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MWMURMfl A TV BANT.
General Prescon, the commander of the British
troops on Rhoce Island, was one of those mean
spirited, petty tyrants, who, when in power, ex
ercised their ingenuity to ihe utmost in devising
means ol aunoyinj and harrassmg all who have
the mia'oriune io be subject to their authority, but
when circumstances place them in the power of
other, are the most contemtible sycophants and
parasites. An aristocrat by birth, he had been
reared in the lap ol potter and nurtured under the
influence ol those peculiar institutions which, in
elevating the few depressing and degrading the
mass, prepare that privileged few to become th
most vicious and arbitrary rulers, particularly of a
people who aspire to freedom and quality. Narrow-minded
in the extreme, with a heart which
knew not the least touch of benevolence, and cal
lous to every feeling ol pity, he was fur from being
a fit person to be placed in authority over the pat
riotic inhabitants ol Rhode Island, who could be
more easily conquered by lenient measures than
by the us-, of constraining influences. From the
first day ol his power, he pursued a system of the
most pitiiu; tyranny, with a view to crush the
sP,rit of lfl0!iv ho ba dared to resist the op-
pressions heaped upon them by the mother coun-
,ry .
Writhing under n sense of wrong and injustice
and maddened to desperation by the meunness
and maligni'y of their tyrant, the people ol the is
land d-urmi nd to rid tbemaelvea of the curse, no
matter at what risk or sacrifice. Various plans
were suggested, and evon assassination was hin
ted; but it was reserved for Col. Barton ol Provi
dence, a bold and courageous man, to mature and
carry out a plan by which they ware relieved of
their burden for a time, and their tyrant was
taught a scere but well merited lesson. It was
a bold and diring expeiimeut, but its success
proved that the most hazardous enterprise, when
undertaken wiih zt ul and carried out with d -ci-siou
and energy, may be accomplished. Its very
daring is a guarantee of sucees.
Wiih a few chosi n men, in lour whale boats,
li irlua embarked about U o'clock in the evening
at Warwick 1'oint, and with muffled oars, careful
ly and stealthily fi ll his way iicosj to the Rhode
Island shore, passing I he British ships and guard
boats lying at anchor in the bay, without attract
ing attention. Landing in a little cove not far
Irom Prescoll's headquarters, he divided his men
into squ ids each having lis speci-il dutv assign
ed and silently advanced toward the house.
Pissing about midway between a British guard
house and I bo encunprneni of light horse, the
Colonel and his party reached the gate where
stood a sentry on guaid.
"Who goes iheie ?" he cried, as he became
aware ol the party.
' Friends," replied Birton.
Advance, Irieods, and give the countersign."
'Wo have no countersign to gne ; have you
S3en any deserters to-night T"
Tins threw the soldier otf his guard, thinking
th m Iriends from the camp and his musket was
s ized, and himself gigged and bound before he
was aware that he was m the hands of enemies.
Entering the house, Barton found Mr. Overton,
the proprietor, reading in the large open hall, ihe
rest of the family having retired, and inquired of
him for Presco'.t's to in. He pointed upwards,
intimating it was immediately above. Ilasnly as-Ct-tidintf
the stairs, the Colonel found the door
I ck d. No time was to be lost, and the door was
burst open by a blow from the head of a negro,
who was one ol the party and they rushed in to
find Prescott, who took ill m for robbers, on the
floor, in his nigh' clothes, with his watch and purse
in his hanWs. Stepping up to him, and laying his
hind quietly upon his shoulder, Birton informed
hun that he was his prisoner, and that unv noise
or ahirin would insure his immediate death. Pres-
brgw-d lime to drcs-, but it being a hot July
CO o .
night this was relumed, and he was hurried on
board the boat with his aid-de-camp, who was also
secured, together with the sentinel. With as little
noise as they came, the parly returned to War
wick, where they found a carriage in waiting to
convey the prisoner to Providence.
' ''You have made a bold push to-night said Pres
' cott to Barton, ns they drove hastily over the road
j end -avoring lo draw him into conversation.
..at i i ... I i '
We have been fortunate," replied the Colonel
laconically, and thus the colloquy ended.
Before morning the prisoners and ifocir captors
were in Providence, w here PrrseotI was delivered
into the custody of Gen. Spencer, who treated hun
with consideration far above his deserts.
Alter a few day's stay in Providence, Prescott
was sent under an escort to the headquarters of 1
Washington, on the Hudson. On reaching Leb j
anon, the parly stopped for dinner at the tavern
id a Cap'. Aideii, who was au arden: Whig, and
baled the very name of Prescott. Nothing could
fiord him higher gratification than the opportuni
ty to inflict condign punishment upon the detested
tyrant, and P. unwittingly afforded him that op
portunity. At the talle, Mr. Alden waited upon the Gen
eral, and among the dishes presented for h's nr. j
ceptance, was some "succotash," or corn and
beans, a favorite dish with New England people,
but which seemed to excite Prescott' wrath and
resentment. Taking the dish in his hand, and j
forgetting that his position was thai of a prisoner.
and not a master, he looked at it for a moment j
d exclaimed indignantly, "whaPa this! what's I
e i , ,
this' ure vnu noiiiir io ireai mu iu inn ioou ui
mo io
hogs? A he said this, h dashed the dish wr.ti
force upon the flior, breaking it in pieces, and
strewing the content in all directions. Mrs. A.
was a woman of too much spirit o brook such an
insult to her cookery and table, and left the room
' u inform her husband of the circumstance. In a
fear moments. Captain Alden, bearing a huge
, cart whip in his hand, entered the room and de
B mded of Prescott a hat he meant by such con
duct in his house. The General, seeing ven
geance written on every lineament of the captain's
face, appealed to the officers of his escort lor pro-
tec t ion.
"Protection !" said ihe captain, "I'll show you j
the protection you deserve;" and seizing him by ,
ihe collar he dragged the cowering wretch from
bis chair, and attfi all the forca of a vengelul arm
rained down upon his devoted head and shoulders j
a shower of blows with his whip, which made the
victim writhe w ith ogony and cry far that raercj
he had so frequently deDied toothers. "I'll teach
j yu manners," said Alden ; "I'll teach you to in
suit those who are ministering lo your wants, you
: tyranical minion of English oppressors" and nl
j every word the long lash of the whip wound its
, snake-like folds around the quivering body ol the
j wretched victim, until from exhaustion he released
j him, remarking, as he did so, "There, if you ever
1 want another lesson in good manners, come to me
; and I'll give it to you with pleasure."
The officers present made no effort to relieve
Uieir prisoner from the well deserved punishment.
They fell that he had richly merited the castiga
tion, and the cast-fallen general was too well js
ured of their feelings to wards him to reproach
them ; but he look a territile revenge, when, af
ter a lime, he was exchanged and returned to his
commund at Nwport, by burning the towns and
hamlets in his immediate m-inhborhood, and turn
ing their inhabitants homeless upon the world.
He never forgot or forgave the infliction, of pun
ishment upon his person, and when, upon a sub
sequent occasion, three of the citizens of Newport
wuited upon him regarding the business of the
town, he stormed and raved in such a manner at
one of them that he was compelled to withdraw.
After the others had announced their business,
and the General had become somewhat calm, he
inquired :
"Was not my trealment of Folger rather un
civil V
"Yes," replied the other.
"Then," said Prescott, "1 will tell you the rea
son ; he looked so much like a d d Connecticut
man iha horsewhipped me, that I could not en
dure his presence."
Southern Watering Places. We are gra
lifted io hear that very few people from the South
have gone North this season on plensure, and we
could wish that none would go on business. It is
high time we bad call, d a halt. We are treated
worse al the Notlh than if we were foreign ene
mic?. Besides insults and systematic organiza
tions against our institutions, a Southern gen'le
man cannot take his body servant with him with
out being mobbed and plundered. We are under
no necessity of subjecting ourselves to such treal
ment, and at the same lime pay the Yankees for
inflicting it. vVe have sea bathing and mountains,
and health giving fountains in abundance on this
side of the Potomac. Let us all with one accord
dttermine to stay at horn'-, and spend w hat money
we have to .paie among our own people. VVe
shall experience more pleasure in the expenditure
ol it, and al the same lime augment the uuans of
Southern independence.
For j-ers past the prodigality of Southern plea
sure seekers ; and the purchases of Southern mer
chants, have supplied the fanatics of the North
with the sinews of war to carry on their crusade
against us. Wilson, of Massachusetts, who is said
lo have slaveholders, is on!v one of the million
who riot in wealth accumulated from slave labor.
The almighty dollar is the only god w hom the
genuine Yankee devoutedly adores ; and it he
were made to fiel that he could only approach the
presence of that deity and hope for his lavor by
changing his tone and ac'ion in regard to the South,
we should speedily witness a total revolution iu
his sentiments and deportment.
Richmond Whig.
a a n B e
Provincialisms or Ihe Unsrllah Luu
Btsace.
A few years since a Mr. Malli well of London,
published a Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial
Words, obsolete phrases, proverbs and ancient
customs' from the fourteenth century. We ex
tract examples of the dialect of Staffordshire and
Sussex in England.
STAFFORDSHIRE.
Conversation bitatcn u Canal Boatman and his
Wife.
Wife Dun vou know Suden Mouth Jemmy T
B latrnan Ees ; an' a neation good feller he
is lew.
Wife A desprit quoiet man, but he loves a sup
o' drink. Dun o know his woif?
Boatman Know her ? ay. Iler's the very dev
il w hen her sperits up.
Wife Her is. H.r uses that man shenmfuli ;
her rags him every neel of her lotf. Who was
her fey I her
Boatman Whov, Singing Jemmy.
Wife Oi don't think us how oi ever k no wed
Singing Jemmy. Was he old Soaker's brother?
Boatman E he was. He lived n top of Hell
Bink. He as I be wickedest, swearinest mon as
ever I k no wed. 1 should think as how he was
the wickedest mon in the world, and say he had
the fhiuuiaiiz so bad.
SUSSEX.
Dialogue between two Farm Laborers.
Tom Did you look at the slack ?
Ji,n IJmphs I did. and it rockes terrible.
Tom Why dident je make a hole in i 7
Jim I be ouain to it.
Tom It's a pity. 'Twas ich a mortal good
tin.
J,m Ks sure. Well it's a meluucholly fine
time for the crops now : aiut ii ?
Tom It'll be ripping time prelty soon now.
Jim Ah, I shan't do much at that for the r ben
ma I ia.
"Tom What be guain to do with that are jug?
You'd better let it b;de. Do "ti think the chtm
bley sweeper will come to day ?
Ji,n Iss, he safe to come ; let it be how 'twill.
Tom Which way do ye think he'll come ?
Ji,n He'll crnie a hirt and across the common.
Tom What, caterways. aye?
Ji, Iss. Did e mind what I was tellin ye
of !
Tom To be sure ; but dang me if I could sense
it ; could you ?
Jim Lor, vis. I don't think it took much
cuteness to do that." Newark Advertiser.
Hurra. 'Hurra' is a Slavic word, which may
be heard from the shores o! Dalmatia, to Bvhrin's
Straits, when men are ca'led upon for any proof
of courage or valour. Tho origin of the word is
from the primitive ides, that every man ho dies
bravely for his countrv will go directly to heaven,
(hurnji to paradise.) Thai Allah God a
mong tlie Turks, is always heard resounding;
each one encouraging himself to forget earth and
despise deatn, by the hope of au immediate re-ward
A K.110 w-nolliiiis Gnu spiked by one of
Its own Men.
Sahatoga, July 3, 1855.
Deai Sir: I did not receive till last evening
your note ol the 13:h ins'ani, addressed to me ai
Baltimore, and covering your card to ihe public,
in which reference is made lu a conversation be
tween the Nuncio of the Pope al Madrid and my
self, about the appoiirmem of Mr. Campbell as a
member of the present Cabinet at Washington.
If 1 had sooner seen or heard of the c iitents of
your card, I should have deemed it my duty to re
ply at once to that portion of if which lehrs to
my self and to this matter.
You are mistaken a to the purport of the re.
marks made to mo by the representative of the
Pope at Madrid. It w not that he knew before
hand that Mr. Campbell would be appointed, and
ns a member ol the C itholie Church, or that he
knew anything about it before the appointment
was actually made. What I have said, and what
I repeat, is, that before 1 had any certain news of
the formation of the Cabinet, and white its consti
tution was still in doubt, and the suhj' ct of con
jecture in the public mind at Madrid, he told me
that Mr. Campbell was appointed, and that he was
a Catholic; which was the first information I had
of either fact.
I did not ut all supposp that he had any previ
ous knowledge of an intention lo appoint i bis gen
tleman to office, or that he knew, or hud any rea
san to believe it was done, iu pursuance of any
bargain or intrigue to this effect; on the part of
any persons whatsoever.
The inference I md; was, 'hat the appointmee
of a Catholic to this high offi ce being, naturally,
a cause of much interest and satisfaction to the
chinch of that faith, especial pains had been ta
ken in some quarter, to communicate the eaihest
intelligence of (hat fact to the leading member of
the Catholic priest-hood.
It is proper la add that, having seen in a Ral
eigh paper a brief, and what appeared to be an im
perfect, report of the speech recently made in
Washington by the Hon. Cenneth Rayoer, in
which there occurred a similar statement, though
somewhat different in detail from that contained
in your card, and in which my name was quoted
as authority, I took the earliest apportuni'y, on the
6ih instant, to write him a not for the purpose of
correcting the erroneous impressions which might
so readily be made on the public mind, however
unintentional, from puch a reference to a casual
conveisation in social intercourse, without a writ
ten statement of the facts.
I am, very truly, yours, &c,
D. M. BARRINGER.
To Vespasian Ellis, Esq.,
Washington city.
Grand l'liyslcnl .Marvel.
We published a note of the reported facts con
tained in ihe following, which has been kindly
translated for the Carolinian, from the Courier des
Etats Uiiis.
Many worderful stories are recorded of the
freaks of lightning; but ihe following freak, rela
ted in a French paper, has, perhaps, never been
qu illed. Let ihe young Miss, exuding in all ihe
pride and sex, reud the story, vouched for by
"men worthy of reliance," and take care, lest her
own fate be not foreshadowed iu that of the unfor
tunate Julia S :
A very curious case recently presented itself in
the providence of Nmfles, during ihe storm of
Wednesday last. The lightning on striking u
little girl scarcely seven years old, changed her
sex completely, and made a little boy of her.
The child was not struck directly by the lighting
but experienced what is known as a return shock;
thur explaining how it was he or she exhibited no
scorched condition of the body. A" observer,
whose attention is directed to electrical phenome
na, informs us that he demonstrated, by means ol
a gold-leafelectroscope, that the clouds from which
the storm referred ;o orose, were .charged with
electricity positive or resinous. The youu child
was therefore, charged, as it were, wi.h eicctrici'y
negative or vitreous.
"The ex young girl, Julia S., having become ol
the male sex, is in yery gooa health., excepting
the uneasiness produced by n violent change.
The strangest pari ol the affair, however, howev
er, is the stupefaction of the parents ; this phe
nomenon, which is almost a miracle to them, re
verses all their ideas, deranges all their plans ;
and whilst they are economizing in order to amass
a dowry for their daughter, they b-ive, now, to
thing of amassing to buy a substitute Sot their son,
suhj' e. to the conscription. B -hold what a scope
lo ihe play of one's fancy, the debut gives j we
shudder when thinging of the complications which
this Occident would have produced, if the victim
itistead of being a child, had been a wife or the
mother of a family.
07 "We want America ruled by Americans,'
is the slang phrase of Know-othiugim. Well
who rules America now? Tlie President oi the
United Slates is an American; so are all ihe mem
bers of his Cabinet ; so were the two hundred and
ninety odd members of the last Congress, with two j
or three exceptions. The L-Vcutive, Judicial and
Legislative departments of the government are un
der the exclusive direction and control of native
horn citizens! ar.-d yet we are told that the Re
public is in imminent danger of foreigners in of
fice !
How many adopted citizens hold office under
ihe Slate Government of Alabama ? In Virginia,
it turned out, upou inbuiry, that the lush Inspec
tor of Richmond city was the only one. That
dignified and responsible office is filled by Mark
Downy, an Irishm in, who, we feel atsured, has
no designs against the liberties of the American
people. With a magnanimity worthy worthy of
all praise, he offers to resign hi position in favor
ol any Know Nothing Editor who can bring sat
isfactory testimonials of character and qualifica
tions. If there are any foreigners in Altbama
holding the office of Inspector of Fish or of Tar,
or of Guano, we hope they will imitate the ex
ample of Downy, and give some of our aggrieved
patriots of native birth a chance for th spoils.
Montgomery 'Mu.) A lvirttser.
Deaths by LigiiTSINO. Mrs. Cox. wife of
J dm Cx, of Davidson c-iuuly, and Sunu"! W'jrd
of Ired. II county, were both killed by lightning
on Saturday the 25,ih ult,
From the Baltimore bun.
Attacking tlie but eminent.
There, is with too many ot our coteraporartes, a
prevalent di-posi ion io attack ihe uUmiuistruiion
ihe it., t rumen i ol ihe U tilled "Sin tea. No mai
ler wh'ii parly is in power. ibere is always a party
out oj power, ready to magnify the slightest er
ror on the par; ol I be former, and to impute there
to inefficiency and even crime upon the fa lib ol
public tumor, wnhwut o usinii io inquire bow r
originated. Bat it is not only m party out of pow
er who will do this; it Irtquently serves the ma
teriul ol a paragraph lor s. culur und even reli
gious papers, not prulcssioually partisan. A fling
at ihe Uuned States government, a reckless inueii
do lev. Ii-d ul ihe iniegii y of a particular officer,
or discharged indiscriminately against the whole
of them, is a feu'Uie of cm tent sport wuh many
who, whether prominent in Connection with ihe
press, or in any other way, should set a better,
example before their readeis und ot servers.
The government of the United States has inva-.
liably embodied in ihe pv, sonnet ol us aimiuia: i a
non infinitely more talent, honesty, efficiency and
general excellence of character than that of any
other nation, it is constantly exposed to the un
restricted scrutiny ol a powerful opposition, the
free criticism ol the press, and the most searching
demands ol Congress. It cannot secrete villainy
were it so disposed. And the most thorough in
vestigation has lulled at any time to delect and
expose systematic Iraud, under the direction or
connivance of the government of the United States.
This can be said ol no other country in the world.
Indeed it is a notorious lact thai whenever inves
tigation and exposure have been practicable with
respect to European governments, a system of
wrung doing, extravagance and villuiny in some
ah-.pe or o h- r has been sufficiently exhibited to
convincu the most sceptical that worse remained
behind.
Besides this, our government is free from the
repiouch of aristocratic routine and conveulianali
ty peculiarly obnoxious in foreign affairs. That
markka and honorable distinction is ours, which
holds the highest offices in ihe gift of the people
open to the faithful pub ic service and honorable
ambition of the man of humbiesi origin amongst
us. Tins is enough to endure to us our system of
government, und should be sufficient to make us
exceedingly cautious how we utter a word of un
just reproach or careless detraction against the
men chosen by the voice of the people lor its ad
ministration. But we find th-' reverse of all this.
The very liberuiuy ol ih system seems to be es
teemed by some only as the amplest license for the
most unrestrained abuse. E' ii that pres which
sometimes affi els a nominal respectability unat
tainable by any other eurlhly thing, does not hesi
tae to fling its vulgar opprobtum, hardly candid
by tho common decencies of language, against
the reputation und conduct of failhlul public offi
cers. It presumes to utter things in type which
it would courteously forget in personal intercourse ;
and if interiogated, would ascribe to political feel
ing the malignity of the pen.
We have before us nn article from a New York
paper upon iducated politician., in which some
good things are said, though a general principle is
misapplied. And the article closes wtlh t be broad
and unquiiifi'd assertion that "the country has
tried educated politicians lor the three or four last
administrations last past, and had most wretched,
imbecile, plundering, retrogressive governments,
as the (we think.) natural conv quences."
The purport oi the article is io detract from the
services of " educated pohtici us" men accLS
tomed to political life, and especially lawyers, and
by way ol bolstering the argument, ihe above as
sertion is most recklessly put forth. Now, we
venture to say that each of Ihe adjectives applied
to "the three or four administrations last past" is
a wholesale libel upon the Republic, ihe republi- j ol immense proporlions in Silver L.ke. e can
can system, the pe.. pie of the country, as well as ! not escape die conviction and belief, unless w
the several s dm mist rat ions rehired to. Ii would
be a disgrace to tins great nation if tho assertion
were irue, consequently m assert so foul a libel, is
lit lie less than treason to tin- n public.
The foreign und domestic poiicy ol the country
haye coually prospered under the successive ad
ministrations of Polk. Taylor, Fillmore, and
Pierce. Mis'a.kes may have been made by all. or! serpent story und that what is above slated and
either of ihem. We do not assert "infallibility" j what baa appeared in the Wyoming Times, re
for an Amioean President or his Cabinet, what, j gar ding a serpent in Sivcr Lake, ha been related
ever party may happen to supply the White House to us by candid, honest, and truthful men and
fur ihe lime being. Jiat we maintain that each of i women persons who have not flinched from tea
ihe administrations named would compare favor- j tifying to the facts as given to the public,
ably with most oUhose w hieh have preceded them, j The same pnp.-r, in its issue of 1st August, con
While ihe probability is. that the "unedueated pol-j Uins the affidavits of teveraJ persons, am. tig
itician." G-neral Taylor, ru e - the most serious ! whom are two young ladies, to the effect that they
mistake of any. And that ill no case has the saw the, s -rpent, while recently making an CXCur
public policy oft'ie admimsir -ions warrauted the ' lion on the lake. A letter is also published from
assertions th it they were imh ctie, guilty of plun- I Dr. M. G. Smith, in which it is slated that as far
derjng the public treasury, or retrogressive in i back as '.wenty-oie or two years, Moses Hun', ef
thejrm. flue nee upon ihe nation. In this case facts j Genessce village, while galheiing flags from llie
speaks louder than words, and vindicate the nation j .'"ke, fr chair botlims, 'perceived au old log, a
agaiusi the calumny. And ibere is not a man a- ho supposed, ly ing in the deep water ioihc twecr
iuonot us who would bear a foreigner a foreign- j three rods from hun. It looked dark and mo-i-er
in the real seoe of lbe l-ros a royalist of; colored, and was as long as one eftbe lel-gia: 1
E irope assert so foul a l.bel as this against ihe ic poles,' (neside whi. h we were standing,) b'.l a
invernm -nt ol the United St etc, wiihout at once I go d deal lirger. After a little whils, being bust.
challenging the proof boldly, ai being confident;
as to the result.
Pretty Good f -u Pat- -The other day tbe
conductor of a train in our r i!road discovered ni
In.hmin in a car, soon after Stirling from Runa,
and demanded his fre. Pa- d- clir. d he had no
money. The conductor, after lee'uring hrn, told
him to leave nt the first Stopping puee, uot lar dn-
taut. Aecorduigiv . fat as mwi ot me urs' i g-i ,
off nt th- m xt station. Bu' j i Uc of th" conduc- j
tor's surprise and wra:h lo fin.; him aboard when !
fairly on the way. 'Did I not ieH you to get off?' j
. i j i .,. ... . .. i.
'Alio sure ; aiu. " nv, iuei, -no you uci" -jain
?' And sure did you u say 'all aboord f ' '
This was too much for ihe, wrthy conductor, and
uot withstanding th ? decree against dad heads,"
ho was allowed to pass. W JrrloWA Sentinel.
i-s ri t-, : '
New CoLV-GE. I -V in i n v irginian learns
I. . , . , , , , k"j ., i ,,n., i
t a college is about to he e.'ahltahed at JJy ncn-i
,, . . ... i
iri, Virginia, unth r the pur .tuge of tho Metho-
tli
buri:
dist Proteslanl Church. This will be the third
CoJtrg of high grade established by this denomi
nation in the Unit1 d Slatna,
The idee, that to he yat, is o b hppy, ia on
of the errors f the ag". B-it. 'h-il to be good, i
io be happy, i sunn thing kuuWQ, al 'east, to the
wise and ruinous,
Cltnpel ol' Aiipeaizell.
From the Baths of Weissbad, (Canton of Ap
penseli.) a rugged path, steep, and strown, With
he debris of rocks, conducts arroas the Bom men -Alp,
and in about an hour and a half brings us i.
n wooden bridge, suspended over a Irightfu'
chasm, and leading to a chapel, ingeniously con
structed in a cavern of ihe rocks. Few scenes
can be more appalling than what is here offered
in taking the first step upon the bridge. M :
, spectators, unless familiar with such scenes, rs
perier.ee an involuntary shudder as they suddenly
come in sight of the precipice beneath, wln -l
descends to a depth oi two hundred and fifty he:
perpendicular, and the wild and savage grandeur
with which ihe whole scene is invested. The rjew
to ihe south is mngnificenf, comprising the still,
silvery lake of the See-Alp scooped out of tbe Sen-,
lis, and giving birth to the Sitter, the glittering
course of which is a striking feature in the pic
ture. Immediately over head, the rocky walls of
the Eben-Alp soar into the sky, and shut out the
world ; while precipices and valleys, frowning
with winter, or brilliant with verdure, come al
ternately into view, and by singular CMtfnst,
give a character to ihe laiidacape which it is im
possible lo describe.
Having accomplished this pass, the chapel ol
i (he desert, as its name ( Wild-Kirchlein) imports
comes into sight , and a more extraordinary posi
tion for a shrine it would be difficult to select, even
in the Alps. Behind the chapel, a grotto eptu
into the rock, the walls of which are covered with
lac I une ; and here an aliar is erected.. The
view from the windows is unrivalled. Thit sav
age and solitary retreat was chosen by a native
of Appenzell, named LMmann, who built tbe chap
el in 1 656, and made the cavern his abode. From
that time, ihe second grotto has been occupied
during the fine season, by a hermit, who rings the
chapel boll five times every day a signal at w hich
the shepherds of the Alps fall on their knees in tl.o
exercise tf prayer.
From the Wyoming Times Extra.
The Silver Lake Sea Serpent a fixed
fact.
Perry, August 2, 1605.
Yesterday, the 1st, ilfstant, the existence of a
monster of a fish or serpent species in the qu;cl
waters of Silver Lake was established beyond rea
sonable doubt if indeed thero has been room fur
donbt for a week past.
At about noon on Wednesday the monster was
seen by at least half a dozen persons from different
points of view, from tho upland adjoining the lake.
There were no boats out. Workmen on the
farm of Mr. A. Macomber, not half a mile distant
two young men visiing at Mr. M.'s on another
part of the farm, a young man named Merill, of
this village, from nnolher point, and part of Mr.
M.'s family from the upper window facing the
lake. A if saw ihe monster, apparently suuning
himself on the surface of the water.
A description is impossible except of his move
ments. Hi: moved and floundered about lor ten
or fifteen minutes. The parlies were from one
quarter to oe-hiilf a mile distant. The water
elsewhere on the lake was as smooth as glass and
there could be no deception nor option! delusion in
the vision of the parties.
AU concur iu the statement that be is ss large
round as a large log, and thai SO or 40 ittt
of him was visible.
The parties saw it unknown to each other.-
Some of ihem have ne personal acquaintance, and
one or twu are yet almost ready lo disbelieve their
own senses rather than run counter to all well es
tablished rules in regard to snakeology.
For ourselves, we ure forced lo admit the fact
j of the existence of a monster of the serpent species
j disbelieve merely becuuse we have not seen.
We hope, however, to announce before long
that he has been captured. Every effort is being
made lo uceomplish that object. One word more,
We assert, without fear of contradiction, that thero
is not a log on nor in tbe waters of Silver Lake
that nothing has been plaeed there to create the
ly engaged, we In ard a great splashing in lli
water, and thought at first that soma horses lllnl
were on the bank had got into tho lake. Pern '
ing mstandy that this waa not au, he looked wh ie
the 80uuf come from, and saw the water in g'Cut
commotion, a dirk ohj -cl disappearing iu tho wa.
'er and the supposed log was gone! He isjKie
diately made for ihe shore, much alarmed , and
was greatly provoked that his statement Wa re
c,.Ved with increduloui laughter by his men.
Bij the by, he never tccut thtic again ajtsr fla-s .'
, There are several O 'raon wIki duttiacilv ro-
col,.ct of bearing Mr. Hunt tell this story a. I be
time.
French Bady Politenes. A friend ask d
a pfity litile child of six years old, which io ymj
love the b st vour cat or your doll V The !
K"-! thought some time before unHi::;', St
b " . . t
then whispered in the ear of the q .s-'j r.
r ... j .. . .. .
ove my cat test; but pleas don t ten un Jo.
"ro m3 mm ap r
af W
S'ranger. Why do you kill my do;'
II int. Because he was gHOg io bleu me.
Siranger. Why didn't u u-t: th iillle t J f
your sock t You could havo -Inhlaued aioi a . .
not kilied him.
Hu'.t. Why did'ut jour dog sjnsjaj ut mt tai
first, theu ?