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Death of the Flowers.
BY BRYANT.
The melancholy days are come,
The saddest of the year,
Of wailing winds and naked woods, -
And meadows brown and sere: -Heaped
in the hollow's of the grove.
The withered leaves lie dead.
The)' rustle to the eddying gust,
And to the rabbit's tread -The
robbin and the wren has flown.
And from the shrub the jay,
And from the wood-top calls the crow. .
Through all the gloomy day.
Where are the flowers, the gay young flowers',
That lately sprung and stood
In brighter light and softer airs,
A beauteous sisterhood ?
Alas ! they all are in their graves,"
The gentle care of flowers,
And layipg in their lowly bed,
With the fair and good of oursu
The rain is falling where they lie; . ,
But cold November rain . -Calls
not from thegloomy eaith
The lovely ones again. "
The wild flower and the violet,
They perished long ago,
And the wild rose and the orchis died ;
Amid the Summer's glow;
But on the hill the, golden rod,'
And the astor in the wood,"
And the yellow sunflower by the brook,
In Autumn's beauty stood,
Till fell the frost from the clear, cold heaven,
As falls the plague on men,
And the brightness of their smile was gone
From upland, glade and glen.
And now when comes the calm midday,
As still such days will come.
To see the squirrel and the bee
From out their wintry home ;
When the sound of dropping nuts is heard;
Though all the trees are still,
And twinkle in the smoky light
The waters of the rill ;
The south wind searches for the flowers
Whose fragrance late it bore,
'And sighed to find them in the wood
And by the stream no more.
And when I think of one who in
Her youthful beauty died ,
That fair meek blossom that grew up.,.
And faded by niy side ;
In cold moist earth we laid her,
When the forest cast the leaf,
And we wept that tine so lovely
Should have a life so brief ;
Yet not unmeet it was that one
Like that young friend of ours,
So gentle and so beautiful,
Should perish with the flowers.
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The Ball Axletree. This i the sim
esi of all contrivances, and iiV its very absence
complexity, it bec6mes a1 matter of wonder
hat it fcfrould so long have escaped the it'igen
ny of others of ouf host of inventor. A
rouve ta turned in the a'xfe, and a cotrespnn
nig groove in itffe btVx, nfto which groove a're
ropped one or two steel balls no contrived
hat one- half of ihe ball is always in the groovl
if th box, and the oiher half in Mhe groove
!he axle thus nrevemitiw ih i.mvhiKiIm v nf ih
vWl coming loose, and in a considerable de-
se removeing the frietibn. The box is per
tly air-tight, and contains a considerable
a'tuii v of oil. and ihf nroce of fpmnvina th
weel when necaary Js reduced to the very
H'reine of simplicity.
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loojpKon nephew, sir.
Nature and Propagation of Cholera.
Aiming the official documents received at
Wahington from the U. S. Consulate in Lori
don, are reports of investigations at St.-Peters
burg that serve to relieve the public mind of
the. lear ot contagion. A report by Dr. Adier
Crawford, who hits had abundant opportunity
for farming an opinion 011 the subject, says ;
"Vith reflerence to the much. disputed ques
tion whether the Asiatic Cholera is- infectious
or noi, I think, on an impartial consideration of
the circumstances by which its irregular, and
rapid progress over large regions of the globe
have been attended, that it is difficult 10 draw
any other conclusion than that disease origi
nates from some latent influence of the atmos
phere oji the functions of animal life. The pe
culiarities, in the condition of the atmosphere
which exert this influence, have hitherto es
caped detection ; but they are of a .similar na
ture, 10 those by which blights are produced in
the, vegetable, kingdom. That it is an epidemic
propagaiedby, atmospheric causes, and not by
infection, .seems now to be very generally ad
mitted.. This is the opinion of the members of
the medicaj profession in Russia, no lhat all
attempts to .check its progress by quarrautine
regulations have been given up, more especially
since, in 1831, they w.ere found perfectly una
vailing. A quarantine , of ten days wai recently
impeded by Sweden.on the .appearance of the
Cholera in St. Petersburg;, but the disease has,
notwithstanding, broken out in that country,
showing how utterly useless are all such mea
sureK. One of the circumstances, which strong
ly favored the opinion that the disease spread
by infection, was the fact of its following .the
course of rheis on which there was much
traffic ; bat I have shown that this circumstance
can be satisfactorilly accounted for by other
canoes besides infection.
The same report gives the following impor
tant information concerning thfe dKiregard of
Diet, ckc.
"Several persons fell victims to the Cholera
in St. Petersburg, in consequence "of having
transgressed the rules of diet essential during
sueh a season. An; elderly lady, having eaten
salad at sppjp'er, was taken ill next morning,
and dtt-d of the Chojera in eighteen hours.
Gen. Chambeau, private secretary to the Em
press a gentleman advanced in life, having
cauoht a chill by incautious exposure to a cold
wind on board a steamer, was seized with dira
rhcea and symptoms of sinking the same eve
iiiut!, and died, in about eighteen hours. A lady
of lush station Retting at defiance the cautions
against fruit, indulged freely her wjsh for straw-
ln-nifis : she was suddenly taken very ill of
the cholera, and her life asinfthe greatest
danger, tho' hopes were entertained of her re
covery when I left St. Petersburg. . I frequent?,
ly heard of persons being attacked, and losing
iheir lives after commuting: some inprudence
in diet. It is important to rsmember that many
thiiius which, agree with a person in ordinary
limes, may disgrace during the prevalence, of
Mich a disease as t he cholera, in consequence of
the increased, susceptibility of the bowels. The
dt?eae was Drought on in others by fear ; the
-on of a respectable bookseller returned from
college toiis family, in good health for the va
cation in June ; hq b.ecarne.so panic-struck on
ilm breaking out of the cholera, that be could
uo he prevailed on to go out of the house, and
objected even to ihe windows being opened, for
tear of lettitjg in the contaminated air. After
some time he was. suddenly seized with the
dieaein its most malignant form, and died in
about twelve hours.
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New and I'literestiiiarDiscprerylhc
JOforse Chestnut useUras Pood.
Some ingenious Frenchman ha discovered
a very simple process of extracting , the bitter
oil fiorri the meet of the Horse chestnut,' which
then leaves it a palatable food, quite as Agree
able to the tasteand as nutritious as -corn meal
or potatoes. Chemistry has not yet been able
to change stones into bread, but 11 now makes
sweet bread ffom horse chesfnut. The pro
cess is as follows:' First take the sk'in ofl'the
chestnut, then grate or (if dried)' grind the
meats into meal : throw into the meal a little
carbonate of soda, or pulverized sal. soda; mix
ihe mass well, and put in a little water if it is
too dry. After this is w'ell mixed, place the
mass under u stream of water until all the bit
ter oil is rinsed out, leaving tluyneal to nettle
to the bottom. This bitter oil is areen sub
stance, and when it has ihus been subtracted
from the meal, it is found to be a flue nutnci
ous paste, of brilliant whiteness and vastly
agreeable to the taste. It is said that two or
lj three horse chetnul trees will give as much p'al-
oIL r. '1 .r t.-i ..i- ' ' j
pviiiuic iuim as a wuuieneiu 01 potatoes ; unu
! fopig8 and catiJitT is unsurpassed.
Oid Cori'PARisor. A pious but odd cler
gyman in New Hampshire, while endeavoring
10 rYnpress on his hearers a sense of the all
seeing pd'wur oT God', said. "God i like a
striped stfuirfel hi a' storte-wall' he can' see
vou, but you can't see mm.
Tho cost of cigars smoked evnh day, in
The Humble, Happy Man.
Oh pass not by yon lonely man "
With haughty look and proud, ( j
Though sunburnt ishia brow, and though
His back with toil is bowed.
His .simple cup and daily Tread,
, By industry are gained ,
And calm each night he sinks to rest,
1 His hand with fraud unstained.
Within his humble, whitewashed cot,-
This lesson Kings might learn-,;
" How happy virtue can make those,
. Who toil their bread to earn."
No glittering crest shines on his wall,, . ,
Which tells of lineage high, ; .. ..
But there's a hope within his breast,
The proudest may envy. -
An honest heart, a life swell spent '
A hope beyond the tomb, .
Aye crowns his board with sweet content,
Mid poverty and gloom;
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An Opium Debauch. j
One of ihe objects at this place lhat I had the
curiosity to visit, was the opium smoker in -his
heaven ; and certainly it is a moslfearful sight,
although perhaps not so degrading to the eye
as the drunkard from spirits, lowered to the lev
el of the brute, and wallowing in his filth. The
idiot smile and deathlike "stuper, however, of
the opium debauchee, has something far more
awful to the' gaze than the beastiality of the lat
ter. ' . 1
. The rooms where they sit and smoke are stir
rpunded by wooden coaches, with places for
the. head 10 rest upon, and generally a side
room is devoted to gambling. The pipe is a
reed of about an inch in diameter, and the ap
erture in, the bowl for the admission of the opi
um is not larger than a pin's headi The drug
is prepared with some kind of conserve, and a
very smaljl portion is sufficient tocharge it, one
or two whiffs being the utmost that can be in
haled from a single. pipe4 and he smoke is ta
ken into the lungs-asifrotn the hookah in -India.
On a beginner one or twa pipes will have an
effect, but an old stager will continue smoking
for hours. At the head of each coach is placed
a small lamp,- as fire:must be held. 10 the drug
during the process of inhaling ; and, fromthe
difficulty of filling and properly, lightning the
pipe, there is. generally a persoii'-who wates
upon the smoker to perform the office. A few
days. of this fearful luxury, when taken .to ex
cess, .will gi.ve a pallid and haggard look to the
face ; and a few momhs, or even, weeks, will
change the strong and healthy man into little
bet.ter l.han an idiot or skel'ou The pain they
suffer when deprived of the drug alter long
habit, no .language can explain ; and it is only,
when under its influence that their faculties
are, alive. , - .,
( In the houses devoted, to their ruin, these.in
fatuaied people may he seen alanine o'clock in
ihe evening-in all the ..different stage,- Mime
entering jiaJf distracted, to feed the craving ap
petite they had been obliged to .subdue
during the day ; others laughing and talking
wildly, under the effects of a, first pipe1: while
the coaches around .are filled with their differ
ent occupants, languid, with an idiotic smile
upon their countenance, too much under (he
influence of the drug to care for passing events,
and fast merging to the wished-lor consmma-
o.n. 5 . ... ...
T,he last scene in this tragic play is generally
a room in the rear of the building, a peeie
of dead house, where lie stretched those who
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have passed into the state of bliss the opium
smoker madly seeks. an emblem of the long,
sleep to which he is blindly hurying. (Six
months in China, by Lord Jocelyn.
Mind your own Business.
Yes, mind your own business ! What need it
concern you if Joe Snooks is courting Mary
Dobbs ? They are undoubtedly rational beings,
and can conduct their love affairs in a becomming
manner, without any of your interference. What
if Caroline Short has got a new dess or shawl
It is probably paid for, and cost you nothing.
Therefore why need you interest yourself so
deeply about it Wliat if Bill Swift, the merchant,
has become insolvent ? You are not amorig his
creditors ; and why can't you let the man have a
little enjoyment 1 Suppose Kitty .Nimble does
dance ; it costs you nothing, and as she has a
frail constitution, a little exorcise of this kind will
benefit her geneial health,. This intermeddling
with the affairs of others, to the utter neglect of
their own, is becoming a great deal to prevalent
with a certain class in small villages. There are
none of us who escape misfortune, or are free from
error , but to be made the butt and by-word of a
set of gossipping, intermeddling simpletons, mere
ly on account of inevitable misfoftunei of a single
error committed, or for no fault at all, is far from
being Agreeable. If this class of beings have any
business of their own', we, hope that out of &hame
for themselves, arfd for the cfedit of lteir reld'tives,
they will attend to t.
The Dead Letter Office.
The story of Adele Barron, published in a re
cent number of the Knickerbocker," which turns
on some missing leller, has- brought to - mind an
incident related by Frank Granger, as having oc
curred when he was at the head of the post office
department.- A letter was one day received from
a postmaster of a town in New Jersey, enclosing
a letter very old and dingy, and covered with fly
specks in every part, except a taps had . 'passed
over it, indicating that it had been for a long time
placed in the paper or card rack of some bar room
or shop. The superscription, if there -ever had
been anyj had entirely faded away. The 'post
master wrote that he had found it in hip letter-box,
and had tried in vain to discover who had depos
ited it there in order that it might receive a proper
direction, as it apparently contained money. As
it had not been advertised, it was not in strictn.ess
a dead letter ; but he sent it to the department in
order that he might dispose of it. The- Postmaster-General
took the responsibility of opening, it,
and found, that it was dated at Philadelphia-, in the
year 1821,-(twenty-one years before,) and enclosed
a twenty dollar bill of the United States Bank. It
was addressed by a man to his wife, at a small
village not far from the post office where the let.
ter was found, informing her that he (the writer)
should start for home in two or three days? but
that, as his brother was about to leave for home,
he took advantage of the opportunity to send her
by him the enclosed sum of, money, wherewithsto
make preparations for the approaching weddingi
TherPostmaster-General caused a letter to be
written to. 'the address of the writer informing him
of the circumstances. In-the course of a4 week 4
reply was received', from a-female, who stated that
the writer of.the Idtter was her father, and the one
to whom it was addressed was her mother, both1
of whom were dead ; that 30 years before on the
eve of her own wedding, she remembered that her
father and uncle had quarrelled, the former having
been. led, from suspicious circumstances, to dis
credit' the latter's assertion. that he, had lost the
letter, containing money entrusted to -his care, and
to insinuate that he had apprppriated'the amount ;
to. his own use. , The consequence was, lh.it all
intercourse between the tw,o families had from
that time been suspended, and that she should im
mediately write to her uncle and cousins, who
still lived at a distance, to beg that.the intercourse
and friendship sq. -long interrupted) raight,.be, ,re
sumed ; the disco very, of this letter having satis
fied, her of what she so .long expected, that her,
father was wrong, and relieved her mind from a
weight of painful anxiety. :, ., K 1
Whether any farther clue:lo the manner in which
the letter had arrived at-the office at so. .-late a
period was ever ascertained, is not known ; the.
probability 4s that the letter, had been, picked up
at or near some country tavern on. the road, m and,
was placed with the variety ,of Jbusiness cards and,
miscellaneous papers which, usually fill-the- tapes,
over die mantle-piece of such a place, and. there
it had remained from year to year, perhaps con
cealed from notice by other papers ,apd letters,
y'ntilvby a charige of landlord, or.an improvement
of the house, the landlord, had, disposed of it by
depositing it in the nearest post office.
A. Yankee J2cpscd.
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Some timo, as Mr. Jeremiah Higgins from the
town of Litchfield, Connecticut, was leisurely
strolling along .Broadway, he was accosted by a
very gentlemanly looking individual, who very
politely inquired if he would like to see the ecilpse
of the .moon a. little in advance of the rest .of the
people of Gotham. Mr. Higgin's eyes opened re
markably at this announcement, and, as a matter
of .course, he consented to be shown the wonder
ful curiosity. The stranger took Mr. Higgin's
arm, and they marched togeher to Sherwood's, on
the corner of Park Place tand Broadway .where
they indulged, in sundry plates of oysters, and nu
merous " private drinks," for which the resident of
Litchfield,, Connqcticut, made himself responsi
ble. m After reaching the pavement thCj stronger
asked Mr IIiggin3 if he was prepared to look at
the ellipse, and receiving a reply in tho affirma
tive, they proceeded, aim, in arm, to an opposite
corner, where the proprietor of a mammotli. tel
escope was stationedvith his Apparatus, .which
was open to the inspection of all at the remarlia
bly low sum of six and a quarter cents pgr head.
Mr. HiggiYis " planked the dough," but haying pre-
viousiy inauigea m several glasses 01 tne genuine
article, he was unable to see the moon in conse
querice of the telescope becorning refractory, and
not keeping its position longrenrugh for him to
bring matters to a focus. " How creation long it
is getting right," ejaculated Mr. Higgins, bringing
his right foot before his left with commendable
dexterity. I never saw sich a one on arth."
'Have patience," said the st anger, uyo"u fnust not
expect to see it in -an instant. Remember it ha3
thousands ofvmfl.eV.to ftavel. Have patierice."
I t61l you aTore and 1 tell ydfi agini I vvbuld
have patierice, bill She' Woli'i have anything'totto
with me'
" Now mind let me have your swatch and
I'll tell you when to keep youreyes skinned,'!
aaid the stranger, "'and then you will not have to
strain them so much." . .
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' Mr. Higgins handed him his watch, and conjj
menced his observations. t .
It's a coming now,. look sharp, quick, said the
siranger, giving' the emigrant from Jjitchfield a
private nudge ; " look'sharp, I tell you, it's about.''
"Do me 'so again.";.,vociforated Mr. Higgins..
" I fell it it's a coming."
There was no reply to this last observation
all was quiet as a country church yard in Ociobp.
Mr. Higgins looked around ; the stranger had dis
appeared, not only with the apurtenances of ,h.s
own individual anatomy, but with Mr. Iliggihs'
gold watch, arid his pocketbook containing some
SI53. ; - ,: ..,
He was not long in discovering' that lie had
seen the eclipse, and " nothing else."
!- Hyperbole. .
" Talk about.yer darned fast lines," said a Yan
kee to. a Cockney, who was so-impudent, as in ihe
natural way of his countrymen, ;to commence
bragging on English rail-roads, while the couple
were progressing at the rate of forty, miles per hour
on the -Birmingham railway. " Why, Mister, this
ere road is purty considerable for England, but it
won't do for .'Meriky. We ride a straddle of tele
grafs there, -when we're in a'hurry, but when we
ain't, ve take the railroad. ,Now them road
ain't slqw, as I tell you.. J was comin' from Phi I
adelphyto York, when I,2es;to a feller sittin close
by me, who on airth nwr3 this big garden witlL
white palins around h . .
" I don't see no white, palins," ses he.
' I don't see nothin' else," ses I, "and a mighty
tall fence it is, too.'.'. ,, '
The feller bust out a'-Iaffin'. " Why, you darned!
fool,", ses he, Them's the telegraphic posts."
And sure enough, when the engine feller shopped.
l sawanem posts a Hundred yards apart, and we
had been going so all. fired 'fast, they looked for
all tho w.orldjjke. white palins." .
At this moment the bell rang as a.s'tatibn sig
nal, before the;C.ockney had fully recovered from
Jonathon's Jast dose. .
" What's, that. bell ringing furl" inqutred the
latter of his. English friend.
' Wesar.s approaching D ." "
" W'ell them kind of bell fixiris. does for these
ere -slow cai3, but we can't use 'em in 'Meriky."
'Ah, why not" ... . "'
" Travel too fast fact, beat.sound all tosmafh.
We would slap through a village before the sound
of a bell was in the neighborhood."
, ." You don't say so !" exclaimed the astonished1
Cockney.
-, a Fact again, by thun'derj Why, 1 was on the
York cars when therh etc steam whistles was
first tried. Maybe you've heard of the terrible
accident V
'No."
" Well, sir, we were going it strong, ifarry
kanes were no whar all nat.ur seemed shakiri' to?
pieces when several miles off, something vas
seed on the track. The whistle was let loose,' and
she did scream awfully but it was no manner 6'f
use, for aftpr tumblin' over aspan of smart hofoes,
and a big market wagon, T was just raisin' fro'm
a pond, whim along came the whistler's holler,
mixed up with some big cusses I mind to have
heard the engine man rip out when he firrft saw
the wagon. But the poor man was dead when
his voice arrived. Fact got the documents."
" Extraordinary !" exclaimed fhe horror-struck.
Cockney ; "and do you use whistles yet?"
" Bless your soul, no. Congress stopped them
right off ; and now we acts on the philosophic
principle that light travels an all-fired sight faster
than sound, which will do perhaps for this gener
ation. We, now tell 'em we're comin' by bustin.
out a light that does astonish animal creation, and
I reckon rather surprised the planetary system at
first. When it was first tried at night, the roos
ters on the road commenced ciowing, and the
chickens all got down from their roosts, thinking;
it was daylight."
The cars suddenly stopped, when Jonathan hav
ing arrived at the point of debarkation, looked
around at the bewildered Cockneyv nodded his
head, and with a little carpet bag chucked under
one arm, and an umbrella under the other, tuok.
his leave, sober as a deacon.
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Fashionable Wives.
" As well might the farmer have the Venus da
MediciSjplaced in his kitchen for a wife,'1 savjsiho
llov Henry Colman, in one bf his agricultural lec
tures, " as some of our fashionable women. In
deed it would be hiuch bbtter to have Lot's, wife
standing there, for she might answer one useful
purpose she might sail hts bacon.
The funniest article yet is a patent iron shin
with percussion collar. The thu never
wears out, and by touching a springy new col
lar spriugs up until a half a dozen are xhaus
led. A patenA sheyt-iran nock-cloth, accom
parties it !
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