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Vol. IXo. XXXTII.
TERMS OF THE AMEIUCAX."
HENRY B. MASSEK, PiiTi.isnitns ao
JOSEPH EISELY. $ PaoraiKTon.
It. It. njliSEItf Editor,
ortlCI IS M4RKKT TlttET, HXAB cm.
THE AMERICAN" is published every Salur
BALLAD.
The Lamont of the Irish Emigrant, ponrtraying
the feelings of an Irish peasant, previous to his lea
ting home; calling np the scene of his youth un
der the painful reflection of having buticd his wifo
and child, and what hi feelings will be in America.
Written by the Hon. Mrs. Price Blackwood.
I'm sitting on the stile, Mnry,
Where we ;.t side by side.
On a bright May morning Ion? ago,
When first you were my brides
The coin was springing fresh and green.
And the lark sang loud and high,
And the led was on thy lip, Mary,
And the love light in your eye J.
The place is little changed, Mary ;
The day as bright as then,
The laik's loud song is in my ear,
And the corn is green again I
Uul I miss the soft clasp of your hand,
And your breath warm on my cheek,
And I still keep lisl'iiing for the woid
: You never more may speak.
Tis but a step down yonder lane,
And the littlo chuich stands near
Th' church whpre we were wed, Mary,
I see the spire from hcje ;
But the graveyard lies between, Mary,
And my step might break your rest.
For I've laid you, darling, down to sleep,
With your baby ou your breast.
I'm very lone now, Mary,
For the poor nrnko no new friends ;
But oh ! they fovc thee better fir,
TJip fcwrwn father sends !
And you were all I bad, Mary
My blessing end my pride ;
There's nothing left to circ for now,
Since my poor Mary died I
I'm bidding you a long farewell,
My Mary, kind and true !
B.it I'll not forget you, darling,
In the land I'm going to;
Thry say there's bread and work for all,
And the sun shines ulwnyg there ;
Dut I'll not forget old Ireland,
Were it fifty times as fiir !
And often in those grand old woods
I II sit and shut my eyes.
And my heart will travel back again
'Co the place where Mary lies;
And l'il think I see the little stile
Where we s.it side by side,
And the rpriuging corn and the bright May
morn,
When first you were my bride !
A Capital fetory.
The last New York Spirit of the
Times has an admirable story, called
The Bio Bear of AnKAxsts." We
ake a fragment showing that small
lusquitoes would be of 'no use in Ar
aiisias,' and setting forth Uiq merits of
certain dog.
'Where did all that happen!' asked a
ynical looking hoosler.
'Happen! happened in Arkansaw;
there else cou'.d it have happened, but
l the crea.Vion State the finishing up
ountry a state where the sile runs
own to the centre of the 'arth, and go
cfament gives you a title to every inch
f it. Then its airs, just breathe them,
nd they will make you snort like a
orse. It's a state without a fault, it is.'
'Excepting musquitoes,' cried the
oosier.
Well, stranger, except them, for it
re a fact that they arc rather cnor
lous, and do push themselves in some
hat troublesome. But, stranger, they
ever stick twice in the same place, and
ivc them a fair chance for a few
lonths, and you will get as much above
lcm as an alligator. They can't hurt
ly feelings, for they lay under the skin ;
nd I never knew but one case of inju-
resulting from them, and that was a
nnkee: and they lake worse to for
gncrs anyhow than they do to the na
ves. But the way they used that fel
w ! first they punched him until he
veiled up and busted, then he sup-ner-t-ted.
as the doctor called it, until he
as as raw as beef; then he took the
jer, owing to the warm weather, and
tally he took a steamboat and left the
nintry. He was the only man that
;cr took musquitoes to heart that I
low of. But musquitoes is natur, and
never find fault with her; if they are
rge, Arkansaw is large, her varmints
e large, her trees are large, her rivers
e large, and a small musquito would
j of no more use in Arkansaw, than
caching in a cane-brake.'
This knock down argument in favor
big musquitoes used the hoosier up,
id Hie logician started on a new track,
explain how numerous bears were in
s 'diggings,' where he represented
em to be 'about as plenty as blackbcr
is, and a little plentifuller.'
Toon the utterance of this assertion.
timid little man near me inquired if
c bears in Arkansaw ever attacked
e settlers in numbers. k
'No,' said our hero, warmincr with the I
subject, 'no,' stranger, for jou sec it
arn't the natur of bar to go'in droves,
but the w ay they squander about in
pairs and single ones, is edifying. And
then the way I hunt them theold black
rascals know the crack of my.gun as
well as they know a pig's squealing,
They grow thin in our parts, it freight
tens them so, and thev do hate the
noise dreadfully, poor things. That gun
of mine is a perfect epidemic among
iiur 11 nui waicuuu. cioseiy, u win go
oflfas quick on a warm scent as my dog
Uowic-knile will; and then the dog,
whew! why the fellow thinks the world
is full of bar, he finds them so easy. It's
lucky he don't talk as well as think, for
with his natural modesty, if Jie should
suddenly learn how much he is acknow-
lodged to be ahead of all other dogs in
the universe, he would be astonished to
death in two minutes. '
What" season of .the year do your
hunts take place?' inquired a gentle-
manly foreigner, who, from some pe-
culiaritics of his baggage," I suspected
to be an Englishman, on sonic hunting
expedition, probably, at the foot of the
llocky Mountains.
The season for bar hunting, stran-
cer, said the man of A rkansaw. 'is pen-
erally all the year round, and the hunts
take place about as regular. I read in
history that varmints have their fat sea-
son, and their lean season. That is not
the case in Arkansaw, feeding as they
do upon the spontenacious productions
of the sile, they have one continued fat
season the year round though in win
ter things in this way is a little more
greasy than in summer, I must admit.
For that reason bar run with us in warm
weather, but in winter they only wad
Ar t.'o, ri .' - - . i
die. lat, lat! us an enemy to speed
j. Urns, over, ,i3 ta.' plenly of
it. I have seen wild turkeys, from its
influence, as ccntle as chickens, llun
u., ; r. i ,i:.;., i ,t
a oar in this lat condition, and the way
;t ;mnme ,t, r . ... ;
it impiovts the critter lor eating is a-
. 1 e w
mazin; it sorter mixes the ile up with
the meat until you cant tell t'othc from
which. I've done this often. I recol
lect one pcrty morning in particular, of
jiuiiiu- mi viu in; ifcjuuw on uie sireicn,
and considering the weight he carried,
he run well. .But the dogs soon tired
1,;.. j i .,
nun down, and when I came ui with
i,: , . -ft ' . ,
mm wasn't ho in a beautiful sweat I
IT1 rrllt fnvfif nm tlirn f-k enn luc
, .... ...v.., .v. ov,v ,11.11
.u.,SuU Bu, ui u, H.uiu.1 .i .cci,
and his sides sinking and opentng like a
bellows, and his
encuhs so iai ne
couldn't look cross
In this fix I blazed
at him, and pitch me naked into a briar
,.t, i'.i , ' i t u , . i-.i
path it Ihe steam didn t come out o the
!
bullet hole ten foot in a straight line.
niL ,i I, f .i
1 he ic nw, I reckon, was made on the
i i ' I , i .
hish pressure system, and the lead sort
of bust his biler.'
That column of steam was rather
curious, or else the bear must have been
warm,' observed the foreigner with a
laugh.
'Stranger, as you observe, that bar
was warm, and the blowing off of the
steam showed it, and also how hard the
mimim n.iu uc-un run. j nave no uouui
if he had kept on two miles further his
insidcs would have been stewed ; and I
expect to meet with a varmint yet of
extra bottom, who will run himself into
a skin lull ol bar s grease: it is possi
ble, much onlikelicr things have hap
pened.
Where abouts are these bear so a
bundant?' inquired the foreigner with
increasing interest.
Why, stranirer, they inhabit the
neighborhood of my settlement, one of
the prettiest palaces ol Old Mississippi
a perfect location, and no mistake : a
place that had some delects until the
river made the cut ofl, at 'Shirt-tail-
bend,' and that remedied the evil, as it
brought my cabin on the edge of the
river a great advantage in wet wea-
ther, I assure you. as you can roll a bar-
rcl of whiskey into my yard in high
water, from a boat, as easy as falling
oflfa log ; it's a great improvement, as
toting it by land in a jug, as 1 used to
do, evaporated it too fast, and it became
expensive. Just stop with me a month
or two, or a year if you like, and you
will appreciate my Place. 1 can give
you plenty to eat, for beside hog and
nommy, you can nave oar nam, and oar merging into the wished for consumma
sausages, and a mattrass of bar skins to tion. The last scene in this tra"ic plav
. I.-II - . II J ivl ii . .. -' .-
steep on, ano wnu cat shin, puueu uu
hull, stulled with corn-shucks for a pil-
low. I hat bed would put you to sleep
if you had the rheumatics in every joint
m your body. I call that ar bed a qui-
etim. Then look at mv land, the co-
vernment arn't got another such a piec e
to dispose of. Such timber, and such
bottom lanJ, why vou can't preserve
any tiling natural you plant in it, unless
you pick it young, things thar will grow
out of shape so quick. I once planted
in those diggings a few potatoes and
beets, they took a line start, and after
that an ox team wouldn't have kept them
from growing. About that time I went
otrto old Kentuck on business, and did
not hear from them things in three
months, when I accidentally stumbled
on a fellow who had stopped at my
piace, wun an idea 01 otiying me out.
How did you like things ? said I. Tret
ty well, said lie: the cabin is conve-
nicnt, and the timber land is good, but
that bottom land ain't worth the first red
cent. Why? said I. Cause, said he.
Cause what ? said I. Cause it's full of
cedar stumps and Indian mounds, said
he, and it can't be cleared. Law said
I, them ar cedar stumps is beets, and
them ar Indian mounds ar tater hills,
as I expected the crop was overgrown
and useless; the sile is too rich, and
planting in Arkansaw is dangerous. I
had a good sized sow killed in that same
bottom land; the old thief stole an ear
of corn, and took it down where she
slept at night to eat ; well, she left a
g'UfS1" two on the ground, and lay
down on them; before momine the coi n
shot up, and the percussion killed her
dead. I don't plant any more, natur
intended Arkansaw for a hunting
ground,-and I go according to natur,
Southern Chronicle.
TIic Opium SmohlRS Sliop.
One of the objects at this place, tlftt
l had tiie curiosity to visit was the opi
. . . . .
um-smoker in Ins heaven; and certain'
ly it is a most fearful sight, although not
so degrading to the eye as the drunkard
"tim pints, lowered to mc evei oi me
, ' , ' ,, . ... ... .
"S' i Jt
1 i a .1 I i r .
' '"Y'i i T .'
r,'Itldauc,,ce ,,'as something more
awiui lo uie gaze man ine uesiiainy oi
i v?-. i . , - ,
the latter. 1'ity. it possible, takes the
i r .1 r V . i .i
n 1 1 f " r n( lint lrr rrc no n-n 1 1 n t - 1 1 tl.r.
faded cheek and hassrard look of the
being abandoned to the power of the
drug ; whilst disgust is uppermost at the
sight of the human being levelled to the
beast by intoxication. One of the
streets in the centre of the town is whol
iv uuvuicti icj wiu siiiu ui mis puisuu ;
. . - -l i
and here in the evening maybe seen,
,-,.., i, ii i.
ly devoted to the sale ol tins poison
n i'l i , 4 li lot. '' I 1 1 n ri V r . hi.
. . J '
vr..,,. , ,.f I'll nncn c.w.l.- c.l cf.r
,,lcir dcpravcd appetite. Tl
wherc J f!moke arQ
ic rooms
surroun-
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i.:..,.i ' i ' ...n..
tti 1.... .1 wwt ...... n.l 1 I..
i t , i , i r mm
side room is devoted to gambling, l ie
i f v f
limo i n moil nt nnnnt ntt npli iti i-ti.
' ' , . i ,t , ,i i i r
meter, and tlic aperture in the bow , for
, n .i
the admission ol the opium, is not larger
. i nn ..-i i "
red with some kind of conserve, and a
very small portion is sytlicient to charge
it, one or two w hill's being the utmost
that can be inhaled from a single pipe ;
and the smoke is taken into the lunirs
as from the hookah in India. On the
beginner one or two pipes will have an
eflcct, but an old stager will continue
lor hours. At the head of each couch
is phced a small lamp, as fire must be
hclj to lhe dm duriu" the progress of
inhaling; and from the difficulty of fil-
i;nr, ami nrm.m lv liMitinrrtl .l.oro
0 i - j "0
is generally a person wno waits upon
II - . v ..
them to perform the oluce.
A fev days of this fearful luxury,
when used to excess, will give a pallid
and haggard looii to the lace ; and a
few months will even chanzc the strong
and healthy man into little better than
an idiot skeleton. The pain they suf-
ler when deprived of the dru?, after
long habit, no language can explain;
and it is only when under its influence
that their faculties are alive. In the
houses devoted to their ruin, these infa-
tuatcd people may be seen at nine o'-
clock, in all the different stages; some
entering half distracted to feed their
craving appetite they had been obliged
to subdue during the day ; others laugh-
ing and taking wildly under the etl'ects
ol the first pipe; whilst the couches a-
round arc filled with their different oc.
cupants, who lie languid, with an idiot
smile upon their countenances, too
much under the influence of the drug
to care for passing events, and fast
is generally a room in the rear ol the
building a species of dead house,
where he stretched those who have
passed into tho state of bliss tho smoker
madly sccks an emblem of the long
sleen to which he is hlimllv Imm mrr
TLord Jocclyn's Six Months withthc
I Chinese Expedition. v
Rrnovat.'on or flic IcacU Tree.
The editor of the New England Far
mer savs that a man residing in Cam
bridge, informs liim that charcoal pla
ced around the roots of the deceased
peach stocK was serviceable. He im
mediately removed the soil from around
the truntvof a sicidy trcs in his garden,
supplied its place with charcoal, and
was surprised at its sudden renovation,
and subsequent rapidity of its growth,
and the tenacity with which the fruit
held on to the branches, and the unusu
al richness of its flavor when matured.
Heavy Hos.
Warren county is as hoggish a por
tion of the State as any other. No part
of Ohio, aflbrds better soil, better far
mers, better crops, or bettor stocK.
Messrs. Price fc Enless of Springbo
rough, Warren county cut up during
the past season 11!9 hogs, good sized
pigs too. One weighed 811 lbs. netl ;
one 510 lbs.; 082 averaged H00 lbs.; 79
400 lbs. each. The 600 lbs. pig was
half blood Berkshire. The Warren
boys can go to the head ! Cleaveland
Herald.
Munnfactur of Sink In lh fnliad States.
There are twelre Stairs in the Union which en
courage the culture of Silk by special bounties. In
the LrgUlaicire of New Yoilt a similar jmliey has
been ailrocatcJ and has probably before now receiv
ed the sanction of law.
We find in a Northern paper the following state
ments of facts relative to American Silk :
The silk of America is found to contain fibre
stronger and of a quality superior to that of almost
any other country. Specimens have been exami
ned by the Chamber of Commerce nt Lyons; and
other Intelligent Frenchmen, both here and in lint
country, have examined and attes!d the truth of
this important fact. The cause of this superiority
may bo traced eilber to soil, or what is more proha
blc, to our fine and serene climito during summer.
Not long since specimens of American raw silk,
were shown to a veiy intelligent ribon-weaver from
England, and he pronounced them altogether supe.
rior to any European or India silk he Lad ever wo
ven in his native country. This speaks loudly in
favor of the quality of Ameriean silespccial'y such
as is produced in the Northern latitude. The co
coon from which this silk was reeled, were made
on the cold mountains of Litchfield county, Conn
Silk is also successfully raised at Penobscot, Maine,
in 45 deg. north latitude. In further proof of t!io
good qualities of American silk, Mr. Whilinarsh, nf
Nnilhampton Muss., who in 18L!'J had pjwer looms
sufficient lo turn ofl"4,00l) yards tf ribbon daily, be
tides machinery for sewing silks and braid, hh
"I have used the si;ks of France, Italy, Tuikey Chi
ni and bengal, in the prognrs of manufacturing,
and give the American the preference by twenty -five
per cent."
It is alo an ascertained uct, Hint Iroin a givjn
quantity of cocnons, one-third more silk may be
reeled in France or Italy; and the loss ot worms
has not been as much in this, ai in tlios? countiies,
The imposition of ilk goods into ibis country
for the year ending Septemlicr 2!ih, I SU'J, amoun
ted to $23,800,01)0. It is estimated that during the
last ten yeirs tho United Stales have paid more
than $ 150,000,000 for silk manufactures of foreign
production.
The attempts at the culture of silk in the t'nited
States have been made chiefly in the Northern
States. Massachusetts piid last year in bounties to
the growers of silk nearly three thousand dollars
Dut it will occur to every one that the climate of
this latitude and farther South must be better adip-
ted to the culture than that of the more northern
portiona of the country.
Tho imposition of a twenty per cent duty on
French silks would be of great service in promotin;
growth and manufacture of the article in the t'ni
ted States. In the whole list of our imports there
is no item which can with more propriety lie mnde
the subject of such a duty. It would yield a hind
omesuin to lhe revenue ; the tax indirectly ievi.d
by it would be drawn chiefly from the wealthy
and the farther bcnelicuil re-ult from tne import
would be to e;ie uragfl the culture and manufacture
of si'k at home. B ill. American.
Su Mir We have just seen a specimen of
Map Pin. ting iu a style which we believe is enlere
ly new. It is a mip of the United States, printed
on a handsome pongee silk, in the fotm of a pocket
nandkercheif, and it may be Used at pleasure either
for the ordinary pQfpoaea of that necssiry imple
ment, or for lhe sole purpose of reference for the ae
curate geographical information which it contains.
or it may be made to serve both purpose at the same
time. It ia printed and published by Mr. Joseph
V. Tutlle. The engraving is by George W. Doyn
ton, from a new, and we believe accurate drawing
made fur the purpose, containing the usual details
of a map of the site, with scale of the heights of
mountains, length of rivers, Ac Boiton Dully
Advtrltitr,
A mote gloiioua victory cannot ba jn'lneJ, over
another man than this, that when '.'ne iujuiy beg ni
on his part, the kindues shouLj begin on our.
Important Discovery,
Last Fridsy Di. tiuchonnan gave a lecture ox
planatoiy of a new discovery in the ncrvou system,
by means of which he ia able in some instances to
control both the minds and bodies of hi patients,
The pi nib men and ladies who have been the sub
jects of his experiments declare that they feel the
current of their thoughts and feeling changing
from ti'r.e to time, without having the pi vrer to
prevent it. At one lime they think of the past, at
another time of the future. Their idea are borne
times clear and snmrtimos confused beyond the
power of recollecting themselves. At one tune
they are lulled into gentleness and good humor st
another, they arc transported beyond all self control
by f.-eiings of a desprr te and pugnacious character.
We have witnessed but lew of the experiments
its j
as I
ourselves, and consequently are rather skeptical
to the reality of the feeing produced. At the pub-'
lie Icc'uro three gentlemen weie experimented up-
Tho fir-t attempt ws to produce drowsiness
and sleep. In a sliort time droweincrs became ap
parent. The eyelids of the gentleman fell and his
head reclined. His hands bcciine cold, clammy and
benumbed ; they were agitated by convulsive trem-
lings, of which he srrmcd to be unconscious, and
he was unable to keep them still. The effect pro
duced b.-ing comideicd rather too powerful, Dr. 13.
in a few moments revived him without going o fat
as lo produce sleep.
The principal experiment upon the second gen
tleman was to cause the thought to wander and
. . ..... a
cxcito memory or reminiscences, in mi tne doc
tor succeeded rcmaikably wall. At fiist the gen
tleman remarked that hi thou gate were scattering
and confused ; then that they were upon his past
life; and, finally, that he could think of nothing
but hi childish spoils and the days of hi infancy
The experiment upon tho third gentleman was
to excite the pa.seioiis and produce impatience, an
ger and leseiitmeut. In this the doctor was also sue
cessful, for in a few minutes bis feet and legs bt'
gan to work in a violent manner, and he remarked
that he woulJ like to stamp something. In a mo
ment more he sprang to his feet, with a stern aud
determined cxpiession of countenance, but shortly-
recovered hia self-possession. Ark. Times,
UlcliartUni.' Arttlerattd Steamboat,
We have befote us a drawing and description of
a new kind of steamboat, invented by Col. J. S. Hi-
chaulaon. Its leading peculiarity is, that by means
of a huge balloon, or gas-holder, shaped like a cu
cumber, and extended lengthwise over the boat, (or
rather boat, for there are two hulls connected by a
deck and saloon above,) the latter is raised out of
the water, except th keels and paddles of tho wa
ler wheel, thus reducing the reactance of the wa
ter to almost nothing, end yet using it for tho pur
poses of propulsion and steering. The plan is in
genius, but how it v-!ll succeed in practice, we shall
know better when the experiment is mado. Col,
Kicliaruson and his associate have announced their
intention to builJ and put in operation one of these
boats in the North Iliwr. The Balloon is to
made of duck and divided into seciions, so that in
case of I cing perforated by a vessel's boom, or other
cause, on'y a sma'l part ol" the gu3 would escape.
Snppotinj the plan to operate in practice as it pre
s-nN it-elf iu theory, a rate of speed would be at
tained that would distance all other travelling ex
pedieii!. It is ea-v enough to see, that with s eam
power applied to the water as in other steamboat
and wi;h littlo resistance from the water, the boat
must aj ahead" with asloniehing rapidity. .V.
Juui Com.
Fearful C'olllflon.
The terrifying collision which occurred at sea
a short time since bet n evil a Philadelphia ship and
another unknown, is thus described in tho Noilh
American :
The packet ship Su?quehinna, as she lies near
Walnut t'.rcct wharf, is a cuiios ly. She has liter,
ally been rescued from the jawa of the great deep.
Sue came in collision with another ship off the
Hank of New foundland on the 8th hint, at 4 o'
clock in the morning. The night was not dark,
but the sea was running high, and they did not dis
cover each olhet until the fearful collision' The
Susquehanna's bowsprit is taken off clean, and the
cut-v.it'r torn anJ wrenched from the thip iu a
way which shows the encounter must bae been
tremendous. She was running at the late of nine
knots, and shipping sets constantly at the lime.
Tho impression on hoard the ttus.iuehanna is that
the blow was so hard and so near the centre of the
other ship, lhat she must have been totally disabled,
if n t stove in, causing her to sink immediately.
Afier lhe collision, she dewed rouud and grated
pat tie Susqjchanna, with such rapidity, tbtt no
opportunity waa given to discover who the wa or
tha 'extent of her injuries. Ilia irripressinn on
botrj i that sha wss an East Indismao, or some
ship of the Urges class; ami as tba cut-water of
the Suiquebanna 1 lake low down, sha waa
upon the lop, ofa sea at the moment of the col'.i
slon. Consequently the oilier ship must have suf
fered the more severely. No cries were heard, and
in the confusion of the crash, and anxie:y for self
preservation, no distinct knowledge of the charac
ter of the olher ship could be learned. The opin
ion on board is, that the man at the wheel of Ihe
ill-fated ship must have been killed instantly. The
whole of tho painful encounter is only another
evidence of the unavoidable, hazards of navigation.
Perhaps the ship instantly foundered, and in one
'MI awooj." all on board ei u.luivd inio eler-
nity together. If eo, her futo will never satisfacto
rily be known, and the history of thc engulfed
with her must continue to ba involved in doubt aud
obscurity forever.
An Iitlcvesttiisr Itrl'n.
VVn.iUM SifiKisn, Kq. St. John's Berkley, (9.
C.) who now own the Revolutionary liatt!nro'i:iJ.
of Ihe I'uittu; hi put the editors of the Charles
ton Curiler in possession of n old-fahinn-d En
glish gold watch, dui up very recently ne r tb.9
foundation of lire celebrated U rick House in w'uich
the British, look shcl'.cr, and by meens of which,
they r.era cnrbled to check tho till iVn vi.-t,-rioj
American under GakE.vr., at the L?ttle of ilia Ivi.
taw, and thus to prevent the censummatinu of tl.
American victory. The wtlcn is a small one, ctv-
cloiej in a gold cave, an'l t!ie golden portion of it
is in complete preservation, but t'tc brass and steal
of tho woiks tie in such a state of rust a lo lender
it incapable of rejloraticn ti ik.j without a suU'.i
tution of entire naw works. The ery-aal i: perfect
nd so are the hands and face, tho hour t are deno-
sd by numeral Ictom, and '.ho minutes by figutes-
On tho enamelled fice eppa ar, in capitals, "Du
chesne," and in smaller lo'ters "London." Iu tli
interior, '-DI. Duchesne, LonJan," al:j indicatit
tho maker' name, and the number is "5993.
This islic doubtless belonged to o:r.o Dri'.L-h or
American officer, who bore a part in that celebra
ted pafttge cf arms, at orlce so f Jit of glory, and so
auspicious in its results to the Ancriran cau
II wes probably in the fob of one fell on that
memornl-le occasion, and was burried with him.
and it would be curious wero this publication to b
he roe4n of ident'fin; the former owner.
An exquisite Fell or the fall ofan Exquisite.
Yesterday about noon, while a your.g knight of
tho murlnche, apparently a strar.Ri-r in this city,
was walking up Baltimore street for the purpose,
no doubt, of exhibiting hi well braced form and
h-ilf artii'ieiil peJestrinn members, he accidentally
placed ono of hi hih heeled boots upon an orango
peeling which had been carelessly thrown on the
pavement This caused his fost ta give way, and
down came our hero, sprawling like a thing of lift',
at full length. 'Monsicr Tcns;r," (we. must give
him this name in the absence of his rca! o;p.) al
though not hurt, appeared axaxingly mortified.
To make the matter s'.ill wor-e, he, in r'te-np'ing
to regain his position, shook off one of his long oa.k
glossy whiskers, which, of cou:se, was false. Tl'.i '.
however, he did not discover, owing, perhaps, to
the extreme ncivous excitement caused by the sad
den transition from so elevated to so Lnmllo a po
sition. Hi promenade had not been extended .
ry far until the bristly ornament of his downy check
was missing. This caused Monsieur, a he w.ie,
well aware, to look rather odd, and he quickly er
plied hu delicate fingers t3 tha rthe cheek, snilc'.i
eJ. tTtlio icmaining whi.-ker end slipil it into liis
pocket. Thus was Sir WliLUerdiulo deprived rf a
part al least of his false plume. oivl rendered a
living r.buke to tho-ie who tre i:i tho habit of wcai
ing 'A.Ball. Ocean.
Poktrt. It is a f ne tiling for chilJr-n ta learn
to make ver-e ; but when they come to bo men, '.bey
most speak like other men, or they will be Ie.ujheJ
at. Il is ridicuW-i to epeak, crwiito, or preach
in verse. As it is good to b arn to dance, a man
may learn his leg, to go handsomely ; hct it ia ri
dieulous for him to dance when ha h.Juld ga. It
is ridiculous for a lord to print veras; ills well
enough la make them to please himself, but t
make them public is fochsh. If a man, in a pr.vcto
chamber, twirls his bind itringv, or ilay with a
rnsh to p'ejse himelf, it ii weii enough ; but i! ho
should go iuto Fleet-street, and s't upon a s:a!l, an J
twirl a band string, or pby with ush, then ail
the boy in the street would lairgh at him. Verse
proves nothing but the quantity of syllables; they
arc not meant for logic. TuL.e taik.
The custom amon; the Coj'ar'is is ta allow tho
ladies to choose their own hnYoand. When a
young girl takes a fany to a young fellow, ahc gow
to his parent's house, signifies Ur u'-niio:u, ocj
there sticks, un.il th other parties coma li terms.
By this happy anaugement lh-.:o are no spicste.-
left on hand ill that countrr.
Duess, hut CssniiTl. Would the recolec
tion of the following remark by Steele, do some of
us any harm now a-Jays!
When a person ff-' carter, he bus u.-!s-..l
himself clean ta no purpo-e. The c'oi'uing nf ccr
minJa is certainly to be regarded before that oi our
bbdie. To betray in man' talk a corrupt iuinuis
nation is a much greater JiTeuce agtinl the con
versation of gentlemen than any negligence of Jrtse
imaginable.
A Ceicaf OasToa. An Abolition lecture
by the name of Boyle while in the exercise of hi
location at Sharon, Maae, a lew days aince, had
about nine oi.-ci of c;g thrown al bim by set
of rowdie. Many of them did good execution,
much to tho amusement of the engineer, but Boylu
stood his ground, and aftv tLeii anrounition waa
exhausted, relurneJ the Cre by "haid argmellU
for about an hour.
Mixii"t Comas. Msrried, in New Voik, hy
the He. Mr. Whttr, Henry Black, Ksq. of Ora'igt
county, to tlia Crny, of Grtcn caunty, audi
daughter of Henry Brown, of Bltuhill, Maine. '
Look out fat young rainbows. ntttlntrk
jinicricsn.