II . - . MI • EAD & H. A.-FRAZIER ? EDITORS. C. F. the Independent Rep Vblican NIEIUOAY. Br IPA Arrosior MOCK- . O tempest, o'er my soul! - . e these young and tender flow'rs ng from the blackened mass Cred hopes; what were ,these hours me, if in thy sweep p • --• ' etion, they were crushed! . I watered them with pears, ay. bitter murnitring hushed— is of joy fOr fature good. s • • . . , •• ilI know thy dismal wail, g up the tide of years, West maul Phantoms pale, lett the fondest hopes of youth acted by'some Siroc's breath - ice, filled. with rosy wine, • • lased by tli Wing of Death. r . the desertof my heart; crry with'the burninrr t . sands, • the,,grare of buried Luce, - .. • I', grim phantom ever stands. . ' I know what thou wouldst tell: athway thick with thorns is set; any is gilded rust ; ' s but end inl(een rerrret..." . , • rr - I turn Ric from the past, i • has many joys for•Me; the•thorns are thickest set, . e sweetest roses see. . Swu? on But sp Just p6ep Of shut, Of life, t Of deso Long hay. And all 'AM. tea Too we 1 . Is, mai 1 Thou 11 Round wh, b, Love's eh Is shadd Sweep o'e "Make m 'Where, byl One Mar' ...th ! Veil " Life That ail it. It's hop Sweep on , Life qtil And, 7lhe I nO7t. all thy selfish grief e dead leities ! I now 'home learned but dross; compared 'with these . y morbid grief I spurned. Away. wi O'er tho They Igere That in ( • o m the Sew York ,Vereury. {1 I S OF . A NIGHT ; OR, {bah BrOwn became a Teetotal4r. Whylede' BY LQtitS Ir was eleven o'clock at night, and Zededi nh Brown had not returned. lt.was nicircumstance which-raged in. the mind of I.ll'rs. Jedediah Brown mingled - feel ings of indignation And surprise. Among . the, Mental qualites of the lady' in question, mere an abUndance of those genera tire of ternmgancy, and: she was not inclined to allow ar j• infringement of her matrimonial rights with impunity. That she really enter tamed for her sterner lflf a deep affection - , to say thel'ea6t, all 'who are any xays acquaint ed witlohi domestic affairs of the Brown family, ca truthfully 'attest. Stillit is a matter of universal recognition that Mrs. Brown had a-eery . eialted idea of 'her owit merits, an. was constantly endeavoring to _ •• inspire he husband with adue sense .ot r : the priceless t erisurti he possessed in her. In the I page of,-a celebrated Roman= slightly n edified for present application :.. " Not tlra, 'she loved Jedediah less, but IF. self more. ' , f - - :.- . As'pre iously stated, it was+ eleven o'clot,k, and the d •linquent Brown had •not mine his appearan •'. ' Allow i.g the extreme view that Mrs Brown took in egard to the course 'of conduct pursued y Mr2Brown to be the true one, that indi • tdual was deerving 'of the strong : est eensu e. . _ The- i i patient lady \ mt before the cheerful grate in er little parlor, the , sharp outlines of her fea urea fully exposed by, the ascend ing film:" deelarruminating on the subject of her wI• , Presently she arose,'-seized with mal grant gr,aspsihe unoffending poker, acid fiere.:ly attacked-the glowing coals. It. would se m - that she stirred up at .the. same time the re of lier, anger, for its ll4dies buht passicinat iy forth.. "It's ci bad !" she.exelainted alou'd, "it's too bad,it's really abominable, thatJededi• .... ah should so far forget himselt—and me, as to, act in tit* -atrocious manner," ' . _ . • She gi • need nervously at the clpck; then seating erselt; columned : - . ' "This is—let me see—three, four times, s's I'm a living soul, th a t he has . sitnilaky oatenmy m feelings within a Single onth ; el and then he has the atidaeity to excusehim- self oft i ground of ;political excitement.' Now rs ould just like to know what reasons' there cartbe 'for a man to make .a beast of'', himself, because a new President ,to - -•-k e- ' leeted aw Weeks ahead." " N. And • -a supplement to the question, she fixed up if the . unconscious cat, who' was sleeping n the corner of the hearth, such a s'ingui y look as must have thrilled that felinequ druped With feelings of the intens nale est horrdr, had its reasoning faculties been of the himuin Order, and its eyes met the gaze of its mitiess, : • `iillut 'm not going to'allow this state of thin g s a y longer ! I'll teach him that the wire ofs bosom is entitled to a little' more respect! It's a shlune—a hioningi'everlast . ing sha e, that he should leave me to spend my eve iirls.neglected and alone; while he is reveling in -she of wickedness s and riot! - Agai she started to her feet. - `• 11l of wait for him another minute; no, _not if hi very life and future happins de pends,u nit. l'll go to bed 1" ' • It-is clue to the' veriicity of the lady. to' ehroniele the fact that her assertion "vitas not idly made—, : - - a• - lift . Jedediah Brown went to bed. It .m t have:been art kinur,lt might -have bt!en so _ewhat 'more, 'l\ hen Mr. Jedediah Brown proached his residence. -He did not, lintver, move up . to the door, " after turning . lie corner, with that dignified state liness tht usually characterised him, nor did bereach it as quickly as Might have l heen ex pected ; for;like a vessel beating to . a ind kard, h ' tacked several timei,.runtiing from eurb-sto e to curbstone , and lore than once being se iously in danger of wrecking him ll self in t q gutter. At length he,wai happy enough make port, and anchor on his own dnorste „Truth lacteal compels us to admit, however re, that Jedediafißrown wnsc—:drunk sat upon the lower step, his head on his bosom, hii,hadlyrdamage hat drawn over his brows, his neck-cloth kith the knot in a position under his Tether .suggestive of a murderur's I his entire outward 'appearance indi an utter regardlessness as to his per pea, or anything eled pertaining to estrial sphere, a Moral reform lecturer are gone into ecstasies at the thought -sing such a, subject to exhibiLbefore • relative audience as an unique speci otal depravity. • her Mr. Jedediah Brown, at that pre , rent,- had a realizing sense of his true r, it is uncertain; the air was keenly d it may have peen that which rnov t','9rtain it is, tkat -he appeared 'at sums to the conclusion-that justice As sunk u., crow•d e abkew:,. MEMI fate, an attire zonal this to Would i CE 41) appr taen of tV he else eond [Li i j cold, ed itim h • v . . • „ . , • • • • • . - . • . . :01) " • --• t• - -;"" Ir '1 __ • . . . Tr.• . • _ . t t , •• • , , A - „ • ,• L., • -..„ , • ..•,. .... 4 • t •• -7 : • • • . • • • -„ . • to nos own. self demanded time he shouldiind some more attractive_quartbrs. Accordingly, he assumed as-erect an atti tude, as possible, and by a marvelous stroke of good fortune,' succeeded- reaching and grasping the door knob. Then from his pocket he pr'pfluced a latch key, arid set about effecting an entrance. To form a deteraiination to , do a thing,And to effect the "consummation devoutly to be wished," are two distinct affairs. So Je.dedi ah,Brown discovered On this imeasion. The'door was large, and die key-hole was small; the.night withal, was hot one of the lightest - "This is a sing'lar thing,w.muttered Jede dish, in : wvery thick tone of voice, and with exceedingly long intervals betwen some of his words ; "this is a dreadful singlar thing: I think, I really do think, tbai• on the whole, it's about the most sing'lar thing that ever I knew, where the key:hole haX gone Ad hid itself. I know .1 left it herd when I went Away, I'm sure I did—and nOw where is it ?" He ceased from his endeavors to find the missing orifice for a few Moments, as if the last sentence he uttered had avakened weighty (sughts in his mind. Thene made another futile attempt to discover_ir. gone, sure," he said; " the key-hole ain't there: •P'raps somebody's stole it—it was a brass Trey-hole, and komebody may have tbQk •it'for gold, and stole it. Or else," he mused as a faint idea of a wrong perpe trated against him on the part of his wife crossed his confused mind, " Or else she' s took it insidb.with her to keep me out,; - shouldn't wonder at all." • Concluding to make one more., 01) t, he this time succeeded in fin4ing t, What he has searched for so long. - Well, well!" he I . ttereti'; " this is a gt,o;, the k4-hole was there alt the while. • Jede: dish 'BroWn!, if you wasn't such a respectable person as i know you to be, 1 should be tempted to say yeu were drunk !" BURDICK Ile entered and after stumbling over a hall table and oversetting the hatistand he man aged to grasp hold of the stair banisters,—._ Then,vith a fresh •exertion;, he gained the parlor diior. • The fire wits still burning brightly in the grate, and Rdediah Brownthought _ it flicker ed up reproachfully as he advanced into the room: So he turned his biiek,;,to the blaze, and steadied himself %ith a ehairback. • Happening to raise his eyes, he was aston i.ttoci to 6011..:d a man al tha t- fat that CA tmm ity of the apartment. The thought of thieves at once etttered his mind. - " Who're you ?" he inquired, sternly. , The mysterious person Ar_eserved a pro found silence. . " Who'ie you, I say 1' cried J edediah In louder key. Still the importuned said not a word, • " Now, lobk here, you vil.l'uous, thieving: ugly-looking scound'eJ, if yOu don't answer my question,.sacrifice Ai, I will. Do* you hear ? What business have you. in my house, at this time,o' night ?" - As the last inquiry elicited no reply, Jed: ediiih,-moved by his rising "passion, without further e.yostulation, seized- a foot stool, and employintallhis . strength ipt the effort, he fired at the.head of the fancied hurglar. The. tremendous crash of broken glass which followed, awakened'(e deluded •inati to the important fact that ti had shivered in to fragments his wife's co'stliest mirror, and 'that the imaginary.thief wets simply its raj flection of himself. Before he had' time, kowever; to make-ma T ny reflections upon, the matter, he was start! led by the cry of "Thieves ! Murder ! Pot lice and a variety of o other frantic screams in the shrill yoic.:t of his wife, who, awakened suddenly by the noise, had arose and thrust her head from the bed-room window over head; - "Police! police ! help !' - • Aggiwit rang out upon the still night air: " What's the muss l" cried a vigilant guar dian of the pulite safety, as lie made his ap'- ptai.ance. , ; " Burglars !" screamed the.lady in white, hysterically. . !` Where I" • i - - "Below in the parlor—l hear theni now. Help, quick l'" Another policeman at this moment arriv ing, the door was forced opexi, and, the two entered. . . I , tib Mr. Jedediah Brown, becoming alarmed at the manifestations he beard, "was reeling toward the'door. . . "Ha, here he is I":cried, one of the officers, tri um phantly.l: I "Nab him!" alaimed; the other. ' 1 "Why, blow me if he ain't drunk. Hes been belovetmong the wine." - "Stand of 1" cried BroWn, assuminglwhat he intended*should'be a dignified attitude.-4- " Stand off! Do you take:me fora thief 1 ."'yell, now, I shouldn't wonder- at all " said policeman nunth,er, ne, in an ironi I tone, "if we did `take , you for a thief—as f as the station hpusy, at-any rate.". " What's that ? Arrest me in my' ovrin house—drag me from .the,bosom of my fain • I ily 1" • It won% do, old feller ; you must come along with-us. 7 "Never! I say never -no, never !" " - Have you - caught the monster I Where is he r cried the tren;blinff b , voice of M. Brown, as that courageous female made heir - appeatance,on the stairs, and peered over the 'banisters into the rQom. - "It's all right ma'am," said the officer "he's safe enough now." .1 , .lust then her eyes fell on her husband, and from him they glanced around the room till they rested upon the ruined mirror. She comprehended at once what had occurred, and• the direst indignation against the'unlucky Jedediah arose.within her breast , She was about to, vent her wrath against him, when a brilliant thought struck *he would not recognizes him! The Officers beiievid hini to be a burglar, and she would not undeceive them.. It would be Strglormus revenge. • "What a horrid looking man, he is," she uttered, in a tone of apparent alarm', " HOld s him tight--don't let him get away." , " a Ile is rather hard •that's a fact," replied the pfficer ; but don't be frlghtenCd i ma'am', escape."i " What `a blessed thing it was you came as you did. wouldn't. have -had him found me for the world. What ahoild I have done iflie.hadr Jedediab gazed at his wife with open amaze ment pictured upon his countenance, lie became - a little sobered by what had trans FREEDOIkI amp 2[10G47 a6n.mtilr siLaygßy aa© zvG2OH©,99 . pired; and was aenaible enough to wish him self well kiut of the embarrassing position he -was in. . "Why, Mrs.lßrown, it's me=—Jedediah." " Why, the horrid wretch, he knows .my naMe!" creamed the lady. "K.n . i4 youriname I Well, I rather, think • I'd Ought. to kn4w•your name, seeing as how I gave it'to yott." . " Oh, you wretched mate 11 ' " Now, 'too -where. Mrs.. Brown, don't come it,too string ; don't-pretend that you don't know wh I am,"! " now shout I know 'I. Think goodness, I don't keep cocipany with such as you." " Ain't I your.husband ?"- s. . "Oh, takelitiin away, do—the scandalous creature.!" "Conie," saii the officers, graspinghim by either arm, - " y u can't remain here any lon• ger • come alo g." he injured rown resisted this appeal as well as he was able. '. l / 4 • . "J tell you ypu ; re wrong !" be cried, grasp• ing - the door with both hands. "Oh, of course we're wrong—of course we are; but neverlyou mind, and come along with us, and it will be all right." 1 But this is my house; h say, and. that i my wife and . shie knows it." The officers, however, were not inclined to credit his wordS, and insisted more strongly than ever that he should accompany them.--, But bnly-'by carrying him bodily along could he be removed. l . "Tell rem thi3y're mistaken 'in the man," implored Jedediah; appealing to his wife, when he found hat he could not otherwise convince.them loof the truth. 'Tell 'em who i am, and they'll let me go." , But that good lady only shrunk back, and uttered a small scream, as if shocked at what she heard. k • • The rage of her husband was redoubled by 'this act of porfii.liousness. ‘.‘ Woman !" 1 he vOciferated turning a last L . I look upon ner as she stepped upon the stairs, "beware what you do; don't trifle with a des pefate man ! Speak to these men or your doom is sealech! You won't,'?' Very well ; the consequeneCs be upon your, own head.—. I'll have adi v4ce—rtt separate from you ; yes, madarn and I'll take the children ! Do you hear that, Mrs. Brown'! take all the children to my Self, and leave you a ruined, destitute. wi'ettihed,heart.broken, female: be, ing !" rii;Trit'ciecr,to the infurtateit DroWti just then that he ledd no•children. He had ever cherished stron g hopes, however, of having an infinitepumber of those useful• household ornaments ; and his ideas were not as clear, by any means,[as usual Before he,coOld utter more, he was upon the sidevyalk, and the docr of the' house was dosed and fat-:tened: Mrs:. Brown retired tiultin.-?iy - to hbr dreams, Whi!.o Mr. Brown, upon his arrival at the station house, was thrust ianornitinmsly into one of the dark cells; and left too meditate at his leisure upon It's humiliating position. When, the next morning, Mr. Jedediah Brown made ills appearance before the - meg. istrate escoried by his captor of the night pre vious, he presAned an aspect . truly deplora ble. Ile was pot the Jedediafi Brown of for mer times, and it would , have puzzled his nearest friends to recognize him. The work. ing of his mind, and the liquor he had drank, had left him in a miserable-plight. The justicc, putting on his severest frown, Inquired into the particulars of his ease.— Turning to thej prisoner, he slid "So you w / re caught in the act, were you?' Well, burglary is a serious matter, as you'll find out. What is your name V' ' ' "Brown," replied Jedediah ; "but there is a mistake." • " Brown, eb?" interrtipted the justice ; " well, the name's against you ; there have been fourteen burglaries, not to, speak of oth et crimes, committed in this.district by men of that name within the present month. " " But I, am an innocent person ; it was in my own house they arrested me." "'Everybody is innocent that's bruit here,. of course! But we'll soon see bow you stand. Wherejs ,the corvlainarit :n this case ?" At this mamma, a lady entered. "There she is," said the policeman; The prisoner looked up, and met the eyes of his wire.. " What halte you to say is regard to this man, madam r as-ked the judge. Mrs. Brown did not immediately 'reply. She looked for a moment longer icto the face of her huSband, as if astonished. and - bewilder ed, and thenAhe exclaimed : • "'Why, ca q it . be possible ? Is it, then, re ally you, Jedediah ?" _ Then addrlssing the magisirate, , she con tinued ' "I find that it is only my lin lbanO, and have no complaint to make. Bit- it was so late when he came home, last night, and he' was so dkqut i scd, that I was unable to recog nize him." Jedediah Brown said not a word. He knew full well how the matter stood, and he felt not a little shime. for the ridiculous part he had enactdd. He retired with his wife, very passively, vowing in his own mind nev ,er to be caught in a like scrape again. And that ill how he became a teetotaler! • at, • • nEr One iday last week, a, young lady, living in the genteel part of Hampstead/ ran through three novels, each of three volumes, in f6ur hours; forty minutes and a half. She was a little dizzy afterwards, and complained of a slight nin her head, 'but rallied to wards tea-ti me, and' ate afterwards a very hearty supper. So little did she feel fatigued 'the next day; that she sent for three more novels, and, itpon the volumes being handed to her, she galloped through them again quite unconsciously. The runningibe second time was accompl i ished in three hours and ten min utes. However, she has not been herself since, but fancies,that she is a princess in die guise, a Savoyaid-boyi • a dethroned queen running after her' peasant lover, the Chevalier Mon, and (various other romantic charac ters most difficult to reconcile,PunM. A Meek filled with selfishness, and the Sabbath l l stufled full of religious exercises, wi❑ make'a lgood 'Pharisee, but a poor Chris tian. There are many persOns who think Sunday is a jsponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. EUROR.-A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that he is wiser today than' he was 'yesterday.--Pove. MONTROSE, THURSDAY', JUNE 24, 1858. THE-SCOTT LEGION. F. I/OFP'Sfl!i • Wa were not many—we who stood, . flefore,the Iron sleet that day, • . Yet many a gallant spirit would • Give Aall his years, if he burconld Have been with us at Monterey. .Now here, now there, the shot is bailed In deadly drifts of fiery spray, Yet not a single soldier quailed When wounded comrades round them wailed Their dying shout at Monterey. • And on, still on, our column kept ' Thro' walls of flame its withering way, Where fell the dead, the living stept, Still charging on the guns which swept The slippery streets of Monterey. The foe himself recoiled aghast, • , • When striking where the strongest lay, We swooped its thanking batteries past, And braving full their murderous blast, • Stormed home the towers of Monterey. Our banners on their turrets wave, , . - And there the evening bugles play ; Where orange boughs above their grave •) 3. - - Keep green the memory of the brave, Who fought and fell at Monterey. - We were not many—we who press'd Beside the Mace who fell that day ; . But Who of ns.has not confessed He'd rather share their warrior rest, • Than not have been at Monterey? -,-.•••• • I. • - _ A RILL FROM THE TOWN PUMP. NATHANIEL IIAWTHORNK (Scene—the corner of ilL^o principal streets.• The Town P'ump talking through its nose.) Nooti,. by the north elect: ! Noon, by the east! High noon, too, by these hot sun beams, which fill!, scarcely uslope, noon my head, and almost make the water-bubble and smoke in the trough alder my nose: Truly we public characters have a tough time of it! And atuung all the town officers, elioSen at March meeting, where is he that sustainsjor a single year, the burden of such manifold duties as are imposed, in perpetuity, upon:the Town Pump. The title-of town treasurer" is rightfully, mine, as guardian of the hest, treasure that the town kips. The oierseers -of the poor ought to make me their chair man, since I provide bountifully for the pau per, without expense W him that pays taxes. I am. at the head of the fire department, and one of .thelphysicians to the board of healtE. As a keeper of the peace. all' water dri erA will confesa pal to the constable. I perterm some of . the'''duties of the town clerk, by promulgating ptiblic notices, when they are-paged on my front. TO speak with in bonnds, I am the chief person . of the Mu nicipality, and exhibit, moreover, an admira ble pattern to my brother officers, by the cool, steady, 4ipright; doWnright, and -impar tial discharge of ,my business, and the con gtanoy wrio, which I stand t o nier or winter, nobody seeki me in yam ; for all day long, i am seen at the busiest cor ner, just -above the. market, stretching out my arms to rich and petcq;a&like; and .at night, I hold a over nViead, both to show where lam, and to keep people out of the gutters. - At this sultry noontide i am- cupbearer to the parched populace, for whose- benefit au iron goblet is chained to my waist. • Like a dramseller on the niall, at muster-day, I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest ac cents, and at the very tip-top of my voice— Here it is, gentlemen! Here is the good liquer ! - Walk up, walk up, ,gentlemen,walk up, walk up! Dere is the superior stufil— Here is the unadulterated ale of - father Ad am—better than Cognac, Doll-ands, Jamaica, strow , t' beer, or wine of any price; here it is by the hogshead or the single class, 'and not a cent to pay ! Walk up, gentlemen, walk up, and help yourselves. It wore a pity if all this outcry should draw no customers. Here they come A hot day, gentlemen. Quaff, and away again, so as to keep yourselves in a nice cold.sweat. You,.my friend, will need another cupfhl,. to wash the dust out of your-throat, if it be as thick there as it is on yinir cowhide shoes.— I see that yon have trudged half a score of 'miles to-day ; and like a wise man, live passed by the taverns, and' stopped at the running brooks and well curbs. Otherwise, betwixt heat without and 'fire within, you would have been burnt to a cinder, or melt, ed down to nothing at all, in the fashion of a jelly-fish. Drink, and make room ,for that other fellow, who seeks. my ,aid to quench the fiery fever of last night's potations, which he drained from no cup of mine. Welcome, most rubicund sir! You and- I have been great strangers_hitherto ; nor, to'express the truth, will my nose be anxious for a closer intimacy, till 111,e fumes of your breath be a little less potent. Mercy on you man ! the . water absolutely risses down your red-hot gullet, and is converted quite to steam in the miniature Tophet which you mistake for a stomach. Fill again, and •tell me, on the word of an honest toper, did you ever, ,in cellar, tavern, or in any kind of a dram-shop, spend the price of your children's food for a swig half so . delicious? Now for the first time these ten years, you know the favor of cold water.' Good bye • and -whenever you are thirsty, remember bye; I keep a constant supply at the old stand. Who next ? Oh, my little friend, you are let loose from 80001, and comnhither to scrub your blooming face, and drop the memory of certain taps of the ferule, and other school-boy troubles, in a draught from the Town Pump. Take it, pure as the current of your young life. Take it, and may your heart anktonffue never be scorched with'a fiercer thirst b than now ! There, my dear child, put down the cup, and yield your place to this., elderly -gentleman, who treads so tenderly over the stones, that . I suspect he is afraid of breaking them.— What! he limps by without so much were thanking me, as if my hospitable offers were meant only for peOple whb hale no wine cel lars.. Well, well, sir—no harm done; I hope? Go, draw - Vie cork, tip the decanter, but when your great toe shall set you roaring, it will be no affair of mine. •If gentlemen love the pleasant titilation - of the gout, it is all one to the, Town Puny. This thirsty dog, with his red pngue lolling out, does not -scorn my hospitality, but stands on his hind legs, and laps eagerly out of the trough:— See ho* lightly he capers away.again! Jow ler' : did your,worship ever have thngout? Are you all satisfied Then = wipe your mouths, my good friends; and —*bile my spout has a moment's leisure, *1 will delight the town with a few historical reminiscences. In far antiquity, beneath a darksome shadow of venerable boughs, a spring bubbled out of the leaf-strewn earth, in the very spot where you now behold me on the sunny pavement. The water was as bright and clear, and deemed as precious'as`kiquid diamonds. The Indian Sagamores dranlf. it from time im. Memorial; till the fearful 'deluge of firewater burst upon the red men, \and swept their whole race away from the cold fountain— Endicott and his followers came next, and or . ten : knelt down to drink, dippitig, their..-long. beards in the spring. ,The richest -goblet, then was of birch bark.. Gov. Winthrop; after a journey afoot from Boston „drank her; out of the hollow of his hand. \The el. der Iligginson here wet his palm,, and `laid it on the brow of the fit st town-born chili], -Flor many years it was the watering plt; atif) as it were, the wash-bowl of the Nlb:nit. ;whither all decent folks'resorted, to purify their - visages and gaze at them afterward-`—at least the pretty maidens did—in the mirror which it made. On Sabbath days, whenever a babe was to be - baptized, the sexton filled his basin here, and placed it upon the coin !minion table of the humble meeting house, which partly covered the site of yonder Stately brick one. Thus one generation after another was consecrated to heaven by its ters, and cast their waxing and waning shad ow's into its glassy bosom, and vanished from the earth, as it mortal 1-415 Nfere but a' 'fitting image in a fountain. Finally, the fountain - vanished also. Cellars were dug on. all sides, and cart-leads of gravel flung upon its source, whene& oozed a turbid stream, forming a mud puddle at the . corner ,of two streets. ' In the hot months, when its refresh ment was most needed, the dust flew ,in clouds over the fingotten 111ft - h . :place of the waters—now their-grave. But in the course of time, ft`town pump was. sunk into the source.,of the ancient spring ; and when •the first decayed, another took its place—and, then another; and still MVOther—till here stand 1, gentlemen and ladies, to serve you with my iron goblet. Drink and he refresh ed ! The water is pure and cold as that which slaked the thirst of the red Sagamore beneath the aged bough, though now the gem of the wilderness is treasured under these• hot-atones; where-no shadow Pills but from the brick buildings. And be it the moral of my itory, that as the wateed and long-lost fountain is now known and prized again, so shall the virtues of cold water, too little :vat/ tied. since yOur.father's dais, be recognized by ' . Your pardon, giyitd people; I must inter riipt. my itroam of eloquence, and spout forth a stream of water, to replenish the trough for this teamster and his two yoke of, oxen, who have come from Topsfield, or somewhere along that way. No part of my business is pleasanter than the watering of cattle. Lookt how rapidly they loW,er the wateranark on the sides of the trough, till their capacious stomachs al•e moistened with a gallon or two apiece, and they can afford time to breathe it in, with sighs of calm en )yll joy net*, Now they roll s• - their quiet .eye : und the brim of their monstrous drinking ssel. An ox is your : true to Per. But I perceive, my dear auditors, that you are impatient for the remainddr of my dis course. Impute it, 1 bescecl4ou, • to no de fect of modesty, if I insist a little longer -tin so fruitful a topic as my ownwmultifarina 'merits. It is altogether forr-your good. The better you think of me, the better men and women will you find yourselves. I shall say nothing of my el-important aid on washing days: though on that account alone, I might call myself the househeld, god 1.4 a hundred families. Far be it from me also to ,hint, my respectable friends, at the Show of dirty faces which you would present without my pains t'o keep you clean. Nor Will I remind you how often, when'the midnight bells make you tremble for your combustible town; you have fled to the3own Pump, and_ found me always at my post, firm Amid the - confusion, and ready to drain my vital current in your behalf. Neither is it worth while .to lay much stress on m a y claim's to a medical diplo ma, as the phYsietan i: whose Simple rule of practice is preferable to all the nauseous lore which has found men siek,or , left them so, since the days of Hippocrates. Let us take a broader view of my beneficial influence on • mankind. : s No; these are trifles compared with the merits which wise men concede to me—if not in my single self, yet as the representa tive of a class—of being the great reformer of the age. From my spout and such spouts as mine, must flow the stream that shall cleanse our earth of the, vast portion of its crime and anguish, which has gushed from the fiery fountains of the still. In this mighty enterprise the cow shall be toy great confed erate. Milk and water ! The Tdten Putiip and the _Cosi? Stich is the glorious co-part nerkhip that shall teat down the distilleries and brew-houses, uproot the vineyatds, shat ter the cider presses, ruin the tea and coffee trade, and finally monopolize the whole busi ness of quenching thirst. Blessed- consum mation ! Then, Poverty shall pass away from the land, find no hovel so wretched, where her squalid form may shelter itself.— Then disease, for lack of other victims, shall gnaw its.own heart, and die. • Then sin, if she do not die, shall lose half her strength.— Untit,now, the frenzy of hereditary fever has raged in the human blood, transmitted from sire to son, and rekindled -in every genera tion, by fresh draughts of liquid flame.= When that inward fire shall be extinguished, heat of passion cannot but grow cool, and wer--Lthe drunkehess of nations—per haps will cease. At least, there be no war of households. The hatband and wife, drinking deep in peaceful joy—a calni bliss of temperatefilfktions—shall pa3s, hand in hand through life, and lie down, not reluc tantly, at its protracted close. To them, the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams, not the future an eternity of such moments as fol lows the delirium of the drunkard. Their dead faces shall express what their spirits were, and are to be, by aiingeting smile of memory and hope. Ahem ! Dry work;this speechifying ; es pecially to an unaacticed orator. I never conceived, till noIIF, what toil the temperance lecturers undergo for my sake. Hereafter, they shall have the business to themselves. Do, some Christian, pump.. a stroke of two, just to wet my whistle. Thank you, sir My dear hearers- ' when the world shall have been regenerated by my instrumentali ty, you will collect yout useless rata and liquor casks into one great pilectind make a bonfire in honor of the Town Puhip. And' when j shall have decayed, like my predeces sors, then, if you revere my, memory, let a marble fountain s richly sctilptured, take my place upon the spot, Such monuments should be erected everywhere, pill inscribed I H.' H. FRAZIER, PIJBLiSHER-yot.4. NO. 25. -,y • • with the names of the distinguished champi ons of my pause. Now listen ; for some thing very important is to come next. •There are two or three honest friends of mine, and true friends 'I know they are— who, nevertheless, by their fiery pug,nacity in my behalf, do put me in fearful Lizard of a broken nose, tor even a total overthrbw up on the pavement, and the loss of a treasure which I guard: I.pran_you, gentlemen, let this fault,be 'amended. Is it decent, think you, to get tipsy with zeal for temperance, and take up the honorable cause of the Town Pomp ; . in the style of a toper . fightiqg for his brandytuttlel Or can the excelleAt quail; ties of cold water be no otherwise exempli fied than by plunging, slap dash into hot wa ter; and wofully scalding yourself and alter 060 e '1 Trust me, they may. In the mor alAa\k .arfare.which you are to wage—and in dee • t the whole conduct of -your lives-- you\ en not choose a better example than thy self, wh have never permitted the dust . and sultry at losphereohe .turbulent and mani fold disqui bides of the world , around me, to reach that calm well of purity, which_ may be called mv eoul. And whenever I pour out that soul, it,is to cool earth's fever, or cleanse its stairis One o'clock ! Nay, then, ff the dinner. belt begins to-- speat I may as well hol . d•my pc*. Here comes a pretty J yo.ung girl of my acquaintance, with large stone pitcher for me to fill. May sli\drifw a husband, while drawing her • water, as •Rachel did of old! Hold yOur vei4J, my dear ! There it is, full to the brim" . so, now run home, peeping at your sweet image in the pitcher as 3on go ; and forget nOt, in a glass of my own liquor, -to drink" r-cca.ss To TILE TOWN PQM' !" , TOUCHING INCIDENT Tits foiliiwing•extract, taken %from an ac count written by - the Rev. James Milleromo quoted by the author of "'Old Redstone; will give the reader some idea of 'the -peellil istry embarrassments of early ministers and ‘ of the general state of the Western:country,. 4nd also of ills remarkable interposition of Divine Providence for the relief of one of those ministers. "Our story," says Mr. Miller, " will carry • the reader back to the period when all north of the Ohio river was almost an unbroken wilderness-0e mysterious. red man's home. On the other aide, a .bold hardy band, from beyond the mountains bad built their log cab.: ins, and were trying to snbdue the wilder ness. To them every hour was full of peril., The Indians would often cross the river, Steal their children and horses, kill' and scalp any victim that came in their 'Way. They work c3 in the field with weapons at their side, and on a Sabbath met in a groVe - or rude slog church to hear the Word of God, with their rifles in their hands. To preach to these set tlers,.Mr. Joseph Smith, a Presbyterian min ister, had left his paternal home, east of the inountains: ' He, it was said; was the second minister who had crossed the Monongahela. He settled , in Woshington county, Pennsyl vania, and became the pastor . of Cross Creek and Upper Buffalo congregations, dividing-his time between them. He found ,them a wil ling,-and united people, but still unable to:pay him a salary. which would support his family. He, in common with all the early ministers,' must cultivate a farm; He purchased :one on credit, promising to pay for it . wklCthe salary pledged to him -by, his_people. Years pais'ed away. The pastor was_unpaid. Lade or no - money - was in circulation. • Wheat Wes abundant, but there_was no market. .It could not be sold for more than twelve . and ••a half cents, in ea.k. Even their salt; which ,had to be brought across the mountains on pack horses,-was worth eight dollars per bushel, and twenty-one bu - shels cf wheat had often to be given for one of salt. The time cane when the payment must be made,- and Mr. Smith was told he must pay or leave his farm. Three years' salary was now due from his people. For . the want of this, his,' land, his-improvements upon it, and his .hopes of remainingamong a beloved people must be abandoned. The people were called logeth er, and the ease laid before °. them, and they were greatly moved ; counsel from on high was sought; plan after plan was proposed and abandoned ; the congregation were.una hie to pay a tithe of their debts, and no mon ey could be borrowed.. In despair, they ad journed-, to Meet again the following , week. In the meantime,, it was ascertained' that .a Mr. Moore . , who owned the only 'mill in the county, would grinds for . them wheat . op . rea sonable terms. At the next meeting it• was resolved to tarry their wheat to Mr Moore's . mill; some gave fifty bushels, some More.— This was carried from fifteen to twenty-six miles on horses to mill: In a •month word came that the flour was ready to go to mar-. 'ket. Again the people were-called together. After an earnest prayer the . queStian was asked, " Who 'will, run the flour to New Or leans?" This was a startling question. The work was 'perilous in - the: extreme ; months nist pass before. the adigenturer _could hope . to return, even though his journey . should be fortunate ;: nearly all the Way .vigas wilder,- 'derness, and gloomy tales were told of the treacherous Indiarks. - More than one boat's. , crew had gane,on that journey and had conic back no more. " Who then could endure the toil and brave. the datiger V! None volun-. peered ; the yotipg shrunk back, end the Mid dle aged had their excuse. At length a hoary headed man, an elder in the church; Bitty four years of age; rose, and' to, 'the aitotitsb ntent of' the assembly said, - " Here I am ;,send me." The deepest feeling at, once pervaded the 'whole assembly. To see their venerated old elder-thus devote himself for their good, \ melted theni. all to tears. They gathered. -around Father Smiley to learn that his rests . lution was indeed - taken ; that.' rather' . than' lose their pastor he would'braie danger, toil, and even death. After some:delay and trouble, two young Men were indieed, ‘ky hope of a large reward, to r ,o as his assist= ants. A day was . appointed for starting.— The yoiing and old, from for near; from love to Father Smiley and deep interest - in the object . of his miSsion, gathered togeth . et • and with their • pastor at their head came down 'from- the Church, fifteen miles away, to: thelank of the river, to . bid . - the old man_ farewell.. Then a praytr was offered up by: their pastor, and'a parting hymn wai . ;sung, Then,said the Scotchman, "Untie the cable; and see what the Lord- will . do for us." ,This -was done and tO at he. floated slowly away,. More than . nine months passed and, ho Word' came back frot9A.Father_Smiley. . Many a prayer had been breathed for hint, but what • was his fate was ur known. Another Sabbath came ; :the people came together for worship, and there, on his rude bench ; before the, preacher, conipOsed and devout, sat Father Smiley. After service the people- wive • re quested to meet early . 'in - the • week to hear the report. AU came again.. After thanks had been returned.to, Oc-41.f0r . -his safes return, Father Smiley rose and told his story: That the Lord had prospered his mission ; that he • had sold his flour for.twenty-seven dollars barrel, and then got safely back. He then drew a large purse and poured upon the ta ble a larger pile of gold .than most of the spectators had ever seen before.. The young mien were paid etch one hundred dollars.— Father'Smiley was asked 'his charge. He - meekly,replied, that he thought he -ought to have the same as one of the young men, tho' hetad not done qiiite as much work. It was immediately proposed to pay hfro three liund - - red dollars. This/he refused plt the pastor was paid. • Upon-counting the money it was found there was enough to pay what was due ,Mr. Smith, to advance his.salary for the year' to come, to reward Father Smiley with three hundred dollars, and then have a large divi dend for each contributor. This their debts were paid, their pastor relieVed, and While life lasted he broke for them fhe bread of life. The bones of both pastor and , elder re pose in the same churebyardi but a grateful posterity still tells this pleasing story of the • Wild Turkeys—their Hiitory and Habits. . _ THE wild turkey belongs to the Gallino\ : and to the order maleagris gallopavo,and is found only in America. Its original-range _ extended from the Northwestern part of the - United States to the isthmus of Panama. It ). is now mostly confined ,to the - Unsettled or thinly inhabited portions =of Arkansas ; Lou isiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Ohio, Kentucky, • Illinois, and the vast territory lying west and - south-west of .these States, • though found in small number's in Georgia, Florida, the Car , lines, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Turkeys o . a mongrel vat iety, produced by a cross . - • - , ing f the wild and tame breeds, are found ' in th•. mountainous parts of Sussex County, N. J.,\ nd in Western. New York, and .are usually • Iled wild. turkeys. \ 1 34.1 Some tthe peculiar habifss of this' bird ' are thus de cribed in , the " Transactions of the Americ n institute," fyr 1852:—The wild turkeys a c , not confine themselves to ary particular fikod ; (hey eat Indian own; all • kinds of berries,lruits, grains, and grasses; and even tadpoles,asshoppers, young frogs, and lizards, are. co stantly found in 'their ... crops ; but where the.c.an nut is plenty, they prefer that food t any other. Their more general predilection i§, however, for . .. the acorn, or mast, chestne, ete„ on which ,• they readily fatten.. About the beginning of „ ' October, while the mast or hock, still re mains on the-trees, they assent le in flocks, and direct their course to the .idh bottom • lands. At this season they are ollerved in great numbers in the valleys of he Ohio and Mississippi. The time of this it uption • ii known to'lndians by tlio name- of turkey • month. The males, Oually termed gobblers, as 'sociate in parties numbering from ten ho a ' • hundred, and seek their food apait from a s h • fetnales ; while the latter either move about singly with their young, then nearly' two. \ thirds grown, or, in company with other fe males and, their families, form troops, some times consisting of seventy or eighty individ uals, all of wn arc intent on avoiding the • _ old- males, who,' whenever an- opportunity • offers, attack and destroy the young' by 're, rieated blows on the head. All - parties, how ever, travel in the same direction, and on foot, unless they are pompelle'd to-seek their individual safety, by flying from the hunter's' dog, or their march is _ impeded by natural . obstructliins.', . ' , • When the turkeys` have- surtmunted all diflie hies, atidrafrived at their land of shun , dance, they disperse in small flocks, compos ed of individuals of . rilf sexes and ages inter s mingled, who d'evour all the mast as they ad.- vance ; this occurs about:the middle alio vember. It has been observed that, after these long journeys, the tiirkeysliecome so familiar near the farm houses and plantations as to enter the stables and corn-cribs in. search food ; in this way they pass the Autumn,. and part of the Winter:, •. Early in March-they begin to pair; and 'for`a.short time previous the females separ : ate from and shun their mates, tholigh the latter - pertinaciously follow' them, uttering their gobbling notes. When mated for the season, oiie or more !mares, thus associated, follow their favorite, and roost in. he imme diate neighborhood, if not on the . sante tree, until they beg in to lay, when they change, their mode of life, in order • to save \ their eggs, which she male uniformly hreaki,if in , his power, that the female Map not be :with drawn from his company and Attention. At' this time, the females shun the, males during the greater parkpf the daj? ; the -males be come clumsy ailicarcleas, meet' each other peacefully, and cease to gobble. The sexes then • separate ; the males retire, and conceal themselves in secludedparts,of the foreskor i in the almost impenetrable recesses of a canes - brake. About the middle of April, when ,the weather is dry, the female selects a prop er place in,Which to : deposit her eggs, seburetf . from the encroachment of water, anctaa far as possible, concealed- from the Nl‘atehrul eye of the crow ; this crafty bird espies the hen going to her nest, and having discoveted the precious deposit ; he waits for the absence of the parent,and then removes every one of the eggs from the spot; that he Tay de yOur them at his leisure. The nek, is placed on the ground, either on a dry ridge in the fallen top.of a dead leafy tree, under a thicket of _s_umach or briers, or by the side of a log ;..it is. of simple. struc ture, being composed of a few dried leaves. In thisreceptacle the eggs are deposited, sometimes to the number of„twenty, but more usually fronynine to Meek; 'they are , whitish, spotted with reddieb.biown,'. like those °Oho domestic turkey. The female &Ways approaches her titist with great eau tion, varying her course suss rarely to reach it twice by the same.route ; and on leaving -,her charge, she is 'very. careful to cover the, whole with dry leaves, with which she con- cats it so carefully, as to make it extremely difficult, even for one who has watched her Movements, to indicate the exact spot." When .. laying or sitting, the turkey hen is not easily 'driven from her post, I?tthe approach of danger; but if an enemy atope4e crouches as low as possible;iind suffers it to pass. They seldom abandon their nests on s I Ni 111 II Eli
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