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Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
The Zouayes.

The following description of the Zou-
aves-the most efficient portion Of the
French army-is taken from the report
of Captain George B. Mcclellan, who
was one of the United States military Of
6cers sent to the seat of var in Europe
in 1855, to collect information on militia
ry subjects:
The dress of the Zouave is Of the Arab
pattern, the cap is a loose fig. or skull
cap, of scarlet felt, with a tassel: a turban
is worn over this in full dress; a cloth
vest and a loose jacket, which leaves the
neck u~nencumbered by collar, stock or
cravat, cover the upper portion of the
body, and allow free movement of the
arms; the scarlet pants are of the Orieu-
tai pattern, and are tucked under carriers
like those of the foot rifles of the guard !;
the overcoat is II loose cloak, with a hood;
the Chasseurs wear a similar one. The
men say hat this is the most convenient
dress possible, and prefer it to any other.
The. Zouaves are all French they are
selected from among the old ~campaigners
for their fine physique and tried courage,
and have certainly proved that the are,
what their appearance would most lndl.
cate, the most reckless, self reliant and
complete infantry that Europe can pro-
duce.
With his graceful dress, soldierly bear
ing, and vigilant attitude, the Zouave
at an outpost is the beau ideal of a sol
der.
They neglect no opportunity of adding
to their personal comforts +; if there is a
stream in the vicinity. the party march
ing on picket is sure to be amply supplied
with fishing rods, &C.; if anything is to
be. had, the Zouaves are quite certain to
obtain it. Their movements are the
most light and graceful have ever seen;
the stride is long, but the foot seems
scarcely to touch the ground, and the
march is apparently made without effort
or fatigue. The step of the foot rifles is
shorter and quicker, and not SO easy and
graceful.
The impression produced by the ap-
p~earance of these two corps is very differ
emit: the rifles look like active, energetic
little fellows, who would find their best
field as skirnishers ; but the Zouaves
have. combined With all the activity and
energy. of the others, that solid ensemble
and reckless dare devil individuality
which would render them alike formida,
BILE when attacking in a mass, or defend
ing a position in the most desperate hand
to.hand encounter. Of all the troops
that / have ever seen, | should esteem it
the greatest honor to assist in defeating
the Zouayes. The'grenadiers Of theguard
are all large men, and a G~nelooking, sol
dierly set. The voltigeurs are small ac
tive men, but larger than the rifles. They
are light infantry. .
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
Death Of Rufus Choate.

The telegraphic announcement of tbf
death of RUFUS CHoATE will be rear
with intense grief throughout the Who'll,
country The Press says: as a LAWYER
an orator, and a statesman, he has lief
behind him scarcely an equal in this ma
ton. He vas born at Essex. a small
town in Essex county, Mass, October /
1899. He entered Dartmouth COLLEGE in
1915 and being remarkable in boyhood
for the studious habits which distin.
guished his latter years, he graduated
with the highest honors Of his class. in
1919. and with a brilliant reputation as
a scholar. He acted as a tutor in the
college for a year after his graduation.
and then entered the law school at Cam
bridge, where he remained but a few
months; he afterwards spent about a
a year in the law Office. of Vim. Writ. at
Washington, and completed his profess
ional studies>in the Office of Mr.. Andrews,
of Ipswich aud in that of Judge Cum
mings of Salem. He was admitted to the
bar in 1924, and commenced the practice
of the law in Danvers. His professional
rise was remarkably rapid, for al the out
set he possessed a large share eff the lie,
gal ability for which he afterwards be
came eminently distinguished. Previous
to 1882 he became a member to each
branch of the Massachusetts Legislature,
and in that year was elected to Congress,
where after serving one term he declined
a re eleetion. He removed to Boston in
1881, for the purpose of charging his
practice as a lawyer, and during the sue
ceeding eight years devoted himself as
%siduously to his profession, winning many
remarkable triumphs, and an extended
reputation. In February, 1871, he was
elected United States Senator, and he re.
NAMED in the Senate till March 1876
During his Senatorial career he delivered
several very able speeches. which attract
ed much attention. But he gladly
returned. to the practice of his profession,
and since 1916 has held no important of.
fee. He acted, however, for three or
four years, as one Of the regents of the
Smithsonian Institute. During the last
ten years his addresses on public occa.
sions have, perhaps, more general atten.
ton than those Of any other citizen of the
Republic. Mr.. Choate was always
politically doSOEldGeu Will OTRdnlZdGIOLS
hostile to the Democratic party until
1856. His great speech in that year in
support Of Mr.. Buchanan exercised a
powerful influence upon the canvass, and
was one of the most effective political ad-
dresses ever delivered. AS a lawyer he
was pre-eminent, excelling in all the
duties of his profession, and being alike
superior in his method of examining wit
nesses, his discussion of law questions,
his addresses to jurors and judges; and
in the general management of the cases
entrusted to him. He habitually enlisted
all his energies whenever he assumed the
position of council. without reference to
to the Importance of the issue involved,
and by his industry, unwearied applica.
cation and extraordinary talents, &C
CURED a greater renown as an advocate
than any lawyer o living, in America.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
Atlantic Cable Projects.

There are three projects for an Allan.
tic telegraph cable now under consijera.
ton in London. One, the old company
with the unsuccessful attempt
last year, wishes a government guarantee
for twenty-five years, to the amount Of
$500, 000, Or 100000. The govern
ment is not disposed to give any guarap.
tee, except ON the condition that it shall
commence when the cable has been sue
cessfully laid, and to subsist while it is
capable of being consecutively worked for
thirty days, at. the rate of roo words per
hour. This condition amounts virtually
to no assistance at. all, for there are many
difficulties in the way Of working a tele.
graph that distance under water at the
rate of 100 words per hour, consecutively
Days may intervene in which, from natu'
raj obstacles, the telegraph might not
work at all. There are two rival com,
panies to this old. one, both of which pro
pose to take the risk upon themselves
and ask no government aid. These are
unencumberrd by debt, which the old
company is not, and they are about to
try telegraph cables Of cheap construc
ton. The capital Of one of these is to be
9500,000, and is already half subscribed.
The London Times thinks the old com
pany will not succeed in raising the
money.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
A Noble Decd.

Some years ago, in a quiet New Eng
land village, as "a pleasant curly-headed
boy of about ten summers was crossing
"a pasture on his way to his days work,
he say something bright upon the grass;
and what should it be but a silver dollar
He had no knowledge how it came there,
and no wonder his heart beat with JOY at
finding such a prize 1t was his first dol
lar. He did not run home to tell the
glad news, nor away to a shop to spend
it in cakes and candy, as many little boys
would have done; but he went on and
performed bis days work like a man.
AT night his mother saw him coming
home with a smile upon his face; she met
him at the door, thinking he had some
good news, when he opened his hand, and
beheld a new silver dollar. Nov,
mother; If you will give me the bag, l
will go and buy you some meal;'" and
before he entered the house to take any
refreshment, he went away and paid his
dollar for a bushel of meal.
You might well expect the blessing Of
God on such a son. 1t has attended him.
and | think it eyer will. He has carried
out the same principle of kindness and
beneyolence thus far through life.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
Death from the Bite ola RattlasnaEa

The Cincinnati Gazette Of the 9Th inst
gives, upon the authority of Mr.. Urfah
McCloud of Vanceburgh, Lewis Co..
Kentucky. the following remarkable ac.
count OF the death of a worthy man from
the bite OF a rattlesnake
1t seems that Mr.. Jamos Wright. an
old citizen of this city, but who moved to
Vanceburgh last August, for the purpose
Of devotipg his attention to getting ont
timber for the manufacturing Of spokes
and hubs, which he has been importing
largely into this market, was engaged at
his usual avocation III the woods about
-four miles FROM that place, on the fore.
noon of the 4th, when in turning over a
log a rattlesnake suddenly sprans at him
aud struck its fangs in the back of his
hand. Alarmed at the probable conse.
quencc, he Immediately started for .he
town and ran the entire distance. The
heat, fatigue and excitement of course al.
lowed the poison to circulate through his
system and make sure ofits deadly work
BY the time he reached Vanceburgb he
was entirely blind, and his BODY and
head were covered with spots similar to
those Of the rattlesnake. The usual
remedies were Immediately resorted to
and every effort made by the attendant
physicians to neutralize the poison. but
without effect. He continued to sink
rapidly. and expired between 3 and 4
O'Clock the next morning.
In preparing the body to be laid out. a
singular phenomena presented itself. In
addition to the spots referred to there
was a picture of the snake itself
perfect in shape and color, and as dis
tlnct as if daguerreotyped there-extend
ing from the point on his shou' der, anG
then down the side to the groin. Fol
the truth of this, our informant assure.
US not only himself but some four or five
other citizens, who saw it, can positively
testify.
Immediately upon learning the occur
renee a number of persons started to the
place where it had happened, and upor
examination, found the snake in the iden
teal spot designated, where they came
near having another tragedy, a young
lady OF the party having stepped over it,
lurking place, from which a moment af
ter he made a savage leap at the party
but was Immediately despatched. h
proved to have six rattles and a /" but
ton" indicating his age six years and a
half.
Mr.. Wright was in his 51st year, and
leaves a wife and three children.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
Novel Scene.

The legislature of the Sandwich Is
lands at the late session appropriated
$4,000 towards the establishment of a
hospital for the sick natives in Honolulu
and the King, yielding to the urgent re.
quest Of his wife, started around town
with a subscription book to Try to add to
this fund. A letter says:
1t was a novel sight, a King begging
for his subjects ; bnt Kamehameha did ii
in a kingly way, and the result was a no
BILE subscription. Foreign residents prin.
cipally were those asked to subscribe,
and they did SO literally, as Honoiulians
always do for "sweet charity's sake.'
The Kings subscription had amounted
to about $4,000 the last I heard of it.
and this in Honolulu alone. The other
islands are yet to be visited by the King,
when a large addition may be expected
to this already respectable fund: The
result will be that q hospital for sick ma.
tives will be established on each island
of the group.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
Written for the Monmouth Weekly Herald.
The Old Parsonage

Upon that portion Of New Jersey
which history and tradition point out as
the battle field Of Monmouth, there stands
q dilapidated and time-worn habitation.
No architectural ornaments adorn its
humble proportions but its many fond
and cherished associations, and the hon
ored scars which time has left upon it.
should render it sacred to. this community.
Near two centuries, with their wealth OF
years have rolled away since its corner
stones were laid; and the storms OF many
winters, and the suns Of many summer
have yearly left upon it the impressions
OF decay.
The Old Parsonage is a building of his
%torical note; being one Of the principal
%mementoes extant to remind US of the
fierce and bloody contest which took
place on that quiet and sultry Sabbath
day Of June 18th, 1778. Over its humble
roof arose the sulphurous smoke Of battle
and around it rung the din of contending
armies. 1t was here the 6ercest OF the
conflict occurred between the ri1emen Of
Gen. Wayne, and the British ~grenadier:
under Col. Monckton, who was slain in
the fight. His remains were inferred
beneath the green in the Old Church
yard, not far distant; but his countrymen
have reared no monument to ~perpetuate
his memory, and he sleeps as it were al
most unknown. Two-told sacred is this
old building rendered to the people o.
New Jersey, for beside its connections
with one. of the hardest fought battles
in the great struggle for independence, il
has other associations. 1t sheltered thai
veteran soldier Of the Gross, the Rev,
William Tennent, who broke to his PEG.
pie The bread of life" for many years
in that yenerated chapel on the hill; and
the Rev. John Woodruff, also, whose
marble shaft now stands on the south side
OF the sacred fame, where he SO long and
so faithfully labored. Long years have
come and gone since that time, and the
Old Parsonage is fast Fastening to ex
tinction. But time alone has not thus
caused it's premature decay; the yandal
hand of wanton destr%uctiveness which
has for many years bore it off by piece
meal, as relics" has greatly FASTENED
its ruin. 1t is to be deplored that the
people of Monmouth have thus neglected
tile preservation of this ancient landmark,
and suffered a mansion so hallowed by
religion andpatriotic events, to fall into
utter ruin. We, as a people, should cher
lsh, and properly appreciate these ancient
relics Of bygone days, and have them
protected with care, as are the ivy and
moss hung ruins of other lands-preser.
wing them as SO many bright and lasting
memorials, to remind us of each fierce
and bloody fight which occurred in the
great struggle for Liberty. AS time rolls
on, the agriculturist will mark his fur
rows nearer and nearer its walls; and
soon the grain of the hushandman will
wave over its forgotten site.
YOUTH.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
The Bank of ENGLAND,

Col. Fuller, late of the N. Y. Mirror,
SAYS in a recent letter from London:
The building covers about three acres
of ground. Many Of its rooms are copied
from the classic models Of Greece and
Rome. The employees number about one
thousand. Several Of the officers reside
in the bank. No note is ever issued the
second time. The notes redeemed each
day are checked, Cancelled and put away
in boxes. After ten years they are burnt.
The accumulation Of the last ten years,
now in the vaults Of the bank, amounts
to three thousand million pounds! And
yet any one Of these notes can be referred
to in a minute, and the history Of its is.
sue and its return given. The bank does
all its own printing, and several presses
are kept busy. Every thing is done by
machinery-the note is not touched by
the pen before it goes out. | held in my
hand, yesterday, one note for one million
of pounds. In the bullion room ingots of
gold were piled up like cords Of wood,
and silver bars in vast amounts.
The machines for detecting light coins
and cutting them are exceedingly curious
and yet simple. Every bankers deposit
is weighed, and all the light pieces cut
nearly in two and returned to him the
next day. The system of the bank is as
perfect and as exact as clock work. And
yet in spite of all %precaution, some small
forgery is daily detected. But since the
great forgery committed by Astell for
$4,000, and by Fauntleroy for 100000,
the bank has not lost any very heavy
sums; although in 1922 capital punish.
ment for the crime was abolished, when
the old fogies predicted that everybody
hard up would turn forger. 7.
In the specie department of the bank
there were bags and boxes of soyerelgns
and half soYereigns enough to make a
miser mad. Mountains of Mint-drops,"
for which millions are signing and dying,
and perpetrating all conceivable crimes.
| was asked to lift a big bag Of soyerigns,
and for once, I must confess, telt a SOY
ereign disgust for money.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21

GREAT FALL OF Pork IN CINc1NNATI.-Be-
tween three and four o'clock yesterday morn
ing the citizens of the vicinity of the Brighton
House were startled from their slumbers by a
tremendous chrashing, accompanied b. cries
more unearthly than had ever been heard be-
fore, even in that part of the P~orkopolis.
Fastening from their beds, they soon found
that the immense hog pens attached to the
White Mills Distillery, owned by Mr.. George
Coon, had been preeipitated a odistance of
some twenty feet, and lay a complete wreck,
burying beneath the ruins upwards of twenty
four hundred hogs. Two hundred of the num-
Der were killed and a great many more injured.
-Cincianati Gazette, July 2.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
Hints to Young Men.

be INDUSTRIOUS. We do not mean
mere the industry of the hands alone
out that perseverance in whatever we
undertake, which is the almost sure pre.
cursor OF ultimate success. Never allow
the mind nor the body to stagnate ac.
tlrlty IS necessary to the health of both.
Always have some worthy end in view.
IN whatever you undertake remembering
That to fall with good intentions. is more
honorable than success iu an evil cause
CULTIVATE YOUR MIND. 1t is of more
Importance to the young, that their
reading should be select, rather than ev.
t%enslYe. One volume well understood
on any important topic, is better han
hall a dozen merely SKINNED. There are
many subjects OF general utility, with
which every man should have a partial
knowledge at least: it is among the
faults of modern education to spend toe
much time on studies that rather burden
and clog the mind, than strengthen and
inform it for LIES practical duties
Reading, or studying without some def
mite aim, is likely to lead to few useful
results.
BE ECONOMICAL No matter If yoaf
parents are worth thousands, it is not the
less proper that you should understand
the value of money, and the honest,
honorable means of acquiring it.
BE JUST. In the course of his life q
mar frequently finds his interests or his
opinions crossed or thwarted, and the
young are apt to feel such matters yery
senslbly. But be not rash in your con-
domination. Look at their conduct care
fully, and be just to the motives that
prompt it. You map find, that were Won
placed in their position, the course Won
now condemn would be the one proper
for you, and the one you would be obi.
gated to pursue. A little cool consider.
alton would avoid much Consciousness.
SHUN AVARICE. One Of the most dis.
agreeable characters on earth, is that of
the grasplng. aVariciouS penurous man.
Generosity is perfectly compatible with
economy ; and the means which enable
some OF our most noble hearted, generous
men. to do so much to benefit and bless
mankind, are obtained by strict economy.
DETERMINE TO BE USEFUL. No matter
what may be your condition in life, YOU
have an influence, and that influence
should always be exerjel, for good
The young have no right to fold their
arms bury their talent, and become tile
drones of the social hive. Aim high, but
with prudence ; act with determination
Fand perseverance let no obstacle drive
you from the path of duty, and you may
be sure of eventual success. Riches are
not within the reach of all competence
is ; and the latter condition is preferable
to the first.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
Boiled Indian Pudding.

One and a half pint of 0 u mifk, one
teaspoon of salt. two do of saleratus, one
egg, a little -four, and Indian meal enough
to make it as stiff as a common johney
cace. Boil it in a losely.covered pan or
pudding dish, never allowing the water
to come more than half way up the side.
Boil two hours. 10 be eaten with wine
sauce, or syrup, o. cream and sugar, as
you may prefer. This is much superior
to ordinary boiled buildings, because it
is always light aud tender, and it is less
trouble to make than any other We ever
tried.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
The Egg in the Bottle.

The London Field explains the mys.
terry of an egg in a bottle, which has of
ten puzzled people. This is how it got
there :
Take a good sound egg, place it in
a strong vinegar, and allow it to remain
twelve hours. 1t will become soft and
elastic. In this state it can be squeezed
into q tolerably wide mouthed bottle
when it must be covered with water hav-
ing some soda in it.. In a few hours this
preparation will restore the egg nearly
to its original solidity, after which the
liquid should be poured off and the bot
tie dried"
You need not tell any one that the hen
laid it there while in a soft state. Leave
the puzzled to guess that.
Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1859-07-21
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roads leading to the held OF battle, ex
tending as far as the eye can ~reach;;-
>suttlers, fruit peddlers,. and small deal.
ers OF every KIND, circulate among the
soldiers who crowd the streets. An I'M
mense train OF Pledmontese artillery are
brought to a stand In the street while
trying to make their way through the
town to their place OF encampment;--and
thousands OF French lniantry5 despalrlng
OF reaching their tents naye seated them,
selves upon the narrow sidewalks, n
with the hoase-walls ior a back and their
hayersaeks Tor Pillows they have addres'
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