The North-Carolinian., 1860-06-16

ArfHSrioN AND INTELLIGENCE OF THE BRUTE CREA-
TIoN. Every who has heard the sympathies OF
animal1toward each other. Cries Of distress Will
even cil them forth. When the dam of new born
lamb dsed some affectionate sheep, although she
may nfss ono of her own, has been known to ioster
and g lie the helpless one. In my own Immediate
ffrhood, the youngest of large litter of pigs
IA POP little helpless creature-who was not able
to ge& At It's mother for Isourishment, was warmed
under the wings of good naturcd hen 1t was fed
by hlstl bat when turned down, the hen was al
ways 1910 take charge of it, and thus it was
raarel sahese instances might be multiplied to
eoExI4 gable extent showing the active beueyolence
Of s0zqt animals; but the following fact will prove
the ex3 3tenee of combined intelligence in creatures
whieht have reason to believe has been hitherto
unent}ed by naturalists existing amongst the.
feat ID creation The .uracy of the annec"dote
ma I'D Aronched for. In the island OF Ceylon there
is t. h{fouad very cunning and sensible crow,
som sH&at smaller than own native one, having
a ri M back, and altogether rather an, engaging.
pre- bird. Now. in yard of the governor OF
baa. tks asy II amez.ns sr n.mss.i ;e =
tracted the attention of one of these crows It alht
ed on the ground hoped around the dog and the
bone and evidently waited opportunity f r seiz-
inr the latter. The dog however. was on his guard
and by certain gEowls and probably angry looks,
which the bird understood no douhb, protected his
properly. The crow was too cunning and too hun
earv to be baffled. He flew away, but returned
With acnmpanion. They h"pped up to the dog
when the fresh arrival watched his opp"Itunty and
gave :. sudden pull at the dogs tail.-Not being used
to suchan instant, he suddenly turned round Ii or
der to see who had taken this liberty with him
The bone was for moment left unprotected. and
was i'm, ledately seized by the first cunning crow,
few away with it, joined by his companion, and they
doubtless had merry feast upon it.-Oqce a weeA.
RELIGION THE JAPANEsE.-The orthodox reli-
eion of Japan is Sintoo-all worship the SUM- Their
belief is that the world regenerated through the
nstrumentalty and appearance on earth of female,
and after having performed this great and good work
for which dy God she was ordained, she aseended to
heaven and became embodied in the Their
tiona flag is emblematca of their religion displaying
as it does the in all its purity upon the white
field There other sects and among them the most
numerous would appear to be the followers of Budd
ha. Many suppose that Buddhism is the principa
creed from the fact that its followers number three
hundred and twenty millions; this and the Mahome
dan religion being the principal creed Or relSgion O
the nation of the East. The founder of Bued lis
religion was man called SAX va Snha, who was born
as was supposed, two thousand four hundred ant
twenty years before the Christian 1t is no
known for a certainty when Buddhism was first In
troduced into Japan The statement so often mad
that Christianity is not at the preset in way tol
ntoerant in religious matters. The people ofJapa
attend very little to religious matters. Religion
matter Of business which is attended to altogethe
by the Makado and his priest Some ofthe Japaues
attached to the Embassy worship Budlha some Sir
too, some worship nothing. The two Ambassador
and one of the interpreters Buddhists the Cer
sor has no particular religion; the Vice-Governt
is partly Sintoo and partly Buddhist