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Miscellaneous.
ALMOST AN ELOPEMENT.
We met an old friend the other day whom
we had not seen for several months. 'John,'
' said we, in the course of a conversation with
him, ''-why do'nt you gat married and aetile
down somewhere?'
Get married and settle down, you said,'
John repeated with emphasis.
Yes.'
ITcamevery near settling down wilbout
getting married, a while ago.'
'How's that?'
'IS o matter I dont like to tell secrets to an
editor.'
But in confidence, you kuow, John. Come
out wiih it.'
Vonl you tell?'
No.'
'Now 1 know you will; but pledge mo that
my name shall not go with it, aud you shall
have the story, and may tell it as much as
you please.'
We pledged onr sacred honor,' and Johu
threw away his cigar and commenced.
.'.,'Here some two or three months ago, I
happened into oue of the prettiest little villages
you ever set your eyes upon '
""What was its name?'
4 That my concern, and I'll menage it
without your assistance. It was indeed a
beautiful village, with pretty streets, pretty
house, pretty gardens, pretty ieuces, pretty
every thing and among other thing, pretty
women. The latter, you know, I naturally
ifino u iiKing io; ana oi course l was u
nleaantl who n r lrinl nf t;fi-
, .... wi irw rniuill.
whom I called on diixe!?72. .i '
-invited tne to make his
house my home for a fortnight or so, white I
went over the sporting grounds in tho neigh
borhood, and killed all the beasts, bird:, and
witches that ran wild there. Hang me if I
didu't thank the fellow with a full heart ; and
'.'I moved mv little bundle of clothes and other
rubbish to his houso iu double quick time.
Well, I had been there three or four days,
and bad been guuuiug every day, without so
much as killing a woodpecker or tree toad,
whou one day, iu crossing apiece ofopeu
ground surrounded entiiely with woods, I dis
covered, not a little to my burprise, the pret
tiest girl I had ever seen in my whole lii'e.
Fiom her appearance, I judged at once she
had tost her way, prepared myself immediately
to perform a piece of true gallantry. So walk
ing straight up to her, I communicated my
suspicious, very politely, and inquired if 1
. could render her any assistance.
She replied that she had lost her way in at
tempting to get through the wood by an ob
scure path, and would be very much obliged
if fled her into the main road, or point out
to her the directiou iu which it lay. Away
we started together. On the way we chatted
about every thing we could think of, (except
her pretty self, which I was tbiukiug of con
tinually,) for she was sociable as an old
school mate, aud even told mo her name, the
' name of her father, and the names of half a
; ' dozen brothers aud sisters whom I had never
seen, and did not care to see. When wo
got into the road, she pointed out her father's
. - house, which was iu sight, and was going to
r thank mo fur my services : but I stopped her
by saying that it would be very little out of
. .. my way to see her home, and I preferred to do
' so.V -All the way there we chatted and laughed,
and told stories, and even jokes ; and by the
time we parted at the gate of old Deacon B's
farm house, f could have sworn that we were
old acquaintances. I left her, bopiug to see
her again, sometime,' and she left me, 'hoping
s v to learn of my safe arrival at home.'
" The next Sabbath I met her at church the
next Monday evening at a village party, and
v escorted her home the next Friday I called
on her 'accidentally' the next Sunday eveu
ing bjr permission ; in two weeks I was in
love in three I had told my love and in
- four I was the next move to the biggest fool
that ever grew out of natural philosophy.
Three times T popped the question, but she
would'ot say jes or, no or even hint that she
would or would not seal my happiness. The
. fourth time she looked very grave, hung down
her bead, sighed, and I even mistrusted, shed
tears. ShaHI ask the consent of your father?'
saip' t, after waitiug half an hour for au an
swer to the question ou which hung my hopes'
uiu uuBf uu, sue aiiswereu . wim a
f i i .
; ne wouia not consent to my marriage
. wuuyou, i ruow he would not.'
1 mistrusted from this that she herself bad
broached the subject to the Deacon, and bad
' 7 'e'"ol of his consent to the match.
walkd borne that evening io much distress,
passed a restless night at my cousin's house,
and rose the next morning with my head full
Qfpams and dark forebodmg. My cousin
ralhad me on my dull appearance, and I de
termined at oriee 'to rl v.4. . ..
.,..m.... .77":." ..,,secrei oi my
troubles and ask. Jim -'.'advice.'
arcordinly
accompanied him to bis little grocery, ana
when there, unravelled the whole matter as to
a brother That Ellen B. said be. v.henl
had concluded, 'is the greatest lh
country, or the world, and I d.!w.yuv '
you weren't SuSK'l Ibould have told you
of mil before, but as it turns out, 1 advise you
renly, but really thought my cousin the biggest
fool in Christendom. Had she not krpt my
company, and said soft things to rmv and
blushed, and grieved, and sighed, when I
popped the question for the foui tb time 1
The next evening I called on Ellen again
she was alone and seemed twice as beauti-
r.,1 vr For the tilth time 1 onerea ner
- . . . W V 1 I
mv 'hand. She came very near fainting
away, but would not answer me yes or no.
What mold the matter be? Of course I
.H.ik.,! ika uihntts to tho obstinacy of the
Hron. her father and being more than
half craxv between love for her and hate for
bim, it will scarcely be wondered at, that be
r i....,;.i.r I cucraested to her that if we
lum icbiiu) - -co
couldn't be happy with his cousenl, we had a
perfect right to proceed without it. 'We
could take a ride, some evening,' said I ; go
f th mil train uf cars and in two hours be
man and wile.
When would you call fo"" me ?' she asked.
'To-morrow night,' I replied, almost wild
with delight 'eight o'clock.'
Well,' said the after a pause, 'I will be
them '
nt half oast seven, the
M- SI V -
village stable keeper drove a carriage to my
door. Just as 1 was stepping into the car
riage a little boy handed me a note. I turned
into the house a moment to read it. The
contents ran after this sort.
My dear Mr S : I have consulted with
my father about running away w!th you to-
niuhl, and he thinks the air is so damp that 1
should certainly take cold. He suggests that
it would answer all reasonable purposes ftir
you to run away alone. But I hope you will
uot do this till you have accomplished the in
tention you expressed on your arrival iu our
village, which was, 1 believe, before you left
it, to make a conquest of the heait of the pret
tiest giil within ten miles.
Youis as truly as ever,
ELLEN B
I immediately recollected having foolishly
expressed this foolish intention a day or two
before my arrival in the village, to an old
friend who accompauied me thereon business
with other merchants. I recollected too, that
the bon.t wa made while we were on a walk
through the village, that a ladv was close be
hind us alt the time, and my Irieud who saw
her face, thought she must be au angel. She
turned out to be the oue.
My horse was sent back to the stable, and
the next morui'ii I was leaving tho beautiful
village and the beautiful Ellen, mid my fif
teenth cuuain-fiflcf his haniv family, as fast as
t r '
ould cany me.
French Gossip. The New York Mirroi
translates occasionally from the Paris papers
the staples of tho recherche police occurences
of that giddy "congregation of human vapots.''
Most of this concerns the heart, or rather the
blood, of Paris that is matters of love. The
wives of Frenchmen, and Frenchmen them
selves, arc proverbially the most inconstant
creatures in thewoild. 1 hey have no senti
ment in the matter, unless it be beaottou of
vanity. They rarely reveience where they
love, and make matrimony a thing of car oner
ousness and expediency. No wonder, then,
their courts are so full of strange revelation
of inconstancy.
From the last Mirror we take the following
extracts :
Nice Point ok Law. Appeared lately
before tho Correctional Police ol Paris, Mr
Zoo Levengeur, charged wilh disobedience
to the law which compels every citizen to do
duty ou military guard when duly, summoned.
Judge. Why did you fail to appear ou duty
on the 31st of January?
Prisoner. (Firmly.) There was a legal im
pediment!
Judge. There is no impediment to justify
disobedience to law.
Prisoner. Pardon me. Iu this case there
was !
Judge. Explain yourself.
.Prisoner. Marriage is legal, 1 presume
you will allow. Well, Mr Judge, I was sum
moned to mount guard on the night of the 3 1st
of January. But on the 31st of January I
was married,
your eyes!) I
Virginie ! my bride ! lift up
repeat, there was on imped i
ment a legal impediment to my passing the
nignt oi tne olst ol January on guard :
Judge (With difficult solemnity.) But
you should have represented your situation
to the serge.mt major, and procured au ex
emption, such as is piovidcd for cases of em
ergency.
Prisoner. Impossible !
Judge. Why, sir? why?
Prisoner. 1 shall open my breast to you
The sergeant major is a disappointed lover of
my bride! (Virginie! will you look this
way !) Yes, Mr. Judge, and there was small
doubt that the selection of me fur that night's
guaid was a
(Here the prisoner's emotions overcame him.)
J udge. Have you no other excuse to offer.
Priso ner. Yes, one a sufficient oue! Mr
Judge, when a man marries, he, in my opin
ion, does as good service to the community
as he could do by mounting guard ! (Virginie
here turned uncomfortably red.) Yes, Mr
Judge, and the anxieties are far greater than
those of mounting guard! (Virginie buries
ner lace in ner nanuKercniei.)
Judge. Enough, sir, enough. You are con
demned to three days' imprisonment.
., Honesty. -A boy, whose honesty is more
to be commended than nw ingenuity, once
carried some butter to A merchant in a. coun
try village to exchange for goods. The but
ter having a very ; beautiful appearance, and
tho merchant - being desirous of procuring
such for Jiis own use invited'tbe boy tb bring
hiiii all the butter bis mother had fo spare. I
think,' said the boy. sbe can't spare any more.
for she said she would not have spared Ibis.
ATltv a vr" ft!l th frnrn an4 aK tM
ike f0 use it herself. V -
- - - - From the Charleston Courier.
THE ROMANCE OF LIFE an History
seal Lecture, delivered before the Georgia
Historical Society. v ,
BY ROBERT M. CHARLTON.
Among the many admirable papers, pf both
domestic and borrowed origin, wnufe nave
proceeded fiom this spirited, enterprising and
unwearied Society, we have porusecj none
with a keener relish than Wis Deauuiuidnd in
structive essaj, iu proof of what may t term
ed the natural romance of life, the dee trage
dy of history, not woven by art and imagina
tion, but literally wrought out in the ictual
course of human events. Trite is the smug
that truth is stranger than nciiou ; buj the
proverb loses its triteness and dwells o the
mind with little short of awful impressive)es,
amidst the accumulated and striking jjoofs
of its litcal accuracy, gathered and piltf up
by our author from the historic field.
Judge Charltou certainly holds an elgant
and graceful pen. aud has winged his light
overa wide and varied range ol literatur, At
limes we hear of him consuming the mic ight
oil amid the black-letter leai uiug of the aw;
at other, pouring out the fruits of elabora toil
iu the forum, or figuring amoog the glaUjtors
of tho hustiugs; aud anon he wooes thenuse
of hi-tory and wius her to instruc t ivepuiose;
or, borrowing fancy's brightest plumagand
own native melody, charms the ear, i his
discursive (light, with sweetest poesy.j In
the lecture, or lather succession of gallic
pictures before us, he has soared somjkhat
adventurously, but has sustaiued himselwith
a strength of pinion aud grace of motuuhat
prove him akin to Jove'sowu bird- Injder
to justify our emcomium., which have, iuome
measure, cauht the Inspiration ofhis?wn
nectar, we p-oceed to give a few extract.-vom
the performance uuder review :
We take an example from history's host
ensanguiued page.
"The scene is the palace at Veriaille
A
of
crazv mob. comnoseu ol tne vilest ure
the vile, has marched from Paris all vh
op
tho rne
posed them have been massacred, an
bloody heads are stuck on pikes aud
' alofi as lianners the rim features
oithe
r
dead, distorted and hideous as they aretyet
being lovely and beautiful m comparison ith
the terrific living visages of hale andeu
geance that crowd I beneath them. OoAud
ou, they come they have entered, liktbe
toads of Egypt, the Legislative Assemblfcnd
the Halls of the Palace their cry is "lead
and Blood Death t Kings Jl bas les i
locrals "' They have ascertained tha
fs-
the
Queen is in a certain pait of the Palacelud
they have commenced firing ut the wiudvs
In :he midst of the firing, the Queen stedin
to the opeu balcony, and laces the mulude
eager for her blood. Iu each hand she
i i
ids
ws
oue of her childien. A faithful subject it
himself before her to shield her with hi
life,
but he goutly puts him aside, and tanduu
sheltered from the leaden hail. " Away Mth
your children," bursts from the hps ot lwity
thousand persous. Well does Marie An
toinette uudeistand that order they wis! to
spare the children it is her life ibey ckre.
But with a heroism and a coolness that We
never hecu surpassed, aud though she knoA
that they iuteud her iustaut death, she obej
the mandate, and sending in her onpnn
amiin she steps into the balcony alone. I
stautly, twice ten thousand voices raised th
shouts of applause. Vengeance has bei
stilled bv the admiration which such undaui
ed heroism has inspired iu the hosoms oftl
chaotic mass. Does
liomance iiive voti
brighter picture than this?
Another picture! 1 be scene is c nan go
It is the massacre of prisoners of which I spot
a few minutes ago. The legions ofsatau :
ou the outside of the mison walls, aud oi
by oue their victims nre thiowu out to thet
like morsels of meat to hungry lions. And
man in his turn is thrust into the crowd. I
hundred weapons are upraised, to find in aj
other moment, their scabbards in his bodj
But even then, when death seemed iuevitub
both to him aud to any oue who should intc
pose in his behalf, a lovely female her go!d
ringlets floating to the miduight wind h
beautiful eyes gleaming with heroic devotui
aud .filial love clasps the old man by tj
neck, and defies the vengeance of the pop!
lace. " It is my father," says she; "stiij
if you have tho hearts to do it ; but ori
through my bosom shall you reach my sire's!
Down fall the points of the weapons. Tfj
mob stand irresolute, amazed aud admiring I
the courage of the sweet girl, aud yet inceusi
at being baulked of their victim. How tn
I
moment of irresolution would have terminal
no humau mind can tell ; but at that moniei.
oue of the number of the assailants preseni
her with a cup, filled to the brim with blot;
the warm blood that they had caught as i
streamed from the veins of the murdered ul
bles. " Driuk," says he, drink to the dreg
It is the blood of the aristocrats drink, an'
your lathers lite shall be saved drink!" Shj
iaKes ine cup tne boon is too great to he
tale with an averted eye and throbbing heal
that beautitul girl, at the midnight hour, ami'
the yells of savages, aud wilh the blaze of
thousand torches flashing in her eyes, lifts lh
goblet to her lips and quaffs it to the very la
drop. The pledge i kept the old man i
saved ; but who shall tell the horror which lh
memory of that hour shall bring to the las
moment of the maiden's existence. Ha
Poetry a wilder sketch than this? 4fj
And lastly, we hold op to the tender-eye
maiden a view of romance from the mirror c
domestic or private life, aud as she gazes, th
dew-drop of sympathy, rising from the fien-
r&tlt fountain nrihaha.rl .u:tl r "I J
rous fountain of the heart, will not fail In mm!
ten the lilies that lie mingled with roses i
her cheek T
If I could remind the mother of the haily
hour when she pressed her first born bahejto
her bosom, and forgot all her sorrow, fr joy
that a man had come iuto the world. !l"I
could bring into her memory the gush of affec
tion and the smile of happiness that roarkkd
that eventful period of her existence. Or if
I could bid the father remember th ,:i Lr
bis hapless babe, writhing under the toitureW
unease, ana casting a look of mingled reproach
and agony towards its parents, as if to beseech
them to remove its affliction : utterly ui..m:
aciou9, poor infant, tht the accustomed kind-
uesa was nere an poweiIcss? and that an earth-
y parent's hand could not turn aside the dart.
jsent from the unerring quiver of an Almighty
Father ; altogether' ignorant; poor infant, that
every pang it suffered, every cry it uttered,
every look of agony it gave, was stereotyped
in the memory of the sorrow-stricken parent,
and that after years aud years bad floated by,
that paug, that cry, and look, would spring
up even iu the midst of joy, like the thunder
cloud darkening suddenly the noou day sum
mer ky! :- --.
If I could preseut to you the image of life's
earliest love; the bright young girl, who had
wrapped her lover iu her heart's inmost core
and lived for him alone ; and bring you back
once more to the marriage altar, surrounded
by the accompaniments of youth and affection,
and unmingled happiness, and then tearing
you from that altar, bring you gradually on to
the scenes that had followed with slow and
sure steps upon all this brightness the pang
of sorrow, the dart of disease, the heavy blow
of misfortune, the cheek paling, the eye dim
ming, aud the heart quivering, as death came
to blight the hopes of the wedding-day
Alas ! alas ! you would no longer dare to tell
me that the common and daily events thai are
passing around us, lack power to excite and
thrill the heart ; not the heart of the great mass,
it is true, but your individual heart. No, you
would admit that life, daily life, has its scenes
and events of such exciting power, that the
weary bosom lungs sometimes to wrap itsolf
iu earth's oblivion, and to lie down in the si
lence and quiet of the grave.
But, thanks to a merciful Piovidence, these
are uot the only scenes we witness; tbeio is
joy( u it mingled joy ; theie is happiness, un
alloyed happiness ; thee is hope, beautiful
hope; thero is affection, darling affect ion ;
broad cast over ear h are sown the seeds of true
pleasure, which grow up, outlined by the hand
of an omnipotent and all-wise Father; and
these clouds thutdaiken our sky, and these
tears that are vruur from our eyes, are but
the early and latter rain, that fall to sulteu the
heart's hardened soil, to bring up the beauti
ful plant-: of virtue, audio bid them bud and
bloom until tho heavenly husbandman shall
transplant them to a moie congenial soil.
Let us weep with those that weep, and joy
with those that smile, aud joy also for those
that mourn, as the wise husbandman, who
gladdens to see the dark storm, knowing that
from its bosom will flow the blessings, which
will give joy for heaviness, aud will throw
back, when it has passed, thj vaiitd hues of
the beautiful rainbow."
BOTANY.
Botanv, (formed from the Greek word 6o
tane, u plant,) is that division of Natural
History which treats of vegetables.
Tho science of Botany is divided into
three branches : naiuelv, the Anatomy of
Plants, Vegetable Physiology, and Descrip
tive Botany, which lat comprises the classifi
cation of plants aud their especial history.
Botanv, therefore, docs not consist, . ay i
coinmouly
i (nan i net
i by the iguorau', iu
merely " getting ty heait" a great number of
names ol plants, and of being ablo to apply
their names to tho objects which they belong ;
but in si knowledge of the plants .jhemselves.
of their organization, their growth, their man
ner of living, their properties, and the illations
they bear to each other, as well as the chai ac
tors by which they nre distinguished from
each other.
Plants are beings organized for living ; b.it
they are uot endowed, like animals, wilh the
faculties ofseusatiun and of ei forming volun
tary motion.
Like auimals, these beings are readily dis
tinguished from inorgauic bodies by their
mode of structure, by their nutritive function
through the means of which their substance is
renewed and augmented, by their origin, and
by the limited duration of their existence.
They differ from animals uot only in being
destitute of the fuuetions of relation, but also
in many other respects. Almost all vegeta
bles live fixed in the soil ; they absoib, from
without, nutritive matters which they assimi
late, without previously digesting them, and
they have nothing which resembles a stomach:
by the act of respiration, they possess them
selves of the carbonic acid of the air. and
exhale the oxygen.
We have said that vegetables are destitute
of the faculty of sensation, aud the faculty of
performing voluntary motion : this is very
evident in an immense majority of instances;
but there me some plants which, at firt sight,
seem to form an exception to this rule. For
example, the blanches and leaves of all plants
are directed to that fide from which come the
light and air. Ceitaiu plants on the approach
of night or the morning dawn, close their
leaves or flowers ; and there are some, that
contract themselves in this maimer u ben they
are touched by any foreign body. The small
shrub called the sensitive plant, exhibits this
phenomenon , in a very remarkable manner ;
and a plant of certain Carolina marshes,
Venus' fly-trap, performs these motions most
singularly; the leaven, which are formed of
two lobes, are so irritable that they close on
the slightest touch; wheu an insect alights
upon the internal face of one of them, the
two lobes immediately aporoximate each other,
and the animal caught upon the thorns with
which these lobes are armed, dies in ihcir
species of natural snare. The Rossolis, the
white flowers of wbhh often deck the pools
in France, are somewhat analogous, for the
hairs which fringe their broad round leaves,
tie down the moment they are irritated by the
contact of a foreign body.
But these phenomena differ essentially from
the voluntary movements of animals ; there is
no proof that the plants we have just mention
ed experience sensations, nor that the mo
tions performed by them are directed by will ;
sometimes these movements result from the
action of beat or humidity upon certain parts
of their tissues, and at other times they can
only be compared to the automatic monrmnt.
which are readily brought, about by means of
einciriciiy or galvanism, in animals that have
been recently killed and deprived of the func
tions of relation. . ,.--- ,
Pam it round. Those who indulge in
plendor of dress and equipage, beyond the
mount of their .incomes, are.: truly compared
to bouses on fire, which shine by that which
destroys them. - - f:,--;' - . '
CLASS OF RRPTILES.
;, Tbat part of Natural History which greats
of Reptiles, is called ' Herpetology from the
Greek Terpet on, a creeping thing, a reptile,
and logos, a ' discourse US-x -;
The . Class of Reptiles comprises those
oviparous vertebrate auimals ' that have cold
blood, ad aerial respiration, and au incom
plete circulation. They have lungs like mam
mals and birds; bat a part of their circulatory
apparatus is always so arranged tbat a part of
the venous blood mingles with the arterial,
without having passed through the respiratory
organ, and in general this mixture takes place
in the heart, which has a single ventricle, iu
to which both auricles open.
Iu their geueral form, reptiles bear a closer
resemblance to mammals than to birds ; but
in this respect they vary very much. The
bead is always small, and the body much
elongated ; sometimes they are eutirely with
out extremities, or only possess vestiges of
them; but most of these animals have four
paws, formed for walking or swimming. Or
dinarily their extremities are too short to pre
vent the body from dragging on the ground,
and, instead of being parallel to the axis of
the body, and moving in this directiou, they
generally stand out from the side aud move
from without inwards, perpendicularly to the
axis of the body, and anaugernent very un
favorable to locomotion ; most reptiles seem
to creep rather than walk, from which circum
stance they derive their name.
The skeleton in reptiles is composed of al
most the same bones as those in nrtmmals
and bird; but it often happens that some
among them arc entirely wanting: serpents,
lor example, have no extremities, nor have
they a:y sternum, aud frogs have no ribs. .
The bead, iu the arraugemeut of its bone',
resembles that of birds more than tbat of mam
mals ; lhu cranium is small ; the face is gen
erally much etuugated, and the lower jaw is
.u.peudud from u tympanic bone, which is
placed between it and the cranium. Iu gen
eral, the head is articulated with the vertebral
column by a single tubercle (or condyle,)
which has mauy facettcss, aud possesses only
very slight mobility.
The structure of tho vertebral columu dif
fers extremely iu the different reptiles : in
serpents it is very long and very flexible ; iu
frogs it is very hort and slightly moveable;
and in toitoises its middle pail is united so
as lo form a single bony piece.
Generally, tho libs are very numerous ; iu
serpents they exist tbiongh almost the entiie
length of the body ; the same is the case iu
certain reptiles resembling lizards, while in
others, these bones ie merely rudimentary,
or entirely wanting. In toitoises, they are
soldered, as it were, to each other; and with
the dorsal portion of the veilebral column,
form the great shield or buckler which covers
the backs of these animal.-:, and which is called
varapax.
W ithout being as much developed, the bones
of the shoulder are very analogous to those
of birds. The anterior extremity consists of
a u arm composed of a single bone, the humerus;
a fore-arm consisting f a radius and ulna,
generally distinct from each other, and a baud
which i KiMiinhiiieii iu the form of a fin, aud
sometimes resembling a fool.
The movements ol leptiles are, in general,
less active, aud le-s sustained ihan those of
animals with warm blood, as might bo antici
pated from the more limited charai tcr oi their
respiration; for there always exists an inti
mate relation between these two functions.
Their muscles receive less blood, aud are ol a
nhilUh titit ; and it is also remarked that these
organs preserve their irritability for a. longer
time after they have been removed from the
influence of tho nervous system. In warm
blooded animals, the destruction of the brain
and spinal marrow, or the section of a nerve
is ut once followed by a complete paralysis,
either general or local, and very soon after
this phenomenon occurs, it become.- impossi
ble, to excite muscular contraction, by prick
ing or otherwise stimulating the affected parts.
In reptile, on "ho contrary, the faculty of
moving under the influence of stimulation, is
preserved under similar circumstances, f"r a
very long time ; for example, the tail of a lizard
detached from the body, continues io move
lor several hours, and we uny often see a tor-'
toi.se that has been apparently dead for several
days, move its limbs when the muscles are
stimulated by pricking them. We may .con
clude that, in these auimals, the division of
physiological labor and localization of the dif
ferent fuuetions of the nervou system, are
not carried so far as iu mammals aud birds,
aud hence there is a less intimate dependence
of the different parts of the economy upon
each other.
A Yankee. Iu a new play, termed The
Green Mouutaiti Boys, iu a dialogue, the
Yankee is asked, tauntingly, who hi father
as? He replies: Who was my father?
My father was the first inventor of thrashing
machines. I am the first of his make, and
cau bo set in operation at a very little expense,
and at the shortest notice! so look out.': He
thus describes the New Englaud sausage and
Scrubbing Brush Machine' Into the cen
tre of this machine,' ho says 'you drive a hog;
set the screws a going, aud it will produce
ready made sausages t'rom one end, and pa
lent scrubbing brushes from the other - ;
- Division of a Sermon. A priest of yore
took the following text, viz: Tb world, the
flesh, and - the devil.' After having entered
upon his discourse, hie remarked, 'I shall take
but little notice of tho world, pass lightly over
the flesh, and hasten as fast as I can to the
devil. . . ' ': : -
v Hard at the Bottom. A traveller rid
ing dowu a steep hill, aud fearing the foot of
it was unsound, called out to a man who was
ditching, and asked bim if it was hard at the
bottom.' . "'Ayr,', answered the countryraau,
it is hard enough at the bottom,, I 'warrant
jou.,ThtraTeHeri however, had not rode
balf-a-dozo . rods before the horse had sunk
up. to the saddla-skirU. f :?VVhy ! you villiao,
aid ba, calling out to the ditcher, 'did not you
tell me it was hard Qt the' bottom?' Aye,' re
plied the fallow, but you are not half way to
SOLDIERLY Marks
'-Let those who decry the utility r '
exercise, and ask . To what purpo K
this?'? place side by side the erect and crac
ful forrr. of the well drilled soldier fAemfK
tary gentleman and the stooping, "slouabW
figure t of he whose absorbing anxiety fit
dimes and dollars forbids - his engagement
. u i-u-aucuj puerne military exercise :
and let them assert upon their honor who best
maintain the prerogative of mon;': A;;;
Why so distinguishing U the "mark'' of a1
military man a true soldier that you ca
pick him from a crowd. The sheriff 's officer,
or the dun, or the special messenger will find
him there iu an instant. 'I know yo,u"says
one of these latter, "by your eyes rihV when
you glance at the crowd, by the open space
you keep about you, by your righi about as
you retrace your steps ; there may be a deal
of John Smiths, but few of these are sofc
diers." '
Yes i the true soldier is a study for an aria
tomist, or a tailor. The one looks with ad
miration upon every muscle brought so freefy
into play, upon the vigor imparted to each
tendon aud sinew ; the other beholds with
euthusiasm, for his bad, coat on a military
back approaches excellence, and his best cout
passes perfection. Every bone is a sprio"
kept in perfect order by the oil of drilL
Talk of your dauciug, your posturing, your
gymnastics ; but compare them not with the
exercise of the drill and parade. Hath dauc
iug the ability to impart a maximum strength
t the chest and vigor to the arm? Exists
there always a safe medium to the strain and
abandon of the gymnasium? The musket iu
the hands of a military enthusiast is but a
baby in' the grasp of Mars n playihiog an
available, pleasant, healthful means of exer
cise withal. , So with" the sword or sabre,
which illumine the air with lightning strokes.
Anecdote. We heard a story some lime
since of Joe , which will bear repeating-;
Joe was one evening seated iu the bar-room
of a country tavern in Canada, where assem
bled several old countrymen discussing vari
ous matters connected with the "pomp and
circumstance ol war." r u the course of some
remarks, oue of them stated the English go
tern men (possessed the largest cannon iu the
world, and gave the dimensions of one which
he had seen. Joe's Yankee pride would cot
allow him to let such an asset lion pass wjiu,
out contradiction. ; ; -
"Poh ! gentlemen,' a id he, M wont deny
but tbat is a fair sized cannon; but you are a
leetle mistaken iu sopnosinii it to be the lars-
et in the world, y. Ws uot to be mimed in the
same miuule with one of our Yankee gnu,
which I saw in Charlr stow u lust year. Jupiter!
that was a caunou. . Why, sirs, it's so infer
nally large, that the soldiwis were obliged lo
employ a yoke . of oxen to draxr in the ball !"
The devil they ere ! ' exclaimed one of
his heareis, .with a nile of fi iu'uph; -. . prny,
can you tell me how they got them out againf
"Why, you foul," returned Joe, " they un
yoked 1 em and drove 'em through the rent I"
IMPORTANT
TO MESgaAUgSi,
Great Sale of.
; DRY GOODS, &c.:
rilC Subscriber having taken Special Letters of
Administration, acbrdin to Law, on the Eatr.tr ef
Jo!m McAm, d c-ns d, yi I expose to Public fc'alr,
on Tuesday tlto S7th May 1845, a iar'e portion of
the Personal Property belonging ( "said Estate,
consisting of a vry unusually lur'jn ' "
STOCK OF DRY GOODS,
Including this Sprins ptircbare,' wliii h will bo
'old from the cases. This Stock I worthy .the at
tention of Dealers from a riistancr. ;'
Also, Horses, Mules, Wagons,
Carriages, Buggies, Sulkiets &c.
Sale to take place it the Store latoly occupied br
rln5 deceased, in the Town of Fayette ville, N.
C, and continue from day to day unlit the Mock is
disposed ofv A liberal credit will be givciCTernia
made known on the day ofaale. j .
, O.U. McAttN, Adm'r.
May 10, Id 15. 32i.ti.
C. F. NAVIGATION COMPANY.
THE : annual mrerjit of the Stockholders will be
held on-ridav, 3'ith May. 1845, in the Town o
FayctiKville. '., E. L. WINSLOW, Prcir't.
; '. r v 324-t. - .- -
EEWAKD.
tl AN A WAY Trom iMr James
McDuffie, on the 7tb of Dec m
her last, my negro man ARCIIY
I-itc ' the jrop rty of A. B bee
oVc'd. iFT is about 5 A-et 8 or 10
inches high,, has a Ion; smooth
black fa ctv with full prominent
cyv&, and is Jairie in one of bis
less- Hei upposeW to be lurk-
in" about F vettevilb1, IV. C. A reward of j20
will be paid fjr bim if taken and lorljrpj in any Jail
in tbis Stau, or $50 if taken and loo'gcd in Jail in
any other of the Stat , a, no tbat I cau set hitn ssain.
r - . J. M STRONG,
Fayetrev Ife, N. C, May. 10, 1845. 5gU-tf
NEW SUMMER GOODS.
WOULD call ' the .attention of the citizens
of tho town and the public SCO- rally, to
bis new and general assortment of wasoaabt
STJlPLli AJSTD l'A.YCY
TV
TTtN
r4 Tl
in
Among which are, for ladies wear, SilkV, whit",
black, and fanvy ; Galzorines; TarJetan, diflorent
colors : Printed and Lace Lawns ; Crape Lease ;.
Silk, filler, OrapeLeseand Mtrs I rn d'Laf Scarf-;-Muslin
d'Lain, Silk, and Crape Lesse Shawls;
fine Kid Gloved, assorted color; very fine Silk do.;
Riblon richest stylef; Bonnets do.; Hemstitched
Lawn tlaiidkcrcbiefs, (or ladies and gentlemen j
silk Under Shirts, do. do ; f tair Cloth "and etttded
Skirts, auprior quality ; Linen Cambric; Edia
and Footing; Laces and Inserting; Fr nch-worked
Collars.; Bishop Lawns; Book, Jaconrt, andSwi
iMualin; plain plaid and. striped Cambric ; Bomba
zine ; Gimp and Gimp Cord ; Victoria Grrdlss ;
printed Muslin; Calico of all sorts; Ginffaarns, &X.
FOR J&&JmLEAlEJrS fVPAR,
Snuff. colored, creen, invisible graen, black and
bine Broad Cloths, wool-dyed, wide and fine; black
and fancy Cassiiner", with a great variety ot Lin
en Goods tor coats and pants; Damask, silk, pld
silk and satin ;Vestins ; Suspenders ; Gloves, ,
sorted ;'; a great variety f Hats for summer j - fl"S
calf and Morocco Boots and Shoes; ladies Slippers
and Ties; Umbrellas,' Parasols and Sun Shades
VlT92) 8 SA assortment of GKOr
.April 19, I84i. X 'v- 311 y.
me ootiom yeu :
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