ME
TaSZEIN Zito-
TOWANfIA:
Eiaturbap ittortOng, 24rit 19, 1851.
ttrrttir,
WHY THIS LONO.INOt
UT CUkULU XLCXAT.
Why:this longing, clay-clad spirit I
Why this fluttering of thy wings !•
Why this witting to discover ,
• Bidden and transcendant things!
Be contented the prison,
Thy capiivity.shall cease—
Taste the good thit smiles before thee;
Restless spirit bo at pests;
With the roar of wintry totes's;
With the thunder's crash and roll,
With the rush of stormy"water,-
. Thou wouldst syntimthise, 0 soul
Thou wouldst ask them mighty questions
In a language of their own,
Untranslatable to mortals,
Yet not utterly unknown.
Thou mouldst fathom Life and Being,
Thou wculdst see through birth and death
Than wonldst solve the eternal riddle—
, Thou a speck, a ray, a breath,
Thou wouldst look at stars and systems,.
As if Thou couldst uhderstand
All the harmonies of Natdrei
Struck by an Aimighty hand. .
,
With thy feeble logic, tracing,
Upward fromsfifect to cause,':
Thou art foiled by Nature's barriers.
And the limits of her law;
lie.t peace, thou strbigling.spirits,
, Great Eternity denies
The unfolding of its secrets
In the circle of thine eyes&
„ .
be contented with thy freedotri-A
Dawning is not perfect .day
There are truths thou parist not fathord,
Swaddled in th' robes of clay.•
iiet.t in hope that if thymircle, •
Grow not wider here in .Tithe.'
God's Eternity shalegive diee:
Power of vision more sublime.
Clogged and bedded in the darkness,
. Little germ abide thine hour,
Thou'tt expand in proper reason;
Into: blossom, into flower,
hum* faith alone becomes thee e
. In the gloom where thou art lain;
Bright is fhe appointha future:
Wait--thott shalt not wait in vaid:
Cease thy struggling, feeble Spirit
,iirret not at thy prison bars;
Never shall thy mortal Oblong
Make the circuit of the stars,
Here on Earth are duties foi
Suited to thine,earailk scope;
Beek them, thou Imniottal
God is with thee—work in hope.
fkrtrk from tiOlorti.
Pam Loosing's Pictorial Book of the Revolcaion.
TRUE STOUT OF JANE 11PCILEA.
"The first \iilace of heroic interest that we visited
at Fort Ed‘Vard, , wa4 the venerable and blasted
pine tree,. near which, tradition asserts, the tinier-
unate Jane M'Crea lost her life while General Bur-
L:hyne had, his encampment near Sandy Hill. It
star.ds upon the West side of the road leading from
Fort Edward to Sandy Hill, and about half a mile
tram the canal lock in the former village. The ,
tree et hibited unaccountable signs of decadence
br several years, and when. we visited it, it was
shapeless and berm: - Its top was torn off by a No
vember wind, and almost every Meese diminished
is size by scattering its decayed twigs. The trunk
14 about five feel in 'diameter, and.; upon the bark
Is engraved in bold letters, " Jane M'Crea, 1777."
The names of many ambitions visitors, are intalioed
upon it, and reminded me-of the line—" Run, run,
Orlando, carve on every tree." to a few years this ,
free, around which history and romance have clus
tered so many associations, will crumble and pass
away forever.,
. The sad story of the unfortunate girl is so inter
woven in our history that it has become a compoi,
:,petit part; Ann it is told with so many variations, 'in
essential and non-essential particulars, that much
of the narrative we'have is evidently pare fiction;
a simple tale of Indian abduction, resulting in death,
having its cotinlerpalt in a hundred like occurren
req, has been garnished with all the high colonng
of a rbiefintia love story. It seems a pity to spoil
the romance at the matter, but truth always makes
sad hasied with the IrosNwork of imagination, 'and
sternly demands the homage of the historian's pen t
All accounts agree that Miss M'Crea *as staying
at the (louse of Mrs. McNeil, near-the Fort, at the
'time of the tragedy. A grand daughter of ,Mrs.
McNeil, (Mrs. F---=n is now living at Fort
Ed
ward) anilfirom herl reteilied'a minute account of
the whole transaction, and as she heard it a "thou
sand times'? from her grandmother. She is • a wo-
Aan of remarkable intelligence,' abouteixty years
'old. When Ins at Fort FdWard .she was Ono
'IQ with her sister at.Vilea's. Falls. It had been
my intention tp go direct to Whitehallion Lake.
Champlain by the way of 11Fort Ann, brit the traii
tlonary 'accounts in the neiihborhood, or the event
H I question, were so contradictory of the books, and
I received such • assurance that, perfect relianee
night be placed upon the, staternentsot Mo.
that anxious to ascertain the truth of the.matter,
Possible, we went to Lake Champlain by the way
~Sf Glen's Falls and lake George. After consider
table search at the fails, I found Mis. F—n, and
the rolkkving are her relation of the tragedy at Fort
Edward :--
. .
Jane M'Crea Was the ilanghter of a SCOtch:pres.,
bite*, clergyman of New Jersey, Q ity, opposite
New Ark ; while Mrs. McNeil (then the sripi of
the former husband/named Campbell) was then
residi tit in, New York City, an acqtiannarice and
cy
intima .had , grown up between Jenny, ena - her
daughter. After the death of Campbell, (Which
occurred at 'Eel) Mrs. Campbell married : hlcNeiP
HA, ton, died at sea f ood
. sbe removed withLher
family to an Owrietlbx him atlonV.divaril!
gCrei who was a widower, died, and: Jane
I ,
, r•;;' , ^: •• .' -' 17 • ' •;', - : ...- _ ~.,:•.•, ' : -•.•.' - ;• ' • " •••• -t. • -,,;,.. • . t. 6. • -t, ......•' • • • ' ~.: :„; :
, , '.I '; • ' . '': ' 1- ': . ' '.' ''
'''
. ' ''' ' . ,
,
-
~ ..• t;„'••...
..';' • Pl. ;.? ;..4.,.
- ..
,•. •., ; . 4. .” ;'.
~ i
• - 1.. ..• i .. , ,,,i- . „. I , tl'• . -
' . ,
..•
...
. • i ;.• , k-, •• r ~. ..
) .: -,-.)- , ' , ~, ,r' r'• ":,: .
_ ,
..„
t t-, , 1
.. , .
... I , •
. v
,
.
. ,
,
• e t to live With her brother, near Fort Edward,
• h re the intimacy of former years'with Mrs Me•
e 1 and her daughter Was renewed i ,and-Jenny
p , nt much of her• time at Mrs. McNeil's !louse.—
r her brot!ler'a lived a family'Sarned Jones,
o• ing of a widow and six sonspand between
e ny and David zones, a gay young man, iffeeling
rieudship budded and• ripened into reciprocal
o e. *hen the war broke out, the ionises took
royal side of the (ligation, and David and his
.ther Jonathan went to Canada in the atiteinn - of
8. Th ey raised a company Of about Sixty Men,
er pretext of reinforcing the American garrison
Ticonderoga, but , they went further down the
i i .es and joined the British garrison at Crown
: • int. When Burgoyne collected his fortes at St.
o A at the foot of Lake Champlain, David and
o 1 athan were among them. Jonathan was made
ptain and David Lieutenant in the division tin
' t General Fraser, and at the lime in question, they
•re with the British army near Sandy Bill. Thus
a all accounts nearly agree.
The brother of Jenny was a Whig, and he pm:
• red to move to Albany; but Mrs. McNeil, who
• - - a cousin of Samuel Fraser, (killed at Siitlwa.
) was a'staunch loyalist, and intended to remain
Fort Edward. When the British were near, Jen
• was at Mrs. McNeil's, and lingered there
- •en after repeated solicitations of her brothel°
6 tr i un to his house, five miles down the river, to
P , ready , to flee' when necessity should compel. A
0.
g int hope that she mighlmeet her lover, doubtless,
as the secret of her tarrying. At last her brother
nt her a peremptory order for he i r to join him,
td she promised to gO doen in a large batteau
hich was expected to leave with several families
the following day. i. .
Early the next wanting a black servant boy be ,
longing to. Mrs. McNeil, espied some Indians
stealthily approaching the house, and giving an
alarm. fled to the fort, about eighty rods distant.—
Miss McNeil, the young friend of Jenny, and mo•
ler of my informant, was with some friends in
Acute, and the family only consisted of the wig
dow, Jermy and two small children, and a black
(mate servant. As usual at that - time, the kitchen
stood .a few feet from the house ; and when the
alarm - was given the black woman snatched ap
children, fled to the kitchen, and retreated, through
a trap-door to•the cellar, Mrs. McNeil rind Jenny
follqwed, but the former 'being aged and corpulent,
and the latter young and agile, Jenny reached the
imp-door first. Before Mrs. McNeil could fully de
scend, the Indians were in the house,/and a pow
erful savage seized her by the hair and dragged
her up. Another went into the cellar and brought
out Jenny, but the black face of the negro was rot
keit in the dark, and she and the children remain
ed unharmed;
With the twO *Omen the savages started off on
the road to Sandy Hill; to: Burgoyne's tamp; and
when they came to the foot of the ascent on which
the pine tree stands, where the road finked, they
caught two horses that !herb grazing, find attempt
ed to place the prisoners upon ahem. Mrs. McNeil
was to heavy' to be lifted mi the horse easily, and
as she signified by signs that she conk! not ride,
two Indians took her by the arms and hurried her
LIP the road and over the hill, while the others with
Jenny on the horse, went along the road running
west of the tree.
The negro boy who ran to the fort gave the alarm,
and a small getachment was immediately sent Gut
to effect a rescue.. They fired several vollies at the
Indians - , but the savages escaped unharmed. Mrs.
,McNeil said that the Indians, who were berrying
her up the hill, seemed to watch the flash of the
guns, and several times threw her upon her face,
at the same time instantly falling down themselves )
and site distinctly heard the balls whistle above
;hem.
' When they got above the second bill (rem the
village the firing ceased ; they then stopped, strip
ped her of all her garMents except her chemise,
and in that plight led her into the British camp.—
There she met her kinsman, General Fraser, and
reproached him bitterly for sending his ((scoundrel
Indians" alter her, He denied all knowledge of
her befog away from the city of New York ; and
took every pains to make her comfortable. She
was so. large that not a woman in the camp had a
go*n dig enough for her, so Fraier lent her his
camp coat for a garment, and a pocket handker.
chief as a substitute for her stolen cap.
Very soon after Mrs. McNeil was taken into the
British Camp, two parties of the Indians atrived
with scalps. ,the at once recogniied the glossy
hair of Jenny,* and though: shuddering with hor
ror, boldly charged the savages with her murder,-
*hictf they stoutly denied. They 'averred that
while hurrying her along the toad on horsehaek,'
near the spring, west of the pit.e.tree, a bullet-from
the American guns r intenOtl ;tut ; them;• ,mortally
wounded the poor girl, and she fell from the horse.
Sore of losin;_a_prisoner . 4
death; .they took_ her
scalp as the next best thing for them to do, and that
they bore it in triumph to the camp, to obtain the
promised reward for such trophies, .
Mrs. McNeil always believed the story of the In
dians to be true, for she knewjthat they Were
upon by the detachment froartho fort, and!rt was
farrnoreto their .interest to'carry a prisoner
scalp to the 'British, commander the price for the
former being much greater. In. fact, the Indians
were so restricted by Burgoyne's humane instruc
tions respecting the taking of scalps, that their chief
iol'eitutle was to bring a prisoner alive and unhand.,
ed into the camp. And the• probability that Miss
WCrea was killed as they alleged is strengthened
by the fact that they took the corpulent Mrs. McNeil,
with much fatigue and diflicalty, uninjured to the
pritish lines, While Miss M'Crea, quite light and
already on horseback minbt have been carried ell
with fir gpater ease.
pit was of extreonlitinry lenttltatal beauty Ineitsbriniu yard
arid ,itttilcii ;slte.tAlis.tienalsont twenty years old, and a
Tery lovelynprl; tfot lovely in beauty, , but so lovely in tlitptr•
tato& Ito graceful In mannersould so intelligent to features,
tliatelte . was u. favorite of all oftio knew her, ,
rt.. _ .. ... _. < ._.~..._._ _ .... ~_.,,,.._, ~._
EINE
PUBLISHED EVERY ,SATURDAY, TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. WHAM GOODRICH.
It artut knot in camp that Licut: Jonai was.lo
I=M;;MMMEM:=
" "Rom kiv, irearra.
trothed telenny, and the storygot abroad that he
had sent the. Indians for her, - that they quarreled
on the way respectibg the reward he had offered,
rend murdered Dir to settle the dispute
high toucher' ais it Went from one narrator to anoth
er, the sad tale became a tale of the darkest horror'
and produced a deep at Wide4pread indignation.
This writ heightenett bY rt published letter from
ages to Burgoyne, charging him with allowing the
Indians to butcher with impunity defenceless leo.
iifen and chihlren. 'I Upivards of one hundred
then, welded and :Children? said Gates, "have
perished by the hands of the ruffians, to whom it is
asserted, you have paid the price of blood." Bur
goyne flatly denied, this assertion, and declared
Mt the ease'ol Jane McCrea was the , only act of
Indian Cruelty of which he was ailhat time inform
formed. His information must have been exceed
ingly limited, for on the same day when Jenny lost
her life, a party of savages murdered thii whole
family of John Allen, of Argyle, consisting of him
eelf,,his wile, three children, a sister-in-law and
three negroes. 'The daughter of Mrs. M'Neit, al=
ready mentioned, Was then at the house of Mr. Al.
len's Lather-in-law, Mr. Gilmer, who, as well as
Mr. Aflen:was a tory. Both were afraid of the
savages nevertheless, and were - preparing to flee to
Albany. On the morning of the massacre a young
er daughter of Mr. Gilmer went to assist Mrs. Allen
in preparing to move. Not returning When expect.
eklier father sent a negro boy to hunt for her. He
soon returned screaming, "They are all dead , —
father, mit, young minas, and all !" It was
too true . at morning, while the family were at
breakfast, the 'lndians burst In upon. them and
slaughtered every one, Mr. Gilmer and his fami
lyteftin great haste for Fort Edward, breproceed
ed very cautiously for fear of' the savages. When
near amino, and creeping wearily along a ravine,
they discovered a portion of the very party who
;had plundered Mrs. Neil's house in the morning.
They had emptied the straw from the beds and fill
ed the ticks with stolen articles. Mrs. M'Neil's
daughter; who accompanied the Ingitive family,
saw her mother's looking-glass tied upon the back
of one of the savages. They succeeded in reach
ing the fort in safety.
Burgoyne must soon have forgotten this event, 1
and . the alarm among the loyalists because of the
murder of a tory and his family; forgotten how
they flocked to his camp for protection, and Fraser's
remark to the frightened loyalists. u It is a con•
quered country, and we must mink at these things ;"
and his own positive enlace the Indians not to
molest those having protection, caused many 01
them to leave him and return to their hunting
grounds on the St. Lawrence. It was all dark and
dreadful, and Burgoyne was willing to retreat be
hind a false assertion, to escape the perils which
were to grow out of an admission of half the truth
of Gates' letter. The letter as Sparks justly remarks
was more ornate than forcible, and abounded more
in bad taste than simplicity and pathos ; yet it was
suited to the feelings of the moment, and produced
a Hyde expression in every part of America. Burke,
in the exercise of all his glowing eloquence used
the story with powerful effect in the British House
of Commons, and made the drer d ful tale familiar
throughout all Europe.
Burgoyne, Who was at Fort Ann, instituted an
inquiry into the 'matter. lie summoned the Indi:
any to council, and demanded the surrender of the
man who bore off the scalp, to be punished as a
murderer. Lieut. Janes denied all knowledge of
the matter, and utterly disclaimed any participation
in Me sending of a letter to Jenny, or of an Indian,
escort to bruig her to camp. He had no motive for
so doing, for the American -army was then retreat
ing ; small guard only Was at Fort Edward, .and
in a day or two the British would have full posses
sion of that fort, when hb Could have a personal in
ttiview with her. Burgoyne instigated by motives
of policy rather t hart by judgment and inclination,
pardoned the savage who scalped poor Jenny, fear
ing that the total defection of the Indians would lie
the . result of his punishment. -t•
Lieut. Jones, chilled with honor and broken in
spirit by the event, tendered a resignation of his
Commission, but it wits refused. He purchased the
scalp orhis Jenny; and with his elienshed memen
tosieserted With his brother, before they reached
Saratoga, and retired to Canada. Various accounts
have been given respecting the subsequent fate of
Lieut. Jones. Sorel, assert 'that, perfectly' despe
rate and careless of life, he rushed into the thickest
of, the battle of Bemis's Heights, and was slain ;
while others alleged that he died within three years
af &ward heart-btoken and insane, Bot neither as
sert-lOn is true. While searching for Mrs. F—n,
among her fOndi at Gienie.s,Falts, Loaded at the
!Mose of Judge 11,--s, whose lady is related by
marriage to the Joneses. Her aunt married a broth.
er of Lieut. Jones, and she often .
.heard this lady
Teak Of him. He lived in ,Canada lobe nn old
man,rirul died but a few seats ado. The death of
Jenny was a heavy blow and he never recovered
' from it. In , youth be was exceedinly gartulous
but alter that terrible *Arent, he was melancholy
and taciturn. Ho never married, and 'avoided so
ciety as mhch as business went& perrnit. 'reward
the close ofJely.in every year, when the anniver
sary ef the traggilyapproacbed he would shut him
self in his room anit refused the eight of every one ;
and at all times his friends nitrated any reference
to the Revolution in his presence.
At the time of this event. the American army,
under 'Gen. Schuyler,_ was encamped at Morse's
creek,,five miles beloW Fort Edward. One of its
two divisions was placed under the command of
Arnold, who hart justreachal the 'army: His di
vision-included. the rear-guard at Left the. fort. ' A
picket-guard of 100 men; under the command of
Lieuteriant,Van Vechlen, Wa.setationed on the hill
a little-north of the pine tree; and at the moment
when the house of MO. M'lsic ; il was , attacked and
pinedered, und herself rtnifli -, eny %veil carried off,
ok!:e,r. paiAies of Indians ; beloeghtg to she swim ex.
.peditioni came Walling t .rough.the woods from dif
remit points, and fall upon the Arnericaus. Lieut.
MMNI)MFM
Van Vechten and several others . were killed, and
their scalps bore oft; Theielgalies, with ,Jennyi
were 'found by the party:that were :sent cot
~rram
the fort in pttrsuit. She and the:officers-were lying
near together, close by the spring already mentions
ell, aid only a few feet from the pine tree. they
were stripped of clothing, for, that was the chief ie.
centive of the savages to war. They were borne
immediately to the fon, which the Americans im
mediately evacuated, and Jane did indeed go down
the, river in the batteau m.which she bad intended
to embark,,but not glowing with life and beauty,. to
where she was expected by her fond brother. With
mach grief he took charge, Of her - Mutilated corpse,
which was buried at the same place with that 01 .
the Lieutenant, on the west bank ol the Hudson,
near the mouth of a small creek, about three miles
below Fort Edward.
Mrs. M'Neil lived many years, and was buried
in a small village vemetry, very near the, ruins of
tho fort. le the summer of 1818 the remains of
Jenny were taken up and deposited in the. 'same
grave yard with her. They. were lollovred by :a
long train of young men and maidens, and .the fu
neral ceremonies were conducted by the eloquent
but unfortunate Hooper CumMings, of Albany, 'at
that time a brilliant light in the American pulpit,
but destined, like a glowing meteor, to go down_
in .41arkness and gloom. Many who were
then young, have-a vivid recollection of the pathet
ic discourse of that gifted man, who on that *a
'ion g , made all Fort Edward weep," as he
ated anew that sorrowfapictum of the immolation
of youth and innocence upon the horrid altar of
witr.
A plain white marble slab, with a simple inscrip
tion, Jane McCrea, marksthe spot of her interment•
Not far from the same spot is an antique, brown
stone slab, erected to the memory of Duncan Camp
bell, a relative of Mrs. M'Neil's first husband, who
was mortally wounded at Ticondt)rma in 1758.
peveral others of the same name - lie Mar, mere
bers of the family \ of Donald Campbell, a brave
Scotchman who was witic Montgomery at the stor
ming of Quebec in 1775.
The Three Degrees of Masourt.
As an entered apprentice, a lesson of humility
and contempt of worldly riches and earthly gran=
doer, is impressed upon his mind by symboliccer•
tummies, too important in their characters ever to
be forgotten. The beauty and holiness of charity
are depicted in mmblematic modes, stronger and
more lasting than mere language can express, d
the neophyte is directed to lay a comer stone of vit%
toe, and purity, upon Which he is charged to , erect
a Superstructure, alike honorable to himself and the
fraternity of which he is
_hereafter to compose a
part.
. In the degree of entered apprentice every ems
blematic ceremony is directed to the illustration)
of the heart; in that of the fellow craft, to the en
largement 01 the mind. Already clothed ;in the
white garment of innocence, the advancing candi•
date is now invested with the deep and unalterable
truths of science. At length he passes the porch of
the Temple, and in his progress
. to the middle
chamber, is taught the ancient and unerring molt
ed of distinguishing a friend from a foe.
But it is not until the thir - d or master's rank is
reached by arduous labor, by study and by worthy
conduct, that the full undimmed eflulg,ence of ma
sonry lights upon the enraptured vision. In this,
which iN the Perfection of symbolie masonry, the
purest of truths are unveiled amid the sublime cer
emonies—None but he who has visi'ed the holy of
holies, and traielled in the road to peril, can have
any conception of the mysteries unfolded in this
degree. Its solemn observance diffuses a sacred
awe and inculcates a lesson of religionsiruth, and ,
it is not until the neophyte has readied this sum
mit of our rural, that he exclaimed with joyful ac
cent, in the language of the,sage of old EutAa,
Eureka I have found at last the long sought treas
ure" In the language of the learned Hutchinson,
somewhat enlarged in its allusion, the master ma
son is a man under the doctrine of love ; saved
from the grave of iniquity, and raised to the faith
of salvation.
Asti:meta Trt.—We recently mentioned that
we had made a trial of some Brazilian tea, which
we found equal t 4 the best from lrhinti. The ex
periment remains to be tried whether Brazil Can
furnish It as Cheaply as the Celestial Empire. In
the mean time Dr. Unita Smith it trying how far
the climate of the United States ii propitious fettle
growth of the plant In teietdatimmunication
lie imp., that not one of his plants.were lost during
last winter, thoughtmow of severatinohes ht depth
lay upon them: Tbey are all well groWn, and finely
expanded, and he thinks permanantly established
The expense of the culture httbelieves will be less
in the thtiteLLStates, than at Liturgist. They have
no railroads in China, and the cost oftransportation
of its tea over bad roadd; sante of it oh the backs of
men; SOO of 1000 Miles on an aveite, is eqUal td
atimit one-eighth dila table at the plebe of produc
tion. The Chinese and Hindoo live cheaply ; and
work for small - wages. They perform much 'legs
labor in a day than a negro'.well fed 'on the most
substantial food; coin brerul' and bacon. Taking
therefore the greatet value of a day's work in
America, the diminutiog ia . treight, antl,die cheap
ness and despatch of transportation pm cur rail
roads, the r eonclusion oflhe Doeter iy.thattea is to
become a staple product of the United Status. The
experiment is worth trying; end Dr. Smith, in pot
tinethe example, has evinced a degree of enter.
Prise which is worth . ). of praise.
liibiTS To Tilt trLiv..x.:—Dcei always beheye
young lady is in.love with you, because she accepts ,
all your presents with a smile anda " thank you."
Girls are like yotrng horses'in that reapeci—remain
i ig so long as there is . draersel• in the measure, and
thee,
.unless. you have.the bridal in your hand, tur
ning about and kicking their heels at you.--Ei - pc-
Tierra.. •
==M=2
MEE
~-~r ~~eat^r.,~v~.ck~~'.~ »'.'..,^~~^~4s%<" — » ~!s~e~+'~.ax; - - .ees-.a~::~s:, :.. y : '~-n'2:r_<.0...... _ ...~-......%~.. t"F = ,~ - , "~~~„?~
11,fi5tetantan
btonirnAcror "THE Alas"—Mrs. Parting.
ail, that when she was a gal,-she ,Used fto go
penile, and always had a beau to eirtort her hom
Efut now ) .she says,- the gals undergo ail such d
clivitietry the task to extort them ristiohrife on th
own selves. The old lady drew down hbr spec
and thanked she stars that she had lived in of
days„ . when lnen awn mom: palpabio, in deer-
(mg the wonh of the female sex. • I
“ Mother,” said James, it what is the meani
of donation ? Ye% have been° preparing, all t
week for the donation party, and 1 want to kn.'
.what it means."
" Why, Jimmy," said Johnny, "don't yoti knew
whit donation meant'', do—do means the cake
•and seam) Means the people, and they carry et4te
to dim:Moister, and the people go there and emit."
James was delighted.
Jost see what an editor can) do by way of a
blesiing for a man wno sent him a barrel of floor:
ii May the barrel of his life's M*o6l, neer
weigh:deo. than one hundred turd aim:l:ix poa . Pi
4 1
and may the wile he has yet to Ink to himself;
be like the floor he 'sent ns, sweet, pare, and ape
to make the i!esc r o.k6reacr, mid in all respects exile
,family. c ,,,,,
~__., 4
Darkness reigned around ; the gioorals Gies Was
shrouded with a melancholy smile, while thebride's
face was dark and' gloomy ; the clergynian was
equally dark and dreary—.and t no Wonder, for ihey ,
were all darkies
Lay it flown as a role, never to white,: not irriany
way. show approval.nor meniment, at any trait in
a child which yon should not wish to grow. will his
growth, and strengethen with his strength. ,
A clear stream reflects all objects that are
tl i pon
its spate, but is unsullied by them ; so it shou ld be
with our hearts—they should show the effect A?! all
objiAms,antl yet remain unharmed by any. i t
It is chanusterigtic Of a little mind to be shocked
and revolted from &ierittg ad the discovery of Their
faults; this shows as little selfacquaintance las it
does Want of general ;knowledge.
Too SMART VOIR H 611.-" Won't yon take hor of
this poor apple 7" said a pretty damsel to .a Bitty
swain.
a No, I thank yOu ; I would prefer a kilter
halfl" Eliza blushed and referred him to her oapa.
A °gas Drcernew.--A gentleman having lent
a guinea for two or three days to a person t hose
promise he hail not ;much faith in, was very ranch
surprised-to find that he punctually kept hiss word
with him ; the gentleman being sometime after:
ward desirous of bitgaswing the like sum,' No,"
said the other, " you hails deceived me/ o nce, ;
and I atn resolved you shan't do it th e 4econd
time." I
;
lama AistsnTissue:rt.—Missing, from iKillar
ney, Lane O'F ,csmerty ; she had in her arms pre
babies and a gueresney cow, all black, %rah red
hair, and tortoise shell combs behind her ess, and
large black spots all down her back, which Squints
awfully.
: •
Air Evasive AriOeu.-0 Don't yon get devil(
now and then?" asked the Mayor of a wiiness—
" No, your honori not often, to my knowkdire," an•
swered the min.
CAPITAL BUSLICI/01....4110 m i st ffowuhin profea'
sione can turn ones hand to in the present I day, is
mearnenem
- •
-Ow Peort.e.—•Dickens bats, remdving pao.
ple is like removlog old ti es—they neveriseem to
take to the new soil.
Flamm. Dirrtilnair.—Putting a btistr on a
hedge-hog,
An old a that of. all no
lemn hours h :Cupted p going
home ono dark night, from the widow Iktan's, af
ter being told by her daughter Sally, that be neert
eat come agailb, 'craft the most, no.
When ti child •it born in Java, if Vareno are naz
i
fives, the father rititetliateiy plants a Cteowtree,
which, adding . a Circle every year to itb Irk,
indi
cates.thaage of the tree, and therefore; thkt : of the
child, who: In consequence, regards the !tt.CIS with
affection ail the dtafdof its '
Coat rote Liituta.—A fliitisti paper,
says that a ratriti4ndepiptiatic, reeitat of talallow
ing pathetic nar4ativels an infalliblecor far lisp.
ing:— , l Hobbs nests Snobby aiuf 1 Ribbr ; bobs to
Shobbi dnd,flobtls; flobbs nobs with SOobbs and
nibs Saab's fobs. This is, sis'NOtikr4i+Orse for
Flabb's jobs, antinabbssobs."
f =
Bta 'romantint Yankee,
was one evening Seated in a trafttoem py acenntry
tavern in Canal wheter*Yert aseeinblid several
old oonntrymen I thsetising various maths Connec
ted vvith the " Omits and eirenmstat&eslif tVar."—
in the eofirde of Ihis remaaks, one of, diem stated
that the fit itish government possessed ihe.. largest
cannon in the wortilz. - -und gait, the dintbitsions of
one ha; had seeni. ' • .
Joe'S Yankeelptide would not allow Arita to let
such an assertion pass uneontradieted. • •
Ai NM, gentlemen.," said he i 1, I won't deny il i a,'
is a fair sited eantton T bitt you are aided; mistaken
in supposing it to he named the same Minute with
Otte
. of our Yankee guns which I saw .
in Chaalee
town fast year. Jupiter ! that was a cannon. Why
sir,* was so.infernally large, Mantle soldiers were
obliged to employ a - Note: oxen to draw in the
ball
Et Tate
deuce they were , ' ? exclainiea.one. of the
heareissovith a smile of trintnph,.,Ppray can you
tell haW they-got the oxen "nut atinitir •
litti , ;•vott tool," 'titer - net . I f74c . y ni; ek,cd,
a 3
cm 20 drosec'em throvls the touch /4'o-1A"
■
l- Singular MarrMae.
There is.no newspaper in tlieiiiiintry vrbieh teller
a story with abetter grace than the New, ,OrlitieS
Picayane,•and seldom has it teldalitatei one 14d.
in recording an incident Which lately occurred-in
those '"Aiggingif." - Some threirthoethei'ago, the
steamer Lafayette wason her passage from Louis
vine io the Crescent thy: The &tat Was crowded
with ladies and , gentlemen from every portion of
the CClllntry; some on pleasure excursion's, others
on busk:mt. Itvery pith of_the torn was Ailed
, passengers, and especially the buries' cabin—civet) ,
state Mom and berth being occupied. A merrier
party never rode the Father of Waters.
Nothing out of the usual routine 'waned. during
the first two or three days. Every evenft3g,. as, is
amnion litiNita bound for Me sanity South, caid' pia,-
ing and tripping tho light fantastic toe,wasof cowed
die order of the progratitrob. ,
About six o'clock on the evening of ths„fornth
day, a Ingrid light was discovered waving 40 anti
fro cat a distant Arne. The boat soon „rounded ,to,
and an individual enveloped in a cloak, 'steppeden
board.. tYor passenger proved to be a maideutady
of seine ,thirty .aurnmers.,
Where shall we stow herd was now the
ry. The berths being all taken, the : Clerk
Was oblige''r to give her a state-room in the Oaths.;
man's Cabin, near the ladies' saloon, which Ives
occupied by a tl4l, lank countryman, on big way
south with a Cargo of notions: tie being cia,,the
hurriCane deck at the time, was not aware.** ha
Would have togive up his quarters toe female ;ihe
Otriennt of 111 . 6 b ,
hatify some (petal*, failed soap=
price of tbls new feature..
The deneing having ceased; " the smaller haunt"
being at hand, all no retired to their, state-rocatt.;
*Rh the rest out unseSpecting maiden friend-75hp
turned into the foyer berth of the . room,.wbrititiat
friend, the coirotrymea, p•as fat asleep in the up:
per, doubtless dreaming of the dimes he expected
to pick up on his speculation.
Next morning, the bull annorfnced breakfast;
our maiden friend prepared to rise--vtiert lb.( a
pair of thick boots and a great lot of tunienitonar
files greeted hpr eyes I
At that moment our country friend opened ,his
peepers. A lot of female apparel w4S dr° first
thing that met his:horrified vision. The truth flash
ed across his mind! he 14t1 got unto the wrong box,
perhaps ; but that could not be, as his duttkwtre
where he had placed them several
Both ts'ere fairly caught ! who shall make the fins"!
more ? _
After much hesitation oar Mend in the tippet
berth ventured to look below. A pair - of eyes stat
ed him in the face! After playing ceregidal genie •
of rr bo peep" for some time, oar country friend;
with all the gallantry of a gr.ntlemittr; so,ggested the
propriety of just covering her eyes tot a rinothent;
Omit he Flipped on his anexpressiblei. the did so;
and he vamcised like smoke. His first business,
was to find the clerk who had placed him in such
a ridiculous fix. Apologies were made, and a
hearty laugh enjoyed at his expense. He nor!
agreed to treat all hands it the passengers would
keep cool
F.very one noticed that Jondthan paid his friend
great attention dering the whole trip: Some heard
him tell her hi! prospects•in
On the arrival trf the boat in New Weans, the
parties were seen Wending their way along one of
the principal streetti, enquiring for a Magistrate?*
ofand tf theft> ever rfall a ease of lovb at first
sight, this must have been one.
ORIGIN OF MURINIIIGNIION.-...il will appear Mr
the lollowing, statement that the Eizyptian practice
ot . , embalming was renderedindispensable by a
physical necessity. - The Nile annually coveted for
tour months almost alt the'cultivated parts of .F.,,ffypt,
Therefore was it necessary to place the towni sniff
villages upon elevated spots. Emt, in the days
of her prosperity, with a territory. of 2250 -equate
leagues, contained 622 e persons on each. Of this
nuttlfter about 350,e00 diederuntally. Their eorps ,
vies must be'disposed of, either by interment Or burr ,
ing. If buried, either neat the towns, or -in "bassir
soots which were annually oilerflowed by the Nile,
by their decomposition, the air woOld be rendered
noxiona, and, probably, engender disease. As' fat •
barning,fide was rendered impossible by the
of fuel. An easier pieces was opened to ;thee
Egyptians. That fine country *3.4 eakhled with
small lakes of nairon (sub , carbonale of-sode,)•and
as that salt possesses the , property of preserving
animal substauces.from putrefaction; it was naves
rally ; used to a great degree ea d Mei:Lusa eimbahns •
ing (Una: bodies. • - . r
I=
'COOPER ANT)JENNY following„Alicrrk
how near an Alabama editor tattle to bearingjerturl
Lind. Hooper is the maul.;
!" Out: DIsTR.E.S.4.—We went to-henr Jenny . iilhtF4
sing. lenhe deepest welt of dflr heart wo envied,.
the celestrl vadalistn: AetnrdlrJy me platted tart
week, detertnined td "de rat die.i' /We got-.to
Cumumi-Imek the train-7;•whifled down scr4dont. ,
gomery--everhhlng tended to exeiteiftent:- 'Cow ri
on the track—Ate if a ectillisiun derstary.the.•traltv
and send us to the harmonies above, before we are
prepared by Jenny Lind to hear the:llft Arrived in
Montgomery.-=waited for friend, and all . of a.etnk
den, our money. " gin right out." lmmediatety
",borried" rut,X and returned- righthorne again to
the Tribune, " what . " we ere prepared to doedver...„
tislng and.reepive setu.- - eriptions ou mere favorable,,,
terms than before."
_A gentleman is describing - *be absurdity of
nfatt dancilfg !ha Po:ka, apptopriately said, that it
appeared as if the individual- had a hole Its his
pocket, and was vainly endeavothig. l to shake , it
11,(11V11 11,0 it'g of his trowmus. • . .•
Tile ".Persimmon County "debasing clnb, 4:4.:
Indiana Aro Aletiating the 'question : WWI la the 1
proudest, with het: first Witt, or • a %vomit' ~
with her lirit batiy
,„„
- ,
ifa
1111
EZIN
MEI
MU
MI
b ,t
~~. _. .
MIMMit
NMI
i' ~. li
11