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1 I PI it -'-'w.V :' . in. . 4 ;l-':l;:;l' It.- ' : It; .'j: ; :. jj .-- 1 ' r,- V. I 4 It A i f 9 i J V J . THE LNELY HOME. i . s - BT C. SWAIN. ! There' none to saygood night' to mc 1 . No, friend my littlo iireto share; . The oKj iioirse clock ticks drearily, . And makes the 8iIenccworae to hear. - Gonei ilia rp gone! the fondest," best, And loveliest, that I called mine own; x After; brief su'tTeTin' they're at rest; They they lived not to wail alone! ' , j . - . ' Alone, b!unc morn, noon and cve ... I sec ;t he cold chairs keep their place; I watch the dirty spider weave "Where once there shone a household grace. The brightness of my .home is dull ' ' . T he jbusy faces all arc gone; . I gaze on and oh! my heart is full; My echini; heart that breaks alontj ' U --i ;.! - I Ojpe the B.ble, urcy with age ' j' " The.'sanc my hapless grandsire read J5ut ears stain fast and deep that page . "Which keeps their names my loved my dcadl The; wandering stranger at my door, -TheJ passing tread, the distant tone " aA.11 human sounds but dcejwn more ! -The feeling I am alone alone! - ' My'cot with mantling ivy grren, . Its pleasant jtorch, its sanded floor Ah! Time's dread touch hath changed the scene, 'What was, alas! is now no morel ' - TI": key hath rusted in the lock, ! So long since I the threshold croas'd; Why should 1 see the sun Lut mock The blessed light my home hath lost? Ohj would my last low bed. were made! But death forsakes the lone and old, ' Seeks the t lit he chetjk of youth to fade, - To crush the gay, the s-trong, the bold. Yet,' sometinH's, through the long.'dull light, .When hours find supernatural tone, I bcara promise of delight Thou God! thou lea vst me not alone. The Wintry rain fell fa; and deep, As slow a coffin pass'd-the road, - . No mourner there was seen to weep - No follower to that last abode! , ' Yet there a broken heart found peace , The peace but that in death it knew; Alas! that human loves increase Our. human woes ar.d miseries too. r THE VOICE OF SPRING. BT MRS. HEM.IN'S. I come, I come! yc have call'd me long, I co-tie over the mountains with light and song! . Ye nay trace my step o'er the wakening earth, Byiac wiadsVhich tell of the ioIets birth, Bv wie primrose-stars in the ihidowy jgras, By the green leaves opening as 1 pas. t i ' ' I have breathed on the South, and the chesnut -J flowers,'' I ' ' ' '23 thousands, have burst from the forest-bowers, And the ancient graves, and the fallen fine?, . 'Aid jriel'd withj wreaths on Italian plains. ' But it is not tor me, in my hour of bloom, To speak of the ruins or the' tomb. Mi ' . " J have rmsa'J over the hills of the stormy North, f-Aa.i the larch has hung all his tassels forth, And the fisher is oat on the suijny sea, Aad jhe rein-deer hounds through, the pasture free Aid the pine has a fringe of softer green, Aad jhe moss b ks bright where ny step has been. I - . I . I have sent through the woods-pah a gentle sigh, And call'd out each, vbiecof the deep-blue sky, Frcmthe night-bird's lay through the starry" time, In the grove of the soft llesjierian clime, To the swan's wild note by the Iceland lakes, "When the dark fir-bough Into verdure break?, i - From the rreams and founts I have loosed the f j-hain; , " ' Tbej are sweeping on the silvery main, They are'flashing down from the mountain-brow?, 1 hey are flinging spray on the forest-boughs, They are bursting forth from their sparry .raves, And the earth resounds with the joy of the Wavei ; Come forth, O ye children of gladness, come, WheVe the violets lie may be now your hone.' Ye of the rose-choek and dew-bright eye, And the bounding footstep to meet me fly, j With the lyre and the wreath, and the joyouslay, " Come forth to the sun shine, I may not stay. ' 1 1 . '. ' The summer is hastening, or soft winds borne, Ye may press the grape, ye may bind the corn; Jor pie I depart. to a brighter shore Ye are marked by care, ye are mine no more. f go ;where the loved who have left you dwell, : And the "flower's are not Death's fare ye well, ! ! farewell!. . ' . . v i ' i ) :' THE LEOPARD. The Leopard of Southern Africa is Jcnown among; the Cape colonists by the j name of Tiger; but is, , in fact, the real I Leopard, the felis jutata of naturalists. i It uiflers Frorn the ranther of, Northern Africa in the form of its spots, in the I . f . 1 more sienaer structure oi us douv, ana in teTegs not being so long in propor tionate its size. In watching for its prey Mhe Leopard crouches on the ground, . with his fore-pawa stretched out and his head between them, his eyes rather di rected upwards. His appearance in his wild, state is exceedingly beautiful, his motions in the highest degree easy and graceful, and his agility in bounding among the rocks'and woods quite ama zing Of" this activity no person can have any idea by seeing these animals in the cages in which they are. usually ex hibited, humbled and tamed as they are by confinement and the damp cold of our climate. The Leopard is chiefly, found in the ! moiiniainous oisiricia ui ouuui iiiiua, whore he preys on such of the anieiopcs as he can surprise, on young baboons, and on the rock badgers or rabbits. I Il l's much dreaded bv the -Cape farmer Also, fot his ravages among; the flocks, and among tha young foals and calves iti the breeding season, v j The Leopard is often seen at nigral i i ihe villages of the negroes on the west roast; and being considered a f acred iinima!, is never hunted, though children and women aic, not unfrequently destroy ed by thenu In the Cape Colony where no such rcsjpect is paid him, he is shyer and much more in owe of man. But though in jSoalh Africa he seldom or never ventures i - to attack mankind, ex cept when driven to extremity (uplesj it he some poor Hottentot child now! and then that he "finds unguarded,) yet in .re mote places, his lojv, half-smothjered growlMs frequently hfeardat night, $s he prowls around the cottage or. the kraal, as the wril:r of ilris;. notice has a hun dred times heard it. His purpose on such occasions is to break into the sheep fold, and in this purpose he not unfre quently succeeds, in spite of the trjoops of fierce watch-dogs which every farmer keeps to protect his flocks. The Leopard, like the Hyaena,- s of ten caught in traps constructed of large stones and timber, but upon the; same principle as' a common mouse trap. When thus caught, he is usually bailed with dogs, in order lo train them to' con tend with him, and seldom dies wUhout killing one or two of his canine aotago nists. vret nunteu in me items, tiu .ni I - I " .1 1 11. a.. instinctivelv betakes himself to a; tree, ;r shniilrl h. within read, iri this situation it is exceedinslv perilous to ap- ..rnlrh within rpach of his soriiiff. but at the same'titne, from his exposed po - sitiojn, he becomes an easy prey to the 6hot ol the huntsman. . j "The South African Leopard, though far inferior to f.e Lion or Bengal Tiger in strength and intrepidity, and though he usually shuns a qonllicl with tnan, is nevertheless an active and furious ani mal, and vhen driven to desperation be- comes a truiy ronniuaoie aniagouisi. The Cape; colonists! relate many instan - 'oa .if rrinWnT. and ROmetimes fa.al en- counters betw i n pie nuntea Jjeoparu and his-pursuei: The following is a specimen of these adventures. It occur red in 18ii, whe n the 'resent writer was in the interior of the colony, jand is here gifen as it was related to him by an indivi lual who knew the parties en gaged in u - ; I ; The African farmers,. returning from hunting the hartebeest, (antilopq buba ils,) roused a leopard in a mountain ra vine, and i iimediately gave chase to him. The Leopard at first tideavored to es cape by clambering up a precipice; but beingly hotly "pressed, and wounded, by a musket ball, he turned upon his pursu er with that frantic fe rocitv peculiar to this animal on .such emergencies, and soringins- ou the man who had bred at him. tore him from his horso to the oround, biting him at the same timefon the houIder. and tearing one of his cheeks severely with his claw&i The other hunter seeing the dangers of his comrade,! sprang! from his horse, land at- tempteu to nooi ine,- Lieoparu inrougn the headi but; whetlicr owing t trepi dation, or the fear of wounding his friend, or the quick motions of the animal, he unfortunately missed. The Leopard, abandoning his' prostrate encmyj darted with redoubled fury upon his second an tagonist. I arid so' fierce and 'sudclcn was his onset, thai before the boor could stab hfm;withrhii hunting-knife, the sav age beast struck him on the head with his claws, and actually tore the !calp over his tves. T this. fiij'htufl condi tion the hunter grappled with the Leop iird; and; struggling for life, thev rolled together I down a steep dcclivitv.. All this passed far more rapidly than it can be described in. words. Iielore the man ivho had been first attacked could start to his feet and seize his gun, thev were rolling one over the other 'down the bank. ; In a minute or two he had re loaded his gun, and rushed forward to save the life of ; his friend.' But it was too late.J The Leopard had seized the unfortunate man by the throat, and man gled himj.so dreadfully, that death was inevitable; and his comrade (himself e verely wjounded) had only thehmelan cholly satisfaction of completing the.tle structioii of the savage beast, already exhausted with the. loss of blood from several deep wounds by the desperate knife of the expiring huntsman. LARGE COESNUt'tHEE. 1 ' : I - . f i ' " Line oi toe most ceieorateu trees in the world, is the great chesnut tree of Mount VLtna; it is known bv the name of Castdgno de cento cavalli (the ches nut tree bf a thousand horses.) A tra dition says, that Jane, Queen of Arra- go'u, on her vovage from Spain to Na- pies, iamicd in feicily, tor the purpose of visiting Mount iEtna; and that being overtaken by a storm, she and her hun dred attendants; on horseback, found shelter ' within the enormous trunk of this celebrated tree. -At any rate the name which it bears, whether the story be .true or not, is expressive enough f its prodigious size. . We extraet the following passage, de scriptive of this tree, from the article ,Etna,".in the Penny Cpclopredia: "ft appears to' consist of five: larj.ie and two smaller trees, "which, from the circumstance of; the barks and bough j ueing an ouisiue, are consiqerea 10 nav I v. . i. ::..ii i rni. i I uveu wuc nun iv uiiuiany . m. uc iara?Ti j trunk is thirty-'ght teet m circumler- i ence, ana. the cirruit ol the wnole live, i measured just above the ground, is one hundred and sixty-three feet; t bears tich foliage, and muclr small fruit. though the: heart of jhe trunk is much decayed, and a public road leads through li'wide enough for two! coaches to drive abreast. In the middle cavity a hut is built for the accommodation of. those who collect and preserve jlhe chesnuts "This is said; by the natives, to be the oldest of trees : From the state of decay, it is impossible to have recourse to the- usual mpde of estimaung the age of trees ; by counting the concentric rings of annual growth, and therefore no exact numerical expression can, be assigned to the antiquily of this individ ual. j-That it may be some thousand years old, is by no means' improbable. A'danson examined inL this manner, Boabjtree Adansonid 4igitata)'m Sene gal, and inferred that ii had attained the age of five thousand "one hundred and fifty years; and De Candolle considers it not improbable that the celebrated Taxodium of Chapultopec, in Mexico, Cupressus disticha, Linn.) which is one hundred and seventeen feet in cir cumference, may be still more aged." It' is evident that if the great chesnut tree were in reality a collection of trees, as it appears to be, ! the wonder of its size wuld at once be at ah end. I3ry dune, who visited it in 1770, says , 'I own I was ' by no means struck vvith its appearance, as it does not seem to j be our tree, but a bush of five Jargi trees growing together. W.e complain ed ui our guides of. the imposition; but ihey unanimously assured us, ! tliat by the universal tradition, and even lesti- ' - - . . 1 1 1, n ttrnl- rf mooy uiiuctuuuj(,u uicoc iiiichu; : united inone stein; tnat meir granuja thers remembered tins, xvlien u -was looked upon as the glory of the: forest; land visitcJ it from all quarters: that for j many years past it had been reduced to the venerable ruin we beheld. e.k- ean to examine it with more" atieniion, and found that there was indeed an ap pearance as if these five trees had rtallyj been once united in one, 1 iie opening; jn the middle fs at present prodigious f nd it does indeed require faith to be ieve, that so vast a space was once uc cunied by solid umber. But there is no appcajrance of bark on the iushlt ol anyi J bf the siutnDs, nor on the sides thai are opposite to one another. . Uiave siuct , ... been told by the Curumico ' llecuper an ingwiius ecclesiastic of that jlace that he: was at the expense of carrying up peasants-with tools to dig round the Castaano de' cento ! ca villi, and he as sures -.lei upon his honour, that he fount! all these stems united below ground iii one, root." j . j, .j Houel, in his 'Voyage Pittoresqu; des Isles de Sicile toiiie ii, p. 79, 1784, has given a plate of this vtree. He, apf pears to have taken grekt ains to ascer tain the fact of there being jonly one trunk, and to have completely satisfied himself that the apparent divisions hav- been produced, partly by the decay of lime, and partly by the peasants ccatin ually cutting out portions , of the wood and bark for fuel, j , j - The following "description of the immense night of. wild pigon3, often sen in their luigra- I rions from place to jJace' in various partsiof the United States, i condensed from Audubon's splendid and celebrated work on American Orni thology. -':' ' ' ;h '. : ' ; THE PASSENGER PIGEON, ! The; multitudes of these birds almost pass1 belief. In the autumnof 1813, Audubon left his house at Henderson, on the banks of thejOhio, on his way to Louisville, i Having'met the pigeins fly ing 'aiorth-east to south-east in" greater numbers than usual, he fejt an inclina tion to enumerate the flocks that would pass within -the breach of the eye; in th1 course of one hour. He dismounted, and, seating himself on a small emitence, began to mark, in his pocketbookfa dot for every flock which passed.; F&dirig, however, that this was scarcely, possible, and feeling unable' to record j thejtiocks as they constantly j increased, he!-rose, a n d, ci u nting t h e do ts a I read y , p u t do vp.n, found that one hundred and sixty-three had been made in twenty one mirutis. He travelled on, and still 'met, more the farther he went; The air was literally filled with pigeons; the light of noonday came dim, as during an eclipse. While waiting for dinner at the Sun, he sa;.v, at his leisure, immense legions still go ing by, and he s.iys :" But I cannot describe to you the extreme beauty of tneir aerial evolutions, when a hawk chanced, to press upon the rear of a flock. At once, like a torrent, and with a noise like thunderi, they rushed into a compact mass, pressing upon each oth er toward the centre. In these almost solid masses, thev darted forward in un dulating and j angular-lines; descended and swept close over the earth with in conceivable; velocity, mounted perpen dicularly, so as to resemble a vast col umn, and, when high,: were seen wheel ing and twisting; within their continued Imes, which then resembled the coils of a gigantic, serpent. V, Before sunset he reached Louisvillei distant from Har miles; the pigeons undiminished num Jo do so for three densburgh fifty-five were still passing in bersj arid continued days in succession.! Audubon attempts to reckon the number of pigeons in one of th ese flocks, and the daDv auantitv of food' cons urried bv it- He takes, as an example, a column of 1 mile in breadth, and supposes it to pass over us, without interruption, for three hours, at the rate of one mile per minute. This will ffive us a 1 parallelogram of' one. hundred and eigni mnes oy oue, averaging one hund . i ''a I- : . . icu aiiu eiguiy square miles; and, allow ing two pigeons to 'the square yard, we have; one billion one hundred and fifteen mjnion3; :one hundred and i thirty-six thousand pigeons in one flock: and, as every pigeon consumes fully half a p:nt: berl aay, tiie Ajuaniity required to feed such ?a flock must be eight millions sev en bndr-cdj and twelve thousand bushels ber ay. He thus describes; the aj bearnce of the j pigeons at one of their roostang-places : ;"The sun was lost to jour view, yet not a pigeon had arrived ; but; suddenly, there burst forth a gene ral rtv of. 'Here thev conic !' The; noise which their made, though yet distant, reminded me of a hard, gale at sea, pas sing jlhrough the riggin of a close-reefti vessel As the birds arrived, and passed overjvr-e, 1 felt'a current of air that su priseil me.. Thousands were sooi) knocked down by the men provided wilhipoles. The current of birls, how ever! kept siill increasing. . '1 he fires; were! lighted, and a most magnificent, as wellfas a wonderful and lerrilyiryg sight presented iself The ''pigeon com in gj in by thousands? alighted everyiwre,1 one iboye another, until solid masses of thenli reserribling hanging swarms of beesj as large as a hogshead, were formed; on every tree, in; all directions. . Hejre and jthere the perches gave way under the weight with a crash, and, falling to the ground, destroyed hundreds of the bird)) beneath, forcing down the dense groups with which every slick was loa ded.! It was a scene of uproar and con fusion. I found itquite'useless to speak, 6r eeivto shouW to those persor)s nearf est ine. The reports, oven of the near est ;uns, were stldom heard j and I kner only of the firing by seeing the shooters reloading. No- person; dared venCure within the lineof devastalion ; the iog:9 had been penned up in due; timov the picking up jof the dead and woijhided being left for the' neti niorn- ing'l employment. Still the pigeons were constantly coming and it was past midnight before I perceive d a decrease in ihe uuiiber of those that arrived. The; uprar continued, however, the ; whfoljej niglt ; an J, as I was aiixi Jus to know; Ui wliat distance the sound reached, I sent off i ' man i accustomed to perambidate the forest, who, returning two hours jaj WT'Jard.' inl formed ' me' he. bad heard it distlnctlv when three miles from the snofL Toward ihe aouroach of day, lh iri'i&e rather subsided; but. Ions: ere bp iects were at all iHstinguisable; the !pi geohs began tci move5 oil", in a direction qiiifle diflererit Ifrom tlat in which the hadarrived belore ; and at sunrise, a I ihni were fable to fly had disappeared The bowlings of the wolves now reach ed ur ears ; and the foxes, lynxes, cou gar, bears, rackoons, opossums,- anu pole-cais were seen sneaking ofl frorn the jspot; while eagles and hawks, of dil fereht species accompanied by a crowi of Vultures,. came to supplant thcrn, an enjy their share of the spoil.; It -wa then the authors of all this devastation beglin their entry among the dead, the lyihg, and the mangled. 1 ne pigeons were picked up and piled in heaps, unt'i each had as many as he could 1 possible dispose of, when the fiogs were fooie to fee'd on the remainder." let ! JUNGLE FOWL The bird known by this, name ambrig thejLnghsh in India, is the "W ijd iocl of ponneriit, who was; the first, to dej$ crioe it in his 'y oyage aux Indes Orien tales.' This naturalist maintained will considerable 2eal that thisird for nice ihej stock whence most ol our races o dorriestic fowl have proceeded, Hecotj curred in I the opinion of HnfJon, that most of our iarieties of domestic fowf have proceeded from a single type.fand thai the , dillerences which w.e inereeivje ampnff thcrn have resulted from ;;acci letits of climate, domestication, I anid cnissings ot .varieties. Sonnerat, who di(l not or would not know of any other species of I, wild cock than this for he speaks slightingly of ; the authority of liatiipier. vvno mentions mat ne saw .vikd cocks in the Indian Archipelugo nafurally enough concluded that.iniihis jiirigle-fowMie had found the primitive ! . 1 i . i I.! . stqcK, , ouosequeni inquiries nave, now evr, confirmed the statements of Dam pier, not only as to the existence of spe rids of wild fowl in the Indian Arclupel a (to ; out it is aiso aumiticu mat me uan- kiia species in Java, and the Jago spc cies in Siimatra.j more nearly pproxi mdte to our common fowl than that now tmller consideration and to wllich Son neat's statetnents refer.. Upon the wht le, it seems that pur -varieties ofj thir mlstic fowl proceed from mixtures iof original species. Practical observejrs arrive at much tlie same conclusions Sii this point With scientific naturalists. It is llius, for; instance, considered, in India that oiiir game cock originated frbmi a mixture of the jungle cock with a .wld species in Malaya and Chittagong. Al toethferi however, it must be admittpl that, on this disputed point, very little isjactnallyj known ; and the dbmesiCa tion of the bird ascends to such remote antiquity, that it seems hopeless to de termine the era and still more J hopeless to ascertain the original species w)lh precision. 1: It iis proper, to add thai the iuhjrle fowl, which we now proceed; to describe, are quite distinct in inuia irom thje domestic races reared by the natives. which do, not in any respect differ from ihje domesticated varieties in a thje world.) 1; parts of The jungle pock is about one-lhird less in bulk than our common village crjek. Its length from, the point of ihe bill to the extremity of the lowered sind extended tail,- is about two feet four lii cHes; and its height Yroni the, level of thje feet to the top of the head,; without including the crest, Js fourteen inches and a half.! The head is furnished with aq indented comb, and the ..wattles re semble those of the domestic coek, tut the naked Space around the eyes and on iroal is larirei . than in that inr J.! the fjeatherst oi tiiel htiadf anjneck gi-ow loinger as tlieyfapjiiroach tlie body, and; Iri'i'thmr jorni aiid sabsiance are iriifierent jfr'oin ft hose w h ich cover the same parts! in other cocks,' whether wild or domes tic. ' i"he qui! is -jthici ad flattenedj forming a whitb stripe; the ivliole lengtli )plha leather,! as iurlathe extremity where, it ends! in ajUil ated cartilagiiiourl libs ll ri c e, i ai ro U n d elf jfo r tii , l Ii i n , h i t; h-f iff polished and vhue The Icathcrin oft the back, and those of ihe tail coverts are hln and riari olv, hiid are of a dusk1 bowb colouri ; vafied Iwith spots of a; brighler hue, jthe whoehaving white5 spoc down theirfsnatts. ins ireas(t4 ine oeiiy, tne f iocs, iu imgns aim uu; abdomen are duskjv tinged with gieen! The greater, quill .- feathers ; lare jJu!i! black, whh green reflections. The les5 ser .and! middle win-coverts have; tl shaAs of Uheir ' feathjers flattened,; ami tjieirj tjps. furnished witi ii thick and so- lid cartilaginous jat.e,": of the same;gen-j era amearance.; The colour of the tail-; covefts is deep violet; they are length enevif out and archfd over the two viprti:j cal pjlanes; of the tail, yihich is composed f fojir teen feathers separate(i,in:);twoi portions inclined jtovvards each other,? ihd lormi ng a n acute. angle. The 1 1 u q: niddlc feathers are longer than the loth-? fis, and form an arc, jthe convexity of which is turned rom th!e bo(y i of the bird.j The feathers o the'tai are of a', black hue, with grjeehj reflections. The feet are of a grey Colouri the beak horn coloured; the fiesaiy appendices of the head are red, more prjless deep. :'t f! , The. female of this, specie is much anjl has scarcely; any The? th roat js covered less tlian the male. comb lor fvattlesl witli feathers; aid this forms a remarka ble'iii'sitiri'ctioii frdm the dPmesfic then which has that part nearjv naked. iThe circuniference around the eye is naked ' .t-i ' 1 l n-M 1 ' 1 ' i ."'i v .1 ;! ' i' S aou jreiuiiisn... j ne wnoie or me piunpag: f tie lower partsjof the body jresenlblci that; of the male; except that tlie colours are jess brilliant. Tic feathers ot the neck aref but slijhtfy; lengthened land1, .as iell as those ef thfe. wings,!; afdesti tute! of the ' sin g,tilar cartilaginous I tipi with -which thos of j the iji ale jare 'turf nishod. j The whole of the upper part of the bedy is grey,' more Oi less duski with t h e s h a ft f ;a c li; fea th er w h i tf . It deserves to be remarked, ; tliat i inlf thisi, as yeli as in all other Indian wild spe cies, the temale jdo ;noc diller among themselves in the colour of itheir;rplu mage, like bur domestic hens. I he fcf uiales also of those primitive species re semuje eacn omer inuiviuuauv, wnicn as is by bo mean! thoi lease: witli oulr dof mestic hens, the difl'rences between the individuals of which, someinnes extent to. characteristic itttribiite,. such as thl absence of crest, of gills, great ence of size, &ie. I T'fis is; a Strong lacjt against ;be opinion ot 15 u 11 on, whoj con sidered "that a white plumage must be me attrunite ot me pnmiuvo race, a no imagined that her, originally white, be- came varied lront whte to L'l.ncK, assu niiiiir all the intermediate Colours in sc cession. But our .acquaintance with wih species ; which ufere unknowri in1 Ruf fqn'sj lime,' enables iis to !oiiceive t nmre probable tliat die prii)j.tiye hcij are br6wn.A red. lor grey liniliiiercnitlv and that white anil black colburs ire a- mong me consequences oi uoniesucatni lor an tfiewHd n;ns wnicn naveTjitner to been -observed have, the; intermediate colours.; '-"'V '.'. "';;. 1 ' Tlie cry of the'junglp fowl is in some measure yifleiehi frim ttiatfpf tlie do indst.ic species; bt there is much resern iilahce in their ' habits and disposlionf. Tlie following lively '.statement h subject is from, 'Excursions iri India, this Captain; Thbjnas.pkiniier,! published i 1832: : '; , ,. 11;;. J r '. '. ;': f '"In sbrne; parlq of ihe forest vve saw sbv'eral'ii'uiigle foivl; they have exactly th e s a me J 1 a bj t s lis in e u I o m e s 1 1 c p u 1 1 r t 'rt 1 . J. .1.1 ' l ..f I - 'l . i ne cociv sinus asi ine neao oi ins iient. and keeps.a s.tric( watch oyer theirfsaff ty AVheievert&evUvere disturbed bv oui sal tempts Upon them, helflew to the nignesi ounrii oij spine tree eey omu oaji reach, Jand crowed vjth all ;hisi might, wftile his dames ran into holes and cor ners, to escape ouir attacks: they, iijie s cunning, tnat we found U imijossible im get. within shot of! the n with all the cau tion we could use. .1 While intent upon capturiugat least pn; as we were creep ing after them upoif '"our. breasts, lying occasional y likp riflemen under the co- ve(r, oi me unevenessK ot trie ground ;o catch them en peasant, we came sodden - y upon an ampuscade mat very soon out an end to our snort. . f! ' - t i We were about midway up the face of a hilj that was! thickly covered with trees, and much 'tinkered by shrubs arid Creepers that wound in irccion. un reaching me loot p Uie enemy s pp. sit ion; still advancing upon our, nreasts and bending a keen ere Upon the! birds strutting; before us, uprose, with a growl inai uenoieo an .onenueu spiru itor we iad literally touched, his tail) a large black beai; and turning round, looked Us in tlie fticei vf ttK the most tindisguisld astonishment. It was the most unsought as wJllad most unpromising intrjoduc- I. had ever met with. - 'There was no time for parjey, and gettiiis updn ojir cj;!", ; wc ub uiicc ciuuu upuiij ine ucitrpi- sivei In is sutlden sietamorphosisi com- )leted his surprise, and, yelling louder than before, he set ofi" as fast' aahe could hufiii? jftom the Extranrdinary animals that hap so unaccountably sprung up be fore hi iii. 'We .dietefniined that discre- tioiv was, the beliir part of valour!, and began fo retrace dr sieps, leaving the jungle lowi to ueaietit by ine interrup- tion,' The ;fcdlowing is pe process which the Shcccarries -or natives of low-cas- the th? in Iniha, who a;n i liytlinoon by catcliini' birds and animals' erhploy lor the purpose -of taking the jungle foivl: A -"Twp or three of jthese! men go for this purpose together,;, and proceed I; in this nan rieu A.lme m mirty or lor tv yatds long is aliened to5 the ground with t ibbden pegs al eaf each cxtrcmujv And is then elevated-bv props to the height of about eiahteeiiii inches. To to this fprop nooses oflidrse-hnlr are fas- tened at distanccjabouf two feet from eacrriolbcr, anduhejn the birds attempt , to pass under the 'line, they arc caught, in the nooses by their necks. fonc-; times a similar line is fastened to. the, ground, and left flying there with -all i.hc nooses spread,, and as the birds pass over .i '.i ; : '. i f 4 . 'iM, i ' - mem tney are caugni by the Ies. : hese lines arc never fpirad where Yheh the line here is much iuiifflc oif lines, are ready, the " w 1 h en 0r tiT IfV-ft considerable distance, and beat the bush es in I ie dire ction towards them. CURIOUS CLOCK. . L"' '' Th(f most curiou? thing -in theCalhe dral of Lnbeck is a clock pf piitLMdar construction, on. very iiign antiqwiiy. It is; cjalcula tedjto lansvfcr atrom n pral ptirp'oses reprcscntirig.ihe place srof sisn and moon iii the ecliplir, the ntopn'a ape,. a perpeimal almanac and . many 'other 1 contrivances. The clock, as an insqrip tion sets forth, was placied in the church,' upon i'andTe-n ps day i1 1405. Over llic face of it appears the imaged of our Sa. vtourtaad' on either sille of he image" are h iding doors, so cnstructed o ti' fly opcr every da v when the clock strikes ; iweive. Attnis nour; a set, or hgures representibg the'twelve apoRtles' cjomc out from the door on the lp.fl hand of the Image,.' and pass by in'jreiew hefore it, each figure mjaking i Lbeisnncc by bbwitig as it pisses that j( our Saioitr aud; afterwards entering the door on the right )and.;' When the procession ter minates, the door jcloie. -CarAie's Travels in ScandivcTla. ' . ' , :!-': JOIJ.v"VEiLEY. k 'I' j In disposition, John jWesley was kipd, I placable, and aflectionate. ; lie practis-i rid a strict encoilprnjfv not . w'i jh' tmy'rr' did irl()tives, bbt Vor, the purpose of, ad' ministering extensively to the ; vanti of the poor. His integrity was tinimpea-t chable; and money would have beet of no value in, his estimation, but that jtaf-j forded him 'the means of increasing jhia utility; He passed six months in (leer gia without' pfjssessingl a single, shilliiig j , ' aim wiitrii, as it nas iefrr surnnst u, irom his own.accouni of a young man .;at '. Px ford, bis, income was fliirt; pouiids'pfr ariniim, lie gave away two ; "next year receiving sixty; he Mill livnf on lv vvXvl eiglit,1) and gave, awa v hirty-tu n; "iho J third year he received ninety, and rjavC aw'ay1 sixty-two; the btinh year he re ccived . a hundred and tv rnty; ptilf die, lived as Pelore, oi jWcnty-t iyitt nnd away r.inctv-ttvo.'V In il.e phni- gavej i of his power, 'thc; CorTifnis,inr if. excise, supposing- tliat he j)fssrssf d plate, which, in brderto iivi'iiKtbe dviiyji' he had not returnWt, wrote l.ir a ictiet i on the uhject. W eslcy replirjd,.; "I ! ' ave two silver ppbons in London, ai.d iwo jt Bristol: this i air llic-tdirtetliatj I have at present, ; and "I shnll not buy, any more while s many around! ruej watM bred." s - f Hi Blarney. Jn the hiliest parl of Hlal iey CastIe, in the coi.nty olfforKy is p.; Mone usually pointed !o tit to ihe Visitor. ii which i s.aid to have te. power c f m partinirito the person who ki-se if.1, the. unenviable privilege oif hazirding, y itbr out a blush, that st ecjes if romantic as sertion which ninny rrm i falsehood. M Hence the name, of blarney,. applied ip such violations of acciiracv in narrn'tio'rL It was said, with.triith. bv Charles the hrHftli, of Sweden, f jiaf he who was ig nprant of the arithmetical art vas but half a man. With how tniirh greater e may a similar jepression be ap-1 1 toVi'm who (carnp.s to the grave t h e-J neglected and unpiofitable seeds of fnc olties, vhich it depended Pn himself to have Teared to maturity, and of which ine iiruiis uring accessions to nun. an happiness itHiie precious than all the gratifications which power or- wealth can Command. ': . j ;f '-' .. ' , .-! Jotiriieymeii Printers. :: ! ONE OR TVO ;Joutncyoirn Printer, who ran work cither at I!rrs or Cnne. Kill n pi t with employ men t, by appljpg inimcdiatdlv at' tliU Office:'. -!'( r- i-Julv fJi Notice. fTJI HE Co-partnership htrrtofore rxrstinjr u,n JL der the firm uf COLLIER & WATSOXj was disHolwd by mutual cjondt-nt on the 12di iof March lasU. AH those indebted to the iiVirt are ro- quested to mke immediate! pajmenf to I. J.. CdL- Lif.R,; and those having eltirna ajjoiast tlie tamo win present tneiu to l.un lot uquldation. 1 1. i I. J. COLLIER, V - . V. JONES WATSON. Chapel Hill, July, l.ilfiJG. ' W U j 1 tf .. !,r Tax Joists? -"ii THE sixbscribar Imvhig U-en! apointrd al tlin ' tlie LUts of Taxahlesin jt.(honfl, DiHtrici; in I ' iofips alUhose whom it nihv concrrn, that he Will' ; .Utrtrd at Chapel Hill, and'at thfir8idrrce i I RJ 1 yneciK, tLsq. on te rcfiiective tax-gathering d.lvsj upixiiniea oy me saenu, lor ine purpoiw of fc-i cdiing aid List JOHN jW. AlcGEEi 1 t JOH?r is. nuoDES j Hull 1 ' KESPECTFULLY Jihfonri the citizens of Chapel Hill and hi virinitv. -that he ban opened a Shop next-door to the Eagle Hotwl; where he will !e happy ti extend hi profcsi-i:al sen ices to gentlemen, klftimrs. It will flor d htm great pleasure to wailj on those who Tt fi r ii atlheir own. rooms;' and transient ccutleuien fan) ne serveo: at tne snrtwt, notice. ; 1 hose who prize the advantages of personal' beauty , apd romrurt he ainccrety hopes will ntt -nrfflect to'iriw him n call; arid, if .1 hey should inot, he is well nathed inai iney win lavor inm, again ia tle sane wav. " June IH, lts.10. : .ft ' '..;'. ) J if !i'V -. s i J I" -:. ,.!' ,t 1 .. ...
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