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Inciter from Elilm Burritt.
We cannot say whether iho following, from
the "Learned Blacksmith," now in England,
will he read in this country with the more sur
prise or pity, h is full of food for thought:
An Hoar with Mature and the Nailers.
1 was suddenly diverted from my contempla
tion of this magnificent scenery by a fall of
heavy rain drops, as a prelude of an impending
shower. Seeing a pate open, and hearing a
familiar clicking behind a hedge, I stepped
, through into a little blacksmith shop, about as
l large as an American smoke house for curing
j bacon. The first object that my eyes rested i
upon was a full grown man, nine years of age,
land nearly three feet high, perched upon a
stone of half that heighth to raise his breast to
; ihe level of his faihci's anvil, at which he was
1
1 r fnrL tfifli oil tYiA tt ri. P i..,i i
. m v ..mi fill mi. m"ui ui 111s 11 u siiori
i;ay .HeUiod of Captssrin? tbc CasSle ,
f Saa J unn I'UHa, at Vera Cvnx. j ;i1 ms mafcing nails. I say a full grown man,
Mr. Wise, the xronaiii, has come before the fox I fear he can never grow any larger, phj-s-
niiblic, in the columns of the Lancaster, (Pa.) icaMy or menially. As I put my hand on his
H .'publican, with a plan for taking the business jsuoniaer, in a laminar way, 10 make myseli ai
out of the hands of Generals Taylor, Worth, i home with him, and to remove the timidity with
and Patter.-on, and doing up the Mexicans ai i wIjicJt my suddrn appearance seemed lo in
a fhoit notice. We do not think our readers i spire Jdm, by a pleasant word or two of greet
would be satisfied with less than the whole ar-j ing, lu ilesh felt case hardened into all the in
,ule : j duratio it of toiling- manhood, and as unsuscepii-
Mr. D. S. Kiefi'er : The present condition hie of growth as his, anvil block. Fixed man
of ibe war with Mexico, will require our forces i hood had set in upon him in the greenness of
to reduce Vera Cruz. And it is acknowledged his youth, and there he was by his father's side,
on all aides lo be an extraordinarily well fprti-, a slimed, premature man; wiih his childhood
ficd point of defence, almost impregnable to the ' cui off; -with no space to grow in between the
common mode of warfare, and at best cannot ; cradle and the anvil block; chased, as soon as
be laken in that way, without a great sacrifice he could stand on his litile legs, from the hearth
of life and amuniiion. 1 will suggest a plan lo stone 10 the forge stone, by iron necessity, thai
our War Deparlment, that will render the cap-; would not let him .stop long enough to pick up
ture of ihe Castle of San Juan DTJIloa as fea- a ler of the English alphabet on the way.
ty that was on him, was that he could not give
his children the letters. They were good chil
dren, for all the crock of the shop was on their
faces, and their fingers were bent like eagle's
claws with handling nails. He had been a
poor man all his days, and he knew his chil
dren would be poor all their days, and poorer
than he, if the nail business should continue 10
grow worse. If he could only give them the
letters, or ihe alphabol, as they called it, ii
would make them the like officii; for then they
could read the Testament. He could read the
Testament a little, for he had learned the let
ters by fire light. It was a good book, was the
Testament; never saw any other book heard
tell of some in rich people's houses ; but it mat
tered but little with him. The Testament he
was sure it was made for nailers and such like.
Ii helped him wonderfully when the loaf was
small on the table. lie liad but little time to
read it when the sun was up, and it took him
long lo read a little, for he learned the letters
when he was old. But he laid it beside his
...... raBj.jqgjuu.Lx.iaiitJU tg.TfBaLijng
Federalism.
There is nothing more utterly contemptible
than a war of phrases and epithets without
meaning; and no adversary so base as he who,
shrinking from the opposition of nianiy argu
ment, skulks into the mean shelter of party
slang. The Washington Union, the mirror of
the administration, and if so, reflecting a spirit
irritable and dwarfish to a degree that inspires
compassion, seeks to stigmatize the people
for it is the people who have uprisen against
thu mad mcanliess of the administration -as
Federalists. We find in the first lines of three
articles in thai journal (all the courage of Palo
Alto, Resacha de la Palma and Monterey com
bined could carry no ordinary man further into
that Serbornian bog) the following : The first
is entitled "The Spirit of the Federal Press;"
the second commences---" the temporary suc
cess of the Federalists in Pennsylvania," &c;
the third beeins "if the Federalists of Penn
sylvania had succeeded," &c; and the entire
sheet has Federalism marked all over it. The
dish at dinner lime and fed his heart with it. I peculiarity of ihe present Administration is a
ii mule and easy as ihr launching of a frigate. JO! Lord John Russell I think of it! Of this
while his children were eating the bread that
fell to his share, and when he had spelt out a
line of the shortest words, he read them aloud,
and his eldest boy, the one on the block there,
could say several whole verses he had learned
in this way.
It was a great comfort to him, to think that
Jeemes could take into his heart so many ver
ses of the Testament, which he could not read.
He intended to teach all his children fn this
way. It was all he could do for them ; and this
he had lo do, as all the other hours he had to
oe at i lie anvil, j lie nailing business was
growing harder, he was growing old, and his
family large. He had to work from four o'clock
contempt of the intelligence of ihe people.
They forgei ihai our common school system
has been at work. Tricks that might have been
available in the .past, are now regarded by the
people with contempt. The Union knows that
there is no Federal party how in existence; it
knows that the majority party thus spoken of
is not, cannot be, in any way identified with
the buried and dust-mingled Federal party.
Was Harrison's vote, with its earthquake voice,
a Federal result? Is the majority in Pennsylva
nia now a Federal majority? If so, the strong-
t npinnMli" Slnl 5i PVilnrfi! T f n r nnmr '
forgotten for twenty years, has a potency which,
here, it never had. Pennsylvania is truly De-
been reduced ; and we trust that ihi, policy
will lie persisted in. There are tint few living
politicians rcmetiibered, even by the aiiuqim
rian, as Federalists, and those few are all con
nected with ihe administration. The Whig
democracy of the North can ask no greater fa
vor than that the Union should continue to ad
minister lo our people the doe intruded for
the South. Rip Van Winkle alter his Ion-
slumber was not more completely behind the
times than is the Union in this attempt to revnrt
in the North an issue for a life-tune forgotten.
The manifestation by ihe Union, and kindred
prints in Pennsylvania, of a d'eterminaliob u
gratify the spleen of conscious discomfiuirtt-Dy
unpacking their hearts with scunillous epithet,
renders ii necessary to enquire whether iho
same policy will be as well relished if adopted
by the Whigs. The present larilf vyaa framed
by IJritish councils, reported lo the British Par
liament, is British in iis character, objects and
interests : is there any just reason why w
should not characterise its supporlers as BRI
TISH TORIES! We are disposed io obserw
every rourtesy towards our hdsiile friends; but
we are also determined to give them even tho
advantage of a word its the present cmiiesi.
North Amcrtcun
Use of a ftTose.
A gnol! story is told of Mozart at the time he
i pupil of Haydn. The latter challenged
it. i u ,u- ..u.. i oin m, m Enrrlishnian's- snn. nforerl bv hU mmhr .M,nii the mornintr. till tr.n o'clock at nirrht m mrn mocrauc ; ner recent action was uemocraiic ;
uorcl to many, still a brief detail of it, 1 think, weaocd, on a high, cold stone, barefooted, be-' eighteen pence. His wages averaged only about , her fulure me w"511 be s0- The Uhion knows
will satisfy the most incredulous of its efficacy.! fore the anvil ; there lo harden, sear, and blis-i seven shillings a week : and ihere weie five of; that there iS n0 FeteraI Parly 1,1 ,llls Sla,e! and
-,..-., i v. .... i : ii .t :.. .i... rm;i.. .i,, ji,.. ....i.i I knowinn it, would it consider it fair or courte-
lii ine nrsi piacc, it win require tne construe-1 nanus neauiig anu Hammering , laumj im-j luuiu .
lion of a balloon of common twilled muslin, of ragged nailrods, for the sustenance her breast' earn. Ii was hard to make up the loss of an
about one hundred feet diameter. This ma-, can no longer supply! Lord John! look at
bine, properly coated with varnish, will retain ! those nails, as they lie hissing on the block.
its buoyancy for many davs or weeks. It will Know you their meaning, use, and language ?
hour. Not one of their hands, however little,
ous in others to borrow its' own policy, and say:
" How ill white hairs become a Tool and jester.
could be spared. Jemmy was going on nine j We sPeak' and have evcr sPoken, of all par
,.r nf 5,o on.l n hnlnfnl ln,l ua ,oc o.wi ,1, ! ties witlirespect. Democrnisin the largest
J ui j ' ' ' . j twiu 1 1 v. 1 1. 1 w i iuu Ills w CfcO , UHU I IJ U j
could work ofTa thousand nails a day, of the
smallest size. Tho rent of their little shop,
ss time, if necessary. The is unconsciously arraying against you, against j tenement and garden, was five pounds a year,'
may be accomplished on 'he British government, and iho misery of Brit-! and a few pennies earned by the youngest of
be capable, whi inflated, to raise over 30,000 Please your lordship, let me tell you; I have poor man looked at him doatingly. Jemmy
p..unds sny 20,000 independent of its own made nails before now; they arc iron cxclama
wtight, net work, car and cable. It can be in- tion points, which this unlettered, dwarfish boy
fluted in a day, or les
process of inflation
land, or on board a man of war at sea, as cir- ih literature, for cutting him off without a let-! them was of great account.
cumstances may require the car to be loaded ter of the English alphabet, when printing is ! But, continued the father, speaking cheerily,
with peicussioned bomb shells and torpedoes done by steam ! for incarcerating him, for no I am not tho one to complain. Many is the
to, the amount of 18,000 pounds, which will a' 0Ii 's r "is parent's side but poverty, into
leave 2000 pounds for ballast and men. Thus ' a dark, six-by-eight prison of hard labor, a
n mil be ready lo be placed in a position for ! youthlcss being ; think of it; an infant hardened,
deadly action, m a very short time. The cable , almost in it's mother's arm, into a man; by toil
by which it is to be manoeuvred, may be at j ,nal hows the sturdiest of the world's laborers
least five miles long, so that the balloon, at a j " ho come to manhood through intervening
mile of elevation, would leave ihe vessel, oi J )'ears f childhood !
land position, which act as ihe retaining point, j '"e boy's father was at work with his back
out of the reach of the Castle guns, and under i towards me when I entered. At my first word
the cover of our own batteries. The man of! 01 salutation to the lad, he turned around andistr0n, and it all comes on him. He is an old
war balloon, hovering a mile above ihe Castle i accosted me a little bashfully, as if unaccustom- j3h man, as I was saying, yet he not only work:
man that has a harder lot of it, than I, among
the nailers along those hills and in the valley.
My neighbors in the next door could tell you
something about labor, you may never heard
the like of in your country. He is an older
man than I, and there areseveu of them in his
family ; and, for all that, he has no boy like
Jemmy here, lo help him. Some of his little
girls are sickly, and iheir mother is not over
like a cloud of destruction, would be entirely 1 e(1 10 lne sight of a stranger in that place, or
iui of danger of the enemies guns, since they reluctant to let them inio the scene and secret
could not be made lo bear at an object imme- f poverty. I sat down on one end of his nail
diately above them. The position of the bal-j hench, and told him I was an American black
loon as to heighth and distance from the retain- j smith oy trade, and that I had come in to see
ing point, could be easily maintained by keep-j how he got on in the world, whether he was
Jug a propel eye toils ballasting. As it would J earning pretty good wages at his business, so
Jiecnme lightened by the discharge of shells ! lhat he could live comfortably, and send his
?ud torpedoes, an adequate quantity of gas can children to fechool. As I said this I glanced
also be discharged.
If a gun from the Castle could be ever made
in bear upon the war balloon, it would soon be
Mlenced by the rapidity, precision, and certain
ly, with which the deadly misniles could be
hhoweiod down upon them.
With this serial war ship hanging a mile
inquiringly io the boy, who was looking stead
ily at me from his sione stool at the anvil.
Two or three little crooked-faced girls, from
two to five years of age, had stolen in timidly,
and a couple of young frightened eyes were
peeping orer the door-sill at me. They all
looked if some lask was allotted them in the
above ihe fori, supplied mih a thousand per-'soot and cinders of their father's forge, even to
cushioned bomb shells, the Castle of Vera Cruz
could be taken without the loss of a single life
the army, and at an expense thai would be
tompaiativcly nothing to what it will be to take
it by the common mode of attack.
Through ihe medium of your journal. I would
mosi respectfully suggest thi plan to our gov
ernment, and will tender my services for its
construction, and when coiistructftd will, if ne
cessary, most cheerfully uuderinke its direc
torship into actual service, at a momenl'd warn
ing. Very respectfully, your friend and fellow
Atttzen, ' J. WISE.
Laiicastsr, Oct. 22, 18GX ' - ' " -
the sharp eyed baby at the door. The poor
Englishman he was as much an Englishman
as
he Duke of Wellington looked at his
bushy-headed, bare-footed children, and taid
softly with a melancholy shake of the head,
that ihe times were rather hard with him. It
troubled his heart, and many hours of the night
he had been kept awake by the thought of ii,
that he could not send his children to school,
nor leach them himself to read. They wore
good children, he said, with a moist yearning
in his eyes ; they were all the wealth he had,
and loved them. the more, the harder he had to
work (qj them. The poorest part'of the pover-
eightecn hours every day at his forge, but every
Friday in tho year, he works all night long, and
never lays off his clothes till late of a Saturday
night. A good neighbor is John Stubbins, and
the only man just in our neighborhood who can
read the newspaper. It is not often he gets a
newspaper ; for it is not the like of us that can
have newspapers and bread, too, in our houses
at the same time. Bui now and then, he begs
an old one, partly torn, at the baker's and reads
it io us of a Sunday night. So once in two or
three weeks we hear something of what is go
ing on in the world something about corn
laws, and the Duke of Wellington, and Oregon
and India, and Ireland, and other places in
E. B.
England
A young girl, eleven years old, in Kingston,
Canada, was recently fined 2s. 6d. for stealing
gooseberries from ihe garden of Mr. Cameron.
A suit was brought against the latter for an at
tempt to brand the character of the young girl
with crime, and a verdict was rendered of 62
10s. in her favor.
Lvdian CoRK.-The British Government has
given orders that the mills at the victualling yard,
Plymouth, shall grind, night and day, Indian
corn, for the supply of the suffering Irish pop
ulation. It is expected that those mills will
grind 38,400 pounds 'of mea j per day.
sense, we confide in the patriotism of all par
ties, and therefore assume no arrogant privilege
of condemning any. Wc hare even given to
J those who sustain a war, the most dangerous
ever waged against the principles of democra
cy, the title which they claim. It is not be
cause wo arc ignorant that the leaders of ihe
so-called Democracy were among the most vio
lent members of the old federal party. Ii is
not because we have overlooked the fact that
the Administration opposes every principle and
measure sustained as vital, fifteen years since,
by the Democratic party, and sustains all lhat
tiiey Uien opposed. 1 his is irue, not as to one
principle or measure, but as to all all; and we
challenge the Union to meet us upon this issue.
Can Democracy change in everything, and still
claim its original title? Or, what is more, shall
those who have abandoned everv thing that con
stituted the Democracy of ihe olden and better
time of our politics, be permitted to reproach
those who cling to the old citadel, serve under
the old flag, and sustain the old principles
with Federalism !
The Whig parly is not the Federal party
Nine-tenths of its members have attained the
right of suffrage since the Federal party rushed
into the arms of an ultraism at war with all tho
previous views of any considerable portion of
the American people. But far be it from us to
cast a reproach upon the memory of the party
of Washington a parly which, right or wrong,
came fresh from the American revolution, with
its leaders at its head, and the love of country
at its heart. That parly was ever the cham
pion of the Union: does tho government organ
hate it because Madison's articles m the Fed
eralist, conflict with its design to divide tho
Union and create a mongrel and slave-stained
republic at the South I
Tho Union knows nothing of the North if it
expects to effect any thing by ringing the chan
ges of Federalism. It is only known in this
State aa characterizing the leaders of the ad
ministration party. The mass of our people
have claimed the right of suffrage since the
word was forgotten; and the miserable attempt
to revive it is regarded only with derision.
We refer to it only to show the wretched straits
to which the organ (if ihe administraiion has j
wa
his pupil io compose a piece of music which
he could not play at sight. Mozart accepted
the banter, and a supper and champagne were
to be the forfeit. Every thing being arranged
between the two composers, Mozart took his
! npii mill n sripfl nf ransr niifi In fiv iiiiiiiiIp?
dashed off a piece of music, and much to iho
surprise of Haydn handed it lo him, saying:
'There is a piece of music, sir, which you.
cannot play and I can you are to give it the
first trial.
Haydn smiled contemptuously at the vision
ary presumption of his pupil, and placing the
notes before him, struck the keys of ihe instru
ment. Surprised at its simplicity, he dashed
away until he reached the middle of the piece,
when stopping all ai once he exclaimed:
How's this, Mozart? How's this ? Here
my hands are stretched out to both ends of the
piano and yet there's a middle key to be touch
ed! Nobody can play such music nor even,
the composer himself.'
Mozart smiled at the half excited indignation'
and perplexity of the great master, and taking
the seat he had quilted, struck the instrument
with such an air of self-assurance that Haydn
began to think himself duped. Running along
through the simple passage, he came io lhat
part which his teacher had pronounced impos
sible io be played. Mozart, as any body i
aware, was favored, or at least endowed, with
an extremely long nose a prodigious nose,
which in modern dialect,'stuck out about a feet.'
Reaching the difficult passage, he stretched
both hands to the extierae ends of the piano,
and leaning forward bobbed his nos-c against
the middle key which 'nobody could play.'
Haydn burst into an immoderate fit of laugh
ter; and after acknowledging the 'com,' de
clared lhat nature had endowed Mozart with a
capacity for music which he had never before
discovered !
A Balance.
We have, we believe, once at least, admon
ished our readers io avoid the abominable abuse
of the word "balance," which has for along
time been tolerated, perhaps encouraged, at tho
South, but which, like the fever and agur,
seems to bo working northward. We hate,
within a day or two, seen in our own neighbor
hood, the word " balance" used to donote re
mainder, or residue. Thus : " Part was used,
and the balance was sold. Balance, is the dif
ference, and not the residue; and we hope that
good taste will prevent the misuse of ihe term,
before it acquires a currency lhat will seem io
be proscriptive.
The man who sells his neighbor len hogs-
i f I . r in i
Iieaas m su.ii, iur kixiv aonars, ana receive
from him eight barrels of mackerel, for fifty lcfl
lars, will have- a balance of len dollars receiva?
ble; but if of his ten hogsheads of salt, he parts
with only six hogsheads, he will not have a
bqlance,.bx a residue, -Of remainder, r of ihe sait
U. S. Gazette..
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