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FOR THE JEFFERSONIAN REPUBLJCAN.
The Shipwrecked Mariner.
BY REV. J. W. MECASKEV.
The storm heaves high, and roaring waves
Dash o'er the blacken'd deep,
The tempest in its fury raves,
The winds their revels keep :
O'erhead the sky with darkest hue .
And pitchy clouds, is hung;
The gallant ship and hardy crew
Have their death requiem sung.
Now torrents of descending rain
Heave up the ocean's bed,
The helmsman steers the bark in vain,
While horrors round them spread.
The sails in tatters fly, the masts
Go over by the board;
To heaven, his eye the sailor casts
Tor succor to afford.
The ship rolls on, and fearful rides ?
Over the boiling sea;
-No hand its course securely guides
Wildly Tind madly free.
We're lost," the cry terrific sounds
Above the ocean's roar;
On the sunk rocks, the vessel bounds
And stands upon the shore.
One only man of all the band - , .
That trod that vessel's deck, '
"vVas saved upon that desert sand " ' .
-From that distressing wreck.
The used up.
'The jig is up: I have been flung
Sky high and worse than that,
'The girl whose praises I have sung
With pen. with pencil and with tongue".
Said " No" and I fell flat.
-Now, I will neither roar nor rant,
Nor my hard fate deplore ;
Why should a fellow look aslant, :
If one girl says she wont or can't,
While there 's so many more !
-I strove my best, it would nol do
I told her she'd regret :
She'd ruin my heart and chances tooy
As girls don't like those fellows who
Their walking papers get.
. ln-truth I laved her very well, .
And thought she loved me
The leasaiiwhy I cannot tell; ' .
But when ! wooed this prettyjbelle,;-,
'Twas a mistake in me.
She's dark of eye and her sweet smile
Like some of which I've read,
Is false for she with softest guile ,
Lured me -'mong. rocks near love's bright isle,
Arid then she cut me dead.
i
My vanity was wounded sor.e, . : t
And that 1 hatclhe worst;
You see a haughtylook I wore, -And
thought she could cot but adore -
Of all men me the first..
"Well, thank the fates once more Tin free,
At every shrine I'll bow
And if again .a girl cheat me, , .
Exceeding sharp I guess she'll be,
I've cut my eye-teeth now, f
h like the bumble bee I'll rove, . '
Just when and where I pjease:
Inhaling sweets from every grove; 4
.Humming around each bower I love,
And dancing in each breeze. H. D.
VTcsifaU, Pike co., Pa.
.3 . uteri man, noticing the avaricious propen
ri' :uT.onc of his fellow-workmen, said " lie
ihko-mian dat in de wedder wot ish so cold
it ie.ver va, he never, vears drawers nor
Jhw, and goes .bare-foui-edi in-hUhboots."
From the National Intelligencer.
An&thcr ZiCttcr from ITIaj. Dowuinsr.
ON THE ROAD TO THE WAR,
AUGUST , 1847.
Mr. Gales & Seaton :
My dear old friends : I spose you'll be ama
zinly disapinted to find I'm away off here, push
in on to the seat of war, and didn't call to see
you when I come through Washington. But
you musi'nt blaine me for it, for I couldn't help
it ; the President wouldn't let me call : he said
1 was petting quite too thick with vou, writins
letters to you a"nd all that. And when he spoke
about the letters tie iookcu Kinu oi reu ana
showed considerable spunk.
Says he, Major Downing, I have put a good
deal oPconfidence in you as a friend of my ad
ministration ; and if you are a friend to it, you
must let Gales and Seaton alone ; keep out of
their way and have nothing to do with them :
they are' dangerous, mischief-making fellers,
eternally peckm at my administration, all. wea
thers. Let mc try to keep things ever so snug,
and lay my plans ever so deep they are sure to
dig them all up, lug them into the Intelligencer,
and blaze 'em all over the country. Confound
their pictures, they are the most troublesome
customers an administration ever had ; they've
come pretty near swamping me two or three
times. So, if you are my friend, I warn you!
not to be so thick with Gales and Seaton. J
Well, says I, Colonel, you know I am a:
friend to you and your administration, as much
as I ever was to the Old Gineral and his ad
ministration ; and I shall stand by you and do
every thing I can to help you out of this scrape
you've got into about the war. But I don't
know as that need to make me break with Gales
and Seaton.' We've been old friends so long,
it would be kind of hard to give 'em up now ;
and I don't hardly think they are quite so bad
as you think for. They may not mean to do
you so much hurt when they put these things
into their paper, and only put them in because
they think folks want to know what's goin on.
Mr. Richie sometimes puts things into his pa
per that folks think don't do you no good.
The President give two or three hard chaws
upon his cud of tobacco, and says he, Yes, Ma
jor, that's too true, it roust be confessed ; and
it annoys mo beyond all patience. But then
I have to forgive it and overjook it, because
Mr. Richie don't mean it. The old gentleman
is always sorry for it, and always willing to
take it back. And then he's such a tuff old fel
ler to fight the federalists, I can't have a heart
to acoldat him much about his mistakes and
blunders.
Well, says I, Colonel, being you've named
federalists, I want to know if any of them ani
mals is really supposed to be alive any where in
the country now-a-days. Seeing sich awful ac
counts about 'em in the Union paper all the
time, 1 inquired all the way along through New
England, where they used to be the thickest,
and I couldn't get track on one ; and when I
asked the folks if there was any federalists any
where in them quarters, they all stared at me
and said they didn't know what sort of critters
they was. When 1 got to Downingville I
asked uncle Joshua about it. He said, in his
younger days there used to be considerable
martyof 'em about but they wasn't thought to
be dangerous, for they never was much given
to fighting. But he said he guessed they'd all
diod"oui long ago, for he hadn't come across
one this twentv vears. So now Colonel, says
I, how is it they areso thick in Mr. Richie's
paper all the time ?
At that he give me a very knowing kind of
a look, and lowered his voice down almost to a
whisper ; and says he, Major, I'll tell you how
that is. When Mr. Richie was a young man
he used to fight a good deal with the federalists,
and took a good deal of pride in it ; and now
the fancies and scenes of his youth all seem to
come back frosh to his mind, and he can't think
or talk about any thing else. You know that s
nfionlimps the wav with people. As ho always
used to have the name of a smart fighter, I give
him the command of the newspaper battery
hum to defend mv administration. Bnt 'twas
a mistake as 'twas when I sent Taylor into
Mexico ; 1 didn't know my man. No matter
wbnt fnrr:os was rathering to overthrow my ad
ministration, Mr. Richie somehow didn't seem
to see 'em ; no matter how hard tliey nreti at
t I T
me, he didn't seem to hear it ; anu wnen i
called to him to fire back, he would rouse up
and touch off S few squibs with about as good
aim a:s the bovs take when they fire crackers
on the 4ih of July, and did about as much exe
cution. At last I found out a way that I could
. . . - t it 11
make the old veteran fight like a iurK ana noia
on like- a bull dog. ft was by giving him a no
lion at any time that he was fighting wjth fed-
erahsts. Since l made that discovery ne s oeeu
more help to me. Whenever I see the enemy
entrenching himsolf around me, and bringing
up his batteries to fire into my administration,
all I have to do is to whisper in Mr. Richie's
ear and say, "Mr. Richie, the air smells of fed
eralism ; you may depend upon it there is fed
eralists abroad somewhere." In a minute,
you've no idea with what fury the old.gentel
man flies round, and mounts his heaviest guns,
and sets his paper battery in a. roar. His shots
fly fight antL left, and sometimes knock down
friends as well as foes. To be sure they don't
make a very great impression upon the enemy;
but then there's this advantage in it: if he don't
kill or beat off the enemy, he keeps the admin
istration so perfectly covered wilh smoke that
the enemy can't seethalf the time where to fire
at us. On the whole, Mr. Richie is a valuable
man to my administration," notwithstanding all
his mistakes and blunders.
Jest theri the door opened, and who should
come in but Mr. Richie himself. As he opened
the door he ketched the sound of the two last
words the President was saying.
" Mistakes and blunders !" says Air. Richie,
says he ; what, have you got something more
of Scott and Taylor's blundering in Mexico?
Nothing more to-day, says the President.-
I was only telling Major Downing how their
blunders there have come preity near ruining
the country, and how it is absolutely necessary
to get the staff out bf their hands somehow or
other before they quite finish the job. I'm go
ing now to try one more plan, Mr. Richie ; but
be careful that you don't say any thing about it
m the Union, and blow it all up. I tried once
to send Col. Benton on for the same purpose,
and Congress blowed that up. Then I sent
Trist on for the same purpose, and Scott has
blowed him up. Now I'm agoing to send Ma
jor Downing, not as a regular Chaplain, but as
a sort of watch upon them, you know, to work
round and do the business up before any body
knows it. He isn't to go to Scott nor Taylor,
nor have any thing to do with 'em, but work
his way into Mexico, and go right to Santa An
na and knock up a bargain with him. I don't
care what he gives. The fact is, Mr. Richie,
the country needs peace and I'll have peace,
cost what it will. -. . -
An excellent idea, says Mr Richie ; an ex
cellent plan, sir. I'm for peace at all hazards,
if it is to be found any where in Mexico that
is. if, we can eet hold of it before Scott or Tay
lor does. And I think Maj. Downing is just the
man for it a true stanch democratic republi
can ; and whatever he does will go for the ben
efit of the administration. Now the country's
shins are aching pretty bad with the war, if we
can fix up a good smooth peace right off, and
nol let Scott nor Taylor have any hand in it,
who knows, Mr. President, but it might make
our administration so popular that you and 1
might both be elected to serve another four
years 1 But when is the Major to start !
Right off to-night, says the President, or,
rather, in the morning before daylight before
any body in Washington finds out that he has
oot back from Downinsville. 1 have forbid his
calling at the Intelligencer office, and I don't
want they should find out or mistrust that he's
hfifin here. If thev should Sei wind of the
movement, they would be sure to' throw some
constitutional difficulty in the way; and try to
make a bad botch of the business.
The President shut me into his room, arid
charged me not to. leave the house, while he
sent for Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Marcy to fix
up my private instructions. W nile ne was gone,
Mr. Richie fixed me up a little bundle of pri
vate instructions too. on his own hook, moddled,
he said, on the Virginia Resolutions of '98.
Presently the President came bacK witn my
budget all ready, and give me my instructions,
and filled my pockets with rations, and told me
how to draw whenerer I wanted money ; and
before daylight I was off a gaod piece on the
road to the war.
To-dav I met a man poinj? on to carry letters
V a a - 1 f
to the Government from Gineral Scott s side of
the war, and I made him slop a little while to
... ' i
take this letter to you ; lor I was airaiu you
might begin to think 1 was dead. He says
Si!ott is nuite wrathv about the Trist business,
i - j m
and wants to push right on and take the city of
Mexico, but Mr. Trist is disposed to wan ana
see if he can't make a bargain with Santa An
na's men. I shall push along as fast as I can,
and Pel into the" citv of Mexico if possible be
fore Scott does, and if I only once get hold of
-ft T t I I .t
U I J 1 1 XktKflM A. -w- -
trade.
Shinto Anna I hmvn nn ( ntlhl I tsnail III H KG a
I don't know yet whether t shall take Scott's
road or Taylor's road' to go to the city of Mex
ico : it will depend a little upon the news I get
on the wav. Two or three times, when I have
been stopping to rest, I have been looting over
my private instructions. iney are iusi rdio,
n.r.Ani'illn JVTr 1? i r ll i ct'tl
1 remain your old friend, and the President's
private .bmbasseder, . t
MAJOR JACK DOWNING-.
Mock. Oysters of Corn.
Take a dozen and a half largo ears of corn,
grate all the grains off tho cob as fine as possi
ble. Mix wuh the grated corn tnree largo ta
h n.qnnnn fulls of sifted flour, the yolk of six
eggs well beaten. Let all be well incorporated
by hard beating. Have ready a trying. pan, an
equal proportion or lard and iresli ouiier ; noiu
it over the fire till it is boiling-hot, and then
nut in portions of nearly as possible in shape
unil size as fried oysters. Fry them brown
and send them Jo the table hot : they should be
. t i.
made near an men inicK.
.
Origin of tlie Huirian Bafifis.
" The Charleston Mercury, in giving some brief
but interesting reminiscences of Nehemathla, a
chief of the Seminoles, relates the following to
show what is the tradition, among this tribe of
tho Indians at least; in relation to the origin
of the white, red and black races : " In the
progress of the negotiation at Camp Moultrie,
in 1823, between the U.S. Commissioners and
the Indians, it became important to ascertain
the population of the Seminole nation. By re
quest, a census was handed in by the chiefs,
and oh' the commissioners asking if the state
ment embraced the blacks, and who were slaves,
there was so violent a burst of indignation from
Nehemathla as to require rejoinder and re
proof from those who represented the United
Stales. On explaining the motive of the inqui
ry, however, thai the commissioners 4 in the
allotment of territory ,' were desirous of provid
ing for the negro as well as the Indian, Nehe-
mathla was reconciled to the supposed indignity
cast upon his people, arid the negotiation pro
ceeded and terminated harmoniously. On the
exchange ot documents and treaties, tne com
missioners received the head chiefs of the Semi
noles ai an entertainment. On the removal of
the cloth, (for Nehemathla, Blunt, and, many
others, were not ignorant of the forms and cour-
tesies of the dinner-table, j and while the glass
was'circulatintf. Nehemathla adverted to the un
pleasant incident of the morning, in which he
had exhibited ao much temper. Jtle stated mat
they had among them a wise man, a philosopher,
who had communion with the Great Spirit, and
that if agreable to the commissioners, it would
be oratifvino to him that he should be heard,
that they might read in his revcalmenls the on-
ly apology he had to oiler lor tne displeasure
he had expressed on the negro being considered
a member of the Red Family. The wise man
commenced :
In the betrinnin!?. the Great Spirit made
o c
this earth and he was pleased with Its hunting-
grounds and rich soils, its mountains and val
leys; its oceans and its rivers. He decreed
that he would people it. He labored lor seven
davs and ho made a negro. Though gratified
at this first of human beings, into whom he had
blown the bieatli of life, he was not satisned.
He Worked seven days more, and produced an
indian. Though more pleased wilh this second
than the fust ol his creation, he was not atto
aethfir reconciled to the Red Skin. He re
turned for seven days more to his labors, and
the result was the White Man. He gazed witn
admiration upon this last as the perfection of
his works But the negro and indian were
still alive, and what was to be done to promote
harmony, and preserve peace. The spirit
j t 4
thoupht awile. and assembled his three races
of human beings, at the same time placing be-
frirn iliAm thfpw Vinofi hnvps. On one was
marked ' Hoes and Axes ;' on another ' Bows
nrwl Arrniss'' nnrl on I Vi ft third ' Books.' He
said to the negrd; ' is I made you first, in jus
tice vou shall have the first choice.' He se
lected the hoes and axes. The Indian became
restless; frantic, with apprehensions, and un
der his native impulses, was almost in posses
sion of the box of bows and arrows before the
Grpm Snirit said ; You now choose. Tho
box of books fell to the white man,; not by ac
cident but design." With the most emphatic
action, then said the Indian philosopher :
The Great Spirit has decreed that the negro
shall fell the forest and till the soil to make
subsistence for man. The Indian shall roam
the wilderness, and canoe on the rivers, arid in
hunting and fishing seek his pastime and' sup
port. The white man shall read and gather
these stores of knowledge, from which he is to
derive the rules for instructing and governing
the others. While these relations exist, peace
and harmony will prevail ; disturb them, and
no other result can follow but annihilation to
the Black and Red race. The negro and In
dian will disappear before tho march and ra
pacity of the white man."
A Remarkable Phenomenon.
The Cincinnati Signal relates the following,
which, if authentic, is certainly very singular :
Tho most remarkable Phenomenon wo ever
heard of ia now to' be seen in this city. It con
sists' of two young pigs, havfng the heads of ele
phants. The proboscis; mouth, teeth, ears and
eyes, and sct far as we have been able to judge
from a superficial examination, the head, per
fectly formed of an elephant. In one case the
proboscis is thrc-Avn over and back of the1 head,
in the position we sometimes see the elephant
hold it. hi the other, it hangs' over the mouth.
The eyes of one are in the usual place for the
elephant's, while in the other they are situated
near the centre of the forehead; not unlike the
hippopotamus. The skin of ono of these pro
digies has hair like a hog tlie o'her precisely
like an elephant. Their history is, that the
menagerie was passing the neighborhood, arid
the animals were turned in the field where the
sow was to feed an elephant being of the
number. They are the result. We hope some
of our scientific savans will examine those cu
riosities, and report the result to the public.
We believe doubts have beon entertained of
the possibility of such an occtirrence,if &o,ihey
exist no longer. --
Roman Catholic Relics in Georgia -
We are indebted to the politeness of Mr.
W. B. Johnston, of Macon, Georgia, for tho
ability to introduce to the acquaintance of our
readers two relics bf the .olden time, when
Ponce de Leon sought the Fountain of Youth
in the garden of Florida, or Hernando de Sour
toiled after the Eldo'rado of the West, in ili
same fatal direction. These relics are two sil
ver Crucifixes, a litilo exceeding eight inches
by seven, of rather rude or plain workmanship;
with a few circular devices, furnished with ring-
and evidently intended as ornaments, for the
neck. On one of them there a're rude figures'
of an owl and of the head and neck of a horse,"
seemingly scratched wilh the point of a knife
or other sharp instiument ; and having also1
several letters, confined within the rim or bor
der of the central device, several of which' wo
have not succeeded in satisfactorily decipher
ring. Some of these letters are clearly numer
als, but of a nature and age with which we anf
not familiar. On the envelope in which they
were sent us io endorsed the following, iii a"
great measure, conjectural solution of the hie
roglyphics: " Jesus Chrisms NpstoVRedemptor:
16 J 5 " The name " De Soto" is also endorsed
on the envelope, as an antimation, by the wri
ter, that these relics must have been left with
the Indians by some Roman Catholic Priest, or
Priests, who accompanied Hernando de Soto"
in his renowned and ultitnatefy disastrous con
quest and exploration of Florida, under whiclr
title was then included several of cur Southern
and Gulf States. They were taken from a sniaji
Indian mound, in Murry county, Lteorgia, near
Coosawallee Old Town. The letters seem to
us to be as follows, viz. IYNjiq'qU. The
second letter may possibly be a V, or even an
ornament or device, its shape beiug that of a"
witie glass or chalice the shank being below
the level of tlietother letters, and resting on a
crescent-shaped saucer. The date given abovo
is certainly wrong, if the relics be connected
with the era of De Solo. That chivalrous ad
venturer set sail from Havana, on his celebra
ted expedition, May 12th, 1539. On ihe 25th
of the same month Whiisunday) he arrived at"
and named the Bay of Espifitu Santo, and on
tho 31st landed a detachment of three hundred
soldiers and took possession of ihe country in
the name of Charles V. On the 3d May, 1540;
he stretched his way northward, and traversed
the Apalachian or Alleghany range of mountains;
running through the northern part of Georgia,
and ihence went onward to the Mississippi. :
. . it t .
past, and it possii
solving the enigma of their inscription, and fix
ing their chronology. (Charleston Uour.
A Fact foi; ffalnrailists.
The Norfolk News states that a toad which
had been buried under a reversed flower pot,
three feet beneath the surface of the ground,
by Mr. Samuel Clarke, on the 14th of June,
1846, was, by the same gentleman, disinterred
on the 14th ult. No sooner was the little ani
mal takeri li'pj than he gave evident proofs that
to be " buried alive" did not, to him, necessarily'
involve cessation of existence! for he instantly
commenced skipping about, many of his bound's
extending to tho height of six inches into tho
air! His mouth was closed up with a white"
skin, but his eyes were as sparkling as when,
on that day twelvemonth, he was put below tin?
ground.
Cldse Quarters.
1 I can tell you a better story than that,' add
ed the captain. ' I felt pretty considerable fris
ky one day, and I went up the lighmfng rod
hand over hand, as high as the vane, f had a'
first rate prospect there ; but thatjn't all. A
thunder cloud came over, and I saw it was go-;,
ing to strike the steeple, and thinks I to' myself
if it hits me I'm done up. So I got rtfady and
when the craclc came, 1 gave a leap up; let the
lightning strike and run down, and then caught
hold
again.
A Ready Rule for Farmers.'
A " quarter of wheal" is an JEngli'dif measure
of eight standard1 bushels so if you see wheat
quoted at 5G shillings it is 7 schillings a bushel.
A shilling is 22 1-2 cenis ; multiply by 7 and
you have $1 57 1-2 per bushel.
In-Kentucky, corn, is measurod hy the bar
rel, which is fi.v'e bushels of shelled "cnrrV. At
New Orleans a barrel of corn is a flour h:inl
full of ears,. At Chicago, lima Is sold by the
barrel, and measured in ihe smallest sized cak
of thai name that will pass muster. A barrel
of Hour is seven quarters of a gi6ss hundred
112 pounds which is the reason of its being
of itie odd measure of 196 pounds. Ar barrel
of tar is 20 gallons, while a barrel of gun-pow-;
der is only a small keg holding 25 pound, and
mai reminds me oi cotton, a bale oi which. i
400 pounds, no matter in what sized bundlessiv
may be sent to market. ;
; A venerable man' says : " Le't the slandered"
take comfort it is only at itle fruit irees ihiev
throw stones." - ' . '''J
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