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r AN t. . ! o o .V ' : TERMS I -OniY DnThr. If ni..! in Ari j. - v u a. w w an iribiii nuviiiii.r. : iiiii . nuiiiiam1 .m ' iiniiii nv i iiim'i r h hi ii i i. ni k.' i iiiii ii'i 111 . iir 11 hiii i iiiiimii 1 11 iiiiii nv an i m m s w mm PUBLISHED M O. CLEMENS, ON MAIN, BETWEFN HILL AND BIRD STS., OPPOSITE STOVEH HOUR'S CLOTHING STORE. VOL, IT. HANNIBAL, MO., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1852. NO. 27. C2ICINAL STORY. THE WHITE F17K. wnirrcv ExraansLT roR i Jopavat, mo'uaios, r mabis iirni it, , i' (CWtnuJ.) ? Wt will now return to the unfortunate Wer ner, who, fearless m hii nature, and brave as fearless, had started forth for the neighboring village. - Failing tat he had much to accom plish, and wishing to return to his beloved wife, vhoi he had left all alone, m quickly as poseible, lie concluded to shorten his ride by a path tjgfc at tiSt&e efeut 1& , and in wiii en he often went to hunt. He had pursued his way bet a short dietance when he found himself in the midst of a straggling party of Indians, who bound him and made him their prisoner, before he had time to think of any possibility of escape. The Indians had no anepicion that he eould un derstand their hmgnage, consequently they talked freely before him. But he, having had inoch Ommunicallen with them, had taken pains fortunately, to learn, and knew enough to com prehend nearly all tlicy said. With a heavy heart, and almost sinking in despair, he followed his captors and listened attentively to all their plans, and discovered Uiat lie was to be carried to the Indian camp a two days' journey where a council f warriors was now held to lay plaits for the extermination of every while inhabitant. . He now felt that he had ample time to form plans of escape) bat how could he put them in execution ? He was in the hands of four stout Indians, with ne weapons of defence, and even his hands secured by a cord. And then the heart agony lie endured as he reflected upon his helpless and Unprotected wife, and the misery and despair hi absence would cause her, even if she should remain unmolested. But he soon learned from their conversation that other par ties were out in the neighborhood for the pur pose of pillage and murder, and but little hope remained for the woe-stricken husband. "Oh 1 God," he inwardly exclaimed, " wliy not strike the fatal blew at once ? If my wile and child are gone, and I not able to protect them, I ask not to live." But the beacon light cf hope still urged him on, and fluttered htm with the vain thought that he would yet escape and And his home and his all. Alas! vain hope, even in the midst of tri als sore and bitter, thy glimmering light will shine forth to cheer til on, and relieve the faint ing heart, tho'ugh bat for a moment, of its heavy burthen. All day they traveled diving deeper in the dense forest and following paths which none but the Indiun or some venturous huntsman could penetrate. As flight approached, they . formed their plans for test, and coming opon a place which had the appearance of having been recently occupied for temnants of fire wood, and a piece of fresh deer were scattered near thev doubted not that a straggling party tike themselves were not far ahead. But a faint , hope aroused poor Werner from, his lethargy, . and he inwardly prayed that it might be a party of hunters to relieve him from his impending danger. After building a fife and purtaking like ravenous wolves of the remnants of food ' which they found, they proceeded to smoke i their pipes and converse upon their future de signs, bat keeping a steady eye upon their captive v rvMo had seemingly fallen asleep, overcome by . fatigue and hunger; but was bent intently upon aH I he heard, hoping to discover something which would be ef future service. ' The pale-faces, they said, had come and ta ' ken possession of their hunting gtonnds. They Uiadioroe rt ewietly until scarce a vestige of their once powerful race could be f onnd. Once, they said, fhey were like the leaves of the sntn mer forest, in number; now they wete like that same forest scattered and riven by the wintry blast. "The war chief now assembled in conneil will hail us with joy, even though we bring but . one white captive, and as it has been a long time They now joined the rest of the cart v. who cwdutWit sm test to retract their steps and get back to the settlement and see what was go ing on in that quarter, and Drcuare lor a fresh adventure, lleurv, anxious to know tho fate of his beloved wife, and almost frantic at the idea of her situation, urged them on. cntrtii v. ' It was late at nitrht when three atrarclinfr Indians entered a camp where 'all was quiet and repose. There, Warriors lay slumbering around the canrp fire, while the silvery moon shone beautifully down through the forest trees, and cast nhadow upon their sombre forms. A few paces listant was a rude tent or wigwam, where, stretch ed upon a blanket before a lawe fire. war Men w the dim light a delicate female form, with a beautiful infant clasped tightly in her areas, s pparently overcome by the fatigue of a Wearisome journey. By her sat a squaw, who seemed to be watching her tenderly, and ad minisU riw, as well as she knew how. to her quiet a,nd comfort. Ever and anon was heard the agonized sigh and exclamation of OTJ' husband, my dear husband, all, all is lost!" At la st, frenzied with terror and suffering. and ove rcome by fatigue and despair, she caught net chili l more closely to her bosom and sunk into, a fe verish slumber, until she was aroused by the firantic yells of rago which burst forth from the awakened warriors, at the ill luck of the straggling party' just returned. The chief who seei ned to command them, was wild wkh rage and desperation. He called them coward ly dogs, and told them they wero only fit to wait up in the squaws and nurse the papooses, or they would never have stopped quietly with their wb ite prisoner so near to the white man's home. ' Don 't you know," said he, "that they are worse tl tan blood-hounds: and can smell a white brother and hunt him down, even to the Indian's camp fi re? But we've got here safe with one rich boi ty, any how, and the white squaw and pnpoosi ! will not get away so easy from us. foor Jjinmal for indeed it was her who was dreami'iv; once more of being at her beloved Phome startled from her sleep by the noise she heard, c iclaimed in terror, " Henry, where are we ? I've had an awful dream," But oh, the sleepy mist was soon dispelled, and she quickly remembered that it was u sad feu! it y. What was to come next, she did not know, and scaroely cared, Tor it seemed to her that deal h would be a relief, if it would only take her child too. All was now confusion in the camp. Tho frightened Indians reported an urmy of whites in pursuit of them, and fearful lest tlicy should be overtaken anu pui 10 uigni, or taken prisoner themselves, they thought it best to loave their present rendezvouz, and pro- fceed to another war-camp some miles distant, in the forest, and where they would una another party equal to their own, When Emma heard the orders to prepare for a inarch, she felt that it would be impossible for her t.o drag one foot alter the other, or even to stand alone. But, poor human nature I So frail and so weak, scarce knows what it can en dure till put to the test. During the night it had blown up unusually cool, and the piercing winds of the west almost chilled to death the delicate woman, who took flier own blanket to shield her child, and driven on by the inhuman wretches, she was obliged to pursue the journey, noping vnui every muiucuv would relieve her by death ; sweet death, which at any other time, would have been a terrible thought. But oh ! to the sad and suffering heart what a reliet to think thai we cannoi enuure al ways, and that sooner or later our misery must X . i . i 1 1 t . j .!-.. fend. Ail nigm ana an me nexi uay nry - eled, only stopping to eat and take a moment s frest. Several tunes they proposea taking me MOM UC. raoM blackwood s tpisni-aon maoaiikx. Continual.) Young Devouassoud now took the lead, with a light axe to cut out foot-steps and hand-holds with when necessary, and we followed, very cautiously placing our feet in the prints already mauc. "lAouez vol pa I" was a phrase we heard every minute. Our progress was - neces sarily vcrv slow.' and sometimes we ware lironalil up altogether for a quarter of an hour, whilst a council was held as to the best wry of surmount ing a difficulty. Unco only tho neck of ice a long which we had to pass was so narrow that I preferred crossing it saddle-fashion, and so nvk;tg iit'tt lta wlih y U mt points similar to this that I was most astonished at the daring and sure-footedness of the guides. They took the most extraordinary jumps, alight ing upon banks of ice that shelved at once clean down the edges of frightfucrevices, to which their feel appeared to cling like those of flies. Jm yet we were all shod alike in good stout "shooting shoes," with a double row of hob-nails; but, where I was sliding and tumbling about, they stood like rocks. In all this there was, however, little physical exeilion for us it was simply a matter of nerve and steady head. W here the crevice was small, we contrived to jump over it with tolerable coolness; and where it was over three or four feet in breadth, we made a bridge of the ladder, and walked over on the rounds. There is no great difficulty, to be sure, in doing this, when a ladder lies upon i lie ground; but with a chasm or unknown depth below it, it is satisfactory to get to the other side as quickly as possible. At a great many points the s now made bridges which we crossed easily enough. Only one was permitted to go over at a time; so that, if it gave way he might remain suspended by the rope at tached to the main body. Sometimes we had to make long detours to get to the end of a crevice, too wide to cross any way; at others, we would hnu ourselves all wedded together, not daring to move, on a neck of ice that at first I could scarcely have thought adequate to have afforded tootu.g to a goat. When we were thus fixed, somebody cut notches in the ice, and cl imbed up or down as the case required; then the knap sacks were pulled up or lowered; then we fol lowed, and, finally, the rest got up as they could. une scramble we had to make was rather fright ful. The reader must imagine a valley of ice, very narrow, but of unknown depth. Along the midale uf litis lliere ran a clitf, also of ice, very narrow at the top, and ending suddenly, the sur face of which might have been fifteen feet lower than the top of this valley on cither side, and on it we could not stand two abreast. A rough no tion of a section of this position may be gained trom the letter IV, depressing the centre angle, and imagining that the cliff on which we were standing. I he feet 01 our ladders were set firm how long the granite posts and walls of the Ital ian oitios retain the heat after the suu has gone down, will understand that this rock upon which we were was quite warm wherever the rays fell upon it, although in every nook of shade the snow still remained unthawed. As soon as we had arranged our pack and bundles, we began to change our clothes, which were tolerably well wet through with trudging and tumbling about amoagthe snow; and cutting a number of pegs, we strewed our garments a bout the crannies of the rocks to dry. I put on two shirts, two pairs of lamb's-wool socks, a thick pair of Scotch plaid trousers, a "Templar" worsted head-piece, and a common blouse; and my companions wero attired' in a similar man ner. There was now srreat activity in the camp. Same of the guide rang! iht wLt btiU tile ! by side in the snow; others unpacked the re freshment knapsacks; others, again, made a rude fireplace, and filled a stew-pan with snow to melt. All this time it was so hot, and the sun vas so bright, that I began to think the guide who told de Saussure he should take a parasol up with him did not deserve to have been laugh- d at. As soon as our wild bivouae assumed a little appearance of order, two of the guides were sent up the glacier to go a great way aneau, ana men return and report upou the state of tho snow on the plaltaux. When they had started, we ficrchcd ourselves about, on the comparatively e vel spaces of the rock, and with knife and fin gers began our dinner. Ve had scarcely commenced when our parry was joined by a young Irishman and a guide, who had taken advantage of the beaten track left behind us, and marched up on our traces with tslerable ease, leaving to us the honor (and ex pense) of cutting out the path. My younger friends, with a little ebullition of university feel inz. nronosed. under such circumstances, that we should give hi in a reception in keeping wiin the glacier; but I thought it would be so hyper. punctilious to show temper here, on the U rands Mulcts rocks, up and away in the regions of eternal snow, some thousand feet from the level world, that I ventured on a very mild hint to this effect, which was received with all the ac quiescence and good temper imaginable. So wo asked him to contribute his stores to our table, and, I dare say, should have got on very well together; but the guides began to squabble about what they considered a breach of etiquette, ana presently, with his attendant, he moved away to the next rock. Afterwards anotlier "follower" arrived, with two guides, and he subsequently icuutiuu me summit. We kept high festival that ofternoon on the Grands Mulcts. One stage of our journey and that one by no means the easiest had been achieved without the slightest hurt or harm. The consciousness of success thus far, the pure transparent air, the excitement attiched to the very position in which we found ourselves, and the strange bewildering novelty ot tne surrouna- slowly toiling up the slope. They were the pi oneers we had started from the MuleU ou srri ving, and their progress thus far was CO.Ulor ed a proof that the tnow was in good order. Still farther up, above the level whicfe marked the Grand Plateau, wss the actum! summit ef Mont Blanc. As I looked at it, I thought that in two hours' good walking, along a route ap parently as smooth as a race-course after n mod erate fall of snow, it might be easily reached; but immediately my eye returned to the two specks who had already taken up that time in painfully toiling to their present position. The next instant the attempt seemed hopeless, even in a day. As it was now, with the last five hours' unceasing labor and continuous ascent, the lower parts of the glacier that we had tra vfej.ajared tlos; at hand; bet wt.eii I look ed down to my right, across tin valley, and saw the Brevent to get to the summit of which, from Uiamouni, requires hours of toil: when I saw this lofty wall of the valley gradually assuming the appearance of a mere ploughed ridge, I was again struck with the bewildering impossibility of bringing down anything in this "world of wonders" the ordinary rules of experiences of proportion and distance. "A world of wonders, where creation i No mm the works of Nature, but her Oicams." MoHTOOMKtT. To U Continudc.) From the Boston Csrpst-Big. FAMILIAR LETTER ON ART: Not written by Mrs. Meirifiaid for the London Art Journal, but by Miss Jertuha Prysi te ber niece is lbs kedntry. Mv Peas Niics: I'rt got sons hsirdyt.and nske use of it, so there is no fear of my age beiue susptc:d you know thst I own to tbirty-nve. immcaiaisiy Iter breakfast, the next dky tftar I wrote to you, I hurried as quick as possibl to see tha specimen and engage a place with the drawing teacher. There was ver so many pictures hung all around the room, and looking so "lovely! You dont know bow tickled I was lo luiuk mat I was to d maua as rood as a vete ran artist so quick, sol began to take Usons right on hi monochromatic, bom painters malts a great luss about dome pictures and pieUnd it is dreadfull bard works but that is all iudg. TWy only say e to make folks pay a bigger price. Ob, lb bumbiigsl way it's mtt as easy a knitung worsvea can eianics, I mean. Wby, I h only to rub a little black staff lke enarcoal onto sand paper, ana use scraicosotBe otf in spots , when it is Jon. How eay, aint it? No ptaguinc one's bead with points of sieht am! van' inning points and eriel perspective, and all sucb non senie. I alwavaknowed mv renius was crrat and now it begins to rhow itself. Why I've only taken four lessons, and th lescher says 1 can paint a pictar as rood ai ha. I've no doubt f it. Hrt nrrim ef my drawing afore learning and after. Time of holding the spring term of the seve ral circuit courts in the 3d Judicial Circuit for the year 18&2. wit v,r t) i,am'r anJ clerk cf each court. . . . Court commences la Marion comity on the 1st Monday in March, and bold three week. B. B. Kinsr, Sheriff. Thoxias EL Thoronson. clerk. ....... In Ralls county on the 4th Monday (22) of March, and holds on week ' Samuel Smith. sheriff, Samuel B. Caldwell, clerk. In Pike county on the 1st Monday (5lh) of April, end holds two week. Mollmw Given. sheriff, Col. James IL Martin, elerk. In Montgomery eouuty on the 3d Monday ( the 19th) of April, a.td holds one week.. Green B. Bush, sheriff, Jacob L. hJ7v.!!V. In Warren county on the 4th Monday (2Gth) of April, ani holds one week. Mr. Walter, sheriiT, Thomas F. Marshal, clerk. - In Lincoln county on the 1st Monday (3d) of May, and holds one. week. Joel Blanks, sheriff. Col. Thomas G. Hutt, clerk. In ht. Charles county on the 2J Monday (l(Xh) of May, and holds from two to three week. James S. M. Gray, sheriff. Benf. Em. mons, clerk. f Hon. Carty Wells, Judge; Residence Troy, Lincoln county. ; A. W. Lamb, Esq., circuit attorney: Residence Hannibal, Mo. . - .. i We are under obligations to our friend A. W.Lamb, for the above hit.- Hannibal Mes senger. ; ... ; ...;..) CleCtleM r Directors In II. ff. I ! At. cut B. Company. At an election held in the cily of Hannibal on the 19th inst., the following gentlemen wero elected for one yean ' n.r. tiamuei, ueo. Schroter, A. S. Robards, Chapel Carstaphen, Brison Stillwell, B. McCormack, J. F. Hawkins, Thomas Cleaver, . Hants ford Brown. At a meeting of said Directors, held on tho 22d inst., the following officers were elected f ef one year: Elijah Ha wains, Gaoaoa ScanoTEa, - - President; Treasurer; Secretary. on the neck of the cliff, and then it was allowed jing scenery, produced a flowing exhilaration of to lean over the crevice until its other end touched spirits that I had never before experienced. the wall, so to speak, of the valley. Its top iThe feeling wa shared by all; and we laughed round was, even then, seven or eight feet below where we wanted to get. One of the young guides went first with his axe, and contrived, by some extraordinary succession of gymnastic feats, to get safely to the top, although we all trembled for him and, indeed, for ourselves; for, tied as we all were, and on sucn a treache rous standing, had he tumbled he would have pulled the next after him, and so on, one follow ing the other, until we should all have gone hopelessly to perdition. Once safe, he soon helped his fellows, and, one after the other, we were drawn up, holding to the cord for our lives. The only accident that befell me on the journey here happened. Being pulled quickly up, my ungloved hand encountered a sharp bit of granite frozen in the ioe, and this cut through the vein on my wrist. The wound bled furiously for a few minutes; but the excitement of the scramble 1 a i 1 .u. , . : ,1 nnnt.;i.ui. u.t,n tUU BUIlg, Ullll UiOUG lilt. gUlUVD bVIUIIUUlU T, 1.1.1 - ever they could to the general amusement, and (child and dashing its brains out upon a tree, or ihad been so great that I actually did not know I 'leave it a prey to the wild beasts, which tern- wai Murt until I aw the blood on the snow. I fied poor Emma o that it gave her fresh nerve tied my handkerchief round the cut, and it and renewed strength to carry her child rather troubled me no more; but, from such hurried than it should retard their progress. At last urgery, it has left a pretty palpnble scar, an old chief stepped forward and took it from Our porters would go no farther promises hir arms and lashed it to his own back, saying Uml bribes were now in vain and thev eave un he had lost a little papoose a short time before, their luggage, and set off on their way back to ill. e now i en, inueeu, a i oriurn uouc , , . .u . - . . f . ., , ,v-: v he hau losi a uuie papoose a nun i.mo uuv,,, u,elr , since we fcaJ one to run the gauntlet, tin. fej- and he would keep Vand take it home to hi. Chamoun low wi I have an opportumty of stretching hw Emma hef hands implo. 'quaw. roor Jkmma raiseu ner uuiiu i""" ,uui loriunaiciy wa am nai encounter unyunng ' 1. ..A MA Invnlv (till from err IP? find fa- i,mm (linn me YtnA dIcauiIit ciirmntinf f(t finfi rllllf I V. nuu IIIUI awev-aw - - - -- - nui aj iiiun m v I u i j v"" v nwunv.i - w r-j . -is i i . - . . juntlet that horrid even (he heMt of the wild gavage scemeJ b(jut four Q,doc 8e punishmcnt--ne b her ,ufering beauty; as he took her Station at which i of torture, uutai -j L:i.. k in the afternoon we got to the we were to remain until mid- A Man. Another Man. limha. At the mention of the gauntlet that hortid . .... , and brutal metnou 01 savage could scarce repress a groan 01 wmur. uj , . -, , . . ... that moment a wild shout wa. heard behind . HThe mtle pale.rac8 , mine, too. The The Grands Mulcts are two or three conical Ahem, and the report of several guns at once .rU te9 me to be her father Kig In. !rock- which ,ifce .sland ,f ffom ,he fnow told ihcro a party of hunter, must be near, end ha,f not have her.' !and ice at thc head of the Gacier de, Boa.ons, eeing oue cf their number raU, and anotner j Af he wai tiie;r chief, and seemed to be or iand, were thoy loft ier, would probably be -wonnded, thfV raised the death-yell, and I reat importance, they all were obliged to as-termed aiguilles. They are visible with the into the wood., left their captive and the ucaa r. w;shMi though a .avage vengeance laked eye from Chamouni, appearing like little Indian to receive the hunters, who, rejoicing ai bt ecn in the dark and lowering face of !cones on the mountain side. Looking up to . Uietiineky rescue they had offered to the unt or- orijnni captor, as he listened to the words 'them, their left hand face, or outer side, a. I 'tunatc captive, kept up such halioomg and of hii chief ,1WU call it, goes down straight at once, some shouting as made the retreatingUndian believ e j darknej of ni;?nt WM fait ci,ing Up0n hundred feet, to the glacier. On the right hand, that they were pursued by an army of the pale reaphed their place of destina- nnd in front, you can scramble up to them pret- feoes. .... linn and were hailed with savage shouts by ty well, and gain your resting-place, which is In isaber they were about a doren, but in . brother warri0rs, who were engaged in about thirty feet from the summit, either by strength, ulhciet to whip three ume uie.r . n,rformance of one of their war dance., climbing the rock from the base, which is very number of lauums A stniwari nana, w no , n,lmherM, .quawe and papooses were started forth with the intention ef scouring the . throlIirhout the camp, delighted specta . country and killing, as they said, every ' red b ,u.v.-w the beautiful Emma, they - . TL .1 ... . ... iuii . . ..-I .... . .,. ,. devil' they coma nna. nnu mwy wic . h . r.f gaVaire triumph as made tho your shelf lor sucn it is. a laminar example nnnr creature almost die of terror, unui me oui i0f w forwaro anfl m iking a speech to . ...Li. l -U ..,.1,1 nnt nnnprsiami. inev by eno.ure, and .oured by 5' T'.V'SV' 4 r-' aabTM'oUi, mi. re engage in taing we scp - - .,, lKir it, then led r;mma ana ner ioicing, and congealing poor uernc. poor creature almost VV:. ....... -nit l..i.n,n. In In atorv. stall. olh- V. "? i-.- h ,., wlih . f hronzed chief, s.epning ioiio apouiiiivii ui iiuiiiii,. , , " 1 . . , (V i. . . . . stesp and fatiguing, or by proceeding farther up along the snow, and then returning a little way, when you find yourself nearly on a level with hut f mean is given in a house built on a I . -i, 1 .W I 1. A - 1.. Sleep lllll, Wlicro wiu iwuuuf woy ii vu 2 iian. I. ... a ' Utll Ym nun uriffWim. ro'lOWeu DT 1119 " There ! I'll be blest ef that aint one .more to . . . h df-breed, and to n4i to Je Hardy's pile. It doe. this heart mnafa feeHn(t than any of the Indians more good to kill one of them 'ere red devil. . whom hd met Xh(!y ioon prepared than to eat the best piece of raw vermin he ever t of tlnw and f prCad a blanket for her, saw when he was as hungry as lra,"BU jand ;,ve her something to refresh her, ami sne wo,f" ...... . .t v. began to regard them a. hr friends, and ex- , Ve hut Joe," said one of the party, who iW, sweU M ,he C0UIJ, her gratitude. feeined to be more civilixed, and with a softer M cWef bda hf)r to ,ieep, and placing in neart, "that i. n savage practice, and dee. no her Uule babli or M ne ca0& it, hi. good. 1 thought you'd gin over that, long i ykiu Fawli ne retired from the tent, and ino;" . . . k-' . went forth to hold a general council, before ta- ' . --"::r7: run. rn :nimttlitl: scalp too. It doe. me good to .ee em all piled In a heap, and to say I done it. Ef they'd ketch VS they'd have the har off our heads quicker j an' we could say Jack Robinson, an' I'll te shot j f I don't do so too," (To be continued.) i rt.. .u it,. I invenltd lether bedpost is ' V . 'H7. ... . L.m cookint stov.- Hi India rubber gimlets did not .nswej as well as was third story. - Ttm WruJ of lhr Todl wa the hafoest work" we had yet experienced; it wa like climbing up an immense number of flug-stones, of different heights, set on their edges. Before we got half - u .i e. . ri.I1M.ln; way, we noaru mem uring gum w. uuumvuuii which showed us that we were being watched from the village; and this gave us fresh energy. At last we reached aomelhing like a platform, ten or twelve feet long, and three or four brood; and below tin was another tolerably level space, with a low parapet of loose stone built rouna it, whilst here and there were several nook, and corners which might shelter people on emergen cy. We acknowledged the salute at Chamouni, by .ticking one oi our oaions inw err iot, tying a nanukercniei io uia op o ) ..ivw set to work lo clear away the snow rora our resting-praee. Contrary lo all my expectation, the heal we here expenoncea wa. most sum j, an4 even distressin. Those who have noted told them such stories as would translate well in return; until, 1 believe, that dinner never will be forgotten by them. A fine diversion was afforded by racing the empty bottles down the glacier. We flung them off from the rock as far as we were able, and then watched their course. Whenever they chanced lo point neck first down the slope, they started off with incon ceivable velocity, leaping the crevices by their own impetus, until they were lost in the distance. The excitement of the guides during this amuse ment was very remarkable: a stand of betting men could not have betrayed more at the Derby. Their anxiety when one of the bottles apprach ed a crevice was intense; and if the gulf was cleared, they perfectly screamed with delight, "loict im ban courturi" or "fieri eomme tl $aut birnV burst from them; and " Le grand t,arrt(e!, "II est perdu quel dommagt!'" ".Von vl march encore!" could not have been uttered with more earnestness had they been watching a herd of chamois. . It got somewhat chilly as the sun left the Mu lcts, but never so cold as to be uncomfortable. With my back against the rock, and a common railway rue over my feet and legs. I needed nothing else. My knapsack was handy at my elbow to lean upon the same old companion that had ottcn served for my pillow on the M ed itei ranean and the Nile: and so I had aHogether the finest couch upon which a weary traveler ever rested. I hare, ai Vet, purposely abstained from de scribing the glorious iew above, around, and beneath us, for the details of our bivouac would have interrupted me as much as the arrange ments actually did, until we got completely set tled for the night at least so much of it as we were to pass there, the Urn mis Alulets rock, are evidently the highest spines, so to speak, of a ridge of the mountain dividing tho origin ot the two glaciers of Bosssons and Tacconay. They are chosen for a halting-place, not less from their convenient station on the route '.nan from their situation out of the way of the ava lanches. From the western face of the peak on- which we were situated we could not see Chamouni, except by climbing up to the top of the rock rather a hazardous thing to do and peeping over it, when the whole ex lent of this valley could be very well made out; the village, looking like atoms of wlute grit upon die chequered ground. Oelow us, and using against Dur position, was the mighty field of the glacier a huge prairie, if I may terra it so, of snow ana ice, wun vast irregular unuuiauons, which gradually merged into an apparently smooth unbroken tract, as their distance increas ed. Towering in front of us, several thousand feet higher, and two or three miles away, yet still having the strange appearance of proximity that I have before alluded to, was the huge Dome du Goute the mighty cupola usually mis taken by he valley travelers for the summit cf Mont lilanc. Up the glacier, on ray left, was an enormous and ascending valley of ice, which might have been a couple of miles across; and In it. course v?ere two or three steep bank, cf snow, hundreds of feet- in height, giant step by which the level Ln&ng-place of the Grand Plateau was to be reached. Un me nrst and lowest ef these, wt eculd make, out two dot. 1 A S. A Indian. 4. A Bow sad Arm. t. A ttmbrsg'us Tre. 3. A Vessel. You sea I'm getting on beautifully fast, and -in I U drs w from natur lieht off. Thera t an view from my chamber window, where I study all the time I am not Ukinr lesson. I've a ready mad two chimney pot and a weathercock, e Ilk lb ml ones that every hedy knew them at onea. Master bas made ma do one manna view, which be aid was first rale, but an impudent artist ayi imy wave look hk regiments of powdered wlesofar doe a ... . 1 ........ . .4n . kril. Col. Bfmtem. Col Benton passed up the river on tha Ben West, last .Tuesday, ; He reached St. Louie last Friday, and left Saturday evening. - We did not learn hi destination, but suppose he. is .. guing up io reguiaie an'airs in the Platte district ' where Gov. King and Judge Birch are each stri ving to outvie each other in their effort to brine; about a union of the two factions of the Democ racy. Th old Colonel !k "hole and aearty," and will yet give tne amies more irouoie man they anticipate, Glasgow Times. ? 'The Philadelphia Mint has been coining soma sample, of new gold dollars and half-dollar pieces, which arc thus described: The dollar consists of a flat ring, on which there is a upcrcription, but no head, as the place for putting the head is cut out The coin may be carried on a string a most convenient and safe way of carrying mon ey. Half-dollar gold pieces, not yet callea lor by any law, have been sent down, and look very pretty. These half-dollar pieces would be more convenient than the dollar pieces, and may be carried in the same way. New York pa per. " : The Hannibal Journal requests the Whig Press o-enerallr to announce their choice of titno and place for holding the next Whig State Con- . .f . i cr J venuoo. lus wing ucra say, oi. uwu uiu the third Monday in April, by all mean. Al though Boonville may be a more central locality and in that respect, better adapted to the purpose, the business relations of the people with SU uis, would tend to encourage a morn genera, representation. Lagrange Missourian. Pstitiotis. IntheU. S. House of Represen tatives, the following petitions were referadto thn nnrnnrintft Committees , p . .. rr.r . SJOT By Mr. Miller: The petition ef sundry citi- iiiii. ii. ruu, ..v . , , - - . .- . . .h..rf nt him. liens oi miuouri. pro yum uro cuaimsnmcni or Here ia an ntinlv oriru.al view.drawa oy ma iron . mail route lrom ijloomington to Xjdina. M fi lature, on board oi ilia cneiaea wrrj-i-i. m-' a. Lh.Vv.Ir Z mZZSrZ Also, U,e petition of sundry citl.en. of Mis- hind it,mumi:iaied t witb tua American fiving over to siraiKm nnea uon-viw - - " , nm M.umiri. nvir, Tonre.. for ed Hues oi beamy, invetiiaa uy .". "-f- 1 --- -w 7 r--.- o - o; - - haven't seen yet. 1 bsve improad tha nMuumaul by arearage. of pension from September 1S4 to crooking ..t a little. Tha flart lrom tha top of th December 1844. monument is supposea 10 uw Oon", wNh the 'Bunker'lliH Monument be- Also, the petition of sundry citixen. of Mis ai ia'ed ty tha gorgious rav s of a sattin; sun, souri praying the establishment of a mail rout mencan rl, th proud bird of Job a- from Shelbyville to Kirkville,Muouri. ... AUo the petition cf John Davenport ef a IB 01 ju7 j KOinon, and the people tejoieine In the fullness ol tre. dom and a rood dinner. The toy in b boat is put io to blMic in Nonumcni u u "r- As I set on so fast I intend teds history aietuns f- rr iwa mora lemon 00 fiviiras. I bv mad a cpy XTK backwoods Jadr thus charly drfina Crime of murden -. . Murder, centleuae, is Where a man l murdarsmsiy killad. Tha killer in such a eaa is a ssur;erar. Murder by poison Is as much minlr as murer wita a sua. It 1 murder la uia ya as ina iw. in wh bear In mind that mntiet 1 onaming anil mantiaiiio tr nolhr( if it 1 not manslaughter it must b monlar. 8etf-Riiirdar aolhin; I o wt;a irna cmaaw uam asaa eaijiot eemaiit w Wo da sa on another that is clearly my viaw. CSnilemen, I uunk yon sen navn do dilficulty. Murder, I ay, i mulr. Th mordar 0 aiamaruauainciuet oui m mv M - -mt murders hi mother. You know what auidar U, and t Md not tell you what it is not I repeal mai mwaar iamurdar. You may retire upon U If yoe lUte.- When a Kentucky Judr. em yeara ainea. WM. naked by an attamay, upon some (iraAg ruling, la tbt law, jour aaoorr . . - H replied 1 If lb Oji.rt andcrsUci beretlf. and w thus a do, itarl . A Vxtiso QcsTin.Wa take the follows ing good one ffom tho Biddeford Herald: Tho Kev. Mr. t., who Uved not a tnousanu nuie from th New EnrUnd Art Vaian, and it la thaaght a from Portland, was preparing his discourse fe .r,e1iK!,.r"i,r,di7bir!i "uc?, T.rT VilH thn next Sabbath. ' Stepping ocea.iounllj to re, ,il.n.,h?.0.n?"1 hy-Mr. Allsloo ef 8awl aad th I ... 1 ... t wueh 01 tiidor. 0 w v..!" Spekkiiifof this, I wish yen would aak ?ra Tibb which he, was disposed to if ha know where th Witch of r.ndor earn from. coated by hi Utile son, Ti Tour loving Auat, JCRU&HA PRTM. K I C" view what be had written, and U eras that ould aak I"rn Tibb I which he, was dispu4 to Improve, be wna ac- wno naa numDercc( out does God - tall you Certainly, my child, Then eAJ maka you icratck it ettflW ricxerind (Jemlauu . ' i It i not what a man do. but wWhcI PaxsiTTtnt oe Wern , Missocm. Tne fee, that gives him rank; and circumstanoe (Spring meeting of thn Prebylerr of Lpper cannot keep him down. The very things that I Missouri trill be held in Richmond, Ray county. trouble men thn most in this life, am the very thing that give thera an edge, and easry them on 10 sucees. deuius unexerted is no tnorn genius than n bushel of acorns is a forest of eks. commencing 0.1 tha second Tnursday (8th) of April, at eleven o'clock, a.m. Malisical reporu will be required at uoa ting. 1. V. C SCHEyCTt, Btnl berV. i: v I : iS 1 1 . 1 , 1 1 I i t lotieipa'sij. ' u t, t1ll1l UK 1 ' 111 i , :