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THE IRON HORSE.
There were noble steeds in the days of old, 1
They wore tierce in battle, in danger bold: |
They clank'd in armour, and alone in gold, 1
Andlliey bore their ridurs with lordly pride;
Put the Iron Horse, there were none like him!
Ho whirls you along till pour eye is dim,
Till your brain is crazed and your senses swim !
Willi fjie dizzy landscape on either side.
Ho springs away with a sudden bound,
His hoof, tinshodden, spurns tho ground,
Like the first faint clouds of a thunder show
or;
And a stated moment ho ever hath,
When lie rushes forth on his iron path,
Ami won to him who shall rouse his wrath,
Pycurbing him in beyond the hour!
While other steeds must he champing bay, !
Must repose by night, and bo fed by day,
Lot the Iron Uorse have his lovel way,
And ho asks for uo more than his fire and :
water;
Ho wears no bridle, nor curbing chain,
lie brooks uo spur, and lie needs no rein ;
Onlv set him foilh oti tho opon plain,
And he'll be tho hist horse to weary or loi- I
tor! |
At all seasons and times ho will fearless bravo I
Whether hot shines the sun, or the north i
wiutfs rave;
Uo flies o'er tho earth, and ho tides tho wave, \
Like a shadowy cloud o'er tho harvest !
fields:
He neighs aloud, as ho dashes by,
Add the fire spurts flash liom his gleaming 1
eye, ,
And vales resound, and the hills reply,
To tho tapid rush of the flashing wheels, i
'
His breath is not as the shoe's blast,
As it hisses forth through his iron teeth, '
And it rolls up slow, when fiojiurrios past,
Like the morning mist, in a snowy wreath.
And you'd hotter stand in the van of war.
Where the vollied death shots fly fire and,
far,
AUJ tkiulcniujs fid', em the light is o'er.
Than to t-ross path tint ho flies upon,
Whenever the lime d anil lon brattling ear,
* Like a thunder gust, ciniies roifriug on '.
On out mountain ridges his chariots gleam.
He follows the track of ihe widuing stream :
lie carries ns forth from our ouriy homes.
To the fairy scenes of tho glowing West. ,
Where the Father of Waters iu giain'.cur
reams,
Through broad savannahs in verdure
dress'd
Away! away! with his ceaseless roar,
The valley and stream he will hasten o'er; i
Away ! away ! whore tho piurie lies,
Like an emerald sea, 'ncatii tho fair blue
skies,
Willi naught iu view save the waving grass,
Tho flowers that bend as his chariots j as-,
And in black and fearful Host afar.
The countless herds of the bufliilo,
That start at (Tie gleam of his shining car,- J
And uWay, loud bellowing and thundering ,
Willi a t peed that uo foot of the door can'
pass.
The prairie horse shall toss the mart)*,
Tear tho ground with their hoofs and neigh
aloud,
When this stranger bleed o'er their boo do- '
* main
Comes rushing on liko a flying cloud ;
But ho huol.'i them not as he onward speeds,
With a tread as loud as a thousand steeds,
A sound shall be hoaid through tho liiouii- \
tain eaves,
A sound through the gloom of the pathless
glen,
Like tho hollow murmur of breaking waves, :
Or the measured tramping of mail-clad
men;
'Tis the IRON HORSE , tie hath passM the I
huu ud
Of tho wild sienas that fenced him rouud ; ■
He lialh no more on the land to gain,
His path is free to the western maiu!
Special Verdicts. —The verdicts rendered by
jutics uio sometimes rather queer documcn Is,
as most lawyers have had means of know
ing, but there was ono returned by a Catar
augus county, (N. Y.) jury rocontly more
laughubio than any other we havo heard or
read of. It upjwars that three men were
tried in that county lor shooting and mortally
wounding a dog, and the written verdict of
the "twelve.good men and lruo," wus iu the
following words, to wit: —"All threo guilty ;
plaintiff's damages assessed at sixpeucc ;
ard each of the defendants to havo another
shot at (he dog 1"
ty A lady took umbrago at the use by a
gentleman of a very common word, of
wliiuh the primary and most obvious sense
wus unexceptionable, while its most remote
„ and unusual signification was indelicate.—
"I beg pardon," said the offender, apologeti
cally, "I ccr.aindy did not mean whut you
was thinking of !"—u retort which was us
philosophical us it was just and severe.
The Value of Murrml Men.— "A little more
animation my dear," wluapered Lady B. to
the gentle fiaeon, who was walking languid
ly through a quadrille. ''Do leave me to
manage my own businoss, mamma," replied
iho provident nymph, "I shall not dance
my ringlets out of curl, for a married ruau."
'Ot comic not, my lovo, but I was not a
wtttc tvho V'tK partner was.' 1 • >
BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1850.
[Translated from the German for the 'Starr"]
BY VAY-IUII-ESS.
THE FOUR SEASONS.
"Alas 1 wish that it would always romain :
wiotor!" said Ernest, after ho had made u
J man ot snow, and taken a sleigh-ride His 1
| lather desired him to write this wish in his
muiuorandum-book ; and ho did so. Will- !
( ter passed away and spring came. Earnest
i stood with his father near u flower-bed on
| which were bloorayig the hyacinth, the nri-
I cula, and tho narcissus. Ho was entirely
; beside himself for joy. "This is a joy of
! spring, said his father, "and will soon pass j
away again.''—"Alas! I would that it wore
always spring!" 'Write this wish ill my
memorandum-book," said his father; and !
he did so. Spring passed away and sum
mer camo. Ernest went with his parents
and several playmates to tho nearest Village. |
on a warm summer day; and they remained \
'hero the entire day. All around them they ,
saw green corn-fields and meadows, deco
rated with thousand fold flowors; also pas
tures in which young lambs wcro dancing, |
and wanton foals wcro skipping about.— !
They ate cherries and other summer fruit, '
and enjoyed tnemselvos right well during j
the whole day. "Is it not true " asked his {
lather, on their return, ' that tho summer has
also its joys ?" "Alas," replied Ernest, "I |
would that it wcro always summer." lie
was also obliged to write this wish in his
father s memorandum-book—At last autumn !
came. Tho whole family spent a few days
in their vineyard. It was no mofo so warm
as in the summer ; but the atmosphere wat
mild arid the heaven clear. Tho vines were
hung wiih ripe grapes. On the hot bed [
wore seen melons; and tho boughs of the
trees were bent down with ripe fruit. Indeed !
it was a least for our Ernest who liked noth
ing so well as fruit "This fair season," said i
his father, "will soon bo over for winter is
already near at hand, todrivo away autumn." !
"Alas," said Ernest, "I wish that it would
stay away and that it worojalways autumn." j
"Do you really wish sol" asked his father.
"Really 1 was his roply. "But," continued
his father, whilst ho pulled his metrorau
dum-book out of his pocket—-"Look ono '
momout and read what is written hero"- 'I
Would that it were always winter"—"And
now read hereon this page, andsoo what *is
written —"I would that it wcro always
spring —"And whalisofi this pago?"—"I
would it lit n wer.i always summer." lie
continued, "do Mm know who wrote this?"'
"lliiit, 1 wrote'' replied Ernest. "And
wlo.ti.il inu wish jiiut now ?" "I wished
toil ii might always !>o uutum." "That is
singular enough," said his lather. "In the
winter you wi.-hcil that it might always be
winter, in the spring that it might always be j
spring, i.i the summer that it might always
I o summer, and in autumn that it might al j
w ays bo autumn. 'Think u moment what
follows there from"—"That all times of the '
year ano good."—"Truly they are all rich in j
joy and manifold blessings. Also that the
great (iod must understand the making of
worlds better than we poor mortals. Had it
depend ild upon you last winter, \vj would!
havo had uo sgringno summer, and 110 au
tumn. Veil would have covered tho earth
with eternal snow, simply iu order that you
eouid sleigh ride and make men of snow.
And how many oilier joys we would then 1
have been obliged to do without! It is'
well that tho way things should bo in the I
world docs not depeiuHipon lis ; how soon j
would wo deteriorate it it wo could.
'l'athcr, 1 Willi t<s a dollar,' Paid .1 country
hoy—a strapping lad of sixteen, who metis
urej two axe handles, in his Blockings —to his
dud, 0110 Sunday night —'l wants a buzzunt
piu amazingly ; all tho big boys in town
have got 'cm but mo.'
'Fudge,' replied tho sire, 'a bussum pin:
nonsense! \ ou'd belter get a pair of shoes
or u new felt, for a dollar; or scthiir o' some
consekweuse—but b-u-z-z-u-m p-i-n !
pshaw!
'lluinpli 1' returned tho juvenile, 'these
ore things you spoke am arc all well enough
in the fall; wont my palm-leaf deu forj this
summer, and can't I go baro-foot now?—
But,' sobbed out the strippling, 'l'm really
sufieriug for a buzzumyint'
SCENE INCOVHT. —A prisoner being brought
up in Couit, die following diologuo passed
between him and the tilting magistrate ;
"Hot/do yon live ?"
"Pretty well, sir—generally a joint and
pudding at dinner.,'
"I moan, sir, how do you got your brcud ?"
"I beg > our worship's pardon : sumo
times at tho bakor's, and sometimes at the
grocer's." ,
"Vou may be as witty as you please, sir,
bat 1 mean simply to ak, how do you do ?"
"Tolerably well, I thank your worship,
hope your worship is well."
"Why my child, what is lite matter ?" ex
claimed a lady to her little boy who rushed
I into the house, out of broalh, a short time
after dark.
1 "Wha-what's that, mother," said tho lit-
I tie follow, pointing to something white
| swinging back and forth in mid-air.
- "That," replied the motlior, "that? why
t that's lather's sliirt upon the clofhos lino."
"O, 1 thought it was a Oabhin /" gasped
' the little fellow, much relioml.--OAiu Led
' fff *
! A COMPLAINT AGAIMST THE RAIL
ROAD.
"fcrveiitesipio auras velut o fortiaceprofun
ik>
Oro trnhit, ctirrusqno suos condcsccro sen
tit."
MKTAM. 11. 229.
My privacy has been invaded by tho Rad
road Company, coining through my promi
ses and cutting usundoi my bam from my
house, turning my back into my front, and
setting fire to two haystacks by sparks from
tho locomotive. Upon tho bene qui Intuit ben
e vixil plan of Ovid, I soon after graduation
determined to cultivato retirement, and
thought I had attained it; but who cap cal
culate on anything in tlioso days of galvan
ism, steam, and Hiuiiiiiion I and Budc lights,
to say nothing of I'uine's which has been
snuffed out. SinciJ the paroxysms of my
commencement speech, and the horrors and
publioties of tho ensuing hall, where 1 fig.
urcd according to the mode of that day in
clubbed hair, and small clothes, I resolved
on a hermitage; but ".lie steam car has ruin
ed all!
Who would havo thought that tho cosiest
nook iu the Jerseys could have been trans
muted ns by magic into a focus of observa
tion? Diligently did I eschew all high roads.
There was not a post office within ten miles.
A swamp on one side and a mountain on the
other made my locality, 1 tiiought, as inac
cessible as the vale of Rasselas. My books
were piled on ray front potch, when I had
done turning them over under the willow
tree I played old tunes on my single-key-ed
flute with no more dread of molestation than
Alexander Selkirk. My back yard, now my
front, was an Arcadia of milk-pans, and a
tame calf browsed on the grass. As to tai
lor's bills, they extended only to the Wed
ding dress when Amy was married, and my
old coal 6 and clouted shoes gavo me that so
lace which Lucullus with his two thousand
vestments never knew. Alas and alas ! My
twilight is turned into noon-day. My house
is liko that of Spurius, who, as Plutarch says
desired his builder to make Itim one into
which all tho city of Uomc might look at
will. 1 cannot enter into my clo3, for pri
vate chambers wo have nono.' Tho hcwl
and shriek of the steam whistle gives mo
night-mare panics alior ray first nap, and
tho smoke of llio Jmoving volcano eclipses
nay skies. My wife and daughters aro twice
a day dressed and seated upon our ci-dc
vant back piazza ; and lam fain to rot rant
to a neighboring lam to avoid a" roconnai
sauco by curious passengers. To complete
my misery a station has been fixed a half a
mile front us, which turns our rural solitude
into a mimic lorum.
The Company fias paid me for my ,half a
cro of land, but what compensation on earth
can indemnify mo for the loss of sovereign
ty ! I was a man of pence, gloriing in the
noli me tangcre nook which
nobody knew anything W now all the
world is passing every few hours, peering
into my windows and scanning my petty
gardon, counting the hen coops, tho peices
in tny laundry, and the very dishes on tny
frugal board, and ogling my respectable but
too inquisitive wife and Jaughlcrs. who havo
never been able to satiate their curiosity in
regard to this intrusive wonder, nor abide at
any in-door work from the time they hear
the swuids of the cars.
1 am loth to fly to Snake llill or Schrardon
burg, where 1 am told ancient virtue is still
unmolested, uml too rigid to change my
liabiis. —Chagrin has eatou out tny comforts.
Home is no homo, in sight of a railway.
I havo already sent my Zimmerman to auc
tion. My eveniug walk used to bo iu the
very line now overlaid with the iron plague.
My orchard is divided into twain. In short,
I feel stripped and exposed to tho gaze of
ati impeiUnent generation; whoso whole
business it seems to bo to career from place
to place by means of lids perverse miracle
of degenerate art.
Think not, that I have ever compromised
my dignity by entering one of these vehi
cles ! The car of l'hacton would not bo
more dreadful, and 1 would sooner yoke me
to the horses of the sun. Dear old Lord
Monboddo ascribed the decline of Europe
to the effeminate use of coaches; what
would liavo been thought of a steam car
riage ! A pedestrian of sixty years' jirac
tice, you may be assured that wbon I ex
changed crabsticks, it was for Doll, my ca
sy ambling nag, on whose back I might jog
and read without fear of losing tuy ironrim
nied glasses, and who has olton grazed a
long tho shlos of groon lanes, when lior
master was deep in tho Alciphron of Bisltop
Berkoly. Übinatn gentium sumus ? What o
vil spirit possosses our people ? What gad
fly has bitten thoin into tho furor of locomo
tion. Wltcnco come the thousands who look
out of those impudent windows as they
stream by like lightning? Whither aro
they going? Who pays for the transit and
the time ? Who cares for thoir forsaken
households ? How do they find food and
lodging? How ftany hecatombs of nout
cattlo must add to the smoke of our capitals?
ltusolvc these questions, 0 gifted ones, for
an injured, invaded, and bowildorod solitary.
I have in vain turned over Adam Smith for a
clearing of my doubts.
The anciont civil lav# provided for action
in case o( stUlicidimn, or injury by the drop
ping from a neighbor's caves: but hero is
eaves dropping on a gigantic scale, anil lam
ly secrets revealed to a world in j motion.
Cieero tells of a suit brought by a Korean a
gainst one who, -by buflUhg on the opposite
bill, obstructed his prospect: but all my
prospects arc blackened by what issuos from
—' " * "**—~~r~ 'ji
Xnivh ausl BsUl—JCQidiairfr ur ionntr}>
this fiery Leviathan. I have read in Coko,
that every man's house is his castle ; but
mine isacastlo invested by foes, and attack
oilfcrro el ignc, by rails and sloam. In rail
ing, indeed, I could match thorn; but be
fore I could begin my abjuration tho audi
ence would have vanished, and I should talk
to tho air.
Imagine the beautiful ruralities of Ameri
ca cut up by a reticulation of railways such
as covers tho recent maps of England ! Since
Alarie there has'boen nothing so barbaric.
A greon sequestered lap of land will soon bo
as rare as tho I'hamix or the Dodo, and wo
shall understand half ol our classic or
descriptivo poetry, no mrre than wo do tho
characters on t!: brick* id' Babylon. City
merchants, I hear, breakfast at homo forty
miles oil', and then get to daily business in
Front Street or tho Bowery. This is tho
next thing to flighting ugainst nature. Half
tho old manor-houses within twenty miles of
the great towns, whore lofty trees and lawns
of velvet and wildernesses of shrubbery- be
spoke the quiet abode or noble hospitality of
better days, aro bought up by cits, who
spend iu them thoit nights and Sundays.
O tempora! 0 mores! I say nothing of mar
kets. My foolish daugnlcrs grudge me tho
very egg I used to take with my breakfast •
and my strawberries go in little baskets to
Washington market. Sorry am I to add,
they must needs go themselves ! And I
wish you could see tho fashions with which
they lelurn. My good woman, though deaf
as a post, (no disadvantage, they tell mo,
in the cars.) has been loii£ providing horsclf
a sorios of caps, wherewithal to make a
grand agpcaranco on a. projected visit to a
cousin in Bridge street; and I expect soon
to be called on to sell anothor piece of land
to pay the costs.
In tho book l)e Finibus, the philosophic
lloman says nothing of one groat constitu
ent of human happiness ; it is oxpressed in
tho phraso— Let me alone. There ate scatter
ed up and down, in every country, hundreds
Of old fellows, who live honestly, pay thoir
taxes, and, till lately, havo slept iu their beds
at night and ploughed ia the furrows ef thoir
sires; troubling no one, plotting no inva
sions of Cuba, content that tho Union bo un
dissolved, prying into no one's larder ot
desk, picking holes in nobody's coat, read
ing old books, and wearing old doublets :
all they ask in return lor theso virtues is that
they bo let alone. They go to bed early,
dint- * noom and pipe in .shady
places, while the cows arc coming homo ;
affect becchcn shadows in tho woods, springs
whore they drank in childhood, and angling
in dark, out-of-the-way brooks. For their
self-possession and ease of conscience they
donyand. exemption from domiciliary in
spection. But what shall I say! This
flaming'vaporous Asmodeus has taken the
rools off their houses, and laid their secrets
open to the day. A sound- of tremendous
roaring is in their oars, and in this world they
can no longer look for a tranquil day. Even
tho ono silont Sabbath is meiamorphnsod in
to a time of special merrymaking ami jaunt
ing, and the Sunday passengers plftn rbially
drink more, shout more, and stare more,
than thoso of all tho six working days put
togotho.r My choler is by uo means disgor
ged ; tumetjecur; but strength would fail
mo ; ami I do but augment tho bitterness by
thus stirring up tho bile. Ttrt! me, 0 tell
mo, of some corner, so hemmed in by na
ture, bo begirt wifh Scrbonian bogs, so rug
ged with crags, so arid with sandy wustcs,
that the army of surveyors, contractors and
diggers shall never convene to mutilate or
deform it. Reveal to nio some basin a
mong mountains, whore I may sit at sunset
in cucrpo, with none to molest tno, or may
lead my colls to water at the brook, without
having tlioin sot to scamper away at the ap
parntion of tho uncouth, snorting anaconda
that now crashes through our vale, breath
ing out firo and fury. Comfort me by no
ting some limit to this advance of civiliza
tion, art and insolonce. which has begun to
sacrifice all homely delights on the altar of a
corporate Plutus.—Give rue tho hope of yot
conning my Latin authors in quietude and
independence, however humbly; 'Die, qui
bus in torris, et oris inihT maguus Apollo.'
TCUY TESTY.
AM*.
Few insects are more difficulty to oster
minate than the little rod ants with which
many houses are infested. They in ly be
kept under, by frequent scalding with boil
ing water, the cracks and places from which
they issue. To smear tho cracks of tho
closets between the shelvos and the walls
with corrosive sublimato will destroy them ;
but as it is a deadly poison, it must be used
with caution. Dishes and jars containing
articles that tho ants seem to like should bo
sot ill pans of salt and water, and tho pan
should be surrounded witk a ring of suit.
If they infest the sideboard, let tho feet bo
sot constantly in tin or iron cups tilled with
salt and wator.
A circle of tar sproad around each foot of
the bench that holds the hivos, will prcvont
ants from recalling the boos and destroying
the honey.
Moths.
Tj keep moths from Jwoolno clothing, car
pets, and furs, place the articles in linen
shoots or bags, sowed closely together, first
b -aiing thorn, so as to clear oil' all mollis
and eggs. Cumphor or locacco scatterod
throilgu light trunks, where they ure packed
is also u protection.
THE MEXICAN.
His counrry is subject to frequent revolu
tions, when his property is liable to betaken
by force by the belligerent parties; beside
the imposition of forced loans, causing con
tinual four in tho minds of those who havo
money : the authorities of the States gpt tho
general laws at defionce, thus giving riso to
continual reclamations, interrupting the bu
siness of ruining tho citizen, beforo ro
dress is obtained; the laws are not thorough
ly understood or justico oqtiully administer
ed-: crimes are not promptly or udequatoly
punshed ; the principal highways are infes
ted with rubers, robberies and murders are
frequent, by armed bands, in towns a"d vil
lages, and no oflici. Or cusuros are taken to
prevent thcifi or arrest the guilty. The poor
man is subject to the aruilrury disposition of
thoso iu authority—forcod to do porsoual
service on public works in the times of the
revolutions, and to fight against his own
people ; ho may bo arrested on tho verbal
order oT any Alcade too indolent or ignor
ant to write one—and a refusal to obey such
subjects him to be beaten by tho brutal per
son bearing it, to collect n sirajilo debt by
legal process, tho loss of time togothor with
the expenses renders such proceeding of no
avail to him ;he canot go from one town to
another without subjecting himself to deten
tion unless he obtains a passport, which
BOBiclimes takes as much time as to make
the journey; to travel, lie must havo a li
cense to carry arms, without which he is li
able, to detention and the loss of them, ho
cannot obtain redress for a wrong com
mitted by tho military; criminals, oven,
should be entitlod to a speedy trial, but here
a mnn may bo arrested, thrown iu jail and
years may elapse beforo he is coudcmncd
or acquitlod ; the dead aro allowed to putri
fy or must be buried out of what is called
holy ground, unless the surviving friends aro
able to satisfy tho exorbitant demands of an
inexorable priest; tho ruthloss savage con
stantly iuvades tho frontiers and lias for years
spread with impunity Uoath and devastation
in his path. All this, and even moro, tho
Mexican citizen sudors, yot folds his hands
in silonco. Tho stranger partakes in a mea
suro of these ovils, and used to a butter slato
of things, naturly complains ; when it is as
sorted with 100 much truth, ho is in possess
ion of the same liberty and protection as
the Moxicans, therefore he ought not to com
plain.
* t.OOl) !
An Irishman hud taken to reailing his Bi
bio. "And indeed it ia true, and a blessed
book it ia."
"But," said the priest, "'you ate an igno
rant man, and you ought not to read the Bi
ble."
"Well," said Pat, "but your riveronce
must prove that boforo I'll give up reading
my Bible."
And so the priest turned to the placo wliero
it reads, "As now born babes, dosiro the sin
cere milk of the word."
"There," said the priest, "you are a babo,
and you ought to go to somebody who can
toll you what the sincere milk of the word
is."
Pat was a milkman anil ho replied, "Your
riveronce, 1 was bick and employed n man
to carry my milk, and 1m cheated mo—he
put water in it; und how do 1 know (saving
your riverence,) but the priest may do the
samo 1"
The prieat was discomfited, and said,'
"Well, Pat, I 800 ye'ro not quilo so much
of a babe as I thought you. You may road
your Bible, but dou't show it Jo your neigh
bors."
"Indeed j our rivorenc," says Put, "I've
otto cow that I know givos good tniik ; and
while my neighbor has none, euro I'll give
him a part of it whother yourriveronco likes
it or not."
PRETTY Goon.—"Mother, why docs Pa
call you honey 1"
"Because, my dear, he loves me."
"No, Ma, that isn't ig"
"What is it then?"
"I know."
"Well, what is it ?"
"Why, it's because you have so much
comb in your head—that's why."
Like a bell tnat's rung tor fire; like a
careless auction cricrj liko, ofteutimes, a
graceless liar, mischief-making tattles go ;
slopping you with quakiiw foar, whispering
as jou lend an oar—"Mercy on us, did you
hear '! Betsey Bean Isas got a beau !"
An oxchangc paper states on reliable au
thority, that iu Albany tho bl&ek-Bmiths car
pet their shops, and hava armed ohuirs mudo
for their horses to sit in whilo having
shoes fitted. This is a great age, and gra
cious only krews where 'twill bring up.
The editor of tho Boston Post has got a
daguerreotype likeness of the girl that Bar
ney was askod~ to lot alone.
The man who never told an editor how ho
could bettor his paper, lias gone to Schenec
tady to marry a woman that never looked
into a looking-glass.
A slanderer of the softer sex, undertakes
to prove that Satan was a woman, named
Lncy Fir. Can't believe it, auy how.
, Why is a Bick Jow liko a diamond? Be
cause he is a Jew -ill.
THE IIAI HEI.OIt'S lilt ID AI„
[a yaiiody.]
Not a luugh wns hoard, nor a joyous note,
As our liiend to the brtdal we hurried;
Nor a wit discharged his vahjkwki-i. shot, 1
At tho llenodiet just to be married.
We married him quickly, to save bis fright, i
Our heads from the sad sight turning, " I
And we sighed us we stood by the lump s j
dim light
To tuiuk ho was no more doscerinng—
To think that a bachelor, freo and bright,
And shy of tho girls as wo found Irim,
Should hero by tho altur, at dead ol night, j
lie caught in tho suaro that bound liiru ! j
Fo.w and short woro the word* wc said,
Though we heartily ate of thp cakes,
Then escorted him home from that scone of!
dread
And thought—how awfully ho shakos
Wo thought as wo grouped iris low ly" bed |
With the ffowers, tho birch and the willow
I low the shovel ami broomstick would bieak !
o'er his head,
And the tears he would shed on his pillow.
Said ho, '"They will talk of their friend who :
lias gone—
And every old Baoh : will upraid me; !
But nothing reck I, if they let me droatn on, I
'Nqath the coverlet, just as they've laid
me."
Bin half of our weary task was dona
lCro the clock tolled the hour for the other,
And we left with tiro hope that the late ho
had wort
" Would never bo won by another!
Preserves and Jellies.
General Directions.—Gather fru.'t when it!
is dry. Bong 1-oiling hardens the fruit l'onr !
boiling water ovor tho stoves used, aud I
wring out jelly bags in hot water (lie rno-I
merit you are to uso them. I)o not squeeze '
while straining through jolly bags. Let the j
pots and jars containining swcclmoats just i
made, remain uncovered three days. Lay !
brandy papors over the top, coser then) light 1
and seal them, or, what Is best of all, soak a j
split bladder and tie it tight ovor llrcm. In
drying, it will shrink so as to be perfectly j
air-tight. Keep-them in a dry, but not'
warm place. A thick leathery mould helps !
to preserve fruit, but wlion mould appears [
in specks, the preserves must ho scalded in !
a warm oven, or bo lot into hot water, which i
then must boil till tho preserves are ssaidod. I
Always Veep Wftch of pcqpcrycn whicii arc J
not scaled; especially in warm ami damp j
weather. The only sure way to keep ihorri |
without risk or caro, is to make them with I
enough sugar and seal them, or tie bladder
covers over.
Tomatoe Preserves —Prepare a syrup by
clarafying sugar, melted over a -slow frto,
with a little water, by boiling it until no j
scum rises, or good molasses may bo cluri- j
ficd by adding eggs, boiling, and carefully |
skimming. Tako theTomatou* while grcou, |
put them in cold syrup, with ono orungo j
sliced to every two pounds of lomntoos.— i
Simmer thorn over a slow ftro for two
threo hours. There should bo equal weights j
of sugrfr ami tomatoes. Some, when t-upo- j
rior preserves arc wanted, add fresh lemons '
sliced, and boil with tho tomatoes u few 1
peach leaves and powdered gingor in bags j
Tomatoes when ripe, make a lino preserve, I
pooled, and treated as above j but ties fruit;
is apt to fall to pieces in tho process of pro- |
serving, consequently raoro earo is required
when it is desirable to provont this.
Tomnto Catsup.—V so ono pint of good
salt to one peck of sound, ripe, tomatoes. I
Bruise them and lot them stand two days;
then strain them dry, and boil tho liquor un- ]
til tiro scum stops rising, with two ounces ol j
black pepor, tho same quantity of spice, j
ono ounce of ginger, one of cloves, and an i
ounce of macc. Strain through a serve, '
then bottle and oork tight.
ltespbcrry Syrup.— To every quart of fruit
add a pound of sugar, and lot it stand over i
night. In tho morning, boil and skim it for '
half an hour; then strain it through a Hun- 1
nel bag, ar.d pour it *irrto bottles, which]
must bo carefully corked and sealed. To ]
each bottle add, if you please, a little brandy '
if tho weather is so warm as to endanger its !
keeping.
Cmrant Jelly — over the "currant*
with rare, l'utthcm m a stono jar, and sot .
it into a kettle of boiling water. Let it boil !
til the fruit is very soft. Strain it through a i
seive. Tlron run the juico through a jelly ]
ling. Put a pound of sugar to a pint of!
juice, and boil it together five minutes. Sot I
it in the sun a few days.
Cheiries. —Takeout the stones. To a 1
ponnd of fruit, allow a pound of sugar.
Put a layer of fruit on the bottom of tire pre
serving kettle, then a layer of sugar, and i
continue thus till all are put in. Bull till i
clear. Put them in bottles, hot, and seal
them. Keep them in dry sand.
Currants. —Strip them from tho Stems. A!
low a poutiu of Bugar to a pound of currants.
Boil them together ton minutes. Tako them
from the syrup, aud let trio syrup boil twenty ;
minuto-', and pour it on die fruit. Put them 1
in sma 1 jars or tumblers, ar.d let thorn stand 1
in the sun a few days.
To preserve Currants to cat with meat.— .
Strip them from tho stem. Boil them an :
hour, and then to a pound of the fruit, add
a pound of brown sugar. Boil all together
fifteen or twenty minutes.
Raspberry Jam. —Allow a pound of sugar;
to a pound of fruit. Press them with a '
spoon, in an earthen dish. Add the sugar !
and boil all together JuMpa minute?
V "" iH>,iar * r 4HN
NUMBER 28-
Anecdote of General Jackson.
11l the year of IS 11, Gcnural Jackson hud
occasion to vi-.it \atelios, in tho territory of
Mississippi, lor tin- purpose of bringing Up u
number of blacks, a part of whuiu his prop
erty in conserjuenco of having boon seeuiity .
for a friend, and tho remainder wont. hands
which hiid'beeii cmploycil by a nophew, in
the neighborhood ol that place. Tho road
led through tho country inhabited by tho
Chickasaw mid Chootuw Indiuns. m d tho
station of tho agent for the Ohoelnws wn?
upon it. On reaching lire agorfcy, ho found
seven or eight families <>f emigrants, and
two rnerubors of the Mississippi, legislative
council, dutaiucd there, inidorr tho preteneu
lira' it was necessary lor ihcin to have pass
ports from lire Governor of Miaaippi. One
ol their number had been sent fuiwurd to
procure thorn. In tiro meantime, Iho emi
grants wcro buying corn from tho agent, at
ait.extravagant price and splitting ,rails for
hint at a very moderate one. Indignant at
tiro wrong inlliciud on the emigrants, lie ro
! proachod rho metnlicrs ril tho council for
I submitting to tho detention, and usked the
i agont how lie dared to ricmrpid a pass from
j a tree American, travelling on a public roarl.
! I lie agent replied by* asking, with much
■ temper, whotlrer ho had u pass. ''Yes, sir,"
| replied the gouoral. "I always carry mine
with me : lam a free bora Amarican citi
zen ; and that is a |>as*port all over tho
J world.' lis then directed the emigrants to
gear up their wagons, and if any one attorn p
led to obstruct tliein, to shoot them down, as
a highway robber. Soiling thorn 'ha exam
ple, he continued bis jouruey, regardfysa of
tho tlireats of the, agent.
After conuludiugiiig business, ho was In*
formed that the Agent hud collected about
fifty white men and ode hundred Indians,
to slop kiui-on his roturn, iiutorshc produced
a passport.—Though advised by his. friends
to procuto one he refused to do so; ftatiiM'
that no American citizon should over, b,
subject to tho insult and indignity of prom,
ring a pass, to enable him to travel a public
highway in his own country.—Lrko all trav
oilers among the Indians, at that fltno, ha
was armed with a brace of pistols; and hav
ing added a rifle and another pistol, K,
commenced his return journey When with
in a tew miles of tiro agenoy, ho was inform
oil by a friend who had gone forward to re*
connoiire, that the nguut had Iris force In
readiness to atop him.—Ho .directed hia
fftouU :o advance attain, and tqil the agent
thru if he attempted to slop him, it would bo
at tiro peril of bis life. He then put hia
Macks In order, and armed them with area
and dubs; at the snrno time telling thorn not
to stop unless directed by him, and it any
one olforcrUo oppose thorn, tocut him down.
Hiding by tdeir side, ho approached the sta
iron, when the agont appeared,{ and aske
him whether ho meant to stop and show h
passport. Jucksnn replied, "That depend
upon cireunistancos. I am told that y<
meant to slop me by force ; whoever a.
tempts such a tiring will not havo long t
live , arui with a look that was not to U
mistaken, ho grasped his bridle with a f .-.
or grip. Mis determined marinor had sm ;
an effect, that tho agent declared ho had in
intention, of sfmiping him, and lie ami h:-
party wore su fierred to pass on without fur
iher molestation or interruption. Ho after
wards reported the conduct of the agent tp.
the government, and ho was dismissed from
his ugonoy.
Ilcpcnltincc.
A good husband will ropa r his Irons,
white the weuthsr is fair, nor puj it off til.
wintor; a careful pilot will take advantage
<4 the wind and tide, and so put out to sea
nor wait tilt a storm arise. The travelled
w ill tako his time on a journoy, anil moral
his pace when night comes on, lest dark
iioss ovcrinke him ; tho smith will , striko
wliilo tho iron is hot, lest it grow cool, and
so he lose his labor; so wo ought to make
every day the day of our repentance; tc
rnako us i of the present time, that when wc
oomu to die, we may havo nothing to do but
to dio, for there will bo a time when the
door w ill shut; when thoro will be no en •
tnyice at all.— Spencer
—r *> —-
linked Potatoes.
Three lbs. of jiotatoos and 2 oz. of .butter
l'aro und roast the potatoes a short .timo jr.
tho ovon. Then place them in a salt glazed
brown dish with a little butter, and bak
occasionally shaking them, to Secure the
being equally browned.
Mr. Fillmore, wo eve it stated, baa two
brothers, who, for sometime past, residedir
Washtenaw county, a hour
carpenter,, tho other a blacksmith, by trad
He has a i islor in Miotiigan, the wile of Jh
Harris, of Coidwater, lawyer by profession,
and another sistor married in Northern lndi
una. lfe visited them all last summer.
tkT About Uvo years ago, the first baffl
ing was erected in Salt Lake City, aud aim...
ily tho population numbers much ovor 55,-
000. The houses are yet all one story *-
hodos, but preparations are being, for the
oar'.y erection gf a lornplo and other peblio
buildings, in a noble and inoredurable style.
"ilere, yon little Kascat, walk up and give
on accounty of yourselt; where have yo
tieenl" "After the gals, lather." "Did yo
ever know nte to do so when I was a boy. -
"No sir—but mother did."