21 c fginilii tziUtc to ,riftratttrt, eitutittinu,
El
E. BE 4rr Tv . Proprietor
eattti.
3311. C. S. Zedixtmn
•
ESPECTFULLY °tiers his professional
rg B,rvi, es to the citizens of Carlisle anti sur•
rot/tiding country.
Utliou and rosittence in SeSth Hanover street,
dire.ttly opposite to the " Volunteer Office."
Gin.lisle, Ap1.20, 1853
GEdatal•E• Z. 1188ETZ,
W.ILL perform al
operations upon the
• 7 teeth that may bore—
rovired Tor their prosurvotion. Artificial teeth
inserted, from a single d too,th to onontiro set, of
the nt )st scientific prtAciples. Diseases of the
in 3.lth atid irregularities carefully treated. 01
lie at the residence of his brother, on North
Pitt Street. Carlisle
O.IIIORGEI MGM,
JUUICE OF THE PEACE. OF
FICIi at his rosidence, cornet of (Wen street
and ute Pulilte Square, opposite guritrtolder's
IJ,tel. La addition to the duties of Justice of
tke, k!eace, will attend to all kinds of writing,
as de - lids, bands, mortgages, indentures,
articles oragreement, notes, &c. '
Ilarlisle, an 8'49.
Da. X. C. ZaOOIIICIS,
WILL perform all
oPerationsupon the
Teeth that aro roquir
red for heir preservation, such as Scaling,Filing,
Plugging, &c, or will restore the loss of thorn.
by inserang Artificial , Teeth, from a single tooth
to a full sett. ICI - 011ie° on Pitt street„a few
doors south of tho Railroad Hotel. Dr. L. is a 1
out from Carlisle the last ten days of every
month.
DR. S. B. ar.xErrrn,
(VFW E, in North Ilttnoverstreet adjoining
R.." Mr. Wolf's store. Office hours, more par
ticularly from 7 to 9. o'clock, A. M., and from
sto 7 o'clock. P. M. ) fiunell:os
G:,111. COLE,
ATTOIR.NEY AT LAW, will attend
promptly to all business entrusted to him
Office in the room . formerly occupied by Wil
liam Irvine, Esq,, North Hanover St, Carlisle.
April 20, 1852.
HENRY J. WOLF ,
awroigiriev ..IT Ira Ifr,
Office, No. 2, Beetem's Row:
A LL professional' business strictly attended
Lt. to. The German language spoken as rend
ily as the English, 4Sep 14 '1853
011 N W. BELL, BENJ. DARBY
301!N W. BEiLL di. CO.,
20 ara
' GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
HOWARD STREET,
Opposite' Centre,
Ir BALTIMORE•
Carlisle Female Seminary.
commeoce . the
1 SUMMEMSES'aItiN of their betninury
on toe second Monday in April, in a new and
commodtous school room, next door to Mr.
Leonard's, North Hanover street.
Instruction in the languages ant 'riming, no
extra charge.
Music t.t i4ht by an experienced teacher,at
ah extra charge. (setn3tl)
Plainfield Classical Academy
Near Carlisle, Pa; -
lIHE 15th Session (live months) will corn
ence.Nov. 7th. The uuddings ere new
and extensive_ (one erected last Full). The
situation is all that can be desired for health
' fulness and moral purity Removed from the
excitements ot Town or Village the Student
may here prepare for College, Mercantile pur
suits, &c. All the branches are taught which
go to form a liberal t ducat on. A conscien
tious discharge of duty has secured, under
. Providence. the present nourishing condition
of the institution. its-future prosperity snail
-be maintained by the same means, -
.'Perms—Board and Tuition (per
'session), • $5O 00
For Catalogues with' lull information address
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THE SIX PH SESSION vyili.commence on
MOnday, - the - seventh of November next.
Parents anti Guardians and others, interested
ars requested to inquire into the merits of this
Institution. l'he situation is retired, pleasant,
healthfal and convenient of access;
the course
orinstruction is extensive and_tliorough, and
the accommodations are ample.
lalamtructors.
MD. Denlinger, Principal,land teacher of Lan
guages and llathematica.
Dr. A. Hi:mt. - HT, A. 61., teacher of Ancient
Languages and Natural Science.
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Natural Scienvis. ,
Hugh Coyle, Teacher of Music.
T. kirk AVliiie.leacher.of Plain and Orna
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11f1011011 Music, 10 00
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IMMI
Fresh Drugs, Medicines &c. &c,
.
• , I have just received from Philadoj
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cingmearly every article of Medicine
now in use, togetner with Paints,
Oils, Varnishes, 'Turpentine, Parilimery, Soaps,
Stationery, Fine Cutlery, Fishing Tackle,—
Druhee of almost' every description, with (1
endelss variety of.other articles, which I am di
tormined to soil nt the vault Lawns- prices.
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and others, are respectfully requested not to pass
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that every article will be sold of a good quality,
and upon reasonable tome.
Mnv3o
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and pnrelititas other manures. •
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nov3olo
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FRENCH NIERINnEs.
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ling low nt • WEISE. & CAMPBELL'S.
Attentiqn, Lin?.eburners !
';gui, our Com.; of , ' ' • • •
k . " • • E. BIDDLE.
• • gar ONLY $2 40 nn, ,
inn' Cm.
LIIIII_INSURANCII.
r k • , ,
FIE underslgrm I havingiMen the • agent 'o
• the Keystone Life instirMwo• Compaq'',
l
,of I tiOlitlrg, I'll - , Continues to um la-that ea,
' lawny, by• authbrity of. said , CompanY. " 110
would restioutfully Inform the community that
ho will niteird to Bitch Persons rla May mainly
their desire to insure 'their Flynn, and t hos giv.e
some protection to their bereaved'foroilks•nrid
friends, in (mile ofdeath. 0111 ze• iiiiVeSt•Pom.
frot•Street, Carlisle. , 0 .• •'. ..‘ ,r 1
' sfay2s if . J. WORTHINGON.
THERE 'ARE TWO THINGS, SAITH LORD BACON, WHICH MAKE A NATION GREAT AND PROSPEROUS—A FERTILE SOIL AND BUSY WORKSHOPS,—TO WHICH LET ME ADD KNOWLEDGE AND FREEDOM.—,Bishop
Do they MIB3 me at home? Do they miss me?
, 'Twould bo an assurance'roost dear,
To know at this moment some loved ono
Was saying , I, wish ho was here!'
To know that the group at the fire side
Wero thinking of ine - as I roam,
.. th
0' ,3 0 5 'tsvouli be joy beyond ensure,
To know that they miss m a ho me.
When twilight approaches,4. o season
Tluit ever iMseored to song, .
Does some ono repent my name ever,.
And sigh that I tarry eh long,
Aid is there a chord in the music,
Thet's missed when my. NC/ice is away?
And a chord in each heart that awakens
Regret at my wearisome stay I
Do they place me a chair at the table,
When evenings lome pleasutek l tuNnigh,
And lamps sparkle bright in the parlor,
And stars in the calm azure sky?
And when the 'good nights' are repeated,
And each lays him down to sleep,
Do they speak of the absent, and waft me
A whispered 'good night' o'er the deep
Do they miss me at home? Do they . miss me
At morning, at noon, end at night?
And lingers ono gloomy shade roubd them,
Which only my presence can light?
Are joys less invitingly' welcomed.
'And pleasure less hailed then before,
Becanso one is missed from the circle—
Because I am with them no more?
The speech of Truman Smith, of Conn., in
the U. S. Senate,On Friday, adds smother dis
tinguishing mark made by the Smith family in
the halls of the National Legislature,this win
ter. It is the most telling, witty, satirical,
and caustic speech Yet made: It is right to
the point, and nobody will mistake it. Nob
liqthstrtnding the crowded state of our columns,
we make room for the' following extracts:
In the last 'Congress, the Senator from Wit:
nois told the Senate that he had Made his last
speech on Slavery. What an unfortunate
thing it was that this promise had not been
kept! (Lauthter.) It was a great pity the
Senator did not stick to that assertion, for if
he had, this bill would never have passed, and
the agitation would have kept out
, of Congress.
Ho denied,.most emphatically, that there was
anything in . ,the acts of 18r,havingthe re
motest Cffee't upon the Missouri not. He °hal
longed the Senator to produce a single word to
sustain the assertion that at the thne'any one
thought that those acts in principle, or other
wise, affected the Mis4ouri Compromise. If
the Senator oould produce such a word he
would abandon the issue. If Mr. Clay was
now alive,..his_eyes would flask with indigna
tion, his eloquent lips pour forth their power
ful denunciation against this wanton violation
of the compromise of 1820, against this reck
less perfidy. lle regretted that.there wore no
statesman of this day explted and elevated
above personal considerations - to ristrand re
buke and restrain, as Mr. Clay an4.4h; Web
stervdid, the wild fitnationsm of the North and
South. The whig party no longer stood forth
to resist it.
There seemed to be a rivalry, a perfect cotn-
petition between Southern IVhigs and Denio
crats as to who should first rush into the sup
,port of this repeal. Mr. Clay's view of the
Conipromise of 1850 was that the South and
North should share equally, neither to get any
advantage over the other. That- was the ex
_ aot_result_of_it,. as told_ by_the Senator from
Illinois in his speech at Chicago. Did the
Senator from Illinois understand in 1850 that
the Missouri Compromise •W'REI done away with
in principle? If /10 thought so why did he
'not tell the people of Chicago co when ho ad
dressed them ? Had he told them that fact,
pellaris he would not have succeeded so well
In quelling the mob, or in putting down the
contemplated riot. His bill
. provided for 'the
appointment of a Governor and Judges by the
President of the United States. Ho would
undertake now' to demonstrate that tho'Now'
Mexico and Utah Aots did not give the people
of those Territories full power and control.ov r er.
the regulation of their domestic institutions.
If those note did not the Senator would not ask
•it for thi4 ono. .The Utah,and New-Mexico
acts gave to thiGovernors,a on.the leg
islation of the Territory. It gave Congress a
veto on the acts of the' Governor and Legisla
ture, ' Who were the Governors and Judges?
They were the creatures of the Administration
for the time being. ,
But to examine the question more particu
larly, the Senator had declared that by the
acts of 185•-, the people of Utah had been giv
en full power 'to regulate nil their domestic
institutions and relations in their own way,
uncontrolled except by the Constitution of the
United States. lie could not say that poly-
gamy was prohibited by the Constitution iri
oxPrees terms. (Laughter.): Would the sen
ator from Illinois venture to tell the Christian
people orthe United States that Congress bad
• given, by the Compromise of 18fi0, the full
power to establish polygamy, or tbat it had
given Brigham Young a power of attorney to
: have forty wives himself and a proportiOnate
number for the rest of his Grew? (Laughter.).
If the Senator (Mr. Douglass) was correct, and
the people of Utah had full power tovegulate
their domestio lustitptions, then was not this
establishment of polygamy, under the blitti au
spices of the Chairinhat of the 'Committee on
Territories? The Senatormes. iiot l alone sin
his ideas. • • . •.. •
• , :It appeared that in a eoutrit'of war held on
thistbill by its frienda,.lt bad been solemnly
decided, upon due consideration, that the note_
of. 1850.gnre the. Utah people full power, to
regulate their domestio Institutions, and that
Brigham Yuan and althis crew shell practice'
polygarny,.and have as many wives' its they
pleased. ' It .. was to be biped - the-Presldenrof
orthe'Setiritti wee'not in that CaminbiL ' (Loud
S. ELLIOTT,
Mnin streei
J latigiiter:) Ho tntouiled'ici expose.thie
• ness of polygamy, and explain, its triodes ape
(Hold and lopig,oontinued lnughter.)--=
What he nionnt Ives; that he Intended to ex
plaln it Yves that'Brigi)nnt Verg aynt,his
crew praottuoil.pplYotay... (Renewed
• tor.) It' any ono 4”pposerLoviLfrom_any sug-
portal.
DO THEY DHSS ME AT HOME
, Tl)t V.,rbrtifika agthiltr,
TRUMAN SMITH'S SPICECII
CARLISLE, PA.; WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1854.
gestion of his, he desired it - to be done on that'
person's responsibility anit not on his. (Loud
:Ind- boisterous laughter, continuing for several
minutes.)
The Chair appealed to all present to preserve
order, and avoid damonstratlons unbecoming.
the Senate.
Mr. Smith—Suppose the Legislature of
Utah should, among their legislative nets, send
to Congress it bill formally establishing poly-'
gamy, and giving Brigham Young flirty, and
all others fifteen wives, would the Senetor from
Illinois suffer it to be approved in silence?--.
Would Ito not rather pick it up with a pair 'of
tongs and thrust it out of the window ? ,f,f , he.
...-
did this, and it would be
,nothing more than
could be expected by the Christian and moral
sense of the Union, would not the Senator bo
violating that principle of self government and
congressional non-intervention in the domestic'
'institutions of the Territories? Well, sup•
posing the polygamy is thus established, and
they go on increasing—yes; increasing, multi
plying and replenishing the earth..most rapid
ly, as they onn and will do widh polygamy,
(laughter.) and they apply for admission into
the Union, are they to be Omitted.? If they
do not provide for polygamy in their constitu
tion, it may form part of their common law;
and are they to be admitted with this domes
tie institution regulated by themselves as the
Senator says they have power to .do ? The
Senator cannot deny.thom without denying his
own position, and now the people of the Uni
ted States are to be told that the establish
! merit of polygamy and thefiexolusive-right over ,
I the subject has been put into the hands of
I Brigham Young and his crew, and they are to
I be admitted Into the Union without - objection,
because of some hidden, unknown principle
contained in the Compromise of 1850, and
never heard of until discovered by the Senator
from Illinois. If admitted and the Senators
and Itepresentati;es come hero, were they to
be allowed to bring their forty wives each with
them? (Laughter ) The Senator would not
pro Vent a man having his wives with him, cer
teinly. (Laughter.) If they brought them
here, ho' would above all other things in the
world, like tli see the Senator front Illinois in
one 'iorner.of an omnibus and Brigham Young's
forty wives in another. (Loud laughter.)—
When Brigham came here as a Senator, with
Snooks his colleague, each with his forty wives,
would the Senator from Texas, who was u11... t •
gallantly disposed towards ladies, move to inf- -. 4
mit them on the floor of the Senate, co hear
'Sionster.s'.epocches2„(Liullite.r). Mould act
this lead to a Change in the system of compen
sation and mileage? Ile had long experienc
ed that the present pay and mileage of Senn
tors, who had but limited families, was alto
gether inadequate, and that some just and
equitable discrimination should he made be
tween them and those Who experienced pro
found solitude—but if this were the case un
der present circumstances, what ought not to
be clone in behalf of those who had establish
,
ments numbering forty or fifty wives? Pre-'
sent pay nod mileage would be altogether in
sufficient.
.., The least the Senator from Illinois could do,
would ho t propose to give each wife two
dollar: ndo . (Laughter.) Was it not
~mani
fest that th idea that these people were en
! trusted with the solo and exclusive power of
regulating all their domestic institutions, was
an absurdity! He referred td' the feet that
New Mexico had sent hither. a delegate who
could not speak ono word of English, and that
a proPoeition had been-gravely made in the
House to employ au interpreter to explain the
proceedings iii.him.' Ile regarded Mr. Clorr
:tirielotteri,publiahed to•day, as a true exposi..,
- tion of this measure. Ile intended to retire,-
possibly before the close of time session, from
public life; and seek-repose and consolation in
private life. Ile would hereafter take no ac
tive part in any political agitation or elections.
The democratic party had the executive and
both branches of the Legislature. Was it then
good policy to interrupt all business by a rn
newal of this agitation? t' A bad beginning had
taken place in tho House. The Deficiency bill
which: had occupied weeks,,had ,been Milled'
anj'time and labor lost. Lot this negro' ques
tion go there, and Senators would see in the
House a perfeet inattrrection—North and South
warring one upon the other. Ile venturedld
assert that this bill,:after all, would not poss.
It might pastifie Senate, but when it reached
the House thi - i, Fag would not eueeeed; ituil tlio';'
bill would, 6; the rest of the session. shed in
the way of other buidness, And finally be lost..
The passage'of this bill would explode the
platforms of both parties, and the parties
themselves.. Ho would never have anything
more to do with political conventions. Both
parties lind - adiiiited platforms to abide by the
compromise and now both miles explhded
thorn. Hereafter be would ffiklit; on his own
hook. In his retirement ho would take with .
him a platform adopted by the democratic
convention of Juno 11, 1846, held at Concord,
N. 11., which platform was_ drawn up ~by the
presont,Presidont of the United States. That ,
platform declared the adherence of the demo
matey .1 , 0 the principles of - that pat-ty,from!76
down; and as to the question of slavery; itsaid
'that while they, deplored its existent:dim -a.
moral and social c i vil, they would be forbear
ing to, others;and would net consider them,
selves Wiser than • Washington, Franklin. iind
Jefferson:" Ho agreed with every word of tliii
platform. Ile would stick to it if the Presi
dent approve this bill to ekjend to Nobrneka a
great moral and social evil? flow, could the
Senator from Illinois ask
. - tbe :President to' do
so 7 He 81.1ppOSOC11110',K4Or01100 to Franklin
. • ,
and Jefferson, was the peti!tion, signed by the
former, and presented to thellist Congress for
tho .abolition of sloVery,•find.'tho .deolaration,
by, the latter That oilmen are: born frecrLond,
equal; ha his future career he would 'ii•Mid:
all ngitntion on the aubjeot of slavery.!'; If the,
North bits to be sold out; he preferred to choose
his own-master. oitorpelled to !3eleatono he!
would prefer. a higher , toned Southern 'gentle.'
mow: He Would then be sure of humane treat. i
Anent. Ho would neverseleol for his maaten's
•
'Northern domagegue or douoiftme. ,HtiimUld !
! not liavoto rule `over him ono of thou° follows'
galled, Yatillees t .who leaving, their ewneountry,
, go doWn South ondbeodino the hardestt,yratite„:!
' and are saieeted.ae the hest overseers. .:
His father whom he followed to his grave in
1820, ho remembered was a slavoholdor. ' All
his early recollections wore connected with the
1 institution. ' His personal observations of the
kindness, gentleness, la •'ftrovidence with
which slaves, were treated b a majority of
their masters and the grateful neknotvledge
meets of kindness and attendee, by the slaves
ofte
their superiors, had r don eh in ha mind
to mitigate the,ovils,:leat tatii lie did not re
gard it as a desirable v inatittil. on or one that
ought to be extended., ' ',The' repeal of this
compromise would not::befeo the South:—
Why, then, throw a fir&li4kiv4 to. the deina
gegues at the North, vibiali = -*.ould arm them
with power. If this bill wetfPassed he nev
er desired to see anotherWidlconvention, nor
did ho think the demooratel ought to have
another. They had better sl.ilte hands and go
back to th r eir original elementil, and forget all
old party associations, Ile would put no trust
in any Northern man with Bouthernprinciplee.
Martin Van Buren was'one - of these. He had
.gone so.far once, as impudently to intimate to
Congress his intention to Feiteal an act °Oho
subject. 'Where did he 'bring up ? , Why, on
the Buffalo platform, surroutpled by the very
worst of all fanaticism. All' things were ac- •
cemplished now in the n ame:of democracy.—
He had-a strong idea of liectliaing I demooeat
himself, if this bill passeth.ii : Dentooraoy of
late had become exceedinglyampont. The
whigs were , now less than alto-third of this
body, and in two years iToyAd bo less than a
quarter of it. If this bill passed they might
as well separate entirely._ bet_an, indepen- •
dent party be formed of nomOvho would put
down demagogues and negrO i agitators. This
bill was a move ou tho political:checkerboard.
It had, as it appeared to him' considerable, re
ference, if not to the exigencies of the present
administrations at least to some future Presi
dential election—in 1850 or 1850. With the
Concord platform written hi:yea:President in
1845, an independent party; - t't4ltt be formed..
H. would have no objection ytli putting it un
der the banner of the Senatot:, from Texas, and
completely routing the demnognes North and
South. He would not hutittiMaway negrocs,
but-ho wettld• hunt deranges les and doughfa •
cos, and put down everyman' North and South
who should dare to introdtipille question of
kloVery into Congrees. Of";,!:Ilioap, in all these
remarks he had no referenckflci any olio in the
Senate. (Laughter.)
Otitnorol!l7l . .
44-
A DUTCHMAN ABROAD,
"Hello, friend, can you tell mo the way to
Reading I" enquired a downenster the other
day of a Pennsylvania Dutchman, whom he
found hard at work besidortho road a few
miles from 'trading.
"0, yaw, I could tell you so pessor as any
pody. You must first turn de porn round, de
pritch over and do prook up stream, ton do
first house you come to ish my proder Hans
pig barn; dat ish do piggi.st porn dere lab
upon dip road; it bib eighteen feet von way,
and .uighteen feet back again. Mine proder
Hans thought to thatch it mit shingles, but ho
sold dem, and so shingle it mit straw and clap
board it' mit rails; after you go py my proder
lion's pig porn, do next house you come to ish
a hay stack of corn stooks,. pilt of straw, but,
yoU must not stop dere too, Den You goes
alofig• till you come to tree roads, you take any
of dem tree roads and'don you kit lost. .Den
you musht kit over de fence into a groat pig
pen mit no fence around it. - Den you take the
road upon your right shOulder, and ii;down
as far as the pritob, don you turn right pack
agin. Ven you ,lob oomin,back, you come py
a house dat stands right along side of a little
ouiller tog. He runs out and says pow, wow,
wow, he duz, and pites a little piondila — of
your log, den ho runs and shumps into an
empty, pig pen dat hash four sheep in it.—
Donjon look way up on do bill down in do
swamp there, and you seas a plu White house
painted red, mit . two front doors on do pack
aide; well, tore Deliver° my proder Hans livos,
and ho would tell you so potter as I could. I
don't know. '` i •
, EtVall, I arrow, by hokee, you aro
- about as intellorgont as auntlamimy; -but -I
reckon as how you don't know her teough,
she's dumb. But I say, yoou, why don't yoou
dig out them pesky weeds, ley r
---..0;--dear rue, I has had TIFY pad look. Von
or two days next week, miss prodor Ilan's
pumpkins proko into mine pig patch, and von
I drove demi° home, every tam little pumpkin
in do field cuter up von little piece of pig in
his moth, and ton day run through to tuyful,
to if de fence wee after dom, and a post Balm
bled over me, end Brn•alMost kilt, I am."
"whew! Dew tell I"
"Den ktinksSe hOw I musht take me a vrow,
so I goes to * lading, and tolls Kottereen if
she would'inke` o for worsd as petter, and She
asks me 'yaw.' So I takes him home, and oat
seven quarts sour kraut, and vent to ped well
enough, but do next 'morning sic shump up
toad I She yes a.very heavy los4 she weigh
more as dree hundred and seventy pounds.
Den my lactic poy takes sick and tied.' 0I
I'd rather give
.tree shillings, as to have that
happen. lie was so fat as putter , Den my
hens come home mit doro ears split; and mine
hogs all some home' 'mit nine of dem Miesin."
'• ,rlsi,cavune.
riEgl.Sylvester cholleugod Johnson to match
oouplo of his rhyinos, that run somewhat
thus :
• "I John Sylvester,
Iluggocl your oistor."
To.whieh Jamul'? thunedlntely
"I flen Johnson,.
Hugged your itife,",
But said
,Bylvester,.rether.,ohargiued ; at
the turn, "that's nurhifine.7,
"No' retorted Johnean,"Wit L its true."
q ItfAD,LNGAND l`iiinapia.:--Alwaya have n
book or 'paper within your reach „Whloh'3iiiti
may "pick up at yoUr odd Calanies, Resolv6
'to °Again a little reading vier) , daY : '':lryou,
can ,give fifteen nilii'ute's a day 1:t will ba felt at
tbo end , of • the. year. Thoughts, 'take up no,
Tem. WheniheY firO:right they Weida -per
.tablo 'pleasure, NY 11.11,,whleh,one
, nniy , travel l er'
labor without any trouble Or ineuinbranoei.
A,grittilittrt, Ditsints.s mit enttint
Miortiluntotto
PUBLIC VIRTUES.
BY BEN JOLINBON
Careful of your affairs, constant in dangers,
And not afraid of any priviite frown
Fin. public goods,—these things will bo to us
temples and-stutnes, reared in your minds,
The fairest and most during imagery ;
For those of steno or brass,_ if they become
Odious in Judgement of posterity,
Are more condemn'd as dying sepulchres,
Than ta , on for living monuments. We then
Make here our suit alike to gods and men ;
The one, until the period of our race,
To inspire us with free and quiet mind,
Discerning both divine and human laws;
The other, to vouchsafe us, after death,
An honorable mention and fair praise,
To accompany our notions and our name ;
The rest of greatness princes may command,
And therefore may neglect; only, a long,
A lasting high, and happy ropmery
They should without, being satisfied; pursue
Contempt of fame begets contempt of virtue.
THE GAMESTER
At Tunbridge, in the year 171 K it gentle
man, whose names was Hedges, Made a very
brilliant appearance. He 'had been married
about two years to is young lady of grout beau
ty-and large fortune; they had one child, II
boy, on whom they bestowed all that affection
which they could spare from each other. He
knew nothing of gaming, nor seemed to have
the least passion for play ; but he was unac
quainted 'with his own heart; he
,began by de
grees to bet at the table for trifling sums, and
his soul took fire at the prospects of immediate
gain; he was soon surrounded with sharpers,
who with calmness lay in ambush for his for<
tune, and coolly took advantage of the precipi
tancy of his passion.
His lady perceived the ruin of her family
approaching, but at first, without being able
to form any, scheme to prevent it. She advi
sed with his brother, who at that time was
possessed of a small fellowship in Cambridge.
It was easily Boon, that whatever passion took
the lead in her husband's mind, seemed there
to be fixed unalterably ; it was determined,
therefore, to lot him pursue his fortune, but
previously to take measures to prevent the
pursuit being fatal.
AMiordingly, every night this . gentleman was
a - eenstant attendant at the hirzard tables;, he
understood neither the 'arts
__of sharpers, nor
even the allowed strokes of connoisseurs, yet
played,brill lia The cant:v.:pence is obvious ;
he lost his estate, his equipage, his wife's
jewels, and other moveables that could bo par
ted with, except a repeating watch. His ago
ny upon this occasion was - inexpressible; he
was oven mean' enough to ask a gentleman,
who sat near him, to lend him a few pieces,
in order to turn his fortune ; but this prudent
gamester, who plainly saw there was no ex
pectation of being repaid, refused to lend him
a farthing, alleging a former resolution against
lending. Hodges was at last furious with the
continuance of ill subeess ; and pulling out
his watch, asked if any person in the company
would snt him sixty guineas upon it—the com;
pany were silent. He then demanded fifty—
still uo answer. Ho sunk to forty, thirty,
twenty—finding the company still without an
swering, he cried out, it shall never go for less,
and dashed it against the floor, at.l.he same
time, attempted to dash out his brains'against
the marble chimney-piece.
The last not of desperation immediately ex
cited the attention of the whole company; they
instantly gathered round, and prevented the
effects of his passion : and after ho again be
comae cool, ho was permitted to return home,
with sullen discontent; to his wife. Upon his
entering her apparmont, sheireotdied him with
her Usual tenderness and satisfaction ; while
ho answered her caresses with contempt and
sternness; his disposition Wit quite altered
with his misfortunes. "But, my dear Jem
my," says hie wife, "perhaps you don't know
the news I have to tell ; - fty mamma's old un•
Ole is dead, the messenger is now in-the house,
and you know his estate he settled upon you.' ,
Thy account seemed only to increase _ his non
ny; and looking at her eried,"There you lie
my dear, his estate is not settled upon me."
"-I -beg-your pardon," --seys_shc,_"but:l_ really
thought it Was; at least yon have always told
me so." "No," returned he, "as sure as you
and fare to be miserable hero and our children
beggars hereafter,'l have sold the reversion of
it this day, and have los( . every farthing I got
for it at the hazard table." "Whet, all?" re
plied the lady. "Yes, every larthing," re
turned ho, "and I owe a thousand pounds more
than I have to pay." Thus speaking, s he took
a few frantic steps across the room. When
the lady had a lath) :enjoyed his porplexity,•
"No, my dear," cried she, "you have lost but
a trifle, and you owe nothing; your brother
and I have taken care to prevent' the effects of
your rashness, and are actually the persons
who have Won your fortune ; we employed
proper persons for this purpose, who brought
their winnings to me: your meney, your equi=
page, are in my possession, and hero I re-,
turn them to, you, from whom they were un
justly tals'en ; I only ask pormiesion to keep'
my jewels, and keep, you, my greatest jewel,.
from such dangers for the future." liar pra-.
_
donee had the proper effect, he ever after re
tained a sense of his former follies,
.and never
Played for the smallest earns, even for amuse
,
A GREAT MAN.-121very tarn is great as S
,man:; for he ,whc(possesses the divine power
of a soul is A, groat being, : be, his place in eo
clay what itmny. Igo may be clothed in rags.
.—inny, be occupied in the lowest husineee—;
may midte no show—be scarcely ltnoWn to:ex
-iet-but yet he may be,mere truly groat than
those wbb are commonly so called ;, for grcat- 1
neesconsieta not in 'force of soul—that, is, in;
the force of thought, bet in moral p r inciple and
love, And ,this may be_foundiu
poeditien.;The greatest inan,ls„4o , Ap=oltopttl
es the the righ,t'o4. ,t4e.4l,9l\,:jlo#ll,),lMPALl
tOnHrh9,l'.9sl,ff 4 3 ; h 8 ar° B 0 1 41!, 1 ittf?0frc?T
mho hearaatha'Almasiest i
buirdens theirfaltYrbols ealtrlit:!iirstorr6,l
Aindynest:feeriese' tinder •MenatMa and tt;eW#
---waoSer i ellenee 'On'trutb,,Stut . yiStue,.ankott:
God is most unfaltering.
THE HARDEST DIODE TO DIE
To he shot dead is one of the easiest modes
of terminating life; yet, rapid as it is, the
body has leisure to feel and reflect. On the
first attempt by one of the frantic adherents
of Spain, to assassinate- William, Prince of
Orange, who took the load in the revolt of the
Netherlands, the ball pitied through the bones
Or his faze, and brOught him to the ground.—
In the instant that preceded stupefaction, he
was able to frame. the notion that tbe ceiling
of the room had fallen and crushed him.
Th cannon shot which pltingad into the
brain of Charles XII , did uot'prevent him
from seizing his sword by.the hilt. The idea
df an attack, and the necessity for defense
wab pressed'on him by, a blow, which we should
have supposed too :tremendous to leave nn
terval of thought. But it by no means fol
lows, that the Inflicting of fatal wounds is ao-
companied by a pang.' From what is known
of the first effects of 'gun-shot wenn , * it is
propablo that the impression is rather stun
ning than acute. Unless death he immediate,
the pain is as varied as the nature of the in-'
•urios, and these are post counting up. •
'But there .is nothing singular in the dying
sensation, thOugh Lord Byron remarked the
physiological peculiarity that the expression
is invariably that of languor, while in death
from a stab, the countenance reflects the traits
of naturar, character, of gentleness or ferocity,
to the last breath.
Some of these cases aro of interest, to show
with what slight disturbance life may go un
der a mortal wound, till it finally comes to a
sudden stop. A foot soldier at Waterloo,
pierced by a musket ball in -the hip, begged
water of a \ trooper who silenced to possess a
canteen of beer., The wounded man drank,
rettizned his heartiest thanks, mentioned that
his , reginierii was nearly exterminateili-yand
having proceeded a dozen yards on his way to
the rear, fell to the earth; and with one con
vulsive movement Of his limbs, concluded his
career. -"Yet his voice," says the trooper,
who himself tells tile story, "gave scarcely the
smallest sign of weakness."
Captain Basil Hall, who, in his early youth,
was present at the battle of Corunna, has sin
gled out from the confusion which consigns to '
oblivion the woos and gallantry of war, anoth
er instance, extremely similar, which occur-.
red on that occasion. Ati,old officer, who was
shot in the head, arrived pale and fiiint - lit the
tempoiary hospital, and begged the surgeon to
look - at his wound, which wee pronounced
Indiedi -I-feared
With impeded utterance, "and yet I should liko
very,moblt to live a little longer, if it were
possible." --He-laid hie sword. upon a stone at
his side, "as gently," says Hall, "as if its steel
had been turned to glass," and almost imme
diately sank dead upon the turf.—Quarlerly
Review.
; t t~ , I AAVt ; UI. DEA.TH.
A,m6st tragical tile is told of the sufferings
of ibial6 colliers of a detachment of tho 60th
regiment, ndw stationed at Toronto, and a
black man, who got ;nto a boat, the soldiers
wi-h the intention of doserting, and getting.
over to Crab Island, and from thence. as op
portunity offered, to America. After a
the'vvind rising, they were driven out of their
course, and so were in the boat for several
days, without food or water. At length ono
of the soldiers proposed to draw lots that one
should be killed to furnish food for the others.
They did so, and the lot fell upon Thomas
Buckley, one of the soldiers, whO forthwith
bound up his arm, and opened a vein to bleed
himself to death; ono of the others, and thA
black man, snaked his blood, and 'afterwards
went raving mad, and jumped into the sea.—
Bukcley also died; and there remained only
ono soldier out of the party in the boat. Wm.
Lennon, who throw the dead bOdy into -the
sea, Imbed the helm, and left himself to -his
fate. lbs had not tasted nuy of sßueiley's
blood,. because, according to his own,, state
ment, ho had felt a scruple at doing so, as ho
had been his comrade. , ',After eleven dayki'
drifting, the bOat was driven on the miest of
St. DoMingo, and the Imast.guartl found - tho
survivor,'and afier him some refresh
ments, carried hid to Jaomel to the English
Consul, before whom ho made relation - of the'
fact! as 6bove, and ho was sent back to Torto
la in the steamer.—Barbodoes paper.
MASON AND DIXON'S LINE.-"Wfit is meant
by Mason's and Dixon's Line?" asked a bright,
blue eyed girl of twenty years of age, when
sitting at her father's table, slew days ago.
,The answer was, "It is a phrase usually em
ployed to describe the boundary between tho
free and slave-States." I"But why do:they do
it in that way?" was her inquiry. 'The reply,
may be worth giving to some of our readers'.
•‘ In the' seventeenth century,
,James 11, of
England, 'then the Duke of York, grve certain
lails"to Lord Baltimore and-telVilliam Penn,
and a difficulty soon sprang up as to the prop:
dr owner of these lands on the Delaware. A
gain and again IVIIS the affair 'carried into the
Courts, till in the year 1760, when George the
111.-camo to the crown, the Lord Chanoelloi
of England made a decision; hat now difiioul
ties sprung up. in drawing the boundary lines.
The Commissioners finally employed Messra..
Ma7;on nod Dixon, who : had justreturned . fr . T.
the Cape of Good Hope, where they had been
, to obserio the transit 'of Venus.. They:see
ceedoil in ostabliahing the lino between Dela
ware and Marylandovhialr has ever since boon
called , ‘ltlason tind,Dlxatt's line." • -
, aT"Advorsily is: worth mote:earns
I than riohennts. arPtinolas,.two. mile placers,
•
or . .eart loads of similnrtootinns. , Theto's But
tertubs, nevdrknew.that.litrbod either oe Idea
ornmusele, until,he got witbio. a yard antl'a
half, ofthe.aleishoitset.„while,idisoloPsbYtifi'
within a, shadow, of
: no tbing And i nobody, FRqi
red uoe e., ; t4x penny
. calitio„: one. fill f Itread
cnOlenter per.qe,y,,,epd.n. narrow, oat t r he
charity: 4),?Trly; 1491,epAiii?p,
Coital:Almon, and Toysliyis ,culpiged.o...the
tinguished.. lawyer, Jertiniin Bopleviu,'Esq.—
INelhlnellke•adversity to bring' out' the gur
otor,kJnwArdir. . i llrelrthere " '
x erThe ftpllossr uftoution•waa
hanngain bgret open
9
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VOL. LIV NO 22
DULL CHILDREN
No fact can be ,plainer than this, it is im
,assible to judge correctly of the genius or in
eliectual ability of the future man, by the in
tiontions of childhood. Some of the most
minent men of all ages were remarkable only
or dullness in their youth. Sir Isaac Newton,
his boyhood, was inattentive to his study,
nd ranked very low- at school till the age of
welve. When Samuel Wythe, the Dublin
• chool master, attempted to educate. Richard-u
!Mosley Sheridan, he •pronounoed the boy an
:'incorrigible dunce." The mother of Sheri
;lan Dolly concurred in this verdict, and de
tared him the most stupid of her sons.
Gold
mith was dull in his yOuth, and Shakspeare,
libbon, Davy and Dryden, do not appear to
Lave established in their childhood even the
'common ideracnte of future SUCCCEM.
When'Berzelius the eminent Swedish chem
ist, left school for the university, the words
~inrlitierent in behavior and doubtful hope,"
;were scored against his name; and after he
Inhered the university he narrowly escaped
tieing turned back. On ,one of .his first visits
I o the laboratory, when 19 yeat•s old, be was
Taunted with the enquiry whether he
toed the differenlb between a laboratory and
kitoben." Walter Scott had the credit of
having the "thickest skull in the school."—
tlilton and. Swift wore justly celebrated for
I tnpidity in childhood. The great Isaac Bar- ,
• owtaTather used to say thai if it pleased God
• o take from him any alit, children', he hoped
t might be Isaac', as the lent promising.
"larius, the great matliematieian - of his age,
.'as so stupid In his boyhood, that his . teiioher
ould make nothing of him until they tried him
a geometry. Carraoi, the celebrated painter,
'as so inapt in his youth, that his master ad
ised-itim-to-restrict his-ambition to-thezrind
ag of colors.
"One of the most popular authoresses of the
resent day," says an English writer, "could
of read when she was seven. Tier mother
toe rather uncomfortable about it but said as
very body did learn, with opportunity, she
upposed her child would do so at last. By
ighteen, the apparently slow genius paid the
envy but inevitable debts of her father from
de profits of her first' work, and bef ;re thirty,
ad published thirty volumes." Dr. Scutt, the
omtnentator,could not compose a theme when
v.elve years old; and even at a later age, corn
lit to memory a poem of -a few stanzas only.
,t nine years'of age, ono who afterwards be
..tme,a chief justice in. this country, was,
dn
mg a whore year, unable to commit to meth
ry the little peeniSfound in OEIO of ourmehool
bolts.
Labor and patience are the wonder works
f man—the wand; by whoso magic touch ha
bongos dross into gold, deformity into beau
y, the desert into n garden, and the ignorant
hild into a venerable sage. Let no youth be
ivon up as an incorrigible dolt, a victim only
) be laid upon the altar of stupidity, until la
or and patience have 'struggled with him long
(tough to ascertain whether he is a "natural
)ol," or whether his mind is merely enclosed
t a harder shell than common, requiring only
little outward aid to escape into vigorous
ad symmetrical lite. .
11L AR RI AGE BY PROXY
A correspondent of the - National InteDivin
er writes : "It is but recently that I became
ware' of the tact that marriage by proxy was
llowable in the Old Dominion. Some years
• go a sable son of Africa, 0010 General—a ti
'to which ho had not earnsOy &lent service
a the battle-field, neither had he acquired it
• s Gen. Arbuolke did his of theenme
rade,,pq had received 'it from his spopeors in
aptiem, if Ite over had any— sued and won
he love of a colored lady sporting the. rural
!aanO of Milken, Sally. A day was fixed for
heir wedding ; tho officiating clergyman being
J. colored gentleman, slave on an adjoining
dentation, a eticklhr : far dignity, and a firm
'Allover in the resOlutons - of, '9B and 99,'
'those who needed his services hod to go to his
ilabin. 'ffeueral and _Milken had to make the
'most of it, and as Mahomet would not go to the
mountain it remained for the mountain tq,go to
Mahomet, The eventful evening at length ar
rived; the guests'aro assembled, the groom has
come, but the bride is missing., The venerable
clergyman at length becomes impatient, ex
presses-hie satonishment at Milken's absence-;
when the General, rising from his seat thus
delivers himself: "Look, here broiler Culifer,
it is ne,use
,walting,for dat ilarkeo ; I knows
herlit e , a book; Slurbin gone to sleep, 'setting
fore do Ara. Dso authorised to spook for her.'
so jail go ahead jos do same if she wee hero."
Old Culifer thought it a Flee suggestion, and
proceeded to unite them in the holy bonds of
matrimony. When the General went over to
Mllken's -cabin, sure' enough, there she wee
fast asleep by the lire with . some of. her wed
ding finery in •hor hand." 'She :was terribly,
provoked to learn that-ter wedding had come
off and she was not there.'?..
A SucioraNo OcounnENon.—Late foreign pa-.
porn give the_details of ono alto most shock
ing Occurenoes we
. ever rememliisv to have met .
With': •It seem that some of the poorer class
of bonne in the town_ of Dowlais, Glamorgan
shire, Wales, ate infested to a considerable
degree by ruts, but no ono seemed to imagine
that the proienoe of those intruders, although
dangerous to property, Would ho attended with
peril to personal lifo. 4 . peor working Woman
having 000nsion , to go . from home, put her
young ohild to bed until her return. Upon
opening the door of the apartment in wbioh
in which the child lay, .eli saw three large
rats Jump; from the bed, and on looking in that
direetion was terrified at perceiving' that the
bed.olothes wero all stained .with blood to
considerable extent.. Upon moving. the oov:.
orlet a' sheolting' spectacle. , prosinled.itself.—
TlA.rats had. Mutilated the poor , : infant; and
ilOtroyed its life, liaiing eaten away tbo.wall
of tiny.bellY; • and a*olindly thithroyirid-pcirtions
.ot the intestines, ;'Thu teSanyt of,4ho,.nahaPpy'
motherupon discovering hei;`,lo44ooioeP.ibit
ter ~aonheived, then: desilribee' •fter'rpilis
,brotight'her rieighbois frheit.edidatatteo; l, and
ti kieeurehooN bUti uobti tipititiftil'oenandbn
throughout the neighborhood. ,
EMI