I VOLUME 2. • BLOQMgBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1850. NUMBER 45. /
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THE HOPE OF THE HEART.
BY LORD BTRON.
"No nobler theme ever "ttgaged the pen
of poet. It is the soul-elevating idea, that
no man can consider himself entitled '.o
• complain of Fate, while, in his adversity, he
still retains the unwavering love Of woman.!'
—[E. A. Poe.
■Though the day of my destiny's ovei,
. And the star of my fate hath declined,
'Thy soft heart refused to discover
i'i'ha .faults which so many could find ;
Though thy soul with my grief wasacquatn-
It shrank not to share it with me, [ted
And the love which my s tirit hath painted
It never hath found but in thee.
Then, when nature around me is smiling,
The last smile which answers to mine,
1 do not believe it beguiling,
I because it reminds mo ot thir.o ;
And when winds are at war with the ocean,
v As the breasts I believed in with me,
• If the billows excite an emotion,
■ - It is that they bear mo from thee.
J Though the rock of my last hope is shivered
*- And its fragments are sunk in the wave,
Though I feel that my sou 1 is delivered
To pain—it shall not be its slave; '
There is many a pang to pursue me: [ileron j
i They may crush, but they shall not con- j
They may torture, but shall not subdue me—
j'pis of thee that I think —not of them.
Though human, thou didst not deceive me, j
Thoftgh woman, thou diet not torsake,
Though loved, thou forboresl togrive me. '
Thouuh slandered, thou never couldst shake
Though trusted, ihon didst not declaim me,
Though parted, it was not to fly,
Though watchful, 'twas not to ddame me,
' Nor mute, that the world, might belie.
Ml Yet I blame not tho world, nor despise it,
■r - Nor me war of the *"euy 9"*— ■
t If tny soul was not fitted to prise it,
VTwas folly not sooner to shun,
And if dearly that error h-ith cost me,
And mote than I once could foresee,
1 have found lliat whatever ti l" 81 me >
It could not deprive me of thee.
From the wreck of the past, which bAth per
d Thus much lat least may recall, £heil,
It hailt taught me that which I most cli An*"-
jV Deserved to be dearest of all ; L etl
hi the desert a fountuin is springing,
In the wide wuste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit ol thee.
HUMAN LOVE.
\3T The following is one of the most
Leaatiful and just, otto of the richest and
- most worthy productions of one of the high
est order of genius, but who has been for
years frittering away his genius upon nam
by paotby small talk of the world of fash
| i jn, and whose readers now find his gems of
thought scattered so thinly through the land
that their labor ot reading is scarcely repaid
r . Had N. P. Willis died on the day after he
delivered the Poem from which this is an
L extract, he would have lived longer in the
I „ memory than he will, and ranked higher:
I Oh, if there is one law above tho rest,
* Written in Wisdom—if there is a word
S That I would trace ai with a pen of (ire,
Upon the unsullied temper of a child—
It there is anything that keeps the mind
Open to angel visits and repels
The ministry of ill—'lis humun love.
>■, God has made nothing worthy of contempt
' . The smallest pebble in the well of truth
Has its peculiar meaning-", and will stand
When man's best monume.it wears last away
The law of Heaven is lovo and tho' its name
Has baen usurped by passion, and protau'd
To its unholy uses through all tirao :
Still, the eternal principle is pure;
And in ihose deep affections ihat we feel
Omnipotent within us, can we see
The lavish measure in which love Is givn
And in the yearning teuderiiess ol a child:
In every bird that sings above our head,
And every tree .Aid flower, -md ronntng brook
Wo see, bow everything was I® s6vi :
And how they err, who in a world liko this
Find anything to hate but human pride.
..
Very True, O Priest.
The N. N. Herald, in replying lo the rhli
s* culecast upon Americans by the English
i press for our extravagance about Jenny Liud,
says: "The people ol this country hove
ntore money than melancholy—more beef
; than bowels—more fun than lashion—more
A brains than beer —more soul than selfishness
■ morn impulses to be enlivened than inter
ests to be consulted—more freedom for-ex-
A REAL LIVE YANKEE. A*
Whoever travels through New England,
says the Sunday Mercury, and notice the ec
centricities of some of tbe natives, cannot <
fail to be amused ; and may derive many
new ideas in respoct to etymology and di
versity of character.
Some years since, an acquaintance of
ours set out on horseback from Massachu
setts lo the Green Mountains in Vermont.
While travelling through the town of New
Salem, his road led into a piece of woods
some five mile* in length, anil Jong before he
got out of which, he began to have doubts
whether he should bo blest with tbe sight of
, a human habitation ; but as all things must
have an end, so at last had the woods, and 1
the nut brown house of the farmer greeted I
his vision. Near the road was a tall, raw- I
boned, overgrown, lantern jawed boy,
probably seventeen years of age, digging po- j
Uttoes. He was a curious figure to behold. I
What was lacking in length of his tow i
breeches, was amply made up for behind; i
his suspenders appeared to be composed of
bitch bark, grapevine and sheepskin ; and as '
for his hat, which was of dingy white fell— '
poor thing! it had once seen better days, I
but now, alas! it was only the shadow of his <
glory t
Whether the tempests of time had beaten I
the top in, or the lad's expanding genius t
buret it out, was difficult to tell; at any rate i
it was missing; and through the aperture red '
hairs in abundance stood six ways for Sun I
day. In short, he was one of the roughest 1
specimens of domestic manufacture that ev- •
er mortal beheld. Our travelling friend now I
feeling an itching to scrape an acquaintance '
with the critter, drew up the rein of his horse, 1
and began: 1
"Hallo, my good friend, can you inform
me how far it is to the next house I"
| Jonathan started up, leaned on his hoe
; handle, rRRud one fool on the gambrel of
j ti it sinister leg and replied.
I "Hullo, yourself. How'd dew! Well, I
! juss can. 'Taint near so far as it used lo be
i afore they cut the woods away—then, 'twas ■
generally reckoned four miles, but now the ;
sun shrivels up the road, and don't make it I
morn'n lew. The first hou.->o you come to j
though is a barn, and the next is a haystack;
but old Hoskiu's house is on beyunt, You'll '
be sure to meet his gals long afore you get •
I there; farnal romptn' critgf*, they plague
! out f lks a' little. His sheep get into our
pasture every day, and his gals in the or
chard. Dat sets the dogs arler the gals, and
the way W; make the woods and short
gowns tly, is a sin to snakes.
"I see you ore inclined to be facetious,
young matt; pray tell me how it happens
that ore of your legs is shorter than tho oth
er. I would like to know."
"rt ever'lows any one to meddle with mv
g.-as* tangler, mistnr; but seeing it's yew,
I'll ieti ye. 1 was born so at my licular te
quest, so that ivften I hold a plow, I can go
with one foot in the (utter, and tother on
land, and not lop over; btJ/'ides, it is conve
nient when I mow, round a siiic hill. It's
just the thing stranger."
"Very good, indeed; how do your pota
toes come on this year 1"
"They don't come on at all; I digs 'em
out; and there's an everlasttn'snarl of 'em
in each hill."
'•But they ate small, I perceive."
"Yes, 1 know it; you see we planted some
whoppin' blue noses over in 'tother patch
there, and they flourished so all fired, that
the*3 ere stopt growin' jist out of spite,
'cause they xnow'd thoy couldn't begin to
keep up.".
"You appear to be pretty smart, and I
think you could afford a hotter hat than the
one you wear."
"The looks ain't nolhirt'—its all in the be
haviour. This ere hat was my religious
Sunday-go to mea'in' hat, and it's just as
chock full of goodness now as the dog is
full of fieas. I've a better ono to hum, but j
I don't dig taters in it no how."
"You have been in these parts some time
I should guess ?"
"I guess so tew. I was born'd and got my
broughtin' up in that ere house, bat my na
tive place is down in Pordunk."
"Then you say it is about three and a half
miles to the next house 1"
"Yes, sir; 'twas a spell ago, and I don't
it's arow'd much shorter since."
"Much obliged. Goodby,"
"Good by to you—that's a darn slick horse
of yourn."
BE* "Jemes, me lad, keep away from the
" gals. Vett you see one coming, dodge. Jest
1 sich a critter as that young utt, oleanin' the
> door step on t'other side of the street, fool
3 ed yer poor dud, Jimmy. Don't cook yer
' eye aver that way and .vink. If it hadn't a
9 beeu for her—yer mother, Jimmy,—f say, if
8 it hadn't a been tor her, you and yer dad
" might ha' been in Califomy, htmiin' dtmuns.
" me soil V and therewith, the sage advisor
" and hjs sympathising son commenced a so
' ries of indentations in mother earth with
their picks, satisfied that the 'old 'oman"
f was atl that iinterposed between them and fe
ir; Deity.— Lycoming QateUe.
From the Albany Dutchman-
DUNCES SHOULD WED FOoLH.
To be happy in marriage, it Is not so rie- -
eessary that you should marry a woman of e
fine tastes, as one whose tastes" correspond e
with your own Coxcombs should ntarry n
flirts, while your sober fallows should wed o
those whoso souls are centered on home, d
and whose highest happiness consist in e
scouring the door knob, and keeping them- t:
selves tidy. For a "fast man" to expect to tl
be happy with a slow woman, is as prepos- );
terous as to expect a grey-hound to etijoy o
himself with a tin cullender tied to hiß tail, c
We care not how muoh good sense a wo- s
man may have, if it is not that kind of good s
sense which her husband esteems, it will h
give rise to more broomsticks lhau affec- c
tion. * tl
Difficult as it may be to teach roses to v
grow ugly, or monkeys to grow decent, we
think either ot tho (eats far more feasible ti
titan to make happiness spring from a mar- t
riage formed by uniting "May to January." ii
Whether a blockhead is contented with his tl
wife, depends altogether on whether his c
wife is a blockhead too. Annoying as a tl
toothache may be, we must question wheth- 8
or it causes more ill-nature to "the head of 'I
a family" than the discovery that his wife 8
knows more than he does. Opposite as oil 'I
and water are in their affinities, they are not tl
tnora so than are the affinities of those
whose minds have been turned to different h
keys, and whose pleasures are as wide apart n
as are the habits of the eagle and dove, d
And yet notwithstanding all this is as vrell I
known as the road to church, or the way lo ' I
he, there is no state unto which people en- ! I
ter with so little enquiry and examination, or [ \
about which they make a greater outcry f
when the bargain proves a bad oae. How 1
ridiculously absurd. it
Suppose a man had bought a farm, anil j 1
about a year after, should, in conversation i
with his neighbor, muko heavy complaints t
how much he had been disappointed, wo
imagine his friend might say to him, did '
j you not see this land before you bought it? i
; O yes. 1 saw it often. Do you not uuder '
| slaifd noils .' I think f do tolerably. Did l
J you not examine it with care ? Not so much i
as I should have done; standing at a c rtaitt I
1 place, it looked admirably well; the fences I
joo were new, and looked exceedingly neat; |
the house had just been painted a .tone I'
color, ivittf panelling; tho windows were i i
large and elegant; but I neglected entirely i
to examine ttie sufficiency of the materials, or I
tho disposition o 1 " the apartments There ate i
in tlto month of April two beautiful springs, i
but since 1 have lived here they have been 1
dry every year before the middle of June, j
Did you not inquire of those who had lived ! I
on the place of the permanency of the | i
springs? No, indeed, I omitted ir. Hail ! i
you the full measure you were ptomised ? 1 1
Yes, every acre. Was the right complete
and valid? Yes, yes, perfectly good; no
man in America can take it from me. Were i
you obliged to take it up in a part of a had '
debt ? No nothing ,ike it. I took such a
lancy for it all at once, that I pestered the
.•nan from week to week to let me have it.
Why really then, says his friend, I think
you had belter keep your complaints to your
self. ,
And what is true of our land speculator,
should be equally trne of the lover. If he
will enter into a hymouial purchase without
any regard to the soil that comprises his fair
ones mind, or the tastes thai fence in Iter 1
disposition, he must expect what he deserves,
any quantity of wrangling and very little of '
commisseration.
Chips from the Alkany Dutchman.
A negro was brought up before the mny
or ot Philadelphia a short time since for
Bleating chickens. "Well, Toby," said his
honor, "what have yon got lo say for yodr?
self?" "Nuffin but dis boss; I was as era
zy as a bed bug .when I stole dat 'ar pullet,
coz I might have stole de big rooster and
never done it. Dat shows 'clusively to my
mind that I was laboring under the delirium
tremendus."
"What's the matter, Pat?"
"Billy Mulloney has robbed me, and run
away, the vilyan."
"Robber) you ?"
"Yes, of the hundred dollars I owed the
s!ia!f,ssn, every cent of it,"
"A sail loss, Mr Kolley "
"Devil a worse ever overtook Pat Kelley
sinee he came till America. If it wa'ut for
dying, I'd kill myself, I would "
PERSUASION— DoubIoons and almond sha
ped eyas.
The rfian that broko his arm in pulling a
whiskey punch out of a tumbler, has taken
to a sling.
Me Graw says he always lives as near the
roof as possible during cold weather, to as
to have "the privilege of the shingles" to
kindle the fire with.
A yottng lady who wished "to jtta ihe
war," was asked If she were willing to
mount a breech. She promptly replied,
"Npt only a breech, but tf needs be, a pair
1 of breeches." Spunky gal the! #jT£
Learning, k is-saU, may be an iritri>ment
of fraud ; so may bread If discharged from
the mouth of a ear.non, be an instrument of
i.tt" ——•—
' Virtue forgives injury, even *s the sandal
!! pMfora.. <b. h.lch.l thai fril. it.
J . A CALIFORNIA BPBECH. | .
"Fel]ow-rep.tiblieans and fellow-sufferers:
—lara a plain ami modest man. borii at ar
earlj period of my existence—which great i
event occurred at home doe night while my \
mother was <mt—l have struggled lrom the i
obscurity to which an unlucky star had c
doomed me, till I have risen like a bright t
exhalation in the evening to the very sum t
mit of human greatness nml grandeur. Gen- <
tlumen, I profess no principles—unfortunate- I
ly 1 have none On the tinhappy occasion
of my birth, a dismal and melancholy man, |
clothed in the sombre hues of mourning, ■
swapped me away for another baby, and
subsequently lost me at a rattle. Sad event! i
but who can control his late t We are the ,
creatures of destiny—'there is a divinity
that shapes our ends, rough how them as we
will." t
"1 was intended by nature for a great sta- 1
tesman. Had I lived in the days of Hanni
bal 1 should have beaten that greet chieftain <
in crossing the Alps; and it is a dead certain i
thing that I could have distanced Corlez in I
crossing the Isthmus. Ho never performed
the feats I did ; he never came up the Cha- ]
gres river in a canoe, with a deal and dumb
'hombre,' without a red oent, or change of .
summer apparel. 'But a light heart and a
thin pair of breeohes, goes merrily through
the world.'
* * "Fir, every man whtfe has come ;
here is a Columbus. He comes to discover
new digging, lam a Columbus! I was
dead bioke at home as Columbus was, and
I have come out here to strike a new vein.
But I ara not going to the mines! Oil, no-
You don't catch me Up to my waist in ice
water, with a juvenile pick-axe and an inci
piont craw-bar, laboring under a sun of one
hundred degrees in the shade, to dig our fil
thy lucre. No, sir! lam not on that 1
hale labor—lt was an invention to vex man
kind. I prefer an office, one that is lucra
live and not laborious; hju you call a sin
ecuie. And if t-oannut get one myself, 1
will go in lor any man who will divide on a
dead letol, and no splits.
* * * "Sir, w!fcre will you find acoun
try tike this! Talk not of oriental
ness of eastern countries. Tell us not of
the fairy scenes which poets, who rebel in
the real warm bath of heavenly imaginations
paiuf with golden pans on satin.
The 'description of this
should be written 'with of an
angel dipped in the so'test rave of the sun
beam upon the blushing and delicate surface
ot a rose-leaf Excuse mo, gentlemen, 1
except only the rainy season and the time
when the dusi flies.
"We love our native laud—we honor liar
flag, and would not rob the Custom-House
it we bad a fair show. But Congress must
not put on any airs, or we will take charge
of the Custom House and Post Otfice, and
make a great muss generally. These are
my sentiments, gentlemen, jyijey don't
admit us into the Union, we open
tho Custom House and admit free
of duty.—And now, with a paging blessing
upon the girls we lott behind us, and the
boys who are coming afiei us, we will ad
journ to take a private drink."
The Iron Trade of England before the
Dlscoverr of Coal.
In Ilenry the Vllth's reign the export of
iron from England was very small. Biscay,
then as now, the mast flourishing par; of
Spain, was the great iron country of ihose
i days. Considerable quantities of Biscayan
iron were imported hito Liverpool. The
quality of the Spanish iron was much supe
rior to that of the English. Camden, spea
king of the iron made in tho groat forest of
Andrads\vaUl,in Snrsex, (then the greatest
iron district in England) says that it was less
tenacious than the Spanish iron, either from
uatuie or want of skill in the manufacture.
The forest of Dean was the second iron uis-
Iricl in England in extent; and the manu
facture was carried on in many parts of the
king-dorr, amongst others at Bury, and at
Furtiess, in Lancashire. It ceased about
Bury in the reign of Hbnry the Eighth, from
•want of wood tor the furnaces. It was also
suspended in the rich mineral district of
Eurness, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth,
lor the same reason. There the farm-ten
anis agreed to pay a bloomery rent to the
lord of the soil, on condition that the fur
naces should be blown out, and that the
young trees, used in the iron manufacture,
should be kept to feed their cattle in the
winter months. So general was the alarm
caused by the waging of llw woods in the
manufacture at iron, that an act was passed
in the first year of Queen Elizabeth's retgu,
declaring that no timber, afoot square at the
root, should be cut anywhere wi'hin foilt
teeu ro'l-S of the sea, or ol the rivers
Thames, Severn, Wye, Humber, Lee, Tyre,
Tees, Trent, or any rjther ri*er, to be uediu
making iron, except in Sussex and in the
weqlJ.pt Kent, where the forests were then
considered inexhaustible. A lurther act was
also passed in the same reigti, in the year
1591, declaring that lioiron works ahonW be
formed any where wiibln twenty-two miles
of 1,0.1.1%: The following are the places at
which iron was produced during the reign of
the Tudors —The Weal, pr WfljJ oi Sussex
and Kent: iffo forest of Detfi, iu Gloucester
shire ; Biiry au# Fatness, in Lancashire ;
Bloomfield and Huabou, ih North Wales;
Walsall, in Staffordshire; nml Luutrissairt, in
South Wales.
' - , ,•• .
God reigoeth ever, merciful and juir.
From the Penntylvanian.
"A Very Good Ilosband."
When a lady admits that her husband is a
good one, we take it for granted that he is
particularly good. As Mrs. Lydia McKeesick
swore that her husband was a "very good
one," we were inclined to set him down as
a paragon of a spouse; though there was
nothing in the gentleman's tace or figure to
maktf one suspect that he was much "belter
than '.be average."
Mayor.— -Do you say you have no oom
plaint to make against your husoand, Mrs.
McKeesick I
Afrs. JW.—Not a bit of complaint I'll bo
making against Jemmy, your honor. It's a
nale auddaoent lad he is as iver an honest
woman would wish to combined to.
Mayor.—The watchman has sworn that
that this husband of yours was beating you
last night.
Mrs. M.—Oh, it might have been a trifle
of that, aud sure a little bating, now and
then, will noi do a woman a great deal of
harm, when she's used to it, your honor.
Mayor.— You are used to it, then, Mrs. Mc
Keesick 1
Mrs. M lndadeit's not twenty-four hours
goes over my head without a taste of it.
But it's only drink and not the divil that
makes Jimmy switch me a little with the
broom siiok or some other nice utensil. It's
a very good husband he is, your worship.
Mayor. Vet > Mams he gets tipsy and
beats you once at least every tour and twen
ty hours'?
Mrs. M. —You see how consamed he
looks aboqt it, your worship It's th% sweet- .
est tempet he has that ever you laid eyes on;
—aud when he has pot all the drink he
unties, he's as quiet as a lambkin. Surely
if bating me a bit, for exercise just, will do
him any good, he's welcome inlirely.
Mayor— But it is a disturbance of the
public peace, Mrs. M'Kecsick. Your out
cries last night alarmed tho neighborhood.
Mrs. M.—Ah did it then ?—lt was very
naughty of me to make a noise for such a
trifle, and I'll very willingly abide with the
punishment.—Bui Jemmy's quite innocent,
your worship. Not a ba'porth of noise did
he make; —you couldn't have heard the licks
he gave me ituul the next house. I'll be
bound. Did'nt he flog me, nice and asy,
with a bit of a rope, not taking his stick for
riiVr a bettor husfllftid nuY 1 uAIt —tVT
have than Jemmy M'Keesick. • *S§ \
So earnestly did Mrs. M. intercede for
Jemmy that she obtained his discharge, and
we hope for the oredit of manhood, that her
kindness touched his heart, suificiemly at
least to save her from one of her daily casti
gatious. W.
COL. RICHARD M. JOHNSON died at Frank
fort, Ky., at 9 o'clock, on the 19th iiist., hav
ing for some time being deprived of his rea
son. He was born about the year 1780, and
was consequently somo 70 yean old, In
1807 lie was chosen a member of the House
of Representatives from Kentucky, which
post he held for twelve consecutive years.
In 1813 he was authorised to raise a volun
teer regiment ef cavalry of one thousand
men, to fight the British and Indians of the
North VVeat. In the campaign which fol
lowed he served gallantly under Gen. Harri
son as Colonel of that regiment. At the
battle ol the Thames he distinguished him
seh by breaking tho line of the British ir.-
funlry, Gen. Proctor having stupidly lortnud
it with considerable gaps between the dif
ferent divisions. The fame of kiiiing Te
cuniseh in this battle has also been attribu
ted to Col. Johnson.
Iu 1819 he was transferred from the House
of Representatives to the Senate to serve out
an unexpired term. When thai expired he
was re-chosen, and thus remained iu the
Senuie till 1899. Then another re-eleotion
being impossible, he went back into the
bouse, where he remaiued till 1837, when
be became Vice President under the Van
Bureq dynasty. In 1829 the Sunday Mail
agitation being brought before the House,
he, as Chairman ol the Coramitloe on Post
Offices and Post Roads, presented a report
against tho suspension of the Mails on Sun
day. The report was able ; it disposed of
the subject. From 1837 to 1841 he presided
over the Senate Since then he has not
held any office. Col. Johnson was brave
ood naturally generous. In bis private re
lations we know nothing but good of him,
Peaoe to his remains.
' While Van Amburg's collection was en
tering New Haven, not long since, the ele
phant, completely enveloped in a huge blan
ket reaching nearly to the ground was very
leisurely engaged m picking up with his pro
bocis the fugitive straw's of hay which were
scattered aboqt the streets; observing whioh
a son of the Emerald Isle among the bystan
ders exclaimed—
"Be jabers! an what sort o : baste is that
ailing hay with his tail."
hi fsi| 1 -—■">*—~—f i* : >. < hik
In atiempting to carve a fowl hoe day, a
gentleman .found considerable difficulty in
separating its joints, and exclaimed against
the man who sold him an old hen for a young
ohioken. ' . . . * „ '
"My dear," said the enraged man's wife,
"don't talk so much about the aged and res
pectable Mr, 8,, he planted the first biQ of
worn thai was planted in out town." j
"I know that,".said the husband, "ahd f
believe this Kan scratched it op." |
"DARE TO STAND ALONE."
BT FRANCES D. UACE.
Be firm, be bold, be strong, be true, ,
"And dare to stand atone
Strive for the right whate'er ye do, '
Though helpers there may be itdne. i
No—bend not to the swelling surgs
Of POPULAR sneer and wrong;
'Twill bear thee on tn ruin's verge, 1
With current wild and strong. 'i
i
STAND FOR THE RIGHT. Humanity
Implores, with groans and tears,
Thine nid to break the fettering links
That bind her toiling years.
Stand forlhe right. Though falsehood rail, I ,
And proud hps coldly sneer,
A POISONED ARROW cannot wound
A conscience pure aud clear.
Stand on the right, and with clean hands
Exult the truth on high :
Thnu'lt find wurm, sympathising hearts
Among the passers by. ' ,
MEN who haveseEN and thought and felt,
Yet could not boldly dare
The battle's brunt, but by thy side
Wilt any danger share.
Stand for the right; proclaim it loud'
Thou'll find an answering tone
In honest hearts, and thon no more
BE DOOMED TO STAND ALONE.
BELL SMITH.
In one of her tellers to the Columbian,
describes her visit to the monument on Bn n
ker Hill. She ascended to its summit, but
the fog was so dense that she oould not dis-
Jinguish any thing at a distance of ten feet.
In her description, she gives the following
information touching the monument, which I
may not be generally known; she says:
Bunker Hill Monument I How 1 should !
love to be patriotic over its blood stained !
base; but a little piece of information I re
ceived while staring into the fog, has driven
patriotism away. The committee when half
completed, had the work suddenly suspen
ded for want of funds. Boston, with all its
property and pride of birth, could not be in
duced to spend another copper. The mon
ument bid fair to remain a splendid rain like
those of Athens, you know, (this is tho new j
Athens, why not have ruins?) when Fanny
Ellsler gave Boston a professional visit, ami
offered the company a benefit. It was glad
jy BCoepled,-god rite# Adthjptanfl^whooooUt
patriotism, willingly took it from tho poor
danseus, and to the merry tinkling of Fan
ny's heels the work went bravely on—the
monument was completed. Stern old Puri
tans of that bloody mount, what could they
say to such a point and ending to their glo
ry? What makes the matter worse, Fanny
has never been thanked or noticed for her j
breathless services. Daniel Webster never
alluded to them in his oration—and the very
band in attendance failed to play the Craco
vienne or Cachuca, but indulged in those old '
forgotten strains of Yankee Doodle and the ;
Star-Spangled Banner. Fanny, as lam told,
is very poor—the company is rich. Would
it not be well to repay that little sum upon !
which tho monument wont Up? If not, at!
least inscribe her name upon the base.
tranis'aii'—llurnum's Residence. j
A wriier in New York Recorder makes the 1
following mention of Mr. Barnum's new res- i
idence, near Brigeport :
But the great object of our curiosity was
"Barnum's House, By the politeness of a
sister of tho great show-man, we were con
ducted through the apartments. But how
shall I describe it. It is a greater curiosity
than the Museum itself. The "Chinese
room" was a fair specimen of the Chinese
Museum—its furniture and ornaments all j
imported from the Celestial Empire; its
walls p*ainted to represent Chinese figures I
and Chinese scenery. "Hartium's study''
(Mr. B. has a study ) was tho most unique I
room wa ever entered.—The walls were
covered with a dark orange satin tapestry,
from the ceiling to the floor, ornamented at
the top with the most magnificent festoona
of the some sombre hue.
The carpet was black, faintly relieved
with some colors of a lighter shade. The
book-case—tbe study chair, all the furniture
was in keeping, being of the most ancient
patters. It seemed a fit place for romantic ;
aud gloomy meditations. Hero the Prince
of curiosities resides occasionally, to reflect
upon the probable issues of his great plans,
aud to study human nature.
DRY FEET.—We will give our readers a
recipe for making boots water proof which
is worth more than our subscription price to
apy body who will try it. Moisture gener
, ally penetrates the soles of boot*—the up
per leather is not easily wet aud is easily
dried. To render the sole impervious to
water, ordsr your boot maker to cut pieces
of canvass in the proper shape, (lip (hem in
melted pitch ottar, andJav ihem upon the
innet soles befor the outer soles
' of the boots. This simple process will in
sure dry feet without making the ooot clum
ay, We have trieJ tire experiment, and
k would advise ail whoae solee are alflteted
, with cold or dampness to do the same.
1 . A CIIAPTMIOF DON'TS.—Dou-'l get tipsy,
I don't smoke immoderately, o* in the ladies'
(noes; don't quarrel with your friends, don')
, fancy yourself the nicest mau in Christen-
.- " i iii ■ pptnn
THE ROMANTIC YOUNG LADY.
There is'at present existing in a plain
brick house, within twenty miles of o,
habitation, a young lady whom we have
christened "the romantic young lady" ever
sinee she came to an age of di eretian—
We havh known hrir from childhood, and
can safely affirm that she did not take thi
turn till her fifteenth year, just after she had (
read Corinne, which at that time was go
the rdtmd of the reading society.
At that period she lived With her fa her i. 1
the next village We remember wtting "M
cidentally, and being informed ti, her thai
it was "a rifiosi angelic day," a troth winch
certainly our own experience of the co'.t
aud wet in walking across would have w
clined us to dispute. These were the first
words which gave us a hint as to the tea;
slate of the young lady's mind ; and wt
know not but what we might have passed
them over, had it not boon for ceitafn' oih t
expressions on her part, which served r a
confirmation of our melancholy suspicion ■
Thus when our attention was pointed m a
small sampler, lying on the table, covered
over with three alphabets tn red, blue, aftd
black, with a miniature green pyramid a'
the top, she observed pathetically "h was
done by herself in herinfiir.cy;" after \< -
turning to a dandelion iri a wine glass, •
asked as languishly if we loved flowers, ,
firming in the wnu liramfl thai "she quit' Tow?
doted on them, and verily believed that if
there weie no flowers she would die out
right." There expressions caused us it
lenghlened meditation on the young lady's
case, as we walked home over the fields.
Nor with all allowances made, could we
avoid the melancholy conclusion that she
, was gone romantic. "There is no hope for
, her," said we to ourselves—Had sho only
| gone mad, there might have been soinr
chance.' As usual, we were correct in o
surmise-. Within two months after this, on
romantic friend ran away with the lim,
dressers apprentice, who settled her in the
identical plain brick house so hono.ablv
mentioned above.
From our observations upon this case, and
others of a similar kind, We feel no hesita -
i lion m laying before our readers tho foU.,w
".g characteristics, by which they ...di
know a romantic young lady within the Irst
ten minutes of an Introduction. In the (ir-l
TIWKSTnore or less, Using geuerallvSST'i
drawl pathetic, occasionally diversified' vii
the drawls sympathetic, melancholic, an.
semi melancholic. Then sue is always pit
ying or wondering. Her pity, knows n
bounds She pities "the poor flower in
winter" She pities hor friend's shawl if it
gets wet. fSie pities poor Mr. Brown, "h
has such a taste; nothing but cabbages an 1
potatoes in his garden. 'Tis singular the'
with all this fund of compassion, she w;;
never known to pity a deserving obi'
That would he too much mat'er of fa
j Her compassion is of a more etherta! t.- -
rare. She never gave a half penny to
beggar, unless he was "an exceeding pic'o
, esqne young man." Next to the passion
j pity, si eis blest with that of love. gta
j loves the moon. She loves each of the aims
j individually. Sho loves 'ho sea, aud vhe"
] she is out in a small boat loves a storm c- ni>
things Her dislikes it must bo confe..
are equally strong and capicious. Tliu., 'be
hates that dull woman Mrs. B'ipg'. g ,
caut bear that dry book Rodin's Hisiory
She detests high toads. Nothing with he,
is in the mean. She either dotea or abort,
nates. If you dance with her at n ball, h
is sure to begin philosophising, in a str,. t
way, about the feelings She is paiticularl.
1 partial to wearing fresh flowers in her hai
I at dinner. You would ho perfectly thunder
| struck to hear, from her own lips, whai it
immense number of dear friends sho hr
both young and old, male and female. . Jcr.
| correspondence with yttung ladies is sou
thing quire appalling. She was ne
known, however, Hi her life to give an acti
al piece of information, except in a po t- *
script. Her hand writing is excessively lilt
putian, yet she always crosses in red ink,
and sometimes recrosses again in invisible
green. She has read all the love r oveU in ,
christoudom, and is quite in love with that
dear Mr. Bulwer. Some prying persons My
that she has got the complete works of Lord
Byron; but on that point no one is perfectly
certain. If sho has a younger brother ires!-
from school he is always ridiculing her fot
wtiat she saya trying to pat her in a passion,
in which, however, he tarely succeeds
There is one thing in which she excels ho!.'
her sex, for she hates scandal <ind gossip.
To conclude, the naturalist may lay down
three principal eras in the romantic young
lady's life. The first from Unpen to eight- ", |1
een, while she is growing romanticy tho
, second from nineteen to twenty one, while
she keeps romantic ; tjd the third frot*
twenty one to tweuty uine, during which
, times she' gradually subsides into common
sense. U* : >QSK&MiRi
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