U. I". SLOAN, Editor.
VOLUME 20,
flied padrq.
AL Z. Ell ri A N A.
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Green old hills'. our cultutry'R glory,
Prolidly in the midst ye, stand.
Linked with litany it inert old iilory—
Theme of litany a ininstrql band.
Northward, southward, broadly fdreiehing
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Where th Sugguehanna,gleams,
Through V rgittia's land of beauty.,
Far awa to Southern streams.
Here the dusky Minters proudly
Chased the deer in - days gone by,
here the monnta ill echoes londlY
Woke the warrior's battle-cry,
Here the 'Mille invader boldly
Drove him from his halint4 sway,
And the winds are sighing Badly
While he takes Its ‘xe,tuT t ard way
Green old hills of Apegliany,
Oh! to dhoti your heights once more:
Westward lie the mighty rivers,
flastward frowns the Atlantic shore.
Oh! with proud heart hounding wildly
On yon highest cliff to stand!
While g tolumhia's sweetest tallies
Elecp beyond, on either hand.
Green old hills, our country's glory,
We will proudly ring your praise,
You shall be the theme of ,torl,
Wake the minstrel's sweew t
Fate may bid our footsteps Wander,
yet for you each i•pirit
Naught our faithful hearts shrill sunder
' From our country's green oldhllls:—.llrtuag,c Ptrd
Cljoiu
THE MATRON'A DEFNCE.
A TALE
[lt proper to art) that there is no evaiigetation in the
lila hkelCll,llll. 1 / 1 /4111Ctit, Ilarraff ,1 haring occurred 4111rhrz
hordes wars of lichtucky, ties the reader way - Cunt Thee 11j11,4•11 . by
referring to "folio's 111-tery, of Kentucky." The ,cenihhti3 11)-
credible ferit,(for a woman especially) of biting in ttio
bullet is there vouched tw.—.V. P. Tryrter,.l
If a true narrative could be written of 'the incidents of
frontier life in Kentucky, from the Pionccr visit of Dan
iel Boone in 1769 to the commencement of the present
century, it Would constitute a romlance of histort that no
legend of knight errantry tradition of the holy wars
could surpass. What "The Dogs of Mohammed were
to the hospitallers and knight Tempters, the Indinqs were
to the border of our western forests; and acts of prowess
which the Grodtreys and Bohemonds of thin seeded cru
slide, armed cap-apie. "never 'e xcelled, were achieved by
the hardy backwoodsmen, clad •in their sin woolsey.
The odds which, by the laws oh chivalry. a night was
required to face, the Amelia:an r soy, r tut n
od hits back upon; and hero it wei not the paladin it stied
around with steel cucounteting a half armed hoe, butthe
atilt° woodsman against the Indian woodaman, with
equality in arms, in wow*, ut c%j,!.i3 thing except marks
zennehip, energy and daring.
7he history of the war waged for more than thirty
years betwern tho %%into settlers and the ted tribes of
Kentucky, has been very imperfectly transmitted to us.
We have only shreds and patches of it; and although we
now and then obtain a glimpse of its wonthirful episodes
in the pages of Collins, and other biographers and com
pliers, who knew less of the.pioneer conflicts in .Kt n •
lucky than we do of the border forays of the Solway rind
the Tweeu.
The hardy rAe before whose unerr;ng rifles the indi•
airs fell or fled, mid to whose keen axes the, red roan's
cit
adel, the forest,.itself imccumbed, had little acquaintance
with the Hminanithia." 'rho manuscript of Daniel
Boone, whose education was supolior to that of a major
ity of his comp4rs, was bar. lv le iblc , and his spelling
and English were n burlosiine on (lithography, Etymolo
gy "and Syntax. The fr01die1;2,, ,, : I,nd tin tone to de
scribe his own esploas iu id, k hue, even had he
possessed the capability and ine:inid.im. Mho was
modest as he was rude and bra; 6 . , Th. v is as not a par
ticle of the Gaston Haim: , rod if Buono could
have heard while liv,ll/1 1 :, Ind 11, praise that has been
bestowed upon him dead, 11.. would have blushed at his
own fame.
It was not alone the men of the frontier that were
breve and resolute. The tiiatioroi were of the. Roman
sianiporid the undaunted 'nettle of many a border maiden
was displayed in acts of heroism and devotion that.
eclipse the exploits of Joan of Arc and the heroine of
Saragossa.
That wo do not exaggerate the courage and -forti
tude of the mothers and daughters of "Old Kalmuck,"
let tho following story, of which all the leading incidents
are facts, testify.
A more beautiful scene than the clearing on the Elk
horn, which sparkled in the light of a cloudless sunrise.
on the 27th of April 1792, could not have been found be
tween Kentucky Myer and the mountains ! A rude, but
strongly built log cabin—half dwelling half fortraice—
was the most conspicuous object on the foreground. A
stream, the Elkhorn, too la'rgo to bo called a crook, yet
scarcely large and broad enough (except during a fresh
et,) to bo considered a river, its eloping banks clothed in
the tender greon,of early spring, swept_ with rapid cur
rent within half rifle-shut of the front of the
The entire clearing consisted of about forty acres, gir
dled on every side by the dense forest, except on the
East, where a broad opening appeared, and the 'blazed'
outline of a road was visible for a roil or two, leading to
an adjacent settlement. The location was only three or
four miles from Frankfort, thou a small village, and
about two milesfrom the nearest point of Kentucky river,
of which the Elkhorn is a tributary. Within the cleared
area labor had already done much. The axe, which had
tat lbo sunlight into the heart of the wilderness, had been
promptly followed by the plow. Tho barns andlcorn cribs
were filled to overflowing, and the green blades, glisten
ing with dew, that covered the southern slopes, gave
promise of another abundant harvest.
The cabin was pf double the usual size, fur it contain
ed two families. lts occupants were two brothers, Hosea
and Jesse Cook, their wives and children, and a youth
of seventeen, named John McAndre, who assisted the
Cooks in their farm work. Tho brothers were originally
horn Connecticut, but had emigrated to Kentucky some
years before the time at which our narrative (Tone,—
Nearly four Twirl; had elapsed since they had settled on
Elkhorn, and during the whole of that time they had
seen but one Indian.
liosea's household consisted of his wife Miriam, liko
himself a native of New England—n woman of com
manding stature and great personal idrength—and their,
daughter Alice, a fair, golden-haired beauty, with a face
that ■milled all over, then in tier sixteenth year. Hope,
the wife of Jesse Cook, wait a rosy, comely daughter of
yir g inta, much younger than her sister-in-law, with
two boys, of six and three yetirs old, at her apron strings.
John McAndro was a fine hardy young huntsman, whose
father had been killed in a mantra with a party of Wr.
andel., near the Blue Licks, in that memorable era of
the frontier wars of the weal., the year 178'2.
Just as the sun's rod disc became visible above the
?Peer line of the forest to flip r ay.t. the door of thecobin
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opened.'and the brothers passed out. The scone spread
before theM was one of perfect repose. Tho morning
mist had already lifted from the stream, and was sailing
slowly upward, while not a breath stirred to shako the
pendent moisture from tho leaves, or ripple the surface
o f the swiftly-gliding water. But th4looks were not
the men to look upon the landecape with a poet or a
painter's eye, and with tho simple Observation that it was
a fine growing morning, tho older, Itosea, shouldered
his axe, and followed by his brother, walked to a pile of
chestnut timber a few rods west of the ho'itso, whore they
had been engaged the proceeding day, in splitting out
fence rails, . , '
They wero both unarmed, and would lim%o laughed at
the idea of carrying weapons to protect themselves against
the Adieus. so confident had their long exemption from
attack or molestation rendered them. But their dream
of security was destined to be suddenly and awfully bro
ken. They had nut struck twenty bloWs with their axes
when a dozen rifles,
"Too nearly, deadly, aimed to err,"
erackod from a clump of maples about forty yards in ad-a
Vance of the nearest point of woods, and Hoson Cook,` -
who Was in the act of 'chopping, sprang like a ball into
the air, and straightening as ho descended , 1 fell with his‘..:
face upward, quite dead. a
Jesse, edthough struck with threO bullets, and mortally
wound, started in a staggering run for the cabin, and roll
a few feet from the door, at the very moment thirteen
Wyandots, painted and plumed for war, leaped from their
cover with a whoop of demoniac exultation. For ono
moment . the inmates of the cabin were panic-atricken:
but in the next, the youth Me. Andre, had rushed out for
the purpose of bringing in the wounded man. Ho seized
him by the shoulthl , , and was in the act of dragging
him towards the threshold, when nu old Indian who had
reserved
_his charge when the volley was fired, took delib
crate nits ut the 'faun man and shot him through the'
brain. Ho fell dead ac uss the body of .Jesse Cook.
Ilad the savages rushed upon -the cabin at-that mo
mont they would have encountered no resistance. The
door tt•as open, and the women completely unnerved by
the horror of the scene. But the savages stopped when
they reached the•body of Hosea Cook, to sealpe their
victim. Th, , , It new that all the mails of the household
had fallen, and that it was ultrerl; impossible for the wo
man and children to escape. As to ally-attempt at de-
lace they did not drhun of: that.
Th e three females, who, with arms out-stretched to
wards the bleeding bodies of their fallen protectors; and
eyes dilated with horror, stood huddled together on the
tbre•-bnld, felt rather than s.iw that th!•ir only chance to
avoid immediate massacre was in availing thcms:dves of
the brief respite tvlnch the bloodthirsty malignity of the
savages allowed them. Rushing from the cabin, Miriam
Cook grasped the corpse of her brother-in-law in her
powerful arms, while at the Caine instant Hope and Alice
seized each an arm of the unformn im.youth, Me.lndro,
and in the next ta.dant they had darted hack again wi.li
their burdens, and closed and b trred the door. The cab-.
in was a solid strnetnrr, built of iminemte logs of che.,t
nut a nd oak,.eomplet,ly int,t-rrimt, to ride or mu-het
shot, eicept at three or four poims, ,where narrow loop
boles had been left ror the convenien , ,, o f reconnoiter
ing or firing upon an enemy. These holCs wore about
three feet from the ground, and b trely largo enough to
admit the play of a rdlo barrel so as to command tho
whole frodt of tho building. The door was formed of
two thicknesses of heavy white oak plank, equally im
penetrable by bullet., and, when seemed by the solid
bar inside, was almost as impregnable as tho cabin it
self.
llnving deposited thei r dead upon the cabin floor, Mi fi
riam l llope — ttnd Alice, began to prepare fora vigorou s &fence. Their faces wore no longer nil expression of
terror. The igows of the two matrons Were knitted with
a fierce determination, and their eyes sparkh:td with an
instinct of revenge. Alice was no longer -the gentle and
timid maiden of yesterday. her lover, for she had given
her whole heart and was soon to give, her hand to young
;Mr:Andre, and her beloved father, lay dead bolero her
side by side; the red downs were in the very act of
senipi l ng and tnntilni»g the body of the uncle outside:
and something of the tigress flashed even: in her t.yis,
half blinded as they were with tears. Th'p cw. children
Mono showed signs of fear.; but it was only visible su
their blanched faces and gnivering limbs. Theypeith
er shrieked nor wept, but sat in a corner of the cabin
with their arins'locked together watching the mov e ments
r of the females as they piled che-ts and benches, and fire
wood ngainst the door, to strengthen the weakest point
of defence.
Miriam Cook was the first to speak. After aishiting
to secure tho door she had knelt down at one of the loop
holes to recoinoitre. At the vt.ry instant when she ap
plied her eve to the aperture. the group of savages who
had been engaged in stripping the body of her husband
and haekimg it nith theirluives and tomahawks, opened
in the'right and loft, find a browner fellow, in tho tear
trappings of a chief, advanced two or three steps and shook
tho bloody scalp of the victim derisively about his bead,
while the whole party joined in an infernal yell of scorn
and exultation.
“My husband's ride!” she shouted. and springing
across the room she tore the weapon and accouterments
front the wall. But on trying, the piece with the ramrod it
proved to be unloaded. , Blur thrust her hand into the
pouch. but it contained nothing Wt. some musket balls
which; her husband had purchased at Frankfort a few
days before, intending to run them up into balls suitable
for his rifle. The powder horn was fat but of what use
was powder without ball? Dropping the weapon. she
wrung her hand. in dispair. Suddenly a thougl struck
hen she seized one of the bullets, placed it between her
teeth, and by a tremendous exertion, but it clean in twot•
Dashing a charge of powder into the barrel, she rammed
down due of the fragments.' primed and cocked the piece,
and the next moment, its muzzle protruding throgh the
aperture. covered the body piths chief, now advancing
at the'llead of his party toward the house. The quick
I cvo of the savage caught the glimmer of the ri fl esight; as
the sun shone upon it. and ho stopped; but before he had
limo to intik.; a rush for cover, Ithriam'stinger pressed
the trigger When the puffof smoke from tho discharge
cleared away, she saw him reeling backwards, and
Clutching at the air in a vain effort to recover himself.—
Before the other Indians, who seemed paralyzed by the
sudden cataStrophe, could afford him any assistanco, he
threw his hands wildly above hie head, and whirling
quickly round fell upon his face. A shout of triumph
burst from thy lips of Atria - in. as she soli the effect of the
avenging shot, and then withdrawing from the loog-hole,
she commenced re-charging the rifle.
The savages retnainoPUMtioulesi a few Seceitds,
transfixed with astonishment, and then lifting the body of
the chief, withdrew hastily to a more respectful distance
from the cabin, and its inmates half believed that tj3oir
peril was over. They were soon undeceived.-
After getting out of gunshot, the savages clustered to
gather, and appeared for severalmiinutes to be in close
conversation. At the expiration of their pow-wow, hav-,
ing apparently agreed upon the plan of action, the whole
took open order and rushed with wild yells at full speed
towards the dwelling. ..s the foremost came up. Miriam
Cook, who was now stationed at another loop-holo, n
discharged her rifle and the unlucky Vyandot. shot
I through both logs, dropped is his tracks, with an involun
tary shriek of agony. The other eleven kept on, and on
reaching the cabin six of them claMbered on the roof,
while the other five commenced firing at the doors and
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SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1849.
tho openings in tho logs. Those on the roof quickly
kindled a fire on the shingles, . which were soon in a
bright blaze. The destruction of the cabin and its in
mates now seemed inevitable. But the brave garrison
i d
did not yet despair. There was a hogshead half ( filled
with water in the house. and Miriam, buck in hand,
mounted to the lel:Hope and Alice supplied he i with wa
ter from below, and-as long us it lasted she contriyod to
extinguish tho flames as fast as they broke oat, while she
heAself, enveloped and almost suffocated by steam and
smoke, was invisible to the assailants. At length the
water was exhausted, and one of the Indians, observing
hat the efforts of the besieged wore slackening, vontur
d to poke his head ihrough one of the holes that had burn
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•rue °TOW NA'. .110 •t.t< Ln OF •rnl
amain() To and Sarsaparilla.
Old Dr. 1'01%1151.nd is iirn% bout 7J tear- of nee, nod tuut lof
been Itoostrut as the .li/T//E/2 and DISCO vEItER of the GE!
MAE ORIGINAL..TOWNSE,VI) Deli
poor, he %%as compelled to look us otatiollte tore. 1 , 1. who'll weal
II lols been kept out of market, awl the sales ciittitmeribed
thr.e,nitly Mit) had p of ed its twill', and k• ot%ti its %aloe. ft ha
reached the ears of 111 itiy.nererthele.is, nY thO4C permAlN who 1/.1
tech healed of sure tlt.eases, and saved !rum death, proelaialt
its excelleneu and wintlerlul.
'EALING POWER..
Knowing. many yea a ago, that he had, I.y his skill, science at
cciaJrtence, det 1.11 n atticle'ts hich would he of incateuhie a,
vantage tomauhiud % heir the v‘ool,l I e furniAte.l to brit,
it trite until vemil non ;,tvliett ,could r
kttms 0 and appreciate Thin (1111 e has COW., the moans are Nut
plied; lithe
GRAND AND 'UNEQUALLED PREPdReITION
is manufactured CM the large4t . bcdle, and ig r ailed for throughon
the length and Wedlli of the land, e , peci'tlly an If 13 flPilld inellll3
We of degeneration or
Unlike young :4 I'. Too zo.enel's, et improve, with lege, and neve
Cr changes, Nit tor the letter : because It in prepareel nn scientific
prineip:es by a sere nt:fic MtII., The highest knowledge of Chow,
'sirs, and the lawst disco verqes, of the art , hat a all been bronglell
into requisition in the tintfltaVntlf if of the ON nett. Stasllllntliin '
The Sarsaparilla tool. it is vi dl knot% n to medical then. contandi
many medical properties, ant some properties which are inert a
useless. and others. which if ethined en preparing it fur use. pro
litre fermentation and arid, %%ha 11 is iiiiitticaN to the system.-
Some of the properties of itlarsre pa reds are to vs/s/i/e, that the
entirely et Neville and are him in the pieparation, if they are oc
pre•ert ed by a scientescpreeces,. known only to those experiencee
in its nianufactare. NjOrTo , l2r. ta12,1, ',chuck principles, whirl
i
il int' in v :par, or ilei all e sthalation, tender li-a t, tel the very ea
amain! cnecli i al properties c, ' the not. which git e to It all its ,alue
Alit' pet -OH eta bail or .11. W thee root tell they get a dark colorer',
liethiel, ti leech is 'note them the coloring matter In the root timed
lona any thing else. plies can then scram this insipid or vapid lee
ethth, sweeten Neete ,our to tets , o4. an I Unit enli it °S.IeItriAPAR-
Ilel.A EX I'EACT or SYRUP " Ilut smile is tot the article knots et
•as the
G EN (diNts, riLD DR . J u eon T(AvsAnsirs B.lBsiVA
This n so prepared, that all the Hien provenly.; or the Sarsapa
rilla raot arc Oros removed, everything e« {milli of becoming acid
or of fermentation, is enracted 71.311 rejected; then every pani
cle of me lied' virtde 1.4 m cured in a pure and concentrated thrift;
and thus it t+ tendered incapable of lo,ing Soy of its valuable and
healing propertie... Prepared in thus nay, it Is Wade the MOO,
erful agluit ui the
Care of Innumorablo D souses.
[fence the reason icily tee heir coniniendatlons of every side in
its favor by men, women, and children. 'lN'e find it doing itmr'tiers in the cure of
4C (Pr . .) 11. 1 11' 110. Y, Di v SPX:PSI-1, and LIVER COMPL,4I.NTi
;141 , 1 in RiiEVM.II7:3 If. .S(:/i0rUl......f. P 11.1: S, (70 STj VE
-IESS all CUf'.I.VEOILS I:I2UP TION S, PI ..I'LL'S, BLOT
-1 CHES. and all affections an-lug Iron]
_ I All'I:111TY 4 tr'i'lli: Illirioll.
I I It 111),,CF,5 - si man( hal, rillic,icv ill all coniiildinis arising front twit/106mi, from A, iltot qt the .S6IIIMC 'I. front unequal
cactitu-
I
t Awl, determination of hfoud to the head, palpithtiou of the heart,
cold feet rind hands, cold chills and hot 11..1,, over the body. It
has not its equal In Cold. and CAlghS; and proolote4 easy ex We
nitration and gentle persidratiot (tilazing stricture of die tongs,
throat, it
and , cry other part.
in
. ,
1 • But nothing in its excellence 'pore manifestly seen and ac
knoniledged than in all I liiiiils and htages of
I I , 11:3/,11..r. COMPLAINTS.
It works wonders in o.tz•ca of flour ...11bus or Whiles. Falling of
the Womb, Obstructed, Surpresscil.or Painful Menses, Irregulari
ty of the menstrual period,, and the like: and is as effectual in
curing all the forms of Kidney Disco cc
14 removing ob.strifetinte. and regulating the general f.ysfetn. it
gives tone and idrength to the whole body, thus cures all terms of
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Nervous diseases and debility,
and this prevents or Tel uses a Great variety Mother Blain a 9
;pined irriintron, Neagratgtl, St. Vitus' Daum, Sicorriang,Ljakii-
Fits, Conuuhzuns,
, .
It cleanses the blood, i•critrx the liyer to healthy action, tone,
'the stomach, Mid gives good digestion. relte%es the howelli or t. -
pot and constipation, allals intlantatintl, purities the skin, equal
ises the circulation of the blood, producing gentle warmth equally
WI 0 % er the Italy, and the w-eu,ii•lo lu•nptration; relates all
itrtctures and tightness, rellsrA CS all l.P.WlCllutib. :0, 4 1 utt jo
iatc, the entire nervous s)cdent. Is nut th;s then
' Tho modicino you prowominontlY ncod!
But can :my or there thinea he fianl of 6. I'. Tom, tibeild'e inferior
Itrliclel This young 111:111', , Uquhl lw not (0 he
CoMPA RED tviTn 'l'll .11,1) DIVS.
.)ce.:tit , e of ~ne CRA NI) BACT, that the cow 5, INCAPABLE of
BIiTEILIURATIVS, and
It bile the other DOF.S;S d.t ~,,tr,j'ermrnting, and Marring the ?tat
tle, erattnitting it into fraentetit.: die -our, acid liquid expludind.
Ind dam:Agin:4 (Alter .4 , ,cnk.. Mit-4 nut tilt. lonfrible Compound he
)obonou. ti the .3,teilll What' put and tutu a 'totem already
ttea4ed atth rod' %Vint caniii , Dyspepsia Litt acid? Do ue
of all know that w hen food tour. in our idoinne tie, a hat niis
hals it tprodnee<! Ilattilence, heartburn, palpitation Eddae heart
ser complaint, dial thu a. ti2,-entery, colic., and Cl/M.IOIIA of the
nod! What is :-.'crulttla but an acid humor in the hotly? What
Ootluees all the liainoi's tS it ieli brill:: on Eruptions of the Skin,
kalif heat, Salt itheinn, El - y.114-laq, Wilde 1 / a ellings, }'et or
res, and all ulcerationk internil and external? It is nothing
t tiler lit•aven, but an acid suhitance, W h ich roars, and thus
. oils ail the Mild. , of the Lodi., more or lesq. Whit causes Mien
!
atisni but a Karr or acid !Ink! en 111C11 ilisinilann, it-elf between
!DP I
I:its and el-ett here, irritating and ilitialaing the animate tiri•.
es upon %%Inch it itet , ! So of nen oils db•eteu.s, of impurity of
pis moral; or detail:4i) circulations, and nearly all the ailments
(filch afflict !Morin liatla , e,
NinV is it not horrible to wake and mei!, and ittfinitly worse to
h<: this I
SOURING, FERMI:N-I'INC. Atli) ..00311'01;:sal "
I. Oh' S I"rOWNSLN I),
,t 1 yet he would fain have it understood that Old Dr. 'nerd, I
DOI% it , end's (Jeanine Prion r al Sarsaparilla, hi an I:4IITATioN
thin interior pfnpara , inii: .
ileaVeli lertit , l that tie rlinithl deal is an anode which tvnnl,l
45te ell. in .ortrinors nso.
• Of the thirteen warriors 'Abe had lea their tribe for tho
war-path a few days Itefure, only two were unwounded
I . and capable of service; and they, seized with n panic nt
Om havoc made among their compaoiens by t h e, 10t1g.
knife squaws," abandoned the sie g e, mid fled back to the
village. To the wounded thCy left behind them no quar
ter was given. To have spared their lives would have
been treason to the dead. Miriam's nu, and th 6 knife of
Alien made short work of them; and this duty - fulfilled,
1 the family lost no limo in proceeding. to Frankfort. The
I next day a bandied mounted frontiersmen assembled,
! and after bringing in the bodies of the Cooks nod Mc-
Andre, started for the nearest Wyandot village to take a
WHOLESOME REVENGE:
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BEAUTIYUCSENTIMtiti F.—John G. Whittier, the Qua
her poet, in writing about the Irish emigrants among us,
says: "For myself, I, confess I 'feel a sympathy for the
Irishman. I see him as the representative of a generous,
warns-hearted and cruelly oppressed people. That ho
loves his native land—that his patriotism is
that ho cannot forget the claims of his mother-island=
that Isis religion, with all its alisiscs, is dear to him—does
not decrease my estimation of him. A stranger in a
shange laud, ho is always all . °Nee! of interest. 'The
poorest and 1111 , st has is romance in his history. Amidst
all his apparent gaily of Woad. and national drollyy and
wit, the poor emigrant has sad thoughts of tho moth
er of him,' sitting lonely in the solitary cabin by the bog
side—recollections of a father's blessing and' a sister's
farewell aro haunting him— a grave mound in a distant
church Yard far beyond the 'wide wathors,' has an eter
nal greenness in his memory—for there, perhaps, lies a
•darlint child,' or a 'swats crather,' who once loved him
-,-the New World is forgotten for tho moment—blue
Killarney and the Lilly sparkle before him—Glendalough
stretches beneath him its dark still mirror—he sees the,
same evening sunshine rest upon and hallow alike with
Nature's blessings the ruins of the Seven Churebels of Ire
land's apostolic age, the broken mound of the Druids and
the Round Towers or the Pliegic,inn sun worshippers—
beautiful! and mournful recollections of his Mingo waken
within him—aud the rough and,seemingly careless and
light-hearted laborer molts into tears. it is no light thing
So abandon one's Own country and household gods.—
Touching and beautiful was the injunction of tho-proph•
et of the Hebrews, "Ye shall not oppress the stranger,
for to know the heart of a stranger, seeing that ye were
strangers in the land of Egypt."
Pwvs FIOIITIIIIO.-At the battle , of Gainsborough l
Cromwell told his Ton in a general order, "Trust in tho
Lord and koop you''. powder dry." On the eve of the
battle of Naseby, he issued ,another order to:his infantry.
saving, "Call upon the Lord and trust in yOur pikes." -7
Before the battle of Dunbar, ho said, "Beek the Lord,
and look to sour flints." Before the battle of Worche2-
ter, he said, "The prayers of the godly to scatter the
*wicked_ are heard by the Lord. Then trust irithe' Lord
take geed aim, and strike hard." •
ironv A. a p.,,ej
MEM
N EVER "SPOILS
GZIN.
' The Frakfort correspondent of the Newark Advertiser,
gives the foll Owing history ofJoseph Born. the command
er of the Southern 'division of the Hungarian army, who
has won such renown in Transylvania, by his successes
over the enmities Hungary:
Ainong all the Hungarian Heroes, no ono occupies a
more prominent place than General Joseph Bon. Not
one has displayed More untiring energy from the begin
ing of the war, and no ono has thus far had more brillian
success. At the very outset, with a band of only eight
or ten thousand nitM, ho became complete master of
entire TransylvaniaL a country nearly as largo as Hun
lary itself, plucking ; it from the hands of a triple enemy,
nternal insurrection, the Austrians and Russians. The
Saxons, Wallachianis and Tzeches of Transylvania have
become, under the rule of Betn, friends instead of ene
mies of the Hungarians. •
, ....„a
The earlier experience of Bom eminently fitted him
for the position he took on embracing the Hungarian
Cause. Educated atl the French military school of War
saw under Pelletier, Ifrom whiclOte entered the French
_ _
army. under Marshal Davoust; subsequently, ((front phuric, are virulent poisons, yet frequently used in med.
1815 till 18260 iu tlio reorganized Polish army under the icine, and the mechanic arts. Suppose a child, in his ,
Grand. Duke Constantino of Russia. which, after much rambles among the neighbors, should enter a cabinet 1
suffering, arising from his opposition to Russian oppres- shol's, and find a saucer of aqua fortis (nitric acid) upon
elan, and many fruitless attempts to‘gel, his discharge, he the work bench, and, in his sport, seize and drink a per
finally succeeded in ituitting; an enthusiastic participant lion of it, Ito is conresed home in groat.ngonv. Tho
in the Po;ish insurrection orlB3o. in which, from being physician is sent for; but ere he arrives, the child is a
tti inferior artillery officer, ho became, through his bray- corpse, Now as the mother presses tho;cold clay to her
ory and success in several battles, general and common- breast and lips for the last time, how will her anguish be
der of the whole artillery; finally, ceminzetder of the ar- aggravated to know that in her medicine chest, or lirew
finery during the Octitbor revolution of Vi nue the past or was some calcined magnesia, which, if Nncly admin
year,—whoro Ito displayed his usual brilliant qu i alitico, listored, would have saved her lovely, perchatteo her' first
1 and only boy. 0, what are all the boquids and fine
but was unsuccessfuliagainst the overwhelming Austrian
forces, and the disumon and want of proper system in I drosses in the world to her, compared with such knowl
the city. Such had Neon the school of Hem,' ono cer- cite?
tainly of misfortune, but ono which, by milking hin t ac. Take another case: A husband returning home, on a
quaintod with the military acrd political systems of /its- , summer afternoon, desires sumo aciclions drink. Open
trio and Russia, as O i se by teaching hint to support re. 1 ink a cupboard, Ito sees a small box, labelled "salts of
verses, nud to hope ftir nothing from Ansirisin or Ittis- i lemon," and making a solution of this, ho drinks it fieely.
4ian mercy, well prepared him fur the tutorial struggle or, Presently, Ito Tech; distress, sends for his wife, and snor
t a free people against those powers. 1 rains that he has drank a solution of oxalic acid, which
I Bent was corn in 1795, at 'famous in Gallicie, 4 a alto has procured to take stains from linen. The physi
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clan is sent for; but the unavoidable delay attending his' :soble faniily, which had formerly been ono of the' most
i e sees upon
distinguished of Poland, but was then reduced, his fattier arrival is fatal. When Ito arrives, perhaps h
using on a tt or ney. !pt. was first s i
l ent to the University' the very table On which the weeping widow bows her
f Cracow, but Its he evinced a military disposition, so
Id, hr ad, a piece of chalk, which, if given in time; would
have certainly prevented any mischief from Mc poison .
,s his flutter had retraced to Warsaw, where there was
It good military school, then under the -French General 'corrosive sublimate is the orticlo generally used to
" i 'elktier, he was withdrawn' front the University in 1 4 (11), destroY.tho vermin which sometimes infest our. couches.
fsild placed hero. Aftr going through the regular course ' A solution of it is laid upon the floor, in a tea-cup, when
I t 1
of study, he was admitted into the none!' army, and at , the domestics go down to dine, leaviug tho children up
the beginning of the campaign of 181).1 against
( ;
Russia,' stairs to play; tho infant Crawls to the ten-cup, and drinks.
he tho mother's joy, if, was Lieutenant of mistimed,
first under Marshal Now what think you hay-
Davoust. would
and then under Macdonald, who, after the nn- ' int', studied chemistry, she instantly called to recoll e ction
fortunate issue of the expedition to Moscow, threw hint-' the well ascertained fact, that tilers is in the hears nest
self into (ho fortress of Dantiig. lizire young Bent shared ;an antidote to this poison. She sends for 601110 eggs,
the forttine Of the best ged French 15 mouths; w h en on ; and breaking theM, ndministers the whites, tier child
e
recovers, and sho it cops for joy. Talk to her of novels
the capitulation and surrender of the place, Ito was sent
with the other Poles ts bo were there, to Poland, the Bus- 1 —on e little book of manta! science has been worth, to
shins no6.iliserving one condition Of the surrender, which ,I her, "woo than all rho novels in tha world. I
was to allow the Pules( free passag l e to Franco. l
. Physicians in the country rarely carry scales with them
Arriled at Warsaw, lie remained at his (other's house t o weight their prescriptions. They administer medicines
lj p till the re-organization of the PoliSh army in 1815 under ;by guess, from a teaspoon er the point of a knife. Sup
"the Grand Dulto Cons antino, when Ito mitered the Rus-,I mist) a common case. A physician, in a hurry, leaves
'siarf service. But Ilti shin despotism, as exercised over I atm:over-dose of tartar-emetic, (generally the first pre-
Ibis annihilated country, , was littlelcongsmitil to a spirit ' scriptiou in cases of bilious fever) end pursues his way to
t . 1
vaturally free, and that in the sm l ote: of Napoleon had' see another patient, ten miles distant. The medicine is
'seen able to breathe otleast some ,degree of liberty. In ' duly administered , and the man is poisoned. When the
ithe course of two or three years Ilte was several times 1 1 case becomes alarming, ono messenger is despatched for
i l l \ sought before military 'tribunals at `d suspended tram stir- ; the doctor, and another to call in tho neighbors to soothe
`l3O. The efforts ho Isla& to get his discharge, and per- : sufferer die. Now there is, in a canister in the cupboard ,
if
unission to leave the I country. w i cro unsuccessful; but' and on a tt-eo that grows by the door, a remed y . for this
"Oen in 1819 he seemed determinbil to remain no long-' distress and alarm—a sure means of saving the sick , ,
k.ir, ho was held back by being pristnoted to the rank of man from - threatened death. A strong decoction of ,
Captain, slid appointed in conn4tion- Professor in the !young hysou tea, oak bark, orlany other astringent veg-
Warsaw Military Academy, whorl:1110 himself-had been : «table, will change tartar-emetic into, a harmless com
et:located. But Ito was no inure satisfied miter this than , pound.
before, nor was' Ito inozie susses:ant ito avoiding cutillicts i Vessels of copper often give rise to poisoning. Though
with the Russian despatism. , I this metal undergoes but little change in n dry Minos
,
The Grand Duke Constantin . ° wets a man of it most ! pliers, it is rusted if moisture bo present, and its surface
arbitrary and tyrannical disposition, amid would not tole'r- ' becomes covered with a green substance—carbonate, or
ate the least appoarancti of freedom in the expression of the proxido of copper, a poisonous compound. It has
political opinions. Frint 1820 till 1826, Bola was three sometimes happened, that a mother has, for ' want of
times arrested, and twice condemned to prison, once' be- knowledge, poisoned her family. Sourkrout when per
ing thrown two tionntql
into a dark, wet dungeon, whore mitted to stand for some time in a coppervessol, has pro
be became seriously ill. Ott being restored, after leas- 1 duced death in a few hours. Cooks sometimes permi ,
tug this place of confinement, he was sent to a small pickles to remain in copper vessels, that they may ac.
down at a distance front ) the capital and placed under po- quire a rich green color, which they do by absoibing poi
Vico inspection. son.
Ott the death of tho -
the accession of Nichol}
charge; amid wont to res i n
Hero Ito employed It;s t
and mechanics, on wit
works, particularly ono
In 1830, when tho cr,
Volund, Bent was ono
contest. Ills ,laborator
military camp at Warsi
of a battery of 'artillery, I
where 8000 Poles defeat
of Bom, of 16tuns, sib
Hero ho was mado Colc
battles of Gretillow, Wa
tinguishod hiMself. Ak
in which the Poles were
rierior enemy; Bum, co
army, bringing the Rusi
the Natatv, which they
he was appointed lo thu
tillery, with the rank of
Bit tho attonapt of th‘
partly from . tho want oft
ing generals, and partly
foreign power.
In the defon l ee . of Wa
was conducted by Dam;
Lions made, and the posi
toted, in consequence o
kowoelty, who had been
tar. Witk the greatest r
army withdrew from W
take the chief command,
bid WI it gowned a propos
ed to comply, and the Po es retired to the Prussian soil,
where they laid down tlu,ir arms and dispersed as exiles
to the four corners of the 'earth. 'lli° greater part, haw
herekw Beth also wont. Hero
ever, proceeded to Franc ,
and in England, with th exception of a short time ho
served under Hon Pedro iu Portugal, ho remained till
1818, when he made his I vey to Vienna, whore he took
decided part with the revolutionary perty, hoping to bring
about indirectly the freed of Poland.
In the October rovolnti n at Vienna, Ito was appointed
commander of the artillery. The energy lie displayed in
the struggle of a month against a regular army of above
a hundred thousand men is well known. Had there
been on the popular side 4 few more such leaders as Born
the contest might have ended differently. On the taking
of the city by Windischgrtitz, a price was set upon his
head, and it was only . by asiumiag the (hoes of a cabman
ils
and driving an Austrian o mer'a family outside the lines,
1 that lut succeeded in Mak ng his escape.
, 'pieties' escaping death so narrowly, and being filly
-1 three years of ego, worn Idowdby a life of adversity. he
nevertheless rushed into the Hungarian contest, u apren , 7
ising as it was at that time, with al4 the ardor Of - youth,
and the determination 0. i than resolved to devote the
i last hours of his life in combating fop liberty against des
, potism. Kossuth know his i man, and immediately gave
him a post of the fi rst im ortanco. ,Bern's brilliant suc
cess in 'Transylvania bay , astonished the world.
zograrn nOza.
Emperor Alexander in .18 fa, cad
Ire succeeded in geting Iris dis-
ido at Liounbsrg in Gellicia. j
me chiefly studying matbotnutics
ch subject's lie published some
on the steam engine.
y of indepilndance was raised• in
if the firsthasten to the field of
at Lemboilg was changed for the
w. As M i ajor and Commander
took part!at the battle eflganiu.
20,000 !Russians, the battery,
ing tliat, of the enemy of 40—
lon the hold of battle. At tho
I vor, and I)embe, ho equally die
the bloody, ullltir of Ostrolenka.
• I
obliged to , fall back boforo a stt-
Trod the rear of the retreating
inns to a stand at the bridge of
attempted to cross. After this
ommand of the whole Polhill ar
'enerat.
Poles for their liberty failed,
'ocision and energy in their load
rom the falao encimragnment of
saw, the most important part
mt the character of the di.4posi
)ility of holding out, wero not
tlio sudden capitulation by Its
ppointoil President and Dicta-
egret the remain", of the Polish
rsaw. Bern was cyled upon to
ucl try tho fate of another hattlo
!I of mad desperation, he reins-
111'1..
SOMETHING THAT EVERY WOMAN SHOULD
MEE
READ
This is properly styled a utilitarian age, for the inqui
ry, "What profit?" meets us everywhere. It has en
tered the temples of leirning, and attempted to thrust out
important studies because their immediate connection
with hard money profits cannot be demonstrated. There
is one spot, however. into which it has not so generally
intruded itself—the female academy—the last refuge of
the tine arts and fine follies. Thither young ladies are
too frequently sent, merely to learn'how to dress taste
fully and walk gracefully, play, write French, and make
waxen plumes and silken spiders—all pretty, but why
not inquire "what profit?"
I take my pen, not to utter d dissertation on female
education, but to insist that young ladies be taught chem
istry. They will thereby be better qualified to superin
tend domestic affairs, guard against many accidents to
which households pro subject, and perhaps bo instrumen
tal in saving life. IWe illus.rate tho last remark by ref
erence merely to toxicology.
The strong acids, such as nitric, murintic, and sot-
Families have often been thrown into disease by eating
such daintivs, and many have died, in 501110 instances
without suspecting the cans°. That lady t has certainly
some reason to coir•ratulato herself upon tier education,
if under tMeli circumstances. 4he knows that pickles
rendered green by verdigris, are poisonous, mid that the
white of an egg is en antidote. -
Illustrations might be multiplied, but our space foi b:ds.
Enough has been shown, we hope, to convince the utili
tarian that a knowledge of chemistry is nn- important
elemout in the education of tho female sex; that with
out it they arc Imperfectly qualified for the duties dovolv-
ing upon thorn in the domestic religion, and poorly pro
pared to moot its maypoles.
A Cotter - Br Wrmotsm—Tho ! Preacher was prevented
from taking his part in the cerodiony, and a newly crea
ted Justice of the Pcaco, who chancod to be 'present,
was called upon to officiate in his Phico. Tho good man's
knees began to tremble, for he halted never tied tho knot,
and did not know whore to begin. lie had no "Geor
gia Justice," or any other book (vim which to read the
marriage service. The comporty was arranged in a semi
circle, each one bearing a tallow candle. 118 thought
over every thing he had over learned, but all in vain; he
could rccolloot nothing that suited the occasion. A sup.
pressed titter all over tho room admouiphod him that ho
must proceed with something, and in au agony of des
peration ho began:—
"Know all mon by those presents that I"--,licre he
paused, and !Cooked up to the ceiling. while a voice in rk,
corner of the room was hoard to say— •
"Ile is drawing a deed fur a tract of lane and 'they
all laughed.
11i narne of God, amen!" he began again only to
hear another voico in n land whisper say--.-
"lie is making Wei will; I thought ho could n't lido
long, ho looked so powerfully had."
"Oh, yes oh yes!" continued the Squire.
A voice ropliod, "Oh, no! oh, no: don't lots."
. Somo person out of doorssang out, "Come into court!"
and the laughter was general.
The bride was hoar fainting; the Squiro was not far
from it. Being an indefatigable man, however, ho bogail
again:
. _
. -
"To all and singular, the ' • -
"Let's run; he's going to levy on rs.'l said two or
throe 'At once. -
Hero a gleam of light flashed across tile face of the
Squire. He ordered the bride: and groom to hold, up
thei r h a nds, and in a solemn voice
...You, and each of you, do soltunnly nwenr, in the
presence of the present company, thaiyoO will perfeim ,
towards each othorall and singular the fmtetiona Of . hus
band and wife, as the ease may 4q, to the best of your
y.nowledge and ability, so help you God."
"Good as wheat!" exclaimed the father of the bride.
—Stanford Advocate,
5150 A TZIAR, in Advadce.
W
VOIT TO TIZEI SULT&N.
NVe wore led to the entrance of the Southern wing (of
the palace' of Chorigan on the Dosfiberua,) and again
throwing off oar overshoes, entered a lofty and spacious
hall, matted throughout, with two flight of stairs ascend
ing from the far extreme to an elevated platform or land
ing, whence, uniting in one; they issued on the floor
above. 1
On the tight and left of the ball were doors opening
into various apartments, and them were a number of of
ficers and attendants on either side and s tationed at inter. ,
vats along tho stairway, all preserving a silence the most
profound.
Tho Secretary, who had gone beforei now approached
and beckoned to us to follow.
But hero an uneapected difficulty was presented. 1 Tho
Chamberlain in waiting ohjcted to my sword, and re
quired that I should lay it aside. I replied that the audi
ence was given me as an officer of the United Statea,
and that the sword was part of my uniform and that I
cquld not dispense with it. My refusal was inet with the
assurance that the etiquette of the court promptly requir
led it. I asked if tho +trll had been inratiably complied
with, and Inquired of the drogornau, whether Mr. Carr,
our minister, had, in conformity with it, over attended an
audience without his sword, but, even as I spoke my
mind, without regard to precedent, I had come to the de
termination, no word, no audience.
Whether the SecrotarY had, during the discussion; re•
forcd the matter to a higher quarter, I could not tell, for
my attention had been so engrossed for some minutes,
that I hail not noticed him. lie now came forward, how•
ever, and decided that I should retain the sword. At
this I truly rejoiced, for it would have been unpleasant to
retire after having gone so far. It is due to Mr. Brown,
the drageniati, to say that he sustained me. •
The discussion•at an end; we ascended the stairway,
which was covered with a good and comfortable, but not
costly carpet, and passed into a room mom handsomely
furnished, and more lofty, but in every other respect of
the same dimensions as ono immediately below it.—
A rich carpet was on the floor, a magnificent chandelier.
all crystal gold, was suspended from the ceiling, and cost
ly divans and tables, with other articles of furniture,
were intersperscd'about the room. But I had not time
to note them; for on the left hung a gorgeous crimson,
vclyct curtain, embroidered with:gold and towards it the;
Secretary led the way. Ills countenance and his man•
tier exhibited more awe than I had ever depicted in the
human countenance. lie seemed to hold hie breath, and
his step was so soft and stealthy, that once or Mice I
topped, under thebutpreasion that I had left him behind,
but found him ever beside me. - There were three of us
in close proximity. and the stairway Was lined with offi.
cere and attendants, Inft such was the death like stillness
that I could distinctly hear my own foothill, which, un
accustomed to palace regulations, fell with untutored re
publican tirness upon the royal floor. If it were a wild
boast slumbering in his lair we were about to visit, there
could not have been a silence more deeply hushed.
Fretted atisuch abject sevility. I quickened my pace
towards the 'curtain, when the Sheflio.Boy, rather gliding
than stopping before me, cantiously and slowly raised a
corner for mo to pass. _Wondering at his subdued and
terror stricken attitude, I stepped across the threshold
and felt, with perceiving it, that 1 was' in the persence of
the Sultan. t
' The heavy folds of the window curtain so obscured
the light that it seamed as if the day were drawing to a
close, instead of being at its high meridian.
As with the expanding pupil, the eye took in surrounds
ing objects, the apartment. its furniture, and its royal
tenant, presented a different scene from what, if left to
itself, the imagination would have drawn.
Tho room less spacious,. but as lofty, as the adjoin
ing one, was funnelled in the modern style, and like
familiar thing, a stove stood nearly in the centre. On a
sofa by the window, through which IM might have look
ed upon us [more crossed the court, with a crimson tar
bench; its gold button and blue silk tassel on his head. 4
black silk hanicercidef around his neck, attired in milita
ry frock and pantaloons, and polished French upon his
foot, sat the monarch, without any of the atributes of
sovereignty abtrut him.
A man, young in years, but evidently of delicate and
impaired constitution, his wearied and spirtless air was
unrelieved by any indication of intellectual energy. Be
eyed me fixedly as I advanced, and on him my attention
was no less riveted. As he smiled I stopped, olpectiug
that he was going to speak, but ho motioned gently with
his band fur ma to approach yet nearer. • Through the
interpreter he then made, me welcome, for which I ex,
pressed my acknowledgmeuts. -
The interview was not a protracted one. In the
course of it, as requested by Mr. Carr, I presented • hint
ill the name of the President of the United States, with
some biographies and prints, illustrative of the character
and habits of our North American Indians., the work of
American artists. Ile looked at some of them, which
were placed before him by an attendant, and said that
he considered them as evidences of the advancement of
the United States in civilization; and would treasure them
as' the souvenir of the good fooling of its government to
wards him. At the word civilization, pronounced in
French, I started; for it scorned singhlar, coming from
the lips of a Turk, and applied to our country. I have
since learned that ho is but a student in French, and
presume that by the word .'civilizatiou," ho meant the
arts and sciences.
When about to take my leave, ho renewed the wel
come, and said that I had his full authority to see any
thing in the Stambohl I might desire.
While in his presence, I could not rcfrain,from draws
ing comparisons and moralizing on fate. There was the
sultan, an Eastern despot, the ruler of mighty kingdoms,
and the arbiter of the fate of millions of his fell
ow eves
tures; arid feco to face, a few foot distant, ono in rank
and condition, among the humblest servants of far dis
tant republic; and yet es little "es life has to 'cheer, I
would not change positions with hint, unless 1 could car
ry with mo my faith, my friendships, and my aspirations.
My feelings saddened as I looked upon the monarch,
and I thought of Montezuma. Evidently liko a nothern
clime, his year of life had known two seasons only, and
had leaped from yoath to imbecility: His smile was one
Of the sweetest I ever looked upon—his voice the most
melodious I had ever beard; his manner was gentlen ess itself, and everything about him bespoke a kind and ami•
able disposition. Ile is said to be very affettlenate,la
his mother, especially; and is generous to the extreme of
prodigality. But there is that indescribably sad expreas
e'en in his countenance, which is thought to indicts ' cat ty
death. A presentment of the kind, miP.fied Iperhaps
with a boding fear of tho overtliroat of hie country. seems
to pervade and depress his epitits. In truth, like Dame-`
clog, this &condom of the-calph's sits beneath a tampon;
ded fate. Through hit% the souls of tha mighty mon;
archs who have gone before, seem to brood over the int.
pending fate of an Empire which once e*tended (smirk
the Atlantic to the Ganges, from the Caucasus ,to the
Indian Ocean." . '
NOTHIIIO Toledo Dlado says.
"a younglinly out tloro is said to bo too lazy to get mar::
ried." E 6011! flint's nothing! We know of more than
ono young Jody a good deal too lazy for any sensible init . .:
to think of marrying.
i i
NpAIBER 17,
BY LIELT. LINCif, V. S. 11