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4ittirpruicurt gaLi.
To the American Flag.
When Freedom from her mountain height,
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the wire robe of night,
Aid set the stars of glory thgre!
She mingled with its gorgoouslyes:
The milky baldric of the skies,
And striped its pare eelestial white;
With etreakings from the morning light!
Thee, from her emulsion in the sun,
Shis called her eagle bearer down,
And gave intu his.atightv hand
The ; eynalsal of her chusei land!
Na;estia monarch of the cloud:-
Who rear'st aloft thy regal form.
To bear _the tempest trumping
And see the lightning hums driven,
Whet strides the warrior of the storm.
Andrails the thunder drum of heaven!
Chilli of the Mtn! to thee 'tis given
To guard - the banner of the free—
To hover in the sulphur smoke,
To ward away the battle-stroke,
And - lid its blending* shine star,
Like rsinhnwi on the cloud of war,
•
The harbinger of victory !
Flag of the brave! thy folds shall by
The signs of hope and triumph high':
When speaks-the signal trumpet's blue,
And the long line crone; gleaming on,
Ere yet the lifeblood, warm and wee
Iles dimm'd the glietening bayonet—
Each soldier's eye shall brightly turn,
To where the meteor glories
And as his springing steps advaece,
.Catch war and vengea.nee from the glance!
And when the cannon's mouthing. loud
Heave in wild wreathe the battle shroud,
And g try sabres rise and fall!
Like shoots of flame on midnight pall!
These shall thy v:eter glances glow,
And cowering foes'eliall
rad), gallant arm that strikes below
Tibet lovely messenger of death!
Flag of the seas! on ocean's wave, •
Thy star shall glitter o'er the brave,
Wheel death careering on the gale.
Sweeps darkly round the bellied.
And frighted wares rush wildly ba c ir., ,
Before the broadside's reeling rack ;
The dying wanderer of the sea
&all look at once to heaven and thee,
And smile to nee, thy splendors Hy,
In triumph o'er the 'dosing eye.
Flag of the free heart's only home
By angel hands to valor given I
Thy stars have - lit the welkin dome,
And all thy hues were been in heaven;
Forever fleet that standard sheet !
Where breathes the foe_htit falls before as,
With freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And freedom's banner streaznin i g o'er us!
DltAlti AND tiALLZ,CS.
Doclargtion of Independence.
IN CONGIIMS, •
Pbibul ' aphis, July 4, 1776.
- When, in the course of human events,
it becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the.pohticaf bands which have
cOtinie t • •• ear with another, and to
assume, g the powers of the earth,
the . nd equal station to which
the Is • ' ;tare and of nature's God
entitle he , a decent respect to the
opinionsdif mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel
them to the separation.
-We hold these truths to be selftviu
dent, that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights; that
among these, are life, liberty, and the
putvatt of happiness. That, to secure
t bosetights,gorern inen V; are instituted
aniong men, deriving their just powers
from the consent of the governed ; that,
whenever'any form of government be
comes destructive of these ends, it is the
right of the people to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute h new government,
laying a foimdation on such principles,
and organizing its powers in such form,
as to them shall seem most likely to ef
fect their safety- and happiness. Pru
dence, indeed, will dictate that govern
ments low' ' established, should not be
changed f or light and transient causes;
and, accordingly, all experience hath
shown, that mankind aro more disposed
tolarffer, while evils are sufferable, than
toright themselves by abolishingthe
foto which they are accustomt7d.—
But, when a long train of abuses and
tanktpations, pursuing invariably the
same object, evinces a design to reduce
them under. absolute despotism, it is
their duty, to throw off such govern
ment,,
and to provide new guards for
their future security. Such has been
the - patient sufferance of these colonies,
and f , uoh is now the necessity lv,Aieh
constrains them to alter their former
systems of government. The hiatbiy
0( the present king of Great Britain i s
a history of retested inj nries and usurps
tioik :all having, in direct object, the
establishment of an absolute tyranny
over these States. To prove this, let
facts be submitted to a candid world :
Ile has refused his assent to laws the
most wholesome and necessary for the
pa lie — goi,d, -
p has forbidden his Governors to
pel9k:lsws of immediate and pressing
unless suspended in their
c i„ ~V4lll his assent shotld be oto•
441,' when s - sturnded, he Ms'
~"-'- ' .lttegisSeted to attend' te them.
He • refased to ASS other laws for
the4llotataskiatiSa of large districts of
A DEMOCRATIC AND FAMILY JOURNAL.
people, unless those people would re
-Ifnquish the right ol representation in
the legislature; a right inestimable to
them, and formidable to tynifits only.
•He has called together legislative
bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable,
and distant from the depository of their
public records, for the sole purpose of
flitigning them into compliance with his
measures.
lie has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly, for. opposing, with manly
firmness, his invasions on the rights of
the people.
lie has refused, for a long time after
such dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected • whereby the legislative powers,
incapable of annihilation, have returned
to the people at large for their . exereise ;
the state remaining, in the mean time,
exposed to all the danger of invasion
from without, and convulsions within.
lie has endeavored to prevent the
population of these States; for that pur
pose, obstrueting the laws for naturali
zation of foreigners; refusing to puss
others to encourage their migration
hither, and raising the -conditions of
new appropriations of hinds.
• Ile has obstructed the administration
of justice, by refusing his assent to laws
for establishing judiciary powers.
lie bus made judges dependent on
his will alone, for the tenure of their
offices, and the amount awl payment of
their salaries.
lie has erected a multitude of new
offices, and sent hither swarms of offi
cers to harass our people, and eat out
their substance.
lie has kept among. ns, in times of
peace, rittindino armies, without the
consent of our legislature.
lie has affected to render the military
independent. of, and superior to, the
civil power.
He has combined, with others, to
subject us to a jurisdiction ft treign to our
constitution, and unacknowledged by
our laws ; giving his assent to their acts
of rre tended, legislation :
For quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us :
For protecting them, by a mock trial,
from punishment, for any murders
which they should commit on the in
habitants of thus States :
For cutting off our trade with all
parts of the world :
For imposing taxes on us without our
'con•lent :
For depriving 'us, in many cases, of
the benefits of trial by jury
For -transporting us beyond seas to
be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system of
English laws in a neighboring province,
establishing therein an arbitrary gov
ernment, and enlarging its boundaries,
BO as to render it at once an example
and fit instrument for introducing the
smile absolute rule into these colonies :
For taking away our charters, abol
ishing our most valuable laws, and al
tering, fundamentally, the powers of
our governments :
For suspending oar awn legislatures,
and declaring -themselves invested with
power to legislate for .us in- all'icases
whatsoever.
He A lias abdicated government here,
by declaring us out of his protection,
and waging war against us.
He has plundered oar seas, r waged
oar coasts, burnt our, towns, and de
stroyed the lives of our people.
He is, at this time, transporting large
armies of foreign mercenaries to com
plete the works of death, desoktion,
and tyranny, already begun, with cir
cumatanees of cruelty and perfidy
scarcely - paralleled in the most barbar
ous ages, and totally unworthy the head
of a civilised nation.
He has constrained our fellow-citi
zens, taken captive on the high seas, to
bear arms against their country, to be
come the executioners of their friends
and brethren, or to fall themselves by
their hands,
lie has excited domestic insurrecti. -
amongst us, and has endeavored
bring on the inhabitants of oar frontierii,
the merciless Indian savages, whose
known rule of warfare' is an undistin
guished destruction, of all ages, sexes,
and conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions,
we have petitioned for redress, in the
most humble terms; our repeated pe
titions have been answered only by re
peated injury. A prince, whose char-.
acter is thus marked by every act which
may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the
ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in atten
tion. to our British'brethren. We have
warned them, from time to time, of at
tempts made by their legislature to ex
tend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over
us. We have reminded them of the
circumstances of our emigration and set
tlement here. We have appealed to
their native justice and magnanimity,
and we have conjured them, by the ties
of our common kindred, to disavow
these usurpations, which would inevita
-14 interrupt our connections and cor
respondence. They, too, have been
deaf to the voice of justice and consan-
Kuinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce
in the necessity, which denounces our
separation, and hold4lbern. as we hold
the rest of mankind, enemies in war, iu
peace, friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of
the trotted States of _Ankrirn, in General
Congrem aasembled, appealing to the
Supreme Judge of the World for the
rectitude of our intentions, do, in the
melte, and by the authority of the good
IZ3Pof theft colonies, solemnly pub-
L :ad declare, That these United
Colonies are, and of right ought to be,
Free and Independent slate* ; that they
are absolved from all allegiance to the
British erown . , and that all politicalton
flexion between them and the state of
Great Britain, is, and ought to be, Cots),
GETTYSBURG, PENN'A.: MONDAY, JUNE S 29, 1857.
ly dissoired ; and that, as rata AND rs
narannwer reams, they hare full power
to levy war, conclude peace, contract
&them:we, establish commerce, and to do
all other acts and things which IND&
PEND&T STATES may of right do.
And, for the support of this declaration,
with s firm relianoe on the protection of
Divine Providence, we mutually pledge
to each ather, our lives, our fortunes,
and oar sacred honor.
The fore ping declaration was, by
order of Congress, engrossed, and sign
ed by the following members:
JUILN lIANCOCK.
..Var Hqweithire. John Adams,
Josiah Barlett, Robert Treat Paine,
William Whipple, Elleidge Gerry.
Matthew Twornum. Delaware.
Modelsland. Caesar Itodoey,
Stephen fropkins, George Read,
William Kjery. Thomas M'Kean.
Conacticid. 'MaryGad.
Roger Shennan, Simnel Chase,
Samuel Huntington, William Pace,
William W Warns, Thomas Stone,
Oliver Wolsott. Charles Carroll, of Car
' New Yoek. rullt.'n.
William Floyd, Virginia.
Philip Liviogrton, George Wvthe,
Francs. Levis, Richard Henry Lee,
Lewis 3forris. Thomas Jefferson,
New Jeriey. Benjamin Horrison,
Richard Sbckton, Thomas Nelson, jun.
J. , hn Witbu^spoun. Francis Lightfoot Lee,
Francis Horkinson, Carter Braxton.
John Hart. NorfA Carolina.
Abraham Oark. William Hooper,
l'egnsyrania. Joaeph Hewes,
Robert Morix, John Ponn.
Benjamin lush, &mill Carolina.
Benjamin fraiiklin, Edward Rutledge,
John 31oruis, Thomas Heyward, jun
George Clymer, Thotnaa Lynch. jun.
James Sinai, Arthur 3liddleton.
GeorgeTitylir, Georgia.
James Wilson, Ration Gwinnett,
George Rom. Lyman Hall.
.IfaxaarAnieite Bag. George Walton.
Samuel Adons, .
INTItACT FROM TILE
Speech of John Adams,
Delivered is the Hall of Independence, be
fiire the (ingress of 1776, on the inisz<age
of the Thrlaratt:on.
Addressiig Jolts llANcoex, the then
Presdent, Le said—
"Read this Declaration at the head
of the army; every ..word will be drawn
from its scabbard and the solemn vow
uttered to ttin!nin it or peri.li on the
bed of honor. Publish it distill the pul
pit; religiot will approve it, and the
love of religious liberty will cling around
it, resolved to stand with it or tall with
it.--Seud it to the public halls, proclaim
it there, letthein hear it who, heard the
first roar f the enemy's cannon, let
them see it, who saw their sons and
their brothers fall on the field of Bunker
lliLl and in the streets of Lexington and
Concord, aid the very walls will cry
out in its support. •
"Sir,
I ktow the uncertainty of hu
man affairs but I see, I see clearly
through this day's business. You and
I may uot ice to the time when this
Declaration,shall be made good; we
may die; die colonists—die slaves—die,
it may be, ignominiously and on the
scaffold: Belt tio—be it so; if it be the
pleasure of !leaven that my country
shall require the poor offering of my
life, the victim shall be ready at the
appointed hair of sacrifice, come with
that hour may; bat while I do live, let
me have a country ' or at Kest the hope
of a country. and that a free country.
But whatever may be oer fate, be liek
surod, be Ramrod that this Declaration
rill stand. It may cost treasure, and
it may cost Hood, but it will stand, and
it will richly compensate for both.
Through the thick gloom of the present.
I see the brightness of the future as the
sun in heaven. We shall make this a
glorious, an immortal day; when we
are in our graves our children will hon
or it; they will celebrate it with thanks
giving, with bentires'und illuminations.
On its annual retara they will slits'
tears, copious, gushing tears, not of.sub
jection and slavery, hot of agony and
distress, but of consolation r ofgratatade,
and of joy. -
"Sir, before God, I btlieve the hour
has come; my judgment approves this
measure, and my whole heart is in it.
All that I have, all that I am, and all
that I hope in this life, I am here ready
to stake upon it; and I leave off as I
began, that live or die, survive or per
ish, lam for this declaration. It is my
living sentiment, and, by the blessing
of God, it shall be my dying sentiment
—independence now, and independence
forever."
The Signers
To the Declaration of Independence.
" They are no more—they are dead.
But how little is there of the great and
good which can die To their country
they yet live, and live forever. They
live in all that perpetuates the remem
brance of men on earth; in the record
ed proofs of their own grent actions, in
the offspring of their intellect, in the
deep engraved lines of public gratitude,
and in the respect and homage of man
kind. They live in their examples;
and they lire, and will live, in the in
fluence which their lives and efforts,
their principles and opinions, now exer
cise, and will continue to exercise, on
the affairs of men, not only in their
own country, but throughout the civil
ized world. A superior and command
ing human intellect, a truly great man,
when Heaven vouchsafes so rare a gift,
is not a temporary flame, burning bright
for s while, and then expiring, givinv
place to returning darkness. It is rath
er" a spark of fervent heat, as well as
radiant light, with power to enkindle
the common mass of human mind, so
that when it glimmers in its own decay,
and finally goes out In death, no light
follows; but it leaves the world all light,
all on fire, from the potent contract of
its own spirit."
"TRUTH IS MIGHTY, AND WILL PREVAIL."
of indeperidanoe.
At the late celebration at Charlotte,
Mecklenburg county, North Carolina,
at which the distinguished Rev. Dr.
Hawks, of New York, (born in North
Carolina,) made the oration, the declar
ation of the tOth of May,1776, was read.
The following is a copy:
Resolred, That whosoever directly or
indirectly abetted,,,or in any way, or
manner countenance, the unchartered
and dangerous invasion of our rights,
as claimed by Great Britain, is an
enemy to this country, America, and
to the inherent and inalienable rights of
man.
Resolved, That we, the citizens of
Mecklenburg county, do hereby dissolve
the political bonds which have connected
as to the mother country, and hereby
absolve ourselves from allegiance to
a
the British crown, and a t
'tire all politi
cal Connexion, contract, or association
with that nation, who have wantonly
trampled on our rights and liberties,
and inhumanely shed the blood of Amer
ican patriots at Lexington.
Resolved, That we do hereby declare
ourselves a free and independent people,
and, of right, ought to be a sovereign
and self-government association, under
the control of no power other than that
of our 14od and the general government
of the Congrev4, to the maintainunce of
which independence we solemnly pledge
to each other our mutual co-operation,
our lives, our fortunes, and our most sa
cred honor.
Resolved, That m we now acknow
ledge the existence and control of no
law or legal °Siker, civil or militarv,
within the county, we do hereby ordain
and,adopt as a rule of life all and every
of our firmer laws, wherein, neverthe
less, the crown of Grout liritain never
can be considered as holding rights,
privileges, and immunities or authorities
therein.
Res°:red, That it is farther decreed
that all, each, and orcrr military officer
in this county is hereby reinstated in
his former command and authority, he
acting cfmformahly to these regulations.
And that every member present adds
delezttion shall henreforth be s civil
()nicer, viz: A justice of the peace. in
the chan►eter of a •'committer man ;"
to issue process, hear and determine all
matters of controversy, according to
said adopted laws, and to preserve
peae.s, union, and harmony in said coun
ty ; and to use every exertion to spread
the lure of conntry and tire of freedom
thronghout Atneriva, until a more gen
eral awl organized government be e*-
tablish..al in this province.
Ahrrkliiun Alexander, Adain .Alexander,
J. 31cli tiitt .11exantier, Charles Alc. ler,
Ephraim Breyer& Zarclbeut
Hezekiah J. Balch, Waightetill .ttery,
John Phifer, Benjamin Patton,
James Barris, Matthew McClure,
Win. Kennon, Neil Mariann,
John Ford, Robert Irvin,
Biehara Barry, John Flennagin,
HenryDl .wn. David Reese,
Fira . Alexnntler, John Davidson,
Richard Ilarris,
Wm. Graham.
John Qtau7, Thomas Pulk.
Ilesekish Alexander,
Nistclianrono.
Lieut. Lynch. of the United States
Exploring Expedition to the River
Jordan and the Red Sea, in 1848, visit
ed the Garden of Gethsemane about the
month of May, he says :
" The clover upon the ground was in
bloom, and the garden in its aspects and
associations, was better calculated than
any place I know, to soothe a troubled
mind. Eight venerable trees; isolated
from the smaller and less imposing ones
which skirt the Mount of Olives, form A
consecrated grove. *High above, on el ,
ther hand, towers of a lofty mountain,
with a deep yawning chasm of Jebosa
phat, between them. Crowning one of
them is a living city; on the slope of
the other is the great Jewish Cemetery
—City of the Dead. .Each tree in the
grove, cankered, and gnarled', and fur
rowed by age, yet beautiful and impres
sive in its decay, is a living monument
of the affecting scenes that have taken
place beneath and around it. The
Olive perpetuates itself from the root of
the dying parent stem,,the tree springs
into existence. These are accounted
one thousand years okl. Under those
of the preceding growth, therefore, the
Savior was wont to rest; and one of the
present may mark the very spot where
he knelt, and prayed, and wept.—No
cavilling doubt can find entrance here.
The geognipical boundaries are too dis
tinct and clear for a moment's hesita
tion. Here the Christian forgetful of
the present, and absorbed in the past,
can resign himself to sad, yet soothing
meditation. The few purple and crim
son flowers growing, about the roots of
the trees, will give ample food forcon
templation, for they tell of the suffering
and ensnnguined death of the Re
deemer."
An Arailable Candidate.—The New
York Atlas seems to think that the
Black Republicans will pounce upon
Gen. WALKER for their next Presiden
tial enn'lidate, as Fax.uomx's requisites
of mule stakes and grasshopper pies, are
small potatoes when compared with
WALKER . R exploits, in feeding an army
on dogs and jackasses.
lisancent Adtaission.—At a dinner of
the Maine Medical Convention, the Rev.
Mr. 8., while alluding to the intimate
relations between the profesaiona of the
clergy and the physician, in all serious
ness remarked that it was a soineyrh4
singular fact that ";rhea the doctor Ws .
called the minister was sure to forlott"
g_ Declaration
The volcanic mountain called lzaloo,
situated in the State of San Salvador,
Central America, since its first appear
anoe, in 1790, or within the memory of
the last generation, has been in a state
of incessant activity, and has gradually
grown, in little over eighty years, from a
hillock but a few feet higher than the
surrounding plain, to a peak 3,200 feet
in height, and is still growing. There is,
unfortunately, no written record by
eye-witnesses to the convulsion in
which the Izalco peak originated. The
story current among the residents (and
which the elder of these received from
their parents, who witnessed thoestas
trophe) is this:—There was near the
site of the present Izalco, an extinct vol.
cano, called the Santa Anna. Stretch
ing away from this was a fertile plain,
at that time a cattle farm. Toward
the close of 1769, the laborers on the
estate were alarmed by subterranean
noises and shocks of earthquakes.
These continued, with increased vio
lence, till the 23d of February follow.
ing, when, with a fearful report, the
earth opened about halls mile from the
Anaemia dwellings, and groat masses of
lava, stones and ashes, were ejected.
These shortly formed a cone about the
vent, or crater, which has steadily in
creased since, and is yet annually added
to by the masses of stones and ash
es which are, day and night, ejected
from the mountain. Dr. Moritz Weg
ner was the first European to make (in
1855)a personal visittolzalm, and to him
we are indebted for the only account of
its present appearance, as well as for
some interesting particulars of its past
history, obtained from some of the more
ancient residents of the neighborhood.
One of these, born in 1769—the year
before Izalco came into the world—re
membered it, when he was a lad, used
to visit it. At that time it was a hillock
of less than 500 feet in height, the cra
ter or mouth being much more extensive
than now. There have been since 1780
three great eruptions, after each of
which, it is said, the mountain was ob
served to have materially increased in
circumference and altitude. The last
of these eruptions occurred in 1802.
Vast quantities of ashes were thrown
out, and covered the surrounding coun
try to the distance of four leagues from
the mountain. So thickly was the
ground sown with those, that it WAS
five years before the field* could be
again used tsr the purposes of agricul
ture. The explosions were so heavy as
to shako the houses in the neighboring
villages of.Lealco and Sonsonate. Since
then the peak has gone on in the even
tenor of its way, ejecting, mainly, ashes
and occasionally muses of stone, and;
by night, lighting up the surrounding
country to such au extent that the na
tives have, in
,ounsequeneo, called it "El
Faro del San Salvador"—The Light
house of San Salvador.
Mental Evitement.—Bad news weak
ens the action of the heart, oppresses
the lungs, destroys the appetite, stops
digestion, and partially suspends all the
functions of tbe system. An emotion of
shame flushes the face; fear blanches
it; joy illiminates it; and an instant
thrill electrifies a million of nerves.
Surprise spurs the pulse into a gallop.
Volition commands, and hundreds of
muscles spring to execute. Powerful
emotion often kills the body at a stroke.
Chilo, Di arras and Sophocles died of
joy at the Grecian games. The news of
a defeat killed Philip V. The door
keeper of Congress expired upon hear
ing of the antrender of Cornwallis.
Eminent rattle • speakers have often
died in the Midst of an impassioned
burst of eloquence, or when the deep
emotion that produced it suddenly sub
sided. Largrave, the young Parisian,
died when; he heard that the musical
prize for which he had competed was
adjudged to another.
A .3fotiel aitifteate.—The following
certificate outdoes the " Panaceas,"
"syrups," ,and "Magnetic" nostrums,
which usually work sach astonishing
miracles in their cures upon conceited
and credulous peop le:
.
Dear Doctor; I will be 175 years old
next October. For 94 years I have
been an invalid, unable to stir, except
when moved by a lever; but a year ago
last Thursday I heard of the Granicu
lar Syrup, I bought a bottle, *Melt the
cork, and found myself a new miva. I
can now run twelve and a half miles an
hour, and throw nineteen double sower
sets without stopping.
P. S—A little of your Alicumstotum
Salve applied to a wooden leg, reduced
a compound fracture in nineteen min
utes, and is covering the limb with
a fresh cuticle of white gum pine bark.
A Good Reaudy.—Tho Local editor
of the Lynchburg Virginian publishes
the following, and says he has tried it
and found it to be a god remedy :
4‘ To cure a pain in the breast, pro
cures well made silk or woolen dress--
with an equally well constructed wo
man inside of it—and press close to the
part effected. Repeat the application
till the pain ceases. This receipt., when
the directions are carefully observed,
has rarely been known to fail to effect a
cure. The medicine is found in almost
every household, and may possibly cost
a trifle."
Trout Fishing in rmnont.—On Tues
day last nine gentlemen of Newbury
"camped out," ind secured siz hundred
and thrty-seven trout.—Pretty good
fishing that for the Green Mountain
brooks.
,There are many men who (la
light in playieg the fool---hat who
get angry the moment they are told eo.
A Mountain which Grows.
A Yeadty Visit to the Mous.
The fbllowing, froni the Bealo Re
public, is truly hinny, and, withal, aorta
' very incorrect picture of many al:tawny
visit to the circus:.
Sniffles took his wife and children to
the circus, yesterday. By some mis
take, he got into the twenty-five cent
department, and in a moment he was
borne away from his wife and children
by the crowd. After a few momenta
he regained his wife, who had just had
her pocket picked of the bureau drawer
keys and her ports-naonnaie, and 'had
just dropped the youngetit Sniffles be
tween the seats. Sniffles took\the rest
of the family into the fifty-cent depart
ment at once, and. then returned after
the missing Sniffle. After an arduous
search, be found4he little Sniffle lying
on its hack, half-suffocated with tan
bark, under the seat, and a large dog
turning it over with his nose, to see if
the Sniffle was good to eat. After driv
ing off the canine animal, he seized the
prize and bore it triumphantly to Mrs.
Sniffles, who sat sniffling-in very great
agony for her lost darling. lle found
seats for the family, but was obliged
himself to stand up and take a prome
nade seat, in consequence of the crowd.
The children got acquainted with Mr.
Rice very quick, and wanted their ma
to buy him, and take him home for them
to play with--lie was so funny, and
had such pretty tro4iers. This - Mrs.
Sniffles promised to do; when Parago%
Sniffles (Paragon is the youngest) want
ed to know Whim ma wouldn't buy the
"nasty horse" too. (Parugon meant
the rhinoceros, undoubtedly). To this
Mrs. S. blandly consented, and told the
children to be quiet, and when they
wasn't looking at the interesting things,
to watch their pa, to see that no young
woman inveigled him—Mr. S. being
very susceptible.
When the beautiful little 'girl rode so
elegantly on horseback, the children
went absolutely mad with delight, and
Paragon, in endeavoring to make a
jump at her to kiss her, slipt down- be
t Ween the sesta, when a dirty little boy,
who had contmbandly got in under the
canvass, stole away his orange, and '
Filled his hair for tumbling on him. =
Mrs. Sniffles extricated Paragon from
his predicament with a piece of old
hoop. When Paragon got out he was
very dirty, and the little girl had got
through her performance.
Then Paragon cried, and would not
be comforted, until one of the perform
ers, who econom isecl his time by peddling
" ice eo' lemonade" between the acts,
passed by with a pannier full of the
drink, when s t glass of it was obtain&l.
This having been poured into Paragon's
system, his spirits returned with the di
lute cream of tartar, oon taini rig a netion
oflemon peel, and he commenced watch
ing his pa again.
The elder Sniffle, who had been stand
ing up b a little brunette of a thing,
sup himself out of sight of his
floc , and had purchased some oranges
and confectionery, bad given it to the
dark-complected young person, and, at
the time Paragon looked, was busy
chucking her under the chin, °might,
unseen, as he supposed. Paragon im
mediately sung out., "Pa's kissing her!"
At this Mrs. S. looked, beheld, fainted,
and disappeared. She had dropped
down between the seats, and had to be
rescued with a long pole with a hook,
and was finally dragged oat in a limp,
dishelothy condition.
She was conveyed to the door, the
children insisting upon being permitted
to remain to see the " mu-ifs," which
their pa sternly refused to consent to.
The family left in a wretched state of
mind—Mrs. S. in a state of syncope at
the infidelity of her children's pa; Mr.
S. in a state of tremulous fear at the
consequence of his affair; and the chil
dren glowing with indignation that they
were not permitted to remain until it
was out. Altogether, the afternoon
terminated miserably; and Sniffles has
forsworn circuses, except Whin he clin
attieud solar.
Effects of Praying and Pamping.—
The ship Senator, which arrived at this
port from Liverpool lent week, in a
leaky condition, met with a very severe
gale of wind just after leaving port on
the 9th of April, in which she shifted
her cargo and - sprung a leak. After
several days of hard pumping, the crew,
becoming exhausted and discouraged,
notified the captain that they could not
primp any longer. Capt. Coffin hereup
on assembled all hands. Taking out
his watch, he looked at it and then at
the men, and said, coolly : "It is now
just twelve o'clock ; and the rate the
ship is now leaking, I calculate we shall
be in the other world about halt' past
two. I am going below to say my
prayers," and went into his cabin. A
consultation was soon held. • One old
fellow declared he had rather pump
than pray, as he autierstooel it better.
In a few minutes the Captain heard the
pumps going again ail lively us ever,
and they did not cease going, except at
short intervals, antil the ship arrived at
New York.
Capital S'entinseats.—At a printers'
annual festival in Washington City, the
following were among the regular
toasts :
The Constitution of the United States.
—Set up by wise and patriotic joicaderft,
imposed on the hearts of the people,
and locked up in their best affections.
The Declaration of Indepesdence.—
Good standing matter—ft proof sheet, free
from errors, and first-rate copy for the
setters up of Republics.
Woman.—May her virtues occupy
more space than her skirts, and her
faults be of a mailer type than her bon
net.
WirTobacco is s n.stiva of Virginia.
T'f6 - 1)OLL ARS A-YEAR.
i NO. 40.
s A Woman can
The, bllowing authentic ,Molly will
invalidate the often repeated charge—
against woman, that "ella caul(); keep . -
a secrat:"—
Some years since, a woman called at
a glover's shop in the 'outskirts :of the
city of London, and purcluuted a pair of
gloves for her immediate wear, cdrerv
ing at the same time, that she war on
her way to Burnett—that she had felt
her gloves at her friend's liaise where
she had called, and that she wasithre
hensive of being benighted If she.f*Ot
back for them. The glover fi,44.,c0n
the gloves ; and the lady, after paying
from &purse well stocked w*li
bunk notes, stepped into her &Make
and proceeded on her fourney. , Althe
had Scare e,Ly reached Finchly p 3 . 4.. on,
then a highwayman stopped th , car
riage, and demanded hdrzia. lite
ent*ated her not to be's , tis'he
had no intention on her petvorpw-Utaho
surrendered her property, it was 411. he,
a t)
wanted, declaring - that distress antlu t
his will, urged him to thiidesperate t,
and he was determined to remove' is'
pecuniary wants or perish. The "Indy
gave him her purse and the deepens&
rode off. - •
. After he was gone, and her frigtio.had
soewliat subsided, the lady imagined,
that in the address of the highwayman,
she recognized the voice of the glovir
she had just before dealt with. This
conceit struck her so forcibly, that title
ordered her servant to drive batik. to
town—not choosing, she said, to vele
ture further over the heath.
On her arrival at the glover's she
knocked and gained admission, ;the
glover himself opening the door. The
lady desired' to speak to him in private.
The glover showed her a'aimek parkti:
when she exclaimed, "1 stn •come ihr,
my purse of which you robbed me .this
evening on Finehly Common
The glover was confounded; and the
lady proceeded—"lt is of no use tci
db
ny it. lam convinced' and , your Whits
at my mercy. Return me my prepatt
and trust to my humanity."
The glover overcome with gilt,
shame and confusion, confessed -ide
crime, returned the purse, and pleaded
his distress. The lady after a suitahhe
admonition, gave him a ten pound note
and bade him mend his way in 11th, mid
keep his own counsel; adding that the
would not divulge his name or place of
abode. She kept her word; and thekh
the robbery was stated in the-
papers, the discovery was end ;and
it was not till recently that a note*,
count of this singular t ransaction - was
fOund among the papers alluded - t6:-:1
Even in the private mermorandani,Thd
name and residence of the glover was
omitted; and the secret, in that riardin
lar, rests with the lady in the grave. r
• ~
SOPAn old woman who lived \ near
the frontier during the last . Iw4Lwitht
Great Britain, and possessed a mos&
OILS prOpensity to learn the noss,Arand
frequently to make inquiries of ..i the sql r ,
diers. On one riccaaion she called" to
one of those defenders of our: rights
whoni she had frequently saluted help* ?
" What's the news ?"
"Why good . woman," said 110 1 0,
Indians have fixed a crow-bee-sada
Lake Brie, and are going to tarn it•oseir
and drown the world!" • '; ;; ,: s
"Oh, mercy, what shall I dot" ruvt,
Ol
away e ran to tethei, neighborbood
of the Alanger, and inquired of the min
ister how
_such a calamity might - Jr!
averted. . . •
" Why" said he, " you need not' NO
shinned- 7 3re have our ldaker'irpronfibeil
that he will not again distroy tbe woi
with water." r , •11:41
"I know that,' returned the old lad"
hastily, "He's nothing to do with it, it a'
them plagued Indians."
A Magnanimous Huaband.—Notllatig„
since", a widow one of those whom
are in the habit of culling well preserv
ed,.hy name Madame 11,
to the ardent solicitudes of one o e.
young literary men of Paris, married'
him. On returning from the ehureh
and the mayors office, the lady took
her husband aside, and said to
"Pardon we, my dear, for I have deftly-,
ed yon
"In what ?" said said the yoling l .
man of letters, much troubled - .
"Yes, I told you that I had MAO"
francs, and—" . -
" Well, and have not? Never f4ilAda.l
it is all the same to utc."
"No, that M nut it, lizactly:-.I haw
2,000,000.
The hasband forgave her.
A :11 - molter Serpent in the St. firm: ex/
—The Brockville (Canada) Molipactifil
Saturday, thus alludes to the serpent'dit
the St. Lawrence
"Some time since we published 4 Pe*
ter from a correspondent in Maßerri;
town, relative to an enormous water':'
serpent seen at different times In that"'
locality. A similar, or probably, tht
same serpent, has been seen within the ,
past few days, about three miles above
Brockville, 1)v Mr. L. Parker, of Three.
Mile Bay, and L. Ladd. The serpent
raised its body some six feet out of the,_
water, and pursued the boat till it got,
within a few rods, compelling them t 6 ""
make for the shore as rapidly as possji
ble. They describe the serpent as beiny,
over thirty fest long, and of a lightish
color. It was also seen at a distance tit'‘.'
the crew of the Protection
("enlister sed a#l4'is
Young man—u - Ah
the other night, Mitt's
their figure. 1 Pint pug ntyskeitdudinistam•
and hollered, when ttieyran
got my mita sad paritsonteo4l7l lll
they coakisl,orrote -..Ansia
Men4-114/10 I nbouldsumwhast l y t
no murk pristine of mina."
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