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Jeffcrsoniau Republican.
The Worn-out Fount of Type
I'm seiting at my desk, George ;
Before me on the floor,
There lies a worn-oul fount of type,
Full twenty thousand score :
And many months have passed, George,
Since they were bright and new,
And many are the tales they've told
The false, ihe strange, the true.
Their beauty has all gone, George,
You scarcely now may trace,
Upon the snowy medium,
The likeness of their face.
They 'mind me of a man, George,
Whose morn of life was full
Of promise, but whose evening's close,
Was desolate and dull.
"What tales of horror they have lold,
Of tempest and of wreck ;
Of murder in the midnight hour,
Of war full many a " speck ;"
Of ships lhat, lost away at sea
Went down before the blast;
Of stifled cries of agony,
As life's last moments passed !
Of earthquakes and of suicides;
Of failing crops of cotton ;
Of bank defaulters broken banks,
And banking systems rotten;
Of boilers bursting, steamboats snagg'd;
Of riots, duels fought,
Of robbers, with their prey escaped
Of thieves with beauty caught.
Of land slides and of waterspouts ;
Of ants and alligaiors;
Of serpents in the briny deep;
Of gianl sweet poiatoes ;
Of children lost and children found,
Finances in disorder ;
Of fights among the firemen,
And troubles on the border.
They've told us of a nation, George,
Bent sorrowing in the dust.
For one whom she had called to fill
Her highest, dearest trust ;
Of sparkling crowns for youthful brows ;
Of royal cotonations ;
Of plans to rid the earth of kings ;
Of temp'rance reformations.
Of flood, and fire, and accident,
Those worn-out type have told ;
And how the pestilence has swept
The youthful and the did ;
Of marriages, of births and deaths ;
Of things to please or vex us ;
Of one man's jumping overboard,
Another gone to Texas !
' They've told how long sweet summer days
Have faded from our view ;
How autumn's chilling wind hath swept
The leaf-crowned forest through ;
How winter's reign haih come and gone
Bark r-eign X)f ktorm and sirife
And how the smiling spring haih warni'd
The pale flowers back to life.
I can't preiend to mention half
My inky friends have told,
Since, shining, bright, and beautiful,
Tjbey issued from tbn mould
How unto some they joy 'have brought,
To others giief and tears!
Tel faithfully they record kept
Of fast receding years!
A pear trecof 'New-Haven, 200 yoars old,
jjas blpsaumed within a few days -past.
Catching a Green One.
BY SOLITAIRE.
Linville, in the Platte counly, has been eel
ebrated since the first advent of civilization in
that region, for the unmarriageable quality of
several old maids, who, full of hope had emi
grated to ihe promising lands of the west.
There is, for a certainty, a demand for girls in
ihe west, and many ardent young men are ea
ger to throw themselres in the arms of beauty
on certain conditions lhat it is of youthful
beauty. Sally Clintoc, one of these old maids
we speak of, had a certain share of beauty, but
it could not well be called young and tender,
unless you call thirty a tender age, but, with
her increase of years, instead of the fires of true
love burning out lhcy increased in strength, un
til, wiih the aid of her mother sally resolved to
have a husband, if she had to trap him with a
fish net. Ben Ellis was the gudgeon Sally
fixed her eyes upon, for the very reason, it
wonld appear, that he was the opposite to her
in general character, and in years in particular.
He was young, and moreover tender, and be
side, partook strongly of a verdant hue, even
to downright greenness in his preception in all
things, even to women; while on the contrary,
Sally had grown a into brown; and knew all
things with a learned spirit," even loathe "catch
ing a green one.
Many efforts wetc made by Sally to attract
Ben's attention, but his bashfulness was a bar
lo these tender essays; and if she succeeded at
church, on Sunday, to catch his eye for a mo
ment, it was in vain she watched through the
whole'service for a second glance it was not
to be had. She had seated herself in the pew
before him and behind him, but all to no pur
pose; he manifested an obstinate adherence to
his diffident manner, until at length she deter
mined to " carry the war into Africa," as the
politicians say, and resolutely entered the same
pew he occupied, and set herself right bang up
against him. Ben turned pale, quivered slight
ly, and although brought up all standing, sue-'
ceeded in regaining his breath after the shock, j
but look at her he would'nl. In vain she held
the hvmn book at him fruitless was her ma
nmuvre of going upon her knees during prayer,
land directly fronting him. He stoidly fixed
his eyes on a stripe in his pantaloons, and re
fused 10 see the full blown charms before him.
Sally noticed his indifference, and grew des
perate. Ben noticed her shawl tremble, and
he became afflicted with a slight ague too.
Mailers were coming to a crisis, and soon they
banged in collision, for at the very moment
Ben was preparing io jump into the next pew,
Sally dropped right over upon him in a well
executed fainting fit. The poor fellow came
nigh falling out of his boois, he was so fright
ened; but seizing her wiih a show of courage,
he held her up while the women plied her with
their salt bottles. After a few preliminary
sneezes she revived, the salt, of whose proper
ties we have great faith, had effected another
cure. The dropping flower which hung upon
our hero now, in a voice soft as the breathings
of an instrument you like, implored Een to take
her home to her ma how could he refuse ?
he couldn't! Raising her form, which some
writers would call fragile, but which I, who
wish to be particular, state as weighing about
one hundred and seventy-five pounds. Ben
conducted her form from ihe sanctuary; and by
this weak act of his head, which was aided by
all the strength of his body, he "put his foot in
it."
Whon they arrived at the maternal mansion
Ben was about to modestly take his leave, but
Sally come the fainting manoeuvre over him
again, and he was forced to carry her into her
ma, where she went through another reviving
process; but as her eyes became lighted by con
6ciousnees they lit on Ben, and off she went
again, to his infinite terror.
" What hev you bin doin' to the gal ?"
screamed old Mrs. Clintoc, fastening the door
at the same timo, and seizing the tongs.
u I aint bin doin' nuthin'," ay8 Ben " 'cept
helpin her hum from nieeiin," whar she tuck
sick."
" What aiU you, Sally, my darter ?" inquired
ihe old lady in a sympathetic whine; "has this
feller been triflin' with your feelin's, my dear?"
" No, I ain't teched her !" shouted Ben.
" Oh! Benny, Benny," murmured Sally "you
know you hev, you deceiver !
Hevint you got my feelin's in your power so
I can't do nothin' with 'em, and when you
know'd I loved you so I could'nt do 'thought
you, then didn't you persist in not lookin' at me,
till I fainted? you know you did."
" I'll swar," says Ben, "that I never teched
her feelin's, and more'n that, I don't want 10,
so I reckon that'll satisfy you, and now I'm
goin';" saying which he moved for ihe door.
"No, you don't," said Sally's ma; "you ain't
agoing lo trifle with my gal's feelin's in that
way, and then clar out and leave her !" and
seizing Ben by the collar, she snatched him
back from ihe door with one hand, while she
shook the tongs with the other, Sally all the
time sobbing a synpony, broken now and then
with the exclamation of "Oh, you cruel crea
tor." " When you've bin actin' this way with the
gal," said Mrs. C, "why don't you behave like
a gentleman, and gin yourself up to her as a de
cent husband. You young fellers hev no right
to be goin' round the settlement year arter year,
lookin at the gals, and aggravatin' ihur feelin's
and never gitiin' married lo none on 'em. Con
sarn your pictures, you shan't do it with my gal,
so thar's an end on'i--Sally's bin waitin' for you
long enough, so gin' in at oust."
" What in the airih do they want me to do?"
inquired Ben.
"Promise to marry the gal rite strait, or you'll
ketch it," says the aged mamma, brandishing
her tones.
Ben looked at ihe daughter as if taking in
her dimensions she was tolerable for thirty,
and he thought she might be enduredthen
taking a step towards her, he gently placed his
hand upon her arm, took another look at the old
lady and her tongs, and "gin in !"
"I'll hev you, Sally," says Ben, "if you will
only quit a weepin', Jest stop cryin', now and
don't say nuthin' more about my deceivin' on
you, 'cause I didn't, and you kin hev me when
ever you kin git me."
This declaraiion set Sally smiling through
her icars, like a widow who had received a
second offer, and, jumping up, she threw her
arms round Ben's neck, and encouraged his
bashfulness by bestowing upon him a fond kiss.
He wished to leave now for home, but two full
grown men, cousins of Sally, either by acci
dent or invitation, dropped in on a visit, and
hearing how matters stood, proposed, for the
fun of the thing, to have the marriage straight
way solemnized. Ben was about to object, but
cousins, old ma and tongs made the odds so
strong against him, that, like a mutton, he suf
fered himself to be led lo the sacrifice. The
Squire of Linville was called in, ihe knot tied,
the bride kissed by the magistrate, and then
the bridegroom was permitted 10 go home for
some of his fixins. We would fain slop here,
but as we are recording Linville history it is
our duty to unflinchingly relate the termination
J of this match. Ben immediaiely packed up his
duds, pocketed his spare change, and, before
ihe morning sun had shed his golden beams
over the flower-be-gemmed prairies of the west,
was on his way towards the Santa Fe trace, Ica
vinghis bride' to go 10 grass, or any oilier wid
owhood. To a friend whom he afierwards met
in Mexico, he remarked that he had become
fully convinced lhat Sally had designs upon
him, and hoped to make him a husband under
false pretences. Sally persists in wearing
black for Ben, because, she says, it is becom
ing to her complexion.
Don't be too Particular. An Irishman
once dreamt that he visited the Lord Mayor of
London, who treated him with the greatest hos
pitality, and asked him if he'd ' take a little
suthen.' He replied that he wouldn't mind a
little whiskey punch. 4Hot or cold?' inquired
his lordship. His guest preferred it warm, and
while the Lord Mayor was out healing the wa
ter, the Irishman awoke from his delicious
slumber. 'Och!' cried he, how I wish I'd said
cowld.'
A pedlar overlook another of his tribe on tho
road, and thus accosted him:
Hallo, friend, what do you carry ?'
Rum and WhUkey,' was the prompt reply
1 Good,' said the other, 'you,, may go 'lieud,
I carry Gravestones!' ; - ...
The Duration of Human Life.
The medical writers have often treated of
the duration of human life, and the influence
which particular trades and conditions have up
on the health of individuals. From these some
cutious and well attested particulars may be
elicited. It is ihe general opinion that longev
ity depends in a great measure upon descent
from long-lived ancestors, and many instances
of the fact may be addticed. Dr. Franklin,
who died in his 84th year, was descended from
long-lived parents his father died at eighty
nine, and his mother at eighty-seven. Dr.
Fothersill states that he never knew a single
instance of persons who had lived io be eighty
years of age, who had not descended from long
lived ancestors. More women live to be old
than men, but more men live to be very old
than women. Indeed, there appears to be pro
vision in nature for ihe mutual accommodation
of the sexes ; for at those periods of life when
women are the weakest, and most subject to
disease, men are stronger than at any oilier pe
riod of their lives ; then when men by old age,
become weakened, women again have the su
periority of strength. More persons who have
married live to be very old than persons who
have remained single, which is a strong argu
ment against celibacy, though contrary io the
popular notion, for " old maids" and " old bach
elors" are such common phrases, that one would
be led to believe lhat those conditions invaria
bly conferred length of days upon those who
preferred to remain in them. It is observed
that ihe number of births exceeds, in town and
country, the number of deaths, but the propor
tion varies in different districts, according to a
variation of physical and moral causes. A nu
merical proportion of births always exists be
tween ihe sexes ; but more males are born than
females, which appears to be a provision of na
ture for maintaining a due equality between ihe
number of ihe sexes ; for ihe life of man, inde
pendent of destructive wars, is more exposed
to accidental causes inducing death, -jjian that
of woman.
Sadler has pointed out a curious fact which
seems established by the tables he has publish
ed, as follows that if a man marry a woman
younger than himself, the number of boys in
the family will exceed the number of girls ; but
if the man be younger than his wife then ac
cording to the disparity between iheir respec
tive ages, the number of girls will predominate
over the number of boys. Of all new-born in
fants, one out of four dies the first year ; two
fifths only attain ihe sixth year; and. before ihe
twenty-second year, nearly one half the gene
ration is consigned to the grave. Attained,
however, to the age of maturity, one out of ev
ery ihirty or forty individuals die annually.
Such are the general facts which appear io
have been established concerning the duration
of human life, but its extension and accompa
nying happiness must be materially modified
by ihe habits which each individual in his own
sphere is led to adopt.
" All of Use Olden Time."
In these latter days of speculation, plunder,
j and degenerated morals, a recollection of the
worth of the high minded founders of our Gov
ernment is to me like the gushing of tho cool
spring to ihe mid-day traveller in the heated
desert. A friend relates the following anec
dote of his boyish days :
Having occasion to write, he thought to sup
ply himself wiih a sheet of letier paper from
the desk of his grandfather, who at the lime
had an office under tho Federal Government.
" What are you doing there?" said tho old
gentleman.
" Getting a sheet of paper, sir."
" Put ii back, sir, put it back ; that paper be
longs to the Government of the United States.'"
This old gentleman had the courage to affix
his name to a certain document, pledging " his
honor and his fortune" for its support, but he
lacked the courage to appropriate to his private
use ihe properly of the Government. How
droll would he appear were he among us now.
A wealthy man in Kentucky married a pret
ty brunette, with whom he fell in love some
lime ago. While ihe honeymoon ' was yet
bright, a man from Tennessee came along, and
found ihe wife io bo a runaway yellow girlbe
longiti" lo.hjnu . . . . t. ' i
We fixed that Chap. -A few day a in,1
a gentleman (?) came inio our sanctum amKtonk
off his hat, and picked up a piece nfniaiiuieript'
and commenced reading very closely,
reached over and took a letter out lii hat.- im-,
folded and commenced reading it. He uas mV
busy that he did not discover how we were,
paying him in his own coin, until we asked lunr
what u wa3 his correspondent was writin-jji
him about a woman? "Why, look here, squire,"
says he, "you surely are not reading my pri
vate letiers?" "Certainly, sir," :aid we ynii
are reading our private manuscripts." He wa
plagued begged us not lo mention his name,
promised to do so no more, and we quit even.
Exchange.
Man's Abii.ities.--No man knows what he
can do until he is fully resolved lo dowhaiever
he can. When men have thought themselveV
obliged to set about any business in good' earn
est, they have done that which their indolence
made them suppose impossible. There are
several abilities lo the possessor, which lie hid
in ihe mind, for waiit of an occasion io call
them forili?
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Pew Civility". Have you not mistaken the.
pew, sir? blandly said a Sunday Cheater-field
to a stranger as he entered it.
'I beg pardon,' replied the intruder, riing to
go out, 'I fear I have 1 took it for a Christian's
, ,m
There is or is not.
For every evil under the sun.
There is a cure or ihere i none.;
If there is one, try to find it ;
If there is none, never mind it.
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'Commenced 'Fjarlv. The Middletowu (N.
J.) paper contains the marriage of Master Da
vid Turner, of Palermo, aged seventeen, to .Mis
Almira Brown, of Liberty, aged fourteen, after
a courtship of five years. '4
An Interesting Laborer.
There is a man employed at ihe lroii estab
lishment of Mr. Cooper, in South Trenion, who
has visited nearly every part of the world, bus
spent many year among ihe Indians of ihe Pa
cific ocean, and speaks more Indian languages
probably than any other man in the Stale.,
Mr. Sweeney (for such is his name) U em
ployed at the scales near ihe basin, where ha
weighs all the iron, coal, &c. which isreceiv
ed or sent away; and his business employs him
so constantly that he has little leisure. for con
versation. He is an American, and"we believe
was born in New York.
At ihe age of fifteen ho went to sea, and for
sixteen years scarcely visited ihe United States..
He was employed much of his lime in the
whale fishery among the Pacific islands, and
his constant intercourse wiih the Indians, and
his facility in acquiring" languages, soon made
him master of some thirty different Indian dia
lects. At one lime, in consequence of severe indis
position from scurvy and oilier causes, which
threatened to prove faial if he remained on ship
board, he was set ashore on the Marquesas Isl
ands, and was there alone wiih ihe Indians be
tween three and four years. Here he mingled
with them on ihe same fooling as a native born
Tndian, and rose first to be the chief of" his
tribe, and then the chief of all the tribes in iliat
group of islands, reiaining his power and con
sequence up to the time of his departure. At
this lime his arms, legs, and body are covered
with the tattoos which are customary in iliu
Pacific groups, and their color, he informs us,
has not changed a particle since the day this
painful operation was performed, which iVnow
some seven or eight years. ;
Mr. Sweeney is a steady indusiriou? man.
and has a wife, an English woman w Well eve.
whom he married in ihe Pacific. One nf n
daughters still remains in some of ihe Pacific
Islands, but the rest of his family are with him.
He is about thirty-four years of age.
Trenton Gazette.
Tbc Largest City in the World.
There is a city in the interior of China called
Sou Tehou, which has a populaiion of five mil
lions wilhin a radius of four leagues round:
Mr. Hedde, a French missionary, who has.vis
ited il, is given as authority for ihe laiemenk
It is ihe greaiest silk .market inGliinaa;
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