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A writer in the United States Mag azine pronounces tho following do ecription of a young girl, charmed by a rattlasnako, one of the most remark able descriptions ever penned : "Before tho maiden rose a little clamp of bushes bright tangled leaves flaunting wide in glossiest green, with vines trailing over them thickly decked with blue and crimson flowers, llcr eye communod vacant ly with these ; fascinated by a star like shining glance, a subtle ray that ehot out Irom tho circle ot green leaves seeming to be their very eye, and sending out a fluid lustre that seemed to stream over the space between and find ita wav into her own eves : verv - j j piercing and beautiful wa3 that subtle brightness 01 tho sweetest, strongest power. And now the leaves quivered and seemed to float away only to re turn, and the vines waved and 6wung away in fantastic mazos, nnfulding ever chamzinc varieties of lorm and color to her eazo: but tho star-like eye was ever uteadt'ast, bright and gor geous, gleaming in their midst, and 6till mstened with 6trange fondness upon her own. How beautiful, with wondrous intensity, did it gloam and dilate, growing larger and more lus trous with every beam it sent forth. And her own glance became intense, fixed, also ; but with a dreaming sense which conjured up tho wildest fancies, terriblv bcautilul, that took her soul away Irom her and wrapt it about as with a spell. She would have fled, sho would have flown, bnt she had no power to move. The will wa9 want ing to her flight. Sho felt that sho could have bent forward to pluck the gem like thing from tho leaf in which it seemed to grow, and which it irra diated with its bright, white gleam ; but ever, as she stretched forth her hand, and bent forward, bIio heard a rush of wings and a shrill scream from the tree above her such a scream as the mocking-bird make3, when angri ly it raises its dusky crest and (laps its wings furiously against its slender sides. . Such a scream seemed liko a warning, and though yet unawakened to a full consciousness, it Btartled and forbade her effort. "More than once in her survey of this strange object had she heard that shrill note of warning, and to her mind the samo vagne consciousness of an evil presence. But theBtar-like eye was still upon her own a small, bright eye, qnick like that of a bird ; now steady in ita place, and observant seemingly only of hers, now darting forward with all tho clustering leaves about it, and shooting up toward hoi, as if wooing1 her to seize. At anoth er moment riveted to the vino which lay around it, it would whirl round and round, dazzlingly bright and beau tiful, even as a torch, waving hurnd ly bv nizht in tho hands ot some play ful boy ; out in all this time the glance was never taken Irom tier own there it grew, fixed a very principle of light and such a bright, a subtle, burning, piercing, lascinatmg gleam, euch as gathers in vapors above tho old grave, and binds us as we look shooting, darting directly into her eye, dazzling her gaze, defeating its sense of discrimination, and confusing strangely its sense of perception. She felt dizzy ; for as sho looked, a cloud of colors, Dright, gay, various colors, floated and hung like so much drapery around tho single object that had so eecurcd her attention, and spell-bound J to in is n. cing, now receding now swelling in her feet. Her limbs felt momently more and more insecure ; her blood grew cold, and sho seemed to feel the gradual freezo of vein by veiu, thro' out her person. At that moment a rustling was heard in tlfb branchos of the treo beside her, and tho bid, which had repeatedly uttered a single cry above her, as it were of warning, flew awny from his station witli a scream more piercing than ever. This move ment had tho effect for which it seem ed intended, of bringing back to her a portion of that consciousness sho had been nearly deprived of before. She strove to move from the beautiful but terrible presenco, but for awhilo she strove in vain, Tho rich, star-like glance still riveted her own, and the subtle fascination kept her bound. The mental energies, however, in the moment of their greatest trial, now gathered suddenly to hor aid, with a desperato effort, but with a feeling of mo6t annoying uncertainty and dread. she succeeded partially in the attempt. and threw her arms backward, her hands grasping tho neighboring treo, feeble, tottering, and depending upon it for that support which her own limbs almost entirely denied her. With l.er movement came, however, the full development of the powerful fllol and dreadful mystery before her. " As her leet receded, tliouch but a single puce, to the treo aaiust which she now rested, the audibly articula ted ring, liko that of the watch when wound with the verge broken, an nounced tho nature of tho 6plendid yet dangerous presence, in the form of a monster rattlesnake, now but a low feet before her, lying coiled at the bot tom of a beautiful shrub, with which, to her dreaming eye, many of its own glorious hues had been associated. Sho was at length conscious enough to perceive and feel her danger ; but terror had deprived her of the strength necessary to fly from her dreadful en emy, ihero still glared the eyo, beau tifully bright and piercing, fixed upon her own ; and, seemingly in the spirit of sport, tho insidious reptile slowly unwound hiraselt Irom his coil, but only to wind himself up again into his muscular rings, his great, pit head rwna in the mtdst, and sfowlv nod- ing as it were toward her. the eye still peenno into her own. the rattle slightly ringing at intervals, and giving forth that paralyzing sound, which onco heard, is remembered for ever, lbo reptile all this while being conscious ot, and to sport with win seeking to excite her terrors. Now, with its flat head, distented mouth, and curving neck, would it dart forth its long form toward hor its fatal teeth, unfolding on either side of its upper jaws, seeming to threaten her '-L 1-.ll. ...1 .51. wiui insiiuaucuua uuatii, wiuiu us x)werful eye shot forth glances of that tatal lascination, malignantly bright, which, by paralyzing with a moved torm ot terror and ol beauty, mav readily account for tho spoil which it possesses ol binding the leet ot tho timid, and denying even to fear tho privilego of night. Could sho have fled ? Sho felt tho necessity, but tho power ot her limbs was gono : and there still it lay, coiling and uncoil ing, its archod neck glittering like a ring of bronzed copper, bright and lu rid, and, the dreadtul beauty ot it3 oyo still lastened, eagerly contempla ting tho victim, while tho pendulous rattle still rung the death' note, as if to prepare the conscious mind for tho late which is momentarily ap proaching tho blow. Meanwhile, the stillness became death-like, with all surrounding objects. The bird had gono with its scream and rush. Ihe breezo was silent. Tho vines ceased wave. Tho leaves faintly quivered on their stems, iho serpent once more lay still, but tho eyo was never onco turned away from tho victim. t3 corded muscles are all in a coil. hey havo but to unclasp suddenly, and tho dreadful foils will bo upon her in full length, and tho fatal teeth will strike, and tho deadly venom which they secrete will mingle with the life blood in her veins. ' Tho terrified damsel, her full con sciousness restored but not her strength, feels all her danger. She sees that tht sport of the tenible rep tile is at an end. ohe cannot now mistake the horrid expression of his eye. Sho tries to scream, but her voico died away to a feeblo gurgling her throat. Her tongue i3 paral yzod her lips sealed ; onco more she strives ior nigni, uu. ner umos remse their office. She has nothing left of life but its fearhil consciousness. It her despair, that, as a last effort she succeeds to scream a single wild cry, forced from her bv this accumulated agond : she sinks down upon the grass before her enomy ber eyes, however, still open, and still looking Upon those which he directs forever upon them. ... . . one sees mm, approach, now advan every part with something like anger, whilo his neck arched beautifully, like that of a wild horse under the curb; until, at longth, tired as it were of play, like the cat with her vic tim, she sees the neck growing larger, and becoming completely bowed as if to strike the huge jaws unclosing almost directly abovo her ; the long, tubulated fang, charged with venom, protruding from thocavernou3 mouth and she sees no more I Insensibil ity came to her aid, and she lay almost lifeless under tho folds of tho very monster." Nothing in anciont or modern lite rature is more strikingly conceived, or vividly described than this scene. At this moment, when wo feel that the summer air is surcharged with this! evil presence, and naturo arhast in licr solitudes under these human pangs. savage trans- the arrow ot a young fixes the neck of tho reptile, and thus turns asido tho deadly lang. Iho ac cessories are all in keeping the snake like vine ; tho golden and crimson blooms, tho shadows of the old woods, the cry of tho bird, all enhance tho senso ot tho. bcautilul and remote, while the touches which wo havo ital icised heighten tho effect, till wo feel the glittering eyo of tho beast, and its terrible undulations ri imago like to tho mind, and wo see how all tho be nignities of Naturo ara at war with tho spirit of tho reptife. Origin ok the Bonnet. Tho first bonnot worn in England was brought from Italy in tho reign of Queen Eliz abeth, and its form was a compromise between tho present round Italian hat and the French hood. Tho ma terials employed in constructing these head ornament., were crimson satin, elaborately embroidered, cloth of gold, and similar rich materials. Tho Leg horn flat, with perpendicular crown, and a wide brim standing out far around tho face, was the first legiti mate bonnet worn, and this appeared long after Elizabeth's time. It was trimmed with artificial flowers and immense bows of ribbon. Our pres ent neat and exquisitely delicate and tasteful head covering is but a modi fication of this lingo affair, which, un til not many years back was so uni versally worn and admired. Dan Rice has a Fioiit During the visit of Dan Rice's Circus to Up per Canada, an English Dully boast ed that lie could lick any two Yan kees ever was born.' Dan doubted this, and informed tho Englishman that in tho absenco of a ' pair of Yan kees, he might try his hand on him.' The Englishmeu off with his coat and pitched in. Dan encountered and hit tho Englishman under his left car. The Englishman went np about fivo feet, leaving his boots behind. En glishman camo down and foil liku a hog. Dan got a physician, bled the En glishman and brought him to. Hav ing dono this, he sent him homo on a shutter. Tho affair ocenred about twenty miles from Niagara. The licking was so well deserved, and 60 handsomely finished off, that it added to Dan's popularity. Tho day after this he performed to 1,200, and the day after to 1,720. DCT'Tho Surrogate Court havo de cided that Mr3. Cunningham is not tho widow of Dr. Burdell, and direc ted that letters of administration bo issued to his next of kin. Promisixocs Sittings in Chcrcii. A majority of tho members of the Wesley Uhapel, (Methodist.) atlmh- anopolis, lately abolished the practico of separate and adopted that of pro miscuous sittings, iho minority left and united with other denominations. fJCPMrs. Cochran, the only survi ving daughter ot uen. behuyler, ol Revolutionary War memory; died re cently at Oswc-go, N. Y., at tho age of -7b. Her sister was the wife of Alexander Hamilton. - Mrs. Harriet M. Stewart, of Yocum- town, ork connty, Ba., has been ap pointed PoslTnastor., vico John B. Stewart resigned. So much for our old bachelor -'resident. a Leaving the Sinking Ship. R. II. Tannoyhill, Esq., n promi nent lawyer of Noblo county, who. at the last Gubernatorial election, did effective servico for Chaso and Com pany on the stump, now publicly de nounces tho Republican, party, and ha3 taken tho field against treasury robbing and. negro equality. ' ino jJiayor ot broveport, hitherto Republican,, having beard Chase speak, has declared . his intention to support the Democratic ticket. There will bo thousands who will follow their example, and render the defeat of Chaso certain and overwhelming. Political. From the Newark Advocate. Gross Neglect of Gov. Chase. "The king can do no wrong." In monarchical governments tho peopleare taught to speak and act on the doctrine that "the king can do no wrong.J' In this free State of Ohio in this State, where we have heard so much vaporing about 'free speech' it would seem from the indignant complaints ot -lilack: ltepubliean edi tors and politicians, that a similar theory was about to bo established in respect to Salmon P. Chase, Gover nor of Ohio. Every attempt to ex am ino and criticise tho action of the Governor under the treasury law of tho Sth of April. 1856. is denounced I as if it wero an ontrago on right and decency. Every intimation that he has neglected any part of his duty uuder that important law, i3 treated as a vilo attempt at misrepresentation. l'reo from any desire to falsify Go vcrnor Chase, bnt determined that his own haughtiness nor the insolence ot nis tools snail doter us from our chosen course, we propose in this article again to fix tho reader's attention, on certain duties devolved on tho Governor by tho 17th section of the new treasury law, passed Sth April, J850, as follows: Sto. 17. If, from any such examin ation, or from any othor satisfactory evidence, the Governor shall ascertain that the State 6hall have suffored any damage, or shall be in immediate dan ger of any injury or damage from any illegal act dono, or about to bo dono by the Treasurer, or from his refusing or neglecting to comply with any re quirement ot law touching tho re ceipt, keeping or paying out of any the money belonging to State, or keep ing or rendering accounts- thereof, or shall havo taken insufficient secu rity for any money deposited else where than m the treasury office at Columbus, it shall in every such case be tho DUTY Q)F THE GOVERN OR to direct ta . Attorney . General forthwith to instituto tho proper pro ceedings in the Court of Common Fleas of Franklin County to restrain tho Treasurer from all such illegal acts. Hero was a duty, both new and grave, imposed by solcrau enactment of law on-tho Governor ol Ohio. He was required to stand as guardian o ver tho Treasury. To savo it from danger and abifse, ho was required to call on the Court to enjoin tho Treas urer from every illegal or hazardous act. He did not do it! Ho noglect cd tho dischargo of this high and sal utary duty. Ho thought only of Kansas, leaving tho Treasury to the sole care of tho very man whom tho law intended to place under his con stant vigilance and restraint. But it may be claimed that Gover nor Chaso was ignoiant that there was any occasion lor his interterenco with the treasurer. This pretense cannot stand it is false. The inves tigating committeo of his own friends made him aware that tho Treasury wa3 mismanaged and in danger. Observe the following singlo para graph taken from tho report made by that committee early last January: By the twelfth section of tho act of April 8, ISou, prescribing tho duties of tho Auditor and Treasurer, it is provided that "no money belonging or duo to tho State shall be deposited, placed or kept by the treasurer, or by his direction, order or assent,clscwhcre than in tho Treasury ofhco at Colum bus, without security, as provided in said section." The Treasurer has par tially, not fully in ' any instance, complied with the requirements of that section." Hero was plain, palpable proof bro't 'directly to tho notice of the Governor by a committee ot h is own friends, showing that Gibson had hot execu ted the law that ho was putting the public, money in jeopardy that the very case for asking tho restraining power of the court had already occur red, arid then existed. ' Yet, ' in the face of this notice to tho Governor, ho moved, not an inch ho sat dumb, as man of wood only talking and thinking pf Hteeding Kansas blee dina Kdiisas!" . lor was the above by any means tho only information placed in black and white before the Governor. Be low are one or two moro paragraphs from tho same report. Wo will not lengthen this article by comments on these paragraphs. ' lhe intelligent reader will bo struck with the facts they present, i We copy as follows: -''The firm of Kimball & Co., bank era of Cleveland, consisting of the late Attorney General, (n6w deceased) and his brother-in-law, Philo Cham berlin, was formed last spring, and soon after its formation obtained a do- . posit from the Treasurer of about! 830,000 of public funds, with tho un derstanding as the committee learned from the treasurer, that it should lw repaid, if required, to meet tho July interest. No part of this deposit had been paid December 15, 1856; it had then been increased." "About tho 1st of January, 185C, Bartlitt & Smith paid Mr. Brcslin, tho late treasurer, ?0,000 due the Trea sury from tho securities of his prede cessors, for which they took real es tate and other effects, as statod in the depositions of Mr. Sullij-tn, Mr. Car rington and Mr. Smith, which have not hitherto been available in their business. In the statements furnished by the treasurer, it is shown that tho firm havo been indebted to tho treas ury in about the same amount, at least since tho 14th of March, 1S56. On the 15th of December. 1S56, thev were liable to the Treasury for 171, C50 .6. Their bond is 50,000, with Thomas Sparrow as security. They havo withdrawn 10,000 from thoir business and invested it in unproduc- tivo and unavailable nssets; havo pro neither vided funds to start a bank in Mary- of December 15.i land, and on the were liable to the 'Treasury for 171, G50 461" Men of senso, men of thought! look at the facts presented in the extracts which are given abovo, and say, if you can, that Salmon i Chase, in tailing to "restrain "Gibson, as the 17th section of Kelloy's treasury law required, did not most shamefully neglect the dischargo of his Bolemn duty? THE CONGO CREED! NIGGERS DECLARED BE SUPERIOR TO MAJORITY OF THE WHITE MEN IN THE UNITED STATES. Joshua R. Giddings on Negro Superiority! Wo find in the Ashtabula Sentinel of Thursday, Sept. 3d, a letter signed "G." It is tho production of Joshua R. Giddings, . at whoso suffrance lhaRo holds Ins nominal posirwa- tho head ot tlio Uepuulicon party in this State. This communication is to bo taken as a further authoritative ex position of tho creed of tho Congo brethren. We have already establish ed the fact that Gov. Chase. Martin Welker and Milton Sutliffe, Republi can candidates for the thrca highest offices in the gift of tho people of Ohio,' are in lavor ot negro equality. We have mado profert of its own language to show that tho Ohio State Journal is in tho plot, and that it advocates negro suffrage and negro office hold ing. Wo now cite tho deliberate pronnnciamento ol Joshua R. Gid leaders, the United States are, by its proclaimed to bo interior to iiiggers. Read this! "Some niggers nro far superior to some democrats. Indeed, they are doubtless supcriof to the groat mais of the democratic party ; while some democrats are superior to some nig gcrs, and perhaps, to the greater por tion of tho African race. Yet all democrats, however intellectually in terior they may be to the niggers, are entitled to livo and enjoy their liber ty, and tho fruits of their labor. And whilo we nro endeavoring to sustain uicso equal ana universal rights, we onght not to bo drawn into any dis cussion of the moral or social superi ority ot tho niggers over th demo crats." "G." Now, the great mass of the demo cratic party is a majority of the white people of tho United States of Amer ica, who arc thus pronounced to be 'intellectually inferior to the n iggers.'' Again, the great ma33 ot tho demo cratic party embraces the vast major ity of tho industrious laborers, mO chanics and farmers of the country, who aro thus held up as 'intellect c ALI.l? INFERIOR TO THE NIGGER-!' And tho conclusion follows that in tho esti mation of the Black Republicansall the producing classes are intellectual ly interior to tho niggers! and that to find the intellectual equal of tho nig gers, you must ascend to the lawyurs and thieving bankers of the Congo lings, writfc'n down, and printed by ! a leading black Republican paper two days ago, to show that tho party not only goes for negro equality, but that i tho majority of the white citizens of Statesman. Black Republican Platform. We most cheerfully comply with the request made of ns to publish the real bone fide Platform of the Black Re publican party of Ohio. We suppose that all will admit that P. Chase is tho standard-bearer of that party; and that his political sen timents and views! as expressed by himself, aro orthodox with tho Black Republicans. If, therefore, the " bell weather," or the standard-bearer, ex- press3 himself freely and fully on po litical subjects, and reiterates that ho has no desire to change any of his ex pressed views, wo ask, in all candor, if thoso sentiments thus ' expressed, are not tho real " platform " of that party ? Believing our position to be true, we proceed to give, (by special request,) what we honestly believe to bo tho real BLACK REPUBLICAN PLATFORM. At the late Black Ropubliqan Con vention, S. P. Cuasf. was ro-nomina- tcd as a candidate fir Governor. of. Ohio. In a speech, accepting that nomination; ho eayg : . : " I corao here to announce no new PLATFORM, or other topics. I re ly on my past declarations ok opin ion, from which 1 have seen no cause to SWERVE.1., Now what i.f Mr. Chase's " Plat form 1 " and what are his put dec larations of ojnnion?"' Here they are. Mr. Chase said: ' ' I embraco with pleasure, this op portunity of declaring my disapproba tion of that clause in tho Constitution which denies to a portion of tho color ed peoplo tho right of suffrage." Again hosaid ;': . . In communities of men it (his plat form) recognizes no distinction foun ded on mero arbitrary will. ' I regard, therefore, the exclusion of the color ed people, as a body, from tho elcctivo franchise, as incompatible with our Democratic principles. I am awaro that this exclusion is effected by a constitutional provision, and pnrposo no action against tho Constitution. But, whenever a convention shall bo called to reviso that instrument, I 'trust that this anti-suffrago restriction will be expunged. It is in fact, already as ridiculous and impracticable as it is wrong in theory." Again he said: " Tho exclusion of colored children from tho schools is, in my judgment, a clear infringonient of the Constitu tion and a palpable breach of trust.". Again he Baid : - - : We feel, therefore, that all legal disr tinctiona .between jndi.yjdua.ls. of tho - same commnnitv. founded on anv ftnrh "i circumstances as color, origin, and tho like, are hostile to the genius of our institutions, and incompatibly with the truo theory of American lib-, erty." ' Here yon havo Chase's " PLAT FORM," as proclaimed by himself; and'from which ho says he has " 6een Cir. Watchman. Who are Slave Traders!—A Picture. lurc. It is 6lated in the Richmond En quirer, in an article supposed to b written bv Gov. Wise, that dnrin that gentleman's mission to Brazil aC most every vessel bearing tho flag of the United States, and captured or condemned for participation in tho 'slave trade, was found to be tho prop erty of some northern shipowner. In ono instanco such a vessel was cap tured which proved to bo tho proper ty of a Quaker in New Jersey, who abstained, on principle, from.tho con sumption of sugar produced by Blavc labor. Of tho state of society in Brazil, the samo article remarks: : .. Tho laws and customs of Brazil aro extremely favorable to emancipa--tion. Any agreement made by tho master of a slave, either with the slave himself, or with a third party, for tha purchased emancipation of tho slave, i3 made irrevocably binding. Tho c- mancipatcd negro immediately as sumes all the rights and franchizea ' of , a citizen of Brazil; nor does he find any serious obstacle to social ad vancement. The prejudica of color ' is almost unknown in Brazil; laughed at even in the more refined circles of -thc Court, as displaying an unnatural " fastidiousness. The priest at tho' al tar, tho general officer in the army? ; the merchant on 'change, the lawyer. : at the bar, or even tho officer of tho ; imperial household, may be, and, fre quently is, an .unadulterated negro, ' and in all grades of society the inter marriage of whites and negroes iB a , thing ot constant practice, iv .'.'.,'! This is tho result of practical abo.j litionisui. With what complacency; can Americans contcmplato a similar' ' state of things in this country! '- , ,.L , . ' i:.l Two Years Ago. Hero i what1 the Cleveland Herald, a prominent republican organ, said of Mr. Cbaso '- July, 1855: "With the majority of those who r have attached themselves to the Fu sion or Republican party, Salmon' P. '1 Chase has been unpopular.1 ; We 6hall 1 not attempt to defend that gentleman. I in the means used to get into the Uni ted States Senate.' , We thought thosr; means unbecoming an honorable man, and ice think so still." Tho Herald has never disavowed this declaration.