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r t. ..- ' r - . v itt t rvrr i M A Family Nowspaper Devoted to Democracy, Litoraturo, Agricalturo, Mechanics, Education, Amusomonts and General Intelligence 1 1 r VOL. 1. PUBLISHED tTIRT TnURSDAT EELLEYCE CITY, X. T. BY S. A. STRICKLAND & AT CO. Terms of Subscription. 'JVo Doiiabs per annum, if pild in advance, or $2 60 if not paid within the year. " To citrus t Three coplea to one address, In advance $3 00 Reven do do do 10 00 Fifteen do do do 20 00 A "luh of seven subscribers, at $10, will entitle the person making it up to a copy for nix months j a club of fifteen, at $20, to a copy for one year. When a club of subscribers has been forwarded, additions may be made to it, on the same terms IllSIXESS CUIUS. Bowen & Strickland A TTORNEYS AT LAW. Real Estate, X. City Lots and Claims bo-icht and sold Purchasers will do well to call at our office and examine our list of Citv Lots, &c, before purchasing elsewhere. Office in Cook's new building, corner of Fifth and Main streets. L. L. Bowen. TTORF.Y AND COUNSELLOR AT A LAW, Bellevue, N. T. 1-tf S. A. Strickland, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, Bellevue, N. T. . 1-tf C. T. Holloway, A TTORNEY.AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Bellevue, N. T. 1-tf W. II. Cook, v j G RNERAL LAND AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. Bellevue Citv. Nebraska. 1-tf ' ' B. P. Aankin, ' K TTORNEY AND COUNSNLLOR AT 1. LAW, La Tl itte. N. T.: . 1-tf -- i - J.' Seeley, A TTOUNEY AND COUNSELLOR . LAW, Omaha, N. T. 1 AT 1-tf ' - '- ' S. "W. Cozzens, 1 ' ATTORNEY AT LAW and General Land AGENT, Omaha city, N. T. . Office in Henry &. Rout's. now Brick Block, Fnruham treet. . lio lo-um. John W. Pattison, 'N OTA R Y PUBLIC AND REAL ESTATE AGENT, Fontenelle, N. T. . 1-tf James S. Izard & Co. r AND AO r. NTS, Omaha, Douglas (Wty J. J Nebraska Territory. 1-tf . , ' Drs. Malcomb & Peck. - M AHA CITY. Office on Harney i t street V opposite the Pott Oliice. . trillion given to Surgery. Particular at 1-tf , , . r. E. Shannon. , , , T EAL ESTATE AGENCY, Cerro Gordo XV, FostOilice, St. Mary, Mills Lu.,.owa. x P. E. Shannon, .COMMISSION & FORWARDING MBit V CHANT. St. Mary's Landinc Mill Co, Iowa. .i U .v ,;,:;''' ..: ,2-tf Peter A. Sarpy, I7ORWARDKS-G & COMMISSION MER J. CHANT, Bellevue, N. T., Wholesale Dealer in Indian Goods. Horses, Mules, and Cattle. 1-ti ' : ' D. J. Sullivan. M. D.. TIHYSICIAN and SURGEON. Office J. Head of Broadway, CoiimU Bluff, Iowa nov. 13 : i-u. D. II. Solomon. . ATTORNEY and COUNSELLOR AT LAW,Glenwood, Mills Co., Iowa, prac tices in all the Courts of western Iowa and - Nebraska, and the Sirpreovr Court "of. Iowa. Land Agency not in the Programme, no 4-tf ' Johnson Caaady & Tost, ( GENERAL. LAND. AGENTS. -ATTdR-' NEYS AND COUNSELLORS ATLAW, Council Bluffs, Iowa, will promptly attend to Land Agencies, Collections. IavesUng Money, Lot ating and Selling Lind Warrants, and. all o(hr business pertaining to their profession, in Western Iowa and Nebraska.' ' - .1-tf O. A. Ilonry & Co., . ; WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUG GISTS, At.the ft ebbaska Dat o Stobe, Ouiaha city, Nebraska, have on hand and are constantly-receiving a Jjrjre and comnlete aesortraeutof Drijje. Chemicals, Patent Medi cines, Dye Stuffs, Liquors, Sugars, Preserved Fruits, Coufectionaries, tc.,4.c. Physicians' orders filled on a small advance pn cost. Y. B. cxurKO. JOHN r. tVBK. - .i Cuming & Turk, : .-hforiieys at Law and Real Estale Jgtnis. ... OMAU V CITY, N..T , t WILL" attend faithfully -nnd tiromjitly to all himinei entrusted to tDern. in the Territorial yr Iowa courts, to tlje purchase of . lou aod jaoUsySanus. ami pre-emptions, lertioiis. If. . Office In the second' story of Henry & Roots new Buildin?. neartv onnoKite1 the-We-iiorn ' Exchanre Bank, Fnfnhain street. Papers In the Territorv. Council Bluffs Bu rle and Keokuk Times. ' lilease copy and charge Nebraskian office. . ' ' ' C. T. HOLLOWAY. ! C. O. KILLIB ' : ' ; Holloway k Keller, . , LN EBAL LAND AGENTS, Bellevue duly, .. J',, will prnpijiy a'.'end t li cillecUiH( and iiwustiii; un.n y, Lisaling .nd Warrants, luvm an.l selling city lots, &r.- Mli-e ,il itie p.-llevue MU:e. ' BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA, m sixcss caiids. Titos. Maco. Alex. Macon. II. O. Joats. Macon, Brother & Co. TAW AND LAND AGENTS, Omaha City A Nebraska Territory. no 0-tf. Gustav Secger, TOPOGRAPHIC AND CIVIL ENGI NEER. Executes Drawing and Paintinc of every style and description. Also, all business in ins line, umce on uregory street, St. Mary, Mills county, Iowa. 1-tf 1 Qreeno, Weare & Benton, BANKERS AND LAW AGENTS, Council Bl nil's, Potowattamie comity, Iowa. Greene &. Weare, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.. Greene, Weare &. Rice, Fort Dos Moines, la. Collections madet Taxes paid; and Lands purchased and sold, in any part of Iowa. 1-ti A. Schimonsky, mOPOGRAPIIIC ENGINEER, Executes I Tonneranhlc. Fancv and Plain Drawinfr of every style and description. Fancy, Orna mental ana nam fainting execuiea lo oraer. Olfice at the Bellevue House, Bellevue, N. T. References : P. A. Sarpy, bt. Mary, Iowa: Judge Gilmore, Bellevue. 1-tf G. P. Theobald & Co., COMMISSION & FORWARDING NO. 20 1'lilK Stbeit, op Staibs, 8T. LOUIS, MO. Particular attention paid to filllne of order ud to bale of Prodnee. - no 10-ly.- Charles E. Watson, CIVIL Belle ENGINEER AND SURVEYOR, cvue City, Nebraska Territory, pro fesses to be u posted" in the lay of the land in this vicinity, and oilers his services to such aa may need Idem, on reasonable terms. I V" He will also act as agent, for the pur chase or sale of Real Estate, in the Territory, or Western Iowa. Information furnished upon application. Declarations hied and pre-emp tions obtained. . 4-tf F0M i:LI.Li: DANK OF ECLLEYIC. Ilellevuc, Nebraska. IS prepared to transact the general business of Banking, will receive deposits, Discount short paper, buy Bills of Exchange, on all parts of the Country, and sell on St. Louis, Chicago and New York; make collections in the vicinity and remit for the same at Current rates of Exchange. ( Interest allowed on special Deposits.? JOHN WEARE, President. Thos. H. Bentow, V. Pres. Jon J. Town, Cashier. 1-tf Banking" Hours From 9 to 12, A. M., and 1 to 3, P. M. - . ANDREW 1. POPFI.ETOX. WILLIAM K. B VERS. Poppleton & Byers, 1 ATTORNEYS AT LAW, AND GENE RAL LAND AGENTS, Omaha city, Ncbragka. Land Warrants bought and solii. Land Entered on Time. Special attention given to the selection and entry of Lands for Settlers, and all others desiring choice loca tions. Land Claims. Town lots and all kinds of Real Estate, bought and sold and invest ments made for Distant Dealers. A Competent Surveyor and Draughts man always in readiness to survey lands, find and select Lands and Town lots, and draft City Plats . ' - ' i ' 1-tf Tootle & Greene, WHOLESALE 4. RETAIL DEALERS, Glenwood," Iowa. We bee eave?to call the attention of the Good People of Mills, Pottawattamie, Montgomery and Cass coun ties, Iowa; also, Douglas and Cass counties, Nebraska, to onr laree and late supply ofevery kind of MERCHANDISE, usually kept in Western Iowa. Our stock of Groceries in large and complete having been bought and shipped a little lower than our neighbors. Our stock of Hardware, Queensware. Wijod nware, Boots and fcooeaIIats and Capi.and Ready-Made Clothing, have all been purchased in the Eaatera cities. at the lowest cash prices. Give us a call before you purcnaee, and it we do not sell you cheap goods, we will make our neighbors io sos f . : (Tir" Remember the cheapest hotise in town. i . . TOOTLE It GREENE. Glenwood, Iowa, Oct. 23, 1-tf S. B. SMITH. i. H. fitll Smith & Brother, v 1 ATTORNEYS. COUNSELLORS at LAW and Dealers in Real Estate, Bellevue, Nebraska Territory, will attend faithfully and promptly to buying and selling Real 1 state, Cily Lots. Claims, and Laud Warrants. Office at die Benton House. ... . 21-Ow j. .ii iiiumx ATTORNEY 1XU (MMEL0R AT LAW GENERAL LAND A3ENT, . AND NOTAllY PUBLIC, ' rtutlsuwuih, Cast Co. V. T., ATTENDS to business tn any of the Coorts of this Territory. Particular attention pmd to obtaining and locatinz Land Warrants, col lection of debts, ane taxes paid. i,ettrs or inquiry relntive to any parte of the Territory answered, ir aecompauied wun a lee. REFERENCES i Hob. Lyman Trumbull, U. S. S. from Ills.; Hon, James Knox, M. C. " ". Hon. O. IL Browning, Q iincy, ' " Hon. Janes W. Grimes, Governor of Iowa, , Hob. II. P. Bennett, Del to C. from N. T Green, Weare fc Benton, Conncil Ulufls, I. ' Nuckolls Js. Co., Glenwood, Iowa. 23tf. STONE MASON AND 'l. "U1 n :'- ) , , UM WW -- V , flHK Undersigned having commenced the X' above business In Billev'u, Js prepared to do all work in his line, at the shortest no tice, in the best maimer, and on the most rea dable terms. WM. WII.l'X tri-r Four or five rood Plasterers, will fhid I constant employment, and good wsj;r " sp oliation to the Above. rnifviie, o.-t. !... tf- - ' P. A. SARPY, FORWARDING & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Still continues the above bnsines at ST. MARYS, IOWA, & BELLEVUE, ' N. T. ' Merchants and Emiirrants will find their goods promptly and ca-efuirr attended to. P. S. 1 have tlio only WAREHOUSE for storage at the above named landings. SnjNIarys, Feb. gQlh,1857. 21-lf"L GEO. SXYDElt. JOHN II. SHERMAN. Snyder & Sherman, A TTORNEYS and COUNSELLORS AT ii. LAW, and NOTARIES PUBLIC, Coun cil Bluffs, Iowa, will practice their profession In all the Courts of Iowa nnd Nebraska. All collections entrusted to their care, at tended to promptly. Especial attention fclven to bnyin? and sell Ins; real estate, and making pre-emptions in Nebraska. Deeds, Mortages, and other instruments of writing drawn with dispatch) acknowledg ments taken, &C, tc. (J Office west side of Madison street, just above Broadway. , ' nov 13 1-tf. JAMES J. WEAVER, RECENTLY from Pennsylvania, Informs the citizens of Bellevue that he will promptly attend to all calls made upon him in the following branches of business: CAR PENTER and JOINER work, PAINTING and GLAZING. 3T Work warranted. PALMER & AVERILL, BELLEVUE STORE. Corner of Jefferson and 27th street, Opposite the Fontenelle Bank, EELLEVUE, NEBRASKA, WOULD RESPECTFULLY call the at tention of the citizens of Bellevue, Sar py county, and the surrounding country, to tueur new ana seieeita stock or DRY GOODS, FAHCY GOODS, GROCERIES & HARDWARE, Which ther offer at Wholesale and Retail prices 30 per cent, lower than ever before Of- rered in this ctty. we can and will sen Goods as law if hot lower than they can be bought in Omaha or Bluff City. Please call and examine ror yourselves. ' AJMfcll at AVt-RllL,. Bellovue, May 28, 1857. . . . I AM HERE, ; FAIRLY located in Bellevue, and am deter mined to stay here too, (that is if the citizens of Bellevue give me some encouragement) I I nave just purchased a line lot of paints, brushes and sundries belonging to J. T. White, and am prepared to do all work, that the, Citi zens of Bellevue and vicinity may see fit to en trust t9 me, such as HOUSE.' SIGN AND ; ORNAMENTAL PAINTINC, GRAINING, MARBLEING, &.C, in all its various branches, and In the neatest, latest and most appropriate style. , . 4 Call on me I j . I'll guarantee , , You won't be disappointed. ' ' : For what I do 1 ' I promise yon , : Is well done! . That's decided I PAPER HANGING , Executed in the neatest style. ' ' Paints mixed to order, arid for sale. ' ., ; .P. WE1DMAN. HOUSE CARPENTERS AND .' , JOINEltS. rT'IIE undersigned takes pleasure In an- X nouncing to the inhabitants of Bellevue and vicinity, thst they are now prepared to BUILD AND FINISH, in the best manner, all styles of .' , Dwelling: Houses, Cottages,' tc., &e., On the shortest notice, and ia the snout n- proved style of workmanship. - They will be also happy to do any work in their line of business, which their friends may stand in a . . . t r u a c u 1 1 r v a d r Bollevue, Oot. 80, 18501. 8-tf . - . CLARKE & BRO.j )RVAHDING akd COMMISSI0 MERCHANTS, STEMBOAT AND ' COLLECTINO 1 ' A O E S'T H ' BELLEVUE, NEBRASKA. Dealers in Fne Lninbcr, Doors, Sash, . Flour, Meal, Bacon, &c. ZS" Direct Goods care Clarke & Bro l-tf CHAS. CIMISTOPUKH." MACHINIST COPPER SMITH ' - In all its Branches. ' BELLEVUE AND OMAITA; ' W. W. Harvey, , SURVF.YOB AND CLAIM AGENT, will promptly attend to all business of Survey ing laying oit and dividing land, surveying and platting towns and roadu, and wiiladcerapsny persons desirous of uiakiiiir claims, and ill act as stent for the sale or claiius. OJire on Main street, Bellevue, N. T. rn-tr torn fleal! tornMfU! I .RESH grojnd for site at the Bell -Tin hteaut Kiw atul GrUt Milt, known s - AI wSnt rrerHAn! cVllLIa" April 3 lv".-?-f ' ' ' THURSDAY, JUNE POETRY. Kisses. Sitting to-night in my chamber, A bachelor, frigid and lonely, I kiss the end of my pipe-stem That, and that only. Reveries rise with the smoke-wreathsj Memories tender surround mej Giils that are married or buried. Gather around me. School-girls In pantalets romping; Girls that have grown to bs misses) Girls that liked to be kissed, and Liked to give kisses. Kisses well I remember them 1 Those in the corner were fleetest; Bweet were those "on the ily" In the Dark were tho swee test! Anna was tender and gentle; To woo was almost to win her; Her lips were as good as rips peaches And milk for dinner. . ; Nell was a flirt, and covqettish; ' -'Twas catch me and kiss if you cat sir! . Could I catch both ah I wasn't I A happy man sir 1 Anna bas gone on a mission . , Off to the South Sea sinners; Nell is a widow, keeps boarders, and Cooks her own dinners. Charlotte, and Susar), and Hattie, Mary Jane, Lucy, and Maggie ; Four are married and plump, two , Maiden and scraggy. Carrie Is dead 1 Bloom sweetly, Ye mignonettes, over her rest I Her I loved dearly and truly, .Last and the best. Thus I sit smoking and thinking, A bachelor, frigid and lonely, I kiss the end of my pipe-stem That, and that only! ' ' '' " MISCELLANEOUS. A Knight of the -Itlng and tue Ronnd Table. , i In a recent number of Putnam's Mag azine, in an article on California society id .1849 we find the subjoined incident , " At one of the tnonte-talles . in . a saloon on Kearney street, tho game was by a slender, pale young man, al most a stripling,' and with seemingly the delicate organization of a girl his lips soft, his eyes gentle, his hands small and fair, liis hair fine, no beard save a slight moustache his attire well befitting and scrupulously neat, his air pensive, his ways always quiet.1 One evening an ug- y brute, burly and blusteriner. his natural y vicious temper heated to hideous fierce ness by rum, seated himself at this young man' table and called for a lay out' of the cards His manner, provoking from the first, soon became intolerably insult.- intf.'and he assailed the dealer with out rageous taunts and menaces, accusing htm of cheating, and with abusive oaths re uaiDg to pay over the Makes the back had won. . . . . , ... s . The dealer, patient and long-suflering. and soft-spoken to the Inst, gently remon stroted with the bullyj as with one ' irre sponsible, and whose egly manners were bis misfortune. .At last the fellow, de Ceivd by the gracious demeanor of his reluctant antagonist, demanded the re funding- of his ' ss;s, which were of m"an amount for he had been playing rather for a quarrel than for money and threatened to cut tha .dealer's heart out if he did not instantly 4 fork over. To this the younar man replied by leaping nimbly across the table, and dragging htm by the hair from his seat. - In an in stant the bully drew a formidable bowie ; but before he could make a lunge, a quick, sharp, shot-like How from the Judy-like fist, delivered with scientific precision and force, sent him down, his knife flying trom his hand. And egain, and again, as tie sprang, wra. remarkable aemty and much spunk, to his fett, he went down and down. Till at last, half -stun ned, blind with Mood, and quite bewilder ed and helpless, he sat on the floor and fairly cried: 'IZnoujh! noujh! you are too much for me. Who the devil, are yoal ' ' ' ' " ' '' . . . The young man, who?e face was scarcely flashed - with the exercise, and whose eye at once .resumed its. softness and his air its quiet, said ; .' My friend get up at the same time assiung hjm 'vou are a great fool. My name is . Well, never mind his name; there are but few' Americans to. whom it is not familiar even tran&ailautio ivtoriciy attaches, to it. . It ii the name of a hlood staiued hero of the rinir. who killed his - j r-an. &.-lir wain n--o. iti one of the' moM ! grafted H gladiatorial er.cm.nt. eis recorded in the shocking annals if 18, 1857. , ( ! pugilism. That man was ono of the mobt exemplary of law-aliiding San Fran ciscans in 49. Those dreadful fists were nevor used sv to restore order." The person alluded to in tho above an pedote is, wn presume, Christopher Lilly, tho pugilist- popularly known as Chris. Lilly. No doubt the description of his personal appearance as above given, would, if mentioned in a novel in connoc tion with such a feat, or given as a por trait of a prize-fighter, bo considered un natural, and a violation of even possibiU ity. And yet, though it does not agree entirely with a reminiscence we happen to have of the' personal appearance of this same Chris. Lilly, it is sufficiently acrurato, and, making allowance for the iliereiice of eves, no doubt a faithful description of the ppgflist as he appeared to the writer. It was in a daguerreotype room, somewhere about the year 1S46 or '47, that we camo upon the notorious gladiator. lie was small, slight, lithe, and beautifully formed ; witn an erect enrrmgo, a light ana springing Mep, a fine head borne somewhat haughtily, and a general appearance of aristocratic high breeding, which the French would call distingue His garb, which was that of the conventional eentleman, and very plain and tasteful, materially assisted 'his impression, lie wore a lilucK frock coat, buttoned, which act oft the small waist and well-rounded chest to advantnge. The hands were small nnd gloved, the feet slender and also small. He wore a cap which, of course, prevented any observa lion of his forehead, but did not conceal a head of dark, crisped curio the true hvacinth hnir of the (Jreek. The face was oval in form, pile, anlf-nossessed and calm t the eyes were dark, soft, yet quick and penetrant; the norstrus sensitive t the lips thin, curved, and proud ; the chin round and firm ; a slight moustache, was the onlv trace of beard. The whole face and . figure were those of a noticeably handsome' man, and singularly, enough. there was an air of almost feminine .re Cnement about the entire person, mani fested not only in the graceful garb he woretbut in his graceful and erect de meanof . 1 A ' suggestion ' of effeminacy which the smaUness and elegance of . the 1 figure conveyed, was strangely rnixod with a sense that that slender, frame was compacted of muscles and sinews like tempered steel, and that its poesessor was not a person to brook aggression.- we were. looking at him with the. pluased in terest which a handsome person always inspires, not knowing who he "was, when a young; man, connected with the estab lishment, whispered his name iu our ear. Of 'course, our interest was ..changed to amazement. when we learned that this slender gentleman before us with his gal lant and graceful bearing, was' none oth er than the notorious Chris. Lilly, who, as the writer in Putnam truly slates, had killed bis man in one of the tloodiestaod cruellest of alt bloody ( and cruel prise ngnts. . Our own remembrance of 'his appear ance' differs 'slightly-chiefly in regard to the alledged pensiveness of air, which we rather it member as hauteur from the account given in Putnam; but any pern who has seen him can say which" impression is nearest ne train. Why a man of his personal appearance and seemintr gentility should have fellow shiped with prue-fighters, and sought no other distinction than that ot a gladiator, it is not permitted us to know. Never were a man's profession and habits ap parently more belied by. his aspect and demeanor. We would give much to have known him, and known what manner of man he was. The horrid fact' of his prize-fighting would seem to tell against him, and stamp him as a low and brutal fellow ; and yet how much excellence of character the incident above related dis closes! It shows him gentle, patient, en during, bearing insult and outrage with out resentment, charitably ' counting his coarse assailant's Vugly. manners .a his misfortune," and only springing to action when, hi life was mens need ; then, with rare magnanimity, and a forbearance which even in thnt hot ' moment 1 was not exhausted, simply contenting himself with knot-king his enemy down staking his unarmed fist' agaiiftt the red-f fiances of the bowie-knife and finally, after having flogged the fight out of , the .fierce .bully, agisted hitn to his feet with the same lit tle lady-like hand which but a few min utes before had wrought the ' repeated overthrow, at the tame time Li idly and quietly admonished hiio ot his folly In addition to which, we read that in that; was meant by posthumous works," an lawless and desperate community he was , swered'.'1 Such Avorka a a man . writes ad exemplary and law abiding chizen, and tftr be is-dead," An Irish lieutenant that "those drcudful finj were never used stationed abroad, being informed by a let save to restore order." ' .1 ter that his widowed mother had married ' After all; perhaps he wa "ncf',a fbad U second time, exprewed his alarm about fellow " His prize-fighting and gambling, I his right of primogeniture, by hoping that whiih we july count execrablN were ju She wouUn'i have a eoa wider,. Uiaa probably nm electable to him. . Sin con himself." NO. 33. sisla, it may be, in the violation of the in ward law in doing what we know to do wrong. Perhaps to him it did not seem wrong lo fight in tho ring, ot td win money in games of chance l hree or four centuries ago, gallant gentlemen, plated in steel, fought in the ring for sport, with deadly weapons, end called it the tournamount. Fine name for an ugly thing! Yet people read ivenhoe,' think the jousts vory romantie and Alluring, and . sigh for the age of chivalry again. Is it then, so much belter for men to km and bruise each other in armor, with ances and battle-axes, than for men to kill and bruise each other in belts and breeches, with their fists ? - How is it that the lustre of romance brightly bathes Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, and obstinately oo jects to lend a single purple ray to Thom as 1 Iyer or Yankee Bullivanl we oo not say the medieval knights were brutes but are the modern prize-fighters more so T -Then, too, how is it that the. game of bulls and bears on the Stock Exchange is so varnished with respectablity that the most respectable Christian men can en gage in it in the unreproving noon, while tho game of monte is so digtaced that men have to slink, into painted saloons at midnight, or off to San rancisco, to rake in their little winnings without fear and without reproach f And how is it. doar fellow Pharisees, that we, who so admire the antique tournamounta, and deify the gladiator of Ualaklava and lukerman, and have such absorbing interest in xne stocks, how is it that we' consistently thank God that we are not like these gam bling and priza-fighting publicans 1 , , ai tue worst, tne gaming anu me "ri sing were Uhris. Iilly s vices, ana tney are diflerent from those practised without rebuke in our community; only ' in form and name the one being medieval and illegal, the other being modern and not prohibited by law. How with his appar ent gentility and manliness of character he could have practised them, is. berhapa. not so mysterious, when we reflect' that tho knights of centuries ago, and the sol diers .and merchants of to-day. many of whom seem to us as refined ana manly as he, and are probably, if we could get the right view of them, not a bit more so,' do. or did, the same things in reality that we reprobate lum for doing. Sat. Ev. Totl. ? '"'- The Hair Snake.' The 'North 'East ' Farmer, dwelling upon this' singular species 'of :' ' animated Science has not satisfactorily determin ed either the origin or the modes of '.ex istence of these animals.;. la reply to in quiries by a correspondent of the ,fuhi gan Farmer, who found hair snakes Tn a pan of r.ulk. Mr. Justus tfage, or that State, furnished a very interesting account of his experiments and observations. He is satisfied of the fact that both the large and small crickets deposit these snakes tn water daring the month of ' August ; but whether the cricket resorts to water to rid itself of a parasite, Vr to deposited natural product of its body, he in unable to determine. Mr. G. says that one morn ing after he had been experimenting In his room, by throwing crickets into water to obtain snakes, and had - succeeded ' In irocuring two of about foor inches . in ength, he' noticed a black cricket crawl ing up the side of his water pail' ! It jumped into the water, Jay quiet far a me- ment, produced a snake neeny "seven inches m length, and thenntrnbly : made its escape over the edge of the- pail." He also found live hair snake, nearly seven inches in .length, coiled tip iu' the abdomen of a dead cricket that lay. on its back under a flat stone. , The hair snake, be says, will live a long time " in moist earth, where he has found them of a greyish or white color, sometimes of great length and much resembling the fibrot.ii root of some vegetable., When seen through, the uagnifyiog. glass the hair snake presents an almost exact resem blance to the lamprey eel." ': i ' ' ,-1 " A lady of ' our acouaiutauce found .a hair snake in her tea-kettle one morning a few years since. . It had bveu stoudiug where a cricket migni nave crawieu iu by the Kpout : bu she is hardly wilfiny la give up the theory of ' ber ' girlhood, that it was a vivified hair. w .? ji.I. Motto. Idea is a shadow tliat de parteth, speech ii fleeting' as' the " wind, reading is an unremembered pastime, but writing is eternal.", .y , ... A Dcblib STCHBT.beinz asked what I
