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THE TROVERS.
It is dear bought honey that is licked off a
thorn.
A knotty piece of t.inber requires a smooth
weJge.
A mm who does noi look before, vv.lJ gen*
eral.v be found behind.
T'tere is very little for the rake afer the
shovel. .
A mm whose eves require couching, is not
a proper 1 to set up as an occulist.
»» M my things happen between the cup and
the lip.” T.iis proverb aro -e from t.e f.ite
o A.rtino is, q:c of Penelo,*’* suites. w.. 0
was shot by ail arrow from t ie bow of U ysse>
as lie was going to drink.
THE CONTRAST.
When we’ve nothing to dread from the law’a sternest
frowns,
H r.v we laugh at the barrister’s wig?, band?, and
gowns !
Bat no soo :er wt- w .nt them, 'd ?ue or defend,
Taaa their laughter begins and our mirth's at an end.
SARCASM.
It is true you are a member o? parliament,
bat vou are 100 Heavy a log to be lifted to pre
ferment b_\ any co irt 1 ver.
He seems to have invented anew sys'ern of
ethics wnich discards virtue as a super, u.ty,
and rejects integrity as aa incumberance.
Tills morning, quite dead, Tom was found in h:s bed,
Aldnugh he was hearty las: mgnt:
Bit ’tis though - , having seen Doctor G!>na in a dream,
That the poor fello w died ot the fright.
VITCH7E RATION.
Our language has no terin of reproach, the
mind no idea of detestation, that has ro* alrea
dy beeu happily appl eJ to you, and exaauste i.
He is or.e of those who woul I not scruple
to apo og ze for every crime that his been
committed, from the murder o Able, down 10
t le last burglary recorded in t«c annals of the
0.1 Bailey.
He has a fine head of liair, and I trust that
the justice of Go I will soon plait it into a halter,
as it did Ahsiiom’s; and t.iat the spreading
arm of so.ne tree will speedily snatch him to
execution.
CHINESE ANECDOTE.
A man accustomed to deal in marvels, told
a country coasiu of his that he had tarce gre <t
car.oiitei in a.s poiseiiio 1; unOxtn t oald j
travel five hundred m.les a day, a f’oek t.iat
teds tSe aoar of t .e nigiit. and a dog t.iat could
read in a superior manner. ‘Tne e are ex
traordinary tilings indeed—l must call upon
you and beg a sig it of them, ’ sa.d tue cousin.
T e iar returned ho ne and toid his vv fe waat
h ipjHi.ieJ, say.ng ie .iad got into a.scrape arid
knew not how to get out. ‘U, never mind,*
said site, ‘lean m .uage it.’ The next day
t ie countryman cahed and enquired after his
cousin, wis to.J tnat i.e nad go..e to Pekin.
4 YV .ea is .re uxpectci bock V * |.i seve ior
e:g .t days.'— How can he return so soon V
* tie’s go.ie o.T upon oj ox.’ 4 Appropos of
taat, 1 am to I that you have a cock taut marks
t e lour.’—A cock just then happened to crow.
4 Ye-., s.r, taut is lie; lie not only tells tho hour
o< tie tug it, b .t icports w.'ieu a stranger
comes.’—• Tnen your dog, t.iat reads books ;
mgit 1 beg to .see .inn ?’ * VVny, to speak tho
trjt i, as our circumstances are but narrow.
We have aeut t.ic oat to keep sc oo!.’
a p.a;n3ow at midnight.
Tuts peculiar and suanine phenomenon was
witnessed during a launder storm in New
Jersey a short time since. Tne editor of the
Bi.dgeio.i C.'iromc.e gives a most beautiful
description of tire gruuiiuur of the scene, in
w.ncu he says: “ i'iie who.e western horizon
fio.n aOJtn west to uort.l east, was begirt with
clouds piled o.i clouds like Pelion o.i Ossa ;
and the play of electricity from bead to i.end,
was sublime in t..c extreme.’ ft is added—
-44 I .os flashes folio wed each other in such
rapid success.on, as scarcely to discover any
into vnl. Pile clou J ro >o slowly—aud we
c io>e a favorab.e position and gajed upon tue
grand and imposing specta ie w.th subdued
re.c e.ice and dei.g .tea awe until tue eddying
winds admonished us to seek shelter from the
t.neale .ed tempest. fuecioad, however, soon
passed by and w.t i but little rain tnoagh it fell
in torrents nearly all mound us. Alter the
b.astof wind was over, wnich was about 11 o’-
clock, wo sail ed fortn again to look upon tho
scene—aud what was our delig.it nd asto.iis.i
meat to hehoid suspended upon tne black cur
tain ol the west, a beautiful rainbow, caused by
tie moonbeams. Tne arch was entire and
bore a perfect resemblance to the bow of sun.
shine, except color—this being a glistening
white. It was remarked by a scientific man
present} that he had never witnessed the like
before.”
fHE FINALE TO A COURTSHIP.
“Flora ah ! dearest Fljra—l am come—ah!
Flora—l am come to— on! youc.au decide my
fate—l am come, my Flora—an!” “I tree you,
Malcolm, perfectly. You are come, you tell
me. Interesting intelligence, certainly. Well
waat next ? “Oh Flora! I am come to—to”—-
“To offer me your heart and hand. 1 suppose ?”
“ \ es.” ‘‘Well, do it like a .nan, if you can, and
not like a monkey.” ‘ Plague take your seif
possession !” exclaimed 1, suddenly starlit g up
from my knee, upon which I had iulie.i in an
attitude that might have won the approval of
even Madame de Maillard Frusei ; ‘you make
me ashamed of myself.” “Proceed, sir,” said
Flora. ——“You like brevity it would seem!”
“Yes,” said Flora. “The I —will you marry
m«'?” “Yes.”—“Will you give me a kiss?”
“You may take one.” I took ti.t pi offered
kiss. “Now, that is going to work rnt .onully,”
sauf F\ora; “w .ea a thing’s to be said, why
may it not be said in two seconds, instead of
stuttering and stammering two hours about it?
O.i, how cordially I do hate all niaUiries !”
■exclaimed the merry maiden, clasping her
hands energetically. “Well then,” said 1.
“humbug apart, what day shall we fix for our
marriage ?”
The Wife Hunter, and Flora Dougla?.
A good story is told of an o!d boatman,
from the Schuylkill, who repaired to the mena
gerie in Pniladelphia, and see’ng all its won
ders, thus addressed the chief exhibitor; “Weil
friend, I’ve seen all yo r big beasts and zebras,
aal zaphyers. and hyenas, and t »e n th ngs—
now wnerefe your ms/iagerio? where’s his
saga--I waat to look athimr?”
ANECDOTES Os JAt .lEN,
A baker in Pye Comer, Gng., weighed
thirty lour ato ie. (476 lbs.) and frequently
ate a shoulder ot mutton at a meal. He [t r
sisteu. for o’ e veer, to live upon water groel
a id brown b end, by which he lost two nun
ded pounds of his bulk. Mr. Jacob Powell,
who u.ed in 1754. weighed 560 pounds, his
bo ly was above five yards in circumference;
requiring sixteen men to tear him to his grave.
At Haiu'on, there died in 18’6, Samuel Su
gars, w!.o weighed 50 stone (700 lbs.) Daniel
Lambert, of Leicestershire, weighed 739 lbs.
Mr. Spooner, of Skillington, wcigt.ed 40 stone
and 9 pounds (569 lbs.) At Tienaw there
was a man who we g! ed 460 lbs, ore of his
stockings would contain six'een gallons of
wheat. Mr. Coliet, master of Eversliam Aca.
demy, we ghed upwards of twenty-six store
(364 lbs.) —when twelve years old, he was
nearly as large as at the time of his death. At
two years of age, he two nurses to
! It him in and our of his bed, one of whom, in
“m of anger he ft ed to the floor with a blow
of his hand Dr. Stafford, who was < r.or
inously fat, was o. o red with this epitaph:
Take herd, oh good traveller, and do not trtod hard,
Fu here lies Dr. Stafford, in all this church yard.
ANECDOTES OF I.E AN MEN.
A reverend doctor of a veiy g 0.-tly appear
ttr.ee, was one day accosted by a fel.ow with
the following salutations: *• Well doctor, I
hope you have taken cate of your soulV’
“ Why, my friend ?” said the divine. “Be
cause.” replied the other, “your tody is not
worth caring for.’*
A poor dim nutive Frenchman being order
ed by his Sangrado, to drink a quart of ptisan
daily, repl.ad with a heavy sigh ; “Alas! doc
tor. that is impossible, since I only hold a pint.”
When the Duke deCuoisenil, a remarkably
meagre man, caine to London to negotiate a
pence C larles Townsend being asked whether
t e French governn ent h id sent the prelimiua
ri -s of'a treaty, answered, “I do rot know but
t rey iia\e scut the out!in ° oj an ambassador,' 1
IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT IN WOOLWICH DOCK
YARD.
In the course of the successive days of last
week a series of trials has taken p ace at the
above i rincipal steam istablishnu nt for her
Mafesty’s steamers,.under the superintendence
of Messrs. K.ngston and Deur.en. The
grand desideratum so sea-going -team vessels
is considered the concentration of inflamiriabij
matter in as small a compass us possible, both
on account of the stowage of munitions of war
ns well as provisions, combined with as much *
eco omv as can be attained. The invention
under trial is termed prepared fuel, and is a
composition « screened (otherwise almost
uselessly small)coal, river mud, and tar, cast
into blocks of the same size and shape as a
common brick. An engine was worked with
this prepared fuel on Tuesday ; theconsump.
t on for six hqurs and forty-five minutes war
750 po inds. On the Wednesday tbs same
engine was employed for the same period of
time, and it required 1,165 pounds of north
country coals to keep it going, slowing a
saving of 415 pounds in favor of the prepar
ed fuel.
On Thursday the Welsh coal was used,ami
1.046 pounds were consumed : amt on Friday
Po itop coils were supplied to the engine, and
1,098 pounds were required to work the en.
gine for tie six hours and 45 minutes; while
on the Saturday 089 pounds of the prepared
fuel easily performed the same work, thus
showing a reduction of expenditure of 418
pounds in f ivor of the invention ; in addition
to wiich it is highly necessary point out that,
on the average of the consecutive days, it re
quired about 59 pounds less of the prepared
fuel to get the steam up, which was not o llv
tetter maintained by very little feeding, but
mo e readily obtained by the inflammable na
ture of the material, which will no doubt be
generally adopted throughout the service, as,
in addition to its excellence of quality for the
purpose designed, it has ti e advantage of be
ing stowed away in a compact state, and not
liable to act as a shifting ballast.
FIFTEEN HOURS TO IRELAND.
To America, seven days. —Mr. M'Call. of
Waxford, has published a letter to the Tieasu
ry and the Post master-General, suggesting a
plan of tra .smitting the British Mail to the
most distants parts of Ireland in 15 hours, and
to America, via Valentia, in seven days. The
plan is to avail himself, he says, “of the wind
w.iich prevails 11 months in the year, leading
into Wexford and Fishguard I arbours; with
tides abeam, which would ensure punctuality ;
w.iereas, he says, the llolyliead packets have
repeatedly taken three days to perform the
voyage between Kingston and Holyhead, a
distance of only 62 miles. Ho proposes to
extend the Great Western Railway to Fish,
guard, thence to Wexford by steam packets,
and by railway thence to Dublin. By this
plan .re says only one mail between London
and every part of Ireland will be requisite;
and the London mails can arrive regularly in
the most distant parts of Inland in 15 hours.
Regarding the American voyage, he adds, a
railway from Wexford to Valentia, ns a for
eign packet station, will bring Great Britain
and America within seven days sail by steam
packets thence to and from Londo i daily in
15 hours, London paper.
SINGULAR MARRIAGES.
A widower at Camden, who was not very
young, became smitten with a young and
beautiful girl, and married her. A short time
after, the son of this man by a former wife,
became also in love, not with a younger per
son, but with the motliei of the fathers new
wife, a widow lady still in the bloom of life.
He offered himself and soon the young man
and tne widow were united in the bands of
m itr moriy—so that in cons* quence of these
two c Hinexions a father became the sonln law
of his own son, and the wife not only the
daughter-in-law of her own son-in-law. but still
more the mother-in-law of her own mother,
who is herself the daughter-in-law of her own
daughter, while the husband of the latter is the
fatber-in-law of his mother-in-law, and father
in-law to his own father. Singular confusu n
may arise, if ch Idien should spring from these
peculiar rqarriages.
BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.
He builds too low who builds his hopes be
neath tne skies. Let us ti.eu be chiefly an
x.ous reflecting the prerent mat we may know
bow to profit best by it,and respecting t..e fu
tuieoniy as it is coin >cted with our iuteies s
in luiot. er world. Behold the var ousexq is.
i e scenes w.iicli o; en be:b e our eyes as we
proceed in our walk. Look at this path which
winds before us till it is k><t in shade. See
how beautiful its borders are diversified w.th
plants of every tint and every tbrni Mark
how the light breaks in from above, and how
it trembles amo.ig tiie leaves. L.s’en to the
no e of th • wood pigeon, the distant lowing of
the cattle, and the bark of t..e watch dog.—
How teautiful is this scene and its attendant
circumstance;!
Yet all the earth is cliange.able. The yel
low tints of autumn have already begun to dis
color ti e leaves: t e winds will speedily lay
those leaves in th dust, and the vvho'e face of
nature will soon be vei'ed in the .snowy mantle
if winter. Ai! there circumstances,t. erefoie.
all these changes, even to tiiefallin of > leaf,
ought to be received by us as so many warnings
not to rest in present scenes, b t to press for
ward to ?ho-re which are eternal. And altrio’
there is nothing in this sentiment which has rot
been repeated a thousand times, yet I believe
it cannot be too often repeated or too leeplv
felt.
THE MIND OF MAN.
Who can chain the mind of man, or bid the
imagination down from her lofty height ?
When the body exhausted by labor sleeps to
be refreshed, tiie mind, unvve ir ed, except with
j earth, takes its fight into the land of spirit",
! and converses vv itn t! e inhabitants of ti e in •
real world. Now it sweeps, like the b ast o.
winter, over the fan face of the earth, chang
ing and moulding its surface, with childish
j spo; t, rearing palaces and temples, in the air,
—anen, o’er tne frozen surface of the North—
above it Winders, pausing and with finjrers
fantastical wreathing the flowers on the juiting
points of the rude rocks, and twining the lux
j uriant vire over tne sparkling tops of the sun.
I gilded glazers. And now, w 1 en tire face of
, the ocean is Doubled with the first hot breath
of the coming tempe t, it is on the deep—or
i with the spirits of the air, viewing the dreadful
preparations of the gods toscournge, w ith the
hurricane, the ear*h and waters. Now, seated
with the god «f tempest, in whose car are
harnessed the black steeds of night, whose dus
ky r nnes flung athwart the sun, o’er shadows
tne narth, and makes the pale faced man look
paler. Nov; perched upon a cliff that o’ei
looks the fight, it views with eye serene, the
strife of man. Now with unlimited ken, it
pierces the veil of distance, and gazes with
rapture upon the glory and grandeur of ti e
land of the saints, sees the bright spirits of the
good floating like summer clouds around die
throne of him who rules the tempest, and
holds the water in the hollow of his hand.
Wiieu the remembrance of departed friends,or
some dear relative, whoso love was prised
above the goods of this earth, comes over the
■ mind, it sends it back among the scenes of
| our youth, and the friends of our early days,
I with a sadness like ths murmur of the forest
when vintor has stripped it of its leaves, and
strewn item in anger upon the bosom of the
earth. Who would awake from such a dream,
or doubt tire re*?.lities ofu life beyond the grave?
T.oi'isvil c Enquirer-
CHARACTERISTICS, BY SIR WALTER SCOTY.
Leyden, the Scottish Foci, —Few who read
i these pages (Border Minstrelsy) can be unac.
j quainted will tiie leading facts in the history
of John Leyden. Few can need to be re
minded that tnis extraordinary man, born in a
i shepherd’s cottage in one of is e wildest valleys
of Roxburgsbire. and of course almo. t enure
| ly self educated, had, before he attained h <
! nineteenth vear confounded the doctors of
| Edinburgh by the portcntious mass of his ac*
| quisitiens in almost evi ry department of iearn-
I ing. He had set the extremest > enury at ut
ter defiance or rafter In had never I ren con
scious that it could oj crate as a bar; for bread
and water, and access to books and' lectures,
computed all w ithin the bounds of his wishes:
and thus lie toiled and battled at the gates of
science affer science, until his unconquerable
perseverance carried every thing before it; and
yet, with this monastic abstemiousness and
iron hardiness of will, perplexing those about
him hv manners and habits in which it was
hard to say whether the moss-trooper or the
schoolman of former days most prevailed. He
was at heart a poet.
Mist Seward. —l have teen for about a
fortnight in this huge and hustling metro: olis,
when lam agreeably surprised by a |>acket
from Edinburgh, containing Miss Seward’s
letter. lam truly happy at the information it
I communicates respecting the life of Dr. Dar
j win, who could not have wished his fame and
character intrusted to a pen n ore capable of
do tig them ample, and above all, discrimina
! ting justice.
B ography, the most interesting perhaps of
| every' species of composition, loses all its in
j terest with me, when the sha-’es and lights o r
the principal character are not accurately and
; faithfully detailed; r.or have I much patience
with such exaggerated daubing as Mr. Hay ley
j had bestowed upon poor Cowper. I can ro
more svmpathize with a mere eulogist than I
; can with a ranting hero upon the stage; and
! it unfo tunately happens that some of our dis-
I respect is apt, rather unjustly, to be transfer
red to t! e subject of the panegyric in the one
case, and to poor Cato in the other. Unnp.
prehensivc that even fr’endship can bias Miss
Seward’s duty to ‘he public. I shall wait mo<t
anxiously for the vol line her kindness has
promised me.
Ritson. —Poor R’tson is no more. All his
vegetable soups and puddings have not been
able to avert the evil day, which, I understand,
was preceded by madness. It must te worth
while to inquire who has got his MSS.—!
mean his own notes and writings. The 'Life
of Arthur.’ lor example, nius contai i many
curious facts and quotations, which the poor
defunct had the power of assembling to an
nstonishirg degree, without being able to com.
bine any thing like a narrative, or even to de
duce one useful inference. Witness his‘Es.
says on Romance and Minstrelsy,’ which re
mind* one of a heap of rubbish, which had
; either turned out unfit lor die architect's pus
, pore, or beyond his skill to make use of. The
ballads I.e hid collect, and hi Cumberland and
Northumberland, too, would greatly interest
me. It tey have fallen into the hands of anv
, literal collector. 1 dare say I m g.it be indulged
with a sight oi tltem. Pray inquire about tiiis
matter. Lockhart’S Life of Scott
A SINGULAR ADVENTURE.
Once upon a time a traveller steps into a
po t coach. He was a young man, just start
ing in 1 ft*. He found six passengers about
him. all of them gray headed and extremely
aged men. The youngest appeared to have
seen at least eighty winters. Our young tra
veller was struck with t:e singularly mild and
happy aspect which distinguished his fellow
passengers, and determined to ascertain the
secret of long life, and the art of making old
age comfortable. He first addressed the one
who was apparently the oldest, who told him
that he had always led a regular and absti mi
ous life, eating vegetables and drinking water.
The young man was rather daunted at this,
inasmuch as lie liked the good things of this
l fe. He addres ed the second, who aston
ished him by saving ho had always eat roast
beef and gone to te l regularly sud lied for se
venty years—adding, that all depended on
regularity. The third had pro’onged his days
by never seeking or accepting office—the
fourth hv resolutely abstaining from political
or religious controversies—and the fifth by
going to bed at sunset ami risiigat dawn.
Tne sixth was apparently much younger than
the other five—his hair was less gray, and
the-e was more of it—a placid sm le. denoting
a perfectly easy conscience, mantled his fice,
and his vo ce was ; ocund and strong. They
were all surmised to learn that he was by ten
years t' e oldest man in the coach. —“ How,”
exclaimed our young traveller, “how is it you
havr thus preserved the freshness of life—
where ttero is one wrinkle on your brow there
are fifteen on that of each of your iuniors—
tell me. I pray, your secret of long life!” “ It
is nrt mystery.” said the old man, “ I have
drin k watei and drunk wi e— l have eat meat
and have eat vegetables—l Inve held a public
office—l have dabbled in politics and have
written rolig’ots pamphlets—l have some
times go* e to ted at sunset and sometimes at
I midnight—got up at sunrise and nt roon—l
ALWAYS 7AID PROMPTLY FOR MY NEWSPAPERS!”
SAGACITY OF THE HORSE.
The horse | ossesses the faculty of finding bis
way home from a considerable distance. Some
j dozen years have rolled over my head since I
met my friend, Mr. Robert G il. of Richmond,
j Yorkshire, at the little town of Bowes, vv. ere
i we mounted each a poncy for the purpo. e of
! proceeding to WearJalc. intending to snoot on
lire Durham moors the following day (tne 12th
:Augu .t.) There being no direct main road.
| in our progress we traversed a considerable
1 quantity of moorland, threaded a number of
; lar.es, and, at length, after much nquirv, at
I twilight found ourselves on the border on an
extensive common, intersected by numerous
! sheep-walks, over which, however, it was ne
i cessury for us to pass. Tiie night did not
bee m e so dark but we were enabled to dis
! corn the summit of’a mountain, (pointed out to
i us by a s lepherd,) which s trved as a beacon
to guide our wav. We reached our qu.tr ers
at twelve o’clock. After spending a week in
1 YVeardale, and amongst the mountains which
! surround it, we began to retrace our steps.
! Strangers to the way, whenever we we e in
i doubt I stonglv advised leaving the decision to
our [io iie>, and they did not deceive us in a
single instance. However, ujion ore no a
| Sion, two lanes were presented, the ponies
! leaned to the left, vv.ien my friend insisted they
j must Ire wrong- YY’e, therefore compelled
I t.e animals to take the right, wnich t ,ey did
! very unwillingly. After proceeding half a
mile, we discovered our mistake; we icturied,
and did not afterwards oppo. e the w ill of our
little sagacious nags. T..e-e an niuls had le
ver been in this part of the country at any prior
period; but, having once pro ceded, lor some
thing more than tuirly miles, through a very
intricate country, having crossed moorlands,
numerously intersected with si eep-vvulks,they
v'.ereenabled, unerringly, to find tier way
back. and that without the least d.fficultv.
The dog possesses this faculty in still greater
perfection ; indeed, it may he said to be geirer.
al amongst quudrup. ds, in which respect they
arc superior to mai.
O 'Servations by T. B- Johnson.
ENCHANTED MOUNTAINS.
The follovvu g account of a natural curiosity
is from tue Texas Telegraph:
This singular mountain or hill is situated on
the head waters of ti.e Salley—a small tribu
tary of the Colorado, about eighty miles from
Bastrop, is a north-westerly direction. It is
anout three hundred feet high, and appears to
te an enormous oval rock, partly imbedded in
t e earth. YVhen the sun shines, tne light is
! reflected from its polished surface as from an
j immense mirror, and the whole mountain
j glows vvitii such a dazzling radiance, that the
j beholder who views it even from the distance
! of four o: five miles, is unable to gaze upon it
without experiencing a j ainful sensation, simi
: lar to that which islult wren looking upon the
! rising sun. Ti e ascent of this hill is so very
gradual, that persons can easily walk up to
the lop; but tne rock is so smooth and slippery
that tnose wlio make the attempt arc compelled
to wear moccasins or stockings instead of
shoes. Tnis act, together with tsc name of
the place, Holy Moci taiu, reminded the visi
ta t veiy forcibly of ti e command made to
Moses at Mount Hored “ Put off the shoes
from off thy feet,” &c. TlieCamanches re
gard this bill with relig’ous veneration, and
Indian pilgrims frequently assemble from the
remotest borders of tl eir tribe, to perform their
Paynim ri es upon its summit.
TRANSPOSITION.
An old covie ordered his son to turn out
the sad lie and hang up the mare. Said he
to a ne’ghbour, “ YVhen ] came home yester
day, I found my wife ajar, and the doors sick
a-bed ; the gate had left the boys open, a id
the field was in the hogs; so I caught up a hog
and broke it over every rail’s back in the field,
and every puinkiu took a hog and run !”
* ram the MicroCoent,
A MOST REMARXAELS AND VVONDERFUL ESCAPE
Someth) ft m tire tatter part of the summer
of 18 » a young man had taken a hunting
excursion among t..e mountains aud valley*
adjacent to his father’s farm. He continued
in pursuit ofhis game, until he had wandered
some considerable distance from his home.
Sometimes ho clambered among rocks—
somet mes he was almost lost in the deep lor.
est; and hom his many windings he could
scarcely recollect the direction of his father’s
house In the course of a lew hours after he
had li ft Lome, tne:e ro>e a most tremendous
thunder storm. The cloud gathered in dou.
b.e blackness along the w estern horiso i, and
began to ro.l up toward mid heaven. Ocea
sioually ti.e lu id igntnings bursted out in liv.
nig flumes from the dark bos m of the storm,
ibliovved at short intervals by lou I, reverbera.
ting crushes of thunder, which trembled the
everlasting mountains to their four.dat oi.s, ar.d
seemed to leap from crag to crag, and then
d.e away among the distant hilis. Aa tlio
srorm approached, it appeared, at times, as if
the whole heavens were one waving sheet of
flame. Tue thunder's tone was deep and aw.
(id. It bellowed and gioai.ed along tie val
leys, and was echoed and re-echoed buck again
and again, lrom the mountain caves. Ti e
wind'increased in violence ; tic tall pines and
the distant hills towed majestically tetbic ti e
svveepii g blast. The storm continued to in
crease; from a tempest it became a tornado,
and bore every thing down before it. The
forest was prostrated ; ancient oaks that had
stood for ages before the hurricane, and old
stately pines were crusho like reeds. In its
march it spread desolation along. After it
had ceased its raging?, and the calm followed,
such a spectacle never was seen. Roads were
obstructed—j>i!es upon piles of broken trees—
houses swept down ti their foundations—cat
tle and horses killed, heads upon heads, and
naught was heard but the voice of laments
tion. And now says the reader, what and
when was the escape—the remarkable--tl e
wonderful escape ? Why. I will tell you. Ti.e
young man spoken of, s;,vv the storm approach,
ing, and he ran home likelightuing; thestoim
not passing that way, he escaped.
OMEGA.
YANKEE SHREWDNESS.
Coming it over the fifteen ga/lcn /cte.—Wc
understand that previous to the Division Mus
ter at Dedham, a shrewd or e hit upon the fol
lowing novel expedient to evade the licem-e
law. He made application to ti e Selectmen
for a license to exhibit a str/pedpig during the
parade day, which was granted. He accord,
ingly produced a pig, and with a brush painted
some strij es on his back, and had a tent erec
ted on the field, with due notice on tire exterior,
that a striped pig was to he seen within; price
of admission six and a quarter ants. Tie
rate being so low, numerous visitors were in
duced to call upon his swinish majesty, and
every one on coming out appeared highly gra
tified with tho kind and courteous reception he
met with from tho keeper of tiie remarkable
pig, for each comer was treated to. a glass of
brandy and water, or gin, or whatever 1 quor
he might prefer, without any extra charge.
Some were so w ell pleased, that they were in
duced to take a second look at the animal, aid
were so kindly and liberally treated as at their
first visit. At the last accounts the exhibition
was driving a brisk business, and was likely to
make a profitable day’s job in exhibiting liis
“ striped pig." Boston Sentinel
REMARKABLE ANTIQUITIES.
Some researci.es lately made in ti.e cathedral
of Rouen, have led to the discoveiy, under the
pavement of the sanctuary, of the statute of
Richard Csesur de Lion, which used to orna
ment his tomb, and a b >x exclosing his heart.
Ttiis statue, vvh'cli is in p« ifect preservation.is
six leet aud a half in length, and represents the
Kmg in a recumbent position, w.th his feet
lesingon a lion eouchant. The tomb was
once ene!o<ed by a railing of silver, which
was sold in the middle of the 13th century, in
order to pay the ransom of St. Louis. This
tomb is to he restored and placed in the chapel
of the Holy Virgin.
JONATHAN AGAIN.
“ How old are you said Mr. Kiplings to a
dwarfish young man. ‘Twenty.’ ‘I won
der you aren’t rglit down ashamed of beii g
no bigger ; you look like a boy often.’ ‘ All
comes of being a dutiful boy.’ ‘How no?’
‘YVhen I was ten, father put his hand on my
head and said, ‘Stop here,’ and he ran awnv ;
never seen him since, and Id dn’t think t right
in me to go on growing without his leave.’
POLAND.
Private letters from YY’ar<aw dated 2nd ulti
mo refer to an extraordinary conspiracy said
to have teen detected in the Polish capital—
(denounced by the French Government as it
was believed) —and to which was attributed
the numerous arrests which has lately taken
place in Warsaw and other parts of Poland.
It was the intention of the conspirators, among
whom were several Ru sian officers, to blow
up the Emperor in the fortress of Bola, to visit
which was the principal object of his journey.
03- The Great Western left hor moorings
to the dock at the foot of Pike street, precisely
at half past time o’clock on Thursday after
noon, and proceeded t* sea. She has on
heard one hundred and twenty-five passen
gers, being nfl she could with any convenience
accommodate. For some days past her a
gents have been ■ ompelled to refuse to receive
any more passengers, though numerous ap
plications were made to them, and a premium
offered on the established price of the passage.
She has also al! the merchandize on freight
she can carry, and we are informed a larger
number of letters than she ever carried before.
Besides the freight and passengers, she takes
fifty thousand sovereigns, remitted, no doubt,
on account of the advanced rate of exchange.
The steamboats Robert L. Stevens and
Passaic accompanied the Great Western down
the Bay, filled with passengers, and the con
course of people, on the wharves and Battcy,
collected to witness her departure, showed
that the public interest in the success of Atlan
tic steam navigation is no ways diminished.
New York Eveaiog Herald, Oct. 4.