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: • ' -
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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.
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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.
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,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
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' .. 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
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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
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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
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Illauldslo a great Inudeesa Wl4O oidl*Wid
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