BY D. A. & C. H. BUEHLER VOLUME XXIII. } Oh, Come to the Old Oak Tree. 'or" (Repent (Quartette.) 0 Come to the o Id oak tree, Hy the light of the pale moon's glance ; Come with a footstep free, And join in the Gypsy's dance. 1/01.0. Around us, above us, pore melody floats, And voices that love us repeat the soft notos TULL CHORUS. Then come to the old oak tree, By the light of the pale nioun's glance; 0 come with a footatep free, And join in the Gypsy's dance. Then dance—then dance, Where the lightest of the light fe.t. dance sou,. (Repeat (Quartette.) Swing with her early leaves, Summer with all its flowers, Here art in their beauty weaves, Over fait Nature's bowers. No storm-clowle are dark'ning The haunts of the free, But all here is sparkling In beauty fur thee. Then come, hr., &c. Then dance—then dither, Whole the brightest of the bright es glance 1 hove Something Sweet to tell I hese something sweet to tell You But the secret inu4 keep ; And rememher it it isn't right, I'm •Talking in my sleep." For I knAw I urn but &cooling. When I think your love ix ; Anti I know they are bul Aerllllllg. All the hopes that round tie shine So remember, when I tell you, IN hat I can no longer keep. Wet arc uuue 01 us I CW01 , 111610 Fur whet we ,ey iu eleett. My firrity coniitm, 0, listen ir tI ) our bras t, And you 311011 hear it liulniniotg 8o close, 't will make you scot 0, shut your eye!) PO camera, Or mine wil; widely ; I :ore you! I :Wore ..rllll talking in my steep.' Content awl Rich. The following lines were written by Robert Potuthwell, qn Ftiglish Catholic priest of the six teenth witty .. .ls, The poem, beautiful in itself, de rives additional interest from the fate of its author, who, in the prime of life, perished on the scat'. fold, a martyr to his religion : My conscience is my crown ; Contented thoughts my rest; "y heart is how in itself. My till's is in toy breast. Enough I reckon wealth ; Th.l mean, the sweet lot. _ That lies too high for haw contain pt, Too low for elivy's shot. My wishes are hut few, All easy to fulfill : I make the limits of my rower The bounds unto my will. I tear no care for gold ; Well doing is my wealth ; I%ly mind tit' me all Cllipirp i s , While grace all - ordeal health I clip high climbing thoughts, The wings of swelling pr 31e, Their fall Is worst that from the height 0/ greatest honor slide. Sinee sails of Mreest site The storm tioth soonest tear I heir so low and 'mall a sail As (Meth me from fear. I wrestle not with rage While fury's tlante ri..th burn; It is in vain to atop the stream Until the tide Jodi turn. But when the flgllle is nut, And ebbing wrath (loth ind, I turn a late enraged foe • Into a quiet friend. And taught %%Rh offer. proof, A tempered calm I find To be Molt deface for myself, Beat cure for angry mind. Spare *belie my ran, My clothes more fit than fine ; I know I teed and chills a foe, That pampered, would repine. I envy not their hap, Whom favor loth advance; I take no pleasure in their pain That have leas happy chance To rim Ly ()limn.' fall I deems losing Fein; All States with others' ruin built ruin run amain. Nn change of fortunes calm Can east my comfoits tlown ; When fortune smiles. I smile to think How quickly she will (town. And when, in froward mood, She proved an angry foe, Small gain, I found, to let her come— Lean loss to let her go. Tim LAW 011' KINDN Ess.—People know not what they lose by a sully and over -1 bearing spirit. Kindness is the only way to soften the heart and make friends of those who were once, our enemies. Here is an aneodote in illustration. The horse of • a gondol:pan happening to stray into the road, a neighbor put him into the pound. Meeting the owner soon after, ho told him what he bad done, and added "If over I catehlrim•in the road hereafter, I'll do so again." "Neighhor," replied the other, "not long since I looked out of toy window at night, and saw your cattle inMy mowing ground, when I drove them out and shat thou► in your y4rti he again l" Struck with 'the reply, the inn liberated tho horse from the pound, and paid the charges: • ' - ~ • m MARRIAOC-111 0 an ever Knows when, where or whom he'll merry. It's all nonsense 'planing and speculating about it.' You might as well look nut for a spot In fall in a 'ateeple-rhase: You come Amish gluten in the middle of your specula. gotta. ' ;,.A.ottuntrreditnr nays he never knew whet “Aithy, lucre" meant, till he got hold, ora,tlltt,y, greasy lot of one dollar ' . -internal speak* all languages. and ants Iltpirls even'that of ilisintemodness it. ( From the "ll&druid Family Friend." HOW I CAME TO BE A BEN EDICT. 'BY TALBOT OREENE How cold are they who say that love Must first be planted in the heart, And cultured by the hand of time, To make its leaves and blossoms slut ! e s No ! 'tis a plant that springs at once Up to its full and perfect form; Unlike the willow and the oak, It bends nut, breaks not in the storm. [A. G. Graham. "Please, sir, the stage-coach is in wait-' ing. Please sir," chimed in the waiter a second time ere he could arouse me fully, as I sat enjoying and lost in the fumes of my cheroot, before a cheerful fire in Smyth's hotel, in the beautiful village of Morganton, North Carolina. "May it go to thunder! but--tell the dri ver, servant, to tarry a moment for me," muttered I, as I arose unwillingly enough and busied myself in packing my little et ceteras, previous trreentinuing my travels ; fez I had halted a Stage in Morganton, part ly to enjoy the magnificent mountain sce nery, and partly on account of the severity of the weather. The weather, though moderate, was still inclement. Vic March winds, high and chilly, whistled around the way-farer's head with biting unction, and moaned, and roared, and howled in sad cadences in the bay pines down the mountain gorges in the distance. But yet I hail resolved to continue my jaunt on the morning in goes lion, and having made my preparations, reckoned With the host, &e., at last an swered thy' winding horn of the driver by entering the coach. I found it already tenanted by three personages; one a beauti ful young lady, the others gentlemen.— The lady WAS beautiful indeed ! beautiful as heart could wish. Iler eyes were like un to the melting eyes of the gazelle, her hair the raven, her brow the marble, her cheeks the rose, her lips like—like—heavens ! they fever and set my brain all in a whirl, and intoxicate me even now, as if I had been drinking new wine. But let that pass. The gentlemen were both genteel looking men ; the one about five-and-twen ty, the other in the decline of life. The latter evidently the father of the lady. "Smack I smack I" went tl.. driver'. whip as we rolled over the frozen road to wards Lineoluton, and, as the day advanc ed, more boisterously became the windsand more biting the cold. Enveloping myself in my cloak, I sunk back into one corner, to shiver with the cold, and muse over the charms of the fair being beside me, for it had already become dark, and I could no longer behold her bright, animating countenance. I had mused but a few moments when I was somewhat rudely aroused from my pleas ing reverie by some one hailing us from the road-side, and begging the driver to halt. "Waup ! waup! gently boys—still— st:ind !" and as the driver drew up his pant ing cattle, we all four peered cut in the . gloom an I darkness, wondering who it could be out in such a lonely out-of-the way place, on such a bitter freezing night. Huddled by the side of the road stood a middle aged woman and four thinly clad children. "Will you be so kind, sir, as to give us passage in the coach to Charlotte," begged the half frozen woman ; "here is five dollars to pay the fare for myself and children," and she reached up a few pieces of silver to the driver. "Can't take ye in, warm, already full— crowded—get out of the way." "Oh ! me, oh ! too, what shall I do ? But I must go 1 My husband, gentlemen, Las, ust returned from California, an is now lying in Charlotte at the point of death. lie sent fur me to meet hint there with my children, and I have walked four miles through the mountains, and have been waiting here in the cold and rain for three hours fertile stage, until two of my chil dren are speechless with cold, and then to be disappointed :" and the poor woman burst into tears. , Tity ! oh ! have mercy non them !" ejaculated the beautiful maid en ut my sida, "but, pa weihast take them in. Gentlemen, who will be so gallant. as to vacate timirseats for these poor helpless creatures ; see ! those poor little children art freezing to death. Remember God bath said, " as you do it unto the least of these, you do it Mad me." "I would be happy to gratify you, Miss Alice," now spoke for the first time, the young gentleman, whom Ipfterwards learn ed was an important suitor of the favored by the father, but scorned by the lady. ,Favored, not for his virtues, but for, his prinealy fortune. "I would be happy to gratify yon, Miss Alice Delaney, but would rather be excused from vicating a comfortable scat, and your pleasant society, to give place to those: rude paupers, expo. Mally . in those nountains, in the middle of a such cold bitter night.. Bore, woman, take that and begone to some neighboring farm house, and travel at souse more sea sonable limit," and ho throwin her fees a foe pieces of 6 tkiire' is, no beaxo within four miles, sir; : the .watere 'are . rising fast, and we would drown. or resume on our !ray *lc. GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 1, 1851. Take only my children, then, and I'll walk alone myself. Oh I do, for the sake of the lives of my children—for the sake of heaven !" And, with a piteous moan, the poor woman bent forward, and gazed imploringly, almost frantically, up into our faces. "By all that's sacred, I can't stand this ; they shall have my seat if I should perish on the road !" exclaimed I, opening the coach door and springing out. "llcre,dri ver, lash my baggage to the top of the stage and stow some of these children into the boot. Haste if you please, sir ; and there is a dollar for your trouble." "911,! sir, kind sir, but God will reward you'!" 'murmured the grateful woman, as she seated herself in the coach. "Will you permit mc, kind sir, to thank you also, for your very humane and gen erous conduct ?" fipoke the young lady, as she extended to me her soft, delicate hand, and bestowed ono of the sweetest smiles imaginable upon me, "you hair• my grati tude, sir, and profoundest. regard. True nobility it is difficult to find, sir; hence, I would be happy to know more of you— but the conch is starting ; adieu! adieu!" and in a moment I found myself alone up on the road. Twelve months after the event recorded above, I found myself strolling alone, in Milford Park, Nev Orleans, striving vain ly to overcome a depression of spirits that had come over me sonic days previous, j from the sad intelligence received from my father, that through the villainy and treach ery of a partner in business, be had become a bankrupt, and that we were now—beg gars. Sad, sad news to me. With my eyes bent upon the ground, I strolled along in such an . agony of mind that I scarce noted the fine carriages that passed and re passed me every moment, or the many gay parties around, and was only awakened from my reverie by the fluttering of a per fumed note which fell at my feet, as a splendid coach and four dashed by me.— Picking it up I was somewhat astonished on reading the following :—"Mr. Ralph Emmerson will please call at 22., corner of Bernard and St. James streets, this evening at six o'clock. Not a little puzzled to discover who It was that dropped the note, I betook my self back to my rooms at the St. Charles, to wait the appointed hour. Although my father had been long and favorably knrn as a wealthy, thrifty merchant, in New Orleans, yet I was quite a stranger in the city, not having the pleasure of an acquaintance with a single lady—for I had been absent from home for a number of years, and had returned but a few days previous. Four years of my life had been spent in foreign travel, and one--- ti the last —in searching for the fair stranger I met 12 months previous, in the stage-coach-run ning from Morganton to Lincolton, North Carolina. Who could it be then ? Could it be Alice Delaney, the long lust, long sought of my heart Y But no ! no I Yet the hour draws nigh. I will wait; and fur a time my curiosity and anxiety drowned the heavy weight at my heart and allevia ted my sorrows, occasioned by the misfor tunes of my father. It wants but forty minutes of the hour. How heavy, how slowly time flies I Thir ty minutes—twenty-five—ah I I can:t wait longer. "Hilloa, omnibus, drive me to 22, corner of Bernard and St James streets." In five minutes I was set down before a princely mansion. I rang the bell and was ushered, by a servant, through a suit of rooms into a gorgeously decorated chamber, where I was requested to tarry a moment. Seating myself on a rich sofa, I run my admiring eyes over the magnificent mirrors and paintings that decorated the walls, when 1 thought I recognized a fa miliar countenance in a painting suspen ded over a mantel. Approaching it, I perceived to my joy and astonishment, that it was the likeness of my long sought Alice Delaney, of stage coach memory, and forgetting myself and my whereabouts, in my ccstacy, I sprang joyfully forward, exclaiming aloud, "Al ice, sweet Alice ! and I have found you nt last I" A merry peal of laughter rang out 'from behind me just as I was reaching out my arms to embrace the loved image ; half-startled, half abashed, I turned round and beheld standing in the middle of the floor, the fair original herself But I was so overpowered 1 could not "utter a word of greeting, nor the lady either, for perceiv ing my ecatacy before her portrait, as she entered, she could do naught in her mod esty but stand and blush scarlet. In a moment, however, I had gained my self possession so far as to greet the fair lady and load her to a seat. And, gentle reader, before I arose , from that sofa, I—ugh—but my wife not let me tell how I popped the question, and was accepted; she haa her hand upon my mouth and threatens mo with sore punish ment if I say anything about the many sweet kisses—"Oh, well, pray Alioe f dear, behave, and I will skip over that put," Lat it sufTwo, dear reader, I was united in av felt weeks, to the gentle , Alice, by and with the &dyke and consent of ,A 'ofFEARLEBB AND FREE." 4 4 1 • father, who had long since, like a sensible man, given up all hopes of selecting a hus band for his daughter—as he soon learned, both by experiance and observation, that every woman was by fur the best qualified to chose her own husband, and also the truth of that aphorism, that— “When she will, she will, you may depend on't, And when she won't, she won't, so there's an - and on't.” How to get a Wlllo In India When a man in a decent rank in life wishes to marry, and can prove that he' possesses the meansof maintaining a wife, it is customary for him to apply to the mistress of the By culla school, state Ilis! wishes and qualifications, and enquire in to the number and the character of the marriageable girls. An investigation im- ! fnediately follows as to his eligibility.; and if all promises satisfactorily, he is forth with invited to drink tea with the school mistress, upon an appointed evening, to ' give him an opportunity of making his se lection. The older girls are then inform ed of his intended visit, and its purport ; and those who desire to enter the matri monial lists, come forward and signify their wish to join the party. Frequently four or five competitors make their ap pearance on these occasions in the mis tress' room. The gentleman, whilst do ing his best to make himself universally agreeable, yet contrives, in the course of the evening, to mark Ilia preference fur one particular lady. Should these sym pathies of budding affeetion be favorably received, he tenders his proposals in duo bum the following morning. But it of'- ten occurs that the selected lady does not participate in the inamorato's sudden flame, in which ease she is at perleot liberty to decline the honor of his alliance, and re serves herself for the next tea party ex ' hibition. ‘Ve have known an instance when an I amorous old gentleman from an out station presentee himself three successive times at these soirees, in the- hope of obtaining! a wife to cheer the.solitude of his up coon try residence ; but all in vain ; the young ladies unanimously rejected him with the highest disdain, wondering ..how ROC!) an ugly old fellow could have the impudence to think of a wife !" But a very different reception is given to thc_4• , •' sergeant or smart looking conductor ; their attentions are never repulsed, and the an• nouncement of the ..chosen inteudeds," as Miss Squeers would say, is anticipated with the unnost impatience 'by many ail anxious heart. The wedding speedily follows, the bride's modest trosseau being Provided from the funds of the establish ment, and every gler to tho'silliVonl Ntrer folly contributing her aid in the manufac ture of the dresses. EMBARRASSIPZO, ERY.—The exelturia lion of Dick Swiveller when lie discovered that the "Marchioness" had disposed of his clothes during his illnes, and that he was lest without even an umbrella in case of a fire, is familiar to our readers. Not less awkward was the predicament in which Mr. Jones was placed, the morning, after his marriage, when on his way to Ni agara, with his blooming bride. That gen tleman was exceedingly cautious, and ever evinced the greatest dread both of tires and robbers. !laving stopped for the night at one of the principal hotels in Washington, ! he charged his wife before 'she retired, to "leave nothing about," and carefully depos ited his own inexpressibles, the pockets of: witielt ined his valuables, (including) I the door key, which he had prudently with drawn,) in his Ile* trunk with a patent lock. As he intended to take the early train at six o'clock, he awoke betimes, but to his dismay discovered that lie had neg lected to remove the keys from his pockets, and that they were At Min the trunk, which closed with a spring. This was sufficient ly provoking, but to add to his perplexity, Mrs. J., in her anxiety to "obey" literally the injunction of her husband, had placed her own garments in her trunk, and given him the keys for sale keeping, which lie had secured with his own. It was not until after repeated knocks at the door, and when the cars were far on their way, that Jones could summon' resolution to reveal the cause of his tardiness. The chamber maid, with an extra key, relieved him.from his imprisonment, but the attendance of a locksmith was necessary to procure the pair of presentable suits. The recollection of that day's involuntary detention never fails to clicif front Jones a hearty anathema against all new fangled notions in the way of trunk locks, which he classes with man traps and other devices of the enemy.—Journal of Commerce. A NEW ORGANIZED BElNG.—Accord ing to some Italian journals, a 410 W or ganized being has been discovered, in the interior of Africa, which seems to form an immediate link between vegetable and ani mal life. T ia singular production of na ture has the shape of a jotted serpent-- h drags itselfalong on the ground; and in stead of a head, has a flower, shaped like a bell, which Contains a viscous liquid.— Flies and other insects, attracted by the smell of the juice, enter the flower, where they are caught by the adhesive matter. The flower then closes, and remains shut until the prisoners are bruised and trims formed into chyle. 'flay indigestible, por tion, such as the head and wings, are thrown out by aspirat . openings. The vegetable serpent has a skin resembling leaves, a white arfd sofi flesh, (instead of a bony skel eton) a eairtilaginous fame, filled with yel : low ,iiiprrow. The nativeb consider it exceliftVesil.--(l,oridon) Daily News. GuArro.l 4 lie groat chemist, Liebig, saygmhat ono pound of Guano imported into a country, Is equal in Indus tct,eight pounds of wheat, or twelve and:*e ilialf cents. It was stated a few . (Jaye since, that ten pounds of Guano at $3O per ton, w worth to he farmer $BOO nett prat. ',W iden calculation would make it worth a much larger sum; and instead of furnish ing a firmly, witit,breid year! it would do so for twentrfive yeariter,loional of Commerce. Enterprise Wanted. That he is a public benefactor who causes two-blades of grass to grow where but one grew before, is a truth which needs no e lucidation; but what a duplication of the aggregate harvests of out country is not merely practicable, but" would be signally profitable—this is a truth notyet adequate ly impressed on the public mind. The popular deficiency is rather wantof thought than want of knowledge. Ask severally the next ten fermium you meet if they do not think our cultivators generally overrun too much laud, —if they do not plow too shallow anti manure to light, and sow too late, and 141 to slovenly—and nine of the ten will unllesitatingly answer, Yes.. Then take pains to inquire carefully as to the habits of these same farmers and you will find five or six of them practicing habitual. ly the very errors, they so freely condemn —shallow plowing, scanty fertilizing. late sowing, shabby tilling and probably feeding off died meadows, gnawing down their pas tures, keeping more stock than they can feed well and so impoverishing their land from year to year. "My people do not consider," says. the Good Rook ; they know, if they would only use and apply their knowledge, far better than they do. But two-thirds of the farmers suppose the great truths revealed to agriculture by science applicable every where but on their own farms. Onr; with two hundred acres will say, when pressed to do better : "Oh I can't afford to drain and subsoil, and buy guano or phosploues, and so put my land into the best condition : I haven't the means." "Rut toy good Sir ! don't you under stand that you could turn oil morn produce front fifty arrow thoroughly cultivated, than you do from your whole two hun dred ?" "Well, perhaps I might." "Then why not sell enough of your ara ble land to pay for putting the residue in the highest Staten( cultivation 1 Can't you re• ahze that it is sheer, ruinous waste tofenee, plow, plant, till and harvest five acres lora hundred bushels of Indian corn, when that quantity might surely be grown on two eres ? Can't you understand that ten acres of grass that will yield twenty-five tone of good hay, are more profitable then gro those Jame t 0/cloy-live tons on twenty-five or thirty acres 1" y es, but— "But, w•li»kP' I don't believe in whitewashing for est trees and laying stone walls in mortar. I'm none of your gentleman fanners —I have to make my farm support inn. int z ' stead of my business supporting it." And so the hard pressed cultivator slides 0' intu a fang of his pW,II raising, and per-, reveres in averaging twenty bushels ofgrain or less than a toll of grass to each arable acre, mainly because he is mentally itlo , SlUggkil nod unenterprising to move out ot Me jog-trot war if his pundlatlicr.--N Y. Tribune. SECRET S. INS INO . I.ICII.:TIKS.—The Hos. ton Courier say there are several organ- IZatiollB in city. composed of plum,: men and omen, wles meet at stated pe riods for .snen ' :IRtimetl. It is as dillieult to ascertain the t Mg's of these hanuoni one bodies when in council, as to learn me secrets of the tune temple of an odd fel lowe' lodge • an the in , llabers, in order to gain acres. into the place of meeting, are, it is aa'd, obliged "to blow something through n tube," which discharges into the door•keeper's ear. 'rho something hloihin is supposed to be the pass-word.— The object of its 'octillions is to promote', "harinouy," familiarity, and to spend eve- Mop in the ways or virtue. To this end various games aro resorted to—such Rs "blind man's bud," "spin the cover," •forfeits," "porter," Ste., and in these in. imeent pastilles the young ladies mid gen tlemen meet formally and indulge freely. The ancient game by which youth at tempts to establish his or her position as a man of fashion or a woman of beauty. is often resorted to. The aspirants for fame stand erect against a wall and ex claim : "Here I stand as stiff as a stake,' Come kiss me, du, fur the Lord'. sake." These are certainly very interesting as sociations, and no doubt term to extend the area of virtue. If ever we visit Boston, we hope to be enrolled as an honorary member, and as our cotemporary of the Commonwealth goes in for the largest free• (loin, we ask his good offices to have us proposed. • FLAT ROOFS FOR Housus.--The follow ing suggestion in regard to the advantages of flat roofs for buildings, we take from the Scientific American : "All the new houses which have beau built in New York rceently, have what are termed flat mole, that is. the roof is heady level, end slants but slightly front one side to the other. The old huge peaked roof are fast disappearing ; we wonder how they ever came into use. The inventor of them must have been a man full of conical ideas. The flat roofs are covered with tin aitil;well painted. If a fire takes place in a building, it is easy to walk and work on the flat roof, so as in command the fire, if it be in the adjacent buildings, IV "Innot be done on peaked roofs. Hat r. As are cheaper and more convenient in every respect.— We advise all those who intend to build 'new houses to have flat roofs on them.— It is better to have a flush story at the top of a building than a peaked cramped.up garret, Width is only comfortable for travel• ing on the hands and knees. • i•Several homes have been built of late with thel roofs as reservoirs for water. It is a valuable thing in caso ul fire, or for domestic purposes ; a large, gnantity of rain water being generally ready fin We eaw a printer. (r worthy and talented teinher of the craft,) yesterday, afflicted itit gout.— Sun. . . • : Alt printer afflicted with gout I—Oreatie lineophoil—wher lef Barnum 1---11p/ittoye• tirg . Standard. " Vtrtue is the beet end safest beittiet we , OOP WOW'. Ventle Eva. PT. war 111. e. PICIIICILIR Have you heard the touching story. Tom .0 mildly, of that clime Where tim rase, in crimson glory.., Brightens all the summer time? It tells US of A maiden-- Golden haired arid etany.ered—. Young in years, by thought o Madan, Who in angel beauty died. Gentle Eva, loving Eva, Sleeping by , the ebbing wave, Wail or wee shall never grieve her, Shrouded in her mosey grave. Once she wept o'er wrinitand marrow, Childish tears so wisely shed; of Eden, on the morrow, Warbled dirges o'er her head. Velvet leaf and snowy blossom Crowned her young and radiant brow, O'er her white, unheaving bosom Little hands are folded now. Gentle Eva, loving Eva, Sleeping by the moaning tide. Never more ettall sorrow grieve her, Who in angel beauty died. Give me a Faithful Heart. I do not crnve bright gems of earth, Nor gold of diluting hue ; But ask for armlet:ling of more worth— .% heart that's pure nuol.true. Though earth may yield hnr eost'y gems, That Ink so fun to view ; I splt not for such diadems., But fur a heart that'. true. A heart that glows with noble tteedsc For this I e'er wilt rue; A guileless heart (mat eti ry treed— A heart tinier pure and true. , A heart like this is real %eolith— It nothing eau °wobble ; "Tie • I I RS k fur here an earth— A heart times pure a n d kind. LETTER FROM ]MAJOR JACK. DOWN" INGT. Bowamovnta, State of Maine', Saturday, &pt. -18, 1852, Mr. GALES & SEATON : My dear old 1 friends, I wish I bad better news to write to you- . Pin pesky afraid - Gineral Scott is coining in. And, arter all, I don't know why I should feel so - much afraid of it, es pecially on my own account, foi I don't Tose lie's a very bad man. But I feel bad for Uncle Joshua. - His whole heart Is hound up in 601)0st-office, and if he should 0 e it, I'm afraid it • would almost ho tba , death of him. He's had it now more 'than twenty years, and he's more fund nth be cause it was give to him by dear old Giner , al Jackson. lie loves it •Itow like one of his own fatally, and I ,think it would be about the hardest one of the family for him to part with, unless 'tis Aunt kcaiith. If he should lose ary one of 'cm, that id Aunt Keziali or the posvoifice, I know it would break his heart. And that's what Makes me feet So had at the turn thin* tins took down this way in favor of Gintwal &Mt.— , If any way - could be contrived to keep Un etc Joshua in the post-office, I wouldn't care a snap if Gineral Scott did come in And• I guess there's a good deal of the same sort of feelin amongst a good many of the , Democracy. I'll just give you a sample of it. There's Cousin Sargent Joel, he can't live without hurrahing for somebody as much as two or three times a day. Ile got in a habit of it in old Hickory's time, and he couldn't never leave it off mince. Two or three weeks ago Uncle Joshua sud I was iu the barn, planning a little about getting out the voters to the eleetioh, when all to once we heard somebody back of the barn holler with all his might "Hurrah for ()ble nd Scott." 'We both started and run round the corner of the barn as fast its we eould, and who Should we see there but Cousin Sargent:Joel, standing on a stump, swinging his hat all alone, and hollering at the very top of his voice, "Hurrah for Gineral Seat." Uncle Joshua looked as cross us thunder, and Cousin Joel colored a little as soon as ho seen us, but be swung Is hat again, and sung out once more, "Hurrah ftir Moore' Scott, and I don't care who hears it:" "What's that you say ?",, said Uncle Joshua. "I say, hurrah for Gineral Scott, and I don't care who hears it," says Cousin Joel, putting on his hat and jumping off the stump. "Well, this is a pretty piece of business," said Uncle Joshua, "setting such examples as this to the neighbors. There's many a i word spoken in jeest that's Wiwi] into Or- I nest beforo it's done viith ; and you. ought to be careful how you set such hurrahs a goin'. If you once git 'em started there's no knowing what'll be the end on't." "I don't much care what'll be the end on't," said Cousin Joel. • "Why, Joel, what do you mean ?" said I Uncle Joshua; "if you are going to turn Whig, say so, and let ) us put you out of dm syuagoguu ut once, and be dono with it. I want a plain right up and down answer, um you going for Gineral Pierce or not?" . "I 'spore I shill," said Cousin Joel. "Thou, why in the name of common sense don't you hurrah for him 7" said Un cle Joshua, "and try to get up some enthu slaumsy. You ought to be ashamed to throw your hurrahs away on 'tether side." . "Now Uncle Joshua, tell you what 'tie," said Sargent Joel, straightening hint , self up jest as he used to at the head of the . company in Nullification times., sayi "he, , nt tell you what 'tie, Uncle Joshua, ! willing to vote for Gineral Pierce to help yoU keep the post-otEce, and I mean to; but you needn't ask me to hurrah for 'him, for I catu't stand no such tow- p okey us that: I've fried, it, and •it won't go no how. It makes the feel 110 muchdigbg„ giannuli potatoes and few in a hill. Hut when I get right hungry for a hurrah, I give it to Clitoral Scott, Dud I find there's refresh ment, and rmuristiment iu that, smoothing like real meat; it makes me fuel as ik'used to when we' gin the Apdest hurrahs for Girieral Jackson." Uncle Joshua turned sway, looking 1:11- titer down in , the ineuth, and saying, "ho didn't know what the world was coining to." • Au near as T can find out, there'n s groat minty Dentoorsts in this State, and other ?Incas too, that'd in the saute fix as' Cousin Sargent Joel . Downing; they've tried to huitigh for finial Pierce; and can't. Over tie' the raiiiin of Squire Jones' barn 'tother -TWO DOLLARS PLR ANNUM.) .'% 111/111BER 19. , ,day, art* r they all got through, Squire Jones„ who is a great Democrat, called out, "now let ue give three cheers fur Gleeful • PlerCe." As quick as a look they all swung 1 their hats, and about three-quarters of 'eta I suns out as loud as they , could holler, "liar - ' .. rah for Gineral Case.' At that Squire Jonas, dew in a rage, and told em they, was traitors.to the party, and no true Democrat would hurrah tor, anybody but Gineral Pierce. That. touched the dander of the rest of em, end about twenty swung their bats and cried out lustily, "hurrah for Gine ral Scott," and asked Squire Jones if be liked that any bettor. These things has kept Uncle; Joshua very uneasy along back, and before our State election, which come along last Monday,: he got quite nervous; and.; he ain't no better yet. We've been in quite a state of oon, boberation all the week, trying to fiud out, how the election's gene, but it's a hard sum to work out. J went over this morning , to help Uncle Joshua figure up. He was set ting to the table with his- spectacles on, and the papers spread all round him, and a pee in his hand, and a dark scowl on his brow. He was thinking so hard he didn't seem to know when I comein. Says Aunt,Ksaiith„ says shi, "I'm dreadful glad you're; COMO in, Major; your uncle ,will niske himself sick working over them ilgutise ~ Says I, "Well, Uncle Jobe*, bow are , we coming out?" ".I'm afraid we are coming , out at , the lit; tle end of the born, Major," said Uncle Joshua, and be looked up over bia nPoora cies so pale And melancholy hands me feel bad. Says be, "I don't Skill's looks Of it a bit; the State is on the beck track again towards Whiggery, jest as 'twee when Har ikari came in." • - 14 0 h, I guess not," says I, for I wanted to cheer him up as much as I could. "The liquor law has played the, mischief with this -lotion all round, and got things badly mixed up ; but if we sift em out carefully we shall find the Democrats as strong as ever." • Uncle. joshes abook,.his bead.— Says 1 . , "Let us see' the , figures. Here's the returns from three hundred towns, all the State except some of the outskirts. r. Hubbard and M M r. Chandler, the two Dei4 *erotic candidates for Governor, has.togeth or more than fifty.aight thousand votes, and Mr. Crosby, the Whig candidate, has a little more thim twenty-seven thousand.— The Democratic vote is more than double the Whig vote. - This don't look as though the State was going back to Whiggery." "That don't amount - to nothin at all," said Uncle Joshua ; "a good many thousand lof tomperance.Whigs voted for Hubbard, and a good many rum Whigs voted for Chandler ; and when the Legislature conies to most, Crosby will _stand jest as good a alums to•be chose Governor as soy one of 'em, and bettor too if: the State goes• over the dam the :ld'of November, and you !pay depend it's drifting that way, or eleierve forgot how to cipher. .1 eat look at the Le gislature. Last year in the Sonata there were about five Democrate teens Whig, and now the Whigs have elected Aurteen Sena -1 tors and the Democrats. only seers, leaving 1 nine or ton no choice, or doubtful. And then in the House it tint muck better,— i Last year we had a clear majority •of more 1 than thirty, and now it dcmt look as-though 1 we should have more than ten majority.-L. clod if the State goes for Scott, I believe The Legislature will go that way too t Gov ernor and all." "But, may be, Uncle Joshua," says 1, "the Whigs hav'nt gained so mach as you think for, arter all. It looks. , bad--in the Legislature, I see, but it may bean owing to the rum business, as you say about the Ghverrior." • . •"No, no, it isn't that," said Uncle-Joelt us, with a heavy sigh ; "you may depend upon it the State has got a Whig drift. The Congressmen tells the story, and there the rum -business.iaceethist te do with it. In the last Congrelis we had five Densootvt tie lteprosentatives and the Whip two.— Well, now how is ii? In the next Con gress this State has ail RepreeentatiWes, and the Democrats have made out to elect throe and 'the Whigs three. It's . jest an oven balance, and a few more of them fool ish hurrahs for Ginetal Scott will tip the State agin üb." "Well, we must stinrouud," says I, "and try to stop this husndi business, and may be we can save the State yet. If I ketch' Sargent Joel at it again ritmuabier him.— If Democrats cant hurrah fur Pierce they musn't be allowed to hurrah for nobody.— But, after all, Uncle, suppose we should lose this State, the nation is .safe for the l Democracy. You must remember we hare . a large majority of the States, and nigh two-thirds of the members of- the last Com greets:: ' "Well," says ho, "that don't prove wheth er we shall have two-thirds or ono third in the next emigres&' If the States go on as they have begun it will be pretty likely to be one-third. There's' only , three States that has elected their Representative!' to.the next Congress yet, and that is Maine, sod Missouri, and lowa. And only jest look at eat. Th ree years ago they stood twelve Democrats and two Whigs, and new they stead seven Democrats and six W hip.— How lung at that rata will it take tosilinn our, two•thirds into one-thin)? I'm afraid there'd a Whi,gdrift going over the country that'll swamp us. Sailors tell about the big tenth waste that. rolls up ateLdrries ev, orythiug afore it, and Ulu thinking it seems to bee good-deal sein politic& There was a big'unith wave in 1840, and you reneelii• bur what work it Slade. It looks a good deal as if there is another big tenth wave rolling up now, to swamp the Domooraey and upset Congress. We've got to have trying tiltles, M ij9 r. I dim% knout what'll , become of the country if tics Whigs got the upper hand." Ile n p said this wh mash a • mournful exp re ssioat I seen it the tears I come into Aunt Ireilitth's eyes, , as', a • good Christian women, and elte laid her hand, on his shoulder, and says she, "Oh, , Mi.. Downing. pray c l o ut be so Worrhsi l i but trust'in Proviiienco." : And now, Mr. Gales 6 Seaton, ,o, yew can say anything to enciouragstiet,er,te sa.. Ikea Coale Joshua's tiasitweit4diskpis 1 Illauldslo a great Inudeesa Wl4O oidl*Wid .." WWI 4:41404•V011PW
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