4L e t . ct HULLER.
APO" 4411 , 446 • AFle,
.
[ V th e. ana
•. • •
, • 'Whoetut toroth '
MAI, 'unadorned and, though it charm
With fervent love a thousand bosoms warm. 1
Otaieddli, motet humility--
Imre* the&
, %corer loveth
iotymyt ova with kindliest beams
Prißietie fiOdlthe heart and gladdening streams
4oNtlit to gaging (fOO3 thIS
soul—
Whoever lovoth
Gandor, thil dAveth from the happy heart
Ihseelt, sad fearless openeth every pert
• To meet the eye of friend or foe...
, Laved' thee.
' , Whoever loveth
Tenderneei of hind, that ever stands beside
7'he and, tho 'tie but a worm thatheth died,
Poets krth in (Mrs her lovely ourrow—
Loveth thee.
Whortarloyeth•
Madam, that I;omath with a kindling pow'r,
End' orithridew hrings'to the thinning flow'r,
'cn4 Waketh up the cloudy heart—
toroth thee.
Whoever loath
Piety, that likedßeet angel of earth,
Giving man promise of a nobler birth
In the Eternity to come—.
• Lovoth thee.
Pennsylvania College, 1849.
A CHAMBER SCENE
She reels from her untroubled sleep,
And put oxide her soft brown hair,
And in a tone as low and deep,
As (ore's first whisper, breathed sprayer
Her pow-white hands together pressed,
Her blue aye sheltered in its lid—
The folded linen on her breast
lest swelling with the charms it hid ;
And from her long and flowing dross
Eseapal a bare and slender foot,
Whose (ail upon the earth did press
Just like a snow-flake, soft and mute ;
And there, from slumber, soft and warm,
Like a your spirit fresh from heaven,
- She bowed ha fight and graceful form,
And humble prayed to be
40h, Got! I if souls unsoiled as these,
Need daily mercy at thy throne—
If she, upon her banded knees,
Our loveliest and purest one—
Ache, with also* so pure sad bright,
We 40111111 her seam Astray child of light—
If rho, with these soft eyes and tears,
Day attar day, In her first years,
Newt kneel and pray for grace from Thee,
What ter deeper need have we
— 7 - 1141 w hardb..if iht.niamiluaten,
Will our wad errors be forgiven ?
TBANNETTE AND JEANNOT
The feriewing little song is all the rage in Paris.
Th words are by Charles Jeffreys.
Yon are going far away,
Far away from poor Jeannette,
There is we one left to love me now,
And you, too, may forgot ;
But my heart will be with you,
.Wherever you may go—
' Can you look me in the face
And say the same, Jeannot
When you wear the jacket rot,
And the beautiful cockade,
Oh, I fear you will forget
All the promises you made;
With the gun upon your shouldtr,
And the bay'net by your side,
You'll be taking some Frond lady,
And be making her your bride.
Or when glory leads the way,
You'll be madly rushing on,
Never thinking if they kill you,
That my happiness is gone ;
If, you win the day, perhaps.
A General you'll be,
Though I'm proud to think of that,
What Will become of me 1
Oh,lf I were Queen of France
Or still bettor Pope of Rome, •
I would have no fighting men aboard.
No weeping maids at home ;
All the world should be at peace,
Or, if Kings must show their might,
Why, let them who make the quarrels
Be the Only men to fight.
TEE halm Meastaon.—Marriage is of
adds prior to sin itself—the only relic of
t► waive that is left to ns—the one smile
that God let fall on the world's innocence,
lingering and playing still upon its sacred
visage, The first marriage was celebra
ted before God himself, who filled, in His
rein person, the office of Guest, Witness
and Priest. There stood the two god-like
forms of innocence, fresh in the beauty
of their unstained nature. The hallowed
shades of the garden, and the green car
peted earth smiled to look upon so divine a
pair.. The crystal waters flowed by. pure
end transparentas they. The unblemieh-
ed dowers breathed incense on the sacred
sent; rotrwering to their upright love. An
teen round of joy from all tho vocal fia
to,retiA!ine the hymn, a spontaneous nap-
tial harmony, such as a world in tune might
yiekloerts diteorri was invented. Religion
blittiettehir' two Children thus, and ted
)01 1 Winelc)11( 0 ;to begin her wondrous
11 10 4 RIN, • The,. first religious scene th e y
koeullras theit own marriage before the
Lord leerned to love hiM as
theirs's:pester said sealer of their love to
mak other r.ised if - they had continued in
theWlifiltilittnisli; life `weuld'have been
ltritiitiddedWrirship--a sacred :nye
tel'octfpytte "tenses and communica
.
*ph i , T4y . .tli4lnot pontinue. Curiosity
triumphed over itufabeace.. They 'tasted
111:41t4"Nt0ir:4,3,' `their te ll ,' Man is
anv il ; titan's heart and woman's heart
lontirk/Rprithit 'Thu' Brit hearts were.
Jleautirli ins; debased.
Smetiow,andyteare are. in the world's cup.
~riHtßriWeiit' , ai►ay all parndisean mat
la t 4 the world is bowed under
curse. atilt one thing remains as it was.
spared one token of the
inon;lMl world; and that the dearest, to
terx. y forever of the primal love.—
marriage. This one flower of
r l, iga la , bloomint yet in the desert of
4 tom
ar. Bushnell..
lennuenot a j est were none can take
Thissaris in mirth.
;,.,..11,estot too-hasty to believe flying re
ports to the injury of another.
AN BuIP.EXOENT IN OLDEN TIME.
The Dowager Lady Ashburton died of '
Gosport, England, a short time since, and
her history contains materials fora splen
did romance. This lady was an Ameri
can, and among other incidents of note`re
corded in connection with her name, the
Mowing will be read with interest :
“ She was the daughter of Hon. William
Bingham, a Senator of Congress, and fifty
years since, her father was a wealthy and
prominent merchant in Philadelphia. He
was *man of fashion, and the family were
among the leaders of the ton in the Quaker
city, at that per'tod. Then he was identi
fied with the interests and institutions of
the Grilled States ; he was recognised as
one of the aristocracy, and was always
remarkably attentive to the nobility visit
ing this country. About the period he
was elected by the State of Pennsylvania
to the Senate, then sitting in Philadelphia,
he built what was then called a splendid
and costly mansion, occupying an entlia
square of ground, with gardens and all
kinds of embellishments, enclosed by a
brick wall, fronting on Third and Spruce
streets, and now known as Head's Man
sion House. Mr. Bingham entertained
strangers, Senators and the Cabinet, with
princely hospitality. His family led the
fashions of those times, and a very friend
ly intimacy existed between him and Gen
eral Washington.
The French revolution drove several
noblemen to the United States as exiles,
among whom were two professed duellists,
Count de Tilly and Viscount de Noailles.
The Viscount either brought letters to Mr.
Bingham from General Lafayette, or he
obtained an introduction to him, which led
to his admittance as•an inmate in the fami
ly. Having acquired the confidence of
Mr. Bingham by his address and accom
plishments, he managed to introduce the
Count de 'Filly into that hospitable man
sion. The Count was as noted for his
profligacy as he was for his skill with the
small sword ; and understanding all the
arts of a seducer, he soon obtained the
good opinion and admiration of Mrs.
Bingham and Miss Maria Matilda Bing
ham, an only daughter. •
In those times, and even since, a noble
man—French, English, or German—wee
received with marked attention in all
wealthy, families. There was much pa.
trician blood coursing through the veins of
the young Republic ; royalty and nobility
were not then, as now, at a discount.—
Marquises, Viscounts and Barons were li
onized whenever:they made their appear
ance, and young ladies were enamored with
the titled. This Count de Tilly soon per
suaded Miss Bingham to elope with him,
and also bribed some clergyman to unite
them. The city was not then very popu
lous, and the whole world of fashion was
thrown into the greatest excitement, at
hearing that Miss Bingham had run away
with the French Count de Tilly; and Mr.
Bingham himself—a very honest, well
meaning, but not very distinguished man,
excepting for wealth—was dreadfully
mortified at this rash step of his daughter,
not then sixteen years of age. The whole
city called it a vile abduction. The great
est indignation was everywhere expressed;
and Captain Barry, commanding a packet
ship, and a - man of fashion, took occasion
to thrash the Count for some insolence.—
The couple was forthwith separated, and
the affair was the subject Of tea-table con
versation for some time—such an event
seldom occurring in those quiet and inno
cent periods.
Mr. Bingham almost sunk under the
blow, but it became necessary to open
some negotiation with the Count, to buy
him of, as he only ran away with the girl
for her fortune, The Count, in the course
of these negotiations represented himself
to be deeply in debt, and that it was im
poisible to leave the country without sat
isfying his creditors to the amount of
25000 in ready money, and an annuity of
2000, which was paid and secured to him,
and he left for France, the marriage having'
been declared fraudulent. Mr. and Mrs.
Bingham never recovered tom the shock,
and died shortly afterwards.
A young English merchant, by the nacho
of.ltaring. eubsequeatiy, aiiived in Phila
delphia with letters to Mr. Bingham, and
forming 'an attaehmOnt for hie daughter,
married and carried her home. Her hug.
band, afterwards the head of the great
banking-house of Baring an Broth ers,
was created a Baron under the title of Lord
Ashburton, and was the negotiator hereof
the celebrated Ashburton treaty. The
dowager, Lady Ashburtcl, recently duties ! .
ell, was the girl who had excited so much
attention and polite gossip, when run away
with by the Count de Tilly, some fifty
years ago."
"He was up betimes, who found a puree
of gold," said the father to hie aleeppbead
ed boy. '"Ay, father," replied the son,
"but he watt up before who boat it."
Be not endues to know the affairs o loth
"I'm walking with the staff of life," as
the thief said' when he left a baker's shop
with a loaf of breed under his arm.
GETTYSBURG, PA. FRIDAY EVEN.ING, AUGUST 24, 1849,
A COLLINS LARK.
The following capital story Is told by
"one who knows," of Dr. Mortar, and
cannot fail to amuse our , readers. On one
occasion, several of the students of South
Carolina College resolved to drag the Dee.
toads carriage into the woods • and fixed
upon a night for the performance of the
exhibit. Oneof their number was trou
bled with some compunctious visiting*,
and managed to convey to the President a
hint that it would be well for him to secure
the door of his carriage house. Instead of
paying any heed to this suggeetion, the
Doctor proceeded on the appointed night,
to the carriage house, and ensconced his
portly'person inside the vehicle. In less
than an hour, some half a dozen young
gentlemen came to his retreat, and cau
tiously drew the carriage into the road.—
When they were fairly out of the college
precincts they forgot their reserve and be
gan to joke freely with each other by name.
One of them complained of the weight of
the carriage, and another answered by
swearing "it was heavy enough to have
the old fellow himself in it." For nearly
a mile they proceeded along the highway,
and then struck into the woods, to a cov
er which would conceal the vehicle. Ma
, king themselves infinitely merry at the
I Doctor's expense, and conjecturing how
and when he would find his carriage, they
at length reached the spot where they had
resolved to leave it. Jpst as they were
about to depart—havint once more agreed
that "the carriage was heavy enough to
have the old Doctor and all his tribe in it,"
—they were startled by the sudden drop
ping of one of the glass door pannels, and
by the well known voice of the Doctor
himself, who thus addressed them :—"So,
so, young gentlemen, you are going_ to
leave sue in the woods, are you ? Sure
ly, as you have brought me here for your
gratification, you will not refuse to take
me back for mine. . Come, Messrs. —,
and --, and —, bucklp to, and let us
return : it is getting late l" There was
no appeal ; for the window was raised,
and the Doctor resumed his seat. Almost
without a word, the discomfited young
gentlemen took their places at the pole, at
the back of the vehicle, and quite as soon,
and with less noise, did they retrace their
course. In silence they deigged the cad=
riage into its wonted place, and then re
treated precipitately to their rooms, to
dream of the account they must render on
the morrow. When they had gone, the
Doctor quietly vacated the carriage, and
went to his house, where he related the
story to hie family with great glee. He
never called the heroes of that nocturnal
expedition to any account, nor was his
carriage ever after dragged into the woods
at night.
PIIIJIONAL Ta•rrs or HON. Joint C.
CALHOUN.—Less is probably known to the
public of the personale of the great expo
nent of South Carolina opinion, than of
ny other of our eminent statesmen. A
number of facts in reference to his person
al habits, etc., have recently been disclos
ed, which will prove of interest to our read-.
ere., The family of the Senator consists
of Mrs. Calhoun, and seven children. Of
these, one. son is a planter in Alabama, the
next a captain in the army at New Or
leans,—the eldest daughter is in Europe,
wife of our charge at Belgium. Of the
three sons at home,
,one is a physician ;
the others are young men of 20 and 18.—
Mr - . Calhoun has upon his table every
thing of Southern production, but is him
self a spare eater. The view from his house
commands distant mountain ranges 40 and
00 miles away. His study is 20 feet south
of his mansion, has but one room and one
door. His library is not large, but choice,
and most of the books relate to the Union
and her interests. The key of this build
ing he keeps always under, his immediate
control when at home; No one enters it
but himself, unless he is there.
His house stands on the Seneca fiver,
1000 feet above the level of the sea, and
200 feet above the river. There are per
haps 70 or 80 negroes on or about the
place. The largest part of his negroes are
in Alabama, where•he owns a large cotton
plantation, nutlet the ,nuteagstuisst of Ads
eldest son. Mr. ,Calhotin hai a *Wier.
manner of ditching, drainage and 'planting_
of such utility that his tteighbora regard;
his as a model fanner. His crops are rep.:
resented as far habit' thnoutany'other
aultivatorin that,rogion of country. His
farm Is known as Fort Hill, • from 'a fort
which once stood there in 'the time of the
revolutionary war. 'Calhoun's hub.
its are very reg6lo,
He rises at, 4or b o'clock—exercises on
horseback, or in a long walk over the farm
far an hotir ; writes until breakfast at 8,
and, after breakfast, is busy in his library
until one or two. On Friday, which is
mail day, ho rides to the village. His
newspapers, of• which large numbers are
sent to him, are spread in the hall for the
use of his visitors. Ile is very hospitable,
is a great lion even in the very neigbor
hood of his own house, and in all the pri
vate life, is a most estimable, upright, and
"Onorable man.
44PEARLESe AND rnE.,,
A OCENLOS - lIIS MLE.
Blackwood's Ithriaiiitte, in a Review of
Werne's uNarretive Af st Voyage up the
Nile," furnishes the feNewilog description
of some of the ettelte scenes pained
through
""We can can cow:else.* things more ex
citing than such' a ire as Mr: Warne
has accomplished and Sorded. Starting
ipt
from the outposts of 'nation, he sailed
into the very heart of ries, up a streams
whose upper waters 1h . 1 for the first time,
were furrowed by v
~. , , larger than a sa
vage's canoe—a of such gigantic
proportions that its Width, at a thousand
miles from the sea, g* it the aspect of a
lake rather than of eh:V. Thelirnte Ore»
ation were in propo 'rt* to the magnitude
of the water course. . 4'he hippopotamus
reared his huge itheorabove the surface,
wallowed in the gulliert that on either hand'
run down the streain ; enormous croco
diles gaped along the shore ; elephants.
played in herds upon .the pastures ; the
tall giraffe stalked amok the lofty palms ;
snakes, thick as tried; lay coiled in the
slimy swamps ; and anithills, ten feet high,
towered above the rushes. Along the thick
, ly peopled banks, hordes of savages show
ed themselves, gazing in wonder at the
strange ships, and making ambiguous ges
tures, variously constr4ed by the adventu
rers as signs of friendship or hostility.--
Alternately sailing and towing, as the wind
served or not; constanity in sight of natives,
but rarely communicating with them; of
ten cut off for days from land by intermin
ble fields of tangled weeds ; the expedition
pursued its course through innumerable
perils, guarded from most of them by the
liquid rampart on which it floated. "Lions
looked hungry, and savages shook their
spears, but neither showed a disposition to
swim and board the flotilla."
Winnearoaca.--An anecdote is related
of Miss Wilberforce, the philanthropist,
which powerfully illustrates the grand al
pha and omega of warnan's mission.—
When far past " extreme youth," and the
hue of the " sere and yellow leaf " had be -1
gun to displace the roses and lillies of her
cheeks, she accompanied her father in an
electioneering tour through a country where
ho was menaced with a tremendous oppo
sition. By her strenuous efforts among
the wives and thiuglitters of .the_votereon_d
her woman's tact,,.... which intuitively
opens the way to a ready appreciation of
character—among the latter themselves,
she was mainly instrumental in securing
Mr. W's election. In the glorification of
the triumph which ensued, her father's
supporters enthusiastically cheered the
lady before the doors of the hotel at which ,
they put up, crying out with stentorian
voice, " Miss Wilberforce forever ! Miss
Wilberforce forever!" In the midst of
the uproar she stepped forward on the bal
cony, and waving her hand, intimated a
desire to be heard. Silence, immediately
took place—a pin might have been heard
to fall when gaily she:littered these memo
rable words : Miss Wilberforce forever !
Not so, gentlemen, if yon please ! Am
the only one of all your female acquaint
ances whoin you thus forbid to change her
name? That is not gallant—and I pro.
test against it , with all the „ardor of a true
woman's best hopes!" his needless to
say that a thunder of applause broke forth,
and as the witty lady retreated into the
hotel, her name was again echoed far and
wide on the air but sedulously divorced
from the hated words. uforever." yMiss
Wilberforce, it is said, was afterwards
married, and thns • it seems, she had her
will by force.
CAMPBELL TO THE UNITED STATES.
United States! your banner wears
Two emblems ; one of hoe ;
Alas! the other that it Wars,
Reminds ue of your dame I
The white maa's liberty in types
!Stand blazoned by your stars--
But whit's the meaning pf your stripeal
They mean your negroes' sears.
Hon. Gee. Lux; wa axe akin: Ix lISTM.
England I wham* tame each glowing hoe,
l'hatainta your 6.g of inetear•light f -T •
The finalising wei, tbe deeper blue, •
, creiled with the woneheaii'a pearly white!
.
The blood aid btubw—tba it•ava the arm,
Let Aabile partial; million! speak;
The Warta—it tell' of color Etta '
Prom start/Int Erhee pallid *eh!
This reply; Much more, fairited and Po
et'than attack, wait s
caito.l tut
bell, irbo anknostiodged Its receipt and its
merit; by sending ,Lunt - a. complimentary
letter tett a iipiondideditikm of his (Camp
,
WOO work!. ' '
Here it a little nest of Contradiction for
thi'lovers of the curious., 'Our language
is rich in' the materials of punning. .
Fsurr."--The word “Fast" is as great a
contradiction as we have in the language.
The Susquehanna was fast because the
ice was immoveable ; and the ice disap
peared very fast for the contrary reason—
it was loose. A clock is fast when it goes
quicker than time. Bat a man is told to
stand fast when he is desired to remain
stationer •; people fast when they have
nothing to eat, and eat fast consequently,
when opportunity offers.
Every 'married man should let his wife
have the management of the Home De
partment, and give her, us Secretary, the
control of the different Bureaus. It won't
do, however, to let her have the control of
the War Department.
ANOTHER LETTER PROM MM. JACK
DOWNING.
Musa au Divot's side of ilistt Rear.
August 11, 1849.
My, Dun Ma. Rum: You don't
knOw bow glad I be to see how you have
spooked Up, since 'my last letter to you.—
You ate rely giving it to the cortupt•qtribe
elle Administration" pell-mell. I should
think every udolt," and every "butcher,"
and Nosy uNero" among 'em must have
bonged eyes by this time. You do give
it to 'cm right and left about right., Un
ele Joshua says you Broths Thu flyer of
Our party, lad can whip any body the Feds
an bring into the riog. Bat nowl begin
to feel uneasy for fr...sr 'you'll overdo your
self and break down, and then we shut
have nobody to take care of it.
.Don"t
you remember the story, of the lame ele
phant that wu used to help launch vessels 'I
One time they put him tolaunch a vessel
that was too heavy for him. Alter be tried
once or twice and 'couldn't deft it, the
keeper called out, "take away this lazy
beast and bring-another." At that the
poor elephant roused up and put his head
to the vessel again, and pushed and strain
ed himself' so 'hard that he laid down and
died; Now, I don't want your to - do so.
When I writ that letter to you two or three
weeks ago to rouse you up a little, I did'nt
mean to make you so furious that you
should run your head agin the Administra
fion so hard as to break your neck, or ,
strain youreelf so much as to fall down
dead. Nor I didn't mean that you Out&
kill off all the Administration, smack,
mooth, as dead as herrings, in two months..
I meant to give you two or three years to
do it in. Any time before the next slop-1
lion-would-do. " - If youtthouldkill-"em
right off before we have time to chuffs anY : l
body to take their places r you would have
all the Government on your own alioUld-'
ors, and rm afraid it would be too much
for you. So I think you had better try tb
cool down a ; it. ain't prudence 10 .
keep so hot all.the time. That is, I mean
on your own account, for fear you should
overdo yourself and break down. And
then again there is such a thing as drawing
too long a bow to hit the thing you 'shoot
at. Major Longbow used to be quite un
lucky in that •way. You con Otakefolka
believe a middlin sized fish story, if you
tell it well ; but if you try to `back it up
with a tarnel great cock-and-boll story.
they'll go right back again and swear they
dont believe the fish story. It's danger
ous loadin guns to heavy, for then there's
no knowing which will get the worst of it,
him that stands before the muzzle or him
that stands behind the britch. So I hope
you'll try to cool down a little, for I'm sat
iefied, since my last letter, you an firing
away your ammunition too fast. And, be
sides, I don't think it's right for you at
your time of life io be fighin so hard. Nor
I don't think it's necessary outlier'; foT
things is brighenin up all over the country.
Our party is all coming, together again,
and going to carry all afore 'em. It's true
the flocks and herds of onr party has been
dreadfully broke up and scattered about.
The oxens didn't know their Owners, and
the sheeps hadn't no shepherds, and the
Taylor wolves has beim prowlin about the
country and carried off a 'great many 'of
'em. But from what I hear all over the
country now, I am satiefied, they are all ,
cotton together again. and on a new plat
form ; and that platform is Mason and
Dkcon'a side of Salt ,_ ;Mr. John
Van Buren is shoo-sh'ooin 'all Over. the
Northern States, and driven of 'eta up and
headin of 'em all as fast as he can towards .
Mason and Dixon's side of Sale River.—
Mr, Calhoun in the Southein Stites is
whistlin round his springy rattan, making
the hair and akin fly. and he*diu ' our all•
up towards Mason and Dixon's iitle of
Salt River. t And Gel. Benton is' cracking
his long whip all over, the greet Western
country, and houlin 'em Al across the pray
ries towards Mason and , Dixon's side'of
Salt River. , , And Mural Ous stands,
yotiknow, where he always has stood. on
Mason and tilion'eeldiof Salt River, with
hatulful dealt n one •hand and a nub of
corn in 'Whet, and lookin all round and
calling' of 'ant to come to him and he'll
Ibed''em, fro
. you pee we have every
thirig4oioune l'hin g s look bright
ahead. It woolt be long before all the scat
tered flocks and beards of our party will he
got together' on this new platform on Ma
gill' awl Dixon's side of Salt River; and
then we'll have things all our own way,
and CI ineral Taylor -and the Wilmot pro
viso may go to grass.
Postacriii t.—Mjr dear old friend : I've';
jest gPt the Union of last Thursday, and
I'm amazingly struck up, and my feeling
is badly hurt, to see that you've got so be-'
wildered that you seemingly don't know
me. It's a melancholy sign when old
folks get so bewildered that they mistake
their oldest and best friends one for 'toth
er. Why, your head is turned right round.
How cot/it/you say that I was " a fictitious
Major Jack Downing " and that my last
letter to you was a " trashy forgery ; "
and that you would " strip the mask from
me I" I teel bad now about writing my
list letter to you ; for l'in afraid you took
it too hard, and have strained yourself so
hard agin the Administration that it's turn
ed your head. I beg of you now, my dear
friend, to let all drop right where 'tis ;
leave Mr. Burke to do the burkin and fight
in, and you go right out into the country
and put yourself under the " cold-water
cure" and see if your head won't come
right again. I " fictitious," and you going
to "strip the mask from me ! " Why,
my dear friend, if you could only be up
here five minutes on our new platform, on
Mason and Dixon's side of Salt River, and
jest lift the mask off of my face one min
ute, you'd know me jest as easy as the
little boy knew his daddy. Your head
coukrot be so turned but what you'd know
me ; for you'd see then the very same old
friend that stood.by you and Gineral Jack
son Mete, sixteen, and eighteen years I
ago; the same old friend that coaxed up
Gineral Jackson and made him forgive
yoit for calling him such hard names be
fore be was elected. It's very ungrateful
for rot to forget me now, that is, if jou
was in your right mind. For I'm the
genie old friend, the same Jack Downing,
that was born and brought up in Dow fling
vine, away down east in the State of
Maine, and that drove down to Portland
in Jinnerwary, )1330, with a load of axe
handles and bean-poles, and found the
Legislater in a dreadful snarl, all tied and
tangled, and see-sawin rip and down a
whele fortnight. and couldn't choose their
officers. I found my axe-handles and
bean poles 'wouldn't sell, so I took to poly
tin and , went to *whin letters. The Leg
baster lord and fout all - winter; but I kept
snide, and.at last I got'em straitened out.
I kept on wrifikfor a whole year, and got
the polytix of - Mains pretty weU settled.—
Then lsee flineral Jackson was getting
bite iamb* Usti footed it on to Wash
ioguin to give him a lift. And you know
I always stuck by him afterwards as long
as he lived. I helped him fight the battles
with Riddle's monster Bank till we killed
lie: I helped him to put down nullifi
cation, and showed exactly how it would
work if it got the upper hand, in my letter
about carrying the raft of logs across Seba-
F. Pond, whettDM Johnson got mad and
swore he'd have his log all to himself, and
so- he-cot the lashings and paddled off on
his-log alone; and then his log began to
roll and he couldn't keep it steady, and he
got ducked head over heels half a dozen
times,and come pesky near being drown'd.
And that wasn't all I did to keep off nulli
fication and help pot it down. I brought
on my old company of Downingville ma
litia to Washington, under the command
of, cousin Sergeant Joel, and kept 'em
there with their, guns all loaded till the
danger war over. And I used to go up
nip of the Congress house every day, and
keep watch, and listen off towards South
Carolina, so as to be ready, the first mo
meat nullification bust up there, to order
Sergeant Joel to march and fire. The
Gineral always said the spunk I showed
was what cowed nullification down so
'quick;, and he always felt very grateful to
me foe it. Well, I stuck by the Gineral
all 'weatters ; and I kept writin letters
from Washington to my old friend, the
editor of the Portland Courier, and kept
old Hickory's popularity alive among the
people, and didn't let nobody meddle with
his Adn;inistradon to hurt it.
Well then, you know, the Gineral, in
the summer 'of 1832, started off on his
greed tower down East, and I went with
him. Yon remember, when we got to
Philsdelphy, the people swarmed round
him so thick they almost smothered him
to death ; and the Gineral got so tired
shaken hands that he couldn't give another
shake, end come pretty near faintin away ;
aid then I put my band round under his
arm and shook (or him half an hour longer,
arid so we made out to get through. I
sent the whole account of it to my old
friend of the Portland Courier. Well,
then, we jogged along to New York ; and
there, you remember, we come pesky near
getting a ducking when the bridge broke
down at Castle Garden. I sent the whole
account of it to my old Portland friend.—
Well, the next day, the "original" Major
Downing published his first original letter
in a New York paper, giving an account
of the ducking at Castle Garden. Nobody I
couldn't dispute hut what this was the true
giniiine "original" Downing document.l
although my "vile intimations" of it had I
been going on and published almost every
week for two years. I say nobody couldn't i
dispute it, because 'twas proved by scrip
ture and poetry both. For the Bible says,
"the first shall be last, and the last first ;"
and poetry says, "coming events cast their
shadows before." So the shadows, the
"vile imitations," had been flying about
the country fur more than two years before
the original event got along. I hope your
head will get settled again, so you can sec
through these things and understand 'em,
and know me jest as you used to. I can't
bear the idea of your not knowing me,
and thinking I'm "fictitious."
Du try to refresh your mind a little;
think how I stood by you and Mr. Polk.,
and helped you along through the Mexican,
war ; and how I carried trill dispatebal
TWO DOLLARS PER ANNVIIV:).
NEW SERIES-410. 135.
irons Mr. Polk to Mr. Trist,in Mexico,
and how I carried a private message Mot*
you to Gineral 'faylor, to try to mu it
out of him which side he was coming out
Good bye, my dear friend ; I hope next
time I hear from you you will be recover
ed and in your right mind, so u to know
me and see that I ain't "fictitious;" for
you havn't got a truer friend on Mssbfl
and Dixon's side of Balt River than your
old friend, • -
MAJOR JACK DOWNING
[ DEFERRED PARAGRAPHS.?
OPINIONS OP TOR Ptuess.—ilk man who ,
would cheat a printer would steal a meet
ing house and rob a church-yard. If be
has a soul, ten thousand of iis size would
have more room in a musquito's eye than
a bull frog in the Pacific ocean. lie ought
to be winked at by blind people,and kick
ed to death across logs by cripples.—. nn
Harbor IJ'olvcrine.
Yea, thousands of such souls as that
man's would rattle in a mustard seed.—
dance contradances upon 'file point of a
wasp's sting—or march abreast through
the eye of a cambric needle. A solar
microscope would fail to discover them,
and when found they would not fill the
smallest cranny in creation.—Post.
Amen ! such a being would steal the',
molasses out of a sick nigger's ginger cake
—take from a drunk man's mouth his last
"chew" of tobacco—walk all night throUgh
the rain to deprive a blind sheep of its foal..
der—travel fifty miles on a fasting stomach
to cheat a dying woman out of her .c 05 04
—and steal the wax out of a dead dog's
ear. Such a man ought to be tied ,to
sheep's tail and butted to death.—,Flik_
rence .Enquirer.
A. PORTRAIT HY ORRELEY.-111 a War
dated at Cincinnati, Mr. Greeley takes the'
following portrait of a stage coach corn'
panion. It is well drawn, and will at
swer many living originals in the world;
"I lost at Wheeling my three compan
ions of the mail coach, two of them fair,:
worthy men : but the third deserving of
special mention. lie was in Ohio retail
er of tape and a chewer of plug tobacco,
some thirty years of age, who had set up
for a wit on a very small capital of low .
humor, and had a very narrow escape from
turning out a natural fool. It was his •
chief employment through the day to hum-.
bug those'we met or passed, by pretend
ing to hold out to them some valuable pa
per, or to call them back under the pre
tence of having sonic important communi
cation to make. Ills standing topic of re
mark was the fair six, for whom he pro
fessed and doubtless felt the admiratiotko
hog has for artichokes. 1 - lost him, quite
resigned to the probability of never meant
hint again."
TIIK PEACH CoNOKKAS AT PARII,-..—The
late foreign papers state that the French
Government has given. full authority for
the holding of the Peace Congress in the
French capital, and have expresied their
warm approval of the object of the meet
ing and the motives of the projectors. The
English delegation will comprise some hue,
dreds of gentlemen from different parts of
the United Kingdom. ➢Zany also will at
tend as visiters, without being personally
identified as members of the Congress.—
The American people, it seems, are to ho
represented in this Congress by nearly st
hundred members. So says the Engliihk
authority, and that the English and Amer , .
ican delegates will proceed in one patty
from London by special train on the SW
of August.
Tee PURCIIABE OF CUBA.—The WilF4l
ington correspondent of the Boston &Imo
says it will . be the special duty of the neW'
Minister to the Court of Madrid, Gen. Bar
ringer, to procure a reduction ditto error
mos duties to which the produce,of the U
nited States is subjected when imported'
into Cuba, adding that the late adrninitinS-,
tion made a standing offer to the Spanish
Government of It 100,000,000 for the Is
land of Cuba. but that this offer has been
or will be withdrawn by the present ad
ministration.
A PLEASING INCIDENT...74IIOK the
thousands to whom Father Mathew admith ,
istered the pledge' in the Catholic Chi eh.
es, at Boston, last week, was the Rev. Ca,
kb Stetson, a Protestant, who received it
with all the solemn ceremonies employed
iu the ease of Catholics, at his own re.
quest. He said to Father Mathew that,
could see no impropriety in any person
professing to be a christian recognizing the .
significance of the sign of the cross tie the
emblem ofinaterradernption.
SNAKE STORY.—TIie Stotbury Anirri.J
ean is credibly informed theta greenhouse ,
snake, about 18 inches long, was thund
creeping into the mouth of an infant child
of George Shilp. The child was asleep
when the mother came in, and in her first
attempt to draw it out she tors'offpart ot
the tail. She dm grasped it with the
blanket and extracted it! St uttered
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