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filontinn, ¶April 18. tau:
From the New York Evening Post)
THE PILGRIM MOTHERS.
Ernllc blossoms! brought to gra t e
old Plymouth's rocky glen
Proud mothers of a noble race
Of stern and stalwart men ; .
s trong srFs the trust with which ye braved
The dangers of the sea.
And strong the unseen power that at:Ted
The mothers of the free
Then swiftly o'er the smiling deep
The fragile Mar-dower flew,
While stars their solemn watch would'keep
On yooder fields of blue--
pall oft your forms, as slight and fair
As any dower of spring,
W e r e meekly bowed in trusting prayer
To heaven's exalted King.
(bid urns your greeting from the shore
Thai seemed in dreams so fair;
The winter tempest's sullen roar
song ye a welcome there;
Th e Indian peered above the hill,
With wonder in his eyes,
The noisy sea-birds answered shri:l •
The tempest-spirit's cry.
oh, Pllgnm Mothers ! few the lyres
Your pram., to prolong;
Though Fame embalms the pilgrim sires,
AnJ trumpets them in song;
Yet ye a:ere to those hearts of oak
The secret of their might;
Ye nerved the arm that hurled the stroke
It labor or in fight.
The Ore of iikedorn,waimed each breast,
Thom:it Many a weary day,
Were rillowed soft in 'dreamy rest
Cur infant father's lay!
tautzht them when their simple prayers
When breathed beside the knee,
Th^ leonns that in after years
Were bulwarks for the free.
Ye tauglit r to spurn the trrant's claim,
And bowed to. God alone! t:
I'e LmSled to their breasts the flafpe
•'that trembled in your own !
in aver years flowed purple gore,
And held , were strewed with dead—
}', an band , the •tarn' banner bore—
.lezre.:ston tretnbling b.ed!
Pilzrltn Mothers! though ye lott
Perchance en graves unknown,
A raPinorr which earmot the •
Rath tq'aimed for its own ;
A .Icteilness to that bleak shore
hue dust shalt age impart;
Viiiir requiem—the ocean's roar ,
Your snrine—a nation's heart!
The AdrenCore.of the Mason.
lIT WASHINGTON IRMO
There was upon a:time a poor mason, i3r brick
n, Grenada, who kept all the saints' days
tails days. and saint Monday into the bargajo,
all dis devotion, he grew poorer and
saaer, and could scarcely earn bread fat his nr-
Merr-Tli lamely One night he was ronsed flow his
t.-st sleep by a knocking at his door. Ile opened
• and behelkt belote him a tall : meagre, carkset
a. looking priest.
"ark ye. honest friend !" said the stranger . ;
~ave ntiNerved that you are a good Christian',
one to be trusted ; will you nzalertake a job
nis very m4hll"
With all my heart, Senor Padre, on condition
I am paid accordingly."
That you shall be; but you must sillier your
tr, be blindfolded."
To this the mason made no oljAmtion ; so, being
I noilniked, he was led by the priest through va
rious- rougn lanes.and winding passages, until they
!lopped before the portal of a house. 'The prier!
ten applied a key, turned a creating lock, and
opened wcal socrnded like a ponderous door.—
They entered, the door was closed and bolted, and
•)e mason was conducted through an echoing cor
'•Jor, and a spacioni hail, to an interior part of the
Here the bandage was renThved from
Id eyes. ann he found himself in a patio, or court,
iinly lighted by a single lamp. in the centre was
dry basin of an old Moorish fountain under
"'Nh the priest requested him to form a small
tsuit bricks and mortar being at hand for the pur
se. He accordingly worked all night, but with ,
finishing the 'lob. Just before daybreak, the
'tint lAA a piece of gold into his hand, and, has--
17 blindfolded him, conducted him back to his
Are you willing," said be, "to return and corn
!lve your work?"
"Giadty, Sedar Padre, provided I am ad well
pa.d "
Well, then, to-morrow, at midnight, I will call
tgaln
lie dlti PO, and the vault Was completed. •
"Solt'," said the priest, "you must ttelp me to
forth the bodies that are to be buried in- this
t.alt
The poor mason's hair rove int his head at these
'rents: he followed the priest with trembling steps
'•! , 3 a reined chamber of the mansion, expecting
:0 behold some ghastly spectacle of death, but was
'elieved on perteivmg three or fotfr portly jars .
sanding in one corner. They were evidently full
f•rnoney, and it was with great labor that be and'
!tie priest carried them forth and Consigned them
to !heir tomb. The vault was then closed, the
raremect replaced, and all traces of the work ob.
taerated. The mason wad again hoodwinked-and
l ed forth by a different route from that by Which
be 14.1 come. After they had wandered for a long
bote through a perplexing maze of lanes and alleys,
they halted. The priest thert l ina two pieces of
cold tote his hand :--" Walt here," said he, • until
You heir the cathedral bell toll for matins. If you
;resume to uncover your eyes before that ,ticne, evil
' 4 'l l l 66'4 yon;' so saying he departed.
The mason walled febbfally, =using himself
57 w eighing the gold pieces in his hand, and clink.
fag them against each other. The moment the ca.
bell rang its matin peal, be uncovered his
'Ye , , and found himself on the banks of the Xenil,
THE , 'BRADFORD __ REPORTER.
front whimee he made the best of his way borne,
and revelled with his family for a whole fortnight
on the profits of his two nights' work; after which
he was as poor as ever.
He continued to work a liule and pray a good
deal, and keep saints' days and holidays, from year
to year, while his family grew up as gaunt and rag
ged as a crew of gipseys. As he was seated one
evening at the door of his hovel, be was accosted
by a rich old curmudgeon, who was noted for own
ing many houses, and being a griping landlord.---
The man of money eyed him for a moment from
between a pair of anxious shaggy eyebrows.
" I am told friend that you are very poor."
" There is no denying that fact, Senor, it speaks
for itself."
" I presume, then, that. you will be glad of a job,
and will work (Oxlip." I
" Aa cheap, lily master, as any mason in Grena
da."
"That's what I want: I bite art old house fall
ing to decay, that costs me mine money than it is
worth to keep in repair, for nobody will live in it,
so I must contrive to patch it up and keep it toge
ther at as small expense as possible."
The mason was accordingly conducted to a large
deserted house that seemed going to ruin. Passing
through several empty halls and chambers, he en.
tered an, inner court, where his eye was caught by
an old Moorish founlain. He paused for a moment
for a dreaming recollection of the place come over
him.
Pray," said be, " who occupied this house,
formerly ?"
" A pest upon him !" cried the landlord; " it was
en old miserly priest, who cared for nobody but
himself. Re was said to be immensely rich, and,
having no relations, it'was thought he would leave
all his treasures to the church. Ile died suddenly,
and the priests and friars Thronged to t ike posses
sion of his wealth; bat nothing could they find but
a few ducats' in a leathern purse. The worst luck
has fallen on me, for• since his death ; the old fellow
continues to occupy my house without paying rent,
and there's no taking the law of a dead man. The
people pretend to hear the clinking of gold all night
in the chamber where the old priest slept, as if he
were counting over his money, and sometimes a
groaning and moaning about the court. Whether
true or false, these stories have brought a bad name
upon spy house,and not a tenant will remain in it."
" Eriiough," said the mason, sturdily, let me
live in your house renutreeuntil some better tenant
present, and I will engage to put it in repair, and
ro quigt,the troubled spirit that disturbs it. lam a
good Christen and a poor man, and am not to be
daunted by the (lewd himself, even tho' he should
come in the shape of a bag of money !"
The offer of the 'honest mason was gladly accep
ted; lie moved, with his family, into the house,
and fulfilled all his engagements. By little and
little restored it to its former state; the clinking
of gold .ras no more heard by night in the cham
ber of:thedefunct pr;est, but begun to be heard by
day in the pocket of the living mason.
In a word, he increased raping in Iffealth, to the
admiration of all his neighbors, and became one of
the richest men in Grenada; he gave large sums
to the church, by way, nla doubt, of satisfying his
conscience, and never revealed the secret of the
vault until on his ,deathbed to his son and heir.
FAMILY Newsesreas persona have any
just conception of the extent of their indebtedness
to the papers for the inlormation possess and
the moral sentiments the* cherish. Compared with
any past age of the world, this is a remarkably en.
lightened period. A large portion of the people
have a considerable' share of correct information
on almost all topics of any real importance. Re
li4ion, geography, history; the political condition of
the world, astronomy, the important practical fea
tures of natural philosophy, something of geology,
chemistry as 'applied to agriculture and the me
chanic arts, and many other subjects, are familiar
ized to the popular mind. Most persons can talk
intelligently about them without pretending to lear
ning or research.
But how did they come by this knowledge, Not
at school, nor from books—generally speaking—
but by picking op, here a Mlle, and there a little,
from the family newspapers in imperceptibly small
installments. Let any one ask himself where he
obtained his knowledge of any particular fact. lie
is probably unable to tell because it came silently,
nnpretendingly ; in the newspapEr.
The same is true in regard to our beef moral im
pressions and sentiments. They have been Pug.
Bested, reiterated and fastened on the - mind by the
family press. The pulpit does much ; parental in
itruction, in many cases does much ; bat the press
more than both. Let any reader of a well condect
ed family paper, open its regent and consider
tholightfully its contents. Tittle are in a single
Lumber scatetimen from one hundred and fifty to
two hundred separate and distinct articles each one
conveying an idea, a fact i or a sentiment, untistat
ed or illustrated so as to produce an effect, in en
larging the reader's store of knowledge, or_ giving
a right direction to thought, feeling and action.—
Must not all this h ave its influence, and in the ag
gregate a mighty influence - upon the reader We
1 I
think so ,
No reflecting man can fail to see that the fifty
two visits in • year of a carefully railucted pa
per, intelligent, correct, elevated in moral tone, and
withal intereeting in its contents% must exert a great
and blessed influence upon domestic life. Chil
dren growing up under such influences, are' far
more likely to be intelligent, correct in their opin
ions and morals : and better prepared for the active
duties of tile, than they could possibly have been
without it.
To expect to be great- without bating enemies
is to expect tree' , to shed their fruit without being
"pelted." For bringing a man's iatelleot out, there
is nothing like a hale wholesome Amp. Without
the Vinburg Renew, Byron would never have got
above mediocrity in his life.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH
stebtabtrms or ot...vesciarioll nom ANY QVAILVIVIL."
iPtoot the Beaton Poet)
SIRoi SECRET MOST IMPORTLVT.
IT H. HASTINtn crti.b
" tell you what it is, Bartley, I've no business
here."
"I came for business, you for pleasure."
'" True, but it was for a lay, and-you hate made
a week of it. Here I am, twenty-fire miler from
the cite-_"
"An awful distance, truly, that you may accom
plish on the railroad in forty-five minutes."
" Yes, but I might as well be with the Khan of
Tartar}•, as here, inasmuch as nobody at home
knows of my visit to this city of spindles."
" We will be back to.day - --this hour if you like."
" - This hour we must, if at ail," and in a short
time we were shooting over the Boston and Low
ell Railroad. It was the last trip for the day, arLd
when we reached the city it was nearly or quite
dark. Baggage I had none, so I refused the impor
tunities of a score of hackney coachmen, and foot
ed it alone up to Leverett street.
"Very mysterious," I overheard a knot of men
say, at the corner of Barton street.
"About twenty-five years of age," said one of
the group at the corner of Vernon street. Just my
age exactly. "The body was found. in the water
yesterday," said another. " Indeed, and do they
know it was he I" " Yes, by his clothing ; the
face was so ternbly disfigured that his friends could
not recognize it."
Another case 01-suicide,thrught I. Well, Ishall
know all about it when I get home ; but I stopped
again, before a store in Green street, where a man
was reading from the evening paper, aloud, a para
graph about the Pu ; the name I did not hear.
" A young man of respectable connections—retired
and modest to timidity in his manners, and of irre
proachable private character. No possible reason
except temporary insanity, can be assigned for the
Ile ties left a wile and two children."
" Poor fellow !" I sighed, and pushed on. Let
me see—the tenth hour is passed, and my help
mate though a very good woman in her way, will
not fail to give me a pretty affectionate bit of a lec
ture for my week's indulgence of a truant disposi.
tion. Bitter though such a visitation may he, it is
no provocative of appetite—and I took the precau
tion to drop into an eating.bouse, thus to take my
wife's lectures on a full stomach. The certain
drawn upon me, I was too busy for a few womer.ts
to notice anything out of the fur feet square box
in which I was discussing a pretty substantial sup
per. Presently, appetite somewhat appeased, I
became less Occupied in creature comfort and in
voluntarily listened to the conversation of two per.
sons from whom I was divided by the low parti-
Con.
"He must have been intemperate."
' "No, be was not."
" In debt, then."
"I was acquainted with him."
And I knew that voice, but I could not immedi
ately recollect whose it was. He proceeded.
I wan well acquainted with hire. He was re
markably economical—prudent to a fault, yet very
benevolent—acutely sennitile to the sufferings of
the unfortunate aboin him—very sensitive—year.
ning for sympathy in bin sombre moods, and al
ways anxious to impart his &Lure to bone about
him. He would deny a Iliend, or even:a mere ac
quaintance, nothimg."
My picture to the hfe, thought I , as I nibbled at
the last fragment of flesh on a drum stick. Hop e
my good feelings will never lead"me to suicide.—
Paid my rem and eeit, Nat as the eulogist of the
dead emerged from his cell.
When I reached----street, a crowd was fur.
?ring into it. I joined the tail of the throng, and
hearing a discourse upon the universal topic, the
suicide, wondered which of my neighbors it was,
and wished I had staid at Lowell urtil, at least,
"seven of the nine days of wonder" herd passed
over. But, thought I, oat of evil, good mey come
—and, upon the whole, 1 em glad he lived in this
street. My wife, from the circumstances, may be
acquainted with his family, and !here will, drowse,
be a diversion of her attention from my deCnqoen
cies. Wonder irstie has heard of it 1 Ifiot, such
a delightfully interesting and authentic piece of
news will be an excellent peace-offering. So think
ing, I tamed town a court—made a circuit, and
reached my door before the crowd. Took out my
key, entered the ball, and put my hand upon the
sitting-room door, which stood an inch ajar. Unu
sual noises there, made me hesitate.
"Will they bring him home to-night r sobbed
my rib--mud then she trews into a fit of outrageous
weeping, which would have prevented the posibili
ty of her hearing, had a reply been attempted—and
alt the women, of whom I supposed by the sound
there must have been a dozen at least, eccomparaJ
her, but in a more dutiful, and rewarded and com
plaisant pitch. .
Het atil hysterics again thought I. Hang it, but
she's too compassionate—she could hardly weep
with a better relish for myself. A tap on the outer
•door—and as I looked out at the side lights, 1 saw
the whole prase of charitable neighbOrs, idlets,:and
others, who upon any mournful occasion crowd
themselves forward, solely because they think no
b idy at each a time will here the nerve to hick
Ctem back. One of the women brushed by me
. to
open the door—in walked a clergyman as pioneer
—then there was a rush of some half dozen of the
crowd—then came a coma. I stopped far no word
but bolted for the kitchen stabs. At the heed stood
the only member of my kitchen cabinet-4 dusty
wench, who the moment i carne rreer enough for
the light of the lamp she held to fall upon my tea ,
tares, ass up a howl, and rolled down the light
backward. She hardly touched the door, bat bormd
ed op again, and made her escape at a back win
dow, taking the sash with her, to_ be / sure, I sap
pose, lot an aperture to creep in at, on her returns
began te halm tfy misgivinp, Buff sat down in
the hitehert to eintsett rayself how tout in the dl.
Lemma. A Mau &tended the stairs.
"Can you tell me, sir, whose body they hare
broug,hi to the house!"
"Yes—it will kill hist wile—ahe hikes on shock
ingly
" But who was he 1"
Who!"
" Yes !--who 1"
" Beautiful family—pity it was so broken up."
" Will you tell me'who is the drowned man, or
not 1"
" Why, don't you know r'
I caught up the tongs.
" It is Mr. Albeit 'Easy—and I expert Ell hare
to make a coffin for his wife too—prior woman."
" Upon my honor, my friends hare dune well to
drown, and make prejraratiuna to bury me, without
my knowledge."
Through the Reverend Pastor, my wile was app
prised of my actual existence, the coffin and tint
corpse to the contrary notwithstanding—through the
cam of the family physician, she escaped death
from the surprise --and thrOligh the griefil had giv
en her, and the joy sequent upon its mull:mat I es
caped upbraiding. The clothes the defunct wore,
were once mine--that was a fact ; but had made
him a present of them but a week before, without
my wife's knowledge,—for, in all such disposals of
property, i have found it safe to consider her my
left iyind, and to obey the scripture injunction, not
to let the left hand know what the right hand do
nth. The corpse removed to a city building, I has
tened to find Burley; detailed the whole affair, and
ended by telling him I held him guilty,
" flow 11
" You persuaded me off and would not e t ren
hear of my notify ing my family of the journey:"
'• I expected to return the same dOy, but, 3 onng
Man, I shall, fur what you have antlered, in your
own person and that of your wife, yon twain being
one flesh, amply compensate yon."
"I won't hear of auch a thing."
°• Yes, but you will it cost rtre nothing, and will
vastly benefit you, I shall impan to you a secret!'
stood ail anent, thinking f was about to hear of
an anticipated rise or fall of some stock, oral some
other mode of malting money, known only to the
knowing ones.
" During my acquaintance with you, I have dirt.
covered your entire ignorance 01 one of the most
eimple but useful things nethe world : nay, it ei in
dispensable to prosperity, and would have. saved
you the whole of your late relaxation, if put in ex.
ercise, when I asked you to leave the city, unpre
pared,"
" Well, and what is ill"
"The monosyllable NO, oftener necessary to your
friends than your enemies. The latter knowing,
and suspecting that you know the relation in which
you mutually stand, seldom give you opportunity
to deny. Ahem anything ; but friends do every day.
Stop and sup with me, and—. ,l
it NO ):1
Origin of Coal.
The immense beds,fif bituminous coal found m
the valleys of the Ohio 611 the mind with wonder
Age after age, eucce&sire growths of plants, spring
ing up in the same region, were entombed beneath
thick strata of shale to the depth of more than a
thousand feet; while beneath the whole lays the
bed of an ocean floored with fossil salt. Indications
of Coal aro found at intervals, across the great val
ley, from the Allegheny to the Rocky Mountains.
it is found neat the surface in Kentucky, Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, and Missoori, and withput doubt,
may be found beneath the extensive territory de
posits which form the substratum of the great prai•
ries in the central and northern putts of the Wes
tern elates. As low dawn as I%iir Madrid on the
Mississippi, camf wiei thrown up from beneath the
bed of the river, by the great earthquake of 1812—
a sufficient prat:dor its continuation in the most
depressed part of the great valley„
That The coal is of vegetable origin, one who
has read much nu the subject, or personally ex
amined the coal beds, will not deny. Time was,
when it wits considered .a peculiar mineral product
formed in the same manner and at the same time
with the rocks that:suriound it. The product of its
chemical analysis. - being ellogeflier vegetable, and
the artificial formation of coal from wood by Sir
James thli, bare silenced all doubts on the subject.
The only mystery now is, how such vast quanti
ties of vegetable matter could be accumulated and
grown on the spot were' they were buried. That
they grew in general, on the surface now occu
pied by the coal, appears certain from the perfect
state in which the most delicate leaves arid stems
are preserved. Had they been trairsported by car
rents of water, ant especially from any distance, it
is hardly possible that they snout! not have receiv
ed more damage. The climate at that period
mast bate been more warm and more humid than
at prerant,as many of the plants are of those families
which now grow only in tropical climates; and as
the laws of nature never Change. this may be deem
ed a correct Jarred.
Tnc CaranT SitsTEM .- 11 Mrs. Jones, mother
wants to know if you'll lend her your baby to go ,
begging With to morrow; shell give you half she
get o
"No, tell her I won't, because she owes me a
quarter for the last time she had it , mrd besides,
she putted cherry stones dawn its throat mid stock
pins in it to make rt cry I"
tire TReTtf.-63Vhere yoo lotto ioet money in the
street i orrery one is ready to help you look for
it. -
but when you have lost your character, every one
!gavel You to recover it as you can.
Fensy.—Mr. Monroe brought Mf a bill on slur
day, in the loner bone of the LeOslatcreti of New
York anthorichg; the taxation of bachelors for the
benefit of old maids and orphms.
Verosorts —A KIWI Irk, chews homes° doilars
worth of tobaree easselly, and sopa his newapa.
rer because be cannot afford to take it.
i Night &mug Wolves.
DT .1. G. WHITTIER.
ft was a night of January, 17—. We hail been
to a tine quilting party, about two miles from our
settlement at four or five homes. It was rather
late, about 12 o'clock, I should guess. when the
party broke up. There malt a moon, a dull over
head sky, and a few pale and sickly looking Wars
gave us their dull light as they shone thrntli the
dingy-Curtain. There was six of us in c'ompany
Henry Mason and four as pretty girls as ever grew
up this side of the Green ..Slountailis. There were
my two si-ters, and Garry's riser and his sweet.
heart, the daughter of our next door neighbor. She
was a downright Intndsonie girl, that Caroline ..1)1l.
en. I never saw her equal, though Pam no stran
ger to pretty faces. Slie was so plessant and kind
of fteart, so gentle and sweet spoken, and so intel
ligent besides, that everybody loved her, and she
had an eye as blue as the hill violet, and her lips
were like a red rose leaf in /one. Nu vrotider, then,
that Harry Mason loved her--boy that he teas—for
we had neither of us seen oar seventeenth sun:met.
Our path lay throc7h, a thick forest of oak. with
here and there a tall pine raising its dark full shad
ow against the sky, with an outline rendered indis
tinct by the darkness. The snow was deeper a
great deal than titer tell of late years— but the stir
lice was frozen strong enough to bear our weight
and we harried on over the blight pathway with
rapid s eps. We hat] not proceeded. tar before a
long. low hots! came lo our earl. ‘Ve all knew it
in a moment ; and I could feel shudder thrilling
the suns that were close to My own, and tt sudden
ery burst from the lips of all of us---'The- wolves!
the wolves!"
Did you ever see a wolf—rem (Inca your cavil,
broken Alown, show animals, which :are . exhibited
for six-pence a sight, and children half price—but
a fierce, liallstarved ra ut ger of the wintery forest,
howling-over the barre o n snow, actually mad with
hunger f There is not one of God's creatures which
has got such a fiendish look its this animal. It has
the form is well as the spirit of a demon.
Another and another howl; and then we could
distinctly tear the quick patter of the feet behind
us. We I! turned right aboCi and looked in the
direction of the sound. 1 ' The devils are after us, -
odd Al„.son,pointing to a line of dark gliding boll
ies. -And so, in face, they were—a whole troop of
them—howling like so many Indians in a pow
pow. We had no weapons of any - kind, and we
knew enough of the nature of these vile creatures
who followed us, to know it would be useless to
coatend with them. There was not a moment In
lose the savage beasts were close upon us. To
attempt flight would have been a Impeless affair.
There was but one chance of escape and we in
stantly seized upon it.
" To the tree !--let us climb this tree cried,
springing forward towards a low limbed and gnar
led oak, which I saw at a glance could be easily
climbed into.
Hurry Mason sprang Pertly into the tree, • and
aided in placing the terrified girls in a place of
comparative security among the thin k boughs. I
was the last on the ground, and the whole troop
were yelling at my heels before I reached the rest
of the company. There was one moment of hard
breathin.; and wild exclamations among us, arid
then a feeling of calm thankfulness for our escape.
The night was cold, and we soon begert to shivef
and shake like en many sailors nn the topmast ell
an Iceland whaler. Sat there were Ito murmurs,
no complaining among t{, for we cork distinctly
see the gaunt, attenuated bodies eh the wolves be
neath ris, and every now and then we could see
great glowing eyes blaring ap at the tree where ice
were seated. And then their }ells, they were loud,
long. and devilish.
I know not how long tee had remained in this
silos ion, for we had no means of ascertaining the
lime, when I heard a limb of the tree cracki n g, a.,
if breaking beneath the weight of some of in.; and
in a moment afterward a shriek went through ..my
ears like the piercing of a knife. A light form
went through the naked branches, and tell , with a
dull and heavy sormsi upon the stiff snow.
‘• Oh, God ! I ain'pone r'
It was the voice of Carotitle Allen Tire poor
girl never spoke again. There was a losiral dark
'less and confusion on my brain, and 1 spoke not;
and I stirred not,-for the whole of that time Was
like an tr„.fy : unreal dream. I only temembeied
that there were smothered groans and dreadful
howls underneath It was all over in a moment.
Poor Caroline! she was literally eaten alive. The
wolves had a frightful feast, and they. became ra
ring marl at the taste of blood.
When I came to myself. w I en the horrible dream
went off—and it lasted bin a moment-1 struggled
to shake off the arms of my timer, uhMli Time
clinging around me : could 1 hare cleared myself.
I should have Plowed down among the tier ing ani
mals. As for poor Mason, lie wxt wild with bor
row. iie had tried to tollow Caroline when sire fell.
hut he could not shake off the grasp of his terrified
sister. Ilis youth. and his weak einwitlition and
fraMe were tenable to withstand the dreadful trial.
and lie stood by my side, with his hand firmly
clenched, and his teeth set closely, gazing down on
the wrangling creatures below, with the fixed Mare
of maniac. It was indeed a ten ible scene. Around
was the thick, cold night, and below the ravenous
wild beasts were lapping their bloody jaws . for an
other victim.
The morning broke at last, and our frightful ene
mies fled at the first advance of daylight, tile eqi
many cowardly murderers. We waited until the
sun had risen before we refitured to•erawl from our
hiding place. We were chilled through--every
limb was numb and cold with terror—and poor
Mason was delirious, and raged wildly about the
things be had witnessed
We had not gone but a little distance, when we
were met by our friends from the oeulernents who
had herniae alarmed at oar absence. They were
•hocked at our irild and frightful appearance, They
:misted us to reach home ; but Berry Mason never
reeovered from this dreaAllul trial. ne fell to driLli•
ing soon after and died a miserable diunkard be
ttor aye had yr !welled- h irrhs.ad.
For n c part I con few 4 I have never recovered
from the ;error.; of the melancholy Circumstances
which I have entleavoreil to det , ribe . Thoughts
of it hare haunted me like rhadows ; and even ttotv
the whole reene comes-at times freshly before me
in my &earns, and t rtart np.with something of tha
same letlings of terror which I experienced when,
more than half a century ago,
.1 passed a niglif
among the woevelt.
Peniitryls anla IsAurrection,
• 1.1 the year 1794 • when four counties in the Wes
tern part ot Pennsylvania, rebelled against the au.
thority of the General Government, and oppose 9
the execution of the c.rnse laws, imposing a tax or
internal duty to an distilled spirits, President Wash
ington did cot hesitate to call outu sufficient inili
tary force to quell the insurrection and put down all
opposition to the law's.
When theireis and rebellious spit it first e -
liibited,„!tself,President issued his proclamation,
warning the tinangents to desist:- but in- vain—
Commissirmers were sent to enquire into the cause
of the outbreak, and to promise pardon and-toccon.
fee with any bodies of men, or individuals, in order
to ally the "ferinentation, but- at the same time to
represent to them that,rorhour sub m i ci i on , c o er ,.i r , n
szeniltl br used : all of which proved unavailing
Ifesort was then bid to military force. Quotas
were assigned to the states of New Jersey, Penn
sylvania., Maryhmd and Virginia. The • abide
force amounted to 11;1.000 men. General Harry Lee,
then Governor, of Virghtia. was appointed. vim
mander4n.claef: Gw.. Miff4iii, of Pennsylvania,
second in command; Gov. Howell, of New Jersey .
nevi, and Major General Morgan commanding, a
division from Virginia, the fourth. General Rand
was appointed Adjinant General. President Wash.
ington reviewed the troops at their several places
of rendezvous, and accompanied the march as far
- as Cutriberland. on the Potomac., rrepkratoty to
crossing. the mountains ; he, however, re-nutted to
the seat of Government at Philadelphia ; to meet
Congress. In his speech to Congress, oft returning
from the army, President 'Washington said: "flay •
ins thus fulfilled the engagement which I took,
when I entered into office, "to the hest of mpabili
ty to preserve-. protect and defend the eonstifraion of
the United States," on you, gentlemen, and the
p4ople by whom you are deputed, I rely for sup
port."
The people (lid support him in this measure, and
by his firmness and prudence he put down the in
surrection, and restored order Withow bloodshed.—
The overwhelming force which he called to the:
field, overawed the insurgent., and they came to
terms. The'people turned out with 'the greatest
alacrity at the call of fhe President. This great
army . of t 5,000, men, were volunteers fresh Iron
their homes. and the people. Their movements
were so prompt, and the President's continei en
firm and decided, that no resistance was offered,
and peace, order and the reign of the Constitution
and laws were restored to their fall operation and
force.
CII I N che Asx.coor r..—A man who was accustom •
ed to deal in marvels told a country cousin of hie
that he had three great curiosities ift his possession,
an ox that could traret with extraordinary speed. a
cock that told the hoar of the night, and a dog that
could read in a superior manner.
These are extraordinary Univ., indeed. T mnst
call upon you and beg a sight of them said the
cousin.
The liar returned home and told his wife what
had happened, Fayin he had got into a scrape, and .
knew not how to get out of it.
WI, never mitt'', said she, 1 gueSS .1 can "man
age it:
The next day the countryman caifeti:and incont.
ring after Ins cotton?, was told that he had• gone to
Pekin.
Whet. is he expected tack
seven or eight days.
ilmc can he return so soon ?
Ile'. gnat oil arian our as.
A rcipi , s of that, I am told you have a cock that
mai kb tile ttilltr.
A (.06, just then happened to crow.
- Yes, that is he--he not only tells the hour of the
night, Inn reports when the stranuer comes.
Then yuur Jog ihat reads books, might I beg to
see iliffl
IVhy. to speak the truth, as our eireumsranees
are mat row we hare sent the Jog out to keep school.
GOOD AS r WERE Eziop.—A. moose ranging
libinit a brewery. liappeneil to iall into ir rat of
beer, Vi . :1,4 iinriti , len,lain.'er .d being ilrovriteil,And
appealed to a ea: help him uut.—The eat re• •
plied :
"r: 16 a io0:4 , 11 request : for a.; soon I get you
out I shall eat von
The mouse replied, that fate would be beder
than to drowned 41 beer. 'The eat lifted but on . ;
Gat the fume of the beer calmed puss to sneeze ; tout
the mouse took refuge iii the hole.
Thereat called on the mouse to come out t•Yue
sir, did you not prOmise that I A 1101.114 eat yotir
, f Air," replied the mouse, "but you know I-was
ii liquor at the tirne."
The only cure for timidity is knowledge. Irmo.
rant men are always enperstitiocis and cower fly.—
To cure children of "afraid of the Jatk,'•
don't put hickory on their backs, ten place books
in their hand's. Beck's enernistry will infuse more
real genuine courage into a boy's mind, than all the
rattan in the world.
A story is going the rouwis, of a pulittical aspi
rant in Indiana, who mounting the stand to make a
polittical speech, commenced with "
zens, notivithsthstanding my youthful appearance, /
am the tacker ef two children:"
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