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jftjOTHttOUJ The. Coiistilutioii and Fortifiers. “;Thg only work which -the Consti tu tion"does id regard to foreign ers is to proscribe; we repeat it lor the word is so unfashionable now -a days that wheu used it ought to be cmphasized—TO UKOsCKiUE, The Con stitution. lias but five clauses touching! the subject, hour of them are imhib- i Hory, and the other simply permissive, j There isno guaranteeing clause, what- j ever. We must be pardoned for re calling the very language of the Con stitution, for this progressive genera tion is fast losing sight of even the plainest features of that document: Section 5, Article 11, of the Con stitution, sayS — “No person, except a natl'kal horn \ citizen, or a citizen of the United { •States at the time of the adoption of! this Constitution, shall be eligible .to ! the office of President.” That is proscription. Section 8 <*f ArttcTe' XTI. of the -CVriistitution says— “ No person Constitutionally ineligi ble to the office of President, shall be eligible to that, of Vice President of the United States.’' That is proscription. Section 8 of Article f. says “ snau oe senator who shall not have attained the age of thir ty years, and been nine tears a cit izen of the United States.” That is proscription. Section 2 of Article I. says— “No person shall be a Kepresenta tive who shall not have attained the age ! of 'twenty-live years, and been seven YEARS A CITIZEN.” That is proscription. These are disabilities imposed upon foreigners after they have been made citizens. Put more than this the Con stitution leaves it discretionary whether to make them citizens at all. It sim ply confers the power, simply permits. Section 8 of Article I. says — 1 “Congress shall have power to es tablish a uniform rule of naturaliza-! lion, and uniform laws on the subject ! of bankruptcies throughout the United States.” Nothing whatever obliges Congress to exercise this power, or restricts its range in either direction when if is exercised. Congress may require two years previous residence, as was re-, quired by the act of 1760; or five years, as by the acts of 1705 and 1802 ; or fourteen years, as by the act of 1708; or twenty-one years as is now demanded ; or it may withhold natu ralization entirely. The question is purely one. of expediency. It is ab surd to talk of constitutional rights or constitutional guarantees in connection with it." —Courier & Enquirer. Hear limiting. The following singular means of cap turing or killing the bear is said to be frequently practiced by Russian peas ants, who cannot easily procure fire arms. As is well known, the bear has n fondue** for honey, and will track his way for * great distance to where the wild bee* have filled some hollow tree. , Their sting cannot hurt him, and they and their stores are entirely at his mercy. In a forest known to contain bears* *>.c hunters examine all the hollow 5 trees, til! they discover * wild bee hive. A branch of the tree is then chosen, directly over the hole; if there be no such branch a peg is driven into the trunk. To this peg a-strong cord is fastened, and to the end es the cord a heavy »to*e or cannon ball is sus pended, at about a half a foot from the ground; the bear in his researches comes upon the treasure of honey.- The pendulous barrier obstructs 'and •incommodes him a good deal; lie is an irritable brute—in such cases one of the most irritable as well as stupid in the forest. He begins by shoving the stone or weight aside; but itpresses against his head, and he gives it a slight knock to free himself from the inconvenience. It recoils a moment and he receives a slight lapt* on the ear. His temper is roused, and lie amain nushes off the hard and heavy mass', but more violently; he gets rather a severer blow on the side of the skull, on its return. ’ lie pecomes furious, and with a pow erful jerk sends the roek swinging •it way. c The pendulum cannot be the first to tire of this game; and it is a game in which the blows, arc felt 61 1 one side exclusively. J he bear alone suffers, and the point is tliat he seff rs as much by the strokes ne gives; as by those lie gets. Jle tab's double punishment, if is very retaliations are all against himself'; and for every furious push which makes his skull ache, he receives an immediate equivalent, whieh makes it ache again. t At last his rage is unbounded; lie hugs the block; lie strikes it; lie bites it; but whenever he would thrust hi- head into the hive, back on his ear falls the obstruction, against whieh neither Iris terrible hug. nor the blows of his paw are of any avail. The brute, is maddened. ' ife faces -li is arrange*find pertinacious tormentor, and once more makes it rebound from 'hi# skull. But back;it swings like a ’curse, which returns upon the head from which it started. The- bear falls 'exhaite^'under these reiterated blows; one/more violent than another; •and if he be not dead, the hunters,' who have watched Jiis- singular con test front thgif hidden, place- soon tffp' patch him-. ' y . It is common to speak of thus; whom, a flirt has jilted as her victims, 'This,' : »s a grave error. Her ,rsal viet'm is the man whoui she accepts. This re minds us of a simile we saw somewhere: A coquette ’is a. ips<s from wliie.h every lover plucks a leaf—rtlm’.thorn, remains for her future husband.’ Governor iHulon on Duelling. ■ "PIT If I’IiOM HIS LATE MESSAGE. q&ir ' .■ w * • u 1 : A prominent ami besotting evil of the times is the practice of duelling, whichfVcqueutly shipwrecks the peace of families, and dc»siroys*t.he lives ot useful members of society: In these eases false notions of honof are array ed against the dictates of morality, the prescriptions of Jaw, and the 'injunc tions of religion. The extermination of this modern hydra has been found more difficult than the physical hydra of antiquity. The severity of penal inflictions has been rendered nugatory by the want of certainty; and chi vat ic folly has prostrated the most sacred considerations. The failure of past preventives ought not to deter from the application of new expedients, i f public opinion is unable to arrest this aggravated evil, the arm of the law ought to be stretched forth, lull of ter ror and replete with punishment. The most effectual prescription heretofore applied, was the requirement of an oath from every person entering into office that- lie would not be concerned in duyllmg; but this having been abol ished! by the new constitution, other measures must be pursued. As most duels lake place out of the State, might it notihave a preventing effect, to di rect ajl magistrates to make strict in quiry' into the charges and in their Uw.-ciion to Imprison tlrcr-trftbnder, un til notice can be. given to the executive | of the state in whiah the .crime was committed, so that lie might make the constitutional requisition for their being delivered up for punishment? And if a homicide of this character is perpe trated, may it not be advisable to con sider it so in the state where the per son dies, as well as in that where the wound was indicted? Most ducks are brought to a fatal termination by the misconduct of seconds, who, in the confidence of self-security, and in the headlong career of demented quixot ism, close the door against reconcilia tion ; and they ought, therefore, to be visited by exemplary punishment, es pecially in challenges ending in duels, and when homicides have taken place out of our jurisdiction. What is now adjudged only a misdemeanor, or a breach of the peace, ought to be deem ed a felon v ;py] subjected to .punish ment in our state prisons. And, by such energetic measures, it is earnestly to be hoped that this disgraceful evil and liigli-handed offence may be ex pelled from our country. —1888. An Egyptian Lady. She wore, first, a chemise of some thin, white material, with loose sleeves, embroidered round the-edge, hanging over her hands ; then a large, pair of crimson silk trowsers, so long and wide, that they entirely concealed her bare feet; then came a garment like the Turkish a/i cm*, descending to the feet before, hanging in a train behind, and opening at the sides, with long sleeves open from the wrist to the el bow'. and foiling back so as to display those of, the chemise beneath. This dress was made of crimson damask, and embroidered all round the edge with black braiding, and was confined —not at the wrist, but over the hips— with an Indian shawl, wound two or three times round, and Lotted be fore. The last Was a jacket, reaching only to the waist, with half sleeves, made of exceedingly rich stuff of dark blue silk, embroidered all over, in a running pattern, with gold, and edged with, gold braiding and buttons. Three large silver amulet-cases, con taining charms, were hung over the shawl-girdle. The head-dress is the prettiest part of the Egyptian costume and Sofia’s was exceedingly rich. Her hair was divided into twenty or thirty small braids, hanging over her shoulders, to the end of which arc affixed three silk cords strung with gold coins of various sizes. Two rows of gold coins, as large as half-crown pieces laid close together, encircled her forehead; and at each temple depended smaller ones, with an agate ornament in the middle. The back of the head was covered with a small Egyptian Ecz s ornamented with a large Ckoors of sol id gold and bound on by a handker chief of embroidered crape. She wore two lecklaces of large gold coins, thickly strung together, and each in dividual piece of money depending from a massiTc ornament in lh» form of a fish; one of these necklaces was long, and the other just encircled her throat; and between them was a string of beads of Egpvtian agates, as large as birds’ eggs, and strung togeth er with golden links. Her ear rings were of gold filigree, in the shape of flowers ; and her bracelets—of which she wore several—of massive gold and silver. "We computed that she car ried about three hundred and fifty pounds on her person, in coins alone, without including her other orna ments.—-Mrs. Homer's Pilgrimage The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Snn learns that “ the joint commissioner now in London for the adjustment of claims of the citizens of either country on the other, have rejected all the claims of the citizens made on account of damage's sustained by detention of Keizurc of American vessels supposed to be engaged in the slave trade ; and also all claims for slaves wrecked oh British Islands and dischar ged by British authorities as free.” The Claim for indemity for slaves set free by the* authorities of Nassau, on the occasion of the vessel on which they were on board being driven into that port by stress of weather, was de fended by Mr. Webster in an admira ble paper, on the ground that the flag of the United States covered tflifeir prop erty iif every part of the world, and that the .principle did not lose its force and application when property in slaves w jus parried by stress of weather into the port of a friendly pow*r. The Southern Suites will hear of the above decision with surprise if not iiidigjv t ion.—.. I lUinlfy Intelligencer. Disquietude, |)i\ ph aimers says: “If the most anxious and unhappy men in the world were examined as to the ground of their disquietude, it would be found in nine hundred and ninety-nine cases out of every otic thousand, that the provision of this day was not the ground of it. They carry their irnag in’at-ibns to a distant futurity, and fill it up with the spectres of melancholy and despair. What a world of unhap piness would be saved, if the things of this day, its duties, employments and services were to all hearts, and the issues of the’ future committed m quietness to God, trusting that when the day comes the provisions of the day will come along with it.” The scriptures say “sufficient unto the day is tlio evil thereof”—and fur ther, t hat “one thing is set over against another,” and a thoughtful person can derive comfort from these considera tions. If every day dotli have its care, hath not every care its day?” We are too prone to shun the pres ent moment, and not enjoy it, when in fact that time is all we claim as our own. We look forward for more sat isfaction than this present day affords to us, and backwards to bemoan past time as having been more agreeable, when the truth is, that when this past time was present time, it found us in no better temper for favorable think ing ot rnjnymPTit, than now. The trials and temptations' of that period are made dim by distance, but its viv id recall will show at once the futility, not to say the wrongfulness, of com plaint while passing through our pres ent day. The wind is tempered to the shorn lamb, and many having passed through affliction will, if candid, admit that they found it true then, but, inconsis tently think that the next trouble will find them unprepared to withstand the blow. Our Father in Heaven has more kindly disposed of his gifts, and in more equal proportion, than any earth ly father has the wisdom, however strong the will, to do. Live Within Your Means. —We don’t like stinginess. We don’t \[\~p c economy, when it comes down A rags a n 'l starvation. Yv e have no s3-mpa ihy with the notion that the poor man should hitch himself to a post and stand still, while the rest of the world moves forward. It is no man’s duty to deny himself every amusement, every luxu ry, every recreation, every comfort that lie may get rich. It is no man’s duty to make an iceberg of himself, to shut his eyes and ears to the suf ferings of his fellows, and to deny himself the enjoyment that results from generous actions, merely that he may hoard wealth for his heirs to quarrel about. But there is an econo my which is every man’s duty, and which .is especially commendable in the man who struggles with poverty— an economy which is consistent with happiness, and which must be prac tised if the poor man. would secure in dependence. it is almost every man’s privilege, and it becomes his duty to live within his means; not up to, but within them. Wealth does not make the man, we ad mit, and should never be taken into the account in our judgement of men; but competence should always be se cured when it can be, by the practice of economy and self-denial to only a tolerable extent. It should be secur ed, not so much for others to look upon, or to raise us in the estimation of others, as to secure the conscious ness of independence, and the con stant satisfaction which is derived from its acquirement and possession. The Human Systeih. How few are in the habit of reflect ing upon the skill arid wisdom dis played in their formation. In the hu man system arc 415 bones, each hav ing, 40 distinct intentions, or functions to fulfill; 256 muscles, and each of them having 10 different intentions. Besides the tendons, ligaments, nerves, veins, and glands of the body, ihere are not less than 1,500,000 membran ous cells connected with the lungs; More than 200,000,000,000 pores in the skin, through which perspiration is constantly flowing, and above 1,000,- 000,000 scales which compose the cuti cle skin of the body. There are also the compound organs of life—the brain, the heart, the liver, the spleen, kidneys, the intestines, the organs of sense, with their varied connexions; the blood, the bile, the lymph, the saliva, the chyle, &c. &c. The astonishing ramification of the nerves and veins through the system may be gathered from the fact, that the least puncture, though made by the smallest possible instrument (the sting of a gnat, for instance) will draw blood and produce pain—a pi’oof that both nerve and vein have been struck. Rev. N. M. Crawford. —We learn from one of the Trustees of Mercer University, that this gentleman has been unanimously elected President of that Institution, and that he has ac cepted the appointment. — Allah. Intel. Sad OcoiniKENOK.— Mr. Israel Jones, a clever and respected citizen of this county, came to his death on Monday last, in a very sad and unexpected man ner. While engaged in his business on the farm of Capt. A. S. Wingfield, where lie was employed as an overseer, lie skipped down to examine the foot of afmule, that gave indications of lameness, when a pistol, which lie had in li is breast pocket, fell to the ground, fired rind discharged its contents into his breast,immediately in the region of the heart. A messenger was im mediately despatched for medical aid, but lie expired a few minutes after the occurrence of dip sad accident. Mr. .Jones, we boll eve," was a native of NoHliJaroflna, and lyad resided but a short time in this'enunty. The above is another of the many eloquent; commentaries upon the prac tice of carrying deadly weapons.— Wilkes Pmniblicqh. j Prayer of Joseph, Efiperor of Ger many. The Emperor was a Freemason, and the following was his beautiful'prayer —truly masonic—which we extract from an old work, under the title of “Joseph’s Praver-book.” • A spirit of unbounded charity, which is the es sence of true religion, breathes through the whole Oh thou eternal, iueouiprihensible Being! who art the fountain of mercy and the source of love ! thy sun lights equally the Christian and the Atheist; thy showers equally nourish the fields of believers and infidels; the seed of virtue is found even in the heart of the impious and heroic. From thee 1 learn, therefore, that diversity of opin ion does not prevent thee from being a beneficent father to all mankind. Shall I, then, thy feeble creature, be less indulgent? Shall I not permit my subjects to adore thee in what man ner they please? Shall I persecute those who differ with me in point of thinking? Shall I spread my religion with the point of the sword ? Oh, •thou! whose mighty power and ineffa ble love embrace the universe, grant that such erroneous principles may never harbor in my breast. I will try to be like thee in all that human effort can approach infinite perfection. I will be as indulgent as thou to all whose tenets differ from mine; and all unnatural compulsion in point of conscience shall be banished forever from my kingdom. Where is the religion that does not instruct us to love virtue and detest vice? Let all religions, therefore be tolerated. Let ail mankind pay their worship to thee, thou eternal being! in the manner thou thinkest best. Hoes an error in judgment deserve an. ex pulsion from society? And is force the proper way to win the heart, or bring the wavering mind to a true sense of religion? Let the shameful chains of religious tyrany be. parted asunder and the sweet bonds of fraternal duty unite all my subjects forever! lam sensible that many difficulties will ap pear to me in this bold attompf and that jnost of tliem. will be thrown in my vfo.y by those very persons who style themselves thy ministers.; but may thy almighty power never forsake me ! Oh, thou eternal, incomprehensible Being! fortify ray holy resolutions with thy love, that I may surmount every obstacle, and let that law of our divine master, which inculcates charity and patience, be always im pressed upon my heart. Amen. — Cedar 17 x l ley 11 r eeJcly lin i es. The Know Nothings. If the reader will cast his eyes over the list of Know Nothings in the dif ferent States, lie will find that those who are notorious as its leaders are also notorious as abolitionists, with in coiy;:d-;rable exceptions. Every mem ber of Congress elected by the Know Nothings, exclusive of some anti-Ne braska Democrats, is also pledged to the abolition plan of admitting no more slave States —of a repeal of the fugitive slave law—and the restoration of the Missouri compromise line. It is so in Maine. It is so in Massachu setts. It is so in New Jersey, Pennsyl vania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi gan, and 'Wisconsion. Even in New York, where Seward ism took ground against the Know Nothings, the Know Nothings have not elected a single na tional man to Congress, but the re verse. To strengthen this array of facts, it is only necessary to state that the leaders of this order are all noto rious for their hostility to the South. j How many of those now in session at Cincinnatti, apart from a few' southern Whigs, who are always ready to unite with factions to put down the Demo cratic party, are the allies of the Abo litionists? Take the new Mayor of Philadelphia, who is the ablest and most powerful enemy of Southern men in the State of Pennsylvania, take the new 'governor of Massachusetts, Mr. Gardiner, who unfurled the flag of Know Nothingism and Abolitionism at the same time ; but the roll might be I indefinitely extended. Such is the ! New York Herald’s national party. The organization which is to protect the rights of the States, based upon the idea of assailing the citizen ! The organization which proclaims and ex ults in the most violent intolerance, to be put forth as the champion of those constitutional guarantees which are based upon the broadest principles of civil liberty and national union!— 1 Vash. Union. Another Cure for Hydrophobia. Mr. Guy Richards, of St. Andrews, L. 0., writes to the editors of the New York Observer the following remedy for the bite of rabid animals, which are much more numerous there than in any other country, and the persons who have used it have never been known to suffer from such bites. Mr. Richards says, “ I am acquainted with si»x persons who were bitten from eight to fifteen years ago, by dogs that were abundantly proved to be mad, from the fact that animals bitten immediate ly after, died with every symptom of hydrophobia;' but by the use of this remedy are yet m perfect health.” The receipt is as follows : “ Take three table’spoonsfull of oys ter shell lime, powder it and sift' it through a piece of book muslin. To this add a sufficiency of egg to give it a consistency something like soft douch, —fry it in a little fresh butter or olive oil. Let the patient eat this cake in the morning, and abstain from food and drink at least six hours. This dose repeated for three mornings in succession, isiig.aH cases sufficient. ’ As it may beisatislaetory to know something of, the character of the wri ter, I beg leavef6 refer 3*611 to Charles 11. Caste), Esq., cashier of the Cdity Banle, Montreal. Yours with respect, Grg RfiiA,KDS. The mischievous liars are those who keep just on the verge of truth. j 0 j Lagidi BiE.u.r~ tha 4617 up on a sign on a beer shop, the words: j “ Hear fo||sa!;',” remarked. I wonder if that inan’i Bear is his!own bruin T' lie re is one equally as good, which wi> find in the Table” of the “ Pioneer, or California Monthly Maga zine “ A ludicrous scene occurred a short time since on one of our most fre quented wharves. It seems some hir sute hunter bad captured a huge griz zly bear up among the mountains some where, and intent upon'‘realizing’ some thing out of him, had duly caged him, brought him to the city and placed him on exhibition, in a room Opening, wo will say, upon Pacific wharf. Over ,j 1 j the door he posted in conspicuous let ters, ‘the legend,’ (as Phoenix six would have it,) ‘ Large Pear —the largest ever caught—admission 50 cents.’ An unsophisticated jaw-boned, long-legged, lank Pike county man, fresh from the mines, (excessively ver dant—and matter-of sact —and inde pendent, witliall,) in shuffling down the street, read the sign and thought he’d like to look at the critter.’ So he paid his admission fee and, after satis fying his curiosity, went on his wav. r i'he day after, one of our German fel low citizens opened the very next room to that where bruin was exhibi ted. and posted over Ids door a sign on which was printed in huge capitals, ‘Lager Pier.’ Our Pike county friend Sauntered long-leggedly down the street, soon afterwards, and thunder struck when he read the new sign, ‘ La ger Pier ! said he, ‘ Larger Pear ? why, dog darn that other fellow’s eyes —he said his'7l was the largest bear ever ketehed—l’ve been swindled l 1 and, as wrathful as Achilles, he made one rush for bruin’s exhibition room, swept in like an ugly thunderbolt, re gardless of admission fee, and, without one word punnneled our worthy friend the hunter, almost to death, and uttcrlly “cleaned him Out. :! Magnanimous Revenge.-The Lon don Movitiiig_ jiflverltser, in speaking of the expected visit ol Louis Napoleon to the court of Great Britain, and his in stallation as a knight of the Garter, says : “ The insignia of the Emperor of Russia as a knight companion of this most noble and ancient order, consis ting of the banner, sword, mantle, and hemlet, retains its position over one of the stalls in the Chapel Royal of St. George, but it will be no doubt be re moved before the Emperor of the French is installed a knight compan ion of this order. Whether Sir Charles Young, as Garter-King-at-Arms will quietly remove the disloyal knight's insig nia, or whether, according to ancient custom, as described Asemole, they will be thrown into the choristers beyond the precincts of the castle, is not yet decided ; but wo believe it lias been determined to remove the insig nia of 'the recreant knight to make way for those of her Majesty's illustrious ally, the Emperor Napoleon 1 11.' If the British cannot pull down the flag of Nicholas at Sabastopol, and humble bis pride at Cronstadt, they can at least sweep away the insignia of distinction which they urged him lo ac cept while their guest, and which he is not there to protect. Trifly a sneaking retaliation* YYc wonder which will en joy most heartily the sweets •ol re venge—the Enlish Court, in thus pun ishing a “ recreant knight,” who accep ted their urgent entreaty, or Louis Na poleon, who compels them to bestow the same up on him at the cost of deep humiliation to themselves ?— Buffalo Democrat. Washington Gossrp.—A Wash ington letter in the New York Her aid says : In diplomatic circles here there is a new solution of the question, “ Why did Louis Napoleon deny Pierre Soule admission into France ?'’ It is this : Napoleon 111, having heard the report that Mr. Soule was the natural son of Napoleon the Great, feared that our minister (this report being true) might set himself up for the French throne. Knowing that Mr. Soule possessed great influence with the people and revolutionary leaders throughout his empire, he looked upon him as a dan gerous rival for the imperial honors, and self preservation dictated the or der forbidding him his dominions.— The Emperor himself has the reputa tion of being a natural son, which places him behind Mr. Soule in his claims up on the throne —the one presenting him self to France as the son of the great Emperor, and the other only as the “ nephew of his uncle.” Very Good.—We can enjoy a good joke occasionly, even when perpetra ted at the expense of the “ unterri fied democracy.” Here is one which is “ too good to be lost. 11 A New Test.— A capital thing that was of A. E. Bell, of lonia, who by the way never said a bad thing in liis life. A knot of democratic politi cians were collected after the Conven tion of Kalamezoo, on Thursday, when the subject of State officers came up, and the name of Sullivan, of Cass county, was mentioned in connection with ihe office of Attorney General.—- The peison, who recommeded him was asked, “ what kind of a man is he ?” Oh, first rate fellow, was the answer. “ A good lawyer, a perfect gentleman, and an upright, honest man” Hold on there, said Bel!, “ we want no new tests introduced into bur party.” The PpEi?s Repudiated by the .Catholic clergy.— The New York Mhtjfor says: The late lloman Catholic Council in this city came to the conclusion that the tconnection between the church and their self-constituted oracles should be publicly severed ; and tlkft when am organ was to be recognized, it should be placed in charge of com petent theologians, and confined with in the strict limits of theology. Such sheets as ns the Freeman’s Journal, the Celt, the Boston Pilot, the Irish American, and Brownson’s Be view will, under this decision, be secular ized.” p The Death of Randolph, Randolph, in fast declining ncalth reached Philadelphia, whither he went to take passage from that port, lie was too late for the Liverpool packet. He exposed himself to the inclemency of the weather, took cold) which ag : gravated his disease and hastened its | fatal termination. He was put to bed —his death bed—in bis lodgings at the City Hotel. The idiosyncrasies which had, of late years, especially marked his demeanor, distinguished the last hours of his life; Pie.sudden bursts of petulance which disease 'wrung from him ; the affecting kind ness and tenderness which disease could not wholly take from him; the ram blingconversation in the intervals of acute suffering, in some passages us brilliant as ever—the last gleams of the sinking lamp ; the groan mgs of re morse, which a review of his past life, Git the bar of a stern self government, drew from his contrite heart; the fer vid prayer ; the hesitating hope; the trust qualified by self-condemnation in the Saviour, whose name he profes sed ; the concluding act, ere the cur tain fell upon the last scene of earth, when, propped up by pillows, he call ed witnesses to his confirmation of his will, providing for the freedom and support of his slaves, and the last con scious words, which fired his eyes and braced his sinking frame, as, speak ing'of this connection, he laid his skel eton hand strongly upon the shoulder ! of his faithful servant John, and said 1 with emphasis—“especially for this j man.” And then —this last charge upon his conscience off-—his mind wandered away to the light, and the scenes, and the friendships of the Early Day; and, the muttcrings of ihe voice grow ing gradually fainter, as he passed on into the thicker shadows of the Dark Valley, the fluttering pulse stood still, and John Randolph, of Roanoke, was numbered with the dead!—(June 2d, IbJB, aged sixty.) They carried him back to his solita ry home, and buried him—in death as in life, unsocial and isolated—in the forest of Roanoke. In the soil of the | Virginia he loved so well, they laid the corpse of her fathful and devoted [ son. They left him to rest, after the long fever of his troubled dream of life was over, in an humble and se questered graft, beneath two stately pines. There let him sleep on! The gloom of their shade, and the melan choly sighing of the wind through their doughs, are fit emblems of the life which was breathed out in sadness and in sorrow. — Baldwin's Party Lead ers. “Roanoke,” the residence of him who made its name as familiar as his own, did not derive that name, as is perhaps generally supposed, from the river so called. The latter, as every body knows, or may know, by looking at the map of Virginia, is formed by thejuctionof the Dan and Staunton, which unite, notin Charlotte, the home of Mr. Randolph, but in the adjoining county of Mecklenburg, which form ed no part of his Congressional Dis trict. The plantation upon which he resided was situated upon the rivulet I Roanoke, a tributary of the Saunton. And from that — the rivulet not the river—he doubtless gave to his home stead the name which he always wrote immediately after his own— “ John Ran dolph, Roanoke.” Ages of Animals, —A bear rarely exceeds twenty years; a fox fourteen or sixteen; lions are long lived; Pom pey lived to the age of seventy. The average age of cats is fifteen years; a squirrel and hare seven or eight years; rabbits seven. Elephants have been known to live to the great age of four hundred years. When Alexander the Great had conquered one Poms, King of India, he took a great elephant, which had fought very valiantly for the king, named him Ajax; dedicated him to the sun, and then let him go with this inscription: “Alexander, the son of Jupiter, hath dedicated Ajax to the sun.” This elephant was found with this inscription three hundred and fifty years after. Pigs have been known to live co the age of thirty years; the rhinoceros to twenty. A horse lias been known to live to the age of sixty two, but averages twenty-five or thirty. Camels sometimes live: to the age of one hundred. Stags are long lived. Sheep seldom exceed the age of ten. Cows live about fifteen years. Cuiver con siders it probable that whales live one thousand years. The Dolphin and porpoise attain the age of thirty. An eagle died at Vienna at the age of four hundred and four years. Havens fre quently reach the age of four hundred. Swans have been known to live three bundr.:d years. Mrs. Pallerton has the skeleton of a swan that attained the ago of two hundred. A tortoise has been known to live one hundred and seven years. —/Scraps from \ataral i History. Singular Geological Fact. —At Modena, Italy, within a circle of four miles round the city, whenever the earth is dug and the workmen arrive at the distance of. sixty-three feet, they come to a bed of chalk which they bore with an auger, five feet deep. They then withdraw from the pit before the auger is removed, and upon its re traction the water bursts up Ayith great violence, and quickly fills the well thus made; the supply of water being neither affected by rains or droughts. At the depth of fourteen feet ale found ruins of an ancient city; houses, paved streets, andymasonic work. Below this again is a layer of earth, and at twenty-six feet walnut trees are found entire, with leaves and walnuts upon them. At twenty-eight feet soft chalk is found, and below this, vegetables ancbL’C 'S. .. . A Doctor’s Advice.—A phy'siciau called on an old woman down east when the following brief dialogue en sued : Oh dear doctor ; -my back is so llime L can neither set nor lay /” I lien Madam 1 would suggest the propriety of roosting.” 1 ■ • w and b. au a : • love m its hour of,purity and j,,, j ; cence—how mysteriously it ethorabvj | every feeling, and concentrates every i wild bewildering impulse of the }uff. love—holy mid mysterious love! it •’ the garland spring of life, the poetry </' Nature. Its song is heard in the ni ( p huts of the poor, as well as the gore • ous palace outlie rich—its flame cm bellishes'the solitude of the forest and the thronged haunts of busy life,’ and its light imparts brilliancy to every heart, no matter what may be its cob dition. Love-*— pure and devoted love—can never change. Friends may -'forget us —the riches of this world may . soar away, but the heart that loves will cling the closer, as loud roars the storm, and amid the wreck of the tempest, it will serve as a “beacon to light us on to safety and happiness. Love is the music,and unseen spell that softens the wild and rugged ten dencies of human nature- —that linger.- about the sanctity of the fireside, and Unites in closer union the affectu ns of society: and the soul that loves Inly will love forever. Nor like the wav b of the ocean, nor traced in sand, is th.> image impressed upon a loving heart. No, no—but will remain unbroken and unmarred —it will burn on und •- faced in its lustre, amid the quick rush of the tempest cloud—and when our fate seems dark and dreary, then will love seek shelter in her own hallowed temple, and offer as a sacrifice, her vows and affections.— Monumental Lit erary Gazette. "Will the Doctors explain Tins. —Some time in the early part of last Spring, the writer was at the house of a neighbor whose daughter was a see ing medium. Whilst sitting together and conversing on the spiritual phe nomena, the daughter exclaimed ; “0 mother! Aunt 'has just come in, and brought a little collin with a child in it. Ask her whose child it is, said the mother, She did so, and was told that it was the youngest,child of the mother’s youngest brother, who lived six orseven hundredmilesdislanl. j The spirit informed the medium that the j child was then alive and well, but that jit would die in a short time. Some ■j two months after this the writer called there again, and they informed him that they had just received a letter from the father of the child, announ cing its death There were several other persons present at the time when the medium saw the coffin and the child brought in, whose names can be had jby one who wishes to make inquiry i and the family, whose name we will 1 communicate verbally to inquirers, will ; satisfy any one that the letter 7 as re ! ceived at (lie time specified. Now, if these kneclogians or the | toe-snapper of the New York National I Democrat, can bring such cases as this j within their philosophy, it will be bel ter worth propagating in France. (Age of Progress. *Tliis aunt lias been dead for many years. “I wish to furnish you with an item in regard to a bov of twelve months, with whom I was acquainted in Mil waukie a year or two ago. He was rather backward in the acquisition of his mother tongue; and at the age I have mentioned, could only articulate “Pa,” “Ma,” and a few other words of one syllable, among which was the word “whoa!” learned from his father I while riding with him in the family j carriage. His father was a very.pious i man, and somewhat tedious in saying grace. One day at dinner, the little ; fellow felt more than usually impa j tient to lay hold of the good things ; smoking before him, and when the ; blessing was about half pronounced, | exclaimed to his father, in a tone quite : mandatory for an infant, “ Pa, whoa!” | The effect upon all at the table was com ical in the extreme; and the sober pa rent performed the remainder of his duty with an evident relaxation of the facial muscles, and with no disposition to restrain the inevitable merriment of his guests. I doubt whether a more expressive saying in a few words ever issued from the lips, of a child." Ex actly : and how often would -A children of a larger growth,” in churches, at public meetings, or in listening to long “graces” at private tables, say “whoa!" if they were as simple, honest, and di rect as their little brethern!” The following character of the Hus sions, as given by a Turkish inn-kcep er, was published many years ago in a “Journal of a Visit to Constantinople.'’ There has been no “love lost” between, the two'nations since thirty years ago: “Havinglanded at Buyukdcro, with many of the English, we went to the hotel, a clean, comfortable, well fitted house, with a good cook and good wines. It was very laughable to hear {the landlord execrating the liussians. “ ‘They never spend a penny ; stin gy fellows, who would eat a tallow candle down to the very end, and leave not a drop for the waiter! He wished to Heaven,’ he said, ‘that they were at the bottom of the Black Sea, with the English lleets anchored above them. Then,’ £aid he, ‘we should see the por ter-corks fly, the tables swim with grog, cigar-boxes burst their cedar sides, the cook roast all day, and I should be happy in the general scramble ; but alas! there is no such luck nowa days !” ’ It one were to judge from the de scription, given in' the English and French reports from the seat of the present war on the Danube and ports of the. Black Sea, of tlie food which is seyved out to the Russian troops, the Turkish Boniface’s picture is not at all over-colored. A Western editor complaining that he could not sleep one night, summed up the causes. A wailing babe of seventeen months—dog howling un der the window—a eat in the alley— a colored serenade at the shanty over the way —a toothache, and a pig try ing to get in at the back door! Door fellow i