SSILWEIE 'no , 20.9Tr&STUDdLe WEDNESDAY. MAY 27. 1846 [Written for the Bradford Reporter.] Fora Tres and Flowering Shrubs of Bradford County. Woodman ! spare that tree." Munn. EDITORS.—Among the many attractions of our forests at this season of the year is the return and netting of migrating birds. It is surprising to see with what exactness each species of bird will return from its wintry visit to the "sunny south," and appear w i t h i ts cheerful wildwood notes in.the same hedge, dell or forest von the proceeding year. From =lenders which have been kept by those who are curious in such matters, it seems that at fixed days we ^Easy expect each warbler home from his wanderings. lot " the Start in the heay. ens knoweth her appointed times; and the Crane, and the Turtle, observe their time of coming." There is a mystery that hangs over the migration of finis. Their summer residence with us makes them seem as if they were of our own household. Their homes havepteen in our forests, in our gardens, in our tarns, and every where about us. Some have cheered with their early morning song. Some sing to allure 11l from the sultry noon-day am, to the inviting finest dnk, while others give their sweetest notes at close of the departing day. Each selects his own favorite tree and sings away his simmer hours as if he knew no unhappiness. I wonder that any one should ever think of destroying their nests; for my part I would be willing to set a tree or hash apart in my yard or fields for every wild bird that lives, if they would but make their summer homes with me. I would learn from them lessona of domestic happiness ; their miming song would allure me. to my early employment —my rn-day siesta should be under the time shade, and their last notes at evening should lull me too, to re- Bat I am not speaking of binds as the only "unction of us foreds ;_they but add their share to the woodland's charm, and warble in their varied notes the some praise that glistens in the , dew-drop, trembles in the leaf; or smiles in the flowers. Each speaks of its maker's praise In its own language, and while our associations with them should soften the aspirations of our nature's, they insensibly draw our affections to the source of every brainy and of every charm, for " Vt'hoso meth for the Gowen, Wlll core much more for Him." Aiming the many noble trees of our forest the Oak Abtercua) stands pm-eminent. This tree has been celebrated from the earliest ages for its beauty, its dura bility and its strength. The genus embraces more than one hundred species, and more than one half that num ber are found in the United States. Among them is the lofty tree whose branches overtop our forests, and the dwarfish shrub whose height at maturity is but a span: The Oak flowers early in. May and has its blossom! en Lane pendolotis catkins which fell just at the time. of leafing. It is oneof the class of trees whose blots:Utile en tke same tree are of two kinds—pistillate andaftinti nate, or u they are often termed, male and female= t he slamirtate being the male, and the pistillate the fesiak flower: Each pistillate or fertile flowers contains the rudiments of sin seeds but they seldom perfect mote tlito one. Thu seed is the acorn which is a little semi-oral knot, standing in a hemispherical cup to which it haat ? tutted at its base. These acorns become ripe in Oclo, betrwhen they fall to - the ground. They are oily, bitter but malicious. I shall not perhaps be able to describe the entire list of Oaks that we have in our county, bat will give a few of Our mmt - trmmon species. Among these the White Oak (Queerer, Atha . ) is perhaps the prevailing tree.— This tree often attains the height of seventy oreighty feet, with a diameter of six feet when the soil and cli mate am favorable. Its bark is variegated with light and dark spots, and its heart wood is of • reddish color but us sae wood is nearly white. The wood of this tree is mere generally used for timber tbansmy other species-of genii■, it being strong, durable, and of large di mension.. It is used for nearly every article manufac tured by the wheelright, and the young and thrifty tim ber is en elastic, as to be useful for baskets, chair seats, hoop., and all other purposes where strength and elasti city- and minute division are required. It is also exten- Softy used in ship building. The bark is astringent - and is awful in tanning, but is seldom used as it has not the thickness of the red and black oaks. The leaves of this tree are divided into rounded lobes, and when they first put forth in the spring, they have a mg) red appearance 'above, and are white and downy beneath, but when they are full grown they are of • light green until autumn, when they change to • violet or Purple, and some of them remain on the trees till In open situations the white oak has a handsome top ic forms an ornamental tree. The celebrated oak at Hart fad, Ct., is of this specie'. It is a large spreading tree, eith a . abort trunk and was of a great age at the early entlement of New England. Its association with the colonial history of Conn., will long keep it in remain. bum Next to the white oak the Black Oak (Q. 'lindoriti) Or the most importance in the forests of our county.— This tree attains the size of the white oak—has a dark brown bark—leaves largely and deeply gashed which change from a deep green to a dull red or yellow in au- Mem—accans io clusters which are half buried in a thick 'mil cup—and produces fruit once in two years. For timber this is not so valuable as the white a& ; it is mad however for staves, fuel, and some other Fur' m t i and its bask is extsnaimely need for tanning. Its 05- ne lmmedeceri far this purpose is its yellow color n hich seal wore leather tanned with it to stain unleee the color is discharged. A valuable dye is also extracted boa ita bark adled guercitrcrn. 1 The leaves Odds tree often contain a green globular t i 9 MdelM called oak-balls, or oak-apples. The gall nuts are abo found on the leaves of the oak. There are cc cuienni bY an insect that makes a small perforation on the under side of the leaf and deposits an egg in the sub 'm of !h 0 leaf. When the ball grows the egg be comes a worm, and ga g lames through all the metszooe• Phases of its nature till it eats its way oat and becomes like its parent, a flying insect. Gall nub are &tong the most powerful astringents and they have the properly of "int Inters* 'Welt contain iron in solution black.- 1.67 ne employed in the arta and in medicine. THE.. BRADFORD REPORTER, We have also in our forests the Red Oak (Q. Rubra ) Which is a large tree; the Swamp White Oak (Q. Bi color) which grows in and about swamps; the Starlet Oak (Q:Coccirrea); the Barren Scrub Oak (Q . 1111- m:folio) which is a mere shrub; the Bark Chestuut Oak (Q. Montana) and perhaps some other species. The Oak is a genus of tnres . cif which some species are found in nearly every latitude of both hemispheres. One of its species the Live Oak (Q. Veen) ts found in Florida and Louisansi, which is the most valuable of all timber for ship building. It is very durable and so heavy that to Wince its excessive weight, red is joined with it, which is'very light. To this genus also belongs the Cork tree (Q . Suber ) of the south of Europe. It is from the bark of this tree that the corks of common are made. Many historical incidents of much interest are also eiated with the Oak, and it was regarded with religious veneration by the ancient Druids as being the supporter of the Misseltee, which was an object of worship by them. It has ever held the same rank among forest trees that the lion dues among beasts and the eagle among birds. As an ornamental tree it claims the first rank, being beautiful in its proportions, clean and neat in its foliage, and so long lived that many generations may enjoy its shades. It is easily cultivated from its acorns, or it may be transplanted with Success fmrn our native wilds. Whole grounds in England have been thus grown, and its Oaks enjoy, the protection of the government. Our American. forrests are abundantly supplied with this tree, but the ruthlessness with which they are destroyed will in a short time produce a scar city of them here, unless some protecting hand shall stay their useless destruction. H. Towanda, May 20th 1846. [From Blackwood's Magazine.] FOREIGNERS IN LONDON. England ! home of the free, asylum of the brave, telege of refugees, and so forth—in he roic prose, and yet more heroic verse, what fine things have and may be said and sung on this self-gorifying subject, to the great joy of the gods and goddesses in the Is and 2s . galleries Something about slaves being free the moment they touch British soil, regenerated, disenthrall ed by the genius universal emancipation, or some such stuff ; we are not sure whether the pas age occurs in C.urian's speeches or Tom Thumb , but it takes pit, boxes, and gallety by storm, upon all occasions ; it is truly delightful to witness the ardor with which a British audi tory- compliments itself upon its excursive hu manity, transmarine benevolene, and free trade philanthropy ! There is a disease well known to opitcia* wherein the patient can see diiiincily objects 'a great way off, but is quite incapable of distin guishing such as lie immediately under his nose; the artist applies a. spectacle of peculiar con struction to remedy this defect ; we think it would be a vast advantage to the public in gen eral if ingenious opticians would rum their at tention to a remedy fur that long-sighted benevo lence which sweeps the horizon fur objects of compassion, but is blind as a bat to the wretch edness and destitution abounding at their own doors. We confess we think there is an affec tation in this gad-about benevolence of which we see now-a-days so much—too much : there seems about it that sort of pitiful ostentation. Which induces a poor gentleman to ask every body he meets to dinner, when he has not din ner enough for his own family at borne. W confess we are of opinion that charity, though it need not end, should begin at home ; and that it is time enough when severe distress has been relieved at our own door in walk to the other end of the earth in search of foreign beggars.— There'is,no doubt, a highly gratifying pride in seeing this free and happy country, the asylum of fallen royalty and discomfited revolutionists —the home of the brave and of the knave—the polar star of wondering Poles and refugees of all ranks, climes, colors, and qations ; but. with great respect for Lord Dudley Stuart. there is an order of precedence in charity as in nobility ; our fellow countrymen demand the pas, and there is quite enough of misery. if we look fur it, within the scope of our visible horizon; when we have relieved the pressing necessities of our indigenous tribes, it is quite time enough totcast about for exotics wherewith to occupy our over flowing benevolence. %Ye, know, of course, that it is nauseous and emetical to be told that our • fellow-countrymen starve outside our gates ; such recital of domestic misery interfere with the process of digestion, and,, like the sad realities of another place, should ' never be mentioned in the hearing of ears polite. Nothing can be more vulgar, uninteresting, and anti-sentimental, than the distress of Hicks, Higgins, Figgins, and Stubbs, and all weavers and others who are neither nobles nor refugees —who are vulgar enough to work if they can get it—who wear no bristles between their noses and lips, and who have no; names' , ending in rinski • If you stroll down Regent-streeU the Quad rant, and Waterloo-place. any firte afternoon. you cannot fail to remark vast oniabers of exo tics in glossy black silk hats. with: moustaches and whiskers to match. hard inexpressive coats, flash satin vests, unwhisperables plaited ridicu lously over the hips, glazed leather boots, and a profusion of Brimingham jewelry and Bristol stones. These gentry smoke very fast, talk very loud, or rather chatter intolerably, and look killing and impudent at the ladies as they pass. There is a polished brass knocker ar the cor ner of Grosvenor square. which; when we have titivated with a burned cork, asiwe usually do when passing that way, seems the common an cestor of these gentry ; certainly they are great fellows, and it is difficult to conceive that the own is not their own. Like Sampson. their strength lies in their hair ; flowing locks, well oiled, brushed and curled. from a fair porpor. lion of their general stock in trade. By their fashion of wearing their hair you may' get at their politics. The Bonapartist is known by a abort bristly moustache and staring hair, /a June France is represented by young gentlemen wear ing their hair clubbishly, after the fashion of The Jacobins—these posteriorly hirsute gentry are Republicans to a man ; partizans of the ex isting dynasty wear whiskers a/a Louis Phil. lippe, and cut the moustache ; the Legitimatists PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. 0. & H. P. GOODRICH. " REGARDLSB9 OP DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." may at once be recognised by dressing like gen tlemen. In the .roffee-house about this Frenehified neighborhAl, the gentlemen we have been intro ducing to the reader, abound in such numbers as to make it necessary to set aside a " pre France" in each, for their particular accommo dation. Here, under the auspices of a " Napo leon le Grand," in plaster of Paris, crowned with wreath of immortelles, they play dominoes and smoke and read the Charivari.L . Anti Peu plc. and Le National. and may be heard any night in the week, especially nn Sundays dis cussing politics and things in general, somewhat in the matter and form following, that is to say: " Parlous done de la guerre ?—Viil you bring me une demitasse cafe, et von grande circon ference de toast, buttered on de von side and de oder ?—la grusse bete, Louis Phillippe ! Ah ! Bait I—Mon Dieu ! Sscre bleu—Ha ! ha !— have you never got two pennies to giv me for one half penny ? a bas less tyrans !--dem bad cafe ! apropos de duties, parlons de—vous la trouverez, je vuus en assure, la Societic d'As sassing du Rio, homilies pleins d'honneur—shall it rain yesterday ?—I fink it vash—la groese poire, Louts Phil—Sacre nom de—Too, too, my littel deer. viii you not give me von little ? —he ! he ! he !—Chansons—tira la la !—tira la la !—Savez. Italians do not muster sufficiently strong here to enable us to depict their peculiarities en infu se ; nor is there any very striking individuality, still less any marked nationality, giving them particular claims upon our notice. The priva tion of a national character never fails to have a bad effect upon the character of the individual ; it is not merely upon the nation that oppression marks its brand of ignominy, but upon every man, woman, and child belonging to the nation which is enslaved. When a people no longer boasts national interests. their pride takes fire at the expense of their fellow-countrymen of the next province ; and thus it is with Italy ; the Milanese looks with dislike upon the Venetian. the Venetian despises the Bolognese...the latter shuns comparison with the serfs of the church. The Calabrian Highlander abhors the cowardly ragamutlinry_ of the Two Sicilies, although re luctantly submitting to their dominion. The Florentine. rich in the fertility of his exhaust less soil, and supplied abundantly with the necessaries of existence, pities and despises the other children of fair Italy. Yet Italy must ever assert her supremacy. Italy, once glorious in the songs of Horace and Virgil, and again in the strains of Dante and Ariosto, now, alas ! in the flexile trills of a tantalizing 8400ra. and finds her greatest and most renown *fflan within the girdle that embraces the vast circumference of the large Lablache. From the eolithWO - Elbe .cirears, they have descended to the snpreniacy of cameo cutters ; from the Me telli we atinipintontemplate Mosaics ; workers tufa replace the Tirtitlins ; Balladio is represent ed dy artificers in Cork ; Dante and Petrarch i by the jingling mprgoisatori ; the legions of the empire by multitudes of friars and priests ; Michael Angelo is a man of alabaster images : Raphael, the' divine,' a copier of old masters for the American market. The Savoyaids are noted as the metropolists of our out-of-doors music—the minstrels of the streets and lanes, the grinders of intrinsic har mony ; hateful are they in the sight of porters of Inns of Court, and much beloved of little children and nursery maids ; frumpish old maids and bitter bachelors, who have no music in their souls, drive them away; rudely from their in hospitable doors ; but tender mothers with ma ny little ones welcome them on each returning Saturday, with half-pennies, crusts, and cheese. parings ; pitying them, wanderers far from their friends and native land ; while circumabitant in fancy and childhood congregate around the smil ing minstrels, melted by the pathetic cadences of " All round my hat," or stimulated to saltato ry exortations by the toe-and-heel inspiring air of " Jump Jim Crow." Their little rotund chubby faces beaming with smiles ; the poor grinder, though hungry, perchance, of cold, re sponding to their merriment with a hop, skip and jump, an accompanying whistle, and a good humored grin ; the affectionate mothers in the back-ground looking on with that look of min gled pride and tenderness ; the mother's own ex pression—make a picture we often stop to gaze at, wishing for the pencil ota Wilkie. The Savoyared, among whom, by the way, are com prised Tyrolese, Genoese. Sardinians, and Ital ians proper, hiie their ambitions like other men; one is happy in the possession of a pair of white -mice—another glorifies in the trieks of a mis chievous monkey ; all grades of mechanical mu sic belong to them, the discordant hurdy-furdy to the organ imitative of 'a full band. The ne plus ultra of their art, however, is the conduct of their " comedi," as they call it, which, being interpreted, meaneth no more nor less than the puppet show. The popularity of these exhi bitions, though considerable, never rise to that hight of enthusiasm wherewith our populace re ceive the immortal Punch, now naturalized in our northern clime, and, to the manner of the people, adapted, if notborn. The poor Skoyards are eminently gregar ious, huddlinefogether in narrow courts and alleys on the northern side of Holborn, whence you may see them set out in groups, on Sunday mornings, for Primrose Hill, Hampstead. and Highgate, where, in the shady woods or sunny meadows, they idle away the livelong summer's day, indulging in fond remembrances of their far distant mountain-home, and laying up in their pulmonary apparatus as much fresh :liras serves them for the week ensuing. It is truly miracu lous how those poor ereatnres make out to live. paying as they do, extortionate sums for the use of their music-mills to those who make a trade of lettingithem out for hire, faring hard, ill lodged, and exposed to all weathers ; yet they do struggle on in the hope of saving a few pounds wherewith to support their aged parents. or set tle themselves for life in the pleasant valleys they have left behind. Spaniards we see little of in London : they form a very minute fraction of the adventuring foteignets who swell our full tide of existence. Incapable from character arid habit, of exertions of trifling ingenuity, and from the long and des tructive wars that have desolated their country indifferent to trade, manufacture or commerce, they have neither great not petty business to at tract them here. The wine, cork, fruit and ,! ; igat: trade occupy a few merchants of no great note in the city ; a few obtain a precarious sub sistence by teachin their language or the guitar; they have no peculiarities to distinguish than from other continental foreigners, except it may be the high feeling, grave deportment. arid for mal.politeness. characteristic of their nation.— Whenever you meet a Spaniard in London you may be sure, whether he oe pour or rich, you come in contact with a gentlemen. -The Hebrew nation next claims a share of our attention, as representing the most numer ous, important and wealthy body of distinct peo ple in London. It may be considered strange that we should include our notice of the Jews under the head of foreigners in London, since they are our fellowcountrymen and fellow-citi zens, as Sir Moies Montefiore and Sir David Salmons ; ( by the way, Sir Moses has an od dity of soun dabout it, reminding ; us of the fa ther of chemistry and brother of the Earl of Cork) can abundantly testify. Talk of pedigrees, forsonth ! tell us of the Talbots, Pereira. Howards, and such like mush rooms of yestorday ! show us a Jew, and we will show ,you a man whose genealogical tree springs from Abraham's bosom, whose family is older than the decalngue. and who bears incon trovertible evidence in every line of his oriental countenance of the authenticity of his descent through myriads of successive generations.— You see in him a living argument of the truth of Divine revelation—in him you behold the literal fulfilment of the prophecies. With him you ascend the stream of time, not voyaging by the help of the dim, uncertain and fallacious light of tradiion, but guided by an emanation of the same light which to his nation was " a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night ;" in him you see the representative of the once favor ed people of God, to *horn, as to the chosen of all mankind, He revealed himself their legislator. protector and king ; who brought them out of the. Land of Egypt, out of the house of bon dage. The Jewish quarter is bounded to the north by High street. Spitalfields ; to the east by Middlesex street, popularly known and called Petticoat lane ; to the south by Leadenhall street, Aldgate, and the hither end of White chapel ; to the west by Bishopgate street, where we are engaged to dine at the Albion aforesaid. This is literally the New Jerusa lem ; here we Christians are foreigner--stran gers in a strange land ; here, over the doors, are inscribed pothooks and vowel points, in dicative to those who understand them that Moses Abrahams furnisheth slops" for home consumption and exportation ; this we natural ly conclude to be the meaning from the articles exhibited in the windows. for though the sign be Hebrew to them, we need twill) , say that it is Greek to us. Within the area bounded as above deseribeil, but especially, about Bevis marks, Hounsditch, St Mary-axe, and Petti coat lane, you might readily imagine yourself transported to Frankfort. Warsaw, or any place enjoying a superabundant Jewish population ; here every face is of the shape, and somewhat of the complexion of a turkey-egg ; every brow pencilled in an arch of exact ellipse; every nose modelled after the proboscis of a toucan ; locks as bushy and black as those of Absalom abound, and beards of the patriarchal ages.— Here, and hereabouts, Isaac kills beef and mut ton. according to the old dispensation ; Jacob receives accidental silver spoons. and consigns gold watches• now warranted never more to lose a second, to the crucible, kept always at white heat in his little dark cellar, and no ques tions asked. Here, at the corners, Rebecca disposes of fried liver and 'tatoes. smoking hot, on little bright. burnished copper platters, to all the tribes of Israel not prohibited by law to eat, that is to say, to all who possess the solitary " browns " where with to purchase the appetizing dainty. Solomon negotiates in the matter of rags; Esther rejoices in a brisk little business of flat fish fried in oil—a species of dainty in which the Jews alone excel. Moses and Aaron keep separate marine stores, every earthly thing. furtively acquired. from a chain cable to a Coreigan, finds a ready sale. Ra chel, albeit a widow, dispenses from behind the bar. "short" and " heavy" to the thirsty tribes. Ruth deals wholesale in oranges and other foreign fruits. Melchisedec dabbleth in Hebrew books and tracts. Absalom sells opium and Turkey rhubarb. Mordecai is a " crimp." the vulture of sea-faring men. No thing is to be seen above, below, around, but Jewish physiognomies. Jewish houses, and Jewish occupations. The avidity with which this in one sense primitive people pursues gain is not wonderful, when we reflect that gain is all that the lately unrelenting persecution of of the Christian has left them to pursue. With money in the dark days of their history have they purchased thepoor privilege to live; with money have they secured for themselves in one country connivance, in another toleration, in a third citizenship ; with money have they made war, and set by the ears hostile Naza renes ; with money have they negotiated peace —transferred from king to king. diadem. and sceptres—playing at chuck-farthing with the fates and fortunes of European and Asiatic na tions. The same all-absorbing thirst of gold that formed the leading principle in the life of that pillar of the stock exchange the wall re membered Rothschild. animates the merest Israelitish urchin who follows , through his bearded progenitor, esquire of the clothes bag; to the pursuit of gain all their energies are di rected with an intensity. unscropolosity. and perseverance unknown to and onattempted by any Christian people ; money they must and will have, " rem puocunque rnodo rem." To DESTROY SORREL ri GRASS LANDS..-- Sorrel abounds in the proportion of the free humic acid in the soil. and it can be eradicated by the use of calcarious manure. such u soap makers' waste, carbonate of lime. CATTAWISSA Btu mos.—The contract for rebuilding the Causerie's& Bridge across the Susquehanna, has been taken by Mears. Benjamin Frick; Chula, Haw= and J. Baird, all of Cattawisas, for $12,000. . Jenny and the Math. In some of the country parts of Scotland. a custom prevails of young men giving their watches in trust to young women for whom they have• declared their attachment. The watch is kept and carried in the bosom of the fair one, until the anxious couple are united in the bonds of wedlock, when, as a matter 'of course, the pledge of sincerity is delivered up to its original owner. This is imagined by the country lasses to be an infinitely better plan for securing the fidelity of sweetheart. than that of breaking a sixpence. A watch is a valuable ands highly 'prized article. It is worth at least a couple of pounds ; And the loss of that sum by an individual in a humble condition of life, is a very. serious matter.— Still, we believe. there are cases in which the proposed match is broken off, and the watch abandoned forever ; though doubtless this is only in cases of great fickleness, or when weighty reasons for desertion intervene. The - following laughable incident regarding a watch so entrusted, occurred a few years ago. Jenny Symington. a well favored sprightly girl, in a certain farmhouse in Galloway. had been entrusted with the watch of her sweet heart. Tam Halliday, a neighboring shepherd. and which she carried with scrupulous care in her bosom ; but even the most carefully kept articles will sometimes disappear in spite of all the precautions considered necessary to pre serve them. Jenny, be it known. was esteemed a first-rate hand at preparing potatoes for the family supper ; none could excel her in serving them up, beaten and mashed in the most tempt ing style. On one ;occasion, in harvest, when the kitchen was crowded with a number of shearers, waiting for their evening meal, and while Jenny was busy beating a mess of pota toes. what did the unlucky watch do. but drop from her bosom, chain, seals. and all, Into the pot among the potatoes ! Jenny's head being turned away at the moment, she knew nothing of the disaster, and therefore continued to beat on at her task She certainly was a little sur prised when she felt there was still a hard pa iamb to beat, notwithstanding her previous dili gence ; but thinking nothing ail. she continu ed to beat, occasionally giving the hard potatoe, alias the watch, a good thump with the end of the beetle.At length she thought she had fairly completed the business; and so infusing a large jar of sweet milk into the mess, she stirred all together, and placed the vessel ready for the attack of the hungry on-lookers. Behold, then, the pot—a round gawsy tri pod—planted in the middle of the floor. A circle was formed round it ;n a trice, and horn for horn the shearers began to stretch and strive. Many mouthfuls had not been taken, before I certain queer looks began to be manifested.— " Dell's in the tatties." says one ; " I think they've got banes in them." " Banes !" says another, "they're the funniest banes ever I saw ; they're made o' broken glass and pieces o' brass ; sup nae mair o' them." With that, another produced a silver watch case, all batter ed and useless, from his capacious horn spoon, and a universal strike among the suppers im mediately ensued. It was clear that a watch had been beaten up with the potatoes ; so the good wife had nothing for it but to order the disgraced pot out of the way, and to place a basket of oatmeal cakes and milk in its stead. What were poor Jenny's feelings during this staange denouenient T On the first appearance of the fragnafita of the watch, she slipped her hands to he ,bosom, and soon found how mat• ters stood. She had the fortitude, however, to show no symptoms of surprise ; and although every one was wondering where the broken watch had come from. she did not disclose her knowledge of how it had found its way into the pot. As it had belonged to no one in the house, the materials were not identified; and asJenny was a young woman of great prudence and modesty. and had never shown any one that she had a watch in her possession. no one teased her about it. In a short time the noise of the circumstance died away, but not till it had gone over the neighborhood that the fami ly had found a watch in the potatoe pot; and among others. 'it came to the earls of the-own er. Tam Halliday, who was highly pleased with the conduct of his beloved Jenny : for he thought that if she had cried or sobbed, and told to whom the watch belonged, it would have brought ridicule on them both. Tam was, in short, delighted with the way the mat. ter had been managed, and he thought the watch was well lost, though it had been ten times the value. Whatever Tam's ideas were on the subject, Jenny felt conscious that it was her ditty to re place the watch. Accordingly, next time she met her lover, she allowed no time to elapse before she thus addresses him.:—" Now, Tam, ye ken very well know how I have demolish ed your good Over watch, but it is needless to regret what cannot be helped. I shall pay you for it. every farthing. The one half I will give you when I get my half year's wages at Matil. man, and the other half soon ; as my brother is awn me three pounds. which he has promis ed to pay me• afore the nett Eastern's e'en fair.", •" My dear Jenny." said the young man, taking her kindly by the hand. I beg you will say nothing about that ridiculous af fair. Ido not care a farthing for the loss of . the watch ; mair by token. I have gotten a rise in my wages free the new faird ; fur I maun tell ye I'm now appointed chief herd in the Ca's Hope. However, to take any payment from you. to rob you of your had won penny fee. would be disgraceful. No, no, I will take none of your wages; but there is one thing I will take. if you are willing, and which. I hope. will make us both happy for life." u And what may that be. Tam. now that ye're turned a grand head shepherd ?" I will take." said he, yourself: but mind Ido not ask you as a recompense for a paltry watch : no. in my eyes your worth is beyond all estimation. If you will agree to be mine, let it be done freely ; but whether you are willing to marrc me or not, from this time henceforth the watch is ne ver more to be spoken of." What followed may be easily . imagined.= Tam and Jenny were married as soon as the II I ET7EIB3/121 300 p entehing for the cottage at the Ca's Hope c .uld be prepared ; and at the wedding, the atory of the watch and the pntatoe put was made the topic of much hearty mirth among the assembled company. The last time we visited Jenny's cottage. we reminded her of the tran saction. Houts." said she. that's an auld story now ; the laird has been sae well pleased wi' the gaudeman. that he has glen him a pre: sent o' that eight day clock there ; it cost eight pounds in Janie Lockie's, at the east port n' Dumfries, and there'v no the like in all the parish." Shaking Bands. [We have from inky Putnam, the twen tieth number of their Library of Choice Read ing—the second part of Leigh Hunt's Indica tor and Companion, an agreeable melange of matters, treated in the agreeable style for which Leigh Hunt is famous. There are many• of the chapters we should like to extract for the amusement of our readers, but apace is want ing. Here is a sample :] Among the first things which we remember. noticing in the manners of people. were two errors in the custom of shaking hands. Some. we observed, grasped every body's hand alike —with an equal fervor of grip. You would have thought Jenkins was the best friend they had in the world ; but on succeeding to.the equeeie. though a slight acquaintance, you found it equally flattering to yourself; and on the appearance of somebody else, (whose name it turned out the operator had forgotten.) the crush was no less complimentary ; the face was as earnest and beaming, the " glad to see you " as syllabical and sincere, and the shake as close, as long, and as rejoicing, as if the semi-unknown was a friend come home from the Deserts. On the other hand, there would be a gentle man now and then, as coy of his hand as if he were a prude, or a whitlow. It was in vain that your pretensions did not go beyond the " civil salute" of the ordinary shake, or that being introduced to him in a friendly manner, and expected to shake hands with the rest, of the company, you could not in decency omit his. His fingers half coming out and half re treating, seemed to think you were doing them a mischief ; and when you get hold of them, the whole of the shake was on your side ; the other hand did but proudly or pensively ac 7 quiesce—there "as no knowing which.; you had to sustain it as you might a lady's in hand ing her to a seat ; and it was an equal perplexi ty whether to shake it or let it go. The one seemed a violence done to the patient, the other an awkward responsibility brought upon yourself. You did not know all the evening. whether you were an object of dislike to the person ; till on the party's breaking up, you saw him behave like an equally ill-used gen tleman, to all who practiced the same unthink ing civility. Both of these errors. we think, might as well be avoided ; but of the two, we must say we prefer the former. If it does not look so much like particular sincerity. it looks mere like general kindness; and if two virtues are to be separated, (which they assuredly need not be, if considered without spleen,) the world can better afford to dispense with ea, unpleasant truth, than a gratuitous humanity. Besides, it is more difficult to make sure of the one, than to practice the other, and kindness itself is the best of all truths. ' As long as we are sure of that, we are sure of something, and of something pleasant. It is always the best end. if not in every instance the most logical means. This manual shyness is sometimes attribu ted to modesty, but never, we suspect, with justness, , unless it be that sort of modesty. whose fear of committing itself is grounded in pride. Want of address is a better reason ; but this particular instance of it would be grounded in the same feeling. It always im plies a habit of either pride or mistrust. We have met with two really kind men who evinc ed this soreness of hand. Neither of them, perhaps, thought himself inferior to any body about him, and both had good reason to think highly of themselves, but both bad been san guine men contradicted in their early hopes.— There was a plot to meet the baud of one of them' with a fishslice, in order to show him the disadvantage to which he put his friends by that flat salutation; but the conspirator had not the courage to do it. Whether he heard of the intention we know not, but shortly after wards_ he took very kindly to a shake. The other* was the only man of a warm set of poli ticians., who remained true to his first hopes of mankind. He was, impatient at the change in his companions, and at the folly _and inatten tion of the rest; but though his manner be came cold, his constancy remained warm, and this gave him a right to be as strange as he pleased. •The late Mr. Hal SMALL FARMS vs. LARGE.—SmaII farms are certainly more easily improved than large ones. and while the fertility of the soil is thereby in creased, the remuneration. the nett gain, is the inverse ratio to its size. when compared with large ones of equal fertility. I am clearly of the opinion if a man have five hundred acres in one body, that his best policy is to do with it as Solomon adjudged, when the child was claimed by two mothers—to rut it in halves— and if he cannot sell a moiety, or cultivate it advantageously. he had better give it away.— A. vast proportion of the debts for which agri culturists are hound, arise from the purchase of more land. It is somewhat of a mania, I ad mit, among the good people of Maryland. which can only he abated by the stern lnfnrcement of contracts, and by the conviction that large possessions of land in the hands of the same persons never benefit the country, and seldom the indiviilual. Had I my time to live over again. I would not add one additional acre to my patrimonial estate. Associate yourself with men of good quality if yon esteem your own reputation, for it is bet ter to be alone than in bad company. ill
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