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fXj The following beautiful poems, one by Bul
Wer, the other by Moore, were brought out by the
lute arrivals from F.nehnd. They are gems by lire
Xiiont gill ed authors living:
The AVIfe to fhe Wooer.
Well, Then, since scorn has fnil'd to cure
The love you picssso hlindlv,
For once 5 our reasons I'll endure,
And answer follies kindly:
JH ernnt that you, moTe fair and giy
Than I.uke to some ny be;
!ut liht itself, when he's away,
Is never guy to me !
Then go then ro; for whether or no
He's fair, he's so to me!
Its words vour summer-love may wreathe
In florid smiles and f!adnes ;
His lips, mure often, only breathe
The trouble and the sadness
Hut ah! so sweet a trust to truth,
That confidence of rare !
More jyy one prief of his to soothe
Than all your Miss to chare.
Then go then go; for whethcror no
He grieves, tis bliss to share !
Von say that he enn meet or leave
Fnnwved content without me;
JNor wreck what snares r reelect may weave
Too heedless e'en to doubt me.
Ah ! joslons ceres are poor respect;
He knows my heart, my guide;
And what yrm deem is to neglect,
I feel is to confide;
Then go then go; for whether tr no
FII think he ihcs confide.
And I.uke, you say, ran sternly look,
And sometimes speak sevrrely;
Vour eyes, you vow, could ne'er ret-ukc
Yotir whispers breathe austerely.
How know you of the coming cares
H is aricious eyes foresee !
Perhaps the his temper wears
Is UiiMtght lor mine and me !
Then fci then go; for whether or no
lira frown has smiles for me.
Hut Luke, you hint, to others gives
The love that lie denies me;
And hard, you say, in youth to live,
Without one heart to prize me!
Well, if the parent rose be shed,
The buds are on the stem ;
My bubes ! his love can ne'er Iks dead,
It's soul bus tied to them.
Then go then go ! Jlis rival ! No :
His rival lives in them.
OH, o t K' wlit-n first we Loved.
Oh, no not ev'n when first we loved,
1 rt thou so dear as now thou ait ;
Thy beauty then my senses movxl,
but now thy virtues bind my heart.
What was but passion's sign before
Has since been turned to reason's vow ;
Anil, though I then might love thee mure,
Trust me, I love thee lxtir now.
Although my heart in earlier youth
Might kindle with more wild dcsiie,
Believe ine, it has gained in truth
Much mote than it has lost in fire.
The (lime now warms my inmost core,
That tlwn (ut sparkl'd o'er my brow,
And, though I stem'd to love thee nure,
1 el, oh, ( love thee briitr now.
We must Live Apart.
BY THE HON. SIRS. X OH TON.
T is past ! we've learned lo live apart !
And with a faint and gradual ray,
All hope bath faded from my heart,
Like sunset on the autumn day.
Forgetful of those hours of pain,
Thry (HI me I shull love again.
Perhaps I may ! we laugh at jests
N,irii buried friend at random made ;
Peace sirals within our grieving tircasts,
As sunbeams pierce llie forest -hade.
We learn to fling all mourning by
10 ven that which clothed our memory !
Therefore I do believe this woe,
Like other things will fade and pass;
And my rritshej tie.irt springs 110 and blow,
I.iie flowers among the troddcii graxs:
Hut ere I love, it tmi-t tie long
'I ne habits of the heait are strong.
L're my accustomed eye can seek
In some new unfamiliar fai e,
The smile that glowed upon thy cheek,
And lent thine eye a softer mare
When in the crowd I turned to ihee,
Proud ot thy certain sympathy,
l're my poor ear that hath leen used
To live upoH the angel voice ;
Its dally susteiuuee refused,
And foiced to wander tor a choice,
I'm listen lo soma other tone.
And deem K welcome as their pan.
Ere the true heart ihou couldst deceive.
Can hope, and dieam, and trust once more,
And frjm another's bjs believe
All that thy ii so falsely wore!
And hear those vows of nther years
Without a buist of hi iter tears.
I'.re I have half my mind explained
To one who shares my thoughts too late ;
With weary tongue and spirit pain'd
And heart that stilt f.els desolate
IUve travelled thiovgh lliosu by gone days,
hu h made life barren tu my gaze.
hat years mast pass; in this woi Id's strife.
How smiling was my portion then ;
The fainting energies of life
Will scarcely serve to love again,
Love! 10 llie pale, uncertain flame,
The lerveul God denies his name.
No ! Let no wronged heart look to mine ;
euch hue the wanderer hath In store, i
Who worships at a ruined shrine,
Where altar fires Can iHJin no more;
V nn is the liceuso vain the prayer
No deny is lingering there !
) ! never more sh ill trust return,
Trust hy which love alone can live ;
Lveu while I woo, my heart ahall yearn
For answers lliou wire wont to give,
And my faint sighs shall echoes be
Of those I breathed long s nee 10 this !
It it known thai the husband separated himself
from the writer,
STOBUMY AMERICAN.
AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL.
Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the
lly Masser & i:itclj-.
From tkv AYw Yttrk Tribune, j
DISCl'SSIOX ON MORMOMSM,
Hoswn, June, CT 1842. j
Considerable excitement lias been created
here during '.foe past week by a public discus- ,
stonofthe eubjectof Mormon ism. It closed
last night, having been continued five evenings
The disputants were Or. West, an English
gentleman, and Elder Adams, a minister of
the Mormon sect. The- former ia a man of
strong and we!! cultivated intellectual powers,
and, when excited, nn effective speaker. He
came here, as I have been informed, from Now
York, for the purpose of delivering lectures
in refutation of Infidelity, and is highly re
commended by some of the leading clergymen
of that city as well qualified for the proposed
task. Elder Adams is a man of strong, but un
cultivated mind, and possesses no small amount
oftactnud ingenuity. Asa speaker, lie is
rough and uncouth, and tTcats the King's Eng
lish as unmercifully ns he does his own Kings.
Precisely how the parties came in conflict,
I cannot tell you; bull believe the Mormon
was the challenger. Marlboro ('Impel was the
scene of conflict, and the tickets of admission
were sold for'IJJ certs. The audiences at first
was email, but it increased as the controversy
went on, until the Chapel was al last pretty
well filled.
I)r. West affirnwel that the doctrines and
principles of the Mormons involved hypocrioy.
l)''nP fraud, treason, plunder, murder, blas
phemy, &c. ; and these charges he endeavored
to substantiate by quotations from their writings
and by proofs drawn from other sources. The
laboring oar, consequently, was in his hands,
w hile his opponent stood in an attitude of self-
defence. The former hnd the prejudices, and
generally the deep-rooted convictions of his
audience, in his favor, while the latter cnkiyed,
as an offset, that sympathy w hich the human
heart involuntarily feels when a fellow man is
011 trial for a serious offence. In this respect,
perhaps, the advantages of the conflict were
as equally divided as they could have been be
fore an audience whose opinions were chiefly
on one side of the question.
During the first throe even in t 1 was not
present ; but those wiio were, asi-ure me that I
heard the pith of the discussion on Tuesday
and Friday evenings. On the Ibrmer evening,
the chair was occupied by '"Father Taylor,"
as lie is familiarly called, the well-known Sea
man's preacher. The debate was opened by
Dr. West at 8 o'clock, and closed by Elder
Adams at 10; the parties occupying twenty
minutes each, alternately,
Dr. West requested the Secretary to read
from the Mormon Hook the accout of the myste
rious discovery of the golden plates, and of
their subsequent translation by commandment
of the Lord. From this it appeared that the
Mormons claim the power of working miracles
and uftinn that they are directly inspired by
(Jod. Dr. West conteded that this was blas
phemy, and Rn attempt to impose upon the credu
ulity of the people. Elder Adams admitted that
it would be blasphemy if the claim were not
Ibnnded in truth ; but he contended ihut there
were living witnesses that miracles had been
performed by Awph ftuith and others ; and
he affirmed that it was contrary to Scripture
to suppose that the day of miracles had gene
by. To support his views, he quoted the decla
ration of Christ, "thews signs shall (bllow them
1 hut hi ici'c," affirming that it wad not merely
a promise to the ApotAIes, but to the whole
bsly of believers. lie quoted for the Fame
purpose v. 11, 1": "Is any sick among you,
let biin call for the elders of the phurch ; and
let them pray oeer him, anointing him with
oil in the ;ia:no ul the I.ord : And the prayer
ot faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall
raise him up.' The modern church, he said
was false and spurious on its own confession,
as tt did not even pretend to do the works
which Christ raid would be done by believers,
and lis ministers did not claim to speak from in
spiration.
Jr. West ridiculed this claim of miraculous
power on the part of the Mormons, and read a
statement of some thirty ortbrty citizens of I'al
myra, N. Y., and vicinity, intended to bIiow
that Joseph Smith and his associates were men
destitute of moral character, and therefore un
worthy of confidence. He stated also, on the
authority of an individual who assisted in print
ing the Mormon Rtblei, that when it was poing
through the press.the workmen purposely con
cealed one of the sheets in order to see whether
Smith could supply it by another translation
trom the goldfn platef", and thus test the gen
umcness of the Usik. j his caused a great
flurry, but Smith pretended to furnish another
copy verbatim. On comparing, i', however,
with the first, it was found to be a very dilb rent
affair. This account raised a tremendous laugh
at the expense of the Elder. The Doctor also
told the followingstory to illustrate the Mor
mon method of working miracles. Two priests
of that sect were) travelling somewhere at tha
Weet. One cf them, by agreement, weut 'or-
. JMJ. Ji!'i I A1 Jl
majority, the vital principle of Republics, from which
Sunbury, NorthtuiiberlniMl Co.
ward of the other, and put up at the house of a
farmer for the night. After going to bed, lie
feigned severe etckness, and before morning
apparently d'ed. Trie next day the other priest
also called at the same house, as a stranger,
and being told of (lie death of his companion,
avowed himself a Mormon, and told the rtost
that he could raise tho doaxl rmn to life. The
farmer suspected some trick, but acquiesced
in the proposals of the priest, and called in
his neigubors to witness the miracle. The
arrangement being completed, the farmer in
quired of the Mormon if he could restore a
man to lite wlto had been dead for a long time.
O yes,' he replied. 'Could you do it if his
head wcrecutolT?' 'Certainly,' said lie, 'that
would malte no difference. 'Well, then,' said
the farmer, lifting his axe as if he intended to
be as good as his word, "I'll cut off this man's
head before you begin.' No sooner had he
said this, than the dead man sprang to his feet,
witiioiit any miraculous assistance whatever,
exclaiming, 'I an't dead don't murder nie f
The noise which followed this story was tre
mendous. The audience was convulsed with
laughter, and made the house ring with ap
plause. Elder Adams declared that there was not
one word of truth in these stories. They were
lies, made out of whole cloth, and intended to
substitute ridicule for argument. Let the part
of the Mormon Hible which was concealed by
the printers lie compared w ith that book as it
stands or else let the story le branded on a
il!y falsehood, concocted by the priestR. Ijet
the name of the farmer alluded to, and also the
names of the Mormon Elders who practised
the deception alleged by his opKiiietit, be ,
stated. lift him give to the story a local j
habitation. Iledared him to do it; and if lie I
did, he (Mr. A.) would pay the expenses of
bringing the persons concerned befoie the au
dience. Dr. West said the whole question would be
settled in a few months. Let bis opjioncnt
work a miracle 011 the spot, if he had the power,
and thus convince the people that he was no j
ueeeiver, but en nonet man. ne demanded
this as a means of settling the whole contro-
crsy. a large portion i uic Bu.11e.1cs ap-
peared to consider this a reasonable demand,
and the most intense curiosity was exerted to
know how the Elder would get out of the diffi
culty. He did so, however, in a manner which
fairly turned the laugh against his opponent.
He affirmed that neither Christ nor his Apos
tles ever wrought miracles on the demand of
unbelievers, as a means of convincing them of
the truth ; and be offered, if the Dr. would re
fer him to a case where the Apostles had done
any thing of the kind, to do the same thing
himself. It was an ungodly and adulterous
generation which demanded 'a 6ign' from Chrst;
liut he told them that no sign would be given
them, but the sign of the Prophet Jonas. Dr.
West did not attempt to refer lo any instance
in which the Apostles had wrought a miracle,
on the demand of unbelievers ; and tho feeling
was strong throughout the audience, as I
thought, that on thai point, where he had so
confidently expected to nail his opponent to
the wall, he had signally failed. Father Tay
lor, however, was so excited, that he pro
nounced the conduct of Elder Adams to be
wholly unjustifiable, and declared he would no
longer preside over such a discussion , and then
the meeting broke up in coiiIumoh.
Last evening, considerable time was Fpertt
in endeavoring to get some one to take the
chair. Severil persons were chosen, but they
all declined ; whereupon it was voted that the
Secretary preside. The discussion then pro
ceeded, but it was made tip chiefly of positive
assertion on one side and equally positive de
nial on the other. Most of those piesent, with
all contempt for Mormonism, must have felt,
I am sure, as 1 did, tnat the Doctor's argu
ments were exceedingly lame and illogical, and
scarcely worth a moment's thought in con
nection with the serious charges which he un
dertook to support. He had evidently entered
ujKin the discussion with a somewhat too high
opinion of himself and a too mean estimation
of the powers of his opponent Ttiitiking that
he would have to deal w ith & very gross error,
he evidently had not prepared himself tor the
contest as he ought to have done ; w lute his
opponent was armed at all points, and fimnd it
no difficult task to answer him. The issue
was not well made up. The Doctor's charges
were bo sweeping as to produce a leelinj in the
audience that they were extravagant and un
just, even if Mormonism were ever to gross a
delusion, liy attempting to prove toouiuVh.he
failed to prove any thing clearly.
Elder Adams has determined to seir.e upon
this an a f.tviiruble nioment to rpread the Mor
mon faith in this city, und has accordingly an
nounced his intention lo preach ut ll'Vl.-loii
Hull next Sabbath. KtviLO.
He that has no bread to spare, should not keep
a dog.
'I
there is no appeal but to force, the vital princi4e and
la. Saturday, July 0, is r.
The Thames Tunnrl. 1
The completion of this work, justly con- j
sidered one of the most extraordinary eflbrtsof
civil cnginorfing in rmxlern days, has elicited j
the following notice from a writer in Diack
wood's Magazine:
This extraordinary work is now on the point
of completion; and the boldness f the enter
prise, the indefatigable labor with which it has
been prosecuted, and the remarkable tAill
which has been exorrisod in bringing it to this
point of unquestionable success, place it among
the most retn.irkiihle scientific performances of
the age. We know that any thing may lie
laughed at, and that the world is Rmd of laugh
ing the toyst ai tho gravest tlvng ; but we have
no inclination to join in ridicule of a work
w hich exhibits so singular a combination of the
daring and the pructicnl of the lofty specula
tion and the pmfismd science, both so charac
teristic of England, and so honorable to the na
tional character.
It is true that tho chief engineer of this stu
pendous work is a Frenchman, but we see much
less ground for notional jealousy in his origin,
than for national honor in his employment.
England kiast.-, and j'isily, of her attracting
the commerce of the world; her still prouder
boast should be that of her attracting the talents
of the world. A nation can give no higher
evidence of its stieriority, than its disregard of
littleness of all kinds. The Koman never gave
a clearer evidence of his being marked tor the
master of the world, than when he borrowed
the aims of the conquered nations w hen he
adopted the lance of the Samnite, the shield of
the Volsciau, and falchion of the Tarentine.
We only wii.h that our adoptions were larger
and more Irequeut, that we bad the power of
calling to our coup try the talents of every great
Kiiiptor, architect, ft"' painter of Europe, and
that we had thus nobly tnonojiolized Thorwald
sen, Canova, and the builder of the 1'uiilheoti
of I'aris, and the still lovelier Madeline.
The Tunnel has now completely reached a-
cross the river a distance of 1'JtM) feet and
lhc projt.ctr umJ Knj,nvcT had the gratification,
t,,K,rt ,inl(1 smcCi uf bcing the firiit who walk.
C(, from bak (0 h t0 lhe ,lllft on the j.
j,,.. w Thorn; riinfta on Ik.Ui sides of the h-
ver, which are intended for foot passengers, are
really grand things. They are a succession of
staircases going round a vast circular excava
tion, between seventy and eighty feet deep, and
when they shall all be lighted with gss, will be
among the most extraordinary portsot the w hole
structure. Even now thry strongly rvolize the
poetic conception of the descent into the ca
verns of the Egyptian mysteries; and the view
of the interior, nearly a quarter of a mile in ex
tent, lighted with a long succession of melan
choly flames would probably have wigjesled
to a (Jreek the image of an entrance into Tarta
rus. Hut, in our day, the sublime is well exchan
ged for the practical, and this vast and formida
ble looking cawrn will be stripped of its poetic
associations by the passage of carters and wag
gons, bales of goods and herdsof bullocks. Still
it will be almost impossible to divest ourselves
of the recollections really attaching to this
j woik. We have before us altogether a fine
I attempt to conquer nature n great experiment
! to make rivers passable without boat or bridge
1 . .
; a new and capable contrivance for expediting
j the intercourse of mankind. The stone bridge
I is at all tunes the most expensive edifice in the
J world, ni(l the btnlge of boats N always liable
I to accidents, and almost certain to be broken up
j in every instance of a flmnl. Hesidns this, the
j fixed bridge blocks up the navigation of the ri
ver for all vessels beyond the size of a barge or
I a small Mearnlwat. The expense of the stone
bridge also is enoimous. Waterloo bridge co.-t
upwards of a million la.ndon bridgo about as
much more Westminster and Hlackfriiirs brid
ges, which are built at a cheaper rate, and in
cheaper times, so constantly demand repairs,
that they probably have cost more than cither
of the modern ones; but tho Tunnel litis the
fidvantnge of giving a passage from side to side
of the Thames, where from the breadth of the
river, a stone bridge would have probably cost
nearer two millions than one, and where no
bridge could be thrown axr.iss without blocking
up the most important part of tho Thames, that
portion which may be called the great wet dock
of London. Vet the expense ot the w hole has
not amounted to more Inan j-liXi,00f) ; and eveii
this is to be remembered, as an expense greatly
increased by the utter novelty of the experi
ment, by dillkullies mitWcsocn in the com
mencement, by several eruptions of the river,
by the dearness of workmen's wages arising
from tl.e peculiar peril and singular nature of
the lalsir connected w ith the undertaking car
ried oil ut all hours and wholly by artificial
lioht. All this too, in constant hazard of an
influx of the river, and the various difficulties
belonging to working 111 a mine. The weight
of a vast body of w ater alsne, to ting alike du
ring summer and winter which at any moment
might bnah in, and against whofee iucurbione
UU Lf
immediate parent of despotism. Jtrrsnsos.
Vol. II--Xo. M.I.
it was as necessary to fortify the outside of the
tunnel as the interior, added greatly to the un
dertakin?.
The original object of the tunnel was, tocon
vey cattle, passenger's and general tratTic from
the rich counties on the Kent side to thut great
mercantile region of the metrojolis the Im
don and East and West India Docks. How far
this will be now effected, is a question which
remains to be decided by experience. There
can be no doubt that if lhe traffic be not imped
ed by the fear of passing under the river, it
must be immense. The convenience of esca
ping the long circuit up to Iondon Bridge,
which, from the various obstructions in the
streets, and the general difficulty of passing
through the most crowded portion of the city,
must now occupy many hours, would obvious
ly dtrct the whole current of the traffic into
the Tunnel.
llithertts no expedient has been adopted to
shorten the passage of the traffic; and the con
trivance by which 1J00 clear feet are substitu
ted for at least three miles of the most encum
bered thoroughfare imaginable, must lie adop
ted us a matter of the most palpable advantage.
Still there may be difficulties in the way w hich
practice only can exhibit. But any fear of the
structure itself we would regard as altogether
visionary. The building of the Tunnel seems
oi solid as a rock. During the w hole peiiod
from the commencement, we have not heard of
a single instance of its giving way, vast as the
pressure was above, and trying as were the
dumps, the ground springs, and the extreme
difficulty of building under water.
At this nioment the roof is obviously as free
from damp as the roof of St. Paul's ! and un
let nn earthquake shou'd burst it, the whole
fabric seems much more likely to last than were
it pypoed to the diversities of temperature, the
hciitsnnd frost above gro'ind. The especial ad
vantage ol'lhe system of the Tunnel is that it
can be adopted in any part of the course of a ri
ver, and even in its widest part, (for few Eu
ropean rivers exceed the breadth of the Thames
at Uutherhithe, unless where they spread into
marshes or lakes,) and yet offer no impediment
to the navigation.
But we regard it as having a still bibber
character ; we consider it as a nobl an 1 essen
tial adjunct to the rail-way system, and to have
come exae'ly at the proper period for comple
ting a system which is now spreading over Eu-
rope, which is obviously meant s a great bistro- j n see and judge, and she will Kno, inai u.
ment of civilization, and which without it must j neath the interior of btrango custom?, and bin';
sutler a full stop at the batik of every creat ri- j '"if i;iws. filings of the women are the.
ver. For we cannot look to uny resource 111 J ' ,syr;a ns in Amend. And though tl .
the clumsy and nlways insecure contrivance of j tyranny of custom may bind or crush the-:
a bridge of boats or masonry, incurring great j these feelings, yet they will, like the heal'
loss ol time, requiring change of engines and j t'ul herbage, force a growth, and perhaps sWi c
carnages, with a hundred other disadvantages ; ten and ornament the very object that has pre.
while, by a tunnel, the whole train might sweep
along wholly unobstructed, and be many a j
league on the course liefore a traveller could
have crossed the bridge. We shall thus proha- '
bly see the Khiue, the Danube, and the Rhone
passed below their beds, if the (lovernments of
their countries shall have the funds or the com
mon sense to follow up their present projects
for the rail-road. Our impression decidedly
i, that the tunnel is essential as a part of the
railway. England has a right to pride herself
alike on the scientific intrepidity and the pal
pable value of the undertaking to mankind,
Brunei has been knightitl on the completion of
his w ork. But his perseverence and talent de
serve a more productive distinction. We hope
that, he will give us a history of this great, neir,
and decided triumph over naUire.
A Moiu iiN 1 1 rkcr i.rs. Mon. Paul, now
performing at the Arch street theatre, Philadel
phia, exhibit imv-t a-tonisiiing feats cf strength.
The Spirit of the Tunes says :
"Among his exploits, he placed his body in a
position so as ti forma carriage lur a cannon
ol W llis , the weight of which he sustained !
v it ti perfect, ease. He then formed a plalf.irm, !
on which were placed 1SH) lbs. weight, which ;
he lifted by the ftreupth of dis back He fi.-t- '
ened next a bandage uround his loins anil across j
his b'vk and shoulders, irl thou tfc'o horses j
were harnessed to him while be stretched him- j
self tint on his stomach on a p'afjrni, and they '
were enable lo niove loin from bis position, j
On the contrary he moved along on his belly i
and drugged the horses utb r' Then two txr-
t
m-8 were attached to a roo.' o' thirty six t-trands
but their strength could rot bleak it. The j
same rope was alj broken w i'h perfect ease by 1
this modern Hercules. He also picVed up two I
stout men and sw ung them r.roiind 1,11 they be
came iiiy and reeled as drunken men, when
he pul them down !"
The New Orleans Picayune cont ilrw n bst
of thirty five of those who perished in Sii.tu I'e
CXp'ditlill, tt Inch I MS Ci'tlll ll'tf H l.st 111, 1'nllM
be eathi red, ami Is believed to ! very nearly
coirect. Ol this number 10 v t re s!i 1' by ttn
liv.hans on tho route; ( w r shot by order of
Mexican officers; 1 bad h s br.iins knoekec' out
by order; "J were shot accidentally ; 1 iiicti ni
fatigue; and 10 tlid of ditcae piincipally
turn II pox.
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in'filv.
('Sixteen Knes make a square,
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A Pilgrim.
Iii the ship Ontario, at New York Trom
England, came passenger Mra Harriet Liver
more, returning from a pilgrimage to the Holy
Land.
Thi, if wo misiake not, is the pecond visita
tion w hich tiiat extraordinary woman has mode,
without any attendant, to Jerusalem wander
ing in the valley of Jehosephat, ba'.hing in the
stream Cf Jordan, washing her feet in Kcdron,
straying to the manger at Bethlehem, und back
to the summit cf Oliver, gathering pomegran
ates in (icthsemanee, kneeling on Calvary,
and stretching herself in the sop nlchre "hcv ,1
in stone."
Armies ef mailed men, that went torcdee;
the temp!.; and the tomb, whiten the plains r-'
Sv'ria wi'.h their bleached bone?; and guardc'
enravens fall a prey to robbers from the Dosc',
as they journey towards Jerusalem, And y t
a lonely Woman, tvith no kindred on the sc
no knowledge of their language, amino n;
ney to bribe to protection, gees up from t' j
shores of the Levant, and the plague touch
her not. Civ il war, that devastates, spares 1k
The robber, whose tr?.dc eeems to have the -scription
of ages, assails her not in her progr'c
And in the city, where poverty and suspic 1
bar the dour, rmu the zeal id" the Moslem mas m
a merit of pouring misery or death tothoclr
tian pilurim, there the wiclicd gate of thc'cvi
vent opens for her reception, and the waste'.'
me? I, ,and 'the decaying curse of the metv.
cant, seems to bo blessed to increase, for b c
comforts.
It is de!iglitf.:1 to sit and listen to tho ta'
of the wayfarer towards Jerusalem, and the:. -journer
within its gates. Others go hedged
hout with firmans and decrees, defending w ! 't
sear, frupported with HTalT, and provided v '!l
script. They enter not the innermost reccs- 5
of the houses and henrt of the people, and ; t
attempt to descr.be their manners and lh "
morals, by w hat they see at the wells, and he
at the caravansaries. Ilia not strange that sir !i
should find all barren and waste, moral and phy
sical, from Dan to Ueersheba.
Hut the traveller, whose wants require, 3n l
whose sex warrants, that she should be uftl-5
inmost chambers, that she should sit down wiHi
mother ami children, she can brarn the seer, t
of their livinj, which is not revealed to ti-
wondering world of travellers". She can t I
what if devotion, and what is Fullering. S!. !
! sed them down.
We :hai! learn something of this mm IM
relumed pilgrim. I'hilad. I'. S. Gat,
Dr. V. L. Wharton, of the U. S. Army, b.
sent as a gift to the National Institution at
Washington, a knij'i; of which the follow 1; ,?
account is given in the letter annexed :
Fokt LfcvvF.NwoKTii, (Mo.) March 17, 1 I)
Di'ar Doctor : Agreeably to niy promis- t
send you the knife "of my father, Col. Dale I
Bttonc, which yon are at perfect liberty to u'j
pose of as you may think proper.
In the fall of 170, my father Daniel B.-c;
and his brother Edward, lelt their post for
purpose of hunting buffalo. After procuring 'i
much incatas they could pack upon their horr: .
they set out on their return homo and came t .
a large deer lick near the bank of a creek A
which to rest themselves. Thry were senre
ly seated on the bunk when a deer waiked c'
lhe lick. I'd war J Boone shot it down tivd
I dra "god it into the shade, where mv father ;
l
! cracking walnuts. Just at this moment a par
'of Indians fired upon them from a neighliori:
5 canebrcak. Ed ward fell dead ; my father D
j i I B-Kiiie, sprung to his horse and attempted '.)
throw off the h ad from his horse, which he u. 1
j not effect, f r the Indians rushed out so sndilo
: lv that he was compelled to take to minn-di-iM
flight on f.st. In the bn-tle he lost his knij'
Finding himself closely followed by the mv.v
ges, he entered a canebroke, which concealed
him from their sight ; they then pursued hint
w'th their dogs, and it was not Until he hi I
killed two of these that the Indians abandonr 1
too chase. The knife remained lost until th
siiinmer of l--., at which time some person
drawing a seine in the creek brought it up fnv,i
the bottom, immediately ut the lick alluded t.u
This crock and lick arc in Clark c-miity K--'"
tucky. From the time of the recount r I h ivd
described to you, in which my ue I : E.Kvat I
lost his life, they have been k.i" n by t
name of Bo-me's lick and Boone's cr
W ry respect :'u' ly, yours.
N. BO NE, Cnt. 1st ftr s:,0'.
Botanist record .Vi.lHHI sp e ed f ?n x
;i,dU) nu ij be found in .-if iioup.
lluuiioi. t ui.ikei tho Fpi eie of i -iV - ILfKiO,
of rUiea 2,500, of reptiles 700, ol bird 4,0C)
and of malum iff routf nnimalg 5,000,