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OIE.
I lnvo to rove.
In the shady grove,
The plains spread out by the God of love ;
The tow'ring hills,
And brooks and rills.
The blushing rose, and the. daffodils. , ,
Who loves the roar,
Of the ocean more,
Than sailors who roam from shore to shore ?
Hence from my home
I will not roam,
To plow the ocean's boiling foam !
The city's hum,
Is lov'd bv some
But gfve.me the land where it cannot come ;
Yes, an humble cot,
Shall be my lot
Where, discontentment shall be forgot.
The meadows green,
In ilie distant scene,
The hill where the sun peeps out between ; j
The hills and dales :
Where the gentle gales
Sweep over the rill that never fails.
The fanner's voice,
Oft makes me rejoicr,
And the farmer's life is mtne by choice.;
The gentle breeze,
Doth liiy fancy please,
As it glides among the forest-trees. '
When the glorious sun
His course has run
And the stars have fallen one by one ;"
The moon so bland,
With her mountains grand
Shall bo chang'd to blood by a mighty hand !
I love to rove,
In the shady grove,'
The plains spread out by the God of lore
The tow'ring hills, ,
And brooks and rills,
The blushing rose and the daffodils.
H. 0. M.
Poet's garret, Westfall, )
August 21 1S43. J'
Trees and Botks.
44 Jock, whan ye hae nothing else to' do, ye
tnay be nicking in a tree ; it will be growing
.leu-k, when ye'ro bleeping. My father tauld
mo sae forty ears sin', but I naer land time to
iniud 1 ii in.
This bit of Scoich adjtjce is given Jo his
mi:i Jock by Laird Dumbtedjke in Scon's
Mid Lothian " It has a lesson in it for av
christian. When voli have nothing ele to do,
ju-t put a good" book in a poor family ; it will
no doing good when you are sleeping in your
grave. We toldyou so many a tune; have
.u found' time" to do ii ? American Messcn-
A Rettiarka.blu Fact.'
A Baptist clergyman and his wife, who re
ide in iheucintiy of Bosion, have the pleas
ure daily of gathering around their fireside
biiir daughters, who were born iii the four dif
ferent quarters of the globe, viz : one in Eu
i ope, one in AM a, one tri' Africa, ahd' one in
America a faet prolubjy unparalleled in the
history of any other family in New England.
Long may the links that, bintf' togeiher these
Msters remain as unbroken as thus?! that unite
me several quariers- of? the globo' whfcll'Mliey j
STROUDSBURG, MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY,
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Foreign Correspondence.
Dublin, July 17, 1843.
We look a steamer at Glasgow for Belfast,
in the afternoon of the 12ih of July and after a
pleasant passage into a Channel, retired to our
berths about half past 10 P. M. from which we
were aroused about 2 A. M. by the announce
ment that wc would rortdi our point of destina
tion in a quarter of an hour. We wero there
fore in readiness, and as the boat touched the
wharf I was on deck. Although so early,
more than half a dozen ragged porters were
wailing, and immediately sprang on board, to
secure what they could. The scene was an
amusing one. They stood in no dread of each
other, fighting, qnairejling and joking, to carry
their purpose and woe to the luckless stranger
who hesitated among them. He would find his
luggage seized by one of the nimblest that he
had glanced unguardedly at, to be pulled from
him by another stronger, asseverating that the
gentleman had engaged him, while another
using very emphatic language would insist that
it belonged to him, as he spqke first. 1 got
clear of them very summarily by calling the
Porter of a Hotel I saw come on board, di
recting him to have my luggago safely convey
ed to his Inn which I had heard recommended,
and turning cooly on my heel, left him to fight
it out with the crowd, who at once sprang upon
him for the job, looking over my shoulder to
laugh at the expedients and blarney used to in
duce him to make a selection. As early as we
found the people moving I took a stroll over the
city which is the great emporium of the North
of Ireland, and seems a very flourishing town.
Its ancient name was Beal-a-Farrhad, and
stands at the mouth of the river Lagan, 100
miles from Dublin, and is surrounded by sce
nery of great beauty and variety as wo found
on leaving it by the Londonderry Coach which
we mounted at 9 A. M. bound to Coleraine.
. The ride about 35 Irish miles was through
naturally a very good looking country, except
where the peat prevailed, which gave it a
dreary appearance. The people seemed hap
py and good humored, though we saw many
evidently very poor in the Towns. We pass
ed through three of these, Antrim, Baltymena
and Ballymoney, all of considerable size and
apparent thrift, besides several oilier minor vil
lages. The Causeway is about 9 miles from
Coleraine, and our coachman a bright Paddy
and on the lookout for tourists, soon learned
I our destination and proffered his services to
drive us at once over.
44 He had a good car
and one of the fastest and best horses in Cole
raine." 44 We would not be kept waiting more
than 10 minutes and be over in a jiffy no bul
lying of porters to carry our baggage from one
point to another and every annoyance to which
strangers on such occasions would be subject
ed to, avoided." With some little misgivings
we agreed to his proposal.
We reached Coleraine about 4 P. M. our
; coachy usherrd us through a dirty little groce
j ry into a better apartment up stairs, and said he
would be with us again in a moment. We saw
him for ten minutes, from the window, attend
ing to the change and distribution of luggage
from the coach and receiving his fees from the
passengers, and then he disappeared with ano
ther youngster at his heels. After waiting
some TO minutes longer I descended to ascer
tain the cause of delay, and found that the car
belonging to the man he lived with, and which
he expected to get was doing service on the
road elsewhere, and he was on a hunt to bor
row another; but tho woman said, ' he was a
fine boy, a jewel of a lad and would soon get
one.' Seeing the fix we were in, 1 took a stroll
of 25 minutes over the ancient city of Cole
raine. The inhabitants hail been celebrating
the anniversary of the battle of tho Boyne
two days before, and across most of the
streets were hting cords high up,, in the middle
of which were suspended largo figures of King
William on horseback, or the Queen, or some
other such lik'o personage, with various mottoes,
giving the streets quiie a fanciful appearance.
On my return to the Coach office I found our
Car almost ready and we soon were mounted
on tho sides, with our feet dangling down al
most to the road. I he cars here, or the jaunt
ing cars of Ireland, and which by tho way, are
capital affairs for clear weather.'have no cover
ing but a seal on each side, so that those on
one side sit with their backs 10 those of the
other. You step at once to your seat, facing
the sides of the road, am! then keeping your
self in'your seal,' as you be?t may, proceed.
We were hardly sealed before the lad who had
helped Andy fiiid a car, stepped up with 4 Por
ter Sir' but says 'the baigain was we should
not need a porter' 'Oh Gentlemen always gives
us a shilling for helping.' So we promised to
send his douceur, having no change, and Andy
look the horse by the head lo get him off. We
soon saw the reason. Hi first bolted to one
side of the road a crack of the whip and a
jerk' brought him back. He then obstinately
pushed jam up to a stone fence on the other.
We laughed, Andy halloed, whipped and pull
ed arid' we soon got clear of the town, traver
sing-tho" road in worm fence fashion'. Audv
theri itimped on and away we went o'n a full
huny wKfcn jtfst as we reached, a' ljilJfoH'r ' fast
est and best' of ponies came iq a dead halt as
though shot. Down went Andy and coaxed
and whipped until we got started again, when
with frequent freaks of like character he kept
him moving at a rapid pace until near our des
tination. Within about a .mile of it, when at
our fastest pace, I saw a lad of about 20 push
out from one. of the hotels of the little village,
after us. He ran and poney llew.for about half
a mile, when a rise of ground enabled him to
overtake us, and he jumped up along side of
Andy, and entered into a confab with him.
Soon he came round to our side and proffered
his services as guide handing us a book with
testimonials of his ability &c. given him by
other travellers, f told him my rule was al
ways to wait until I reached my holeland there
make my selection. Ho. however continued
beside us expatiating on the importance of go
ing at once, 4 Tho evening was so fine he
would see the boatman and have all ready,' &c.
W8 still declining, Andy came to the rescue
assuring us he was a first rate guide and we
had belter take him or we would be beset with
guides on our arrival, that would be trouble
some to be got rid of, if we were not already
provided. Again trusting Andy who no doubt
was to get half the fee, we engaged him and he
started off to get all ready while we weni to
the hotel to order dinner on our return. We
found all very quiet round and on prying into
the matter found there was a rivalry between
the Hotel at the other village, which used to
be the stopping place of visitors and this new
house, which had its own guides and boatmen,
and that we had been decoyed into the hands
of the Philistines. Laughing at the successful
ruse which had been played upon us, we de
scended to the boat and had no occasion to find
fault there, for all was in perfect readiness.
Jumping aboard with our guide, four manly
men bent to their oars and we were soon on
the waves of the ocean in front of this strange
and extraordinary coast.
They first rowed us to Dunkerry Cave a
deep and lofty cavern in a dark perpendicular
cliff accessible by water only. Its entrance,
which is of great height, is a regular pointed
arch. It is 26 feet broad enclosed between two
natural walls of dark basalt. Bringing the
head of tho boat immediately in front, by strong
and expert use of the oars, watching the roll of
the waves, our boatmen pulled in their oars and
we sailed majestically in on the rolling wave,
when they kept us in position by holding on
to the sides. The sight was most magnificent.
The setting sun lighted up the entrance' so that
we could see ver)- distinctly in, as well as out.
The roof seemed near 100 feet above us as the
wave would recede and then as it came, it
would lift us up as going to strike it. We
omitted the report of the gun, which they de
sired to give us, not having forgotten the head
ache occasioned by that at the Speedwell mine
I of which 1 made mention in a former letter.
The roaring of the waves inside was sufficient
j for us. It is said tho inhabitants a mile off are
j sometimes disturbed in their sleep by the noise.
We now returned, passing Port Coon Cave,
and were rowed a long way in front of the!
coast giving us an excellent view oi it. it is
worn into different sinuosities called ports, as
Port na Plaiskin, Port na Spania, &c. &c, all
having their peculiar derivations. The latter
for instance is so called because it is said a
portion of the Spanish Armada was wrecked
there, mistaking the pillars of the Causeway
for the chimneys of a town which they were
firing at all night. On the way we were point
ed to the Giant's Chair, the Giant's Bag-pipes,
the Giant's Theatre, and the Giant's Organ,
from the fancied resemblance of the columns
to those objects. The latter for instance is a
magnificent collonade of pillars 120 feet in
length, resembling the pipes of an organ. Hav
ing lakett us as far as is customary into a quiet
harbor, our rowers turned the boat and with un
common expertneas returned close to the shore,
giving us as they said the near view. The
skill with which they manage their boats is
surprising. The sea is 1 believe almost always
rough ; when we were out the waves were rol
ling deep and heavy, and yet they would shoot
bv a rock to which the current was running
with great strength and round a jutting promon
tory so close that you might almost touch it,
with perfect ease and rapidity. They gave us
credit for being first rate sailors. It is most
usual I believe for strangers to be madb sea
sick by the excursion. A little lad who got in
to sell us a box of stones', lay coiled up in the
bow sick all tho way. Coming round they
with a sudden pull brought their little boat as
they wanted it, sprang out, and landed us im
mediately on 4 The Causeway.' It seemed at
first as if an immense pier had been begun, the
materials all blocked out, brought on the ground
and the work suddenly slopped. It consists of
three piers or moles, running from the base of
a stratified cliff, about TOO feel long and- 350
broad, occupying about 2 acres and is composed
of polygonal pillars of dark colored basalt, so
close together thai ydu can scarce insert a
knife between. They are of a great variety of
angles, the hexagonal prevailing iliUtigh we
saw one ofthre'e and frdin'that tb'tjiith. Each
one is a perfectly distinct' riiec'of ffofli sepa
SEPTEMBER 14, 1843.
rate from the others and itself separable into
distinct joints the contiguous one being always
one concave and one convex ; but I will not
weary you with a minute geological descrip
tion, as you will find it in books far better and
more satisfactorily done. Towards the centre
of the whole the pillars ascend and from the
similarity of the surface this vertex is called
The Honeycomb.' Though they are all ir
regular, the sides of the adjacent pillars are
equal, so that all are perfectly close leaving not
the smallest open space over the whole of ibis
basaltic pavement. This basaltic stratum is
said to be 45 feet in depth, and at the highest
part you look from the top down the pillars at
one side, straight for near that distance, all per
fect and articulate as I have mentioned. 1
spoke of its compactness, water will remain on
it for a long lime and yet among its wonders is
a stream of pure fresh water which forces it
self between the joints of two of the columns
called the Giant's Well. The oldest woman
of the place has ihe privilege of waiting on vis
itors at it. The origin of .these singular pil
lars has puzzled many wise and learned men.
The natives believe thai the giants at whose
head was old Fin Mac Coul undertook the
forming a causeway into Scotland but expelled
by the ancient Irish heroes left the great work
imperfect.
Another version is as has been amusingly
told in a late publication. 44A big Scoich giant,
one Benadonner, used to brag that he would
lick Fm iMacCoul any day, and he used to go
over the Highlands crowing that all he wanted
was a fair field and no favor. So Fin Mac
Coul went to the King of Ireland, Ould Cor
mack, and says to his majesty "I want to let
Benadouner come over to Ireland without wet
ting the sole of his shoe, and if I dont lather him
as well as ever he was lathered in his life, it
is not meeself that's in it. So Fin Mac Coul
got leave to build the Causeway, and did all
the road nale and clane to Scotland, and Ben
adouner came over with his broad sVord and
his kilt, and right, glad he was to get a dacent
excuse for leaving his own counthry. He was
bate of course, though he stuck up like a Tro
jan, and then he settled in the place, and be
came obedient to King Cormack, and got a ve
ry purty, dacent girl to be his wife, and it. is
said the great Earls of Antrim are descended
from him."
In the entire Causeway the number of pillars
is reckoned at near 40,000. We lingered on
them until dark, and reached our inn after 10
o'clock at night, where a fine dinner of salmon,
trout and lamb, awaited us. In the morning I
rose at five o'clock, went down and took another
look at the Causeway, and returning to break
fast, left for Coleraine again at seven. We
took another route, Andy's horse going belter
homewards. We first went to the ruins of
Dunluce Caslle, one of the ancient residences
of the Earls of Antrim. They siand upon a
perpendicular detached rock, whose entire
surface was occupied by the edifice. It was
united to the main land at the bottom of the
chasm by a ledge of rocks a little higher than
the ocean. The only pathway at present is
along ihe summit of one of the walls, over
which and another parallel to ii, used to be aj
plank bridge over the awful chasm, and yet
such is human daring when ihe incentive is!
strong, that our guide told us a few years ago,
a man for 20 sovereigns rode on horseback
across it. We walked it very, carefully, and
then visited the remains of this once formida
ble castle. One room actually projects over the
sea, from the windows of which there is a fine
view of the ocean. Another room is said to be
inhabited by a Banshee whose chief occupation
is sweeping. the floor. Strange to say, the floor
of this room differing from tho others, is en
tirely free of grass and ai all times clean as if
just swept. It is accounted for by some that
tho wind gains admittance through an aperture
on ihn level with tho floor and thus keeps it
clean. The history of this castlo has much of
interest about it. It was burned in 1750.
About a mile from Dunluce we visited a basal
tic structure called Craig-a-huller, which in
terested. us very much. It is a beautiful and
minutely articulated collonade of basaltid pillars,-
with a hill on top. It looked as if a huge
hill had fallen on a temple surrounded by splen
did pillars. Tho mass above has bent the col
umns by its weight, and to some, by displacing
the tons, formed fine capitals. We reached
Coleraine just in' time to lake car to Loudon
derry, about 30 miles off having first had a
few Words with Andy, who wished to add to
the other impositions ho had practised, on us,
by doubling his charge. We soon disposed of
him howover, and with four others, beside the
driver and any quantity of baggage, drawn by a
poor looking liitlo gra horse, started' for Der-
Wb changed' once on tho way, and between
them our nag's took us along surprisingly., so
thai we reached Londonderry in less than five
hours. Thi?. city is finely situated on a hill on
the banks of tiie Foyle, here quite a river. Its
ancient naujn was Derry Calagh, or tho Oak
Grave of 'Jalagh, which in early times covered
tho hil'i and caused it to be regarded as a pe
culiarly sanctified localiiy for many ages, Here
No. 24.
we look the mail coach for Dublin, 144 miles';
We passed through-a naturally bautii"ul comr
try; not so well cultivated as in England.bu6
as it seemed to us, of better .toil. We firjst
came to Strabaue, a pretty town also on ifj
F(yle, then to Newtown, Stewart, ihe.ii to
Omagh, the county -town of Tyrone, where we
dined, and making inquiry, learned there;wefV
several of our name around there. From
Omagh, passing through several mu;i!1 village
we reached Monagban, a town of con.ider;illr:
size, about half way lo Dublin at dark, whet
we changed to inside of the coach, and nipp
ing most of the way, arrived at Dulilin about t
o'clock in the morning, stopping at the FinpV
rial Hotel, Saekville, street, the. finest street iii'
this, one of the finest cities of Europe.
We were much pleased with Edinburgh Kot.
more with Dublintand regard if as upon iht
whole, superior to the metropolis of either
England or Scotland, for uniform beauty. It is
situated on both sides uf ihe Lifley, which is
quayed ihe entire length of its course through
the city, and is crossed by eight splendid bridg
es. These quays render the views tip an I
down very inaginfieent and form a splnndi t
avenue from east lo y.'est, ronibmjng eleganc?"
with convenience and health. Sackulle strei-i'.
said lo be one of the most magnificent streets
in Europe, is I should think, over 150 fr,K
wide, lined with fine buildings. Wc spent trAV
morning in examining the finest of the buildings
and streets; some of which as the Bank of ire
land and the Custom House are very magVfifi
cent and about noon, hearing that there was
one of the old round Stone Towers about (i
miles out, we took a car and rode to it. Wo
rode through a beautiful country to ihe ancient
village of Cioudaikin where we found the obi
tower covered with ivy, and bunting up the
key climbed up a crazy set of ladders 84 feet
to iis lop, from-which we had a most splendid
view, compensating for the dangerous ascent.
The curiosfty of these old Towers is that un
man knoweth their origin, or why they wer.?
built. There are a number of them standing
in different parts of the country iso!aed. Not.
on high eminences, as would have been their
localities, if intended. fur lookouts.
We returned by a .lovely road along the Lif
fey and through Phoenix Park. In the eve
ning before dark we took another ride all round
and through the city Here the advantages of
the jaunting cars are very evident. You can
see from iliem without any obstruction. They
are used by all kinds of persons and are most
capital conveyances for pretty girls, who abound
in Dublin, and indeed all over Ireland, as their
sweet roguish faces are seen so well on them.
1 have the pattern ,of them in my eye and
have half a mind to have one when I get hmm
it would be so fine for short drives aboutour
hills. If I. was pleased witrf the appearance
of the buildings and streets of Dublin, I was
mure delighted with the good order and sobrie
ty of its citizens. 1 had been led to expect a
different sight, but I saw less drunkenness or
disorder in Dublin than in Loudon or Edin
burg. I speul Sabbath here, when the people
are not employed, and have therefore leisure
for dissipation, and yet I never saw a- more
quiet city of its size. They say it shows tho
influence of tho priests, who have entered so
zealously into the temperance movements L
can only say, I am glad that they had such in-'
fluence and exerted ii successfully in so good af
cause. The Repeal agitation has deferred,
many from visiting Ireland, looking upon it a-
a slate of. almost open rebellion; and yet wo
scarce heard the subject mentioned, unless we
first broached it.
Physician and Patient.
The fate of a physician is a hard one. Tiv
say. nothing of the length of time spent in his
medical siudies, all of whi'ch are laborious-
some decidedly repulsive, and of the necessary
expenditure of money for attending lectures
and hospitals, purchasing books and" instru
ments, &c, he tnusi expect after ho is fairly a
candidate for professional employment, to ho
made in. this capacity, an occasional butt for
tho stale jokes of people in health, and their
ready servitor at all hours when they are sick.
The New Orleans Crescent City learns that
thore is an egg plant in that city thai prodiieS'
live chickens.
Poisonous Effects dS Type.
In one of the numbers of Dr. Braithwaitc's
London Retrospect, now being published, wu
find a case reported by Dr. Joslin, of Now
York, in which a compositor was attacked with
paralysis oY the lace, in consequence of holding
type in his mouth while correcting-proof. It
required sortie three or four months to effect a
cufe.
The oflencr carpets are shaken, the longer
they will wear ; the dirt that collects under
them wears out the threads.
It has been truly remarked that 14 many a
man has blown his brains out with, a brandy
bottle." There is suicide in avruni barreV. a..
well as a pistol barrel.