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"I hare worn upon the Altr of noil, eternal hostility t every form of Tyranny over the Mind of Man." Thomas Jaireman
If. WEBB, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
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POETRYa
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rulilinhfd by lteinicjt.
HURRAH FOR THE TEETOTAL MILL.
.Two jolly topers once sal in an In".
Discussing the rneiin of Brandy and Gin;
Said one to the other, 'I'll tell you what Bill
I've been heariae.M day.of the Teetotal Mill
You must know that this comical mill hat-j
. been built ,
Of old broken casks, when the liquor's been
spill;
Yrt.i an nn some steas. anil when ad "thr
b- -i - 1
door-sill,
You've a p iper to sign at the Teetotal Mill,
. You promise.by signing thi papei (I think,)
That ale, wine, and spirits you never will
drink) , :
You give up (it they call it,) snch'rascally
r ill. ' '
; And inen y9 " 'be Teetotal Mill,
There's wicel nb tnitt ihat ikey call
'selfdeniil.'
They turn it s hit just to give you a trial;
Old clothes are made new ones, and il
you've been ill.
You are very soon at the Teetotal Mill.'
nill listened and wondered, at length hr
cried out,
Why. Ton, if ii'g true, what you're tell
inc about
What fools we must be, be here sitting
still,
Let ns go in and look al the Teetotal Mill,'
They g-znl with astonishment; there
ennift a man,
With excess it disease his visage, was wan:
lie mounted the steps, signed the pledge
with good will,
And went fur a turn in the Teetotal Mill,
He quickly came out the picture of health
And walked briskly on to the highway w
wealth;
And, as onward he pressed, be limited mil
still,
'Success to the wheel of the Teetotal Mill!'
The next that went in were a mm ami
wife,
For many long years they'd been living m
strife;
lie had beat and abused her, and swore In
would kill,
But his heart look a turn in ihe Tcutota
Mill,
And when he came nut how altered was he,
Steady honest, and sober how happy was
she;
They no more contend, 'no you sha'nt,'
'yes, I will.'
They were blessing together the Teetotal
Mill,
Next rame a fellow, a grim as a Turk,
To cure and to swear Kremed his princi
pil work,
He (wore ih.ii meriting liif skin he would.
fill.
And ditiuk ns he was, he reeled into the mill,
And whit he saw there I never could (ell,
Bi:l his conduct was changed, and bis lan
guage as well;
I caw, when he turned round the brow of
he hill.
That he knell and thanked God for the
T.ct t I Mill.
IJLOOMSIMIIK
The poor wrre made rich, ihe weak were
n.adeHo.g,
The shot was made short, and the pursi
was mailt! long,
These miracle, pnzzclcd both Thomia anil
At length they wenl in fur a Hint in ihi
Mill
luila time after, I heard a great shout.
1 turned round toaee what trie noise was
about;
A fl..g vas conveyed to the top of a hill,
And a crowd, amongri which weie boll
Thomas and bill,
Were shouting, 'lluirah for the Teetotal
Mill '
HUB.1--"
From the New Yoik Mirror.
A TALE OF TRUTH.
On the plains of Stillwater lived s
revolutionary veteran and hie lull
family i w f-& an only son, a sprightly
lad ot sixteen. A small plat ol groiinn
imply served iheir limited wants, ami i.
"little all" il ws for, sheltered by c
muz I iti le col, from wintery storm anil
II summer' heat, fed by healthy imlus
tiy, the) parsed alone; Hie vne of life in
simple, solid, ''.sweet cnnlenl."' Il--rf,
with an hones', trateim pri-ie, aid tne
old man behold his coiiniry rapidly ris
inijr'in national piety and physical splen
lor lo a pet rlcss rank amonn Ihe king
loms of the earth, and here he eouk.
'tave spent the few remaining ly Iff
for bim, had not the death ot his wife,
md the fmure welfar- of lii son openei1
i new and wide field for exertion. II
knew tint his much loved son wag goo
"o be left ;n I hi mercenary world with
nit an earthly gmrdian or support and
e felt ihe imperious call of duly t
him settled in life if possible, ere hf
hould be gathered to hig fathei s.
One plan alone seemed probable li
uccced which was .to avail himself of i
liiherto neglected military land liile.
This title covered a lare trad gome
vhere in lh eastern part of Kentucky;
ut from ihe altetcaiion of names, hi
vas unable to iell its precise siiuaiion
le, however, resolved to search for il,
it all hazards and accordingly sold hi
li ifing estate, paid hia dehig and set fin
v 1 1 on foot with all the firmnesi of orn
mured lo toils- and liard.ihips from in
r'nc v.
Fir one motn"nl we will paint to out
ndvcg the lovely larid.iraie, with il
kirted foiesi-ils uirling rill, its lowing
cow and bleaiing sheep on yonder hill,
md at the fool ine circumscribed col
t n'1, ihe home of ihe old p;itrio', and
near il Ihe giave of his wife; ilu-n be
iiold the father, sou, and faithful dog
bidding the whole a silent, and lasting
farewell.
The father tvag leaving the field of li
lury, and tin remains of his partnei:
-ii these two I ht re associated she recol
li ciiong of his dearest sublunaiy joys
he viriU'-s and aff-ctior.s ol his ilt-pnei'
vile, and the futt radiation fiom tin
-nn of American liberty.
Whatever exciiemenl shook him in-
ernally, his leatiirtg wore Hie asjucl o
lirm hia't reo!v:
Not so ihe son; in that grove and b
t'.Mit hibtiling i ill he and his 004 had
gamboled away many a vernal holiday.
In that diar native hut, oil had he he.
iui'ed a Ions' wintei'g evening,hy listen
.njjto his f.ithei's leg'tids of the old wai
or conned over his prayerg from ihi
noutli of his sainled inotlu r; he wf
uow in leave them forever. His ingen
1 os soul withtred al Ihe thouihl.
From this circle all hig joys & sorrow.
ijpiung beyond i',all was vacuity. 1 lit
lounlain of youthful hope and buoyanci
wag closed' and tears fl nved in their na
tive exuberancy ag he turned and le(
Ihe cottage of Sill water plains.
Tin y bent their way to the neans
branch of the Alleghany,nn which they
emhaiked in an open boat, penny less, &
with a small store of enables. One
stormy evening, in the month of Nov
ember, ihev tied 1 heir canoe lo a tiet;
and made iheir way lo the nearest dwel
ling which proved 10 be the habitalioi
ofan unfeeling planter. He luined 1
deaf ear to Ihe claims of patriotic age
and shut his doer upon ojr shelterless
wanderers! Ingratitude overcame tin
veteran who had scorned the froslf ol
'75, and but for his son, he would have
COLUMBIA COLKTY,
unk under the weight of big misfor -
lineK,
They passed ihe nighl in one of the
ilanler s birng, hungry, wel and cold,
n a oed of straw ! Al the dawn of day
mr travellers gel forward t Ihe nex
village, and obtained breakfas. They
found ihemselves in Kentucky, on out
f thoge exlenstve alluvial bottoms.
iK'culiar to the great W estern riverg ol
iNoith America.
On taking his tittle lo a lawyer, thi
ld gi-nilemen found lo his astonighmeni
Uai it was a wealthy plantation, and
what must have been hts feeling on find
ing il to be occupied by ihe same hru
ish nabob who, li e night preceeding
Irove him and hig suuei ing child from
his door.
The wretch in his turn was forced In
bg, for he had not enough to pay hi
rent 'which had been amassing for lln
1 1st twenty yeais: yet with more rfJTect.
i'or he wag allowed to apend the rtmaio-
ler of his days on ihe plantation.
IJ. 1 LUS...J
Russia mid Kritaiii,
An overruling Providence provideh
ureal means lor great exigencies. I
aised up the Romans to conquer anil
:iviliz" Kurope. Il brought down upon
time the iSonh' rn barbarian, in sweep
away its rottenness, and build on its
1 . . .
ottiidaiions a h'gher civiliziiion. i
4.1s raised up England to create United
Slates, and thus es'ablish a reservoir
f om which slreamg of frei'dom can flow
10 all parts of the worirl; and it ha
raised up Uuigia to s'op the aggregsgion
md punish Ihe crimes ofLnghind, and
prepare Asia for the reception of those
'ice principles which ihe Americans
ire preparing for the whole wot Id. We
have already gaid that Ivhm-i and 1'Jog
land are antg'itiis's. W'e now say ths
Kiigsia & Ihe United Suits aro co-operators
Jlussia seeks dominion and powor.
It grasiig the Turkish IJmpiie, Northern
md Middle Aia, and India. Happy
or m mkind will be, ihe day when Ihem
onqoeslg are achieved ;for iheir achieve
ment will rescue one pot lion of man
kind from ihe stupil'ymg barbarism ol
ite Tiirks.snd another fiom the corrupt
ing degrading civilization of Ihe Eng
land. The Tin kg paralize and blighi
vhatever they louch. The English
stabltsh iheir own civiliziiion upon the
uin and ex'inction of all whom they
conquer. The Engligli have conquered
Iddu, and if they can retain it, will
ventuilly h"H il wuh English civili.i
ion. Hut through what wrong, wha:
oppression, what crime, what m srry
v 1 1 1 this be accomplished? (Ji'iieinmn
jf Hindoes must be degraded by vice 01
xier initialed by famine, before 1 he Hm
luo can be imbued with Ihe htglic
Yemen's ol English character, or the
Hindoo race can be substituted by tin
Anglo-Saxon. Hut Kussia civili.-s
whatever it conquers. It does rio',lik
Eugland,dcsiroy for tbepu-pisa of raid
ing civilza ion upon iis ruing. It civil
ize as us prncct es, and sbetlg us tm
p'oving iiifluence upon whaipver it
ouches. And degpotiom is Heaven'?
jreai instiuinenl for Ibis purpose, foi
while il has revealed federal democracy
md condemned monaichy for civilizi-
inn, it h-s always used lcSolisin as tin
neans of civilizing barbarism.
Kussia began with I'elet the Ores
nd as Moseg was inpired, and lh
,iviour sunt. and M iriiu l.tnht r raied
ip, so w, s I'cier, made great, great u
ligign, gte-t in wil,for the rt-dempiioi
if mi 11 kind fiom eitoi and wrong. H
found Kussia a few b r amus province
inhabited by a forociuus nobility and ai
nslaved and degraded populic, and
uiounded by the military adveniurerf
ol Sweden, the faeiious Uibulent, an-
rchicol banditti of Poland, toe stup Ty
ing fanatics oi Turkey, and Ihe sivge
iiu rounets 01 miu'tie tia. ne
in his countiy the eh ments of a great
nation, and 111 civiliziiion the only
means of their developemnn'. He saw
m commerce ihe great civilizer, and hr
resolved on having seaports, ships and
commercejand as a first step, he founded
a reapoit for the scat of his government
Having forced a commercial road from
the Baltic into the Altic, he told h
successors to march southward till they
reached the Mediterranean through
Constantinople, and eastward till they
achieved what Alexander, attempted,
1 lie conquest of India. And he told Ihem
to civilize as they marched, to sweet
sway every institution that interfered
PA. SATURDAY, FICH.iUAUY 8, 1815.
jwiih human progregg, to raise the slave
to freeman, and reduce Ihe noble lo
'il equal. & niogt intelligntly,perever
'isgly, Ins thig policy been pursued by
nis succesgorg, till ihe Russian Govern.
netit is now doing more for ci vilizalion
md fieedom than any other in Europe?.
And it will accomplish these great de-
'gn It is Ihe instrument raised ui
by Providence lo prosTale thehltghling
ula ol IWahomedanism, and to sweep
uolatry liom India. Excepting Austria.
nor.tai.rg Ihe last of feudal slavery, and
7 government hag been striving, ever
gince Peter, left Ihe legacy of his wise
nd benevolent policy, to free and edu
cate the slaveg.
Russia aims al India, and will reach
1; and when its flig is spread eastward
jf (he Indies. iheBiitish Empire will
vanigh from lhal morning snn. And
before ihe Russian march will flee
Mahomedanim, supergtiiion, monopoly,
nd lha tyranny of ihe merchant prine
iver Ihe conquered vassal. And such
jovernmenl lears our democracy! And
will league with Britain lo prostrate it!
government coveting he richest pnr
ion of Ihe British empire, preparing tin
iwn subjeeU for freedom, and seeing in
n the most powerful auxiliary against
IJnlish monopoly . seek, the alliance of
itg enemy lopiostrale its friend!
AN INCIDENT.
We copy the following stirring incident
from the Middlesex Standard, edited by
JjMfG7 Whittier.
'Some five or six years eince a gentle
man and his wife -were passing down 'lite
Mississippi rivet, on their way to New Or
Jeans. Their fellow pissenprrs were near
ly all slaveholders, or citizens of slavelinlil
tug states, and the convereation, in the in
tervals of card palying, was mainly direct
ei against the northern abolitionists. While
hey were silting on deck, guirg at the
strange and gloomy scenery rf the 'failtei
of waters,' thev were accosted by one ot
the passengers, 'is your name G ?'
Il is,' said ihe gentleman 'Are yot
from Ohio?' 'I am 'The inlet
ngatnr turned away, and soon the new
spread over the boat: 'An aholitinnbl 01
board!' They were al once surrounded b
an angry and furious crowd many ol
them fearfully excited by liquor. Pistol'
were flourished and bowie knives drawn.
Sunie of the more cool nml deliberate pro
nnsrd tha a Lynch YpiiiI should be held:
mil with some difficulty a ling was formed
md a red. faeej jlave driver pioclaiinet!
judge. A eomtniiiee of twelve was select
en n act as nrvinen. n was tree.
pie;inr.ed. lie avowed himself an abolt
lionist, and requested permission to explain
his principles, lie was listened to will'
manifest impatience; and iho conintiiier
were ordeted lo retire before he had cm
:'uded his defence They soon returned
and pronounced their ver.licl' They found
liim guilty of being an abolitionist, am1
reenmmentled that he should have the alier
native of quietly walking overboard or id
igning a eoiiipleie recantation of his ami
slavery dortiine In conformity with tlii-
'UTt ilol derision, a paper was iImum up
md presented for his signature, with tin
threat ol immediate death in rune of his
refiisitl.
Il was a trying 1110 ncnl fur the shol.
ittoniHt I houghi.1 ol home, and its old
I'oiiiliHi faces crowded upon bis brain
Life is always sweet, and especially i i1
'0 to the young and healthful, happy it
heir unnhilled and glad hopes. His you 11 f
A-ife was at his side, Itorrot stricken by thi
finger which menaced her husband. Be
tore him er8 fierce anil siern faces and
brandished weapon beneaih him rolled
lie black waters of the river. 'Sign tint
nd you are sifa,' said the spokesman 0
lite mub. His human spitil wavered foi
in instant as be turned his agonized gaz
upnn his wife. Bui hi beter nature Iri
tnphed. ' Take it back and dyour worst
ha answered; '1 cinnoi make shivery right
evn to save mv hf.!'
'Thank God! my husband, exelsimid his
wife, clasping him in hsr arms, 'lei us di
together;' The words aid manner of the
noble woman overawed the assassins.
One nf the most violent of ihoin spiang
lorward and thieatetied to blow out thej'No sir, I never fi?h in shallow wat r.'
brain of ihe first who should venture in I
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hands on her or her husband The wi-es
and daughters nf ihe slaveholders who ha
hitSerlo kepi silence now interfered the
Lyr.rh court was dissolved and during the
remainder of the yoyage, (he Iwn abolition
tsts were treated with marked rpsnenl
I'lte story, substantially as we have given
i'--
il, W8S related to a friend of ours by one
of the passengers, who bad himself parlici
paled ir. Ihe Lynch court.'
Widower Smith asd Widow Jones
Widower Suiiilj'g waggon slopped one
morning before Jones' door, and he gave
the usual country signal that he wauled
somebody in ihe house by dropping the
einj, and selling double, with his elbows
in big knees. Out tripped the widow as
lively ss a cricket, with a tremendous black
ribboi, nn her snow-white cap. 'Good
morning' was soon said on both sides, and
the widow wailed for what was farther to
be said.
'Well,. Ma'am Jones, perhaps you don'i
ant to sell one of your cows.no how, for
nothing, any way, to you?'
'Well, there, Mr. Smith, you could'ni
have rpoke my mind belter. A poor, lone
w.uiiHn, like, does not know whal to do
with so many miters, and I should be glad
to trade if we can fix it.'
So they adjourned lo the meadiiw, farmer
ttiniih looked al Roan then at the widow
at the Downing cow and at the widow
again ami so on through the whole foity
'he same ."all was made every day for h
week, but farmer Smith could not deride
w'hjch cow he wanted. Al length. on Satur
day, when widow Tones was in a hurry to
tjct through with her baking, for Sunday,
mil had 'ever so much' to do in the house
48 all fanners' wives and widow havt
on Saturday, ebe was a little impatient
Farmar Smith was as irresolute ns ever.
'That 'ere Downing cow is a pretty fair
,-riiiir but he slopped to glance at ihe
.vidow's face, and ihen walked round her
ot the widow, bul the cow.
' That 'ere. short horn Durham is not
iad looking beast, but I don't know'
mother lonk al ihe widow.
The Dowr.ing row I knew before thr
ue Mr. Jones bought her ' Here ht
dghed at the allusion lo the late Mr. Jones;
She sighed, and looked at each other. L
was a highly ineresiing moment.
'Old Koan is a faithful old nnh-b, fe so ir
Hriinlle hut I have known better.
Along slaie followed 1119 pee-h i!n
o.itisH was geiung an k ward, at last Mrs
initlt broke out
'Lord! Mr. Smith, if I'm the ono yon
'vant, do say so!'
The intentions of the widowei Smith t
lie widow Jones were duly published lln
h Xt day, hs is the law and fliMocn in
lass;iciuctis; anil a soon as ihey were
out puliliidied,' they were married.
LOST BOY FOUND.
Exlraonliiiai v Romance, A roues
iinpcleiii nl the II i r 1 ford Times gives an
Ciouol of ihe lo.s and lecovcry of n
boy who was tinlen by the Indians from
he town H Jacksoo Michigan, in 1S37,
md was recoveied by his father, Mf
1111ni Filler, aboti; 1I19 first of ihi
iieseni month, in Gieenville, Ct., in
the employ of a citizen, lo whom In
hnd nbiiifl hv the Oveiseers iienliced
if the Poor of Albany, N. V. Aflei
vandering about with the Indian family
visiting various cities and towns be
'ween Wisconsin and Gonueciicul. be
was tsken from tbpm in Albanv, C. Y.
hi 18-13, anil placed in the Almshouse
10 the ground thai he was a white child
itolen from hid parents. Bui the Indi
ms refused to reveal his nsme or when
ue came from. His father came from
Michigao lo visit his relatives in Con
necticut this wiiiier, and while ther
beard of ihe bay, whom he recognized
once ss his son. Ilw mother died soon
after lie was carried off by the Indians.
I really rsnnot sing, believe ins, st','was
tis tply c f s young lad y to an emp'y fop.
'I am raiher inclined to believe, madam.
that you are fishing for complements.'
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LEGAL ELOQUENCE.
G-ntlemen of the jury Can you for ai)
instant suppose that ruy i lionl here, a man
who has alters sustained a high depreda-,
11011 111 society, a man you all on you sua.
peel esteem for his many good iiuautiiieg
ves, gentlemen, a man what nvci drinks
more than a quarl of likkcr a day, can vou..
I ay, for so instant, suppose that this erp
man would bo guilty or' hooking a box of
pcreushum caps! Rattlesnakes and toon-
king forbid! Picter to yourselves rentle-
men, a teller. fast aeep in ,i J(0g Cahii
with his innocent wifo and orphan i!iildten
by his side, all nature hushed in deep re
pose, and nought to be hcatd but the mut
lering of the silent thunder, and the Indler-
ing of bull frogs, then imagine to yourself a
ellow gneaktne un to the door like
able hyena, softly entering the dwelling of
he peaceful and happy family, and in (lie
nnst mendacious and dastardly manner.
nooking a whole box of percuahum! Geo
ilemen, I will not, I cannnt dwell upon the
monirosiiy of such a scone! My feelings,
turn from such a picter of moral turpentine,
like a bif wood.ihuck would it.rn from my
dog Rose! I cnnnol for an instant fi arbor
die idea ihat any man in these diggins.much
less ere man could be guilty of committing
in act of jucIi raulankerous & uiifxlraiiiplejj
discretion.
Ind now gentlemen, afier thig era brief
view ol the case.lel me entreat you lu make
op your minds candidly and impartially &j
iive us such a verdict a we might reaon
ibly stispcci from RU(,f, , enlighieiif4 ami
uiiolenble body of our fuller riiizeng, r.
membering that in the language of Nimrod,
who fell in the battle of Bunker Hill, il is
belter that ten men escape, lather than one
guilty one should sufTer. Jutlge give us a
chew of lobacco.
iNpuri couiusiiip.
The chief of die Indian tnte now at tho
iheaire.last nighl explained.io he'eMgregt.
11011 assembled, the Indian mode of coutt
ihip and proposition of marrirge. We ere
iold thai the young brave, after looking
wr.ong the wigwams and deciding io which
one his heart, or his interest, is de positrd.
takes his flute and placing himself before
ihe door, plays a tune. His serenade brings
lorth the maiden squaws, who stand and
00k at ihe lover until he picks op s'irki
and cast ihem towards the females, Jf ihey
LUie girls, not the sticks smile and do
tiling more ihe proposition is accepted.
If not the sticks are cast back ihe brava
,-oes off with a flat refusal and plays his
dole for the edification of some squaw wliu
v 1 1 1 not throw his sticks back. This, iho
nterptetcr who told the story, thinks, is a
ntii h belter mode of courtsltip than ours.
I'lii! white people,' says he,' court a year
r mote and then separate which custom
involves a loss of time and, to nne of lha
mi lies, of heart also.' Why rsnnot our
attain beaux and belles adopt the Indian
mode with a litile refinement lo make it
ii ized. Let the swajn p..y his guitar
'encath the laltico of his I idv If aim
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hrowg a wash baniii upon bis head lie rosy
onsider himself discarded. If 0 A accep:
.l. The Portland Bulletin w!s a good story
if a certain good Deacon, whose hat blw
iir and led him a long race aflei il through,
he street" Al length the Deacon became
exhausted in the race,snd pulled up against
1 posl by die sidewalk. A gentlemen came
along, lo whom the Deacon sddresscd him
sell thus; 'My friend, I am a Deacon, and
11 is very wrong lor roe 10 swear, you wi!
nereiore greatly ob.tge me tf you just d q
hat for me.
MAYING IT LIGHT,
An atiorney, about to furnjsb a bill of
costs: was requeued by his rlient.a baker:
to make it ss light ss posible.'
'Ah!' replied the atiorney , 'iliare what
von racy say to your foreman; but it'a net
he way I make my bread.'
'William,' said a ratpenter to his sppren
ice, 'I'm going away to day and wint you
o grind all toe tools.' 'Yer, nr Tha
'arpentei came home at night. William
ha' you ground a'l the tools rigl.i sharp.'
All but the handsaw,' said Bill: 'frovldn't
get quite all the gpa out of ibn!'