Meigs County Telegraph, 1851-07-03

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George Hickman j a citizen of Scon county,, were playing near the mouth of a .faihnmlui'S . sink-bole, In' their gambols, one of ihein, a boy eigfii or icn years of nge, pushe I his liulc brother, about fiiurri-ais of oge, headlong over iho" edge and down into the deep dark pit beloW. 11 wus some time alter the child way mttsed, before nny certain information could bo drawn from the others as lo what, hnd be become - come become of him; and il was only by threats of sovcre punishment tlmt finally overcame I iheir four and. extorted from the boy wlio did ine ueegt, confession o what ha aappwi- "d- effort Wus made immediately lo as as-certain - certain as-certain ihe situation of the little fellow;-and afford him relief if he was not beyond its power. . Ropes were -tied together whh a siono jitmclicd 10 one end; and an aiietapt was mude to fathom tho depth beneath, but more than sixty feut of ropa were employed in vain; no b .iiom could bo reucbed. 'A lighted candle wns then lot down, but lis light gave no hopeful indication, except that the pit wns free from choke damp or impure air, as far down as ihe caudle descended. Niglucamo on and all further efforts hnd to be for the time abandoned. On iho mm day further efforts were madu of ihe do;ih of the pit, but with no -boiler success. In dos -nir the frantic parents were about 10 givn up all hopes of recovering or relieving their little innocent, and preparations were being nude to close up iho mouth of ihe pit, to prevent a like occuncnce lit thu future, when it was suil!esied and- agreed up"ii. ilittl another and a final effort should bo made bv letting some individual down by ropes lo ex amine the nature of the abyss and ascertain if then was any encourgemonr for fun her efforts 10 bo found below. Abroiher of the lost child undertook the awful task. Cords w re fastened rouuJ his waisi and limbs, and one 10 his wrist, by which he might indicate 10 those nbovo his wishes either 10 descend or to be drawn up. lie was swung off and slowly lowered, until having gone to ilw depth of about filly feet, lie loeked below him. and there shone through the darkness iwo glistening'eycs looking intently upward. In another moment lie was Ftanding on n shelf or angle in tho shaft with the child clasped to his bosom, lie fastened ihe littlo fellow securely to his own body, and bidding him tuke the ropo firmly in his hands, tho signal was given to draw up. The child held convulsively to iho rope and in a few minuie8 ihey rose within view of the hun hundred - dred hundred anxious spectators, who 'iad assembled to witness ihe result; and when the first glance of the lulo fellow alive caught their eager gnze, screams and shouts of joy from the eager multitude filled ilia , air, and big tears of sympathy started from the eyes of every beholder. After the first paroxysms of delight had subsided, the child was ex examined - amined examined to sea if it haJ sustained any injury, and extraordinary 10 toll, wiih ihe exception of n little bruiso on tho back of its head, it was perfectly sound and unhurt. The only complaint that it inado was that it wus hun hungry, - gry, hungry, being nearly twemy-scven hours under ground. To inquiries made of it, it replied that il saw a light and heard il thunder. From the nature of tho pit, it appeared that the little fellow hud fullen a perpendicular course of 40 feet, upon a slope or bend in the shaft,-, and frjin that place had slid down 20 feet farther to the place where he was found lean leaning - ing leaning against a son of pillar or wall, and gazing upward. How he escaped instant de destruction - struction destruction is beyond all account. A Tortoise turned Travller. Oho of the most romarkable feats of lestudinal travel thai we ever heard of, and one well deserving to bo placed on record, has re recently - cently recently come 10 our knowledgo. In May, 1841, Master Charles II. Mel Mel-cher, - cher, Mel-cher, a son of Daniel Melcher, Esq., of this town, found a common spouted turtle in n small pool near the ruirs of the old Farm House, about two miles from town, and a third of a mile from iho rivor, and brought il home. Having cut his namo upon the shell of the animal, he dropped it into the river from Great Britain, a distance of full four miles, by ihe course of tho river, from iho iho-place - place iho-place in which it was found. Young Melcher being at the same poof o few das since, found there ilia identical turtle whicli he had taken from it ten years before, bearing upon its shell the marks marks-which - which marks-which he had made, although of courso lime hnd rendered them lets distinct than ihey were originally. ' Thai the animal should haVeA made made-its - its made-its way for lour miles, si uii si the urreni. notwithstanding all the sintiusities of the river, and al least a third of a inito by land, a pari of which was through woods, buck to its old haunts, we regard as evidence lira l even tho turtle, which had been derided from classic days up 10 ihe present tin jo for mak ing two steps backward 10 one lorward, is ble.sed with some faculties closely akin 10 reason. Exeter JVrwt Letter. A Rustic Commentator. Jim was em ployed to cut wood by tho day. The boss camo along and found Jim lifting thu axoa9 leisurely as flat boats go up the Mississippi, and accompanying every blow with a grunt. 'Now work, Jim, si iw work. 'Boss, ihe Biblo says we must use mode ration in all thing.' -,; I he Boss was non plussed. Al dinner, Jim plied his knife and fork with remarkable industry. Tho Boss reminded him of his morning text, but Jim was ready. 'I vo been reading tho Scripiura since, B06S, that whatever iho hands rind able do, lhat do with all thy might.' ' . , Moss told Jim that ho was entirely too loamcd tohop wood, und therefore very politely requested hint to lake his bed and walk.", . -v -1 : it. !. . A servant onou entered -ht-affright the study of his master, who was1 In deep hp'!, and told him ihni ihe house was on fire. Well,' said he 'inform my wife; do not Interfere with household affairs.' Thut's what wo should ca'l Anort-intVenivon.''- '

T , $9 pr imaii.' . , , -. I,., BY It T. VAN HOB!?. A CHAPTER Olf MILITIA CAPTAINS! U WITH ANpCDOTjiS TO Mltptfj , WM. MATHEWS ' , That shrewd chap, Wilftani ' Shakspoare sqnicwncre says nni tuuio , men 11 re uvrq grdhi, some achieve greatness, ' and some hlvegreaincss ,ihrust apoo therH'.T The militia captain is partly born great, and parv ly'a(iheWes greatness . by bis own u-nncen-dant abilities. , From the earliest, childhood, or as 'soon as ioon as he' can carry ' a; tin s6rd, his destiny seems revealed' to him backed tiajs, silver lace, -and red leathers art,eret,dancitig before hls'.eyes; (bej? rdlltnf ' of drum, Bhd me scream "ct fifes', sotind'per ' eolwefourf 4Tv4t ie no in ibe quiet Wtkif peace, ia indU ettd bloAdtewife oMf senate1 or rorum, that ne ts tp win undying renown, but on the stern bnule field at th May 1nspeciori, and the regimental review,' Fired whh ihis 'idea, he at an early age de devotes - votes devotes his' whole'Ume to military affair and the1' service of hisi country.' Alexander, 08304, and Ndpoleon becon 0 his models of inlltations, and, joining some company of 'string beans, he rises rapidly from one post of distinction to another from private to I corporal, from corporal to- eergeant, from I sergeant to lieutenant. till at last he finds himself that loftiest of mortals, that cvno. sure, of all eyes,' and 'observed of all obser vers, in? military chieftain ol the town of llornbff Ah, ' little think ye, who have neve drunk of glory's intoxicating draughts wno have never pressed ihe cup of double distilled happiness brimming 10 your Hps little can your cold imaginations and placid souls conceive of ihe ecstatic throb throb-bings'ihat - bings'ihat throb-bings'ihat swell, with almost overpowering delight, the heart of military 'capting,' as, cheered by the huzzihs of daggle-tailed buys,' he struts like turkey-cock before a corps of the sons ol Mars, the first lime after his election, - '- ' A thousand anecdotes have been told, and a - thousand' might be added, illustrating this turkey -cock sense of greatness in rr.ili- ita captains. . Ail have heard of that fierce son of Mars, ho, while practising military evolutions ai home, the day after his elec election, - tion, election, piichtd headlong down ihe cellar . hi.'. .2 Z ! nr h ,u:' ! 0 his rescue, and inqu.red if he was much ..i.. ....I . 1,1. (T-: ...: ...1 1 huri, replied contemptuously, 'uo away, woman! what do you know about was?' We have read somewhere of another militia captain whose sense of personal dignity was so great thai he inarched three miles under a hoi July sun, with his sword held perpen dicularly by his right side, without once re re-luxinifilie - luxinifilie re-luxinifilie siifiiicis of his face, or crooking his head to look after his company; and when he did interrupt the sweet now of his cornplacennhusiriga, and turu to his follow followers, - ers, followers, he found they had 'mizzled,' and left him 'alone in his dory.' , They had deser deserted - ted deserted in couples, and were making bee-lines for home as fast as their 'grass-ianglers' would lei them, while he for the last two milts had been strutting on alone! There is a story of another, who, receiving a bil billot - lot billot from a lady, in which she requested tho honor of his company at supper, very inno cently occeyted the invitation of its literal sense. The gooi !' wo thunderstruck, Ins he came marching into the house, with skeepskins beating and ntes tooutip, ! head of forty rag-muffins, each of whom had an appetite sufficient to crenie a fumine ir a western settlement.' We recollect a captain In the town of W , Maine, who, in training a raw corps, formed them in a line fronting a barn, and ordered them 10 'change bagncltV They instantly rushed towards him; whereupon, full of fright lest he might be pierced tnrough by the glitter glittering - ing glittering instruments of death, and forgetting in his terror the military word, he bawled out "WhoorisM 'Slop, darn you?' Tho row ofbayoneis still advancing, he made a tre tremendous - mendous tremendous jump to ihe right, like a iree-ioad before a harrow but finding escape hope hopeless, - less, hopeless, and that he must inevitably be stuck through, ho shrunk closo 10 tho barn, and falling on his knees, stretched out his arms, and begged most piteously, 'Don't! oh don't! that's good eogers? Wo knew another, Down East' captain, who claimed a promo promotion - tion promotion for ihe signal coolness and courage dis displayed - played displayed by him in saving his men from a drove of cattle. Ii was a parade day, aid the company had jusi wheeled round a cor corner, - ner, corner, when they encountered ihe ferocious critters' coining right towards them. With astonishing presence of mind, our hero or ordered - dered ordered his company to 'form straight parah lei lines with a hole between between Vnt,' ld fO, telling the cattle pass through, saved the soldiers from destruction. Hardly' Jw characteristic is the anecdote ot another disc.ple or Scott, who, having long sighed for a capld'n s clamshell hat and nodding plume, was at lad olevated 10 thai honor, and undertook, on the diy of his e e-lection, - lection, e-lection, to astonish his subordinates by his profound knowledge of military lactlcs. Marshalling his 'stnng-beaners' on the osnK of a river, he ted ihein through various in tricate manoeuvres, such as opening to ihe right and loft obliquoly, dee., till ai last, for forming - ming forming them in a line facing the stream, he ordered them to 'advance! double quick time.' They moved rapidly towards iho water, and were fast nearing the brink, when iheii leader, waving sword in the air, vainly endeavored to recollect the military word halt. ' On they still moved, till, despairing of the right phrase, our hero threw himself on bis knees belore tho stupinod spectators, and, with arms outstretched and clenched hands, cried out In a voice of anguish, 'Do, far -m .,' sake, stop them, Mister, or they'll all go into the river! Another anecdote, equally illustrative, is that of a captain In the last war, who, on the eve of baule, tool tooling - ing tooling chock full of courage, closed a most stirring appeal to his company by the furious and truculent command. 'Follow mi! tie advanced two steps gave ono look at the enemy and took to his hsels! It is needless to add that his order was obeyed sirickly. But the richest story of 'malitlous' valor m that of the bold captain whoso ex perience of wat'a horrors was confined to fiehUna with powder in sham fighit. He

i ii enjoy 'ii wiih'keen Xest. , Nothing could ex cued bis ardor: . he, flourished his sword mosi fiercely marched, counter-marched and blazed aw.ay, with great glee. Sudden- a bullet Whizzed, through his cocked hat At hrsi amazement stupehed him; his Drama seemed carried away. . Then, slowly uncov ering, ho gazed a the hole which the lead had perforated In its hasty through his chapeau, and with ,4 voice indicative of the fiercest indignation ai such treachery, he ex ciniinp.il. Bv w"ihev are firinc ballsl! andrflcd l as if a 'thunderbolt were chasing mm. - . . , , .. . , .. i it wdufd be difficult to Parallel these speci mens orVaJor by anything exhibited In. lqr eign lunus, ur. ill iiib ponsieu un ui ureunv and Romei'tiui at tho risk of an anti-climalx-. w cahn&rTifcTrj addihsf the sibry' r ilie fit. mtfus company thai paraded befoie a trench Jrlnctf .on Ills' visii ti 'oris of our counirv ownk .' 'After "Mtonlsninii him bva' host of ..i..j ' ' -..inij lumpiimieu iiiniiu;urrcs,.iiia Lujiiaiu biuikcu up to him with a Bobadil air, and begged to know his opinibn'bf the corps before him; ' 'Sare,' was ihe i ' veteran's reply, 'I 'a ve seen ereat many companiel treat many hat talion; I avo seen de bwiss, de Jarman, de Russ and de Prussj but'pon mon capinih, T'nve' htvare seen' such honnatre, an extra- ordinare compame as yours; nevarene- vartr. . . . : '' The iruth fs.'a's another has said, that Mi I ilia captains are the Illegitimate sons of Mars and liavo no very burning desire to win immorial renown at ihe expense of mor tal existence. They can hew the air with great coolness on a muster-field, but when made a target for cannon and musket balls, their courage is very apt to become Bob Acre-isb, and ooze out at their fingers' ends. They have Utile of that spirit which fired the breast pf the Scotch chieftain, when he dbdaied hla resolve to exult in victory, 'Or in death be laid low, ' With his front to the field and his feet to the foe.1 We close with the following model speech, said 10 have been delivered by a militia cap lain, just after his election: Fellow Soldiers! On an occasion like this called by your yoiei tojhe command ol the First Company, permit me to express, feebly, indeeJ, but in the best terms I can command, my profound gratitude for the honor you have done me, and my exalted sense of iho duties and responsibilities of my - . T. ,.BirBmilB. ia ,ha kl. wark of our country: the sole and single rampart that repels the tempestuous waves of foreign invasion, and domestic insurrec insurrection, - tion, insurrection, which were they not daunted by ihe flaming brightness of vour swords, and ter rified at the fearful aspect of your array of bristling bayonets, held by the free hearts ofciiizens soldiers, would haslon lo swallow up our wives and children, and sweep away every vtsiigersur Jrse institutions. Gen Gen-tlemeri, - tlemeri, Gen-tlemeri, l . hope thai yon are conscious that strict discipline, and unhesitating obedience, are absolutely essential to military effi -len-cy; and I must beg of you, gentlemen, how however - ever however you are pleased to consider me, in the ordinary intercourse of life, your equal and boon companion, to recollect that the mo moment - ment moment my epaulets are on, I am your com commander, - mander, commander, and you my soldiers. This, I know, is a lender point, and I will not insist further upon it at present Gentlemen, there w tome grog yet left in the pails; let us take a 'general, universal drink all round lo Me' UornlV Tir? ZvmpmyV Home and Woman. If there ever has been a more touching and eloquent eulogium upon the charms of home, and its dearest treasure, woman, than is contained in tho following extract from the Christian En Enquirer, - quirer, Enquirer, ii has not been our good fortune 10 meet it: . "Our homes, what is their corner-stone but virtue of woman, and on what does so social - cial social .well being rest but on our homes T Must we not trace all othor blessings of civ civilized - ilized civilized life 10 iho doors of our private dwel dwellings! - lings! dwellings! Are not our hearth-stones guarded by iho holy forms of conjugal, fillial and parenial love, the corner-stones of Church and State; more sacred than either, more necessary than boiht Lei our temples crumble and our academies decay; let every public edifice, our halls of justice, and our capitals of stale be levelled with the dust; but spar j our homes. Man did not invent and he cannot improve or abrogate ihem. A private shelter 10 cover in two hearts dear dearer - er dearer lo each other than all in the world; high walls, 10 exclude the profane eyes of every human being; seclusion enough for children to feet that mother is a holy and peculiat name this is home; and here is the birth birthplace - place birthplace of every virtuous impulre, of every sacred thought. Here iha Church and the State must come for their origin and their support. 0, spare our homes I The love we experience there gives us our faith (nan infinite goodness; the purity and disinteres disinterested - ted disinterested tenderness of home is our foretastes and our earnest of a better world. In ihe rela relations - tions relations thero established and fostered, do we find through life the chief solace and joy of existence. What friends deserve the name cornered with those whom a birth right I l .L J gave us. vne mntner is worm a inousana friends, one sistc.r aearer ana truer, man twenty iniimaiucomnanions. vve who have played on the same hearth, uoder the light smiles, who date back to the samo scene and season of innocence ond hope: in whose veins runs the same blood, do we not find thai years only make more sacred and im portant the lie that binds us T Loldness may spring up, distance may separate, diff different - erent different spheres may divide but those who can love anything, who continue to love at II must find that the friends whom God himself eave are wholly unlike any we can choose for ourselves, and that iho yearning for these is the strongest spark in our expir ing affection. "My son," said Mr. Smith to his boy who was devouring an egg it was Mr. Smith's dosire to instruct his boy "my son do you know that chickens come out of eggs t" "Ah, do they faiheri" said young Hope Hopeful, - ful, Hopeful, "I thoight eggs came out of chickens.'" The elder Umith drew back from ihe table sadly, and gazed upon his son, then put on his nsi and went 10 his work, '

bESTltfYi' : v I. - I arid part onthe -inside. ' A small hatehei, too was thrown wiih such violence as 10 en ter the window of a house ' penetrate the partition and pass through another window on ihe opposite ida ol ihe house, iuio back van! wherrf It was found. ' ''" ' ' ' - O, how-wretched the scene in that little village, of FoIkm) I .scarcely a house but contained; in wou.iyled and .dying; crowds of eager eyea were, about every dooi, and peering ia every winugw, some irotu iuiq curiosity, others, perchance seeking soma friend or lelaiive who bsid been on the wreck. Tha ooise:of the exploaioSB was heard in the. heart of. ihe' city: and as- soon as the bwiui exiiiamiiion was, given, mousanus rushed to thb spot. Many of the beautiful nud brave, the OttareM ornrments ol their happy onmc rn4he in tHeQeweMr, wee numbered atr)0m tha victims. Wildly throb throbbed - bed throbbed the hearts of fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters,' husbands md wives,, as they ap approached - proached approached with swift and trembling steps, the wretched scene 'eager id learn -ule fate 'of those they loved., ; :, . t .' j;. But who shall paint the agonv of those doomed to behold the mutilated and scarce ly recognizable deaf'6r living' remains ' of those they sought,' fir despair of those who never found them! Bui let u& draw the veil.1: '. - ' A; : : I 'Tis . the Sabbath : a pall of mourning hangs over ihe asllicied city; crape rustles ai me entrance 01 many , a . once pieasani nome, whose doors and windows notwith standing the? summer's heat, are now sol solemnly - emnly solemnly closed, the picture ef desolation. subdued and plaintive music tones trem ble on the air, and ihe silent streets echo to the tread of a solemn death train. Forty hearses and othet vehicles, shrouded in black bear the remains of the human sacrifice 1 Thousands of citizens follow reverently and silently the gloomy pageant to the last rest resting - ing resting p' ace of man. Dust 10 its kindred dust, and all is over. Ah, no ! for the death wail must be borne to distant lands, causing fresh hearts to bleed, and woe to hang her dark some drapery around many a broken hearth circle. Blessing and curse, Monster and Friend, thou subtle element how fearful Is thy power! ' . ' .. . -', A NOBLE EXAMPLE, About tha rear 1776, a circumstanco oc curred which deserves to be written on ada mant. In the wars of New England wiih the Aborigines, the Mohegan tribes of Indi Indians - ans Indians early became friends of the English. Their favorite ground was on the banks of the river, (now the Thames) between New London and Norwich. A small remnant of the Mohegana still exist, and they are scarce? ly protected in the possession and enjoyment of their favorite domain on the banks of the Thames. The government of this tribe had oecome nereuuary in tne lamny 01 tne cel celebrated - ebrated celebrated chief Uncas. During the lime of my father's mercantile prosperity, he had employed several Indians of this tribe in hunting animals, whose skins were valuable for their fur. Among theso hunters was one named Zachary, of the royal race, an ex excellent - cellent excellent hunter, but as drunken and worthless an Indian as ever lived. When he had somewhat passed the age of 60, several members of tho royal family who stood be be-iwnnn - iwnnn be-iwnnn Zacharv and the throne of his tribe, died, and he found himsolf with only ond lifo between him and ihe empire. In this moment his bitter genius resumed its sway, and he reflected seriously. : How can such a drunken wretch as I am aspire to be the chief of this honorable race What will my people say! And how will the shades of my noble ancestors look down indignant upon such a base successor! Can I succeed to the great Vncas! I, W'll drink 110 morel i He solemnly resolved never again to laaie any drink but water, and kept his reso resolution. - lution. resolution. I had heard this story, and did not entirely believe it; for, young as 1 was, 1 already partook of the prevailing contempt for Indi Indians. - ans. Indians. In the beginning of May, the annual election of the principal officers of the (then) colony, was held at Hartford, tho capital. My futher attende I officially, and it was cus customary - tomary customary for the chief of the Mohegans also to attend. ,. Zachary had succeeded 10 the rule of his tribe. My father's house was situated about midway on the road between Mohegan and Hartford, and the old chief was in the habit of coming a few days be before - fore before the election, and dining with his brother Governor.. One day the mischievous thought struck me to try the old man'a lemperance. The family were seated at dinner, and mere a. a a a was excellent nome-orewed Deer on tne ta ble. I addressed the old chief Zachary, this beer is excellent will you tuste it! The old man droDoed his knife and fork- leaned forward with a stern intensity of ex expressionhis - pressionhis expressionhis black eye sparkling with in dignation, was fixed on me. John, said he, you do not know what you are doing. You are serving the devil, boy I Do you not know that I am an Indian! I tell you that I am, and thai, ir I should but taste your beer, 1 could not stop until I got to rum, and become again the drunken con temptible wretch your father rem -mbers me to have been. John, while you live, never tempi any man 10 break a good resolution! Socrates never uttered a more vaiuaoto precept Demosthenes could not have given il in more solemn tones of eloquence. I was thunderstruck. My parents were deep deeply - ly deeply affected; they looked at each other, al me, and at the venerable Indian, wiih deep feelings of awe and respect. They after wards frequently reminded me 01 tne scene, and charged me never 10 forget II. Zachary lived 10 pass tho age of 80, and sacredly kept his resolution. He lies burled in the royal burial place of his iribe, noar the bea- tiful falls or the antic, the Western branch of tho 1 names, in Norwich, on land now owned bv my. friond, Calvin Godilard, Esq I visited ihe grave or the old chiel lately, and repeated to myself his inestimable lesson. Col. Trumbull's Autobiography. There an 7 periodicals published in Cin cinnati, vis : 10 daily, Id weekly, semi monthly 17 monthly, 9 rjuarterly.

fl.50 in Adranrc. f.V0L. 3.-N0: 39; CAUCASUS. The plains and declivities which, extend along the southern declivity of the Caucasus are admitted 10 be amongst the finest regiyns of the earih. Forests ol magnificent tim timber - ber timber whose aboundiiig luxuriance and variuiy of vegetation can only be compared 10 the primeval forests on the Orinoco and the Amazon rivers, stretch along (lie side.of thu mountains-ihe pomegranate, iho peach, lu- necarino grow wild, and iho vine flourishes in such gigantic vigor and richness of lrrowih that even the vines of Italy seem poor and puny in comparison.: It winds itself like a huge serpent about the largest trees, tossos Jis wreathed branches on every side, twines if unit alter irunK whuib its coils, and hangs liagarlandal -wtih their, filowinff fruits; evt-a up to the highest braiicUawbere abak only can least on t.ieir ncctarean juices ; all kinds of corn, as well as hemp and flax, when cultivated, yield abundant harvests ; in many districts rico, and even cotton can be grown with success indued ihe latter is often found growing wild ; the hores, nnJ other cattle, equal the finest breeds of Eu rope ; ihe woods abound in almrust countless varieiies; the, mineral products, (though as yot ihey have not been thoroughly explored) there is reason to bulievo, aro plentiful ; yet. so little have all these gifts of nature done lor the country, or, rather to such an extent have iheir benefits beon neutralized by other causes, that a large proportion of ihe inhab inhabitants - itants inhabitants are scarely above the reach of famine, whenover any acciden l, such as thai of a visitation of locusts, occur to diminish their harvest. The peasantry live with their em tio in holes bir.owcd in the ground, with a hole In the top to admit light and afford egress to smoke ; they are almost wholly ig ignorant - norant ignorant of the simplest art of life; they spoil their wine by their method of keeping it in skins smeared with napiha; they plow their deep rich soil" with a clumsy machine madu of wood sheathed with iron ihey know nothing of ihe use of flax, but burn their fine crops as soon as they have caibered the sejid, for which alone they, value it,' and, so miserably degraded are they, by ignorance and poverty combined, as to regard their beautiful daughters ih the light of an arti article - cle article of export to the Turkish harems; yet more than two thousand years ago, these re gions were the seat of considerable civiliza civilization. - tion. civilization. Whilo Western Europe wus as yet an untrodden, marshy wilderness, tho haunt of bears and bisons, the vullcy of the river Phasis was iho abode of a people, rich, pow erful, beautiful, (as they still are.) and, for the time, intellectually cultivptcd.r At the mouih bl the f hasis, or, as 11 is now called the Rioni.' rose a city of the same name, a Greek colonv, in which trade ani Industry flourished, and which, kept up an active in intercourse - tercourse intercourse with the interior, and with the mother country. , It is slated by Strabo thai, along the whole course of this river ii wes crossed by a hundred and fifiv bridges; but these things have all vanisheo, and their place knows ihem no more. The whole pro provinces - vinces provinces of Georgia, Imereiia, and Mingreliu, do not now, contain, according 10 ihe last es- mates, much more than 600,000 people ; for the Russian force, which it is considered necessary to maintain in ihem, provisions have continually lo be sent across tho moun tains and the revenues fall so far short of the expenses that russla has to remit to ihem annually no less a sum than 8,000.000 of francs. The very gifts of nniuro, the gon ial warmth and iho luxuriant vegetation, have been turned, bv neglect and want of cleanliness, into curses and breeders of pes pestilence. - tilence. pestilence. It would be interesting and instruct instructive - ive instructive to trace the history of civilization in such a country. The causes that led 10 its, first rapid advance, then to its becoming sta stationary, - tionary, stationary, then, while the rest of iha world moved on to its slowly retrograding ulmos utter barbarism. Westminister Review. From the Louisville Journal, (tt-This is one of the p easantest and most Ingenious things we ever saw. We think we admire the pyramid even more in ascending than in descending : - The Pyramid. bt c. a. riciVAi.. (To be read ascendingly, descendingly, and Conde scendingly.; There For Aye To Stay Commanding 'Tis standing ' With godlike air, Sublimely fair! Its fame desiring, Its hcighth admiring, Look on it from afar Lol every smiling star. ' To raise this pile to heaven These beautious stones are given, Each prayer for truth's inspiring light Each manly struggle for the right, Each kindly word to cheer the lowly Each aspiration for the holy. Each strong temptation nobly overcome Eachclam'rous passion held in silence dumb, -As slow it riseth toward the upper Heaven Its base upon the earth, its apex in the skies, The good man's character a pyramid.doth ns . Amosino Custom. N P, Willis is our authority for the follow! ng : "It was here in the church of St. Nich olasby iho way, that I first became aware of a very sensible German custom that of concentrating the coughing and nose blow ing during seivice-time. Iho clergyman stops at different periods of his discourse, steps back from his pulpit stand, and blows his nose the entire congregation imitating his example, and disturbing the service with the operation at no other time. A Ndn's Wish. Souihey in his "om "omnia," - nia," "omnia," rotates the following : "When I was in Lisbon, a nun madu her escape irom a nunnery. The first thing for which she inquired, when she reached the house in which she was 10 be secre secreted, - ted, secreted, was a , looking lass. She had en en-lorod - lorod en-lorod the convent when only five years old, and from that time had never seen her own face. : ' " OtrA minister observing a man who hnd iusi lost his wife, very mueh oppressed with grief, told bun, 'he must have Patience; whereupon the-mourner replied,'! have been Irving her sir. but sho will not consent 10 havs me. " "' -

1 : TDIUULIXGf SCt Ii ! .1 r.t Ki SmI-'J ?.Lii mi i-.-'fr . . The-following description c ness, of the .terrible BieainHo-i posite Cincinnati, in 1838, is I yewit: ih'op-'J 'rthdr's .i , 'CaputinjftE the M , t v .'J ;. Ys.f.:! iisortJ tr.vsa. V I;:. is "Up for Uairoand New W seV ' Jiutfcfc'.i v. i nd 'When do oo leave! .1 ,.,Ai three thi'fteroooo.,' ' Fleas beok !ms twrhe for ' -1 1 . .f Be, aboard 1 beibre three, u'U : be 4i 'I wilt said I. thoosh I k ;!J bo a wonderful thing if a boat t , 3- ai Its dertlsed lime.. .i ..t 1 Thq M -jiiiiw&s,.a . , . And jTqsI . boat ; she had never yet made trip. out nejr aommanaer intended on tots day to show her; on to the best ad vaniase-v a .Before three 0 clock I went on boards she was throiiceo with passengers, . mnoyi ,o( them the(ii or toe city, all in good humor, anticipating ueiigrjilul voyage in this pal ace 01 tut) ,waiera...i -':;.-.-... .: l. i.w Al Fulton, a small village about two miles up toe river, where a I sree number or em lcrants, German, I believe consiaunir of men. women and children, who were to bo taken aboard the M ai this place.' -t 'Cast off there,' shouted the Captain, on the hurricane deck, Aye, aye, sir ;.. .c- .. ... Draw Id the plank.' '. . - ! ( u U Right gallantly did sha walk, the water; her sharp cutting prow divided ihe stream so smoothly as scarcely 10 cause a sparkle of foam on her breast;, but a highway of milk milk-white - white milk-white foam issued from 'neath. her rushing keel, marking her course to the destined landing, white her roaring steam pipes hard hardly - ly hardly drowned the deafening shouts of the ex cited and admiring spectators. ; ' . , An hour was spent In taking aboard the emigrants and their heavy luggage. Many an eye brightened with hope as it ret led on the noble craft,, which, thev ihotighr. would so soon bring them to the promised land. Not a tear of regret was. jhe4.o4caina strange shore, where aosympatbising fHuitds stood to wave an adieu. Alas, ibu there was so soon cause' for thousand eves to weep. : , !': : Captain, we ought to blow off steam: the boilers are very hot, and ihe guage indicates extraordinary pressure,' said the engineer, as he came upon the hurricane deck , and stood near the Captain by the wheel-house. 'I told you, sir, 10 blow off no steam while we lay here ; enough sir ; go below.". 'But, sir,' said the engineer. 'I swear, sir, that I'll not blow off steam. and 17 blow her to rather than fail going past jhe city fasier than any other boat that ever floated these waters, 1 0 your du duty, - ty, duty, sir ; v' ' '! ,.).; .-. The rngineer telucianily . ob ied. ' My self and several others heard the blasphe my, and were shocked beyond measure. There was a whispering among the passen passengers, - gers, passengers, and many, myself among the number, ordered the baggago ashore, and left the boat, earing the consequences of remaining. We had hardly time to leave, ere the plank was drawn aboard. Majestically she swings around her breast to the current; proudly the Captain stands on the dizzy edge of iho nurricane deck, en- ZyT.Z ho admira,iion of the specimora ; one revolution or her paddles, and then, 'J hor horrors - rors horrors ! an explosion ol sound, as of the whole "artillery of heaven," shook the air, ming mingled - led mingled with the noise of a thousand crashing oaks. A breathless moment of silence and ihen shrieks upon shrieks, groans upon groa ns wai I i ngs, and y el Is of despair, pierced the horror-struck ear. Ri vetted wiih terror to the spot, around us fell in sickening show showers, - ers, showers, fragments cf human flesh, parts of arms legs, headless trunks, and ghastly, lrunkless heads; blood splashed in our laces; bits of furniture and pieces of the wreck covered the shore. . i All about the ill-fated boat, living and dead, dotted the surface of the river, most of them 10 sink forever. The shattered hull floated down stream a few rods, and sank close to the city water works.' 'Terrible was the scene I And 0, what thoughts must have fired the brains of more than a hun hundred - dred hundred human beings, blinded by steam still crowded in the crazy hull, as the rushing waters through her shatterod sides reached higher and higher, lilt their gurgling throais were silenced in the deepl fche same to the depth or her cabin floor. Boats, planks and every other available means were put in requisition to, reach . ihe wreck ami save the ule that might yet be. Few were saved: seme in the cabin were rescued, also some who were thrown in the river by the concussion, but none ' of the multitude who crowded the steerage ever looked upon the scene of disaster again. All that forenoon and for several .succeed ing days, men fished for the dead through holes cut in the cabin floor. Hardly a soul of that unfortunate band of emigrants was left to mourn the sad catastrophe, or weep over ihe mangled dead. ' A little boy belong belonging - ing belonging 10 them stood wei ''and trembling on tho liver's brink, from which he had jusi been rescued. . I spoke to him kindly.' but he only answered me with a wild and vacant stare, mid pointed 10 ihe wreck upon which, he was gazing, gave an unsanhly shriek, threw his arms aloft, and sprung into the boiling flood beyond the reach of human 'Pt .... . , -;r . The ill-fated . commander was round, shockingly disfigured, a few days afler on the tientucky shore, engineers, nremen, Eilot and clerk, ended their life'a voyage ere.'' . More than one hundred, and seventy-five human beings were thus sacrificed on ihe altar of PridbI Unhappy man! thou didst ksep thine oath but too faithfully. The force of the explosion was terrible; the six boilers or the boat were burst Into fragments, and cast a Seat distance, wounding severely tome. of e spectators on the landing,' and In the street above. '.' The body of a man was blown high Id tire air and coming down head foremost burst through the roof of a brick house, and there hung, part of ihe body oil the' roof,

flamt". The at wm Irfisli, nd pl), and 8ei, , v .V ,Th9 slopes Hi Spring' new verdure jay; ' And wei.wUdcW-drops lyrpy feci, , ! . J BlowneaUielyourtgirfolws orMay.rrt i i . ... 1.,- ........ ... . 'j m "L,l. s.N! sound of tusy Jwi wm btunl.i'ffiBf. JimW those fmsiurtstrfleiw knd will, ' ,., 1 lIVCCO TOW nuia wniiMiif,"";!,; New scenp of bemiiy opened ifoundr ' ; Where meads of fresher verdure lo,y... And loweller blossoms linged ih'ejrouod, " Ah, happy mountain atreanw'U said, " Calm glides ihy wave amid he flowers. Whose fragrance round ihy path is shed i ' Through all the joyous summer hours,"' Oh, oould my years, Vike ihine, be pnffled Insemeremoie and silent glen, ( . t Where I could dwell and slerptu last, Far from ihe Lusillns; haunis of mco.'-'. ... ' . . 1' Bui what new echoes greet my ear? The village school boy's merry call, And mid the village hum I henr " The murmur of the waterfall. , '(' I looked I The widening vale betrayed ; A pool that shone like burnished steel, , Where that bright valley stream was stayed, To turn ihe miller's ponderous whrotl. . Ah, why should I, I thought wlihshmno, ' Sigh for a life of solitude, ' When e'en this sirenm, without a name, Is laboring for the common good. No lofigi-r Id mo si un my pari, Amid the busy scenes of life, Hut with a warm and generous heart, Press onward in tho glorious strife. , For the Telejrrapb. UTILITY OP PIIKKNO PIIKKNO-LOGY. - LOGY. PIIKKNO-LOGY. IMIACTICAI. IT S. It. BARRETT. NO. VII. ' Phrenology is capable of performing an .important work, h leachea how to rostraln , the drunkard's appotiie, 10 correct immoral habits, to cheeJt tho growth of licentious licentious-noM, - noM, licentious-noM, to promoie virtuous principles, to ex expand - pand expand ihe mli:d, and 10 exalt man in ihe scale of morul excellence. It will produce a slow but ci-rtnin change in the life, charac character, - ter, character, and conduct of individuals. It will re store man to his original pristine grandeur, w ilw imago of hjs Maker, Jt will, if pro - perly tiu.lci'stooJ and applied 10 the human eharqetor, makethu infidel a believing man, 'i'i ;'uicf an honest man, the drunkard a sc sc-let - let sc-let man, ihe Ihir a truthful man, and the sweater n holy man. It will render ihe miserable happy, ihe desponding cheerful, the poor comfortable, ihe pioud bumlili;,and the despised esteemed and respected. Is il saying 100 much in making such bold decla declarations? - rations? declarations? Is ii substituting science in the place of revealed religion 7 Is it soaring in into - to into ihe airy regions of fancy and imagina imaginations - tions imaginations T I trust not, hope not, believe not. THE DltUNKAKD'S WILL. The following has been handed to us for ' publication. It is written in a clear excel excel-. - . excel-. cellent hand, on a much worn sheet of pa paper - per paper deeply browned by lime. Ii boars date, : 1' 'Town of Columbia, Boon Co., Mo., August . 9, J 828, The language is terse, and for for-s - s for-s ciblo from tho uuih it contains. N. 0. Crescent. , , ,, , , I. W. L., begiCOing W bo enfeebled in body,- and fearing that I ir.a bo palsied in body; and fearing that 1 may bo palsied in mind; having entered on that course or In In-lemperance - lemperance In-lemperance from which I have not irc'J'igth of mind td flee, and already feeling the e e-vita - vita e-vita resulting therefrom, which I have not resolution to avert, do make and publish this, my last will and and testament. Having been made in the image of my Creator, ; rnpable of rational enjoyments, of impartlrg J happiness 10 others, and promoting the glory pf God. I know and acknowledge my ac- .couniubilitv. Yet such is my fondness for sensual gratification, and my utter inability !!-. resist temptation, that I gave myself up entirely to Intemperance and its associate ?iers, and make ihe following bequests: Item 1. My property I give to dissipation, knowing ihal it will soon fall into the hands 'of ihoso who furnished ma with ardent "splrhsi ' ' ' ' t Item . My reputation, already tottering - on a tandy foundation, I give to destruction. ' Item 3. 1 t'vo toy ability te.be happy and useful in life to annihilation. Item 3. Te my beloved wife who has .thns far cheered me in the paih "of life, 1 give shame, pain; sorrow a broken heart. Item b. To each of our children I bo- queath my examp'e, and ihe Jnheiitance of ihelr father's shame. ' ; Jlem 0. To my associate grocery com' panions, I give my broken bottles. ' 1 Item 7. Finally, I give my body to dis ease, misery, and early dissolution, and my ' soul that can never die to the disposal of thai 'God whose mercy I have abused, whose commands 1 have broken, and whose holv Jaws dsclarti that no drunkard shall inherit the kingdom. or Heaven, . .. . ' . A DRUNKARt), iSml Witnttti Scripture Reason, Common Ecrsfi, TJnivcnel Bpcrlf nco.