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VOL. XVII.
From Tait'a Magazine for ember.
tiG`HANGS:
Change ! Change ! The mournful story
Of all that's gone before !
The wrecks of perished glory
Bestrewing every shore.
The shattered tower and palace,
That frown'd o'er every 'glen,
In broken language tell 88
Of the fleeting power df men.
Change ! Change"! The scythe is sweeping
O'er many a cottage hearth;
The 'salad hard is reaping
OW-some scenes of househoamirth
The sheaf is bound where daughters
Rodnd their mother used to spin ;
And where little feet did patter
Full often out and in.
Change Change ! for pll things human !
Kingdom, states of amidest wing
Have their flight and fall in common
With the meanest mortal thing :
With beauty, love, and passion;
With all of earthly trust;
-With life's smallest wavelet rushing ;
'Curling, breaking into idust
Where arose in marbled giandenr,
The weird cities of the past,
The sullen winds now wander
O'er a ruin huddled waste.
Rent is the palace splendid ;
The owl, in silence, wings
O'er bore, where, eye-attended,
Paced the sandalled feet of Kings.
Still change ! Go thou and view
All desolately sunk :
The circle of the Druid,
The cloister of the monk,
The abbey, tooled and squaled,
With its grass-maned staggering wall,
Ask by whom these were unhallowed—
'Twas Change that did it all.
But Mind, the ever-living,
From,Time's each succeeding Lirtb,
Will receive some more of heaven,
Will retain some less of earth. •
More of truth, and less of error ;
Less of hate and more of 'love ;
Till the world below shall mirror
All the purity above.
COUSIN TILLY'S BET.,
As soon as the Harrisburg Conseil tion nomina
ted the uld hero of Tippecanoq -- a - S . a suitable person
to preside / over our beloN4d country. Frank Smith
looked around his female friends to select a. suitable
individual to preside over his affections. Frank was
a whole-souled Whig, and reposed the utmost confi
dence in the success of the nominee pf the conven
tion. He was engaged in business and only declined
taking a wife on account of the times. He kept an
old dirty bachelor's hall, which was genteely furnish
ed with every thing requisite for housekeeping. All
that was wanting to complete his happiness was a
beautiful companion, with a heart like his own. Frank
was as fine a young fellow as ever rallied around the
Tippecanoe flag, and might have cut quite a con
spicuous figure in the world, if he bad been gifted
with less diffidence.
Frank soon came to a decision. He silently nom
inated to the highest office in the gift of his affec
tions, a young lady who was, in every particular,
worthy of his noble, heart. She was a distant family
connexion—a charming cherry-cheeked, cheerful, ca
pricious creature of a cousin—about as old as htm
self and endowed with a proper share of that good
common sense for which our fair countrywomen are
so eminently distinguished all over the world.
Frank Smith embarked enthusiastically in the
double care of love and politics. He carried' both
with him, hand in hind; but it might have been ob
served that he conducted' one cause with eloquent
words, and the other with eloquent looks. e often
told his fair cousin 'filly that General liar n was
his choice for the highest office in the gift le peo
ple, but never once did he tell her that she was his
only choice for the highest post in his omega. But
why should he have told her so? Shettneiv it as
well as he did. His, eyes had many a tine told her
a story too plainly to be misunderstood.
Frank had made at least a dozen a4enpts to dis
close his feelings to his cousin; but his lips invaria
bly refused to obey the promptings of its heart.
One evening, just before the Presidential election,
the two were together engaged, as every body else
was, in talking over political matteri--ror Tilly, like
all other pretty girls, was a thorotip-going Harriso
nian.
Cousin said Frank, ' 0 Snow certain that
Old Tip will be our next Preeiknt. The People
Will then once more be prosperays—business will re
vive, and those young men who have all along hesi
tated about changing their daration, may now just
as well look out for helpmate. What say you to
that r
41 certainly think,' saild.sb, that our sex should
now, that this tow contest to cloie, receive
a share of their attentions;
Yes, cousin Tilly, parson is good for,the next
four years — that ' s certain. You must Lave - ricitic,ed,
cousin Tilly, that I am tLuly tired of this confoun
ed bachelor life; and fro t the attentions I have paid
to you, the object of intalrec—that is—the—the—
that you are the—l its:about to—oh! listen to the
glorious Tippecanoe sig in the streets ! •
.
For all the wO , A seems turning round,
For Tipp e, and Tyler too !
Frank's incohotet love speeches were cut short,
fortunately for h&by a crowd in the street singing
lustily the famonsong of Tippecanoe and Tyler
too:
Coßeally, nsi Frank, said Tilly, you are not
fit for any thine:Jul to talk politics.'
I am afrai there is too much truth in what you
say,' replied lank, but still, I must iiasist that I
tried my bat° tell you my thoughts upon a differ
ent subject.'
And w! did you not finish telling them r said
his cousin:chly.
• Ilectiti I was too much of a blockhead, or a
coward.
g A:bd Tippecanoe soldier you are truly ! You
need ac fear rile, cousin Frank;. I
. am only a wo
man
.. eqou are, cousin ;but I Must Confess that I am
, ~
the gntest coward on earth when I attempt to open
I
mylart to you.'
14.2705 t astonishing,' said Tilly.
ra l ery true, niv cousin-. You know full well—l
A you do—that I have long entertained a deep—
.
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AND POTTSVILL aENERAILi ADVErViIISER.
Weekly by Benjamin Battnan, Potts Ville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
what was I going to say don't believe fan will
get more than sir states at' the outside.'
I Cousin Frank, I shall have to put you in charge
of Old Tip's keepers;' you are, going crazy.'
I believe so myself. lamin a bad box I assure
you, cousin Tilly ; tell me how to get
.out of this con
founded quandary. You know what I want to tell
you. How shall I say it I
Don't know,' said Tilly.
Cousin,' said Frank imploringly.
• Well.'
Do toll me.'
I'll bet you that Harrison will he elected,' Bail/
Tilly.
Oh ! but I would bet that way myself,' replied
Frank.
You wished me to help you out of your quan
dary, cousin Frank. You must therefore, take the
bet.'
What you want to bet,' inquired Frank
Myself.'
Against what
4 Yourself:
But let me see,' said Franlt, who wiL4 somewhit
Puzzled to understand the operation of the wager, tf
I should lose, as I surely will, how will ft then be
If you loose,'said she, I will win YOU, and if I
lose you will win Pte. Either way will suit pot, I
suppose.'
see through it,' exclaimed Prank, in an icstacy
of joy. Done, done, done. Clive me your hand,—
Hurrah for Tip, Ty, and Till. Cousin you have
done the business g)oriously ; I am happy'
The election came and Harrison carried the day.
Of course cousin Tilly won the bet and cheerfully was
it paid and gracefully was it accepted.
They celebrated old Tip's election, a few evenings
ago, by a merry Wedding. Joy be with them.
RORY.
A voice from Italy ! It comes like the stirring
of the breeze 'upon' the mountains' It floats in
majesty like the echo of the thander ! It breathes
solemnity like a sound from the tomb ! Let the
nation hearken: for the slumbers of ages is broken,
and the buried voiceolantmaity speaks again from
the gray ruins of Pompeii !
Roll back tide of eighteen heated yehrs. At
the foot of Cie vice clad Vesuvius stands a regal
city: the stately-Roman walks its lordly streets, of
banquets in the palaces of splendor. The bustle of
busied thousands is there; you may hear it along
the thronged (mays it rises from the amphitheatre
and forum. llt is the home of luxury, of gaily and
ofJoy.—There togaed royalty drowns itself in dis
sipation—the lion roars over the martyred Chris
tian, and the bleeding gladiator dies at the beck of
applauding spectators. It is . eeaSeleSil. a dreaming,
a devoted city. * * It; *
There p 3 a blackness in the horizon and the
earthquake is rioting_in the bowels Mahe moun
tain I Hark !a boat. and a crash ! and the founda
tions of the eternal hills are belched forth in a sea
of fire',Mo for the fated city The torrent comes
surging !ilie the mad ocean—it boils above weft and
tower, palace and fountain, and Pompeii is a city of
tombs!
Alit, roll on. Silence, darkness and deso!ation
aro in the halls of buried grandeur. The forum is
voiceless, and the pompous mansions are tenanted
by v
Eieletons ? Lo! other generations bye above
the dust of long lost glory, and the slumber of the
dreamless city is forgotten.
k e * * • *
Pompeii beholds a resurrection ! As if summon.
td by the blast of the final trumpet, she bath sha
ken from her beauty the ashes of centuries. and
once more looks forth upon the world, sullied and
sombre, but inte resting still. Again upon her ar
ches, her courts4ind her colonades, the sun lingers
in splendor, but not as erst, when the reflected lus.
ire from her marbles dazzled like the- glory of his
own true beam. There, in their gloomy Coldness,
stand her palaces , but the song of carousal is hush.
ed forever. You may behold the places of her foun
tains, but you will hear no murmur.—they are as
the water course of desert. There too, are her gar-
dens, but the barrenness of long antiquity Is Weir's.
You may stand in her amphitheatre: and you shall
read utter desolation on its bare and dilapidated
walls.
Pompeii ! mouldering relic of d former world !
Strange redemption from the sepulchre ! 'How viv
id are the classic memories that hover round the
Thy loneliness is rife with tongues ; for shadows of
the mighty are thy sojourners'. Man walk thy
desolated and forsaken streets, and is lost in his
dreams of other days.—He converses with the ge
nius of the past, and the Roman stands as freshly
recalled, as before the billow of lava had stiffened
above him. A Pliny, a Sallust, a Trojan are in his
musings, and he visits their homes.
Venerable and eternal city ! The storied urn of
a nation's memory ! A disentombed and rising
witness for the dead ! Every stone of they is con
ecrated and immortal. Rome was—Thebes was,
—Sparta was—thou west, and art still. No Goth
or Vandal thundered at thy gates, or revelled in thy
spoil. Man marred not thy magnificence. thou
wert scathed .by the finger of Him who alone
knew thy depths of violence and crime. Babylon
of Italy ! thy doom was not revealed to thee. No
prophet was there when thy towers were tottering
and the ashen darkness obscured thy horizon, to
construe the warning. The wrath of God was upon
thee heavily—in the volcano was the biding of his
power," and like thine ancient sisters of the plain.
thy judgement was sealed in fire !
A Dish from the N. Y. Atlas.
Soft soap and flattery are awful slippery things
and wonderful in their effects.
We know of Ho female charm so attractive to the
bensiblo and thrifty man, as the familiar acquaint
ance of a housewife.
l 'Philosophers agree upon one thing—that the sun
'as 4wrir, known to rise in the west.
Tennagerit-Ves and devils are one and the same
the name only'ehmaged by the difference of abode.
An editor out westlells the world that it is no
'eke to get drunk before breakfast. He knows best
of course
A trial tertninated laid week ht Worcgster, Mass.
in which Seth Maynard, a married manitidlhe fa
ther of threw chileren,, a member of the church; and
advanced in years, was , mulcted in $4OOO damages,
for the seduction of a pretty girl 19 years of age,
named Pollard, belonging to the Seine religious eo
ciety with the defendant
Ephriam, of thßiehmond Star, says that Salt
ltiver empties itsellititti.. Symme's Hole."
A Conn. Van Buren paper says we have been
sung down—lied down—and drank down. This
surely is not surprising, for when folks have drank
down freely—to he down is the natural result.
It is said that Mr. Van Buren, in spite °This usu
al placidity of temper, was thrown, a few days age,
into a most eitraordinary rage.; The exciting cause
of his fury was a flock of turkies, waddling by the
White House, and crying „ Quit! quit! quit!"-4
uOh you: devils !" exclaimed Van, if you were
only a little 'large! I'crwring your infernal necks off
for you."
SATURDAY MORNIN G; JANUARY 9. 1841.
-
The Chinese Empire is inhabited by 350,000,000
of human beings, all directed by the will of one man
—all speaking one language--all governed by one
code of laws—all professing one religion—all acing- ,
ed by the 'tame feelings of national pride and preju
dice. They date their origin not by centuries, but
'by tens of centuries.
An iniectigatitib into the affairs of the Wolfborough,
N. H. Bank, shotris a deposite of $lO in specie, and
about $4O in hilts of tither banks, to redeem a circu
lation of $30,'706 with.
In drinking ether people's health we, should be
careful net to lose our own. Champagne often pro
duces real pain, and prepares the mind for the receipt
of the notions Of Tom Paine.
As ravenohstirds are the quickest sighted, so the
worst men are the . oeatestlault finders.
Why Is ti nigger like a piece of charcoal Wye give
it up 1 Because he's ',Lem, you ninny. Witt that
a good 'un
We have bah had a good MAP, as the old hat said
to the toper when ha awoke from his slumber in the
OE
Facts speak for themselves," as the loafer sail
when he surveyed his tattered pantaloons.
The Bay State Democrat tells this anecdote of a
Boston physician of the oldeu time• When a young
man, he occupied a 'chamber separated from that of
a married couple by a thin partition ; one cold night
he heard the rough voice of the husband grumble out,
" Take away your cold hocks!" to which his wife
reiplied, in a querulous tone, Ah ! you did not speak
so to me when we were Mst married—then you used
lo say to me, take away your foolsy toolsys!'
How t natural !
Singular Facts.—Little men to've tall women and
little women love tall Men ; talkative people prefer
those of tactiturn character ; gourmands make a better
dinner in the society of those who eat but little; the
strong ally themselves vith the weak ; men of genius
prefer domesticated wives; authoresses generally es
pouse fools ; proud individuals cannot endure those
that are proud also; rogues seek the society of honest
men ; the must dissipated woman loves the man who
detests her vices, and the good man frequently adores
the most libertine female. The seducer runs after the
innocent, and the young innocent succumbs to the"
wiles of the seducer. Extremes meet ; contrasts ap
proach each other; and in the darkest shades_ the
painter discovers the finest colors.
DOMESTIC HA PPINESS
Our safest way of coming into communion with
mankind is through our own household. For there
our sorrow and regret at the failings of the bad is in
proportion to our love, while our familiar intercourse
with the good has a secretly assimilating influence
upon our characters. The domestic man has an in
dependence of thought which 'puts him at ease in
society, and benevolence of feeling which seems to
ray out from him, and to diffuse a pleasurable sense
over those near him, like a soft bright day. As do
mestic life strengthens a man's virtues so does it help
to a sound judgment. and a right balancing of things,
and gives an integrity and propriety to the whole
character. God in his goodness, has ordained that
virtue should make its own enjoyment, and that
wherever a vice or frailty is rooted out, something
should spring up to be a beauty and deli,glit to the
mind. But a man of character, rightly cast, has the
pleasures at home, which, though fitted to his highest
nature, are common to him as his daily food. He
moves about his house under a continual sense of
them, and is happy almost without heeding it.
Women have been called angels, in love tales
and sonnets, till we have almost learned to think of
angels as little better than women. Yet a man who
knows a woman thoroughly, and loves her truly—
and there are women who have been so known and
loved—will find, after a few years, that hit relish for
the grosser pleasures is lessened, and that he has
grown into a fondness for the intellectual and re
fined without an effort, and almost unawares he has
been led on to virtu through his pleasures; and the
delights of the eye, and the gentle play of that pas
sion Which is the most inward in our nature, and
which keeps much of its character amid the concerns
of life-, have held him in a kind of spiritualized exis
tance; he shares his very being with one who, a
creature of this world, and with something of the
world's frailties, is
Yet a spirit still and bright,
With something of an angel light.
With all the sincerity of a companionship of feel
ing, cares, Barrows, and enjoyments, her presence is
as the presence Of a pure being; and there is that in
her nature which seems to bring him nearest to a
better world. Bhe is, as it were, linked to angels;
and in his exalted moments he feels himself held by
the same tie.—Richard tf.'Dana.
THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW.
The following beautiful eulogy on e the law," is
from an article in a late number of the Southern Lit
erary Messenger:
The spirit of-the law is all equity and justice.—
In a government based on true principle, the law is
the sole sovereign of a nation. ft watches over its
subjects in their business, in their recreation, and in
their, sleep. It guards their fortunes, their lives and
their honors. In the broad noon-day and the dark
midnight, it ministers to their security. It watches
over the ship of the merchant, though a thousaed
leagues intervene; over the seed of the husbandman,
abandoned for a season to-the earth; over the stud
ies of the student, the'labors of the mechanic, the
opinions of every man. None are high enough to
offend with impunity—none so low that it scorns to
protect them. It is throned with the king, and sits
in the seat of the republican magistrate; but also
hovers over the couch of the lowly, and stands as the
sentinel at the prison, scrupulously preserving to the
felon whatever rights he has not forfeited. The
light Or the law illumines the palace and hovel, and
itrrotinds the cradle and the bier. The strength of
the lii4 , ..ktglis wickedness to scorn, and spurns the
intrenchms of iniquity. The . power of the law
crushes the pcAver of man, and strips wealth of un
righteous immunity. It is the thread of 'D.Tedalus,
to guide us throUgh ilielabyrinth of cunning. It is
the spear of Ithuriel to Jeteet.fabsehood and deceit.
It is the faith of this martyr, teltield us • from the
fires of, persecution ; it is the goodt 's reliance ;
the wicked one's dread ;the ,bulwark of filet • the up
holder -of morality, the guardian of right, the 'distri
butor of justice. Its power is irresistible; its dominiOn..
indisputable. It is above and around us; within us;
we cannot fly-from its protOctiiin ; we cannot evert
its vengeance.
Such is the law in i i
ouches ; such t would be
if none aispired to its administration but those With
pure hearts; enlarged views, end eultivdtedleinde,
TEMPERANCE ;DEPARTMENT.
LASES
To a genlleman who asked me to take io ne brandy'.
Offer me not 'the blasting bowl,
My tongue may notlis horrors tell . ;
A curse is in its dark control,
ft Is the harbinger of hell.
The rosy apple Adam ate,
WhiCh first the subtle serpent gave,
Contain'd the - spirit of man's fate, -
Which gives its millions to the grave.
The gifted and the glorious fall,
When they that spirit's "pow'r once own ;
And reason, deaf to duty's call,
Tumbles from her okalted 'throne.
A serpant's charm is in the bowl,
That may a moment's peace impart ;
/
But 'tis damnation to the s ul,
A deadly dagger to the eart.
Say not it gives to frien ship birth,
For if on that Ima rely,
Oh! let me have no riend on 'earth
Alone, unlov'd, oh ( ! let, me die.
Art thou my gen'rons riend I Then swift
Apply the vampir o the vein ;
But never. neve are to lift
The wine up to my lips again.
Place on my heart the Egyptian asp . ,
Bring hemlock to my dying
And in death's dusky angel's grasp,
Oh ! let me then the upas sip.
But offer not the inad'ning
That kills or cures all who taste ;
Plunders the purse, and sinks the soul,
Into a wild and fearful waste.
Young man, bevitre ! thou dost no't know,
In thy convival moments free,
What anguish, and what wondrous woe,
The future treasures up for thee.
I've seen a youth of fortune, lathe.,
Belov'd and honor'd by the world,
By this one vice sent down to shame,
And from his envi'd height scion hurrd.
I've seen proud Genius' noble heir
Chain'd in a dark and dreary cell,
_Bowling the horrors of despair,
Amid the fancy'd fiends of hell.
I Retrace thy steps ere manhood's noon,
Taste, touch not now, the poisonous wave,
Or thou wilt fall and mingle soon,
NVith, mouldering millions in the grave.
The Drunkard near his end.
DT W. M. CbIIDTHERS, M. I.
See the famished' creature, how he pours it down
his parched, throat. He loathts and revolts at all
food for-days and weeks together. The quantity of
ardent spirits consumed during such a paroxism is
almost incredible to those who have never witnessed
it. I attended a young gentleman, a short time ago,
who told me himself, that his daily allowance was
two quarts, and from the potations I saw him quaff,
this was rather under than over the mark.
-At length he gives up in despair; he sees, he
feels, that brandy canmo longer save him from mad
ness. He attempts to recuperate the fading powers
of nature, Ly the resort to the balmy restorative, but
the gentle God is not thus to be wooed by those who
have set all his precepts and practices at defiance.
Can any one sleep thus, whose vessels are loaded
with liquid fire, and their nervous energy stimulated
to exhaustion?
See how hurriedly he breathes. Listen to those
long drawn sighs, as if coming from the depths of
his soul, and repeated every instant. These sighs
do not proceed from mental distress alone, nor are
they subject to his volition ; they are as much symp
tomatic of the disease, as they are of yellow fever,
and, as far as this single symptom goes, are exactly
alike. This however is a combination of physical
and mental disease, and all its symptoms and phan-_
tasmagoria are resolved to these two heads. This
sighing is almost sparsmodic, and its source must be
sought in the mysterious connection between the
nerves of volOntary motion and those of organic life;
but these - abstnise points I shall reite.rve for the ears
of my medical brethren.
The patient invariable points to the deep seated
portion of the chest as the locality of his misery.
He suffers no physical pain, Mit every now and then '
he makes a convulsive struggle for breath, and all
this appears to an ordinary spectator, as a mere mat
ter of volition, and his friends in such a case, often
press him to lie still and try to sleep.—He yields to
their entreaties, and by a powerful effort, seems to
choke down the dreadful agony in his throat.
Nothing tint whispers are now heard round the
hearth; every one moves on tip-toe, and the curtains
are drawn, and the light shaded for his last effort at
sleep. The friends begin to smile at each other in
congratulation at the long silence, and delusive hope
plays over their haggard and exhausted features,
But hark to that shrill and piercing scream, and see
the wild and frantic creature, as With one bound he
clears the bed and lights in the Midst of theb. His
nostrils dilated, his eyes red with agony, and his
whole countenance ghastly with the eittemity of
moral terror. His friends attempt to force him back
to bed, but he falls upon his knees and prays to you
as his jailor, for the sake of mercy and oY heaven not
to put him again, into that loathsome den of slimy
reptiles and creeping verrtiin. While he is dragged
on the fleet, he clutches at the horrid things with
his hands, anti the very muscles of his body are quiv
eringland shuddering in a hundred opposite directions.
If he puts his foot down he instantly snatches it a
way with it scream, for he had placed it just on the
contorted back of a venomous snake. The spiders
crawl hi his ears, and he plucks at them with one
hand, Whilst he wrenches the fangs of a scOrpion
from his back with the other.
Wheri at last overpowed, he lies with his eyes
starting from their sockets, turning tlieni rapidly from
one part of the bed to another, like some wild ani
mal brought to bay by, the hunters. t very now and
then he makes a spring from their clutches,. and is
again overpowered, and pithapi confined in a mad
man's jacket, in which state every muscle of hie body
is writhing in strange centeitions.—erreat drops of
cold, clamy prespiratioii are coursing each other
sown his blue cadaiitotts "cheeks. He cries out in
the most piteous and hedrt-rending tones for help ;
he pealsto the stranger it his side, and when de=
ser world', is he imagines, weeps like
nn inhin
tf there Ika, "tnt a single delusion haunting his
ituagiliation; it is possible that means mightbe:found
to convince him of his error, hut they flit across his
bewildered vision in rapid end, frightful' sit:cession.
I knew a young man in this cup who et •this. Stage
of the disease, who imagined himself lying under , ' •
the charge of murder, and nothing could convince
him to the contrary, until his friends actually put,
him hrough the forms of a mock trial, in which, cf
course, he was most triumphantly acquitted. He
manifested great delight at the moment, but While
his friends were congratulating themselves with the
foilenate termination of duir experiinent, a more
hYdedus plisntena than the one they had just eidi.
eisea &copied its place.
The patient is now never for a moment free from
the mOst'dreadftitapprehensions; one frightful mon
ster after another rearsits hideous form to his aston
ished and bewildered gaze, •until his eyes are ready
to kart from their sockets. He will spring up sud
denly-and point his emaciated and trembling finger
at, and shade his cowering visage from a sceptre se
terrible that an indifferent spectator will almost feel
the infection of his terror.
KO. 2
I have seen men in such a state, descend to the
botteinless pit and describe all the gloomy horrors of
pandemonium, point chit their acquaintances, and
detail the various tortures to which they were sub-
ject, in far more vivid colors than Dante's poetical
inviraticin ever painted. Occasionally the room is
peopled with the sceptres of departed friends, IA 1111
the hideous and disguseng aspects of death end the
grave. The poor famished, 'parched, sleepless and
benighted sufferer speaks to them in the guttural
whisper of mortal fear, his whole manhood and every
thing that creates the pride of man, crushed into
humility so abject, that one Might imagine him sunk_
into the earth by the blasting eye of a basilisk ! His
frame is almost convulsed, so dreadfully does it
tremble in the Jelerious agony of fear. His eye lost
all volitic6, and rolls in its soc Vat like a flashing me
teor ; his tongue is bitten and gashed, and hangs
from his bleeding Mouth like a mad horse of the
prairies, and his blue hands are clenched so tight
that the very blood is extravasted beneath the nails.
The most piercing shrieks fill his chamber con
stantly, crowds are attracted round his couch by
these strange noises and the accounts of his stringe
doings. Night and day his friVnds must sit and hold
him in his bed, and not unfrequently for a week at
time. During all this while, his eyes ,have, never
been closed in slumber, there is an eternal and sleep
less vigilance, a long communion with dark spirit/.
His countenance by this time becomes cadaverous
and haggard, his eyes blood-shot, his lips and nails
blue, nostril's colap'sed, te:eth covered with black
sorJe, making exactly the extent to which his parch
ed and shrivelled lips cover Them, his breath is hot
and fetid, his hair matted and frizzled in the wildest
disorder, and altogether he forms such an abandoned
and humiliating picture of human nature, as is sel
dom met with an any 'ether 'afsease.
ENGLISH MIN AislD MINING
From the English Correspondent of the New York
That man must be insane who should write iletter
at Newcastle-updn-Tyne, about any thing but coal.
He has but one idea—coal! One thing fills his vision
! (Joel Is the standard of 'value, and coal dust
the circulating medium. The houses are built of coal.
The-streets are paved with coal. The inhabitants
live on coal. The children look as if they were made
of coal, and even the white clouds are black!
What a wonderful region! is Durham and Nor
thumberland shires 1 The whole country is under
mined. Buildings are erected 700 and 800 feet below
the surfiCe of the earth, and street:: and railways, nut . -
mng for Miles in all directions, are daily traversed by
thousands of human beings. Newcastle, with its
population of 60,000, stands on the crust of a subter
ranean city. Some of its houses have sunken their
foundations in consequence of the-yielding of the
ground beneath. The river Tyne, as large as the,
Thames at London, floats its c6nsmerce over these
vast caverns; while at Sundeiland and other placeS
on the coast, the ocean rolls its waves over the betide ,
of the miners. Thechief wealth of Durham and Nor
thumberland lies hid in the bowels of the earth, wheio
a ve'ryensiderable portion of the inhabitants pass
half their time. The coal-pits open their black 'mouths,
on every bill and in every valley. They may be
tinguished far off by the towering enginery erected
over them employed in raising the coat and water
from the depths below, and by the piles of the forme}
which lie around in hillocks waiting to ifetmnsport- -
ed to market. The country is lined with railways—
more abundant than hedgerows—used in , 1 carrying
coals to Newcastle." At every hall mile, you meet
with the little village's of the pitmen (as the laborers
are called.) The snug brick cottages are arranged
with regularity and taste—each having itspelif Oast;
plat in front, usually decked with flowers, 'and its'
vegetable garden and fruit trees in the rear. What h
contrast between these smiling thOugh huinble abodes,
and the dismal caverns where the villagers spend
nearly their whole'conscious.exiitence
Great labor and expense dtended the sinking of
the shaft (' a coal mine. The exact location of the
strata must be asce'rtaintd by boring before the ex
cavatibn commences. This detirmioed, you know not
what obstacles you may encounter from veins of rock
or streams of water in yo . ur desdeq. And, then, the
destruction of human life almost invariably initured
in these perilous enterprises ! the gigantic nature of
- which may be inferred from the hid that the shafts
are generally sunk to the depth of 600 or 70b feet,
and sometimes to 1200 ! Great rejoicing often take
place in the neighborhood of a 'colliery when a new
stratum of coal i 9 opened ready ter worklng. The
following was the mode of celebrating the opening of
the famous Gosforth colliery, in this vicinity, in 1829.
It is copied from a publication put into by hands at
Newcastle :
On the Saturday previous to the circumstance
am about to relate, the miners employed in sinking a
pit at Gosforth reached the coal. nvo years and a
half had been spent in sinking this pit, the shaft of
which was cut through 160 fathoms of solid rock',•'
and therefore the event waii considered as one of
great importance in the surrounding vicinity. Aniong
other rejoicings which took place on this occasion,
was a ball, which was held in the mine, at the depth
of about 1100 feet below the surface! -The ball room
is stated to have been in the form of an L ; its width
15 feet, base 22 feet, and perpendicular 48 feet. The
company to the number of two hundred and thirty, of
whom abobt one hundred were ladies `(!) began to
assemble at the mouth of the mine at half-past nine
o'clock, A: M., and continued to descend the pit until
1 o'clock, P. M. Immediately on their. arrival - at the
bottom of the pit, each individual proceeded to the
face of the drifts and hewed a piece of coal as a Fe
membrance of this perilous expedition,, and then re•
turned to take a part in the festivities of the ball-room.
An excellent band, composed entirely of miners,
were in attendance. As soon as a sufficient number
of guests weie assembled, dancing commenced, and
was continued without intermission till about dna
o'clock, P. M., when they began to ascend the pit,
which all of them accomplished in perfect safety, high
ly gratified with the subterranean amusements in
whiCh they had partaken. Thee. colliery it which this
novel entertainment took , place is now one of the
most extensive in Northumberland."
The great extent of the coal trade from this region
may be imagined where hie kniiwn that Newcastle.
which is wholly engagisdin the second port a
the Kingdom in' the -fib:kiwi : a its tonnage::: The
Tyne is covered, with the Colliers, *tiffs . their car.
goes to every part ofthe igo bit; • *ltterr soils blacken
the river, one would thi4looll"ryere hi:lit• in the
eclipse, rind riggedo o.oofiesi. Pluto's navy was
not Mstfter.. -
Amerman
I~';wcaatle-upon-Tyne, August, 1840