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v -bJ£MBmaT v ' iMrmrmi I I'll/ v Ul 111 Vi V t V-’-'v. 'V 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. ■ 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 ” • ' . atila r*- A*'W. <_i». ... urn. wA... _ «... . ...
