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> Literature. ROL ey TO MY HERBARIUM. BY CHS. J. SPRAGUE. Ye dry and dead remains ! Poor, wrinkled remnants of a beauteous prime !

Why, from your final doom, should I take pains To stay the hand of time?

The world would pass you by ; For beauty, grace, and fragrance all are gone. Your age is homeliness to every eye,

And prized by me alone.

Not beautiful, but dear, Your weeks recall to me the happy past, Wand-like, your stems can summons to appear The days that could not last.

I breathe the summer air! I wander in the woodland paths once more ! Again the copse. the dell, the meadow, wear . The loveliness of yore.

Turned to the God of day,

Your little lips come, prayerfully, apart,

With the soft breeze your leaves, reviving, play Sweet music to my heart.

The friend who in those years Shared warmly in my rambles, far and wide, Back with the same old fondness, re-appears, And trudges at my side.

These are your charms to me !

W bile such dear recollections ye awake,

Your ruins, blackened, crambling though they be, I treasure for their sake.

May I, like you, dry flowers, When in young life I can no more engage, A dear memento be of happy hours —

To those who tend my age.

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“She is deal!” said Dr. Thomson, after calmly regarding

her, and taking from Margurct’s tremulous hand a fyttora or stuall china goblet, to which she pointed, fuse; the story was bricfly revealed.

diaught which she had promised to swallow. She had been }-ft alone, and was on the point of quaffing the potion, when Hazars staggered into the room, her looks haggard, her ac- eents Joud and wild. “ Drink it not!’ she said; and as Margaret stared upon her, the goblet still in her hand, the girl, suatching it from her, emptied it at a draught, and ex- claiming: * 1 am poisoned !—L wished to kill you, for you are loved by one wio eares not for me, and now I shall die !” Kre Margiret could sammon Mrs, [rwin and the servants, the truth of Hazara’s assertions becume visible. Her shrieks, at first loud, became weaker ; and just before she became spcech- less for ever, she named ker futher and Mark Thorne.

had sworn to administer it.

Jt was a sad and restless uight that which followed. The havaldar’s party which was despatched within an hour to bring in prisoner the fukir, Boorhun Sha, found his tekiah-

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which, howseever dark, drive out darker ones. After two years [ was in command of a detachment at Condapilly in the

northern division, where the closing scene of this drama of

real life took place. A stranger to this decayed town, I de- lighted in rambling about the wild romantic hills and rocks which on one side overlook the suburbs, and stretch away, clothed in variegated jangle, for many miles. A view of the “Kistnah river, as it winds through cultivated fields till lost

water, whence the finest diamonds were once dug, gave life to ithe scene; and being solitary in my command, without any other European officer, I felt, as it were, “lord of all I sur- veyed.” One early morning I had set forth with one sepoy- ‘attendant, a native of the place, to inspect a bit of marshy | groame in which it had been reported that snipes were known to congregate. As we entered a darksome pass leading to it, | we suddenly came upon an old jog?, or Hindvo mendicant, ‘whose emaciated and almost nude limbs were so thickly | smeared with pipe-clay and ashes, that his original skin might | belong toany given colour. His long hair, plastered with filth ‘and dust, depended in tangles down his back; but as he | glanced fiercely at us, whilst he continued to fill a basket ‘beside him with the fiery stalks and leaves of the poisonous | Asclepias, I recognised, in spite of every disguise, the Mo- jhammedan fakir, Boorhun Sha, in the still more repulsive and squalid form of the Hindoo jogi. Startled as I was, I | resolved ou the conduct to be pursued, and passed silently jand indifferently, without a look that could denote recognition ia suspicion, Passing a rock that hid us from sight, I asked | the sepoy whether he knew the man,

| “I, hook, vospar, sahib!—(L spit upon him, sir,”) said the iiman. =‘ We have heard of him, but his accursed presence has not till to-lay blotted out the light from my eyes. In the first place—may Allah preserve us—he is a jogi; and in the next—may Satan be aloof—he is a jadoogur (a sorcerer.”)

* Does he reside in the town ?” asked L.

‘No, sahib; he inhabits a eell beneath the rock to the | right; on'y the stone worshippers approach it, and even they jare not admitted to the interior. The villagers bring hii ‘food; and, as he is said to have wonderful power over herbs land drags, he is much sought after as a hakeem (doctor.) | Bat Alluh keep me from physic that is nothing else but | muntur juntur (magical incantations.’’)

the district such a letter as | knew would induce him to place at my service any amount of judicial authority that might be necessary. Two nights after, alone, but armed, I lett my bungalow on a reconnaisance for the cell of the enemy. It was a fine clear night; L had nothing to fear from anybody (but the jogi; and as the fragrance of the jasmine, which /sprung profusely in the thickets, the blossoms of the acacia, jand as the basil (Ocymum sanctnm.) which I crashed at jevery footfall, floated around me, I was sensible of an aspi- ‘ration that LT might be the means of bringing to deserved punishment the murderer of my friend. Silence was around, idisturbed only by the evo of the wood dove, or, as I neared the marsh, the croak of the ball frog. <A light, almost | dazzling, shone from the only aperture, except the closed door, that belonged to the cavernous ceil; and certain that [ was

Her | unwatched, [ crept stealthily to this open lattice, and looked | father had given her the potion for the bridegroom, and she

in. My reward was a sight that convineed me L had guessed justly, for Boorhun Sha, without the filthy pigments which had altered his countenanee when [ saw him before, stood ‘revealed in all his original ugliness; I sould have said knelt, for the jogi, in the position of a suppliant, with raised hands

near the rugged plains where the long exhausted mines of Golconda exhibit nothing but deep pits and shallow beds of| hanged at Masulipatam; and every one who was a sojourner

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| Time passed, time passes, and with it comes thoughts | of Mark Thorne, he-had supplied her with a poisoned potion,

_in two separate draughts, each one of which was of strength 'suflicient to fulfil his purpose. The girl must have suspected ,his intention, knowing how bitterly he hated Thorne, for, changing her determination, she entreated Margaret Dougias to drink the draught as a beautifier, Under the idea that Mark had been induced to swallow it, Boorhun Sha fled ; but rumour soon acquainted him with the turn affairs had taken, wad, in the diszuise of a jogi, he followed the newly wedded couple, still intent upon revenge. He was condemned to be

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in that city at the time will recollect the disappoiutmeut which prevailed on the morning appointed for his execution, when it was discovered that he had escaped the rigour of the law by voluntary death.

As his person had been strictly searched when seized, great curiosity was excited as to the means by which he had com- mitted suicide, His body became the subject of anatomical investigation, and this led to the detection of the arm secreted | for self-destruction. Between bis toes were concealed several little bags of a subtile powder, which, when tested, were found to be virulent poisons.

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Lovisvitir, December 17.—Tux Necro Exerremenr rN Tennesser.—-The City Council of Clarksville, Tenn., instructed the Recorder to notify iron masters and other owners of slaves, that no slaves will be permitted to come to the city to remain more than two hours, unless accompanied by a respectable white person, under a penalty of 20 lashes. Slaves having wives and their master’s passes are exempted. Persons having slaves going to or from Christmas festivities are not to allow them to pass through Clarksville, unless a respectable white person will keep them together, and not allow them to mingle with the negroes ut Clarksville.

I I nt Puitavetvura, Dee. 22.--Destructive Fires in Philadelphia —140 Horses Burnt.—i‘here were three destructive fires in the city lust night, keeping the firemen engaged till morning.

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John Thurston’s brash fuetory in the 16th Ward was totally | consumed, throwing three hundred hands out of employment. | Tue omnibus stables of Mills & Fiynu, West Philadelphia, | were also totally consumed, and one hundred aud forty horses ‘burnt, and fifty omnibuses.

| Wilson's planing mill, near the Navy, Yard was also ‘burut. ‘Total loss $100,000,

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; ce ee er nner / Aw Ontestan Morperen.—We have received journals from Batavia to 11th of October. The wholesale murderer | Qvy Tamda, a Corinese, and his Malay accomplice were i hanged on the 7th, ia front of the Stadt Huis. The Malay employe of the Chinese confessed to the perpetration of 18 itnurders, for all which he was paid by Ocy Tamba at the fixed rate of 20 florins each, whilst his master plundered the | Victims of many thousands. Oey Tumba was aman of wealth ‘and influence, and although long suspected of atrocious jerimes, he until recently managed to elude the vigilance of jthe Dutch police, by the well!-concocted system of putting ‘suspicion aud crime on others; when Jast in custody on “suspicion, he tried, but was de ected, to poison his wretched accomplice for fear of the latter’s giving evidence against hiim.—Singapore Straits Times.

Avstraiia.—The Duffy testimonial has been presented.

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of cool water from which he drank and a few handfuls of da/ (parched pease.) Justice was not satisfied with this superti- cial search. Information of the intended murder was spread abroad, and high rewards off-red for the detection of the fakir ; but in vain. Meanwhile my friend’s nuptials were solem- nised under that certain cloud which inevitably lowers over a recent crime. I know not how the bride or bridegroom felt on the occasion, but for myself I must confess that a singular and unsurmountable depression weighed me to the very ground.

In short, L was vlad when, al! over, the ready palanquins conveyed the new-married pair from Mrs. Irwin's elegant refection to the ruins of Vizianuggur, where, in accordance with an established custom in Auglo-Indian society, at the period of which [ write, they had resolved upon passing the honeymoon, had left Bellary in prosecution of my route to join my regiment.

for some hideous ido]; but ever and anon, as he turned his | fierce eyes to the eresset, in which glared a brilliant light, I /could discern that passions of no gentle nature suggested the /prayers he breathed. As my vision became accustomed to the light, [ saw with surprise that it was to no idol, but to }a grim human skull that his words were addressed. Round it, something that quivered, yet did not escape, arrested my jattention. Lt was a long green tree snake, nailed by the head ‘to a wooden pedestal, on which the skull was placed. Once (or twice he groaned deeply, and then, stooping to take up jsome material from the floor, the nature of which I could not

distinguish, he uttered a yell so loud, so weird, that, startled out of my caution. | must have displaced part of the window

jagainst which I leant, for in a moment, ere one could count

I bade them farewell, and in a few hours after | oue, the light was extinguished, and all was dark.

I confess [ felt exceedingly nervous as I cautiously with- dew. But ere a second day had elapsed, officials were with

The post, a week afterwards, brought me the accounts of | me, accompanied, too, by my friend the collector, prepared

the event 1 am about to relate. On the fourth evening of their stay at Uizianuggur, Mark wandered out to finish a sketch of an antique pagoda, of which his wife had requested a | copy. He never returned! But as twilight advanced, poor Margaret, anxious and impatient, determined on secking him ; and knowing the spot where he had gone, set off on foot with several bearers and her ayah to meet him. They met him not; and the place being very near, was reached before day- light had yet thickened into gloom. There are sights that eurdle the blood with horror, and such was that which met the gaze of the young wife. I need not say that it was the body of her husband—the headless bod y! Stretched below a e of ruins, the ground saturated with ais blood poor Mark orne had evidently beea intent on his occupation when attacked by the assassin. Exawmination—though, of course that was an afterthought—warranted the conclusion that the “death-blow Was struck before the trunk was decapitated Through his heart was the deep wound delivered by delibente rene and in that wound—as if some sudden voice had a tled the perpetrator into flight ere he could withdraw the eadly weapon--was we a steel instrument, called a Lagh- t , ever saw was that which dich aay dies of ; fe The word bagh-nuk describes it; for it is i sharp cl like hi | with four curved, pointed spikes, attael ry he ai ‘ aaa two rings, which he who uses it sees is the f 7 ‘od lit le| finger. _ the weapon is thus concealed jn (hi be * a iki : oe with all the force and fatal aim of a ters tee oe a: tm SB99S modern traveller. “the renowned ief, Siva ee. trai eller, “ the renown tt gpg Ca en - a discovered, © ends - of the head could be | notwithstanding t{ y severed frou the trunk; and, vemained the most strict MVestigation, the whole matter the ontaant a several years, [1 is necdiess to relate. Enough ches came bride, the horror of her attendants. |

ing humanity which ivr who is never absent from the suffer- | was really rendered partially insane by his avowed hatred of millions he has s 8 lavokes His aid, had compassion on her. Thorne, and by his own natural evil passions, is a question” the record of thei ladies, visitors to the ruins, arrived which did not benefit him in those days, whatever 1 might he is summoned fr

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to seize the suspected jogi; and no time was lost after their arrival, In a few minutes we were at the hermitage; and in a few more, from a sound and unsuspecting sleep, Boorhun Sha was awakened to find himself a prisoner.

He made no resistance, nor by a single word afforded con- firmation or denial of the charge brought against him. In his cell nothing was found but a few drugs and dried plants. [ looked in vain for the skull, and resolved that it should not, if possible, escape me. I asked where he hed hid it; a glare from his eyes that rivalled the tiger’s in ferocity was his only reply; but ere that glare fixed on me, LJiad caught the direction to which it had momentarily wandered, and in a dark niche, which might have readily escaped detection, the ghastly memorial was found. The reader, who has doubt- less guessed the suspicions that crossed my mind when first I saw it, will not wonder that [ took it in my hands with a shudder, passing it to the surgeon of my regiment, who, at my request, had come to Condapilly on this oceasion.

«“ Tt is the skull,” said he, “of an individual who, in early youth, must have undergone a surgical operation, for one of the cheek-bones—the superior maxillary bone—is wanting.”

At these words, confirming my suspicicns, the prisoner startled in wonder. “Is there any one here,” continued Mr, Pratt, “ who knows if the gentleman, of whose murder the prisoner is accused, had any similar defect ?”

« Yes,” I answered, “my friend, Captain Mark Thorne,

whose skull this is, by a fall in early youth was obliged to)

have the cheek bone operated upon. He was murdered by

this man.”

* And the weapon,” said the collector.

“ Was a bagh-nuk,” cried ihe prisoner, to our extreme astonishment,

I am at the end of my relation, for Boorhun Sha, far from endeavouring to deny the crime, seemed to glory iu having committed it; in fact, he confessed ell. Whether the man

have done in these, : Boorhun Sha confessed that, urged by his daughter, Hazara,

| qualification to enable him to stand for the Lower House (£2,000). Some of Mr. Duffy’s admirers in Sydney or- ganised a committee to collect subscriptions there. Launces- ton, in Tasmania, joined, and the resuit is a total of £5,000. | Half has been Jaid out in a house and grounds, and the other | half, with the title-deeds of the property purchased, has been presented to Mr. Daffy. Mr. Dufly’s speech on the occasion was very good. He showed an evident desire to sink nation- alities and regard the country and population as Australian. The generation of an Australian nationality is the aspiration jof some of the best and most patriotic among us, and Duffy's speech touches the right cord.

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Diversina Emerges. — Tux Sworns or Pirysican anp Morat Treemen. — Two men, alike perhaps in the normal nature of their genius, and each aiming at a certain univer- sulity of empire in the professions taey respectfully selected— Napoleon and Holloway. The empire of the sword which the } former created and for so many years of fiuctuating victory sustained and fostered was, after all, au idle and a bloody dream. It faded in the frost of his first reverses, and when he died, a lonely exile on the sea-girt rock, there was no com- pensating benefit that he could point to for all the carnage, misery and ruin his personal ambition cost the world,

Professor Holloway made a wiser choice, although the enemy he grappled with had more than mortal terrors at command, He levied war upon disease, and with the self- made weapovs of his Universal Remedies, has fought and overeome his enemy in every land, on every sea, among all tribes and nationalites of the earth. [It was a stubborn fight and one in which success brought no triumphal cries to cheer the prowess of the conquerer. The silent gratitude of a res-

the assurance that his years had been devoted to a worthy object, and the growing respect and admiration of all whose good opinion deserves to be considercd,—these were the only stimulants which prompted him to despise the calumnies of interested hate, and persist in the dissemination of that medi- cinal empire which he has at Jength established among al! the nations and branches of the human family. And his is an empire that will last, and a reward that shall not pass away.

It would be an iusult to the understanding of our readers —versed as we must suppose them to be in a matter of such vital interest—to enlarge upon the different steps of the investigation by which Professor Holloway succeeded in demoustrating that all maladies took their rise in an organic impurity of blood. He did discover it; and by discovering, ‘in addition, one single combination of herbs capable of res- toring the b'ood to purity, arrived at that Universal Remedy which, though dreamed of, and believed in, and hoped for by ‘the wise men of all former ages, had never before been realised ‘in the test of universal practice. Great indeed, is the reward ‘of the learned and indefatigable physician : the prayers of the | saved accompanying him through life—and r gratitude will have gone before him when om the scene which his genius and philan-

thropy have so largely contributed to improve. The reward ‘of practical benevolence is an imperishable crowa,— Washing-

garet owed her life, perhaps her reason. |‘ to provide her with a philter which should gain her the love ton Democrat,

cued sufferer, the still smal) voice of an approving conscience,

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| New york, Dee. 16.—Watken's sicK AND WOUNDED ; . . ° ATTACKED BY THE NatIvEes.—A private letter from Nicaragua

says :—The sick and wounded with the women and children

who were at Granada before its destruction, were, to the number of 150, conveyed to the sland of Ometepe, in the lake, where they suffered dreadful privations for some days, and were then surprised and attacked by the natives. Some thirty escaped, but there are fearful apprehensions as to the fate of the remainder.

The news from Nicaragua is very important, and very contradictory in its character, According to the general tone of the New Orleans despatch, Walker has been successful in all his movements; but by a despatch received from Charles- ton, and published this morning, the Centaal Americans had driven him from post to post, leaving him at last accounts in a desperate and critical condition,

That Walker’s condition is a critical one is evident, and it has been made so by the foolish quarrels among the chief fillibusters. Instead of combinding aud sustaining the cause they are all interested in, they are attacking each other, and wasting both time and opportunity, They are throwing away an empire and a century of progress.

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Tne Fire ar Mowrrear.—It is probable that the burning of the Episcopal Caurch in this city was occasioned by the stoves that heated the Church being placed near the so-called lath and plaster purtitioa with which the stone walls of the building was incased, leaving a vacuum of a few inches ; the stones themselves being in equally close proximity to the parti- tion. The Church was used by the Choir, who excercised about two hours prior to the breaking out of the fire. ‘The amounts insured are: on the Church, £25,000 ; Clock, £100 ; Organ, £1500; Bell, £200. The adjoining property owiied by Mr. Musson was insured for upwards of £19,000, but his loss is not nearly as much,

Marryrvom or A Misstonany 1x Cruna.--A most audacious and horrible murder has been perpetrated by the Chinese authorities, in the province of Kwangssi, on Rev. M. Chap- delaine, a Roman Catholie Misionary, who was supposed to be inciting tie people to rebellion. He was seized by the authorities, and received ove hundred blows on the jaw from the sole of as hoe ; three hundred blows were then administer- ed witha rattan, and the blood of a dog spriukled over hin. He suffered intensely from these outrages for five days, when

amused themselves by throwing stones at it un Tbe Mandarin soldiers took the body, opened it, heart, cut it into pieces, fried it aud ate it, in the belief that they would thus be rendered invincible in : A Chinese Christian, a widow twenty-three years of age, who had been employed by the Missionary in teaching, was put to death after him, and all those openly known in the neigh- borhood as Christians, have had their property confiscated, and have becu thrown into prison.

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Burrato, Dee, 15,.—A_ severe gale commenced here yesterday forenoon and continued until a late hour last night. {t was accompanied with frequent squalls of rain, hail and snow. Great damage was done to buildings » The Canada dock, with Walker & Uo.’s warehouse, was entirely destroyed. Several buildings were unroofed{ and otherwise damaged, The water rose this afternoon and flooded the docks, entering the cellars in the lower part of the city, Many buildings were blown down in all parts of the city. Two of the turrets of the Lafayette St. Church wereblown over during the service yesterday morning, and a portion of the roof broken in, and the building sustained other damage. Fortunately no one was hurt. The track of the Niagara Falls Lake Shore R. R. is torn up for a distance of half a mile, aud the embankment is washed away. Communication will be interrupted for several days. ‘The gale was the most severe that we have experienced for years,

Revovrep Revinemenr or tue Loxp Ligvrenant.--A report which is circu'ating in Dublin of an intention to remove the Earl of Carisle from the Vice-royalty, is not received with favour by any party. There has never been a Lord-Lieutenant in Lreland so universally popular, aud bis withdrawal would be viewed with very general regret. "The Northern Whig, referring to the report on this subject, says:—* We sincerely hope that imbecility is not so universal among Whig Peers as to render Lord Carlisle indispensible to the House of Lords. It might be an excellent thing to get rid of the vice-regal shain iu Ireland ; bet, while we are to have a Lord-Lieutenant, it would be well to have J ord Carlisle. Men might be easily be found to serve the Whig party better than Lord Carlisle has served it. Weknow, however, of uo other man who, in the same office, has served Ireland so well; aud the fact of his popularity here ought to have some weight in Lord Palmerston’s arrangement to provide a head for these illustrious noblemen who are the British Government in the House of Lords. Lord Palmerston thinks that as there is nothing for a Lord-Lieutenant to do in Ireland, one man will answer the purpose as well as another; but Lord Carlisle has a graceful way of doing nothing and saying nothing, in which he excels all mavkind.”

Nicaracua.—New York, Dec. 25th.—The steamship Tennessee suiled this afternoon for Nicaragua, without hindrance from the authorities. She took out a large number of passengers and a bountiful supply of provisiuns fur Walker’s army.

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Tur Stave Panic.--A Tennessee paper says Senator Bell will lose $10,000 by the slave pavie. tour of’ his negroes were hung in his absence by the local courts, and five more by the mob, without judge or jury.

The Sioux burned a Chippewa Indian to death near Glencoe, Minnesota, on the 23d ult., in revenge for the murder of Dakota women last year. The Chippewa met ali the horrid torture inflicted on him with indifference. He was burned at a slow fire, and lingered several hours,

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In the Public Library of Uoston, there have been 82,66 books borrowed during the year-—Jaily average 201—during 5 working hours. The widow ef Dr. Amos Binney, of Boston, has offered to deposit in the Library of the Natural

| History Society of that City, 1000 volumes of the 4)r.’s

Library in that department—some 400 different Avorks, many of them very rare.

| A snow storm, during the first week in Decen’ er. blocked | UP some of the railroads in Wisconsin and now er s with drifts of six or ten fect in depth. g#ic | stopped for uearly a week.

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he was decapitated, his head hung to a tree, and the boys