The whole art ok Government consists in the art op being honest. Jefferson.
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POETRY.
A Kurrali Song.
JOHN BANKS 's the bov to rule the State
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
To make all crooked things come straight
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurram!
He'll give the Locos a tarnal switchen '
When he begins "to clear de kitchen" 1
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!
"Poor Davy's acts most clearly prove j
Hurrah! i:c.
For the "dear people" he has no love, j
Hurrah! tzc.
When his power was about to suffer diminution,
He vetoed the bill by the Old Constitution, !
Hurrah! he.
His numerous pardons and vetoes, i
Hurrah! &c.
Have given his party its death blows, !
Hurrah! &c.
i
And he will find by next October i
His day of grace will then be over,
Hurrah! f&c.
His party ripe for spoils and plunder.
Hurrah!! &c.
Destroyed our currency and no wonder,
Hurrah!, &c.
Let's turn him out as we did Van Burcn, .
Or else the State will be brought to ruin,
Hurrai! &c.
Log Cabin boys of the land of Penn !
Hurrah!
Rouse up once more and act like men,
Hurrah!
&c.
&c.
Gird on your armor, close your ranks,
Fight for your country and JOHN BANKS!
Hurrah! &c
Pcacli Trees.
A gentleman in Pennsylvania took the fol
lowing method to preserve neach trees from
being injured by worms, caterpillars, &e. He
O A
rlfnrpfl nwnv ihf ernm that issues out of the
tree affected by the worm, strewed a little brim-1
stone around tne root, anu covered u witn nne .
mould that it might not blow away, so that the j
gum might operate through it, and cause the j
brimstone to fumigate which destroyed the
worms. A pound of brimstone is sufficient for j
nearly 200 trees. J
The writer has lately heard that an accident
has discovered a remedy against the Peach J
destroyer. A poor woman who had cultivated
some peach trees in her little garden which she
rented, being forced to go out by her landlord,
designed to deprive him of her fruit trees, she
took a kettle of boiling water and poured the
contents on the root of each, with a view to kill
the trees by scalding, but instead of scalding
the trees, she scalded the worms and made the
trees thrive.
The Bcmfttus of FresadecatKarrisois.
We learn from Col. Todd, says the Shelby,
Ky. News, "that on his way to his residence
in this county laot week, he, in performance
of a sacred duty, called upon the venerable
widow of our lamented deceased President.
While there, ho vas invited by that lady to a
consultation with herself and only remaining
i . i : r . 1
of'l.Vr riUtin.niisliPrl iic! helmed husband the
Mm, as to the ultimate oe poMiory t " inuu)ii
"rent and rond Prfidoiit. It was determined
at this consultation to remove the remains im
mediately to North Bend, to bo desposited upon
a beautiful and natural mound, where the mon
ument may bo seen several miles up a?id down
i he Ohio river. There, the traveller of distant
ages will be refreshed by a visit to the tomb of
the warrior, who was never defeated; of the
patriot, w&o died poor; and the statesman, who,
from the -proud height of President, 'fell like a
. star struck jrom its sphere, covered with glory
.and renoyat.' "
.Wm. j$jis0tiritns forS.cnator in Tennessee.
A tetter from President Tyler.
The following, from the National Intelligen
cer, is in reply to a letter from James Brooks,
Esq. forwarding the flag that was in the midst
of the thickest of the strife at the hattlo of Tip
pecanoe: THE PRESIDENT'S REPLY.
TO J ASICS BROOKS, ESQ.
Washington, May 4, 1841.
"Tho flag which was in the midst and thick
est of the strife," and was committed to your
care on the Tippecanoe battle-ground by th
surviving soldiers of that memorable field, and
which they commanded you to bear to this me
tropolis as a speaking emblem of the valor of
their old commander, and ol the perils lie had
undergone, has been delivered over to my hands.
and will be placed by me among the honored
trophies of the Republic. The account which
was given me some years ago, by the gallant
Ensign now no more, who upheld that banner! class in the community?
amid the perils of the fight, had prepared me to The sons of American citizens must be edu
expect to see it as it is, gashed by the toma-, cated for gentlemen. They must not learn a
hawk and rent by balls. That Ensign alone, i trade, or an art upon which they can always
of all the officers, with but twenty men of the I depend for a respectable living. This would
gallant company over which, when the sun j be to lower rather than to raise them in the
went down, that flag so proudly waved, survived ' scale of public opinion hence it is thai thou
to tell in the morning of the hazards of that tor-1 sands of boys are crowded into tho "learned
nble night, rrom that brave soldier, who al
terwards held his place in the hearts of the peo
ple of Indiana, I learned properly to appreciate
the fearless bearing and noble conduct of the
patriotic'citizen who has so recently exchanged
this earthly tabernacle of clay for one ihat en-
dureth forever. Death' is the common heritage
of all mankind; but so to live as that the dark
ness of tho grave shall not obscure our names,
and that they be placed in close association
with the names of the great and good who have
gone before and who are lo come after us,
makes death a consummation rather to be wish
ed lhan feared, and throws a light of glory over
the grave. Such, now, is the condition of "tho
old commander" into whose hands, when you
received this flag, you so joyously anticipated
its delivery. His deeds are now " enrolled in
the Capitol," and this banner shall be preserved
as a memorial of a battle well fought, and of a
5ictory most nobly won. ,
I nrav vou. sir. to accent assurances of mv
great respect. ,
JOHN TYLER.
.
Small Birds Great Blessings. I wish
our intelligent farmers could be awakened to
the importance of preserving robins, and other
small birds, as a means of aiding in their work.
The inhumanity which suffers every lazy lub
hnr of a bov. who can lest an old kind's arm
over a stone wall, to kill or frighten every poor j Then why should the almost universal effort
linnet that sings in the fields, and every robin-1 to disgrace those professions, by a simultane
red breast tluu dares eat an unripe cherry, andous rush into other ranks, any longer prevail?
save a child from the dysentery, is a short- J Belterinfinitely better would it bethat our
sighted piece of selfishne'ss. These harmless athletic, and hardy youth should shoulder the
birds live upon grubs and other worms, and in-1 axe and away to the forests than by a false
sects, and the slight inroads they make upon j estimate of true respectability, they should be
the fanner's crops arc repaid, an hundred fold,
bv the protection they afford, against a thous
and destroyers. These birds, if not frightened,
will become so tame as to porch on the hand,
... . . . ,
or light on the plough as it turns over the mr-
No nod farmer should fail to teach his
row
boys to spnre and cherish these harmless and
imuu luueiui n&iiduis u ms m;iu.- mm uimiuo.
Liko the good man in one of our Western
towns, who plead so earnestly for the poor
crows, in our Legislature a few years since, I
would enforce ihe legal penalties for trespass,
against any one who shut them on my land.
The crows, too, nature's living mouse traps,
instead of being a tame, almost domestic bird,
as in some other countries.- where tanners have
been taught their value by long experience,
have been frightened into mean pilferers of
Unwed corn-hills! A good crow is worth a
bushel of wheat or other grain, to the acre, and
sometimes ten ! A Knowledge ot ornithology,
and not penal laws, i what our farmers and
their sons need to induce them to regard their
true iuteiests in this matter.
The Farmers of Farminchamj Mass.
Held a meeting recently to talk over matters
touching farm-stocks, &c In the course of
the discussion, Capt. E. Wheeler said he could
make twenty loads of manure and more from
one horse and one hog he thought there was
manure enough in town if we would take care
of it and use it properly, to mako every field
rich. He was astonished to sec so many peo
b!e lav their manures by the road side-as if
: ihrv feared it would injure their fields if it was;
suffered to cover up anv part of them. In ref-
erence to lice on cattle, Colonel Fiske thought
that sand or fine loam splinkled over their backs
and their heads would destroy the lice, cattle
seemed aware of this, and they were often
found pawing up dirt and laying it handsomely
on their own backs ; when ihoir heads itch
they scratch them in a sand bank. . Hens also
wallow in the dust and ashes to kill tho lice
that have found a harbor in their feathers It
seemed to be the general opinion that fine dust
of any kind, as well as dry ashes, will kill
thc&e vermin on cattle and on fowls.
Parents and tlieir Sons.
11 V. EZRA HOLDE.V.
We think there is one radical error in Amer
ican society, viz: a universal disposition to un
derrate the mechanical profession, when con
trasted with what are termed the "learned pro
fession," and with almost all other avocations.
Does tho rich" and respectable mechanic '
the artisan the architect he who rears our
public and private edifices the builders of our
ships, and the constructors of canals and rail
ways, nevor permit a course of conduct in him
self which goes directly aray from the respec
tability of the profession by which he has gain
ed all that he possessed! When he comes to
decide upon the business his sons shall pursue
is it not often the case that an overweening
disposition is displayed to make them.IaWyeis,
doctors merchants anything but to bring them
up to the respectable calling of their parents?
And let us ask, is not the same true of everv
professions," and " behind counters," to be
come in the end, genteel drones, living upon
the products of other men's labor rather than
relying on their own hands for a good and re
spectable livelihood.
We repeat, it is the wrong estimate of the
comparative respectability ol the oinerent pur
suits, that causes so dangerous an error. We
would not stifle genius nor deride learning
nor do we entertain the least disrespect to any
profession but we would have our sons taught
to believe and made to feel that it is far more
honorable to learn some handicraft, by the prac
tice of which they can live in independence
and honor lhan to be crowded into the always
overflowing ranks of "professions," which will
not vield them bread and but too often lead to
the entire prostration of the better feelings of
j the human heartin low cunning, duplicity and
knavery.
Who arc the props and pillars of our public
edifice? Who are the bone and muscle of so-
' ciety? We say, the mechanics and husband- j
! men of the land. From the ranks of these two, !
j have sprung statesmen, philosophers, and sages,
who have iett imperishable lustre upon the age
in which they have lived. If the amount of
useful attainments could be correctly estima
ted, we entertain no doubt, that the ranks of the
intelligent mechanics and agriculturists would
t carry ott the palm by immense majorities.
thrust into wrong channels, to disease society,-
and weaken the body politic. There they
might live in the nobility of nature cultivate
their own fields, and slumber beneath their own
cottage; and perhaps become the founders of
! new communities of moral, physical, and intel-
lectual giants
Yairliee Ingenuity.
In the course of his lecture on Tuesday eve
ning, before tho Mercantile Library Associa
tion, Mr. Latrobe related the following incident.
While crossing, in the stage, one of the vast
western prairies, far ahead on the black line
which marked the road, was discovered an ob
ject which, from the distance, could not be
made out. On their near approach, it was dis
covered to be one of those vehicles known as
a Yankee pedlar's wagon. The owner of the
concern had met with a sad accident. He had
broken both an axle-tree and a shaft of his col
ored and curtained wagon. The first he had
repaired with a rope, but that done, every inch
of the rop6 was exhausted. Miles from a tree,
or even a bush of any kind, from which to cut
a temporary shaft, here was a dilemma, truly.
But the man was equal to it. He had a tin
drinking cup, a hammer, some nails, and a pair
of tailor's shears. When the stage came up,
and slopped, the man was found busily em
ployed in cutting up the cup into stripSj having
first broken out the bottom, knocked off the
handle, and unrolled and flattened out the cyl
inder of tin that formed the body of the cup.
1 The curious passengers looked on while th
Yankee pediur piocecdod to lay the two bro-
ken ends of ihe shall together, which, fortu
nately, had been broken obliquely. He then
wrapped around them the strips of tin and nailed
the ends fast. This done, he tried the shaft,
and found it strong. As he hitched in his
horse, he looked up to the wondering passen
gers in the stage coach, and with a quiet smile
of satisfaction, and remarked, "I guess this is
the first time in those parts, that a broken shaft
was mended wilh a tin cup!" How the pas
sengers in the stage coach laughed, the lectur
er did not say; but their merriment may bo
easily Imagined. Bait. Sun.
A 5wel Qriaslaccl.
" I have no stomach for the fight to-day."
A very laughable occurrence happened the
other day in Paris, which may aflbrd a good
hint to the managers of aflairs of honor. Two
law students living in a hotel in the Rue St.
Dominique d'Enfer, quarrelled one day after
dinner, and agreed to settle the differences at
the point of ihe sword choosing two students
of medicine living in the same hotel, as their
seconds. On the following morning all the
parties met in the chamber of one of the sec
onds, who insisted, before they proceeded to
business, that the principals should taste a bot
tle of prime Chablis, which he produced. Af
ter a little hesitation, and being assured by
their friends that it was not intended to hinder
the meeting, the combatants finished the bottle,
which was pronounced excellent. Ten min
utes after they mounted a public conveyance,
and in a short time had arrived at the field of
arms. The ground was soon chosen, swords
measured, and the two champions were eh
garde, when one of them, suddenly clapping
his hands to his stomach, and betraying by his
countenance a strong internal motion, aban
doned his ground and rushed to a neighboring
thicket where he experienced one of the least
agreeable concomitants of a soa voyage. In a
few minutes, however, he appeared to grow
better, and returned to his place, and prepared
to commence the combat, when his adversary,
seized by a similar indisposition, was obliged
to drop his sword, and take refuge in the thick
et. The latter, like the other, returned short
ly to the ground. The swords were gain
drawn, and the blades crossed, when alas! for
the dignity of the duel, the antagonists were
compelled by mutual consent to desist and re
tire, where they might in secret relieve their
bosoms of the "perilous stuff" which their wag
gish friends had administered to them in' the
bottle of Chablis on which they had been re
waled, and who nOw witnessed the doleful sit
uation of the valorous heroes with shbuts of
laughter. The results riiay be anticipated.
Each of the combatants returned to their hotel
"a wiser and a sadder man" than he had left
in the morning, fully satisfied that honor stands
no change agaiiist tartar emetic.
Power Emaxmation.'
An honest New England Farmer started one
very cold day in winter with his sled and oxen
into the forest, a half a mile from home, for the
purpose of chopping a load of wood. Having
felled the tree, he drove the team alongside
and commenend chopping it up. By an un
lucky hit he brought the whole bit of the axe
across his foot with a sideling stroke. The
immense gash so alarmed him as nearly to de
priv6 him of all his strength. He felt the
warm blood filling his shoe. With great diffi
culty he succeeded in rolling himself on the
sled and started his oxen for home. As soon
as he reached the door he called eagarly for
help. His terrified wife, and daughter with
much effort lifted him into the house, aa he was
wholly unable to help himself, saying his foot
was nearly severed from his leg. He was laid
carefully on the bed, groaning all the while
bitterly. His wife hastily prepared a dressing,
and rrmoved the shoe and sock, expecting to
see the desperate wound, when lo ! the skin
was not even broken. Before going out in the
morning he had wrapped his feet in red flannel
to protect them from the cold : the gash laid
this open to view, and he thought it flesh and
blood. His reason not correcting the mistake,
all the pain and loss of power sustains a real
wound, followed. Man often suffers more from
immaginary evils than from real ones.
If I possessed tho most valuable things in
the world, and were about to will them away,
tho following would bo my plan of distribution.
I would will to the whole world truth and
friendship, which are very scarce.
I would give an additional porlion of truth to
editors and lawyers, traders and merchants.
1 would give the physicians, skill and learn
ing. To clergymen, disinterested piety.
To lawyers, merchants, brokers, public offi
cers, &c; honesty.
To old women, short tongues and legs
To young women, common sense,
waists and natural feet.
To servants, obedience and honesty.
To masters, humanity.
To farmers, punctuality and sobriety.
To old men, preparation for death.
large
To young aprouti, or dandies, good
sense,
littln cash, and hard work.
To old maids, good tempers, little talk, and
suitable husbands.
To old bachelors, a lovo for virtue, children
and wives.
The above wc clip from an exchange paper,
without knowing to whom the authorship is at
tributable. Whoever it may have buen, we are
sorry he did not write a codicil to the will and
bequeath to all newspaper subscribers a dispo
sition to pay in advance, or at least not to take a
paper for a year or two, and then run away
without paying for U-
A Uiaiogne.
The Printer has assumed the duties of edi
tor, he sits at his table just finished an "edi
torial," and is m the act of opening a news pit
per. Enter Mr. A. in apparent haste.
Mr. A. Gcod morning Mr. Printer I am m
a hurry. I see bv your last paper, that vou ar
in want of money; I make it a point to pay the
Printer punctually.
Printer. So we have found you, sir .hoefel.
liko a thousand Mich patrons: or call wa.- fir
tended of course, for those who are not punctmtk
A. Right all right, sir; please make up my
bill to this dale, and here's a five dollar bill un
the Lincoln bank hand me the change.
Pr. But, friend A. do you wih to discon
tinue? A. Whv ves, I think I must. My bill for
papers is quite large 1 take no less than 7 or
S papers I must economize a little; nnd be
sides, I don't seem to need a political paper at
present loco focoism will hardly need much
attention for two or three years, it ia so shock
ingly used up in our section, we can scarcafy
find one for seed.
Pr. AHow me to inquire, friend, if all your
papers are political.
A. No three of them belong to this class,
and then I have one large family paper from
Philadelphia, two from New York, and one .
from Boston.
Pr. Allow me to inquire still further, which
class of these papers, you intend to curtail.
A. Why, I think I must stop the political
papers, of course, theothers contain twice or
three times the reading.
Pr. Now, friend, the people of this country
have accomplished a great victor' over the pre
vailing corruptions of an unprincipled adminis
tration, will you be so kind as to inform me how
the people were enable to concentrate aud.car
ry forward all their operations to secure -this
triumph, and, even how it bocame so generally
known, that the causes had existence which de
manded this triumph?
A. This is a plain case it was through tlie
agency of the public press here was th gre.t
lever after all!
Pr. True! but the press is of two cla-jf
was it your neutral family paper, or yuttt faith
ful political journals, that sounded the -lbim,
and so zealously pointed out the dangers?
A. There is something in this, 1 -ouf&$.
Our political papers are most necessary af;er all.
I feel obliged for the hint. You may keep tni
change, and here is another dollar you may aikl
to it. 1 must be going now, but in a few dty.s
1 will send you three or four now subscriber!
Exit Mr. A.
Queer Estate for a Preacher to Leave. A
preacher who recently died up the Red Rivor
country, is said, by some of the papers, to have
left the fallowing singular effects: a bible, two
dollars, a bowie knife, a psalm book, a pack of
cards somewhat used, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Pro
gress nearly new, a pocket flask or "tickler," a
collection of sacred music, a quarter nag, with
saddle and bridle, a pair of pistols, and a copy
of Hoyle's Games. Queer fellows some of
those preachers of the far southwest.
Wtoman Woman, says Matthew Henry,
was made of the rib out of the side of Adam; no:
ntade out of his head, to top him not out of hi
feet, to be trampled upon by him but out of his
side to be equal wilh him; under his arm, to bo
protected; and near to his heart, to be beloved.
Freedom. Two such contradictory things
as external and internal happiness are not easi
ly brought into harmony. A man must not1 in
sist upon making himself happy by force. We
must choose between the two. Will we throw
ourselves on the world, or will wo maintain our
own character? We have this choice this is
our freedom of the will beyond this belongs to
God. Clearness of intellectual perception, pu
rity, and, if possible, strength of will, is our
problem, and our only happiness. To all else
we may laugh weep pray.
A Corkscrew Directton. ' Come up. to;
mv rnnm. T want to see VOU.'
" Where is yocr room V
1 In St. Charles Exchange.' f .
Well, I bolievo there arc several roomni
that house how shall I go to get to yours!'
Come right in and turn round left come
one pair of stairs, turn round left again. rwi.
forward, come up, turn round, como up two part
of stairs, turn round thrte tunes, come lot watt
'and knock at the door.'
Stop don t you think 1 could get Hie?
quicker if 1 was to go down the middle and
again, cross over, turn TOtmd, forward two, uW
a-dos, Indian file, promenade, shake a stiV.
cut a slick, fiddle-stick, dance around two par
of partners, and so follow my nosoT
4 No, no, just follow my direction, and you It
bo sure lo find me.'
Tho United States mint, at New Orrwu .
has not done work enough for the last Ob ;
i months, to nay iu expenses.