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TOWANDA:
liTchesban Mariann, Srptember 1818.
ti !For the Btedtbrd Reporter)
Thoughts on Slatery.—No. 2
33Y J. F. G.V.LAY
('ould we take the tenor of a portion ofthe pub.
'iett press at the north as a true criterion for our
we must suppose the south the Eden of die
wlttld, whose people have partaken of the tree of
kiowlehe uninjured by the curse originally pro
%Allred upon mankind. We heltr them prate of
hor talented sons, her enchanting scenery, her gold
•en sunsets, the land of the " Palmetto and vine,••
weihe Minerva Venus and Ceres arranged in their
most bewitching charms, propitiously invite the
obcerver to - adore. IVllat is the true secret of such
holiest and disinterested devotion to the south and
southern interests? Why are ceriain southern edi
tors ready to pour upon men of the north who dare
to stand, up for the rights of freemen, anatherilas
so deep as to bury them lower than the inhabitants
of Herculaneum and Pompeii were buried beneath
the ashes of the Volcano'? But when•southeramen
and even southern:States, loudly blow the blast of
discord and disunion, all is trumpeted to the north
souim detetminhion, and that as a con
sequence the north must yield----or else reproved
in terms so mild as to' resemble more the gentle
cliides of some love-sick swain to his inamorata
titan men holding the palladium of 'liberty to their
}Lands and willing that the scales of justice between
northern and southern' interests sl ould be impar
tially balanced. Why has there always been such
sneaking devol,ion to the south? Why such ardent
atiection for the slave power ? Why eueh a base
betrayal of the rights of freemen ? It is easily ex
plained. If the great " Ruler of all events . ' receiv
ed one half the devotion that is paid to the divini
ties of Wealth and Power, the reformation would
in , tarnjc extend from pole to Tole. The adage.
s• touch a man's interest and you touch hiy
life. is so true that in .ninety-nine cases out of a
lladreil it never fails ; hence this enigma is easily
salved : The south makes it the interest of men to
advocate her peculiar institution, and few (espe
cially °thee hunters) can %sitlArtanil the temptation,
tlie south %yell knOwing this fact always mana7e
t keep the control of the public heasury in her
own poiver. the institution of 51.1.% cry serves to con
.s.ii,iate her interests; so that upon any point where
in F. oudiern dictation is concerned, 'the names of
flemocrat and Whig- are instantly merged for their
~n erd welfare.• They are thus , called 'to operate
our diet( interest in one unbroken phalanx ; while
.a the north if any attempt to merge the. spirit of
-Nifty for the general welfare, it is looked upon as
an avert act of treaßon. The south can go unani
trt u+ her interests, knowing that a large per-
i,on oft e north dare not lift their liead: , from the
part? - -to path, and always triiimphing from the lact
that site is always united, the north always dix fil
ed—therefore, they arc not only enabled:to het the
power into their own hands but to keep it when
obtained.- Our Executive having the control of
“1 , n1:1 thirty of the public money annually,
1- enabled to %sield a power wholly at valiance
with the genius and policy of our government ; it
t is for him to purchase interests with our gnkl.—
N - What man can withstand the temptation of liend-
Mg implicitly to the executive Vall i when I , y that
executive lie can be nominated to an (Alice which
will enable Vim to surfeithirnself at the public pap
The south is thus einibleil In carry out her its-ign
at her wil/. True . nomittaiion: , be, t onfi;
by thif Senate ; but the southern part of time-Seriate
and ever has been namipoient in power, always
con-14s ring when their interests are at stake, to de
feat in man who is lint winery, in • bow down and
cant-lop to their southern Jlniocb. But should
maii be entionated I.y the executive
tor a pulitec office. and the snirthem Senafe not
a_ , ,llrPti of his fidelity to her interests, he
.must be laid upon the table, - until ho is enabled
to give the most ample, assurance, that the south
and her interests were his t• first Inve.." Bet let
rd aye, partittularly take a view of the condition
of tic great mass of the peiipie to the States where
.I•lrPry gaits. It has been supposed by many that
• rine ement against slavery extension originated
catire:y from sympathy for the situ(' . bet' is the
de.:railation of the as hoe man of whieh we more
paructilaily cempfain—a degradation forced upon
;ern by the institution of slavery None of the
ryiespriegt, of hum u nature •there stimulate men
honest eNertitins to make themselves a comps
. brace for life, the balance between labor arid its
rewards being hilly destroyed. Suppose a young
man to start there with an honest heart and strong
I detrtrmined by lnilu-try to make himself a
condonable home; lie r , OeS to the man of wealth
• and asks to labor and receive its appropriate re
. ward: suppose he asks as a compensation for his
Fervices the same that is obtained by thousands of
young men here. What would be the reply'
B ach•-a grice, saysthe man of wealth. would be en
tirt•ly incompatible with your labor; I have,_he
otitinues, one hur,dred slaves who do all the la
bor I require, sad the only remuneration which
they obtain is therely their clothing and board, and
how can you e.xpect to obtain your price when all
the labor which i require, ran be obtained fot corn
paratirely nothing. True, he says, I am. willing to
hire you, but in such an event I should expect that
)oer tither will cost me no more than the labor of
my slaves. Thus it is with the masses of the south,
4 , 1.1 tints it will ever be increasing with the in
crease of slavery as long as it shall continue to ex
to. No opportunity is given tea man of the north to
march boldly into the forest and hew himself a home.
Slavery deprives him of this privilege- by creating
a land monopoly which at once virtually deprives
httu of the privilege of trading real estate, and
then reduces. him almoit to the condition of a pau
per, by depriving him of the advantage of a fair
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What can be expecteit.from - an instill:llion that fur
nishes no reward to honest industry. Politicians
may prate of the degradation of the masses in En.
pe, but even now tlie seeds are sown, which when
matured, reduces the poor to a condition as degra
detlas the Poolah of India. Once deprive a mart
of that sacred principle guarantied by Our laws, of
" the right to acquire and enjoy property," and en
terprise stand powerless and still, industry
gaisheg and hangs her head, virtue forsa• kes'ltcr
path and roafris in " wandering mazes lost," and
ruin stalks triumphant over all.
And this will. ever continue to be the fate t l i tr all
who wantonly violate the most sacred principle'o(
Nature's laws, written in characters of living light,
which declare that "the laborer is worthy of his
hire.•' If these were all its evils, perhaps they
might be overcome, but as we examine the " pe.
euliar institution" more closely, its fearful deformi
ty becomes more apparent. The blacks are consi
dered the n ost degraded. race on, earth, and what.
ever labor is performed by slaves becomes a
grace, in which the moment a white man partici
pates, he becomes rtritceptteriminis, and is degrad
ed accordingly. The wealthy slave-holder is the
ono who gives tone to the community there, and lie
practicing upon principle of total abstinence from
lalxn~ the whole community who looks up to him
in all matters pertaining to the affairs of political
economy, are impressed with the idea that labor is
disgraceful', and hence the moment a man attempts
to get an honest livelihood by labor, he is imme
diately- sunk ten de:zrees berms zero. In some
parts of the south this punctilio is carried so fir that
if a stranger in travelling through their country as
sists himself in the discharge of any small duty, the
epithet of '• Yankee" is sneeringly applied, and
the silk-stocking gentry instantly cut his acquaint
nace. The only incentive to labor there is poverty,
and ilisgraite; and can it for a moment be suppos
ed that where the motives for industry fail that
man will labor except under the strongest necessi
ty ! These remarks are entirely justified by facts.
Every one striving to maintain himself independ
en t of labor, it cannet be successfully denied
that a large class of southern whites are reduced •-o
low in the scale of ex istence. by the direct agency
of slavery. as to he ready to embark in any scheme
which will enabled them to earn their bread with
out the '• sweat of their brows." First a necessity
firilaziness is created, and then matured by habit,
until the whole south presents a shocking sperm-.
cle of human degradation.. which may yet combine
with the slave power and enable retributive jus
tice to tell a fearful tale. It may be asked why this.
degraded class of whites do not take thrlpower in
to their own hands and overturn a systein so preg
nant with ruin! This is the very thing which the
slave holder fears, and, therekre, he duds it never
tary (already having thia?power in his-own hands)
to enact a law prescribing a heavy property quali
fication which precludes the greater part of the
mass from haling the privilege of the elective fran
chise. It free suffrage was tolerated at'the south,
slavery woutd - soots "sleep its last sleep"--those
voices now stifled and smothered would speak in
tones of thunder at the ballot box, and proclaim to
the tyrant that the sliackk:s have fallen from their
'limbs and they are free. One thing more. linwev.
er, is necessary to enable the slave holder to form
his system of subjugation complete; he has learn
ed from experience the truth of the 'proverb, that
knowledge is power," and ennsequently their
State departments refuse all aid to the establish-'
ment of common schools,* titus giving. the last cruel
thrust to the welfare of b i e r so s. What more is
II Pre —a y to crush the victim alteady a long he
Heath the of the make! What de-rrarlatrnt
so deep a= IL: attempt to rinencli the ininfortal her
ref the min.!? % 1,1 , -wed IT !hi; cruelty imposed
volt his race. lie a-k- to extend his slavery to mil
lion• of miles of territory, where the font print of a
slave has never yet been ''Forbid it omni
potent heaven the ifuhallowed project must be
condemned. A storm is arising in the northern
States whose thunder!! at Buffalo have been dis
tinctly heard, and our 'watchword V. at '• free soil
shall the lice," will echo fr o m where the Atlantic
rolls her waves, '• till lost in murmurs of the Paci•
fie sea." The Democracy of Old Bradford, who
have ever nobly height for principles and freedom,
when asked In perpetuate the t extensien of slavery,
will give a rebuke so startling thatibosdernissaries
of the south will see of truth, that this land -louse
crated to freedom nn the battle field of German
town, has remained untarnished to her sons.—
" There is no retreat but in submission and slave
ry." " The Rubicon is passeil".—" the Ides of
?ditch are come." Our own
.Wilmot was the first
to rebuke the giant strides of slavery, and those
hardy sons of Bradford will ever be found where
their 'duty calls them, .shoulder to shoulder in the
holy cause of freedom, - and with a voice which
shall be beard from Florida to Maine, proclaim to
slavery that "thus tar thou shall gn and no father,
but here shall thy proud waves be staid.•'
Wei Ang• Qittb, 1548.
Svoctrnms.—The first knit stocking sent to Eng
land was during the reign of Henry VITI. And
Queen Elizabeth received a pair of knit silk stock
ings as a valuable present. It is said that this state
ly queen pressed her royal feet on fresh - hay (in
'her palace chamber) instead of carpets, which pro
baihly were not invented till about the time of her
stocking-loom not having been invent
ed till i 589, by William Lee, of England, then ve•
ry imperfect and not in gotteral use fot a length of
time.
Last year a was quite corarnonjo see a tioHtting
stecking weaver plying his tratle on his por
table stockingloom, in some of the public streets of
Lotbton. At first, it was novel and money was ... made
by it, but a lately patented loom to be driven by
steam will soon drip:lw the band stocking loom out
of the market.
• Tl' ter.r-rol" ttne nevele eon only speak fergns newel
hon of n purl of the southern Stales, only hut vreeurn , s
GCltilat VI their inetnutsons tbut each Ili the cue iu ull
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The following beautiful story is literally true and
was first published in a lecture delivered by Will
iam Tracy. Esq., of Utica, on the early history of
Oneida county.
One of the first settlers in Western New York
was Judge IV—, who established himself , at
Whitcstown, abaht four miles from' Utica. He
brought his family with hire, among whom wag a
widdowed daughter with an only child—a fine buy
about four year old. Yon wilt recollect the coun
try around was as unbroken forest, and this was the
dorhain of the savage tribes.
311,1,e W—sass- the necessity of keeping on
good terms with the Indians, fur, as he was nearly
alone c he was completely at their mercy. Accor
dingly' he took every opportunity to assure them of
his kindly feeling, and to secure their good will in
return. Several chiefs came to ace him. and allap
peared pacific.. But there was one thing that troub
led him an aged chief of the Oneida tribe, and
of great influence, who resided at the distance of a
dozen miles, had jiot yet been to see him, nor
could lie ascertain the views and feelings of the sa
chem in respect to this settlement in that region.
At last he sent a message, and the answer was that
the chief would visit him on the morrow !
True to Ins appointment, the sachem Arne;
Judge W—received him with marks of respect,
and introduced his wife - ,lris daughter and little boy.
The interview. ihatfellowed was interesting. Upon
its restilt the Judge was convinced his security
might depend, and he was therefore exceedingly
anxious to make a favorable impression upon the
distin?!nished chief. He expressed his desire to set_
tie in - this country, to live on termi of amity and
good fellowship with the Indians, and to be' useful
to them by introducing among them the arts ofeiv
ilization.
The chief heard him out, and then said ;- .' Bro
ther you ask much and, you promise much, what
pledge can you give for your faith? The white man's
word may be good to the white man, yet it is wind
when spoken to the Indian."
" 1 have put my life in your' hands," said the
Judge," is not that an evidence of my good inter
slop? I have placed confidence in the Indian and
will not believe that he will abuse orrbetrsy the trust
that is thus reposed!'
i• So much is well, - replied the chief; "the Indi
an will repay confidence, if he will trust You. Let
this Loy - . , 0 with me to my wigwam—l will bring
him back in three days with an answer."
If an arrow had pierced the bosom of the mother
she could not bare felt a deeper pang than went to
her heart ; as the Indian made this proposal. She
sprang forward, and running. to the boy, who stood
at the sideof the sachetii looking into his lace with
pleased wonder and admiration, she encircled him
in her aims, and pressing him to her bosom, was
about to fly from the room. A gloomy and omi
nous frown came over the sachem's brow but he
did not speak.
But not so with Judge 'IV , he knew that
the suerezqi of the enterprise, the lives of his family
depended epon the decision of a moment
Stay, my daughter," he said, ', bring back the
be!, beseech you. lie is not morelto you than to me.
I would not risk a hair of his head.. But, my child
he must ea with the chief. God gill watch over
111111! lie will be as safe 111 the sachem's wigwam
as beneath our own roof."
The agonizing mother tieiitated for a moment,
she then slowly returned, played the boy on the
knee of the el:iota:id knee!ing at his feet, burst
into a flood of tears. The gloom passed from the
sachem's hmw but he said not a word. He arose
and departed.
I Kb: l W not attempt to describe the agony of the
mother for the ensuing three days. She was ag,ita
trd by contending hopes and fears. In the night
she awoke from her sleep seeming to 'hear the
,creams oldie child calling on its mother for help.'
But the time wore slowly away—and the third
day came. Ilow slowly did the hours pass.—
The tymmitig waited away ; noon arrived, yet they
came not: There was a gloom over the whole
household. The mother was Tale and silent.—
Judge 1C walked the floor to and fm, going
every few minutes to the door, and looking through
the opening in the forest towards the sachem's abode:
Asthe last rays of the setting sun were tbmtim
upon the tops of thetrees around, the eagle feathers
of the chief were seen dancing above the basher
:S
die 4stanoc. Ile rapidly advanced--and the
little boy ut,,hi side. He was gaily attired as a
young. chief—hie. feet being dressed in moccasins
'a fine beaver skin was on his shoulders, and eagle
leathers were Ruck in his hair. He was in excel
lent spirits, and so proud was he of his new honors
that he seemed two inches taller than he was be.
fore. He was soon in his mother's atrise, and inihat
brief minute sho seemed to pass from death to We: .
t was a happy meeting--too happy for me to des
cribe.
"The white man has conquered ?" said the sach
em; "hereafter let us be friends. You have trus
ted an Indian, he will repay you with confidence
and friendship "
Ile was as good as his word ; and Judge W--
lived for many years in peace with the Indian
tribes, and succeeded in laying the foundation of a
flourishing and prosperous community.
ROMANTIC AND FANTASTIC litookEreci: was the
fault of other times and other t•,ountries ; here I crave
more and more every day_to Atal men uofei►ered
by the constant excitement of the world, whether
literary ; commercial, or fashionable; men
who, while they are alive to all that is around theM,
feel also who is above them.
SUCCESS IN LIFE depends less upon a man • him
self, than upon a multitude of pally contingencies,
which he caimoi wrote, although it is with himself,
in some measure, to render them available. k
TORRE IS A WANT OF SISIPLIC3TY and nobleness
about a great person whose condescension is fully
telt at the time
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(litim the Public Ledger] •
TO 'THE IRISH LEAGUE—FREEDOWS APaPEAL
Arise from your chains, if still remain
One spark of that ancient spirit '
Your forefathers osimAd, when free from stain,
Was the land yon now inherit;
On her snit's of old she looked with pride,
For ever they stood to aid her,
Then raise your war-err--God's on your side,
And down with tbe tritisb enslaver!
Remember proud " Linster's stern old brave." ;
How he-rent the mail asunder
Of" three base Danes"—freely kies e d his grave
When Victory rolled her thunder;
8o count not the despot's venal host §
He firm and true to your leader—
Be tree; or nobly give up the ghost,
(As he did,) with the list invader!
Oh! if the base traitor stains your race, .
And add to the chains of his nation,
May his name no shrine—his sou! no peatf
Receive, but fell desecration ; •
Then'up in your might, like, freedom bold.
And avenge yo'r country's sorrow—
Strike home, as did your fathers W' old,
And the rays of liberty borrow!
Mao Ike Iri-flag—u Orange, Green and 81ue, 4
Wave proudly o'er " Blittnis Lion,"
United be, and only true,
And I see yooropptessors flying;
Remember, Go/unabta—the world at heart
Deplore poor old Erin's :•tory,
• Oh, neer from your holy alliance depart,
And Freedom will light you to glory!
REGULAR Enncsriox, we think, is nntarorable to
vigor and originality cf understanding. Like civ•
ilization, it makes society more intelligent and
agreeable ; but it levels the distinctions of nature
It strent , thens and assists the feenle, but it deprives
the strong of his triumph, and casts down the hopes
of the aspiring. It accomplishes this, riot only by
training op the mind in an habitual veneration
for authorities, but by leading us to bestow a dis
proportionate dezree of attention upon studies that
are only valuable:as key a or instruments for the un
derstanding., they come at last to be regarded as
ultimate objects of pursuit; and the:means or pin
cation are absurdly mistaken for its ends. How
many pouerful understandings have bi.erri)bt in
Dialectics of Aristotle !And of how much good phi
losophy are we daily defrauded by the p;eposter-
OUA error of taking a knowledge of prosody for use
ful learning! The mind of man who has escaped
this training will as least hate fair play. It'lialev.
'or other errors he May have fallen into, lie will be
safe at least fmm these infatuations ;and it - he thinks
ptoper, alter he grows up, to sluily Greek, it will
probably be for soine better purpose than to be
come critically acquainted with its dialects. His
prejudices will be those of a man, not of a school.
boy ; and his speculations and conclusions xi - ill' be
independent of the maxims of tutors and the oracles
of literary patrons.—Lord firry.
Besury.—Beauty is, after all, a mere matter of
opinion; and the utility of the object to which the
term is applied, often constitutes with the applicant
its propriety. Having always esteemed the land
scape, visible from a favorite shrubbery walk, as
really beautiful, I was one day this summer annoy
ed to find it hidden by some linen hung Quito dry
in the nearest intervening field, and which, inter
natty, I determined was the ugliest object ever pre
sented to human eyes ; but I was, em long, led
to think differently, and to meditate on the different
conceptions and standards of beauty entertained by
individuals, according to the various influences of
birth, education, profession, and circumstances, by
the simple incident of a maid servant entering the
walk to deliver a message to me, and exclaimed :
" Ho, beautiful that linen looks! Did you ever see,
a finer sight!" t; So. then," I thought," that
has, beauty to her which is positively ugly to me;
the application is general, and the inference obvi
ous; wherefore, I will murmur no more,"
TRUTH LICD SENTOICST.--Truth Li al ways COTISig.
tent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out; it
is always near at hand, and fits upon our lips, and
is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas,
a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention
upon the rack, and one trick needs a weat many
more to make it good. it is like building upon a
false foundation, which continually stands in need
of props to shore it up, and proves at last more
chargeable than to have raised a substantial buil
ding at first upon a-true and solid foundation ; foi
sincerity is firm and substantial, and there is noth.
ing hollow or unsound in it, and because it is_plain
and open fears no discovery, of which the crafty
man is always in danger ; and *hen he -thinks he
walks in the dark, all his pretences are so trans.:
parent that he that runs may read them ; he is the
last man that finds himself to be found out ; and,
whilst he lakes it for granted that he makes fools
of others, he readers himself ridiculous.
IT is A COMMON WEASSMS with men in power,
who have used dissimulation successfully, to form
a passion for the use of it. Dupes, to their love of
duping, their pride is flattered by it. He who fan
cies he must be perpetually stooping to the prejudi
ces of his fellow-ereateres f is perpetually reminding
and reassuriag himself of his vast superiority over
them ;but no greatness can long coexist with de.
ceit ; the whole faculties of men must be exerted in
order to noble energies ; and he whois not eamest
ly sincere, lives but in bait he beirsg—eaf-mraita
ted, self-proscribed,
Tun Drer...—The Beet is a native of the sea-emst
Of the sobth' oT *trope. It takes its name from the
shape of its seed-vessel, which, when it swells
with the feed, has the Cram of the letter Beta-of the
Greek illphalSet.' There are several' varieties in
cultivation for ertßnaly perposes, of which 'the most
essential sorts are the Long Blood and the turnip
Rooted. The last is the earliest variety, and takes
its name front the form of the root, its quality be
ing decided by the richness of color and closeness
of the grain. There are several other sorts which
come more under the notice of the agriculturist,
such as Sugar Beet, Nlartgel-Wurzel,. Src
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■t W. a. iSlN'ilt
A Scene of the Willow.
I passed on, find sick at heart and wearied with
my journey, entered a well known inn called the
litiq's Arms, in Leadenhall street—where I retired
early to my chamber, in hope to procure some little
rest, of which I moll so greatly in need. Irti*abottl .
midnight I was aroused from .rtrtY bed by the most
dreadful oaths and execrations which proceeded, I
found from the room beneath me wherein, as I af
terwards learned ; a company of profane young men
assembled every night, and, unconcerned as to the
calamity around them or peradventure In despera
tion, thus strangely .and distractedly
,prepared for
their Owrf deriths , Hke unto.seafren in foundering
slops, by drinking to exce.-S of maddening liquors
The sound of their ;4vild merriment still ring,sin my,
ears, whilst I east abglance back on the horrors of
that awful night. 6! the mercy and forbearance of
the t . I arose from bed, and looked from my
rasetuent; the night was dark and oppressivewith
heat, but it was not the heat of sum trier. The air
seemed too thick to breathe, and I felt a sense
of sullocation as I inhaled it; while there was a
burning glow in tho dense-and stagnant mass,
which, as I opened the window, 'truck upon' my
' face 'like the:Nast from a furnace. A little removed
(rum the house, at the corner of the street, one of
those large fires was burning, which the, phySicians
had ordered to -be lighted in the vain hope of pair
'dying the a t mosphere. A long ricifil of black
smoke rose slowly frobt its smouldering, ashes, and
ever and anon flames broke forth with a lurid
glare upon the opposite buildings, diselosirig the red
crosses marked on those buildings where 'the pia
zee raged; and I could also dimly discerl; at inter-
vats mutlled figures, and Ilea; the hollow sounding,
steps of the watchmen, who, with the wands of
office in their hands, paced slowly before tbeinfeet
ed dwellings. As 1 stood gazing anti almost be
wilde;red,by the solitariness, and awful glance of
the scene, my senses' were recalled by the heavy
strokes of a distant bell,•which, blended with other
sounds, soon fell more distinct!) on the ear. A
cart, pre4ded by two or three men bearing torches
came rural ling along, and stopped under the %vie
dow at which 1 stood ; whereupon an involuntary
exclamation of horror burst from me, as my eye
fell on a dense heap of human bodies within it.
and Inany were destitute of the slightest coverin.
The bell again sounded, and one of the butlers
sent forth the di3mal cry of " Bring out your dead.-
At this moment I heard the casement of the
lower room open, and the dissolute wretches, who
were still at their cups, shouted back in answer,
mocking the tones of the men. ' Call again, ye
death's heads! we'll be ready . by to-morrow night!''
and thereupon followed such oaths and bandying
ribald jeSts, that I was fain to hurry from the win
dow, and falling upon my knees, to pour out my
soul before my God !—Oh ! how I groaned in spirit
for the Wickne.ss of men ! It once brought upon
the fair earth the floods of the 'clelege—then the
tire from heaven fell upon the cities of the plain
—and now it seemed to me that the angel of the
Lord was sweeping with an uprooting pestilence
another and even a worse city, which could scar
cely reckon upon a remnant of ,everr ten righteous
inhabitants! The rainbow of promise 'seemed to
hive departed from the skies and m righteous Lot
remained to stay, with supplications, the wrath ofthe
Holy One!
TRANk , mlsslos OE 110TION, SPELL, AND rOWEI:
Wheels are the most beautiful as welLas the riroit
economical means of transmitting power front the
main driver to the minutest points of connected
machinery. No &it - en part of machinery can exert
more power than is in the main driver—there is
always a loss however small by friction (resist
ance.) And whenever friction or resistauce is entire:
ly overcome in a machine then we may look for
perpetual motion, and not before. Cog wheels are
used in the transsmission of power and speeds, to
the rotary motion of which as PSrbank says, "we are
to auribute the great superiority of modem over an
cient mechanism." In factories the belt and' pul
ley have justly supplanted the old cog wheel
movements,but there are,other small machines such
as lathes and clocks, that are much better operated
by cog *heels than other mechanical means. it
a great number of shafts are wanted to be Illtriven
and o n ly a small space to pack ibe machinery, cog
wheels are the best for this purpose.
Comeosr rot% WitesT.—Tate 6 loads of marsh
mail, or scrapings of roads, )0 hundred Weight of
straw, (if cut so much the better) 10 'bushels of
lime, I bushel of bone dust, the finer ground the
betten4—ntii the whole well together, forth it into
a cone-like pile so as to turn the rain ; every three
or four weeks between the time of making and
that of using it, turn it over with aboiels t so that
the' mixture of the several constitnents may be per
fected; and the deeompasition of the straw be uni
form. lafirst puuing these matters together, if the
earthly materials be dry, they must moistened with
water, or what would be better a miatere of say 10
:Tamps of urine, three times that quantity of water
The above proportions are intended loran acre of
ground, and we hare no doubt would insure a
good .crop of wheat.--aAmtrertni Fanner.
THE CAR • or carrot, says an eminent phy.
ician, "is a most wholesome culinary root: it
strengthens 1 nourishes the body, and is Very be
nifiehtt far 'consumptive persons." Caivots are ge
nerally sOrxel boifeJ , vitt; meats, yet they make
an excellent imminent in soups, and fohn, we var
told, a very agreeable pt.-tiding. As an agricultural
root, they are not surpassed for feinting cattle; hor
ses %%till do pore' work and look better on them
than any other
Thisvele able is unpposeil lobelia been introduc
ed into .Europe front the Island of Crete; since
which it hat{ (gently improveit. Maine half devien
leading varieties are cultivated for 4upplying the
kitchen reg,ntarlfat all seasons of the year.
IT Is CERTAINLY VERY MODERATE in ITNIVIIO Cov
et those things chiefly which they. cannot; possibly
clioy for Ion;
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Isricr.riu•lt• l '.l--llnCethe time of Pan: t el
vin' ths den of hotel, to - Which despoils:li - bed
doomed him for' his icligion, ana his th r ee friends
tearlessly eneoupterim - . , the ,seven-fold heated fur
nace, conscientious Jews have hien-noted tor - their
invincible intrepidity and perseverance ; "hough not
for similar Oergenstrations of Divine Inver and pro
e.httrir late Occasion, the,Empeter of Ras
sia was reviewing his_deet, when two sailors par
eXiited hih attention, both by this precision
with which they perform . ed several dificult mancen
vreS, and by the agility mid daring which they dis
played. The emperor Wet so Mach IReatierl " that
be immediately errim'oted one to be a captain, the
other he appointed lieutenant o$ the spot. The
men, however, were lew;g, andere is 4 1 r. s. uCke
forbidding Jews to wear an epaulette. The admi
ral of the fleet, who stood by. knowing, that lit - ey
were JewA,stated.the difficulty to his iniiperialymj
eF•ty. " th'e eniperor,f does not
signify in the "lea-it—they' shall 'immediately em=
brace the Greek religion of course." Whi:n . this
de
termination was communicat e d to the two • young
men, knotting that remonstrance or refusal would
be iri• vain, they requested the.•emperor's premiss
' ion to exhibit still more of their mancevares, ai he
had not seen all they could do. This being gran
ted, they ascended the topmast, embraced, and
locked in each other's areas, !brew themselves iuto
the sea, and t 7 isappeared for ever. •
THE more we are destitute of opportunities Tor
indulging our feeling - 5, as is the case when we live
in uncongenial socit' the more we are apt to crisp
and harden oar outward manner s to save our real
feelings from exposure. The I believe that some
of the most delicate-Minded men get to appear thor
oughly i.•.orirse, froM their unsuccessful efforts to
mask their real nature. And I have known 'men
ili.sacirreeahlyforward from their shyiiess But
doubt whether a man does not soffet' from a habit
of pelf-constraint, a-te whether his feelings do not
beeome really, as well as apparently. chilled. Ti
is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to
ridicule ; or ; which. comes to the same thing, to ha
conscious thoroughly that , what.we have in us of no
ble and delicate, is not ridiculous to any•but fools
n :II laugh, wise men will, do well to let them.---:.
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if:ALOCST.—Jealousy is that pain which a man
feels front the apprehension Hint he is not egnaTly
beloved by the person %thorn he entirely •loves.
Now, because our inward passions and inclinations
can never make themselves visible, it is' impossi
ble fora jealous man to he thorinighly cured-of his
suspicions. H is thoitttti hang atbest in a state of
doubtfulness and uncertainty, and are never capa
ble of receiving any &nisi-act - ton on the advanta
geous edc, so that his Mon - tiles are-most -success
ful who they discover nothing. Ills plea:ures arise
from ins disappointments, and his lite is spent in
the pursuit of a secret that destroys -his happiness
it he chance to find it.
VSNER or DOINC SERritt To OTRI:10 1 .
When your endeavors are directed towards doing
good to an individual, in other words, to do him a
service. if there be any option as to the mode or
way, consider and observe what mode is tnost to
his taste. If you serve him as you think and say
in a way which is yours, and not his, the value of
mu- service may, by an indefinite amoupt, be thus
reduced. If the action of serving a man, not in the
way he wishes to be served, St; carried to a' cer
tain length, it becomes tyranny, not benificence ;
an exercise of power for the satisfaction of the self
regarding affections. rot an act of ben?ficenco lot
the gratification of the sympathetic or social of e.e
tions.—hremy Bentham.
Reniove Ivor Chide a man fur being
angry when he is angry, what will you get by it:
save soitte of the fearn of his overflowing rage cast
upon you? As Uoil is said to have conk down in
the cool of the day to. reprove. Adam, so likewise
should we come in the cool reason of a man's p4e
sion, whet all, is quiet and temperate within, - for
then tliere'is the greatest probabilhy of sightly id
tfueucing, him.
Wittiri-En you sre great event develop° or ro- .
produce!tsictf irafriug a long .
.series of ages,. and
amidst many vagying,circurnstances, never ascribe
it to force. 'Force plays a great and daily part in
403 man affairs; but it is not their 7rinciple, their sa
-11 prerne imputs ; above force, and - the part which it
plays, there soars always some moral' valise which
decides of thinv as a whole.--Goizot..
N E tr ntiltosn.—A pew kind or di.mcrpti. has
-been discovered . in large quantities in Siberia. The
stone reFernUe's the 'Renaudfiery' much, but is
lighter and not so hard, although harder Chian gran
ite. Specimens have been depoi.ited in the Impe
rial Nlustum at St. Peteri•burg.
MANT A Nr.l!: is first led' to agitate the world, in
order that the world's opinion may react upon one
or two obscure persons, of inert sympathy, perhaps
incapable of forming a judgment fur .themsebhYs,
but whom he Feet ttaily, and whom he is bent upon
inspiring with a just estimation of his merits.
Lazy rich girls malte rich men poor, while in
bastrions poor girls make poor men rich. lien:tear
her this, ye affected fair ones, whose, antipatty to
putting luinds tutocold water IS always getting your
h/lSb3t)ti n S into hot.
PicNir.—This word is in almost evel - perton's
mouth, and we ebrefe'ss terstmit etirikeitt about its
origin. Richardson gives , it no place; Walker
ni•Oes no mnininit oil ; Jcihnson is silent abOnt it,
and the new and revised edition of Webster throws
this light upon it and no more-="Originally, oW
entertainment at *V&A' entli person contributed
soiree dish or article for the general table. The
term is nbw applied to an entertainment carried
with them by a party on ati execitgnu of pleasing
into the countfy, and also to the party itself—N.
Y Com Ado.
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