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Simbiir)', JVortliuiiibcrlantl Co. Iu. Knturdnj-, July ISi'i.
Tot. II Xo. XMI1.
The Stolen Kin.
ut nar.RT momri.
Ny ! 'ti a hanrjhty c!nre, bright-eved T.olotte,
Too torn for timid woman; and thy lip!
It curl become a kingly conqueror.
" And wherefore may not woman' bright lip curl,
When coward man insults her!
Nay, Lolottei,
Thy spirit is too lofty for ila frame; thine eye
Too wild for gentleness; thy angry worcla
Beyond a woman' diffidence with wrath !
I did but auk a boon a silly boon
To real an inalnnt on thy dishing lips.
And it haa angeied thee. Why, gentle cox,
II it h never kissed a man an upright man
Merely for poetry !
What ! mute, sweet en !
Silence, thou Vnow'al, Lnlottc, i full of yieech;
A nd thine, fersooth, is eloquent. The Rh
1'pon the marble temple", and the cloud
That hang upon thine eye-lid ; the bright fljsh,
Those rich blue orb illuming
All ti ll the anger that thou scornst to spenk !
Hut 'ti in vnin, sweet cox. Beauty's rebuke
la incense to my spirit. I can feast
On frowns from such a forehead, and be glad.
Thou wilt not let me kiss thee? It is well.
Moved from my purpose, I had not deserved
The first cool draught of nectar from those lip.
Nnv, grow not passion ile. The die is cast !
And though I died in that delicious stealth,
Still death should be my portion!
Xerrr, cor. ?
Art sure, I.olotte, ome seraph in thy sleep,
Hath not forgone e'en high empyrean,
To press those blushing roses ! very sure 1
Nay, never heed my raving, call me all
That sueh rich lips may utter; they cannot
Nay aught that would profane Diana's fane.
And I do love their music; and I love
"Hush! hush! thou pert and worse than idle boy !
How sweetly nhinra the moon; and niaik! her
hei.ms
How silvery they make yon flitting cloud,
Seeming a spirit's drapery. The stars
Bright watchers of the night,
Nonsense, coz !
The boon the silly boon I told you of
Thou hast subdued thine anger ; and I crave
A brief abstraction from heaven's horoscoiie.
That I may read Don Cupid' he re, and thus !
'Ti past, my seraph cousin; the wild dre.im
That made thy lips immaculate, is past ;
And when those hallowed altara of the soul
Khali glow to other thin these thrice hlersed lips,
May curses be thy memory, I.olotte!
Nay, do not look bewildered. The wild tale
Which my fond lis half uttered shall le told.
deeply lore thee, emisin ! thy young l.ca.t
With its rich gush of feeling, thy pure soul,
liianu-like in sHtlessiieys are all
My spirit covet in this lower sphere!
Henceforward thy sweet lip is sanctified ;
To whom, I need not tell thee; 'tis love's shrine,
Beware 'lis not iiolluted. One more kis !
And let iti thrill lie mutual- It is well !
Thine arm, I.olotte; the lew fill heavy now;
Thou art a fragile lily ; let's away !
"Ail thou hast said to-night is true, not 1"
Ay ! all, o Heaven, I.olotte,
Lonn MoHr.TH wrote the following poetic line
in the Album of Niagara r alls, during bis visit in
Novembtr last-
Msgtra.
There's nothing great or blight, thou glorious Fall !
I hou may st not to the f.ni. y s sense nnll
The thunder-riven cloud, the lightning's leap,
The stiiring of the rlminlicr of the deep,
Earth's emerald green, and many tinted dyes,
The fletcy whiteness of the upper skin,
The tread of armies thiek'ning as they come.
The boom of cannon, and the beat ol drum,
The brow of beauty, and the form of grace,
The passion and the prowess of our race,
The song of Homer in its loftiest hour,
The unresisted sweep of Roman power.
Britannia's trident on the azure sea,
America's young shout of liberty !
Oh ! may the wars lhat madden in thy drep,
Theie eiid their isge, nor climb tti encircling
steeps ;
And till the conflict of thy surge cease.
The nation on thy bunk repose iu peace !
Nov 2, 1841. Mum rum.
Surah Nail.
We find the following exquisite line in the last
miniler of the New Englui d Review. Who the
author is we don't know; and, what is more, we
don't care;
Vake, lady vake ! the moon are high :
The twinklin' stars is heamin';
Vhile, now and then across the ky,
A me-le-or are streamm!
Vake, lovely on ! The sky are clear,
Refreshing is the br rzea !
It blows my nose vile I sit here
A tut Jim' neath the trtese!
Vake, Sally, dear ! The bull-frog's note,
Aie heard in yonder rushes !
And the vorbliug tree-toad swells hi throat,
Singin in them are hushes.
Vake, Wenua, mine! The vipporvill,
tSing on that rail teirce yonder.
Vile t lie owl pipe forth hi hoot in shrill
(Vy don't she vuke, I vonder !)
(Softly in the grassy lea,
The moon her beam are pourin
The stars look down and viuk at me
(By gum ! if Sal arn't snorin'!)
Vake, Sally, vake! and look on me,
Avske! 'Mquire Curtia' daughter;
If I'll have you, and you'll have me
(By (ieoige! who threw that vater !)
Oh ! cruel Sally, thua to slight
(Here cornea the bull dog now !)
Dow-wow," Oh ! uw ! he's gol a
Alas! "Bow, wow," oh! uw!"
bite,"
Mr. flotts' Charges.
1st. I charge John Tyler with a great usur
pation of power and violation of law, in attempt
to exercise a controlling influence over the ac
counting officers of the Treasury Department,
hy ordering the payment of accounts tlint had
been by them rejected, nnd threatening them
with expulsion from office unless hid orders
were observed.
5!d. I charge liini with being guilty of a
high misdemeanor in retaining men in office
for months after they have been rejected by the
Senate as unworthy, incompetent, and unfaith
ful to the great detriment of the public inter
ests, and hazard of loss to the public Treasury;
the Government having no security fur the
faithful application of the public lands passing
through their hands, and he thereby defeating
that provision of the Constitution which re
quires the advice and consent of the Senate to
all nominations ms.de hy the President.
Hd. I charge hint with gross official miscon
duct in attempting, in a spirit of revenge, for
a constitutional exercise of power by the Sen
ate, in the rejection ol one of his nominees to
office, to remove a large number ol faithful and
meritorious subordinate officers from the Cus
tom house of Philadelphia, with whom no fault
was found save that of a supposed political pre
ference for another, and who hnd discharged
their duties with entire satisfaction to the col
lector of customs, and for attempting to substi
tute in their stead men having no other recom
mendation than that of a supposed acquiescence
in 1 1 is view.
4th. I charge him with the high crime and
misdemeanor of endeavoring to excite a disor
ganizing and revolutionary spirit in the coun
try, by inviting a disregard of, and disobedience
to, a law of Congress, which law he has him
spf sworn to see faithfully executed.
5th. I charge him with the high crime and
misdemeanor in office of withholding his assent
to laws indispensable to the operations of Gov-
crnment, involving no constitutional difficulty
on his part of depriving the Government of
all legal sources of revenue of assuming to
himself the whole power of taxation and of
collecting duties from our citizens without the
authority or sanction of law.
(ilh. I charge him with the high crime and
misdemeanor of open prostitution and profligacy
in a willingness to barter awuy the offices of
Government, and the principles he professed,
obtain the support of one of the parties in Con
gress to which he has heretofore been opposed.
?t!i. I charge him with grossotlicial miscon
duct, in having beeu guilty of a shameless du
plicity, equivocation, and falsehood with his
late Cabinet and Congress; such as has brought
him into disgrace and contempt with the whole
American people, which has disqualified him
from administering this (ioverninent with ad
vantage, honor, or virtue.
Mli. I charge him with an arbitrary and des-
i 1 i h . r
' f"na' nn( Mi'"'0' resentment, with such evt-
dent murks of inconsistency and duplicity as
j leave no room to doubt his total disregard of the
interests of the people and of his duty to the
country. '
tith. I charge him with the hich misdemea
nor of arraying himself in open hostility to the
legislative department of the Government, by
the publication of slanderous and libellous let
ters under his own signature, with a view of
l creating a false and unmerited sympathy tor
' himself, and bringing Congress into disrepute
! and odium w ith the people, hy which means
that harmony between the Kxecutive and 1-e-!
gislutive departments so essential to goisl go
vernment and the wellure ot the people has
been utterly destroyed.
10th. I charge him with an abandonment of
an acknowledged constitutional duty, in re
fusing to render such aid to the constituted au
thorities of Rhode Island, when called on, as
Ire had himself previously promised in his let
ter to Gov. King, as a sacred constitutional ob
ligation resting upon him.
11. I charge him with pursuing such a
course of vacillation, weakness, and folly, as
must, if he is permitted to remain longer at the
head of the Government, bring the country into
dishonor and disgrace abroad, and force the p-o-ple
into a 6tate of abject misery and distress at
home.
I-,'. I charge him with being utter'y unwor
thy and unlit to have the the destinies of this
nation in his hands as Chief Magistrate, and
with having brought upon the Representatives
of the People the imperious necessity of exer
cising their constitutional prerogative of im
peachment, or of surrendering the Government
to him to be used as a plaything and a toy, for
his sport on the one hand, and his malignity on
the other.
SiNctXAR. A clergyman named Buffet, of
Greenwich, Stanwick Parish, Conn., while
preaching at Stamford, on Sunday afternoon
lust, was struck speechless by lightning, and
has remained so ever since. Another clergy
man in the pulpit w ith him was much injured,
but has recovered.
2'Vcm (he Iiancastcr Intelligencer.
ANIMAL MAGNKTISHI.
The undersigned, citixens of Lancaster, who
wero present at the experiments this morning,
Friday, June 21, at the house of John 1
Thompson, Esq. of this city, by Mr. C. P. John
son, 1'rofessoi of Magnetism, beg leave to state
the result of the experiments, as well for the
benefit of those who may doubt, as for the
gratification of the the public. The subject
wits a girl, fifteen years of age, living m Mrs.
Tompson's family, who from her associations
and the slender means within her reach to ac
quire an education, knew positively nothing,
cither about Magnetism or about Phreno-.Mag-
ni'tism. She had heard indeed considerable
talk aliout Mr. Johnson and his experiments in
Mr. Thompson's family, and took great delight
in avowing her want of faith in them, exprcs
ing, at the same time, a strong wish to bo mag
netised herself, which she repeatedly asserted
could not be done. This wish led to the ex
periments above referred to, to-day when the
undersigned, in company with Mr. Johnson,
visited Mr. Thompson's residence, and wit
nessed, in company with him, the whole trial.
The girl being seated in a rocking chair, Mr.
Johnson proceeded to apply the usual means
to throw her into the magnetic sleep. After
considerable time had elapsed, say forty-five
minutes, during which she endeavored to resist
the magnetic influence hy keeping her eyes
open, she gradually fell asleep, her eyes as
suming a ladden d illness, and finally closing al
together. After some little lime, during w hich
the persons present began to believe she was
only in a natural sleep, her arms were raised,
when they remained in that position. Mr.
Johnson then took tobacco in his mouth. The
result of this was that she first seemed to be
tasting something ; and then her face assumed
an expression ol the greatest possible disgust ;
Mr. J.'s hair was then pulled, when she writh
ed in contortions of apjiarently great pain; he
was pricked, the same result followed. Her
hand was then pricked with a pin and pinched ;
but she gave no signs of pain. Mr. Johnson
then fixed his attention upon one ot the per
sons present, whom she could not see, when
she stated the color of his dress correctly ; slated
what his business was, and pronounced his name
on being asked to do so. The same experi
ments, with the same result, was tried upon
another person. The experiments in Clairvoy
ance were highly and astonishingly successful.
She had never seen Philadelphia ; but on be
ing taken there, as willed by Mr. Johnson, she
described the Cnited States Bank correctly;
called it a marble building, and said it had six
pillars in ftont, which was the number fixed by
Mr. Johnson. She described Girard College as
an unfinished marble building, she also de
scribed Cliesnut street, and other public places.
It was in Phreno-Magnetism, however,
where the resul's were eminently satisfactory
results which were considered perfect, as
having been accomplished without any possible
collusion, on person who perliaps never heard
the name of Phrenology mentioned, and was at
least dec idedly ignorant of it. The organs of
mirth and wit being touched, conjointly, she
laughed so heartly, that the tears flooded down
her cheeks : and then, as quick as thought, on
the organ of fear being touched, she changed
the expression into one of the greatest possible
alarm. The organ of tune caused her to sing.
The organ of lunguage induced very rapid and
tolerably distinct conversation. The organ of
comoauteness ..Kew.se prouueeu a grem
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pression ot auger in the countenance. I hese
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ruuBf.uK .vBullB j.u u.rf ur
sciences or rnrcnoioy aim iwCHiiieriHii. were
c
so decidedly and positive as to astonish all pre
sent.
When she wns aroused from her stupor, Mr. i
Johnson first disputed the influence irom her
face and brain ; leaving all the rest of the body j
magnetised. Her arms were then raised, and
on being told to let them down, she declared
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ncr mammy 10 uo so, am. u.ey reumnieu
position until removed by Mr. Johnson, tin be
ing told to rise from the chair, she said sin;
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cuuiu iioi. as rut; luiiiu urn mutu n i iti, mm n
was only when the intlucnce was removed from
her feel that she rose.
The undersigned recat that this subject was
a person entirely and unquestionably unac
quainted w ith anything relating to the experi
ments performed upon her.
WM. B. FA1LVKSTOCK,
JOHN L. THOMPSON,
JAMF.S BOON,
JOHN W.FORNEY.
Similar experiments with similar results to
the above, we witnessed in connection with the
above gentlemen, thlsaftemoon.
GEORGE M. STEINMAN,
P. CASSIDY.
June 21, 13-11
The editor ol the Richmond Aurora says it is
so hot ther", that he expects lo run uu'ny before
the tsuinmcr is over.
l'mliittit Shoemakers.
The X. V. Mechanic puhlifhcs the follow ing
brief catalog no of Shoemakers who havcafter
wards risen to eminence in Literature and in
Science. It might be greatly extruded, but is
sufficient in itself to show that those devoted to
the cure of-otV.t have themselves hren by tin
means deficient in understanding. We cannot
forbear mentioning the name of J .toon Boku.vik
one of the most learned and genius-gifted men
who have ever lived who followed for years,
even while writing his wild, strange books, his
cobbler's trade.
Lihm.wn, the founder of the science of botany
was apprenticed to a shoemaker in Sweden,
but afteward taken notice of, in consequence of
his ability, nnd sent to college.
Dtvtn PAii:r, the elder, who was after
wards a celebrated professor of theology at
Heidelberg Germany, was at one time ap
prenticed to a shoemoker.
Jonkpii Pknwif.i.i., who died some time since
at Gray's buildings, London, and w ho was a pro
found and scientific scholar, leaving an excel
lent library, was bred nnd pursued through life
the trade of a shoemaker.
Hams Sachs, one of the most famous of tho
early poets, was the son of a tailor, served an
apprenticeship to a shoemaker, and afterwards
became a weaver, in which he continued.
Bkmiwct Badihhjin, one of the most learned
men of the Kith century, was a shoemaker, as
likewise wns his father. This man wrote a
treatise on the shoemaking of the ancients,
which he triced up to the time of Adam him
self. Thus Adam was a shoemaker, nnd Eve
atailoress! "ihe sewed fig-leaves together,"
thua proving truly the antiquity of these two
branches of industry and skill.
To these may be added those ornaments of
literature. lFou-Rorr, the author of the Critic,
and other works ; Git-Foitn, the founder, and
for so many years the editor, of the Iondon
Quarterly Review, one of the most profound
scholars and elegant writers of the tige; and
Biom field, the author of the Farmer's Boy,
and other works ; all of whom were shoemakers
and the pride and admiration of the literary
world.
John Brand, Secretary of the London Anti
quarian Society, and author, of several learned
works, was originally a Shoemaker, but fortun
ately found means to complete his studies at
Oxford.
Wiwki.eman, the learned German antiqua
rian, war tho son of a shoemaker, and w is for
sometime engaged in the some employment,
but finally burst from his obscurity, and became
a professor of belles leltres. He was the friend
and correspondent of the most leurued men of
his time.
Fox, the founder of tho sect called Quakers,
vas the son of a weaver, and apprenticed to a
shoemaker and grazier.
Roukr SiiKRMtM, the American statesman,
was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and found
ample time during his minority to acquire i
stock of knowledge lhat assisted him iu the ac
quisition of fame and fortune.
Sagacity of a Dog.
On Tuesday last, a young, man about eighteen
years of age, residing near Tapley's Brook, in
Danvers, left his father's house in the morning,
with his dog and gun, ic, for the purosc of
shoot in it. About noon the dou entered the
house, and appeared in a state of extraordinary
i agitation, making many motions, which were
afterwards understood to be invitations to fol-
j oW !,,, but which .tlhe time ?CBsioncd aoinc
.ini(,n(, lllnt ,,0 w obollt o Ml1l.r at,
! 1
, Uck orliydro(lllbilli Kimlintr that no attention
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Una nnt.l liu if li.t - hn Hiifillif litfl Wit limits'
no 1,1 ' " vv inn rj lit. Htitinj im niv. m'u- i
and was not seen afterwards for several hours,
when he again entered, and recommenced his
attempts to induce the family to follow him.
A person then in the house, but who was not
there at the dos's previous visit observing his
strange conduct, and learning that it was sim
liar to what had been exhibited before, conclu
tllul t,oro w us st.tlW-it-t.t li..-U.x! iu his li.a.l
lie' to constitute hint a sate companion, and
ncrimliii'rlv tiillnwnir him nut to sl'i u lint unnhl
J
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fAimt .if it A.I hrt III lux Mirprn.. tlio iUmv
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ran out of sight of the man who billow ed liim,
but being recalled by a whistle, kept hiiuselfaf-
terwards only a short distance in advance. The
man billowing "through brake and through bri
ar," but was rather daunted when the dogplun
ed into the recesses ofa sWaiup. Ik'termined
to see jt out, however, he went in after liim,
and there discovered Ihe young man lying up
on the ground Insensible and with hisfice dread
fully shattered by the discharge of his gun. lie
way taken home immediately, the dog follow ing
in triumph, and although, as we learn, still in
sensible yesterday morning, was not consider'
ed in a hopeless condition. Sufun Gaz.
There are moment of despondency, when
Slmkeseare thought himself no poet, and Ra
phael no painter: when the greatest wits have
doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.
From the N. V. tUillivoUit.
"liirrnnl i a .Manure." j
We wish to call attention to a paper un-'
der this title in the Transactions of the X. Y.
State Agriculturist Society, furnished by J. II.
Hepburn, I'fstj. of Lycominr, Pa. The facts
there stated, agreeing as they do with what e
very one must have witnessed to a greater or
less degree, should secure for charcoal as a
manure, a greater degtee of consideration than
it has yet received. As it is probable some of
our readers may not meet with the "Transac
tions," we shall condense some of his state
ments for the lienefit of such.
"During the last autumn, business called me
into Harford Co. Matylahd. While there 1
was surprised at the exceedingly luxuriant
growth of a crop of grain, but lately seeded in
to a field on Deer creek, and also at the pecu
liar appearance of the soil. The soil upon
which the grain was growing had a remarka
ble dark appeal ance, nnd appeared to be so mel
low and friable as nearly to bury the foot at
every step.
I enquired if the field had not been covered
with charcoal and was told that it had been. I
enquired when it wasdone, and was told that
it had been spread upon it more than 20 years
riqo ! 1 then asked what wns the general qunr
Hy of the crops raised upon it, nnd told they
were invariably fine, both as to quantity and
quality." Mr. Hepburn gives, among othrr ex
peritneets, one made by a gentleman in the i-
ron business, "lie had n large quantity of coal
that had become too fine to be used in his fur
nace, nnd not knowing what to eta w ith it, con
cluded us the easiest wny to dispose of it, to
haul it out, nnd spread it on his grass field. He
spread it late in the fall, and lor many years he
intormed me he observed the most astonishing
efiect produced upon his yield of grass. The
quantity was nenrly doubled, and the go-xl con
tinued as long as he owned the property, which
was at least ten years." Mr. Hepburn ako
states the important fact, that " wherever char
coal has been applied, nt never affects the
gwtring crop of u hcat?'
Every coal burner is aware lhat a vigorous
and healthy vegetation always surrounds the
old hearths, or con) beds, as the place where
the coal has been burued is called. We have
known a blacksmith who made his own coal,
that always wed the hearth for an onion bed
and his uniform success justified the use to
which he appropriated those places. In ano
ther instance a farmer who was remarkable
for his gardening operations, told us that his
practice was to make his garden beds for his
onions, carrots, &c, and then spread over them
a layer of straw some ten or twelve inches in
thickness which was burnt on the ground. The
charcoal and ashes made by this dressing was
slightly raked in, and then the 6ccds sown. In
this way his crop never failed.
Improvement In the Quallt)- of Wheat.
Col. Le Coitecr, the most skilful grower
and improver of wheat in England, in some
tables lately published in one of the English
periodicals, has given the results of some of his
long continued experiments in improving wheat
by crossing and selections. By continuing to
select and propagate only those varieties that
gave the most and best flour with the least
bran, he now obtains overall HI poundsof super
fine Hour to the acre, and so thin is the skin of
his wheats that from an acre of.'yJ bushels, only
lbs. of bran, middlings, and shorts were giv
en. One hundred pounds of this flour, as re
peated and careful experiments have proved,
will make from six to twelve per cent, more
bread, of the first quality, than the same quan
tity of the best common market flour. The
beauty, purity, and weight, of some of Ihe
specimens sent by the Colonel to the Fair of
the Royal Ag. Society, surprised all who no
ticed the samples, and most strikingly proved
the improvement that skill and perseverence
can ell eel in movt common cultivatad plants.
Gkix i kiik in rut Cii v. It is subject of fre
quent remark iu this city, that a very extraordi
nary change has taken place within five years,
among the retail grocers. A gentleman of lei
sure within tho last mouth has mule a tour of
inspection throughout New York, and reorts
that nearly half the retail gns es are in the
handt of Germans. Many Comers that from
lfc! to lSCi, hud a variety ol nn-'ccesl'ul occu
pants, came at last in pofsesMon of the German
prrprietor, and that the last has been snccessful.
To the rigid ect my, industry and extriordi-
nary civility of the Germain is mainly attributa
ble 'he success which every when attends his
efforts. It is also well known that the Dutch
German carpenters form a very important pro
portion of the carpenters now cmyloyt-d in this
city. .V. lor Amer,
Forty years of experience in government is
worths century of book reading. JtrrEKsoN.
MIAVLXO.
Shaving's a paradm,- but lhuMa rlejr',1,
fonie hae Iu some lo ,,'c7 iJf a beard.
Bat in no. It is said that John Q. Adams
washes his hotly vjvery morning when he rises,
both summer and winter. This practice he hn
observed for years, and is no doiiht one thing
that gives tire Old gentleman that degree of
health and activity for which he Stands proemi-
for one of to is a'ge.---iennsytaMi(irj.
rsr.ni.NE.is o StAKfJ!-A writer in tho
Genessee Farmer advises those who are in t!io
hnbit of destroying snakes, to let them alone, a
they are early risers, and at work in th field
by break of days picking )p those little d-
ptcuators, thrj corn trwm, which infest corn
Gelds,
Cheap TriAVEM.iw. I'uelare frovn New
Yotk to Boston has been reduced to $'2 3"i to
PVovtdence 1 .V), and to Newport tl. Tim
Hartford beat TOns for-SOtta.
To PnMrttvK Mii.k. Put a spoonful of
horse-radish into a pan of milk, and it will re
main ewect for several days, either in the o
pen air or in a cellar, while other milk will
sour.
Thk Dorr War. A man named Hiram
Chappell, on his .examination before the Com
missioners, at Providence, on T uesdry, avowed
that he wns the man who spiked the gtins When
the attack wns contemplated on tho nrnnl.
He says, he was placed On guard oVcr the guns
nnd drin e pine in the tnncli-lioles of three can
non slily, nnd brushed the priming over them.
This accounts fin the fap.ure of the attack.
Seven Years at Cm ru n There- r s in
Western county, State of Nnv Yv', " I
man, a member of the respectable society ft
friends, and who rirle from Rleepv Hollow up
to the Chipeqtia Meeting, a distnnre of set en
miles or fourteen miles goin' nnd 00-11:112
twice a week, for the space of fifty years. In
doing this, he has ridden a distance vf seventy
two thousand and four hundred miles or almost
three times the circumference ol the entth.
Allowing him five houiseach meeting expedi
tion, seven years and forty five days.
Hercti.f.8 Outdone. -The New York Cou
rier and Enquirer gives an account of the most
remarkable feat of strength ever performed.
Mons. Paul, on a bet of two thousand dollars,
pulled against two strong Pennsylvania horses
in the daily habit of drawing from two to three
tons a load. He was stretched on a ladder,
and all Ihe eflorts of the horses could not force
him from his hold. This evening he pulls a
gainst four horses. Mons. Paul attained hi
lSth year in March last.
Swiftness ot Men. It is said that men
who are used to it, will outrun hor.ies, by hold
ing their speed longer. A man will also walk
down a horse, for after he has travelled a few
days, the horse w ill be quite tired, but the man
will be as fresh for mjtion as at the beginning.
The king's messengers walk in Persia, UW
miles in 14 hours. Hottentots outstrip lions in
the chase, and savages who hunt the elk tire it
down and take it they are said to have perfor
med a journey of 3,(5M miles in less than six
wecks. hope's Itritiih Monthly Magazine.
Charles the Second's parliament pissed nn
act that only twenty printers should practice
their art in tho kingdom. About six shillings
current was paid for one and a half hours' rea
ding in 16S5.
A queer fellow reprimanded his friend for spea
king severely of bustles, because, he said, i' was
slandering the ladies hckintl theitbftrhs.
A Fact. Two Frenchmen boarding in this
place, went out with their guns the o'her day ;
but as game here is about as scarce as money,
they returned with a crow and a screech owl,
r,,,ly Passing our office, wC accosted one of
them. "Monsieur, what in the world arc you
going to do with these birds !' "Me eat dem,
siir !" "Why they are not fit to eat, Monsieur!"
"Ah ha, sair, dey be Vera good, eair i bi ry
ting's hide cooking .'" Germanfoirn Tti.
A poetical friend of ours has a paper folder
with the following line from (5 ray, marked on
il 5
"The p'oUjhman homeward plods hi weary Way."
On looking at the quotation, it occurred to
him, that it might be expressed in various w uys
without destroying the rhyme or altering the
sense. In a short time, he produced the lid
lowing eleven different readings. We d uhr
whether another line cm be found, the v.uU
of which w ill admit of so many transpositions,
and si. 11 retain the original meaning ;
The wearv phnmhimoi h h..mev.,-.l .
The waiy pbiughmaii l'mmiJ ploj. h w .
The iliuis'hinjn, weary , I UkI his h ..-i..-. w..
The j loutthmaii, we') , bom. a d pl ..l h
W'eaiy the pbioghncn pled his riniiirw.ini
Weary the ploughman boinewar. I pi d his n.
HouirwarJ die ploughman pbxis his wrary w v.
MomeiJ the weary ploughman plods kus wuy.
The homeward ploughman weary plods hi way.
The homeward ploughman lods hi wtary way.