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SPKECII OP AltKKOlOtliDDIIlXKAUl).
The following address was delivered in Fa-
noun Hall, jjoston, ty 3Jr. Jiawkins, one ol the i then drank nothing for a while ; but it was so opened sober and shut sober ; and when 1 rnter
Reformed Drunkards from Ikiltiinore, who are hard to do without, that at lengli I took a glass t.,, my wife was standing in the middle of the
now travelling as agenUs for the I emporaiice j
Society. j
Mr.iiankin.'. Aldr. j
W hen I compare the past with the present ;
my days of intemperance with my present j
peace and sobriety my past degradation with
my present position in this Hall the Cradle
of Liberty, I am overwhelmed. It seems to
me holy ground. I never expected to 6ee this
Hall. I had heard of it in boyhood. 'Twas here
that Otis and the elder Adams urged the prin- j
ciples of independence, and we now meet here
to declare ourselves independent; to make the ":
second JJeclaration not quite so lengthy as the
Oid one, but promises ol lite, liberty, and the pur-
suit of happiness. Our Forefathers pledged j
l. l : - ..ii-. i -ii
their lives, and fortunes, and sacred honors; we,
too, will pledge our honor, our life, but our for
tunes have gone fbr Rum ! Poor though we
drunkards are, and miserable, even in the gut
ter, we will pledge our lives to maintain sobri
ety. The cause of Temperance ! what is it, but
the cause oflunnanity ! I have suffered from
every description of drunkenness; and borne the
heat anil burthen of the day in ks. m mi 1.1.9,
(grog shops) and know all about it and I re
joice to say, in this Cradle of Liberty, that
whereas I was once a. drunkard I am now a so
ber man, and always mean to be.
1 represent 2tKK) reformed drunkards saved
in one year, now connected with the Washing
ton temperance society of Baltimore, and its
auxiliaries. Our society originated in a irroff.
shop, where twenty of us, all drunkards, resor- !
ted. Our pledge was there drawn up, and
first signed by six persons, who now stand firm
in the cause. The President Mr. Mitchell, is
a host in himself. Our meetings are held eve
ry night in the week, and we find it as pleasant
and good a way to spend our time as it ever
was at a tavern; nay, more pleasant, and in
better company than in those little hells upon '
earth. At our meetings we don't look at each
other, and say nothing. No! you can't keep
us from talking. One said, "I feel better,
though I am growing smaller, and ksnk pale;
my ideas arc clearer; 1 eat better, and feel
happy." Another; "my wife is so happy, and
every thing goes so nice at liome ; the children
are so rejoiced." And mive went over the
ground, telling our experiences, and we have
none too much time I assure you. We found
enough to tell about ourselves, our homes and
our old grog-shops, to make a long evening
Khort. We would have no sectarianism, no
politics or arguments, Whoever ventured up
on, cither was mule to take kis seat; he must
te!l his on experience, and not another's.
"Tell us how olten you have been drunk, and
what rum has done to you and your family;
nnd how you now feel, and uhut cold water is
now doing lor you."
Total abM.inertce is the fasis no proscrip
tton of men, ONLV THE LKU'OR. Men
who sell Hum may tako cilr pledge and join
its; and we would like well to have tho man
who sells 20 hogsheads a week come and at
tend our meetings, and if we did not give him
enough 1 am mistaken. lie knows when the
mechanic earns f 12 a week arid spend half of
it at his tavern bar, that he has taken his mo-
fjey and given no equivalent ; that it is wrong
to vend an article that will wild millions to a
drunkard's grave. We cover all under kvm
and Ri'M-Mii.i.R. You may talk of your gin and
wine it is no matter what you ra!) it wc
know there is no dillliciicc ; you may as well
drink one as the other. Thirty years ago, wo
drank everywhere, on all occasions, and the
question we asked was, "does ho keep a good
bottle V and when we could not get a good
one, poor one would da
I was born of respectable parents, and was
educated by a minister, and then bound out to
tiic hading busincs, in as perfect a grog-shop
as ever existed. Ma few days before I left
Baltimore, I found the old books of my master;
there was the names of sixty men upon it, and
we did not recollect but one that did not go to
a drunkard's grave. Another hatter says it
was just so on his books. Atone time there
were twelve of us as apprentices eight of the
twelve have died drunkards; one is now in
the alms bouse in Cincinnati, one in the alms
house in Jlaltinioro, and here am I.
For a while I was prosperous, notwithstand
ing 1 drank on; I did not expect the appetite
to conquer me. Well, when 2'J years old, in
I went to the West. As soon as away
from parental care, gave way, all went by the
hoard, my suffering commenced. Forfl months
I had no shoes, and only ene shirt and two pair
I of pantaloons; and then I was a vagabond in-
j deed. But I returned, ragged and bloated to
j my mother's homo. When I got to the edge
I of the town, I was ashamed even to walk on
j the ground of my nativity. In the dusk of the
I evening 1 crept along to my mother s, and was
soon dressed up decently. Mv mother onlv
said, "John, I am afraid you are bloated." I
ol ale, and all was over with me again my
appetite rushed on like a flood and carried all
before it. And for fifteen years, time alter
tune, I rose and fell; wa.s upaud down, would
quit all, and then take a little glass. I would
earn floa week, bo happy and well, and with
money in hand start for home, and in some nn-
accountable way, imperceptibly and irresistably,
fall into a tavern, and think one glass only
would do me good. But I found a single glass
of ale would conquer all my resolutions. I ap
peal to all my fellow drunkards if it is not ex
actly so it" the one class ol intoxicating drink
dOPg m,t annihilate, by revival of the appetite,
,,n resolutions to resist drinkinff on. I am Bat-
inod this appetite is rooted in me, and I never
... I
expect to get nu ol it. it is like mercury in
the themometor keep heat away from it and
it will not rise, but apply the heat of your finger
and it will rise at once.
June Kith, last, 1 drank and suffered awfully.
I can't tell you how much I Buffered in mind
111 body every thing, but in mind more. 1
drank dreadfully the two first weeks of June-
bought by the gallon, and was about taking my
life drunk all the time. On the 11th I was
a wonder to myself astonished that I had any
mind letl ; and yet it seemed in the goodness
of God uncommonly clear. I laid in bed Ion"
alter my wife and daughter were up, and my
conscience drove me to madness. 1 hated the
darkness of the night, and when light came I
hated the light. I hated my life, my existence,
I asked myself; "Can I refrain.' is it possible !"
Xol a being to take me by my hand, and lead or
help tne along and say "vol' i an. ' I was
friendless; without help or light; an outcast,
My wife came up stairs, and knew I was suf-
fering, and asked me to go down to breakfast.
I had a pint of w hiskey and thought I would
drink ; and yet I knew it was life or death with
me as I decided. Moderate drinkers beware !
Take care you don't get into this awful condi-
j ' ell, I told my wife I would come
J down presently. Then my daughter came up
1 ad asked me down. I alwayu loved her
: because she was the drunkard's friend ; my on-
i 'y friend. And then she said, "Father, doti't
; send nie after whiskey to-day." I was tormen-
I lpd before, but this was an unexpected torture.
j Hold her to leave the chau!cr, and she went
' down crying, and said to her mother, father is
i unory with me.
My wife came up again, and
asked me to take some coffee; I told her I did
not want unv thiiiL' of her. f soon heard some
oue enter the room, and I peeped out and saw it
was my daughter.
I then thought of my past life; rny degrada
tion; misery of my friends; and felt bad
enough. So I called her and said. "Hannah.
I am not angry with you, and I shall not drink
-
any more. Klie cried and so did I. I went
nn and looked to the cunboard and looked st
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"is it possible I can be restored," and then I
turned tny back upon it. Several times while
dressin". I looked at the bottle but thought I
should be lost ifl yielded. IW Drunkard!
'n,, ; bm for vnn ! Von cannot bo worse
off than I was; not more degraded, or more a
slave to appetite. You can reform if you will.
Try it try it. I felt bJdly I ten you.
There are some here who know how I felt. 1
know yon feel bad enough. I have talked with
some of you. Some say we leelinn. Some
My we f el rkitfh, and some say we feel
l-'IKST RATI'.. Well, Momliy night I went
lo the bucu; I v of drunkards-, and there 1 found
all my old bottle companions. I did not tell a
ny body I was going, not even my wife. I bad
got out of difficulty, but did not know how long
I would keep out. The six pounders of the so
ciety were there. We had fished together,
and got drunk together. Yon could not break
us up when drunk. We stuck like brothers,
and so we do now we arc sober. One said
here is Hawkins, the "rcculatof," the old
anvisim; ami they clapped and laughed as you
do now. Hut there was no clap or laugh in
me. I was too sober and solemn for that. The
pledge was read for my accommodation. They
all looked over my shoulder to see me write my
name. I never had such feelings before. It
was a great battle. T once fought the battle at
North Point, and helped to run away too, but
now there is no running away. I found the
Society had a large pitcher of water drank
toasts and told experiences. There laid my
plan; I did not intend to be a drone. Alcohol
promised every thing, but I found him a great
deceiver, and now I mean to do him all the
harm 1 can.
At 11 o'clock I went home, because, when
I went home late, 1 always went home drunk,
Wife had given me up, and thought I would
come home drunk again, and she began to
think about breaking up and going home to
mother's. My yard is covered with brick,
and as 1 went over the brick, will listened as
she told mo. to determine whether the rote
opened drunk or sober, for she could tell, and it
room to see me as I came in. She was as-
toni. - hed, but 1 smiled and she smiled, as I
caught her black eye. I told her quick; I
could not keep it back, 'I have put my nair
to the temperance pledge, never to drink as
long as I live.' It was a happy time. 1 cried
and she cried ; we could not hush it ; and our
crying waked up our daughter, and she cried
too. 1 tell you this, thi'tyou may know how
happy this reformation of a drunkard makes
his family. I slept none that night, my thoughts
were better than sleep. Next morning I went
to see mother, old as 1 was. I must go to sec
her and tell her of our joy. She had been pray
ing 'JO years for her drunken son. Now she
.it"ia Pnouh, 1 am ready to die.' It made
J
my connexions all happy.
The next thing was to determine what
was to be done, aiy mind was blunted
haracter gone; was bloated and I was get
ting old ; but men who had slighted me came
to my help ajain and took me by the hand, held
me up, encouraged and comtorieii me. 1 11
never slight a drunkard as Ions as I live; he
needs sympathy and is worthy of it, poor and
miserable as he is ; he did not design to be
come a drunkard ; and people have too long
told him he cannot reform; it s no use; he
must die a drunkard. But we now assure him
he can reform, and need not live or dio so, and
we show ourselves, 12001) in one year, as evi
deuce of the fact. The poor wretch here is
crammed into the poor house or prison, and
when he conies out, he meets temptation at
every step he begs you to succor him; but
,e is led by appetite and neglect, straight to
the grog-shop. Drunkurd ! come up here, you
can reform take the pledge in this Cradle of
Liberty, and be ever free '. Delay not. I met
a gentleman this morning, who reformed four
weeks ago, rejoicing in his reformation. II
brought a man with him who took the pledge,
and this man has already brought two others.
This is the way wc do the business up in Bilti
I more ; we reformed drunkards are a Commit
1 i:k of Tin: Whole on the State or Tint L'
nio.n! are all missionaries don't slight the
drunkard, but love him. No! we nurse him
as the mother does her infant learning to walk,
I tell you, be kind to him and he will never
forget you. llo has peculiar feelings when
the boys run after him and hoot at him ; take
hi.s part and he'll never forget it. lie has
better feelings than the moderate drinker;
don't lav a stiiinblini; block in his way. One
man n.wr, miserable, ureiciieu, raggeu ; a
t 1
ueal w iiARf hat ; I suppose you have such
here, we had plenty of them in llaltimore, but
much lessened now ;) he was a bu&ter ; about
a year ago, his clothes not fit tor paper rags,
" ,i,,n"y nM now"" 10 Ml' 1,0 ,ue'' nor evt"
I.I .1 W-..1I l. I. .1.1 l,,o l.,.tl,.. I,., una nvi-
i . . .. . . .i . . , .
U,H"18, "c '""" b,r-
S lo (lu,t wautea nun to go nis bccuruy
for a horse and cart, but he would nut. Our
I
men went to his brother and he was persHaded
He has paid lor his horse and cart, his family
an" 'unwell are well clothed, cellar lull oi woou,
a ba"el of flour, and he has become a gentle
"n and a christian. And all this in one short
)'ear'
Just let metell you about one of out reform-
ed men. We alt changed a grrat, deal in our
appearance ; some grew thin ; tome pale ; but
a dark complexioned man grew yellow, and
the grog-seller, untiring the change in others,
and seeing hi old customer not becoming
white, uud he did not he!, eve he had rpiit alto
gether. The man In aid of it, and prepared
himself for an interview ; so happened in his
way.
These taverns arc apt to complain and say
we do them an injury, bpcanse we shared our
money for the support of our families. Quite
villainous to be sure! And so they charge us
with drinking a little ; but I tell you wc keep
cIofc wutch of each other; wo are very loving
and we take good care to get along side of the
mouth, and know pretty well what has been
going on there.
As I was going to tell you the taverner said
to the member, 'it appears to me you don't alter
quite o much as horic of the re.it.' 'Ibn't I,'
said lie, well, why don't I V 'Why, you don't
look pile, voti rrrow vallak.' '1 urow vallnr
you think!' 'Yes.' 'Well,' said the man draw
in"; out a handful of gold pieces from his pnnta-
oons pocket, 'these look yatlartoo, but yon
don't get any more of them, they belong here,'
returning them to his pocket 'and my wife
will liHvelhciu that in the trouble with you.
These grog sellers know how to fix the drunk
ards they understand their business thev
keep a platter of salt fish cheese, herring and
crackers to fix the appetite all free don't
ask anything of course, for them ; but when
they see a man take hold and eat a little, they
think they have him, he'll want to wash it
lown ; he'll get started and -he'll do well e-
nough yet.' Well, the stuff is very apt to
stick in the throat, so it was washed down; and
the breath must he changed, and a little more
fish or cheese is taken, and that must be wash
ed out of the throat, and so it goes. But if a
man eats and don't drink, lie is pretty sure to
be told that that will not do.
This drinking has killed more men, women
and children, than war pestilence, and all other
evils together. You cannot bring upon man so
awful a curse as alchohol ; it cannot be done ;
no machinery or invention of death can work
like it. Is there a nuxleratc drinker who says
he can use 'a little,' or 'much,' and quit when
he pleases !' I tell you from experience he
can't do it. Well lie can if he will, but he
won't wax, that is the difficulty and there is
the fatal mistake. Does he want to know
whether he can ? I ask him to go without his
accustomed morning bitters, or his eleven o'
clock, to morrow, and he will find how he loves
it ! We have come up out of the gutter to j
tell him he loves it, and how he can escape.
It is the moderate use the lilt'e, the pretty i
drink, the genteel and fashionable, that does j
the iniHclnel ; the moderate drinker is trauunjr i
to take tho place of the drunkard.
Go to Baltimore and see now our happy
wives and families. Only look at our proces
sion on the 25th of April, when we celebrated
our aniversary. Six thouwmd men, nearly half
of them reformed within a year, followed by
12(100 boys of all ages to give assurance to tho
world that the next generation shall all be so
ber. Uut where were our wives on that occa
sion ! at home, nhutupwith hungry children
in rags as a year ago! No, No! but in car
riages, riding round the streets to see their
husbands.
My family were in a hat k and I carried ap
ples, &c. to them, and my wifesaid 'how happy
all look, why there is all dressed up
and only think I saw old in the proces
sion as happy and as smart as any of them, and
so she went on telling tne who she had seen.
And where do you think tho grog seller's wives
tvero ! were they out ! Not they ! ! Some
of them peeped out from behind the itrt.vins !
We cut down the rum tree that day in Bil
tiniore, underground ; not on the top of the
ground leaving u t.tump, but under ground
roots and all ! !
We have not seen six drunkards staggering
in the streets since we have been in Hilton,
and we have been all round, even in Ann
street. They must hide themselves. If they
are put into the bonne of correction, I don't
wonder they hide. I said when I talked to
thern on the Sabbath, over there, that I wuhed
I had a distiller at my right hand, and a rum-
seller at my left, & let them answ er the ques-
tion, what brought all these here ! And would
have hail the answer ki m. This making the
drunkard by a thousand temptations and in
ducement, and then shutting them .ip in pris
on, is a cruel and horrible busi'iess, Vou make
the drunkard, and then l't him come into your
Ihwso and you turn hi ;.i out ; let him come
to the church and you turn him out; friends
cast him iiff; dp grog-seller turns him into
tho streets when his money is eone, or mid
night comes. When ho serves his time out
ia prison, ho is turned out with the threat of a
flogging if he is ever caught again; and yet
you keep open tho place w here he is eulangled
and destroyed. Wo are bound to turn the
whole tide of public opinion against the traffic.
The sellers will pour down your eon's throat a
tide of liquor, and you do so to hit son and ho
would cut your throat Ask him if he ia wil
ling you should make his daughter a drunkard T
And v 1 1 v (hculd hr make vour sou our '
SnvtiK Keneonlir.
m 'st savage and intvrderuuH combat occur
red a fjw d ivs since, near l.evvisburg, Conway
county, Arkansas, between Dr. Nimrod Mene
fee, and Nelson Philips. Tlu-y met in the
woods, (having previously quarrelled.) without
any witness except a negro boy wlto happened
accidentally to pass and the result is thus sta
ted in the Little Rock Gazette : Philips dis
charged his pistol first, and missed his antago
rii.t. Manefee then fiied and shot Philips
through the back. The hitter then drew his
knife and attacked M. with it, and at the first
thrust, gave him a frightful cut in the abdo
men which let out his entrails. Menefee hav
ing no weapon except his empty pistol, and be
ing inferior in size to Philips, defended him
self the best way he could, by warding off the
blows of his antagonist, with his pistol. The
first knife used by Philips broke off at the han
dle, when he drew another, and renewed the
combat. In this way they fought for near half
an hour, sometimes on their feet and sometimes
on the ground un'il both became so completely
exhausted by fatigue and loss of blood, that they
were compelled to desist for want of strength
to continue the contest,
On assistance coming up, the parties were
found stretched on the ground, weitering in
their blood, and both supposed to be mortally
wounded. Dr. Mrnefee, we understand, was
horribly cut to pieces, having no less than 31
cuts and stabs. He survived only a few days.
Mr. Phi'ips received only one serious wound,
a pistol shot through the region of the kidneys,
and no hopes are entertained of his recovery.
Sam fcilck' lJIUurnire Iwtwrni a
lienn mid a 'W IfV.
Thi must be an everlasting fine country be
yond all doubt, for the folks have not hin to do
but to ride about and talk politic. In winter,
when the ground is covered with snow hat
grand times they have a slaying over these
here mashes with the gals, or playin ball on
the ice, orgoin toquiltin frolics, of nice long
winter evenings, and then o drivin homo like
mad by moonlight. Nalur meant that season
on purpose for courtin. A little tidy scrumtious
looking slay, a real clipper of a h rse, a string
of bells as long as a stringof inions round his
neck, and a sprig on his back, looking for all
the world like a hunch of apples at gatherin
time, and a bweethrait alongside, all niutHod
up but her eyes and lip', the one looking right j swer. Curious to see how lar the ex
atyou, ia e'en almost to drivo on ravin, tarin, i perimeiit could be carried, lie went a
districted mad with pleasure, aint it ! And j bout for several hours, treated all hi
then the dear critters sav the bells make
such
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a u m there s no nearin one sseu speaK ; so iney
put their pretty little mugs close up the face,
and talk, talk, till one can't help looking at
them instead of the horse, and then whnp
you go capsized into a snow drift together,
skins, cushions, and all. And then to see the
little critter bhake lietself when she gets up,
like a duck landing from a pond, a chattering
away all the time like a canary bird, and you
haw-hawing with pleasure, is fun alive, you
m;iy depend. In this way blue-nose gets onto
offer himself as a lover, before he knows where
he is. Rut when he gets married, he recovers
his eyesight in little less than half no lime,
lie soon finds he's treed ; his flint is fixed then,
you may depend. She lams him how vinegar
is made; 'Put plenty of sugar into the water
aforehand, my dear,' says she, 'if you want it
real i-harp.' The larfison the other side of
his mouth. If his slay gets upsot it's no longer
a funny matter, I tell vou ; he catches it right
i , i l . i - -
and I. 'It. Her eves don t look up to his n any
more, nor her little tongue ring like a hell any
longer ; but a great big hood covers her head,
and wappiu gn at mull' covers her face, nndsho
looks like a bag of old clothes agoing to the
brook to be washed. When they get tut, she
don't want any more for him to walk lock and
lock ith Iter, but they march like a horse and
a cow to water, in each gutter. If their aint a
transmogrification, it's a pity. The difference
between a wile, and a sweetheart is near about
as greiit as there is between new a ml hard ci
! d r a man luffr tire.- ol'puttin one to his lips,
hut inn1. en lnuy wry faces at t'other. It
j maVes ,p so kimh-r w .m.hlecroj t when I think
fm ;t, that I'm afeard to ventur on matrimony
nt all. I have ween sunn blue-riiej mot prop
erly bit, you may depend. The marriage yoke
is plaguy apt to pall the neck, as the ashhow
docs the ox in riny wevhrr, oo!ps it be most
particularly well fitted. You've seen a yoke
of cattle that warn't properly mated ; they
spend more time in pullin nt;airi each other
than in pullin the load. Well, that's apt to be
the case w ith them as chooses their wives in
laying parties, quilt n frolics, and soon, in
stead of tile dairies, looms, and rhoesehouse.
OrrmvG a Post riox.---A Connecti
cut editor defines his position to be the
snme as that of an animal which was
carried through the country in a mena
gerie. "Ladies and centletnen, this 'ere
animal as yon see here, between the
linn and the jackass, is amiiici'oi'S.
I Ik can't i.i vk in uit: wati r, and he
Ml1' L'N Till f Af '"
Wonderful Contrast.
About 47 years ngo, in 1705, Alle
gheny, Washington and Fayette coun
ties, were full of distilleries, and nn im
mense quantity of whiskey was mode
and sold. The United States, in order
to raise a revenue, made a law to tax
iU The people refused to pay, rebelled
and raised an army called the Western
Insurrection army, and marched lo
Pittsburgh. Gen." Washington sent an
army of about 3000 U. S. troops and
volunteers to suppress it. They arri
ved when the Whiskey armv disband
ed. In the year 1815 and 'i3, the U
nited States" put on a direct tax, and
perhaps then, we hnd 1500 stills in
Washington and Allegheny counties.
Now there is not perhaps 15 stillhouses
in operation in the two counties. A
few days ago a gentleman, who was
U. S. Deputy Collector in Washington
county in 1S1G, informed us that there
was then fi7G still-houses taxed, and
70,000 collected of taxes for the Uni
ted States; and now, perhaps, there is
scarce ten distilleries in that county.
Pittsburgh Gazette.
CaCTIOX TO THE I.VTEMf f.rate. A
man it) his cups entered a house in Pitt
street, between Aisquith and (.'anal, on
Sunday afternoon, nnd made an attack
on three women, who happened to be
alone; they retreated into the kitchen
and armed themselves with prts, kettle?,
broomsticks, &c, nnd then met the in
truder and gave him such a boating that
he could scarcely take himself from tho
battleground. Aslhere wasnooffico
at hand, (he women gave the rascal
what ho deserved, and when he reco
vered lie was perfectly sober, but could
not give any account of the bntile, or
the cause oi" his numerous wounds.
Halt. Sun.
A New Yorker visiting Philadelphia
during the present excitement, went in
to a barber's shop in the morning to get
shaved, and offered a one dollar bill for
change. The barber shook his head,
and told him to pay next time. Ha
went into a refectory, and eat a shil-
nig s worm, ana recetveu uie same nr.-
.i i . i.i . .
i mends on the credit ol inc aonar, ana
nt niaht cave it to a beggar, telling him
that if he made small purchases it would
last the longer. Boston Mail.
All very probable, except the giving
away the note ! That part of the story
is rather tough.
Westward IIo! A House Travel.
We were struck yesterday afternoon
with the queer appearance of an emi
grant's "outfit," w hich went by our of.
lice on its westward way. Upon tho
running part of an ordinary wagon,
with rather a long reach, w as construe
ted a CJibin, well-roofed and clap
boarded, with curtained windows
while n stovepipe protruding through
the roof betokened that appliances and
means for warmth and cookery wero
not lacking the apparent comfort and
snumicss of the whole arrangement
1,..... I r nn n r.roAnl.ln .nntrnttt YV i t thl
I , . . ? ' ' r' ,, . " i i ,i
hardships usually encountered by Urn
1 . ' . . -i,i
venturous pioneer to wesitm wnus.
This nondescript dwelling was drawn
by three horses, driven very conveni
ently from within, and thus sheltered
from the inclement elements, the enter
prising emigrant, while sitting by his
own fire, with all his household goods
around him, was pushing onward to
the new homo he had chosen, with
scarcely a deprivation, while in tran
situ, of the comforts of the one he had
left behind. Hun". Com. oi Wednes
day. Shon, Shon, Tiive on Slton.
A serious old Dutchman, in days gon
bv, slopped in the vicinity of a boiling
spring to rest his team, and bathe his
levered brow. Ilavi-ig left his son
John at the horsfs' heads, he proceed
ed, with his bucket, and began to dip
fhe water. At the first dip his pail
dropped from his hands, and he return
ed to his wagon, on the full run, shout
ing "Shon! Shon! trive on Shon !
hH ish not von mile from dish place."
Wo consider President Tyler to be pret
ty much in the condition of the old
Dutchman, he has plunged his hand into
a pool of hot water; and, unless h
drives on at a faster rate than he has
set-mod disposed to of Ute, Re may say,
with truth, that he is in the neighbor
hood of Belzebub's back kitchen, and
that a whole Congress set together, by
the ears, is nt such a political milleniutn
after all. Index. .