6errition, Vubli4tr.
LINES
TIM - DEATH OF , J. 8; COOK.
Yes, brother, thou art dead, and can it be
That we no more thy dear; dear form shall see?'
Say s brother dear,and. wilt thou not again
UOrne , back to, sooth our sorrow and our pain ?
!last thou departed t brother, never to appear
In mortal form to sooth ihy mother dear,
Who n‘ow bemoans thy yoUng, untimely end,
Who was thy loving angel, raother, friend,
And wilt thou not come back and speak ignin;.
'To brothers, sisters, father, smother, friends ?
Ah no ! for life has flea and thou art gone,
ToJiwell with spirits in thy final home.
Say, brother, art thou happy in thy new abode;
And irt,at peace, and dweltine with thy God ? •
We ask, and ask, but Alt ! shall.nover know;
'Till we have done with earth and home shall go
Then dwell on brother...in thy spirit home
Where all thy loving friends ere long shall come
To greet thee k'Eti dly in that blest abode, [God.
Where troubles cease,where all shall meet' their
December, 1 353. E. P. COOK;
TIIE WEST.
We plow and sow; we till and mow
Where,oncethe fUrest stood ; .
Where cities stand was years age.
A wild anddreary wood ; -
And now in place of woodland sounds,
Mrtgled with savage cries, -
i nve busy sounds of industry
from:_our streets arise. • •
Where once the hardy pioneers—
yith stately stet and slow,
Passed Onward, where the g,raseand flowers,
"/.cost refused,fo grow , . •
Are tneadews‘Stretelling far and wide
Across a fertile plain,
Nit lorely.rows o growing corn. •
And fields Of vt-mi . ing grain:
Ana on the strc•arns.whereonte was launched
:The Indian's frail canoe,
Where nothing else was heard except
The savages:halloo—
Now 'beat upon their turbid breasts
A nation's thrift and pride ; . •
Its wealthits honest industry
. Float on its busy tide.
All hail- onto those, noble men—
Those stal ivart: pi imeers,
Whci have a life of toil and strife;
• Of sorrows. hopes and fears ; •
With brawny hands and trop hearts,
They wrought their w i ny through life—
The first upon the battle field,
The foremost in the strife.,
Fighting a Squatter.'
About thirty i'ears Ago, in the uow 'flour
i-Iting city of fiannibal, on the Mississippi
aver, there were but few huts belonging to
some hardy "squatt2r,", and such a thing as a
6 . eamboat was considered quite et - sight, the
following- incident occurred t
A tall, brawny_ woodsmen stood leaning
against a tree which stood upon the bank of
the river,looking at some approaching object,
ivhich our readers would have readily dis
covered to have been a stekmbo)tt.
About-half an:hour elapsed,' and the boat
trai moored, and the hands were engaged in
taking mi l wood. -
!Cow,- among the many passengers on this
}vat, both
_male and female, was a spruce
young daedy, with a - killi CIO moustache, &c.,
who seemed bent on making an impression
on the - hearts of the young ladies on board-,
and to that en d - he' must 'perform some heroic
deed. Observing 6nr squatter friend be
imagined , this to. be 11 fine opportunity to
bring himself into nOtice—so stepping into
the cabin, be said :
"I,adies,. if you want to enjoy a good
laugh, step out on the,. pads. I intend to
frighten that gentlenAtt into fits who standi
on the bank I"
The ladles.complied with the request,. -and
o:ir dandy drew from his bosoma tormidable
bowie knife, and trust it into his belt ; then
taking a large horso•pistol in each hand, he
seethed satisfied that all was right. Thus
equippe4 -he strode on milli 'an air which
seemed to say : 'the hopes of a nation depend
on me.'
Marching up to the woodsman, be ex
•claimed
"Found you out at . last,. have I you are
the man I've been looking, for these three
- weeks. Say your prayer !" he continued,
presenting-his pistols, "you'll make.a capital
=r2i door, and I'll gill the - key bole my
self !' •
_ The squatter calmly surveyed him a mo
ment, then drawing back a step be planted
his huge fist' directly:. between . the eyes of
his antagonistt who. in a moment was•
„floundering in, e tuibid waters, ofsthe-Mis
sissippi.
Every lurssdnger bv.this time collected on
the guards, and.tlre :lout, that now' went up
from the crowd, speedily restored the crest
fallen hero to his seuses,and as he was sneak
ing off towards the boat be was .accosted by
his conqueror :
.
"Isay,_Vou, - next -time you come aronnd
drillin' key toles,- don't forget your old •ac
quaintances !" •
The ledies unanimously toted the knife
and pistols to the victor. •
SECRET OF HORSE TAMMOr—NIVe are ta:v
pestered by our inquisitive - acquaintance as to
the inedus operandi of Mr. Rarey, that arVie
!sacrifice-of our word, and the risk of Them.-
tfrig a penalty of 15000-for - viokttion of cen.f_ . :
tract with the illustrious horse tamer, we - fro-
Ceetbto make known to the world the System'
by which the-.most vicious horse is rendered
siniable and tractable. We will give the ease
of Cruiser. .Mr. Raney, after some difficulty,
approached the violent animal, and having
• established a communication between - them
which - seemed perfectly satisfactory to the
' horse, Mr. Rarey proceeded to unscrew the
four legs of Cruiser, and remove his head.
Having perforthed . these difficult operations
with considerable skill, Mr. Rarer then intro
duced himseltinto the interior oldie animal;
and remained there-some five or six minutes.
lie then. emerged and rubbed the horse's tail
with,a.preparation of cold cream and cayenne
pepper, replaced-the head,:rescrewed on the
legs, and Cruis?r the terrible was subjugated
forever.—Punck.
LEXINITON, CONCORD ANO BUNKER Hill.
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DT GEORGE BANCRi3ei.
The period embraced in this volume reaches
from': the arrival of General Gage in Boston,
May 17, 17'f4, to the bottle 'of Bunker Hill,
June 17, 1775: Of the events Which precip
itated the crisis during this year of suspense)
and struggle, the first was the closing of Boa
ton -harbor, according to the provisions of the
port bill, which had been enacted by Perlis
matt in March, and reacbed'thedevoted town
May 10. During the time which intervened
between its reception and execution—scarcely
the space Of three weeks—the whole eonti-,
vent was moved in sympathy and indignation,l
and as "one great comnion wealth' made the
canoe of Boston its own: The immediate
Consequences of this measure may be easily
imagined. - -
"On the ':first day of June, 'Hutchinson
embarked for England; and as the clocis in
the Boston belfries finished striking twelve,
the blockade of the harbor began. The in
habitants of the town were chiefly traders,
ship ; wrights and sailorst hod since no an
clior could be weighed - , no sail unfurled, no ,
vessel so much as launched from the stocks,
their cheerful industry was at an end. No .
more are . they today the keel of the fleet mer
chantman, or strengthen 'the graceful hull by
knees of- oak, or rig the vreil-proportioned.
masts, Or . bend the sails to the yards The
king of that country hos changed the busy
workshops into the scenes of compuliory idle
ness, and the most 'skillful naval artisans in
the world, with the ; keenest eye for 'forms of
b YOuty and speed, are forced by act of Parka-
merit to fold their hands. Want scowled on
the laborer, as he sat with his wife and chil
dren at the board. The sailor roamed the
streets listlessly ritbont hope of employment.
The low was executed with a rigor that went
beyond the intention of its authors. Not a
scow could be manned by oars to bring an
ox, or ri sheep, or a brindle of hay from the
islands. All water carriage from wharf to
wharf, though hut of lumber, or bricks,
or
lime, was 'Strictly forbidden. The boats be
tween Boston and Charleston could not ferry
a parcel of goods across Charles River; the
fishermen Of Marblehead, when from their
hard pursuits they beitowed quintals of dried
fish upon the poor of Boston, were obliged to
transport their offering in wagons bi; a cir
cuit of thirty mile_. The ware-houses of the '
thrifty , merchants were at once made value
less.; the costly, wharves, which extended far
into the ehannel, and were se lately covered
with the produce of - the tropics and with En
glish fabrics, were become solitary places;
the harbor, which 'had resounded incessantly
with the cheering voices of prosperous com
merce, was iv disturbed by ,no sounds but
from Briiisheresseli of war;
" At Philadelphia, the bells of the churches
were muffled' and tolled ; the ships in port
hoisted their colors at half mast; and nine.,
tenths of th 3 houses, exeept those of the
Friends were shut (luting the memorable First
lo!'June. Jn Virgin i-t, the population thronged
the, churches; Washington attended the ser
: vice, and strictly kept the fast. No firmer
ror more touching words were addressed to
the sufferers than from Norfolk, which was
the largest place of trade in. that' well-wat
ered and Oftensive dominion,' and which,
from-.its deep channel and nearness to the
ocean, lay most exposed to ships of war.—
' Our hearts ate -warmed with affecCo-a for
you,' such was the message; we address the
Almighty Ruler to support you in your afflic
tion. Be assured we consider you asssuffet
ing in the comma cause, and look upon
ourselves as bound by the most sacred ties to
support you. . - 0' •
"Jefferson from the foot of t ne Ridge
lof the Alleghenies, condemned the act, which
in a moment reduced an ancient and wealthy
town from opulende to want, and without a
"hearing and discrimination, sacrificed prop
erty of the value of millions to revenge—not
repay—the loss of a few thousand. If the
pulse of the people. s beat calmly under such
an experiment by the new and till now un-'
heard of executive power of a British parlia
ment,- said the young statesman, another
and another•will be tried; till the measure of
despotism be filled "
Passing over the anxiOus.counsels of the
next ten months,-we come to the battle -of
Lexington, April 19, 1775, which is described
in a singularly compact narrative, of which
we give ft, few paragraphs of the sequel:
"In the disparity of nutnbers, the Common
was a fie:d of murder, not of battle ; Parker,
therefore, ordered his men to disperse. Then,
and not till then, did a few of them, on their
own imtiulse, - return the British flue. These
! random shots of fugitive or dying ben did no
harni, except that Pitcairn's horse was, per
haps, grazed,.and . a private of the 10th Light
Infantry . was touched slightly in the leg.
Jonas Parker, the strongest and best vres
tlerin Lexington, had promised never to run
from British troops, and kept his vow. A .
woubd brought him on his knees. Having
discharged his gun, he was preparing to load
it again, when; as sound a hea . tt as ever.
thralhed for freedom was stilled by a bayonet,-
and' be •lay on the post which he took at the
Morning's drum beat. -So fell. Isaac Murtey,
and so died the aged Robert Monroe, 'the
same who, in 17;58, had been the ensign at
Louisburg. Join:Lathan Harrington, Jr., was
struck in front of his own -house on the north
of the Common. His wife was at the win
dow as be fell. With the blood gushing
from his breast, he rose in her sight, tottered,
fell again, then crawled on his hands and
knees toivard his dwelling; she ran to
him as ho expiad. on the threshold, Caleb'
Harrihgton, who bad gone into the meeting
house far powder was shot, as he came out.—
Samuel' Hadley and John Brown were put
' sued.and killed, after they had left the green.
Ashahel Porter of , Woburn, who had been
' taken prisoner by the British on the march,
endeavoring to escape, was shot within .s few
rods of the Common.
"Day came in-alt the beauty of an early
Spring. The trees. were :budding; the grass
growing rankly-a full month before the time;
the blue bird and the robin
_gladdening the 1.
genial season, and calling fat% the beams of
the sun which on that morning shone with
the warmth of Summer ; but distress . and
ri ( t
horror gather over
,the inhabitants of the
e
peaceful town There on the green, lay itt
death the g ' chaired and the young; the
grassy field was ed 1 with`theinnonent blood
of their brethren slain,' crying onto God for
vengeance from the ground. -
, " The British troops drew up on the village
.green, and, after a halt of less than half an
"WE ABB ALL' EQUAL 'BEFORE GOD AND TUB CONIMITEIIION."—Janics Buchanan.
; : 13 ntrost, Suiqueanntt Conntg, feßn'i, Clorsbag gtorning, 'll.lll 22, 18-54.
E ,
hour, marched on' for dirmo4., Upon their
approach children and women fled for shelter
to the hills and woods, and men were busy in
hiding the military stores. The rural militia
of Concord formed on the usual parade ground
near the village meeting house. About two
hundred appeared in arms on that day. The
~minute company from I Lincoln and a fesi
men of Acton pressed id at an early hour, but
amounting in all to not more than a quarter
of the British. They retired, accordingly to
an'eminence about a mile to the north, where
they waited for aid. The British entered the
village about seven in the morning, and at
once proceeded to ieareh for stores indifferent
places. Meantime, the Minute men of ACton,
under_ the command of Isaac Davis, with
small bands of husbandknen from the neigh
boring hamlets, had increased the number of
Americans on the rising, ground above Con'-
cord bridge to mote than four kindred.—
'rnc whole was a gathering not so much of
officers and soldiers as of brothers and equals,
I of whom every one was it man well known in
his village, obseraed in the meeting house on
Sundays, familiar at toWn meetings, and re
spected as a freeholder or a freeholder's scn.'
They saw before:them within gunshot, British
troops in posse , sion oT their bridge, and in
the distance a still larger number occupying
their town, which from the rising smoke
seemed to have been set on fire. They bad
as yet , received only uncertain rumors of the
events at Lexington. At the sight of fire in
the village, their first impulse was to rush to
its defenec.
•
"The officers, meeting in front of their
men, spoke a few words with one another, and
went back to their places. Barrett, the bol
oriel, on horseback in the, rear, then gave the
order to advance, but not to fire unless at
tacked. The-calm features of Isaac Davis, of
Acton, became changed; the town school
master who . was present, could never_ after
ward Ind words strong enough to express
how his face reddened at the wotd or com
mand. ' I have not a.man that is afraid to
go,' said Davis, looking at the men of 'Acton;
and diawing his sword he cried ' March.'—
His company, being on the tight, led the
way toward the bridge, he himself at their
bead, and by his side Major John Ihttrick of
Concord, with John Robinson of Westford,
Lieutenant Colonel in Prescott's regiment,
but 'on this day a volunteer without com
mand.
"thus these three men walked' together in
front, followed by-minute men and militia,
in double file, trailing arms. They went
down the hillock, entered the by road, came
to its angle with the main road, and --there
turned into the causeway that led straight to
the bridge. The British began to take up
the planks; the Americans, to prevent it,
quickened their steps, the British fired one
or two shots up the river; then another by
which Luther Blanchard and Jonas Brown
were wounded. A volley followed, and Isaac
And. Abner Limner 1,..... ..r
the deacon of Acton church, fell dead.—
ThrEe hours before, Davis bad bid his wife
and children farewell. That afternoon he
was carried home and laid in her bedroom.—
Ills countenance was little altered, and pleas
nt in death. The bodies, of two other of his
company who were slain that day were also
brought to her house, and the three were fol
lowed to the graveyard by a concourse of
the neighbors from miles around. God gave
her length of days in the land which his gen
.rous seilderotion assisted to redeem. - She
lived to see her country touch the Gulf of
Mexico and the Pacific i and when it was
grown 'gteat in wealth and power, the United
States in Congress paid honors to the bus
band's martyrdom, and comforted her under
the double burden of! sorrow and more than
ninety years:
.•
- - -
"As the British fired Emerson, who was
looking from his chamber window near the
bridge was for one moment uneasy, lest the
fire should not he returned. It was only for
one moment; Buttrick, leaping into the air,
at the -same time partially turning round,
cried aloud, as if with his country's voice,
Fire, fellow soldiers, for God's sake and
the cry fire, are, fire,' ran from lip to p.—
Two of the British fell ; several were wound
ed. In two minutes all was hushed. • The
British retreated in disorder toward their i
main body : the countrymen were left in pos
session of the bridge. This is the world re
nowned battle of Concord ; , more eventful
than Agincourt or Blenleim."
The retreat of the British frourConcord was
attended by the lavish-effusion of blood. Du-1
ring the day, the loss of the British was 273
in - killed, wounded and missing; while on
thetArnerican side 49 were killed, 34 wounded ;
and five mi sing. - The next night, the men
of Massachusetts streamed in from every
quarter - to the number of thousands, though
without artillery or winglike stores, but with
brave hearts, determined to rescue the liberties ;
of their country. The spread of alarm is de-
scribed in 'ono of those episodes of
_poetic
eloquence with which the historian occasion
ally diversifies the course of his narratives.
"Darkness closed upon the country and
upon the town, but it' was no night for
sleep. Heralds on swift relays of horses
transmitted the War message from hand-to
hand, till village repeated it. to village; the
sea to the backwoods; the plains to the
high
lands ; and it was never suffered- to droop.
till it Lad been. borne north and sonth, and
east and west,' throughout' the land. It
spread over the bays that receive the Saco and
the Penobscot. Its loud reveille broke the rest
of the trappers of New Hampshire, and ring
ing
like bugle notes from peak to,peak, over
leapt
the Green Mountains, swept onward to
Montreal, and descended the ocean river, till
the responses were echoed from the clifts of
Quebec. - The hills along the Hudson told to
one another the tale. 'As the summons hur
ried to the south, - was one Jay at New
York; in one more at Philadelphia; the
next it lighted a watch-fire at Baltimore;
I next it waked an answer at Annapolis. Cros
sing the Potomac near Mout Vernon, it was
set forward without a ball to Williamsburg.
It trversed the Dismal Erwamp to Nansemand
along the route of the first emigrants to
North Carolina. It moved onward and still
oaward and through the boundless groves of
evergreens to. Newhern and Wilmington.—
`For God's sake, forward it by night and by
day,' wrote Cornelius Harnett by the express
which sped for Brunswick. Patriots of South
Carolina caught' up .its tones at the border,
and despatched it to Charleston, and through
pines and palmettos and 'moss-clad lire oaks {
still further to • the South, till it resounded
'among the New England settlements bCyond
the Savannah. Ifillsboroug and the Mecklen-
bOrg district of North Carolina rose in tri
umph, now that their wearisome uncertainty
had its end. The. Blue ridge took up the
voice rind made it heard from one end to the
other of the valley of Virginia. The Alle
•gltenlet, irk they listened, opened their bar
riers that - the ' loud cant might pass through
to the hardy riflemen oif the ilolston,
the - \Valet% arid the French Broad. .Ever
renewing its strength, powerful enough even
to.treate a commonwealth, it breathed its in
spiring word to the first settlers of KentuCky;
so that the hmstera irho made their halt in the
matchleti valley of Elkhorn, commemorated
the 19ttl of April by naming their encaperent
Lexington."
The chief remainitt 'OM Of Interest in the
volume is the batto of Bunker - Hill, fram the
_vivid description of which ive most content
ourselves'with the' chising portion. . •
"The royal army, exasperated at retreating
before an enemy whom they had professed to
despise, and by the sight of many hundreds
of their men who lay dead or bleeding on the
ground, prepared to renew the engagement.
While the light infantry and a part of the
grenadiers were left to continue the attack at
the rail-fence, Howe concentrated the rest of
his forces tipoli the redoubt. .Cannon were
brought to bear in such a manner as to rake
the inside of the breast-work, from one end of
it to the other, - sci 6 that the Americans were
obliged to crowd within their fort. Then the
British troops, having disencumbered them
selves of-the knapsack, advanced in column
with fixed bayonets, Clinton, who from
Copp's lull had watched the battle, at this
critical moment, and without orders, pushed
off in a boat, and put himself at the head of
two battalions, the marines and the 47t14
which seemed to hesitate on the beach as if
uncertain what to do. These formed the ex
treme left of the British, and advanced from
the south; the sth and43d battalions formed the
centre, and attacked from the east on their
right was the 52d with grenadiers,who forced
the now deserted entrenchments. ,
`' 'rho Americans in the redoubt, attacked
at once on thrse sides by six battalions, at
that time numbered seven hundred-men. Of
these some had no morethan one, none more
than three or Tour rounds of ammunition left.
But Prescott's self-possession increased with
the danger. He directed his men to wait till
the enemy were within-twenty yards, when•
they poured "upon them - a deadly volley.
The British wavered.for an instant, and then
sprang forward without returning the fire.
The American.fire slackened, and began to
die away. The British reached the rampart
on -the southern side. Those who first scaled
. the parapet weirs shot .down as they mounted.
Major Pitcairn fell mortally wounded just as
he was entering the redoubt. - A single artil
lery cartridge furnished powder for the last
muskets Which. the Americans fired. Ful
some time longer they kept the enemy at bay,
confronting them with ,the butt ends of their
5 . ... .- , ---a -“ltoug ruem um!) tee barrels rd•
ter the socks were broken. The breastworks
being abandoned, the amtaunition all ex
pended, the redoubt tialf filled with
and on the point of being surrounded, and
no other re enforcements having arrived, at a
little before four, Prescott gave the word to
retreat, lle himself was the last to leaie the
fort; escaping unhurt, though' with coat and
waistcoat rent and pierced by bayonets,
which he parried with his sword: The men
retiring through the sallypost or leaping over
the wails, made their Way through their ene
inies each for himself,, without much. order,
and the dust which rose from the dry earth
now clouded the sun, and the smoke of the
engagement gave some c overing. The Brit
ish who had • turned the northeastern end of
the breastwork, and had also come_round the
angle of the redoubt { were too' mach ex
hausted to use the bayonet against them with
vigor, and at first the patties were too close
ly' intermingled to admit of firing; it also
appeared that a supply abatis for the artil
lery,
sent from Boston during the battle,
was too large for the field;pieces which ac
companied the detachment,
"The little handful of Nye men would
have been effectually Cut off; but for the un
failing conmge of the provincials at the rail
fence and the hank of the Mystic. They had
repulsed the enemy twice: they now held
them in check, till the main liody had left I
the hill: Not till then did the Conne4ticut
companies. under' Kno.wlton, and thel New
flaropshire soldiers under Stalk. /up, the
station, which they - had' nobly defended:—
The retreat was Made with More regularity
than could have been expected of troops who
had been for so short a time under discipline ; I
and many of whom had never before seen an I
engagement. Trevett and his men drew off!
the only field piece that was saved. Pome
roy walked backward, faaing_the enemy' and
brandishing his musket 011ie w it s struck and
marked by a ball. The !edoubt, the brow ofl
Bunker .11;11, and the passage across the
Charlest4ncauseway,.wera the principal pla-
ces of shitighter.
"Putnam, at the thittl onset, was absent,
employed in collecting men for a reinforce- 1
meat, and was encounterel by the retreating
party on the northern leclivity of' 'Bunker
Hill: Acting on his crwr responsibility, lie
now for the first time asimmed die supreme
direction. Without ordeis from any person,
he rallied such of the fugitives as would
obey him, joined them tot detachment which
had . not arrived in seacin to share in " the
combit, arid with a respctable force took
possession of Prospect )Till, where he en
camped that very night. '
"Repairing to head qtarters, Prescott of
, fered with three fresh regiments to recover
' his post. But for himsel he sought neither
1 advancements nor rewad, nor praise, and
having perforined the bst service, never
thought that he had dono'more than his du
ty. It is the coternporay record, that du
ring the battle, ' no one apeared to have any
command but Col: Preso.tt,' and that • his
bravery could never be etyigh acknowledged
and applauded!. The c*ip long repeated
the story of his self-colleted valor ; and a
historian of the-war,- who hst knew the array,.
has recently awarded the' highest prize of
glory to Prescott and-his 'ompanioes. _
"The British were unale to continue the
pursuit beyond the igthmul They had already
brought their forces into te field ; more than
a third of those engaged 1p dead or bleeding.
ltd the survivors were faktued or overawed
by the Courage of theiimitersaties. „The
battle put an emelt° al) irensivelTerations
on' the part of Clap.
"The number of the ell` and wounded
in his army was by his o account, at least
, 1054. seventy cotetmisei ed officers were
wounded, and tbi'rreen slain. Of then there
were one lieutenant-colonel, two majors, and
seven captains. For near belt an hour, there
had been a continued sheet of fire from the
Provincials; and the settees Was IfOt for
double that period." The oldest soldires had
never seen the' like. The battle of Que
bec, which won half a continent; did not
cost the lives of so many officers as the battle
of Bunker Hill which gained nothing but a
place of encampments
"Sir William Howe, who was thought
have been wounded, was untouched,' though
his white silk stockings were stained from his
walking throogh the tall grass, red wfthsthe
blood of his soldiers. That he did not fall
was a marvel. The praises bestowed on his
apathetic valor, on the gallantry of figot, and
the conduct of Clinton, reflected honor on
tiles untrained farmers, who, though inferior
in numbers, had required the display of the
most strenuous exertions of their. assailants
before they could be dislodged from the—de
fences . which they had but a few hours to
prepare. -
" The whole loss of the Americans amounted
to 146 killed and missing, and 304' wounded.
The brave Moses Parker, of Clemsford, was
wounded and taken prisoner; ho died in
Boston Jail. Major William-Moore received
one severe wound at the second attack, - and
soon after another, which he Celt to be mortal;
so, bidding farewell to those who
. would have
borne him o ff , he insisted on their saving
themselves, and remained to die for the good
of the cause, which be served in counsel - and,
in. armour. Buckmaster was dangerotisly
wounded, but recovered. The injury to Nixon.
was so'great that he suffered for many mouths,
had narrovdy escaped with his life. Thomas
Gardner, a Member of Congress from Cam
bridge, was hastening with some part of his
regiment to the redoubt, but as he was de
scending Bunker Hill ; he was mortally,
wounded by a random shot. His townsmen
mourned for the rural statesman, to whom
they had unanimously shown their confidence;
and Washington gave him the funeral honors
due a gallant officer. Andrew McClary, on
that day unsurpassed in bravery, returning
to reconnoitre,- perished by a chance cannon
ball on the isthmus.
"Just at the momelrt of the retreat, fell
Joseph Warren. the last in the trenches. In
him were combined celerity, courage, endur
ance, and manners, which won universal love.
Be opposed the British Government, not
from interested motives, nor from resentment.
A guileless and intrepid ed coos:Co of the lighte
of mankincb he sought not to appear a pa
triot ;• he was one in truth. As the moment
for the appeal to arms approached, he watch
ed with joy the revival of the generous spirit
of New Eugland'a ancestors; and *bore peril
was greatest, he was present, aiming hot by
words alone, but ever by his example. His
integrity, the soundness of his judgment, his
ability to write readily and Well,shis fervid
eloquence,his exact acquaintance with Ameri-
Can tights "and the iufringements 'of them,
gave authority to his advice in private, and
in the Provincial Congress. Had he lived,
the future seemed burthened with his honors;
he'cheerfulty sacrificed all for Lis country,
and for freedotit. Sorrow could now Ho more
cothe nigh him, and he went to dwell in men's
memories with Hampden.
"h is enetnies recogniied_ his worth by
their exaltations at his fall. By his country
men he was most sincerely and universally
lamented; his ‘tnother would not be consoled.
His death, preceded by that of his wife, 'left '
his children altogethet orphans, till the Cort
tinent, at the motion of Sathilel Adams,
adopted them in part at least as its own.
The Congress of his native State, - that
knew him well, and had chosen him - to guide
their debates, and recently to high eomniand
in the army, proclaimed to the world theii
• veneration for Joseph Warren, whose memo
ry -ia endeared to his countrymen, to the
worthy in every part and age Of the world ; so
long as tirtue and value shall lie esteemed
among Men.' '3
THE REWARD OP COtrATESf.
A few years since. on a radient spring
afternocin two men who, from their conversa
tion, appeared t. be foreigners, stopped be
fore the gate of- One of the large workshops
in Philadelphia, for the manufacture of loco
motive engines. Entering a small office, the
elder of the two men inquired of the super
intendent if he would permit him to inspect
their-works.
"You can pass in, and look about," said
the superintendent, vexed, apparently, at be•
ing disturbed in the perusal Of his newspaper:
He then scanned the two strangers more
closely.—'they were respectably but plainly
clad, and ,evidently made no profession to
official dignity of any kind.
there , any one who can show us over
the establishment and explain maters to us,"
asked Mr. Wolfe, the eldest of the two
strangers.
"You must pick your own array, gentle.
men," replied the superintendent, "we lire all
too busy to attend to everybody that comes
along. thank you not to interrupt the
workmen by asking questions."
It was not so much the matter as the man
ner of his - reply, that was offensive to Mr
Wolfe and his companion. It was spoken
with a certain official assumption of superior
ity-mingled with conterript for his visitors,
indicating -a haughty and. selfish temper on
the part of the speaker.
"I think we will - not trouble you," said.
Mr. Wolfe, bowing, and taking his conipan
ion..., arm they passed out.
"If there is anything 1 heartily (tioREN
is incivility," said Mr:Wolfe, when they wet
out on the street. "I do, not blame the than
fur not wishing to show us over the establish
ment ; he is no doubt interrupted by many
-heedless visitors ; but be might havedismits.
sod us with courtesy. He might havd sent us .
away hotter content with a gracious refusal
than with an utracious consent."
"Perhapi," said the other, "we shall have,
better luck here ;," and they stopped before
another workshop of a similar kind:
They were received by a brisk little man,
tbe,head clerk, apparently, Who, in reply to
their request to be showe over the establish
ment, answered
• 'O, yes ! come with me, gcntlemen—:this
Bo saying helittrried than along the area,
strewed with iron bars, broken • and rusty
wheels of iron; fragments. of old boilers and
cylinders, into the pritralisd workshop.
Here, without stopping to explain any one
thing be led the strangers' along, With the
evident intention of getting rid of them as
soon as possible. They paused. where the
workmen were riveting the external casing of
a Willer, the clerk looked at his watch, tap
ped wit h the foot against au iron tube and
showed other signs of impatience; whereupon
Mr. Wolfe remarked, "we wit not detain
-you longer, sir," and with his friend he took
big leave.
' l 'That man 11 an improvement,. on the
other," said Mr. Wolfe ; "but all the *civility
he' hasis on the endue ; it does not come
from the heart. We must look further."
The stratgerh walked nearly half a mile
inisilence, when one.of them pointed to an
humble sign, with a picture of .a locomotive
engine with a train of cats • underneath. It
overtopped h atriall building not more than
ten feet in beight,%communicating with
yard and a workshop.
"Look," said the observer, "here is a
machinist whose name is net on nur list."
"Probably it was thought too small a con
cern ;for our purpose," paid his companion,
"nevertheless, let us try it," said Mr. Wolfe:
They entered, and found at the desk, a
middle aged man, whose somewhat grimy
aspect, and apron around his Waist, showed
that he divided •his tabort ti tires f th work
shop and counting-room. •
" We want to look over your works if you
have no objections."
" It will give me great. pleasure to show'
you all that is to be seen," said the mechanic
with a pleased alacrity ; ringing a bell, and
telling the boy who entered to take charge of
the office.
He then led- the way and explained to the
strangers the whole process of erecting a lo
comotive engine. He showed them how the
"various parts of the inachibery were manufac
tured, and patiently answered all their ques
tions.
He told them the mode of tubing boilers,
by which . the power of generating steam was
increased, arid showed . with what care he
provided rof security kerb bursting.
Two_ hours passed rapidly, away.: The
strangers were delighted with the intelligence
displayed by the mechanic, and, with his
frank, unsuspicious manners. " Here is a
man who loves his profession so well, that he
takes pleasure—in explaining its mysteries to
all who can understand them," thought Mr.
Wolfe.
" I am afraid; we have given you a treat
deal,of trouble," said the other stranger."
" Indeed, geutlernen,.l - have enjoyed your
visit," said the mechanic, "and shall lie glad
to ree you -agniti.",
" Perhaps you may," said Mr. Wolfe, and
the two strangers 4ieparted.
Five months afterward, as the mechanic
whose. means were quite littiited, sat in his
office, meditating how hard k ibis to - get lin
siriess by such large establishments its were
bis:cornpetitnis, the two strangers entered.—
gave them a hearty welbome, handed
chairs, arid all sat down.
"We oftme," saixl Mr. Wolfe, a
proposition to you from the Emperor of hus•
eta t 0 visit St. retersbutg:'
From the Eniperor ! Impossible !"
" Here are our . credentials."
"But. kentlemen," said the now agitiittd
mechanic, " what .doeir this mean ? llow
have 1 earned such att.honor ?" • -
"Simply by your straight=forward 'Courtesy.
and frankness, combined with professional
intelligence," said' Mr. Wolfe. Because we
were strangers, you did not think it necessary
to treat IN with distrust or coldneds. iou
saw we _were - really interested id acquainting
ourselves with your works, and Eon did not
ask its, before extending to its your civilities,
what letters dr ifitrOductibu tirb bibught.—
You measured us by the spirit a shoWed,
and not by the dignities we have exhibited.
The theahanic visited-St. Petersbur and
soon afterwards removed his whole establish
ment. He had imperial orders for as many
locomotives as he could construct. Ile has
rettuhed to his Own country, and is
still receiting,liitgb returns froth his Russian
workshops. And rill this prosperity grew out
of un tilfish civility to two strangers, one of
whom was the seortit-agent of the Czar of
Russia 1 "
' COULDN'T SUBSCRIDE.-A pair of thole in
teresting, entertaining ladies,who of late seem
to tarry'on so large a business in our down
toW'n offices and stores in the way of pro
curing sub3criptions for 'new wotk., F elling
engravings of "The Father of his Country,"
and other notabilities, and who (the ladies)
art ',Sp fascinating in manner, so delightfully
importunate, •sd sweetly tie-get- rid-of-able,
called 'a morning or two since at the Office of
a young lawyer,to induce him,as the younger
of the two expressed it, with a. charming
smile, "To subscribe.to a Most elegant-work
just published, to be grit up In elegant styl6,
with illustrations,•&c.. -
"Indeed;. ladies;" said Mir friend, "I can•
not-; Lhave no doulit of UM...excellence of
your work, but lath not in want of anything
of that kind. In fact, Ido not feel able at
pre , ent to subscribe for any new works of any
description. The partnership of which I am
a member, has lately been so imprudentas to
issue a new work,-of their otvn, and the
enormous etpense attending its issue, not to
speak of the illustrations, embellishments,and
ornamental adornings with which they - have
seen fit to clothe the production—such un- ,
wonted outlay has really r for, the present—in
fact crippled me—sorry—but a fact—every
word of it."
But—ab," interpo.=ed our enterprising
agentees, "perhaps we could procure you
some subscribers for your work ; cut terms
are quite reasonable. What do you call
your work, sir 1" „ - '
"Well,we have not filly determined as yet,
but I guess I. shall let Mrs. S—have her
own way, and call it after myself—Charles
Henry."
The hitlies concluded , that they bad an en
gageinent in the next bocii.
BAD PLACE tba BIGAMISTS. North Caro
lina is the antipodes of Utah. At the Cum
berland Supreme Court, last week; H. C.
P;artlett, convie,ted of bigamy, other rather
quad rigaMy —the wretelt Ida Married. fou r
wives—was sentenced to be branded on the
left.cheek with tbe , letter B, and , to receive
39 lashes on his hare back, to be imprisoned
i3O days, and then receive 39 lashes'more
land to be let loose.
jur Spnggles days, that, although, there
is no such thing as muziling the press in this
'Country, there is a plenty of book muslin.
I have never known a poor min to
obtain ri premium at a fair, where there was
afich meosto compete. with him.
•
Stoifier..2#:
ettnuit
Vrsir k•otirt
better thing.
you care scare;
ahent his ~rod~
are too Inisy
to worry ab
mar is dry as -I
tedious, Arithr
rid, Writing
You talk of std ,
war 'and free' tr!g
think their ail
comparison wiii
iooae.—Yon could not dolt
It otir boy has the. idea alit
..
: l ay more than a Nes Value
fess there, yob': girl thinks you
oout More impoytant matters
ut 'her recitations. Gram
iittst to them,, Geography is
etic is a bore, Reading is hor
s their, special abomination.
itta and. Seniitashiris,pf, the
Jade. The young ones learn to
iudies very sthell , ifititer 7 3 in
ih oers.' • . .
r,s y ctioo! telday..• lietti a lei.
ked. Learn from their teachers
ding is, in ?vat they - eine - I.
Ixt to the in the school room.
lmpare in aortal appearance;
ook happy and at home. If
i their school habits, you CaVf-
IA telling of them. - Making
Wjects of home conversation
imelate them to better efforts;
Molars of theni. By all means
tuschools. Go alone, if no one
: You will always be w4t
aclier. , .
But visit you
soh or
,Civó mei)
what their staff
See who sits rui:
See how they cod
whether they
acquainted wit!
not possibly avc
their matters s'
will certainly s
make better sc
then, visit Vold
wil-1 go with y
Corned by the t
How TO Nil
way, in my op'?
the preservatio
ing muddy-, wi
some of its su
and scrape fror
.E A BARN.YARD.—The beat
nion, to form a •barn yard for
1 p
of manure, without becoM
-1 re the ground is higher than
rounding plias, is to plough
.0 the centre fo the outside,
making's grad tal descent from the outside.to
the centre. D .9: a . drain from' the centre to
some suitable p ace without the yard„ where
you cam constr ct a vat to put in leaves,-
;sods,muck, ti:ci that will absorb and retain
the liquor from the yard. . The bottom and
sides may be f4med of plank or may be more
- substantially bt ilt of atone and mortar. The
,top of the Vat bould be made so as, to gifitrd
against rains mid surface water as . much as
possible. The drain should fall cOnsiderably,
and should be made of plank $. inches high
and one foot w 'tie inside. The head'. of the
1 1
drain should .b covered over with a good iron
grate. The ya d' ought to he well. paved
with cobble sto e, and -with little pains'you
can always ba l e a dry yard. Thb Waterfront
the barn and sheds should bevel. - be-allowed
• to run into the yard,but should be carried by
good . eaves-tro glis to a large cistern for the
purpose of wat ring stock.— Cor.Sural . Net - o
Fokker. -, _ . . • . •
tiiE TIME 1 .4 cuT WHEAT.—This has been
made a mailer of careful experiment in Eng
land, and muchhnore depends upon it than
is generally su pbsed:, ,
F-rom a veryiettrefutseriei of experiments
made in Ene f and, in 140-41, -Mr. Tam
Haman, of Ar4rlishire; . With a view of deter;.
mining the proper period Of reaping wheat, it
*as decided that the hest time for performiiti
the operation i.,lwhen it is in a "raw" state,
or when seen Nap] a distance, appears green,
but elo.tely exairlined, is found to be approxi ,
mating to yellow, - -And the grain itself; beitig
separated from'. tio.chail is pulpy and - soft;
but not il.ti rhilkystatiii. The gentleman has
shown that, atlleast, six dollars per acre are'
lost by allowing the Wheat to beconie iipe
before it is cut, mud; that it the same time,
its quality is ncjt so OA . ._
The Chief aiaantigei derived from thia
method are stated to be a great weight Of
grain to a gis en space- of ground , which
produces more flour, of a superior quality;
the straw donut ns-more nutritive matter,and
is better relished by! the tillimals; Inui,
crop; is a better upp i plinnity of securing the p;
stud ft saving l in so doing, as tliere is less
waste ill nitres hg or.reaping the wheat L
the dropping oat of seed.
lAT v . otr Several gen:
assachuset s ts Legislature, din:.
hotel, one of them asked-Mt:
who sat cippbsite :
h the perfatcirs, sir I'
lied his arm toward the dish
n self:that be could teach the
anstvered.:
Asx Pon frill
tlernen of the•
ing at a BOstbn
M., a gentlema
'Can you re•
Mr. ?A: eaten
and aatisfied h i
"pertators," an'
'Yes, Sir. I
ThEi legiiiatC 1
expected rebuffl
reboireriiig h ime l
'Will you
r %VAS takerialiack by this
14tiln thewag, but presently
he asked
tick •my furk into oit6 of
them ?' -
Mr. M. ton
plunged it into
it there..
• '
• .
the fork and ',very coolly
001 . 1; cooked potato,nod left
The nompany roared, as they took the joke,
and the victim looke t d more foolish than be- .
fore.' But suddenly an air of :con•fidene . e
struck him ; rising to his feat exclaimed - ,
with .an air 4,if conscious trituriph_j_ • I
MrlMl4 I trouble you for the '
fork.'
Mr. M. rese-t6 lii.sfeet, 'with the Most
petturable gravity, pulled the fork out of the
potato, and returned it, midst `rah uncontiol-;
able thunder storm of laughter, to the utter . :
disebtufittire orihogentientan
"Nary NIG gn PIIItE."—The excursion
f rom No r f o lk, Va., I,which overhauled tiDi i
slave stealing sc
_wrier . Francis French,. hay
ing searched thevessel,and given up. all hopes
'of findjng the sliives, one of them declared 'in ,
a loud `tone that E l
they' Would set the craft on
fire, at the sain time hurrying the crest off,:
as if about to exlvutti. the threat; when 'Tony,'
who was bohoesika Under the forecastle,burst
out with 'Donlyou, L Massa hems-4 - ain't i
nary nigger her .
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SKIRTS AND q. C A Ili: Citows.—A tgetlemail •
who recently traveled through the'Mowhawk •
Valley states thirt the farmers of that regitm,
instead - of the 01(1 fashioned figure of a ragged;man With a_wo4lengun,for a scare crow,, now
hang up boo • skirts in their- corn fields; '
and the carrion bird are effectually aiatmed
by this modern arthiOnable contrivance. . .
-jray - Let. tha sleepy, .sickly, greasy, lazy
looking miss ge up in the morning,wasb ber,
fact:: and hands be first thing, milk half al
dozen cows, or ook breakfast, makii it a
rifle to sing India 4Ozen_tunes the while,and
the first time wi calls we'sball be able to
'beautiful,' bri lit,';'tealthful,"intelligent,'
'charming,' 'ha . , py; ; and so wilt her friends;
use such adjeculves to express .titeir opinion:
A JEWEL OF . 'GIRL.—Ope of our exobangee
speaks of a be iitifid girl who would wile
a capital ipeculation, for a fortune huntei.of 1
the right sort. Her; voice is , of silver, her;
.
Bair of gold, be teeth of pearl, her cheeks e,
rubies, and her eyes of diam ohds.
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- CA FiTAL NV cISIOJENT.--:= " Thia is -*hat I
Call a capital Inishment,'_ as the' Eby said.'
when his moth r shikt . him u p in' the olcieet.'
among the prelims'. .