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MISCELLANEOUS.
Fanny More
THE FEMALE HUNTER OF THE WEST.
The father of the singular heroine we nre about to
sketch ,was a Kentuck y backwoodsman. Her moth-
er died while she was an infant, and when she arriv-
ed at the age of fifteen , her father also died, leaving
her a poor, friendless orphan. It is not surprising,
then , at this tender age she married a Missouri
hnnter , (an acquaintance of her deceased father,)
double her years as to age.butjust her equal in pov-
erty. Her whole fortune was composed of one cow,
an old feather bed, a rusty fry ing-pan , a broken set
of teacups and saucers, ditto knives and forks, with
horn hand les, two large pewter plates,and a wooden
bowl of Indian manufacture. Such was the legacy
bequeathed by her surviving parent. Her hus-
band's wealth might mate well enough with such a
wife. A black , bob-tailed pony, a large wolf dog,
and a long heavy rifle , constituted the sum total of
his goods and chattels. So far, the nuptial contract
might seem fair, without extravagant odds on either
side. There were other considerations , however ,
which made the bargain , one might say, fra udulent-
ly unequal. She was a pretty, rosy-cheeked , ruby-
li pped , health y lass, with sky-blue eyes, golden ring-
lets, and a cherry laugh,slender in form, but of wiry
elasticity, and a const itution of the most tenacious
vitality. He on the contrary, was a pale, lean ,
hnn<*rv-looking hypochondriac , who might be sup-
posed, from the wiry faces he displayed when forced
to any exertion of his limbs in profitable labor,to re-
gard work as an unpardonable sin. The entreaties
and example of his young wife, it is true , did for a
while , stimulate him to just sufficient effort , in the
way of deer hunting, to keep them from starving.—
The couple then lived in Western Missouri. Fan-
ny, with her own delicate hands , cleared ou t, and
cultivated a small field , and managed her domestic
economy with so much thrift , that notwithstandi ng
the laziness of Tom,they began to accumulate slowl y.
But an event occurred , in the sixth year of their
wedlock ,that changed the present current of affairs,
and started her in her wild schemes. A "great re-
vival ," under the guidance of the "Cumberland
Presbyterians,"swept over the West.
.*" * . * * * * * *
It seems that on Sunday the Cumberlanders dis-
cussed the passage of Scripture , "Take no thoug ht
for the morrow," &c. Tom swallowed the text , but
rejected the comment , and misinterpreting the sen-
tence, literall y came to the deliberate conclusion ,
"that it was sinful to provide for the wants of the
wicked body," and resolved to act according ly.
It was in vain that the industrious wife debated
with her theological spouse. Her tears, arguments
and remonstrances,all ended alike in his usual spasm
of jerking ; but as to any other sort of exertion he
would not budge a peg.
Fanny's case was now critical in the extreme, for
strange to say,she still loved her husband with a love
that , in spite of every imaginable damper, continu-
ed to burn on ardently in her affectionate heart tilt
death. Hence she could not make up her mind to
leave him. Besides, they had now five children ,
and it was absolutely impossible to support a famil y
on the produce of their paltry, stony farm. In this
emergency, that weak woman suddenl y de'wlpped
an energy and invincibility of lofty purpose which
the annals of the world cannot surpass.
With indefati gable patience , she practised and
learned to shoot , till no marksman in all Missouri
was her match , and then, as a solitary huntrcss,took
to the forest, and soon supplied her husband and .ba-
bies with a choice abundance of meat. It is not re-
corded of More that he manifested any aversion to-
wards the vension feasts which his better half provi-
ded with so much labor; however much he had been
opposed to the use of such worldl y means himself,
as the expenditure of one needful thought for the
morrow.
The wild region of Missouri at last settled up.—
Sunny fields waving with golden grain , stood in the
place of the old green woods which had furnished
shelter and sustenance for the copious game. The
buffalo fled farther off,deeper into the grand prairies,
nearer to the Eocky Mountains. The moonbeams
fell broad and bri ght on the open bottoms where the
brown bears used to nestle among the matted canes.
The red deer had been seared away by the sharp
sound of Collins' axes. It became necessary that
Fanny should move. She sold her slender 'improve-
ment ,' on the banks of the silver Osage, for a cart a
yoke of oxen , and a small sum of ready money; and
loading the crazy vehicle with her six children and
"jerker "believing Tom, she started for Arkansas.—-
In this new country , then a territory, s.he selected a
locality fifty miles from any settlement. Here wild
animals roamed in the greatest plenty, and her rude
board table groaned beneath (to them) heap? of sa-
vory luxuries. This wonder of a wife now added
rapidly to their humble property. Her care-worn ,
wasted figure grew rounder; herstep,as she saddled
the black pony, more elastic ; and the whistle blith-
er by which she summoned the wolf-dog to the fo-
ray. Even the laugh sometimes rang out as in the
merry thoughtless hours of early yout h, loud , long,
and clear as the sweet tones of bell metal.
One thoug ht of a gloomy character alone disturb-
ed the calm flow of her joyous reflections. Her
children were growing up with the rapidity of hasty
summer weeds, and utterl y without education , or
even the prospect of any opportunity to obtain it.—
The idea haunted her day and night. She turned
it over in her mind in every conceivable way, but
still could find no solution for the torturing problem.
She had learned to spell ,when a child .at an oldf ield
school t!iat is to say she had gone as far in Dilworth
as three sy llables , which by the way, was nea rly the
extent of her lame teacher's accurate information
in the pedagog ical art. But her memory had long
ago lost in the inverse ratio of its acquisitions , till
she could be scarcely said to know her letters. Oft-
en did she regret her idleness in the early school
house and exclaim , as she fondl y kissed bci children
on returning at night from the toilsome hunt— "If I
had on ly learned to read , I could now teach you my
dears." And her tears would drop like rain.
At leng th an incident occurred ,t hat brought with
it a suggestion shap ing itself into a fixed plan , by
which she was enabled to vanquish the perplexing
difficulty. The author cannot do better than give
the anecdote in her own artless words, as related to
him in Texas, some twelve months ago :
"I used to cry about it every night,"she said,"be-
fore going to sleep, and then I would dream it all
over again ; for indeed it was sad to think of. I
knew that by hard work we would after a while, be
well enoug h off to move into the settlements , where
decent people live ; and then I thought how shock-
ing it would seem for my young ones to have no more
learning than the wild Indians. The boys were get-
tin " more than half as tall as their father , and Peg-
gy's pret ty head was even as high as my shoulders.
It was enough to make a fond mother cry. I was
then in the habifof going every two or three months
to Little Rock with a pack of peltries, to buy salt
and other things , that we could not get along with-
out. One time I brought back some bunches of rai-
sins for the baby. They were wrapped up in a large
newspapers, which con tain ed a number of curious
pictures. The sheet was gazed at with wonder by
the poor creatures, who had never seen such an ob-
ject in their lives. Little Tommy asked me, with
sparkling eyes, if it were not a bird. I tried to ex-
plain the matter to him ; told him what it was ; that
it conta ined a tale about the whole world ; and that
when persons learned to read it ,they could know all
affairs which were going on across the blue moun-
tains, and the big rivers, and away over the sea, as
well as the sights they saw every day before their
own doors.
" 'Oh , ma , won 't you teach us how to read , so we
can hear from our old play-places in Missouri ?"said
Peggy, who was then almost a woman.
"The question like to have broken my Tieart. I
remembered how lazy I had been when a girl , and
the idea was a shar p shooting pain, splittin g my side
into my very soul. I wept like a child , till even my
own children tried to comfort me. However, my
tears did me good. Tears always relievathe heart ;
they commonl y clear the head also. A sudden
thoug ht struck me—a great plan—I might say a ho-
ly purpose. It seemed impossible, but I resolved to
try it. That night I hurried the young folks off to
bed,and having kindled a good pine knot light ,pick-
ed up the newspaper , and set down to see if 1could
make .out anything in it. I smilled with unspeaka-
ble delight , on discovering that I still knew all the
letters, except the capitals. But I soon had cause
to weep again; for, after doing my best, and sitting
up till day light ,every line remained a riddle. 1could
not spell out the meaning of a single sentence.
" About sunrise a new notion entered mv head.—
I determined to go again shortly to Little Rock, and
purchase some primers and spelling books, which I
afterwards did. I then began to learn in earnest.—
It was very hard for a while ; but I sat up late ,after
Tom and the children were all asleep, and took my
primer along with me when I went to hunt. I coald
stud y it as.I rode, especiall y where the woods were
open , and before I got within reach of game ; and
then , when I was resting, after lifting a heavy deer
upon my pony, or walking up a steep hill , I would
pull it out of my pocket, and run over the pages till
I at last could almost repeat the whole from memory.
I then commenced on my large spelling book , and
mastered that in the same way. All the while, I
wanted to be teaching the children , bu t was afraid
of teaching them wrong, intending first to make
myself perfect , because I thought it was of.no use to
know anything at all ,unless one could know it right.
"While thus engaged , a lost hunter stopped a few
days at our cabin,and discovering my studies , kind-
ly offered to assist me. 1then found that I had done
well in not beginning to instruct the boys and.Peggy
sooner. I had to unlearn the pronunciation of many
of my words,that 'sou nded frightfull y when compared
with the correct mode. After I got it straight , I got
a primer for each one of the children ,and collecting
them all together one Sunday morning, told them
that I was going to teach them how to read. It would
have done your heart good to see them. They ap-
peared to be runn ing mad with joy, for they still re-
membered what I had said about the newspaper,and
had teased me much upon the subject. Ni ght after
night they would stud y till 12 ; and all day on the
Sabbath they tried more industriousl y than ever 1
had done in the school room, until at last they were
throug h both books. But I was still ahead of them
—for long before then I had obtained a testament
and the Life of Marion ,and had gone over both sev-
eral times. In this way I taug ht my dear young
ones to read, having first of all taught myself."
For the literal historical accuracy of the foregoing
extraordinary facts, we refer to Mrs. Hoiley's Book
on Texas, where she refers to Mrs More, althoug h
in her narrative she only sets down the initials of her
name.
And may we not well be permitted to doubt wheth-
er the annals of the globe, and all the ages of time ,
present a parallel to this almost miraculous case ?
The biograp hies of the self-educated teem , to be
sure, with noble examples among the softer as among
the stronger sex. But did any one ever before,eith-
er man or woman , go throug h the patient , painful
process of voluntari l y self-culture , with the same de-
finite and settled object ? Others have strugg led
with the terrible problem of unaided mental develop-
ment from the desire of gain ,of hope and glory ; but
she, the poor huntress of the backwoods,from purer ,
loftier , more angelic motives, from an infinite , ten-
der, holy, materna l love, and with the sole view of
fitting herself to be the teacher of her innocent off-
spring, cut off as they were by insuperable circum-
stances from any other means-of instructions. It
makes one better to read of such circumstances o(
exa lted'devotion to concious duty, and thus to know
and feel althoug h the race of moral heroes appears
to be nearl y or quite extinct , that of domestic hero-
ines never can wholl y perjsh , while one mother shall
be left to linger on earth with a bright eyed babe
nestling about her bosom.
A WONDERFUL FISn STORY.
While sailing up the Pacific in one of the mai]
steamers a few months since, I was much amused by
the conversations of a real old fashioned Jack Tar
who had engaged for the tri p, and was about to seek
his fortune in the wonderful land of gold. Among
other things we discussed the subject of whaling and
the peculiarity of whales. Here old Jack was at
home. He had been no less than four long whaling
voyages, and could tell you about every nook and
corner of the Pacific. After amusing us with some
wonderful accounts of shi ps which had been destroy-
ed by whales, he added , in a serious tone,'Did you
know,shi pmnte.yhat I am afraid these steamers will
meet with the rubbers one of these days.'
' What for ?' asked a Vermonter, who was listen-
ing to his yarns.
' O they make such a thund' ring dashing with their
wheels, and a rattling with their engines, that they
wake the whale babies, and that makes the old ones
wrath y as blazes,' was the reply.
' Well, I don't think they could do much hurt if
they was to try,' said the Vermonter.
'Just all you know about it ,' responded Jack.—
' These whales are sometimes rather crank y, I tell
you. We used to have to resort to all sorts of means
to keep them from coming aboard of us. It is the
solemn truth what I'm goin ' to tell you. I wasonce
in the midst of a school of whales, and the only way
we could keep ourselves from being sent to the bot-
tom was by diverting the critters off .from our ves-
sel. Nothing will do in such cases but some live an-
imal. Well, as I was saying, we were close by a
school of whales; and as we were standing up the
coast N. W. by W. with our starboard tacks aboard ,
the lubber at the helm , not minding what he was a-
bout, run us right into a she whale , as she lay upon
her back suckling twins , and cut on« of the little
fellows in two. Down comes her tail , and away went
our bowsprit and figure head , with all the for'ard
hamper , and under she goes in a terrible pheeze.—
Very soon we found that she had only been getting
an offing ; for up she comes again about two cables
length ofi, breast of the weather beam.'
' Stand by all hands,' said the Captain ; ' let run
the lee braces! hard a port !' says lie to the man at
the helm. This was you see to get her head round'
so as she shouldn 't be struck amid ship. But Lord
love you ! 'twas of no use, she was clese aboard and
made a breach of us. Letting go the lee braces,
brought the shi p upon her even keel end ,she being
pretty well down in the water, over she went, just
clearing the. bulwarks , but carrying away the main-
mast with everything aloft , and our long boat with
it. I was standing near the break of the quarter-
deck, and came devlish near going too.'
'Mr. Ha,rpoon ,' said the captain to the second
mate, ' somebody must go. Where's the Kanaka ?'
' That meant our cook, a Sandwich Islander, and
just at.that minute up he comes out of the cabin.—
In a jiffy Mr. Harpoon catches him by the scruff of
the neck and the slack of the trowsers, and chucks
him overboard ; smack he' went down the throat of
the whale, and was.stowed away under deck, 1war-
ran t you.'
We expressed our approbation of this yarn by a
roar of laughter , but Jack remained sober as a par-
son, rolling about his quid in his cheeks. He then
cnnt innp.d :—
' Well , shipmates, you may laugh if you're a mind
to, but truth is truth , and now I'll tell you how
Cockeye got out of the scrape. You see our cap-
tain thoug ht he would go to San Francisco and sell
out some ile, and in five-or six days arter we'd lost
our cook we arrived there. Well , pretty soon the
captain and the second mate went ashore to sell the
ile. It being the chief mate's watch ,I took the yawl ,
and sculled her over to Bird Island to get a few
gulls, and some noddies' eggs. Well , as I was scul-
ling, you know , I cbuldn ' see ahead , but as we near-
ed the land somebody hailed , 'Hallo,' said he. 1
turne d abou t, and my eyes ! if there wan 't our Kan-
aka, dancing about as if the devil was in him.'
' Splinter my mizzon , Cockeye,' said 1, ' is that
you ?'
You see I call him Cockeye : Jiggeraboo was his
true name ; but one of his eyes being set afore and
aft in his head, and t'other braced sharp up into the
wind , he always looks nine days for Suuday.
1 Me, sure enoug h, sir,' said Cockeye.
'Wh y, how the devil did you get here ? You
must have had a quicker passage than we had ?'
' I rather think I had ,' said he, grinning. 'By
the reckoning it must have been about twenty-four
hours, as I began to gut hungry as a shark , when I
heard a thundering big gun ,and I knew I was some-
where in the wake of the Commodore 's squadron ,
which must be near in shore , and about twelve hours
after , boom came another—very near. This set me
in good spirits, and I began to caper about , tickling
the ribs of the old b of a whale with a kick
or two, which set her.a laug hin g, and with a heave
she sent me throug h her gullet in no time. She
wasn't very low down , and I got my head above wa-
ter in a little while , and finding myself off the chops
of the bay, I pulled in , and made a land ing here.'
'Well , Cockeye,' said I, ' what have you been a-
bout ?'
'I'll show you ,' said he, as he took me to a big
hole in the sand , where was a boat load of bird's
eggs, and dried noddies enoug h to victual a ship's
crew a fortni ght. 'I mean ,' says he, ' to get
^
them
over to the landing, and set up a galley there.'
'A good notion ,' said I, ' and I don't care if I
lend you a lift.' Well , shi pmates, Cockeye did well
in his business until one day our captain went into
his galley, and recognized him at once. 'You cop-
per colored rascal ,' said he, ' what the devil you
mean , syklarking about here. Go aboard to your
duty, or I'll send you in ruffles aboard the Commo-
dore.'
' I shan 't do any more dut y aboard your vessel,'
said Cockeye to the captain , ' foryou 've discharged
me.'
' You won't, hey !
' said the captain.
Just that moment the second mate hove in fight,
an d he and the captain made a prize of poor Cock-
eye, and hauled him off to the Ohio frigate. The
nex t day 1 was sent for, and on the quarter-deck
found Commodore Jones in his iron bound coat, and
the captain and the Kanaka standing on the larboard
side. The Commodore knew me at once, for I was
aboard his shi p when he took Monterey in such a
hurry, when old Hickory was President. 'Well,
Jack,' said he to me, ' tell what you know about this
affair ?' So I told all about it , and gave the time
the Kanaka came aboad , and how he was pitched
over and swallowed by the she whale ; and as it wa»
all true , you know , it agreed with the log of Cock-
eye.
' This is a straight forward story,' said the Com-
modore to our captain , 'and all you have to do with
this man is to pay him the wages due him ; and see
you do it,or it may be worse for you ;' and that end-
ed the examination aboard the Ohio.
' Well , shipmates,Cockeye was paid off, and when
he'd sold out his bird's eggs and things , he'd got
a pretty sum of money, and so he shipped for home,
and that 's the last I ever heard of him ; but if he
was here alive this moment , he'd tell you more than
I can as to how he felt, when he was sailing in tlio
whale's bread basket.'
The Sailor's Tonsil Yarn.
A number of curious cases of the progress of mus-
ket balls from the place where they were first lodg-
ed, have been observed by military surgeons. We
have heard of a very remarkable case, where the
musket ball struck the forehead above the nose, and
having divided into two halves, one half went round
beneath the skin , on the right side, and the other
on the left advancing in contact with the skull. We
do not ask our readers to believe the poetical edi-
tion of this fact, that the two half bullets met again
behind , after having performed the circuit of the
head in opposite directions, and advancing with a
slightl y diminished force, united and killed an un-
fortunate man who stood in his way. But the fact
of the splitting of the bullet ,and the advance of each
half in opposite directions, is unquestionable.
The singular progress of a musket bullet from the
forehead to the throat , has been recorded by Dr.
Fielding. At the first battle of Newbury, in the
time of the civil wars, a medical man was shot near
the right eye. The skull was fractured , but though
the surgeon could see the pulsation of the brain be-
neath the wound , yet the bullet had turned to one
side, and could not be discovered. Various bones
were discharged from the wound ,the mouth and the
nostr ils.
At the time of the second battle of Newbury, th«
wound healed , and could not be kept open ; but
about twelve years afterwards, when the doctor was
riding in a cold, dark night, he felt a pain on the
left side of his head , about the 'almonds of the ear,*
which occasioned a partial deafness. Having stop-
ped his ear with wool, he was surprised one day in
March , 1670, by a sudden puff, or crack in his ear,
when all that side of his cheek hung loose, as if it
had been paralyzed, and a hard knot was felt under
the ear. Various tumors now appeared about the
throat , and in August , 1672, the bullet was taken
out of the throat, near the pomum Adami.
[Frazer's Magazine.
Musket Balls through the body.
The vengeance of the allied powers demanded
some victims; and the intrep id Ney, who had well-
nigh put the crown again on Bonaparte's head at
Waterloo , was to be one of them. Condemned to
be shot, he was led to the Garden of Luxemburg on
the morning of the 17th December, and placed in .
front of a file of soldiers, drawn up to kill him. One
of the officers stepped up to bandage his eyes, but
he repulsed him , saying, 'Are you ignorant that for
twenty-five years I have been accustomed t« &oe
both ball and bullet ?' He then lifted his feat a'beroe
his head , and with the same calm voice that had
steadied his columns so frequentl y in the roar and
tumu lt of bat tl e, said, 'I declare before God and
man , that I never betrayed my country : may my
death render her happy. Vive la France !
' He
then turned to the soldiers,and striking his hand on
his heart , gave the order, 'Soldiers, fire 1' A simul-
taneous discharge followed , and the 'bravest of tba
brave' sank to rise no more. 'He who had fought
f ive hundred battles for France, not one against her,'
was shot as a traitor I" ' As I looked on the spot
where he fell, I could not but sigh over his fate.—
True, he had broken his oath of allegiance—so did
others, carried away by their attachment to Napole-
on , and the enthusiasm that hailed his approach to
Paris. Still , he was no traitor.—[Hendley 's Miscel-
lanies.
Franklin's Mode of Lending Money.—"I
send you, herewith , a bill of ten louis d'ors. I do
not pretend to give much, I only lend it to you.—
When you return to your country you cannot fail
of getting into some business that will in time enable
you to pay all your debts. In that ease, when you
meet another honest man in similar distress,you will
pay me by lending this money to him,enjoining him
to discharge the debt by like operationswhen he thai!
be able, and meet with another opportunity. I
hope it may pass through many hands before it
meets with a knave to stop its progress. This is a
trick of mine to do a great deal of good with a little
money. I am not rich enough to afford much iw
good works, and am obliged to be cunning, and
make the most of a little ."
KeWARD FOlt TUB DISCOVERY OF SlR JOHM
Franklin.—The British government has renewed
its offer of a reward of £20,000 for the discovery of
Sir John Franklin , £10,000 for any information
that may lead to the relief of the crews of the mis-
sing discovery shi ps, and a further reward of £10,-
000
°for any definite intelligence which may tend to
determine the fate of said crews.
Four hundred English Mormons arrived at St
Louis on the 25th of March , en routefor Salt Labst.
Marshal Ney's Death Scene.
CAPE COD BRANCH RAIL ROAD.
tlgg^^^F^SJ^ZI^^I ww^^i ®-
^^ ^tJmmer arrangement.
/W* from Boston leave the Depot of the Old Colony
CarS / Rail Road.
O\
and after Monday, April 1, 1850, Passenger
Trains w'" leave Boston an'i Sandwich daily,
, having been put
fipBaffiS jJLjt in complete order, will commence her
'•
9W«SaBfc' trips' between -the above named places,
«n MONDAY, April 1. ' ' .
-Will ieave Provincetown , on Mondays, at 7 o'clock,
*nd WeliBcet at 9 1-2 o'clock , A. M. for Bpston.
'Xieave Wellfleet; on Wednesdays and Fridays, at
9 1-4o'clock, A. M. for Boston via Provincetown.
Returning—Will leave the end of T-wharf, Boston,
*'82 o'clock, A. M.on Tuesdays and Thursdays, for
Jjftllfleet via Provincetown , and on Saturdays for
%v
',ncetown via Wellfleet.
j iB^Bes will run in connection with the Boat to and
W» Chatham and to and from Trnro. They will in-
"
"?<*«*Orleans and" Chatham , with Stages to Sand-
*H*.ftence- by Rail Road to. Fall River,Now Bedford ,
rroviilence and Boston , thus affording to persons who
wtslt'tb'rnake a tour on Cape Cod, a continuous line of
JrawHy^teamboat, stage anil rail road , through all
we principal towns on the Cape and the southern part
°*file-State,
s,TWPHot of tfie Boat (Capt. K. W. Freeman ) and
we Wineer (Mr. N Blaisdell) are favorably known
jL PllMic as men well qualified for their stations;—
¦™ Passengers may rely upon every exertion being
™aiIe by Capt. Paine, to make their passage,on board
, ,™« »At as agreeable as possible.
*«e between Chatham and Boston, 2 25
" . East Harwich " 2 00
' « Orleans " } f
Eastham » 1 50
So. WellBeet " 1 38
Truro " 1 38
. '
,; Wellfleet " 1 25
¦w Provincetown " 1 00
~^*lsjmra. tf Provincetown , March 26_
- wake's Patent Fire Proof Paint,
I WHlCH in a few month s turns to Slate or Stone,
of Jl ')rotectinK whatever is covered from the action
"*% leather or fire.
.. Look out for Frauds '
.
fa. . ,
ttI1Principled persons are offering spurious articles
Jnn- 6
' *allin« them Ohio Fire Proof Paints, lhe
^ttUioarticleis only to be obtained of the Patentee,
«j*
fiv
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Dr. Brigham , of the New York Asylum for the
Insane, expresses the opinion ,that the most frequent
immediate cause of insanity, and one of the most im-
portant to guard against , is the want of sleep. "So
rarely,1' he says, "do we see a recen t case of insani-
ty, that is not preceded by want of sleep, that we
regard it as almost the sure precursor of mental de-
rangement. Long continued wakefnlness ," contin-
tinues Dr. Brigham , "disorders the whole system.—
The appetite becomes impaired , the secretions di-
mini shed or changed , the mind dejected , and soon
waking drea ms occur and strange phantoms appear,
which tit first may be transient ; but ultimatel y take
possession of the mind ,and madness or death ensues.
The doctor adds :
We wish we could impress upon all the vast im-
portance of securing sound and abundan t sleep ; if
so we should feel that we have done an immense
good to our fellow beings, not merel y in preventing
insanity, but other diseases also. We are confident
hat the origin of much of the nervousness and im-
paired health of individuals who are not decidedl y
sick, is owing to a want of sufficient and quiet rest.
To procure this should be the study of every one.—
"I have always taken care," said the worthy Dr.
Holyoke, after he was about a hundred years of age,
"to have a free proportion of sleep, which I suppose
has contributed to my longevity. " We fear that the
great praise of early rising has had this bad effect,to
make some believe that sleep was of but little con-
sequence. Thoug h it may be well to arise with the
sun, or when it is light , (not before, however,) yet
this is of minor importance , in comparison with re-
tiring earl y t© bed. Dr. Brigham gives the follow-
ing hints for the procuiing sound sleep :
It is important , in the first place, that the mind
should not be disturbed for several hours before re-
tiring to rest.
Second.—Retire early, and neither when very
warm or cold ; sleep on a hair mattrass or on a bed
not very soft. The bed-room should be large and
well ventilated , and the bed should not be placed
near the wall or near the window , as such an ar-
rangement often exposes the persons to currents of
cold air.
Third.—There should be nothin g ti ght about the
neck, and the Chinese rule of brushing the teeth be-
fore retiring is a good one. Tea and coffee taken
late in the evening is apt to disturb the"sleep. Strive
to banish thoug hts , as much as possible on retiring
to rest , or take up the most dull subjects. Study
dur ing the evening is improper.
It is asserted that a grain of camphor,in pill form,
followed by a draug ht of an ounce and a half of the
infusion of hops with five drops of sul phuric either
in it, will procure sleep in the first developments of
insanity, when nothing else will. It has been tried
and its success acknowled ged.
California Lumber Mahket.—The Ports-
mouth Journal had seen a letter from a captain of a
ship at San Francisco, dated February 27th ,stating
that he could find no market lor his lumber—the
highest offer he could obta in was $40 per M., and
the expenses of landing $10 per M. One hundred
and fift y vessels were then lying there in the like
position , and it is said that about four hundred more
vessels are now on their way to that port.
Long Prayers.—Speaking of long prayers,El-
d'er Knapp, of Boston , says:
When Peter was endeavoring to walk upon the
water to meet his Master, and was about sinking,
had his supplication been as long as the introduction
to one of our modern prayers,before he got throug h
he would have been fifty feet under water.
A smart Woman.—The lady editors of this
country surpass the gentlemen altogether. When
they become more numerous we shall propose that
the worse half of mankind abandon the editoral
throne entirel y, and give place to the better half.—
A monthl y paper called "The True Kindred" is
published at Chagrin Falls, O., by a Mrs. Sanford.
She says she has walked five hundred miles and ob-
tained three hundred and eighty subscribers, lectur-
ed twenty times, edited the paper,set up every type
herself, folded , stitched and covered it, besides do-
ing other things too numerous to mention.—[Essex
Freeman.
How TO be RICH.—Getting rich is usuall y tho't
to be a hard , up-hill task—especiall y in these times.
A modern philosopher, however , has shown that
nothing is easier, provided one will only take the
right steps.
"It is onl y to trust nobody—to befriend none , to
fet everything, an d save all wo get—to stint our-
selves and every body belonging to us—to be the
friend of no man and have no man for your friend ,
to heap interest upon interest , and cent upon cent
to be mean , miserable, and despised , for some
twenty or thirty years, and riches will come as sure
as disease and disappointment. And when pretty
near ly enoug h wealth is collected by a disregard of
all the charities of the human heart ,an d at the ex-
penses of every enjoyment , save t hat of wallowing
in filth y meanness, death comes to finis-h the work ;
the body is buried in the hole, the heirs dance over
it , and the spirit goes where.?1
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A Cool Reply.—"I never sto p a runaway
horse," said an eccentric individual , "having too
nreat a regard for the safety of my own neck. The
other day I met one with a pair of shafts attached to
him , coming down the centre of the road in which I
was walking with the speed of a locomotive. Of
cou rse, I stepped aside, and gave him a wide berth.
Presentl y the owner came running up with a pair of
reins in on e hand , and a whi p in the other.
"Wh y didn 't you stop that horse?'' said he.
"1fixed my face like a marble monument ,and said
I, ' what horse V "
It is estimated , on the princi ple of past increase.
as determ ined by the census, with the addition o]
statistics of emigrat ion , that the population of the
United States in 1851, will reach 25,000,000.
Sleep and Insanity.
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