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WEDS t DAI% MAY 28, 1847.
Free Trade.
• y r lSiine ! thou laborer in the human field, -
To whose rude trey the all mortal things m tut yield ;
Cutting.bll Ireinity in the proudest hour,
Depnviiig str u ingth of &Ulna vaunted power—
; Mnong t hy. any doings, thou, o f NA;
Hest done at least 'some service ,to the state ;"
Mowing_ Prot c oon down, while Free Trade stands,
The harbinger of gOod to distant lands ;
And radiant memory 'paints, in rtolors warm,
The last great deed in politics— Reform;
Commercial liberty l—e magic 'stud
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A plant Grit watered, even on Brr 'ish ground:
And they who set it th4re alrei4 see
The s helteringrancheit of a healthy tree
Equaljprotection give 41 all who seek •
Their bounteous shade,.—the powerful or weak.
75you—great league,and leinguera !—unto you
Wiirgrateful eiimateroe pay a tribute due;
While many foreign lands your worth proclaim,.
Andluor example make them "highest aim•
;4e ji.ussia, thawing in ik icy. clime,
Adopt the leadineapirit bf thetinie,
Lossing theibeckles that her trade reatrained,
And making lnilliona thrive where ruin veigned
Even an autocrat can understand,
This is, the cherished', welfare of hie land—
The brightest boon for tillers of the soil,
iample market fcrritheir ceaseless toil.
And now Columbia, o'er the trackless semi.
- I 'awls her spangled banner to the breeze ;
R. jeets the trammels of her former laws, /..
Caine good effect by giving better cause.
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. !ter boundless fielthiaend forth the yellow grain, '
The useful cotton spreads 111*er ; many_a plain‘
we\
The former gives the British w • od, t
The latter keeps his occupation •:.* ; . . 1
t Anifnovr the f roduct of his loom is wo
ec i .•;n the soil that furnished him with corn,
iNe Trade, more strong than diplomatic art,
roites two nations:though so wide apart:
Gorr. greater lustrit than a hundred wars.
Wide "soli,ibg C..res conquers frowni , rs.
too, that sunny southern clime,
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To Free Trade's merry peal now adds her chime,
Mating hartrioniotis as her owr sweet tongue,
The jarring chords of commerce, long unstrung.
I . 4ani-e awakening at the eleventh hour
Ilegootto-nismsommereial freedom f s power.
In her-gay capital behold a few,
urtiltig old. notions, now adopt the new;
l'hey meet to honor him who long has been
rst If/ thc•lir Itl, a nobler leader seen,
A pew4-fuf consereror—lo! a Cobden comes; ;
:Ststeltinging trumpets nor loud-sounding drums
l'isebinn his welcome to the little band
.4 . to see with pride theattsatiger in their land.;
'They ball nti.'hercrof a hundred fights,"
Hut greit the .champion of a lihnusand 'rights. rt.
‘)!I Lihri . iy--:the 'captive(vKli . may nigh
With threLo•live‘ wildiottt thee, wish to die
ts,. fi:ttereel Commeie4stris4% to be frise , r •
%Vat pms and die, et gain its libertY. •
[From Noah's Sunday- Times.]
GI ll'ashingtoa and Cea. Lee at Dinner ; or, a
• ketolutiOnary Juke.
The character of the 'great man. who is re
membered as the father . of . his\ country, and
whose meinory is cherished bY the entire
world, is too well known to need description
here. One of his chief - characteristics was W
certam dignity which enabled him to preserve .
his authority without any exhibition of supe
nor austerity. He was firm to a degree, and
as strict a' disriplinarian as Frederick the
(:rear: w Zan t brutality or untalled-for severi•
ry. We have rived his ,name itt juxtappsi
bon with that ut Oen. Lee. This citficer be• as
sece,(l - er from the British arrott, and, when
brnuglit prisoner to this city by Harcourt, trea
ird br the corninander-in-chief of the British
as,a , deserter, until the measures adop
ted h:j.utir people towprils Englishmen in their
rusiqy rompelled his liberation on parole,
;Id fin-3h- his exchange, Lee had seen much
"rvike, haring , held The rank of colonel in
• l'omgal, and screed the king of Poland as an
eainp---thusihowang the detestation of
I\ tinny and love of sacred liberty. In
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*inclett by mu - cit association "with the world,
41 1enableil to profit by this instruction to the
extent through the medium of a sterling
r pst al etlutatior, it is somewhat singular
Om he tisseti.Fetl /whimsical notions, and ec-
eettrictstes of expression and conduct', which
'qfficell to make einemiee and crease dislike;
'mono those whose personal association hel
vii - flied to encounter.: No one knew.betier i
than he the chivalric requisites of a gentleman; 1
r• 0 gne understoosl the strict necessities of a
riotous adherence to the orders of,his euperi-
li, in all their shades, better than Lee ; and
Y" , on mare than one , occasio • •- forgot the
I "P'lellPs or his Station, and i suite n. • • •
• those who Were his inferiors, but the great and,
gatlman WssnmccroN ! The battle of Free
_ tClid CoUrttouse, on the passage of the Bri
fi'h milly from Philadelphia to this city. was
- ilia! to Lee's reputation for a shoft period, he
having had an altercation with Washington on
the field , and aftervicarPs sending him a letter,
ioicited in insulting terms, and expressing his
Seller that Washington h‘as inflicted an injury
",Pall him. To say thi•t o l ehon d not hate
'een punished for his outra e, is , to • utter an
'Platen for which Mr" can ' ncigood found
••44le°,' a nd Yeti at tlii • , there cadre those
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t o did not scruple to rail the subsequent
talon adopted.by Washington. lie summon
ed Lee before a court-marttak and cleirged him
alai disobedience of order,' and a xontealipt
of his commander-in-chief/ The 14ntenc.0
'fl ecourt was; that Lee-be susplended from da'-'
'? foe the term of one year. This result was
roads known at White Plains, where Wash
ington and his forced were encamped to watch
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the movements of the enemy on this eland and
in its karts adjacent.
Lee Was residing in a small, .fieat, and well
appointed house situate below the American
camp, and on a spot which Gen f Washington,
in journeying to and fro to keep a look-out up
on various mevements. and the, pursuit of his
arduous dunes was often obliged to.iiass. Lee
had a favorite dog here, (among half a dozen.)
apt an aid-de-camp whose devotion merited
much praise. One day the aid-de-camp hand
ed him a document in whielt he read that Con
gress had approved the sentence of the court
martial in his case. lie had eoofidently relied
upon support from that body iri'lhe shape of
modification or a reversal of that decision ; and
when he learned that he was quietly permitted
to rusticate inactively a year, he startup in
a passion to his 'favorite specimen oe ca;
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nine race, and embraced it ! -
" Sir, I beg pardon," stammered the aston
idled aide, - but surely yoUr mind is not over
thrown or embittered by this news I"
Disappointed and outragled, sir !" exclaim
ed Lee. •• Oh. that were'this dog, tilt I
might not call man my brother r
From that moment the centured officer be
came more . 04n - felons and disagreeable in his
wild freaks than ever. • Two days after, he
was aroused from his moody apathy by the
arrival, at his house, of Washinton,. Generals
Dickinson. Wayne„ Maxwell. and Cadwalla
der. and Col. Morgan, with other officers of
distinction.
Welcome !" said Lee, its .the suite fill ad
Its apartment, and thel:liena of the party were
(awn of Walcoinelo my bumble habits•
tton.''
"01 course," said Washington, ,afTably,
" you can give us a dinner !"
" Ay, r dinner !" cried NN'tyne—" a quiet,
domestic dinner, such as we, who know .what
it is to be without, one .frequontly, can tho.
toughly appreciate."
Here Lee was all that constitutes the gentle
man. Not crippled in hie private resources,
possessing economy; prudence and domestic
tart, and understanding the precise manner of
of procuring the comforti of life to the best
possible advantage, he soon caused a substan
tial and elegant repass to be spread before his
brother patriots.
There, - " said he, when all was announced
to be in readiness, " we have fought and bled
togethrr—let us now eat and drink in harmo
ny and may the only fluid shed between Ws
be a bumper of good Madeira."
There was a jovial reunion in that little
country house on that day in 1788. Stern Of
ficers, who had cooly ordered thousands of
their fellow brings to slaughter of 'be slaugh
tered—who had madly rode over the prostrate
forms Of the dead and dying—who, in the
fierreockcitement of battle, hail frit, _ without
emotion, the hot blood of friends and foes plash
in their very facesilaxed from their accus
tomed :ravity of thought. and yielded them-
Selves o the genial influences of good cheer
, and nviviality. Even Lee, who was seldom
se. Irt smile, beheld the disapp earaoc his
rlibles and drinkable!' with a mirthful face. and
er:cked jokes and bottles with equal faeility,
Many were the toasts offerid and accepted—
all perininally , complimental or patriotic in. their
tone, of course. Leeliad expatiated in glow
ing terms,, upon thj i warm-hearted frankness
and generou's bravery of 'Baron Beidesel,
when Washington spoke with earnestness.
•• There at -m men among our enemies," said
he, wham i admire for their many goo
qualities. The chivalry and high estimat; of
honor practiced by some of the king's oileers
is. hoWever, more than counterbalanceeby the
cruelty, tyrannical bias, and disregard of the
recognized principles. of warla / m evinced by
ufthers."
In which category:* inquil.ed Lee, "does
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ur excellency place the haren T"
"'ln neither." '
replied Washington. .. He
fi hts well, and he never follows up a victori
ous movement by unnecessary brutality ; but
helis a mercenary, fighting a * t a people
who irt struggling to he fr witl ut offering
the slightest obstrele to him or his."
.• And fair that ought to be condemned:' re
marked Ciclwallader.
'" MY opiniol to a fraction," said Dickin
son : and all expressed coincident sentiments..
.' You forgo', ' observed Lee. with some as
perity, t. that -he bears a title—that all his
ideas of the proprieties of government are cen
tred in,rov - altf'iinditiaitendant f ims and pri
vilegev, of which rks Orofesa to d iseind op
po,le."
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The Commanding form of Washington—and
wi o that ever saw it. or an acknowledged coon
tOpart. ran conceive one more majestic—swel
led iviib pride as he delivered a sentiment
wortty of all ages, as follows : '
No man should draw 'his sword against
the I fe of another, unless some great-motive—
not (blinded in - mere personal prejudices, or
grounded in unpitying ambition—impels him
in the battle, and reconciles his 6onscience to
acts which can never be-recalled; and for
which no repentance can atone.—Mere pay—
mere rank—mere duty - to, man and not noble
principle—is not sufficient' excuse for shedding
the tilwd of the oppressed, sir. 'llBd Luought
but nay <o4sn ambition to gratify in these cam
paigns of death. no power on earth could make
me wear the sol 'era uniform." I
This speech 'w received with the silent ap
plause begot by in ease admiration, and it was
some time ere that silence was broken. - Lee
sat a few minuteOn moody abstraction, from
which he was arou ls ed by the hand of Wash
ington. gently placed upon his shoulder.
" Well, well," said Lee, his eountenan • •
brightening,, ~ there is no, one like you ; I
have never'ib my travels encountered a single
being who possessed the like consideration of
'.the policy of life.- I praised Reidesel because
his gobduct 40,ms. when I was caged and clip
'ped 4.in the city. tonAed my heart and gave
htrth to a deep feeling, of gratitude. I never
forget a kindness." :
"'Come then," said Washington. " we will
drink 'the health of Bonin Reidesel. in consid
eration of the favors ha has shown in New
York 10' our entertainer."
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PUBiASHED EVERY . WEDNESDAY, AT 'TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY; PA., BY E. S. GOODRICH & SON.
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The tout was drank. but without any show
of enthusium. The.conviiality 3f the asem
bly had vanished ; ,for Lee's discomfauresand
uneasiness were so' manifest, that his guests
could not avoid noticing it. It was with the
most scrupulous ceremony. and with genuine
ly-frigid politeness. that Washington and his
suite were seen to mount tkeir horses, and
were waved away from the dociMrom whence
they galloped to perform thle duties which cal
led tb m forth;
Le watches them until they were beyond
the nge of his vision, when he raddeoly
turtle •
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to the .aid-de-camp, and thus
. addresfsed
'him," a harsh and petulant tone : 1
" /4011 must look me another place. for I
shall have Washington and all his puppies con
tinually calling on me, and. if they do. they
will eat me up."
He then retired to rest, smothering, as • ell
as was possible, the effects of wounded prit
resentment of,declarations which, in his pro
per frame of mind, he would have sanctioned,
and the pains of outraged avarice.
Early the next day. the sun shining bright.
ly, and the atmosphere as ;clear as that of Ita
ly. Washington rind his suite rode in the same
direction. On the night before,a couple of 'scout
ing parties--one from our camp and one from
the city—had Anet and engaged. and in ; the en
counter both parties suffered much. •although
the Americans contrived to mike an of f icer of
the enemy. prisoner. He had been forced to
give information concerning the strength of the
English army, the disposition of their lines,
and other communications of minor impor
tance, and had been confined in a little stone
building on the Bronx river, whither Wash
ington was going to question him. When in
sight of Lee's house, Washington turned to
his staff, and said laughingly
• " Poor Lee was mortified yesterday. q e
as much by the havoc we made in his ewe'
of provisions as by my failure to endorse the
manliness of his friend in all its length and
breadth. We ad know his peculiarities--
And we have a little amusement at his expense
to day ?"
Of course all consented.•
I would not willingly pain him, for he has
many good qualities—nctt the least are his
coolness and intrepidity irilaction,',4 continued
Washington.
'• But we may. without positively commit
ting a wrong. call upon him ?" remarked Max
well. •
.• Certainly gentlemen, certainly." said
Washington. urging his horse forward. 4. and
we will do so. It will afford us a pleasant
relief."
But Lee had noticed their approach as they
conversed, and immediately rushed to his %yri
ting desk, called his servant, and gave
hasty orders, after tracing a line of char
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upon a slip / of paper. and givingit.
" W shall see !—we shall see."
Lee, ervously pacing the a. vuu,....,
watchin the approach of the ood natured of
ficers and their great eon).. nder. " whether I
sin to be, besieged and i. aded. and driven out
of my own retreat !"
The servant her returned. 1
" You have 'one what I ordered you ?"
cried he, Mtn , ogatively.
"I have
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if he :r '
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you; may retire." Lee chuckled as
ad accomploahed a wonderful feat. '
..the nqantinte %Vaahington and him corn
aniona rode up to the dour and applied for
admission
• By my spurs." exclaimed Cadwallader
• I : believe we are denied the tights of holm
talky."
We are I" said Mairiare,ll, laughing immo
derately, and pointing to the dhor. **Read.
your excellencr, read."
Washington looked, and beheld an inscrip
tion chalked awkardly across the pannels, and
reading in this style--
" NO WICTVALII DRESSED HMS TO DAT."
During the revolution we do not believe, if
descriptions of the scene may be'credited. that
American Accra ever indulged in a heartier
burst of merriment. With many jeu iresprils
the troops rode off. their laughter pealing in
Lee's ears for ten minutes.
Thank Heaven," exclaulird he, cor
moranta ae gone."
At this moment firing was heard in the di
rection of New York. That afternoon _ Lee
burning with impatience to learn th e si nifica.
tion of the belligeren t . sounds. watch with
anxiety for the return of the brave patriots
whom he had so foolishly insulted. As they
neared hisihrouse, lie could not co uer the
impulse to rush forth,' uncovered and ask
the information for which he was so much dis
tressed. -
4.A dinner ! a dinner 1" cried what of the
oficers,
... General Lee,'' said Washington, gravely,
while he zest a reproving glance at his suite,
the question von ask shall be answered.—
The . Count d'Estaing, with a fleet of twelve
sail of the line and six frigates. from'aur
pus ally. France has anchored off NeW Tr&
Admiral Howe has only six ships of the line,'
and we expectto beat him where he is: "If we
cannot reduce the city, we hate a splendid op
portunity for Abode island.. aid is thrice
PIBOme." i
General,' exclaimed Lee; delighted by
what he beard, " you are welcome to a dinner
"f you will enter."
But Washington declined,on the plea of bust
nese. Many; weeks elapsed up. Lee had. the
pleasure of dining at the same sable with:the
greatest man of the age.
LEONLATIVE DILOSITINVerldillOMbell of
the ',Massachusetts-House of Representatives
were seated at the table in Boston: when one
of them said Will the gentleman from An
dover please pass the butter this way I" Pretty
scion tnotherspoke. " Will the gentlemen from
Worcester please pass the salt. Oil way I"
when a city wag at the table, taking the hint.
turned around to the black waiter and said dis
tinctly. Will the gentleman from Africa please
pass the, bread this way l"
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" REGARDLESS, OF DENUNCIATION FLOE ANY QUARYIGOi
exclaimed
Funent. and
FraisillaumThe kis Boylived;
The racy deseriptioi which follow. of the
house which was the Woe of Fenjamin Frank
lin's boyhood will be read with universal in
tercet, not only in this country but throughout
the civilized world. It is copied from the
Boston correspondence of the National Anti-
Slavery Standard.
There are a-few places yet left in Boston,
of universal interest. f - p - issed one of the chief
eat yesterday., in Hanover street, which I sup
pose suggested the train of thought (if such
discursive; ramblings deserve the name) in the
latter. Do you see that house at the eoraer of
Hanover and Union streets, with ti gilt ball pro
truding from its corner, diagonally into the
street 1 It has no architectural pretensions to
arrest a passer-by. It is a plain brick house,
of three stories, with small windows, close to
gether, and exceeding small panes of glass in
them.the walls of a dingy yellow. Yet it is
ha - use swarming with associations interesting
to well nurtured minds throughout the civilised
world. Read the name upon the ball and you
will get an inkling of my meaning—•" J as
FRANIKI.M. Yes, that is the ve roof
under which Benjamin Franklin grew .He
was not, born there, but his father moved
thither when he was but six months od, so
that all his recollections id home must have
been connected with those walls. The 'side
of the house of Union street remains as it was
in the days of Franklin's boyhood ; but that on
Hanover street. has been shamefully treated.
Nearly the whole front has' been cot off to
make room for two monstrously disproportion
ed show windows. And this house, so full,
'as I have just said. of associations, is fuller vet
of bonnets ! Yee, by the head of the Prophet,
of bonnets It is a. Bonnet Warehouse, and
from the inordinate windows, aforesaid, bon-
. eta of all hues and shapes ogle you with side
long glances, or else stare_you openly out of
countenance, while mountain piles of band
boxes tower to the ceiling of the'upper story,
eloquent, like Faith, of things unseen. Hea
ven forbid that I should say anything in dero
gation of bonnets.any more than of the fair heads
that wear them, but I would that they had an
other repository.
It was my good fortune to go over the house
before it had undergone this metamorphosis.—
It was oecupied, in Vail at least, soiue eight or
ten yearn ag9 by colored man, of the name of
Stewart, a dea rin old clothes.' who thought
of buying . th premises, and wanted my advice
about it. gladly availed myself of the op.
portun" to view them. The interior of the
hon was then. I should judge, in the same
e. dition them was when the worthy old soap
.oiler and that sturdy rebel. (in youth as in
age,) his world-famous son lived there. There
were the very room s in-which the child Frank
lin played, the very stairs. u' au dr4lonnwhich
he romped, the very, window seats on which
he stood to look out into the street, The shop
on the street was unquestionably the place
where he used to cut wicks for the candles, and
fill the moulds, and wait opon the customers.
I pleased myself with imagining which room
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it was•in which his father sat. patriarch like, at
his table. surrounded by his thirteen children.
all of whom ‘• grew up to years of maturity and
were married." And you may be sure I did
not fail to take a peep into the cellar, where
poor Richard, in his infantile economy of time
proposed to his father that he should say grace
over the whole barrel of beef they were putting
down, in the lump, instead of over each piece
in detail as it was brought on; the table !' A
proposition, which , inclined the good brother
of the Old South Church to fear that his
youngest hope was given over to a reprobate
mind. and was but little better than one of the
wicked.
Arid I would have given a trifle to know
which of the chambers it war that was Frank
lin's own, where be educated himself, as it
were, by stealth. Where he used to read
" Bunsen's works, in separate little volumes."
—and Barton's Historical Collections—"small
Chapman's books and cheap ; forty volumes
in all,"—and Plutarch'a i Lives—not to men
tion " a book of Do Foe's, called An Essay on
Projects." and " Dr. Mather's, called An Es
say to do Good," and where, too, his lamp (or
more probably his. candle's end) was " oft seen
at midnight hour," as he sat up the greater part
of the night 'devouring the books which his
friend. theitninkseller's apprentice. used to
lend him. over eight. out of the shop, to be re=
turned the next morning. How the rogue must
have" enjoyed itbem I Seldom have literary
pleasures been relished with such a gusto as by
that hungry boy.
When I say " rogue." I use the term meta-
physically and not literally, - I mean "no 1
scandal simot Queen Elizab• th." nor do I allude
to any of the gossip of sixty years since. But
I . shall never forget the shock given to my early
prejudices. and the boultversetnera of all my
preconcerted ideas at hearing, when I was a
boy, a very celebratid gentleman. distinguish
ed in the field and in the cabinet, whose pub
lic life was mostly of the-fast century, say in a
careless manner, as if it were, the tritest truism
in the world he: was uttering. e 4 Why, ma6m.
l
yon kiwi! Franklin was an o humid !" He
added some specifications. wh t ch 1 1 0 not now
remember. but the amount was. that he had
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lie was no saint in his private life, and he ne
ver pretended to be one; but r 1 believe it is
now pretty, well understood that be was " in
different honest." is Hamlet says, in his pub
lie life, and that Prince Posterity has dismissed
the charge preferred by some of his cotempo
dries. against his political honesty:.
It will not be many years before this monu
ment of the most celebrated Man that Boston.
not to say America. ever produced. will be de
molished. and the place that knows it aball
knoer,it t -nermorikunletis something be don't to
seri' it. - -If wili:Bit a burning shame and a int ! .
ingidiugrace to Boston. with all its wealth anti
its pretensions to liberality. and its affectation
of reverence for its great men. in suffer the
mostlistorieal of its houses to be destroyed
j',rhea the rise in real estate in that neighbor.
hoodshall seal its doom. It is i shame that h
has been left Si long to t „ siterths chances of bu
U
ainess. It should have been bought years ago.
and. placed in the bands of die Historical So.'
elm:v. or some other permanent body in trust.
to be preserved forever. in its original eolith.
tiZin. It is not too late to restore it to some
thing like it first estate. ay to save it from
utter destroceion. If tt be not done, it will he
a source of shame and sorrow when it is too
late.
The house in whidh Franklin was born has
been destroyed within this century—to the
finite discredit of the rich men'nf the " Literary
Emporium of the New World ",‘—ss-the great
Kean christened it. when it was in the-height
of its (Minato in the "Kean Fever." That
Imuse stood in Milk. street. a,lnde below the
Old South Church, on the other side of the
way. and the spot is marked by a " Furnace
Warehouse." five stories high, which,forms a
fitting pendant to the bonnet warehouse, in
Hanover street. The printing office of James
Franklin, where Franklin aerved his appren
tice**. where he used to pat in his anony
mous communications under 'the door, where
he used to study when the rest were gone to
dinner. and where he used sometimes to Eet a
flogging from his brother—" perhaps I was too
saucy and provoking," (as he candidly. and
with great probability. says of himself.) James'
printmir offiee was in Queen (now Court street)
nearly opposite the Court hose. on the corner
of Franklin Avenue. which. if I am not mista
ken, derives its na me from the very circwn
stance.
Yocum Laos—There are many young lads
about our streets who have given up their
schools, but who are in no particular business.
Some of them, to he sure, are sons of wealthy
parents, who can afford to keep them in idle
ness,c; but it ay prove the ruin of the boys.
There are o ers , flowerer. whose parents fi nd
it dif fi cult t make both ends meet, who seem
to do nothi from Monday morning till Satur
day night. Why is it ? They are too proud
;
to learn a t de. or go into a shop and work;
so they are waiting for opportunities to pre
sent theme yes, where they ran get a , good
salary. and o nothing but a little writidg.—
Such oppoctuniiies are rare, and these boys
m 3:- wait 'l they are one and twenty, and yet
do nothing.; Idleness is the ruin of boys from
the age of illturteen in twenty-one. While un
employed iou will find them at the corners of
our streets iin low grog-shops, or whcre soda
cakes and pies.are sold. living on the generosi
ty of theit more wealthy companions. We
know sevetal such. We see them daily get
ting , chat they can from others, *while ,their
I
poor (lithe ,or widowed mothers ate obliged
to support hem.
Our adv ic e to such young lads is. go to work
itt'somethi g. Do not he afraid of a trade.—
Some of o2 r best and most talented 'men once
sat on a aetnaker's bench, worked at some
thing. You had bettgrdig clams with cash by
the halves, , empty vaults with Frringtoo ; or
sell candy with Hance, titan thus to waste your
previous time. and contract habits that Will be
a source of trouble to you as lotig as youAiye.
WALRIIG...-- Walking is good—opt merely
et•pping lion) shop to shop. or frotn:-neighbor
to neighbrir, hot stretching out into the Country,
to the freshest fields, and highest ridges, and
quiet lanes. However sullen the imagination
may have been among its griefs at home, here
it cheers up and smiles. However listless the
limbs ma t have been, eactaining a too heavy
heart. hers they are braced, and the lagging
gait becontes. buoyant again. However per:
verse the, memory may have been in. presen
ting all that was agonizing. and insisting only
on what- cannot be retrieved, here it is at
disregarded. and then it sleeps ; and the A I
of the memory is the - day in Paradise to the
unhappy. The mere breathitig ,of the cool
wind on the face of the commonest highway
is rest and comfort, which must be felt atisuch
times to be believed. .
TIM SAILOR AND Docirorr....—A. sailor having
purchased some medicine of a celebrated doc
tor, demanded the price.'
4 . Why," said the doctor, as I cannot think
of charging you less than seven and sixpence."
Well, I tell you what." replied the sailor.
take off the odd, and . l will poky you the
even."
Welt," re - plied the doctor, •• we won't quar
rel about trifles."
`The sailor laid down the sixpence and-walk
ed off; the doctor reminded him of his mistake.
No mistake at all—sir : aul is .even, seven
is odd, all the world over; so '1 wish / you a
good day."
.43 et you gone,".said the doctor, "I've made
fourpence oat of you yet."'
Goon.--Dr. Brantlin was Alining with a tory
preacher just bebre the revolution, who gave
as a toast. “ the King." The doctor, and
others of his way of thinking, drank it. By
and by 'his torn came, and' he gave, •• the De
vil." T'hi's created some confusion, but the
clergyman's lady understanding the drift: said,
•• Pray, gentiemen.ltrink the toast. Dr. Frrnk
lin has drank to our friend. let us drink to his."
WHAT EVOCATION EP0NN.......)il an anniversti:
ry. I once heard a brott i vaa M
min ister. u*, ;tat
had both point and edge. Education," said
be, " Is to the mind. what the grindstone is to
scythe. It neither improves the temper of the
steel, nor adds to its alnount ; but some how or
other. it makes it eat. . = -
gu Pcsorma,Surbierre says that the six
plagues of r small town are, a lawyer with
great knowledge,. great sophistry. and no sense
of justice ; an eminent , physician. with
,little
skill or manners ; a
. preacher, .w ithout.any
conscience k-a quairelstunit soldier,.; a. polio.
clan without prineipleis ; and a man of letters
who eternally dogmatist - et ;
ToiCnanon coLoit wi,-,a,RoeX a tfiaes
afresh , gathered thered rue in in water f lit, the
stem will allow. thin powder. it over tvith fine
rappee iroutt being ,eareful,pot to load it too
much—in about three boors. on 'baking otT
the snuff. it will become a green rose.:
IMMO
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II
t :;
MN
'ate ~rqt him 19;
ISO!. Mr. Jefferlon, then P,
ins Lewis and Clarke, : wit
rs,ito iinplOVe she roomy fr.
pi river. along the Missouri,
,ean. Even then. Mr. Je •
oresight which enabled him ,
the heads of his eotemporarie
e importance of Louisiana to
• sired. across this continent,
and do.wo the Columbia; t
L ue to the trade of India and
; • of wealth which had 'nieces
1:12:1
SOU
em tea, - and for which the Cauess
bee contending - far more than thl
for ten thousand years. Itadrosi
unknown. And bad they never
the avenue foreseen by Mr. Jeffe
whose exploration he sent the exp
mended by Lewis and Clarke.
beep, destined hereafter to this I
the ntivigation of these rivers is to
ed by railroads", arid a more dire ,
nently open route is thus to be .
superiority 'or Mr. Jefferson or
ing cotemporaries in rtatesntanlik •
not the less conspicuous ; trod the
of Le ' and Clarke have been t
subs dentessminatinns of &co.
the ississippi and the Pacific.
The route proposed by Mr. W)
rxilroad. proceeds from take Mie
the Missassipi shove the mouth of
sin, thence across • the Missouri
.i
moot of the Great Platte, betwe
ciL,B offs and the Great Bend. I
lat. , and tience to the Great
ahqut lat. 42; 30, and thence alo
of f.ewis' River, which is the 8
branch of•the Columbia, to they
navigation upon the latter, or to I
Francisco. as may hereafter be di
log the Great South Pass as a pi
ore Eastward •and Westward. 01
is to ascertain the respective dist
rations. According to Col. Fre
in the report of Senator Breese.
of the hieheit point in this Pa
Gulf of Mexico. is 7.490 feet.
who explored the valley of the
farm its moutb - to this Pass. In 1:
it as -an open. Prairie, with an am
.
quite imperceptible by the trave let. He was
accompanied by a Mr. Carson who had re
sided to that region for 10 years who hid fre-, ;
quently . crossed the Pass. and as thoroughly
acquainted Wilh the retite. if t with all hilt.
expenence. he was obliged tO w - tch very close
ly, to ascertain when he had -ached the tut- -
minating i point of the Pass through the Rocky
Mountains, The distance of the Great Paw
to the mouth of the Kansas, is 062 miles. and
from the mouth of , the Platte,B2, die latter
being about 300 miles higher o the Missouri
;3
thaw-the l'Ormer ; and as the mo th of the Ktin•
sails seven hundred feet abo e-the Gulf of
Mexico, and that of the Platte a rifle more. the
average ascent from shiner poin to the Palm is
only about 7 feet to the mile, nil as.the dis-
lance from Lake Michigan to ii e Plum is 1400
miles, and that between the hairPand the
mouth ofjhe Kansas or Platte level country;
the average ascent from .theita e to the Piss,
does not peed 41 feet t r a - the. ile. Accord
ing to Cole Fremont. - the Mont ; of the Kanitae -
is 700 feet ibeve - the Gulf i th crossing- of the A
Republican Fork r 516 miles - Mier, is 2311
feet, giving an ascent of 4,g, fe t to the mil ;
the aseent - of the nest 128 Mt . sit' 1000 fee .
or about 8-to , the mile ; that , f the next II
miles, to Si. Vrain's Fort. is 1100 felt or-9to,
the mile.; that oft he - next 80 i 1300 feet, or
16 14, the mile ;,,that of the ext 18 miles is
800 feet,„orbout 42 to the . ile ; that of the
next 87 mil e is 200 feet, or - 2 1- to the mile.
The Mats e from the G •at Pass to the•
mouth of th ' Columbia, by th ; common travel
ing route, 1400 miles, and t the head Ohs
ship navig don about 1280,;_• tof as the elm.
tion of th Pass is 7490 ffet,' ,l he descent from
this point o l ship navigation; -.jives art average
of Aimee. - to the mile. ' men the Pees to
a distance of 311 miles, the es k-01l is 1490
feet. or less than 5 to the ' mile For 234 miles
more. the mute Meyer. For 540 miles mere;
the surface is irregular. and t .e next 178 miles
[
end'at an elevation of 3000 -eti, the deselect .-""
from 6000 to 3000 feet. over distance of 718
miles. giving •an average ol • ess than 3' feet.
though .that of the last 174 - See is 17 feet to
, the'-mile. From this'. point 4. the foot of the'
1 Ohm Mountains. 282`,miles, he elevationsand
tlepressions• give an aierage 1 104 feet to the
!dile ; and the remaining dist:nee to Fort Van
couver, the head of - ship navi : ation, 303-miles,
gives an average 431 feet: Alf theie dent
dors were taken by Col. • reinont, over the
tonte'nanally travelled. thinti,li ;he committee
*meats that. furore explorat one will discover
routes of of less distances an' ascents.
~,, '
These facts show -that in- distanewof MS
miles from Lake Michigan t Port Vancouver.
the elevatTint of the Great '. 'nth Pass. 7490
feet, an4:of the intermediate .oints. present nol
obsticlis to a railroad.—.P a. Ledger. '. I
nititlLL AOR SostEtt's W e.--The use of
thrill or snaper's -waste as tordreltsingar
• • •
among fernier* both here and 'abroad. Accord. •
Ing to the analysis of Sir Humphrey Davy,.
Burins consists of the following ingredients,,all
of which are highly salutary agents in the de ,
-"elopement and maturationl CINO4
.• • Calpkreous mailer of Lim
Gypsum.
Common salt.
Carbonate of.Soile.
~ OtCHE'i AV. THE ! 11040,..--
OcK9o,;Mai e
r ,
, head" , o r co
t' e eP - EM 4 .:! . Alee. that the rt
'itiir,!eettlote; 'bi,sonie other f
!LEE E;tokri,ly otlite 'crops ‘,..
'iovied artir'llie ireasolf Was i
plants detroyett eon tie Teti!
Ahetr own' kind.. 11l ibis %
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savecl.. „.2. ' -
GRAVES are but the print
the angel of ttenal fife.
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tesa
.211:711t
JEER
itlent s sent
1 . 1
. PINY or
!or the Mis
r o the. PAO
taoa. with.
1 o loch far
to file es
the liaion.
• p the. Mito•
e shotteitt
Chita. that'
'vet, Taised
aa take Ira&
ee, perhaps
were' then
invested.
r on. and for
ditioo coo
mild. base
-. Bet if
la opened-
EMI
perms
e r. the
'r is -
foresi ht. is
explor,stiona
e bask, of all
ry between
!alley for hia
ups, items
the W iseon
bl,
above the
en the C un-
Tittle low
South ass.
mg the • Iley
iouthern sin—
head of hip
s Bay St..
ided. all.'
int or de art
r first object
1 nees and ele-,
moot, quoted
the 'elevation
a, above the
Poi Fremont,
' G rest Tlattii
42, describes
ent almost or
hen 10
. r 2. of
her vegetable . has
!ace thus r t teatmi.
reduction. There
in)) win do well if
• one by in whiebilur
seed by %nee of
dya much may be
of the footsteps of
ll'
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