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TOW A NDA:
an filorning, 'August V. 1838.
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OVERTISEMENT OF A LOST DAY.
t'T tills. L. B. 51001CILM
Lost' lost! lost!
A eArn or countless price,
Cul froth the firing rock.
And graved in Paradise.
.*.;et round with three times eight
Large diamonds. clear and bright,
And each with sixty smaller ones,
All changeful as the light. _
L-Kt—where the thoughtless throng
In fashion's mazes wind,
where trilleth folly's song;
Leaving a sting behind - :
let to my hand liras given,
A golden harp to buy,
Such as the white-robed choir attune
To deathless minstrelsy.
Lost' lo'st! lost !
I feel all search in vain ;
The gem of countless coat
Can ne'er be minc.again ;
I offer no reward,
•Fot WI these heart-strings sewer,
I know tnat heaven-entrusted gift
Is reft away forever.
But when the. sea and land
Like burning scroll have fled.
I'll see a to firs hand
Who judgeth quick the dead ;
Ind when of scathe and 10,.s
That man can ne'er repair,
The dread inquiry meets my soul:-
\ What shall it answer there!
rlcrt Ealt,
YOUNG VOYAGERS ;
PILOTED UT PROVIDENCE.
GEO 5 RiYMCIND
r. Anne. come Jenny—sisters. Come
mv 4w. sm.l we'll have a jolly nice sail
11l be a sea captain, like my fa
how he sails that great packet
i.‘..cean Corns, girls, get in—Anne,
my and little Jenny shall be
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3 !,3t,tl-ort.e Calf •1111;red. rfv!.l
f.' V +t , •, blit.gittlig blue et e-. al•uw
, !., now tenolv erma f ied in rlq
•nr a- a ! =ra o a .hip's launch, nhleti
•r beach in one of iho , c seciud-
cores or Inlets. with which
( , 1 L. ,, rg Island arid . Rockaway isso
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COMpalllolls. were two little girls of
<l . y ears. beautitul as angels, and so ex
te:r bro'her in every feature,
• that they
copies—all but the long sunny
hae exc i thsoe face.
.he elkier girt, bounded into the boat at
lily nation, and began aseisting
ahNt ;he 5.3,1 But little Jenny—who was
a!org a ;eat basket filled with File*, sweet
uhtch they had brought born a
%.e • .t : te t::q tar op, for a little' picnic din
ed aid heft back in silence, tilt her
her again to get into the boat, when
'.,Pg atgae with him thus:
floe don't let us go in the boat to-day !
much wmd, and we might
oc, are a ittlle toward, Jenny, to be afraid,"
:Ived the young captain, Impatiently. It is
:eican'e4t div we've had in a month; and is
• :Ea: if cre don't go : M-day, I'm
rix get another chance this year.—
/emit , . (tor. 't be Inghteneti—jump to I''
.3 I'm , 111 all afraid brothe'r." And, chil d
WaS. ole Jenny's cheeks glowed for a Few
11.4, %rim a deeper vermilion — it - fit, at the tcrt
,,,: zest,on of her courage by her brother. " f
a afraid, Willie But yod know, mother
:ten told us that we most not go in the boat
11 '3 oiows hard all Pm afraid of is disobeying
Thee you may come juto the boat without kar,
Sor mower told me I might sail this after
')l firs minutes before we left the house."
Yes I know that, Willie ; but that was two
tr tl. ago, when it was almost calm. It blows a
ter' deaf harder now, and I am wore, mother would I
tes,li keassin ; , ,.3 away from the shore in the boat
then them Is such a lugh wind."
" 0; nonsense, Jenny ; I have been all about
the core when it blew harder than this. Mother;
yea know. nys I am the best sailor along the coast,
14d just & 4 well at:e to judge wheu the weather is
io go on a cruise as the is. Come sister, we can't
t?- 4 drowned, for the water is so shallow now at .
“de, and with thus west wind, that we, eoukl
nie any where about the erne" •
1-ncs persuaded, Jenny passed her basket to ber
anJ then clambering into the boat herself,
' l4 °4cat beside Anne, in the stern sheets,
t:J mon the launch was underway.
S.‘ -e was a great, heavy, clumsy 'boat, as all
-t-er class usually are—with a single lu g sail of
!t ail canvass ; altogether illy calculated lot a
l,,,ri.scre craft But little Willie Walton managed
. e at‘t, consummate skill br so young a coalman
lad they had made several stretches across the
p i'', when they were passing the inlet that open
seawards, Anne's eyes rested on the blight
"A "ales of the Atlantic far out beyond the dis
*-A%l water along the coast, and clapping het
with a sudden matey of infantile joy, she
' l 'z:tuned :
O. W Ithe, W the ! Let cs go out there and
114 oo that beautiful blue ocean! Wont hbe
I So much ptenier than this little diny;core,
bare banks and all about ca." -
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Willie sprang, to his feet, and gazing out into the
offing, his bright eyes lit up with enthusiasm caught
froth his sister's words, and he instantly replied :
"We'll go out there, and have a glorious , sail—
just like the great ships and steamboats that we see
go by."
" 0, don't go out there, brother !" interposed Hi
de Jenny, her cheeks growing pale as the delicate
" Don't go Willie! Mother will be angry
with us."
Mother will do no such thing, Jenny. She
wilt be proud of us, to think we have been out on
The kig ocean all alone. I can ,very easili'Come
bat ( k with the flood tide that'll soon be setting in."
And without further argument, the reckless tiny put
his helm up, eased off the sheet, and away out thro'
the Inlet towards the line of blue water outsiae,
went the launch hurried along before the strong
breeze, which added to the strength of the last
quarter ebb, bore her away at a speed that soon
sunk the yellow sand ridge to a mere line along
the margin of the wide ocean, and the white cot.
tages with the Venetian blinds into toy shops dot
ted with bright green specta. The colored water
which appealed from the cove only like a narrow
strip dividing the white surf from the deep azure
of the ocean beyond—expanded into a broad belt
of several miles in width. But with the fine breeze
and strong outset of the tide the boat sped on ; while
the novelty of their position, and the natural excite.
ment induced by iecause.l the time and space to
fly past unheeded by the young voyagers, and a
sudden dread came upon them as, hosing 'gained
the blue water, they looked back towards the shore
and saw hills, fields, houses and orchards all blen
ding, growing indistinct. and folding away in the
dim distance. There was a sense of lonely, utter
helplessness suddenly i.hadowing their bright vis
ions ; and there was a world-of pathos in little Jen
ny's sweet low voice, as she laid her hands gently,
on,her brother's arm, and looking up in his eyes,.
whi-pored :
0. Willte, let us go home. Mother would feel
very, bad if she new we had come away out here.'
%Villie bent down his head and kissed his sister's
fair, pale cheek, as he replied :
"We will go back Nome, Jenny I was naugh
ty to come oil so far from the land. But don't cry
sister I am very sorry. Don't blame me—l couldn't
help it ; I do love the sea so much."
" No we won't blame you, Willie only let us
hurry back ; for see, yonder is a terrible black
cloud coming up in the west, and I'm afraid if we
"
The clititr4 speech wait interrupted by a groan
of , Ii1:4111.t1 from her brother, whose eye. fur the first
tune. had been directed towards a, bank of dark,
muck) clouds heaving up in the vrestern board, by
his sister's remark ; and at the very instaa that his
vlstou fist rested upon the black pall, a chain of
brilliant. zigzag lightning rose quivering along its
s upper edge, and a few moments later there came to
their ears the low muttered roar of 'far off thun
der.
The young captain had hauled his little vessel by
the wind, bin the clumsy thing lay broad off under
het ill-fitted sail. Besides the wind, which she
had scarcely felt while running off before it, had
now increased soMuch that she bad keeled over
till there was great danger of
.capsizing, to prevent
wlich Willie, assisted by his ;
two sisters, set about
reefing the sail.
This was soon accomplished, and again the boat
was steered as close as she would go. which at best
was title better than eight points, Willie soon found
in spite of his utmost skill, his crap was drifting rap
idly out to sea.
Nearer and nearer rolled on the embattled le
gions of black storm clouds ; louder cane the fear
ful thunder crashes ; more vivid glearritd the red
lightning's flash; wider the shrieking gale swept
by, howling and screaming dread notes of terror to
the young voyagers. The water—which in with the
land was quite smooth—began to heave up in huge,
foam-crested waves, here and there all around them
curling over and breaking all feather-white in long
lines of snowy, hissing spray Great round drops
of rain came pattering down in the water, and pel—
ing, on the thwarts and pinwales of the boat with a
sharp clicking none that smote startlingly dismal
on the ears of the three little ocean wanderers.
Young as he was, Willie retained in his mind
much of what he had heard his father relate at va
rious times in regard to the management of a ship
in a gale ; and the knowledge which he had thus
gained in theory; now stood him in good stead.—
He had heard o I keeping a ship before it in a squall,
and of scudding in a gale ; - and the dull sailing clum
sy boat was Lis ship. The theory which he had
learned, he proceeded to pal into practice; and
when the first mad gem of the yelling tornado fell
upon the launch, she was going off dead before the
wind—otherwise her sail would have been blown
away, or she would have been swamped in an in
slant. As it was she was flashing on through the
wild storm and screaming surges, scudding away,
right out into the mighty wilderness of waters.
Ten, fifeen minutes went oy, and still the war
of elements went on hi •afl its terrible fury; and
mill the brave little fellow stood there at the helm,
bare headed, his cap blown away, his clothes drip
ping with water, and'sleady to his purpose, steered
his tiny balk 'on and-away before the fiemehowl
ing blast.
Once only he tattered, and that was when the
launch quivered for a moment on the crest of the
might surge, and then went reeling and
,plunging;
standing almost oa end, down into the hissing rot
*ex of the liquid ravine. Then a single quick ery
of horror elle** the boy's lips; bet the next mo
ment, Jenny crept op to his side, laid her ban I up
on his shoulder, and spoke in a low soothing tone,
that almom instantly called back his confidence, and
elicited from his lips it cry of admiration for his
sister's heroism..
" Duds be frightened, dear spoke the
lints eager., • Mother says that God watehes over
people thakiive tito the sea. And don't you mmcm
her, brother, -bow often oar dear mother has told,
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORDCOVNTY, PL, BY E. OIIEBA GOODRICH.
~~IIESASDLS9S OF tikritrkuncix inowt ANT orisavrit:"
us that Jesus loved little .ohildren! "11God watch
es otter as and Seats lcives'us, We shalt- besafe.;--
So, don't be afraid" - ' - • •
Night.—dark, wild and gioomYnight eatnedOwn
upon the world 'of waters, and SIM the terrible tor
tiadirragedinall its horrors of iirind,lightning, iain
and thunder; and there in their hail open boat we
will leave* the hapless young voyageraspeelin&on
and awaytright out into the heart of the vast Atlan
tic. We %vill'ittid them adieu, and glance Iback to
their home—to their fond mother, rendered dean.
late in heart by the dread calamity that has fallen
upon her in the toss of her children.
Isl et
At the moment whe he children first embark
ed, Mrs. Walton need out towards the cove,and
for a few miuutei she watched them with, all a
mother's tend with, as she saw them sailing to and
fro on the quiet waters of the bay; and then some
visitors called and she forgot her children till just as
the storm came down, when a neighbor came rush
ing, iii, with the heart; rendring intelligence that die
launch had been seen only a few minutes previous
ly, several miles out to sea.
The first terrible shock almost killed her; but
soon rallying all her woman's ,energy and moth.
er's love, she rushed forth from her home, and re
gardless of the furious storm aroused her neighbors,
and besought themwith all the eloquence called
up by the deep anguish of her riven heart, to lend
their aid in the recovery of her lost darlings.
There was no vessel at Rockaway or-Faulkner's
Island, and to venture out at sea in such a storm
with such small crafts as were kept along the shore,
were worse than:madness ; and so immediate des
patches were sent to New Yolk, not to the owners
of the ship commanded by Captain Walton, but to
the pilots, and within an hour after the news reach
ed the city, t wo of the staunchest piloi.boats manned
by extra picked crews of gallant souls, were under.
way and speeding on their swill-winged course
in search of the ocean lost children.
Mrs. Walton herself hastened to the city, to urge
with her presence and infiaence, more prompt an
lion ; but the two vessels had been gone an hour
when she arrived, and so she repaired to the:house
of Mr. Alma' the owner 01 the ship her husband
commanded, to await the return of those who had
so nobly gone forth in search of het three lost dar
lings. -
Leaving her there in a stale of levered anxiety,
hoping in the very teeth of despair, we too will go
froth into the wild, yelling gale, to look upon a most
sublime ocean picture.
It was an hour past midnight—dark as the deep
est, gloomiest cells of an inquisitional dungeon,
save when the vivid lightning's flash lit up the
Cimmerian blackness with a glare rivalling that of
the brightest nocnday sun.
Some ninety miles to the eastward of Sandy Hook
lay hove to a noble ship, inward bound, in one of
the most terrific gales that ever swept along the
northern cost of America. The gale had set in an
hour before sunset, and ever since dark the ship
had been hove to under the shortest possible can
vass, heading up west southwest with die gale com
ing in violent squalls out at due northwest.
" Do you think there is any danger to us 01 the
skip, captain r inquired one of the three passen
gers partly sheltered from the storm by the projec
ting roof of the round house.
" Not the least, Mr. Kinaley. You are as safe
here as you would be to your own house in New
York. She is a new Ship, and I have had no op
portunity of trying her hove to before; tut I am
pertectly* satisfied with her behavior. Indeed I
never saw any craft conduct herself quite so well
in a durricane like this. 'Tis a terrible night, how
ever, and God help those Who may chance to be
out in a less able craft than ours ! For the lasi
hour I have been thinking of my wife and children
My wife will not sleep one wink tonight. She nev
er can in a storm like this when lam from home. I
was cast away once on the Long Island shore not
half a mile from home, in just such a gale, only it
was a south east. would give a hundred dollars
this moment to be at home, only for my wife's
sake. But we must—my God, what is,that !-1
A continuous flash of lightning lit,up the sorroun
dir.g space, and as the darkness shut in again, a
taint but clear and distinct—•' Ship A-boy !' uttered
either by a female or a nhild, same down on the
blast' from directly to windward.
A moment alter the nail was repeated, and an
other flash of lightning revealed a boat dry/ mg
square down before the gale, and almost under the
ship's quaner. Ere one could count five, the shrill
quivering cry came op from the boat as it shot past
the ship not three fathoms clear of her rudder.
" Merciful Heaven ! There ete three children
in that boat!' yelled Mr. Kinsley, who, with the
captain, was peering down over thitaffrail as the
boat flew put.
" Pot your helm hard up, my man," said the
captain, in a voice as calm as man's voice could
be; and then calling the chief and third mates p eto '
were both on deck, he informed them of: the tact
that a small open boat, with three children in it,
had just gone past, and then gate his orders :
" Mr. Casey, please go out on the flying jib boom
end and keep a lookout for the boat; and mind,
Mr. Casey if we come up with it, you can lay the
shiVso as to bring the boat close aboard on the
larboard side—to:lolrd, remember, Mr. Casey - 4
Don't for your life make a Mistake. Go totward
now, sir, and it we save those children, five/Jinn
dreil dollars shall be your. ieward
Then taming to the chief male, be criminned:
" Mr. Wtnsur, you will brace the yards all square,.
which, without making any more sail, will send the
ship through the water a little faster than the boat
is going. Having done this, rig six single whips—
two on each side of the Wirer yards—on the ta,
board side. Plats the blocks far enough oat file
the falls to drop about a fathom clear of the ship,
and then reef off good stun'-sail gear, bringing
both ends in on deck, with a Miming bowline - in
one part, and the other led goat for it 6D, station
ing three good idlOws at erieb.
I will get the ship steady before the grind, and—
MME
Frank, my men, pai keep
,her,ae. Opp twp.
iir li
yan inch! Steer dirt i Yont vity'sdui del
pended on it : and within an boat liter the ship
teaches New Vitik iota' hundred
lan.' ' '
" And now Mr. Kinsley, will you please call op
the second mate and all the gentleman Pisinsigers,
want them to stand by this whips , order to se
situ the sailors if necessary. We must ease those
children, and do it, too, wititoutthehnelcnteieg in
contact with the ship; as that would be instant de
struction to it and their; in such 6 sta."
" All ready, the whips, sir !"',eametorri the nratn,
and the neat moment the yonnt third mate's voice
rang out horn the jib-Worn end: 't Beat right ahead !
Steady as you go !',
" Now then my lads, who'll into these running
bowlines with me and stand by to pick up the chit
dren !" anxiously inquired the captain.
" I, air," and " I," " I," eame from a duzen rea
dy sailors in a mornent. -
"Thank you. my lad ' s; but I only want ftve. l I
go in one of the bowlines, myself."
The selections were soon made, and there they
stood in the fore, main and mizzen chains—the
commander and five noble fellows—with the bow•
lines under their arms ready to risk their lives to
save the three children.
"Steady! Stand by, now! Here they come !
Look out !" screamed the officer from the jib-boom,
and a moment later, the dim outlines of a boat
loomed up by the lee cat-head. Another moment
of breathless suspense, and the boat was abreast 01
the fore•chains.
" Stand by the for'ard whips ! Look out there in
main chains! Veer away men ! Now, Harry,
now !" and down went the captain and his com
panion into the boat.
A breath later and the shout came ringing up,
" Look out main and mizzen chains ! Sway away
on deck !" and up by the ran came the two men
each grasping a child in his arms.
" Main chains, there ! In God's name have you
got her!" screamed the captain, rushing tibial%
the boy he had saved still in his awns.
" Ay, ay, sir! All right !" answered a brave fel
low clambering in on deck, with little Jenny grasp
ed tight by her clothes.
" Father !" ezclaimed the little girl, clasping the
captain about the neck. " Father!" echoed back
two treble voices.
" Almighty God, I thank dies ! Saved—saved—
saved !" and Capt. Lester Walton sunk fainting to
the deck. He knew the children were his own
from the moment they passed the ship's stern, and
his indomitable sell•control had borne bim up till
they were rescued; when the reaction came, and
he sunk down insensible.
At an hour before sunset on the following day,
the ship was at her berth in New York, and the
meeting bewteen the mother and her loved
children. there in the cabin of her husband's ship,
is too sacred a picture to be profaned by a mere
pen and ink copy.
SCENE IN SCLIOOL Joseph where is Africa!"
" On the map, sir."
"-I mean, Joseph, on. what Continent—The Las.
tern or Western Continent;"
" Well, the :land of Africa is in the Eastern
Continent, but the people., sir, are all on 'em down
south."
" How do the people in Africa live!"
" By drawing."
" Drawing what—water r
" No sir, by drawing, their breath."
" Sit down Joseph."
" Thomas what is the Equator!"
" Why, sir, it is a horizontal pole, running per.
pendicotarly through the imagination of astrono
mers and geographers."
"Go to your seat, Thomas. William Stiggs,
what do you mean by an eclipse?"
"art old race horse, sir."
• " Silence. Next. Jack Johnson, what is an
Eclipse!"
" An eclipse is a thing as appears when he gitS
on a bust, and nuts against the sun's face."
!‘ Class is .dismissed.
WitisrLisc —Speeking of bores, we can searce
ly imagine one capable of inffictihg more twilLt
ing misery than en intolerable whistler. A file we
can stand when all the nation la' armed and equip
ed,' &o. cer trainini day, and a drum, with itching,
Hang, Hang, serves to drown its screams ; but to
listen to a poor air, badly murdered by a poor puck
er, we prefer death in some ruler if not quicker
way. We always think of the French stage driver,
who, being eery much annoyed by inch a bore,
suddenly turned upon him with My hien, vat for
Ton all the lime •isael! You loss your dog, eh
Kr- A gemleman in the country, who had pot
'aside two bottles of capitil ate, to recreate some
friends he eipected To Nine with Lin!, discovered,
just before dinner, that SI greeuiristt - servant had
emptied them both. " Screrndrel !" said the may.
ter,'" whit do yOU mean by this!" "'WhY; sir, I
WSW plain enough - by the elortets, that if was going
to thunder, sit I drank up the ide once,' real it
should turn sour ; there' r e neihing l'abonfinate like
Westin?!
QS' Ati oh! genius ascribed the very 'cold weath
er we had had *lifter - 'tie - tore" hi& to the fact mar
Sit John Franklin viiia thrOngh the Nerthereat parr
sage, sod forgot to shot the door alter bite
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Lintc.—!" Biled,iolin, if Foe go oat into ;he yard
you w ill r4t„lia 4 *4O la ttle'torese) * ,
" Well, if I stay in thehouse,
wish 1 arcs
iu the yard ; se, where is;,the great tjitlereace,
dad
(Cr it, tea been diesowere4 that whom' to of
boarderi are red for some tin ice'sectigee retie ,
eively, they bogie to greet I
•
MEIPM
We were much gratified in eiamining , , a tla'or
Iwo since, the last will atafteitament offseAre.ficl
11'411sat Baron De Stenben.
The renowned - military man was extremely iecr.
centric 'hi his priiate lice, and his will contains
some eirgulur provisoes. His property at the time
of his death could not have been equal to what he
possessed „in Gerinan) before he citme IV America .
Navin, been aid-de-camp to. Partials* the G,real
and Lem. General in the Mission army, hi. know
ledge °Military tactics was extensive, and of,im.
munie beoefit to the American army at the time
he made a tender of his services.
Ha emigrated to this country under an assurried
name, havir.g been persuaded to this step by his
friends in, France at the time the French were se
crettf aiding the Amencans, bringing letters dirt.
troductionlrom Dr. Franklin to Gen. Washirigton
and the President of Congress. He first addressed
himself to %Vashangout, requesting admission into
the service. A portion of this letter which we find
in Frost's American Generals is hiAhly complimen
tary.
" I would say moreover, were it not for sear of
of yout modesty, that your Excellency is
the 0114 person under whom, alter serving under
the king of Prussia, I could with to Fame an art
to whtch I have wholly given op myself." Wash
ington referred him to Congress, and in laying his
papers before that body, he stated what he had tell,
to engage in the American service, and made an
oder t f his services without any other rename/a
non thal his expenses, except that in case the
Amedeans should gain their independence, he
world expect an indemnity for the office he had
resigned in Europe and a proportionate reward for
his services.
Notwithstanding his great exertions during the
whole war, and the immense value of his services
to the American army, it' was seven yeati after
peace was declared before'e.ingrerfs took any no
tice of his claims. lie bad left affluence and bar
onial dignity among the monarchs of Europe, to
waste his life in our struggfe,'and now when the
great object had been reached ; he was poor, home
less and unprovided for.
Through the exertions of 11'ashington and Ham
ilton, Congress acknowledged hiscl rims and made
him a grant of .t. 12500 annually. And the New
York Assembly voted him 16 000 acres of land
upon this land he built hint a log house and lived
there anti: hi's death, with a lew male domestics,
with no companion but his aids Walk anit North,
to whom he left most ut his pioirerty. His will
reads:—
" Sufficient reasons hating determined me to
exclude my relatives in Eurnpe bout any partici
pation of my estate is America, and to adopt my
friends and siikle.camps Benjamin Walker and
William North as my children, and make them
sole devises of all my estates therein except such
as shall be hereinaferward otherwise disposed
of:—
"I bequeath to Eleujamie Walker the sum of
three thousand dollars, and my gold hilted sword
given me by Congress To Wm North my silver
billed sword, and the gold box given me by the
city of New York. To Jahn J. Stuttgart 1 give and
bequeath the whole of my library, maps and charts,
and 25 hundred dollars to complete it. To each of
my servants living with me at the trine of my de
cease, one yeleswagee, and to my valet de cnam
bre all my wearing apparel.
cl But 1 Jo hereby declare that these -legacies to
my servants are on the following conditions, that
on my decease they So not ; permit any
_person to
touch.my body or even to change the shirt in which
1 die, but that they wrap me in my military cloak
and in tvienty four hours after mj rleceate bury me
in such spot as 1 shall before my decease point act
to them, an d that they tweet' acquaint any petaun
with the place where 1 shall be buried.
"'give and bequeath the rest of my estate, real
and personal, to Beni Walker and Win. North. and
do hereby make th'em'my executors. Signed, New
York, Feb 12, 1791.' 1
Be died Nov. 21, of the same year n artl we copy
from Judge Jones' history id thieida ru, ale-cup.
lion of his bona! place.
In his will. the Baran provided that lit- biely be
buried in the place designated, but aeer hi, death
it could no be ascertained that lie It to arty Item%
designated the place. The only remark that mold
be recollected that had any beauty:, neon the sub
ject was; that he was untie heaal to may, that under
a certain hemlock north of ht. re.vienee, weetil be
a good place to be buried, it shout tio,serer eepres
sing any wish at to his own remains.
In the absence of any other expressed with, that
plaCe was setec,ted, and his remains were there in
tenet!. A few years after a road was laid out, so
that the grave was included within ite;!imits. The
impropriety of such a state of things induced Col
Walker, of Utica, who was one of the bermes aids
in the revolution, and who was one of his execu
tors and principal legatees,. to remove the remains
to tt,niore suitabre wiling place.
The place selected was inehe centre of five acres
of heavy timbered woodland, and Col. Walker gave
one of the Welsh Bapttst societies in the viciiiity,a
lease of fifty acres of hand, of which the hve acres
of woodland Was 'a pert. The only rent and con
eideratitm to be paid is the keeping seal flue acres
eubtuarniallyleirced forever, and no cattle or ether
animals suffered to, gd within its - boil-Os, and the
title to fail whenever 'the lessees 'shall the
penoimancis of the stipulations. 4 4
Up to the present time the society haft sacredly
kept its trust, the .forest, baring, the row primeval
appearance,and the little tiny saplings as well as
thelitigeeteeeh: andiniples beat This' hi refs - That
hate mart nor befit his treipassCel.' • - '
• Tlie titoiiirjnerit Ctecten . rsubsetiptirrit;when this
se-nation's giteva;' . '' . 'La Fayette :'elaited ibis Country
is becoming Jitapiiiiied, - sait for ter tionni-or the
town and county, it .ichoped that it. Will-be selonly '
scpaired. , The tablet, is about seven feet by lours
and nearly foot is ,Abklinesn, ti the pude -limo.,
stone, and kept in plate, srilwtuld the menet
of centuries.
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• litiotri the [Alm (Ett.-Y.)batatie.l
AN 'INTERESTING RELIC.
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*Orte of the most singular teanfres in Niche !kit
is tficfact which is perfectly notorious, ibM 1445 tie 4
tiny of memory acquires air activity and tenacity)
in the case of persona about being Orweed, which
ft nevef eft - 16ns nutter ordinary erreentitaneet*ll
amident occurred Some'vcci:a rincerin New
, i totit4
which threw a number of persons into the Noah
River. Among others were Mr and- -hie slot
ref; the first named, editor of a weekly paioei
Philadelphia. They were both filially saieit—;
Mr. describes the sensation while undst,we
ter, and in a drowning condition, to be pleasing ma
peibliar. It seemed to Mitt that efery eVent in
life crowded in his mind at onee. He pad Witist;
hie of what was occurring, and expected to drown,
but seemed only to regret that such an interesting
"item" as his sensations would make "toad 611
fast.
in noticing this sta+etnent in an eichanglc i adi
reminded of an incident, which, dissimilar as it is
to the one just narrated, in its generat restates, hid
the same re►narliabfe awakening of the thetritiryi
which such cases sometimes eihibit.
can vouch for the truth of what ffilloirs,,Wiii
testify to vivid recollediona in thy Otivn case when
exposed to the 'hazards of drowning, re.produzin . i
in a few moments the events of my entiie peel
life.
Some yearn since, A, held a bond oft, for skt•
eral hundred dollars, having some time to run. itt
its maturity he found that he was unable to End it.
Every search was fruitless. lie only knew _ that
had not been paid or traded away. this dileiii•
ma he called on 8., related the circumstances of
its disappearance, and proposed giving him a tii;
eipt as an offset to the bond, or rather an icultirti
tidying bond against its collection, if ever lOufalz . ..,
To his great surprise, 8., not only refused to sot
espt the termed meeting the difliculty,tor
ly denied owing himanYthing,and ittrcinglf
ted the presence of a fraudulent design on the part
of A.
Without legal proof, and - titerefore without re.
dress, he had to endure both the loss of laidmonefri
and the suspicion of a dishonorable intenlion.,M
urging the claim. Several years passed away witty:
out any change in the nature of the ease, or Os heti
as above given, when'one afternoon white bitting
in the James Rivet, A, either from inability tu
swim, or cramp, or 'some other cause was iliicov.
ered to be dtownit.g. He had sunk and rfiett 51f
veral times, and wai#Oiting away untler.lhe
tira
ter,•when he was seized and drawn to tba glom.
The usual remedies were applied to resuseitere
him, and although there were signs of life; there
was no appearance of consciousness. Ile was ta..
ken home in a state of complete exhaustion, and
remained so lot some days.
On the first return of his strength - to itati, he left
his bed : went to hi& book case, toot a book, Opei - .
ed it and handed his long lost bond . to a friend
woo was pre sent. He then informed him
that when drowning, and sinking, as bevappoied
to rise no more, rti a moment, there stood ma i des,.
tinctly before his mind is a pietufe, tier, ad If
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hie, horn the hour of childhood to the time of sink
mg beneath the hater, and among them the. cit
cumstance of his putting the bond. in a book itself,
and the place in which he had pm it m the book.
ca e. 11 is needless to say that he recovered hie
own unmetineely.
There is no dcnbt that this remarkable quicken. ,
ness of memory resoles from the process which hi
#uch cmesisining, oa ; the eltingniShrhent oftife.jt
is somewhat analogous to the breaking in
light of another world, which its so many well tits
tested eases: of deatisbeil seetiee, *11010641w de.
paving spirit,'eren belere it has absolhaelliell
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clay tenement, to behold and exult in tbegioncaul
the luttne state. Is it not a tart inference, that bs:a
he soul shakes nit the clogs and incumbrentea of
the body, it wilt possess capacities for enloyMen!,
of which on earth it was unsusceptible.
As regards the memory„ it will be observed by
parsons, how readily in life we forget ibis
which we 10 not desire to remember, and in this
wa) we get rid of mach unhappiness.. ,„ Can we 4
ila.< (0(7 dent I This is an important practical
question.—oo s ddrer tis cr.
A GOO D Htv.—ln the courro of a discussion' if,
the Convention, the other day, a good
raid atto4l the lit entions.nen of the pram, who 0.
tleillf Cot. Crhoutles, of Boston, made a very ask
retort:
it great drat has been said about the licentious
ness of the public presS. Now, sir, I happen , to
have had a great dead to Ju with the publie,press,
and I must say that the most licentious patio( soy
experience with the publicpress has been•in ITre
dcleace of men irr public suitions. (Great latigtr(ur.)
trust, Mr. Ptert4eut, 1 ana uut out ol .cudefr•" ;
(Laughter )
(*--- The New Yolk Day •Book espoakibielot
the Itylithcint.... • . i
r. ]unit Van Buie:lgorMta a Sid) ateUie , as
on Monday
_morning to canna dos Irvin, 4 ! ,*a
rain, ii:11 seeing !nut en one side anJ %six ma the
othhei, he promptly made' a seveudr oa - ther•fall
foetid], Lagti trent thio'Ole'6lliiiitini 14iii
0141 gentleman iu si teinail.J'%tfto=ll - *Te;
et get him to go any whew huLoo the tilOttalidetii?
(1::r [fa man would follow this adrien'thefinit
,beslots upon others, w4i. reformation
would be effected in the wall.
01!", It is easy to goti-att tit name, beeatitstiqkti
Soo - tie\ believed, and baJ iinptessioos -4111,-chirtenat
to be • effaced, r ~..10tirlfj4
04r Mediak thurka..aii. Tree_ of Enosr a aza
wáá the hitch yew, die/ wigs ofethichillaisditkine
more to make a man amitiaiated'efith-ilit "Wfe,
than in the member/I of the veztiabiellWatil
combined.
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