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may make By-Laws not inconsistent with the Constitutions) and decides, by appeal, all controversies in or between the Divisions.

This order of the Sons of Temperance began in Virginia by the opening of "Washington Division" in Norfolk, in April 1843. "Howard Division," in Portsmouth, followed in May. "We had," says an accurate narrator, "many difficulties to encounter, and many hostile prejudices to remove. Nearly two years elapsed before the sixth division was chartered.* This was "Charity Division," in Staunton, instituted in 1845, soon followed by the establishment of "Marshall Division" in Harrisonburg, and others in other parts of the State. Every succeeding year saw the Order extending its branches until the Divisions in Virginia are now about 310, comprising about 15000 members, and still increasing.

This institution has produced great and happy effects. It has attracted and kept firm those whom the old formal tie could not attach or hold; giving strength for self-preservation to weaklings who were continually falling into temptation; and has thus reclaimed hundreds of intemperate men, and broken up not a few drinking-houses and distilleries. But its attractions have so much drawn off the regards of its members from the old societies, that many of these have been dissolved; leaving that great number of people who cannot, or will not join the "Sons," no longer covered by the panoply of a pledge. To recover this lost ground, some Divisions have sent out speaking men to hold meetings and deliver speeches throughout their counties or towns: in order to keep the public attention awake to the evils of intemperance.

Females, and boys, not being regularly admissible among

• Evans' Digest and History of the Sons of Temperance.

the "Sons," a sisterhood has been formed, called "The Daughters of Temperance;" and a junior fraternity, called "The Cadets of Temperance." Cadets may be boys from ten to eighteen years old. Their local societies are called "Sections." Several of these exist in Virginia, filled with zealous and energetic young warriors against the common enemy. We know of no "Sisters of Temperance" in the State except a Division in Richmond.

In 1846, a new body, styled a Temperance General Assembly for the State, was organized in Richmond, and adopted a Constitution which, if published, has never met our eyes. It met again in 1847; adopted on each occasion some salutary resolutions and measures, which failed however to produce much effect, from the smallness of the numbers present to pass them, and from the omission to give them proper publicity. In December 1848, the body held a third meeting, when, among other resolves, it requested its President to prepare a Memorial to the Legislature, praying that, at the next general election, the proper officers might be required to take the sense of the voters on a separate poll, upon the question whether the sale of intoxicating liquors should continue to be licensed by law; and that, if a majority should be found to be against the system, in the whole State, or in any counties or towns, such laws might be passed as would become the wisdom, dignity and virtue of the Legislature to enact. The Memorial was accordingly prepared, and presented to the House of Delegates, where it was referred to a Committee who reported against the prayer of the Petition, and the House concurred in the report. Here the action of this

body rests for the present.

And here also we suspend our sketch of the Temperance Reform, for the present, and most probably for some time.

N. R.

INDIAN RELICS.-No. III.

A GRAVE.

My two last numbers were taken up with some brief no tices of Indian Relics, which are yet visible in the mountains of our State; and I purpose to continue the subject in two or three more.

In passing, not long since, down the Cowpasture river, I was informed that there was an Indian Grave close on my road, and I turned aside of course to view it. This grave is evidently a very old one. Its location is in Bath County, about 12 miles below Millsboro, on the east bank of the river. Just after fording the river, you ascend through a narrow ravine to a high bluff, and turning to the right, a short walk brings you to it. The situation is in the midst of nature's lovely scenery. Close on the east, the view is bounded by the "Rough Mountains." This is perhaps one of the most singular mountains in the State. It may be truly said to set all law and order at defiance. Most of our mountains have regularly swelling ridges running like ribs from the bottom to the top, at regular intervals, presenting great uniformity. But this mountain follows no rule. Its ridges are very uneven, often branching off midway up its sides; one rib will run straight, while another takes a serpentine course, and perhaps the next comes down with the bend of the rainbow. Here it swells out to an enormous protuberance, and there it draws back to a deep recess; here it starts as if to make a deep cut through, and then abruptly fills up the rear; while along the top, every here and there a lofty cone lifts up its head. On the west of the grave runs Watson's, or what is sometimes called Beard's mountain; not so bold or high as the former, but filling up with a pleasing variety this side of the pic

ture. When turning to the north, you have a fine view of the river and valley, both of which seem to have been pushed over to the west, to make room for the rich and high Smith's Ridge, to wedge in between the river and Rough Mountain. From this imperfect sketch of the surrounding scenery, it will be easily seen that the grave occupies

a romantic spot.

The

The diameter of the grave is about 28 or 30 feet. land on the bluff was cleared about 20 years since, and on ploughing it the grave was thrown open. It is now almost worn down to a level, and the earth is black and rich from the dust of man. It is thought to have contained between one and two hundred bodies. The bones which I saw are much decayed; when it was first opened, they were whole and seemed to have been only those of large men. And what is strange, they all seemed to have been buried with the knees drawn up so as to touch the chin, as was seen by the position of the bones. A tree which grew on or near the edge of the grave, when cut down, counted 285 years growth. I picked up on the grave a rude stone pipestem, some broken arrow heads, and small pieces of muscle shell. No bone will ever be purloined by me from the grave; every feeling of my soul says, let them rest in their dust until the long peal of the last trumpet shall sound.

I will state some of the reasons which induce me to think that this cemetery is probably a depository of warriors slain in battle. 1. It is close to where the war-path is known to have passed. The position of the narrow ravine, just at the fording of the river, would point it out as a most suitable place for one party to lie in ambush for the approach of another. Some Spartan band might easily dispute the passage of a much larger force. 2. The position. of the skeletons, with the knees drawn up to the chin, as if they had been gathered up from various places where

they had fallen, and carried by being balanced over a handspike, and then, cold and stiff in death, in their bent position, packed close together in the grave. 3. They seem evidently to have been buried more shallowly than any others I have seen, as if there had been haste. 4. All the bodies seemed to have been those of full grown men. These items, when put together, seem to render it highly probable, that the relics of gory warriors from the battlefield are sleeping here. Some skeletons were also found here and there over the table land, which would indicate that the dead of two different tribes had been buried after the battle.

That their weapons had been used, seems manifest from the fact that arrow-points were found at the grave, and I have also several stone axes found in the neighborhood.

As I stood on the dust of the dead, in this romantic and quiet valley, I thought I heard a voice rolling back through hundreds of years, from these sons of the forest; it seemed to speak in accents loud and long to these United States, and its admonition was this,-"be at peace among yourselves." MONTANUS.

EDUCATION.

The striving of modern fashionable education is to make the character impressive; while the result of good education, though not the aim, would be to make it expressive.

There is a tendency in modern education to cover the fingers with rings, and, at the same time, to cut the sinews at the wrist.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches every thing else, and not that.-John Sterling.

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