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THE MJNERS' JOURNAL.
TINS Journal WO materially enlarged and otherwise
improved at the commencement of the year, and will
now. sank with gay paper in the state, out of Pluladelphia.
Its pages will be dpsoted to a
General Chronicle of the Coal Business;
Improvements in The Manufactory of Iron;
The progress of the Arts and Sciences;
A Summary of European Intelligence;
The Current News of the Day.
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*hose subscription prices double it in amount•
To those interested in the Coal or Iron business. as
well as the general reader, its pages will. it is hoped,
afford valuable information and amusement, and no
pains shail m be spared to render it worthy the patronage
Of all classes of the community.
ikr ANOTHER ENLARGEMENT. Al
In the first week in January, 1840, the Minera' Jour.
, nal will again be miliagm.l by the addition of another
colutian 10 each page, 'Which will make it the largest pa
per published in.the State. out or Philadelphia. proiided
each subscnber will. to the mean time, procure us an
sziditional one. Those who do not, will be charg•
i 42 50 Per annum aflpr the enlargement takes place.
The Coil Region will then hove a tepresentativeitbroad
that will add credit to the enterprise and liberality alto
citizens. B. BANNAN.
ENGLAND.
Lac/gunge at New York, on London 9 to
9i per. cent premium.
Sir John Penisten Milbanke, who is charged with
having stabbed Mr. Pocock in a ball room, was born
in -1.785, and it consequently 64 years of age ; he
succeeded his uncle, Si: Ralph Noel, in 1525, the
former leaving an only daughter, the Dowager Lady
Byron. Sir John's aunt was the late Viscountess
Melbourne, mother to . the Priam Minister. The
baronet bas several sons, the eldest of whom, Mr.
John Noel Milbanke, is Secretary of Legation to the
-GermanicCunfederation. Sir John Milbanke is first
cousin to the Dowager Countess Cowper, to Viscount
Melbourne, the Dowager Lady Noel Byron, and to
the of LOyelace. The family of Milbanke
was raised to the ibaronetage 0f . 1665.
The Countess of Bridgewater has presented the
munificent suip of .ElOOO to the Lichfield and Cov
entry Diocesan Association, for the purpose of build.
ing and endowing . ehurehes wherever they may be
wanted in the diocese.
The Cinque' Ports have it in contemplation to in
vite their Lord Waroen, the Duke of Wellington, to
a public entertainment , in the ensuing summer.
An application has been made from Ease: to Gov
ernment for means of testing the silent and solitary
system of punishment.
Singular Deatit.--An inquest was held on the
body of Jackson Buckton, of intemperate habits, in
the employ of Mr. Be:ttiston, brewer, of Hull, who
had committed suicide in a singular manner. He
was at his usual work that morning, but at three o'.
clock could not be found : after 'search, one of hie
fellow servants found the following chalked on a
wall : "Give my wife the tickets ( duplicates )
do not get drunk—l'm in the porter vat "—and
there, sure enough, he was found quite dead, for
though there were only three inches of beer in the
vat, he was suffocated by the carbonic acid gas col
lected there.
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avast —On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
after Christmas-day, the children ceche different
schools in the neighborhood of Gopsal, between
three and four hundred in number, who are educat
ed and. clothed at the expense of Earl Howe, partook
of their annual dinner of roast beef and plum pud
ding at his noble mansion, several of the surround
ing clergy attending upon the occasion. We un
derstand that letters have been received from hie
lordship, nos , at Malta, stating that he is in perfect
health, as well.as those members of his family who
are with burn.
Lard /Vermont/ was sworn in as Colonial Sacra..
tary on the 22d of February. The morning Chron
icle announces the appointment of Mr. Lebouchre as
under secretary for the-colonies, in the place of Sir
George Grey.'" '
The Bari of Zetland died suddenly on the 19th of
February. He was an Earl at the coronation.
There was agplosion cf fire-damp in one of the
coal mines of berland on the 18th of February
by which 23 persons were killed, and several wound
ed.
The Earl of Stirling has been apprehended at Ed
inbureon suspicion of being accessary to the for
gery of certain:documents in a cause now pending,
and has been undergoing an examination previous
to Ws commitment 'for trial., if the suspicidtis, so far
as he is personally concerned, be not removed.
Lord Ebringtoa has been appointed Lord Lieut
enant of Ireland. lie is thiellest sor. of Earl Fort
canoe, and has been raised to the peerage, with the
title of Baron Fortesque.
IRELAND.
Absenteeism.—We understand that several re
spectable Protestants have disposed' of their farms
to Roman Catholics, and lett the barony of the Up
per Pews for the county of Tyrone, where they ex.
pect peace and safety for some time—how long, Cod
only . knows ,
O'Connsll.—Tbe real cause of Peter Purcell's ire
against 'Mr. O'Connell is but little known. The fact
is ascertained to be this:—Mr. O'Connell refused to
reeonicienic . iiim as it candidate to the' electors of
Kildare for the next:vacancy, which is reserved in
preference for the Duke of Lanaler'e eldest son, who
is os the eve of his majority.
Mr. Purcell who volunteered the charge against
-.Mr. O'Connell, is the great Contractor of Coaches
in Ireland; be was near being the Contractor also
BF all the coaches of the United Kingdom. He is
wealthy manand was on most familiar terms with
Mr. 0V...rwe.11.
The following, says the Belfast News Letter, is
the theoretiral programme of conduct which Ott:
O'Connell has laid out for himself, in the current
session ut Parliament, viz :-
1. He will take additional evidence on the com
bination question, but will not move for any new
law on the subject, the existing enactments being
sufficient.
2. Ho will vote for a total repeal of the corn laws.
r 3. He will vote and speak against the cruelties ez
ercised towards the eanachans, but will not justify
their conduct in' having recourse to aims wibout
the slightest neces.t.ity,and when they ought to have
been content with constitutional agitation alone.
4. He will support - the Radical Guctrine•ot Um
veoilti Suffrage.
5. He wIR-support the vote by Ballot.
6.. He will not support annual Parliaments, his
own *proms being decidedly in favour of the Trien
nial scheme.
7. Notwithamodine all this, he is "prepared to
give to the present Ministry his undivided and une.
quivocal support"—on the "same . principle on which
Paddy thrust bis old bat into a broken pane, not to
let in ihe light but to keep out 'the cold."
:8. Re pledges himself to move - an address in Par
liament next session for the dismissal of Lord Ox.
mautown from the Lqrd Lieuteriandy ofthe King's
County, in consequenee of that Nobleman's late
charges against the Governincot, the R. Catholic
Clergy, and the peasantry of Ireland. in CODheitol3
with the atrocious murder of-Lord Norbury.
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lar Of that which - 1* already been granted tn
land mast be 'Mended to Ireland.
10. Notarthstanding his determination to ads*.
cute the cause of the "base, brutal, and bloody"
Whig Ministry, be is still in beart'and profeastonla
thorough "'Repotlei" of the Legislative Union his
tween Great Britaid land Ireland.
History of Irelafid.—Mr.O'Coniell will ptibßith
in the course of 'mit month, the first volume of hie
',History of Ireland. , The volume embraces one of
'the most important periods of our history, that froth
'l7BVtill the accomOlishment of the Legislative D.
nion in 1800. Thd work will come out aimultano.
oust) , in London and, Dublin.
Attorney General.;--Mr. Ball is succeeded in the
Irish Attorney. Generalship by Mr. Maguire Brady,
Mr. 'Pigott, the Solicitor-General, is to be the net,
member for Cloninel, in place of Mr. (now Judge)
the Murderers of art Norbuiy,—According to
the Cork Constitution, the ruffian who'fired the shot
at the late Earl of Norbury has been apprehended,
the fillian who instigated the murder having turned
approver. This intelligence, we ire sorry to say,
wants confirmation. Dot the Limerick Chronicle
states that horn: ascertained facts there can be nn
doubt but that the perpetrators wilt be found out—
The same paper declares that there is not a second
opinion but that his lordship was murdered through
the interference of (Sao men who live within five
hundred yards' of where the shot was fired, and in
the direction of whose residence the assassin ran if.
ter firing the shot. These men bed been served
with ejectmenta, and had been working in the em
ployment of Lord Norbnry a short time - before his
death, but bad been turned out of the work. The
assassin is represented
,as "a Tipperary boy." The
present earl has resolved to remain at Darrow in
'order to give every possible aid in -the discovery of
the murderer. It is added that on the 24.9 i ult. he
received a letter through the Poet:office, stating that
tf MI. Garvey was discharged as agent to the fami
ly it would prevent more blood being-spilt.
Censeeration.—The Rev. Henry Hughes, late Pro
vincial of the Order of St. Francis, in Ireland, and
Prior of the Convent of St- Francis, Dublin, has
been consecrated at Borne Bishop of Gibraltar.
SCOTLAND.
`Dr. Chalmers, in opening his new cathedral at
Moruingside, chose for one of his texts, "There re
rnaineth yet very much land to be possessed." A
passage more applicable to Edinburg and Glasgow
could nut readily be fdund, aiace id these two cities
alone there are more than forty thousand empty seats
which still reinainethito be possessed and the num
ber is daiiy on the increase.—
We understand that within three days the large
sum of .063 includir.g about £5O Frevionsly obtain
ed, was subscribed in Dunfermline for a new church
in that palish, notwithstanding the obstruction, by
a tumultuous assembliige of people, of a church and
sehool extension meeting which was to have been
held there on the evening of Monday last.. The sub•
acriptum a still receiying additions.
During the storm on the 'l'th of January, the Cross
at Macduff, which wile formed of a single atone of
granite, from 15 to Di finches square, and fixed in a
solid base of the same material, was unable to with
stand the hurricane, *hick in its fury broke the sol
id granite pillar about three feet from the base, and
tossed the upper part, or cross, to a considerable
I distance. If was erected some yeareage by the late
James, Earl of Fife, and has since itserection defied
the blast of many a wintry night.
Capture of a gang al Female Housebreakrs.—
Within these fea , days the Gorbals Police have gale.
needed in taking into custody a gang of daring but
hitherto successful housebreakers, apd who, it may
be fairly presumed, have been carrying on their ne
farious operations to an extent almost without par.
ailel in this quarter. At present they are charged ,
with no less than .twelve acts of housebreaking, by
means of false keys, committed on both sides of the
River; but it is supposed that what have come to
light are not a tithe of the depredations.
The Stuart Line.—On Tuesday . last week, two
strangers alighted at the Stu Hotel, Perth, in com
pany with Lord Loyal., from the top of the Inverness
mall. They were completely attired in the High.
land costume, and richly accoutred. They were
of handsome stature and apparently athletic frame,
with thick bushy mustachios and whiskers. Both
are scions of the unfortunate Royakeace of Stuart
-,Cbarles Edward Stuart and Sobieski Stuart—
grandson of the last Pretender of that line to the
crown of these realms. After dining here they pro
ceeded to Ebinburgh, by the Defiance Coach. They
seem well inured to our Scottish climates; fhr, not.
withstanding the inclemency of the weather, the
philabeg and hose were their only ihield from the
unorlan bleat." The strangers attracted much at.
tention.
Mr. Milne's Legacy.—The Duke and Duchess of
Gordon did much for education in,Fochabern, but we
are delighted, sayslanl nvernens. paper & astounded
by intelligence that a sum of .£22,500, has been left
by a Mr. Milne. late a merchant in New Orleans, to
found a free school in our village. What are we to
make of so large a rum 1 Send all the boys to col
-lege, of coo rec. Mr. Milne ,was a native of Focha ben,
where he had long been forgotten, but his heart
must have been warm towards the banks of the
SPey-7
Mr. G. Williams, of Blaenaryon, was awakened
by hie servant intorming hica she heard somebody
in the shop ; he proceeded down stairs, and seeing
twdlknen-packing goods, he knocked one down with
two-pound and the
over
a four.pound weight,
and then stood over them with a loaded pistol as
they lay co the ground, whilst his servant secured
their hands, and they were examined on Wednesday,
and fully committed for triaL
Sea .Woodesek.—A fine specimen of that rare and
beautiful bird of the snipe and woodcock class, cal
led the godwit or sea woodcock, yell/ s he!) , or atom
plover, was shot last week on :die farm of Mr. Marti,
of the Bache near Ludlow.
Conway.—Sir David Erskine has given £2O worth
of coal to to distributed amongst the poor of the
parishes of Conway, aid Llandrillo. - Nor should it
be forgdtten that he has been in the habit of doing
this prinsworthy action annually, for which, from
many aelotherwise cheerleasisuir to, many a blessing
has been pronounced.
Holylead.—At eight A. M., Wednesday morning
an express with the Queen's apetch arrived at Holy
head, when the William Huskinson Steamer, which
arrived from Liverpool the proceeding evening for
that purpose; sailed with it for Kingston, where she
arrived at thirty -minutes past two. P. M., same day.
Thus was her Majesty's speech on the opening of
parliament, conveyed from the Itilieh to the Irish
Metropilis, via Holyhead, in tfillfrihort space of
twenty-one hours!! •
; Fire in Hadnol —A. fire broke out in_ the inter
esttug .premises and property of Mr. Hulbert, of
Proviso grove, Hadnal, Shropshire; and so rarid
was the pr9g teas of the devouringleleineut., that of all
the valuable paintings, library of more ..then thlte
thousand rare and valuable books, ittanuseripui cu
rissit,es, genteel furniture+ plate, bedding, wearing .
apparel,' &c., everything fu consumed, with the
whole of the house, and wield part or the house ad
joining I also the printing office, ikc, l atticbed.,
Lent ifirtacbers.—la the• list of preechera appoint
ed to plead' before her -Ma dosing LeDlly we
notice the nameset the BisOpa of St. Asaph and
Bangor.; His lordship of Bangor will preach on
Sundliy the 24th inst and pia depsytere frc4n the
Palace hay been fixed for the 20th- 14. 6 4. Pe under
feed.
WALES.
SATURRAY-MORNING, APRIL 13, 18 .
Mr. Pugin, a convert froM Pridestantism to
Catholicism, is the architect of eight Catholie church.
es now in the coons of esectiiin, viz at Reading..
Uttozeter, Beliholl, Macclesfield, Kik*. Dudley,
Melton, Mowbray. and WczfOrd. He will cora
nience with the monastery at Bath. early in the
spring.
Atxxannua, the ehlef sea-pcitt of Egypt, derived
tie name frock Alexander, and is called Alexandria,
of course. It is in rums, all reorders are aware, bat
they may not remember that the extent of those 're
ins is fifteen mike, about dottble the space occupied
by the city ol London. Mr. Buckingham, in :one
or his late lectures, mentioned that the habitible
part of the present city of Alexandria is only foor or
five lades, and the aspect is inimitable in the extreme.
In approaching it, the buildings present a very mo
notone:ma appearance, and the present town is but
the mere shadow of its former splendor. The pop
ulation amounts to about 150,000 people, composed
of all varieties of the human rape—Greeks, Turks,
Germans, 'ltalians, Spaniards, Portugete, &c, and
the combined appearance of this place is that of a
world in miniature. The sole occupation of the pea
pie is commove ; end it has extended itself to Eng
land, to America, and even 'round the Cape of Good
Hope, The population appears 'to be about equally
divided between Europeans end Asiatics, and the
sigular amalgamation of costume is worthy of re
marks. Here may be seen a man culled l in the
flowing garments of the Turk, with the great iiiquare
toed shoes ofthe Spaniard, adortied with monstrous
silver bookies, while he wand surmount the mien
tal gaib with the chapeau of the Frenchman. and the
gold-headed cane of the English physician—thus
mingling, without regard to fashion or appearance,
every variety of costume in one unmeaning combi
nation.
Rowland sr. occasion of hie preaching
a charity sermon he said, w I once got £l,OOO for a
charity sermon. I hope I shall get as much to-day.
But observe—if any of you are in debt, don't put
any money on the plate. Recollect—take time—
deliberate. If any of you owe money, be just be
fore you are generous. Stop, though On second
thought, those who don't give will be pointed at—
'Oh, he or she is in debt.'" &c.
FROM Tilt ORNSLZMEN'IS MAOATINE.
CHILD SHOOTLIM
AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.
An ant:dote extracted from the papers of a late
Traveller.
What! all my.pretty ones
At one hu swoop i
Butchers and villians--bready cannibals !
How sweet a plant have you unuinely cropped . !
YOu have no children, butchers &you had,
The thought of them would have stirred up remorse.
••Do they really shoot children at the Cape l" in
quired Lucy Jujebs of her spouse, :Mat after their
marriage, as they wcre,gazing on the sea, on a sum
mer eve, from one of the front rooms of old Jujebs'
cottage on the cost of Kent The sash was thrown
up, and the father, a retired East India merchant, of
whom it was said that lace of rupees were but as sand
bags, was present The old man chuckled at the
observation of his daughter-in-law, while his obtuse
son had not sufficient penetration to disorer the
mistake into which she had fallen.
"They are natural thieves," replied- John; "the
rascals imbibe the propensity with their mother's
milk. I, one morning, detected six children in our
orchard-ground; I shot five of them, and the oth-
"Shot five children for merely robbing an orchard !
Are there no laws in that Country!" said Lucy, in
terrupting her husband.
“Bravo!" exclaimed the Nabob, breaking into
one of his incontrollable fits of laughter : for in that
respect he was second only to Adam Gordon, men
tioned by Boswell to be gifted with the loudest and
most contagious laugh that ever echoed from the
human lungs.
"Were they native or white children V'
uNatives, to be sure !" answered the Nabob, en
deavoring to suppress his surprise ,at the simplicity o
the hopeful pair.
"And 'do you think," said she, "that, under any
circumstances, you haie a moral right to shoot chil
dren !"
"What moral right have they to crack our nuts
and filch our cocoas?" retorted John; and then
continued his narration. =After shooting two brace
and a half, I wounded the other in the shoulder,
when an old woman rescued it, before I could re
load ; but the child was too heavy to be' carried far :
presently I espied the gipsy and her bantling among
the leaves of a huge mango; she was half burriecl
in the hollow of the tree, ind so well protected by
wood, that it was impossible to shodt at her nearer
than seventy yards. My pop-gun. would 'nolluive in
jured her; eolfcharged an old rusty swivel put l it-gun,.
with nearly a handful of powder, and some heavy
slugq I rested the piece on the torso of a Hatch
' tot idol, took deliberate' aim, and blazed at the old
thief I-Down she came, end the Cab with bet I"
declare, it's very shoclung, though the . ) , be sa
vages," said Lucy.
"The brown NMI am the dent to climb!" con
tinued John.
"The nasisea, you mean 7" said the Nabob, cachin
nating aga.
"Have not Moat of the natives embraced Christi
anity r asked Lucy, with the utmost naivde.
"What! the brown 'ttrus I" exclaimed the Nabob,
yelling with !aught*
'"Monkcys turn Christians!" said JOhn, starting
like a cobra ; "why, Lacy, —"
"Monkeys I" drawled our Mrs. John Jujebs, ais-
covering her error.
"The brown 'tins!" added the Nabob, with a roar
that might have been heard from his plantation at
Singapore to his chateau at the Cape.
Woman's Love.
Philosophers have analysed, difines lectured and
poets sung maternal love ; but which of them have
brought from its fountains, to the heart of man, those
nameless, impassioned sympathies which make the
melody of a mother's tenderness. What mdther,
even, can paint the delicate lights and shadis of those
sweet fancies, that combined, beautify and strength
en the maternal love 1
Warmed and enriched by past and present cares,
hopes and caresses, her affection receives its finishing
touch of disinterested devotion, froin a sadness born
of the anticipated future.
While the confiding voice of childhood appeals - to
her, in doubt, ignorance, danger or distress, she feels
that by her &lb], she is invested with the attributes
of Deity t—etsrbile nestihig m her arms and hanging
with unbounding credence upon her words, her
spirit is startled into fresh rOSOIVINt of perfection, by
the fearful conviction that she is its book of wisdom,
love and beauty ; end if a Christian mothei; she
searches with so almost agoni auziaj; tor the
best possible means of transteeine
devotion of her child, to • ' who is'ehme worthy
of worship.
As oft as the consciousness of het imbotmded in-
Thienee dashes upon the Chtistisin mother's heart, it
is followed by the conviction that her image should
hold but a secondary place in the affections of that
being which has been the burden of her days and
nights of care ;--and while she labors and prays that
it may be even so, who can paint the desolation that
Settles upon her soul, and makes her cling closer to
her hopes of Heaven, as imagination, stealing long
years ahead, gives to her child a companion and off
spring, thus removing her, in careworn age, from
the second even to the fourth place in its regard !
ir.) man, aunt thou read through the tear that trem
bles in the "other's eye, the piercing disappointment
of her soul as, gazing upon her fond prattler, the
thought intrudes itself, that all her paini, her sleep
dispelling solicitude, and above all, the strength and
devotedness of her love will never, can never come
home to the bosom of its object , with the. force and
feeling of reality—or beget a corresponding return I
She knows indeed that years having passed, the
boon of maternity may awaken the same glow of
unutterable ay mpathies in the heart
.of her infant
daughter, and thin . open between them a tender in
telligence of soul for which Heaven has granted no
perfect medium of communication between man and
woman.
It is thus, step by step, woman learns, from rea
son and experience, that the purest and most fervent
aspirations Of earthly hope and love will never be
fully requited nor appreciated by their objects:—
And, as the selfish expectations of love expire, dOes
she settle 'down in the indolence of despair? Ah
no, she rises a better atortnortr disinterested being,
with all her energies nerved against the sad consci
ousness of that lone eminence on which affliction
has placed her, to love and labor on without other
hope of reward, than the approbation of heaven, and
the beSt good of her beloved ones !
Were the affection of the wife and mother felt
and cherished by their objects with corresponding
tenderness, doubtless this earth would have so much
of heaven, that, instead of being "first at the sepul
chre," woman would linger at the shrine of domes
tic joy and forget to prepare herself and treasures
for a higher scene of felicity ! —Lady's Book.
TRONI Tall WM TOIL Eleasse.
W•sukveTos, 2d April, A. D. I
To Squire Biddle—
I got your Letter tellin me you had quit the Bank,
and intended, if you could posssibly so manage mat
ters, to go to farming. I know this has always ben
you notion, and that you would do so as soon as you
see all things clear ahead ;—and a man who has been
cyphering so hard as yOu have for over twenty years
for the public, now 1 think has some right to go and
dig hie own potatoes and hoe his own corn, and take
a little comfort in his own way. • But somehow I
feel, Squire, a leetle wamblecrop'd, just as I did when
the Gineral left and went home to the . Hermitage ;
and tho' you have left in your place as good a man to
manage the Bank as the Gineral has to manage the
Government, I hope you will keep an eye on mat
ters and things. and give as much of your advice in
matters you understand to Mr. Dunlap and hisCani
net, as the Gineral does to Mr. Van %tree and his
Cabinet. The fact is, you and the Gineral I airways
thought was made of pretty much `the tame kind of
grit, and both on you considerably overwork'd your
selves, tho' the`Guteml got the best pay.
I used to tell the Ginetal--says I, "Gineral, you
are too good natured by half, you not only do Govern
ment work but you dip into pretty much all kind of
work that no other President ever thought on," and
the fact is, the Gineral did carry matters so fair, or let
other folks carry him so far that there was few things
going he was not mixed up with—till it got so at
last that almost every old Lady about the country
wouldn't set a hen, without writing or calling on the
General to ask him which was the most lucky num
ber of eggs to put in the near, I 1 eggs or 13 eggs ;
and it almost wore him to skin and bone. I believe
'you was the only men that was able to outwork tilip
General, and if it hadn't been that you was a leetle
younger than he was; he'd made a tooth-pick on you
as he did of pritty much all the rest of creation.
But as I said before, I sin considerable wamblecrop
at your leaVing public lifefor now that the Gineral
has gone to home and you too—l feel somewhat
cut out. .Mr. Van Buren dont seem to want nip
services no how,and I dont complain of that—l did
expect to git a chance "Down East," but he select
ed Gls Last &err—a man that outrank'd me all
hollow, as he does pritty much every man now a
. day s.
However, General Scott didn't forget me, and
said that if there was any fighting to be done among
the Loggers, be knew who he could count on, and
look'd me strait in the face , and I sat down sod
writ a Letter mark'd "cenfifinntal," to the "2d Bri
gade," and teil'd 'em to stand firm and obey no or
ders but General Scott's—that it was a National
matter, and he was a National officer; and when he
said, "Shoulder boo," then to march and folkow him
to Holton or fialhfax, or any other place beginning
with H—if he chose to lead ; and in that way they
would not only have a Fairfield, but would be sure
of a " Win.field," and that was more important.
In this matter of fighting these is one thing I al
ways keep my eye on; and I found Gineral Scott in
the same way of thinking ; and that is, to depend less
On folks wits say they are "ready to shed the LAST
estop of their blood," than on folks who are ready to
shed the first drop. Give a man Blida Dollars to
make speeches in Gangrene, with the right of free
postage, and you hear enuf of "last drop" matters;
but when it comes to camp duty, and raw beef and
Stale 'bread, and bagnet work, then the "first drop"
folks have to stand the racket silt dollars a month.
I wird Gineral Scott—says I, "Gineral,"l suppose
you would about as leave fight as eat, for that is your
actor—but for my part, seeing show things are git
tin on remarkably smart now all ever the country,
and the Spting of the year too, and the new improve
ments every day, and the green leaves and grass,
and the little children. all sprouting, and the canals
and rail roads about half made, and the cotton crops
jest about beginning, and the Banks all jest getting
into specie payments, and every thing looking about
slick—to say nothing about the steam-boats cross
ing the Ocean every week—it does seem to me that
a war wont help matters no•how." •
"I know that," says he, Major---" War is a great
calamity, and there aint only one thing worse,' says'
he. "What is that 1" says I, "National dishonor,"
says he—straitening up pretty nigh lasi an Amos
took pine. "Go ahead you crittur," says I, "and if
there'll, any chopping to be done Down East, let ini3
know." Will, you see what he has done, and all
I've got to Way aboal it dais !Sr is, that when
.you
come to think that nu= nigh on seven feet high ,
and Wait as a bean pole and all grit from one end
to tether, is willing to work like a beaver at all pints
-=-South and SoutiaMest, North and Nortli-East,
and Down East, to keep an horierable peace.; and
watching like a lint, to see that the nation's honor
team way ailed—l do think tho' • t►ar would give
me a considerable boost up in the world In military
rank, the man who keeps the peace is, according to
the Good Book, entitled to a biessing—etecially if
witr is his trade.
There is &le thing I think Mr. Van Bren de
sarvea great credit tor, and that is in commanding
the services of such a man as Gineral Scott to man
age.a.o matters of this natur ; and, elide is only one
thing more I think is wanting, and that the peo
ple are entitled to, and that is some one to manage
the money matters of the country as well. Igo bdt
the priuctple, that if a man does right in using the
best plough he can get on his farm, and'sowing the
best grain—jest so a President does right in calling
into the sarviee of-the country the best 'talent the
country has—the People are entitled to it—and if
PARty folks grumble, they should take it out in
grumbling. Look what Part); " has done already
forsome years back— ,, Sci etch ploughing, and smut
ty crops "—but enuf of this.
I thank you for your kind incitation to stop and
eat Peaches with you when they ure ripe," and
as I remember you have got some capital early apple
trees on your farm, I'll stop and take a bite on my
way to the N orth, and a chance at the Peaches when
I return back, jest b,y way of reminding you of old
tunes- in the Bank—for just •so sure you remember,
,when you tell'd folks you thought Peaches would be
ripe in September, they would be down upon you to
get a nip of Early Apples in June, and their fetch
uji on the Peaches afterwards. • I •
The fact is, Squire, I am iespemtely afraid now
that you and the Gineral have both back'd out an.
gone to get some quiet and rest—that a good man
on us will have cause to feel that good Uwe.' have
gone by --only with this difference, that the Ebner
al's extra work came from his notion of u rewarding
friends and punishing enemies," and you went on
the principle of feeding both—and one was about as
hard work as tother.
As Amos Kindle haint yet got a Post Office nigh
your farm, 1 send this Letter to the "New York Ex
press," to print and send out, and 1 suppose you'll
git it some how that way best.
Your friend in old times, and times present,
and times to come,
J. DOWNLNG, Major,
Downingvitle Militia, , ; 211d, Brigade
YROX TICS 1.1.11 T S BOOS.
Literature, Ladies, and Lore
LITERJTQae in America Ladies everywhere—
and Love mysterious: but, to treat the three-prong
ed subject scientifically, each point had better be
considered separately, and then all mingled togeth
er in confusion. Literature in America l—ay, the
soil and climate here, it is contended, are as' fit for
the growth of author' as any -pat" of Europe ; and
what la more, (and fatal,) it is tlEt best for the pro
duction of cotton and tobacco. It is the nature of
brute (man) to erect for himself a pedestal, on which
to tit* and overlook his follows 4 if possible ; and
as every one who has a nose, and erect form, to in
dicate the genus homo, may inherit, or otherwise
manoeuvre his way into the possession of an estate,
so each cap build up a platform on his own premi
ses, and exchange signals with all brother nabobs,
and easily look with contempt 'on interloping phi
losophers and poets, who maybe dragtis through
the miry swamp, in common with thititreek-faced
digger, qlf potatoes. - They; have their carriages,
champaign, and ruffled shine, (alluding exclusively
to males,) they have their etiquette, cards, and bowie
knives. They ship their cotton and tobacco, get,
ddeir drafts cashed, and stand the lords of creation.
Five hundred in every thousand may, in so& meas
ure, attain this distinction : whereas, in literature,
not more than one in two thousand can work his
wag to eminence. Therefore, the rich planter anti •
opulent merchant, prefer horticulture, and adven t ,
hare, to literature. The world is a raree show, as
well as a stage : the strife is not only for conqpieu
ocut parts, bat grand displays. Any fool• may get
enough to eat, and all the rest is for exhibition. Oi
course, then, every one embraces the best &twee of
success that offers : and he who would.castivimy the
gold which the labor of his hands has acquired, to con
tend for the palm of literature, for which he has no
brains, would be a double fool. Americana , have
more sense.
Philip was a fish' faced fellow, fancy struck, and
poor. He had no wine to drink, and ti read the
poets; egoc4age and servants, and he trudged
along the margin of tfie Schuylkill, on foot, medita
ting nighty things and scribbling poetry. He prin
ted, but still found himself on foot, and what was
worse, a hole in his boot. Yet his dreams were
bright, be laughed at his rags, and might long hale i
remained well pleased, had it not been for a halt from
Ins host, that his boog! must be paid. Phil thought
it not only disagreeable, but absolutely degrading to
be dunned; still the heartless host psitin . teionsly
persisted, and poor Phil perceived that his c6aditten
was really perplexing, inasmuch as he had no stick
in pocket, howsoever much fancy teemed in his head.
He threw hie promethean pen in the fire, and took
up a mercaittile one: hamiuster was a millionaire,
a legitimate aristocrat, as things go; his niche was
furred round 'kith beaver, and his badge, a badger's
tail. Phil sorrowed over his hi:initiating predica
ment, and *ith s sigh, commeneed posting the
books. . 41,
One sultry afternoon, )4r ; Otter returned earlier
than usual from hisolailf aiiI'IPIII-i:._on. int el li genc e,
whence lie was wonteo iepair,49, Plretreidneenes
and the twinkling of.tila i little opposeCthn eyes, indi
cated tlin he -tad leamed.eomething of more than
ordinary import. Phil heeded it hot, but eser look
ed up tc him, and darn en his occupation, with ut
ter„though concealer vontempt. Phil pored oyes;
the ledger, and checked tiff 11/Sentries on the, pon
derous journal,• ething like an indignakt
Gown on his brow. r walked softly up;iehind
wi tz .
him, and stood 100 . 'g over hiskehoublir. '
u Oh, that such a fate should be mitml 4 sights'
Phil. we't
u What's that 1 "demanded Otter.
u Bern l—litstal A haves cough—end wasithink
ing I might be doomed to the consumption," Phil
replied, trembling, for art turning, he posseived a
displeased expression an the swarthy - Sealants of
Otter. * .
You do look rationale, " saki Otter. •
U True, air; as how roman I tuo-u-oeiyhrra tor
Pen shakes:" - • - 7, '
NIX 15.
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I be glad--iliditinillmilmat
certais ant it till .
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44. Dayton
mel "
44- ile ist,
know in a few.rn
' His nanit•ll "
44 He doeirMite, .1 his name mentiatied Mitil
concludes tokyt" lttion -
.•• - •
.' Oh; it's ' tyolum ! NeWet Mali
it, Mr. Otter, i'D, ; aridity mind to be ' t .
where I ent. Tho ' lam pale; and have a • t ,
cough, there nt f
no -in my brt, but " •
thain
..What oriel' 1 :1° . ' - ' 1...,> .
~
. I'll telly' • ffideneo—bisklkryie k, •
boys about the 'to knowit. It' i it 'ibis=
o w , u :
as conaciousn - '''
ter thing•—" .1 • ' -
Designed for things !" iterated Mr.titter,
in tones of thtinder,: n I was told thieinity morning g .
by Mr. Shgg, era way, that you Mein the '
it of writingpoeiey Now, sir .-- bolt that . ' 4
te l p„.
CZ !' Do you think ',hare my tiruidi*ept in' Ow •
i t
manner 1 Yourion write a business handl it migitt
do for sonnets.4-a y's album !.:..tet, out, sir• L 's '
thAg . "—laid poor , P • found himself etanding.dn &.: '
Pa ure ‘em eri en co t 4el in thllB fm " en 4l2 iia. aiz T ed lsoror be h : ff Otter ialltf . ._
can't dictate an lii ; Ileaentence 1116 W, yet-he
is rich; and thus ap 5 a poet !,Psreirell nryoitir '
coon peltry, and:muskrat odour! .I stud' not es
taminate myself in May of your coin:ding r ! ;
No—l will leave the city-1 will sojourn Mikis
country villages, as poldsmith did. Ha, ha, ha !.-
1 have it—yes, ill blatantly pawn my, watch, p
my board, and edt oni, without reviving a cent fro •
Otter for my week'ilabow. " And the flighty f .
-low kept his word. 1 •'`
Phil next found ;elf tramping. along the 1
gin of a bright bay e pent leaves of the fo t •
trees quivering in th fresh brew and 'the happ
ril l
birds pealing gut thei inspiring nines from . peer .
1
bough. Phil minty to become a country sit hoo -
master: his educatiowas good, and he bore wi6
him a fel,/ letters of i oduction to the most Mlle,
ential fanners. He. c uekled with 'the thoughts , ' .
a rural life, and dete • ed to write pietry• eve
~
Saturday,.
I'm ad to see you, young man," mid Colon I
..
, after glancing ver his letter,.t but my frien
states that you htred a decided taste thr literature • ,
~ Yes; 'and every ne tct•his taste,' as the sayin .
noes," respondellh . ..
4. Din, ", dontinued.. dolonel,ishaking.his h• i •
.
44 writing is i poor Ini ' ess—all poets am s poor— •
~-.
4 What of that, my dem sir+ Wealth is not It • •
ven, nor pov4ty bell. I l ion are the lord of these bro ; L
lands, and that serer of negtoes singing in th
it
barn yard, and tin se consists. your liappineas
mow, I am of a differ nt caste, and enjoy more =
quisite pleasure, in ib the contemplation of the been •
lul wild flower in pin umbrageout7 dell, throu•
which I just passed, than all-your wealtli could—" '
a Stop, sir ! " interrupted the colonel; ii rah ar
Li
an impertinent fo'ol ! t Go,. then, into the Jell, an
enjoy your pretty bl ira= ! We want no ..
brained scribblers in our neighbourhood ! ! "—P.
slept i n the barn that ight, his only, companion
bnlidlur, which w ed his tail, and laid dow4
tieside him. ; • - 1,
Now for the lollies," A , lady Will lie:main the lo L.
est when a housaTie on fire : but she will rush th
farthest'into the glam to save-a darling.child. . ;
..
lady goes not to hattl herself, but she sends man ;
a gallant hero there: ' she braves not the
of the field, yet her 'mite fingent holden the si . 44,
ken banner, and hers les inspire the soldier to d
feud it. Be the ce what it will, if the ladies es.
pouse it, triumphis i destiny. Ai the oxen on the ..
wn
tread wheel is to the ilier, so is man obedient to
the sex. A secret sp y
u ing is hut touched, and they r .
go, or stand still, iaa'required. • When the monste r
man is enraged, invoking direct imprecations on all '.
around, the soft silverltoneitof woman is a tatiemen.,
and his wrathful deuiations end with, 44 The 10.
dies—heavin bless th !" In thelarkeirtheur o
s i .
distress, they will endtue the most, and hope th
„. .
longest. IV hen liar 4untry was endangered, it w •
a matron who firCd he'rbwri mansion in its cause 6 ,
and it inspired more c4nfldence in the drooping sot
didry, than an o ' battle giined. A lady nivel
or
Rome, when—A „ whbn Phil found himself tame .
into the street, and yei standing before Mr. fitter't
door, his eye caught tie glitter of a ring on his fin
ger, and as he udconsiciously put his hand in
t 2.
pocket in search of cote, the euffof - hia` sleeve turn . .
up, and he beheld a braid of hair on his wrist: di' , .
were keepsakes, from the bands of fairlsdies, and he•
was cheered, and esolked never to immolate his gef-
nine on the altar of nimmori, Here was another
instance of the pdwer bf the iiex : Phil despised old
Otter, and all his( thonmnde lent out and" in bank
and cheerfully seC off 'on foot er Nitlia-buinlle on 134
back, thinking all the lochile of the approving miler '
...
of the dean c res.; If be was vrnaryiiimve, and
somewhat h , yerhis slumber wait ipmmefultni,
the sweet straw, his faithful sentinel" kept
14'
un l md
feet warm. Herd' his
the .viciiirlttiderraif Uteri
al i
ture ! 'ln future, it w justly be said grAmeripe
owes More to the ex 4mi:trim ladies fiti`,,. the' 4 •
vanceitent oftener', an cortire dots cto sin* 4
Otters the worhil—l-Zealoualioltelimine they tif
Rouse, oor thkee familial excepted) 1151* ' suet - •
cess is ce • 't a t phidainginenitee ilisE . •
t ikt,
king mone and • g politicians itilfeinglotedise
bomle them out tif it, re are erecting a mini' urnelif ''..-
in the Repub "c of Letters; More durable - than the •
gianite one in this city. ' A time will come; whit•
husbands, broths and son:, will read, the tapers
and pay for de nts will admire the works of near
.ri papers
minds, and appr 'ate the moral of a well . writtesi
ye—or they ma t l ook td have their heads *Mont
tinently broken, - it therb are any broomsticks Miler ,
land ! And ye Will dft ! And when their eye!
are open to duty end patriotism, and they shall prat:
far a song to a cigar, Sliey will thank the sex fm :- their
reformation. Whear4ay, when the sun rose the
next morning, Phil wa i n roused* tie tinkling of a
guitar, and the beautiful Itrirm. the Colons:l'k
lovely daughter j .,' was sitting besiide h. bite anottmt'
Mlninda. ' I
4 , Is this a vision 1 Am lon earth 1 Tbstsongft
..-exclaimed Phil,. • ' Upright, slid robritng bit
eyek . A . ,i . ,
• , ,
n 1 sin your old • g lebnal myn . a* y
youlre on the barn draw, and the solfg,it t lii: . '
-
.magszine, written by yourself, " replied 'theft • . '
ing girl, and her fingers again itduldeindjeter' t' '
t • F .
strings.' . •
• "Then you are ye my friettd—emilh'edvert .
city !"- and Phil • bra
-band LL lp elite of •
re.
itemnee.
a m u !" said she, ' intfaiter has ord ered
. th
servants iintio perratt on - c to coma on the.
„. . .
and written toPieneig
LL •reviistirig that A
may not be eulphiya iiia i tha r i, L tgo irtgr jo
n Fiddlesticke I . ' • '''' Phi, in I.4:ety . #M .
.. what care I for 11111 . iiil;T OVOVOIR .4. l inilla
world, so you ligesMiii approving,
.41,y, oat,
d i
have any commalato executed
, y xrbab ,
everryou wish to be ii;'— tell inii—iteilk •
can even die " '• "'
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igulehe•
"Die you leek w. ..-- 4 44.1w1e4 , 40
conkinued, unrolling' h "lier4ier,''n . ,,,llate tnati,
''yoif#llll."—Ana ~ i tiits. —r niiileniniis, . .
tali
ti leg of 4ihickeililuiea large tbbiiiitit. T . '
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