER.
Monsieur Foscue, one of the farmers-gen
eral of the province of Languedoc, in France,
who had amassed considerable wealth by grind
ing the faces of the poor within his province,
and every other means, however low, base, or
cruel, by which he rendered himself universal
ly hated, was one day ordered by the govern
ment to raise a considerable sum. As an ex
cuse for not complying with this ■ demand, he
pleaded extreme poverty ; but fearing that
some of the inhabitants of Languedoc might
give information to the contrary, and his house
would be searched, he resolved to hide his treas
ure in such a manner as to escape the strictest
examination. He dug a kind of cave in his
wme cellar, which he made so large and deep, 1
thnt lie used to go down to it with a ladder.—
At tiie entrance was a door with a spring lock
on it, which, w ien the door was shut, fastened
of itself. Some time afte’* M. Foscue disap
peared ; diligeui search was unde after him in
every place: the neighboring ponds were drag
ged, and every method which human imagina
tion coaid suggest was taken to find him, but 1
without success. In a snort time after, his
house was sold, and the purchaser begining to i
rebuild it,or iWkc\>me alterations in it, the
■ workmen discovered a door in the cellar, with
a key in the lock, which they opened ; and, on
going down, found Monsieur Foscue lying dead
on the ground, with a candlestick near him, but
no candle in it—the latter he had eaten ; and
on searching farther, they found the vast wealth
he had amassed. It is supposed, that wlien
M. Foscue went into his cave, the door by so ne
accident shut after him, and being out of ttic
call of any person, he jierished for want of food.
He had knawed the ffesh off both his arms, as
is supposed, for subsistence. Thus did this
miser die in the midst of his treasure, to the
disgrace of himself, and the prejudice of the
I state.
A noble deed.
A few days since a gentleman from Phila
delphia, with his wife and only child, a daught
er about four years old, had taken passage on
board the steamboat Buffalo, which was mak
ing preparations to depart. The little daught
er having wandered unperceived from her fa
ther’s arms, and while playing near the guards,
fell overboard. The cry was given of a
drowning child! The father could not swim
| —-the mother in an instant became almost dis
tracted. At length tho former cried out, “will
no one save my child—*my only child !” At
this moment a boy, apparently about 12 years
of age, sprang forward, saying—‘-Sir I'll try
to save your child!” And doffing his fur cap,
the little fellow plunged in with his clothes and
boots on. The child was going down the
second time in 30 feet water, when the boy
caught the treasure and restored it safely to its
mother. The best of it is, the boy refused
compensation for what be had done.
CROCKERY, DELF, AND CHINA.
A lady, proud of her rank and title, was one
day descanting on the superiority of nobility
over the rest of mankind, to a large company
of visitors. Says she, “ I think we may very
well compare the threg.classes of people, no-
Wity, gentry, and commonality, to the three
■asses of tea-drinking utensils,, china, delf,
nil crockery.” A few minutes elapsed, when
Be of the company expressed a wish to see
B lady’s little girl. “ Tell the maid, John,”
?aid she to the footman, “to bring the little
dear.” The fellow, wishing to expose his mis
tress’ ridiculous pride, cried, loud enough to be
heard by all the company. “ Crockery! bring
down little China /”
THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA VS. MARYLAND.
There is quite an exciement in the House
of Delegates in the Stale of Maryland, in re
gard to a demand made hv Governor Ilitner
on the Governor of Maryland, for the surrend
er of Nathan S. Bemis, Jacob Forwood, Ed
ward Prigg, and Stephan Lewis, citizens of
Maryland, for having, as is alledgcd," kidnap.
[>ed several negroes in York county this state.
The facts connected with this unpleasant af
fair are briefly t lose : “ Several respectable
citizens came into York county, in this state,
in pursuit of their slaves. The fugitives were
arrested on the warrant of a magistrate, who
refused to give the certificate required by the
act of congress for their removal, a law of this
state having excluded him from such jurisdic
tion, and vested it in judges of courts. With
out any application to tiie competent authority
according to our laws, the slaves were remov
ed, and, in so doing, their owners not only in
curred the penalties of the laws of this state,
but violated the act of congress, and this with
out necessity, as an application to competent
judges would have been easy.”
A special committee was appointed by the
Maryland House of Delegates in reference to
this matter, who after detailing the circumstan
ces, reported the following, which was adopted
by a vote of 50 to 4.
“ We propose with the concurrence of your
honorable body, to appoint a deputation from
the Legislature of Maryland, to the Legislature
ol Pennsylvania, to consist of three members,
whose duty it shall be, immediately to proceed
to Harrisburg and confer with the* Legislature
now in session at that place, and demand from
them the dismissal of the indictments now
pending in York county court against Nathan
S. Bemis, Jacob Forwood, Edward Prigg, and
Stephen Lewis, citizens of Maryland, for the
alledged crime of kidnapping; and such modi
fication of the laws of that" State relating to
negroes, as will effectually recognize the right
of the master to arrest and bring away his ab
sconding slave, and we have appointed Messrs.
* -to join such gentlemen as mav be
named by your honorable body to constitute
such deputation.”
The committe are Messrs. Maulsby and
Alexander, of the House and one member
from the Senate. Franklin, Pa. Telegraph.
POE T R Y.
“ The world is fulf of Poetry—the air
Is living with its spirit: and the waves
Dance to the music of its melodics,
And sparkle in its brightness.”
For the Southern Fust.
TIIE MERMAID’S SONG.
Oh ! come, sister, come ! to my beautiful isle,
Which lies in the midst of the deep, deep sea ;
And I'll meet you there with a welcome smile.
And I’ll sing a song of love to thee.
And I’ll show you where the sea-nymphs dwell,
In their home ’neath the ocean’s deep blue wave,
And I’ll let you sit in their rocky dell,
Where the pure bright waters proudly lave.
And the pearly gems you’ll gather there
Shall shine with the diamond’s lustre bright:
And they’ll deck your darkly waving hair.
Like the twinkling stars in the sable night.
Oil! come, sister, come ! to my coral bed,
Where the sca-Wavcs echo to my song;
And I’ll sing a dirge to the sleeping dead
Who have laid in the briny deep so long.
I’ll tell you how the ser-god flaps his wings,
When he sends a wild tempest through the air;
And the mournful song which the mermaid sings
O'er the fatal seamen ship-wrecked there.
And when you weep at the mariner’s fate,
As he sinks to his cold and watery bed ;
I’ll keep you safe from the sca-god’s hate,
And my flowing hair shall pillow your head.
And when you sigh for your friends away,
.. Where they live ’mong your native forest trees ;
I will not wish for your longer 9tay
’Mid the howling winds and the roaring seas.
But away o’er the watery waste I’ll guide,
And land you safe on your native shore ;
Where you’ll meet With the ones for whom ron sigh’d,
To weep and mourn for them no more.
IVurrejiton, Ga. E. M. P.
TIIE WORTH OF WOMAN,
FROM THE GERMAN OF SCHILLER.
Honored be woman! she beams on the sight,
Graceful and fair, like a being of light;
Scatters around her, wherever she strays,
Roses of bliss o’er our thorn-covered ways;
Roses of Paradise, sent from above,
To be gathered and twined in a garland of love.
Man, on Passion’s stormy ocean,
Tossed by surges mountain high,
•Courts the hurricane’s commotion,
Spurns at Reason’s feeble cry.
Loud the tempest roars around him,
Louder still it roars within ;
Flashing lights of hope confound him,
Stuns him life’s incessant din.
Woman invites him, w ith bliss in her smile,
To cease from toil and be happy a white,
Whispering wooingly—coipe to my bower—
Go not in search of the phantom of power—
Honor and wealth are illusory—come !
Happiness dwells in the temple of home.
* Man, with fury stern and savage,
Persecutes his brother man,
Reckless if he bless or ravage,
Action—action^—still his plan.
Now creating—now destroying—•
Ceasless wishes tear his breast—
Ever seeking—ne’er enjoying—
Still to be—but never blest.
Woman contented in silent repose,
Enjoys in its beauty life’s flower as it blows,
And waters and tends it with an innocent heart;
Far richer that; man with his treasures of art,
And wiser hv far in her cin le colined,
Than he with his science and flights of the mind.
Coldly to himself sufficing,
Man disdains the gentler arts,
Kno*veth not the bliss arising
From the interchange of hearts.
Slowly through his bosom stealing,
Flows the genial current on,
Till, by age’s frost congealing,
It is hardened into stone.
She, like the harp, that instinctively rings,
As the night-breathing zephyr soft sighs on the string?,
Responds to each impulse with ready reply,
Whether sorrow' or pleasure her sympathy try ;
And tear-drops and smiles on her countenance play,
Like sunshine and showers in a morning of May.
Through the range of man’s dominion
Ten or is the ruling word--
And the standard of opinion
Is the temper-of the sword.
Strife exults, and Pity blushing,
From the scene despairing flies,
Where, to battle madly rushing,
Brother upon brother dies.
Woman commands with a milder control—
She rules by enchantment the realm of the soul;
As she-glances around in the light of her smile,
The war of the passions is hushed for awhile—
And discord, content from his fury to cease,
Reposes entranced on the billows of peace.
New York Mirror.
Office of the Georgian, >
January 29, 1838.
FROM FLORIDA.
A letter* from M camp near the Everglades
and 25 miles west of the depot at India R ;ver
Inlet,” dated January 18th, 1838, says :
“You will hear, probably, before this leach,
es you, that Lieut. Powell had a little brush
with the Indians near Jupiter Inlet. It appears
that he landed With about 80 men, sailors, with
the exception ol 25 regulars. Soon after land,
fog, he found an old squaw, who offered to
guide him to the place where the Indians were
—about 7 miles off. He followed her direc
tion and came upon the Indians— somcsav-ld
-—some 60—-and others 80 or more/ Thefird
commenced on his side, when the Indians re
turned it with spirit, and soon put the sailors
into utter confusion, who fled, and the whole
party would have keen cut to pieces, but for tho
regulars, Us L cut. Powell ai.d all acknov.U
edge. Six or eight were killed and left upori
the ground, with h 4nasi who was only wound*
oil, but could not -retho. 'He was left to the
tender mercy of.thfe Indians. Dr. ,Lightr.er,
of the navy, was killed,-and everV officer wound,
ed. The regulars behaved nobly,
Two of the boats were left, in one of which
were a keg of powder and a box of eta ridges,
with rum, whiskey, and other sailor comforts,
We are within 21 miles of Fort Basinger,
|one of the forts on Kissmee river. Wc have
now a cordon of posts from Charlotte harbor
| to Indian river* and most of the-Indians are be
! lieved to be south of us.”
Another letter dated, January 19th, at camp
near the lat. 27°, about 30 miles S. W. from
1 Indian river Inlet, E. F., says:.
“ We have nothing here but what will reach
■ you before this letter. The affair rear the
Jupiter inlet is very unfortunate, and will, no
doubt, inspirit the enemy.
Gen. Jesup and staff*, with the 2<j rcgimqnt
of dragoons, reached camp from Indian riycr
'depot yesterday. It is pretty well ascertained
that the largest body of Indians is collected <s{i
the island and the sw amps, surrounding
cho-bee, to which the army will probably move
from this position, in a day or two. Fort
i Gardner is 21 miles due west, and Capt. Few.
; !er who returned yesterday, having been sent
I out for the pbrpose, reports that the ground wfH'
■admit of a good road, and it is probable we
will get our supplies from that side/ From
Fort Taylor to this camp it is almost imprac
dicable.”
Another letter of same date (from' Fori
Christmass) says:—“Nothing Ims been heard
!of the army, for 6 or 7 days, except that it is
.60 or 70 miles in advance/of'Fort Taylor,*
j near the enemy, on the St. Lucie. Something*
important must soon transpire. v ■ "* -
Another letter of the 21st inst., (at Fort
Brook, Tampa Bay,) says:—“Jumper, with
11 warriors, 22 Indian women and children,
6 negroes and 24 women and children, in all
64, arrived here on the 19th. Tiie Indians
are on board a vcssell, and will leave 10-n;or
row for Fort Pike. The negroes remain here
for the present. t
Gen. Jesup is now on the Kissimmee. It
is thought the army will meet, or have met, at
Fort Basinger. It js said that the Indians
■have located themselves on an Island south of
Oche-chubhec.”
Another letter says :—“ Since the surrender
of Jumper and his Warriors to Cos!. T. of
which you have heard, Ala-toochc, with 16
warriors, had gone in to Gen. Smith, who oc«
cupys positions still westward of Col. Taylor,
both of whom have strong forces.”
THE PATRIOTS.
The influence of our government officers,
and the course which they have adopted to pre
vent the accumulation of additional'force upon
Navy Island, from this sides, together with the
difficulties to be encountered in removing from
the island to the Canada shore are, wesuppose,
the reasons which have induced the patriots to
abandon the island. The war, notwithstanding
this movement, is far from being ended. The
Patriots are only seen in detached companies
without arms, and arc wholly silent as to any
future movements. We Irelieve it is there inten
tion any violat or of our laws, or to do
any thing which can in the remotest degree con
nect our government with their movements in
Canada.
The Barceiona camc up this morning as far
as Black Rock Dam without molestation ; hut
the schooners are still there, and show no dis
position to remove. In passing up from the
Rock ths boat will be exposed to a battery from
the Canada shore, and our community is now
awaiting with some anxiety to see whether she
will be allowed to pass up to Buflalo. which she
will attempt as soon as the wind subsides,