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hangs the picture, jewels could
fiiren,,in her sea.weed drapery,
f onber - by, the tnargin of a Sea!
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.e of ornum bulfleth fair . totlos
r
• lisunmy bel.th
not buy froth'
iris a Siren, a fair.
Paying Ona bite
c• •
In the ea,,t v tne to:
sum seen, -
But ft never, heve
the moon
N'eserr:ea.ces to
Ju'i
nd thh'•-heavy
creamy fruit;
in the. citron-tree
• tante :
tnct ttOiren sits
lute!
Ido=w9s, in -, this picture; and
crescent, and_ the June is 'always*
itched lamps never yit.lds its
are nightingales forever stricken
her fingers on-t \ P4 pulses kf her
-,, In, the hushes of g
rile midnight, when my heliotropes
With the darnpn .I bear music7-hear a quiet,
plaintive son g ' .
A most sad, moor"
t ial wrong! ,
Likethe pleading
in vain,
Of a damned Sou.
again !
And I lie awake and listen, with an .tiOnittif brain?
.
• 0, the roY•stital, - wilii music ! how it melt; into the.
wllite ' ••, 9 k ,";-,i•
Of tbc:poon that urns the sombre,- bremilin* g shad.
owe into light: -, :•• •
lloWit - sobs .itseV to stamper in the (id ts 'of the
night!, - ' * . '
And Whence coins this maiirritui mimic 9 . - Whence
unles.4 it chance to be . i I" - I
From fhe-Sireno e fair Siren, in he. sea-weed-drap
• ery,
Playing on a lute- f imbier,Nby tile margin of a sea!
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THE
T lEN ICED *NT AND M I L LER.
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. 1. iBY VI GIICIA F. TOWI4SE. . . .
Timm y . ,ou i ver sat; reader, when. e- 'au-
turim evenings 1w -ere growing deo! and 4ing,/
. ti.:-some glowing -hirch d wood fire, in net
tt!
farin`kitehen among the 'mountains .Of N
Ilamp;shire 7 1 Those • grand old • druidical,
mountains, abo t which the summer streams.,
' hang theirsilv r neeklacs,and over which thel
winter storms •eave their garments of snow V
' -Then While'th fire-flames dashed . :their yet.
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'ow ligidover the -great grown rafters, and '
-with every bre ft of,wind'ihe withered leaves
zit We d -against the panes, have you listened
tikhe,story,of orve•old settler whose mem
ory reached ba k to the time when th bear
andqhe wolf Ome down to -the fields: and
sometimeof :in autumn morning the litfre 1
cilldren woula go softly th - rough the Woods
or school, almost expecting to see .a pair of
wild _glaring yes among the, bushes,- and
whiSpered howl they had-lieird the night be
fore
. of some_ neighbor's sheep•cot's that,. had 1
lie"iii - broken Into, i
„ arid the blood-dramled
grass had ffold ;t he 'itoi'v ne l,
xt da. - ' I
Will, .1113t0r. , ;.as a. ;7..:... .-..1- va1...., ..." .--
autumn evenings; we dreamed . among those
grey mountains the: story we are,atoirt-to• i
tell Trio. i •• _ . i , 1
• I koess'Wei shall have a warm tiinciof it I
•-to-morrow,' - -said, the widow Pease, as she i s
stood a - moment in the kitchen door of the i
old farmhouse, at the-close of, an April day, 1
soir.e.two-score-and-a-half years. non; just as
the sun waS'restitn. On the taps of the moan- I.
tains' that bounded the horizon. ' Sistyf years' i
otiservation -af• the winds and clouds had i
made Mrs. Pease a kind of weather oracle I
ill the
.village, - arid the - plod wurrinu. prided )
herself no little upon her elemental foresight. f.
- i Well, Letty,' she continued, aishe•closed
th'e dorm; and returned to her knitting and-
the chair by the fire,plaee. ' I guess it'll be )
a - first4•ate day to bile -sap,- I'll tell Enoch i
' and Cyrus to pile -up the boughs to-night,
and haw , lie kettle, So you can have it •
all read; -orr tin - kindle in the morning. • You
, know they said that the trees• were running L
-.briskly-to-day, and they'd,have two tubsfull
afnre night..l,-- . • • - -
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' • They didn't though, mother r said Letty , 1
infintrig a'Moment at her work, for she was )
setting - the !, supper' table.-. ' Goody'! I'm so I
glad, for Ido love to -e-fi - .sap boilin'.' i
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-Letitia Peasewas t e au. feier mother's i
°triage, and aidaintier bit, of n. re's handl-
work you, liaye seldom looked upon. The
nest summer Would count her twentieth, and
her blireer&l were clear, and. bright as her
.Neiv Hampiiiire , skiek and the : mountain i
winds h'ad Itr s itdled a ruddy glow in her fair
cheeks:- She was rather short; but straight,
Wiai a finely . .trrved figure., and plomp as.
health aria aThe s arty appetite eould make her.
For- her Oiaracter—she was a right down
gondl l earted spirited ,New England, girl.—
'That - retv f little head of
_hers had
s heen I
slightly tri - rried by the flattery that sundry 1
swains had`tired into. it; , but considering
w
'that she i. be handsomest girl" in-the vil
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lage, and .k ew it, too, Lei.tv condrietbd her
self rernliritably; well. And. perhaps, after,.
'all," it 'was the smiles-that broke up from the
warm fountains of her. ratime and: always
dimpled if, that Won so many hearts- towprd r
ber. Sbel Was not - sentimental, or inclined
to the blois. `Alas! the •damsels of fifty
- :years agoj had not so intimate acquaintance
erith these matters as: their decendarits. ,
Art nciii reader , ' to- ,do ' full .penance 'for
Ais last - r j ernaric, %via, just admit for one, we
Ann\ believe' our grandmothers -- were an.
better th i n We are -= not a- bit.' . •••
-...kice pies and pirddings . ..they could indis
putably Make; thrifty wives, faithful house
s keepers itnd loving mothers ' they. surely
.were,;- and for these things blest be their i
„memory t '.. Brit -after all spinning wfieo4.l
alon - e. s 'eaturot enlarge one's sympathies, or
daily daked stockings enrich the Intellect ;
and instinct and habit narrowed down to the`!
circle of 'ltheir 'own 'families ' the best views, ,
't and feebngs of the women of lire last
'p century.
But return to 'our heroine.• ' When
Enoch and Cyrus, two sunburnt, but•tall and
fine looling young farmers, came in to su . p•4
per, they wers4ll-
,of i a story wilidt quite,
drove ont o all thousts of sap boiling from
the,head of widowease and, her daOghter. ,
'Somei terrible denredatnxis had been cop-,
mitted the night liefoire on Sotiiie Rubbird's
sheep terd lain b‘—the dog baits:en devoirred,
and twq large, bears had been seen prowling
armind.Blireberry - hill just-at the close of the iieedirigly, an at last Sawn
previouir: evening.- . ' ,' - ,
_that they sh Id g o down
`=The yining rn(m were greatly excitedjor, searc h of',. Le ty, to which tbi,
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a laage Par ty had been organized to,_go•out asson ta„ i _,,,.....--:•-•
that evening to Squire. liubbarfrs .who lived- - She did 'lank • like 4 Picture
•ur an adjoining town not more ,than ten Miles there, piling lip" tbe dead. olci
s olc for I the purpose" of destroying the wild' bile the shadoWs.4nd the'
itnimali, 'Olt was _apprehended their former restlessly oiver her fig,
• success' would stimulate them .to-fresh i)epre- they. . I
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riation4..• So.with that belligerent-propensity -„ The' young men tame suddenly upon her,
which =is so strong sorfelernent of Anglo Saxon 1, and she spun* uplvith a little shriek '; turd: a
o,...irecter,.Cyrus.and .Enoch descanted glow- 1 bounding of )the, blood into her cheeps—but
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repentant, that *not be pure
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"illy on, the best method bf surprising and
despatching the aninials; while the mother
and sister listened with the _indeflneble mix
ture of wonder, adtnitation,endierror, which
woman awftrds to manly - courage mid skill.
nut, dear tri7 ' 'said- j::etty . , as she . poured
Cyruethird bvkl what if . a bear
, should .come around here some of these days !
You know Elder Stith{ said ,he saw one on
bis-farm Jest butenin.i Oh,, my ! I believe it.
would take the' breath straight out of my
body to come aeross-bne of 'these creatures.'
And the:rosy - cheeks grew pale at the thought.
'Nonsense, xis,' said the hearty voice of
Enoch, as ho spread it doable stratum of ha
ter on . ..his slice
: of rye bread, Nobody in
'in these 'parts was dyer
: touched by one of
them 'ere chaps. I: reckon they're smart
enough not to venture their heads far in this
town. They . wotildit stay" on long if they
- did, that's sartin.'
: Now, whether there was mubh philosophy
in this- speech or net, iG had the effect of
greatly quieting „Lefty's fears
,; though if
Enoch had teen called upon to give reasons
for exempting Barygate from bear incur
-sions, he could -probably have found no bet
ter one than the prbpensity indigenous to
human- nature, of st, i pposing ourselves - less
liable to ill fortune tnan our neighbors.
Well, .after strpperi, the bays started out.
in high spirits, duly quipped, w;th rifles and
long knives, reeeivin many solemn injune
tions from their mother'to look out that them
critters, did not get held of they skins ;' ma
ternal warnings which have a remarkable
faculty of going in attone ear and out of the
other. _
declare, Letty, std forgot all about sap
-boiling,' 'suddenly r marked - the widow to
her datisdger, who h ding washed up-the tea
dishes, buss smoothing down the wavy
folds .of her 4air at Or; mirror on one side of
the kitchen, itile some - pleasant thought was
slyly dimpling round her ripe lips, and
brightening ihrough her - 1)111e eyes.
'So we have ; and s they haven't • piled up
a boughs. i - it's t o - bad, with such nice
wea r for boiling, jnd it's likely to set in
and r a lu nueek st ea dily at' this time of year.'
- 'Supp ' )o •
run down to the woods
and htiap sums boughs to-night„ Letty.
The moon sh es so, it's as` bright as day;, —•
The boys can t g the -kettle early 'for you,
von know, - but the couldn't stay to do any
thing else, fiar they') got to be off_ by sun
rise to see about the alvey,-and they won't
he be ne before midnight, I reckon 'concluded
Mrs. Pease, with an, oracular shltkti , of the
head
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'But I'm expecting company to night,
mother,,and it Wou dn't be polite to be•ofr
when they come,' '
nswered Letty, with - a
rosy tinge, widening and deepening through
her cheeks. ..
Wg•li er, 1;1- . n i
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back afore ' they di), MM. :II any of yout
beaux I can sead 'errr out to the mnplet..'
.
'Now, if the truth
_Must be :told, Letty
Peaselhad two admirers; for whchn there bad
often, of late, been severe struggle between
her affections and h rpride. -.
Jason Williami ' - a4 a country merchant,
a. smart-looking.yo . ng !Mtn who had recently
,gonc•intO btsiness,ifur himself. He was al
wa;,vs dressed in broadcloth, stood behind the
counter with' the pcilitest bow,and -smile lin:
..aginable, and was voted at the-winter singing
school ' the greatest - catch' . in town.
)Down • .
• There was Seth Peters the miller. own
in the silence of 1. etty's - heart was /a - soice
'that plead for him as it hewer did
looking the
merchant. Seth was certainly good looking
and intelligent,. while a nobler heart never
beat fur ; the Woman it loved. -
. -But • then' bis
bow wasn't to bel compared with Jason's;
'he wore blue-giey 'overalls, which were dust
ed over s with flour from-Monday morning till
Saturday night; except whetf he visited Letty. •
It was certainly- a rest contrast, and the girl
felt it 'keenly, as • ny girl of twenty would,
when she rode pas j t t the old mill, and saw its
yoan& ownet• in his powdered clothes, lifting .
up the great bags of wheat by the rope that
.dangled from the front windoW, or pouring
the corn into the large trough under which,
the great wheel slashed and groaned in the
stream all day ; It was,' as we said, a. great
contrast to -go • of •a, few rods fariber to the
i new store with gren . ,shutters and large sign,
and see •Jaseti, standing in the store . dressed
1 better than the minister, and to receive one
, of his ifiimitable,bows.,, .
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1- ,Then, it would be ,such a conquest, and all
Ithe. girls would 'envy her so. ' ' Mrs. Wil
liams, the .merchant's wife!' .It sounded ex
ceedingly, well, and yet, when she thought of
)
ii., that -low voice would 'rise up and speak
for the miller agiiin. • Pooretty 4 L no' wonder
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if, was a severe struggle between her, affeetiOnsi
and .herpride.- .t .
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ShQ looked. ou i i• of. the window, and the. full.
'Arkin was shining dawn • on the bare earth,
and- whitening the naked - branches of the tall
trees. Thy sweet pensive light stol N e softly
into the girl's heal and drew her towards
it. . -
' I guess 11l run down to the grove.. - If
any body oome i 4, you can talk to 'em, moth
er,. till 1-get ba sk , for I won't 4 gone long,'
was her sudden fconclusion. ..
The girl had I.not bepti absent more than
five minutes, when- there was a knock at the
door followed - by, the entrance of Jason Wit-
llama. He to a seat by the great fire
place, and chatteftd_a few moments with the
oht , woman aboht the
,new meeting house and',
the prospects of :an Orly spring, when sud
denly there was another light tapat the door,
and in answer to widow Pease'a ' Come in,'
the miller made his appearance.
It was not so remarkable a -coincidence,
after ell, that ihe young men should, both
Cash Lett); this evening, for it was bright
enough with 3 its
. bahrty air, and large round
moon, to woo any man to visit the woman
of bis seeking.; Of course the 'merchant and
.the ;miller cciuld not have regarded each
other with peculiarly complacent feelings;
and probably each wished the' other a thous
and miles off, notwithstanding they met qui
as cordially ais rivals, cotild be expected .
do.. .1 1 I .
. ' I3ut somehow the .. i versation lagged e -
nr - - , 4 .roposed to Se h
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s..ty
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. th - i:Iro e in
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~ :1 atter gladly
. she knelt
1 reo boughs,
.e ~ ,- .nbearnealanced
g , e, - as restless as
66 FEREpoim ihmo MONT' Aaarmay oLaWERV ARID
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her .
laugh, oh, that wa4 like all sorts of sweet
sounds, as ran. rippling into the echoes. of
Blueberry hill. • . 1 . _ •
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' Well, you've couri, and now . I shall sit
you
_straight to weak, young gentlemen,'
said Lefty, with that (dainty, fluttering mo-'
than of thelead, so grit s ceful,in' some women:
'Of course you willii we-are to obey' or
der, - Letty," was the isimeltaneoui response
of the young men ; anii the dainty merchant
and the handsome•rnitler - set themselves vig
orously to work ; andtthe voices of the trio
mingleddloudly.and m,errily as they piled upi
the b'ranehes of pine, hd birch, and hemlock.:.
Letty affirm thathe- sugar boiling waa`i!,
likely to be the easie t she ever tended, now
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all the trouble of gathEtring the firewood would
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`be over.
'Bark ! didn't you' hear a strange kind of`
nolse V and' Letty liffed 'her head suddenly
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and stared eagerly around her.
' It's nothing; Letty, only the sap dropping
into the tubs,' answered Jason, as he added.
a frsh h an df u l . of bciershr to the rapidly in
• e.
creaSing pile.
1 ` No; it isn't the I,Sap. There, I hear it
again i it's a rustling among the 'branches.'
They all heard, it how ; it . was a strange,
stealthy, mysterious ipund, that:heard, in the
woods and at night, i 4 perhaps 'more startling
than any other. • ',I •
A faint shriek suddenly broke from Letty,
which drew the gaze lof both young men to
her, fihe : was' standing a few' paces from
them, here face white . •and rigid, as though ,
death had struck aridenly at her heart.—
' There was something in that stony face that
s chilled both the y ung men, -and they
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sprang towards her dr yin g , ' Letty, what is
the matter I' . • I
They saw ,tkhat itivras then, and the faces
of those two strong )1 - len , grew white as the
girl's; for there, peeiing'outKvith their wild s ,
glaring, hunger-lightict eyes, from- the low
underbruSb, weretwl large bears, crouched
down ready'to so' in them. •
The young tnei
'S ouestion broke the spell
1 of horror which tiad•transfixed Letty Pease.
With a low shrie''slie sprang past her corn.
pani - ons, and with a sty fearful. in its rage and
t
hunger, the animals Aished out.
Jason Williams f lowed her, fdr the men'
I had . no, weapons, ese beasts were wild,'
i savage, hunger-mad„nd the love of life was
strong within him.. Nb wonder that ho soon
outstripped the girl, (whose trembling limbs
I were a poor miitch against her pursuers.
It was a fearful rce; they gained upon
her, in the first few l i ds; "°God of Heaven,
help - her !" groaned the white lips of Seth
Peters. And Geri and that prayer, moan
ed Out in that terrib e agony. , There gleam
ed out suddenly upo him, from among the
grey, tangled grass I last esr, a large axe
which Enoch had ir and sharply three dsysr ,
trunk, and thrown own in haste or careless
Hess.
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. . Beth (-aught it up eagerly, and with a loud
-shorut he' bounded frivard. Letty was half
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across the lor, - but i was pot a large one, and
in, her blind terror he hart taken a eirerritens
route that the &earl' had followed, so the die-
Itance between Sethrnd•them Was only a few
rods: lle - shouterhto Letty to turn around
into the meadow; it was strange that she
I heard him, but she did, and institiitively
obeyed.. . 1
I - A run of a few -''
man-accomplished
written it, brought
wild animals. it
confront the two r
ters thought ouly
woman - he loved.
A moment more and it had reached her.
The hot breath ofolie beasts drifted - almost
Iterots her flying: f l eet as the:Miller rnshed'by
her; for in turning towards the meadow she
bad shortet - cd the distance between him and
.herself; indeed, athe farthest it had only
beenl a foremostew rods. The animal came
up to him-the h avy paws were planted on
his shoulder—nos, Seth Peleri, a stout arm
and a brave
,hear will avail you—the' nit. cones down hea ilv—it has done its work
well. Do you t e the bear sink back with a
growl 'of-pain, w . ile the hot blOod gurgles up
frOm the cleft thioat. , .
ti
, Itsmate sees. ll •tbis, and with a respon
sive growl of rs e and despair rushes back
to the woods, an Seth is safe.
" Letty, telly' they are gone !" The voice
swells loud and riutnphant to the - ears of the
poor girl, who slit imagining 'the bears are
e '
pursuin. , her, ru hes wildly lit the direction
of her home. § e pauses a Moment.. But
that clear, strong, triumphant voice sends a
new tide , of hops' bounding through her soul.
She - turns hacki e : few Moments later • and
'her white faces Is up close to Seth's as he
\ rs
Stand's there watching the ast gasps of life
heaving the huge black fra eOf the bear. ,
" Letty, let ~ s thank G for this great•
deliverance:" i, . -
. They kneeltl down tiler together, and
sad moon and sweet spring st looked on
them, as the ydung miller's deep woice,sent
up its.eloquentithanks to the Alt Father.
•But Letty'S, air head droops loser and
lower, and whe Seth looks once more in her
face, the blue, it'llio not answer him. Poor
Letty, the teti rlikiv been too great for her.
No wonder sfi 4mi - fainted with the great joy
of deliveranee.jrom death. ,
Suddenly infoss the field breaks the sound
of many voi. There is a quick stamping
of feet. JaOn has given the alarm, and
friends and neighbors are rushing 0) the res.
cue.', In less gran five minutes they find the
miller seated bn the damp earth, with Letty
lying senselesi in his arms ; - and the dead
bear at his FOS. ,
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Oh! but thbre were smiles and rej oi cings
that night at widow Pease's, .wheiv but for
eF
the brave -11 rt of Seth Peters, there had
been wailing, espair and death! It wiNong
pas :lidn'ttit 'when Cyrus and Enoch rethrtt
s ; a . • • ..omqhow their faces did not look as
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bright as wh 'n they left, and they settled
themselves 4 wn wearily by the fire, saying
", Well; we h i ven't killed the bear aftr all I"
" No , but .e have here, yOu see 1". was
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'the old wom n!s triumphant response; and
theniLto tbei ejaculations of doubt and sur
'prise, then[ :lady detailed the whole story
—indeed, shif fiad sent Letty to bed half an
hotif earlierieoi the exclusive enjoyment of
this . pleasure` Cyrus and Enoch listened- in
amazed silegce, and at
.this conclusion, thits
briefly and 9. :raderistiettily expressed their
opiniutkof t J. millet's heroism : " Waarpow,
if that don't ,• - • t everything all holler I ."'.
Thirty da • s had• passed. • It was'. a ?wild
sobbing nig• t f . "witti one of those storms that
MO TROSE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1858.
Ards, which the young
nicker than our pen has
Feth face to face with the
equired a stout heart to
ing animals, but Seth re-
hat death w•as close to the
'furrow the s9et face of April with wind, and
drench it with tears.
This time the miller and Letty'Pease sat
alone togeth er , , in the ruddy birch fire-light
of the old kitchen ; while the storm battled
without. .
" Well, Letty,low did you get on with
the sugar boiling?". asked the young mari a
drawing his chair a little nearer to the girl's;
"Oh;nicely, I assure xou, though I could
n't help starting and looking round every
time the wind stirred the branches!" and
Letty shuddered, for even in the dancing fire
' light she seemed to see again those wild eyes
•glaring upon her. "Oh, Seth! how can I
ever be grateful enough to you for 'liking
care of me, then?" '
The miller drew his chair still closer to
hers, and his voice trembled in its deep ten
derness, as it answered," / should like to take
care of you always, Letty."
The girl must h ave, forgotten at that mo
'tient • how very nice- Mrs. Williams, the
Merchant's wife, sounded, for she laid her
hand in that of Seth Peters, and the bireig
flames were not ruddier than her cheek, ai
she whispered," Yen may, Sete
And through all, her after life, we are very
certain Letty Pease never regretted !parry
ing the miller instead of the merchant.
DtiCIES OF PEOPLE.—Thp Siamese spend
three-fourths of their existence in 'the water.
The first act on awakening is to bathe;. they
'bathe itgaie at I t o'clock ; they bathe again at
3, and bathelgain at 5, and bathe again a
bout sunset; there is scarcely an hour in the
day when bathers may not be seen in all the
creeks, even the'sballowest and muddiest.—
Boys go to play in' the river, just as. poor
English,rhildren goto.play in.the street.
once eaw.a`Siamese . WOman sitting on the
Joweit step,of a landing place, while by a
girdle, she held In the water her infant, of a
- few months old, splashing and kicking about
with evident_ enjoyment. Were not these
. -- people' - expert swimmers many lives would
, be lost, for the tide flows - so swiftly that it .
needi the greatest skill and care to prevent:
boats,from running foul . of one another ; and,
of -course, they. are frequently upset.
. On one occasion our bind (an'English built
gig) ran down a small native canoe contain
ing a woman and two little children. 111 an
instant they were all capsized and disappear
ed.. We were greatly shinned, and C. was
on the point of jumping in to their renae,
when they bobbed up, and the lady, with the
first breath she recovered, poured forth a
roma] 'volley of abuse. Thus relieved in, her
mind, she coolly righted her canoe—which
bud been floating. bottom upwards-- 7 4adled
out some of the water, and bandied in her
two children, who ttacLheen meanwhile com
nosey qua- 7 ..4
° 1 '1 -3; 714514
tnts Ut, le e ts
hod e,,,sioped
hold Hera:.
11 - W" . "Otir.folks" have - got a Biddy . of
the veritablest kind. Shp is a queer duck,
and as good-natured as, " a basket - of chips."
Well, last Sunday, as we ivere sitting down
to dinner, we fchmd the old cat, with three
young grimalkins, largely, engaged in the
nursery business under the table. " Biddy,"
fluid we, 4 . take this cat and kittens, and ~put
Ithem where we shall never see them 'more."
A hint of dread import; but, not - understood.
The feline family were removed, and we pro
ceeded to dine. Bpand-by, Biddy re-enter=
ed, with an expression on her face that seem;
ed to say, " Bedad, I guess they. are in safe
kaping now 1"—" Wet, Biddy, what* have
you done with the old cat and her kittens?"
"Be gor, sir, they're - safe enough, sure.—
D'ye mind the - woocihouse forninst the stable?
Well, I put their in there, and fijstened the
doors and windles. Thin, seeing that there
was a hole beneath, where they might. get
out, I stopped that up too; so, ye see, they
won't trouble you any more," We - were
satisfied, "av course," and ate our dinner in
peace ;After which, we went into the yard,
and saw that identical old cat and kittens, at,
perfect liberty. Calling Biddy, we said,
"Did you say you fastened 'the cats into. the
woodhouse 1" - "Faith, an' I. did, sir.'—
" And stopped the hole ?" " Yes, sir-"
Well, she had—that's a fact; but whatalo
you suppose she had stopped the hole with ?
Site had stuck a section of stove-pipe into it.
And there sat one of the little imps at the
mouth of it, just as it had crawled out, look
ing as saucy as thunder.
IRISH PROVERML—Every goose thi9ks his
wife a duck, No ne'vs in a
. neWspaper isn't
news. Manners .make the gentlethan,
and )he want of them drives him elsewhere
for 'his shooting. A miss is as good as a
mile of old- women. Two many cooks spoil
the broth of a boy.; It is a good head of hair
that has no turning. It's foolish to spoil one's
dinner for -a ha'porth of tarts. *There are as
fine bulls in Ireland as_ ever came out of it.
Necessity has _no law, but an Uncommon
number of lawyers. Better to ,look like a
greatlool, than to be the great fool you look.
A soft answer may turn away wrath, but in
a chaheury suit, a soft answer is `oily likely
to'turn the scales against pit'. One fortune
is remarkably good until you have had an
other one. told you. l Don't hallo, until yon
have got your bead bafe out of the wood,
'particularly at Donnybrook Fair.—Punch.
." Kw , Youn MOUTH Shur."—Never al
,
low the act
‘ of respi ra tion to bee carried
on through- the mouth. The usual passagei
are clearly the medium through which respi
ration wairby our Creator des,igned to ° be
'carried on. "God breathed into man's nos
trils the breath of life," previous to his be
coming a living creature.. The difference in
the exhaustion of strength by a long walk
with the mouth firmly closed, and respira
tion carried on throggh_ the nostrils insteiid
of through the mouth, is inconceivable to
those who have never tried the experiment.
It is said.that the habit of carrying on the
work of inspirati on
s tuttll expiration through,
the mouth is the origin of almost all diseases
the throat and lungs.
gMfa' It Is not great wealth, nor - high sta.
tion, which makes a man happy; Many of ,
,the most wretched beings on earth have both.
But jt is a radtant, 'stmny spirit,-which knows
how to bear little. trials and to enjoy little
comfortsolnd which thus,extraets happiness
from every incident of life.
Oar A Youngster desires to• know how
guns kiosk, since they bays, no legit. He is
informed that tay kick ) with their breeches.
SPEEC‘ . .
• HON.. G. A. GRCiW,
OP PENZISYLV . — •, • . •
In the House ofßepresentalive December 22,
1857, on the. Treasury Noie till.
ssing myself
U,, I desire to.
ntleman from
q yesterday
inland the. so.'
not restionsi-
Governnient
,from forty-six
y million dol.
i economy in
I I trust it will
me to say that
f Congress,up
t ag the expendi
i ve voted with
r•ceive my re
'•:pirit of .cavil,
• desire to see
hat shall bring
economy and'
1 .• That
; in the public
reform in the
' ent can be ef
. the heads of
.egin with the
n claimed that
y was not re
i ins for the last
•
inn minority
Wr. Chairrrian before add'
directly to thimerits of the to)
say a'word iii; reply to the 0
Virginia, [Mr. Letcherj w
claimed that the Administrath
called Democratic party wer
ble for the expenditures of th
increasing within five years,
million dollars to over seven
lars. The gentleman's practii
legislation is proverbial, and!
not be considered egotistic for
since I have been a member
on almost all questions•nffecti
tures of the 'Government, I ii
him. lie will, therefore, r
marks as being made in no
hut• with an earnest and sins
a reform in this Government
back its e-x - pendifures to - tin
siMplieity of its days of earl.%
-gentleman has been too long]
service ndt to know that In
expehditures of this Guyon'
kotual unless it commence
the Government. It' must
Department4r. The gentlem:
the so-called Democratic pat
sponsible fur any appropriatil
two years because they • wert
in this Hose. Then no part
blo for atrY:jtf those approi
party hadajnajor,ity in the /
sentatireain tie last \ Congret.
man knows that a proper eco
penditureh 6f. the Governme
regulated by "Your Depart
make their estimates 'and the
to inake appropriations ace
withheld, as u:e did in a few
,COniress, we are charged
gentleman from Virginia w
who echoed the - charge again;
ing factfpilists and desirin 1
Wheels of Goverunient and 11
lution.
The Departments first ere. to the•necessity
for appropriations, by enlar ing thdir forces
and increasing the expendit raof the Gov
eminent, and then ask Cong ess•co appropri
ate the , money ; and if,Cong . ess fail , to. do it,
they diVert the appropriatioi s made for oth
er purposes to the payment ' f thosetheYtle-
de
sire to see paid, or they cos e in with a qiista l
Money billy.and you are th n asked to pass.
it; because, if you do not, th citizen will suf
fer who has relied on the f ith of the Gov
day are chargeablirinbri . 'rk -- riabinnow-«ww..-
that has. Controlled the GU erntnent during
the six years in which th se expenditures
have doubled. Let them co mence retrench
ment and reform by limit ig the estimates,
and then you will limit .t appropriations;
for, as I said before„ , you nnot stop these
vast expenditures in the 1 gislative depart
ment of Alto Governmen , unless you are
ready to meet the charge t at you are trying,
to inaugurate revolution, and• block the
.wheels of the Governmen We met-that
charge in the last Congress when we ;refused
to appropriate the money r some of the es
timates, and because we di so, the sp=ealled
Democratic party. endeav red to make the
country believe, during th last Presidental
canvass, that we were re olutiomzing, and
that we desired to block he wheelskd Gov
ernment by refuting to g '• nt The appropria-
tions asked fur to carry -. it the Government,
though we believed, the a propriationswrong.
And, sir, unless you bar, the cooperation of
the heads of Departmen s of the Govern-
Mein,. such would be the l estqt in eery case.
The expenSes of the A ' y and Navy have
been 'doubled within a feN I .years, and so have
beeh those of almost • ry Oepaitinent of
~the Government. How re you to bring the
Government back to the •Conomy of the ear
ly days of .the Republic, and the Simplicity
that eharacterized its at tinistratiPn ? The
menlwho have charge o he public Depart
ments know what branc es of the public ser-.
vice Can be curtailed ithout injury to the
public service; but it 1- impossible that *e
should know all the de ails of the different
Departments of the Go ern!nent. No law
can be passed that woul I not leave a discre
tionary power, to some xtent, in the head of
.a Department in its c penditures and the
number of its employ s, which have been
gradually increased an . converted by this
Government into a se ret police force, to
stand guard at the ball t-boxes in the local
elections of the country in order to. control,
if possible, the action o the people. The Ad
, ministration has swell,. the expenses of the
I Government from fort --six to seventy milt,
ion dollars, much of it in this way ; and to
day, if a subordinate of ho Government dares
to exercise the right of .n Arherican freeman
in one of the local and nunicipal elections of
the country, his head I.lls under the genic).
tine, 'worked by, thh h,- .sman in Washing
ton. Places must be provided by the Ad
ministration for the Re . resentati ves who ; u p.
(aligns floor and in, tie other wine- of the
Capitol, have been did.. rded by their constit
uents because they . trayed their - solemn
trust-in order to uph . d the policy resolved'
on, by the Admintstr tion as a oarty .test.—
In this way the patrc age has been greatly I
increased, and to it is to be attributed much
of the enormous miter ' so in the expenditures i
o
1,7 .
the Government. - i
Put, as I said befor; tb - e gentleman from
I lirginkt will midi .. nd 'that I make these
remarks in no spirit of cavil, but merely - to
shim that the neede reform Mint, begin in
il''e Departments._ ey are responsible for
the enormous expend tures of 'this Govern.:
trent ; and they are • sponsible, in the most
obnoxious way, by onverting the Govern. ,
tnent officials into a s .crCt police to interfere'
• with the elections of he country. They. send
Mi to the convention of the , people of the
tates their ' hosen iniotAfrom the post of.
ces and the custom:. °uses to lay down their
political, platforms a d, so far . as lies in their
powei, to . control heir nominations; and
then whatever offs at of the Government
flares to opPose -the nominee of , the party—
even though the " - it incarnate"—loses his
Place, and is no lo . ... or fit to discharge the
duties of the office... The manly exercise. of
the inalienable righ of an 'American citizen
.to act on his own ju gment in the local elec.
•tions of the country, if against • the wishes of
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the Administration, disqualffiiti hint for hold
ing any office of profit, or trust under the
Governmentof his country.
But, sir, I now turnto the consideratiOn of
this bill.knd its features. While' it is- true
that a Government,, in the exercise of its le
gitimate' functions, should not- attempt to
shape, and eor.trol the business of the coml. ,
try,_nor,to convert itself into an almshouse
to distribute charity to the needy and dis
tressed of its citizens, yet it is its duty—iti
first and paramount duty—sO' to legislate,
confining itself to its proper and legitimate
functions, as not to enhance any existing- de
rangement_of business in the country ; -but,
if possible, to add to the prosperity and de
velopment, of its great interests. and resoure-
es. . . , .
• '
-To,i3ay, we are asked - -by the Government
to provide means to pay its debts. ' That is
a legitfinate object of legislation._ Theordin,
ary sources of revenue, in the present state
of the business of the country, are dried up,
and the Government as unable to meet its li
abilities. 'While it is a proper, legitimate
duty of the Government to raise the revenue.
necessary to
.defray its expenses, a sound
statesmanship requires you to do - hcsin the
way that will least embarrass the business of
the country, and will add, if possible, to the
development of its great and Materiel re
sources.' . . -
.
The question - presented iso-whether the
Government-should go into the money imir-
'ketand make a loan_ of money to, pay ha'
debts, or whether it will issue paper promis-
es to pay when there is nothing in.. its vaults 1
,to redeem theUe- protnises. - It is oiily the
mode and manner of r;•lieving the Treasury
that is in controversy • for, there is\ no man
either side of this 14 Who would refitse
'to furnish•relief to the Governmenteisd save
its plighted honer by voting the necessary
supplies to pay its honest debts. The man.'
, ner of doing it is the only question. , And to.
answer that question. properly,. it is necess
ary to consider tbeeondition of the country; •
• and how your propo'ed law, is likely tai-affect
it injts business *talons. , . .
What, then, is the condition' of the coun
try 1 In a day' we.have seen the most thr.
seeing and sagacious of our, business men -re;
dulled from affluence topeitury and Want,and
honest, willing labor wandering a famished
beggar in the streets.. What . has.. produced
this unprecedented convulsion orofe_bolintry r
for-it becomes a wise legislator to inquire in
to the probable. influence of the laws he pee.
poses upon the business relations of life.
Mr:FENTON:. I wish the gentlenum frotri
Pennsylvania [Mr. Grow] to . state , if he- is
in possession Of - the information, the relative.
amount of the specie; and of the man-
ey. lathe country at the date of the late Mon
etary disaster, and then ,I - would inquire
-sit,-1- laree- s es- • .
er causes, growing out ofthe speculative spir
it of the times, not • immediately incited by
the facilities afforded by the banks in obtain,
ing money, have aided to, swell! and hasten 1
this commercial and financial erisiel ' I
. Mr: Gnow. I will antWer the question of '
the gentleman from New iYorkthoUg,h I may
not be able -to furnish conclusive or very sat
isfactory proof of the ,real cause of the pres
-ent financial -revulsion. Many - things may,
have combined to produccit, and it knight be
difficult to specify .any one, thingasits cause.
Without stopping to inqiiire, e xcept , so' far
as. is necessary to noticer the• . question Tree
. pounded by thegentlemin froth New York,
whether...it was caused by a redundant paper -
currency, or is the result -of the financial put
icy pursued by this GoVernment for a• few;
years, or what influence either or both of
these 'causes have had in producing it, it is:in
my judgment to be attributed ,:.more to an
e . x,panded credit than any other One thing,—
What influence the financial policy of the -
country-forthe last few years has had in pro
ducing that expansion, 110 not propose here
to inquire ; but will merely say...that, - in 'my .
judgment, the changes Made in the •tariffpol
. icy of the country during the last Oongress,
forced upon the House Of Representatives by
the Senate, were injudiuious, and calculated
to stimulate, this overgeown and expanded
credit; and add largely to our foreign indebt:
I edness, which has augmented the evil of the
, day. ~ . - ' f' •
1 The present Crisis i -likened - to that of
1837,. when there is no' similarity in the ap
parent causes that
. have .I)k:slimed them. ---In
1837 there was an expanded paper currency,
with . a very insufficient metallic basis,, -The
blinks - had a eirculati ri of $150,000,000,
-while they had in their vaults but $50,000,-
000 in specie,„end outs de the- batiks, there
was but $30;000,0Q0 i the hamls of the peo
ple. There was in the country at that time,
according to the most enable statistics, but
$BOOOO,OOO in specie, so that' the bank is
sues Wes in excess oft e whole Specie of the
country, $70,000,000. When the . crashcame .
therefore, there was n ' circulating , medium.
Gold_ and' silver could no t take the place of
paper money, for the was net-sufficient of
it. The 'Government then issued - Treasury'
drafts, because paper - as the , only thing that
could be aubstitutedi -fill up - the via
~,
. ' That state of thing does not 'exist to-day,
and this brings mo directly to' the inquiry of
the gentleman from 'New York,-Dir. , Fen
ton.] Whetheaan ecessive paper currency
was the cause I:41i
h% xpanded credit will be
determined by the - s tatistics of the ,banks.—'
111'1837 there was a ilecessity for. some cir
culating medium, - tnere not" being metallic .
currency enough forte business of the coun
try. its whole amoun tthen. was about eighty
million• dollars,"whi e now there are -over
, toree hundred ! Milli° s. ' The coinage -of the
Mint, from-the formation of the Government
deem - to the ,30th•of Sept., 1856, inuninti to
' $549,0.09,000. 'The imports. of coin-tnie the'
country since 1820, for previous to that time
there were no' se par te- statements kept by,
the custorthhouse,) a oust to a 13,000,000;
which puiltee an egg egate of $1342,00,000..
-That does not include- the amount of specie,
brought into the country by iminig,nints,who
seek homes on 'ourhores. Dednet•from this
: $842,000,000 - the e time-sports of coin from
'the country - since 1 20 7 4436,000,000—anct
i
it leaves somewherer the country $406,000,-
000. ' The eirculatt u' of the banks in Sep,
tember lash was a . sut one hundred .and eigh
ty-seven millions', Isle they had in their
' vaults in specie $ 1,000,000. Take the a•
mount of specie in . he banka. from. the whole
amount: in the coun ry, and .it will - he found
that in. Septembe -fast,., there:was- in the
,cOunlF3ts,in' the him s of te • people, - - net far
- fromis2oo,ooo l l# # innecie., Tiw' bank 'l4-
. _
.
was responsi.
riat ions,, fin. no
ouse of Itepre
. • The gentle.
'only in the ex•
nt etin.only be
ents ; , for they
n ask Congreis
rdingly, and if
Jsr. in -the lust
and I think the
s onu of 'those
t is—with be
to block the
augnrate revo-
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MEI
sue int eptember last,•by these'. fignres,* Wei
one hundred' milliowdollirs
the metallic currency.or thncimintry, after al
lowing a dollar of specie: for, „dollar : of
Paper. In 1837 the . :paper circulation. was
$70;000,000 in excess of the coin 't - th'iicoun...
try.- Today the coin is` sieopoi;tAxio in ex.
cess orthe paper. •'T _ .- ' •.
Why, then, this revulsion I It certainly has
not resulted, from attex.ssive expansion
contraction of hank lanes, as .:in„1857 ; for.
the, bank issues fur the lust...four years;have
• been . quite uniform in 1854,;5182,030,141
in 1855, $163,522,705 ; 1 in. 1856;4170,968r_
908 ; and -in 1857,_5187,000,000. : ~ .Daring;
this period the banks have had inthir Yeats;
about sixty Million doilars, - whileAherehava :
been over two hundred' million dollars in the.
hands of the people. The firstjaillire s how.
dyer, in the beginning of this crisis', created : a, •
panic, by'reason of the expanded credit of
the. country, which ended in. almost entire
want of confidence in' moneyed .circles.--
Hence, the specie in general circulation was
;hoarded, and the banksi compelled to refu:se
further discounts, and finally. to suspend spe-.
cie payments. , -I
Under- such circumstances; is the
duty of a wise Legislaturel la. . it ti(
forth an irredeemable Paper curtPuch to 441!
menV the pressing evils of the - timel What
is the duty of a wise legislathricin the priker
ent condition of the,businbia of the country`,l
Is it to adopt s i nch legislation as will tend , to.
keep' nut of circulationja nietallie currency,
by substituting a paper lurrency in its place
which has to metallic hes ; is, and. , for , which
there is no provision fur. its • redemption- in
gold I - Will not the paper cuireney which
is proposed by this•bill tend to' keep froth
circulation the hoarded specie of the country 1
No man even on the other 'We of the, llOuse
will deny that'the tendency ,of paper, in ang .
form, as a currency, is to exclude specie from
circulation. ' The worst eurreneralways
euletes. ,If a man has two bank notes, one
Eat ten per cent. discount, -and the other, at
two per cent, lie.will, as a matter of course,
pay ont the one at ten percent. first, and re, •
tarn in his possession . , the one of the most
value. , So, if you - bring the paper \ curreney
provided for in . this 'bill into circulation, you
will keep out of Circulation it like amount of
hard money, 'because that is the best and .
safest currency.*
While the paper currency is sent. abroad.
to furnish the means on which the - business
of the country is to be transacted, the. spocio
will continue*etel lockedup, in vaults and•
chests, andwithdrawnfrom circulation: 'Tom '
issue these Treasury totes, as provided by
the bill, 'and they can be iminediatet nt.
' cow- -
rented into a•eurrency that will pas i fro
hand to hand.' . dll that would be needed hi
an indorsement in blank..` It wield. go , nut
gi}ms te j i titi the tredit of ttnz vernment,.
dollar•for the redemption orthese notes, .
Mr. HuctnEs. I wish to call thiNattention
or the gentleman to One point." }wish : to ask
him whether the stocks which he is in favor
of issuing lave not cauponsattached-td them . ,
which may go into circulation as a•cnrrericy.?
Mr... Glow. I have not examined, this bill
its it came front the Senate ;. twill know not
what provisions it may have. on that point.
I can only say, therefore, to - the gentleman.'
thit I have never known of thn.coupons - at,-
tachedjo bonds going into 'circulation as a •
currency. 'I do not. think they would Over
enter into circulation. But, sir, when one or :
these notes has au indorsement upon its:hack,
as the gentleman' from Massachusetts [Mr.
B& s] yesterday 'remarked, it is' upon its
legs and it may On forth to, the Country to
retarn whenever it pleases. And bithislia
vou eahnot,foree it to-come af, any tlme.—
But, sir, authorize a loan and you draw spe
cie forth from the vaults and hottiled cl6sets,,
and put it into circulation,
This crash has come , upon. the business. in- _
tereq. not because the country _ is bankrupt.
The country was never richer than at the.
present moment. It is true the country owes
8400,000,000 ahroad, for the building of rait-
roads; .but the railroads are'constructed, and';
Cot m part of the real wealth of the country.
In nine eases out often, where failures cir sus
pensions have occurred, it- not been in• -
consequence of want of means, for it has been.
shown that.their assets far eceeded tapir
bilities.
.
How can the Government assistin bring
ing back the business of the country iv). its
ordinary course' IF canaiwbe done by
_leg
islation-alotie,‘ I adniit. But when yeti ate
providing for liaising the reverme with which,.
to pay your debts; if you. c an ,in accom
plishing that ;result, iris your duty to do it..
It is the duty of the Government, under the
eircumstances,:to take - such steps, se far is
may be in its - power, as shall draw out of its
hiding places some part of the U 00,000,00 0.
which Is thus withdrawn frOm circUlation.—
The Government has but to'•adVerthie for ft
loan, to obtain in three days all it - wanti:
Wall street is aslull of spectre as it ever.vitis.
You then secure to the circulation the amount .
borrowed, and thus in relieving'the busi
ness of country.
[The eommittee here informally ros6 and
received it . inessige from the Senate, by `As— •
bury Thekins i .their Secretary; inforniing the
Irlouse that the Senate-lad passed the `joint
resolution ojchb House, amending an•act
titled " An , act to regulate - the compensation.
of members of congress, aPproved Augast
10, 1856." The committee againresumed
its sess ion.]
Mr. Gaow. I shall' trespase but a short
time longer,on,the patience ofthliconimittee. '
I have thrOwn out the suggestiohs I:desire to
make upon this bill, to shadow the reasons
which will control my n - actio on the final;
vote , of the liouse\iipon the bill.
In my judgment, it is an unwise policy . for
this Government to pursue in any case,..to
sue paper promises to pay; when; by thesis,:
tistios ofthe country, you hate in Mindanao
Of hard 'money,. which only neede - to be drawii
into circulation. for the business_ porpos of
the country. Leti not the Government, theit,.,.
add •to the-ills of the country by adding whttp-
represses the circulation of coin. The Gov
torment should., Wijen the wants of the count
ry demand a loan, borroW from those who .'
have horded up the coin: . and infuse it into
'the veins and arteries of the business of the
Country. The lifa-blood of trade is a curren
cy upon a metallic hags, convertible',/,'
at all times ; into specie. :
I propose, in t he prfoperpTacoileAriu..tho
•
following amendment t
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