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FOR TllF. INDEPENDENT PRESS.
Song of the Inebriate.
The jovial cup fill once again—
My eager lips must deeply drain
The sparkling wine that lights the bowl,
■ The sweet insjmvr of my soul.
The sorrows which my heart consume
Have made my heart a don of gloom;
Then fill the bowl, and while 1 drink,
Let sorrqw into nothing sink.
I'll deeply drink the sparkling draught
The gods themselves have often quaffed—
I’ll glue the chalice to my lip.
The ruby foam with frenzy sip.
They tell me poison’s in tho bowl.
They say ’tis canker to the soul—
I>>t deeper canker gnaws my heart—
Remorse has planted there his dart.
Then till tho bowl and let me quaff:—
In vain remonstrance—l but laugh
To scorn the tear that bids me stop.
And dash to earth the fatal drop.
They tell me that the drunkard's tomb
, Will be my lot, while dreary gloom
Will seize the partner of breast,
When l have from gone earth to rest.
I court the grave—l joy to think
I'm trembling on its welcome brink:—
My babes and wife their tears will dn
In realms of bliss beyond the sky.
If Ileaven no mercy have for mo
My babes and wife its ear© shall be—
I bid ti pm now a long farewell:—
Mv bosom is my deepest hell.
Then fill the bowl and let me driuk.
In sweet oblivion let me sink ;
First let me drain the goblet dry—
Inspired with wine I gladly die.
February, 184 k. t.. l.
Blisccllan rous.
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FOP. THE INDEPENDENT DRESS.
Extracts from Old I*apers.
It is both amusing and instructive to
turn over and examine old papers, es
pecially newspapers. By this means
we are transported from the present
into the past, and the past becomes
now. In this way we become, as it
were, contemporaneous with events
and things which we are accustomed
to behold through the far-off vista of
history, and new light is thrown upon
topics which were before surrounded
by darkness. \\ e have in our posses
sion many old papers extending back
a halt or the whole of a century,
from which we propose, occasionally,
to give our readers extracts, which
will form for them pleasant reading.
Reader, carry yourself back for
three quarters of a century to the
time when these lands were all forest,
and a handful of men were lighting tor
liberty against the legions of Great
- Britain. (b> T>«<s!v : to- tire- rhnewHTfn
our forefathers, who had taken up
arms in defence of freedom, were call
ed rebels and insurgents—when the
world-renowned Washington was not
dignified in England with even the
title of General but wes called Mis
ter, and you will be contemporaneous
with the extract given below, taken
from the Virginia Gazette of 1770.
Here it is:
Some Account
Qt IC very interesting examination , of
Ijjrd Cornwallis and (Jen. Grey, re- j
spectwely , at the bar oj the House of j
Commons , on Th ursday , May C.
Ihe House having formed itself into j
a Committee, the Earl of Cornwallis at j
4 o’clock was desired to attend, and <
being conducted within the bar by j
the serjeant, his Lordship professed j
sentiments of respect and veneration !
for General Sir Wiljfiam Ilowe, and
declared his readiness to .answer all ;
questions put to him that were not mat- '
Ur of opinion. To follow the noble !
Lord through the whole of his exarni- j
nation, which lasted near four hours,
would be'rather difficult to us as well j
as irksome and tedious to the public, j
His Lordship’s three first answers to *
General Howe’s questions went to!
sV*w that .America was better calc-ilia- !
ted than any country he ever saw for j
a (e-fensive war; that from the great >
number ot woods with which it I
abounds, the King’s troops were con-!
fmiulh liable to ambuscades, and that
it is a matter of extreme difficulty ever
to get any the least information from
the inhabitants for military purposes.
His Lordship also admitted that it was
almost impossible at any time to gain
any good intelligence of the enemy’s!
force 1 rum a (reconnoitre.
Ihe noble Lord now went into a
great \ariety of matter, and in his an
sweXculpjlb'd Sir AVilliam
I low c from all suspicion of a want of
judgment, neglect or supineness. Be
ing interrogated particularly as to the
dpeheral not Jiavingattackodthe rebels’
Spines at Brooklyn, on Long Island, in
August 1776; his Lordship readily an
swered, that hp had never heard it
suggested that it was'possible-to" carry
them hy assault, and he was sure (and
it was thought so at tho time), that if
the General had attempted it, and sue,
v #k d the, attack, it must have cost
€ |PL inore dian have
for any purpose it would
have Being asked how
1 main-
his Lordship thought about 0.000 or
18,000. but. declined answering wdiat
| force the British troops? were in, inti,
j mating that it Av ay a matter that more
properly belonged to the General who
comma tided them, and was a circum
| stance very easily learned from his
i returns of the different corpse.
Governour Pownall wished to know
if Sir Henry Clinton (had he been left
at liberty) might not have got, behind
the rebeis’ linos ; but his Lordship an
swered that from his position, he was
little enabled to judge of that, as he
did not ‘know whether their lines were
complete.
llis Lordship was then interrogated
in order to exonerate Sir William
i Howe from all blame as to his eon
: duet in the Jerseys, and in particular as
! to the unfortunate loss of the Hessians
at Trenton. The r.obie Lord declared
that it had been necessary for the
! General to extend his chain of eanton
; ments to that distance, that he had
I himself indeed advised it, and that the
j fatal accident, which afterwards hap-
I pened was not in human prudence to
I forsee, and therefore not to be guard
ed against.
i As to tlic pencral haying declined
|to attack Mr. Washington at White'
: Plains, the noble Lord delendcd it with
| force and energy. Tho rebels he said,
were too strong; and the British troops
not prepared for the purpose of attack
ing the enemy, or making any use of
a victory by penetrating up the .coun
try. In the first place they had no
means of baking their flour, the only
thing the men had to live on, but a
more insurmountable obstacle were the
heavy rains that fell at that time.
Col. Onslow wished to know if the
gunpowder had been wetted, and
whether the rain was in our faces or
the faces of the enemy ? To this his
Lordship replied that he did not think
that the attack was desisted from on
account of the rain being in the faces
of either, but because that the rain had
prevented us from using our artillery.
The lion, member, however, wished
much to put another question which
was, whether a considerable force, par
ticularly of grenadiers had not been
ordered to begin [he attack, whether
they did not actually begin it, and
were afterwards ordered off. To this
the noble Lord replied that the officer
| who commanded that corps was then
!in the House and could answer the
question much better than he could.—
I Upon this Col. Barre remarked that it
wp- a little extraordinary, after a paf
j tieular [officer] had commenced an at
| tack and had succeeded * * *
[His Lordship speaks,] but he
| thought himself bound to be silent on
j Colonel, not satisfied with this, put
] several other questions to his Lord
ship, in order to get at the matter lie
was fishing for, and the noble Lord
having said, that he was not averse
from being communicative on that head
from any account of Enylish 'Politics ,
the Colonel caught hold of the expres
sion and desired Ids Lordship to tel
the committee the .real cause of his ob>
jection ; but I will put a simple ques
tion (continued the Right Hon. mem
ber) to the noble Lord. Did not tiie
Hessian troops refuse the attack ?
“I must do those troops (replied his
Lordship,) the justice to say that they
in general behaved extremely well,
and that the brigade of Losborg much
distinguished themselves in the service
of his Majesty. But I must decline
explaining why-the attack was not
made, though, were I to impart the
reason, I must give the Right Hon.
member my honour that it would fully
satisfy him. Col. Barre answered,
(somewhat warmly,) that he knew .the
reason long before his Lordship came
from America, but lie wanted it to
come properly before the House.
Another point much handled was
General Howe’s ibrbearingto cross .the
Delaware when at the Jersey's and go
ing to Chesapeake Bay in preference,
which step his Lordship fully justified
willi man)' reasons for its having been
adopted. The noble Lord here took
an opportunity of• preventing any im
putation being cast on Lord Howe
from any supposed inability in him to
transport the troops, and said that the
noble Admiral did not stand higher in
the esteem of'the. seamen than he did in
that of the soldiers ; and in answering
to a question put by Admiral Keppol
whether Lord Ilowe had not employed
the most skilful persons he could ob
tain to sound the Delaware, and find a
fit.place for landing, his. Lordship re
plied that the'noble Admiral had to
his knowledge done so.
The Earl Cornwallis was asked,
What bad. consequences might have
been expected if General Ilowe had
attacked Mr. Washington at White
Flams? But his Lordship declined
resolving the interrogator, as it was,
Jic said, a questibpbm opinion.
Upon defending, s the General’a ex
pedition to Philadelphia, his Lordship
was asked by Mr. Commissioner Eden,
Whether he did noi l-now that Sir Hen
ry Clinton, thekecond in command had
condemned tho propriety.,of ISWC h a
noble Lortl * declined answering any' 1
farther.kthah that... lie nefer kn#w, s Sif
William Ilowe had ever asked Sis
William UliutonV'bpmion about the
matter.
The noble Lord Avas asked whether
in ease we could possess ourselves of
any town the inhabitants, could' be
found numerous and loyal enough to
take, up arms and defend that town,
while his Majesty’s troops penetrated
up the country. But this his Lord
ship waved as a question of opinion.
The same objection was also given by
the noble Lord to the following inter
rogatories: If during the whole of the
American war, there ever have been
a period of it when the British troops
were to be thought adequate to the re
ducing the rebels by force of arms?
Or whether they would be so by the
reinforcement intended to be sent from
hence the ensuing campaign, llis
Lordship also refused to answer,
Whether General Howe had or had
not been supplied with the necessary
force, or the force which lie had de
manded from him.
Colonel Barre desired much that the
noble Lord would give the Mouse
some account of the opinion he had
formed; or of the character he though/
the Provincials of America deserved
|or whether they were to lie terrific!
! by pursuing tho -war with more sever
ity than we have done. The first par,
of the Colonel’s question Ihe nobll
Lord was rather shy of answering ,\
but speaking to the latter part, he did
not think severity on our part would
now terrify the rebels; it would rather
tend, in his opinion, to animate them.
The Colonel then begged leave to
trouble the noble Lord with the three
following questions:
Col. Barre. Has not the American
war been a war of posts?
Lord Cornwallis. 1 think the histo
: ry of the war will determine that.
Col. Barre. If the war should be
continued will it not be a war of posts
and nothing else?
Lord Cornwallis. That is a question
of opinion.
Col. Barre. Is not a war of posts
both tedious and expensive?'
Lord Cornwallis. I have no difficul
ty in answering the question, but I
think the right honorable gentleman
as a member of Parliament as well
able to tell as I am.
Col. Barre. (The House being in a
j laugh.) I sincerely thank the noble
Lord. If I understand him rightly,
| his Lordship says “the vote' of the
| House will answer the question,”
Many other questions were sugges
ted to the noble Lord, some of which
he choose [to pass over as matter] of
opinion, and some because [they Tola
i vd folTTctsj-at the possession [of which
the House could arrive by ] confer
ences and consultations .with [the of
ficers.]
At 8 o’clock Sir "William Ilowe
[desired] G eneral G ivy to be called in.”
The first thing which strikes us with
reference to the above examination is
the fact that Lord Cornwallis was not
by any means a fast witness, lie an
swered with much complacency just
such questions as he pleased to answer,
and the balance went unanswered.—
And when lie did deign a reply, it
was couched in yague and unmeaning
generalities. In fact the trial of Sir
William Howe for letting “Mr. Wash
ington” and the “rebels” whip him,
was as great a farce as those indulged
in by investigating committees of the
U. S. House of Representatives.
His Lordship first goes on to show
that America was full of woods, and
hence afforded the rebels great facility
for keeping out of the way. He shows,
moreover, that the insurgents were not
going to give any knowledge of them
selves, or of the country, which would
enable the British to conquer them.—
He also gives reasons, which were very
satisfactory to himself, no doubt, why
it was that the English troops always
managed to got whipped.
A portion of our old Ga;:dic‘ is torn j
and defaced so that we had to supply ;
some words which are enclosed j n
brackets; Tn one instance we could !
not make out from the .context what
was missing; and so we have .placed
asterisks to show that a portion of the
text is wanting.
Bayard Taylor relates the following
amusing incident in his own experience
in Arabia :
“While in Arabia, I had a very re
markable experience. There is a drug
in the East whose effect is like that of
opium ; it is prepared from the Indian
hemp. It is much used by the Sara
cen warriors when about to enter bat
tle as a stimulus. It produces on the
imagination a double consciousness;
one part of the min'd schms to study,
while the other part looks on. From
motives of curiosity; J was persuaded
to try the effects of it oil my own sys
tem. J was in Damascus at the time,
Soon after ’faking the drug the effect
began to appear. I saw th 6 furniture
of the room, talked with the company,’'
and yet J. see hied to be near the pyra
mid of Cheops, whose blocks of stone
appeared to me like huge Squares of
V irgjnja tobacco. 'The scene changed
and I was on the desert in a boat made
of mother of pearl. The haiid seemed I
f grains of lustrous gold, through which I,
liH : AA‘Wh'nilAWl
S'liTir
odors, : n tV-inUSil W'»P me seemed
to be neonsiantiKerma of rainbows;
through whirl, for fifteen years, I
secmW ,o"glfe; Tho lmfir senses ;
wore developed, }Ul( l ufl --gratification
was a b fide harmonious--sensation.— |
Hence, v e can easily conceive the on* j
gin of tie Arabian Night. Mv cbm-]
panion, ; huge Kentuckian, tried tlm
drug wi iah amusing effect. Alter
i looking kt me for a while, he -started
| up with he exclamation ‘l’m a loco*
! motive.’ittid Began to cutofl his words
| like the 1 puli' of an engine, and to
work lik; the moving of the wheels.
At 1 cat,' c seised the water jug for a
drink, lit set it down with a yell,
saving, how can T take water into my
boiler .wljen L am letting oil steam.’
Liqt cr and law. —The Minnesota
Pioneer narrates the following legal de
cision, w'lieli was given at a late term
of the Oirjuit Court of St. Croix Coun
tv in WflcoSin. It is worthy of Sam
Slick : •
The Judge of tfie-Cireuit Court late
ly in sesson at Hudson, in Wisconsin,
•gave a eljnrge to the Jury in a certain
action trid before him, which excited
considerable merriment in the court
room at].the time.
| The Action was to recover the value
of cert;/in iiquors sent from below, and
consigned for sale to the defendant.—
Evidence was given oil the part of the
defendant to show that brandies, Ac.,
were made of forty cent whiskey
drugged at that; whereat the Judge
appeared quite indignant, and charged
the Jury nearly as follows :
“ Gentlernen of the\Tury. —Pare, un
adulterated liquor is a wholesome and
i pleasant beverage, and as far as the ex
\perienee of the Court extends, con
duces to health an t longevity ; but
I gentlemen of the Jury a drugged arti
er, cannot be tolerated, and if dealers
fi\\m below will send up into this "beau
tiful country, so blessed with 'the
smiles' of a benign Creator, such a mis
crlble quality of liquor as the proof
slims this to be, in this court, gentle
men of the jury, they cannot recover.”
pALLOON ON A PLANTATION. —Air.
Elliott, who recently made a balloon
asdmsion at Washington, descended
upi>n a "Virginia plantation. The sight
of A white man descending from the
skies, says the Washington Star, caus
ed [is much consternation among the
negroes working on the farm, as the
appearance of Gulliver in Lilliput, and
their first impulse was to run away.
Old- negro in particular was very bad
ly frightened. Having determined
upovi a descent, as the shades of night
Yv'eiq approaching, the a-ronaut allow
ed tie balloon gradually to fall down
and Vhchwhhiu.a short distance • from
the earth, directed the balloon so as to
skim'along that ho might select a good
place for a landing. In his course he
perceived a lane in which was a negro
driving a team of oxen and steered af
ter him. The colored man, seeing his
approach, stonily applied Iris whip to
the backs of the poor animals who for
j some time went at full speed. Tim
bal !<>-■'*, 1 • o.wever. overlook—ihmji
j mrrott hallooed, ‘‘Catch this line.”—
The affrighted fellow looked upwards,
when, finding it was really a human
voice, he leaped the fence and fairly
flew to the woods adjoining. Previous
ly to i its dopartunc, early in the morn
j ing, all.the negroes of the plantation
j were permitted to assemble around
I and take a good look at the balloon
an basket, when a most amusing scene
was enacted.
- -*}-€-& — -
Foreigners connected with tii e
York press.- —A New York Journal
claims that there are but few foreign
ers connected with the press of that,
city. Thus; it-says:—“The two Hud-
I sons of the Herald, hired., the head
i editor, and Ned, the financial writer,
are Yankees, and so is Edwin AVil
barns, who does the statistics of that
paper, and Wallace, who writes the
anti-abolition political articles, is an
American, at least; The, only two for
eigners on the Herald, of any account,
are Bonner, formerly a theatrical critic
of the Albion, who is a native A meri
can, a Canadian; aud Ryan, who was
the original editor of the Chevalier
Wykoff’sßepublic. The Daily Times,
is pretty much Y unkee, but its theatri
cal writer is a Cockney, and its princi
pal literary writer is an Irishman.—
The Tribunals altogether Yankee, ex
cept one Russian nobleman , (Gurows
ki) and one Italian prince (Belieoso.)
The Courier and Enquirer is altogeth
er American, though its responsible
editor, General _ AVr-gb has ' t: , givat
fondness for Bwhsh boblcmcnf The
Journal of Commerce is wholly Amer
iean? unci so are tlie Express and Even
ing Rost; but the principal, editor of
the Commercial Advertise* is an Eng
lish Methodist clergymen.” . And the
writer might have added the Mirror,
the. National Democrat (a Massachu
setts Yankee has just connected him
self with the latter.) and, we believe.
the Day Book. \\ hen an able* and
accomplished foreigner, as in several
instances in ]\ T cw, York, forms a con
nection with an American Journal,
Ids own prejudices, however strong
they may be, are not traceable in Ids
ediioi inis, <xc., and the reader would
hardly suspect, that lie was perusing
any other, than thoroughly American
compositions. In some of the exten
sive and central newspaper. establish
ments, the hid of an educated and' well
read Briton, or a fdrcigm : r wlio has a
command of (lie English language; and
with K'uropoanpolities,
is almost, indispensable, and if, receives
liberal remuneration. There are my
era! leading, and influential, prints,
which are, in part, owned and controll
ed by Yditoh; riot born upon Ameri
ean'Toil, but, nurtured and educated
hero, they are every inch American
oilmens;- and hardly to bo included
among the clhhs <y)f;‘T6reigneVs” con
nected'with the "preis of thi| bo'iuitry
’
AV o pity any one Alio only looUat
11? c externa l Tuan.
... j\ — Ou.t jferi a
'seftlemerit was sbrely annoyed nf a
xofub who stole frequonly. but'" who
by (his adroitness always managed to
csofpf direct prooJ' of his guilt.—
only three shades
below the legrilstandard of proof were
currently recited against him. Noboby,
however, could furnish the evidence
which would stop up the Koguo’s Gap
of Hmsonabk JJoubt. Pettibone was
100 wide awn Ire fw that*.
!At length, one Sunday morning, a
neighbor on some sudden emergency
was passing—-across the country, per
haps, for a doctor—through a turned
out field but little frequented and
where a small flock, of sheep were ac
custom to graze. Here he saw Petti
bone in hot pursuit of'a fat ewe, and
too enthusiastic in the pursuit to ob
serve that there was a spectator of the
chase. At lengt h Petti bone overhaul
ed the.bleating emblem of innocence,
and with glitferingblade let put it? life.
At this juncture the aforesaid specta
tor rode up-arid exclamed—
“Alia ! you infernal Sheep-stealing
rascal, I’ve caught, you at last, have .1,
right in the art of killing -lolm Simp
son’s sheep 1
‘Yes!’ shouted Peltibone, thrusting
forward his face and shaking his head
defiantly at his interlocutor, while he
flourished his blade indignantly; “yes!
and I’ll kill anybody's sheep that comes
and tries to bile me!”
The defence was worth a sheep, and
they only required “ Petty” to leave
the settlement, lease all the sheep might
become vicious.
A faithful Dog.—A noble point
er, rejqjcing in. the name of“ Dallas,”
made his first appearance in this city,
a few days since, after an absence of
six months from his owner, who had
long ago given him up as lost. The
master became a resident of this city
in December last, andnot being willing
to part from Dallas, on account of at
| taehment formed, during ten years own
ership of, and friendship for him, had
him put on board the steamer Fashion
at Augusta, duly consigned to Savan
nah. About 90 miles above here, Dal
las contrived to make his escape from
the boat, thinking doubtless, that he
was being carried away from his mas
ter, and was not heard of again until
a day or two since, when ho arrived
here almost famished, lean, worn, and a
mere wreck of the noble animal who
had once been Canine King of Augus
ta, arid “held up his head in the best
society.” We need hardly say that the
meeting between him and his master,
was a joyful one. How he ascertained,
that Savannah was to be his future
home, or how lie managed during his
six months pilgrimage in search of his
master, to work out the problem of
his whereabouts is more than we can
tell.
We regret to learn that Dallas lias be
come deafduring his travels, and possi
bly will never again hear the kind
voice of his best friend. He is howev
er improving in health and looks, and
j perhaps may recover his hearing in
| due course of time. At least we hope
I so, for so faithful a creature, brute 1 *
j though he is, deserves to have every
S channel open to him through which to
; receive the Kind' words, and good opin*
I ions of all who value true affection and
! fidelity.— iSav. HepudlicaYL
Mrs. Matilda Muggs has put a fresh
j shihgle at her shop door in one of the
Eastern cities, with this announce
ment.
Kotis--I nr got sum nu articles for
sale such askrac-kers, handles, kupsan
sorsers and menny other articles to nu
merous to menshun, all celling cheap.
P. S. Bee ns an tutors bort here by
the kwart or half bnsheh
The Em;tern War.
SCEX.ES AND INCIDENTS.
The war continues to be the exciting
topic in all leading European cir
cles. The most contradictory state
ments are made public, as to the inten
tions of Austria and Prussia, and as to
the probabilities of peace or otherwise.
Many of the incidents of the campaign i
arc of the most interesting character, j
and they are detailed with great mi- i
nuleness by the correspondents.
THE ALLIES AT VARNA.
I rode into Varna from the camp this j
morning; but so changed was the ap- ;
j pearance of the principal streets by the j
| restless activity and energy of fhc i
French that 1 Could i\ft recognize ;
them. Old bl/.Yiei sfdc walls had been
brok: u down, and shops opened, in
j which not only necessaries, but even
luxuries' could be purchased ; the
streets, once so dull arid silent, rc-echo
oed the laughter arid rattle of domi
noes in the newly-established cases. —
Wine merchants and sutlers from Al
giers, Oran, Constantine, Marseilles,
Toulon, had set up booths and shops,
at which liquors, spirits, and French
and country wines could be purchased
at prices not- intolerably high. The
natives had followed the example.—
Strings qf German sausages, of dried
tongues, of wiry hams, of bottles of
pickles, hung from the rafters of an
bid Turkish khan which but a few days
before was the'abode of nothing but
unseemly insects ; and an empty store
house Avas turned into a nicely white
washed and gaily painted ‘Tiesfanrnnt
do I’Armeo d’Orient pour Messieurs
les O (Tutors et fious-oflicicrs.”
r i he French and English troops har
monize in the most cordial manner;
and friendly entertainments were con
stantly taking place between the olii
cers. .No jealousy existed, except, in
the path of duty.
vm: au avotCof Hip COUNTRY,
i. he country Varna is .very,
Tme'. gVla.iyn, wlier.nonc oftlnxeaiiips
was pitched, is represented as a must
r i ling •' ■ wms, |
kites, and hu e buzzards scour
plains in quest of vermin, hares|or par
tridges. Beautiful orioles, a blaze of
green and yellow, gaudy woodpeckers,
jays,.and grosbeaks, shriek and chatter
among- 4 the bushes, while the nightiny
gale pours forth a flood of plriiirtmr
melody, aided by a lovely little warb
ler in a black cap, and red waistcoat
with bliteish lacings, who darts about
after the flies, and who, when.he has
caught and oaten one, lights,on a twig
and expresses his satisfaction in a gush
of exquisite music. Blackbirds and
thrushes join in the chorus, and birds
of all sorts, many of them unknown to
me, flit around in multitudes. , The
commonest bird of all is the clove, arid
and ho is found so good to eat, that his
cooing is often abruptly terminated by j
a dose of No. G.
Life in the (Jump.
A camp life is described as full of!
variety. I will not stop to expatiate j
on the hardships of my impromtu bed |
at the camp; of course it was on the j
ground, and of course as the tents had j
only been newly pitched, the long I
grass was in all of them, harboring in- ;
sects of repulsive appearance and j
blood-thirsty habits’. I had a huge
land tortoise, of which there are' three ;
great numbers about, with a great coat;
j for my pillow. That was quite enough,
i but not so were the colonics oi Black
i ants, which seem never to sleep, and
| which swarmed about me in p!1 dircc
i tions. Between flick intransitive cur-
I iosity, which led them to pry into all
J the cracks and crannies of my clothes,
j and between the mosquitoes, 1 had
! rather a lively night, and had ample
| opportunities of admiring the soft mel-
ancholy notes of the Turkish bulbuls,
which, poured forth their melodious
i srtains all night long. In the list of
my little agrements I have not men
tioned the heavy dew, for that was a
! least quiet; though, as regarded com-
I fort and warmth, I might as well have
slept, in a brook. Such little incidents
and such little comforts, varied by in
tensely hot days or intensely wet ones,
make the ordinary routine of camp life,
about the pleasures of which those who
have never tried, it talk so much.—
1 Your readers will easily appreciate the
! reason which made me an early riser
! the next morning.—Physicians say a
I a person should never stop .long in the
! water, and, applying the advice to my
| bed, I left it as soon possible. It was
; about four o’clock on a fine summer s
j mining, and even then nearly all the
»ng lm A v preparing for a parade
iWw. which was to take place at six.
: The aspect of the camp in a bright sum
! mer's dawn was even, if possible: more
picturesque than on the proceeding eve
ning; and, in spile of my little hard
ships, it was not without a feeling of
regret that I left its beautiful hills
and vallvs to return to the little rooms,
close, lanes, and inquire atmosphere of
Varna.
Intemperance in the Army.
Another correspondent says that
I much intemperance prevails in the ar
. my, and groups of French and English
j soldiers are eonstanlv seen mssiner
| along arm m arm, drunk as Bacchus,
■ denouncinsr the Russians, and vowirm
j eternal fraternity. A correspondent
!of the Times says:
“Drunkenness at Gallipoli and at
i Scutari has been the bane of our men,
! French and English. Willi ns flog*
ging seems the only cure, and even
that is not a good or certain one. Sir
D. Ij. Evans is particularly opposed to
the lash, but somthing must be done
if the mischief continues. A ‘hell’ has
been established neap Scutari barracks
oy certain, enterprising persons from
f!w neighborhood of St. James’s street,
but hitherto the worthless have been
very unlucky, and have met little cus
tom, and none of it lucrative. An It
alian has erected a very comfortable ca
sino, an eating and smoking-room in
the same place. Our commissariat has
forty days’ bread in advance for tire ap
riiy; the .French have not got twent v
days’ bread. .There has been a serious
scuffling fight at Gallipoli between {he
Ist Kovals and the doth Begiment, in
which all the men on both sides were
engaged. Only broken heads were
the result, and the combatants are now J
as good friends as ever.”
A good scene, in strong contrast to
! the general fraternity, occurred at Ciil
eti, a village near Scutari, between
some English aflillery soldiers, sailbrs
of the transport No. 8. and a party of
Ottoman”troops. Four English Avero
| carried off slightly wounded. The
| Turks had one killed and Evolve
w bunded. The transport tired a round
of grape-shot, and the Turks immedi
ately dispersed. • ‘ “
• ! JFish Slot'tj.
houreleroymen, a Babtist, Presbv
ierian, Methodist,'amt Hoi hah Catho-’
lie met by agreement to dine : on fish.
Soon as grace Avas said, the Catholic
rose, yrmed with knife and fork and
taking about one third of thqiish, com
prehending the head, removed it %
his plate, exclaiming ns lie sat (low?
with great seU-satistaclion, “Papa pit
eapnt ecolesim,!’ (the Pope is the head
.mi : t go, e, ■ • ipii:
?sclf tombprit orie“®.Fd embracing t >,
■
e-aTomF. opus” (tin
work). The PfeslfrUivian noA tliouui,;
it. was time for him h* move, aflfl tag
ing; the remainder <jf the ii.sir t y h ; :
plate exclaimed, “In media cst vchLo
’ (troth lieVbetween the twomxtrcinm;
Our Baptist brother had notliing beiWt
-I,hVyA.2up Afaiiat ifepiS
pect. ofa slim, dinner, and snatching up
a bowl of drawn (molted) butter he’
•dashed it over them all exclaiming
“Ego baptize vos” (I baptise you alb.
Singular Affair—On Sunday a
man about thirty years of age, accom
panied by a woman aged twenty- -sever,
and two children—representing; the].;,
selves as man and wifi 4 —made applica
tion to Mr. Thomson for relief. They
stated that they were just from Can ada
having come over by the boat;—and
were destitute of means, hence‘the ap-
I peal for aid. Mr, T. kept them during
I the day and the succeeding night, am
j then told them that- if they persists
1 in asking aid,- he should be compellcc
to send them to the County house
| Upon.- this they left. Is pining further
| was heard from them till several day
j after, when an old- man arrived iron
I Canada in pursuit of them, stating lha
the woman was his own wife, and th
i man his son by n former one. Whetli
I er he. succeeded in tracing the fugitive
we have riot learned, but should lu
i we should infer that the meeting F
tween father and sOn must be rath
• embarrassi ng.—Ttocltester Advocate.-
Mr. Pollard’s Monkey.—Jack, as
lie was called, seeing his master and
some companions drinking,' with those
imitative powers, for wliieh his species
is remarkable, finding half a glass of
, whiskey left, took it up and 'drank it
off. It tlew of'course to his'head.
Amid the roars of laughter, he began
ito skip, hop and dance. *faek was
drunk. Next day when they, with
i the intention of repeating the .fun, went
; to take the poor monkey from his bo:-:,
j lie was not to be seen. Looking inside.
' there lie lay crouching in a corner.-
; “ Come out,” said his master. Afraid
| to disobey, lie came walking on three
legs—the forepaw was laid on his fort
! head, saying as plain as words could do.
that lie had a headache. Having left
him some days to get well and resume
his gaiety, they carried him off to the
old scene of revel. On editoring, he
eyed the glasses with manifest - terror,
skulking behind the chairs; and on ltis
! master ordering him to drink he bolted
and was on the house top in a twinkling.
! They called him down. He. would
1 not come. His master shook a whip at
him. Jack astride the ridepole grinm . i
j defiance. A gun, which ha was afraid
of, was pointed at the disciple of tein
i peranco; lie ducked his head and slipped
J over to the back of the house. Two
l guns were now leveled at him one from
,*aeh side of the house; upon* whi A
i seeing his predicament, and less aka; 1
i apparently of the fire than water, tlw
i monkey leaps at one bound on the ehim
nev top, and getting down into the fine
held on witlihis fom paws. Ife would
| rather be singed than drink. He tri
umphed and although his master kept
| him twelve years after that he could
I never persuade the .rnonkey to take
! another drop of whiskey.
A Happy Land.; —A writer .from
: Florence says that; in sonic respects 1 ta
|iv is the most delightful country in
j the world. It is a land for example
I where cleaning, house washing day.
| and all other such interesting epochs
in the American calender, arc intoler
ated and unknpAvn. This exemption
from the great domestic evil of clean
i mg the house is owing not so much to a
love of dirt as to the peculiar construe
, tionof the building. Thus for instance,
Avherc the ceilings and Avail are JVes
! coed, or the latter covered Avitli silk
j or paper hanging, there is no need of
i Avhite washing, and where the pan
nels and marble are of oak, there is n<>
j necessity for scouring paint. The ccil
’ ing and Avails are kept clean by long
bandied brushes. The carpets there
i are fastened to iron rings in the floor,
i by means of large hooks in the build -
! ing, and tints can be raised and laid
| doAvn again as .'noiselessly and eas.ly
ias bed covers. In Italy a- large par*
! tion of the-house avoirs, such as wash
: ing, cleaning windoAYS, &c., is done at
! an earlv hour in the morning, before
i the family are the day; and
I so quietly is it accomplished that to a
, stranger it seeiiis as if the invisible
j wand of some mighty magician had
[changed all in the night. •
! —We slated the other day that a gen
j tleman passed through*!he village, of
, Dunkirk, fin route for Cincinnati, with
| some twelve muiye Chinese tea cultur
: ists, ,for tlie purpose of testing the prae
! li ('ability of gloving tea in the. vieini
|tv of Cincinnaii. The Cincinnati Col-
I umbian. says there are already in that
; city a number of Chinese --engaged, ip
; the business; It is hoped the experi
! ment of raising tea on the banks ot the.
| Ohio Avill be thoroughly tried.
Anecdote of ■ Nicholas.—The
London Spectator is responsible lor
the folloAving ;
“A story is current among the
friends of the late Duke of Welling
ton, that lie had a&casionpnot very
long after the accession of Nicholas,
to discover the practical character of
the hypperite. The Emperor made to
tlie great. Captain certain statements
respecting military proceedings,which,
from such autho|py, Wellington re
ceived as facts. Mr. Canning afterwards
pointed out to the .Duke a statement
from St. Petersburg, undoubtedly au
thentic, that \v«gs totally incompatible
with tlie imperial statement. Nieholas
lately designated himself to our Am
bassndor by tlie name.of “gentleman;”
on the occasion we of, the
.Duke applied td the Imtbcrhte ab%jph
thet mnch shorter: 1 ‘ Yes,” he 'said %
Calming,; “J sect wliat. you nVcqtit, but
could I suppose that the fellow was a
d-d bar'd ”
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