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ter a while I’d perhaps be promoted to the 1 yiLncy business o f-pig ketching, 'which;! though it is werry light and wrerry elegant, j requires genus. T isn’t every man that ,.can come the scicntifics in that line, and ] i7r '*'Tr'.T”'*ro ®‘*idicd the nature of a pig, so as to One of the moot i tcu . A . beat him at canccuvering and make him world is to run surrender ’cause he sees h ain’t no use of usly observ.ng the changes ot the , them critters, and it's only to be ly' heading ’em up handsome, ske- bands i MSCELLAJJV. From l|io l’liilair'l|ihia Saluriiay Niws. DlI.l.V io N E S , judicio i f . weather, to - avoid being thrown out.—] doing nothing. Fashion is so unsteady, and imjtrovenionts ’ ***''^« them critters, arc so rapid, that the man whose vocation ‘I®\® heading ’em up handsome, < yields him an abuiuiant harvest now, may, I \hicli ever way they skctc, and t in a few years, if he has not a keen-ey e ,' P'\\“ P genteel by shaking ht and n niastic versatility, find that his skill off hind leg. I ’d scorn to I I arcl^Shtselcrs! by the Toots, or to hurt theifj . barbers shipwrecked by the ‘*y dragging ’em vere the pool the 1 .'destroyed by pull their about by the| I .“ I^'tw ha t’ s t h e u sc i I f Iw aslisted , Their skill was'doubUcss very great, but |® ‘Sieves by steam : yes, and the triumph of woollens.' holler the hour and j usages of the world ; and unless Uiey had biling water. They’ll the capacity to strike out a new course, have black locomotives for watchmen and I they all shared the fate o f their oomraodi-, ®®d®tahles, and big bilers for judges and tics, attd retired to the dark cellars Figs will-be ketched by steam, | popular estimation. Every day shows us 11)0same principle of change at work, and i one has more reason to reflect and no — iimnrn about it than one Hilly Jones, o t, Ibis city. Dilly is not perhaps precisely n who would be chronicled by the emoir writers of the time, or have a onument erected to him if he m ore; but Uilly is a m hqinble vocation, and I were no ;i an o f a useful tho’ iiifluuiv.* ----------- , - can hickory with more classic elegance, or sit upon a curbstone and take bis dinner w h ^ more picturesque effect. Yet, as has been hinted above, our hero has bis sorrows, (larticularly at night, after a hard day's work, when bis animal spirits have been exhausted by reducing gum log^ to the'proper measure. In the mor- ning he is full of hie and energy, feeling^ as tf he could saw a cord ot shot-towe and snap the pillars ot tlie Bank across knee like pipe stems. In the lull flush of] confidence at that time ol day, reflection hatters against hint m vain ; but as tht night draws on, Dilly becomes despon. dent, and has unhappily recourse to thre« cent tinctures, w hich, in his case only adds a keener edge to thought. i gh t , r ■ ’igsw ll be ketchedby il be failed fit to eat before they arc icaling. By and by, folks won’t 11.There won’t be no people in the world but tea k ettles; mouths, but safely valves, and no talking, but blowing off steam. I f I had a little bilcr inside of me, I’d turn omnibus, and week-days. I’d run firom Kensington to ihd ]Savy ,y a rd , and Sundays I ’d mn toj Fairmount.” O n e ni ,Dilly w as going home rather I late and rather swipey; aiuMli^ despon-' dent reflections weie uttcre^aloud, so conaplete was his abstraction. “Sawing wood’s going all to smash,” said he,“ and that’s where every thing TWs here goes what 1 specul coal is doing us up. Ever since these black stones was brought to town, the wood-sawyers and piiers, and them soap- fat and hickory ashes-men, has been go- ing down ; and, fur my part, I can’t say as how I see what’s to be the end of all their new-fangled contiaptions. But it's always so ; I ’m always crawling out of the little end of the horn. I began life in a comfortable sort of a w ay : selling oys- ters out o f a wheel-barrow, all-clear grit, and didn’t owe nobody nothing. Oysters ^ went down slick enpugh for a while, but at last cellars capital :ed, and darn the! - it w as pickled. :er, no matter how nice Id poor Dill sell, so I had to eat up ita and profits myself. Then the “ perpree pot smoking” was sot up, and went ahead pretty considerably for a time; but a parcel of fellers come into it, said ray cats wasn’t as good as their’n, when I lsnow*d they was as fresh as any cals in th e m arket; and pepree pot was no go. Bean soup was Just as bad ; people said kittens wasn’t good done that way, and the ...... m am r F r o m i h e F a m il y M ax a zm e f o r A u g u s t, red, t h e more the customers I THE p iAs a —a n I n d i a n t r a d it i o n more I holler R-oufldn’t come, and them what did, want- e'd tick. Along wiih the boys and ibeir pew ter fips.tbem what got trust anddidn’t pay, and the abusing of my goods, I was soon fotch’d up in the victualling line— I made a raise of | and I busted for the benefit of my cred- itors. But genus ris. ahorse and saw, after being a wood piler’s prpntice for a while, and working till I was free, and now here comes the coal to knock this business in the head. My people’s decent people, and I can't dis- grace them by turning Charcoal Jemmy, or smashing the black stones with a pick- axe. They wouldn’t let qje into no soci- ety at all if I did.” Here Dill became so overcome that he sat down on a cellar door, threw his saw at a stray dog, and began to grunt and groan. “Hey day!'’ said the watchman,“ wl aunty, what’s the matter? If you don’t sashay across, button your lip, and go home quietly, you ami 1 will h.ive to . promenade all round, and swing corners into the •watch house.” ILLINOIS. N o part o f the United States, not even the highlands of the Hudson, can vie, in wild and romantic scenery, with the bluffs of Illinois. On one side o f the ijver, of-| ten at the water’s edge, a perpendicular wall of lock rises^to the hei ' hundred feet. Generally on the opposite shore is a level bottom or prairie^of sever- al miles in width, extending lo a similar bluff that runs parallel with the river. One of these ranges commences at A1 -] ton, and extends witi y miles along the left bank of the Illin- 1descending the river to Alton,! J1-observe between that Soci-th few intervr.ls for! i 'wo-virtw.*ill** II .—1 the* traveller will-obs r town and the mouth o f the Illinois, a nar- row-ravine through which a small stream^ discharges its waters into the Mississippi. 1 That stream is the P ia/a. Its name is! “Sashay ,your.sdr,” . ‘ ■aid Dill,“ if you ' know how—only go away from me, and don’t bother, ’cause ! ain't got no time.” do you mean by crying here at ight, on a cellar of n i / ‘I works in timber—that’s what I foller.’ this time f i< Wh:iVhat’s your business ?” Th s ; Indian, and signifies, in the language of! the lllint,“ the bird that devours men.”—' a ; Near the mouth of that stream, on the perpendicular face of theb’ at an elevation which no human art the Indians, the Piasa, and from this is rived the name ofthe stream. { The tradition of the Piasa is still cur- rent amongall the tribes of the Upper Mis- sissippi, and those who inhabit the val-| •and i c irpcnter, 1 .spc* “No, not exactly ; but 1 saws half dozen of ’ em lendic r e luff, can j ■ach, IS cut the figure, o f an enormous bird, with wings e.xtended. T he bird .,„^,^ which this figure represents was called by I d e - 'tr ] ____ , d t se o i it t e .I ?” 1 ley of the Illinois, and is briefly this ood I ‘‘ Many thousand moons before the arr the I of the pale faces, when the great roagolo- and mastodon, whose bones are now ival' better nor any Drawbridge. If it wasn’t for give you six and beat you, the best day dug up, were still living you ever saw, going the rale gum and green prairies, (here existed a bird of such | hickory ; for I don't believe you’re a dimensions that he could easily carry of,l gentleman’s son—only one of your half in his talons, a full grown deer. Having I and half, want to be and can't, or yon obtained a taste of human flesh, from that he’s ! time he would prey upon nothins else.—wouldn’t keep troubling a man while crying.” ■ ‘‘I’ve an idea, my man, that you f the wharf rats ; and, if so, the ou give me the better. Paddle off Ti f ’re one] o less lip y at once. rip your anchor, and heave A man in I . Take ' I He was as artfull as he ah.ead.” “Now don’t talk unfeeling, grief 19like a wood-piler in a cellar, eare or you will crack his cocoa. Min^ how you chuck!’’ locoa is neither here nor there ; and if you don’t sashay, as I said before. I'll ,je S powerl expectedly up-1 into one of the' r years to] L Whole l 't n 1 uu i , a■ fetch you up like a catty on a cork line—- erk! Cry as yqti go, and wash the pave- ; or I ’lll inlftfduce you to a genth nan at the corner of Fifth and Chesntit. The last of the speech was enbugl Dill; the ge i o h. {gi declined dt g was erful; would dart suddenly and nnei on an Indian, bear him off j caves of the bluff, and devourhim. dreds of warriors attempted for destroy him,'but without success, villages, were nearly depopulated, and con-1 1 stern-dtion spread through all the tribes of jthe mini. At length, Ouatoga, a chief,] whose fame as a ivarrior extended et beyond ftie great lakes, separated himself] from the rest of his tribe, fasted in soli- tude for the space o f a whole moon, and | prayed to the great spirit, the master of life, that he would protect his children from the Piasa. On the last night of th^ fast, the! ;reat spirit appeared to Ouatoga in ream, and directed him to select twenty] o f his warriors, \iRch armed with a bow introduction, and walked ott. j i n a s “I^^WSWfer,” muttered Dilly,“ jf they and a poisoned arrow, and conceal them wouldn’t list me for a Charley ? Hollering ] in a designated spot. N ear the place of ' ■ ■has — — a ] their, concealment, another warrior was to ig stand in oyEters andbean soup guv splendid voice, and instead of skeenng ’em away, if the thieves were to hear me i ri open view a victim for the piasa, , which they must s singing out, my style o f doing it would pounced upon his prey. When the chief] nlmost coax ’ em to come and be (tick u p .' awoke in the morning, he thanked the \They’d feel like a biid when a«snake is great spirit, and returning to bis tribe told after it, and would walk up, and poke their them his drei —coat collars right into my fist. Thci hoot th e instant that I :e am. The warriors were ■n , af-quickly selected and placed in ambush as! directed. Ountoga offered himsglf as the victim. He was willing to die for his tribe. Placing himself in open view of the bluff, he soon saw the piasa perched on the cliff eyeing his prey. Ouatoga drew up his manly form to its utmost height, and planting his feet firmly upon the earth, began tochant ihedeath song o f a warrior. A moment after, the piasa rose into the air, and, swift as the thunderbolt, darted down I'upon the chief. bis victim, when every bow was sprung, and every arrow .sent, to the feather, into his body. The piasa uttered Swild, fear- ful scream, that resounded far over the op- ...... . Scarcely had he reached r i | posite side of the river, and expired. s^fe. Kot an arrow, nor even atoga was h i the talons of the bird, had touched him ----The m aster,of life, in admiration of the generous deed of Ouatoga, bad held over him an invisible shield. In mcinoty of| this event; the image tJf the piasa was en- graved on the blufil Such is the Indian tradition. O f course I do not vouch for its truth. This much, however, is certain; the figure of a large bird, c ‘ •' * ------k, is still there, and at perfectly inaccessible, flow and for what purpose it was made, I leave for others to determine; even at this day, an Indian never passes the spot in his canoe without firing'hisgun at'the f utintothe solid It a height that is ii is g is t igure of the Bird---- he marks of balls on therock are almost med to a tree. It being tho day on which] i usually visited the ^ la g e, accompanied by brother L ., I repaired to the place, and^ injl the serpent considerably injyred by] I blows it had received. Imagining that] I' , it was nearly dead, we lonseired the noose and dragged the creature into th^Tntddle-} of the compound, where for a little while wo left it, while we went iiifo3he chancel, to make arrangements for the service of the day, when to our surprise, by the Cries of the people, we found it was-moking its escape. Hastening to the spot, we found that it had worked its body partlyThrough ind was only prevented from the noose, a c ei entirely effecting its purpose, by the rope entering the wound on the under side-of it! body, before alluded to.'dVIr. L . imme- diately seized the rope, and tightened the ly e, which, irritating the animal, it rear- ed its body, and with widely exti ■aws, darted at our brother in a rightful n ■ ■ ictivity, e and, though is n num m ca i- tended E ;k roj its mg up 01 the roof of the led. It was ap- ient,and not more ■hich it'wbulddiaye jaws, f manner. \Mi r. L.however, by'his luded the attac s on iie amfnalj pursued round the compound, kept possession of the r pe, until another thrown oveF t iie a d ; and the ured animal was hunj recapt the p i l l a i lars which support l ____ chapel, and was there kill parently a ynung serp than half the size attained in a few years. It was eighi feet long, and twenty two inches in circum- ference. It could have swallowed a kid or a ciiild with ease. losing of| the church-going bell. ' Il is the remembrance o f one o f fhesp quiet and most beautiful nestling-plaoes, where devotion seems lo be cherished -has been called in without for a .moment losing the sound of| ' _two Se w i n g Th r e a d. — friend who hap- pens lo be R]^Te o f our fo n d n e ^ for “pieces o f information,” dpwn even to corners o f statistics, passed an hour o r two lately with a \commercial traveller, from whom he received the following informa- tion. I n the town o f Leicester., there are _two houses tbat'confine-themselves exclu- sively to the manufacture o f sewing thread * -—an article intimately connected with the wonders that have sprung from the spin- ning jenny and the steam engine—and which, whep spun, thrown, wound, white or colouredjhasfoe case may b e ,is export- ed to all p a r l s ^ t h e world,Ond retailed a t home in amazing quantities, for the use-' o f the multitudinous seamstresses o f Brit- ain. £ a c h o f the houses keep five tr ellers whose sole occupation is to commodity, a s cssenlial to the i oil is to the lamp, but o f which men wot veiy little, when they carelessly i i needle as 1 b e tt e d lift and listlessly examine a neatly labelled pirn on a Lady’s^ work-table. T h e col- lections o f the rcpieseiitatives o f tfae bouses in question depend niatcijally on the na- ture o f their beat for the time being; in populous towns they are laige and in country districts sm aller; but taking a fair, if not a low average, they are not un- der 130/. -per man per week, during the entire year. IVell. 52 multiplied by 130, gives us a sum o f 6760/., which again multiplied by 10, the number o f travellers, leaves an annual return for thread alone, in the hands o f two houses, o f 67,600/. sterling! N o r is Leicester the only town in which cotton-thread is m ade; the art, we believe, was known in Edinburgh be- fore it travelled to E ngland; Glasgow, Faisly, I,eitb. and many other places, re- tain a large share o f the same business, and were it possible to guage as accurate- ly the thrower’s art as an Exciseman en- ters a brewer’s stock, the result, we are certain, would appear incredible.—Dtnn- \jrits C o u rie rf where devotion seems lo be cherished with love, that -has been called up in our _sketchwhich have copied with love, that up _sketch which we have copied rom the -Philadelphia Sal by the I above, la above, of, a several iwuy fror Bristol road, down in^a sweet valley bounded on two sides by a curve in the Mendip Hills, and separated from the I part of the county, on one of the called Salisbury Plain. The name populous t other two sides, by the extensive waste take off their hats and give their cropps heads a dubious currying, before Ihi ireHuisI rish, although all the land is and there is but one house I Itii very small •a miles a' is the Sabbath-gathering plat y all hamlet in W iltshire, lyir g la m the Londt ir , hamlet is H uish; and on, that ev Marlborough, which is the nei 4U ,.’ iVlX pro less to know whe ^tl the distance is short of ten < he almost pel ih is, although -en the post boys of| earest tow: miles. This hamlet constitutes by itself a pa- .1 occupied by 1 i own ; to ' luse, built by the rharqui th a particular view to his own conven- i 1 wit, a rectory- m is of Ailesbury, le farmer, ; it besides his ho ience and accommodation during the shooting season, Huish being within the bounds of his estate of Ailesbury Park. T h e rectory-houso was not occupied, at the time to which we refer, the spiritual wants of the parish being supplied by a clergyman who lived at a village several liles distant, and who gave up his own lulpit, either in the morning or the after- -oon of each Sunday, to the care of his curate, and rode over to Huish himself, the same being a part of his rectory, so far at least as the tithes are concerned. •s .Besides the rectory-house, and that of the farmer, who fills the land within ibe hamlet of Huish, it contains fen ora dozen small cottages only, the occupants of which are all laborers on the farm. They and the farmer’s family are the congrega- tion. The church is supposed to bo three or four hundred years old, and its dimen- sions scarcely exceed, if at all, those of the | meetiiig-house described in the extract from the Saturday News. It is built of the yellowish stone, common to that part of the kingdom, but almost blackened by age and exposure; and has one aisle and a little square turret, just large enough to afford room for one not very stupendous bell. Even this little turret, however, mnlreff :e of From the Common School Asmstam. We can tell our correspondent. S '-M ., that tho reason o f this sleepiness was the i want of ventilation. T he air, from bis description, was loaded with disease,jind to respire it was enough to produce that stupor, he so happily describes. A SLEEPIN G SCHOOL. Mr . E d i t o r—A day or two since I went into our district .school; and I must acknowledge it is the first time I have visited this neglected place for six years, although I have bad my children there, on and off, the most o f that time. The first thing that took my attention was the bad smell in the room, owing to its not being properly aired. Although the.day was very hot, the windows-were closed, for the teacher said that the chil- dren looked out at the waggons if the windows were raised. Sir, the i like an oven filled with foul air. T he Iren were dosing a lying stretched out most of the cbildi some were asleep, the benches, across each no addition to Ihe size rises directly abovethe rope comes down and pulpit. the church, for it altar, and the bell other, and hang- ing part way from the desks. T he teach- er w 'as behind a desk, which he was bend- ing over so as to rest his head on -the top, with his face downward, and his arms around his head to keep the flies off. H e appeared to have caught the sleepiness of the place, and was fosLgoing into stu- however, he raised bis head partly up, s gaped, and was about to drop his head again, (so inanimate was be) wnen I spoke lo him. H e, with the scholars, were \jrits partly roused, and they all began to yawi and rub their eyes and straighten their arms. I took a scat and made an effort to talk to the teacher and the school, soon found that 1 was, also, grot sleepy and stupid, and was on 'the p< of tilling my chair back against the wall, 1 of taking a nap. But I thought of the and stupor ■dLha when I firet loint I. but 11 school t leaden t r ^ h a i s e e n over flie whole lered, and determin-rails ed to resist the drowsiness that was creep-o 1 ^ then began to walk^ the with a stone seat on eacl ] nce is at one side, i I projecting porch, ’ _______________i h side. T h e pul-............. pit and the division between the twelve, or asleep, and the teacher wi perhaps fourteen, pews for which there is |,ig eyes almost shut, room in the body of this diminutive house said good day, but no on of worship, are tiiiie-blackcned oak; the back, for 1 left i floor is of broad Apt stones; as may well re is no plat just between the altar j j-oom, and to talk louder and faster, for I nd 1 ne entra ! saw (he children closing thejr eyes, and here there is a little dropping their heads on the lenche.*^. At last I kept still, for I saw they were all Ifogf as also noddin ,| them asleep. |Sir, this is what I really saw, and it is be supposed, the lace for an or-' ^ h at any ono^ivill see who will go into our gan. The iiimiber of worshippers pres-schools during a hot day'in summer.— ent is generally about thirty, but this small There is not mind or resolution enough to gathering falls but a little short of the iviihstand the lethargy of the motionless' whole population.—Com. Advertiser. body. 0 what a sleepy, dull, sicklj I took my e said good day As ho loan’d forward earnestly, and stiU The same calm cadence, passionltBs ' ' - 4 . ...... . N ear the close of March of the present year, I was induced to visit the bluffs be- low the mouth of the Illinois and above that o f the Piasa. My curiosity was principafijf^yirected to the examination of] a cave connected with the above traditions, as one of those to which the bird had car- ried its human victims. Preceded by an intelligent guide who carried a spade, I set out on qjy excursion. T he cave was extremely difficult of access, and at one point o f our progress I stood at an elwa- lion o f mote than one hmulred and fifty.] feefoiTTBe face o f the bluff, with barely room to sustain one foot. The unbroken'' wall towered above me, while below was the river. After a long and perilous clam- crii __________,T benng we reached the cave, which was about fifty feet above the surface of the rivpr IVv the aid of a lon<> Dole. nlared ............„..f,___,, .By ong pol ,pl c on the pr«)jecting rock, and the upper end touching the mouth of the cave, we suc- ceeded in entering it. Nothing could be more impres,<ive than the view from the entrance of this cavern. The Mississippi was rolling in silent grandeur beneath u s : high over our heads a single cedar hung its branches over the cliff, on the bla-tcd fop of which was seated a bald eagle. N o other sound or sign of life was near us. A sabbath stilliic.ss rested upon the scene. N ot a cloud was in l^e heavens; not a stirring. T h e broad e breath o f air was Mississippi lav before iis, calm andIB.nned. smootlf-as a lakT. The landscape pre-; .senled the same wild a.spcct as it did b e fore it had yet met the eye of the white rii.1 ! wiap-iiJiy luTjtitc beiiuE .anil Uy hare le springs itiai utuTe ihy luechanisiii sirmnse, Aiiil Ahi xht*e Hiihy element to range J IIai!l ihou ofthe . Th e c o r a l i n s e c t — A bit o f orna- ment and a bauble -it is, I grantyou; but-j remember that the coral inseef-though a tiny little gentleman, is more important in one respect than Columbus himself. He is not a finder of islands and continents, but a founder o f them. This thing .tho’ but recently admitted to be a living crea- ture, encroaches on the ocean itself,— diminishes his dominion—increases the proportion of inhabitable land on planet, and contributes with the submarine volcano, to change the aspect of the world. __________,T he volcano, as an agent o f nature, does h|s business with terrible despfflch; he heaves up the bottom of the sea to a mod- crate distance from its surface, and there e leaves a submarine rocky bank; but in a thousand instances, this bank would never emerge from the ocean as an island, un- less the little coral insect set to work in buildingbishou.se upon every hard subi g bi hou r stance that he can find in the bottom of the sea. When the first generation o f these animalcules ceases to live, their structures adhere to each other, by virtue either of I the glutinous remains within them, or of| operfy in salt water, and the inter- andIB.nned. 1-uture races of these animal l^s erect iheir habitati Bank, and die m their turn some pr t stices being gradually filled up by sand and .-hell.', a mass of lock is at length ft rm Future f lcu e t it tions upon the risin; ban in to increase, bu principally to elevate this monument of] Iheir wonderful labors. An able voy.iger of coral who has written on the formation reefs, observes, that“ the care taken to surprising i utive creatures, for when their wall of co- il hich is erected for the most part in situations where the winds are constant,| work perpendicularly in the earlier stages, ks a nstinct in these dimin- shel-i ___________________Iheir infant T o b e c o n - is arrived at the surface, il affords a .| ter lo the leeward of which their anli®^'^® colonies may be safely sent.’ slanily covered with water seems to be necessary to the existence of the coral insects, and therefore their habitations are I always under the sea’s surface. But above iheirhabilations matter accumulates 1 till it overtops the waves al low water, and I this matter being exposed to the j /ater! a n d action of .ertv. salt! apartner,rorer deep, A suKiiher o fthr weariness and woes. ...... And thy upnsms sur.s lo strife ami sin. Ttie dark and stalwartfi&hermeu.ofLynnlsur.slo And thy upnsms strife ami sin. Ttie dark and stalwart fi&hermeu.of Lynnl . ..A .s - wlFUi«inn«* i« treat, a rut-iuy cave. I.JI UP with rartmneles an«l crystals pale Takt i/iy advice—Within il^ depths abide, Nor tfust ihy p«. son lo the upper tide! . Ra il Ro a d s can be traced back, a -'la ted , to the year li :oals ca m e lo be a od coal substitdte for wood as file! in London and other parts of Epi- gland. T h e consequence was that from the i n c a s e d demand a t the mines, the greatest inconrciiiciice accrued in .con- veying the coal from iheiicc to the ships, as well as immense expenses for the horses and jq j^re rs employed; for the purpose o f n at first m a d e ^ o n s i s f i ^ f ' determin-rails or le d g e s, fitted to 'on roads creep-o f the wagon to run upon iK&i improvement il was found l| By this indthat a single horse could easily draw a wnvonnn i h ^ e mils, which had nrcviouslv rennin-d iW i- ra lg p e y qu re thre or more horses. lu 1*738 a farther im- 1 iron Th< provement was made by substituting cast n rails instead o f the old wooden ones. le old fa.shioiicd wagons, however, be- ing still employed, were found inconven- ient. T h ese were dispensed wiih about the year 1770, and instead o f one great wagon a number o f smaller wagons, each capable o f coniaining one or two ton.=, were used, being, linked together with chains. By thus diffusing the weight over a larger portion o f the railirav, the princi- pal cause o fth e failure in the first instance V.as removed. From this time cast iron railways began lo be conslmcicd as brancb(£^ to canals, and in some places as roads o f liaflic from one place Id another. ...... irumuntory, f r and with fearful glory 7| iitdman's proud hotel lo doTnot wish thee well! Tr^rlii’an death; -laciiTiiT, And ^<*lze ihv greainess. not hereti of breath; . . Then do not be so ra .«h * AVhat would thy wife, The giant snake, b j ptgmy men roofined! All thy marine rebellious foes would waken. Rival leviathanswould their tails. ...... All thy marinerebellious foeswouldwaken. Rival leviathans would was their tails. Th<»re‘d be huse w t amons the sprawlins kraken. And a blow out amons the mighty wliales; There'd be an awful submarine commouon, A war ofthe succession to the ocean. Your piesent minisuy would be tnmed out— E'enpiesent ii'*w subjectsclamorwouldbe foi reform,out—. Your minisuy tnmed E'en ii'*w your subjects clamor foi reform, From Otalifite to the rabble route OfisUnOtalifite is mtheto Indunrabble oceanroute From the OfisUn is m the Indun ocean warm; J5ut who d succeed thee Neptune only knows, Ol when your kingdom would enjoy repose. The dolphin never wilj get into place. H( ■» loo nnu'hofa tuimcoai lo succeed; Tlie shark, fear, wt.old disgrace^ . H( ■»loonnu'hofa tuimcoailo succeed; Tlie shark, I fear, wt.old every p^»»t disgrace^ Stave the an..mey-seneral sindeed; -\nd if the faction «»f reform prevaiK Who il give an office to the Pnncr of ^Vhales . . T he roof of the cavern w as vaulted, the top of which was hardly Ics.s than tw;en!y- five feet in height. The shape of the cave was irregular, but so far as I could judge, Ihe bottom would average twenty by thir- ty feet. The floor of this cave, through- out its whole extent, was a mass of human bones. Sculls and other human bones were mingled together in the utmost con- fusion. To what depth they extended I am unable to decide, but we dug to the depth o f three or four feet in every quarter of the cavern, and still we found only ^ n e s . How, and by whom, and for Avhat purpose, they wen is impossible even to conjecture. iho , placed there, it I teeper of the teaU 7 Oh. lu'chty snake' avoid ibis wild mtmile, Cy keepingsnuglyindoimnion: . Oh. lu'chty snake' avoidibis wild mtmile,. Cy keeping snugly in your own doimnion: lu voar own element y<»u are no fool—- forsak** iL and wiHbecome roan'dmini „1is a common school in a hot day! !“ g_ lu voarown elementy<»uare no fool—- forsak** iL and you wiH become roan'd mini Youi wamlermss past let dark obIivH>o bkn h And sink with expedition to tlie buctom . _; „1is !“ Th e r e ’ s n o pl a c e l ik e h o m e .”—| home? It is (he resting place ' ___________________Iheir heart—the centre of affections.. I f j Fromtiie cou.tmm School AswAant i’“ ''Be our destiny compels us to ] o p e n i n g o f f a l l leave the paternal roof, how does the heart ' During (he months anli®^'^® art •me when little sorrows arise. October the pate older children to school: at this time alsi Then the imagination pictures the sympa- thising countenance of a dear mother ; and we long to hear the kind voice of our most cases s nts bcgii LL S C H O O L S ., of September and le n to send Ihe V school book: l s are purchased, and in a new teacher employed. astounding enjoyment is lost, il CoNsD-MPTioN.—In an article on this subject in Ihe last mniibcr o f the Knicker- bocker, by 'Dr. Brigham, of Conneclirnt, fnthersaying,‘Child, becomforted.’ Tho’ This is a good season ofthe year to make esUmated that there are at lea.st fifty ff'cnd'* may p it/ and endeavor to soothe a chabge for the better, and we will with m this counlo’ from coii- “s, there is no consolation like that which great earnestness and sincerity ask the every year! This is a i sympathy le that dear circle, ot lOur of youthful glee, f not fiarticipatcd givx;n , ic dear ones, who clusleraround the Would itvnot be cheaper, taking all board and hearth. N o music is things into consider half so sweet as the voice of parents, or of brothcrsnnd.^istcrs, speaking in the terms o f deep affecllbn. In manhood, too, when Can you expend, money in any other j compos our ni< [i'^gjbythos. lamily ir ur family, ihf one half of -\nd questions: 1st. What w 10 , heretofore. main! [ is a I iges have you, teacher ? it ide ation, to Cinploy one higher qualifications, if you do have to y him a little more ? len good education ? What so essential to jlpur well being, as virtue and intelligence, in those around beloved you? ing voice of one loved j Of on men, wiio suuiiiu ue i even as our own life. And when the ous and intelligent, than that man, whq| waves of affliction roll ev e r us we long for educates and forms the character of the rest of home, and feel that that there children? is no other place on earth where we ca n! Will any thing but a higher salary secure] the weary one enjoys higher qualifications ? ' of our 1 Iff a well :l l G have long left the home of our child-way so wisely as in giving your children a hood, and wandered many a weary day, e tioi our thoughts often turn to that sweet Then we long 01 counsel of a dear'mothi father, or the soolhi imption every vcai telligence. li'll|( such appalling mortality, were small pox, I'cholera, or the plague, what consternation oiluced by its effect-! From L ^hcd by the author, it appears lhat Ihe proportion o f deaths 1^ consump- lion lo the whole number of deaths is, at Portland, one in 3.5 3 ; in Portsmouth, one in 5.39 ; in Boston, one in 5.79: in once more to hear the kind her, or a , . o 1 ilni h houldb more virtu-1 which l find that rest, there. If success c^ov j life, if we rise toeminem end grow rich in honor: with applause among our associates, there .kind o f satisfaction in it. But the heart, even when we are hoTtoreJ and applauded, will, in its loneliijg|y^lonj for some dear ones to shanul the joy. And here again tl to home, as its resting place,^ ] < joyfulness. . . T he longest life dpfis not destroy the love of home. It seems even to increase with length of y ea rs; and home becomes doubly the resting place of him who has long walked the weary way o f life. But re times when wc arc notqierfeclly 5ven in our own homes—when the j will” not feel at T here arc sorrows which no earthly friend has power to alleviate. But is there i resting place for the soul? Is there 1 home of rest for the immortal spirit ? Is there no being whose power and s; New York, one in 5 .J ;in Philadelphia, one in 7 .1 7 ; in Baltimore, one in 6 .1 8 ; in Washington, one in S .5 1 ; in Charles- ton, S. C. one in 7.08. It thus appears that the mortality o f this disease is great- est the farther nnrfh, and decreases as we advance to the South or firom the seaboard, consumption being most prevalent in large maratime (owns. Dc t t OF PHYSICIANS.—,\i a, recent _. . . meeting o f the members of the College o f educated teacher eaves school PI,ysicians, some remarks were introdu- books, and above aH, your children's /ii«e,Lp,| ,|,e proper conduct o f a physician by advanctng+hem foster and more cor- ^ as to vvarnuig apaticnl ofhis danger. In rectly in l^eir studies, can you not afford • general, the President staled, be ihonght I to pay him more ? j j,js first duty to prolong his patient’s life / 2dly. What is the condition o f your ■ by every possible means, and not lol house? out o f his i ympath; it perfect and happy ? Doei voice within us answer, there is ? do we not turn from the abodes of school Are the windows filled.with glass ? Are the clap-boards falling off? Are the doors ibroiVn off from the hinges ? Is the stove or the pfpe out of order? Are the school desks of the right con- struction? Have they back pieces ? Are they cut full of boles and ridges with the penknife? j Does the school house leak rain and admit the wind? Is this building located in a good placet 3dly. What school books do you use? ' Can you not select a be|tcr si then abide by these, thus freei lives from the perplexity of so much I safety o f bis patient by adding alarm to 'his mind. T o the friends indciNl o f the patient, he always imparted thC fullest information; and (hey might, if necessa- ry, awaken his fears, without allogctheE destroying his hopes, as he would still ink there was an appeal from s physician. But foe physiciai ould be received as a condemnation t n ; even from the homes of our earthly !ction; and look to heaven as the home of our spill? And (o God as the Father of our spirits? Il is there that we can fiftd that perfect rest which is known only to the child of God. If there is joy to tho wanderer,'when after Hong years of home of his liscnce, hildhooc he returns to the id, and is welcomed by the ! dear ones there; if there is consolation in the kind,terms of affection, there is still a purer, a holier joy felt by the trusting one, who turns from all earthly things to his God, and relies with humble confidence on him 'for firotection—and sweet tho return of tho soul, after having gone far astray in Ihe ways of sin, to the bosom of. jour,, heavenly Father—and hqppy the [*hour o^ forgiveness to tho returning one. changing ? 4thly. Can you not elect school officers who are competent, and will be faithful to the interests of the school ?” -v- fithly. Can you not keep your children more steadily at school?' all th !an you not give thcni more than two ddfing the th fo c them to ‘ n’s word w o death, and (hns, perhaps, in his ve:y re- pentance,might be considered less arcep- table in the sight of heaven. Still there were cases which jmight riKpiire from the physician an opposite line o f conduct, so that no rule could be laid down which ought not sometimes to be infringed. this winter go to school one day, and stay al home the next? Can or three months schooUpg, whole fall and winter? 6thly. Will you not endeavor to visit the school once a week this winter, and take a suitable interest in your teacher and his instrpetions ? Will you not try to co-operate with him out of school, and in school ? Finally, will you not resolve, whep the fall school is opened, to start anew on this momentous subject? Will you not begin I then to give this subject more aid, m ore' attention, than you have done? ...is in, to the subject, at last, and (he district J h a t' J --------:ii J — slays behind now, willdeprive itself ofTna- I ny advantages. , day! !“ g_ Pay am one fnlvwell mu nu ma mm- Talv an’ aunt: u Kxn-Hfv u us many: Ami u-r |n_I' unlr nI1n.L| n: no mom) Jun 1.»: me mm. I no.» pun -nu pm-.-ax 7.. mt. m one nu mu In me man. 11.: (mam om. Mun m . um. Fi g h t WITH a n a n a c o n d a s e r pe n t , j the air, loses its adhesive properly, salt •The following account of a recently , plants lake root upon it, and a soil begins perilous conflict of a missionary in B engal' to be formed. Ere long, the new bank is with an Anaconda serpent, is from a letter vj.sitcd by the sea-bird, by and by the nut cutia, of the coacoa or the pandanus • ' ------ inserted in the Chronicle of the London ashore and the wearied land-bir Missionary Society for July. tVe under-, his wings on the soil, deposits on il in ofthe formidable animal seeds of herbs and trees. Every tide and ;veiy gale adds something to the bank, isitedinthe' and it gradually spreads into an island ol luxuriant vegetation. • Man comes at last ety, Bloomfield street, Finsl»ury. j to take possession of the new estate, and For three successive years, in the he may well sayJLhat the architecture of an months of May and October, Bengal was insect has laid the foundations of hts vi-ited with hurricanes from the S. E ., property. — T. Campbell. A»hich were, attended with consequence! of tho Rev: George C’ogeily of C al tta,' is thrown! ■ d, stand that the sk t e who was killed on this occa.sion has been ‘ e' sent to London,and i .« now deposited in e ' ninseum of the London Missionary Soci-th ^,j,ich equences' ,{,e most lamentable. The sea rose up-1 f twenty feet above i .ertv. salt! [i'^gjbythos. tijel ; . o f twenty feet above i ; Roop„arain and Dunim. |j,g -Delaware is not only in the Union, but, I gave way, venture to say, has the smalles!st house of! lion. At Cantwell’s village on the main! liiis l en mile's this end •ards f t ts usual level! Ec c e n t r ic it y . banks which confine the rivers the smallest state •and Ihe inundations which followed car-worship and congregai the whole of the Bridge, a pretty little parts of Bengal, peninsula road, about t .i^d dcstniction through a„d ,;outh eastern a f twenty th.*uWHd fives .,„^,^ and ,hc cattle, es I all wa^,hed away. The coun-square. 'tr y being a l<>w plain, the tops of the pearances outside a houses were crowded with sufferers, whilst, I'ounckin those of larger :ked all the congregation consists of n g s' a respecti fell and 1miles distt i hottse,” feet .kind lally are dimensions. T h e _______T man. H e is [able farmer, living four or five but attends regularly twice { val-| .o f Smyrna, a“ Friend! crops, houses, and built o f brick, only about \mall as it Is’ meetfini f rere ; is, it hits all the np-j id in, that u the water continuing to rise, moc f one efforts made to e.scapc, and and the | ] From me Eu-mlay sewn. efforts made to e.scapc, and and the | g people fell and perished together. 1 T he inundation was so great lhat a ll: the animals of the forest were for a time driven from their accustomed haunts, and elevated ■ , | ; I con-1 chief,] himself] soli- lation of K rist-| the north- Ige of those dreary forests. The Ihe Mission school resided in its way to the Missionary si napore, which is situated western ed| master of smaU^ native house adjoining the chapel' but on account of the effects c3 n (^ un d ; I o f (he inunda ' j , a degree had mparatively elevated spot, did not sleep in his own house, but spread his mat in the verandah of the chapel. Early the next morning, before it was light, he went info his house to procure some rice for his morning meal, and know-dazzling ing exactly where to find it, he extended his totvards the and his idalion, which in reached that respecti miles distt every wee dlone. I understand he is a bachelor; unless he takes to himself a wife, ho, ■ therefore, need not fear any of those un- equenlly-dtsturb [ablefarmer, living but attends regularly twice bZi )yed that to which ho ; d in upon him a few Sab- itso intent was he upon bis devotional meditation^ that he did not iroke up, and dal, thouj tant, ] ■ck, and sits out the msual tim e I lookei since, but S( b l h observe me till the m ea then I found him quiti • soli | litary, being. ' How different must be the feelings of 1 devotion in this small tenement, alone—- ; from those excited in one of our fashiona- I ble churches,“ glittering with polished j marble and fine gold”—surrounded-by a thousand“ waving plumes” and fair faces, know-dazzling the eyes—while on the ear, the “Pealing anihcm sweiu with notes of praise.” Be not desirous of scenes of grandeur, o f heightened pleasures and diversions: it is the sure way to take your heart off from li 'J your pi c stat on and way o f life, and to yon uneasy and unhappy. It is a a'nd to on e but, i f you were to g e l in- to a higher station, yo u would find it awl litable would only want to retnra again to your ormer happy indepcndcnec. ^ thousai ward and unsuitable to yon, and that you his arm totvards the spot, and placed his hand on a large coin and slimy body.' Horror-struck, hje instai called loudly for help, deck mriol daiok jantoo, ‘‘death giving ai had taken possession of his hoi Lights,having been procured, the ntly retreated, and l iaring°t^at some ] j ] 'serpeht 'ered coiled up and fast asleep. he people soon dis- nd inflicted a severe wound on the under side of its body. Erecting itself, and rapidly darting for- ward, it dispersed its adversaries; and VVithTong tnrbcd its s : ; J ries (hough many attacks were made, possession ofthe house for a coneidei it.li it k were , nine. At length, a rope with a noose w .i.s thrown in, and caught the animal by the neck, when it was drugged forth, and fast-1, “Pealing praise.” Among the almost numberless objei of interest or beauty that combine to n it rc t ren- England tho most perfectly lovely itry in the world, are the quaint, old- led and venerable 1 in < hion eraltlt country churcl The whole kingdom is thickly studded with hamlets, villages, and small to'wns, and each of these has at least its one church, of venerable gray stone, with tur- ret or spire, and almost invariably with a full peal of bells, some four, some six, and some as many as Ion. There is scarcely an eminence.in the kingdom—and En- elnnd is not a country of lofty hills—from I n ch thllu: e spires or turrets of four or five .\.i t t ti ullage churches cannot be seen ; and a Sunday morning you may ride thirty ( fast-1, forty miles, in almost every directioi Give aw'ay wh.it you can part with. Throw away nothing: you know not bow ich you may miss iL Provide,for after-lifo, so as to enjoy the present. Fiijoy the present, so as to leave a provision for the time to come. I It 'may be al .\v o id too many and great obligations. into debt beyond what y ou ...is ninning ble to pay. Whoever anticipates troubles, will find t f i rown away a great deal o f terror and anguish to no purpose. Live so as nobody may believe bad reports against you.
