BV JOH.N G. GIVEN. &lZOI!LLiiN0 US THE MINT-MASTER S DAUGHTER. BY GRANDFATHER WHITEHEAD. Captaijt John Hull was the mint-master of Massachusetts, and coined all the money that was made. His was a new line of busbies ; lor, in the earlier days of ilie colony, the current coinage consisted of the gold and silver money of England, Poitugal and Spain. These coin being scarce, the people were olten forced 10 barter their commodities instead of selling them. For instance, if a in. in wanted to buy a coat, he perhaps exchanged a bear skin for it; if he wished for a barrel of molasses, he might purchase it for a pile of pine boards. Musket balls were used instead of farthing?. The Indians had a nun of money called wampum, which was made of clam-shells, and this strange kind of specie was hiiewias taken in payment of debt by English settlers. Hank bills had never been heard of. There was not money enough of any kind, in many paris of the country, to pay their minister; so that they had sometimes to lake quintals of fish, bushels of corn, or cords of wood, instead of silver and gold. As the people grew more numerous, ar.d their trade with one another increased, the want of current money was still more sensibly felt. To supply tiie demand, General Court passed a law for cstabiish- ir.g a coinage of shillings anJ sixpence Captain liull was appointed to manufac ture this money, and was to have one shilling oat of every twenty, to pa him for his trouble in making for them. . Hereupon, all the old silver in the colo ny was handed over to Captain Hull. The battered siiier cans and tankards, I ruppose, and silver buckles and broken poous, and silver hilts of swords that had figured at Court all such curious old articles were doubtless thrown into the melting-pot together. But by far the greater part of the silver consisted f bul lion from the mines of South America, which the English buccaneers (who were lifle tetter than piiates) had taken from the Spaniard! and brought to Massachu setts. All this old and new silver being melted down and coined, the result was an im mense amount of splendid shillings, six pences and threepences. Each had the date of 1G52 on ihe one side, and the figure of a pine tree on the other side. Hence they were called pine-tree shillings. And for every twenty shillings that he coined, you will remember, Captain John Hull was entitled to put one shilling into k is own pocket. 1 lie magistrates soon uegan to suspect that tha mint-master would have the oest 01 me uargain. i ney offered him a large sum of money if he would give up that twentieth shilling, which he was continually dropping into his pocket. But Captain Hull declared that he was perfectly satisfied with the shilling; and well he might be, for so dil igently did he labour tiiat in a few years his pockets, his money bags, and his strong box were overflowing witli pine tree shillings. This was probably the case when he came into possession of his grandfather' chair; and, as he worked so hard at the mini, it was certainly proper that he should have a comfortable chair to rest himself on. When the mint-master was grown very rich, a voung man, Samuel Sewell by name, came courting his daughter Betsy, a fine, hearty damsel, by no means so slender as some young ladies of our own days. On the coutrary, having always fed heartily on pumpkin pies, doughnuts, Indian puddings, and other Puritan dain ties, she was as round and plump as a pudding herself. With this round, rosy Miss. Betsy did Samuel Sewell fall in love. As he was a young man of good character, industrious in his business, and a member of the church, the mint-master very readily gave his consent. "Yes, you may take her," said he, in his rough way, "and you will find her a heavy burden enough." On the wedding-day, we may suppose thai honest John iluil dressed himself in a plain coat, all the buttons of which were made of pine-tree shillings. The buttons ot his waistcoat were sixpences, and the knees of his small cloths were buttoned with silver threepences. Thus attired, he sat with great dignity in his grandfather's chair, and being a portly old gentleman, he completely . filled it from elbow to elbow. On the opposite side of the room, between her bridesmaids, sat Miss Betsy. She was blushing with all her might, and looked like a lull-blown peony, a great red apple, or any other round and scarlet object. There, too, was the bridegroom, dressed in a fine purple coat ami gold-lace waist coat, with as much other finery as the Puritan laws and customs would allow "WE CO WHERE DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES POINT THE WAY; diem to put on. His hair was cropt close o his head, because Governor Endicolt iiad forbicden any man to wear it below his ears. Hut he was a very personable young man; and so thought the brides maids and Miss Betsy herself. The mint-master was also pleased with his new son in-law, especially as he had said nothing at all about her portion So when thtt marriage ceremony was over. Captain Hull whispered a word or two to his men-servants, who immediately went out, and soon returned, lugging in a large pair of scales. They were such a pair as wholesale merchants use for weighing ; a bulky commodity was now to be weighed in them. Daughter Betsy," said the mini-master, 'go into one side of the scales" M iss Betsy or Mrs. Sewell, as we must now call "her did as she was bid, like a dutiful child, without any question of a why or wherefore. But what her fatiier could mean, unless to make her husjand pay tor her by the pound, (in ' which case &ne wouiu nave oeen a I. ... 1.1 i uear bargain,) she had not the least idea. And now," said honest John Hull to his servants, "bring that box hither." The box to which the mint-master pointed, was a huge, square, iron-bound oaken chest; it was big enough to play hide and seek in. The servants tugged with might and main, but could not nt't this enormous re ceptacle, and were finally obliged to drag it across the floor. Captain Hull then took a key out of his girdle, unlocked the chest, and lifted its ponderous lid. Behold, it was full to the brim of bright pine-tree shillings, fresh from the mint, and Samuel Sewell began to think that his father-in-law had got possession of all the money in Massachu setts' treasury. But it was the mint master's honest share of t ie coinage. Then the servants, at Captain Hull's command, heaped double handfulis of shillings into one side of the scales, while oilier. Jingle, Betsy 1 1 Hi; It remained in the went the shillings, as handful after handful were thrown 111, till, plump and ponderous as she was, they weighed the young lady from the floor. "There, son Sewell," cried the honest mint-mjSier, resuming his seat in his graudiather's chair, "take these shillings lor my daughter's portion. Use her kindly, and thank heaven for her, for it is not every wife that's worth her weight in silver !" We laughed heartily at this legend, and would haidly be convinced hut grandfather had nuJj it out of his own head. He assured us faithfully , however, that he had found it in the pages of a grave historian, and merely hail tried to tell it in a some what funnier style. Well, grandfather," remarked Clara, 'if wedding portions now-a-davs were paid as Miss i.etsy's was, young ladies would uol pride themselves upon an airy figure, as many of them do." w e. SCHOOL ROOM. "Geography class come up. Ephriam, how is the State of Iowa bounded.'" "It is bounded on the north by Kennob scot, on the north east by tha boundary question, on the cast by Seovy Notia, on thj south by the Chineese wall, and on the west by the Massasipi river." Very good describe the soil and cli mate." "its climate is very salubrious, and the ingrubious, producing immense swarms of herpaeious animals called galley-Nippers. They are about the size ol daddy's wind- mill, with pudding tails, fence rail hgs, and ken bite through a file; they infest in heards frequently destroying vegetation for whole miles around and they are taken in steel traps by the natives for the purpose of immergration," "For what is this State celebrated?" "It's famouss for fiat. headed babies and pretty gals, who go to meetin', to practice animal mauetism. It is also the birth place uf Mtizaby, the Moor of Venice." "Elegant w hat is its productions?" "Flour barrels, bread puddings, codfish and cotton pods: also, ten penny nails, sheet iron, coddings, and reed flannel sas- singers. "Excellent take your seat-you'Il soon be a Congressman." The young lady that would'nt o into a gun factory, because some of the rifles had'nt their breeches on, is stopping at Troy. She was awfallly shocked on Wednesday. It appears that she had been rolling a potato under her foot without re flecting that such things had eyes. Burnt feathers were promptly administered, but we regret to sa' that her nervous system is so deranged, that there are but "small hopes enteriained of her recovery. Some one speaks out thus: "He that speaks me fair and loves me not, I'll speak him fair, and trust him not." EBEIVS13URG, THURSDAY, How a Toiler Collected a DtlL Near the close of ihe last century, a Quaker knight of the shears and thimble, who exercised his avocation in Philadel phia, was imposed upon by an adroit scoundrel, who contrived to get a suit of clothes en credit, and afterwards sloped without paying for them. The Quaker was too poor to lose the debt, but like too many others of his cloth, had apparently no alternative. The account was placed on his books and soon forgotten. Some years afterward he was examining his old records of debt and credit, profit and loss, when his attention was attracted to this account, and all the circumstances attend ing it came to his mind. Suddenly an odd thought presented itself. "I'll try ;?n experiment," said he to himself; "perhaps I may succeed in catch ing the rogue and getting my money." He immediately prepared an advertise mcnt in substance as follows, which he inserted in the Philadelphia Gazette : 'If J- C- vvho was in Philadel phia, about the month ot , in the year 1795, will send his address to the editor of J this paper, he will hear ot something to sponded the Quaker; "I only promised advantage. Printers in the neighboring that thou should'st hear something to ad States are requested to copy." : vantage; and is it not to the advantage of The latter clause was inserted from a i a noor tailor to collect an old debt?" vague suspicion that the rogue had taken up his abode in New York. Having instructed the editor not to dis- I close his name to the rogue if he should call, but to request of the latter to leave his address, the Quaker patiently awaited the result of his experiment. In a short time he was informed, by a note from the ! printer, that the individual alluded to , having arrived from New York, might be j found at a given place in the city. The tailor lost no time in preparing a . transcript of his account, not forgetting to j charge the interest from the time the debt ! was incurred. Taking a constable with . him, who bore a legal process suited to , the occasion, he soon arrived at the lodg ings of the swindler. The constable was instructed to stand off a little distance, till the signal should indicate the time for him to approach. The QuaKer now rang ihe bell, and when tile servant approached, requested him to inform the genleman of whom he was in search, that a friend wished to speak with him at the door. The man obeyed the summons, and soon both debtor and creditor were looking each other in the face. "How dost thou do?" kindly inquired the Quaker. "Perhaps thcu dost not know me." "I believe I have not had the pleasure of your acquaintance," politely answered our hero. Dost thou remember purchasing a suit of clothes several years ago, of a poor tailor and forgetting to pay for them ?" asked lite Quaker. "Oh, no," said the gentleman, blushing slightly; "you must be mistaken in the person. It cannot be me tiiat you wish to find." "Ah, John ! I know thee very well. Thou art the very man I wished to see. Thou hast on at tiiis very moment the very waistcoat 1 made for thee. Thou hast acknowledged it was pood stuff, and . ui , . n.i laSted thee welt made, or it could not have so long." "Oh, yes !' said the gentleman, appear ing suddenly to recollect himself, ! do remember now the circumstance to which : you allude. Yes, yes. I had intended to call and settle that Utile bill before leaving j Philadelphia, and you may depend upon : my doing so. 1 have come here to take possession of a property which has been , left me by will. See ! here is the adver- tisement which apprised me of my very good fortune." Here he handed the Quaker a N. York paper containing a copy of the advertise ment, w hose history w e have given above. The Quaker looked at it with imperturable gravity, and continued "Yes, 1 see thou art in luck, but as rny demand is a small one, 1 think I must in sist on payment before thee comes into possession of thy large estates." The proper signal here brought the constable into ihe presence of the parties. The swindler was particularly astonished at the appearance of this functionary, who immediately proceeded to execute his part of the drama. "What!" exclaimed the rogue, in an angry lone, " you surely haven't 6ued me?" "Yes I have," replied the Quaker, "and thoa should'st be thankful that nothing else happened to thee." "Come in then," said the debtor, find ing himself fairly caught; "come in and I will pay you, if I must.'' The three went into the house together, and the slippery gentleman having the amount of the bill, paid it in full. The tailor having signed the receipt, placed it in the hands of h' late debtor, WHEN THEY CEASE TO LEAD, WE CEASE TO JANUARY 23, 1831. with feelings such as may be readily im gined. The swindler took it and for the first lime glanced at the various items of which it was composed. He said noth ing till he came to the last charge which was "for advertising," when lie broke forlh : "Hallo what's this? For advertising? That's an odd charge in a tailor's bill? You are cheating me." "Oh, no," cooly replied the Quaker; "that's all right. I have charged thee the cost of publishing the advertisement which thou just showed me." Here the swindler uttered a horrid oath as he demanded: "Do you mean to say you caused the publication?" "Truly I did," replied the Quaker, with the most provoking coolness. "You told a cursed lie in it," quickly retorted the rogue. "Convince me of that." said the Qua ker, "and you will find me ready to con fess the fault." "You said that I should hear some thing to my advantage if I should come here." "Thou art mistaken," immediately re j J 'If I catch von in the street," said the swindler, wish an oath, and in deep set rage, "1 11 give you such a eowhiding as will not leave the breath in vour body. Nonsense, now," said the Quaker; "If thou really intend to do anything of it that sort, I think we had better step into the back yard, and we will then finish up the business at once." The rogue was completely nonplussed by the coolness of the Quaker, and stood speechless and petrified. "Now," said the tailor, good naturedly, j "let us give thee a piece of advice. When . next thou hast occasion to get a suit of ; clothes, thou hadst not better attempt to j cheat the tailor, but pay him honestly, for j then will thy conscience not disturb thee, , and thy sleep will be sweet and refresh ing, rare well. PRINTER'S NOTICE. Among the most amusing portions of ! the columns of every paper are those no ; tices which occasionally appear at the ! head in a prominent and conspicuous po- j i sition, requesting the subscribers to paid j i papers to pay up their subscriptions. The i tone of these duns presents a marked con j trast to the laconic and decided style ol I those which tradesmen and others put j forlh in advertising columns and in which they bxiefly but explicitly inform their i debtors that unless their accounts are speedily adjusted, they will be put into the hands of an officer for collection. The i printer, on the contrary, speaks in a mod j est and deprecatory manner, as if he were j in danger of committing a moral sin by i reminding his subscribers that something i more is necessary to thcpatronage of a ' paper than a name and an unredeemed pro i mise to pay. Such is generally the char j acter of his first notices. Btitfinding that t these do rot succeed, and discovering that, i of those who are indebted to him, proba- j ; oiy ninety-nine out ol a n it no: red amuse : ikcEjeivjj with his greenness in expecting f ,,TJ, 0-It -;iK o four cnfl -rrrli; inr ' j printer waxeth wroth and issues another i pronunciamento full of fire and fury. He j tells his obdurate debtors that printers can j not live on air; that the paper maker must : be paid; type, ink, fuel, rents, &c, cost i money; so does the printer's daily bread and finally he exclaims in a lone that j he expects will rend the very rocks, "we j want money, and we must have it." But I unfortunate mortal, he is a printer, and printers are the last men in the world to resort to compulsory measures. It is the j general impression that tneir "baric is worse than their bite, so they lose tnou sands where other men would not lose a hundred. We would like to see an accu rate statement of the losses sustained by newspaper establishments from the neglect and procrastination of their patrons. We think we may safely conjecture that no j other employment or profession suffers so much loss. Couldjhose who thoughtless ly defer or altogether neglect to pay their newspaper accounts reflect upon the trou ble, difficulty, and sometimes ruin, their negligence occasions, they would leaxn to observe justice, punctuality and system as strictly with newspaper establishments as with merchants and mechanics. Jtich 7nond Republican. To make people idle and poetic, we know of nothing better than!ovc. A young friend of ours who "has got it bad," has done nothing for the last three months, but I sit on tiie garret, and write sonnets to his Snivelhnker s eyebrow. .Mrs. Smithers says that Jenny hind is au blessed woman all she lacks being wings to make her a perfect "syrup." EOIXOW. GUIZOT'S WASHINGTON. The following is a portion of M. Gui zot's preface to the new edition of his work on Washington: It was under the monarchy, almost in the midst of the councils of King Louis Philippe, that I rendered homage to Washington to the foundation of a great I Republic by a great man. In re-publishing . it to-day, a leelir.g of profound sadness comes over me. The more I behold, the more I remain .convinced that the Republic, a noble form of government, is the most difficult and most dangerous of governments. It is a form of government which demands from j Providence the most rare and favorable circumstances, and from society itself the greatest harmony, wisdom and virtue. I And even then it exposes society to many risks, and chances numerous "The United States were a ne w society which had not suffered stormy and divers transformations which did not Lear the yoke of a long past which had nothing to destroy when it had a government to create. J hat young society was not sur- 1 rounded by rivals, scarcely by neighbors. Immensity of space was spread before it. open to the wants and to the passions of dispair frantically shrieked "Gone glim man. For a long time in its internal merin' quite through the dreams of other all'airs it had possessed and practised the j Jays, as schoolboy's tales the wonder of republican form of government. It only ! an hour." knew monarchy bv name, bevond the ocean, as a respected domination, rather j than a necessary and extant power. When ' commenced a struggle agatast that j power, it was to resist iniquitous preten- i tan imo ranks, oouna tne tocsin: tea: sious, to defend its rights legal rights of the drum! blow the ton horn till the ttir old standing. The citizens of that society, ' tied echoes, rcverberatin' from hill top to rich and poor. enlightened or ignorant, were nearly unanimous in favr.r of a re- publican form of government. Thev were Christians in heart as well as in name.-;- souri, and the auriferous particles of Cali At the moment they broke with their ' fornia. to prick up their cars, and in whis king, they lived in humility before God, 1 pered accents inquire f iheir neighf.orj: the King of kings. j What can the matter be?" ' "It was thus that the Republic of the j "Felhr citizens 1 repeat it, to your United States -as founded. And in despite , post! and, from the topmost p aks of t!.e of so many advantages, if it had been j Al'eghenies, bid defiance to the universal placed in our hemisphere instead of its i Yankee Nation, by shoulin' the terrific own, compressed between the great States I watchword: " Who's afeerd ? ' in such of Europe, instead of expanding itself j thunder tones, that quakm' wii terror, freely like its rivers in its forests and its j they shall forget what niggers is. Don plains, the doubt is warranted whether it I your rusty regimentals burnish up your i could have been founded, ar.d could live peaceful and glorious as it has lived. j To-day France is undergoing the nr.- ; expected experiment, with a confutation which would cause disorder in the best regulated society; of that form of govern ment, which America selected from her free choice, according to her natural incli nations, adapted to the unexampled situa tion accorded to her from on high. Will the Republic of 18 1 attain the destinies of the Republic of Washington ? This is the question wnieh is now under disc; sion The Reoublic has had a fair trial, Notwit I " j hstanding its origin, men of every j shade of opinion entrenched themselves behind it as behind, a rampart, for their common defence, and for the defence ot society in general, against its mortal ene mies. The Republic exists in the name and in the interests of that order which it destroyed. It had no right to expert Will it turn it to account? ' such good luck Will it know how, with perseverance, to practise a firm poitcy of conservation antl reconstruction ? suffices not for t! France invokes it ! It foundation of a govern- rneni that it daily saves society from de- j miction. It must dc!iver society Irom ! the daily fear of perishin ir.d open to it the prospect of a long and peaceful exist ence. I speak neither of liberty nor glory. I hope, however, that Franca will not learn to dispense with either. Gvizor." Quick Work. A correspondent of the Hartford Courant, gives an account of a wedding he attended in Alabama, the bride groom of which hid done his courtin ,-T found the Squire invited the company ridden forty two miles for the license was married and ridden fifty miles for the whiskey, in twelve trs. Samb.-v" whv n m snnifl ob dj Califor- ny boys like an "unruly donkey, wot w on't ...u u ,u u,i, -.n" "VVrll Car-sar. dis niircrar am 6truck for once." " vv hv because dev am backing out oo . i t de gobernment tarness." The first three months of marriage is generally spent in finding out each other's bad qualities the next three in getting use to them. Till you are wedded there fore, a half year, don't count on being happy. Angels frequently become devils in that time. Father Maloney says the only way to make punch, is to have the beverage two thirds whiskey, and all the rest ardent spirits. Should this be too strong, you must dilute it he observes, by throwing in t more whiskey. VOL. 7. IV O. 15. ELOQ U E N C E PATRIOT! S M . Friends and feller citizens of this con flictious community what I'm speakia of, I allude to, I say. a crisis has arrir. The wheels of our government Ins stop ped the machinery s derange J the rad- rier's unshipped the biler's bnstcd h-l"s afloat and the river risin'. Our glorious ship of State that like a bob tailed gander' J been floalin' majestically down ths peace ful current of time, has had its harmony distributed, and it's now dnfiin' with fear- ful rapidity towards the shoals and quick sands of disunion, ihreateniii' to dash every thing into flind rigs and pick itself up in the end a cone goslin'. Hearken no lon- ger, ye worthy citizens of Hog Hole Tcr. rapin Neck, and the adjacent regions, to that sirac voice that whispers in your credulous ears the delusive sound of peace! lor peace has gone, sloped, flued to other janus. or, in tne more emr nine language of Tecomshe, when addressin' iheassem bled hosts on tiie plains of Maratony, on the eve of the battle, he exclaimed: ' Gone fl cktria through the fj? of o.lnr dunes. To aid l!ie miper watchir.' of hie diin.:8." Or of Alexander the Great at the battle of. Bunker's Hill, who in the agony of "Feller citizens In our halls of Iegis- lation, confusion runs riot, and anarchy A reuse then! shake the reigns supreme. dewdrops from your hunting-shirts end hill top.-and from gopher hill to gopher. s:i ui cause me auamanune niiis oi new England, the ferruginous deposits of Mis- ti . . ' i "it . rusty fire locks gi:d on vour trusty hroai swords, bid farewell to your crusty hc-lp- mates, mount your lusty chirgers and save the nation or bust a Idler." "Feller citizens The rr.'at bird cf American lib?rt's flew ed aloft, and soarin' upon the wings of the wind, is now ho verin' h'gh o'er the cloud capped si ra nils of the Rocky Mtuitains, a".d when he shall have penetrated into unknown regions of unlimited space, and then shr.ll have duv'd down and lit on daddv's wood pile I shall be led to exclaim, in the grand, the terrific, the sub'ime language ol Paul the ' tj Apostle, in his celebrated epistle to t! Aborigines "Root little pig cr die. ExTR.voRoiNARi: Marriaces. The fol lowing occurrence took place in London: A gentleman a widower left with three so.is, became acquainted with a widow Iadv who had three daughter. The lady and the gentlemen rcarriid. and with the children of the two fami'.'es lived together t;n years. During the last six weeks, the sons and daughters w ere married to each other, and what is more singular, the elder on nrjiried the eldest da: ghter and the others in the s:mc manner Pedantry. A would-be thought learn ed mai having occasion to aik a young lady for the snuflcrs. thus addressed her: ''Will your l.idvship, by an unmerited, unversed, and most obliging condescension please to extend to yoi;r tb.-equious, de voted, and very humble servant, that pair of i-Tnii otent digests, that I may excrepate ' the excrescence of that nocturnal evlindric. lun rc :i!gent onem- ness may dazzle . isin of our ocular optics more potently At a nuUic garden in the sucurba i of London, a waiter, observing one of his master's customers bolting before his b.Il i itriv n!i,t rnr.-H nv.t to n brother a'.teti- I dant -Run, ran. Bob, there's two tes ( and a glass of brandy and water escaped . ov cr the fence cate.i cm. GROUNDLESS ALARM. Eqiies!ria:i. "Now, Boy, uoti't vou be taking off your Hat to make me a Bow vou'll (righten my Horse." Boy. "A, a a warn t a-goin' to 1" The best cure for hard times is to -ucid the doc-tor by being temperate; and the lawyer by keeping out of debt; the dema gogue by' voting for honest men, and pov erty by being industrious. There is nothing like a fixed, steady aim. It dignifies your nature aui insure you 5acccss. . I s -a i'r i Yi-i V -if