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With lively heart and joyous brow The happy farmer speeds the plough, And while be sleeps both flocks add fields Their ample pay for labor yields Tis net so with the noble craft Which mores the world with iron shaft, But when their, daily labor's done The hardest toil is just begun. With sinking frame and reddish eye The weary typo 'stributes " pi." • And while the rich sport with the fair, His heavy eyelids hang with care. Long sleepless nights and sluggish days, Contentedly at work be stays, And stnies s to live an honest life Amid the Wordlv scenes of strife. Like statue firm - he stands "at melt And " spaces out" with magic gracer- • He "locks them up and planes them down,P l And starts the " Devil" round the towel. For " outs" and " daub's" he theta To get some triffii*sentence in, ' And when hp thinks the "copy's done" The Editor' hiequst begun - To scratch his bead and skin his brains. To 'nounce a death or want of rains ; And when the last bad miuniscript ' ti Is , done \there's something else been skied And must go in or Jacob Brown Will come and tear the office down. Oft o'er a case of pi - '4l Brevier , I IL-tve I seen Henry drop a tear, • And George and Tom and Bill and Dick; • Take half a night to" fill a stick," ' And then they raise a rhiglity squall And swear that they had done it all." Of all the lots that men can mourn No harder one can e'er,be borne— No worn' a life in fortune's wheel Than Editors and Printers feeL From the Meadville Gazette The Summer is. Gone. By SAIIILML YOUNG. The summer is gone and the leaves are all clang-; nig, 0 Their brightness and glory are fading al ay ; - The flowers of the garden no longer aemaining, Have sadly departed, amid their display. The bright summer mornings no longer salute to, As loaded with odor they softly appear, To 'rouse up to pleasure and 'happy. rejoicing. While partaking of glory which ever is 1 ear. Oh! for the Summer, the bright glowing Summer, The season of song, of bright roses and have ; When the fields and the forests acre radiant with gam• And monsitims, all splendor, smile proudly grove.: The landscape, magnificient, charming theifancy, • Attracts the beholder with wonder znaqtawe, Revealing the spleirloes of wondrous cittilion, Portraying the power of infinite law. The Summer is-gone, while the sear tintis of Au -1.1111111, Revisit trte - earth with their sorrowing . The fields robbed of beauty, no longer alliire us, Nor Ipng,er the birds charming notes esti amuse, All is fa4ng, and changing and passing stay, The glory and brightness of summer is i4ed; The sweet scented flowers hate bloomed; and are • gone, While the green leaves that &need are waer ed and dead. -;• . The suntmer was pltasant and teeming with j 7. And reminds us of life's plc: want hours so bright, When the blossoms of hope are just burstin•„ to view, To fill us with wonder and speechless delight. But uta.s 1 the sad anticiffl.n has warnings for all, - It tells of the beauty and blessings twere ow-s. When the summer of bliss beamed sweetly ardund. And proves that our lives are as frail as its flow ers. Jenny Lind- leading the fashion. The most laughable incident connected witli the Queen of Song-that we have yet beard, is said to have taken place at the Irving House on the !first day of her arrival in the city of Gotham. A$ the gong rang for dinner, there was a'perfect stampede among the female boarders of the house to obtain the earliest possible scrutiny of the various articles of dress, ribbon', combs: or hair-pins, with which the sweedish nightingale might he pleased to adorn - herself on this her. first appearance. 'berms the. young and blooming females of America. Judge then, of the surprise and mortification of every lady present, when the affected songstress entered the room dressed in the simplest manner possible,-and nothing to prevent her Rowing locks from falling on her gracefully sloping shoulder", but a few plain lair-puts. As she entered the room and took her seat at the table, there was an almost_unanimoui exchmution of—s What ! no comb on the back of the head ! Oh, bow unfortunate that I should not have known it, so that I might have left mine in my room and used a fee , pins instead.", Now be itimown to our male readers, that the anxiety to ascertain the rqUality and quantity, of Jenny's wearing jEcitu, 'was not .a fault or pecnlbtr ity.belmrucexclusively to the foregoing ladies ; but one that is inlieritsutt in the sea, or proven 'by the fact that on Jennys retiring to her room, she immediately addressed her dressing maid 'as fol lows— 0 Sway, dear, I noticed itll the ladies present at the table to day, bad their hair dressed with great taste and cam and fastened behind with i large tomb—sad as I do";not wish to appear odd or co peatrie while sojourning anion lib good a_ ,people, you WM please go out shOppinglo day dear, gad obtain roe shim , comb with which I can faatenup my. h a i r *aerie= fashion!' • With a detenOatiou to kat Wain& fite foabiclo no longer thin couldpouibly behelped, something over *hi:mired females were busily : engaged du ring the most of the day, in so dressing their hair that vithogt.the assistance of carobs it abould ap. pear a la Jew Lind. As Jenny entered the room the next 44 7 , w h a t was her surprise and mortification, on ooticingthat, instead of every lady brig, a large comb al her hair as on the day ions, the hair in every. in. stance. was up in truaron hatpin style. Piemortificatila of the female bakpiaia,, Wirer er was still greater:then that of Piarn'4 l ? tg il litmd the entire Art of the " afternoon of &ell! day and some three hours previous to theinagmg of the Bog on' the Pr"ent twomion, had been .devided to the eubjectof hair dressing, (the Ire In fact hav ing bee:a transformed into& six storied -slop) y i es end afters ues Ifiglortagale Wm.* ec 4 1 . 11 appearance in Mtge comb of precsiel ' the ' pattern that they had east aside iis inie _ Osj. fashionable; but twenty (Oar botai Ifni in- I . The Volunteer Counel. A TALE OF JOHN TAYLOR. [We copy the. following from the New York Sun day Tunes. The subject of it., John Taylor, was liternied when a yOuth of twenty-one, to practice at the bar of Philadelphia. He was Poor but well ethittated, and possessed extraordinary genius.— The gratis of his person, combined with the supe riority okhis intellect, enabled him to win the hand of a fashionable beauty. Twelve months after wards -the husband was employed by 'a wealthy firm of the city to go on a mission as land-agent to the west. As a heavy .salary was offered, Taylor bade farewell to his wife and infant ton. He wrote back every week, but received not a line in answer. Six months elapsed, when the husband received a letterlrom his employers that t explained all. Short ly after his departure for the west, the wife and her father removed to Mississippi There she im mediately obtained a divorce by an act of the Ug iilature, married again forthwith, and, tts cap the climax of cruelty and wrong, had the name of Tay lor's son changed to Mark--that of her second mat rimonial partner I The perfidy nearly drove Tay lor ihsane. His career, from that period, became eccentric in the last degree: sometimes he preach ed, sometimes he plead at the bar until, at last, a fever carried him off at a comparatively early ngel $1 50 - 200 2 60 At nn tarty hour, the 9th of April, 1840 ; the court house in.Olatke.sville, Texas, was crowded to overflowing. Have in ,the war-times past, there had never been %witnessed such a gathering in Red River county, while the strong feeling, apparent on every flushed face in the assembly, ' betokened some great occasion. A concise narrative of the facts will Rufficiently explain the matter. About'the close of 1839, George Hopkins, one, of the wealthiest planters and most influential men of Northern Texas, offered a gross insult to Mary El 'listen,. the voting and beautiful Wife of his chief overseer. he husband threatened to chastise him for .the outrage, whereupon Hopkins loaded his gun, went to Elision's house, and shot him in his own door. The murderer was arrested and bailed to answer the charge. This occurrence prutlimed intense excitement; and Himkins, in order to turn the tide of popular <pinion, or at least to mitigate the general wrath winch was at first violent against him, circulated reports infamously prejudicial to the character of the woman who had already suf fered such cruel wring at his hands. She brought her snit fur slander. And tltns two causes, one criminal and the other civil, and both out of the same tragedy, were pending i i the April Circuit Court for 1840. . The interest naturally felt by the community as to the issues, became far deeper when it was known that Ashley and Pike of Arkansas, tuid the celebrated S. S. Prentiss of New Orleans, each with enormous f<. had been retained by Hopkins for his defence. _ The trial on the indictment for murder, ended oft the Bth of April with the acquittal of Hopkins.— Such a result might well have been foreseen, by comparing the talents of the counsel engaged on each side. The Texan lawyers were utterly over whelmed by the argumeet and eloquence of their opponents. It was the fight of dwarfs against giants:— The slander suit was set for the 9th, and the throng of spectators grew in numbers as *ell as excitement ; and what' may seem strange, the cur rent of public .sentiment now ran decidedly for Hopkins. His money had procured pointed wit nesses. who served most •eMciently his powerful advocates.' Indeed, so triumphant had been the success of the previous day, that when the slander case was called, Mary klliston was left without an attorney—they had withdrawn. The pigmypetti foggers dare.not brave again the sharp wit of Pike and the scathing thunder of Prentiss. - "Have you no counsel r inquired Judge Mills, Taking kindly dt the plaintiff. " No, sir ; they have all deserted me, and I am too poor to employ any more," replied the beauti ful Mary, bursting into tears. " In such a case, will not some chivalrous mem her of the profession volunteer r asked the judge, glancing around the bar. The thirty lawyers were silent as death. , Judge Mills repeated the question. '•I will, your honor," said a voice from the thick st part of thecrowd situated behind the bar. At the tones of that voice many started half way from their seats; and perhaps there was not ',heart. in c immense throng which did not beat something tie was so unearthly sweet, clear, ringing and mournful. The first sensation, however, was changed into general laughter, when a tall, gaunt, spectral figure, that nobody present ever remembered to have seen before, elbowed his way through the crowd, rind placed himself within- the bar.' Hitt appear. ance was A problem to puzzle thisphipx herself.— His high, pale brow, and small, nervously-twitching nice seemed alive with the concentrated essence and erpstm scuium; butlrhen Ws towable blue eyes, hardly visible beneath their massive arches, looked dim, dreamy, almost unconscious; and his clothing was so exceedingly shabby that the court hesitated to let the cause proceed under his man agement. • Has your name been entered on the rolls of the State t" demanded the judge, suspiciously. " It is immaterial about my name's being on your rolls r answered the str:mger, his thin, bloodless lips curling up into a fiendish 'sneer. " I may be allowed to appear once by the courtesy of the court and bar. Here is my license froth the highest tri bunal in America!" and he handed Judge Mills a broad parchment The trial unntediately went an. In die examination of witnesses the stranger evinced but little ingenuity, ali was commonly thought. He suffered each one to ‘ -. 11 his own sto• ry without interruption, though, he contrived to make each one tell it over two or three times. - He put few cross-questions, which, With•keen witness es; only serve to correct mistakei; and he made no notes, which, in mighty memories, always tend to embarrass. The examination being ended, as coon • set for the plaintiff he had a right to the opening speech, as well as she close ; but' to the. astonish meat of every one he declined the former, and al lowed, the defence to lead off. i Then a shadow might have keen observed tot it acme the fine reatgras of Pike, and to darken even the fine . ayes of Prentiss. They saw they , had caught a Tartar; but w ho it was, or how it happened, was impossi ble toitiess. • 4shley spoke first, He dealt the jury a dish Of that close;dry logic, Which years after- Wards rendered him famous in the Senate of - the Union. • Tltq poet, AlbertMiktk, followe.d, with A rich rain of wit, and a haibtorrent of caustic ridicule, in whiebizu may be sure rtfither the plaintiff nor the 144intrn a rani(' Attorney, was either forgotten or spared. - - • .The great Prentiss etinclUded for the defendant, 4. l mr of4itmgeons words brilliant, as show era op Amen stars, -and with alnal burst of orato r,' th4t brought the house down in cheers, in which the stern jury themselves joined, notwithstanding Sri Stern -•‘ order ! ordei!"• of the bench. Thus wonderfidlyansceptible are the south-western peo ple tcf, the chinas of impassioned eloquence!: It as then the stranger's turn lie had remain . "TAE WILL OF 'THE PEOPLE IS THE LEGITIMATE SOURCE, AND THE HAPPINESS OF THE PEOPLE THE TRUE END OF GOVERNMENT" MONTROSE, PENN'A., TH ed apparently abstracted during all the previous speeches. 'Still, strait, and motionless in his seat, his pale smooth forehead: shooting up like a moun tain cone of snow ; but for that perpetual twitch that came and went in his sallow . cheeks, you would have taken him for a mere man of marble s or a human form carved in ice. Even his dim, dreamy eyes were invisible beneath those gray, shaggy eyebrows. But now at last he rises—before the bar railing, not behind it so near to the wondering jury that he might touch the foreman with his long bo ny finger. With eyes still half shut, and standing rigid as a pillar' of iron, his thin lips curl as if in measureless scorn, slightly part, and the voice comes forth. At first, it is low and sweet, insinu ating itself through the brain as an- artless tune, winding its way into the deepest heart like the melody of a magic incantation while the speaker proceeds without a gesture or the least sign of ex citement to tear in pieces the argument of Ashley, 'which melts away at his touch as frost before the sunbeam. Every- one looked surprised. His logic was at once so brief and so luminously clear, that the rudest peasant could comprehend 'it without I effort. Anon, he came to the dazzling , wit -of the poet lawyer, Pike. Then the curl of his lip grew Sharp er ; his sallow face kindled up; and his eyes began to open, dim and dreamy no longer, but vivid as lightning, red as fire globe% and glaring like twin meteors. The whole soul rotas in the eye—the full heart streamed out on the face. In five minutes Pike's wit seemed the foam of folly, and his finest satire horrible profanity, when contrasted with the inimitable sallies and. extermitutting sarcasms ot the stranger, interspersed with jest and anecdote thah filled the forum with roars of laughter. Then, without so much as bestowing an allusion on Prenti, he turned short on the perjured wit nesses of Hopkins, tore their testimony into Moms, and hurled in their faces such terrible invective ' that all trembled as with an ague, and two of them I actually fled dismayed from the court house. The excitement of the crowd was becoming tre mendous. Their united life and soul appeared to hang on_the burning tongue of the stranger. He Inspired them with the powers of his own passion. He saturated them with the poison of his own ma ; licious feelings. He seemed to have stolen nature's long-hidden secret of attraction. He was the I am to the sea of all thought and emotion, which ' rose and fell and boiled in billows, as he chose.— But his greatest triumph was to come. , His eye began to glare furitively at the im.a.ssin, ' Hopkins, as his learn, taper finger slowly assumed the same direction. He hemmed the wretch around With a cireumvallatiop of strong evidence and im pregnable argument, cutting off all hope of escape. He piled up huge bastions of insurmountable facts. He dug beneath the murderer arid slanderer's feet ditches of dilemmas, such as no sophistry could overleap and no stretch of ingenuity evade ; and having thus, as one might say, impounded the vic tim, and girt him about like a scorpion in a circle of fire, he stripped himself to the work of massacre I Ohl then, but it was a vision both glorious and dreadful to behold the orator. .11is action, before graceful as the wave of a golden willow in the breeze, grew impetuous 'its the motion of an oak in the hurricane. Iris voice sbecatrie a trumpet. filled with wild whlrlerinds,loafening ithe ear with crash es of power, and yet intermingled all the while' l with a sweet Under-song of thei softest cadence.— His face was red as a drunkard's—his forehead.' . glowed like a heated, furnace4—his countenance looked haggard like that of a maniac, and ever and anon he flung his long bony arms on high, as if grasping after thunderbolts I He drew a picture of murder In such appointer, colors, that in compar e Ism hell itself might be considered beautiful. He painted slander so black, that the sun seemed dark at noonday when shining on such an accursed mon ster; and then he placed both portraits on the shrinking brow of Sopkin?, arid• he nailed them there forever. The agitation of the audience near ly amounted to madness. All at once the speaker descnnded from his per; ilons height. His voice wailedont for the murder-. ed dead, and described the sorrows of the widowed licir.9--the beautiful Mary, mere beautiful every niotnent, as her tears flowed faster—till men wept and lovely women sobbed like 'children. He closed by a strange exhortation to the jury, and thiongli them to the by-standers. He entreat ed the panel, after they should bring in their ver dict for the phuntiff, not to offer violence to the de fendant, however richly he might deserve it ; in other words, "not to lynch the villain Hopkins, but leave his punishment to. God." This was the most artful trick of all, and the best calculated to en sure vengeance. The jury rendered a verdict of fifty thousand dollars ; and the night afterwards - Hopkins was ta ken out of his bed by lynchers, and beaten almost to death I As the court adjourned, die stranger made known his name, tind called the attention of the people, with the aninouncement—" John Taylor will preach here this evening at early candle light!" The crowd, of course, all turned -out, ,Ind Tay lor's sermon equalled, if it did not surpass, the splendor of his forensic effort This is no exagge ration. I have listened to Clay, Webster, and Cal: houn—to Piewey, Tyng, and flaseombil but have never hen d anything iitthe form of stiblime words even remtely approximating the eloquence of i John Tay , r—massive as a monidain, and wildly rushing as a cataract of fire. ,And this is the opin ion of all who ever heard the marvellous man. Diisma.vre Efrior.—re learn from a friend who holds forth in those diggings, that a fracas occurred in Boone county, adjoining Kenton, on -Saturday last. The facts, ai he informed us, are these : There was a meeting in the woods—the two seg ments of the'Baptist Association, the Licken and Salem, bad a slight difficulty, which scandalized the church, and in which the former came near licking the latter. The excitement extended to the outsiders--% notorious bully, the terror of all that region, named Tom Finney, thinking he had for once and at last got on the right aide, pitched in: he met his match for once, for some fellow met him on the point of his bowie knife, laid opal his ab dominal viscera, probed him in the chest, and cut his jugular so that the vital current, -obeying the laws of circulation, spouted several feet over his head. Several doctors, regular, irregular, lancet and streemers were called to the case, ( Eclectics and Howilepas ha ve not yet penetrated to the wilds of Boone,) and while they administered to iris wounds they all declared be must die—where upon the patient; although exhausted of the san gninuns anent, offered to bet any of the party 1100 that he would get wall—in fact, so hardened had be hamar" that he at last offered to bet either - way. but the probabilities are that ho will get Well.--t Dispatch, 28th ult. COXINCIAT re.,--P I din't say I saw him do it, but i nw 2 coat. and bat, and pantaloons about the *pot where i the article was stolen, and I'll be dogl , my cat if hiff aint in 'opium r - .. A. keg of butter taken trop the wreck of a steam-1 er sunk twenty years. ago in ill" Mississippi, his been retoierod. and round 'to lie AS sweet es the dy it wits wade, RSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1850, I The use of Learning. UT T. B. AR.THLII I'm tired of going to school, said Ilerhen Allen to William Wheeler, the boy who sat next to hint. I don't see any great use for my part in studying geometry, navigation, surveying and mensuration, and a dozen other things that 1 amted to leiun. They'll never do me any good. e.ir r e fim hot going to get my living 'as a surveyor, or measurer or sea captain. " How are you going to get your living, Her bert r his young friend asked in a quiet tone, as he looked up in his face. Why I'm going to learn a buck j or at least father says that I ain: "And so am I," replied William. And yet 'my father wishes me to learn everything that lean, for he assiires me that it will be useful some time or other in my life. " Pm sure I can't see - what use Pm ever going to make as a saddler of algebra and surveying." " Still if we can't see it Herbert, perhaps our fath ers can, for they are older and wiser than we are. And We should endeavor to learn simply because they wish us to, Hitt everything 'We are 'expected to study we do not see clearly the use." I can't feet so," Herbert replied, tossing his head "and I don't believe that my father sees any more clearly than Ido the use of all this." - " You are wrong to talk so," his friend said in a serious tone ; " I wonld not think as you do for the world. Our fathers know what is best for us, and if we do not confide in them we will surely go w rong. " Pm not afraid," responded Herbert, closing-the book, over which he had been pouring reluctanuily for half an hour, in the vain attempt to fix a lesson on his unwilling memory, and taking some marbles from his pocket commenced amusing himself with them. William said no More, but turned to his lessen with earnest attention. The difference in the char acter of the two boys is too plainly indicated in the brief conversation we have recorded to need fur , ther illustration. To.their teacher it was evident, in numerous particulars in their conduct, their habits and their manners. ' William recited his lessons cor rectly, while Herbert never learned a task well— , One was always punctual at school, the other a loi terer by the may. William's books were taken care of ; Herbert's soiled, sore, and disfigured, and bro ken externally and -inlemally. Thus they began life. The one cibedient indus trious, attentive to the preeepts of those who were older, aud wiser, and willing, to be guided by them ; the other indolent, and inclined to follow-the lead ing,' of his own will rather than the More experi enced teachings of others. * * * * As men at the age of thirty five we will again present them to the reader. Mr. Wheeler Wan in telligent merchant in active business, while Mr. Allen is a journeyman mechanic, -poor, in embar rassed circumstances and possessing but a small share of general information. " How do you do Mr Allen I" said the merchant, as he entered the counting room of the former. The contrast in their appearance was very great. The merchant was well dressed, and had a cheerful look, while the other Wits poorly clad, and seemed sad and dejected. "I can't say that I do very well, 2111. Wheeler," the mechanic replied in a tone of despoudeneY.— "Work is very dull and wages low, and with so large a family as I have, u is tough enough to get along ender the best circumstances." " fzu really sorry to hear you say so, Mr. Allen," replied the merchant in a kind tone, "how much can you earn at present 1" "If I had steady work could earn nine or ten dollars a week. But our business is rely bad; the substitution of Steam engines on railroads for horses on turnpikes, has broken in seriously upon the her ness makmg business. The consequence is, that / I' do not average six dollars a week the year round." " Is it possible that railroads have wrought/such a change in your business r " Yes, the harness making branch of it ; especial ly in large cities like this, where heavy Wagon trade is afmost entirely broken np." " Djil you say that six dollars a week were all that yon could average r "Yes, sir." " BM large is your family I" " I have five children, sir. " Five children and six dollars a week." "That is all sir, But six dollars will not support them, and I am in consequence going behind hand." " You ought to try to get into some other busi ness." " Butt don't know any other." - The merchant mused for a while, and then said, -perhaps I can get you into something better. I am president of a new projected railroad, and we are -about putting on the line a company of engineers, for the purpose of surveying and engineering, and as y. u studied those sciences at school the same time I did, I suppose you have still a correct knew& edge of both. 1 will use my influence to have you appointed surveyor. The engineer is already cho sen and at my desire, will give you all requisite in structions of these Neaten. The salary is one hun dred dollars per month. shadow still darker - than that which before rested there, fell upon the face of the mechanic. '. " Alas ! sir," he said; " I have nut the slightest knowledge, It is true I studied it or rather pre tended to Study it at school but it' made no perma nent impression on my mind. 1 saw - 120 use in it then, and am now as ignorant of surveying as if, I bad never taken a lesson on the subject" " I am very sorry Mr. Allen," the merchant re plied in great concern. If yosseare a good secoutant I might perhaps get you into a store. What is your capacity in this respect 1" " I ought to have been a good accountantosir for I studied mathemalics lopg enough: but I took little interest infignres, and now although I was many months at scliool pretending to study book-keeping lain utterly incapable of taking charge cif -a set of books." " Such being the case Mr. Allen, I really do not. know what I can 110 with you. Bnt stay I lam about sending out an assorted cargo to Buenos Ayres and thence round. to Callao, and want a man togo to superintend who can speak the Spanish language. I remember we studied Spanish together. Would you leave your family and got The wages will be one hundred dollirs a month." 1 " I have forgotten all my Spanish, sir; I did not see any use of it while at school, and therefore it made no hammier' on my mind." The merc ha nt really concerne4 for the poor me chailic, again thought of someway to serve him. At length he said, "lean think of but one thing that yoii can do, Mr Allen, and thnt will riot be much better than your present employment. It is a service for which ordinary persons are empleyed, that of chiin carrying to the surveyor on the proposed railroad expeditlon." What are the wages, sir r "Thirty five dollars' a month."' And found t" _ " Certainly." . • "I will certainly meet" t than my present acc ept er lt thallig re ul se ly. e employ meet" . thee p ro y an said . It will be - "Then make yourself ready at once, for the com pany will start in a week," "I will be ready sir," the poor rnan and then withdrew. In a week the company of engineers started. and Mr. Allen with them es chain carrier; When had . he, as a boy, taken the advice of hss parents' and friends, and stored tip; in his memory *hat they wished hint to learn, he might have filled the sut•i• veysre office at more than double the wages paid •him tog a chain carrier. Indeed we tiarusottellhow high a position of usefulness he might hate bold, had he improved all the opportunities afforded him In youth. But he perceived the use of learning tQo• late. • Children and youth cannot possibly know Ss well as their parents, guardians, and teachers what is best for them. • Men who are hi active contact with the n world know the more extensive their knowledge on allauti jects the more useful they can be to other's; and the higher and more intportant Use to sotietY they are fitted to perform; the greater. is the return themselves in wealth and honor. ill The Joking Clergyman. A correspondent of the tiOston Transcript relates the following anecdotes of the Reir.,Marthy Byles, the well known joking clergyman of Boston: Mr. Byles livid at the time of the revolution, and was • a tory. The distillery of Thomas Hill was at the corner of Essex and South streets, not far (rent Mr: Belk- nap's residence in Lincoln street. called on• Mr. Hill and inquired— , " Do you still I" "'Mit is my business," Mr. Hill replied.' "Then," said Dr. Hyles, " will you go with me and still my wife r ,As he was once occupied in nailing some list -or on his doors, to exclude the cold, a parishioner said to him: " The wind bloweth wheresoever it listeth; Dr. Bytes." " Yes ; sir," replied the Doctor. " and man list eth wheresoever the wind bloweth.'' - He was intimate with General Knot, who was a bookseller before the war. When the American troops took possession of the town, sifter the evae uation, Knox, who had • hecome quite corpulent, matched in at the bead of his artillery. , As he -passed on, Bytes, who thought himself ptivileged, on old scores, exclaimed, loud enough to be hand: ' " I never saw on ex (a Knox) fatter in my life." But Knox was not in the vein. He felt offend -01,1 by this freedom, especially frtmallyles j v livlio was then well known to be a tory, and replied; in-' un courtly terms, that he was " a•-•-foop . in May, 1117, Dr- Bytes was attested, ;awn tory, and subsequently tried, convicted, lad sentenced to confinement on board .a guard ship, and to be sent to England; with his family in fotti days.— This sentence was changed by the board of war, to confinement in his own house, . A.guard / ' as placed over him, After a time the aentmel was temoved, and afterwards replacektinckagiun re moved, when the Doctor exclaimed that he had been guarded, regarded, and disreglinled. lie called his sentry his observe-a-tory. Perceiving one morning, that the sentinel, &sim ple fellow, was absent, and seeing Dr. Kyles him self, pacing before his own door, with a musket on his shoulder, the neighbors stepped: over' to inquire the cause. i p You see," sal thethyctor, ," I begged the sen tinel to let me for some milk for my family, but he would not t r me stir. I rehsoned 'the matter with him, and he has gone himself to get it for me, on cond fi r that I keep guard' iri, his absence." One ; ter December night he called hie-daugh ters m bed, simply , to inquire if they lay warm. Hailed a small collection of curiosities. Some iissiters called one morning; and Hrs. Byles, un /willing to be found at her ironing, and,* theemer gency desiring to hide herself, as she would not lie so caught by the ledieit for the world, the Doctor put her in the closet, and buttoned her in. After a few remarks, the ladies expressed a wish to see the Doctor's curiosities, which he proceeded to ex-, hibit ; and after entertaining them very agreeably for some time, he told them he bad kept the great est curiosity for the last ; and proceeding to the closet, anbktened the - door, and exhibited Mrs. Byles. He had complained long, often; and fruitlessly - , to the seleetmen, of a quagmire in front of his dwelling; One morning two of the fathers of the town, after violent rain, passing with theirchaise, became stuck in the bog. As they were striyi4ig to extricate themselves, and pulling to the right and to the left, the Doctor Came forth, and:bowmg with great politenesit, exclaimed : " I am delighted, gentlemen, to see you stirring in this Matter at last." A candidate for fame, proposed to fly from the North Church steeple, and bad already mounted, and was; clapping his wings, to the .great delight of the mob. Dr. Byles, mingling with' the crowd, inquired, what was the object of the gathering, . "We have come, sir'" said one, "to see a mien - " Poh, poh," said the Doctor, "I have seen a horse ifse Upon, the 19th of May, 1680, the memorabl - dark day,'a lady wrote to the Doctor as ftdlows: • " Dear Doctor—How do you aceouut for; this darknesa 1" And received his immediate reply: . "Dear Madam—l am as much in the dark at you are," This, for sententious brevity, has never been sur passed, Unless by the correspondence between the commedlim, Sam Foote, and his mother " Dear Sam-1 am in jaiL" " Dear mother—So nun I." He had at one time, a remarkably stupid and il literate Irish girl as a domestic. With a look and voice of terror, he said to her in haste: • " Go say to your mistress, Dr. Bytes _has put an end to himself!" The astonished wife and daughters - rushed into the parlor—and there was the Doctor milady walk ing about with a part of a cow's tail tha , - he hhd. picked up in the street tied to his coat or cossack. behind. . Frond,' the time of the Stamp act, 1763 to the period of therovolution, the cry had beef; repeat ed in every form of phraseology that ourlgnevan ces should - be - redressed., One fine mornlig, when the multitude had gathered on the commie to see a regiment of redcoats parade there, who lad re cently arrived, " Well," said the Doctor; 71, think we no longer ten complain that our Oetranceli are not red dresser • - "True," said one of the langhers, w - billies stand ing near, "but you have two d's,-B , oMor Bytes?! "To be sure, sir, I have," the Doctor replied, "I had them from Aberdeen, 1655." _ Had not thii eccentric man.reesesital seine reit; excellent and amiable qualities, he could riot have maintained his relation to the Hollis street. Church and Society for three and forty-yeariinnu,l623 to 1776, end have separated from them-,at , last for politieal . comiderations alone. ' • - The Dedham Democrat, in quoting „the above; appends another anecdote r There is one of Dr. Ryles' jokes 'Which was rela ted to us by .an old lady, once a member of his so-. ciety, which has not been. in the paperle,sillieli we will tell as, it was told tons. At this Sine when -Whitelleld was in Boston, anti draw* crowds to listen to his 'eloilmitide," Dr Bylei`'' resturlisittois 'II illy that he would xgfi. isiniier hi heitilirhikeilisl i l l that' any 4ther preacher"' ITheisersori . , , ' ..t. marvelled at the remark, becittso,VllsiteWs , : '1 trines' were not comeliest witk tios . ,_ D odoes_ *sal -- ings-and he said to htin, ar itlivr'sc;m3ctor. tbeemser-aid thewai. , “ iti abe , ci r - lib. t il get in r - .. -, ~, _ , ... . 3 i..), At the thintre Ipf 'the:Veit:dies these bat tr tress, one of ther?best in Pa' '.. who las-the *dike! tune to, be exeeedirglp, , de ti thih-4ritnigkli almost say scrawny. ; -A - -A, fner-,,moutha ag*,,,d 4 l ; heard of a doctor who it was said. had ...meareedri 1 inmamdacturing a mineral _water -which bid' tie r power Orrnakitg. people ireri-SC-814 - ...*'.1., hini instanter. , ' - '— • - - - - 4 "Doctori" said abei_." Irtiattorat Ida to Eat fat " Take my. water," „ _.... .l I "And shall I get tat e - I. ~ -t Jo lifiniediately."' s '. ' - .'":f, - -' :_r -• r- - ,..---gi The thin actrese'pltnged lute the:clokarN - i bilk and drank the stater ear lY find litt,) Thine*. pasted iway, but she grew no tatter.q'At..lao l .1 called the doctor but . said :,,!',Doetur,l diner, - fat" • - , • "Wait a little ' while, " re plied thi dilito . :- , •': •:' " Witt it 'be ,lcmg-i.",. , ~w...-, _ . - •, A . :,- '_ ...r.--'.' : , -i7.7• r"• 1 , ",Fifteen days 444.:40 ,110 5 1, - Yet Deehak ~:i `rat Woman walkiillifik, WO" I- l i nieil# 46- ; ' 1 learnslere 'she was wimp plittiaigiadi . eg.: t . 4, What I I InitY liope.'" . .,- ''''' ''."."`-"- . -- 'l':' . .'t . '-'..:1 i ll , : ".Fifteen days at -most,"%sild Ilse &lei ar.i4.. - - I'l Two more ,- LTIEOs, , Pißlid ; %Am , antreiv - "I thinner and 'thinner: 'Aztne„day at :she : rear; • • her warm mined' batk'elie,ttieittd - si dispute ; T, i f vu iu the Eli in g ream-mitt-to - bigi'inin . ::‘, 7 : - '_',. , :! . . 1 u Decide y v . &idle I said • '-tlii loir fit .: 1 abovo iiltr ucf*“d9chlall9l.l l (miciatitiet , : '' ,i i bit thinner." , ~ , „:- ..- . „ ~,,,, „.;„.-... .- g i "Have patienee, ntadiut,'"'iald die - doctiei ! " .': see that very tbii actre s s ;who sometimes w* , 7i the garden - , --•''': ..- . '" - -' - ' -s - '-'- . 1,.. Yes," , 1 .... ~..'e ..,.,. ;..t. - -,- %.: ~ ..,.,r ,1 / 4 .-77.- i! - well, she is ati actress i t rail , thi.ll . arl 1 whose exci,4.siv e fat forced l? , f,F 4 0 absen t;,; '.. 1 from ihe stow .TO iNif ' I suit. -Before' thinner than ' .1-.1-.:,,i I.:=is 20 Doctor. Boles At.these . .yrs . wairi bath,, Bre .er, tolreep"_hei a secret :is in the rtory go RepuNicagr. No writes more blentit Mann. lie a young met to the eity,o circle of pen habit. of meet pose. at least ment. But not have Wet the supper; 1 the pnucipal number,•and ._ __ 1 . ,j! filmed the expo se of .the. last rebuked by hit .onstivienFef g spending. Willi" e - :' arid,lnonsit'h. drew .fromthe cub, though "withoisti intimacy with it m embers;:: number; he 1. ' thea*etagnl t eset. pars, and"- au oriel:sum flat' Lily filled p he huditesideits ity. At the .e dlif a singleseleor .self in possess on -of ,ii 7 _htmdred - made up of thee sums slaved from tion. This am the took-to a-i einplary family oomlidingief : WW? small children ; it o f wleirtrwereb _ life, and !Try tit Series of admie to maintain es owof respectabir the means , o f ding the pub!' towment of this sum tipixithe dig and the fith rl children ; together pithy and co ' 1 that accoroppied put a new bear lehithehoseine-Of proved the 'l_ • • point , in:-theist small debts we / paid; the_ weenie and a few, articics of domestic okitY• ed, the ctiadreni sprang forwatd , equaling or out-tripping altcomponi present time, thOy are all aiming ';',• aii able, exempt and lawful chimes Now, it would be to suPP O47 men, but amon fleads,were Ito - , if doubtfulof th anstrer, whirlipf.l extracted the eldest, qtututity of, his hundred do tars! I Nor can inch fail to bene fi t hin that gives, ailsuieli takes. . THE WAVES OF SUE ilerr.amid:=-4:119=0l interesting pipers, at the BritiO.A ing p i Was that of the Rey. Dr..illearesi tic Wave*, their inaptitude; Velbei na.", The observational were iionle' an Cambria steanr.,.on; *passage. iron( to New torkoallar hi1848 4 ,i0 lat. fil 38' deg. 50 W., Wind . W. S.W. waves were alkove '24 ;feet, aneat.lf were olio to the levelofl3o:felkibeven the sea. After' it had bin hardlor after the, storth had sibsidedielittle;• waves more Abini fie L feet - ithoie:;--tbe t also noted the. periods.hdtert.bithe _wa\ taking the ship; having reckoned twenty have passed in . five, reunites._ atal-i half, erage of seftertO\ Was fifteen Ile also foetid that tbe time of arty y lr` ing from stem to stern of thee feet long) was six second& est crest waa4s feet from' twice of two (Alai was 660 feet. Put velocity per hour. - = TneDocroa.!';--kiloettir father as - 6)llo4rrs: Dor Ide cum riosrml-andlgit hardly don't think I was in amity tl out I eum as slick a Wllll4ll ever • Bail colunihY happylint • If .I aint doctor-111-be I Purgekiln4 Then if Oa dl, !Veen I I gets plenty rif ; disc eezy. Whin yen rite, ofs, - tar awl, my name." , - Come Bete, you, mischievous. 111 4 , Won't, you lick jue; 411.14 lkto." yon *O l 4 Oll , W 0 00 7i : Thelt I you* rather f/o4ra Olitiilo.-sy4oiloyreso:yplthe: 'girl i~aie Ole nlYt*' ==l ' flitriP7.4l .".i:',':;,.:-. - :iMBEs - "-; . Parisian; ack, IT and' "log; hal somehoi 111) . It. ,tes an wee . thanH i Sly onee.P:4ll from - the - ‘ 4l_, v," like& .42,
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