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THE GRAY-BAT HARE
" Well, sir, I can just bring a mare that
will trot the legs off your horse any day.—
She can go inside" 
" Of the track ?" interrupted a bystan-
der.
" You may bet high she'll try for it," was
the answer. The speaker, familiarly known
as Big Bill, here rose from his seat near the
stove, in the Horse and Halter bar room,
and advancing toward the nftn be first ad-
dressed, added :
"And now, Shifter, if you want to trot
your horse, Ragbag, agin my gray mar, La-
dy Shinbone, say the word, and we'll trot!"
"Done!" said Shifter. "I'll trot my
horse against your gray mare, a mile heat,
to-morrow afternoon, weather permitting;
fifty dollars a side."
This little affair settled, all parties at once
renewed their legitimate business—whisky
drinking and talking horse.
" I never saw flies worse than they are
now," said Big Bill; " they worry Lady
Shinbone's life out of her. She's 'blood' all
over, and a mighty thin-skinned beast to
that; consequence is, the flies peg it into her
like sixty. I'd give something to know
how to drive them off."
'• Keep your stable dark," said a man with
a white hat.
" Keep a fly net on her," added the man
who struck Bill Patterson.
" Rub her with pen'r'yal," suggested an
apothecary.
"Try pizzerinctum intment," suggested
the apothecary's enemy.
Use a fly brush," slyly insinuated Uncle
Ned, and as he spoke a bright light shot into
his black eyes. There was an idea be-
hind them, and as he jerked the corners of
his mouth down and looked serious, a look-
er-on in the Horse and Halter took a little
note of it.
A few minutes afterwards he motioned to
Big Bill, and drawing him away from the
rest of the crowd into a corner, and with a
mysterioift air said:
"I know an infallible recipe, Bill. There
is no use in telling the crowd of it. but as
you are a friend I will tell you. confidential-
ly, remember, confidentially."
" Certain, honor bright.1' confirmed Big
Bill.
• Well, then, you go git a lot of walnut
leaves, and make a decoction just as strong
as you can make it. Wash your gray in are
with it, and to-morrow you will see if she
don't look like a different beast."
■'Did you ever try it yourself?" asked
Bill.
* Yes '."answered Ned." my old bay horse
owes half his good looks to the decoction."
Whereupon Big Bill again joined tlifc social
circle, and after a few flirtations with the
whisky bott e rose up and departed. The
decoction wa3 on his mind, liquor in his
head, and the gray mare in the stable. As
he got near home he remembered that a
walnut tree stood back of the road, near his
house, so hauling down a fence rail he made
vigorous attack on the lower limbs of the
tree, and soon had leaves enough on the
ground to keep the flies out the whole State,
as he judiciously remarked to himself, while
employed in trying to gather up the leaves:
"Never see such leaves," he soliloquised,
they stick to the ground like as if they
were glued there." lie said this after ma-
king several futile attempts at gathering up
one especially large, that kept eluding his
grasp. He made a desperate lunge at it,
and over he went.
"Take care," old boy, said he, "don't go
to cutting up such capers. Steady.1 now,
steady !" and like the memorable Toodles,
he balanced himself on one thumb, prepara-
tory to assuming the perpendicular—he as-
sumed it. '" Guess I've got enough, no use
taking more than you want, you know,"
said he, as he cast a longing look at the big
leaf which had already cost him one tumble.
'• O.d fellow. I'll leave you just where you
are, I don't mind you," and closely grasping
to his breast all he had gathered, he cork
screwed home. When he got there he had
just two ideas left, one was a big copper ket-
tle to boil thq leaves in, and the other was
the gray mare, or the mare into the kettle,
was more than he could cypher out; Luck-
ily he stumbled over the pump, and finding
a bucket there filled with water, he instantly
plunged his head in, '• up to the handle,''
several times j then taking breath he went
several times more; finally feelin_
" as if somebody had taken a lot of blankets
off his brains," cooled off; he boiled up the
walnut leaves, made the decoction, and go-
ing out to the stable, by the light of the
young new moon which kindly lent itself
for the occasion, " he soused the beast,''
to use £is own expression.till she hadn't
a hair on her side." " Now my ladv," con-
tinued he! " you won't be at home to receive
no more fly calls, and that tail of yours will
know a little rest. To-morrow you've got
to spread yourself agin Ragbag, a mile heat
I've bet fifty on you, old woman ; don't dis-
appoint me." And after this exhortation
Big Bdl cleared out of the stable.
Next morning Big Bill went out to the
stable, threw open the door, looked in, the
gray mare was gone, and there stood a bay
mare in her place 1 Bill opened his eyes till
they reached the roots of his hair, which
stood up straight. " What yre you doing
here, my lady ?" asked he of the bay mare.
A peculiar switch of the tail, a shake of her
over to the Horse and Halter tavern, he gave
the mare in charge of the hostler, first see-
ing her well blanketed, and then went into
the barroom. Here he found Shifter, the
owner of the bay horse, Ragbag, who at
once accosted Bill:
" Here I am, you see, ready for the trot.
Put up your money. Col. Stubs shall hold
the stakes. You are to trot your gray mare
against my bay horse. That's the agree-
ment. Fetch out your animal."
Bill liad Lady Shinborne brought to the
door. The crowd gathered round.
" Don't touch-a rag till I have the reins !"
said lie; and, jumping into his light trotting
wagon, the hostler at the moment pulled off
the covers, and the lady came up to the start-
ing point in fine style. Just at the same
time Sifter came up with his bay.
" Well, Bill, why don't yer bring out your
gray mare ?"
"What do you call this?" answered Bill,
as he held the lady in .with a taut rain.
It may be a zebra; 'taint a gray mare,
this side of Jordan 1" replied Sifter.
" I tell you," says Bill. '• this is my gray
mare 1"
" And I tell you," replied Sifter, " there
ain't a gray hair on her. You've gone and
got some kind of a wild beast, and want to
come the giraffe over me; 'twon't work!—
The race was between my bay horse and
your gray mare, and the Colonel holds the
stakes. So fetch on your gray mare 1"
1 This is a gray mare—one of the grayest
kind of grays; only, you see, Uncle Ned, he
told me"—
" To thunder with Uncle Ned ?" roars
Sifter. " 1 don't want any cock-and-bull
stories; I want }7our gray mare. If you
can't produce her, I claim the stakes as for-
feit."
" I tell you this is my gray mare, only 1
washed her with biled walnut I"
" Pickled her, I s'pose," broke in Sifter.
" Washed her," shouted Bill, " with the
walnut leaves, which dyed every hair in her
hide, and that's a fact, by all that trots."
Just at this instant, Uncle Ned made his
appearance, casually, on the track, and Bill,
who had his eyes upon him, at once jumping
from his Wagon, caught that respected indi-
vidual by the arm.
"You've done it my boy," roared Bill;
" put your foot in it this time ! Fork over
fifty dollars, or by all that trots, you'll be-
lieve it's rain-ng millstones on you. Didn't
you tell me to wash that gray mare with
walnut leaves? Didn't I do it? Look at
her, jest look at her. She looks like a brown
stone house gone to seed!
" Well," says Uncle Ned, " what if I did
tell you to wash her with walnut leaves ?
Didn 11 tell you at the same time it would
make her look lilce a different beast, and
don't she ? Didn't I tell you my bay horse
owed half his beauty to this decoction, which
is apt to beat Tncoplierous at dyeing?—
Didn't I tell you all this V'
Here the laughter and cheers of the crowd
came in fcs a grand chorus, and Bill was wax-
inn- 1 'tremendous wrathv," when Sifter rode
mg ' ■tremendous wrathy,
up and shouted out:
"All right, Bill!" I'm satisfied to trot
against Lady Shinbone, although she isn't a
gray marc, and has been in a dyeing condi-
tion ; only, the next time you intend to trot
her, don't ask Uncle Ned for another fly re-
ceipt for your mare; it might turn her in-
side out."
CJ'lang! The gray-bay marc won that
race !—Spirit oj the Tunes.
2 u .mane, and side look from her large liquid
«anee of their papers, the p^ [eyes, induced Bill to look closer af her. 'By
* " all the trots," he burst out, " that cleans
continue to tend them till all that is due
be paid.
i. It subscribers neglect or refuse to
take their papers from the office to which
they are directed they are held respons-
ible until they have settled their bill and
order their papers discontinued.
4. If subcacribers remove to other
places, without informing the publishers,
and the parper is sent to the former direc-
tion, they are held responsible.
5. The Courts have decided that ro-
f using to take a p*l>cr or periodical from
the offioe, or removing and leaving it un-
called for, i  pnm* facie evidence of
frwid.
down everything I've heard of lately. A
gray mare turned into a bay. Somebody
hold me ! The end of the world ! the"—Bill
suddenly checked himself—"the walnut
leaves boiled. They did it!" Yes, they
did it; and Lady Shinbone. the gray marc,
was now a sight to behold. She was of an
ugly bay color, with stripes something of
the appearance of a piece of mahogany ve-
neering in the rough. "Now," continued
Bill, "you're a beauty, you are! Nothing
can take the devil out of that eye of yours,
though. There's grit there; proof Against
all walnut leaves, past, present and future.
In the afternoon Bill was on hand'with his
variegated" mare, and having duly driven
GEN. WALKER -CENTRAL AMERICA
The National Intelligencer publishes some
interesting extracts from a letter by an
American officer at Nicaragua. The writer
says:
•' Walker is here, the object which fills
every eye, and is perhaps entitled to the
distinction. He is now the undoubted mas-
ter of Nicaragua, and, if he listened to the
seductive invitations from the parties in the
adjacent States who wish to reconstruct
the Centeal American Republic, he might
be master of Central America. He has now
as many fighting men as he wants, and pro-
claims that he only wants emigrant settlers
for the farms, promising each man some
or three hundred acres of public land.—
Walker seems to have acted with great pru-
dence. He came on the invitation of the
Democratic party of Nicaragua to assist it
to regain power to enable it to free and then
to tranqualize the country. Beating thef
o'pposing party and obtaining possession o
the capítol, he formed a government of the
heads of both the old parties, and appears
thus to have fused, and thus to have ap-
peased their strife and entirely to have sup-
pressed domestic warfare. The Government
of Rivas. the new President, is now acknowl-
edged by the country ; and the people look
with hope to the future for a repose from
civil war never before secured to them.
This seems to be the actual condition of
affairs, so far as I can learn from the various
authorities.
The Mosquito business is much more com-
plicated of the two, and most interesting to
the United States. The British assert the
protectorate claimed before and since the
treaty which our people thought the treaty
had extinguished, and our officers must
execute it if occasion requires them to act
The treaty, as construed by thein, confirms
the protectorate, and the Admiral has his
orders, and he has given them to his subor
dinates. We have two gun brigs lying near
us, and the •' Osprey" steamer came in two
or three days since the senior officer took
the occasion to make his instructions known
to Com. P., which were to the effect that
arms and armed men and warlike stores
would not be suffered to land at Greytown,
&c. A strong British force is always here,
or close by, and the practical exercise as the
disputed protectorate is not far off, now
that the West India squadron is so largely
increased. You may confidently look out
for trouble.
0HASTISBKENT OF A BULLY.
The following story, which is none the
less good for having been told before, shows
that true courage is rarely if ever allied
with a marked propensity for dueling:
" During the period of the occupation of
France by the allies of Louis XVIII, in 1815,
this system was pursued extensively by the
French officers. Patriotism and a deep
sense of injury perhaps palliated its atrocity.
Day after day, Prussian and English offi-
cers would be grossly insulted by French-
men, would send a cartel, fight, and be
carried off regularly to Pere la Chaise.
Some of Napoleon's 7natives d'armes made
a business of killing their men each day. A
story is told of one of them—an old Captain
Duroc—who had slain his scores, and was
never known to have met his match with
the sword. He never sent a challenge, was
always the aggressor, and pitilessly insisted
on the right of choosin? his favorite weapon.
When he had not found an adversaiy in the
course of the day, he would enter the Cafe
Foy. at Paris, towards six o'clock, for din-
ner, end the waiters could tell by his face,
and the way he twirled his grizzly mustache,
that he was on the lookout for a quarrel.
Woe to him who gave him the least chance!
One evening there chanced to drop into the
same Cafe an English officer named Gwynne,
He belonged to the army of occupation, but
had only just returned to his regiment from
his home, where he had been kept a close
prisoner by a wound received at Waterloo
During his absence, his brother had had the
misfortune—so he had heard—to quarrel
with Captain Duroc, and to be killed by him
in a duel.
Gwynne entered the Cafe Foy a few min-
utes before six. and sat down at a small
vacant table. A waiter started at the sight,
and running to the Englishman, observed,
with some agitation, that that was "the Cap-
tain's table." " What captain, my friend ?"
asked the Englishman. •' Oh! le Captaine
Duroc 1" answered the waiter, pronouncing
the terrible name almost with a feeling of
awe. G Wynne's cheek flushed at the name,
but merely observed that " this table was
like all the otlicrs, seemingly still,'- he said,
"if the Captain insisted upon it, he would
doubtless satisfy him." On which he took
up the newspaper and began to read.
Almost at the same instant the door
opened, and a* heavy tread of spurred boots
was heard approaching the table. When at
a few feet distant, le Captaine stopped and
surveyed the intruder with an insulting
smile. Gwynne looked calmly at J|im. but
did not speak. The Captaine sat down at
atable close by, and began to twirl his
mustache. People who knew h m under-
stood the meaning-ot ttffc*gesture, auU gatb-
ered«closer to the redoubtable champion of
France. They had not long to wait before
he commenced operations.
Stretching across suddculy, he seized the
lamp 011 the Englishman's table, and snatch-
ed it away, whüt&yith the other hand he
plucked the newspaper out of Gwynne's
grasp. There was a buzz in the Cafe at
this gro-s insult. and one or two English-
men present sprang to their feet, and moved
toward their countryman. But he did not
move 3 his face did not even show any appa-
rent notice of the effront.
Le Captaine read for a liloment or two,
then turning his chair so as to bring it close
to the Englishman's table, he suddenly
stretched out his leg, and brought down the
heel of his heavy boot on Gwynne's foot.
There was another buzz and murmur among
the consommateurs ; but Gwynile contented
himself with drawing his foot up and fold-
ing his arms. His countrymen gathered
round him. evidently galled at his seeming
indifference to the insult; but he took no
notice. At last, le Captaine, after a long
look at his antagonist, called to the waiter
for a glass of bra dy. When it was brought,
he raised the glass, and drank it, saying to
Gwynne, •' A voire, courage, Anglais /"
Then slowly and leisurely the latter rose.
He was a man of immense size and strength.
With one stride he stood beside the French-
man ; then, grasping his mustache with one
hand and his chin with the other, he wrench-
ed his mouth open and spat down his throat.
" Should Monsieur deem fit," he said, in
a calm, quiet voice, " to honor me with a
call, there is my card." So saying, he left
the Cafe. Needless to add, that his invita-
tion was not accepted. Duroc never chal-
lenged ; the choice of weapons was essential
to his safety.
m *F"CI-.
NUMBER 24.
NIAGARA FALLS IN THE WINTER.
A RARE ADVENTURE.
During the recent cold term, ice has form-
ed above the Falls in vast quantities, most-
ly in blocks which have come down the
rapids and lodged on the shoal places. Last
week the ice became wedged in and froze to-
gether between Bath Island and Chapín Is-
land, and from thence to the brink of the
cataract.. Such an occurrence, we are told,
is not within the reflection of the " oldest
inhabitant." Those of our distant readers
who have visited the Falls will remember
an Island between the paper mill and the
American fall, above and around which the
water rushes with great violence. This is
called Chapin Island from the circumstance
that a man named Chapin, who was at work
on the bridge, fell into the rapids and for-
tunately reached the island as the current
dashed him towards the cataract. Not less
remarkable was his rescue by the well known
adventurer, Joel Robinson, who succeeded
in reaching the island with a small boat.—
This occured many years ago, since which
the spot has not been visited by any human
being until now.
The first gentleman to cross the ice was
Mr. Frank B. Fox, who visited the island,
hoisted a flag, and found the ice had formed
from the island to the brink of the precipice,
where it was perfectly safe to stand and look
into the abyss below. It was a proud mo-
ment to him, as he stood where, in all prob-
ability, no man had ever stood bo ore. He
afterwards visited the place with a number
of our citizens, previous to the visit of a par-
ty .who have been announced through mis-
take as the pioneers. *
In company with Mr. Fox and the Rev.
Mr. and Mrs. Key ser, we visited the enchant-
ing locality on Monday afternoon. Mrs.
Kcyser is the first lady who visited Chapin
Island or viewed the falls from the point be-
low. We claim to be the first editor who
traveled in that locality.
The eastern edge of the ice formation
passes along the side of the current down
which poor Avery «was carried to his awful
doom. The water, though not deep, rushes
with irresistible velocity. Yet it was safe
traveling to the island, and from thence to
the precipice. Here the continual accumu-
lations of spray and snow had formed a
mound from twenty to thirty feet in height,
from the top of which we Stood and viewed
the scene. To the right and far below are
mountains of solid ice, under which were
vast caverns made by the falling torrent.—
On a shallow point overhanging this cav-
ernous deep, and fastened firmly to the rock,
was a body of ice, from depended vast ici-
cles resembling invortod churcli epiriM. Ou
our loft the other portion of the American
fall could not be so distinctly observed.—
This was a romantic scene, such as we love
to dwell upon, and such as few mortals have
enjoyed. Had we jtlie pek of a Milton, we
would properly describe it.
A flag lias boeh placed on a small island
above and to the right of Chapin Island. It
is an old campaign flag, on which is inscribed
"Taylor and Fillmore." It will probably
remain there a long time.—Niagara Falls
Gazette.
ROMAN CATHOLIC BIBLE SOCIETY.
In a review in a lata werk by Or. Cotton,
Arch-deacon of Casbd, on the subject of
Popish versions of the Scriptures, among
other valuable information we find the fol
lowing interesting statement i* *
" The most interesting facts ih the whole
volume are those relating to an edition 9f
the New Testament, published ia London
about forty years ago. It appears that at
that time there actually existed a Roman
Catholic Bible Society. In 1815, a few Pro-
testant clergymen, heatfed by Mr. W. Blair,
an eminent surgeon in London, proposed to
print copies of the Douay and Rheims Scrip-
tures, without notes, for distribution among
the Roman Catholics of Ireland, either at a
low price, or gratuitously, as they should
see fit. Á Roman Catholic priest, the Rev.
P. ^andolphy, having declared in a pamph-
let that the clergy of the Romau Catholic
Church were willing to circulate such copies
of the Scriptures, could they be got, Mr.
Blair opened negotiations with Mr. Gandol-
phy and his brethren. Co-operation was
soon found to be impossible, and the Pro-
testant scheme was broken up; but the re-
suit was, the forming, by a few enlightened
"Roman Catholic laymen, of the Roman
Catholic Bible Society. This society strug-
gled amidst great opposition through a brief
and stormy existence. They were opposed
by all the weight and influence of the Church,
and, though they only proposed to re-print
a Roman Catholic edition of a Roman Cath-
olic translation of the New Testament, snd
abandoning their original design of printing
the pure text, had agreed to admit a few
notes written by a dignitary of the Church,
they were stigmatized as dangerous innova-
tions by most of the higher clergy. Dr.
Milner especially speaks of them in the
strongest terms, as " a strange and .unheard
of institution, announcing in its very name
a departure from the Catholic rule of faith."
"How portentious a sight." exclaims he.
" to see Catholics forming themselves into a
Bible Society, for the avowed purpose of in-
structing the poor in their communion, in
theie religion, from the bare text* of the
Scriptures " As may be supposed, the so-
ciety soon perished, having accomplished
only the publication of an edition of the
New Testament, which was generally re-
ceived with disfkvor, and never sold.—
Mirror.
(from th« Montgomery MUI.)
PERTINENT QTJERIES.
Meter . Editort: Life is paid to be the
theatre of human action. Each day is but
the curtain drawn, which presents a new
scene. Eaoh year a new- play. Of the
many actors, I must allude to one class who
from inclination, or frpm develiih design
attempt to equal Dame Rumor in the gen-
eral dissemination of current events, arid in
many instances forstall prophecy as to those
in futuro ( Such who are apt to indulge
in these. scheme^ have I believe, uttered
thoughts, althb, actions had not Tcrined
them, and thus the world is kept informed
as to current and coming events.
Society is as diversified as are th# char-
acters who compose it—and in many instan-
ces from and owha% to a nervous anxiety,
the fair ones, who give Iife^ light, and inter-
est to that society,—are in some instances
the first who tattle ! _
I might extend Óiis article to a much
greater extent, butTam aware it will prove
a trespass not only upon your patience, bgt
will crowd out other valuable matter, hence,
brevity, must cot be lost light of> In á
word, I should really-wish to know.
Is ic any body's business
T, If a gentleman should choose
To wait upon a üidy,
If the lady don't refuse 1
Or to speak a little plainer, „
That the meaning she may know,
Is it any body's business
If a ledyhasabcauf
Is it any body's business
When, that a gentleman does cafl,
Or when he leaves the lady,
Or if he leaves at all?
Or is it necessary
That the curtautshould be drawn—
To savi from further trouble
The outside lookers-on ?
If a person on the sidewalk,
. Whether great, or whether small,
Is it any body's business
Where that person meant to call ?
Or if you see a person
As he's calling any where,
Discords.—A manuscript of the reign
of Henry V., speaking of discords, gives
the following brief illustration:
'•Two wymen in the house,
Two cattes and one mowe;
Two dogges and one bone
May never accord in one.
PROTECTION OP SLATE PROPERTY IN VA
The Virginia Legislature, says the New
York Express, has enacted a very stringent
law. with a view to more effectually pre-
venting the escape of slaves. Its provisions
and penalties are remarkably severe. By
if, any freo person knowingly concerned in
the escape of a slave from any corporation
Or county, upon conviction may be impris-
oned not less than five nor more than ten
years; forfeit double the vajjie of the slave
pay all reasouaole expenses incurred in the
re-capture; and in the Court's discretion
be publically whipped. And if the offender
be in any way connected with a vessel, the
same is to be seized and forfeited to the
Commonwealth; the fact of a slave being
on board á vessel, to render the master lia-
ble as above. Any vessel owned out of the
State, employing a slave without written
consent, to be fined $50; and á sláve found
on board a vessel at night without the writ-
ten authority, to render the master liable
as though aiding his escape. A free person
advising, even, a slave to escape, is liable
as above, and a slave so advising another is
to be whipped, and sold out of the State,
and never allowed to return. Any free
white person giving information leading to
the conviction of even an intention to advise
or aid the escape of a slave is to receive
$500. And, finally, any bridge keeper, or
other, allowing a slave to pass without a
master's consent, to be fined $50, and dam-
ages ; in the event of the slave's escape, the
keeper to be liable to imprisonment for ten
years. No whipping is to exceed thirty-
nine lashes in one day.
Tho Chinese have a notion that the
soul of a poet passes into a grasshopers
because it sings till it starves.
BEGGARS IN AMERICA.
Under this head a late French paper says
that sometimes people in the United States
go about begging with the greatest coolness.
The editor then cites, in proof, a case which
he says occured in New York, where a wo-
man called upon a family to ásk for a sub-
scription to buy a piano! As an excuse, she
said that several of her friends had them,
she, herself, wanted to leárn the instrument,
but could not afford to buy one.
Now we can tell as good a story as this
which has come under our own experienoe
here in New Orleans, and within the past
week. A female, dressed in deep black, call-
ed upon us for money, telling a piteous sto
ry of misfortune. She said that a vessel on
board of which herself, husband and chil-
dren had taken passage had caught fire and
burnt, that they had lost their all, that her
husband, unable to stand up under the mis
fortune, had died, and that she was forced to
ásk for money. " But do you not wish for
employment ?" said we in our innocence; "is
there nothing which you can do to help
support yourself and family ?" " Oh! no,
was the quick response ; "I wish to raise
money to buy a small house and farm in the
conntry, where I can bring up my children
respectably and comfortably!" This wo-
man. we would have the French editor know,
was one. of his own countrywomen, from
Lyons as she says, and she goes about with
a paper detailing the burning of a vessel on
some river in France, on which herself and
husband had taken passage, with all the par-
ticulars of the loss of her property. Per-
haps she is a sister of the woman in New
York, who is trying to raise money to pur-
chase a piano.—N. O. Pic.
THE GREAT PILOBÜSTER.
" The kingdom of Oude has been annexed,"
is the brief and cool announcement by tele-
graph, from Trieste, of the latest news from
India. It is thus the rapacious subjects of
Viot©riaw£ierce her opulent empire with
kingdoms. OuJo coniains twentv-four
thousand square miles, an<T three millions
.of inhabitants. , The soil is full of that
warlike ingredient, saltpetre—and nourish-
es all agricultural product^ to fruitful
growth. With Oude perishes the last rep
rescntativc of Hindo) nationality, although
her independence had been guarantied by
regular treaties with Great Britian, ren-
dered the more solemn and obligatory be
cause a valuable consideration, in the form
of a cession of territory and sacrifice of in
dependence, wás paid as the price demanded
for the protection of England.—Thus the
provinces of India are violently wrested
from their sovereign owners by English
LAWRENCE OUTRAGE.
We learn from unquestionable authority,
says the Kansas Herald, that since our law
abiding troops returned home, the abolition-
ists of Lawrence are at their old tricks.—
We suppose they had learned a lesson that
would be beneficial to them, but in this it
seems we are mistaken. However, their
conduct is different now to what it was be-
fore. Their acts are more secret and das-
tardly if possible than ^pfore. ^ Maj. Clark,
a prominent pro-slstvery man, living between
Lawrence and Lecompton has become very
odious to the Abolitionist. Recently some
of the negro-thieving set attempted on two
occasions to burn down his property, but
failed. They actually killed his faithful
watch dog. so that they might sneak up—
Abolitionist like—undiscovered and commit
their fiendish and midnight purposes. They
subsequently poisoned two of his horses.
Here is pretty good evidence of the character
of Abolitionists. They dare not face Major
Clark, but like cowards and traitors, they
take vengeance at the dead hour of night,
upon horses, dogs, and other property.—
And these are the kind of people that want
to rule this Territory! -They are not fit to
live too mean to die, and so mean the d—1
.I'ould'nt have them. But yet they are fit
associates for many men calling themselves
free State men!
Is it any of you*aw
What his business
may be time?
The substance of our query,
Simply stated, would be this:
Is it any body's business
What another's business is ?
If it is, or if it isn't,
We would really like to know,
For we are certain if it isnt,
There are some who make it So.
If it is, we'll join the rabble,
— And act the noble part, „
Of the littler? and defamen}
: Who throng the public mart j
But if not, we'll act the teacher,
Until each meddler learns
It is better in the future,
To mind his own ooacerns.
u HORNET.*1
A HAN WHO WANTED TO BE SH0£ Hffé
Another duel of Harrington's was fought
with a man named McNally. Barrington's
ball struck the buckle of one of McNally's
braces—callol
gallons in .Dublin—and
irom meir sovereign owners py^ 1 fcpqpked him over, though without b
brute force, upon the hypocritical pretext „ Mftc   ^ crfed m fl
that the cause of humanity and civilization - -
demands it.—What is the history of British
rule in India but a tale of oppression and
horror? Even Englishmen, familiar with
India affairs, have acknowledged that the
British yoke is the most cruel to which the
Hindoos háve ever been subjected.—Lord
Metcalf, so long employed in India, de-
scribes the tyranny of England as almost
unbearable in many things. Macaulay, par-
tisan as he is, does not venture to assert
otherwise. No Hindoo can hold any o ffice
but á subordinate one.—No Hindoo is trust-
ed with a command in the army. It is a
tyranny of race as well as of power.—Bos-
ton Post.
OHIO AMERICAN POLITICS.
The Americans in Ohio are going through
that purgation—which New York aud Mas-
sachusetts have gone throngh, with so much
credit to themselves and strength to Amer-
ican principles—that is bolting and sifting
off the Abolition chaff. As Massachusetts
sifted off the bolting Wilson & Company,—
and New York, the Sewardites, that smug
gled themselves into the American organi-
zations,—so must Ohio bolt and sift its
Spauldings, its Fords, and Pennsylvania in
all probability has to go through just suqti
a sifting. As bolting and sifting are good
in the flour and corn mills of the country, so
bolting and sifting- are good in the political
mills too. When the chalí and the bran are
all out, the better is the bread.
In New York and Massachusetts we made
this separation of chaff, and straw, in No-
vember last,—and as the elections demon-
strated, we were stronger without, than with
them. Just so, will it be in Ohio and in
Pennsylvania, too, if in the latter State the
sifting become necessary. The American
party is stronger without the Abolition ele-   ^ ^ __
ment than it was with it. Sectionalism. b!acks°from the North, and freed men from
Negroism, and Americanism, are. and musV the South and for the colored man at *
ever be, in utter opuognation. The life and*u~  '• ,JmnctM,«n
soul of the American party, is, in the pat-
tern of Geo. Washington, and in the princi-
ples of his Farewell Address,—with which.
negroism is in coustant conflict. Washing-
ton made a Union. Sectarianism breaks up
a Union. Washington made all the pro-
slavery compacts of the Federal Constitu-
tion, Fugitive Slave compact and all,—and
singed in 1793, that is," approve " the Fu-
gitive Slave Law of that year. Negroism
disowns and repudiates all the-c compacts
and obligations. Hence, men trained in the
school of Washington, and men at war with
that school, cannot harmoniously act to-
gether. Seperation is their duty. L®1
Fords and Spauldings, of Ohio, follow the.
Wilsons and the Sewards,—and we will go
our way, while they go theirs. It is our in-
terest, as w.-II as our principle. Our strength
is in seperation,—for, in New York and
Massachusetts, we are far stronger without
than with the element of abolitionism.
"you're the first man'I ever kaew that was
saved by the gallows." This McNally is
pleasantly sketched by. the author of " Cur-
ran and his "Cotemporaries." " His distress
at one time was truly piltiable at being ena-
ble to induce anybody to fight him. Henry
Grady, who wounded everybody with whom
he fought, refused that honor to McNally,
and every one followed the inhumen exam-
ple. The pooi- man could get no man to
shoot him, and Wais the picture of misery.—
In vain he fumed, fretted, and affronted.—
All seemed determined on bang guiltless of
his blood. Never wae an Irish gentleman
so unfortunate. At length Sir Jonah Har-
rington, out of Christian charity, accepted
his cartel, and shot him into fashion."
" The Soothhsidb View or SLavEEr."—
The New York Observer publishes a letter
from Rev. E. J. Pierce, G&bbon Mission,
VVest Africa, in regard to the book With this
title. He says:
" Doubtless you hear from many with re-
spect to this book, and from many parts of
our country, and it may be from different
parts of the world, but I will venture to
say, not from many parts of Africa. 1 think
at times my companion (Rev. J. Best) and
myself ar§ ready to exclaim, ' Would the 
all Africa were at the South. Wouid that,
villages and tribes of these poor people
could be induced to emigrate to our South-
ern country, and be placed under the influ-
ences which the slaves enjoy. My brother
thinks that he would aooner run. the risk
of a good or bad master, and be $ slave at-
the South, than to be as one of the$eb**then
people. He refers, when he thus «peaks,
both to his temporal and eternal welfara.
If the North and South «would only, work
together in love, the plan of ool-
onizing this part of the country with Ifcee
how good it would be. We must change our
manner and tone with regard to the South,
and study ways to accomplish it. May tita
Lord make that book the iostruaaaotof do-
ing much to effect this change."
Upon hearing the
CiBsar," where " *
with the adul
upon Gesarby
of all the gods at onea
tho infatuated people—
Now^uthe o^ueof all t
Upon what meat doth this our Cesar feed
That he is grown so 1
I Oldj Roger synically remarked that it
couldn't have been upon any meat ehld at
the present Boston prices, as Omsar him-
self couldn't have afforded to buy enough
of it to get fht on.—Boston Pott.
The loss by the fall in breadstnfie on
the Liverpool stooks alone is estimated
to be £300,000,