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JOSEPH EISI'-I.Y.
PuBLIRRKHI AStl
Phmprktohs.
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OJJice in Centre Alky, tn the rear uf 11. D. Mat
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TO nMM.li
D R M A, would that I might C
TJ smile ns onre T! I,
Ami bid my troubles 15
E Z and calm once more.
I N V much tlioso happy hours,
That time in blest U A,
When you for me culled Love's sweet flowers,
And said they'd ne'er D K.
'Twas but an M T tale tT told,
As 1 can phiinly C ;
For your I looks dull and cold
Whene'er it rests on me.
X M N well my wounded breast,
Nor jeer my hapless fate :
Your P T might, if once confessed.
My griefs X Hi V .
1 C U R -2 15 -M d
l'y 0 so poor as I ;
But M A, you may vet be placed
In sonow, by and by.
1 oft have dwelt in X T C
Upon your beauteous form ;
Your t'liarnis are now like to me
That glisten through the storm.
Alas U spurn my DT?, and
1 11 marry Molly May ;
And we will go to f) I O,
Or else to 1 O A.
Then fare ye well. V fickle 1,
I ne'er can W ;
Put after all is said and done.
Mv .Molly's fickle -J.
I'll put a to my breast
I' know the reason V ;
And wh.-n I close my I to rest.
D K M A don't '. good by.
Ilii'i: Fkvit am) Dyskstlky There is n
pernicious r jmlico with which people nrc
too generally imbued : It is that fruits arc in
jurious in the dysentery that they produce
and increase it, There is not, perhaps1, a more
false prejudice. But fruit, and Mint which is
imperfectly ripened, may occasion colics, and
sometimes diiirrlnea bat nevrr epidemic dys
entery. Ripe frui's of all kinds, especially in
the glimmer, ore a true preservative against
tiiis malady. The greatest injury they can do,
is in dissolving the humors, and particularly
tlie bi'e, of winch they aro true solvents, mid
occasion a di.irrlue:i. But even this iharrho-a
is u protection against the dysoiitciy. When
ever the dysentery lias pervaded, 1 have eaten
less animal tuoJ and more fruit, mid I have ne
xt r had the slightest utt.ick. 1 have seen
eleven patients in the same house ; u i no were
obedient to 1 lit directions given, and ate
l'ru:t; they recovered. The grandmother, and
a child she was most partial to, died. Shi pre
scribed to the child burnt hrumlij and oil, pow
erful nroinntics, and Ibibade truit. Shf" follow
ed the same course lu-i self, and met the like
late. A minister, utincked with dysentery, ate
three p -unils of led currants, between seven
o'clock in the morning and 0 in the evening;
he was entirely cured. Tissnt.
The Osw.iFir.il Man ok IUui.in A writer
in the Christian Advocate, under the he-id of
"Transatlantic Recollections," Speaking ot the
Museum nt Dublin remarks: "What culls and
rivets the attention of every stranger, whether
scientific or otherwise, is the celebrated skele
ton of an ossified man ; it is said to be the only j
instance ol entire ossification ever known. It j
is the skeleton of a young man named Clark,
w ho was of large frame and strong constitution.
.Falling asleep in the open air, during a state
of perspiration he caughl a seven! cold, at which
lime, it is supposed, ossification commenced,
Bud continued to progress for ninny years by
slow degrees, till finally he was bone, except
the skin, ryes and entrails. For a length of
time before his death his joints grew together
so that iic could not move ; and thus did death
in this horrible mid terrific form creep over him
by slow degrees, until at length his sight de
parted, his tongue became still and useless, his
teeth grew together, in one solid mass of bone,
so that to prolong his miserable existence an
aperture hatl been broken, through whith to
pour nutriment."
The Anacreontic muse does not slumber
with Moore, nor did the pathetic die with By
ron, for a western poet lias given the following
to posterity :
When Pejisy's doc her arm imprison,
I often wish my lot was bissen.
Mow often 1 should stain! and turn,
To get a pat from hands like hern.
A man being reprimanded for swearing, re
plied that he did not know any harm in it. "No
harm in it,' said the person present ; "why do
you not know the commandment, 'Swear not
at all V " "I do not swear at all," said he ; "I
only swear at those who bother mc.
Absolute acquiescence in the derisions or the
Ily Manser &. i:iely.
Vtom the Pliitwlrlphia Dollar Xnpfpaprr.
A Crnplile Skrtch of tlie Into lllanalrona
Flood lit III Uliaalaalrtpl antt Mlaaourl
Klvers.-Imiiiense I.oa of Propirl--XI
i or It of an Knrtliqiiakr.
Cate CSirardgaf, Mo., July 21, 1811.
Mrssus. Kihtorsi : The mighty Mississip
pi, the Missouri, or the Missourinn,(for we want
a name, to distinguish the main stream from
mountain to ocean,) unsurpassed in its course,
unlimited in its resources, gathering waters
from every quarter, stretching out in its tribu
taries from east to west, invading the very
verge of the great lakes in bibulous ambition ;
though it rolls on for the most part in unassu
ming repose, now and then merely lifting up
its head to cast a glance at advancing cultiva
tion, yet there are times w hen it seems deter
mined to assert its supremacy, its undivided
sw ay, and utter awful warnings of its over
whelming power. From euch nn epoch are we
j just emerging from such a deluge as surpas
ses the recollections ot the oldest settlers.
Through the whole of the country west ol
Mississippi, ruin has been more than abundant
since the first of April, but the river was not
much affected by it till about the middle of May.
The volume of 'vater which it has poured down
since that time is truly astonishing. This great
rise appeared tube declining about the begin
i ning of June, and the river teemed to be retur
! ning, though slow ly, to its bed. It was imagi
ned by many (hat this first liso was the usual
annual elevation of the waters, and that it con
tained the mountain freshets and the melting of
the snows. Some old settlers asserted that they
could recognize the mountain floods by the cool
ness ot the water ; some entirely denied this,
land maintained that the snows had not yt t
i changed their character. Rut a short time pro- !
ved that the wt.rst ri.-c was yet to come, nnd j
j since that time we have I, ml a perfect deluge, '
I devastating the bottom lands and the river prai- j
ries in a terrible manner, destroy ing the crops J
j ;i lo'.o, and in Fume rases destroying the very 1
soil, covering it w ith black rails of dirty drill ;
wood, nnd overw helming that again with sand- j
bars and mud. About the first of July, this se- i
coud Iri sh was nt its height, though this period i
would of course vary in the distance of some j
hundred miles. At this time it was an awful j
yet sublime sight, swelling from bluff to bluff,
and approaching like a majestic seriesof riotous
lakes, nine or ten miles in breadth, in the prai- 1
ric nnd untimbercd districts. In other parts,
the astoiibdied river wandered through the deep
recesses of the forest, and passed unseen and
surprised beneath interminable shades. Rut j
where it was coi.tined ton narrow and rocky
channel, as at the Grand Chain, or obstructed 1
with islands, as at the Fatal Grave-yard, its vi- :
olence, roaring nnd irascibility were fearfully
emphatic. It hurled its wrath in vam against
the rocks in vain it endeavored to undermine
their solidity ; but when it encountered the al
luvia", islands, its power was visible at every
turn. It broke over their opposing ioints, un
dermined their timber, and hurled it with i ices
satit crushing into :hc midst of the boiling tor-
rent. At night the noise was peculiarly awful,
peculiarly impressive it was a restless plung-
ing of a battering ram against the crumbling
towers of Nature's citadel, and sounded omni
ously and alarming to tlie sad and wakeful suf
ferers to tlio.-e w hose corn, whose fences,
whose cordwtNid, w hose dwellings weie succes
sively taking (light for "shores unknown mid
strands t.t other climes." It was indeed jii aw
ful sight, in the day time, to see the ancient limit
arch of the forest bending bis venerable head,
and at last pru.-luli'ig himselt before the tur
bid tyrant. There might be seen, at a time, of
trees, a whole uniform company, performing
the Eastern custom of prostration, and then j wh ,mrislin,r to.(luy aml ,wrI,
ruthlessly hurled away by the implacable tor- I nwi(y j0 morrow. Commerce, a small village
rent. The whole river wa., besides, encumber. ' .. ... i c. i,i i .. . i. i
' binding in fc-cott county, detruded by a uo.il
eu with a strange and to a stranger on '-'- : ri,,e ol'rol.ks, has also "a lucky po,i..e, (-bar-count
ible mixture of floating matter, masses of ! hl,r M . ,rwl, WllllM MVf) Bm ,.la
living and dead ti.iiber, loads of cord v.HKl.b'ack b(H11 inP,lllvcnk.ccl y ,,e removal ol
logs, that had perhaps been for nges embedded!., i i , 1,"...-i ,, . i.t
' 11 fr j the goods in one store ami one warehouse, ten,
and embayed, here and there a house, heie a ; , ... i i .. . i. i . i.t ;t
' itlas ! the prairies and bottoms lielow. I nit it
shed, and here a corn-hum, here hnv, straw, i . , ... . . , , ...
. ' 1 is no pleasant picture. Let us lament in si-
and other things indiscribable, sometimes apart, , ' , .. ,i i.
" ' lcnee. And now the cry is, as the river is tie-
sometimes straggling; often combined in a I ,. . . . . ,- i . . .. i ..n
. . , ... j cliiung, what a terrible tune ol sickness we shall
cointiseu mm leitrnii ui.i.-s , now winning ill an
eddy, now swinging round a point ; now caught
on the bead of an islam), and ill iven upwards and
i inland by the wild mass of confusion behind, ap-
uareiitiv now luiiii tunires-. 1:9 vimiisij iunirr
1 "
.1 :ll : . :. - I .
I any circumstances, and to any obstacle. Many
of the islands (one of w hich, near the Grave
yard, contains nine or ten thousund acres) have
had invuluable crops upon them, and immense
piles of cordwood all, all have perished. In
deed, many individuals have lost to a serious
amount, and are thoroughly disheartened with
the bottom lauds, so much and so liberally laud
ed in all parts of the Union. The great Amer
ican Rottom containing hundreds of thousand of
acres, has been entirely submerged, except in
partial anJ almost imperceptible points. At the
dividing line between Cape Girardeau and Kcott
county, commences that rcmarkubte swamp,
which has been ages bygone the bed of a migh
ty river. As this country has been eubjecl to
UNBTLTIRY AMERICAN.
AND SIIAMOKIN JOURNAL;
majority, the vital principle of Republics, from which
Smiliiuy, rVorlluiiubcrlaiHl Co.
earthquakes, some convulsion ol that kind nmy
hare opened the rocks at what is called the
(irand Chain, and, perhaps, beforo that time,
the river flowed down through the abovemcn
tionrd swamp, which isonly a short distunce a
bove the Grand Chain. However that may be,
o complete river, some miles brond, at present
exists bet ween Scott and Cape Girardeau coun
ties fourteen nnd fifteen feet deep in parts, nnd
tocross which a boat has been built on the spot,
capable of convey ing horses, cattle, etc., over.
Terrible disasters have affected the stock;
they are drowned out utterly in ninny places ;
and where the bluffs are in sight it has been
better, for at the foot of the bluffs the bottom
lands often decline, and thus become flooded,
nnd cut oil' all access except by boats. Some
times a hill appears and all congregate to the
spot, men, women, children, horses, sheep, hogs
and steers, looking around w ith anxiety on the
wild expanse of water. The horses neigh, cows
low, and sheep bleat their full voiced alarm,
and look instinctively to man for a rescue. In
the meantime drill logs come floating by, and
sometimes hogs mounted on them, holding on
tenaciously and making the most of their nauti
cal knowledge. Houses come past, sometimes
twenty per day, some mere logs, some respec
table. The Mary Tompkins steamer, up the
Missouri, in one part of her trip, could get no
wood but what she picked up, nnd that was not
enough to keep her going, Carried nway by
the current, she swept over a prairie and brought
down the cotton wotxl in an alarming manner.
It once was thought impossible for her to es
cape, and indeed, had the timber been compact
she would have been turned bottom upwards.
The Rello Air, at Chester, struck a sunken
house, or partly sunk, upset it, and on shearing
around struck a stone mill, knocked ofl a corner,
but carried away her eook house, forward guard
and steam connecting pipe. Kaskaskia has
been quite submerged ; the Nuns (Sisters of
Charity) carried to St. Louis, and the Repub-
lican ollice and press gone dow n somen here
near Duvy's lxickcr. All the river towns have
suffered more or less; some may be said to be
entirely ruined. At Lexington, an acre of
h,,,,, with five houses on it, slid into the river,
and of Nashville, only seven houses are left,
This tl,Hid has indeed surpar-sed the great flood
of 17S"i, called by the French "the year of the
great waters," (I'annee des graudeseuux.) The
loinmitlee appointed have eutimuted the dam
age in Howard sounty alone, a sunll county, at
!?100,(tHI ; -l.'MHlU acres of land were covered
(,y he fre.sli, and in many places ovtrla id with
w,d and mud ten and twelve feet deep. And
t,js js cniy im0 county of thirty it forty. There
js (mc talk of applying to Congress tor in w
umSi BS was the case utter the New Madrid
....rthouake of ; and it is megtsted th at
the States of Missouri and Illinois remit tixes
on property so injured, tor two or three years.
Many lives have been lo:-t, of which nothing
w ill be heard, as the setlb-rs live apart here, and
in a manner so solitary that would surprise the
resilient of a citv or its environ. In one in-
. (.,linct?i three men were taken off ol two horses,
j ,-., being tl.nc days in the water, and up to
, - ..,''.. ....,, rt.t;.,Ved : two men were
also taken from a tree top, where they hail
been twenty-four hours. Hundreds ot families
J are encamped on the bluffs, where bluffs are to
be fi'iind ; but u few miles south ol Cape Girar
deau City every thing is dead flat on loth sides
of the r.ver. (Tape Girardeau City is the only
binding on the river which comes tn the water's
edge, that Ins not seriously suffered ; but tlie
Cnpe, as is familiarly called, rises fast fiom the
' river, and is luckily set between ridges of rock ,
I tn tlmt it a nut life En iniitiv localities on these
have.
Yours, respectfully,
j lbiwi.rv
j P. S! We have ju.-t bad a t-'ight earthquake,
j half past I!, P. M , UMli July. It w is u mere
. . , . 1 1 .' . 1 .. , . . (.,
: ifihrat mil. winch rucked tne house, aonare it IV
from S. W. to N. C, ami w as more uuiUMiig
1 thun alarming.
Smart Riv. A negro boy being sent by
his master to borrow a pound of lurd from a
neighbor, thus delivered his message :
"Missus Thompson uiassa sent mo over to
borrow or beg a pound of hog tallow ; he say
he got de old sow up in tie pen, fatten 'em ; he
gwiuo to kill her dy before yesterday, and ho
come ever week lore last, and pay you all you
owe us."
A good book and a good woman aro excellent
things to those w ho know haw to justly appre
ciate their value , but there nie many w ho judge
of both only by thou covci mg
there is no appeal hut to force, the principle anJ
1'a. Saturday, August 21, IS 1 1.
The Kmjifior anil the Cnmrtllnn.
AM lllirOUH-At. ANFl llOTE.
Many monarchs have delighted in an extra
vagant and startling exhibition ot power, but
the Russian despots, perhaps, more frequently
than others have been in the habit of blending
dramatic contrivances both with vengeance and
playfulness.
The emperor Paul was a strange, half-mad
personage; he honored witli Ins tavor many
humble persons, and among the number, one
Frogere, a French player, who had the honor
of occasionally dining nt the imperial table,
where sometimes his sallies wotc held to be
brilliant. One day a compliment was paid to
the emperor which went to exalt him above bis
ancestor Peter the Great. The emperor affec
ted modesty, but at the s une lime attempted n
witticism, remarking that so to flatter him was
"robbing Peter to pay Paul ;" and appealed to
Frogere if that were fnir. The player, for the
sake of a joke rather than the truth, instantly
admitted that it was not, "ns there was no pro
bability that ever any one would be able to rob
Paul to pay Peter." This did not please;
there was too much sarenstic truth in it to pass
current in that society. F.very one looked
blank ; the party broke up helm e the g Until had
passed away, nnd Frogere, much disconcerted,
retreated to his bed, and tried to forget the mis
hap in sleep. That night his chamber was nb
ruptly entered by nn officer and four armed
men, anil the emperor's warrant lor bis arrest
was prod need. It was announced that he was
banished to Siberia, nnd must furlhwith com
nienee his sat! jntirney. lie was merely allow
ed time to procure himselt with a change of
clothes, when he was furred into a carriage
which, strongly guarded, moved forward, two
soldiers with piriols and n drawn sword being
his companions in the vehicle. They advanced
briskly during the night, and when day return
ed the actor was blindfolded.
A stop was at length uiaile ; he was renio
veil from the couch, and the bandage being la
ken from bis ryes he found himself in a wretch
eu liovel. loarse Inxl was set oeiore nun
while an officer with whom he had formerly
been on intimate terms, looked on in cold K rbu
ding silence.
Fruceie was too much nfJlicted to eut.
"What have I done," he e Aclaiufed, "to merit
this severity !"
".Need you be told !" inquired the officer
"have yen forgotten the mad insult you ventu
retl to oficr the Luuieror of nil the Russias at
j bis own table J So oiitrugeuus a sarca.-lii
hi
iinprriiil majesty could imt forgive
"Heaven is my w itness," said Forgrre, "1
meaitl 110 oliriice. an you not muhc litis
known ! cannot you intercede for me V
"Impossible! all I can do is to take care of
your piopeity nt Moscow. Any other commis
sion that you may give nie 1 will faithfully ex
ecute." "And inn I to be banished for life?"
"No; the kindness of ihe i-mprror fur jm
I'm bills biiii to go so fur ; you are only to remain
in Siberia thirty yours :"
"Th;rty years!" Frogere exil.iiiued with
horror, lit that ie.uimfi.1 hour the vast differ
ence between banishment tor life and "only for
thirty years' was hardly appreciated.
The officer took his leave; Frogere was a
gain blinded, and the carriage pursued its
journe. At intervals it stopped, a scanty meal
was set before Ihe pnsoiier. How long they
had been travelling he could iiut tell, but he
concluded they had reached the confines, when
blinded with more care than ever, be found the
upper part of his dress loosened, bis arms pinion
ed, iiiid in this situation be w is placed on a
seat. He beard the jarring sound of muskets,
and the military wont of command, and re.'om
meuded his soul to heaven. Another move
meiit w as uiaile, w hit h told I11111 Ihe filial mo
ment wasat baud, when the bandage fell limn
his eyes, and lie loiind bttnself in the sam place
which be bad filled when lie lnz irded thatjoe
iilar remark w It it'll had c.oiscd bun to t xerieuce
1 so much 11ft!. cti 11. Tl.f emperor prcidet!, and
I nil present laughed delighted with the imj. ri
J al prank, for such it was, which had diiveu tlie
j object of It 1 1 alt 11 tlo.eil ItilleS round tiie p iluce
under the circumstance dteriheil, si me four-unil-Us
t nly hours F01 poor Frogere the 1 h inge
was too 10I1 nl ; he tainted 111 tin.- moment win n
his safety was announced, ami tin! ni l iiniiu di
nit ly rev n e to receive the congratulations of
those coui lies w ho could admire such a fearful
experiment on the uctor's feelings as had been
made by the then ixjtent despot, the miserable
emperor Paul.
Another sell more remarkable scene was
shortly afterwards got up in the same place.
The emperor joyously supped w ith the perfor
mer and a select company. When the enter
tainment ended, 1 'rope re and those who lemai
lied to the hut, withdrew to the chambers in
the palace. An alarm was suddenly given,
all arose, and sought the emprror's apartment.
They entered them, and found the cause of
their disturbance was more iliuii a J"ke, as rx
tended en the tljvr lay the corpse ol ihe despot.
immediate parent of despotism. Jirrimao.
Vol. l--o. lSWhole Xo, 201a
JOHN JACOB ASTOIt.
John Jacob Astor. the son of a bailiff, was
bom in the small villngo of Waldorf, ncarllei
dleberg, in the grand durhy of Baden, in the
year 170:1. In March, 17"? 1, he landed at Bal
timore, having sailed from London in the pre-
eding November, anil been detained three
months by the ire in Chesrpenke Ray.
It is said that in a storm off our const, which
threatened the destruction of the ship and crew,
while the other passengers were lost in appre
hension, nnd regardless of might save self pre
servation, Mr. Astor appeared upon deck, ar
rayed in his best clothes. This excited some
surprise, anil when nsked bis object in discard
ing the more appropriate garb he had worn
during the voyage, he replied 'that if he es
caped with bis life it would bo with his best
clothes, anil it he perished no matter w hat be
came of them.1 Luckily the storm passed over.
During his detention in the Chesapeake, he
made the acquaintance of a countryman of bis,
a furrier by trade, w ho willingly initiated him
into the mysteries of his craft, and counselled
him to invest Ihe proceeds of his merchandise
a portion of which consisted of musical in
struments from a brother's manufactory in Ixin-
don in furs. Mr. Astor was then twenty
years of age, and having decided to become a
furrier, brought to his new pursuit all the ac
tivity of youth, with those habits ot diligent
observation which had developed themselves in
bis character.
This was ol the close of the revolutionary
war. Peace hail been proclaimed with Great
Rritain the year previous; but the British mili
tary outposts within our territory had not been
relinquished, and the commercial intercourse
with Canada was restricted. Mr. Astor has
been heard to observe that, at the time, he pro
phesied that ten yenrs would elnpse before Os
wego, Niagara, Detroit, Michilimeckinac and
other posts within our lines, would be relin
quished ; nnd said to himself, 'then when the
fiontiers are surrendered, I will make my for
tune in the fur trade.'
Roth predictions were accomplished. The
treaty with Gnat Britain, of 1791-5, removed
restrictions on our trade with her colonics, and
fiirreiidered the ubove outposts, and then Mr
Astor, having the trade with theCanadas and
with onr western country, both open to his en
trrprisr, proceeded rapidly to realise the for
tune, the foundation of which was laid in more
than ten years of thrift and patient iiuhi-try
By ihe tl r-l year of tiie pi rsent century, he
had amassed something like .vvJ.'itl.tHIO. Forty
four years have since elapsed. By the natural
cmtr-e of accumulation, this sum would have a-
mounted, at the end of such a period, to nearly
s'i.(i(l(l,(HM) : but, in Mr. Astoi's hands, it has
increased to nearer tour times thnt amount, for
we should be moderate in estiumt ng bin nctu
11I wealth at s-Jt,lKl,(K!t. lnl00 the man
of thirty-seven could look back with satisfaction
upon the career of the boy ol eighteen, w ho,
mit'er thr shade of a linden-tree, near his na
tive v illage, had resolved, on the eve of leaving
his borne for a foreign hind, In hf homsl and
iiiiliistritinx aiitt nrirr ti pumble."
In l-isj he founded the American fur compa
ny, but, soon dissatisfied w ith even the large
profits, derived from that concern, he conceived
the idea of founding a permanent settlement on
the P.ic lie, ronnected with the settled (tortious
of the country by a series of trading posts, nnd
by these means tn monopolise the fur trade
west of the Rocky Mountains within the pre
rir.ets of the L'niled States. The provisions,
goods, and ammunition of the Pacific settle -
, , , ,
meiit were to he supplied It v a vessel sent sn-
nually from New York. The same vessel was
also to convey supplies to the Russian establish-
vu ... the ,,r-h, n. ,1 receive furs ..1 ex-
chang... With those latter a.ulthose amassed
nt the settle t d'iri ng I he year, she w as to
proceed to Canton, nnd invest tho proceeds
h.rc.rgo 11. silks, teas and minVeens. Ac
cordiiigly 111 1 -10. a party of til) men started
from New York fort reg..n, and 111 September
of t'.e same year, the Tonquin was despatched
011 the same errand. This vessel nnd one or
t wo subsequent ones were lm-t the ColouUt
were e.po.-rd to every trial and sullcring and,
during the war of the settlement, unpro
tected b Ihe Ctovi rnmei.l of the United States,
mill threatened by a 1'Mtisli man of war, was
treacherously sold, by one of Mr. Actor's part
ner's to the northwest fur company.
Thus ended a grand and w ell contrived en
terpi ise, after so great an outlay aud hss as
would luve annihilated most American fortunes.
AIkjiiI l,(HX),tHiO were expended in the car-
rying out of p'ans which were entirely frus
trated, Nod which were in progress nt the same
lime that the American fur company was in
full operation, when the ships of the projector
were in every sea, and his cargoes in every
principal city of our country.
A mi instance of the magnitude of the
views of Mr. As (or, it is stated that, httd bis a-
g. uts succeeded in electing a pei iiiaiient set
tlcineiit at A.tona, he aiiliiiptiUd that the es-
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Si i teen linea make nqutirv!.
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1 tablishment would prove a bill of costs durinjj
iikj nrst two years, a:iu wouiu not negin 10 ai
ford very profitable returns before the expira
tion of the second decade. During the third,
decade, it would have netted him something liko
81,(WH),(I(KI per nnnum. If we esteem him ail
enterprising nierchaut who awaits, tor year
the return of his vessel from Canton or the Pa
cific, what term shall we npply tntho adventur
ous and self relying spirit, which, regardless of
the "changes nnd chances of this mortal life,
organises And executes a vast nnd costly pro
jret, destined only to mature at the expiration
often years?"
One of the greatest fotirces of Mr. Astor'sj
wealth, however, has been the natural rise of
real estate in New York. At one pcrio I he in
vested two-thirds i f his annual gains in land,
and he now possesses icln lv acres in the most
valuable quarters of the city. And it is a sin
gular feature in the history of one dealing so
constantly, and in so larg 2 sums, and, moreover.
whose entire fortune wis probably, nt times, 011
the bosom of the ocean, (hat he was luvrr
kiiowti to vmrtzasze a Int. Mr. Astor has al
ways been an early riser, but has devoted few
er hours, perhaps, to his counting room than
most mercantile men. He generally left busi
ness al two o'clock ir. the afternoon, although
it is to be presumed tint his mind was always
engaged in the acquisition of that vast fortune,
which has tleen heaped together by his own ex
ertions alone, and amid many and groat obsta
cles. Unit. American.
A YAMiKK SHOEM.lKEItl
'You hain't no occasion for a jour nor nothing,
I spose,' said a jol'y son of St Crispin from the
hind of wooden nutmegs, as he entered a shoe
establishment, with Ins kit nicely done up in
his apron.'
Wonder if I hain't,' was the reply of the
boss.
'Why, I should like a dozen if I could get
'em but what kind of a shoe can you make ?'
, n tn the matter 0' that, said tho
shoemaker, 'I reckon how I can make a decent
sort ot a craft.'
'Spiead your kit then,' said the bo?s. "I'll
give you a pjir to try, and if your work suits me,
I can give you a steady sent of work.
Crispin was soon hammering nnd whistling
away as happy as a clam at high water, and the
boss was called away on some business which
detained him two or three hours meanwhile
the tampering jour hid produced a thing which
bore some fiiut resemblance ton shoe, and feel
ing somewhat ashamed of it, hid it in a pile ot
leather chips that lay on the tl Kir, and proceed
ed to make another, which he had barely thus
to finish, when his employer entered and bojau
to examine it.
'IKik here, riii-ster,' said he 'I guess you
didn't make the mate to this : it is the greatest
botch thai ever was made in my shop, that's a
fact.'
P'raps you'd like to bet a trifle on that,' said
the shoemaker.
'Bet,' responded the boss, 'why, I'll bet a tell
dollar bill against a hand of tobtcco, that there,
never was a shoe made 111 this shop half so bad
as this !
Done,' said Crispin, nt the same time cast
ing a sly wink at his sbopmates, 'but top, let
me see if I have got so much of the weed with
me. Oh yes, here's a whole hand of Caven
dish,' and laying it 011 the cutting board, he ven
tured to suggest the propriety of having the su
et skin laid along side of it, which was no soon-
it.iii., lli. 111 ln nt. n't i.li il tit iTrQLV (Yum it4
!,., ,
i hiding place the other shoe,
j
! ' '". u " ide the
bpt i M-v ,wo 8,"f' ' th w,,rst''
J 'W, l; 1 """' !''"'"'!y "'"" " ""s tune,'
j replied the b..-, ending the Caveutli.h nod
j sbinp! isti-r toward the riJitHil owner, and
j throw ing a imiepenre to the youngest appreu-
j '" The t,,y ., led no fa.tl.er instruction s
' '' ''"'J'- ' was . 111 the twinkling of a
I h.d-poM, and soon returned with a quart of
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selvr.
After all hud tlr.tnk, and Crispin had pocket
oil the money, Ik turned In the Isiss tiui said,
'Now bos-, I'll bet I' 11 dollar that 1 can niukti
a ot ( r shoe 1 1 1.1 si any other jour 111 the st'iop
P'lh ips you'd like the ten dollars lack will
von t..ke the bet !'
To In-sure I W ill,' the tioss replied, pri) iC
ing another -, and i tying it on the lap stone,
the Yankee potting his with it. Cri.-pin was)
aguin soon at woik, Rnd made a shoe which
the bos wan toreed to acknowledge coulilii't
be beat, mi l the Y1i11l.ee risily stowed sway the
blunt. The boss, however, consoled himself
with the idea, that ln bad got 11 first rale work
man, if he wis a wag.uud told him to goon an I
miil.e a m-ite to the bhot, when the s'ire.vii
Yankee, linn,' well sati.-fied with his day's
work signiliCfiiil!' replied, 'Let Some of vo'if
jour make a male to it if tin y r tin ;' and put-
- I tu j ins sink, t gettier, uii'l 0 tl 1 11 Me u.i a a
j henrtr pood bve, aga-.o started on a tramp.
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