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f not at the end of the year,
Editors ind Printers.
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_,
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like&
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