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VOL. 1. £tar of tlje O O I PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY J. T. McCARTY, Proprietor. HENRY C. WARE, Editor. | * * TERMS : : S TWO DOLLARS ! ALWAYS IN ADVANCE. R ATES or ADVERTISING : fair Advertisements will be inserted by the ; constituting a c<|ttr} for $1 00 #\>r lb rst iusertion, and fifty cents for each ad ditional insertion. A liberal deduction will be made to those advertising by the year. Legal advertisements inserted at the pri ces usually charged. fp&T Marriages and deaths inserted gratis ; obitnaries regular rates where they exceed more than ten lines. Job Work Cash on delivery, except where accounts are kept open with yearly customers. MAILS. IKXIXGTON TO KLBERTON.—Leave Lex- i J ingtou, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 9 o’clock, a. m.. or on arrival of the cars ; and arrive at Klberton same day. at 4$ o’clock, p. m.. same day. Leave Klberton Tuesday. Thursday, and Friday, at 4 o’clock, x. m.. and arrive at Lexington same day, at o'c lock, a. m.. in time to connect with down train on Athens Branch. CAKNESVILLK TO KLBERTON. Leave b’arnesville every Friday: at 5 o’clock, a. m., and arrive at Klberton at 7 o’clock, p. m. same day. Leave Klberton every Saturday, at 6 o’clock. a. m.. and arrive at Carncsville at 7 o’clock, r. m. tame dav. ELBKRTOX AND COOK’S LAW OFFICE.— Leave Cook’s Law Office every Thursday, at 5 o’clock, a. m.. arrive at Klberton. 9 o’clock, a. m. And immediately return via Cook s Law Office wild on to Anthony Shoals, and thence immedia tely back to Cook’s Law Ottice, by 9 o’clock, p. v.. same dav. WASHINGTON TO KLBERTON. Leave Washington Friday, at 9 a m : arrive at Klber ton by 0 p in: leave Klberton Thursday at 9 a m? arrive at Washington by ♦ p m. From Abbeville, S. <\, to Klbbrton. Leave Abbeville Tuesday and Friday at 4 a m : arrive in Klberton by <i p ni: leave Klberton Wednesday nud Saturday at 4 a m ; arrive at Abbeville by 10 !> ni. Klhf.hton to Avokrson’ C. ll.—Leave Klberton everv Tuesday and Saturday at da ni ; arrive at Anderson C. H. same days at 6p m. Leave An derson C. H. every Monday and Friday at 0 am: arrive at Klberton same days at 0 p m. PROFESSIONAL CARDS, w. M. BRAWN ER, M. I>. ELBERTON, GA. OFFERS liis professional services to the citi 7,ens uiifl community at larje. fay Office in Masonic BuLLling. where lie can t'uuuri when not professionally engaged. Aug. C. 1859. GEO EJiERHAUT, M. I>. KLBKRT CuIJNTV. GA. rpFNDERiS xo the public bis services proses- JL sionallv. Residence four-nad-a-half miles north west of Elberton, on the Franklin road, near RaiUey’s old stand. Aug. 6. 1859. M. P.DEADWYLER, M D. ELBERTON, ii A. COFFERS his services professionally to the / community and public. Kilberton. Aug. C, 1859. OILS. BROWN & CAMPBELL tT T ILL PRACTICE SI'RGIOAL DENTISTRY j ’ V in tbe counties of Klbert. Hart. Franklin ! Madison. Ranks. Jackson, Clarke. Oglethorpe. | W ilkes, and Lincoln. All work warranted to give satisfaction. Address to EL BBRTOX, GA. ritOSCOPIA. X. M. STANFORD, M. I>. Residence. Lexington Depot, Georgia Railroad. OFFERS bis Professional services to the pub lic. He will be in Elberton, Ga.,on the 4tli Monday in each month. Persons wishing to see him will find him at the L T . S. Hotel. He prac tices the system of Durham and Freeman, fan.id —3m. ROBERT HESTER. AMOS T. AKRRMAN. HESTER & AKEKMAN, Attorneys At law, EI.BERTON, GA. JOHN \V. HUTCHERSON, Attorney At Lair, SPARTA, GA. ATT ill practice in all the counties of thenorth \Y rrn circuit. Ail business entrusted to his care promptly attended to. EDWARDS A- HEARD, Attorneys At taw, ELBERTON, GA. ATTILL practice tngetherin ail tbe Counties ot W the Northern Circuit. All business cn- j trusted so their care promptly attended To. k. p. EDWAnna. Robert m. heard. JOHN C. BURCH, Attorney At taw, ELBERTON, GA. ATT ILL practice in all the counties of the j VV Northern Circuit consisting of Hart. Madison, Oglctbrope. Elbert. Wilkes. I.incoln, Warren, Glascock. Hancock, and Talliaferro ,unties. All business intrusted to his care promptly attended to. Aug. 6, 1859. ~WM T. VAN DUZER, Attorney At taw, ELBERTON, GA. Aug. 6, 1859 WILLIAM J. WIELIS, Attorney at I-aw, ELBERTON, GA. ATT ILL practice Ijvw in all the counties of the \V Northern Circuit. Business entrusted to him will be promptly and carefully attended to. ROBERT I. GORDON, Attorney At taw, HARTWELL, GA * LI. hasiness eesSdtd °bimil! he prompt]. A attetdtd to. ■ (Titc Stir of (he is>o sh, _ POETRY. __ A SONG. BY WILLIE WARE u My own. my bright, my beautiful,” Would 1 could see thee now. And twine a garland of fair flowers To deck thy maiden brow. But fate has willed that I should roam Afar, dear one. from thee. And sadness casts its shadows now, Dear one, on me. on me. I know that while I roam afar, Dear one. afar from thee, That I am in thv thoughts the while, And thou art true to me ; That when my roamings have an end, And I return to thee, Thou’lt give a hearty welcome, love, A welcome. iove. U. me. FAREWELL. Farewell! but never from mv heart Shall time thine image blot: The dreams of other days depart, Thou shalt not be forgot; And never in the suppliant sigh, Poured forth to Him who rules the sky, Shall my own name be breathed on high, And thine remembered not.—Anonymous. MISCELLANEOUS. The Wav lo Keep Him. BY MARY K. CI.AKKK. “ Out again to-night? said Mrs. Ilays, fretfully, as her husband rose from the tea table, and donned his great coat. “ “ Yes, I have an engagement with Moore; I shall be in early, have a light in the li brary. Good night,” and with a careless nod, William llayes room. “ Always the way,” murmured Lizzie Hays sinking hack upon a sofa, “out every night, I dou’t believe he cares one bit about me now, and yet we've beeti married only two years. No man can have a more orderly house, I am sure; and I never go any where, 1 am not a bit extravigant, and yet. 1 don't believe he loves me any more. Oh dear, why is it ? 1 wasn’t rich, he did not marry me for money, and he must have loved me then—why does he treat me with so much neglect? and with her mind filled with such fretful queries, Lizzie Hays fell asleep upon the sofa. Let me paint her picture as she lay, there. She was a blonde, with a small graceful figure, and a very pretty face. The hair, which showed by its rich waves natu ral tendency to curl, was brushed smoothly hack, and gathered into a rich knot at the Lack. “It was such a bother to curl it,” she said ; her check Was pale, and the whole face wore a discontented expression, ller dress was a neat chintz wrapper, hut she wore neither collar nor sleeves. “What’s the use of dressing up just for Wiliam?” l.izzie slept soundly for two hours, and then awoke suddenly. She sat up, glanced at the clock, and sighed drearily at the pros pect of the long interval still to be spent alone before bed time. The library was just over the room in which she sat, and down the furnace flue, through the regiters, a voice came to the young wife's ears : it was her husband's. “ Well, MoOrc, what's a man to do? I was disappointed, and I must have pleasure j somewhere. Who would have fancied that. I Lizzie Jarvis, so pretty, spiritly, and loving, : could change to the fretful dowdy she is | now ? Who wants to stay at, home to hear his whining all the evening about her troub lesome servants, and her headache, and all sorts of bothers ? She's got the knack of that drolling whine so pat, poll’ my life, I don't believe she can speak pleasantly.” Lizzie sat as if stunned. Was t is true? She looked in the glass. If not exactly dowdy, her costume were certainly not suit able for an evening, even if it were an eve ning at home, with only William to admire. She rose, and softly went to her own room with bitter, sorrowful thoughts, and a firm resolution to win back her husband’s heart and, then, then his love regained, to keep it. The next morning, William came into the breakfast-room, with his usual careless man ner, but a bright smile came on his lip as he | saw Lizzie. A pretty chin tz, with neat collar and undersleeves of snowy-white mus lin, and a wealth of soft full curls had real ly metamorphosed her, while the blush of her husband's admiring glance called up to her, cheek, did not detract from her beauty. At first William thought there must be a guest, but glancing he found they were i alone. “ Come, William your coffee will be stone j cold,” said Lizzie, in a cheering pleasant voice. “ It must cool till you sweeten my break fast with a kiss,” said her husband crossing the room to her side ; and Lizzie’s heart bounded, as she recognized the old lover’s j and manners. Not one fretful speech, not one complaint fell upon William’s ear through the meal. The newspaper, his usual solace at the hour, i lay untouched, as Lizzie chatted gayly on every pleasant subject she could think of. j warming by his gratified interest and cordial manner. “ You will be home to dinner ? she said, as he went ont. “Can’t to day Lizzie, I have business out, j of town, but I'll be home early to tea. Have something substantial, for I don't expect to dine. Good-by.” and the smiling look, i warm kiss, and live’y whistle, were a mark , KLBERTON, GA„ THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST Hi, 1860. pi contrast to his lounging,careless gait, the previous evening. “ 1 am in the right path,” said Lizzie in a low whisper “O! what a fool I have beeu for two years ‘. A “fretful dowdy !’ William you shall never say that agaiu.’ Lizzy loved her husband with real wifely devotion, and her lip would quiver as she i thought his confidence to his friend Moore; ; hut like a brave little woman she stifled hack the bitter feelings, and trippled off, to per fect her plans. -The g and piano, silent for months, was opened, and the linen covers taken from the furniture, Lizzie thinking, “He shan't find anv parlor more attractive than his owu, 1 am determined.” Tea time came, and william came with it. A little figure, in a tastcy..bright, silk dregs, smooth curls, and oh ! such a lovely blush and smile, stood ready to welcome William, as he came in ; and tea time passed as the morning meal had done. Ater tea, there was no movement as usual towards the rack. William stood up beside the table, lingering, chatting, till Lizzie also rose. .She led him to the light, warm parlors, in their great glow of tasteful arrangement, and drew him down beside her on the sofa, lie felt as if he were courting over again, as he watched her linger busy with some fancy needle work, listened to the cheerful voice he had loved so dearly two years be fore. “ What are you making, Lizzie?” “ A pair of slipperrs. Don't you remem ber how much you admired the pair 1 work ed for you, oh ever so loug ago ?” “ I remember: black velvet with flowers on them. I used to put my feet on the fender, and dream of blue eves and bright curls, and wish time would move faster to the day when 1 could bring my bonuie wee wife home, to make music in my house. ’ Lizzie’s face saddened for a moment, as she thought of the last two years, and how little music she had made for this loving heart, gradually wearing it from allegiance; lieu she said— “l wonder if you love music as much as you did then ?” “Os course 1 do. I often drop in at Miss Smith’s for nothing else than to hear the music.” “ I can play and sing better than Miss Smith,” said Lizzie, half pouting. “ But you always say you are out of prac tice when 1 ask you.” “ 1 had the piano tuned this morning.— Now, open it, and we will see how it sounds.” Lizzie obeyed joyfully, and tossing aside her sewing, Lizzie took the piano stool.— She had a very sweet voice, not powerful, hut most musical, and was a very fair per former on the piano. “ Bullards, Lizzie?” Oh! yes, I know you dislike opera mu sic in a parlor.” One song after another, with a nocturne or lively instrumental piece, occasionally, between them, filled up another hour pleas antly. The little mantle clock struck eleven ! “Eleven! I thought it was about nine. I ought to apoligize, Lizzie, as I used to do, for staying so long, and I can truly say, as 1 di . then, that the time has passed so pleas antly, I scarcely believe it is so late.” The piano was closed, Lizzie’s work put in the baskets, and William was ready to go tip stairs; but glancing back, he saw his little wife near the lire place, her hands clasped, her head bent and large tear* fall ing from her eyes. Ho were beside her in an isntant. “ Lizzie, darling, arc you ill? What is the matter ? Oh ? William, I have been such a bad wife! I heard you tell Mr. Moore, last eve ning, how 1 bad disappointed you, but I will try to make your home pleasant, indeed I will, if you will only forgive and love me.” “ Love you! Oh! Lizzie you cannot guess how dearly I love you!” As the little wife lay down that night she thought— -1 have won him hack again! Better than that I have learned the way to keep him!” Shocking Occurrence. A frightful accident, similar to one which occurred some short time ago in England, took place at Penig, in Saxony. During the fair which was being held iri that place several young girls were standing looking at a managerie of wild beasts, when one of them, about ten years of age, having incau tiously approached too near, was clutched by the back of the head by the claws of the animal, which had darted its paw through the bars. Two of the keepers on hearing the shrieks of the persons present, rushed forward ; one of them laid hold of the child s . head, while the other beat, the animal vio- i lently over the head to make it let. go its ; hold, hut it did not do so without tearing 1 away with its claw almost all the scalp dow nto the eye-brows. Tbe girl lived in the greatest suffering nntil the following morning, when she expired. ■ m ■— heii A young lady who lately gave an or der to a militier :or a bonnet, said :—“ You are to make it plain hot at the same time smart, n* l sit- in a conspicuous {dace in j church. I SEEIIG TEE ELEPHANT “ Seeing the Elephant;” is a term, w hat [ ever may bet Ought of its original concep tion, now pretty generally understood, and j so often realized as to be fully appreciated It is many yeai) ago since the elephant was seen by Noah, who, when his huge passen ’ ger took his trunk with him ashore, proba- I bly cared little about seeing him again.— But the elephant of which I am to tell you made a lougei voyage than liis ante-post dcluvian progeiiitor, and how it ended you shall presently |nOW. If you quustiot die truth of the story, you may ask the genial, witty wartlnger of Lewis’ wharf, who is none other than Cap tain D., who, in the year 1832, commanded the ship Sultan, which belonged to Mr. 8., a merchant of Boston—honorable, but sharp. In those days ships were sent upon trading” voyages, and ships, with their cargoes—both smaller than those of the present day—were frequently owned by the same party. 1 u passing, it is harmless to remark that this old-fashioned practice prevented trade from being overdone. Now there are more freighting ships than arc required for the goods needed by the world for its consump tion ; as freights are therefore brought down to ruinously small rates, an inducement is offered to ship goods that arc not wanted, and thus the ship owner and the importer are both loosen. This is the first moral that adorns the tale of the elephant, and which the reader will probably whisk oil'as quickly as the beast would brush off a fly from his quarters. And now reveuousu nos montons, or rather, a not elephant. The Sachem, Captain Brown, and the Sultan, under command of our friend Cap tain D., had both taken cargoes of sugar at Siam. The Sachem, having completed her loading, sailed first for Boston. l’ruvious to this, one of the rajahs, with whom Cap tain D. had ingratiated himself, (as he al ways has done with everybody,) presented to him a young elephant, as a token of his esteem and consideration. An elephant is sometimes not an agreeable present. Tbe well known story of the man who suffered from possessing one, is an illustration of moral No. 2. Kino houses and grounds and equipages are elephants, especially when they have large trunks. But captain D's elephant was unlike any of these. It bade fair to he a profitable Speculation, inasmuch as he cost nothing, and there was a reasona” ble hope of selling him to the proprietors of some managerie for a good price. Well, Captain Brown arrived in due course of time, and innocently enough re ported on ‘Change that Captuin D. was com ing, and that ho had a beautiful little ele phant on board. Mr. B. heard of it. “Ail elephant, has lie? Ship's account, ot course !” “Oh, no,” said Captain Brown, “It is his own.” “His own? Ah—hum—” The Sultan at length arrived below, and anchored in Nantaskct roads one cold nor'- wcsterly day. Thcrewere no tug-boats then, to be used for the conveyance of ship-mas ters and pilots, and frequently for the incon venience of owners’ pockets. So the Sultan lay quietly at her anchor* till she oould be worked up on the flood, a thing supposed to be impiiieticablc in these days, when a tow boat renders valuable service sometimes, in addition to lair winds and tiCe. This may serve for a sort of moral No. 3. Some peo ple may be benefited. Leaving the ship in charge of the pilot, Captain I). panic up to n town in a boat, bringing with him his papers and accounts; for a punctual man is Captain I)., and so was Mr. B. “Short accounts,” they both thought, “make long friends.” A pithy sentence, but full of pith, and which will serve for moral No. 4. “There arc my account*, Mr. B.,”said the Captain, as he laid a pile of papers on the desk; “ account sales of outward cargo, dis bursements abroad, invoices of sugars, and account current ; my own invoices rather larger than I intended, so that, allowing my wages and commissions, I owe you a balance of $367 43.” This was business-like and straight-forward. Mr. IJ. could not gainsay it. It was all /• regie, hut “ But what, sir?” “ Why, Captain D., said Mr. B. with a slight twinkle of his eye, “ you have, allow ed me no freight on that—elephant ! “ Oh ! then you know I have one on hoard, do you ? Well, he is mine, and as the ship could not he filled with sugar, I put him un der the booby hatch, where nothing else would go. I never thought you would charge me freight -in him.” “Why, Captain D.,” replied the merchant, : “certainly I must, lie surely occupies more j room than two passangers, who would have paid five hundred dollars.” “But there were no passengers,” returned the Captain, “and if there had been, they would not have gone under the booby hatch.” “That sort of reasoning won't do,” said Mr. B. “ You can sell that elephant pro bably for six or eight hundred dollars; and as he ha” come in my ship, I am entitled to , the greater part of the profit that will be j made.” Captain D thought it a very hard ee, hut at last acceded to a compromise, which he led his astute owner to propose The ! elephant should lie Mr I! s. and he would !. r . s off the balance due him of ? 307 43 ( t | 1 fie owner ciiueklod over his goml bargain, j aiul the (Vj'tain only said sorrowfully, “Ah ! | Mr. H., you are too sharp a man for me!” On the next day the Sultan came up, but ! grounded in hauling in to the wharf. Mr ! B was anxious to got on board, that he might see his elephant, hut was obliged to wait till the t.do Would allow the ship to ““We in. “And then we had better get him out the first thing,” said he to the Captain. “By all means,” replied Captain D. “ Well, then, Mr. Hal! ett,” said the own er, hailing the mate, “get up a good taekle, so is to be all read). M iud aud have a good fall rove, that wou’t break and hurt him I 1 ’ 1 lie mate grinned. The Captain quietly remarked, “Guess he won’t get hurt— he died three days ago, off Cape Cod! Just as good, though, for stuiling ! Believe we are square, aru't we ? Settled yesterday, in the office! ’ And the jolly skipper, having made his last voyage, took the liberty of punching his discomfited owner with his el bow, and every body laughed, as they do now when he says a good thing. And now we will hang the last moral on the end of the tail, improving the vulgar maxim. “ Never buy au elephant in the between decks!”— Huston Journal. Japnuose Currency. W o congratulate the officers of the Mint upon the successful result of yesterday’s pro ceedings. As wo have show nin our some what elaborate report, of yesterday and the day before, the greatest obstacle in the way of commerce with Japan, was the inequality in the fineness of the coinage of that coun try and the curious disparity in the relative values of gold and silver, when compared with those which arc established in the com mercial world. It is not strange that they were unwilling to carry out the provisions of treaties which would, in a few years, have left them without gold or silver—for while here gold is to silver as fifteon to one, Hiid there hut as five to one, at the same time, copper approximates in its value much more nearly to silver than it does with us. Trade, therefore, could not he maintained, if the Embassy had not been convinced of the honesty and correctness of the experiments made yesterday. Col. Snowden, the Direc tor of the Mint, and Messrs. Booth, Eck f'odt, Lindormnti and Dubois, are entitled to the highest praise for the careful and pa tient manner in which they explained the process to the embassadors, and the skill and exactness with which they made the analy sis. Almost suspicious when they first en tered upon these inquiries, wo are able to state that these Japanese officials are now fully satisfied, nud that they will, in their reports to the Tycoon, fully endorse all that was done yesterday, and, in addition, recom mend the adoption of our gold dollar as the standard. To adjust this difficulty was one of the chief objects of the Embassy, and the result is far more favorable to us than wo had dared to hope for. There is now nothing to interfere with our merchants, and if they choose to properly improve their opportuni ties, wo onn monopolize the advantages which will naturally follow from the opening of in tercourse with the Empire of Japan. As wo have had the honor of anticipating all other nations by our treaty, and as we have received the first Embassy ever sent to a for eign power, so, too, we have been the first to place their ccrrency upon such a footing as will enable the Japanese to compete with other nations in commercial enterprise. The last triumph is not the least, and the officers of the, Philadelphia mint may well bs proud of it.— l'hil. Eve. Journal. A Doatli-bed Confession of a Murderer. Harry Harrington, an old resident of Beckman, Duchess county, N. Y , died on Monday last, after a long illness. The Tri hue says: Before he expired he appeared in great agony, something apparently weighing upon his conscience, when he at last exclaimed that he could not die without making a con fession. Five or six persons who were in the house at the time, at once came around the hod of the dying man, when he com menced with the account of a terrible deed of blood. lie proceeded testate that, some eighteen or twenty years ago, he and another man (both then employed in Beckman Iron Fac tory) were in the factory woods one after noon, when a pedlar named Lee was seen corning in that direction, and it was agreed between them to waylay, murder aud then rob him, when they should hurry him in the woods, and carefully remove all traces of the deed. This was accordingly done, the unconscious pedlar trudging along sing ing gaily, when the murderers rushed from their hiding place, struck him senseless to the ground, and then deliberately dashed out his brains. He was at once taken up and buried in the factory woods, when, agreed upon by them, all traces of the deed were carefully obliterated, after which they took different directions and returned to to the village. Before the conscience-stricken wretch 1 could finish his confession, death scaled his lips, hut enough had already been said by him, as to his associate in crime, and the J place where I/ec was buried, that but little more could have been added. Ihe man whom 11 art ingtou accused as being implica ted with him in the deed, left Beckman very suddenly eight or niue years since, and from that time to this has never beeu heard from or seen. Thy affair will be thoroughly in vestigated Lee, the pedlar, ia remember ed by many of the citizens, who also recol lect of his mysterious disappearance. The City of Nauvoo-Ths Proph.t Smith's Family A Chicago delegate returning to his home, visited tho ruins of Nauvoo city, aud gives the following description of it: A vast extent of ground is covered by the mills of this city. €trccU bexuitfulh laid out, wide and spacious, macadamized ami in good order, afford evideuee of good taste and systematic design. Numbers of large brick houses, with doors gone, windows broken, and partially uuroofud and useless, in every sense of the term. Avery large unfinished brick hotel, with marble cappings, is in the centre of the city, a very picture of desolation and destruction. The site of the town is unsurpassed by any on the riv er. It is most admirably adapted for the wants of a large city; access to it is easy, by land aud water, the climate is genial, and the general condition of the place healthy. Since the departure of the French the Ger mans have flocked there in crowds, and now occupy the greater portion of the city. Young Joe Smith, the son of the prophet, is twenty-six years of age, and occupies the house in which liis father first lived. lie beljeves, as did his father, in all the Mor mon doctrines, Except the one which coun tenances the plurality of wives. He is a justice of tbe peace, aud lives on his proper ty. His house resembles au old-fashioucd, gable ended New England farm house, sur rounded by a neat plat of ground, thickly studded with trees. In the drawing-room hangs a portrait of the old prophet himself, which looks just as he did, cow lick and all, twenty years ago. Mr. Smith is highly re spected by his fellow-townsmen, on whom lie docs not attempt to intrude his opinions. He docs not hold a groat deal of landed property here, though he has available means elsewhere. The relict of Prophot Smith some time sinco married a Mr. Bialheimer, who, with her, occupies the house from which the first husband was driven. Ho is considerable of a man, and “ knows how to keep a hotel,” that being the present occupation of himself and all that remains to tell the mournful tale of old Smith, the great defunct. The hotel in which they entertain the travelling weary was formerly the heud qearters of the faithful. The alarm bell still hangs, though ropclcss, in the belfry, and evidences of tho Prophet's love of style are many and varied. A fine grapery is in full growth at the Hide of the house, mid the only decent orchard I have seen since leaving Chicago is in the rear. The lady is about sixty years of age. She has a tine figure, portly and fair, and is evidently a kind hearted benevolent la dy, who is tinctured a little with the spirit of tho traditional Yankee, aud who agrees with the Scriptures that it is not good for mau to live alone. Singular Adventure with a Lion. Thu following adventure is told by a well known Cape missionary. A man having sat down on a shelving low rock, near n small fountain, to take a little rest after his hearty drink, he fell asleep; hut the heat of the rock soon dis turbed liis dreams, when he beheld a large lion crouching before him, with its eyes glaring in his face, and with little more than a yard of his feet. He was at first struck motionless with terror; hut recovering his presence of mind, lie eyed liis gun, and be gan moving his hand towards it, when the lion raised its head and gave a tremendous roar, the same awful warning being repeats ed whenever the man attempted to move his hand. The rock at. length became so heat ed that he could scarcely bear his naked feet to touch it. They day passed, and the night also, hut the lion never moved from the spot; the sun rose again, and its intense heat soon rendered his feet past feeling. At noon the lion rose and walked to the water, only a few yards distant, looking behind as it went, lest the man should move, when, seeing him stretch out his hand to take his gun, it turn ed in rage, and was on the point of spring ing upon him. But another night had pass ed as the former had done ; and the next dav again the lion went towards the water, hut while there he listened to some noise apparently from an opposite quarter, and disappeared in the hushes. Ihe man seiz ed his gun, hut o:i first essaying to rise he dropped, his ankle being without power At length he made the best of his way on his hands and knees, and soon after fell in with another native, who took him to a place of safety; and, as he expressed it, with his “tees roasted.” He lost his toes, and was a “cripple for life.” A Terrible Situation. An Englishman who could not speak good German was riding a few weeks ago on the railroad from Dresden to Leipsic, when he asked, as well as he could, how long it 1 would take to go through the tunnel. The person he spoke to thought ho asked 1 how long before tho tunnel would be reach ed, and so h* answered, “In half an hour.’^ When they approached the place, the Eng lishman threw down his carpet bag and pull ed off his coat. lea few minutes all were enveloped in the darkness of the tunnel.— After some ten minutes a itreak of light ap peared, and the ladies, oppressed by the heavy atmosphere, seemed iiiqmlieut to bo iu pure air. Soon the full light came, eve ry one took a long breath, when suddenly the ladies gave a simultaneous shriek and, pulled their veils over their faces, to hide from them the disastrous condition of the Englishman. The poor man thought tho passage through the tunned would take thir ty mluuunr, wnA toot te.” sm jirlaeil My rfs turuiug to light in the midst of his toilet, which lie had not been able to make at Dres den, and for which he thought he would take advantage of tho supposed hall hour s darkness. Marvelous Phenomenon. The Russian correspondent oi the Lon don Telegraph writes thus: At Moscow, a physical phenomenon has been recently observed, such as would hate given rise to the creation ot a whole cyclo of fantastic myths iu tho time of the world's infancy. We learn lVotn a paragraph iu the lending paper of that city, that a quarter past ten, on the night of the Ist aud 2d ot March, a star to the South-west of the Qreut Bear suddenly commenced to wax larger, assuming at the same time, the color of iron ut a rod heat, but without the appearance o any sparks or rays. In this condition the star appeared until half-past 11, varying in the intensity of its light, and attaining the size nearly of the half-moon. A little be fore midnight the dimness began to increase, and at 12 o'clock the star had disappeared. In its stead a sort of black *pot was to bo noticed by the light of the stars, which were unusually brilliant that ovening. It remains for the astronomers to describe, and the po ets to sing, wf the destruction of the lumina ry, which, for ought wo know, may have been the abode of a race superior to our own. Orthography of the Sonata. In a recent discussion in the Senate, of the bill to curry into effect the treaties be tween the United States and Siam, China, Japan, l’ersin and other countries, the fol lowing orthographical amendments were made, as reported in the NY astiingtou Globe: Mr. Bayard— There aro some amend ments, which arc merely formal, that 1 de sire to make h a suggestion of the Depart ment. In lino six, section 21, I move to strike out the words “of the Sublime I’orte, and insert the word “Ottoman” between tho words “the” and “dominion*.” It is. a dif ferent mode of description. It is consider ed better and more effective. The Presiding officer—lf there he no objection, that mollification will be made. Mr. Bayard—l have another amendment, whenever the word “offence” is sjielt with “s,” instead of a “ c,” to strike out “s” and insert “c,” because it is an offence against the English language to spell it iu that way. [Laughter.] The Presiding Officer —That modification will he made. Mr. Bayard —I more also, in the 14th line of the 28th section, to Btrike out the second “e” in the word “employee.” The Presiding Officer—it will be so mod ified. Mr. Bayard—l have one other formal amendment which is essential. It is iu the ninth line of the first section to insert the word “invested” instead of “vested.” The Presiding Officer—That change will be made. The bill wus reported to the Senate as amended, and the amendments were concur red in, and the bill ordered to he engrossed, and read a third timo. It was read a third lime and passed. . •< — Lincoln and Ilamlin together mea sure just twelve feet five inches. Lincoln is six feet four inches long, and Hamlin is six feet one inch long, hut neither of these gentlemen have any other measurement.— Indiana Sni/inc/. Responding to this, Prentice says : The Sentinel tells us that, Lincoln and liamlin have no measurement than their length.— It is evidently very proud of the shape of its favorite candidate, the Little Giant, who has a greater measurement than his length, being about five feet long, and eight feet six inches, and two barley corns round- to say nothing of the measurement of corn and harlay inside. Usrf An alderman was heard the other day getting off the following specimen of what may be called “corporation” logic:— All human things are hollow ; I’m a human thing, therefore I’m hollow. It is contempt ible to be hollow, therefore I’ll stuff myself as full as I'm able.” j6*“The ladies, in all noble enterprises, are like Adams’ Express, always in advance of the males. Well, Charley, what have you been learning to-day “ Rheumatics, gran’ma —and I can tell you such a dodge. If I was to put you un- j der a glass receiver, and exhaust the air, all your wrinkles would come out as smooth as 1 grandpa’s eaunflower wig.” NO. 50.