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              terms two dollars per annum in advance a ivertisementa inserted at 1 peraquare for tlie first , j 23 cents for each raibseqoeb insertion court or ers charged 25 per cent higher from tin library of ch ■■-' rcadiog jovinian the proud emperor in the davs of oid when lhe empire of j,e world was in the hands of the lord ol dome jovinian was emperor oft as he ; a « on his couch and mused upon hispow ; . r ' u j wealth liis heart was elated be ynj measure and be said with himself • verily there is no other god than me it happened on '' morning after lie had jus said unto himself lhat the emperor ir0 sp and summoning his huntsmen and jg friends hastened lo chase the wild • j f fr of the forest the chase was long ind swift and the sun was high in the jeavens when jovinian reined up his ) 0 rseon iln bankofaclear bright stream hat ran through the fertile country on which his palace stood allured by the refreshing appearance of the stream he bade his attendants abide still whilst he sought a secluded pool beneath some wil lows where he might bathe unseen the emperor hastened to lhe pool cast r.il his garments and revelled in the re freshing coolness of ihe waters bui whilst he thus bathed a person like to iim in form in figure and in voice ap iroached the river's hank arraying him self unperceived in ihu imperial garments nnd then sprang on jovinian's horse and ode to meet the huntsmen who deceived iy the likeness and the dress obeyed his ommands and followed their new em peror to the palace gates jovinian at length quitted the water tnd sought in every direction for his ap parel and his horse bur could not find them he called aloud for his attendants but they heard him not being already in attendance on lhe false emperor and jovinian regarded bis nakedness and said miserable man that i am to what a stale am 1 reduced ! win her shall i go who will receive me in this plight ' i bethink me there a is knight hereabouts whom i have advanced to great honor i will seek him and with his assistance regain my palace and punish the person whu has done me this wrong naked and ashamed jovinian sought tlie gale of ihe knight's castle and knock ed loudly at the u icket who ait thou and what dost thou seek asked the porter without unclos ing the gale •* open open sirrah !" replied the em peror with redoubled knoekson the wicket i'i the u une oi wonder friend who jit ihou .'" said the old porter as he open id lire gate and saw the strange ligure ol ihe emperor before the threshold " w ho am j askest thou sirrah ? 1 am iheemperor go tell ihy master jovin itn is at his gate and bid him bring forth a horse and sum garments to supply those lhat / have been deprived of rascal rejoined the porter — ihou the emperor why the emperor but just now rode up to the castle with all hisat lendants and honored my master by sit ting with him at meat in the great hall thou lhe emperor a very pretty empe ror indeed ; faugh i'll tell my master what you say and be will soon find out wheth er you are mad drunk or a thief the porter greatly enraged went and told his lord how thai a naked fellow stood at thi gate calling himself the emperor and demanding clothes and a good sleed bring the felhm in said ihe knight so ihey brought in jovinian and he blood before lhe lord of the castle and a gam declared himself to be the emperor jovinian loud laughed lhe knight to lhe emperor what ihou my hud the emperor art mad good fellow come give him nn old cloak it will keep him from lhe flies '• yes sir knight replied jovinian i am thy emperor who advanced thee to great honor and wealth and will shortly punish ihee for thy present conduct scoundrel !" said the knight now en laced beyond all bounds traitor thou the emperor ay of beggars and fools why.did not my lord but lately sit wiih me in my hall and taste of my poor cheer and did not he bid me ride with him to his palace-gate whence j am but now re turned .' fool i pitied thee before now see thy villainy go turn the fellow out and lloj him from the castle-ditch to the river-side ami the people did as the kni c ht com manded ihem so when they ceased from fogging lhe emperor he sat him down on the grass am ] covered him with the tat tered robe and communed on his own wretchedness " oh my god t said jovinian for he low thought of other gods but himself is it possible that 1 have come to such a state of misery and that through the in gratitude of one whom 1 have raised so ugh . ann as hp t h us spoke he thought aot of his own ingratitude to his god fcrough whom alone all princes reign and live and now he h-,,,,,1,.,1 ,„. „ ..... , , oaea over vengeance — ay said he as | 1 . r„i i . „ . .* . . , , •' " he sore weals nn his back jrom lhe scourging • v i ill be avenged when he i he shall know thai he who gives can a'so ake away come i will seek the e ood auke my ablest counsellor ; he will know his sovereign and gladly aid him i his calamity and wnh these thoughts he yapped his cloak round him and sought he house of the good duke jovinian knocked at the gate of the jwes palace and lhe porter opened the ket and seeing a half-clothed man a-*ed him why h knocked and who he as friend replied the emperor i am 2jmm i have ben robbed of my jwh whilst bathing and am now with h 0r ? pa s;u hls ni - , ' l d * lk ' *'•<-• no here 5 le " the duke tlie emperor is th porter - more and more astonished the carolina watchman bruner & james ) r , n . . } keep a check utoh all tour l,dilors 5f proprietors \ is safe .*- ■» d ™, .,„,.„,.„ \ new seriest gen'l harrison £ number 27 of volume iii salisbury n c friday october 30 1846 at lhe emperor's words sought his mas ter and delivered joviniau's message to him " bring in the poor man said the duke ; ■- perad venture he is mad so i hey brought jovinian into the duke's r<*at hall and the duke looked on him hut knew him not and when jovinian reiterated his story and spoke angrily un to the duke he pitied him poor mad fellow said the good duke " i have just now returned from lhe palace where i left the very emperor thou assumest to lie take him to lhe guard-house per haps a lew day's close confinement on bread and water may cool his heated brain go poor fellow i pity thee so the servants did as iheir lord com manded and they fed jovinian on bread and water and after a time turned him out of the castle ; for he still said he was the emperor sorely and bitterly did the emperor weep and bewail his miserable late when the servants drove him from the castle , gate alas alas he exclaimed in his misery what shall i do and whither shall i resort ? even the good duke knew me not but regarded me as a poor mad man come i will seek my own palace and discover my sel i to my wife surely she will know me at least " who art thou poor man asked the king's porter of him when he stood before ihe palace-gate and would have entered iu '* thou oughtest to know me replied jovinian seeing thou hast served me these fifteen years " served you you dirty fellow rejoined the porier " i serve the emperor serve | ' you indeed !" i am the emperor dost ihou not : know me ? come my good fellow seek \ the empress and bid her by the sign of the three moles on the emperor's breast i send me here ihe imperial robes which ! some fellow stole whilst 1 was balhing ila ha ! fellow well you are roy i ally mad why the emperor is at dinner wilh his wife well well i'll do thy bid ding if it he hut to have the whipping of thee alterwards for an impudent madman j three moles on the emperor's breast ! j how royally thou shalt be beaten my j friend ' when lhe porter told the empress whal | lhe poor madman at the gate had said 1 she held down her head and said with a sorrowful voice unro her lord " my good ; lord and king here is a fellow at ihe pal ace-gale that hath sent unto me and bids | me by ihose secret signs known only to ihou and me to send him the imperial robes and welcome him as my husband and my sovereign \\ hen the fictitious emperor heard this | he bade the attendants bring in jovinian and lo as he entered the hall the great ; wolf-hound that had slept at his feet for years sprang from his lair and would have pulled him down had not the atten ! dants prevented him ; whilst the falcon that had sat on his wrist in many a fair day's hawking broke her jesses and hew out of the hall : so changed was jovinian the emperor " nobles and friends said the new em i peror " hear ye what i will ask of this man and the nobles bowed assent whilst the emperor asked of jovinian his name and his business with the empress " askest thou me who i am and where fore j am come ?" replied jovinian " am not i thy emperor and the lord of this house and ihis realm ?" " these our nobles shall decide re plied ihe new king " tell me now which of us twain is your emperor v and the nobles answered wilh one ac cord : " thou dost trifle wilh us sire can we doubt that thou art our emperor whom we have known from his childhood ! as lor this base fellow we know not who he : s and with one accord the people cried out against jovinian lhat ho should be punished on this the usurper turned to the em press of jovinian tell me said he on thy true faith k no west thou this man who calls himself emperor of this realm ?" and the empress answered u good mv lord have not thirty years passed since i firsi knew thee and became lhe mother of our children ? why asl;est ihou me of this fellow ? and yet it doth surprise me how he should know what none save you and i can know v then the usurper turned to jovinian and with a harsh countenance rebuked his presumption anil ordered the execu tioners to drag him by the feet by horses until he died this said he before all his court ; but he sent his servant to the jail er and commanded him to scourge jovin ian ; and for this once to sit him iree the deposed emperor desired death — '• \\ hy said he to himself " should i now live my friends my dependants yea e v n the partner of my bed shuns me and i am desolate among hose whom my bounties have raised come i will seek the u i p r j est jo whom i so often have laid open my most secret faults of a surety he wilt remember me now the good priest lived in a small cell nigh to a chapel about a stone's cast from the palace gate ; and when jovinian knocked the priest being engaged in read ing answered from within •• who is there why troubles thou me i " i am the emperor jovinian ; open the , window i would speak to thee replied the fugitive immediately the narrow window of the | cell was opened and the priest looking out saw no one save the poor half-clothed jovinian " depart from me thou ac ! cursed thing cried the priest ; " thou art not our good lord the emperor but the foul fiend himself the great tempter " alas alas !" cried jovinian ■** to what fate am i reserved lhat even my own good priest despises me ah me i be i think me — in the arrogance of my heart i called myself a god : tbe weight of my sin is grievous unto me father good fa iher hear the sins of a miserable peni ■ tent gladly did lhe priest listen to jovinian and when he had told him all his sins tbe good priest comforted the penitent and assured him of god's mercy if his re pen ; tance was sincere and so it happened that on this a cloud seemed to fall from before the eyes ol the priest ; and when i he again looked on jovinian he knew him to be lhe emperor and he pitied him ! clothing him with such poor garments as '■ he had and went with him to the palace j gate the porter stood in the gateway and i as jovinian and the priest drew near he ! made a lowly obeisance and opened the ! gate for the emperor " dost thou know j me asked the emperor very well my lord replied the ser vant but i wish that you had not left the palace so jovinian passed on to the hall of his palace ; and as he went all the nobles rose and bowed to the emperor ; for the j usurper whs in another apartment and the nobles knew again the face of jovin ian but a certain knight passed into the pre sence of the false emperor " my lord said he " there is one in tbe great hall to whom all men bow for he so much re semble h you that we know not which is the emperor then said the usurper to the empress go and see if you know this man oh my good lord said the empress when she returned from the hall " whom can 1 believe ? are there then two jo vinian s ;" i will myself go and determine re ! joined the usurper as he took the empress by ihe hand and leading her into the great hall and placed her on the tlyone beside himself kinsfolk and nobles said the usur per " by lhe oaths ye have sworn deter j mine between me and this man and the empress answered " let me as in duty bound speak first heaven be my witness i know not which is my lord and husband and all the nobles said the same thereupon the feigned jovinian rose and spake : " nobles and friends hearken ! that man j is your emperor and your master hear i ye him ; know that he did exalt himself above that which was right and made himself equal unto god verily he hath been rewarded ; he hath suffered much indignity and wrong and of god's will ye knew him not ; he hath repented of his grievious sin and the scourge is now re moved ; he has made such satisfaction as man can make hear ye him obey him as the feigned emperor thus addressed i the astonished nobles bis features seemed | illuminated with a fair and spiritual light his imperial robes fell from off him and i be stood confessed before the assembly an angel of god clothed in white raiment i and as he ended his speech he bowed his head and vanished from their sight jovinian returned to his throne and for three years reigned with so much mercy and justice that his subjects had no cause to regret the change of their emperor — ■ and it came to pass after the space of ' three years the same angel appeared to him in a dream and warned him of his death so jovinian dictated his troublous j life to his secretaries that it might remain ' as a warning unto all men against world ly pride and an incitement to the perfor mance of our religious duties and when he had so done he meekly resigned him self and fell asleep in death doings of the mob in nauvoo — if the ac counts from this unfortunate city be true — and | ihey are from ami mormons — the existing state of things are to be deprecated by every citizen many f those who participated in the doings about nauvoo are censuring in strong terms the conduct of that portion of the mob who remain in the city of nauvoo the driving off the new citizens and lefusing to suffer them to return — the ducking iu the river of whom ihey please — the breaking open of houses and ransacking them — the searching of inhabited houses c to say nothing of the report of robberies has completely cured some of their strung sympa thies for the mobocrats it is said wilh what degree of truth we know not that gov ford is about to interfere and put an end to mob rule iu thai devoted city dcr monterey now in possession of gen taylor is the capital of the state of new leon it is on the fernando riv er about 220 miles from its mouth it has well-paved streets and mostly one story stone buildings the population is about 12,000 and the city s situated on the main travelling route from the rio grande to the city of mexico treaty with the winnebagoes the delegation of winnebago indians hav ing at length concluded a treaty with the uni ted states commissioners have departed fur their homes the general provisions of lhe treaty as stated by the union are as follows : j the winnebagoes quit claim to the united states all the territory which they now inhabit and to which they have the full title of occupan cy this tract embraces about 1.500,000 acres in addition to this the indians cede all the title which they claim lo between 2.000.000 and 3,000,000 of acres more being the right to use the same as a bunting ground this treaty wiih that entered into last spring wilh the pot tawatamies extinguishes all indian title what : soever to lands comprehended in the new state of iowa the indians are to remove from the lands thus ceded within one year whatsoev er obstacles their presence might therefore pre sent lo the growth of lhe population and the i development of the resources of the state ofi iowa are thus effectually removed " in consideration of this cession of lands on the part of the indians the government of the united stales undertakes to assign lo them a i suitable iract of land west of the mississippi for their new homes of the fund which the treaty stipulates to be paid to them a very considera ' ble proportion is by lhe terms of the treaty to be expended under the direction of the presi dent for their improvement iu the arts and oc cupations of cizilized life a sum is set apart : for the establishment of manual labor and schools among them to maintain these es tablishments among the different tribes some 8,000 per annum are we believe already ap j propriated by the treaties of 1832 and 1837 — the additional allowance made fir this object i by the present treaty will secure to the winne j bagoes great facilities for education and im j provement a portion of the fund is also set ! apart for the purpose of breaking up and fenc ing the ground in the new territory to which the indians are to remove a commencement ! of agricultural operations will thus be made a mong ihem which it is hoped they may be in duced lo continue another considerable por tion of the consideration money named in the treaty is to remain in the hands of the govern ment at an interest of five per cent to be paid annually to the indians for their use and bene fit through a period of thirty years indeed through all the provisions of the treaty the pur pose has been kept steadily in view so to pay ' and distribute the sum stipulated to lhe indians for their lands as best to secure their comforta j ble subsistence and to open to them as far as possible opportunities for improvement general kearney the albany argus says — " the conquest of new mexico — we ! published yesterday the proclamation of com sloat of the u s naval force in the pacific and we follow it to-day with the i proclamation of gen kearney general in-chief of the u s army in new mexico and now the declared governor of that i new american territory " these are documents of the highest interest and importance those who read them — and who will not — will perceive that they not only place these important movements on the true ground but are conceived and uttered in a right spirit — the largest immunities and rights of citi zenship — the perfect enjoyment of every civil and religious privilege — are guaran tied to the people ot new mexico and they enter the union upon the basis of equality and justice which is so clear and significant a feature of a democratic form of government so ! they have entered the union have they ? we should be glad to know on what terms whether as states or as ter ritories ; and under what clause of the constitution with regard to that instru ment it was a fundamental rule with the democrats of 98 that whatever power was not expressly given was tacitly with held " alois nous avon change tout cela as moliere's doctor said when his patient told him he thought the heart was on the left side " it used to be so ; but wc meaning the dis of the new school to which we belonged " have altered all that we are somewhat old-fashioned and do not exactly understand the new readings of the constitution one clause reserves to congress the power of admitting new states do general kearney and com modore sloat according to new construe i tion claim to be congress — rich whig rum-selling brings sorrow and trouble — a tavern keeper in rensselaer co new york had abandoned the traffic in alcohol after hav ing been several years engaged in it when ever the subject of his selling liquor was refer red to he was observed to manifest feelings of deep regret and sorrow a friend one day in quired the cause : i will tell you said he and opening his account book he said **** here are forty-four names of men who have all been toy custtaners most of them fir years — ibirty-lwoof ibese inert lo my certain knowledge now lie in the drunk ard's grave ! ten of the remaining twelve are now living confirmed sots 1 hese are the fruits of this dreadful and degrading business who would be willing to engage in it for the paltry wages of a few pence ! can a man fol low his traffic and he a christian ? 03 potatoes are brisk at buffalo at twenty cents the bushel a price that completely puts at rest all rumors of short crops in that neighbor hood the same article was selling at ban gor a few days since at fifty-five cents a bushel facts in natural history by professor mapes i mention these facts only in the hope of showing lhat there is pleasure in studying the sciences and when we come to natural history we shall find the study of that still more amus ing the animal and vegetable worlds are well worthy of observation probably you all know what is meant by a cycloid if we make a spot on the periphery of a wheel travelling on a plane the figure which that spot describes is cycloid now there is no fi gllre j n v.hicb a body can be moved with so much velocity and such regularity of speed not even lhe straight line mathematicians discovered ihis not ma ny years ago ; but nature's god taught it to the eagle before mathematics were invented ami when the eagle pounces on his prey he de scribes the figure of a cycloid a globe placed in water or in air in moving meets with resistance and its velocity will be retarded if you alter the globe to the form of an egg there will be less resistance and then there is a form called the solid of least resist ance which mathematicians studied for many years to discover ; and when they had discov ered it they found they had the form of a fish's head ! nature had " rigged out " the fish with just such a figure the feathers of birds and each particular i part of them are arranged at such an angle as to be most efficient in assisting flight the hu man eye has a mirror,'on which objects are re flected and a nerve by which these reflections are conveyed to the brain and thus we are en abled to take an interest in the objects which pass before the eye now when the eye is too convex we use one kind of glasses to correct the fault ; and if it be not convex enough or if we wish to look at objects at a different dist ance we use glasses of entirely another descrip tion but as birds cannot get spectacles provi dence has given them a method of supplying the deficiency they have the power of contract ing the eye of making it more convex so as to see the specks which float in the atmosphere and catch them for food and also of flattening the eye to see a great distance and observe whether any vulture or other enemy is threaten ing to destroy them in addition to ihis they have a film or coating which can suddenly be thrown down over the eye to protect it ; be cause at the velocity at which they fly and with the delicate texture of their eye the least speck of dust would act upon it as a penknife thrust into the human eye this film is to protect the eye and the same thing exists to some extent in the eye of a horse the horse has a large eye very liable to take dust this coating in the horse's eye is called the haw or third eye lid and if you will watch closely you may see it descend and return wiih electric velocity it clears away the dust and protects the eye from injury if the eye should catch cold the haw hardens and projects and ignorant persons cut it off and thus destroy this safeguard you all know if you take a pound of iron and make of it a rod a foot long what weight it will support but if it be a hollow rod it will sup port a weight many times greater than before nature seems to have taken advantage of this also long before the mathematicians had discov ered it and all the bones of animals are hollow the bones of birds are large because they must be strong to move their large wings with such velocity ; but they must also be light in order lo , float easily on the air birds also illustrate an other fact in natural philosophy if you take a bag make it air tight and put it under water it will support a large weight say a hundred pounds but twist it or diminish the air in it and it will support no such weight now a bird has an air bag when he wishes to descend he compresses it and falls rapidly ; when he would lise he increases it and floats with ease he also has the power of forcing air into the hollow parts of the body and thus to assist his flight the same thing may be observed in fishes they also have an air bag to enable them to rise or sink in the water till they find their proper temperature if they wish to rise they increase it ; if they wish to sink they compress it and down they go sometimes the fish in sinking makes too strong an effort to compress his air bag and bursts it ; then down he goes to the bottom and there re mains for the rest of his life flounders and some other fish have no air bag and so ibey are never found swimming on the surface but must always be caught on the bottom in this way are the principles of science ap plied to almost every thing you wish to know how to pack the greatest amount of bulk in the smallest space the forms of cylinders leave large spaees between ihem mathematicians labored for a long lime to find what figure could be used so as to lose no space ; and at last found that it was the six-sided figure and also lhat three planes ending in a point formed the strong est roof or floor the honey bee discovered the same things a good while ago honey comb is made up of six-sided figures and the roof is built wilh three plane surfaces coming to a point if a flexible vessel be emptied of air its sides will be almost crushed together by lhe pressure of the surrounding atmosphere and if a tube partly filled with fluid be emptied of its air the ■ fluid w,,l rise to the lop the lee understands this : and when he comes to the cup of the tall honeysuckle and finds that he cannot reach ihe sweet matter at the bottom he thrusts i n his body shuts up the flower and then cxhiu.su the air and so possesses himself of ihe dust and honey of the flower the feet of flies ar.d hzards are constructed on a similar principle and ihey thus walk with ease on glass or a ceil mg their feel are made so as to create a va cuiim beneath them and so they have the pres sure of the atmosphere fifteen pounds to the square inch to enable them to hold on the cat has the same power to a less extent plants require the sunlight and some flowers turn themselves toward lhe sun as it travels round from east to wot the sunflower does this and so does a field of clover these facts though we have not yet got at the reason of them are still extremely interesting all know thai if a hollow ball be filled with a gas lighter lhan the air it will rise and float away this fact is beautifully carried out in nature the farina or impregnating dust of plants are little balls extremely thin and filled with light gas they are blown olf from the plant and by tailing upon tlie female plant impregnates it nature has so arranged it lhat the unctuous matter which causes the impre noting parts of plants to attach lo others never occurs at precisely the same time in male and female plants thus if the farina from the male plant hit lhe mule it does not aiihere : but if it hit lhe female it does atlach ; the balls burst but they are fastened and take effect this impregnation often takes place many yards distant in raising indian corn you must all have noticed that a single hill of red corn will be scattered to a long distance through the whole the virginia creeper throws out tendrils in the form of a foot with five toes ; each toe has a large number of hairs or spine which enter tering tbe small openings of brick or lime swell and hold on ; but when decaying they shrink and ihe plant falls off the vanilla plant of the west indies exhibits a similar construction ex cept th.tt il winds itself around other objects the gastric juice is worthy of remark it is a tasteless colorless inodorous limpid fluid like water and is adapted in different animals to different purposes in the hyena and other car niverous animals it will dissolve live flesh but will dissolve dead flesh these creatures then live upon other animals and even bones are so luble in their gastric juice while it will not dis solve vegetables at all on the other hand some animals live entirely on vegetables and their gastric juice will not dissolve animal mod we cannot alter the nature of an animal by changing ils food it will still belong lo the family in this particular bees are better in structed when they lose their queen bee — if you present another to them within twenty four hours they will not accept of her nor obey her they prefer taking an ordinary grub be fore it has become a flier and feeding it with a particular food and treating it in a peculiar way ; and when il leaves the grub state it be comes a queen bee and they always suffer themselves to be governed by lur the habits of ants are extremely curious — we all have heard of ant houses sometimes twenty feet in diameter filled with halls and rooms of great size and strength these and beaver dams are constructed upon strictly me chanical principles in some insect species the male have wings while lhe females have none this is the case with the glow-worm and the female has the pro perty of emitting a phosphorescent light and were it not for this the gentleman glow-worm would never find the way to his lady's cham ber the ostrich like the cherubim is not provided with lhe means of sitting down she cannot therefore hatch her eggs but buries ; them in lhe hot sand and leaves nature o hatch them for her some birds build no nests ; like i the cuckoo which deposites her eggs in the nests of other birds : but she knows enough al ways lo select the nesls of birds that have bills i shaped like her own for then she is assured her j young will have lhe same kind of food as she herself would procure a relic of the " pirate of the gulf we are informed by a friend of ours who has just returned from a pleasure excur sion to coilloo and adjacent islands on our sea coast that one of his men whilst engaged in hunting on the above named island perceived at a distance something protruding above the ground and after approaching and removing the sand it proved to be a quarter cask which from being imbedded in the earth was rather difficult to move the finder's imagina tion was at once raised to the highest pitch — he fancied that it was filled with gold and had been buried there by lafitte and his piratical crew ; be was so over joyed that he exclaimed '* it is better to be born lucky than a millionaire and the very grains of sand seemed changed into particles of gold he rushed to the camp and informed his companions of his good fortune who in company with him return ed to the spot and after examining the cask found it to contain a prime article of old madeira and although disappoint ed in their real hopes yet by tbe refined influence of the wine on their imagina tions they very soon come to the conclu sion that the v were as rich as croesus we speak knowingly of the cpjabtiesof the wine having had a taste of the " crit ter and from its oleaginous nature have no doubt but it was put there some thirty years ago by the pirate lafitte it was '{ ou nd in the middle of the island where it could not have been thrown by the sea galveston news