ft "WE GO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES . POINT THE WAY J WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD WE CEASE TO rOLLOW. BY JQHN G. GIVEN. EttUNSBURG, THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1850. VOL. (. IVO. 38. 1 ! X 111 III 5 t J IVE ZlS'O H Xi L A IT S O US. - WASHINGTON. BIS UOME AND U3DSEU0LO, Order, Method, Economy, Pnndualily. From the Cuttis Recollections af the life and Character of Washington. Whenever Washington established a horns whether temporary or fixed wheth er amid the log huts of Morristown or the Valley Forge, the Presidential mansions in New. York or Philadelphia, or his own beloved Mount Vernon -every where or der, method, punctuality, economy reigned. II is household, whether civil or military, was always upon a liberal scale, anil was conducted with regard to economy 3nd usefulness. The Steward. Francis, who kept the tavern in New York where Washington took leave of his officers 1783, was the first Steward to the President. Francis was a rare Whig in the Revolutionary day and attached no little importance to his person anl character, from ib.2 circumstance of the memorable parting of the commander-in-chief with his old and long endeared companions in arms having taken place at Francis Tavern, in New York. The Steward was a man of talent and considerable taste in the line of his profes sion, but was at the same time ambitious, fond of display, and regardless of expense. This produced continued difficulties be tween the President and certainly one of the most devoutly attached to him of all his household. The expenses of the Presidential man sion were settled weekly; and, upon the bills being presented, tiie President would rate his Steward soundly upon his expen iiveness, saying that while he wished to live conformably to the high station, liber ally, nay handsomely, he abhored waste, and extravagance, and insisted that his household should be conducted with due regard to economy and usefulness. Francis would promise amendment and the next week the scene would be re-enacted in all its parts, the Steward retiring in tears, and exclaiming, "Well, he may discharge me; he may kill me, if he will; but while he is President of the U. States, and I have the honor to be his Stward, his establishment shall be supplied with the very best of every thing that the whole country can afford." The" story of the fish, related in another part of the work, happened during Fran cis' stewardship. Washington was re markably fond of fish. It was the habit for New England ladies frequently to pre pare the codfish in a very nice manner, and send it enveloped in cloths, so as to arrive quite warm at the President's Sat urday dinner, he always eating codfish on that day in compliment to his New Eng land recollections. It happened that a single shad was caught in the Delaware in February and brought to the Philadelphia market for sale. Francis pounced upon it with the speed of an osprey, tegardless of price, bat charmed that he had secured a delica cy that, above all others, he knew would be agreeable to the palate of his Chief. When the fish was served, Washington suspec.ed a departure from his orders, touching provision to be made for his table and said to Franri. who stood al his post at the sidebo ird, What fis'i is this'' 41 A. shad, a very fine shid," was the reply;"! knew your Excellency was particularly fond of this kind of fish and was so fortu nate as to procure thi one in market a solitary one, and the first of the season. "The price, sir; the price?" continued Washington in a stern commanding tone; 'the price, sir?" "Three, three, three, dollars," stammered out the conscience stricken Steward. "Take it away," thun dered the chief; "tjke it away, sir, it shall never be said that my table sets such an example of luxury and extravagance." Poor Francis tremblingly obeyed, and the first shad of the season was removed un touched, to be speedily discussed by the gourmands of the servants hall. The Chief Cook. This celebrated ar tiste, as he would have been termed in modern parlance, was named Hercules, familiarly termed Uncle Ilarklcss. Train ed in the mysteries of his part from early youth, and in the palmy days of Virginia, hen ber thousand chimneys smoked to indicate the generous hospitality that reigned throughout the whole length and breadth of her wide domain. Uncle Ilark less was at the period of the First Presi dency, as highly accomplished a proficient in the colinary art as could be found in the United States; H e was a dark brown man, little if any above the usual size, yet possessed of suih great muscular power a' to entitled him to be compared with his namesake of fabulous history. The Chief Cook gloried in the cleanli ness and nicety of his kitehen. Under his iron discipline, wo to his underlings ii "peek or spot could be discovered on the kbles or dressers, or if the utensils did not jhine like polished silver. With the luck- ! lass wights who had offended in these par ticulars, there was no arrest of judgment, for judgment and execution went hand in hand. The Steward, and indeed the whole household, treated the Chief Cook with much respect, as well for his valuable ser vices as for his general good character and pleasing manners. It was while preparing the Thursday or Congress dinner that Uncle Harkless shone in all his splendor. During his labors up on this banquet he required some half dozen aprons and napkins out of number. It was surprising the order and discipline that was observed in so hustling a scence. His underlings flew in all directions to ex ecute his orJers, while he, the great mas ter spirit, seemed to possess the power of ubiquity, and to be every where at the same moment. When theSieward. in snow white apron silk shorts and stockings, and hair in full powder, placed the first dish on the table, the clock being on the stroke of four, ceas ed "the labors of Hercules." While the masters of the republic we;e engaged in discussing the savory vfaads of the Congress Dinner, the Chief Cook re tired to make his toilet for an evening promenade. His perquisites from the slops of the kitchen were from one to two hundred dollars a year. Though homely in person he 1 vibtted the most of these large avails upon dress. In making his toilet, hss linen was ol unexceptionable whi'eiiess and quailtv, then black silk shorts, ditto waistcoat, ditto stockings, shoes higly polished, with large buckles covering a considerable part of the foot, blue cloth coat with a velvet collar and bright metal buttons, a long watch chain dandling from his fob, a cocked hat, and gold headed cane com pleted the grand cos tume of the celebrated dandy (for there were dandies in those days) of the Presi dent's kitchen. Thus arrayed, the Chief Cook invaria bly passed out the front door, the Porter making a low how, which was promptly returned. Joining his brother loungers of the pave, he proceed up market street, at trading considerable attention. Market street being, in the old time, the resort where fashionables 'did most congregate,' Many were not a little surprised oa behol ding so xtrarJinary ,a personage, while others who knew him would make a for mal and respectful bow, that they might receive in return the salute of one of the most polished gentlemen and the veriest dandy of nearly sixty years ago. The Coachman. John Fagan, hy birth a Hessian, tall and burly in person, was I an accomplished roach man in every res pect. He understood the mechanism of a carriage, and could lake to pieces and put together again all the parts, should he ' meet with any accident on his road. He drove the President the whole tour of the i United States, from Portsmouth toSavan ! nah, in the white chariot built by Clark of Philadelphia, without the slightest acci- dent or misfortune happening in so long a .journey. On the President's return Clark was in 1 attendance to learn the success of what he I deemed his master-piece of coach making j No sooner had the horses stopped at the i door of the Presidential Mansion than the ! anxious coachmaker was under the body I of the white chariot.ex-iminiug everything with a careful and critcal eye, till Fagan ! shouted from the box. "All right Air. ' Clark: all riirht, sir; not a bolt or screw j started in a long journey and over the dev il's owu roads. The delighted mechan ic now found his hand grasped in that of the President, who complimented him up on his workmanship, assuring him that it. had been sufficiently tested in a great ve riety of very bad roads. Clark, the happiest of men, repaired to , his shop, in sixth street, where he inform j ed his people of the success of the white chariot, the account or which he had re ceived from the President's own lips, when the day ended in a jollification at the coaehraaker's. John Kruse succeeded Fagan. He was a steady, estimable man, and having been bred in the Austrian cavalry was perfect ly conversant with horses. He was an excessive smoker, his meershauin never bzwo out of his mouth, excepting at meals or on the coach box. The stables consisted of ten coach and saddle horses, and the white chargers, a coachman, and two grooms. Of the char gers the one usually rode by the Chief was named Prescott. He was a fine pa rade horse, purely white, and sixteen hands high. He was indifferent to the fire of artillery, the waving of banners, and the clang of martial instruments, but had a very bad habit of dancing about on the approach of a carriage, a habit very , annoying to his rider, who although a master in horsemanship, preferred to ride as quietly as possible, especially when, during his Saturday's ride, he would meet; with carriages containing ladies, it being ' customary with them to order their coach men to stop and let down their glasses, that the President might approach to pay his compliments. The other charger was named Jackson, from the circumstance of his having ran away with Major Jackson, aid de camp to the President, when coming into Princeton, en route from New York to Philadelphia, in 1790, to the sad discom fiture of the Major, and the no little amusement of the Chief and the brilliant cortege of gallant cavaliers with whi-h he was attended. Jackson was a superb ani mal, purely white, with flowing mane and tail. He was of a fierce and fiery temperament, and when mounted, moved with mouth open, champing the bit, his nostrils distended, and his Arab eyes flashing fire. Washington, disliking a fretful horse, rarely rode this fine but impetuous ani mal, while Kruse whose duty it was to accompany the President when on horse bark, had divers combats with the fiery charger, in several of which, it was said, the old Austrian dragoon came off rather second best. When putting on the hou sings and caparison s for the Chief to ride Jackson, Kruse would say, "Ah, ha, my fine fellow, you'll have your match to day, and I know you'll take care to be have yourself. In fact, the noble horse had fe'.t the power of Washington's stal wort arm. a nower that could throw a horse upon his haunches in a single ino- ! ment, and the sagacious animal quailed before a force not easily resisted nor soon forgotten. Among the coach horses were a pair of: beautiful blood bays, bred at Mount Ver non from the celebrated stallion Magnolia. These thorough breds were the pets of the stables, and always drew the coach when Mrs-Washington paid her visits in r i a t f I I i -1 . rmiaueipnia. uae uay, out ior me cour age and presence of mind of a servant, a serious catastrophe would have occurred. Mrs. Washington and her grand-daughter were just seated in the coach, and James Hurley, (a native of Ireland.) was putting up ihe step, when, the day being warm, and tiie flies troublesome, one of the hor ses rubbed off his bridle. The coachman, of course, sat powerless on his box. The affrighted animal at first stared wildly about him, and was in the act of springing forward, when Hurley, percei ving the imminent danger, with a pres ence of mind equalled by his courage, grappled the anitn?l around the neck, and amid his furious and maddening plunges, clung to him, and so incumbered him with the weight of a heavy man, that the pas sengers in the street were enabled to come to the rescue, when the bridle was re placed, and the carriage drove off". The President was much gratified when inspecting his stables in Philadelphia. They were large and roomy, and every thing in and about them in the most per feet order; the grooming of the horses su perb, such as the moderns can have no idea or. Punctuality. Washington was the most punctual of men. To this admirable quality, and the one equally admirable of rising at four o'clock and retiring to rest at nine at all seasons this great man owed his being able to accomplish mightv labors during a long and illustrious life, lie was punctual in everything, and made every one punctual about him. During his memorable journey through the Union, he had, before selling off, arranged all the stages for the whole route; the ferries, the inns, the hour of arriving at and departing from each, were ail duly calculated, and punctually did the white chariot arrive at all its appointments, except when preven ted by high waters or excessively bad roads. His punctuality on that long journey astonished ever' one. The trumpet call i oi ine cavairy nau scarcely ceasea its echoes when a viuette would be seen com ing in at full speed, and the cry resound far and wide, "He's coming!" Scarcely would the artillerymen unlimber the can non, when the order would be given, Light your matches, the white chariot is in full view!" Revolutionary veterans hurried from all directions once more to greet theirbeloved Chief. They called it marching to head quarters, and as the dear glorious old fel- lows would overtake their neighbors and friends, they would say, "Push on, my boys, if you wish to see him; for we who ought to know can assure you that he is never behind time, but always punctual to the moment." It was thus that Washington performed his memorable tour of the United States everywhere received with heartfelt ho mage that the love, veneration and grati tude of a whole people could bestow; and there is, no doubt, yet living, a gray head who can tell of the time when he gallantly rode to some village or inn on the long remembered route to hail the arrival of the white chariot, and join in the joyous welcome to the father of his country. And equally punctual in his engage ments was this remarkable man nearer home. To the review, the theatre, or the ball room he repaired precisely at the ap pointed time. The manager of the theatre, wailing on ; the President to request him to command a play, was asked, At what time, Mr. Wignell, does your cur tain rise?" The manager replied, "Seven o'clock is the hour, but of course the cur tain will not rise until your Excellency's arrival." The President observed, ! will be punctual, sir, to the time; nobody waits a single moment for me." And, sure enough, precisely at seven, ihe noble form of Washington was seen to enter the stage box. amid the acclamations of the audience and the music of the President's March. In the domestic arrangement of the Presidential mansion, the private dinner was served at three o'clock, the public one at four. The drawing room com menced at seven, and ended a little past ten. The levee begun at three, and ended at four. On the public occasions the company arrived within -a very short time of each other, and departed in the same manner. The president is punctual, said every body, and every body became punctual. On the creat national days of the 4th of Julv and 22d of February, the salute from m t g W-l f the then head of Market street (Eighth street) announced the opening of the lev- ; ee. Then was seen the venerable corps J of the Cincinnatti marching to pay their j respects to their President General, who received them at head quarters, and in the nniform of the commander-in-chief. This veteran band of tlie revolution had learned punctuality from their General in the. "times that tried men's souls;" for no sooner had the thunder peals of Col. . . t.t Proctor's twelve pounders caused the windows to rattle in Market street, than this venerable body of the Cincinatti were in full march for the head quarters. A fine voluntary corps, called the Light infantry, from the framed light infantry of the Revolutionary army, commanded by Lafayette, mounted a guard of honor at head quarters during the levee on the na tional days. When it was about to close, the soldiers, headed by their sergeants, marched with trailed arms and noiseless step through the hall to a spot where huge bowls of punch had been prepared for their refreshment, when, after quaffing a deep carouse, with three hearty cheers to the health of the President, they counter marched to the street, the bands struck up the favorite air, forward was the word, and the levee was ended. "Old times are changed, ok' manners are gone," True, we have become a mighty empire in extent, wealth, and pop ulation, but where, Americans, is ihe spirit of '76, the glorious and immortal spirit that dignified and adorned the early days of the Republic and the age of Washington? Shall it decline and die among us? Swear on the altar of your liberty that it shall live forever! How Bi; Darkry Jake was Cured of Baltic. Some years since I was employd as a ware house clerk in a large shipping house in New Orleans, and while in that capacity, the following funny incident occurred; One day a vessel came in, consigned to the house, having on board a large lot of chesses from New York. During the voyage some of them had become dam aged by bilge water, (the ship hiving proved leaky.) consequently the owners refused to receive them; they were, there fore, sent to the consignees of the ship, to be adjusted. I discoverd a few days afterward, that as to perfume, they were entirely too fragrant to remain in the ware house in June, and reported the same to my employers, from whom I received or ders to have them overhauls, and send all thai were passable to Beard & Calhoun's auction mart, (then in Old Camp street Theatre) to be disposed of for the benefit of the underwriters and the rest to the swamp. I got a gang of black boys to work ( n them, and when they stirred em up, "Be the bones of Molly Kelly's quart mue! but the smell was iihganlly entirely-" I kept a respectable distance, be- i lieve me, for strung ni!7Ter and strong j cheese, on a hot June day, iust bans nil common essenses, including a certain varmint we read about. Presently the boys turned out an immense fellow about three feet six "across the stump." from which the d-jx hud ratted off; in the cen tre, a space of about ten inches was very much decayed and appeared to bo about the consistency of mush, of a bltleish tini which was caused by the bilge water. The boys had just set it up on its edge on a bale of gunny bags, when noticed a big darky (then on sale) from Charleston S. C, who was notorious for his butting pro pensities, ha-Mnr: given most of the nig- gers in the vicinity a taste of his quality in that line. I have seen him and anoth er fellow the night previous, practicing; they stand one each side of s hydrant some ten yard distant, and run at each other with their heads lowered, and clap ping their hands on the hydrant, they would but like veteran rams. A thought struck me that I might cure him of his bragging, and have some sport also; so I told the boys to keep dark, aod I called Old Jake over. "They tell me you are a great fellow for butting Jake?" "1 is some, Massa, dat's a fac I done butt de wool tirely ofTob o!e Pete's head las night, and Massa Nichols was gwine to gib me goss! I can jiss hang de head orf any nigger in these parts, myself I kin." Well, Jake, Pre got a little job in that lino for you when you havn't any thing else to do.4 "I'se on han for all dem kin ob jobs, myself " Well you see that large cheese back there?" '1 does dat! I does myself." Now, if you can Lull a dent in it, you shall have it " Golly. Massa! you foolin dis nigger!'' No, I'm not Jake just try me." 'Woi? you gib me de whole cb dat cheese ef I butt a dent in urn." "Yes." I tell you now I bust 'em wide open I wil,', mysl. Juss stand back dar, you Orleans niggers, and clear de track fW Ole Souf Carolina, case I'se cummin' rriy stir I is! And old Jake started back some fifty feet and went at it at a good quick run, and the next instant I heard a dull, heavy sound, a kind ot a splash, and Old Jake's head disappeared from sight, with the top just visible on the other side as he rose i . . with his new fashioned necklace, the soft rotten cheese oozing down all around him as it settled down, so that just his eyes were visible. From the centre of it Jake's voire was scarcely audible and half smoth ered, as he vainly tried to remove the im mense cheese: "O-o-o-o! for de lub ob de Lord! Ease -tuk um orf! O-o-o-o! Lif urn up'.-O-o-o!' Meanwhile I was nearly dead myself, having laid back on a cotton bale, holding myself together to keep from bursting, while the boys stood round Old Jake pay ing him off'. "O! how de nigger's bfeff smell! You doesn't clean your teeth, old Jake!" "I say, you didn't make more dan four times dat han, did you old hoss?" "Well you is de biggest kine ob Welsh Rabbit, you is!" "Whar you git yotirhar greese?" And thus the boys run Old Jake now half smothered until I took compassion on him, and told them to take it off. Jake didn't stay to claim his prize, but put out growling. "For de sake! I done got sole dat time! I'se a case ob yaller feber 1 is mysel!" Old Jake was never known to do anv more butting after that. Wbat Past Agrs Uaic Dor;. The advancement of the age, the ge nius of the age, the wisdom of the age, &c, are all flattering unciions with which we sooth our pelted vanity. Whatever has escaped tiat fell destroyer time, proves that those who lived thousand of years ao knew as much, and more, than we do now. To be sure, in some respects, the kind of knowledge they possessed, differed from ours, yet we have indisputable evi dence, thai in many of the departments of the arts and sciences, they had attained to a higher excellence. These evidences of greater knowledge are few, and of them selves only show a superiority in the bran ches to which they belong, "but ihe infer ence is quite probable, that the ancieuls were equally advanced in thpr branches. '1 he art of printing had not been discov ered, and, therefo-e, the only ways cf transmitting knowledge were" by tradi tion, by nunuscrip, or engitv;ng on stone or wood. Traditiqn tvas uncertain; ihe current flawing down through ages would dry up. No manure rip would survive the mould and dt-cay of lime, and si! that is left to us, are th hyeroglyphics on the pyramids and fther mighty structures, which stand forth as the wonders ol a past and burivd cge. Let no man. then. foolishly say, we, of this generation are wiser than the generation that lived twenty-five hundred yesiis ago. The archi tect of tbe present day, who ranks at the head of his profession, is only a servtl imitator of the genius of a past eye. Ther is rso modern architecture. Ail the great buildings which adorn our cities, have their origi rials in ti e ruins of the Col iseums, the Amphitheatres, and other mighty and splendid structures, that in dicate a greater progress than we have vet made. Aotl wh? shaM rsv thit in medicine, that art which deals death and uncertainty, they had net attained to mora light. The age of man has shortened; the limit of the psalmist is rarely reechrd now; our ycunp taen and maidens -drop off, like frosted blossoms, and mingle with the dust. Our syrups and our nostrums, our balsams and our drugs are of doubt ful eSEcacy What the ancients could do for the living, is seen in wfant they l.avo done for the dead. They have stayed the hand of decay, they hare cheated the worm of its banquet & the embilrnedbody rota ins the freshness of life thro the lapse of thousands cf years. And, then, again in sculpture. The chisel of the student of the present day derives its Lcauiies from the models or the artist whose nrtmo is lost, but whose work is immortal. Th deal of the sculptor finds its reality in the remains cf some work of art which was the production of a former age. The genius of this age creates its fame upon ihe plunder of the dead. Nor can this wiser age equal the one that has passed away. Ah I but the inventive power cf ihi? ase. The discovery cf steam; the talegraph, which has subdued the lisht. ning and answered the question of Job: "Can'st thou say to the lihminig go there;" There is no record that thest mighty influences were known, or thai tfaev were ever before-applied to human purposes. Still they may haro been. But there are remains ;hst speak vol umes in behalf of the inrentive power of a past age. The Chinese knew the ust of gunpowder long before an accidental explosion astonished the inquisiti ve friar Bacon. The wire bridge?, which aro constructed in this country as more dura ble than those of wood and stone, wer in vogue, in China, two thousand years ago. The plough, which has undergone no material improvement, was an imple ment cf husbandry in primitive times. Our plank road and our turn pikes, our tunnels and our culverts belong to the f,e nius of a past age. Our water works, and aqueducts, and waier pipes, which convey water for miles, and are regarded as objects of wonder and curiosity, and held up to shew what this age can do. are to be found in the ruins ot Egyptnnd anc ent Rome. And with a'l the power of steam, all the mechanical power wo can muster, your man power and yonr water power, this present age cannot ex ert the strength that must have ceen em ployed by the duilders cf the monuments ofEsvDt. Your shears, and your up. rights would snap I ke pipe stems. How these immense blocks cf marble were moved and raised to their resting places, is involved in mystery. The secret died with a past nge.Harrisburg Union. Willis once said, in speaking of Daniel Webster's style, that"every seu tence weighed a pound." Here one or two lhat avercge considerably over lhat weight:- New England, it is well Uaown, is the chosen seat of the atcliton presses and the abolition societies. Here it is, principally, that ihe former cheer the morning, by full columns of aineti!n lions over the fute of human beings, free by na ture, and by a law above the constitution; but sent back, nevertheless, cl.ait.td and manacled, to slavery andjtostripes. And ihe latter refresh themselves fro n daily iotl, by orgies of ihe night, devoied to thu same "outpourings of philanthropy, ming ling, all the while, their anathemas at what they call 'man catching,' with the most horrid and profane abjurations of the Christan Sabbath, and indeed of the whole Divine Revelation. They sancti fy their philanthropy by irreligion and profanity; they manifest their charily by contempt of God and his comrnundments. Extravagance. A full grown Buckeye rather an oblivious and "balmy" state. tumbled inio a stage coach one bright mor ning, beside a traveller who was i.i "pur suit of knowledge," certainly at that time under difficulties." After the ribbo.n3 had been picked up and the "hosses" re ceived notice to surt, the travsller remark ed to the new comer that "Ohio was afiqs country." "Ta-hic-atnt no.hin tke!" hbeccghed the Buckeye. . What is the staple production, sir?" "Co-or-on!" "You must rabe a larc quantity. What is done wi:h it. wV' "Whrr-rhlc why, a great de-e-al is used up fr y. h9hi--isky. and scxie they waste in sr. akin j bread?' A Toad. An Irishman describing a toad, said it waj a very queer bird; whea it stood up it was no taller :haa when it sat down, and whea it Hew, ii weal wha a d 1 of a jolt. Jin Old Maid. Norman, to 3 dauber of Enoch, was 580 years cid when sha was married!