Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-08-26

,s,ya but slight chance for its victim either to
sscape or to inject its poison into his more alert
ontaoonjst The black snake is also more
than equal competitor against the rattle snake.
Snch is its celebrity of motion not only In run
ming. but in entwining itself round its victim,
dat the rattle snake has no way OF escaping
from its fatal embrace.
Wbsn the black and rattle snakes are about
- meet for battle, the former darts forward at
he height of his speed, and strikes at the neck
n the latter with nnerring certainty, leaving
tnot mr. two of the upper part OF his own body at
,Shertv In an instant he encircles him within
go or six folds, he then stops and looks the
s,ranged and gasping foe in the face to ascer-
,ain the effect produced upon his corsetted bo-
DIV. II he shows signs OF lie the coils are null
,iynIisd and the screws tightened-the operator
niI the while narrowly watching the countenance
&c tic helpess victim. Thus the two remain
thirty mr. forty minutes-the executioner then
sIacisns one coil noticing at the same time
,.%sther auy signs Of life appear-if SO the coil
y rsSnmed and retained until the incarcerated
.,no,cb is completely dead. The mocassin
lake IS destroyed in the same way.
,s.s,cb of the Minister to Russia.-William
wilkins was during the war bitter and proscrip-
80 ca1eralist He delivered an Grafton at that
,;o,o tneming with the vilest abuse of the patri-
80 Madison of the war, and of the sterling
nsn,ocracy OF that era. We have ourselves
.,sn hi, name signed to a circular addressed to
tho ooDonents Of the war throughout the State,
~" ""1 calling upon them for an ardent and organ
;nad imposition to that glorious struggle. SO
r,nrh for William wilkins Democracy!
H.. was friendly to the Bank, sustained it, ad-
,ocatcd it, voted for it; yet now is its violent OPP
pouent. a., ;,,o.,,.s
be was pledged to sustain.
lie was Tariff man. He presided over the
Tariff convention at New York. In taking his
seat he thus expressed his willingness to be
bnucht I'D by the opponents OF the Tariff
ali on other occasions in other stations, shall
heabe to make use of the information have
borrowed from YOU shall be truly happy. | will
add that shall never, hope, use ito overthrow
the interests or happiness of any section OF the
Union"
He was in 1892 the head of the party opposed
70 a National Convention. He ran on their
ticket against the " regular candidate" and de-
nounced National conventions as the worst poll
,ca evils with which the country could be affect
Ell Yet now he is strangely reconclled to them,
aud inins the Coliarmen in shouting hosannas
IN the candidate whom he but short time since
50 bitterly opposed. So much for his conSls-
trncy,
he was supported by the West, with un-
mer!,ed zeal and singular pertinacity, through
0ut the Whole OF AIS career: yet no sooner was
BE- in pnwc than, 10 secure further advance,
he ,acrhc, their interests, and sanctioned the
act which 1yolvcd Pittsburg in an almost ge
neral Iu.. much for his gratitude.
Phil Com. Intel.
There is a most admirable lesson contained in
the tlllowingextruc from Miss Hannah Moore's
Structures ON the modern system of female edu-
cation.
"Since then there is n season when the youth
iul must cease to be young, and the beautiful to
excite admiration, 10 learn hOp TO grOp old
gracefully. is perhaps, one of the rarest and
most valuable arts that can be taught to wo-
man. And it must be confessed, it is most Sc
we're trial for those women 10 lay down beauty,
who have nothing else to lay up.
II is for this sober season of life that educa-
ZION should lay mp its rich resources. However
dsregarded they may have been, they will be
wanted now. When admirers fall away and
fatterers become mute, the mind will be driven
back again upon the world with increased force.
Yet forgetting this, do We seem to educate our
daughters for the transient period of youth,
when il is to mature life we ought to advert? Do
we not educate them for a crowd, forgetting
they are to live at home?-for a crowd and not
for themselves?-fors show, and not for use?-for
time and not for eternity.n
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