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MC. 17. 



MOORE'S EUSAL NEW-YOEK3SR. 



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Spice from Nero Books. 



tbe North American 

 Indians. The attainment of aocb reputation is 

 the paramount and absorbing object of tbel 

 lives , all their aspirations for distinction invarii 

 blj take Ihij channel of expression. A young 

 man is never considered worthy to occupy a seal 

 in council until he has encountered an enemy il 

 battle; and ho who can count the greatest numbei 

 of scalps is the most highly honored by hia tribe. 

 Tiii-i idM i» inculcated from their earliest infancy 

 [t m doI surprising, therefore, that, with sucb 

 weighty inducements before him, the young man 

 who, as yet, baa gained no renown as a brave 

 or warrior, should be li 

 attacks than older men who have already acquired 

 a name. The youDg braves should, therefore, be 

 clOMly watched when encountered on the Plain) 

 Tho prairie tribes are seldom at peace with a 

 hbotq, ant some of the young bravest 

 a Inbo are almost always absent upon a wi 

 excursion. These forays sometimes extend iot 

 Hi.' heart of the northern states of Mexico, whci 

 tli'- I mlnms hare carried on successful invasion 

 for many years. They have devastated an 



I u great portion of Sonora an 

 The objects of these forays are t 



i and mules, and to take prison en 



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uoucccssiul in the accoroplisbmeDt ol these ends, 

 "i has had the misfortune to lose some of its nnm- 

 oer in battle, they become reckless, and will often 

 attack a small party with whom they are not at 

 war, prorided they hope to escape detection. The 

 disgrace attendant upon a return to their friends 

 without some trophies as an offset to the loss of 

 their comrades is a powerful inccntire to action, 

 and they cxlend but little mercy to defenseless 

 travelers who have the misfortune to encounter 

 them at such a conjuncture. 

 llcoting Indians on the Plains, 



A .-'i a i.i. number of white men, in traveling 

 upon the Plains, should not allow a party of 

 strange Indians to approach them unless able to 

 resist an attack under the most unfavorable cir- 



It is a safo rule, when a man finds himself alone 

 in the prairies, and sees a party of Indians 

 approaching, not to allow them to come near him, 

 and if tbey persist in eo doing, to signal them to 

 keep away. If they do not obey, and he be 

 mounted upon a fleet horse, be should make for 

 the nearest timber. If the Indians follow and 

 press him too closely, he should turn around, and 

 point his gun at the foremost, which will often 

 have the effect of turning them back, but he 

 should never draw trigger unless be finds that his 

 Hfo depends upon Ibe shot; for, as soon as his 

 shot is delivered, his sole dependence, unless he 

 have time to reload, must be upon tbespeed of his 

 horse. 





angers these people put 

 their horses at full speed, and persons not fan: d- 

 iar with their peculiarities and habits might inter- 

 pret this as an act of hostility ; but it is their cus- 

 torn with friends as well as enemies, and should 

 not occasion groundless alarm. 



When a party is discovered approaching thus, 

 and arc near enough to distinguish signals, all 

 that is necessary in order to ascertain their dispo- 

 sition is to raise the right hand with the palm in 

 front, and gradually push it forward and back 

 several times. They all understand this to be 

 a command to halt, urn! if they are not hostile it 

 will be at once obeyed. 



After tbey have stopped the right hand is raised 

 again as before, and slowly moved to the right and 

 left, which signifies " I do nol know you. Who 

 are you i" As the wild tribes have their peculiar 

 pantomimic siguals by which they are known, 

 they will then answer the inquiry by giving their 

 bignal. If this should not be understood, they 

 may be asked if they are friends by raising both 

 bauds grasped iu the manner of shaking hands, 

 or by locking the two fore fingors iirmly while the 

 hands are held up. If friendly, they will respond 

 wi*'' the same signal; but if enemies, they will 



against tho forehead, a 

 forth while in that position. 



The pantomimic vocabulary is understood by all 

 the i'i.um.' Indians, and when oral communication 

 is ineradicable jt constitutes the court or general 

 counnl language of the Plains. The signs are 

 exceedingly graceful and significant; and, what 

 wag a fact of much astonishment to me, I discov- 

 ered they were rcrj nearly the Same as those prac- 

 ticed by the mutes iu the deaf and dumb Schools, 

 !■!>. 1 bv them with pcrfeet 



Jerking Meat. 



■ i the atmosphere in thi 



■li meat may be cured, or 

 language of the 



"-■- i' into strips about an inch 



n the sun, where in a few 



■'■} -> «ai thai il ma T be pocked in 



it to jerk thi 

 alow process described, it may be 



by building on open frame-work of man 

 feet above the ground, j-iaci^ 



A)c Hcuiciucr. 



well a* geological MCttoov, and 

 manly etjle, verj rarely difJaae, 



»t'r[o<-ni..>L of Its statements an< 

 learner's knowledge and eipci 

 who understands tho subject, i 



some knowledge or plan's and animal*, 

 mineral*, i* riaenual, and is presented 1 

 diopters. " Palaeontology has become 



loant of price i. 



) orgsnlems or 

 ■ earl] 



lis being; 

 legist of 



Apartment, [icmo.-pp.34i).] New' 



iplorlog the Interior of the continent, far beyond 



r (ho work which be has so well accomplished, I 

 ' guiding the adventurous " voyager " across the i 

 ■t lying between our Western and the Pacific Sin 



proper and limelj initiation Into those minor detail 

 prairie craft, whlcb, however apparently unlmporl 



jee cf unccefs fur or against on enterprise. ' 

 object sought In the book is to explain tho 1 

 ods of performing the duties devolving upon 



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: FTR1 "--VI .7-::\f 



The principal routes are very plainly d 



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finely Illustrated, with engraviogs lb 



















d voyage," 







portion uf our country, should procure 





■ale by Steele, Avert ic Co. 





els and Poetry of Italy; Physical Qeogra 

 ; Teonyson's Idyls of the King; li. 



t by the 



cks about I 



i* strips of meat upon the top of it, a 



p a alow fire beneath, "bub dri 



ipidiy. 



"J ke t i, lltg 

 ■he i,„ JM 



The jerking process may be done on the march 

 .. loos of time by stretcbJu 

 r upon tl . m ■■■■'- ■■:' 

 "peuding the meat upon then 

 d to remain until sufficiently cured to be 

 peeked aw» T . Salt is never used in this process, 

 1 1 mrcd. s> the meat, if kept dry, rare- 

 putrefies -7\W Pnint Irw* , I 



THE OLIVE AND THE CEDAB. 



Onn distinguished Secretary of Stole, Lewis 

 Cass, delivered an address before the Agricultural 

 Society of Kalamatoo Co., Mich., from which we 

 make the following extracts : 



The Mount of Olives, which overlooks Jeru- 

 salem, derives its name from these trees, existing 

 there in the earliest ages, ond at its foot, divided 

 from it by the brook Kedron, is the garden of 

 Getbsemane, forever memorable as u scene of the 

 passion of our Savior. Eight olive trees, bearing 

 every mark of extreme age, are yet growing there, 

 and tradition has invested them with a sacred 

 character, as contemporaries of the life nud death 

 of Jesus Christ. No believer iu Christianity can 

 gaze upon tbem, as I have done, without feeling 

 the most powerful emotions— without feeling that 

 force of association which connects us with names 

 and deeds, long since passed away, when we stand 

 upon the places they have made immortal. The 

 world contains no such spot as this, where the 

 mission of the Redeemer was fulfilled, and where 

 he pronounced its termination in the declaration, 

 " It is nunon." 



Tas Cedar.— But the most Interesting relic 

 of the ancient vegetable creation, is to be round 

 upon one of the ridges of Lebanon, not far from 

 the renowned temple of Baalbec. It consists of 

 twelve gigantic cedars, the remains of the primi- 

 tive forests which once covered that great moun- 

 tain chain of Syria, and which yet rear their 

 heads, prodigies of vegetation, and each sur- 

 mouutedwith a dome of foliage, overshadowing 

 the spectator as in the time of biblical story. 

 One of them is forty-five feet in circumference, 

 and nil, both in size and height, tell the long ages 

 that have swept over them, leaving them the 

 most air i king natural monuments tbot the eye 

 can reat upon. What interesting associations 

 ind (hem! They bavc been conse- 

 crated by history, religion," and DMh 



1 u recorded by EzekieJ, and tbeir 

 cieellec.ee and perfume by Solomon, who placed 

 them at the he.d of vegetable creation, when he 



With this number we conclude our series of 

 sketches and engravings of Scenes in and about 

 the Holy City. Tbey have been pucliculorly valu- 

 able as illustrative of the Scriptures. The present 

 engraving shows the Turkieh Council Chamber, 

 containing the Royal Sarcophagus recently dis- 

 covered in theTombsof the Kings. Mrs. Jonxsos 

 visited it and made the drawing soon after tbe laic 

 war between Russia and Turkey, which ended at 

 the Crimea, became known at Jerusalem. This 

 war encouraged the wild tribes to acts of hostility 

 against the Turkish power, and kept the iobabi- 



chopter on this suhject, says: 



"I shall not soou forget the de«p anxiety and 

 dread we all experienced soon after war was 

 declared, when the fanatical spirit of the 1* ellnhiu 

 was first aroused. We had learned from the pro- 

 prietor of "the Tombs of the Kings," that a royal 

 sarcophagus had been discovered in oue of its 



recesses, a few years previous, and removed to the 

 Mechemeh, or Congressional Hall of Jerusalem, 

 now identified as occupying ibe site of the 

 "Council Chamber," or Sanhedrim. Permission 

 for a visit had been obtained from tbe proper 

 authorities, and I whs sittiog there taking n 

 sketch of the room and its contents, greatly 

 enjoying myself, wbeu the Rash Catib's servant 

 came running in, almost breathless, and with the 

 deepest anxiety depicted in bis countenance (for 



kindness), told us to flee for our lives— that the 

 Fellabin bad taken the city ! We accordingly fled 

 to our premises with all haste, nud barricaded the 

 doors as best we could. But before wo could 

 make sure our defence, he came running, with joy 

 lighting up his face, to inform us that though 



they had entered the city in large n 



were not armed, ond were being turned out 



rapidly as \<o-- bl 





discoursed of trees "from the cedars, which are 

 at Lebanon, even to the hyssop that spriogcth 

 out of the wall." Could these mute memorials 

 of bygone times tell the ecenes that have passed 

 in the shadow of tbeir foliage, what lessons of 

 power and instability might tbey not leach in tbe 

 long interval (hat has elapsed since these bills 

 resounded with the noise of the workman, prepar- 

 ing the timber for tbe Temple of Jerusalem, to 

 the solitude which establishes its dwelling places 

 where the Moslem plants his standard! 



I have worshiped in many of tbe high [daces 

 of the Old World— in the Cathedral of Christen- 

 dom, the Basilic of St. Peter, when the Sovereign 

 Pontiff, the head of the Catholic Church, minis- 

 tered at the altar; and though educated, as I have 

 been, in the simplicity of the Presbyterian faith, 

 yet I could not look upon the imposing solemni- 

 ties without feeling a reverential awe pats over 

 me, as though I were in the presence of Htm 

 whose visible glory descended upon the Temple 

 of Mount Moriab ; aud yet a naked Greek mass, 

 for it happened to bean annual fttt when I was 

 there, celebrated under the patriarch cedar, 

 before a rude altar of unwrought stone, by a poor 

 priest, surrounded by a little band of worshipers, 

 with the cliffs of Lebanon around them—this 



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DIARIES FOR 1860-OET BEADY. 



E 1 Bi I *LN.w-Yo«« -I w,,, much pleased 

 with the remarkaof your Fond du La. 

 ent in regard to a Diary for Young as well us old 

 Ruralists When t* n Tc4ri nf , b ft 



daily journal, which I U„ e hop, up lo Qt9pmmt 

 time. I was inspired wilt, & Mnl ,„ 

 perhaps, from two foots, , 



grand-father kept a daily record (J f wools, aud 

 also the impression made upou my atiad when 

 reading the "Farm Yard Journal" in " Evening, 

 at Home." Any boy who has rend the aboTe named 

 bookcannot but remember the simple, yet interest- 

 ing style of young Room. "The new born calf 

 found one morning in the barn -yard— (be rascally 

 sheep-dog "which committed such havoc among 

 the neighboring flocks, and yet made good bjfi 

 escape ;" and the laughable incident of the servant 

 Joseph being scared by the owls in (be "loft of 

 the old farm-house," are not easily forgotteo. 



in the summer of 1858, 1 rtallod lac mining 

 region of Luke Superior, and then "footed it" 

 across from Lea Point to the St. Croix, down 

 whiah stream I smoothly glided in a bircheu 

 csuos. After o short stay iii Si. Paul, I traveled 

 up the valley of the St. Peter's river. Again at 

 the capital of the territory, on the ; L, 1 



was prepared for a trip to Pembina, on Red 

 River of the North, and took up my line of march 

 thither iu company with QlO. 

 York. We arrived at the northern boundary of 

 our country on the Hth Oct., and tho next day 

 were off on a south west course for ibe plains, in 

 company with some half breeds und Indians. At 

 Devil's Lake we fell in with numerous herd* nf 

 buffalo. In this vicinity we bnd a grand bunt,— 

 and besides these denizens or the plain, the ponds 

 and lakes were literally coi-erd with while, brown. 



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l.fd.K 



■ustcd Ibe 



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primitu 



I dev< 



with 



:es upon my mind and memory 

 and which no subsequent event can e 



Peru.*.— A recent traveler, speaking of the Chi- 

 nese town of 1'ekin, and the first impression a 

 stranger receives on entering within the walls, 

 says : — " Once he bos passed under the ponderous 

 northern gate, measured the thickness of the stu- 

 pendous wall, and is fairly in Pekin, he will be 

 entirely bewildered; all before him is a confused 

 and dusty mass of colors, men, mules, cab3, hun- 

 dreds of camels, with tbe weary Mongols in their 

 once red gowns, enthroned and fast asleep on llieir 

 high summit; an immensity of wide, perfectly 

 straight and endless streets ; a living ocean of the 

 most degraded beggars, of cooks, barbers, blind 

 men beating upon kettledrums, orators delivering 

 speeches; then, right and left, brilliant shops, 

 cafes and hotels, surmounted by long poles of all 

 colors, wooden walls beautifully curved and gilt 

 over; in fact, it is a scene so unique iu the world 

 that no dream could ever be so eccentric." 



What Good Periodicals May Do.— Show us an 

 intelligent family where newspapers and periodi- 

 cals are plentiful. Nobody who has been without 



of the innumerable topics of di 

 they suggest at the breakfast table, tbe important 

 public measures with which, thus early, our chil- 

 dren become fomiliarly acquainted; great phi- 

 lanthropic questions of the day, to which uncon- 

 sciously tbeir attention is awakened, and the 

 general spirit of intelligence which is evoked 

 by these quiet visitors? 



Anything that makes home pleasant, cheerful 

 and chatty, thins the haunts of vice and the thou- 

 sand end one avenues of temptation, should cer- 

 nly be regarded, when we consider its influence 

 the minds of tbe young, us a great mora! and 

 :ial blessing.— UrmrtiHh 



MISCELLANEOUS ENIGMA 



a dLtllngulaned turgeon 



a many beautiful swans. la mid-winter I left 

 ' friend at Pembina, teaching the young 

 and traveled by dog train for St, Paul ; 

 I of the Mississippi and 

 ueu rivers, ana arrived home in January 

 Daring this voyageur life, my journal was not 

 neglected. The character of tho Siou\ warriors 

 tbeir inveterate enemy, the Chippewas, tho 

 gambling Winnebago, tho daring free, the easy 

 half-breed, the brave Pioneer, and the patient 

 Missionary— I say the character of each, is care- 

 fully portrayed. Every iucideut, physical geog- 

 raphy of the country, and the weather, even noted. 

 And now, after a day of toil and care, I can recall 

 some interesting scene, or hour of danger, by 

 merely turning the leaves of my Diary. As Mr. 

 Berry says, " I cannot estimate ita tm'e «l«, r 



Then, boys, try it. Buy you a book of— say 

 four hundred pages,— sine of an ordinary account 

 book. You must not take a dozen, or a hundred 

 sheets of fools cap. Suoh small pieces will accu- 

 mulate ou your bands and bo luoouvenieut to you. 

 Your style should not be as brief as that of friend 

 Ubrbier. The occupation of each hand, and 

 wktre employed, should be noted. Mark the 

 character of your prominent school-mates, or 

 friends— state your views of certain issues before 

 the people,— and note the remarkable events con- 

 cerning the "rest of mankind." It will be a great 

 pleasure for you, in years to come, to travel back 

 to days of boyhood, and know just what your 

 views were at that time. Have your book marked 

 by the Biudor;—" Diary No, 1, 1300," aod your 

 name also, if yon wish, on the back of the same. 

 Begin with the New Year and write a large, round 

 hand. Never fall into the hubit of tkaliwj with 

 your pen as does your humble servant. Don't 

 fail, boys or girls, to have all ready for the New 

 Year. You will never regret tbe step. j. r. 



Exausa uro AwniOAS Wufui-.— The different 

 uses of words in Eogloud and in this country are 

 interesting. Lvmbti; which with us is applied 

 to sawn timber, means trash in England When 

 we say boardt, tbe Englishman s*j 

 tuke laggagi on a journey, tbe Englishman only 

 Hggagl. Our ladies are fond of Jry good*, their 

 ten are equally devoted to 

 Tbe Yankee cries Go Ah<ad; the Britisher 

 says All Sight. The American travel, 

 the Englishman bjftht rail. The former sends a 

 ^.j,/,- the latter by the pott. Tbe 

 ias"a bureau in his bed chamber; the other 

 ' Bauer*. 



AELTHMETICAL QTJESTION 



ANSWER TO ENIGMAS, &c, IN NO. J17. 

 Answer to OeO«rapblcal Eulgma:-The Uklog o: 



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Sylva.n means woody, or abounding iu woods ; 

 pertaining to a wood or grove ; hence a book con- 

 taining a history of the forest trees of a country 

 is called its Sylva. "The woody land of Pens," 

 or Pennsylvania, was the namo given by tbo king 

 to the tract of land now forming the State of 

 Peunsjlvania when it was ceded to Penn. 



. Hi. AT P..M 



to pnUoaophlaal Q,nu> 



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Heat is imponderiibre. Weigh a piece of cold 

 iron* then beat it and weigh it again, and tbe 

 weight will be tb c same, Procort a cake of ice 

 and weigh i t ; then dissolve il aud weigh the water, 

 and it will be found precisely the same as the ice. 



Gov. Morgan visited thoBeouelear County Flair, 

 in this State, and mado a speech, in the course ol 

 which ho said: — "I have been a farmer— a gen- 

 uine, bard working farmer— and it is in the hope 

 that my voice will reach tbe ear of erery young' 

 man present, that I assert that there is not no In. 

 dividual in the County of Rensselaer who com 

 enced curlier, labored harder, and had fewer ad- 

 , i) luges than I, prior to the ago of seventeen; I 

 and if I hare obtained ant m 

 life, it is entirely owing to babila locul. 



e practiced, and leuons le-.r- 

 father's farm. 



Tuer.L's a great difference between honor and 

 honesty; ibe former, it is said, exists among 

 thieves, theluii 



comely co v. 



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