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HENRY B. MA88ER,i Puauaaiias n
JOSEPH EISELY. iPMrmtTom,
i. B. JBASSEtt, JSditmr,
Kmprnlm m4 tVa British Sullnr.
aoM caMPBtLL'a mw vsttm or roix.
I love, contemplating apart.
From all his homicidal glory.
The traila that soften to oar heart,
Napoleon's glory.
Twas when hi bannera in Bnlogne
Armed in our island every freeman,
Ilia navy chanced to capture one
Poor British sesman.
They suffered him, I know not how,
llnprisoncd on the shore to roam ;
And aye was bent his longing brow
On England's home.
His eye, wiethinks, pursued the flight
Of birds to Britain half way over,
Vith envy they cou'H reach the while
Dear cliffs of Dover.
A stormy midnight watch he thought,
Thsn this sojourn would have beesi slcarer,
If but the atorm bis vessel brought
To England nearer.
At last, when care had banished sleep,
He ssw one morning dreaming doling,
An empty hogshead from the deep
Come shoreward dualing.
H-e IriA it m serve, and wrought
This livelong day laborious lurking
Until he launched tiny boat
By mighty working.
Heaven help us! 'twas a thing beyond
Description wretched ! such a wherry
Fcihaps never ventured in pond
Or creased a ferry.
For ploughing the salt sea field
It would have made the boldest shudder ;
VTntam d, uneom passed, and uukeelcd
No aail no rudder.
From neighboring woods he interlaced
His sorry stiff wih wattled willows,
And thus engulphed he would have passed
The foaming billows.
But Frenchmen caught him on the beach,
His little Argussorely jeering,
Till tidings of him chanced lo reach
Napoleon's hearing.
With folded aims Napoleon stood,
Serene alike in peace and danger,
And in his wonted attitude
Addressing the stranger.
Rash man, that wouldst yon channel pass.
On twiga and slaves so rudely f.shiomd ;
Thy hesrt with some sweet Italian lasa
Musi be impassioned.
I have no sweetheart, raid the bid.
But absent long from one another,
Ureal was the longing that I had
To see my mother.
And so thou shalt. Napoleon said,
ifou've both my favor fairly won i
A noble miKltor must have bred
So brave a son.
ye gave the tar a piece of gold,
And with a Hag of truce commanded
Heiihould he shippe d to England olJ,
And safely landed.
Our sailor oft could scantily shift
To I'uid a dinner plain and hearty,
llut never changed thecoin and gilt
Of Bonaparte.
Heaven.
This world's not "all a fleeting show,
For man's illusions given :"
He that hath sooth'd a widow's wo.
Or wiied an orphan's tear doth know
There's something here of Heaven,
And ho that walka life's stormy way
With feelings calm and even.
Whoa path is lit, from day 10 day.
By virtue's bright and ateady ray.
Hath something felt of Heaven.
He that the christian's course hath run,
And all his foes forgiven,
Who measures out lile's little span,
In love to God and love to nun,
On Earth hath lasted Heaven.
Laud Canoi.bh. The manufacture of can
dles from lard is another Btep in the progress
of improvement. It has been done by Dr. Fig
urea of Franklin, Tennessee. The Nashville
Union describes them as possesing superior ex
cellence and brilliancy, as fully equal to sperm
in every thing but their appearance, andean
be rendered superior in overy particular. They
last longer, give a more brilliant light and can
be aflorded at a cost of M per cent. less.
jsr. r. Pott.
Thk Ijomo-How. The usual range of the
long-bow was from StRKI lo 4000 yards. It is
raid of Robin Hood and Little John, that they
shot twice that distance. They could shoot
silly arrows in two minutes. The length of
the bow was six feet, of the arrow two or three.
They were of yew or ash. The cross-bow was
tixed to a stock ol iron, or wood. It was bent
by a lever, and its two strings were discharg
ed by a trigger. It threw bullets and stones,
as well as arrows. Iu range was 150
yards.
At the alum works belonging to the Marquis
of Normandy, in Yorkshire, a discovery has
just been made, which is likely to super
sede the ufo of indigo in dying cloth and
other fubrics, and which promises to be a
source of considerable wealth to the noble Mar
quia. Vngltth jwjr.
MAJOR MAIION'S APARTMRNTS,
PROM 'JACK HlfrroN,' LAST Nt'MRRR,
Lieut. Ilinton, the English hero in Ireland
of the autobiography, has been involved in a
qunrrel and is to fight a duel with an Irish
gentleman jockey, Ulick Burke; and while
he is talking the matter over, the evening be
fore the meetirg, with his Irish second, Maj.
Ma lion, the latter relates the following per
sonal Teminisccnce, by way of illustrating the
manners of the Country :
'Tom, here, doesn't like a story at supper,'
said the major, pompously ; for, perceiving our
attitude of attention, he resolved on being a
little tyrannical before telling it.
The priest made immediate submission ; and,
slyly hinting that his objection only lay against
stories he had been hearing for the last thirty
years, said he could listen to the narration in
question with much pleasure.
'You shall have it, then !' said the major, as
he squared himself in his chair, and thus be
gan You have never been in Cattle Cnnncl,
Ilinton! Well, there is a wide, bleak line of
country there, that strctchesaway to the west
ward, with nothing but large, round-backed
mountains, low, boggy swamps, with here and
there a miserable mud-hovel, surrounded by,
maybe, half an acre of lumpers, or bad oats ; a
few small streams struggle through this on
their way to the Shannon, but they arc brown
and dirty as the soil thry traverse-, and the
very fish that swim in them arc brown and
smutty also,
In the very heart of this wild country, I
took it into my head to build a house. A
strange notion it was, for thete was no neigh
borhood and no sporting ; but, somehow., I had
taken a dislike to mixed society some time be
fore i hat, and I found it convenient to live
somewhat in retirement ; so that, if the patridg
cs were not in abundance aliout me, neither
wero the process-servers ; and the truth wbf,
I kept a much sharper look-out for the snb-
sheriftthon I did for the .snipe,
Of course, as I was over head and cars in
debt, my notion was to build something very
considerable and imposing ; and, to be sure, I
had a fine portico, and a flight of steps leading
up to it ; and there were ten windows in front,
and a grand balustrade at the top; and, faith
taking it all m all, tire building was so strong,
the walls so thick, the windows so narrow, and
the stones so block, that my cousin, Darcy Ma
lion, called it Newgate ; and not a bad name
either and the devil another it ever went by
and even that same had its advantages; for
w I ro 11 the creditors used to read that at the toj
of my letters, they'd say 'Poor devil ! he has
enough on his hands: there's no use troubling
him any more.' Well, big as Newgate look
ed from without, it had not much accommoda
tion when you got imiJo. There was, 'tis true,
a fine hall, all flagged ; and, out of it, you
entered what ought to have been the dinner
room, thirty-eight feet by seven-and-twenty
but which was used for herding sheep in winter,
On the right hand there was a cozy little break
fast-room, just about the size of this we are in
At the back of the hall, but concealed by a pair
of folding doors, there was a grand stair-case of
old Irish oak, that ought to have led up to a
great suite of bed-rooms, but it only conducted
to one. a little crib 1 had for myself. 1 he re
mainder were never plastered nor floored; and,
Indeed, in one of them, that was over the big
drawing-room, the joists were never laid, which
was all the better, for it was there we used to
keep our hay and straw
Now, at the time I mention, the harvest
w an not brought in, and instead of its being full
as it used to be, it was mighty low ; so that,
when you opened the door above stairs, instead
! of finding the hay up beside you, it was about
fourteen feet down beneath you.
I can't help boring you with all these de
tails: first, because they are essential to my
story ; and next, because, being a young man,
and a foreigner to boot, it may lead yu to
little better understanding of some of our na
tional customs. Of all the partialities we Irisl
have after lush and the ladies, I believe our
ruling passion is to build a big house, spend
every shilling we have, or that we have not, as
the case may be, in getting it hall-finished
and then live in a corner of it, 'just for grand
eur,' as a body may say. It s a droll notion,
after all ; but show me the county in Ireland
that hasu't at least six specimens of what I men
tion,
Newgate was a beautiful one ; and although
the sheep lived in the parlor, and the cowa
were kept in the blue drawing-room, Darbv
Whaler slept in the boudoir, and two bull-dogs
and a buck goat kept house, in the librury
faith, upou the outside i. looked veiy imposing ;
and not one that as. it, from the high roe J to
Kiwis and jou could see it for twelvo miles
in every direction didn't say 'That Mahon
must be a snug fellow look what a beautiful
j ,,aco ,e mgof jt there!' Little they knev that
j lt w tt, n,ft.r u, j,0 ,, ,10 'H Usuit my grand
airense, and it was like rope-dancing to pass
from one room to the other.
Well, it was about four o'clock in the after
noon of a dark, louring day in December,
rending homewards in no very good humor ;
for, except a brace and a half of snipe, and a
gray plover, I had met with nothing the whole
ay. The night was falling fast ; so I began
to hurry on as quickly as I could, whn t heard
loud shout behind inc, and a voice called out
4 'It's Bob Mahon, boys ! By the hill of Sceriff
wc are in luck !'
I turned about, and what should 1 see but a
parcel of fellows in red coats they were the
blazers. There was Dan I Aiulrert, Tom Burke
larry Kyre, Joe M'Mahon, and the rest of
them ; fourteen souls in all. They had come
down to draw a cover of Stephen Blake's, a-
bout ten miles from me ; but, in the strange
mountain country, they lost the dogs they
lost their way and their temper; in truth, toall
ppearnnce, they lost every thing but their ap
petites. 1 heir horses were dead beat, too, and
they looked as miserable a crew as ever you
set eyes on.
"Isn't it lucky. Bob that we found you at
home !' said Iambert.
They told us you wero away,' says Burke
Some said that you were grown so pious.
that you never went out except on Sundays,'
added old Harry, with a erin.
'Begad,' said I, 'as to the luck, I won't say
much tor t ; for bcTc's all I can give yi for
your dinner; and so I pulled out the four birds
and shook them at them ; 'and as to the piety,
roth, maybe you'd like to keep a fast with as
devoted a son of the church as myself
"Ihit isn't that Newgate up there V said one,
That same.'
''And you dotft mean to say that such a
house as that linen t a good larder, and a tine
cellar!
'You're right,' said I, nnd they're both full
at this very moment the one with seed po
tatoes, and the other with Whitehaven coals.'
'Have you got any bacon I' said Mahon.
'Oh, yes!' said I, 'there's bacon.'
'And eggs,' said another.
'For the matter of that, you might swim in
batter.'
"Come, come,' said Dan Lambert, 'we're
not so badly off after all.'
'Is there whiskey V cried Kyre.
'Sixty-three gallons that never pakl the
king sixpence !'
As I said ibis, they gave three cheers you'd
have heard a mil? off.
After about twenty minutes' walking, we
got up to the house, and when jxior IWby o-
pened the door, I thought he'd faint; for, you
bee, still the red coats made him think it was
the army, coming to take me away; and he
was for running off to taise the country, when
I cetight him by the neck.
'It's the blazers ! ye old fool,' said I. 'The
gentlemen ate come to dine here.'
'Ilurro !' said he, clappfflg his hands on his
knees, 'there must be great distress entirely,
down about Nenagh and them parts, or they'd
never think of coming here for a bit to eat.'
'Which way lie the stables, Bob?' said Burke.
'Leave all that to Darby,' said I ; for yon
see he had only to whistle and bring up as many
people as he liked and so Ire did, too ; and as
there was room for a cavalry regiment, the hor
ses were soon bedded down end comfortable;
and in ten minutes' time we were all sitting
pleasantly round a big fire, waiting for the ra
shers and eggs.
Now if you'd like to wash your hands be
fore dinner, Iambert,come along with me.'
'By all means, said he.
The others were standing up too; but I ob
served, Ihut, as the houeo was large, and the
ways of it unknown to them, it was better to
wait till I'd come back for thein.
This was a real piece of good luck, Bob,'
said Dun, as he followed me upstairs 'capital
quarters we've fallen into; and what a snug
bed-room ye have here.'
Yes,' said I, carelessly; it's one of the
small rooms there are eight like this, end liffe
large ones, plainly furnished, as you see; but
for the present, you know
'Oh, begad ! I wish for nothing better. It
me sleep here the other fellows may care for
your fourposters with satin hangings'
Well,' said 1, if you are really not joking,
I may tell you, that the room is ouo of the
warmest in the house' and this was telling
no lie.
Here I'll sleep,' said he, rubbing his hands
with satisfaction, and giving the bod a most
affectionate look. 'And now let us join the
rest.
'When I brought Dan down, 1 took up Burke
and after him M'Mahon, and so on to the last ;
but every time I entered the parlor, 1 found
them ell bestowing immense praises on my
house, and each follow ready to bet he hud got
the best bcd-rouui.
'Dinner soon made its appearance ; for if the
cookery was uot very perfect, it was, at least
wonderfully expeditious. There were two I
men cutting rasherr, two mere frying them in
the pan, and another did nothing but break the
ppga ; Darby running from the parlor to the
kitchen and back again, as hard as he could
trot.
Do you know now, that many a tune since,
when I have been giving venison, and Burgtin-
dy, and claret, enough tuswiin a life-boat, in, I
often thought it was a cruel wane of money ;
for the fellows werrn t halt aa pleasant as thry
weie that evening on bacon and whiskey !
'I ve a theory on that subject, Ilinton, I'll
talktoynu more about it another time; I'll only
observe now, that I m sore we all over-feed our
company. I've tried both plans; and my lion-
est experience is, that as far as regards cotivivi-
ality, lun, and good fellowship, it is a great mis-
take to provide too well for your guests. There
is something heroic in eating your mutton-chop,
or your l.g of turkey, among jolly fellows;
there is a kind of reflective flattering about is
that tells you, you have been invited for your
drollery, and not your digestion and that your
jokes, and njt your flattery, have been your re-
coi.imcmi.uiun, l-oru bress you ! I ve laugiieu
morc over red hcrrngs and potteen than I ever
expect to do again over turtle and toquay.
My guests were, to do them justice, a good
illustration of mv theorv. A nleasanter and a I
merrier party never sat down together. Wc
had good songs, good stories, plenty of laughing.
and plenty of drink ; until at last poor Darby
became so overpowered, by the fumes of the
hot water, I suppose, ihat he was obliged to be
carried opto the bed, and so wc were compel-
eA to boil tho kettle in the parlor. This I
think, precipitated matters; for by some mis-
take, thev nut Punch into it instead of water.
and the more vou tried to weaken the liquor, it
i
wasonlv the moretinsv von were "otthiT.
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under the table, three more were nodding back
wards, like insane pendulums, end the rest weie
mighty noisy, and now and then rather dispo
sed to be quarrelsome.
'Bob,' said Lambert to me, in a whisper, 'If
its the same thing to you, I'll sl.p away and get
into bed.'
llfennns.. ifv.. wn' t.W .nv .!,;
'
more. Just make yourself at home ; and, as
you don't know llisMvay here, follow me !'
i m airani, saiu ntj, 'in not hnd my way
home.'
'I think,' said I, 'it's very likely. But,ome
along !'
I walked up stairs before him ; but, instead
of turning to the left, I went the other way, till
I came to the door of the large room, that I
have told you already was over the big draw-
ing-room. Just as I put my bund on the lock,
I contrived to blow out the candle, as it it was
the wind.
What a draught there is here, said I : 'but
just step in, and I'll go for a light.' -
lie did as he was bid ; but, instead of find-
ing himself on my beautiful little carpet, down
he went fourteen feet into the hay at the bot-
torn. I looked down after him for a minute or
two and then called out
"As I was doing the honors of Newgate, the
least I could do was to show you the drop,
(Jood night, Dan ! but let me advise you to get
a little farther from the, door, aa there are
more comin".'
Well, sir, when they missed Dan and me
out of tire room, two or throe more stood up,
ami declared for bed also. The first I took up
was French, of (Jreen Park; for indeed he
wasn't acute fellow at the best of times; and,
if it wasn't that the hay was so low, he'd never whole may not average much over twenty bush
have guessed it was not a feather-bed till he els. The difference in the crop is mainly at-
woke in the morning. Well down he went,
riien cameKvro ! Then Joe Mahon two and
twenty stone no less ! Lord pity I hem ! he
j
was a great shock entirely ! But when I open-
ed the door for Tom Bui ke, upon my consci- Lwriitod from the first ntime.l, bv the road
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ciicc, you u linns, it was ruiiiicinouiuin itiey nail
down there. They were righting like devils,
and roaring w ilh all their might.
Hiood night, Tom,' said I, pushing Burke
forward,
neath.'
It's tho cows you hear under-
'Cowa! said lie. Ml there cows, oegau,
they must have got at that sixty-threo gal
lons of liottecii you talked of; for the're all
drunk.'
With that he snatched the cand!e out of my
hand, and looked down into the pit. Never
was such a sight seen before or since. Dan
was pitching into poor Frenih, who, thinking
he had en enemy before him, wes hitting oui
manfully at an old turfcreel, that rocked and
creaked at every blow, es he called out
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you infernal scoundiel I'
'Burke was struggling in tho hay, thinking
he was swimming for his 111 ; and poor Joe
Mahon was patting him on lite bead, and say
ing, 'IW fellow ! good dog!' for he thought
it was Towner, the bull-terrier, that was
prowling round the calves ol his legs.
ll' the v dou't L'ct tired, there 11 not be a
man of them alive bv morning !' said Tom, as
he rloscd the door 'Ami now, if you'll allow
me to sleep on the carpet, I'll take it as a fa
vor.'
'By this time they were all quiet in the par
lor ; so I lent Burke a ciNinle nfhlanketa and a
bolster, and, having lock.nl my door, went to
bed with an easy mind and a quiet conscience,
To be sure now and then a cry would burst
forth, as if they were killing somebody below
stairs; but I soon fell asleep, and heard no more
of them.
'By daybreak next morntng, they made
their escape ; and when I was trying to
wake at half oast ten. I found Colonel M'Mor-
ris, of the Mavis with a message from the
whole Dinr.
A bud business thi. Captain Mahon,' sst-i
he ; 'my friends have been slewkiugly tren-
ted,
"It's mighty hard, 'said I, 'to want to shoot
u,e, because 1 hadn't fourteen feather-beds in
the house.'
.-They will be the laugh of the whole coun-
try sir.
. ,Tro, 8,i(1 .if ,he country j8 not jn ve-
ry iow 8pirits, I think they will
. -There's not a man of them can see ! their
eyes are actually closed up !"
"The Lord be praised !' said I. 'It's not
likely they'll hit me.'
'But to make a short story of it, out we went.
Tom Burke was my friend; I eotild scarce
hold my pistol with laughing; for such faces
" '"" cvcr lookwl aL J""t 'of sen prescrva-
tion sake, I thought it best tu Hit one ot them ;
J' jointed t rencli a little under the skirt
of the coat.
'Come Lambert! sai.l the colonel, 'its
your t,,rn now
' 'Warn t that lmhert, sain I, 'llial l hit :
..
' 'No, said he, 'that was trench.
"Begad, I'm sorry for it. French, my dear
fellow, excuse me; for you sceyou're all so like
each other about the eyes this morning '
With this there was a roar of laughing from
them all, in which, I assure you Lambert took
m a vory P""""" P"1 ' f"r """how, he
didn't fancy my polite inquiries after him ; and
w c shook hands, and lellthc ground as good
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menus as ever, lliougll IU hub iiuui mi; nam;
of Newgate brings less pleasant recollections
to their minds, than if their fathers had been
hanged at its prototype.'
Fanning an a Larajs Bekle.
What large tracts of land are sometimes
tilled in the western States under the name of
farms may be judged from the following arti-
cles which are found in the Peoria I'ress
Am Illinois Fraihik Farm- Mr. Isaac
Underbill, of Peoria, has a farm about 13 miles
above this place, at Koine, on the Illinois river,
which is the largest, or at least one of the
largest in the state,
The first field of this farm that meets your
view in approaching Rome, consists of five
hundred acres, under what is sometimes called
Virginia or worm fence, eight rails high.
Three hundred acres of this are in wheat.
principally put in last fall, and which was sow
1 upon the sod, last year for the first time
broken up by the plough, trom such ground a
full crop is never expected, before the large
furrows, which had lain in a solid body of mat
ted roots for ages, are thoroughly decomposed
I and pulverized, which cannot tike place in a
few months. The wheat is now (July Oth,)
"white for harvest ;" and it is estimated that
parts ofihe field will yield twenty-five, and
some, thirty bushels to the acre, though the
tributable to the time and the manner m which
ihn nlouoliimr and sowim? w ere done. Tli
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balance of the field is in corn and o.it
. The second fieid, which is neanvt Home, ami
icmling Iroin rorliiinptoii in umi mace, run
1 sists of two hundred acres, which is en.Ios,,.
wilh a beautiful and excellent Uurd fence.
This wasdone at an expense ol lyrJUi, which
was about the cost of the fence around the live
hundred acres. This field cnuluins v. heat, rye,
oats, and corn and shows what the Ij Salle
prarie can do when under full subjection to the
hand of the cultivator. Tho wheat hero pr:
laentaa scene more beautiful Is-vond descrip-
lion. It overtops the fence, winch exceeds
five feet in heigth ; it is clean, well hea.leu ami
even, and urist produce thiriy-live bushels to
the acre. A description of ihe rye and oats
would be such as initfhl excite doubts in the
minds of those wlm have never
crops of our prairie state. The corn though
fin. is not so wel crown as it is at me same
. -
lime ofthe year in ordinary seasons.
The Ihird field, which lies north of the se
cond, will be of mammoth size when completed,
which will be in very short time. Much of il
is nowundei fence, broken up, and a part of it
in corn. It will consist of sixteen hundred acres,
ell under one fence.
Tin) whole funu comprises sbout two-thou-
sand three hundred acres, and has a stringht
line offence on one side, three miles long.
Mr. U. expects this fall to be able to put se
ven or eight hum' red acres in wheat. Much
of this will be in ground a second year under
cultivation, and with an ordinary season, the
next year's crop of this and the sod wheat, or
what will be put in new ground, may reasona
bly be calculated to yield at least, an average
production of twenty-five bushels per acre.
The breaking or ploughing of the prariecost
Mr. Underbill iSfcOO per acre by contracts, smI
wIipbI sold here nearly all last w inter at 71
tents per bushel ; ifitcainea little under that
on some day it wont hhrr on oiln r. We
mid those prices to the prect.diiij; nccoitnf, t! ;t
the render may form some idea of what e:n; !
dune in th" wy of pniirie furinin:; in I ' ! i tn
Mr. U. is now building two lnr.7i lorus, -tt
by fill feet, on the bank of the rier, ;i! ili'mi",
where there is one of the 1 1 sNnn.l'Ktt lnui
ings on the river. The firM of these w is r:i:
sed last Suttirdny, and the frame of the other
will be ready to go up in a short time.
Mnklnsc Hatter.
Mr. Ware, of London, wlm has been lor
more than thirty years engaged in the bu'tr
trade in this city, has furnished a paper to the
New Farmer's Journal, on the best mclhod-
of preparing and keeping butter, from which
we extract the following :
'Solidity end firmness, is, I think, of in -n;
consequence than is generally allowed ; the
nearer butter can be made of the consistency
of wax, the longer will it ret 'tin its ll.tvor.
To accomplish this object, I re
commend suiting the cream, by putting in ra
ther more fine table salt thun is used when ap
plied after churning, because a purt will he left
with the buttermilk; or instead of talt, use
strong clear brine to mix with the cream or
butter. Brine is preferable to
salt, as the butter is smoother and better fla
vored. If salt be used, it may be in the pro
portion of half an ounce of fine dry table suit,
mixed with two drachms of saltpetre, and two
drachms of sugar, both made fine, to every
pound of butter. If the butter be made into
lumps tor the market, 1 should recommend that
each lump be wrapped round with a piece of
calico, soaked in brine made from fine dry salt,
that will carry an egg ; for if the brine is weak
it will be injurious. If the butter is put into a
firkin, the cask should be made of white oak,
aah, sycamore or beech, well seasoned by scal
ding out several times with hot brine, made
from pure and clean salt. If very choice hut
tcr, I would recommend a salt cloth uromid il
butter, also on the top and bottom ; the elotli
to be kept in its place by a hoop, which can
be removed as the cask fills. Mr. Ware de
precates the use of the hand in making butter,
and recommends the use of wooden pats, not
unlike our farmers' wives' butter ladles, for
beating out the buttermilk or packing in casks.
"Those pats must be always (except when in
the hand for use,) kept in a tub of cold water,
which will prevent the adhering ofthe butter,
and keep them cool."
Pkrilocs Poniticn or St. PtTmwu ho. It
is melancholy to contemplate the constant
staul danger in w hich this brilliant capital in
placed. If Mr. Lohl's picture is not over char
ged, the occurrence of a strong westerly wind
and high water just at the breaking up of tho
ice, would at any time sullice to occasion an in
undation sufficient to drown the whole popula
tion and lo convert the entire city with all its
sumptuous palaces into a chaotic mass of ruin.
The liulf of Finland runs to a point as it ap
proaches the mouth of the Neva, where the most
violent gales sre always those from the m .
so that the mat" of waters, on sncli oce;i-i n.-,
is always lorchly i;ii,e!!, ., lo.tarils -. i .
The itlaiii) lor.ii u . t:,e 1e.u - t tin: . , on
which St. Poter.-bur:r stnieK is extren.. I n
iiii'l tl i, mill the ir.oiio-i point in the ci'y i
nroi'aiily not inure tn.-iu luelw or linir'een n et.
is tiieretore, enough tj L
!a - ail "M. I'et. r.v.nr,:
, i'l'r v. ,.t. r, i.tul a n.-e ot Un-'y e, l . .,
l in (Uvwn almost e erv human hen. o :n T t ,
T!n poor inhabitants are, lh. reore, in t , . , t
ilaierel ol iiesi nn-t io. ami ran i.e.-. r he I'D'
that loo whole (ilKl.tlH ol litem may not, w.lii
in the next t . i iily-l'oiir hour- li uslu .1 mil ut
their houses like so inany itrown il i.it.-. Tin.'
truth, the subject ought hariliy tn l- s j -kt ,i
of with levity, lor the danger is loo uumiiit'ii',
and ihe rellectioil often makes In my hearts,
quake iu St, Petersburg. The only hope ot
this apparently doomed city, is, that Ihe thr.'e
circumstances may never occur siiniiltani-e.!
ly, viz : high water, the breaking up 1' t': ,
and a gale if wind from the west. Tner ,i
so many points of the compass lor tin- "
choose aiiii.ng, that it w uld seem por.v.
the extreme lo so critic l a moment ; m ,
less the wind does not blow often (Von. tin
during spring, and the iceil.nimg m i,.
and the (iulf f Finland is of a bulk ' p 1 -ficienlly
to opposes lorniiihtbltfebstuclo ' ''''
water in the upper part of the river. "u,i ,,"
ancient sages of OhkU kept meteorological re.
cords, one might beihaps bo able to c .h nial.'
fiow often in e thousand years, such a flood in
we are here supposing might be likely to oci nr.
As it is, the world need not be at all surprise-!
to read in the news-pa X'rs one ol these days lh .1
Si. Petersburg, after rising like a bright inele.
or from the swamps of Finland, has suddenly
been extinguished in them like a u ill.o-lhe-w
ip. May heaven protect the city !
JWi'ir Quarterly iidine.