Br HENRY J. ST
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"hoc Out Your Row."
One lazy day a farnier'x lily,
War. hoeing out the corn,
And moodily had liAtened fang
To hear the dinner horn.
The welcome hia,,t was heard at last,
Arid .10iNti he driqlped hi; hoe ;
But good inan ,hunted in Li< ear, -
floe out your row !—O,
floe out your row!
Altho , a •hard one" was the row,
the a plowman's phrase,
And the lad, aN the sailor's have it,
•
Beginning w oil to "haze"—
g , I eau." said he, and manfully
Ile seized again his hoe ;
And the good man smiled to see the boy
Hoe out his row-0,
floe out his row.
The lad the text remembered.,
And proved the moral well,
That perieveranee to the end
At last will nobly tell.
Take courage, man resolve you can t
A nd.strike n vigorous blow.
In life's great field of varied toil
seicei iiiis'oe.ilAqi.„
History of Ncwspars.
* The first newspaper was issued monthly in
MS - S - .l6rm ihr - the repnbliTA - I enire, anti tsiis
called the Gazetta, probably from a - farthing
coin peculiar to Venice, at which it was sold.
Thirty volumes of it are still preserved in a li
brary at Florence. /t was long supposed that
the first neWspaper published hi England was
at the epoch Of the Spanish_ Armada, but it
has beau discovered. that the copies of- that
bearing the, imprint of 1538, in the British
Museum, were forgeries': There was no doubt
that the 'puny Ancester of the myrimis . of
broad sheets!Was not published ti11:1622,151)
years after the art of printingbad been discov
ered: and it.was nearly 10 years - more before
a daily pliar t iwas ventured upon.
..Periodical
papers seem first to have' been used by the
Enfflish—ddring—the -.times- of the- Common--
wealth, and: \fere then called "weekly news= .
- books." , Sonic of them hail most - whithsieal
titles. It was reonnuon with the early papers
to have a blank rare, which was -s-iimetinieS
fi led tip, in',the paucity ofnel,vs,hy selections
from the scriptureQ.
The first newspaper printed, in North Amer
ica, was printed in Boston.. in' 1690. Only
one copy of that- paper was known to he in ex
istence. It was deposited in the State Paper
Office in Loudon, and was ahout , the size of an '
ordinary - sheet of letter paper. It was stop:
ped by the government. The Boston News
letter wits the first regular paper. It was is
sued in 17 . 04, and was printed liv John Allen.
in Puddings lane. The contents of some of
theearly numbers were very peculiar. • It had
speech-h-Of-Qti ean.-A-nna-to__Ratd ia in en toleliv—
ered 120 days previnlsiv, and this was the,
latest news froM England'. in one of the ear
ly numbers there was an announcement that
by the order of the Postmaster. General of
North America, the post between Boston and
New York sets out once a fortnight. Negro
men, women and children were advertised to be
Fold ; and a call was made upon a, W(»»an who
had-stolen a piece-of flue lace worth 14s a
yard, nod upon another who had Conveyed a
piece of fine calico und er her ridin: , hood, to
return the saute or be exposed in the news
papers.
Reasoning in Animals.
The following remarkal de instance of ;agar
ity in the swallow is taken from "Everett's
14 Life of 1)r. Adam Clark." It may serve to
• rouse our minds to the consideration of. the
question touching the reasoning capacity of
animals The Ciw:inuatus.
"The nearest a ppri inch to reason in animals
I ever was witness to," said t h e doctor, "was
at Batcliff Close, near Bury, in Lancashire.
Looking up to the eaves of a house, I says a
number of swallow's nests in a row, and per
ceiving no place of egress. I inquired of Mr.
Bealie, the proprietor of the building, how it
happened they assumed such au appearance ;
when he told me, that in that neighborhood
they were d: I 'Wind '
they were designate , nests. iefore
the return. of the swallows in the spring, some
sparrows had taken posses. , ion of them. On
the arrival of the original proprietors,
attempts were 13 1 ade to eject the occu
pants ; but the sparrows sat, and main
tained possession. Other swallows came to
thi.F aid of the lawful owners: Tut no no-wer-
which they possessed would, serve the pur
pose of eierting the'villaitious sparrows—fur
the sparrow is a villainous bird: What was
the re , ult? The swallows, alter various and
fruitless attev!ts. assembled on the roof of the
Jul
.in',. and , at for some thne as though hi
•r l ai ileliberation ; they then awav• each
returning, in a few secoml, with mud . in his
bill, with which they CI Red up the holey, thus
D'urviug the f.. 4 parrows alive : where, iu those
nests, they remain entombed to this day. -
"That," said a friend,wh o heard the
.'elati - o - n. "I'ra - IT:turning evil evq with a
enc , eance." The iloetor, who was one of the
last men to act on the le-x tag/ioni.s system
himself, cornmeni:ed adtocating with no unapt
illustration . , for the poor harmless swallows.
"What," said he jocosely, "if a man were to
enter my house, take posse , ,.tion of it, and
turn my wife and children out of doors, shnuld
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• GETTY:.',I3URG PFNNSYLVANTA ' MONDAY JT.TNT ‘) 856.
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A MISSISSIPPI SPORTING ADVENTURE;
BV A 711M.71: 1M0D531.4. N.
I have often seen accounts of "hair breadth
'scapes," in such eases; which very wise peo
ple—who know nothing, about it—in more civ
ilized places, have charged to.the marvellous,
but which we of the vi-oods-eat least ninny of us
—knoW not to he only possible, but highly pre u
able, and in sonic instances by sad experience , .
In illustration of which, I will endeavor to de
serihe 'tin adventure of my own. In 1537,' I
resided on the banks of the Mississippi, (U.
W.,) as 1 hail dune from infancy. I was then
about 20 years of age, stout and athletic, and
passionately fowl of wild scenery and spurting
adv 'attires. The -- month of October had ar
ril•c d--the great` season of partridge and deer
_ . .'oting, ; -and-in accordance with my almost
daily custom, I sallied out with my foWling
piece, one barrel , containing ball and other
small shot.' I had succeeded-in bag‘n-ing some
small wares, and in passing a- creek observed
a raccoon, busily employed turning over the
stones in search of frogs, worms, &c. With
out giving the matter mach thought, I succeed
ed in renioving "Ursa Miner" to another if not
a better world; and being rather V orpulent to
carry through the woods, I hung
_him upon A
sapling, intending to send for him the next'
day ; and as the part of the country which I
was in did not very often afford large game, 1
charged the second barrel with shot also. I
proceeded perhaps a mile, and was crossing
the outskirts of a Tamarack swamp, through
a succession - of narrow, rocky glens, with sigh
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and precipitous side:, and had sprung rum n
rather high rock into a rift of not More than
three feet wide, when I perceived -the eyes of
an immense buck glaring at me at not 'over
ten feet distant. A glance showed me that he
had no means of escape except over myself:
and aware of the desperation of this other
wisetimid creature, under such eirewnstances,
and at this particular 'season, I formed my
resolution'in an instant. I cocked both-kicks,
placed my fingers on the triggers, and resolved
to wait his spring, as I did not think my
charges would injure him except at the very
intu i zle.' I knelt upon one knee and watched
hiS eve. All this took place in a very few
seeonds. ,
At length the haunches and ears were
drawn back., and with a tremendous . snort'he
hoinided in 'the air with the evident intention
of- descending upon - me - . Quick—as-lightnitrg - ,
both barrels were discharged full into his
breast, and I received a shoc as if fn on a 'pile
engine, which deprived me Of all' Sensation.
About three hours after,n.s near us. I could
judge by comparing afterwards, 1. was - brought
to a state of-partial sensibility by something
licking my face, and something growlit , and
scratching my clothes but being very faint
did not look • up till'enormous pa,ws tore my
flesh with them. Then, indeed, I did look up
—when what was my horror to see a huge
bear, coolly_licking the blood from My lascer
ated breast. 'Weakness, more than self-pus
session, kept me still .a, moment, while two
half-grown cubs were tearing and scratching
my legs and-feet. The desperation uf_the_case'
aroused" me to sudden energy, and I slowly
stretehed my left hand (my lip-ht arum was
broken,) to my back for my hunter's knife, re
solved,. if such can , be.called resolution, to
save my t elt puss' e. l a( got it rawn
front the sheath, and wits watching a faYorahlc
opportnnity to plunge it into the brute's
throat, when, with a terrible roar, it fell acros's
my body apparently in the'agonies of death.
A fearful struggle ensued, which soon put a
step to mit feeble exertions.
When I next came to nry senses, I was
seated, leaning against a rock. and alstalwart
Indian youth, wlto bud
be en my cifinpanion in
many a hard day's hunt, was , busily emplovc4l
hireling up my wounds with leaves anti strips
torn frian. his own scanty garments. Not be
to take me home that ni ht he made
t fire. and nursed me aS a in would a chill,
and the next day carried me by easy stages to
my parents.
It
. appeared that he had called for me, but
being told dila I was only gone a few mi3lUtt'S.
thought he would make up tome: 111' 1141 : 1-
aellially came to whore I had shot the raccoon :
but found that sonic bears hat' lr )ken ttr sap
ling, and eaten, th eir..cousin.—lle then struek
then' trail, and ft dlowed them to wh e re h e
the Old one apparently devouring something,
he did not knlw . - what. Ile fired, anti hein ,
aware of their tenacity of life, wanted to re
load his ride, ere venture to advance—a sad
job for me, as by its dying struggles I have
been maimed for life.
It is worthy of remark, that the deer had
been so close upon me, when I fired, that his
chest was singed, and that-the barrels of'the
gun were found nearly eirlit inches deep in
the wound formed by their own discharge,
while I and the stock had been driven upward
of thirty feet by the fin-cc of his spring.
Such are some of the Lockwood -sports,"
and which, with many other equally ronm!itie,
is an "over tyae tale," as Laud many others
know by hard experience;
Things Two - Hundred Years Ilenre.
Sreim.—Parlo • I s• 6 qn 4'
gent in :Cew York. Old, gent telegraphs to
the kitchen, and waiter ascends ill a halloon.
:unit' the blaze of fire-work , .]
Old gent.—John, fly over to South Amer!(o,
and tell Mr. Johnson that I will he happy to
haVe him sup with nie. Never mind your coat
now. ; .. 4 „ .
. , am a tie en( 0 ve minute,,
return ,
John.—Mr, Johnson FaY‘i he will come,
has g )t to go to) the N,.rth Pule, fur a mint ju
lep and then I:4. will he here.
0 4V-411,-jL4i
the maehine for setting. the table, and tele
graph to /1/y ~rife ', Tin I», and tell hcr that
Mr. JohtteriTn.l4 - 6Oriiiiifi,., then bru , li up my
. •`.l.erial - N avigator," f ,r I have an engagement
bindon at twelve o'clock.
John fling off to execute hig order.% and the
obi ;, , entlentan runs over to the IVe , t Intii6s for
a tuotnent, to ;;et a fre,h orange.
""`Papa, Why don't they give the tele
graph a dose of gin?".
"WhV, Inv child ?"
"Cause tie papers say that they are out of
ord er , aril ]nauuua alwav takes gm when.she
is out of order:"
izkn announce , ' that
II JoNAs It. AtCi.r.vrocK. is , a Crelate 1 . .,r•
the D..mrwratic nomination fur governor of
Penn:vivania.
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The Patriotic Quakerm.
While the American army remained en
camped at to ,:kla -the-British being-in
possession of Philadelphia, Geti - .,110we made
some vain attempts to draw Washington into
an engagement. An incident of female agen
cy is well remembered by many . aged persons.
the hew,e opposite-the liead-4,inarters of Cm.
Howe, in the city, tenanted by William and
Lydia Dzirrali, n,einhers„..of the So c iely,
FrioNs, was the !dace selected by the superior
ofticers of the. army for private conferences a .
‘vheneverit NV:IS necessary to hold consulta
tions. Oa the afternoon ofthe 2d of-December,
the British Adjutant-General called Aufl in
formed the. mistress that he and some friends
were to meet there that evening, and desired
that the back room upstairs might be prepared
for their reception. "And be sure, Lydia,".
he concluded, — that your fataily - ard all in bed
at an early hour. When our guests are ready
to kale the house, I will myself give you no
tice, that, y.ai may let us out, and extinguish
e tire aml candies." •
Having delive . red this order, the Adjutant-
General departed, Lydia betook herself to
getting all things in readiness. But the words
she had heard, especially the injunction to re
tire early, rang in her ears ; and could not di
vest herself of the feeling that something of
importance was in agitation. The evening,
closed in, and the officers came to the place of
meeting. ,Lydia had ordered all her family
to bed, and herself admitted the guests, after
which she retired to her own apartment.
Bat sleep refused to visit her eyelids. She
hecame more and more uneasy, and .at last
slid from 'the shed, and taking her shoes,.
passed noiselessly from her chamber and
along the entry. A pproaching cautiouslythe
apartment in which the officers were assem-
Ided, she applied her ear to the key-hole. For
a few moments she could distinguish but a
word or two amid the murmur of voices. At
length there was profound silence, and it
video was heard reading a paper aloud. It
was au order her the troops to quit the city on
the night of the 4th, and march out to it se
cret attack upon the American army at White
Marsh.
'Lydia retreated softly to her morn, and
laid herself quietly ou the bed. It seemed to
lter that.but a few moments had elapsed, when
there was a knocking at her door. She knew
well what the signal metrut, 'but took no heed.
was—repeated—again—and—again • And_sh
then rose quickly. and opened the door. It
was the Adjutant-General who came to inform
her
. they were ren . dy .to depart. Lydia let
them out, fastened the house. and exanguish
ed the lights and tire. Again she returned to
her chamber; 'but her mind was more dis
quieted than ever, for site thought of the dan
ger that threatened the lives of thousands of
her countrymen. Her resolution at length
was formed, and at dawn of day she waked her
husband, and informed him that flour was
wanted for the use of the household, and that
it was necessary she should gu to Frankfort'
to procure it. 'Taking the bag with her, she
walked through .the snow, having first ob
tained a writteunertaNsion to Hasa the British
lines. She reached Frankfor4l, distaii four
or five miles, and deposited her bag at the
will. Now commenced the dangers of her
undertaking. for SIM pressed forward with all
s
army. „ ner determination was 'to apprise
dencral 'Washington of the danger.
She was. met on her way by an American
officer, who had Leen selected by Ueueral
Washington to gait information respeoth ,
the movements of the enemy. Ile inquired 4
whither she was going„and she disclosed the
secret, after having vhtained. front hhn a Soh
enin prollli:-e nut to "hotroy Inir, since the
British migh.t take vengeance on her, and her
Ile thanked her for her timely warn
ing, and directed her to go to a house near at
1, and, where she Might get something to eat
Bat Lydia preferred returnitpg at once; and
(lid $4), earrving- her bag; of flour, while the
flieermade ad baste to the Comm:mder-in
chit.f. Preparations were immedia.tely made
to !_rive the enenlya fittin;! reception. ,
None tzuspected the grave, rleinttrecbmkeres
of having snatched from the English their an
ticipated vieti,ry: hut after the' return of the
British troops, a loud knockiii7. was heard at
Lydia's door; The visitor was the Adjutant
(iNwr:ll. who summoned her to his apartment.
l ! iekeil the rloor witit an air of mystery, and
in' tit.ned her to a seat. After a moment of
silence, he said—" Were any of your family
up. Lv ilia. on the night when I received com
pany in this bruise?"
Ihe reply. "They all retired at
eigh o'clock."
—lt is very strange," said the officer, and ,
mused a few minutes. "You. I know, Lydia,
wi T o a ,l e op, for I knoel.; e rl at your door three
hefire you heard me—vet it is cemin
that we were hetrayel. l ant altogether at a
loss to croiceiNe who could have given the in
formution of four interoled attack to General
Washington I (in arriving near his eneamp
ment we found his cannon - mounted, his
troop , : under arms, ;11111 so prepared at cvery
point to receive 11 4 , tlirt have been eenlper
led to nntrch hack v ithout injuring our line
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of Mr: Rt rid rie
NIE
v.iti say yon know' dm
(1(4"k11(1;ml—what is his cliaratoter?"
"For what, sir, ;-I,l(.(!iiig or int.i.grity 9"
"For ilite•srity, sir."
"%V&A!. all 1 c. . ;, •
11 , •nc,t, ite's ;,44t a t qt . teer way of tillOWing it,
that's all."
"What (10 vnti lnran Iry that ?"
"Ju.st this—that the night hefore he dine ,
un turkey somebody's poultry coup is broken
"That will do, ?Ir. Filikins."
(',,,mindonni--"I say, Clem,"tsaid one rlar
kry to another, .`eati you told me why a nig
fer is never dead broke?"
“Nrk, ;iligor." said Clem, " I don't know.an'
darfiire drops de subjee' wiciont a spression."
"Well, den," returned the other darkey
tell von why a nigger is never dead broke--
it's bekase he always has a ser;g/ airmt him."
friend of ourg RaVm that he intends
applying for a patent for a tnaehrne, whieh he
say, when wound up and put in motion, will
cha'e a hog over a ten acre lot, catch. yoke
Trar i, :
"*".lTt ellarpre of gear--
rkn~ art ,Tr t°
111;2:. it Will ch ili him into sau , a‘zc , . work his
hri•sties int() shoe bruslic., and manufacture
his tail into a cork screw•. Great machine,
that.
Dr. Franklin in Franee—ilie News of Cornwal
- tis's Surrender.
- -Soon -after-mv - retu r t o-Pa ris ted-nm}
r_
spent the evening :with the immortal Frank-_,
lin. Arriving at an early honr, di'seovered
the philosopher in adishint room, rending, i n
the exaetposture in which he is: represenced
hv an athnirahle engra.ving from his, portrait,
his left aria resting upon the table, and his
tin_stipported by the Bann]) of his right
hand. ills Venerable locks waving over his
shoulders, and the di!rolity of his_personal, ap
pearanee, eommandi'4l roerence and respect;
and , vet his manners were so pleasant and
fascinating, that one felt at ease- and- more
. strained in his presence. lie inquired if I.
knew that he was a musician, and conducted
me across the mom to an instrument of his
own invention, whieh he ealled the harmonica.
The music. was produced by aopeculiar condd
nation of hemispherical glasses. At my so
licitation he played upon it, and iwrfiwineil
some Scotch pastorales with great
and
The exhibition was truly striking and inter
esting; to thus contemplate an eminent states
man, in his seventy-sixth year, and the most
distinguished philosopher of the age, perform
ing a simple pastorale on an instruntent of his
own construction. The interest was not di
minished by the fact, that this philosopher,
who. was guiding the intellects : of thousands ;
that this statesman. an object of veneration in
the metropolis of Europe, and who was influ
encing -thedestiny of nations, laid been an un - -
tutored printer's Voy in America.
Our conversation -during the evening was
turned to -the all-absorhing subject, of the
great combination of the French and Ameri
can threes against Cornwallis. Our last in
formation left the affairs in Virginia in a pre=
carious and doubtful posture. De Grasse had
entered the Chesapeake. Washington . and
Itochambean' hail united their forces. Iht
Barrios, with '.seven sail of the line, had left
Rhode Island to join De (irasse.. The British.
fleet had sailed from New York, with ten thous
and troops to relieve Cornwallis,` and it was
reported that a reinforcement hail departed
for New York: Thus stood the general aspect
of our intelligenee, at-a crisis which 'seemed
to involve the existence of a young empire.:---:
We -weighed probabilities, balanced possible
v h_i ss it m l e s., dissected maps. We feared that
the British fleet might intercept De Barras,
at the copes of Virginia, and thus retrieve its
s periori ty-over De 20 , Se, itt taek-nad-over
wh (Ain him, and- landing their army, defeat,
and breakup the combinations of Washington.
The philosophy and self possession even of l
Franklin,- seemed to -amion The vi
brations of hope and fear occupied his mind,
and still t could perceive in bun a deep con
viction of_a successful issue to the operations
of Washington. I left him at night, in the
company, of Dr. Bancroft, an American, re--
siding-in London, but- an-ardent-Whig, and
returned to Paris in deep despondency, sigh
ing over the miseries of our bleeding country.
At dawn the next Morning, I was aroused
by a thunderin g rap at my doer.' It brought .
one a circular from Di.. .Franklin, struck off by
&moteloine somewhat' similar to the co vim,
,of the present day ; and with what
unspeakable thankfulness, and thrilling
in
terest I read
,its contents! It was as folrows :
Copy of a note from Connt, do' Vergennes to
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• • • Ulf . u - 7 I S • I • g 4 ,1 ii I
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1781, 11 o'c1i;e1( at night
firrc cannot better express my gratitude
to you, for the new you often' cotrnllUltkate
to MO, than by in forming you that the Due de
Lansan arrived this - evening, with the agreea
ble news that the combined armie•l of France
and Aniertea have forced Cornwallis to capit
ulate. , Th(:, English garrison came Out of
Yorktown the I 9th of October, with honors of
w a r , and laid doivn their arms as prisoners.
About six thousand troops, eighteen hundred
sailors, twenty-two stand of colors, and one
hundred and seventy pieces of cannon—seven•
,oh;
. which are brass—are the trophies
whielLsigualize this victory ;' 1s ides,' a ship
of fifty gun was burnt, also a frigate, and a
great number of transports. I have the
honor, &c. 1)t;Itt:
'f u'liir4 Excellency, P r . Franklin.
• The next (lay I muted on Dr. Franklin, in
eimmion with many Allleril'an and 'Frvni•hgen
tlemen, to offer our mutual ciurrrattilations.
He appeared in, an eestacy (rr joy, observing.,
"there 1' nol4rallel 111 hiStliry•of t''o entire
armieH being captured from
,the same enemy
iu any ()III! War.'
'Phi; delight and rejoicing -4 of all elagses of
people were exee4sive. Paris was illuminated
f'or three successive nights:. On my return to
Nantes, along, the banks of the Loire, 1 found
all the cities in a blaze of illumination, arid
Nantes in the midst of it on my arrival.—
Elhanak Uraixon,
A 11-ad ShoL—A g4bod story is Vila of F.,
of Kacir►e, au indel ' atigable and successful
sportsman, "dt;ad shot" at anything in the
pone kiwi., but particularly "fine lined" on
wild geese, whose- heads were sure to suffer,
"jest hack of the eye," if within range of I►is
Not many seasons since, our hero, with an
.
fun-loying ft. - Icm", after spending
day with their dogs and guns, were wending
their wav homeward, when in the evening
twilight the Nyuggish companion discovered
the neck ofa wild goose peering through a
neighboring fence. •
"Stop your d—n noise," said P.,
a hit. I'll have him, icqt ba c k of the eve— )
can bet vour life on: that "
StVilpirtg: Lark a Oup, and bringing the old
ra , t3,- to his f , e, 1:. - blazed away.
"I (alio, there !" followed back the report,
"what arl. tou shooting here fur ? Don't you
know the difference between the linufile, , n $
corn plow and a goose's neck?"
'Twits! enough! U. had shot the handle off'
from a corn plow, "jes,t back of the eye:"
Cultic/Ilion ( ! f Peel,-OrSauger
ties, New York, has shad, carp, tench, g9hl
- &e., in the ponds of his estate, and so well
are they prOtecteil from molestatiVn — o every
kind, that upon the appearance of persons at
the margin of the waters, they approach to re
ceive food from their hands. This gentleman,
it is said, has a sturgeon, seven feet long, and
when he wants a sail on his pond, lie harness
es his sturge'ai, attaching a line and cork to
the traces. The sturgeon will swim with the
iimammaignammuimptitioasktiainualimuss
keeping near the slu;re. 'lien lie will sudden
-Iy-stop,y-stop, rise to the surfal.e of the, water, and
turn upon his back, thus indicating; its exhaust
ed condition.-I'4iluddphia, Lcdger.
A _correspondent -of the New York , Daily
..TiJacs_w rit es_from_.&ui Annoti Texas.,_uti,d r
tl;i.tej)f April 15, and . thus describes his expe ,
Yienee among the "insects" of that interesting
region; ---'There is no use in dikputing the,
mutter Texas is a great State. . moon the
Foil, the boundless plains, the' beautiful oak
forests, the luxurious grass, and just at this
time its soft, bailey breezeS and its beautiful
nights, Don't understand us that we admire
every thing in Texas.,...Not by considerable.
-- Its - nasty - little - rivers, its bugs and snakes and
varmints o fall kinds, including a smart spritik
ling.of the natives, we do beg was respectfully
to despise. We have Mast returned from a trip
up among.the.Ctniunthes and the 'Supra on,
the Clear Fork of the. Braxos River,, and-if we
are not almost seared out of our senses we
don't know onrself. The 'tvarin weather for'
the last month has made every thing look like
midiunnumr„ and 'all sorts. of creeping and
stinging things have emerged from their Win
ter lodgings in such quantities that 1 fear I
shall never get home safe. It was only a few
nights since that I pitched my tent on the
banks of ,the Colorado. I. thought I had se
lected at good clean spot fir my humble blank-1
et, and I was about to tarn in - When I heard,
a rattle that nearly made me jump ont of my`
skin. Theie he was; not threafeet from my
tent, taking a good look at my dog, wkich hail
Mille It little too close to the reptile. Where
the critter came from the Lord may know; Pll
swear he wasn't there a half-hour before.—
Well, we "killed the snake," and; being weak
.ly, I took just one half-pint or toddy, concoct
ed of the meanest whiskey . that ever was seen.'
They. don't have any other sort
the men of my - party went off to bed, leaving
only your correspondent,-"Diek,' my dog, and
Ben, my nigger boy, by my lire.. I lay down
on my blanket to read myself to sleep, but I bud
scarcely finished two pageS, when I saw crawl
, ing slowly up the'Side of my tent what lOolied
to me like the father of all spiders. I was,sure
at first that only one drink of whiiikev had
brought on a bit of "the monkeys." Midi re
markable presenec of mind, I called to Ben;
to convince myself that I was not really out Of
my proper mind: To my' delight, that nigger
come into my tont, and .1 pointed out to hint
my visitor.
,"Why, dat'it a
_Partfahim,"
(tarantula) says he ; "jes wait a minute till 1
..doxh him nu de kips." After• killing-1 the
±lreutalum a_ctilmettni yie_ers_bytel lin g_
me that there was only one thing that could
cure the bite of the insect, and that was' two
quarip of -whisky. As I had'nt more than
three drinks left, and it was fifty miles ,to the.
nearest sottletueut, 1 voted the boy -poor
comforter ;..and I was about to remark that
much to him, when I 'saw something' that
looked like a little "fiddler," (such as yon 'see
on the sea shore in these parts,) with a tail to
it, crawling dyer-my shirt bosom. My firiit
impulse, was to brash the thing away with my
hand, which rdid, but in a moment I felt 'as
though 'a needle, had been run into' the end ef
my - finger and Sheved up to my elbow. The
pain made me start-to my feet, but; Ben• only
laughed, "Yaw; yaw, truism deems--dat's tt
smolt, t rt --y on musn't tech tein
the rattlesnakes, the tarantulas and the seorpi;
ons, yon may be sure that I shall. never for
get the alight I. spent on; the Colorado. My
sausage, iuul I lutve no doubt it would liaVe,
pained me a good `deal'had I not fancied/that
it was going to go hard with me, all of , whieb
induced me to take my remaining thne,driukS
of bad whisky, and from the effects of .which
have no doubt 1 was at first:lovingly, senti
mentally tiglit; then roaringly drunk, and thhn
don't recollect how it was--4 Slept until
ton o'clock the next day, nod then I. Ava g ti :
aroused only by the melodious voices.of twelye
hungry mules tied to the Wagons in front of
my tent.
le ',word qf alitFitcon mut =Euil,o6 - 7 Nidt
oltm—Tho sword home by Napoleon at the
battle of Marengo Was . bought by Rniperor
Nleholas in D 350, precisely half a century ar
ter the bloody and memorahle event occurred.
This precious relic -was purchased for the sum
of thirty-two thousand dollars. The sword of
so great a warrior, carried in an engagement
‘vhich lasted fourteen' hours,, where . victory
alternated ow four different occasions, where'
sixty pieces of cannon were successfully lost
ana reouptored.:by the French, was a price
less eouranir to the late Czar:,
Lovis Napoleon and the" English Press.—
Since the cessation of hostilities a gulch less
friendly tone pervades' the English press to
wards Louis Napoleon ; his acts are criticised
with more asperity ; and the recent speech
vvhielt Co int Walewski made at the confer
ence, tine burden of which was to silence the
Dress of Belgium, in order to please hislan=
peritil master, ham lieen resented in strong edi
torial articles. Q.
Tv) CiriUzi' Clet.epinten.—JOin Adams was at
one time called upon by some one to contrib
ute to foreign missionm, when he abruptly'an
swered: • . , •
"I have nothing to give fur that purpme,
hat-there sire here in the vicinity six
ters, not one of whom will preach in each oth
er'm pulpit Now, I Will contribute ns much
and snore than any one else, to civilize these
six clergymen."
"ana wait
77u; Eronouty'of the Luir.—There is
i Ir, • - 7 -
'Mit tried. latelY in North Danville, Vermont.
It employed for two good long days one jus
tice, two lawyers, _a constable, twelve witness
es and two sets of jurymen, to say nothing of
a score or two of able-bodied workingmen,
• „ i,,si ;stem rig to
a cit.se of trespass fin. cn lain articles of see
ond-hanrl hardware. The conclusion was an
award of one cent damages. No, it was not
the conclusion—for then' the plaintiff found
that the defendant was a minor, and could
avoid payment of that cent and the costs.
Junes fjund.a Latin won in his news
paper, of which he did not know the mean
ing, so he appealed to Brown, who is a scholar,
and—more's the shame—a punster. "What
is 'the Inrnbi 1" said Jones. "Maynard &
Noyes," replied Brown,—"is n't that the ink
/ O,L b u y jiale6 felt that Brown had some
how evaded the question, but he didn't see
t, -97-70---trerer chttAh-d
over tlu atrocity—winked at Thompson—and
is at large."
Cunvpution to-day.
Touch of Texas Life.,
Coming to their Nenses.
It is stated in the . .NeW Nuven . Palladium
that oonemlwr_ofilte cemlian • iLwilielLiettthat
city for ; Kansas just before tice A lniielectaon,
after Tieing 'supplied with a Sharpo'S titre
through the efforts of . ..Beet:her, Dutton, and
other political preachers' has already retiuti';
ed, baying "seen the '.elephant," and being
now perfeetly'satisfted ;to stayat home,/ Sev:
end of: those who went to Kansas. from ProV ; -
idence, ,Riide Island; one 'year agt?,''l#l - #
sine() returned, and others from whom, Ate
have heard have either'remov ett or canteitplek
removing . . to other, places ,in Ahe far WeAt.
Coin:net:4:lg on this state of facts, die ,
gr4vi-,-
_
donee Post, says _ - •
''Sensible people, it SeentS to us, etirinotiaif
to perceive the cause of this dissatisfaction'
with Kansas.- It_i not because the soil is not
good, nor because the climate is,-unhealthy,.
nor because .the land is hold at_rhigh,,prices,
nor because the, unsettled' portions 'of flu:Ter
ritory aro inaceeSsible;that emigrants aro dis
appointed and - forced to Tatum. ,Itishocause,
and only because, th s e'Xmigrant Aid Company,
by their business and political operatiens, : haye
suecoodedj.n . inwo,yerishinarienrlY ell fhb Men g
of moderato mearili Who have ginie:therer niil
have added to"tho rospeet of turd stiaratien
all the dangers, embarrassments, au( troubles,
resulting from anarchy and civil ! way."
Absente of Mind;'.'
It is not always the„"longest pole that;
knocks down the most, persimmons," eitheOn
the game of bluff. or in the more difficult 4ktipo,
of life. "There is if
,diritiitylilitt'Stapew•Ofif •
mid', rough hew theth as-wo will," :end it oh
ten happens that ;when' a man{ considor,e,
self "hunk," he is as,fox astray as .possible.
Here is a 'Casein pointt.,
I)r. Joshua Caldwell, who div,ed for many'
ears" inthe toWn of r ' . .W
lorenee, on -thife:4torti
.R cserve,4ohio, was a niost '
one . of the •most eccentric . oitiLabserttlutnded."
persons
‘ in the world, except ,Mttrgiire,Ehiol"
wife, who was, fully:his equal.„ Ooe_inunmer,
morning the doeldr'grit cauAht in it trin'eft
duns shower, which-drenched-lam-to thelikinJ
It , soon cleared . off, helief , ei, and 1 ,14.4„J0ah
rude into his own
,yaid, Where U`li , ol:lliii
dripping •Saddle . front - the horse, in&
go adri in the pasture The saddle•iie-lf ad:
placed upon, it„ stout, log of .wecd,,
(devoted about, four feet from the,iiirounk,
film io•dry peaches un. ,,, -Afterhoidrik gift lii4A
saddle all .fixed-so that i tt, Weald:4l74 Ivo -took,
the briddle, andivotting, tts4 )4t .t oyer tlto j end„,
ottlie log,ho stretched out the' rems,nedlnieli
ed them to the hot`iinfiliesitddle, - nuclVailtlit''
to chafft , :,e Nyet'elotlrek ,arid;get •breakfolt.
•TOshuti - juni(fiWnetiont iisityand
so the' seniors sat down logetheeto the itieriikk
ing's: When .-,:they 'were !nbento,-,balt •
through 41m, 4.tyreod,,',.o;fortnfr who, iiyed,.
eight inflefi'distant, 'Came telling - thed(46s;
he wished Ite'W(fuld'intrrt 'and
house,' es' rockenedc he might beh . tvdrited4
there before night.?!...-The 44,41 . 0vpro,thi*Agt
be there, and Jim went:off ia.a hurry _o- the
tillage fur the twessnry fixings.., a k•
When the •doctor had finished, his hrefilftiVs
he eaddle-I.4igS'Onit Went 'lite' the -
yard, 'where he , deliberately•Mbunied hie `sad=';
ale, and set; out in ,;inutenation
AT(
roc'. e
,on in the Fin) st iufonncl silence, with : his .
eyes fixea .intehtlY -13italran'§ Practic'd,:
11•Itielf'Infopini on' the . 4toldle beforellito' A.t. 2
Length ho began to feel the effects of the:lien:le
'frays Qf : the infddny sun, and, l looking.afi:„ ! ilk„
las hook, he di covered a copfortahle.T/it!,,le
house' close' to him, * .
4i he SitirA
1 n ti ly . fora 'drink or water.-;-Aitnt Margaret', '
who had been fia• the last tw,Ct, hotITS:VOry bue„y;
in the, garden, mallet her dppeaFttnee, 7vitj,La..r
pitnber of, milk, and rifler - the thirsty titrangerivi
hiid taken a long, draugla the' tvie 6,ritOrealirth' -
an an i mated Converation, therdoctor farm eh; ;
in ,0 u tTli Ito . rapturous ,pr ti&teki :r.).fr,t4e aeenexy
ahout, thoThice, the neatness of tite,l?ttildi - g, t
the fine orchard-(if peach :aid apple trees ; "dint'
the lady ivho got, tt'giinifige'of tho
Outdo a great Iran} about.thed3ehltiv
of the, neigltheriteod aud, things iP,•general. l
The doctor finally topic leaKe ,of
Haring her that he wouljl call upi.)9 hls return,
and have Somofurther - edicii-erittioin'with her;_
as she reminded him so much of hiti Wife,' who;
he was sure,
windd be happy to,:becoMo.4.le-,..,
quahited with her. Thad:idy tailed to enter"
tire house, And the doctor bad, just ! , gathered
up, his reins, when Jim Atwood (4•4 led uP.tO, l
the gate with his Mrs:oh:l' a lather (if foaiti.
"What in the th tlil (ler are 30n , doing, &later
- yelled Jim ; g',et off that log -and cothe'alengi!':,i
doetor.was a great deal astonisliedat first,
bUt, After' .a few minutes it gn't ehr6itgli his,
hair' that he hadbeen all the morning ridings,
beech log in his own door :yard.
terThough Mr. Baaspat,' in his misfor-,
tunes, is reviled lay the ungt-nert,utl,he Yet haa
troops of warm-hearted,' friends. A million:
air of New York has nobly 'offered Mr.l3. and
family 'a home in his mansion ; a meeting-)1 t
those who sympathise with him in, his.
fortunes, has been held at Bridgeport, and
speeches made and resolutions pats:red of the''' .
most- flattering -character ; and Jeamt-- Lind
'hats written a letter to a lady in Phihutelphia,
in which she deeply sympaThiwes with Mr. B.
in his financial troubles, ascribes to him the
noble:it qualities, and expresses her intention
of placing a sum of money at his disposal.:— .
So, it will be seen, thatt.Barnum is scat friend
: ant ie s ion t not be; for, in a letter to
tats e Uttar of the Providence Journal, he ,;tutee
t:.at though he made a great deal of money
daring bis active career, he yet gave, aWay
TWENTY rTI,IOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR
I\ ,Cliaßl
- Ilow many of his maligners could say
is-much of thtntselve---Thi/ttitte.
A Badrelor'; Defritce.—A. gentleman meet
ing another on the street, said:
" 1 1 perceive you are a bachelor!"
"Whyso ?"ivas the respOnso.
"Beeouse_,Tou have a hole in your stock
intz."
• tai =Os et t4en eman oo o us new
straight in the eye, saying:
"Sir, a hole in the heel of 11 stocking' is an
accident of the day ; a darn is premeditated
poverty." •
Iter.An ad Greenland seaman said he
could readily believe that crocodiles' shed
IffirThe Boston Courier, an °aline Whig
paper, has come out in fatvor of James Z3u,•h
anan for the Presidency.'
Si
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DOLL ARS A-YEAR.
NO 36.