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TEE ANTE7NUPTIAL Llt
IN TWO PARTS -PART I
On the morning of my twenty-third
birth day, I awoke early, and with a pro
found sense of happiness and thankfulness.
My five years of married life, without hav
ing been a dream or sentimental idyl, had
enclosed the happiest and worthiest period
of my existence. Tracing the details of
it., I rejoiced to think my worst'diflienities
were overcome, and that strung affcetion
and deep rooted esteem had chaneed an
anxious course of duty into blessedness
and fruition.
My h uThand , Mr. A nstruther, htd
yielded to my earnest wi•-h to celebrate
ow wedding anniyenlary in our country
Inmie. and had granted me just three days,
snatched from the toil of active prr•liamen
tary life to taste my holiday : an I I was
ta-timr it slowly, but with intense enjoy
ments, as I stepped out. that morning upon
the 'dewy lawn, and devoured with my
achim , London sight, one of the loveliest
prod: landscapes in England. I looked in
the distance upon low tamres ()Chills, blue
in the early misty light. WWI granting,
here and there. peeps of the adjacent sea,
sleeping quietly beneath the rosy anther
ofthe eastern sky, and immediately at my
feet upon flower gardens planned and cul
tivated with all the elegance of modern
taste, and glowing with a hundred dyes.
My mind recurred involuntarily to the
narrow court in which my father's house
was ,situated, and to the dteary prospect
of brick and mortar, of factory chimney
and church steeple, which for eirliteen
years had bounded by horizon; and if
J.b.c..rec-oacetion hruughG_u:itlt_it_lhe old
inevitable asouciation, I was able to thank
God that now no pulse beat qnickor, no
traimious thrill responded.
Ilow strange it seems that, fate should
come upon us with such overwhelinim ,
suddenness, that we arc not. .suffered to
hear the approaching footste'P or see the
ouktretched arm, •but. are struck down in
stithtly by the blow which might perhaps
have hecu withstood, had a moment's
warning be , n given ! I went, hack to the
house that morning with the most absolute
sense of security and happiness; but on
the threshold of the break last-room I met
my husbatuLand the first glance at his
face toll tne something was wrong. llis
face was always reserved—it was now se-
vere.
I had approached him naturally with
smiling face and outstretched hand, ant ici
patiml, his congratulations; but I stood
still at, once, Its efficiently arrested as if
he had held a drawn sword at my breast.
llis manner was always grave—it was now
stern.
"That is right," he said ; " conic no
nearer" 'Then, after a pause, he added:
1" You have been up some time; let us
; have breakfast at once ;" and he opened
the door of' the room for ine to enter. I
took my place and went through the flC
cusouned forms without a word. I saw
he wished me to cat and drink, and I did
• FO, although the effort nearly choked me.
Indeed, I was thankful firr the few min
utes' respite, and was striving to command
my resources for the approaching conflict
with all the stren , th of mind I possessed.
I was nut altogether ignorant of what had
conic upon me; there could be between
us but that one point of' disunion, that orm
cause of reproach; and surely neither God
nor man could condemn me as without
excuse upon that. score!
While I ate, he walked deliberately up
and down the room, making no pretence
to eat; and as soon as I had finished he
rang the bell to Have the table cleared,
and then sat down before it •opposite to
me. "We have friends asked to dinner
to-day to celebrate the double anniversary
of' our marriage arid your birth-day—have
we not ?" he said, leaning his arms heavily
open the table, and gazing steadily into
my face. "I shall not meet them I fear
it will Le impossible fur me ever to rnug
nize you as my wife again !"
I think he expected that the cruel al;-
rubtness of this announcement would
strike 111 C swooning., or at least convicted,
at his fort ;.,but it did not; 'My heart
did for a moment seem to stand still, and
every drop of blood faded fronimy eheeks,
but. 1 did not tremble or flinch under his
hard scrutiny. I was even able to speak.
" 'Jell me at once," I said, " the mean
ing, of this You arc under sonic delu
sion: Willi'have I done?"
As I spoke, his face softened; I could
see, in spite of the iron mould of his phy
siognomy, the instinctive hope, the paS
sionate yearning produced by my manner;
it was vary evanescent, however, for al
most before I had gathered courage from
the look it was gone, and all the hardness
had, returned.
"I am not the man," he said, "to
bring a premature or rash accusation
especially against the woman I have made
my wife. I accuse you of hs(ving deceived
me. and here is the proof.' •
lle opened his pocket-booth slowly, and
took out a letter. I recognized it instant
ly. Arid my heart sank. I had sufficient
self command to repress the cry that rose
instinctively to my lips, but no effort
could keep back the btirtfing gloW which
dyed my- face and hands. - like conscious
••• • 4
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My husband looked atme steadily, and
his lip curled. "I will read the letter,"
he Fetid.
- The letter began-thus.: -ft You-have-told
mo•ogain. and-again that you loved me: •
were those. words a lie ? You shall not
make good your 111olookollering,, and sac
rifice religion,tindfNirtue, body and sold,
youth atUllippidness, 'to your insatiate
eraving 7 4terliositien and wealth" This
Inti*is too geed to ho'thijoled. What if
I'! , howcd - liny-the pled gew-ol your 101 . 76 . ?,
taughtiimitha,--relinneo -.that is to
placed_ on your, faith,:? . -, Why should 'you
reclOn . upon 4,1 subartiaoon to your per—
juryr , • .• •
.
The letter rap. on to it 'great length;
niih link yelicipmnt repronelmei , W,ith, a
peak; apq,proteatatione of, apel - t.,ppl*lled
p that as Ifuisli•ina reld , them his
voice-.took a 'tonl'Of 'deeper acorn, mitt
brow a heaiier - contraction
• ',The' letter - yaw addrossad to me, on WO'.
L)Qta - ,)%2 From' Saac% /ra33EIT assl.
bask of the same sheet on which it was ,
written ; it was not dated beyond "Toes
day evening," but the posts ark, unusual
ly shelved May 10, 1850—just
three days before We were married. My
husband indicated these facts with the
same deliberation, that had markod his
induct throughout, and then he said :
found this letter last night in your dress
ing room after you had left it; perhaps I
ought not to have read it., but it would
now be worse than mockery to make any ,
exen-e fors° doing• I have nothing more
to say until I have listend to your expla
nation You tell me I am under a (lulu
sion—it will ihorefore be necessary for
you to prove that this letter is a forgery."
lie leaned hack in his chair, as he spoke.
and passed his hands over his forehead
with a gesture of weariness; otherwise he
hid smoained his p irt, in the scene with a
cold insensibility which scented unnatural.
and which filled me with the most dread
ful foreboding of failure and misery I
did not misjudge him so far as to suppose
lbr a munent (hat he was as insensible as
he appeared, but I perceived that his te•
nice us and inflexible wit ure had been
Nit to the qui:lc both in its intense pride
aml loVe, and that thou.di the wound bled
inw irdly—bled mortally, perchance—he
would never utter a cry, or even allow a
Alas! alas he would never forgive MC.
The c niceahliellt, the deception, as he
would call it, which hail appeared to tee
uatli bin, would scent oriole an l outratze
in his eyes. I lowered niy head beneath
his searchintz gaze. and remained silent
" You lave nothing to . say!" he in
-after-a-vain-pattse-fon-nte-to-spral .
You cannot deny that letter? Grod is
my witness" he slid solemnly, " that, I
wish to be a mercind ind I.e. I may hold
extrome view, "r a girl's folly, a
weakness: you WOlllll only be vain and
flithle . ss, like your sex, if you hid played
youmr feelings and de
ceived his popes. Is this your explana
tion ?"
It was a very snare of Satan offered for
toy fall one easy lie. " I deceived him,
but never you And the way of forgive
ness was open. I saw he was clinging, to
the hope with a concentrated cage, toss it
was impossible lor him entirery to dis
guise., (Ai! was it nece-sa-y for toy pun
ishment Chat the hard task should be made
harder by that relenting glance?
1_ only hesitated for a..monieut; the dig
'cipline of the last five yeats had not left
Ole so blind and weak as §ven in this su
preme emergency to reject truth for expo
dieney Ilowever he might judge me, I
mo , t, stand clear before God and my con : .
moicmee
" No, Malcolm," I saikalesperately;
" the truth is rather as it first appeared to
you. I have been guilty in this matter,
but my fault is surely one which you will
consent to pardon ; for even were it, great
er, I think our live years of happy union
might turn the settle in my favor."
‘• Yes." he said ; "you have borne with
the dirlietilties of my temper with ana.elic
• patience, until the passion which induced
inc to many you, despite it many obsta
cle, was weakness in comparison with the
love I had fug you—yes erday. Only tell
' ine that I have not been your dupe 0111)11,2:II
out—Ionly" lle or,,ke off abruptly.
" I can bear no more fencing round the
point)" he said harshly ; " one word is
enough—did you love this youth ?"
"I did, from childhood, with all my
heart and soul."
" rp to the date of that lever?" he
asked quietly, „but the muscles worked
round the clenched lips
" Yes, and beyond it," I found courage
to say; but hardly had the words been
spoken, when I felt I hid exceeded the
limit of his endurance. An involuntary ,
oath escaped his lips.
1 saw there was .no hope for me-in lop
recation and irresolution ; I must speak to
the point, and decisively. " I have a
right to be heard before I am condemned,"
said f , "and I claim toy right. I confess
I lured the youth who wrote this lPtter,
but it would have hero a miracle had it
been otherwise. You know from what a
lire you rescued me: a prisoner in the dull
rooms above my fathers book s - .ore, with
out a pleasure, a friend, a h /pa in life.—
You were astonished at my proficiency in
umuslial studies: if at that time.an active
brain had not driven me to intellectual
labor, 1 should have gone mad in the
Midst of my austere and desperate loneli
ness. I was scarcely fifteen when L'uncan
Forsyth, a k'insinan of my father's, Paine
to study inedit Me in our city university,
and to live as a boarder in our house. I
saw it was inevitable that such a coanee
tion should in due course ripen into love.
Ile was young, gifted, and attractive, but
it would have needed but half his endoW
ments to win my heart then. I was noth
ing but a blind, passionate child, reelected
utterly till he flattered, caressed, and
wooed me. I think he loved me with all
the faculty of love he had, and for a-time
,we were very happy. To me it was a de
licitius dream-- llave patience with me,
-Malcolm; I must tell all the truth. 'ly
dream, at least, was brief enough ; I soon
awoke to discuyer, it little matters how,
the lover I wascanonisingin my imagina
tion, as the type of heroic virtue was-mi
worthy. For tt while, I would not believe;
conviction bees rue inevitable. I clung
desperately to the forlorn-hope of refrain.
It was in vain; his vices were too con
firmed-awl tyrannous for even my intlu•
enee-L-anar it•was great—to overcome.—
Then 1 gave him ' up. I -thought the
struvgle would--kill__ me, for my foolish_
s ml clung.,to him desperately; but I could
not . mate with drunkenness and dishonor.
My father, who had appruyed of our en,
'kagement, and who did -not, know or 15e
lieve the factseiiiicerhing.hinr, upbraided
4M.1 coerced etc ; Duncan himself, relying
On my. wcakoesa,,tried all the
to - niove ine,.oll .1 7 -was nearly frantiO in
rriblery.,
-
"It waSjuSt at tbis.crisis that you first
saw-.are,, visiteii my fathei!s hook-store and
diii;ifed to be'niailo knoWty teem; 'what'
follawcar, 1- need :not tell.- You. told Me
.that you loved Mi .. ) . well enough to inariy
nioi despite of social Inforitivity i if thO'IC
,E, PA., FRIDAY, AUGUST_ 23, 161.
CARLIS
I. could love you in return --if I had a
young girl's free heart to give you. You
insis•ed upon this, Malcohn=l dare not
deny-it—and I came to you with a lie in
my right hand ! Elere lies' my offence,
and God knows, I do not wish to palliate
it hut before ynu utterly condemn me,
consider the temptation. My father for
bade Duncan the house, mid threatened
me if I dared to tell you the truth con
cerning, hint; but I hardly think that
would hive moved me, hattl not persuad
ed myself also that. I was justified in de
,teivin i r you. Had I told you that I
l ived Duncan Forsyth, you would have
given me up, and shut agnifisit me all the
va•tue but glorious hopes such an alliance
offended ; but more than all, I knew this
unworthy love must,• soon dip out, and that
toy deep recognition and reverence for
your goodness and excellence wou'd
end 'in an affection stronger and deeper
than the weak passion of a 'girl. : Before
God, I vowed to do my duty ; from that
hour, I have striven, with Ilis help, to
keep toy vow; and save in that prelimi
nary falsehood, Malcohn, I have never
wronged you."
Al y husband had recovered his self-com
mand
, Thile I was sp.mking, but the last
plinise seemed to overthrow it. again
" Wronged me !" he repeated. and the in
tonation, quiet as it was, thrilled me like
physical pain, it was so hard and mil:eh:id
iot,. "I. wish to be calm hillinor," he
eontinued, " and therefore I will speak
rbriidl t 3. You seem to think you have ex
tenuated yourself by your con fessi.m. To
my heart anti mind you are condemned
past forgiveness. Vey,
hp r_o t eg, " I c sa id __witb....a...baug,h.ty-mome l
anent of restraint, as I was about to, re
proach ; i• It is a point for feeling,' not
casuistry to decide. You understand ful
ly the delusion under which I married
you • I imagined I took to my arms a
pure heartedgirl, fresh anti innocent . as
her seellision warranted me to believe her;
instead of that, I find myself' toduive been
cajoled by a disappointed woman, with a
heart. exhausted by precocious passion
You think it excuse sufficient that it was
your i 4,i e , es/ to deceive me; to my mind,
the fact only adds insult to th'e injury.—;
Elli n or you have ruined . the happiness of
my life. While I have been rosting, on
,
the soia:Lte of your love, worshipping you
for your sweet patience with a temper
roughened by many causes unknown to
your inexperience, it has al i l been the in
sensibility of pre-occupation:, or at:hest a
miserable caculation of duty. So gross
is your sense of conjugal frith, that be
cause your treachery has. behn only of the
heart, you dare to-say that flu have never
syna:ged me, and to call - tqi. 4 tind' to ap- '
.)
prove your virtue because the lapse caf '
(111)6' and better influences, T trust, have!
enabled you to school, a disgraceful pas
sion, and Oen a me;Nure of reirai d in re
turn for the imineasurable . devetion rhave
felt fin. you.",
Ile paused in spite of' himself, unable,
to proceed, add before he could prevent
me, I hail thrown myself' at his feet. It
was in vain to argue—to tight against his
hard winds ; I could only implore.
" Malcolm," I cried, you cannot believe
what you say. Your 'affection has been
the chief happiness ornt v happy life; you
could not desire, you could not exact from
a wife a deeper love,' more entire and mi
nute, than 1 feel for you. FM -give this
one deception, Malcoltir, believe me now 7
I would fain hive been eloquent, but
sobs choked my voice. I was COMpletely
over .ome; and when he forcibly extrica
ted himself from my hold, I fell almost
prostrate at his fi et. Ile lifted me up
coldly, but courteously, and placed we on
the sofa. "
" Pardon me," he said ; " this excite
ment is too much for you, and can do no
good. Vk hen you arc caliner we will con
clude this matter."
There was the same cruel decision of
tone and asp( et in.his manner which had
marked it throughout the interview, and
convinced me he still adhere'd to his origi
nal purpose. I lelt my situation was des
petate, and that the time for prayers and
tems was Over. Were all my hopes for
the future—his happiness, too, in which
was involved my own—to be dashed to
pirces against the rock of his unjust se
verity ? Was it required of me to sub
wit passively to disgrace end misery ?
in a moment, I too had taken up my re:
solve, and conquered my agiAtion ; I rose
up nerved and calm,. and spoke accord
ugl•y.
" Ono word before you leave me," I
said." However this ends between us, you
do.not, I suppose, desire to inflict upon
me unnecessary shame and exposure?
request you, -as a personal favor—it may
be the last 1 shall ever ask—to postpone
your decision unfit to morrow, and help
me to d.iy'to entertain our friends as touch
as possible in the accustomed manner,—
Do yon hetiitate, Malcolm ?
His Tice flushed ; some impulse sett - nod
to incline him to refuse, but he checked
"Itshall be as you desire," he said
coldly ; and left rile alone—albite with the
conviction of a blasted life !
yor a few
_moments,, with .my hands
clasped over my eyes, to shut out the re
dundant sunshine, I sat trying to realize
my position. Granting that the threat-
ened separation Waft . effecioil Svith , a so•
called due regard to, my honor and future
relations with society, all that I valued
only 'eartid for in life would be itutnetlintely;
'iloStrojed. What honor remains to the
wife repudiated by an honorable husband?
What-chance of happiness. for .her, when
of the.samo tiloe-he is the centre of-lior-
,
affection, - of, all. her worklly Anthition l 4rid
.hope? Doubtless, , I' was
. tolera,nt to joy
own transgression, but I . alone knew the
flitee'of temptation,_ _..1 temigation,.l 10.00 ktip,w 7 s .
what; ahis ! I felt . ni.T2hushand would:never
believe—how near. ektinotion - the`old
love smoulderingbeneath its own contempt
and bow strong the 'gratitude 'ittid 'eSteem
.
he had: already, excited: ;. , Oh, Llnq
convince him of my, love for him :l . Prose
Up and pecod..the . reem:: I.ll* he judged
mo harshly; was Aeverq even' to cruelty;
but thert.l. knew the, innate . iullexiUiility
of , hiS iemper:atici his rigorous., sense 'qf
.truth and duty. I know howlOiiti, pride,
and self esteem had been all alike wound
ei, and - I piled itiin even in - the - extremity
of' misery ahnest,more than I pitied my
self- Still, I would not accept my ruin
at his relentless hands ; I was a true wife,
and would not submit to the position of'
a false fine. I had vowed to love and
honor him till death' had parted us, and
nothing but compulsion should make me
abandon my post.
I scarcely know how I got through
that day; but the necessity for self-com
mand was so stringent, that I could nut
but meet it. Fortunately, our guests
only a few country neighbors, for it was
in the height of the London, season, and
I in some measure supported myself by
the belief that their unsuspicious cordial
ity was not likely to make any discoveries.
Mr. Anstruther's hospitality was always
splendid, and his deportment as host pe
culiarly gracious and inviting, and if there
was any difference on this occasion, it
' would be impalpable to all but a very keen
observer. I perceived, indeed, a change
in the aspect of the countenance I had
long studied so closely, and beyond that,
the intonation of his voice when address
ing me fell hard and constrained upon my
shrinking ear. It was over at last; and
[ saw our last guest depart smiling and
congratulatory with the consolation at
least left me that I had acted my part
successfully.
The next day the trial was renewed.—
Mr wrote me a few words,
sAying that it was his intention to return
to his parliamentary duties that day, and
that he deemed it advisable I should .re
main in the country. His final determi-
Aaiun_ and aIL accessory arrange-mon tr - -
should be made known through the nullity
lawyer, which would spare the pain of a
second interview. " Cruel !" I said to
myself, crushing the letter in my nervous
hand, and for a moment a passionate feel
ing rose in my heart that I would Suffer
things to take their hard course, arid reave
duty and eflort unattemptcd It was but
a brief paroxysm ; for the same Instant,
saw a tiny, white-robed figure flitting
across the lawn towards my open window,
and the sweet, shrill voice of our little
daughter crying aloud, " Mamma, mam
ma, may I come in ?" I stepped out and
met her; stooped down and kissed the
eager, upturned face; and with that quiet
kiss I renewed tny vow, and strengthened
it with a prayer.
" My darling," I said, "go into pe pa's
study and tell him mamma is coining to
speak to him, if he, is not busy•" She
ran away on her errand and I followed at
once; Id d not mean to be refused. It
was well I did so, for he had already risen,
as if to leave thu room, and had taken the
child in his arms, to carry her away with
him. As I entered, his thee flushed with
a mixed expression of anger and
but he was soon calm again, sent away
our little girl, and then placed me a chair
"There is - no occasion for me to sit," I
said, with.a voice as steady as concentrat
ed resolution could make it ; " I shall not
nod to detain you !pug, I come to say,
Malcolm, that Lain quite.willing to obey
you, so fin• as to remain here while you
return to London, but that I must posi
tively refuse to have any interview with
your lawyer,"
•
" You refuse I"
" I do refuse, and that finally," I pur
sued, ' for it would answer no end. I
could only tell him what I e , lme now to tell
you,,tltat no-Power save physical coercion
Rharti4aratb the Iron: you. I know it is
in vain to extenuate my fault in youreyes,
but it is at least one on which no legal
proceedings can be raised; you cannot
divorce your wife because she told you
an ante nuptial lie. It remains to you to
abandon or malign her, but I will be
accessory' to no mutual arrangement. My
duty is by your side while life lilsts,
whether in weal cr woe, and I will hold
my post:,. That is, henceforth I will con
sider this my home, and will remain here,
unless driven from it. I am now, as
before, your true wife in heart and soul,
as in word and deed ; as anxious to fulfil
my sweet duty to you, with no hope in life
so struni as your forgiveness "
I had said my say, and was going, for
I dared not trust myself longer, dared
not even look into my husband's face to
read the ellect of my words, but he arrest
ed me with a peremptory motion. •
"Am I to understand, Ellinot, that
you mean to defy my determined Pur
pose; and in spite of alienation and, ,con
tempt, to insist upon the Shelter of my
roof, or rather to exile me from a place
which would be intolerable< under, such
circumstances? Do not be afraid,• if
you will consent to a formal separation,
that the terms of it shall fail in all possi
ble delicacy and liberality, but I cannot
live with the Wife who has cheated mo
of her first kiss"
"I ant resolved," I answered. "I am
able to say no more. I think I see my
duty plain, and.l mean to strive to do it•
You must follow your own will; it will
be for me to endure."
He paced the room in strong excite
ment.
"l cannot bear it," said, 'qt would
e&t.my life 'out ! You shall have our
child, Ellinor. if tilm.is the motive of this
strange unwomanly resblutio.n ; far be it
_ .
from pie to torture the heart of the moth-
er I She Shilll be yours unreservedly, and
her interests shall never suffer' one Whit.
. You 'know, haiv I love that little mature;
there was but one thing -- dearer, judge
then by- this .of my intense desire to sev
er 'the connection between
- "Cruel I unmerciful l'! exelaime . d.
with till finpulse of bitterness I could not
yoist,:but..lstcipPedarispen as-tie
had - escaped me: to upbraid was .no part
of my-Orpose. • _
- ".l.tiii4 vain,"l said, "te think_ to„
ttiov'e tue:by any,words, however hard
I have notlitlig lucre to - say. Let tne go,.
-Maleoltn,;;" and I turned and fled . from•
the room- ' • ' • ' r -.. •
.•
CONC67.ISiD 'NEXT WEEK;
fiferThere.is no bottnr kinking glatuf than
nrc old friend., • '
.„
AZ'. An Umpiring sight for a glazier
early dawn when. it, breaksthe .windows. -
(From tho Pouzlik >npqlo IN. Y ) Hanle I
ORIGIN -OF- YAN- -DOO-DLE
BY BENSON J. LOSSING
Tut: original song of " Yankee Dm
dle," if we trace it to its germ, has con
siderable antiquity. rie tune was known
as early as the time of Charles the First,
when a nursery song had these words:
"Lucy Locket iota her rincitet
Kitty Fisher found It;
Not It bit of money In It,
Only binding 'round It."
In the time of the Roundheads—the
period of Cromwell's protectorate—when
Dalian fashions, being intro luced into
England, were ridiculed by the satirists
and preached against by the Puritan
clergy, we find the following verse to the
same tune. Hero we have " Yankee
Doodle" in name fur the first time:
" Yankee boodlecamo to town
Up In a Kentish pony;
lin stuck a feather In hie hat,
Ahd called hiniidaccoroni."
Maccoroni, at that time, signified a
dandy with Italian fashions. Some have
supposed that it was written by a royalist
to satirize Cromwell, who wore a "feather
in his hat." The "original song," so
far as Americans arc concerned, was writ
ten, it is supposed, in the spring of 1775,
after the skirmishes at Lexington and
Concord. I subjoin a copy, as printed
by Isaiah Thomas, author of the " Histo
ry of Printing," in 1813. It is called:
THE YANKEES RETURN FROM CAMP
rathor and I wont down to camp,
Alan{ with Captain Uooding,
—And .thera , re-frot,tho-in•m.4tud-boys
As thick as hasty pudding.
CllOßol—rankan 1).)cllo koop It up.
rankoo Doodle, dandy,
Mind tho Music and tho step,
And with tho girls be handy.
And there we see a thousand men
An rich as 'Squire Damd;
And what they wasted every illy,
I wish it could bu eased.
The 'I tenon they oat oiory dAy
Would koop our holm a winter ;
Thoy havo ao much, that, I'll ho bound,
Thoy oat It when thoy'ro wind tor.
And them wo son a asvatnplu3 gun,
Lar,ra as a log of maple,
Upon a aomm,l little cart,
A !old for tithar's rattle.
And every thne they 3hlot it off,
It t tkE, a h nn of p owdor,
And mlkei a nnige li kn Catlin's gun,
Only a nation louder.
.„
I wont as nigh to ono myself
As :irth's un Sarni nni 11,7 :
And Nrhor wont as nigh attain—
/
1 thought tido deuce wac lu hlm
Cousin Simon grow no bold,
I thpu;ht ho would have corked 11;
It geared no no I shrink't It off
And hung by (saw's pocket.
And Captain Davi.; had a gun,
lie kind of empt his hand on't,
And sturg a ertiogod stabbin4 Iron
Upon tho little and on' t.
And there I two a pumpkin shell
As biT a; in ,ther'x basin ;
And ovary limo they touched It off
They scampered like the nation.
I sae a little barrel, too,
The heads were made of leather;
They kno,k'd upin't with little clubs,
And rall'd the folks together,
And thtwo was Capt,ln Waqhington,
And genth folks about him .
They say he's so tarsal proud
Us will sot rids without 'ern.
lie get him in bin meetlif cloth ox
Urrin n slapping stallion ;
Ile net the world along In rows
'ln hundreds and in'milllone.
Tho (lamlog ribbons In his hat,
Tito, Moto.] so tearing lino, ab,
I wanted pokily to got
To glvo to my Join imoh.
I see another snarl of men
A dik;ing graven, they told me,
So tarnal long, en tarnal deep,
They 'tended they should hold me
It scare I me so, I hook,d It off,
Nor stop'd as I reinsmber,
Nor turno.lab3ut till I got horns,
Locit'd up In tnalher's chamber.
In Farmer and Aloore's "Collections
Ilistoricel and Miscellaneous, and Month
ly Literary Journal," fdr April, 1431, I
find a new version of this sung, with some
stanzas not found in the original. They
ire evidently interpolations. I give a
specimen or two :
And thon thoy'd filo array 111th fun,
And play on cornstAlic fiddles,
And soma hut ribbon's, rod I,s 61°0,1,
Al: round about thoit middles.
The troopers, too, would gsliop up,
And tiro right in our Woe;
It almost soared mo half to death,
To sue thorn run such tacos
Old Undo Sam camo thoro to change
Sumo partcalcos.and somo onions,
For 'lases cakes to carry homo
To gip° his wife and young ones.
put I can't toll you half I son,
They kept up such a smother;
So I took my hat off, made a kits,
And scampered home to mother. •
little while before the-battle of Lex
ington, the British (who had used the
tune as one of their military airs at I lastle
William, in Boston harbor, 'as early as
1768,) had a song in reference.to.,the
Americans near-l3ostim; who were secretly
procuring arms, in that city, then occu
pied by royal ttloops. The following verse
is preserved :, .
" Yankoo Doodle name to town,
For to buy.a lire lock;
Wo will tar and feather him,
And so we will John Hancock."
•
A writer
.in the New York Evening
Post, a few yearS - ago, olai teed for
,tlie
'Dutch - the. - origin-of " Yankee - Dotidlo,"
Ho said that the harvest laborqrs Who.
in summer, -- migrate frOm_Geriiitinrt i o the
low countrie . S, or Holland; - : *here : :tlioy
receive as witch buttortnilk•as they c an
MO a 'tentli 'Oahe grain'," scoured"
by their exertions, had a song with :the
.
folloWinr; .ohortist
cildef. doodle down
' • • IlldidAndelitititer,
Yankee, vivor, votWor 'Own,
•., and.Tanther."
This account is apoehryphat, to say the
. I!east,for the - Words in the above verse:tire
neither German, Dutch, nor any other
known language on the face of the earth:.
ittli 50 per annum in advance
1 $2 00 if not paid in advance
Our "Southern brethren," who have a
- decidedly ug,ly way, at the present time,
of showing their brotherhood, and whose
"first families," according to their toasted
and admired correspondent of the London
Times, say, " If we could only get one of
the royal race of England to rule over ns
we should be content," a sentiment "va
ried a hundred ways," repeated to him
"over and over again," and who "regret
the strange result and consequences," of
the old war for independence, have natu
rally discarded "Yankee Doodle." South
Carolina, by legislative enactment last
winter, forbade the future celebration of
the Fourth of July and the use of "Yan
kee Doodle," " Hail Columbia," and "Star
Spangled Banner "; and soon afterwards
the poet laureate, we presume, of the
‘, Southern Confederacy," (forAe British
government they so much long for pen
sions a poet laureate,) put forth the fol
lowing :
FAREWELL TO YANKEE DOODLE
Yankoo Doodle, fare you well,
Rico and cotton flout you ;
Onco they Ilkod you very well,
But now they'll do without you
Yankee - Dondle used to treat
Old Pompey Co a neighbor;
Ile didn't grab' his bread and meat,
Nor cant at his labor.
But Doodle now has got so keen,
For every dirty shilling;
Propose a job, however mrin,
And Yankee Doodle's willing.
Doodle. too, has hod the luck
To get a new religion ;
A kind of 11;dy zeal is pluck
At everybody's pigeon,
Doorlle'a mnrbld conseleucc ranting
With Puritanic vi or
To loose the only friondly chains
That over bound a nigger.
Yet Dandle !mow as well as I
That when ho's come and freed 'em,
lied see a n11;Inn niit t jzers
Boforo he'd help to feud 'oni:
Yankee Dondlo sent us down
A gallant missionary;
His name was Captain Johnny BroWn,
The Priest of Hat per's Ferry.
With pikes ho trio,' to magnify
Tho ammel creed of Beochor;
But Old Virglni4 lifted high
Thin military preacher.
Yet Glory to hie name, le sung,
As II with sin untainted;
The bloody wretch, byjustles hung,
By bigotry is sainted.
Yank. Dnndle, now good bye,
WO spurn a thing no rotten.
Proud Independence Is the cry
Of sugar, rice, and cotton
Atlanta, Georgia, Fnbruary Ist, 1861
I humbly advise our Southern breth
ren, when they sing this " farewell," to
hum, in sotto yore, sufficiently clear for
the ear of their Northern brethren, some
thing like the following:
Kln C aton way a monarch bold
Till regicidal treason,
With lirsinisos of untold gold,
Deprived us of our reason.
King Cotton now, without the nid.
Of England, France, or Prussia,
Spain, Portugal, or Belgium,
Or surf roloasi'ag Russia,
Is growing woak In ovary limb,
And trembles like a nosdle;
And wu had better male our pence
With angry Yankee Doodle.
T e otetnory of these half-penitent
words ma) serve to mitigate the "'ferocity
of the No thorn Goths and Vandals,"
when those,who have bidden " Farewell
to Yankee Doodle" shall, as Prentice
says, " be standing where there will be
an Impending Crisis and no Helper,"
GEY. Jo. LANE'S RECEPTIOL—The San
Francisco correspondent of the Sacramento
Union tells the following (apocryphal?) story:
Oh the arrival of the steamer, honored with
the charge of depcsitin,g the General at
Portland, the booming cannon that -were
expected to announce the fact did not 'boom:
The crowd of citizens assembled to do honor
to the statesman and patriot. were not there.
The flit , rs upon every house top did not flutter
in the breeze. Instead of the open carriage,
drawn by six white horses with long tails,
provided to convey the General to his hotel,
there was only a solitary ex press wagon waiting
to convey the mail matter. Joseph knew the
Expressinan,and, also, the Expressman knew
him (Joseph) well; and .he of the express
wagon seemed to be the only one that Joseph
knew. After waiting patiently for the
demonstration the General determined to
postpone it, and with the air and bearing of
an orilinilry citizen he approached his friend,
the Expressman, whereupon the following
interesting conversation ensued:
Joseph—" How are you, old tallow? Glad
to see you. How are you all getting along?"
Express—" How aro you, sir."
Joseh—[Assuming a cast iron expression
of countenance.] "1 wish you to take my
baggage up to the hotel."
Express-- 7 " Can't do it, air. Engaged to
alce up the wails."
Joseph—" But it won't take you long.
You will have plenty of time afterwards to
take up the mails."
Express--•" Look here; to tell you the truth
I don't w ant any baggage belonging to a
d--al Secessionist on bosrd of my wagon."
A PORTENTIOUS QUESTION.—"A. large
pond of ice was near a school house where
one Miss O -.----`taught the young idea To
warn the boys against the danger of amusing
themselves upon the 'frozen eleineut,' one
day she related the following 'story : •
"Two young men who were very fond , of
skating, went out on the river one moonlight
iti !la. One of them placed sticks wheks he
thought there were air holes but the other, in
skating backward, pissed the'boundary, the
ice'broke and ho went under. His body was '
er
found a long time affer . a!•d'hy some
. boy,s ,
who were playing on the ri ver bank:---;
.liere.theiesteitenteitt in the selOol-room
becoineintens.c, and one -boy, about eight:
- yore of ago," who,, with mouth wide open,
hair on end, and eyes dilated to t'leir Utmost
exeoilt,-had been --literally ‘stvallewifigr the
nat'rativeotartedup, and anxiously inquired,
'-Who got his slcatesr "
JearAnoording to flatter, women hoar hun-. -
- g•ortonger than mon; aceordhig Plutarph,l
-they eau resist - tho effoote,ef wino bettor; an. .
irrding to -Unger, they 'grow older,•antkarei'•••
never bald; aceording, to Pliny,,illoy•are'ael4
domaitikolted by lions,Aon the contrary, they-,
will•run-after lione;yand, aoclordltig . to Qua
ter, they can bilk e fowl _' •. , „ .
14F" Tlio spring tidielit life—Our dancing
days. , •
NO. 39.