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TOWANDA:
ttlebitcsbap Stlontitir, , ,lanc 28, .1848.
(From the Dublin Nation.)
THE VOICE OF THE POOR.
Wa.l Sorrow ever like to our sorrow !
Oh! God above !
Willi our night never change into a morrow
Of joy and love!
A defidly gloom is on us waking, sleeping;
Like the darkness at noontide
That fell upon the pallid mother, weeping
- By the Crucified.
Before us die our brothers of starvation
Around are cries of famine and despair
Where, is hope for us, or comfort or salvation— '
Where—oh ! where !
if the angels ever hearken, downward bending,
They are weeping, we are sure,
At the litanies of human groans ascending
From the crushed hearts of the poor.
When the ,human rests in love upon, the human
All grief is light ;
titoibends one kind glance to illumine
Ohr life-long night
The air around is ringing with their laughter—
God has only made the rich to smile;
But we—in our rags, and want, and wo—we follow
Weeping the while. [after,
And the laughter seems but to deride
When, oh ! when
Will fall the frozen barriers that divide us
From other men ?
Will ignorance forever thus enslave us,
Will Miserfforever lay us low?
All are eager with their insults ; but to save us! .
None, none, we know.
We never knew a childhood's mirth and gladness,
Nor, the proud heart of youth free and brave ;
Oh, a death-like dream of ‘eretehedness and sadness,
. If life's weary journey to the grave.
Day by day we lower sink and lower,
Till The God-like-soul viithin
Falls crushed beneath the fearful demon power
Of poverty and sm.
So toil we on, with fever burning
In heart and brain;
So toil we on, on through bitter scorning,
Want; woe, andilain. ,
We dare not raise our eyes to the blue Heaven,
Or the toil must cease—
We dare not breathe the fresh air God has given
One hour in peace.
We naust toil7thongh the fight of life is burning,
Oh, how dim! •
We twist toil on our sick bed feebly turning
Our eyes to Him
Who alone can hear the pale hp faaitly saying,
With scarced moved breath, ."
White the paler hands uplifted aid the praying,
"Lord, grant us Death!"
The Ascent of Popocatapetl.
CITY OF ' Nfrxiro, April 20th, IB4R
On the 3d ef the, present month a party of about
twenty-five officers of different corps, accompanied
by several citizen;, both foreign and Anietican,
with an escort of about seventy melt of dragoons ;
mounted riflemen. and infantry, making the whole
trent.±,th of the party over one hundredliersons. lelt
I,his city to attempt the ascent of Popocatapeil
Lieut. Stone, of the Ordnance, was the projector of
the expeditition, and all the preparatory arrange
ments were made by him. We took with us two
wagons and eau, for the transportation of our pro
vlsigns and baggage. "fhe object of the expedition
' was solely the gratification of our curiosity, and had
consequently but little 'referenee to seiehtitic obser
vation. It was much.. desired by Lieut. Stone and
Alr..flagally, an English gentleman at present con
nected with one of colleges of thecity of Alex
:U.°, to take at barornrlrr, and every died was
made tn procur; a suitable one, tart Without sue.
cess. Two or three of the party carried thermom-
The' first day we mawlied as far its Ayntla, on
- the titaiii . rnail to Puebla; but as the only pmctica
ttle ascent is by the southern side of the mountain.
we quit this rrtaki chi the tress day, about Thar miles
beyond Ayotla, and followed one which runs along
the southern base. We halted a short time at noon
at Mirallnres, at which place there is an excellent
and flourishing catkin faNnre.
The Director 9f the factory. Mr: Robinson, re
ceived us with/ he most cordial hospitality; he
.g:ive us: letters to the Alcal,lc% of the towns thr&
Which we would pays, and in various ways render
us friendly assistance. We left his house inbebt
ed to him for his kindness and refreshed by abun
dant good cheer, and passed the night tit Tlamin
;deo, a small town-about two miles beyond Mira-
Early the nest morning a courier-came in
from - the Alealde of'Ameika, another village about
Kis miles further on, bearing a note from him, clai
m: that he had heard of our approach, and assur
ing us that we would be received with great con
sideration, and that thp whole town was at our dis
posal. We arrived al this place at an early hour.
alma alter some consideration, it was derrined
advi
sable to leave our wagons, and proceed oil our
iouniey with pack mules. To procure these, haw
ever, would re9nire two or throe {tours, and 'we
took advantage of the interval to visit a church sit
uated uptni a pretty hill close by, and built over a
small cave in which Christ is said to have appear
cal to some holy ma n or other. There is an annual
weekly finiitival held in the town about the time of
the year that the Saviour is said to have made his
appearance.
I wits toll that during thefoStival, people mule
front long distances to worship at this most holy
place, and that' multitudes of sick haie miraculous
cures wrought upon them. In. plaid English, that
sorne devout hulaties come to pray and tray, a pea
many sick to imagine that the marvellous efficacy
eel holy brads, trinkets and ribbons have effected
woodcrlul cures, a multitude of dissipated young
ones to obtain lie -onset : , and the whole to be gulled
rent of adman five thousand dollars at each recur
r 'r,^e festival.
- TheAlealde told us that the priests said die Lill
,LS artitioial j and had been built by the Indians to
ret.ist Cortez, and that agreat and bloody battle hod
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When'welkent up th the church, some one men
tioned this of itrion of the Meal& in :the-hearing of
a priest; whereupotOhe latter politely asserted that
the Alcalde had het}... Not 'long after des . cendin,g
from the hill the mutes arrived, and having com
pleted our arrang,euiOts for commencing the ascent
next day, we rode oil to the village of Asumba.—
Soon after dark a violent storm arose, and it rained
and hailed until near midnight.
,The next morning the mountain was white with
snow two or three thousand feel lower down than
it had been the day before, and even low hills about
its base and around the valley, upon which we had
newer before seen snow, were now clad in white.
This was discouraging; .but, nothing daunted, we
procured as guides a man ,named Francisco Pais
and his brother, who acted in the same capacity to
a party in 183 R, and determinell <in ascend to the
Vacaria, a herdsman'ii hut, situated on the south
side of the mountain, near the limit of ;vegetation,
and next day to attempt the final ascent. The Va.
caria is nothing more that( a small rude hut, not
permanently inhabitated, but apparently only occa
sionally used by the herdsmen when they pay vi
sits to these regions, to look for their cattle. We
found the path leading to the place sufficiently good,
except that frequently the acclivity was so abrupt
as to compel us to dismount and lead our horses.—
We arrived at the hut at an early hour in the after
noon, and flattered ourselves that round our camp
fires of blazing pine knots We would pass a tolera
bly comfortable night. Put in the evening a dark
cloud gathered over the valley of Mexico, now far
below us, and distant thunder announced the ap.'
pro:tell of.a storm.
We watched the heavy masses of vapor piling
themselves about the base of the mountain, and
rolling up its steep sides, until they broke, upon us
with drying sleet and snow, and sent us shivering
with cold to our tents. Our guides comforted us at
first with assurances that the storm would not las i
long; but all night the fierce wind, rumbling with
dismal sounds along the ravines and whistlingthro .
the torn branches of the pines around us, continued
to drive the snriw upon us. Our fires wore nearly
exting.tti-heil, and to complete the' gloominess of
our situatinii, we were enveloped in utter darkness,
save when the lightning cast its glare about us and
threatened us by its arse proximity. ' At one time
we were startled by an explosion like the sharp
report of a long eighteen, and next morning we
found a pine, within thirty paces of the place where
we had been lying, shattered by the bolt. It had
been our intention to rise in the morning at about
one o'clock, and commence the ascent about two ;
but at that hour there was no abatement in the
storm. At daylight it ceased snowing, but the
wind continued ; and whirled the dense clouds about
us, .o that we could distinguish no landmarks, aud
our guides said that it would be pure folly to at
tempt mo%ing. Our impatience would listen to no
reason, and at length, yiel:ling to our importunities
and to the possibility of the weather's groWing bet
ter after sunrise, they consented to lead us - on. It
is worth remarking, that in no previous attempt had
the itwent been successfully made when the snow
lay Kroll the mountain, more than a thousand feet
• from its summit on this side ; and now it had fal
len loiver evea . than Our position and cowered
quite six times that height. Leaving our escort and
attendants ; except a few who wished to accompa
py us, we quitted otir camp at six o'clock, and a
brisk walk of an hour brought us to the limit of ve
getation.
The. Weatl.er had not grown more farm-aide, and
our guides declined going any further. Seeing that
the poor felloWs had nothing on their feet but san •
dais, and that their backs were about as poorly pro
tected, we could not insist on their accompanying
us, but were satisfied with a description of the route
that we ought to pursue ;:and, braving all obstacles ;
we a.scrinded into the clouds of snow above us.—
We were constantly lel on by the hope that the
sun wordil presently find its way to us, and that we
then might accomplish our object. After toiling
throngli about two milq,; : and - gaining an elevation
of about fifteen IrtiVred feet above the limit of ve
getation, the cold 'became severely biting. and a
tine sleet beating upon our faces annoyed us ex
cessively. Some of our companions and attendants
began to drop back and return ; lint others, more
obstinate, pushed on.. At about live hundred feet
ercater height the thermometer stood at 23.°
Fahrenheit, and the weather continued to be as bail
as ever. The frozen mist formed icicles on our
hair, beards and eyelashes, and the wind seemed
to pierce us through and through IVe had now,
out i)f about thirty who had set out in the morning,
only seven left, The wind had taken Lieut. Stone's
hat from him, and sent it at railroad speed across
the field of snow; and, continuing on bare-headed,
he soot; bdrame completely chilled. %Vittlst we
wet e stopping under the shelter of n eliffto rest our:
selves. he stretched himself upon the snow, and
fell asleep: Fearing that he was more nearly fro
zen than he was willing to admit, we ',minted on
leis g,etting up and returning immedtately, and
Captain Sibley , 2d Dragoons, returned with him.—
This lett but tire of us—four officers and a soldier.
It may appear extriva,gant„ to speak of feeling the
cold so severely, but it must be remembered that
the transition from tropical heat to regions of eter
nal ....now, and cold twelve degrees below Freezing
point, was sudden ; and , that marry hod not made
sufficient preparations toencoonter it. The remain
ing tire ascended Ethan live hundred feet higher,
'and then, completely baled by projecting chi& and
unable still to tlia•ern any landmarks, we reluclant
ly gave np and turned to retrace our steps. The
land-Mark which had served others as a guide was
a vevy prominent corneal rock, shooting Up from
the In nuuilniti side seventy or •eigity feet high, and .
is situated about oikb thousand feet heloW the cra
ter ; it is called the Pico del Frayle. Those who
have previously made the ascent, - describe, by the
assistance of this rock, the only practicable route so
accurately, that no one could fail in following their
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we could not be very far from Fray le ; some thought
that we had got above it even; but we could not
be positive as to our position at that time. When
we had descended about half way , to the pines, the
sun suddenly came out; !taken looking back, we
felt increased disappointment at discovering that we
had been near the base of this peak, and we in
stantly, resolved to urge a second attempt next day.
The sun was now shining brightly above, but be
low:us rolled a tumultuous sea of clouds, some
times completely engulfing the lower world, and
leaving us, like wrecked mariners upon a desolate
island—sometime disclosing fleeting views ofland
scapes lighted by a momentary ray. We remain
ed catching the succession of beautifulcontrasts pre
settled to us by this strange sight, until the tecollee
tion of the long- and tiresome walk to camp forced
us away. On arriving at the camp, we found that
some of the• party had already given up all hope of
success, and gone down to the village.of Asiimba,
and by far the larger part of those remaining were
for abandoning the undertaking.
A few, however, were willing to make a second
attempt next day, encouraged by the prospect of
better weather. Of those who declined joining the
mountain party, the majority decided upon a visit
to Cuernavaca, and a beautiful cave about a day's
ride from that city, while three or four were for an
immediate return to the city of ;Mexico. We con
tinued chatting around our fire until a little after
sunset, when, sufliciently tired down, we turned in
to our tents Etefore much time had elapsed, some
faint complaints began to be made about inflamed
eyes. To complaints succeeded groans, and final
ly, towards midnight, all who had been up the
mountain were fairly screaming with torture. I
was not amongst those who suffered most severely,
and yet I never felt such tormenting pain in all my
lile before. The pulling of half a dozen teeth at one
time would have been nothing to what we -enildr
ed. No one slept a =mew. Most were unable
to sit or lie still at nil, and were walking about near
ly all night. I will venture to assert, that in no hos
pital in Mexico was there that night as much keen
suffering us there was in our camp: The next
morning our guides prepared a wash for us, which
allayed the pain considerably, and even enabled a
few of those who were the least injured to open
their eyes slightly, and to see a few paces before
them. Of course our condition utterly forbid au) ,
thing like the renewing of our attempt, and we de
scended to the town of Ameika, nearly all being
*ill so blind as to require being led every step of
the way.
On our arrival at the town, we were kindly treat
ed by the 'alcalde, who gave us a solution of acetate
of lead, which soon reduced the inflammation.—
The next morning our party split. More than half,
.with Capt. Sibley, of the dragoons, and Capt. Por
ter of the riflemen, went off with the mounted por
tion of the escort towardisCiternavacit ; sonle six or
eight others returned to Mexico; and seven offi
cers and Mr. Ba;_-_ , ally remained at Aineika, deter
mined on seeing the crater at Popocatapetl. The
officers who composed this• last party were Capt.
Bom ford, Bth infantry: Capt. Fowler, sth infant
ry, Lieut. Newtten, rifles; Lieut. Stone, Ordnance;
Lieutenants Kirkham and Buckner, 6th infantry, and
myself.
We remained until the morning of the loth, in
Ameika, and being almost entirely recovered, we
set out once again for the mountain.
Profiting by onr experience, we went this time
prepared with green veils and spectacles, warm
gloves and thick sticks. Since the day of our fail
ure we had had fine sunny weather, and a great
deal of the , mow that had fallen then had melted
away. In rea.scending to the Vacaria, Lien. New
ton
followed a wrong path, and we saw nothing
more of him until we get back again to the valley.
We left the escort at the Vacaria, and proceeded,
with our attendants and a few soldiers who. wished
to accompany us, to within a quarter of a mile of
the limit of vegetation, whernme pitched our tents.
The night was far different from the first, being as
clear and calm as could be desired. We rose at
half-past one o'clock, and were on our way at half - -
past two: In order to save our strength as much as
we coal for the tug above the Pico del Frayle, we
determined to ride our horses as far as possible,
and then send them back to camp. The volcanic
sand which lies between the limit of vegetatior. and
the region of eternal snow, and which, from its
depth, is usually more fatiguing to travel over than
the snow itself, was now fortunately fmzen so hard
that our horses tarried us with great ease nearly
two miles beyond the pines.
It would have been quite practicable to ride still
further, but we did not care to jade our horses by
forcing them up the ascent : which was now becem
iinz very steep; and, moreover, onr bent:matted fin
gers and toes suggested that it wont& be more plea
?ant to climb titan to ride. It was not yet daylight,
but we could see sufficiently distinct to avoid Our,
former errors, and to gain the ridge which would
lead us to the Pico del Frayle.
Clambering up the steep slope was exceedingly
toilsome, and we began also to feel die effect of
the rarefaction of the air. We could not walk more
than thirty steps without stopping to recover breath.
The stm rose beautifully clear when we were at
an elevation of nearly sixteen thousand feet, and we
enjoyed at that =merit another singular striking
sight, .
Tao huge shadow of the mountain was throws
across the valleys as its feet, over the range of
'mountains to the west of the valley of Mexico, far
across the distant valley of Toluca, and finally van
ished in a dimly blue point several degrees above
the horizon. In the purple light which was spread
riv.-r the country bovered by the shadow, only the
hills and valleys and prominent features of the laud.
seapes could be faintly distinguished : whilst on ei
ther side every thing was ghttering in the bright
morning sunshine. Far, away to the west we could
eee the white cap of the snow mountain of Toltir
and towards the soath our view extended over a
irre, , sion of bilk: aril valleys. gradisillv grow-
n ;'4.' ~
to vanish is a boundless sea. We had at this time
no view towards the east, nor could we see any
portion of the valley of Alexieo, except the extreme
southern part.
At this elevation the snow.lay a few inehesdeep.
We were about one mile in distance, and about
seven hundred feet perpendicularly, below the' Pico
del Frayle. At half-past eight o'clock . we reached
that point. From it we could see the extreme
peak about a thousand feet above us.. Leaving the
Frayle, we followed for about two hundred yards
the ridge on which it is situated ; then, quitting this
ridge, we descended to the small valley, or rather
ravine, which separates the ridge of the Pico from
the next ridge towards the east, and followed this
ravine to its head. This brought us to,the final as
cent. The snow was now much above our knees,
and this, with the extreme rarefaction of tLe air,
caused our progre, , s to be very slow. It was not
possible to walk more than twenty steps- without
stopping to recover breath. We felt no difficulty
or pain whatever iu b.cathing when not exerting
ourselves.
On reaching the final slope of which I have just
spoken, we directed our steps towards - a black nick
situated near the edge of the crater, about the mid
dle of its south side. At about ten minutes past
ten o'clrek, Lieut. Stone was standing on the edue
of the crater, exulting with huzzas at his complete
success: and before the mat of us had arrived he
had already fastened the stars and stripes to his
staff, and planted thetwon the Very loftiest peak of
the mountain—the highest point of our continent.
Mr. Ba.:gally arrived soon after, and placed close
by the cross of St. George.
NoW for a peep at the crater. It appears to be
perfectly cylindrical in torrn, and nearly half a mile
in diameter. The plane of its month inclines from
the south to the north, making the northern side
about sixty feet lower than the southern. Its depth is
from six to eight hundred feet, and its sides are as
perpendicular as the walls of a house. In its bot
tom on the north side are fifteen or twenty chim
nies, apparently about five feet high, and a foot in
diameter a their mouths. From these these is con
stantly emitted a dense yellowish smoke. The
chimneys appear to be pure sulphur, and all that
portion of the crater is covered with a crust of the
same.
From a great many crevices and fissures in the
sides of the crater smoke and gaseous vapor ate
ascending,. From some they pour in continuous
streams--; from others they come in regular and sud
den puffs, as though caused by water drip nine on,
burning matter. The smoke which comes from
the chimneys is generally so dissipated before it
reaches the mouth of the crater that it is not dis
tinctly perceived there : but I have on some occa
sions seen it from the valley of Puebla ascending
quite densely. There is an abominably suffocating
stench of gasses about the crater The odor of sill
phuretted hydrogen is the most distinct and unplea
sant. r From many different circumstances, we all
ae.reed in rejecting, as perfectly absurd, the idea ot
any body's ever having descending by any means
whatever to the bottom of this crater. The only
foundation for such a story is Corter's statement
that lie firrrured sulphur from a mountain that burn
ed with fire and smoke. But as a mountain may
mean any mountain, we are quite sure that Popo
catapol was not the mountain.
IVe had splendid views towards the east and
north, but clouds had begun to accumulate around
the mountain. and were hanging over the other
quarters. We saw Orizaba very . plainly, and had
it not been for heavy clouds flying about its sum
mit, we believe we might have seen the Gult.—
Our view of Mexico was intercepted by clouds,
but we could see Puebla as if at our very feet.—
The unpleasant effects of. thugases did not permit
us to remain long on the edge of the crater, and a
few miivites after eleven o'clock we commenced
our descent, and at half past two were again at our
camp, having been just twelve hours in accom
plishing the ascent and descent. The thermome
ter stood at 26 Fahrenheit on the highest peak—
that is warmer by several degrees than it had been
two thousand feet lower down on the day that we
failed. •
Others who have ascended to the crater were
either less fortunate in their. route than we, or else
they maguiffed the difficulties of the ascent Vastly;
but we followed their descriptions exactly, and
therefore, could not have gone far out of their way,
They speak of having to pull themselves over crack:
and precipices with ropes. We met with no such
obstacles. My careless servant had lost my staff,
and I went up without any assistance from anything
or person. They did not encounter snow until after
passing Fmvle; we tell upon it . nearly a thousand
feet below, therefore we had more to contend with.
They also give nearly double what we give as he
dimensions of the crater. They calla nearly a mile
wide, and twelve or fifteen hundred feet deep. We
place both these dimensions at about one-half, and
think it grand enough, without needing exag,,,,,,era
lion. There are no traces or signs of the crater
having undergone any material change for centuries
back. The elevation of the crater above the valley
of Mekico is about ten thousand feet. This is about
equally divided by the parts above and below the
limit of vegetation. Without being at all stunted in
their character and appearance, the pines suddenly
cease at about twelve thousand feet ; very good and
luxuriant grass grows also to this point. Beyond ,
vegetation, and to about the line of eternal snow,
is a belt of deep volcanic sand, and above the sued
hard compact lava extends to tliti crater. The ele
vation of the crater above the level of the sea is,
according to variens measurements which have
been made and which agree very closely, about
0%840 feet,
The precautions that we had taken this time sav
ed us from feeling any ill enissegnences,.; and we
carne dewn unscathed and delighted.
Although you are a yortag man deem it no dis
grace to be Balled er thought modest. Modes'y is a
jpwel—a aer!:—a diamond of the first water. Pity
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EONO 07 THE PIKE--BY AN IRISH REBEL
Great faith I have in Moral Force, • .
Great trust in Thought and Pen;
I know the value of Discourse,
To sway the Minds of men;
By why should words our frenzy whet,
Unless we are to written
Our Despot lords, who fea: l l%.:i tiWeat,
But reverence the Pike! •
Besides, the dialogue is slow—
It hangs, and always hung;
Where one man argues with a Blow,
The other with his Tongue.
The man Who talks to me with Swords,
Guns, Bayonets, and the like,
Should not complain IT, shunning'Words,
/ answer with the Pike.•
A bard, when asked what earthly sound ,
All music else surpasses,
Replied, with sophistry profound,
• l'he tinkling of the glasses;"
But on my ear another noise
More rapturously strikes
And may we hear it soon, my boys!
The crashingof the Pikes.
Oh! do be wise ! Leave Moral force,
The strength of Thought and Pen;
And all the value of Distourse,
To lillydivered men ;
But, if you covet nut to die
or Hunger in a dike—
If Life we prize, or Liberty—
A PIKE. A flag.! A PIKE!
THE BOAT OF LIFE.
Lees take this world as some wild scene.
Through which in frail but buoyant bu'at,
With'skies now rude and now serene,
Together thou and I must float ;
Beholding oft, on either shore.
Bright spots where we should love to stay ;
But Time plies swift his flying oar,
And on we speed—away, away.
Should chi:ling winds and rain come on,
Well rare our awning 'irainst the shower—
Sit closer til the storm is gone,
And smiling wall a sunnier hour;
And if that sunnierhour should shine,
Vt'ell know its brightness cannot stay,
And happy, while 'iis thine and mine,
Complain not when it fades away.
Thus reach we hhth, at last, that fall
Down which life's current all must go—
The dark. the brilliant. destined all
.To sink into the void below
Nor e'en that hour shall want charms,
If side by side still 'fond we keep,
AIM calml% in each other's arms '
Together linked, go down the sleep.
ONE Goon or Wxa.—lt is a settled maxim in
Constantinople that war and the plague never visit
that city at the same time: mid this is fuundeLl upon
an experience of five centuries. which has never
once contradicted the law. The good yussulmans
tell you that this arises from the special regard of
Allah Pn,l . lii4 prophet for the faithful worshipper:':
and that in recompense [or their pmfession of Islam,
the Turk% will never be.exposed to two.scourges at
once. Another, if note Letter reason, may be found
in physical or physiological science: and it is a rea-
Solt not confined to the limits of the sacred Cifv.—
•' Pestilence, '' says a profound writer, " is one of
the natural and appointed agetrtgfor preventing ex
cess of population, and for removing that portion of
community which have fallen off from the 'Mir ,
stock of organized society, and are only cumberers
of the soil, and nuisances of creation...lt is a destroy-
nig mill purifying influence; generated out of evil '
which it is its mission to temove';. and never finding
an origin or a support, but in those circumstances
which require its action. War, in its physical oper
atiOn, si an appointment for the same purpose :
and, as there is no necessity for both 'at the same
time, they seldom appeartogether. The pestilence'
which have risen, from period to period, anartioved
over the face of the worled, have' almost invariably
apiteared in seasons of prosperity and peace. Du
ring times of general collision among the European
powers, those visitations have been withheld. II
thesefacts be so, may we not hope that the .31e:cl
ean war will prove an antidote to the cholera, and
thus save the country from the terrors of a domestic
enemy, more frightful than all the hosts of the south.
A Nom. Dertscrios OF A 1r ASt tr.-t.ks the Yan
kees are creating no little excitement in the com
mercial, political and military world, I hope my
definition of a real genuine male Yankee may not
be considered 'zrt• :—A real genuine nation,
guided by de'e-mination, and - supported by educa
tion. He LT= ,veneration corrected by toleration.
with a lore of self-approbation and emulation and
when reduced to a state of aggravation can assume
qIC most profound dissimulation for the purpose of
relation always combined, if possible, with specula
tion. A real live Yankee. just caught will be found
deficient in the folloWing qualities : is self-de.
Hying, self-relying, always trying, and intti.every
thing prying. Ho i 8 a lover of piety, propriety,
notoriety and the intemperance society. He is a
dragging, gaging, brazing, striving, thriving, swap-:
ping, jostling. wrestling, musical, quizziCal, astro
nomical, poetical, philosophical sort at a characte r ;
whose manifest destiny is spread civilization to the
remotest corners or the earth, with an eyo alwaya
on the look out for the main chance.
PAYING. lions A Stxsc.a.-sevFra years ago; in
North Carolina, where it is not customary for the
tavern keepers to charge the ifthiisters for lodging
and refreshments, a preacher presumingly- stopped
at diavem one evening, ard fade himself com
fortable during the night; in the morning entered
the stago without offering to pay for his accom- .
modations. 'I be landlord came running ttp to the
stoge and said, " there ig ouch! there who has tint
settled his UV—the pa.4eng!rs ill said•they had,
except the preacher, who soil he understood that
ho never charged ministers any thing. " What
you' a miniSter. of the gospel, a man of God," cried
the •• you came to toy house ha-t night
you :satdowit at the table without asking-a blessing
I lit you up to your room and you went .to bed
without praying to your Maker,"(for I staid there
until you undressed ;) you - lose and washed with
out FaVin2 Zrner, and :V: vim cam() to my house
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P.tr Nlr.rtirithc.—The ti@h inin who ern
ployS meebanin does , net Oftiacys how Now F.)ltch
inormvenience, toss of time and eipenk- he etpo-
See,' him - to', by negiecting, to Eitty` an niiili,lptited bill,
on prisentallan. Wfthnot going tne'tfttiP into the
.abject, let us pmpose a very simple example. (1f
rottstant occurrence. A mechanic undertakes a job
'.Or which his honest clia.*r fifty dollars. It is
clone to satisfactitth of his employer. He expects
his pay on the presentation of his bill. *fly itottld
he not rereivel it ? Ile has no' batik credit; he pays
cash for talait. lle tins been .fe t
week-Ran that job, with. tatiet tliftve cothanymen,
besides furnishing the saw materials, phyin:g shop
rent and other exitensh-6 comingencieS. hy should
bt.' inked to ;rail six mon lei or a tear for his
looney. He Most pay ins liands.on .. , :ittnedtty, • pro
vide fur bites family during the week, pay for his
work, and lay up sometfiis4 against rent day. Is
it reasonable—is it just, that his ready employer
should ask him to wail pay until his con
venient-tithe; when cash is not scarce, when three
der vent a' month is not to be bad on the loan of
money that belongs to others, or which ought to be
nppmpiat.6a to the psymeirt of honest debts, instead
cif sleeping anti fisting at interest otiposl notes-iLor
contributing to the artificial wants AT bis family--Or
gratifying, a reckless spirit of speculation in visioitart•
stocks? Is it righteous, is it just, that a matrof stiP
-posed wealth slatobi do this, alai leave the honest
hard working trieChanie to the Itet?...4s of small
creditors, the importunities of journey men and
the rapacity of usurious extortioners ?—certainly not.
NcivseAprat.—A newspaper in a family i 3 worth
ten driPlitrs s year. Even the moß= barren paper
brings something new. Children read the &indents,
gain intelligence of the important aflairsoftlie world,
and acquire useful itnOwledge, of more importance
to than in life than a present of fifty acres
Parents REV not aware of the vast itriphttanee of
newspaper in a family of children. Wq fdte made
the remark before, and repeat it that take' two fetni
its of children etpally smart, and going to the same
school—let one of them have free use of a newspa
per, anti it would excite astonishment to mark the
i del ence between them. Full one-half of educa
tion, as it respects. the business of the world, and
the ability to rise and make one's self respectable
in it. is 'derived from newspapers. / What parent
wochl not. wish td see his children respectable I--
Would he be willing to have his neighbor's children
more intelligent than his own Yet how _trifling
is the sum a newspaper costa.
. •
It is eivti in hard times absolhtely ecmteMpti
ble in amount, und no man ewer lett it except in
us beneficial consequence who paid the subxription
reptlarfy once a year
Tilt: IlvinucLic Ilstm.—The object of the hydraul
ic ram is to raise water above its natural level /
which is('M - 6' by' a simple hydrostatic principle.
If a liar of ii on be made tersurnd Upright, it will press
xvith u hole wei;slit on the point
, on which it rests;
but if a column of water:tic poured down a perpen
dicular tithe, it exerts a force not only downwards
but laterally, so that it would have nymdenry. if
the tube was closed at the' bottom, to expand the
bottom of the tube into a globular fortn, by pressing
on each side equally. If the tribe be very long it
must be capable of resitting a great pressure at the
lower end or it will burst. If now - a stnall pipe be
made to connect wi(h' this tube st the bottom, and
a stop cock be placed at or near the poiniof June
lion, the pressure', of the water will be very-great at
the plate where the stop co - . 1 is. If the Crock be
suddenly opened so great is the pressure that a jet
of water will rise in this pipe to a considerable dis
tance alcove the top.of the: other pipe. If the cock be
opened and shut successively, a continued stream
is obtained from smaller pipe. This is the.
simple pi loci* of the Water Ram.—ScientOc .4m.
THE SPIRIT or REPCIRM.—There is a spirit abroad
mighty for good or evil, a spirit of active inquiry--
of keen and iearchinz, investigation, which will be
mocked by no palliatives, and: put aside by no ex
cuses. It is like the'fire which, guided by intelli
gence, %id controlled by a skillfiil hand, warms
and cherishes and parities all things; bar, left to its
own unguidcdoperations,.or in careleskhands, pro
ceeds with overwhelming violence, and leaves.be
hind it but wreck and desolation. Eii.s will be a
glorious destirty L vslio boldly availing himself of this
mighty agency, ilotermine bonsstly to do all that is
right, and to do no more,. shall comic)! :and direct to
its legitimate objects, this aytakened spirit, which
if he be mad enough to seek to stem or impede,
will sweep hint along, with its irresistible eurreut. •
Mymmtiors RitriplEvery bialy has heard of
01 the old woman'srecipre for testing indigo: Sprin
kle it in fine power, on a•pan of water ; and if it is
goo/ it will either sink or swim, and I don't know
which!" This infallible test reminds ns of the
lowing. tare for feMinine melancholy. from "The
Mountebank's Ilecipe 7 Book "If any lady bo
sieke of the Sullens, she .knower not where, let
her take a handful . of simples. I know not what,
and use them, I know not, how, applying them
to the Ogee vieved,:t know not which, and she
shall be eukttl, I know not when !u - • •
Tut: Citot.r.ax..—lp several district:tot the Trans
caucasian region, espeCially at Tillis and its vicini
ty, it was remarked last summer, shortly before the
appearance of the epidemic, that the bees displayed
a.prodigious activity. The gardens ,and me:alows
we ere covered with them. They were met hi - large
swarms, carrying, ti a booty, a quantity of honey
and wax : but the moment the malady (*dared it
sett they kept themselves concealer in their hives,
which they had hermit:ally e'crwil with wax. It
would interesting to IIFCCIWIII if the wane phe
nomena was observed in the other parts of Rtrsia
where the cholera prevailed.
- Opinions like ram.oytders, am ra3lloweil by the
ma- , of inat!t-ind. NVise ono , etiew them fie:tr.:lnd
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