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SELECT POETRY.
THE ORIGIN OF YANKEE DOODLE.
DY CEO. P M IRRIS, EQ
Once on a time old Johnny Bull,
Flew in a rasing fury,
Anil swore that Jonathan should have
No iriuls, sir, by Jury.
That no election should be held,
Across Iho briny waters :
"Ami now," said he, 'Til lax the tea
Of all his sous and d. lumbers."
, Then down he sat in burly slate,
And blustered like a gnindie,
And in derision made a tune
Called "Yankee doodle dandy.
"Yankee doodle" these are fuels
Yankee doodle dandy ;
Mv sou of wax, your lea I'll lax
Yankee doodle dandy."
John sent the tea from o'er the sea
Willi heavy duties rated ;
But whether hyson or b;.hea, '
I never heard it slated.
Then Jonathan to pout began
Ho laid u stiong embargo
"Ml drink no lea, by Jove ?" so ho
Threw ovei board the cargo.
Then Johnny sent a regiment,
Pull words and look to bandy,
Whose martial band, when near the land,
Piny'd "Yankee doodle dandy."
'Yankee doodle keep it up !
Yankee doodle dandy,
I'll poison with a lax your cr.p,
l'ankee doodle dandy."
A long war then they had, in which
John was at last defeated--Ami
"Yankee doodle" was the march
To which his troops relrealed.
Cine Jonathan, to see I hem lly,
Could not rest rain his laughter :
'That Inne," said he, ''snils to a T,
I'll fin:; it ever after."
Old Johnny' face, lo his disgrace.
Was fin-died willi beer and brandy,
E'en while he swore, lo sins no more,
This '-Yankee doodle dandy "
''Yankee doodb ho ! ha ! he !
Yankee doodle dandy
We kepi lie- Inne, but not the tea
Yankee doodle dandy !"
I've told you now the oiiain
Of this most lively dilty,
Which Johnny Hull" dislikes as "dull
And stupid !" what a pity !
With ' ll.iil Columbia !" it w simp,
And choius full and heaity--O.i
I. ind and main, we brealho the strain,
John made fur his tea party.
No matter how we rhyme the words,
The musie. speaks them handy,
And here's the fair can't sitij: the air,
Of ''Yankee doodle dandy !"
' Yankee doodle lirrn and Irue
Yankee doodle dandy,
Y'a'ik' e doodle, doodle dno !
Yankee doodle dandy !"
'I do not know ; all I can tell yon,"
said she, '-is that one dark and rainy night,
about a year ago, my husband was return
ing home at a late hour. When mar the
house, he heard the sound of weeping, and,
turning; his lantern in the direction, saw a
woman seated on the edge of the side-walk,
with her led in the water, which was near
filling the watercourses. He assisted her
into the house, that her clothes might he
dried before she went home. But Mary
had no home. Iler feet were blistered and
swollen with walking ; but, when I look
ed at her white hands, and fair sweet face,
I knew that Mary hail seen better days.
We kept her, for she knew not where to
go ; nor can she give any clue to her for
mer historv onlv. when she returns, af
ter being out as yoti have now seen her, i heing who could, unmoved, have seen that
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removed, he turned down th covering
which concealed the head and face. In
voluntarily I rose from my seat; while
Lalor stood for a moment as if nailed to the
spot. jSot a muscle nor a fibre moved.
His countenance indicated unutterable aso
noy. At last, uttering one wild piercing
scream, which will never be fortolten by
those who heard it, he snatched up the body
from the table, and rushed with it Irom the
amphitheatie. ".Mary, Mary, my own
Mary, have I at last lound the earth which
enshrined your pure soul ! Oh ! Mary, I
would have given my life for one look into
those dare eyes, that are now closed forever
to have heard thy stilled tongue utter for
me but one word of forgiveness 1"
Hard would have been the heart of the
she will ask, 'Has Edward returned yet V
When I inquire, 'What Edward V she will
answer, 'My own Edward.'"
Mary's health soon began to decline.
'Consumption had marked her for its vic
tim, and, with its ruthless grasp, from which
there was no escape, the life-spark was
fiantic man press'to his bosom the cold and
slifTend body of his early love, and have
heard the ravings of his bewildered intellect
a J he called upon the departed spirit to re
hire and reanimate the senseless mould.
With very great difficulty, could he be in
duced to give up his recovered treasure.
crushed until it went out. J stood bv her His own mind, so long tottering, had at
bedside the last day of her weary life; for j last fallen ; and, when he did give up the
a while, her senses seemed to return. She body, it was with the remark that "Mary
on,
7v Select (Talc.
I'mm G iiley'i. Lady's B'Mk.
CRAZY MARY;
T11U ii;ti.iiuatio.i( to marry
lull WEALTH.
Leaf Ko. III. from the Journal cf
11- Touruiquet, 11- II-
1Y J. E. M'UIRR, M. D.
spoke other condition, of her readiness to
leave this abode ol sorrow lor that better
world where no shadow clouds the spirit
face, where joy is forever. Taking from
her bosom a small gold lockut, she handed
it to me. "J uke that," said she, "and when
1 have been buried, open it, and you will
must not forget to come to him to-morrow."
For a few days he continued in a condition
entirely unconscious of anything ; at last a
low nervous (ever set in, which, in a few
days, put a peiiod to his melancholy life!
and, side by side, in the same churchyard,
upon the shores of Lake Michigan, where
learn to whom should be sent the news of, the waves will hymn their requiem, sleep
my departure. Tell my dear, dear mother ' their last long sleep "Crazy Mary" and the
that my sorrows, and troubles, and trials victim of a "Jeicrmimdion io marry fur
are over; that 1 have gone to join my fa- ! (twW "
ther iri Heaven, where we will await her ;" -
and, she added, in a scarce audible tone, I JiKWAnus fob Sckipturk. Dr. Cahill, the
J! you ever meet and know mv Edward, Roman controversialist, having visited Man.
tell him that, on her death-bed, Mary for- j cluster in his vocation, was met by a chat
gave him that she blessed him. Tell him ' lenye there, oilerim; 1600, in sums of .100
that she loved him more, far more, than ! , ..,. ., i... i., ,i... i.
... . . . , i , mi'T in ir-wil nil" l,. Ill 'luillll.u 11113 l.'Jllltlll
life; and tell him, too, that the last name f-., ...urr-,u ,i , i , . . r
. , i I ' i , I , t -ii i urn ii. iiiii; ui in it II -I iiu 1 1 nil it lull? ui iiiu
ot mortal which crossed ner lips was Ins ,., , , .. . , ,
own Church, and prove them to be genuine and
v i t.. .... ,i I :.. ii, . uivine mo unanimous consunt ot I no fa.
Aexl day were deposited in the corner
of the churchvarl appropriated to paupers !,m,s ,,,p" ""erpreiat.tm oi scipiure ;
the remains of "Crazv Mary." i a,u 10 ""' onB vvll can te" " here the in-
- - I I ! . .. .. ... . ... ...
laiiiatuiity oi tue c Huron ot Home is to Da
CHAPTER IV.
I was seated in my office, endeavoring to
arrange my thoughts for the purpose of lec
turing to my class, during the afternoon,
upon the physiology ol the brain. The de
monstrator of anatomy had just announced Apostles forbiddii
to me that a subject tor that purpose was at Scripture
my disposal, lielore I had completed my
preparation, Dr. Edward Lalor stood before
me. After the usual greeting at so unex-
I on til . Also :
.t'100 fur Iho best method of discovering
the Irue church without the exercise of pri
vate judgment.
X100 for any command of Christ or his
I he people lo read the
(Concluded.)
CHAPTER III.
One day there came into the office of a
justice of the peace, in which I happened
to be on business, a woman in search ot a
police officer. She was tall and well form
ed, only very thin. She had on an old
rusty-brown cloak, with a hood ol the same
material. 1 his was drawn so closely around
her lace as to almost conceal her features;
but enough could be seeu to enable one to
J now offered (in fresh binding) at the low judge that the pale and hollow cheek had
i-e of SG.liO. been once healthful, lull, and beautiful.
A Treatise on the laws of Pennsylvania re- Qml t,e Jjhtning of the dark eye, that HOW
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complete history of the late strugcle for freedom Was SO struck With her appearance as to
that country, with notices of the leading chiefs mnuiie of a bystander who she was,
id statesmen, who distinguished themselves in "WIlV." said he. "don't VOll know crazv
.uncii ami in me. uem, niiimmi.t .8 yi.,rv i i ,hml r HVervhnd v knew her "
. j . - n -j --j
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February, 21, 1852. tt.
SPRING MILLINERY GOODS.
JOHN STONE ft SONS,
IMPOnTKBS AND DRALKRS IN
FRENCH MILLINERY GOODS,
So. 45 South Second Street, Philailclphia.
"I do not, indeed, what does she want
here V
"Oh, she is merely making some of her
usual complaints ; but no one minds her.
She says that a young man promised to
marry the daughter ot the persons with
whom she lives; that she is poor, and, on
this account, that he will not fulfil his pro
mise; that he is going away, and that the
poor girl will break her heart; and she
wants on officer to arrest him. Do you not
think that something tni"ht be done for
4 RE now prepared to offer to their customers j. w;lh ft vjeW t(J restor(. ,Jt.r rt,ason
and the trade a largo and well selected as- . . ... , . . mi . . , ,
r.'.m!" i a, itiminorv t:nna. be thal il woulJ well worth while
aiii " ,i,0 Iha (r.Pi
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Uotllining incmseivcs exriusivriv in una iiraui'ii , . i r ,
of the trade, and ,,r(.? the larger part of "'f'J u ? u uu, remaps
their stock, enables them to oiler an assortment to mistake their purport, and, stepping up
unsurpassed in extent anil variety, wliu-li will ue to me, wuue sue piaceu uer nana in mine,
old at the lowest pricea and on the most favor- H Will you," said she, "aid me?" That
hand was so thin you could feel every bone
and joint articulation, and, as the long ta
pered lingers rested there, and the clear
blue veins shone through the transparent
skin, you could notice the sluggish current
of the circulation toiling its way back
wards to the heart.
Holding my hand with a tighter grasp,
"Kor God's sake," said she, "aid me !
Come! not a moment is to be lost !"
Curiosity, and the strange interest I felt
in those poor creatures who have been de
prived ol their reason since I had studied
so attentively their diseases for the benefit
of my friend, and besides, the identity of
the name with that ol Ins loved one, innu
need me, and I went; but. when we
reached the house of the kind people with
whom Mary lodged, 1 learned that they
had neither son nor daughter. When J
told them how I had been led there, "Poor
Mary!" said the lady, "she is always talk'
ing so ; and you did not, I suppose, know
her."
I inquired who the was and whence she
came.
sble terms,
March 13, 1852. Smo.
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Apostles to worship Iho wafer or bow down
to pictures or images.
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Apostles to worship the Virsin Mary.
X'100 for any command of Christ or his
Apostles to woisbip saints and angels.
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Apj-th s to take away the cup from the laity
in the sacrament of the Loid's supper.
Tiik Hapi'y (mui.. A happy girl is known
by her fresh looks and buoyant spirits. Day
i:i and day out she has something to do ;
and she takes hold of her work ns if she
did not fear to soil her hands or dirty her
apron. Sieh girls we love and respect
wherever we find them in a palace or in a
hovel. Always pleasant and always kind,
they never lurn up their noses before your
face, or slander you behind your back.
They have more sense and belter employ
pected a meeting, 1 inquired how he had
succeeded ill his cfl'.irts to restore the rea
son of her whom he would make his wife.
"1 have not seen her since I saw you
last, llefore I had returned from Philadel
phia, she had escaped ; and 1 have now
traveled over nearly the whole country
without discovering one trace of her. I
have given up the search as hopeless, and
am ready to lay down now any hour the
life which has been rendered miserable be
yond remedy by one fatal error. Willing
ly, oh ! how willingly, would I exchange
it, at this hour, hut for one look into the
bright eye ot her they called 'Crazy .Ma
"Crazy Mary, did yon fay V'
''Yes; did you ever hear the name be
fore V
"I did, and stood by her death-bed."
"For God's sake, tell me where!" and
he leaped from his seat in his eagerness, as ! luents. What are flirts and bustle-bound
it he would grasp with his hands the infor- giils in comparison with Ihese ? Good for
mation he desired to obtain. ; nothinir but to look at : and that is rather
"I will, if you will first deliver to my .li.,,,,..:,,,,. (;;V(. s tha industrious and
class, this evening, the opening lecture oir. ;,, nnd we car0 not who worships
the physiology of the brain. There is a ,i ,' i n n i .
,. .. .. ! the lashiuiiable and idle simpleton,
subject on the tab e for vou." i '
He consented to do this; and I prepared . ,
mvself to eniov a rich intellectual feast, for m;u maY u0 wnal Ilu P'rnsl 3
he was an eioquent speaker ; and few men : fjfmms 'P' P circumstances ; to be
could treat the subject to which he had de- ; President depends upon a set of wires ; to
voted so much attention with a power equal , be a man, it is only necessary to live lor the
to bis. ' truth and the ri-lit. A fat man is weight
The lecture hour came round, and, hav- , upon iho scales ; a rich man upon Vhanao ;
ing conducted him into the amphitheatre, r b.amed man. in Iho college : but a true
took my seat among the students, in order j ,, ls Koineihinir wherever he mav stand.
the better to bear h.m. He spoke or the ta, remaik of Njm(oJ WjUf w,
brain as the organ through which mind is 1 , , . . , . , , ,. ,
T . I u i C 11 I .1 " ll uni.LII nuw III1ICII IU WeUI ieil, rep Oil,
manifested; as the seat ol the soul : as the ,,,. . , . ... ' ' '
who lunmieu anu eiatnv Tiounus. cener-
To be
THE LESSOX OF DEATH-BEDS.
Lord Chesterfield said, at the close of his
life, "I have recently read Solomon wilh a
kind of sympathetic feeling. 1 have been
aa wicked and as vain, though not as wise
as he J but now t am old enough to feel the
truth of his reflection 'All in the world is
vanity and vexation of spirit.' " Goethe,
the distinguished German philosopher and
poet, declared, at the aiie of eighty-four, as
the lights of time went out, and the great
lodestars of eternity were beginning to open
out on his vision, that ho had scarcely tasted
twenty-four hours solid happiness in the
whole course of that protracted career.
Loul Byron, the great poet, gifted beyond
measure in genius, dcstiliute more than
many of grace, wroto his experience in his
own beautiful but unhappy strains, when he
said, upon ihe verge uf l lie tomb :
"Though gay companions o'er the bowl
Dispel awhile the sense of ill,
Though pleasure fill Ihe maddening soul,
The heart the heart is lonely still.
"Av, but to ilie, and go, nlns !
Where all have gone and all must go,
To be the nothing that I was
Ere born lo life and living wo.
"Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen,
Count o'er thy days from anguish free
And know, whatever thou hast been,
'Tis something better not to be.
"Nay, for myself, so dark my fate
Tiiiouuh every turn of life hath been,
Man and the world so much I hate,
1 caio not when I quit the scene."
The bitter sarcasm of the poet contrasts,
indeed, with the glorious paean of ihe Apos
tle, '! have fought a good fight, I am ready
to be cITered up. There is reserved for me
a ciown of righteousness." Voltaire, the
French atheist, pronounced the world to be
full of wretches, and himself the most
wretched of them all, Mirabeau, one of the
same school, died calling, in his last mo
ments, for opium to deaden the terrible fore
bodings of corning wo. Paine died intoxi
cated mitt blaspheming. Hobbes prepared
to lake a leap in the dark ; and Hume died
joking and jesting about the boat of Charon,
. . .1 -I'L
very mncn, l suspect, in uie way wnicn
school boys whistle when ihey walk through
dark and lonely place, just to keep their
spirils up, ami llieir terrors down ; out
Paul, of far different character, breaks forlh
as he departs, in the enthanasia indicated
in the text, "I have fought a good fight."
Why should there be this contrast 1 Was
Paul a fanatic 1 He was the soberest of
men. Was ho a mere mystic dreamer 1 He
was the most logical of reasoners. Was he
.. i . i i
a novice ! lie nail Deen in perns oy miiu,
he band been in perils by sea, in perils
amongst false brethren, arrested, tried, bea
ten, scouiged, imprisoned ; and yet, at the
close of all, conscious thai he had a rock be
neath him, and a bright light above him,
and a glorious hope before he breaks forth
in th"se thrilling almost inspiring certain
ly inspiiiting, accents, "lam now ready to
be tillered, and the time of my departure
is at hand. 1 have fought a good fight; I
have finished my course, 1 have kept the
faith ; henceforth there is laid up for me a
crown of righteousness, which God, ihe
righteous Judge, shall give me at that day."
1 do indeed believe, that a sober and exten
sive comparison of the death-beds of those
who have repudiated the gospel with the
dying moments of those who have accepted
and rejoiced in it, would alone convince
mankind that Christianity is true that Infi
delity, practical or theoretical, is a decep
tion a delusion, mischievous in life, and
mibcrable in death.
A riUIITIINO CANDIDATE.
Mr. Wise, in a spepch in the late Demo
craiio Convention in Virgin! i, made the fol
lowing reference to one of their Presiden
tial candidates. The Commodore is coming
up in the w ind. A few such anecdotes will
make him the successful candidate.
"There was a man in the navy, a pet of
Decatur's the most gallant snnl that ever
lived who actually stormed Gibrallar. A
voice 'ihe Gibrallar of Wbiggery !' No
the Gibraltar at the mouth of lha Medilet
ranean. The young man referred to, a mid
shipman in the navy, went ashore at Gibral
tar one day. It was at a time when British
officers were in the habit of insulting Amer
icans wherever they could be found. While
this young man was at Gibraltar, two British
officers commenced traducing the American
character, and he immediately laid down
the gauntlet, with iho understanding that the
laws of (he garrison wero not to be enforced.
They met upon the out-works of the fort,
and the young man 'plugged' his antagonist.
The companion of the British officer imme
diately advanced to arrest tho midshipman
as a prisoner. Incensed nt the violation of
iho promise solemnly made, be caught the
officer in his arms, and giving him a close
hug, threw himself over the parapet, and
thus locked, they rolled over nnd over to iho
bottom, in which efTort ho broke his leg. A
sergeant attached lo the fort pursued the
midshipman on horseback, but on coining
up to him, the midshipman threw him oil,
and taking possession of his horse, made his
escape to the boat. Afterwards, he went on
board the British flag-ship, and challenged
the whole fleet. He met threo Britsh offi
cers, one after another, and tho result was,
if I have been correctly informed, a regula
tion was made, that if any British officer
hould thereafter fight a duel, he would be
cashiered the service. This young man was
Robert F. Stockton. The promise of the
boy has been redeemed in the man. You
all know what he did in California, where
he carried his sailors on shore and made
them perloim military or.lv, although it was
said in the Florida wnr that sailors could
comprehend but one military command, and
that was, "Fight Indians."
Donald and Lucy.
BY JAMKS UNPEN
connecting link between mortality and im-
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end county, and is at all times ready to affect
Insurances againat fire on real or personal pro-
nertv. or renewing policies iur ui. .au.o.
r"J' . ..i QR 1H51. tt
gonbury, April 8Ri
Rnureau's eelebratd ink, and also Con
.re ink for sal, wholesale ana reum ny
fLmh- IS. 1850. n- a JiAsain.
art
derstandingly its derangements. "And oh !"
said he, "it you yet think lightly of this
study, suppose one dear, very dear to you,
suddenly deprived of reason ; the mind on
a 'sea of dreams' bewildered tossed. Upon
the knowledge which you now aqnire will
depend, your power over such a malady.
How would you not apply yourselves to
accomplish such a purpose? Would you
not do so daily, and all the day, and
through the long night watches, even un
til the breaking of morning ; weeks,
mouths, ay, years, and until your own rea
son tottered upon its throne from the very
excess of your application ? II, then, suc
cess should crown your efl'orts, this world
could ali'ord you no greater happiness.
Even without th'u consideration, as educa
ted physicians, you owe it as a duty to the
community in which you may locate your
selves, to qualify yourselves in the very
best manner for your important trust, and
the more so, since hitherto these diseases
have been so strangely neglected. Yours
is a mission ol mercy, and, while the mes
senger of death precedes you, spreading bis
6able wing over the hearth ot men, you
must follow him, bringing light and life
and joy into his path, and hope and happi
ness where despair and darkness dwelt.
That you may thoroughly understand the
nature and structure ot this important or
gan, the brain, we will proceed at once to
examine that of the subiect before us."
The mallet, and the saw, and the chisel,
were on the table, and as be took the seal
pel in his hand, with which to divide the
integuments before the calvarium could be
which will treble our weight when e.reited.
Men do weigh according to their energy.
A Ucakkk s Aswe. "Martha, does
theu love me V asked a Quaker youth of
one at whose shrine bis heart's holiest feel
ings had been offered up.
miik.. c...u ii .
-u., oeui, unswereu sne, 'we are
commanded to luve one another, are we
not ?'
II.. M..l.. I.... I .
n, .'lamia, nui noes tnee regard me
wilh that feeling the world calls Move (' '
1 haully know w hat to tell thee, Seth. 1
have greatly feared that my heart was an
erring one. I have tried to bestow my love
on all ; bail may have sometimes thought,
perhaps, thee was getting rather more than
lliy slime."
Ilie block of Red Granite which the Go.
veiniiient ol lha bwiss Confederation has
had prepared for the Washington Monument
bears this significant inscription :
' Die Bite treie bchweiz dem Andenken
des Generals G. Washington."
Old tree Switzerland to the memory of
General G. Washington."
Wanted. A fifer and diummer to beat
time for the "march of intellect ;" a pair of
suulters lo trim the "light of other days :"
stone-cutter that can drill a hole deep enough
lo blast tha "rock of ages ;" a ring lhat will
fit the "finger of scom ;" a loose pulley to
run on the "shaft of envy ;" a new cushion
for the ' seat of government."
"Awa wi Bio havers bliihe Donald, awa,
An' talk n a lo me o your haudin sae tnaw
For what gars ye think o' a lassie like me.
Wha has naelhing ye ken but a leal heart to
gie !
Ve praise the red roses lhat bloom on .ny
lace,
An' tell mo I look like an angel o' grace ;
But a heart that is pure is belter than a'
Fur beauty's a llower thai buiib withers
' awa."
MILK PAIST.
A painl has been used on the Continent of
Europe with success, made from milk ana
lime, that diies quicker than oil paint, and
as no smell. It is thus made, l ake fn
curds, and bruise lha lumps on a grind-6tono
or in an earthen pan, or mortar, wilh a spat
!a or s'rong spoon. Then put them into a
not wilh an equal quantity of lime, well
1 ... i .i
lacked wilh water, to ma.e ii jusi mica.
enough to be kueeded. iMir this mixture
wi:hoiit adding moie water, and a while
colored fiued will soon be obtainei!, wnicn
will serve as a paint. If may be laid on
wilh a brush with as much ease as a varn
ish. mid it diies very speedily. It musl
however, be used Ihe same day it is mane.
for if kept till next day it will be thick
consequently no more must be made at one
lime than can be laid on in a day. Any
color, red or yellow ochre, may Da mixeu
with it in any proportion. Prussian blue is
changed bv ihe lime. 1 wo coats ol ims
paint is sufficient, and when dry, it may be
polished with a piece of woolen cloth, or
similar substance, and it will become bright
as varnish, ll is only for inside work but it
will last very long if varnished over with
the while of an egg after it has been pol
ished.
New Spelling. The new juvenile paper
"The Youngster," has the following conin-
buiiuus to a proposed spelling book on a new
plan, never thought of either by Dii.lworth
or Websteii :
80 you be A tub.
80 oh ! pea A lop.
Be 80 Bat.
See 80 Cat.
Pea 80-Pat.
Are 80 Rat.
See O ! double you Cow.
See you be Cub.
See a bee Cab.
Be you double tea Butt.
Be a double ell Ball.
''Come peck na me, Lucy, ye ken ut
weel ;
Nae havers 1 tell ye, but speak as 1 feel ;
I care na for tocher, I've gat lowlh o' gear,
What mair need we want then, sweet Lucy
my dear !
Oh ! think nae the beauty that blooms
Ihe skin
Could e'er blin' my een lo the jewel within
So, noo, winsome Lucy, come, come, e'er
we pari,
An' say that that ye'll gie me your hand an
your heart. '
She epak na a word, but looked dowio an
wae ;
Her heart it was fu', Bhe had naething to
say ;
The gallant young Donald a clansman o:
prnle,
Bore alt on bis fleet steed his beatifnl bride
The saft simmer iiloamin' was iust setting in
Au' mautlin' wi shadows ihe bleak Highland
bin,
When Murray, the flower o' the Clan o' that
name,
Reached salely wi Lucy bis braw mountain
name. .iiiuum.
SOWIMG GRASS SEED.
We find in the Albany Cultivator Ihe sub
ji ined experiment made in sowing an abun
dance of seed, with the result a result which,
... a . ... "
we leei prelty certain, will attend every simi
lar experiment, where the land is equally
tortile. As the present is the season when
farmers will be thinking about sowing grass
seed, the article will not come amiss :
Farmers, ns well as other people, like to
make good bargains. Snrne nf tbn writ-ai
irgains they make is wilh themselves. For
example, to save five dollars of seed thev
loso twenty dollars of hay or pasture. By
way of experiment, nnd to exhibit the advan
tages of a good supply of seed, the writer
sowed in Ihe spring of 1850 a piece of ground
io grass, at the rate of one bushel of seej per
acre, or half a bushel of clover and the same
quantity of timothy. Inlessthun Iwomonthsi
Ihe field afforded A prodigious amount of pas
turage full twice as much through ihe sea.
snn by estimate of ordinary good pastures.
The present year the grass was allowed to
grow for hay, which has just been cut and
drawn in, (7 mo 10. 1851., and the nrodne.t
was found to be three and a half tons per acn.
Where can we find a permanent pasture or
meadow lhat will do this? The soil was of
rdii'ary fertility only, or would not probably
have yielded more lhan 50 bushels of corn
er acre. The amount of paslurnge afforded
by Ihe second groth of ihis grass field, fully
warrenled the belief that a ton and a half per
acre might have been cut, making Jive tons
nf hay per acre in all, for one year.
The hay produced where plenty of crass-
seed is sown, is of much belter quality lhan
where the stalks stand thin on :ho grouud.
A good anecdote is related by Mr. Eaton
in his Annals of Warren, of one Boggs, who
introduced ihe first flock of sheep into lhat
place. He brought them from remnquid by
water, and while sitting on the windlass one
day, got sleepy, and began to nod. The
patriarch of the flock, laking it for a chal
lenge, drew back and knocked him spraw
ling upon the deck. Wherennon. Bops.
more pugnacious than wise, seized the old
fellow by the wool and chucked him over
board. But he got more than he bargained
for by this counter movement, for the whole
flock, feeling bound in all cases to follow
their leader, popped over after him ; and
Boggs, being several miles from land, was
obliged to heave to, and wilh much difficul
ty recovered them again. He concluded
that he had ihe worst of that battle, at both
ends. Kennebec (M.) Journal.
In a late San Francisco paper wa see it
staled, lhat California has been a fine fi-ld
for Army r.nd Navy genllemer, and many
have amassed large fortunes. Six of tha
finest buildings in San Francisco are now
being erected by Lieut. Maynard, nt a cost
of SG5.000. Tho rent, however, being STO'J
per mouth each, will soon return Ihe origi
nal cost.
Assignment ok Land Waiirants Tho
omission to give any form for a power of at
torney in Ihe published regulations for ihe
assignment of land warrants, under tho re
cent act of Congress led to inquiry being
made to Ihe General Lund Office, at Wash
ington, when the following form of a power
of attorney and also proper directions for
its execution, were communicated lo the
wiiler. They will be uf seivice all over the
country :
FORM Of A POWF.Il OF ATTORN ET.
Know all men by these presents, thai 1
(here insert lite name of warrantee) of the
county of and State of , do hereby
constitute and appoint of my Irue
and lawful attorney, for me, and in my
name, to sell and convey the within land
warrant, No.--, for acres of land, which
issued under ihe act of September, 1850.
Signed in presence of )
V 'arrantfe's Signature.)
The acknewledgmenl of ibis power of at
tnrnev must be taken and certified in the
stmo manner as ihe acknowledgments of
the sales of ihe warrant or certificate of lo
cation before prescribed, and must also be
endorsed on the warrant.
The "Maine Law" in New Bri nswick.-
A liituor bill, of even more stringency than
the Maine law has jiassed both ihe House of
Assembly and Ihe Legislative Council ol
New Brunswick, and is now only w aiting the
sanction of the Govemer, which it is under
stood will be given lo it. The law is not lo
go inlo effect untill June, 1853, in order to
allow those who have capital investment in
iho trafTio lo get tid of iheir stock without
pecuniary loss.
ONE HUNDRED THOL'SAND POl'NDS OT PHOS
PHORUS are annually consumed in England,
in the manufacture of matches.
The Japanese lea is highly praised ; but
their mode of drinking it is peculiar. The
leaves are reduced to a very fine powderf
which is put into a box. The cups of the
company, when the beverage is to be served
aie filled wilh hot water. The box is then
offered to the guests, who take out as much
as will lie on ihe point of a pretty large
knife, stir it up till il foams, and drink
it hot.
At the last meeting of the Royal Institu
tion, ihe Duke of Northumberland in the
Chair, J. S. Russel, Esq., read a paper "on
wave lino ships and yachts," in wl.ich ha
admitted Ihe entire superiority of the Amer
ican ship-builders over the English, and ad
mitted that we had the fastest, best and
most scientifically constructed packets,
steamers and yachts.
There is now living in France, an old
soldier, wilh a false leg, a false arm, a glass
eye, a complete set of fi.Ue leelh, a silver
nose covered with a substance resembling
llesh, and a silver plute resembling pari of
bis skull. He was under
Ihese are bis trophies.
Napoleon, and
James Lewis, a Welshman, was drowned
in Ueaton &: Cartel's Slope, near Tamaqua,
on Thursday tho 8ih insl. The "Legion"
says he struck bis pick inlo and opened
a pool of pent up water, which rushed
upon him so suddenly as lo render his es
cape impossible.
The Emigration from Germany is said lo
be increasing, and resembles the I in It emi
gration, as the exodus uf a nation. Through
the city uf Calogne, there have passed in tha
course of a brief period upwards of 20,000
persons.
The steamer Maj. Win. Barnett is doing
a handsome business between Easton and
Lambcrtsville. She carries increased loads
of freight to Easton, and the intermedials
places.
A ii en belonging lo Dr. J. 11. Hero, of tha
Water-Cure at Athol, Ala., laid within 24
hours, 'three good sized t-gga.' The hen
was Cochin China.
A direct rail road Communication be
tween New Orleans and St. Louis, is the la
test grand schem lhat has attracted atten
tion at the WestwaiJ.
The snow on tha New London Williman.
tio and Palmer Railroad, after the late storm,
was in some places ten feet deep.
Whv is Jake Brown's head like a head of
cabbage ? Because it's biaiulets.