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poetical Department.
There's Work Enough To Do
The black bird early leaves its nest
To meet the smiling morn,
And gather fragments for its nest
From upland, wood and lawn.
The busy bee that wings its way
'Mid sweets of varied hue,
At ev'ry flower would seem to say—
'There's work enough to do.'
The cowslip and the spreading vine,
The daisy in the grass,
The snowdrop and the eglantine,
Preach sermons as we pass.
The aunt, within its cavern deep,:
Would bid us labor too,
And writes upon its tiny heap—
There's work enough to do:
The planets, tit their Maker's will,
Move onward in their cars,
For Nature's wheel is never still—
Progressive as the stars!
The leave; that flutter in the air,
And summer's breezes woo,
One solemn truth to man declare—
, There's work enough to da.'
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Who then can sleep when all arcund
Is active, fresh, and free I
Shall man—creation's lord—he found
Less busy than the heel
Our courts and alleys are the held,
If men would search them through,
The best, the sweets of laboriyield,
And .wark enough to do.'
To have a heart for those who weep,
The sottish drunkard win;
To rescue nll the children, deep
In ignorance and sin.
To help the poor, the hungry feed,
To 'give him coat and shoe,
To see [fiat all can write and read—
Is 'work enough to do•'
The time is short—.the world is wide,
And much has to be done;
This wandron, earth, and all its pride,
vanish with the sun !
The moments Ilv on lightning's wings,
And Itie's uncertain ton;
WP've rvme to waste on foolish things—
Thfli's work enough to do.'
illiorctlancouci sclectt
ram TWO SPIES.
As early as the year 1790. the block-hoo , -e
and stockade above the mouth of the Iloek
ing was a frontier post for the pioneers
of the north-western territory. There Na
ture teas in her undisturbed livery of dark
and thick forests, interspersed with green
and flowering prairies. Then the forest had
not heard the sound of the woodman's axe,
nor the plow of the husbandman opened the
bosom' of the earth. Then those beautiful
I prairies waved their golden plume to the
God of Nature, and among the most !nxtiri
ant of these were those that lie along the
Hod:hocking valley, and especially that
portion of it on which the town of Lancaster
• now stands..
. . .
Here the tribes of the North mid West
met to counsel, and from this spot led forth
the war path in dillerent directions. Upon i
one of these occasions when the vnr spirit
moved mightily among the sons of Nature,
and the tomahawk leaped in its scabbard.
and the spirits of their friends who had died
in the field of battle visited the warrior in
his night visions and called loudly for re
venge, it was ascertained at the garrison
above the mouth of the Hockhocking river,
that the Indians were gathering in great
numbers for the purpose of striking a blow ,
on some post of the frontiers. To meet this
crisis, two of the most skilled and indefati
gable spies were despached to watch their
movements and report.
Ikreleland and White, two spirits that
never quailed at danger, and ns unconquera
ble ns the Lybian lion, in the month of Octo
ber, and on one of the balmy days of Indian
Summer, took leave of their fellows and
moved on through the thick plum and
hazel bushes with the noiseless tre ad of pan
thers, armed with their unerring and trusty
rifles. They continued their march, skirt
ing the prairies, till they reached that most
remarkable prominence, now known by the
name of Mount Pleasant, the western ter
mination of which is a perpendicular clifl
Of rocks of some hundreds of feet high, and
1 whose summit, from a western view, towers
to . the clouds and overlooks the vast plains
below. When this point was gained, our
two hardy , spies had a position from which
they could see every movement of the Indi
ans below in the valley.
Every day added a new accession of war
riors to the company. They witnessed their
iexercises of hone racing, running foot La
ces, jumping, throwing the tombawk nail
(lancing ; the old 'sachems looking on with
their Indian indifference,
the squaws engag
ed in their usual drudgery, and the children
engaged in their playful gambols. The ar
rival of a new warrior was greeted with ter
rible shouts, which, striking the mural face
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of Mount Pleasant, were driven back in the spies quickly matured their plan of defence,
various•indentation of the surrounding hills,f and vigorously commenced the attack from
producing, reverberations and - echoes as if the very Small back-bone of the mount, the
ten thousand fiends were gathered at a um- savages had to advance in single file. and
versal levee. Such yells would have struck without any cover. Beyond this neck, the
terror to the hearts of those unaccustomed to warrials availed themselves of rocks and
Indian revelry. i trees in advancing, but in gassing from one
' To our spies this was but martial music— to the other they must be exposed fora short
strains which waked their watchless and time,:xnd a moment's exposure of theirswar
newly strunrrtheir veteran courage. From thy forms was enough for the unerring ri
their early youth they had always been on fles of the spies. The Indians being entire
the frontier, and were well prifctised in all ly ignorant of how many were in ambuscade,
the subtlety, craft and cunning of Indian war- were more cautious how they advanced.
fare, as well as the ferocity and blood thirs- After bravely maintaining the fig!tt in front
Ity nature of these savage warriors. They and keeping the enemy in cheek, they dis
i were, therefore, not likely to be ensnared by covered a
. now danger threatening, them.
4 their cunning, nor, without a desperate con- The arch foe now made evident prepernt inns
1 flint, to fall victims to their scalping knives to attack them on the (Link, which could Le
lor tomahawks. On several occasions small more successfully done by reaching an ism
parties left the prairie and ascended the lilted rock lying in one of the ravins on the
mount from the e astern s him On these o . c- southern hill side. This paint once gained
i
canons 'the .Spies would hide in the deep b y t h e I n di ans , they could b r i m , the spios
fissures of the rocks on the west, and again under poi n t blank shot of the rifle without
1 leaving, their hiding place when their unin- i the possiblity of escape. Our brave spies
4 vited and welcome visitors had disappeared. : saw the utter hopelessness of their situation
\ For food, they depended on jerked vent- ' which nothing could avert but a brave coin-
I son and corn bread, with which their knap- pamon and an unerring shot. These they
l i sacks were well stored. They dare not ' hal not, but the brave never dispair. With
kindle a fire, and the report of one of their this impending fate resting upon them, they'
rifles would have lirotieht upon them the continued calm and calculating, awl as un
entire force of the Indians. For drink, they wearied as the strongest desire of life and
depended on some rain water which stool the rosistance of a numerous foe could pro
in the hollows of some of the rocks ; but, in dors.
a short time this store was exhausted, and Soon M'Ch'!and saw a tall and swarthy
M'Cleland and e W bite must abandon their' fissi re preparing to spring from a covert so
1
enterprise or find a new supply. To accom- near to the fatal reek that a bound or two
plish this most hazardous enterprise, M 'Cie- won Id reach it, and all hope of life then was
land. was the oldest, resolved to make the I gore. He felt that nil depended on one sin
attempt ; and, a nth his trusty rifle in his I gle ad vantaeeous shot ; altho' but an inch
Viand, and their two canteens strung across I or two of the. warriors body was exposed,
his shoulders, he descended by a circuitous and that at a distance ef virility or a hundred
route, to the prairie, skirting the hill on the yards, he resolved to risk all ; he coolly
north and under cover of the hazel thickets j raised his rills,and stlidine• the light with his
he reached the river, acid turning to a bell I hand. drew a 110;0 so !: 1 / I *., that be f, It con•
point of the hill, he found a beautiful spring scions that it wou'd .10 its w ark. He t•meh
within a few feet of the river, now known fel the triseer w. li Ii : li es r. Om hasoner
by the name Cold Spring e on the farm ol D. I Caine down, but ; , , :se- et •orikiesi, fire, it
Talmadge, Esq. Ile filled his canteens, 4 broke his flint hos net t pleees mid oltetat t ii
and returned in safety to his watchful coin- I he felt that the lediae must reach the rack
pardon. It .e as now determined to have a before lie could adjust another flint, he pro•
fresh supply of water every day, and this Leeded to the task with the utmost contpo
duty was performed alternately. sore.
On one of those occasions, after NV' hite
I had tilled his cantecne, heat a few moments I '
watching the limpid element as it came '
gurgling out of the bosom of the earth, i
when the light sound of footsteps calla lit his i '
practised ear, and upon turning ;Ironed lie I
' saw two squaws aft w feet from him. Up ei
turning round the foot of the hill, the eldest
squaw gave one of those fa rreaching whoops
peculiar to Ittrliamt. White at mice. cams i 1
1 prehended his perilous situation. If the
l alarm should reach the camp or town, he
1 and his ' cempanigh must inevitably pe r li. b._
' Self preservation compelled hire to inflict a
noiseless death on thee squaws, in such a way
as. if possible, to leave no truce behind. Ever
i rapid in actiou, he spring upon his victim::
with this rapidity and power of a lien, and
grasping the threat of each, sprang into the
river:' flo thrust the. head-of the eldest
under the water. While ma kin. straits , ef
forts to suhmerg,e the younger, who, how
ever, p ower f u lly resisted hum, and chitin- ,
the short struggle with this yours.* athletic,
I to his nsionishinent site addressed him in
his own language, though in almost al tien
late sounds.
Releasing his hold she informed Lim that
,• she had been 1t prisoner for ten wears. and
f was taken from below Wheeling, end that
the ladians hail killed all the family, and
that her brother and herself were taken pets- 1
oners, but he succeeded on the second night
in mt,king his escape. During this naritive.
White had drowned the elder squaw, and 1
let.her float ofTwith the Current where it e mild ;
probably not be found out soon. Ile directed i
the girl to follow him and with his usu a l sp ee d ;
and energy pushed for the moritt. They
had scarcely gone half way, when they I
heard the alarm cry some quarter of a mile.:
down the stream. It was supposed some par-
tv of Indians, returning from hunting, struck
the river just as the body of the squaw floated
past. White and the girl succeeded in reach.
ing the mount, where M'Cleland had been i
no indifferent spectator to the sudden commo• 1
lion among the Indians.
The parties of warriors were seen imme
diately to strike of in every direction, and
White and the girl had scarcely arrived be
fore a party of some twenty warriors had
reached the eastern activity of the mount, and
were cautiously and carefully keeping under
the cover. Soon the spies saw the swarthy
foes as they glided from tree to' tree, and
from rock to rock, till their position wits sur
rounded, except on the rest pt.rpend IC li la r
side, and all hope of escape
,was cut off. In
this perilous condition, nothing was left but
to sell their lives as dearly as possible,
and this they resolved to do, and 'advised
the girl to escape to the Indians,and tell them
she had been taken prisoner.. She said "no,
death, death to me. in the presencto of my
own people is sweeter than captivity and
slavery. Furnish me with a gun, and
I am able.to show you how I can fight as well
as die. This place I leave not. Here my
bones shall he bleaching with yours, and
should either of you escape, you will carry
the tidings of my death to my few relations.
Remonstrances proved fruitless. The two
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Casting his eyes towards the fearful point.
suddenly he saw the warrior:a retchint every
muscle forthe leap ; and with the twility nf
a panther lie treacle the spring, but instead
of rearhing the rock, he nave a Yell, and
his , chilli lady fell and rolled down dui steep
nun the valley below. Re had evidently
received n death wound Irma snow unknown
hand. A hondrt d voices re-echoed from be
low the terrible shout. It was evident they
had lost a favorite warrior, as well as
disappeinted for a time of the inwt imp:.-
tans movement. A very few minutes• prov
ed thnt the advantrwe aained would be of
short duraiiun ; for altendy the spies caw r iiht
a glimpse a a tail swarthy warrierraitti.ms..
It advancing to the covert s'crel!‘• CC,,t
pi;•ti by his 1, How cninp;mion , Nagy, ton,
nit4el; in front was renewed Willi in
crowdott" fury. so as to require the incissaut
lire of both spies to prevent Lk. India's f rain
milling the cydnenro, and in IT short time
Al'Cleland saw a warrior making pr,pvra
tinns to lap the fall! rock. The leap wr:,
male, and the Indian turning a somiuset,
his corpse roiled down the hill towards his
former companion. Again an unkown anent
had interposed in their behalf. The stirowl
sacrifice cast di , inity into the ranks of their
assailants and just as the son was disapper.r.-
ing behind the ltlhs, the foe withdrew to a
short list trace, to devi.st! some w t ‘ y m iyi,
of
attack. This respite came most senswiably
to our spies, who had kept their annuli',
and bravely maintained the unequal fight
(coin nearly the middle of the day.
Now. for the first time, was the girl mis
sing, and the spies thought that through ter
ror she had escaped to twr former captors, or
that she had been killed during, Ihe fight;
but they were not long left to conjiictnre.—
The girl was seen emerging (rain behind a
rock and coining to them with a rifle in her
hand. During the fight she saw a warrior
fall who had advanced some distance before
therest, and while some of them changed
position, she resolved at once, live or die,
to passes herself of his Cr,titi and am munition,
and crouching down beneath the under
brush, she crawled to the place and succeed
ttl in her enterprise, her keen and watchful
eye had early notice the fatal rock, and hers
was the mysterious hand by which the two
warriors fell, the last being the most intrepid
and blood thirsty of the Shawnee tribe, - and
the leader of the company which killed her
'mother and her sisters, and took her and her
brother prisoners.
Now, in the west, arose dark clouds, which
soon overspread the whole heavens, and the.
elements were rent with the petals of thun
der. Darkness, deep and gloomy. shroud
ed the whole heavens ; this darkness great
ly embarrassed the spies in their Contem
plated night escape, supposing that they
might readily lose their way, and acciden
tally fall on their enemy ; but a short consul
tation decided the plan ; it was agreed that
the girl should go foremost from her intimate
knowledge of localities, awl another might
lie gained in ca:" :tumid fall in with
any of the parties Fruin
knowledge <Atha lunging@ eke might do,
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JUL 19. 18)-1.
evive the sentinels, as the sequel proved, for
scarcely had they desended a hundred yards.
when a low whist from the girl warned them
of their daneyr.
The spies sun"; silently on the ground,
where by previous arrangement, they were
to remain till the signal was given by the
girl to move on. Iler absense, for the space
of a quarter of an hour, began to excite the
most serious apprehensions. Again she ap
peared, and told "hem that she had succeed
ed in removing, two sentinels to a short dis
tance, who were directly on their MU Le.
The descent was noiselessly resumed, and
the spies followed their interpid leader for
ha if a mile in the most profound silence,
when the barking of a dog at a short dis
c nce apprised them of a new danger. The
almost simnbaneotis click or the spies' rifles
was heard by tin' girl, who stated that they
%err , . 1 - I , tv in di.' mi , l4 of the Indian camps,
and their liv , s depended on the most pro
found stlence,.and implicity following her
foot steps.
A moment afterwards the girl was accoit
ed a squaw. from an opening in her wig
wam ; she replied in the Indian language.
and, withont stopping, still pressed forward.
In a short time she stopped, and assured the
spies that the village was cleared, and they
had passed the greatest dancer. She knew
that every leading pass was ~ . 7ttarded safely
by the Indians, and at once resolved to adopt
the hell adventure of passing through the
centre of the village, as the least hazardous,
and the sequel proved the correctness of her
judgment. They now steered 11 course for
the Ohio river, and after three days travel,
arrived safe at the block-house. Their es
cape and ailvouures prevented the Indians
from amidt their contemplated attack, and
the res r, Lid proved to he the sister of
the int epid Colonel Washburn, celebrated
in the hi-tory of Indian wart - are, and as the
renowned spy of Capt. Jbody
mochians.
Mr. Peregrine ['Milne had none of that
horror of widows which so embittered the
existence of rho elder. .M rt. IVeller. On the
contrary, 'Mr. Potnac tens suspected of a
strong partiality for widows—not, however,
for widows in general—not for widows in
t he deope<t of words and with the scantiest
of purses ; wiloos who gave ttinites," and
had nothing more to give, would have been
pronounced extremely praiseworthy persons
ht tlr. Pontac ; he would have a ( - treat re
spect Mr their virtues, and :o foli a faith in
the con: minty of tin it attachment for the de
n.unei! that In' would never have thought.
(.n• an ituttint, of sevLitia to weaken its force.
The aid nvs in ‘vhoin Mr. Peregrine Pun•
t felt the deepest interval. whose acgtiaint
ooc. la•cul i voted 010.1( . 5..,1j1y, whose wish
. s Lodi. nvorod to toricipato mom galiara
.wor.. L tly, r:eil•dres:u!, lively, rich
%% El tv.,.
oulo, ;13 evory one
tvlio last sentence will ailmit.—
I le was not in the lea,t degree afraid of the
very CLISS :III! sex In whom C3'lll
- all ages (hilt what do
philo-pith , rs ft now about women ?) have at
tributed the i-retitest minavry over all the
wiles ‘vhich can pair masenlino ho
inaoilY astray. Nlr. IJoninc felt himself a
mate!' for any ; and in really wished
to malse a mit , cii of the I. had at
tained that r.Terrahl.i . perioil of life which
commonly calli d middle-aged—a very
cla-tie ti•rill, it arty lie remark. ti, as it
been to r.A.pri-e till the y-ars be.
iw , vri aail -; xty--.) that if that period
be really one's life must be c il
culated at an average of ninety years. 13ut
we will nil Pontac's age. thonizh he
would never forgive us if lie knew that we
did so--he was fortv-,dx.
NI r. Pollute MB a wine-merchant ; and
Mr. Pontac had an exceedingly good busi
ness. His customers were nearly all people
of fortune—private families, and not public
houses; for he' was a man of refined. taste,
and by no means desirous of a 'connexion
with the gin-places and their keepers. He
hod amassed a comfortable little fortune, but
he did not consider it sufficient to marry on
without a corresponding fortune on the part
of the. fitly. It was a matter 01 simple aritn
metic to Mr. Pontnc.ho ve t went v
thousand pounds: or thereabouts," he would
say to himself. '.lf I retire front business,
as I wish to do, the interest of my money
will be seven or eight huodred a-year. As
a quiet bachelor that would suffice me ; but
as a married man certainly not, 1 must
then either remain a bachelor, or marry n
fortune, or continue iii business 'Now the
first is scarcely respectable in a man of my
age ; the first 1 ant tired of: the other alter
native is the one--Pil marry a fortune. A
young girl is out of the queo.ton- s —ehe would
drive me crazy in a mouth. To an old maid
I have an antipathy which I cannot get
over., A widow is decidedly the person for
me."
Having by this simple proms of induc
tion arrived at this very obvintig conclusion,
r. Pontac, like a true man of busim.ss,set
about carrying out his intentions. He was
not an unpopular man among his negunift•
tancits ; on the contrary, bring
goad,hurnordd, and obitging, arid having It
rotaßies of Widow Hunting.
NUMBER 29.
habit of malting pretty little acceptable pies
ems et favorable moments, he was never
omitted from the invitation list of a ball, and
seldom forgetten at a dinner—though, o f
course, asdinner-tables are less elastic than
drawing rooms, bachelors, young and old, or
people who don't give dinners, cannot often
except to he asked to them, unless they are
"lions;" who are excepted to astonish the
guests, or professed wits, who invariably
make themselves excessively disagreeable.
Mr. Pantile, now walked through society
with a keen eye for widows. If he were
introduced to n "Mrs." anybody, immediate.
ly he pricked up his ears, and made the ut
most use of his eyes, to discover whether
the lady were a widow, whether she were
agreeable, whether she looked wealthy.—
Diamonds had an Immense attraction for him
—point lace never escaped his attention-rich
.brocaded silks rustling, told of gold—while
a broneham rivetted his attention, and a
chariot and pair completely fascinated hiM.
Alas ! how rare were widows with all, or
any of these things ! The crape cap, bom. ,
bazin dress class predominated fearfully:
not that Mr. Pontac (sad fellow !) believe
that All Ouse demurely apparelled ladies
were in the extremity of dejection ; but crape
caps are less expensive than Brusmds lace
and french . flowers ; and bomlyzin dresses
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fir less extravagant than moire antiques.
' brocades, and poplins. That was the die:
forence, in Mr. Pantile's opinion between
the two classes—the bombarins were the
widows with "mites," the brocades were the
widows with jointures worthy of the name,
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1 And again, he observed, how rare the latter
class !
Sometimes he fancied he had marked one
down—a real rich widow; but just as h 0
was beginning, to feel exhilarated with hie
success, it would turn out that the lady's
fortune was only payable so king as she rew
maincd a widow. And on this discovery
Mr. Pontic would grow irate, and inveigh
aminst the baseness, and selfishness, and
want of proper feeling on the part of the
deceased husband, in placing this infamous
limitation to his legacy. He thought a law
ought to be passed making such limitations
entirely illegal, and giving every widow full
permission to marry again; and enjoy her
fortune in spite of all the limitations in the
world. None of the widows with "mites,"
by the way, were thus tied up. They. poor
souls, had always full permission to marry'
again, and continue in possession of their
"unites" after doing so. II usbandis who had
only finites to leave seemed to be ashamed
of putting in the forfeit clause ; but the one,
two, or three thousand a-year men scarcely
ever omitted it. Shockingly selfish I
One day Mr. Pontac was paying a visit
to some friends and customers of his own.
6-13 y-the-by, Pontac," Said the host, , ra
friend of ours wants some Madeira, and I
tank the liberty of mentioning your name.
and giving your• address, ns likely to serve
her well. I dare say she'll write to you•''
She! thoug.ht Mr. Pontap n widow, no
doubt. Drinks Madeira too—rather an ex:
pensive wino : good jointure, no
Wonder whether there's any confounded
limitation it ?
Pontac only thought this : he hoWe'd
to his friend and thanked him.
tShall I call on the lady I' he adted , Wiii.
von give ine her address
"Certainly," replied his friend. %lane,
dear, give Mr. Putnuc one of Mrs. Court'els
nay's cards."
'Connell:ly, thought Pontnc ; not a bad
name. Siaitids well, at nll events."
"Here's the card, ,!r. Pontric," said hit
friend's wife, handing hint the slender bit irif
pasteboard, on which - was inscribed—.M re.
Conrienay, No.—, Hertford Street, May
Fair.'
Deuced good address, thought Pontee,
lw walked away with the crud in his pock..
et determining to cell in Heriford Street the
next day, and still wondering whether there
would turn out to bo any ' , limitation" in
this case.
The next day the wine merchant called
in Hertford Street, and inquired for Mrao
Courtenay. The lady was at home—be
sent up his card, and wai admitted.
"I must apologise, madam, for the liberty
I have taken in calling on you," said Pan.
tee, with his best bow— , and it was not a
I had one for. a middle-aged wine merchant
—.but my friend, Mr. Brown, informed me
that you wished for some fine Madeira—.
"Pray be, seated, Mr. Pantile," said the
lady, interrupting him : "it is very kind of
you to take the trouble of calling nn me abtmE
so trifling an order as mine will be."
Poninc took his seta, end the ice being ,
thus broken, he exerted himself to make s
favorable impression on the Indy. He man
aged also to take a survey of the room :anti
saw that it was very elegantly (=Med;
there was every sign of it complete estab
lishment, and one that could not be mliintain•
ed without an excellent jointure.
With on eye to business,Pontac perstinct•
ed the lady to order a great deal more wine
than she required, but did it in such a man.
Der that she felt quite obliged to him for the
interest he evinced in the matter, and hire
evident desire to gratify, her taste, , He talk
' ed on a great many.ca her subjects atm ripit
Whhf, said M. Cikededy &chief fit,M