TtlUlS OP TI1K " AMRR1CAX."
II. B. MASSKR,
JOSEHI ElSEI.Y.
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I M'lali I yrn a Mlcr,
nv 'oii,
, I wish I was n mice, Sam,
And do just ns I please ;
To live in peace with all the World.
And nibble at the cheese;
'Cause mice is such a happy race
They hnint no earcsat all ;
They always make themselves at home,
In kitchen, or in hall.
They never have no debts to pay,
Nor pet no clothes to wear,
Since Nature has provided them
With silken coats of hair ;
And they don't wear no trowsaloons,
Nor stockings 1o their feet,
They don't want nothing, Sam, while they
Tan get enough to eat.
If I should be a mice, though,
I wouldn't want no cats,
ITnless they'd always pass me by,
Ami pounce upon the rats.
For rats ain't of no use at all
They don't know beans I mm bran ;
They're just about as foolish as
That stupid creature Man.
I wish I was a mice, Sam,
And let you print your paper ;
I'd just lay on ami eat the paste,
Or frolic, frisk and caper ;
And you would huvc to tug and toil
f Ju trouble, care and sorrow,
While I's a happy mice, to-day,
And happier still to-morrow.
Anvu E to Tiin Ladies. A neighW, who
has always managed to keep the most fiiihtful
n nd obliging servants, till death or matrimony
lias dissolved the connexion, desires us to pub
lish the tallowing :
Captain Sabresash, in his lately published
work, "The Art of Conversation," gives the fol
lowing good advice to ladies : My fair friends,
never scald servants. Instruct, reprove, ad
mo'iish, as may bo necessary ; give warning,
or, if need he, turn the worthless out of the
house, but never descend to scolding, or to the
use of rude or harsh language ; for there is, in
truth, something very undignified in the prac
tice. There arc, no doubt, plenty ot had servants,
but there are more bad masters and mistresses
in proportion, and for this very evident reason,
that it is the object and interest of servants to
please their masters; whereus the latter are in
dependent of the former, und need take no
trouble about the matter ; and as there is clK.it
(Hi one side and none on the other, the result
will naturally he on the side ot those who
make at least a fair attempt. Ik-sides, bad
masters often make bad servants, when the ser
vants cannot well inlluence the conduct of the
masters.
If people could only seethe undignified figure
they make when in a towering rage, the
chances are that they would contrive to keep
their temper rather within bounds. Wc may
excuse anger, and even passion, perhaps, where
the name, fame or character of friends and re
latives is assailed ; but to lly into a fury about
broken plate or overdone mutton, is to show a
want of mental composure that few would like !
to have described in its proper name. i
Recollect that servants ore made of the same
clay, that they may possets fellings kind, i
generous, just fteling too usutll u their
superior ; and is it not casting a stain upon
imrsolves to rail, with ignoble language, ul
those who are made in the same high image of
w hich it is our boaet on eurth to bear the faint
est impress !
Let us hear no more of scolding servants,
therefore ; if yon will scold, scold your hus
band ; and if he is a sensible man, he will pat
cour check, give you a kiss, and laugh at you
fur your pains. Cincinnati Alius.
Si'iciim nv a Ci.eiujyman. It is stated that
I clergyman, Rev. Joy Hamlet Fuircluld, of
Oxeter, N. II., and formerly of South Roston
.'oininitled suicide in Boston on Thursday morn
ing by cutting his throat with a razor. He died
within an hour. Mr. Fairchild has been res
icctcd fur many years as an able pious and faith
ul Congregationalitt clergyman ; but there has
ate! y been strong reason to suspect that his
noral conduct has long been corrupt, and that
to is unworthy of exercising the duties of his
jfliec.
Tried Brandy. At 'he last Gloucestershire
idjourned sessions, a girl was placed at the bar
:harged w ith stealing a pint of brandy (it was
iroduced in court) from her master. Tho girl
vaa acquitted, but the jury, with exemplary im
inrtiully, not only tried the girl, but the brandy
jo ; for they conscientiously emptied the but.
le. Tho liquor being drunk, the jury uppended
i their verdict, "below proof."
SUNBUH&Y AMERICAN.
Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the
Ilj Masscr & r.lscly.
From the Liberator.
The W'atrr-Cnre in Gernmii) t.rt ler from
II. (' Wright at Prclssnltz'a.
(iRAKFKKMiKRo, Silesia, Austria,
March 14, IS 11.
Dear Friend : I have been here under the
water-cure nine weeks. During that whole
lime, the weuther has been extremely cold so
cold that ico has formed around my bath, into
which I plunged twice a day ; and ice, at this
moment, hangs around the Douches, in masses
from ten to fifteen feet in length, and larger
than a man's body. During tl.n whole of the
nine weeks, we have not had more than fifteen
i days of fair weather, put it altogether. Tem
pests that come howling down from the Ilohe
m inn mountains, which lie to the South some
15 or 'JO miles, weep over (irncfTotiberg with
groat fury driving the snow in clouds before
thrni, till they are lost on the plains of Prussia,
that arc open before us at the North. The
people say the winter has hern uncommonly
severe. K requires llie constant exercise of a
desperate resolution to carry on the rtrre amid
such snows and ice.
With such a temperature, to have our bodies
packed up, twice a day, in a sheet wrung out ol
water, whoso temperature is down to freezing
(last evening, the sheet in which I was pack
ed, three minutes before I saw spread out on
the snow before my window, frozen stiff as ice)
to lie in that wet sheet till I gel warm, and
then go down into a hath room, oft full of snow
and ice, and there throw all off, and smoking,
plunge into that dreadful bnth, and stay in it
one or two minutes then to be rubbed dry,
and have a long wet bandage tied around the
whole body then dress, and go out and face
those fierce, howling tempests, the snow all
blowing into your eyes, cars, hair, neck and
bosom ; and then to have to sit down in cold
water, and there sit 13 minutes at a time
sure, such a fearful process must kill or cure.
Strange to say, not one here scums to have the
least fear of the former. It kills no one it in
vigorates and strengthens all, and produces a
pretty thorough indignation in each at himself,
that he should ever have subjected his body to
the heating process generally pursued by the
medical faculty. I am certain that the process
though so fearful thai I almost catch my
breath and shiver all over to think of it has
done me great good.
I told Prcissnitz, at ths outset, that my di
sease was on my lungs that my longs were ul
cerated some and that I had thrown putrid
matter from them and he at once subjected
me to this process. I was afraid, at first, how
it would go; but Freissnitz had confidence in
his prescriptions, and so have I, twin. He
has not yet put me under the Douche, and will
not till the weather is milder. Sure I tun, that
all the morbid matter, secreted in my system,
has been put in motion not indeed yet routed
out of the system, but routed from any particu
lar location in the system ; and sure I am that
by the lime I have "one throiirh the ordeal c-
nough, these niurbid secretions will be entirely
expelled from the body. The settled cough
t lint I had seems to be broken up entirely. 1
do indeed, now and then, get a little cold, as do
all the patients, hut the cold don't seize upon
my lungs as colds used to do. And, besides,
no one here seems to have the slightest fear of
a cold, tor tlie simple reason that every one
feels that there is here a certain and speedy re-
mody at hand.
A fw hours break it all up,
nnij scatter it to the wind
So of fever no
one here seems to have the least fear of fever,
because every one feels an entire confidence
j C1J water us an antidote,
From what I have seen here, I can never a-
gain doubt that the fiercest of level's are harm
less, being absolutely under human control.,
Recently, we had two cases of most malignant
fever. One was a man, taken with a nervous
raging fever. In three days the fever was en
tirely routed, and in a week the man appeared
again in the saloon, eating like a ravenous wolf
whatever ho liked ; and though he looked thin
and was weak, yet you might have seen hiui
out breasting the storms which, in his weak
ness, would near tip him over at tunes. Four
days ago, & woman who had taken cold duting
the day, and was not awuro of the enemy lurk
ing in her, was seized in the night with a most
violent fever. I saw her in the morning, ond
sho looked exactly like a person in scarlet fc
ver. A wet sheet was at once wrappeu aooui
her whole Uxly, and changed and wet again
every thirty minutes. This was pursued about
twenty hours, and water was applied in other
ways. The next day 1 saw her up and dressed,
and looking as well and eating as hearty as
usual. Not a particle of medicine was admin
istered, I do not believe that out of the "Ml
patients now here, or out of several thousand
that have been here, there is one who has the
least fear of colds or fevers. VmcU seems to
feel that so far us fivers and colds are concern
ed a certain remedy is always at hand. 1 do
think that it it the duty of all who have young
children, to learn to apply this remedy. How
AND SHAMOKIN JOURNAL;
majority, the vital principle of Republics, from which
Puiibiiry, IVorUiuiiibC4 land to.
many diseases in little children originate in
icolds.
You would be amused to look into our saloon
at meal times, especially at our dinners. Rc
mrnibcr this is a Hospital forall notions. Some
fifteen nations are now represented in the sa-
oon come here to bo cured of diseases that
have generally been given over, or nearly so by
the medical faculty. To sec them at the table
with ravenous appetites, eating food of the coar
sest and plainest kind food that. many of them
would hardly have felt it easy to have set bc-
lore llieir servants at home ; to sec their conn-
tenances to see them rubbing their hands to
keep them warm, (for but little artificial heat is
allowed to enter the saloon) to see them racing
up and down the saloon between dishes, (tor at
dinner wc generally have three dishes) you
would not dream that these people were on the
sick list of mankind. Hope is the expression of
every face despair has no place in tiracflen- J
berg. As to the crisis" -every guest here longs
for n crisis. No one fears it no one pities you
if yon have one all would ruther envy you, con
gratulate you on the success of j our cure, and
earnestly covet tho same blessing for them
selves ! And the more severe the crisis, the
more certain and effectual the cure. Such is
the feeling respecting the crisis. It is consi
dered the dying gasp or groan of the disease.
The tliscasc is the enemy in the syFteni to be
routed cold water is the defender of the sys
tern, the disease the invading enemy. The en
emy obtains a lodgment in the citadel the ho
ly. Cold water seeks to drive him out pur
sues him round ond round the system. The
enemy, now in the head, now in the chrst, lungs,
heart, stomach, legs, feet, hands, here and there
and everywhere, seeks a refuge from his teiri-
ble foe, cold water, till he can find no more rest
to the sole of his foot in the body and then he
darts out through the skin, smashing right
through whatever he may chance to be, and u
way he goes in a crisis ! and the laxly is saved
alive and well. It is really accounted a bles
sing to have a powerful crisis, by all the cure
guests.
Vincent Pressnitz is certainly an extraordi
nary man has a countenance on which one
loves to look a man of unpretending simplici
ty, ofcpiiet look and demeanor, but of dauutle.-'s
resolution and unyielding firmness. If a patient
puts himself under his control, and he assumes
the responsibility of the case, the patient must
conform. He is a man of very limited book
learning pretends to none, has none soys but
little to his patients has no theorg at all and
would be probably incapable of giving a written
account of his system. Cold air and cold wi
ter are the only remedies with which he at
tempts to combat diseases, and he does not pre
tend that he enn cure oil diseases w ith these.
Cut he makes his pa'icnt trork for health. We
can't sit down in an easy chair, or stretch out on
u .ia,, a ....... room, wiui a warm rap-
a.... ...KC nine .. mings, i.uu or
petted ond comlortcd, and all that! No we
nave .o worn, work", work no rest.iay or nigtn
nave mil nine near, ami no com tori at an,
comfort is unknown here, in any thing.
Our food is plentiful, but of the coarsest kind
no tea, no coflee, no condiments but sail miik
and cold water to drink ; dry, stale rye-bread,
butter, boiled beef soup, &c. for food. To cut
our rye bread is a la lior of no small magnitude,
and each must cut for himself ; and to sec ISn
rons, Counts, Princes, Cavaliers, Priests, Gene
rals, Doctors, and what not all mixed up toge
ther, cutting and gnawing away tit ibis coarse
food, like hungry wolves you would suppose
that the genius of famine had come firth from
the desert of Sahara, and was at our table. Just
at present, I have a perfect hydrophobia, I
have a liorror of cold water, I can't gel w inn.
imii i am nun it is a giHHi sign : tm, uear im j
eakuess, low sinrits, shiveruiL's and shnkini's
frver. headache, toothache, and y,rv . I,,.,
ache, a good sign ! Well, t know my lungs
ure getting tall. Furewell!
Hi:nuv C. Wui; nr.
A Mormon Missionary. Sidney Kigdon
and family, huvc arrived al Pittsburg, where
they intend lo setllo. He is a chief elder in
Ihe Mormon church, and has been sent from
Nauvoo to the above place by a vision given to
Smith.
A PiauiHKii Sit mi The Si. luiis New
I-'rasays: "On Saturday evening we saw on
the wharf a stump completely petrified, ll
was about onu foot in diameter and nearly two
feet long. It looked like an old stump taken up
by the roots; the roots and the stump were solid
rock. It appeared to bo a silicious rock, with an
admixture of iron particles; the circles to
growths of the tree were visible, and in all its
parts it clearly showed that it had been a stump
and had become petrified. We were informed
that it had been brought down the Missouri ri
ver, und that il was to be sent to New York."
A lady remarked that "carelessness was lit
lie better than a half wiiy hoube haw ecu acci
dent and dctigu."
there is no appral hut to force, the vital principle and
r.i. Sntiirriny, July , IS 1 1.
A WKSTKRS HP.no.
The following historical incident, though
possessing all the interest of romance, is ex
tracted from the "History of Illinois," now in
course of publication in New York. The work
is from the pen of Henry Drown, 1'sq., of Chi
cago. The pioneer whodwells in tho vicinity of In
dian hunting ground, forming a barrier between
savage nud civilized men, learns lo hate the
Indian because he hears him spoken of always
as an cneiiiv. Having listened from his era-
die to tales of savage violence, and pern.od
with interest the narrative of aliorigiiiiil cun
ning and ferocity, and numbering, also, otnong
the victims of some midnight massacre, his
nearest and dearest relations, it is. not lo he
wondered at that he should fear and detest the
savage. While the war-whoop is sounding in
his ears, the rifle is kept in readiness, and the
cabin door secured with the return of evening.
Among those thus bom and reared, one
Thomas Iliggins, of Kentucky, stands preemi
nent. During the war of 112 he enlisted at
the early age of nineteen in a company of ran
gers, and came to Illinois. One of the most
extraordiuaiy events of that war occurred near
Vandalia, in which Iliggins participated.
Men talk of Marathon, and Therinopyla, ami
Waterloo, as if deeds of courage iiuJ danger
wen exhibited only there, without retlecting
that a single ranger of Kentucky hud telipsed
them all.
A little fort, or rather block-house, having
been erected about twenty miles from Van
dalia, late the eapitol of Illinois, and about eight
miles south of the present village of (Jreenville,
to protect the frontier settlements from the In
dians, Lieut. Journay ond twelve men were as
signed as its garrison. Hi' the Utter, Iliggins
was one.
The surrounding country was at that time
a continuous forest, and the little hamlet of
Cirecnvillo a frontier town.
On thei!!ih of August, 111, strong indica
tions of savages being in the neighborhood
were apparent, and at night a party of Indians
were seen prowling about the fort.
On the morning of the III si, before daylight,
Lieut. Journay, with the whole force under his
command, sailed forth in pursuit of them ; they
had not proceeded far helbre a large party of
I savages seventy or eighty in number rose
from their ambush, and at tho first fire the Lieu
tenant and three of his men were killed and
i . .... . .
another wounded, rix n tumi d in salcly to
! the fnrt, nd one (Thomas Iliggins) lingered
i behind to have 'one pull more ut the enemy.'
i
I The morning was sultry. The day had not
! yet dawned ; a heavy dew had fallen during the
j night, and the air being still and humid, the
i smoke from their guns hung like u cloud over
' the a wlul scene.
I fly the aid of Ibis cloud the companions ot
; j.,,jjIMI escaped lo the fort. Iliggins' horse
having been shot in the neck, fell upon his
j kn,.0H ie rose however, again. H.ggins.sup
, p()flin- hil ,0 (, mrtlly wounded, dismounted
. Wils tbo(1. to t.llve ,;,,, iVrceivinrr soon.
thereafter, his error, and that the wound was
: not dangerous, he determined to make good his
i retreat, but resolved, before doing so, to avenge
the death of some of his companions.
j He sought, therefore, a lr-e, from behind
i w hich he could shoot with sulci y. A small,
, elm scarcely sutlieienl to protect his body, was
j near. It was the only one in sight ; and lie
i tore he could reach it, the smoke pnrtly arose
I and discovered lo him a number of Indians ap
, pruachinir. One ot them was in the hcI ot
! loading his mi. I liggtus having taken di'li
I berate ami, lired at Ihe fori in ml savage, and In
fell. Concealed still by Ihe smoke, llo.'gius
reloaded, mounted his horse, nud turned lo lly,
I '
i ,nl w ,l" ,u' WuU 1 luav ,,,' w
you
Iliggins turned immediately around, am!
seeing a fellow soldier by the name of Uurgew
lying on (he ground, wounded and gapping fur
breath, replied : "No, I'll nol leave you com
along."
"I can't cuinr," f.iid Durgess ; my leg is all
smashed lo pieces."
Hi'-'Miis di.-m muled, am!, taking up his
friend, whose ancle had boon broken, was about
to lift him on his horse, when the hitler taking
triL'lil, united oil in hi insi.int, and letl llo'ius
and his wounded friend behind.
" This is loo bad," said Iliggins; "but don'l
fear; you hopotVoii our three legs, and I'll
slay behind between you and the Indians, and
keep them oil', liet into Ihe tallest grass, and
crawl us uear the ground as possible." Cur
gets did to, and cccaped.
The biuokc wh ih hud hitherto concealed
Iliggins, now cleared oAoy, and ho resolved,
it ptaib!e, to retreat. To follow the track of
Curgess was mofet expedient. It would, how
ever, endanger his friend.
He determined, therefore, lo venture boldly
forward, and, if discovered, to secure his own
tafcly by the rapiduy of hid flight. On leaving
immediate parent of despotism. Jefferson.
Vol. i--Xo. 41 Whole No, l-y.
a small lliickef, in which he had sought refuge,
he discovered a tall portly savage near by, and
two others in a direction between him and the
fort. He paused for a moment, ond thought if
he could separate, and light them singly, his
case was not so desperate.
He started, therefore, for a little run of water
hard by, but found one of his limbs failing him
it having been struck by a ball in tho first en
counter, of which, till now, he was scarcely
conscious.
The largest Indian pressed close upon liim
and Iliggins turned round two or three times
in order to fire. Tho Indian halted and danced
about to prevent his taking aim. Iliggins Faw
it was unsafe to fire at random ; and perceiving
two others approaching, knew he must be over
powered in a moment, unless he could dispose
ol the forward Indian. He resolved, therefore,
to halt and receive his fire. The Indian raised
his rifle, ami Iliggins, watching his eye, turned
suddenly as his finger pressed the trigger, and
received the ball in his thigh, which otherwise
would have pierced his body.
Iliggins fell, but rose immediately, and run
The foremost Indian, certain of his prey, now
oaded again, ond with tho other two pressed on.
They overtook him Iliggins fell again, and as
he rose the whole three fired, and he received
all their kills. He now fell and rose again;
and the Indians throwing away their guns, ad
vanced uKin him with spears and knives. As
he presented his gun at one or the other, each
fell back.
"At la.-l, Ihe largest Indian, supposing Ilig
gins' gun to he empty from his fire having been
thus reserved, advanced boldly to the charge.
Iliggins fired, ond the savage fell.
"He had now four bullets in his body en
empty gun in his hand two Indians unharmed,
as yet, before him and a whole tribe a few
yards distant. Any other man but Iliggins
would have despaired. Napoleon would have
acknowledged himself defeated ; Wellington,
with all his obstinacy, would have considered
the case as doubtful and Charles of Sweden
have regarded it as one of peril. Not so with
Iliggins. He had no notion of surrendering
yet. He had slain the most dangerous of the
three ; and having little to fear from the others;
he began to load his rifle. They raised a sav
age whoop, and rushed to the encounter; they
had kept at a respectful distance when Ilig
gins' rifle was loaded, but when they knew it
was empty they were better soldiers.
"A bloody conflict now ensued. The Indians
stubbi d him in several places. Their spears,
however, were but thin poles, hastily prepared
for the occasion, and bent whenever they struck
a rib or a muscle. The wounds they made
were not therefore deep ; though numerous as
his scars sutRciently tested.
"At last one of litem threw his tomahawk.
It struck him upon the cheek, passed through
his ear, which it severed, laid bare the skull to
the back of his head, and stretched him upon
the prairie. The Indians again rushed on ; but
Iliggins, recover ng his self-possession, kept
I hem oil' with his feet and hands ; grasping at
length one of their spears, the Indian, in at
tempting to pull it from him, raised Iliggins
up, who taking his rifle, simile the nearest
savage and dashed out his brains. In doing so,
however, his rifle broke, the barrel only re
maining in let hand.
"The other Indian who hnd hitherto fought
with caution, came now manfully into the bat
tle, his character as a warrior was in jeopardy.
To have tied from a man thus wounded und
disarmed, or to have sullered his victim lo es
cape, would have tarnished his fume forever.
Uttering, therefore, a terrific yell, he rushed
on, and attempted to stab the exhausted rang
er ; but (tie latter warded otl'his blow with one
baud, ami bran Ji lied his rifle barrel with the
other.
'The Indian was as yet unlinrmed, and un
der existing circumstances by far the most pow
erful mill. Iliggins' counge, however, was
i xhausteil, and inexhaustible. The savage
at last began In retreat, from the glare of his
untamed eye, to the spot where he le't his rifle.
Higgins know it Ihi Indian recovered that, his
own ruse was desperate; throwing therefore
Ins rifle barrel aside, and drawing his hunting
knife, he ru-lieil upon hit foe. A desperate
sti lie ensued ; deep gashes were inflicted on
both sides, Iliggins, fatigued, and exhausted
by the bs of blood, was no longer a match for
the f-avage. The latter succeeded in throwing
his adversary from him, and went immediately
in pursuit of his rille. Iliggins at the same
time roe arid sought lor the gun of Ihe other
Indian. Doth, therefore, bleeding and out of
breath, were in search of arms to renew the
combat.
"The smoke had now pnssed away, and a
large number of Indians were in view. No
thing, it would seen, could now save the gal
lant rancor. There was, however, an rye to
pity, and an arm to save ; and that arm was a
woman's !
"The little gttrribou hud witncskcd the whole
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combat. It consisted of but six men and ono
woman ; that woman was of herself a host a
Mrs. Purslcy. When she Faw Iliggins con
tending, single-handed, with a wholo tribe t.f
savages, she urged the rangers to attempt Ira
resue. The rangers objected, as the Indiana
were ten to one. Mrs. Purscly, therefore,
snatched a rifle from her husband's band, and
declaring that 'so fine a fellow as Tom Iliggins
should not be lost for want of help,' mounted
a horse, and sallied forth to his rescue. Tho
men, ujjwilling to be outdone by a woman, fol
lowed at full gallop reached the spot where
Iliggins fainted and full, before the Indian
came up ; ond when the savage with whom he
had been engaged was looking for his rifle, his
friends lilted the wounded ranger up, and throw
ing him ocross a horse licforc ono of tho party,
reached the fort in safety.
"Iliggins was insensible for several days ;
and his life was preserved only by continual
care. I lis friends extracted two of the balls
from his thigh ; two, however, yet remained
one of which gave him a great deal of pain. .
Hearing afterward that a physician had settled
within a dfly's ride of him, he determined to go
and see him. The physician (whose name is
spared) asked him S;."jO for the operation. This
Iliggins flatly refused, saying it was more than
a half year's pension. On reaching home, he
found the exercise of riding had made the ball
disccrnable; he requested his wife, therefore.
to hand him his razor. With her assistance ha
deliberately laid open his thigh, until the edge
of the razor touched the bullet; then inserting
his two thumbs into the gnsh, 'he flirted it out,'
as he used to say, 'without costing him a cent.'
The other ball yet remained; it gave him,
however, but little pain, and he carried it with
him to his grave.
"Iliggins died in Fayette county, Illinois, a
few years since. He was the most perfect
specimen of a frontier man in his day, and was
once door-keeper of the House of Representa
tives in Illinois.
I). Fhaskun in a nfw CiiAn.WTEn. Dr.
Durbin, in his "Observations in Europe," vol.
1, page Oil, gives a literal French copy of a cu
rious original iViVf efoi.r of tho illustrious phi
losopher to Madame Ilelvetius, which he met
with the lloyal Library at Paris. The French
has been pronounced execrable. The transla
tion is as follows :
"Mr, Franklin never forgets any party whero
Madame Ilelvetius is to be. Ho even believe
that if he were engaged logo to Paradise thia
morning, he would make supplication to be per
mitted to remain on earth until half past one o'
clock, torecei ve Ihe embrace which she has been
pleased to promise him upon meeting at the
house of M. Turgot."
Only think of Poor Richard writing in such
a strain as that !
"Oh, love, love love is like a dizziness ;
It wmiia let a pair body gang about his busi
ness" even though he be "engaged logo to paradise."
"This," says Dr. Durbin, "is the same Mad.
Ilelvetius, widow of the athiostical philosopher,
who so horrified Mrs. Adams by her freedom.''
with Franklin ata dinner party in Pans, as well
as by her Mirty silk handkerchief, and dirty
gauze.' "Mrs. Adams' kttrs,u. ii.
Savi.no Timk. A clergyman, who had con
siderable of a farm, as was generally the ensrj
in our forefathers' days, went out to see one of
his laborers, who was ploughing in tho field,
and he found him silting uon the plough, rest
ing his team.
"John," said he, "would it nol be a good plan
for you lo have a stub scythe here, and bo hub
bing a few flushes while the oxen are resting ?'"
John, with a countenance which might well
have become the clergyman himself, instantly
replied
Would it not be well, sir, fur you lo have a
sw ingling Iniaid in the pulpit, and when they
arc singing, to swingle a little flax !'
The reverend gentleman turned on his heel,
laughed heartily, and suid no more about hub
bing bushes.
A late writer describing a village dnnce say,
" The gorgeou stiins ofgla-s beads now glisten
on the heaving ho.nms ol the village belles, like
butter and 'lasses renting on the delicate surface
of warm tipple dumplings. "
A man "out west'' was terribly Irounced by
his wife bocau.-e he took tiis cap, overcoat, ami
boots out of fier bustle, just as she wanted lo
put it on. It is to be presumed, that hu'll not
meddle w nli it airim.
Vfkv Gooii. A j illy jack tar, rolling about
Commercial st. in 1 etou, enquired what tho
Democratic nomination w:is. ' Polk and Dil
las," said a bystander. Poik and Dollars!"
said he, ''th il's the ticket, some thing to tat and
money in the pocket .'"
"Coys," said Admiral Trunion, as his fleet
eloced in combat W illi the Dutch under Adu.i
lal de Winter, "you see a severe Winter ap
proaching. I advice you lo keep a gwd .re."