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All advertisements handed in must have the proper number of insertions marked thereon, or thev will be published until forbidden, and sharped in accordance with the above terms. "fAll letters and communications to insure ttteution must be post paid. A. J. 11I1EY. Egllere is a ballad which no subscriber to the Smtind will fail to read. It is certainly one of Use best things of the kind we have ever met with full of humor, yet not without a moral. Such verses touch a sympathetic cord ia our heart. From the Louisville Times. John Tuell's Shirt. A Down-East Ballad. BY JIUS. B. F. FOSTER. Tim Dickson was a Yankee lad, Farming his occupation, TLe town of Cooper down in Maine, His birth-place and location. A quiet, simple place it was, Whose good folks said their prayers, And thought they had enough to do To mind their own affairs. A newspaper they seldom saw, And then had no desire For locomotion without legs, Or messages ou wire. In foreign men and foreign things They took but small diversion, And deep as their religious faith, For England their aversion. Hut Tim, he loved the marvellous; Phrenologists had said, The organ wonder was, no doubt, The largest in his head. One day it chanced, that Tim unto Machias town did come To sell potatoes, and to fetch Some groceries tlto hum." And. there arrived he lounged about, And gaped in every shop, Considering what he'd like to buy, And what he had to swop. At last he met a stranger lad, Who had a dog to sell , A curious little cur it was, And Tim to wondering fell. The like he'd never seen before, And ne'er might see sgain, For 'twas an English hound, the first That e'er set foot in Maine. Much he admired the giossy skin, The limbs all strength and grace; The pendant ears, that softness gave To that sagacious face. But more, I ween, had he admired, Could he have seen the hound Spring forth o'er England's dewy fields To hail the bugle sound. With tails erect, and nostrils spread, They cleave the morning air; And lead the joyous huntsmen forth To chase the stag and hare. Then, 'tis a gallant sight to see The yeomanry ride by, W ith scarlet coats and breeches white, On steeds of mettle high. To sec far off the pack of hounds, O'er hills and vales they go, W hile still the wind brings back their cry Their merry "yo-o-o I" Of this Tim Dickson nothing knew, Cut well he liked the beast, And much he longed to show the folks An English hound, down-East : And being somewhat flush of cash, "1 11 buy that dog," he said, The lad was poor, so glad to sell His favorite for bread. The bargain made his errands done, Soon Tim began to joy, Eut it was late ere he arrived At Cooper with his dog. He found his doors all fastened up, The good folks gone to bed, And he had no alternative Eat sleeping in a shed, Eut with an English cur lie down lie would on no pretence, fco took him in a neighbor's yard And tied him to the fence. Then weary with his joyrney, tim ' pread straw upon the ground, aa soon was wrapped in slumber deep ; 0t SO. the cantivft hound n.1at. strange place without a bed lie liked not sleeping so, e scratched and whined, and then broke out ith his long loud "yo-o ?". lk're window just above A he yard where he was tie J, UJ..I,...--.-.--.7--, And in that room John Tuell lay His gentle spouse beside. Now, Mrs. Tuell was a dame Of puritanic breed, A staunch and stern disciple she Of Calvin's fiery creed. At meeting twice a week, in prayer "Would she so strongly wrestle, That all the wondering neighbors thonght She was a chosen vessel. But old John Tuell, he was said To be a hardened man, Who to perceive his fallen state Had never yet began. His dame had often preached to him, That man was wholly evil, And tried to stir his conscience up, And scare him with the Devil. But John would only smoke his pipe Or drop into a dose, Or say, '-Wall ne-ow, I rather guess You'd better fix my hose !" This night, dame Tuell in her sleep Grew conscious of some sound, But thinking it must be a dream She only turned her round. Till loud and long, the yo-o-o, Came ringing in her ear ; She started, woke, and plunged bcnoalu The bed-clothes hi her fear. On howled the hound, his voice grew as He exercised it more; Such hideous cries had ne'r been heard, In Cooper town before. The dame as 'neath the clothes she hid, Half petrified by fright, Thought that the world was at an end, And this the final night. An hour or more she trembling lay, And scarce her breath could take, She did not dare to speak or move The slumbering John to wake. At last the morning dawned, and she A little courage took, And with a weak and trembling hand Her sleepy spouse she shook. "Get up, for God's sake! John, get up ! All flesh awaits its doom, I hear the trumpet lou proclaim The day of Judgment's come ! Hark, hark ! how near the awful peal That calls us all from hence, I'm sure the Angel of the Lord lias perched upon our fence 1 All John, it is your hardened state That makes him come so near, Get up, get up and dress yourself, I'm almost dead with fear." But John he only turned him o'er And grunted, he would fain Have shut his ears to all she said And gone to sleep again. But Mrs. Tuell kicked and shook, And gave such earnest cries, Of "man get up ! the Judgment's come !" That he just oped his eyes, 4nd murmured, "Wall, if Judgement-day Is as you assert, Just let me be, 1 can't show forth. You know, I've no clean shirt?" "But hear," she cried, "that solemn sound To linger now'a no use, You're like the wedding guests who all Began to make excuse !" So out of bed" with plunge and push She thrust her drowsy half, "Who staggering to the window burst Into a loud hoarse laugh. "Why, Beck!" he cried, "you often take Your husband for a hog, But now you hear an Angel in a Nation ugly dog !" This story soon got wind, and when Dame Tuell walked abroad, Folks often asked, "when she'd heard The Angel of the Lord I" Nor held she forth again in prayer, But would some urchin pert Hint, "Judgment-day was coming, and She'd better wash John's shirt !" Now, if Dame Tuell's piety Had really been sincere, I can't tell why the Judgement-day Had caused her so much fear. But this I learn, she afterwards Left others' souls alone, And stayed at home to spin and cook, And get her washing done. And farther still, that honest John When in his home began Such pleasant change, in gratitude Turned quite a pious man. . A happy couple they, and could Their after life be seen, I doubt not they'd be ever found VTith shirt and conscience clean. July 20, 1S52. Lxfoemation Wasted. If the whigs, after placing a citizen of North Carolina on their tic ket, and after making unprecedented exertions by the circulation of New Boston libels, congres sional certificates, secret circulars and picture books, by thousands and ten of thousands, can not carry the old North State, what State can they carry ? That is the question of the day, and it is very perplexing and hard to answer. EBSXSBllG, TIIliRSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1852. The Lover RiiU the Husbaud. BT IE. MAUVE L. In his "Dream Lifo" Ik. Marvel thus sketch ex in a pleasant Tein and with those self-concerted, humanizing incidents which have ever gain ed the laughter and good will of the world, the lover and the newly married man : "You grow unusually amiable and kind ; you are earnest in your search of friends ; you shake hands with your oSce bey, as if he were your second cousin. You joke cheerfully with the stoutwasherwonian, cad give her a shilling over change, and insist upon her keeping it, and grow quite merry at the recollection of it. You tap your hackman on the shoulder very familiar ly, and tell him he is a capital fellow ; and don't allow him to whip his horses, except when driv ing to the post-oince. You even ask him to take a glass of beer with you upon some chilly evea ing. You drink to the health of his wife. He says he has no wife whereupon you think him a very miserable man ; and you give him a dol lar by way of consolation. "You think all the editorials in the morning papers are remarkably well written whether upon your6ide or upon another. You think the stock-market has a very cheerful look with Erie of which you are a large holder down to seventy-five. You wonder why you never admired Mrs. Heraans before, or Stoddard, or any of the rest. "You give a pleasant twirl to your fingers as you saunter along the street ; and say but not so loud as to bo overheard 'She is mine she is mine.' "You wonder if Frank ever loved Nelly one- i half as well ae you lore Madge ? You feel quite sure he never did. You can hardly conceive j how it is, that Madge has not been seized before now by scores of enamored men, and borne off, like the Sabine women in Romish history. You chuckle over your future, like a boy who has found a guinea in groping fov sixpence. You read over the marriage service thinking of the time when you will take her hand, and slip the ring upon her finger: and repeat after the cler gyman 'for richer for poorer ; for better for worse.' A great deal of 'worse' there will be about it, you think. "Through all, your heart cleaves to that sweet image of your beloved Madge, as light cleaves to day. The weeks leap with a bound ; and the months only grow long when you approach that day which is to make her yours. There arc no flowers rare enough to make boquets for her ; diamonds are too dim for her to wear ; pearls are too tame. " And after marring, the weeks are even shorter than before ; you wonder why ou earth all single meji in the world do not rush turuul tuously to the altar ; you look upon them as a travelled man will look upon some conceited Dutch bocr, who has never been beyond the lira its of his cabbage garden. Married men, dn the contrary, you regard as fellow voyagers ; and look upon their wives ugly as they maybe as better than none. "You blush a little at first telling your butch er what 'your wife, would like ; you bargain with the grocer for sugurs and teas, and wonder if he knows that you are a married man ? You practise your new way of talk upon your office boy : you tell him that 'your wife' expects ycu home to dinner ; and are astonished that he does not stare to hear you say it ! "You wonder if the people in the omnibus know that Madge and you are just married ; and if the driver knows that the shilling you hand to him is for 'self and wife V You wonder if anybody was ever so happy before, or will be so happy again ? "You enter your name upon the hotel books as 'Clarence and Lady ;' and come back to look at it, wondering if anybody ' else has noticed it, and thinking that it looks remarka bly well. You cannot help thinking that every third man you meet in the hall, wishes he pos sessed your wife ; nor do you think it very sin ful in him to wish it. You fear it is putting temptation in the way of covetous men, to put Madge's little gaiters outside the chamber-door at night. "Your home, when it is entered, is just what it should be ; quiet, small, with everything that she wishes, and nothing more than she wishes. The sun strikes it in the happiest pos sible way ; the piano is the sweetest toned in the world ; library is stocked to a charm ;and Madge, that blessed wife, is there, adorning and giving life to it all. To think, even of her pos sible death, is a suffering you class with the in fernal tortures of the Inquisition. You grow twain of heart as of purpose. Smiles seem made for marriage ; and you wonder how you ever wore them before !" gy-"Who is Franklin Tierce ?" Huron Hc- Jleeto-r. He is the unanimous nominee of the Demo cratic party for the Presidency, and the very man they intend to elect. He is the man who, when the war with Mexico was declared, wrote the following letter to President Polk : 'Sib. : If my country requires my services, lam ready to march .' FRANK PIERCE. Honorable Testimonial. Tie Baltimore Clipper of the 14th instant ( rydecided Whi? nanorA in a! In. iir.tr tr r.n a ver , 0 A L o our nomuiee for the Presidency, says : "The state of his health continued very bad all tl! time he was in Mexico. He was on the best terms with Gen. Scott, his present rival for the'l'residency, and Gen. Scott often invited him to dinner. He was idolized by the men- under his conmand. He was modest and silent about his owa deserts, though he fought as tcdlas any of the Generals." "We have said, and we repeat it, that abuse of candidate is impolitic, as well a3 unjust and, in regard to Gen. Pierce, we have done no thing more than echo public speaking of him in tcrm of commendation. He was comparative ly unknown, at least to us before his nomina tion ; and we are rejoiced that he proves to be of uneci'f.lionable character." IIov much more noble must appear the con duct of Gen. Pierce if he was thus situated while iu Mexico. Gen. Scott's depatches, (and likewise those of every other ofiicer with whom he was assoclted,) speak of him as a most gal lant ofSec-r ; and if, in addition to the severe injury that he received at Chepultepec, ho was also in bad health ; how utterly heartless nay, demoniac must be the creatures who can pen such a paragraph as thi3 : "It is a fact, the General spent nearly a year in the service during tha Mexican War, and got within sight of the engagement at Contrcras. Owing probably to some nervous affection, the rude music of the artillery overwhelming him, and he fiinled and teas carried ten derly cj' the field ! Ho had no doubt read before, that 'discretion was the better part of valor V This appeared in the Commercial Journal of the 18th instant ; but we take pleasure in sta ting that Robert M. Riddle, Esq., the editor of that paper, was not in the city at the time. Mr. Grecly, of the New York Tribune, thus gpeaks, in consequence of an article having ap. peared in his paper of a similar character with the above : "The allusions to General Pierce's private character and habits, which appeared in abetter frcm Concord, N. II., in our last, would have been suppressed if we had observed them before publishing the letter. We do not know them to be well founded ; and, in the absence of any proof, presume that they arc erroneous, or at least grossly exaggerated. General Pierce if certainly not a temperance man, in our sense of the term ; but we know nothing with regard to his habits which should expose him to public reprehension. We regret that the allusion of our correspondent appeared in our columns." . Country Ijife. The Editor of the New York Times, having a little leisure, takes a peep outside the city, and then tantalizes the people frying and roasting inside the city walls, with the following descrip tion of the good times country people have just about these days, in those pants. Hear how the writer crowds all sorts of tantalizing things into his picture : "The ladies have filled the annual demijohn cf current wine 'it is so good when it gets old, for sickness,' packed the keg of cucumbers in salt for pickles, and added ajar a gooseberries to the goodly row of jars on the shelf in the cel lar, filled with dainty preserves, and properly marked as to their contents, and whether 'done' in molasses or sugar. It is a kind of breathing-time between harvest, and the corn-hoeing and fishing soon to follow. Now is the time for little excursions about the bays and to the sea ports within a few hours' sail. So the girls teaze their fathers, who really can't see how they can spare the time, and some gallant young captain proffers the use of his new schoo ner, now lying in the harbor, and the arrange ment is soon concluded. Packing into ample baskets the boiled ham and tongue, tho roast chickens and pot-pies, bottles of milk, lots of tea and coffee, piles of biscuit and pecks of ginger-nuts, and all the requisite utensils for get ting up a chowder at any time, some fine sun ny morning half the village may be seen mus tered on the sand-beach, waiting their turn to be boated off to the pretty craft that looks so gay in her new colors. Fairly afloat, they sing and fish, and eat, and compare opinions, and make love so satisfactorily, that the list of mar riages in the country paper will crowd the edi torials for many months to come. They land where the grove looks most romantic, pick ber ries, boil their blue fish, make a chowder, or a clam-bake,- and sail back by moonlight to the place of their embarkation in the morning. The teams are waiting on the beach, to take them home, a good deal wearied, yet satisfied that it was the best time they ever did have. The enjoyment of the day is complete when they find that the baby has no t been cross at all, at home; that Charlie hns looked the eggs and brought up the cows, and fed the pigs ; and that aunt Charity has skimmed the milk, and done the week's baking, and snugged up the house for Sunday. Good luck to all our farm ing friends, and such frequent returns of these refreshing showers, that their abundaat crops of potatoes shall make good all their losses by damaged hay and shrunken wheat, and leave them a broad margin, on squaring accounts in December. Irving nud Ik. Marvel. The editor of the Springfield Republican thus sketches these two literary celebrities, aa he seen them at Saratoga, a few days since : "A medium sized old gentleman with a feeble voice or a cracked voice thero is no charac ter in it sits talking with a friend, and the friend listens with deep respect to every word. You see gentlemen walking, as we are, purpose ly downthe piazza to look at him carelessly, of course, and with no apparent rudeness. You study his features, but you find nothing jein- arkablo in them. He is a plainly dressed, plain, sober looking old man, without a look a bove a respectable mediocrity, and you are sur prised to hear that you have been looking it the author of theSketch Book, Washington Irving. "They say Ik Marvel is here," 6ays a gcntle mnn to me. "Should you know him were you to see him ? Will you point him out to me ?" As this gentleman feels, so feel all. I doubt if there is a man here in regard to whom thero is such an intense feeling of curiosity. The la dies would give anything to be introduced, and the gentlemen probably hope they will be dis appointed. But here comes the object of our thoughts in an unconscious ssunter, dressed iu a light, plain summer rig, and all unmindful of the heartitching that is felt on every 6ide in his behalf. An acquaintance takes his cordial hand and tells him that he is bound for Sharon Springs, and that he only stops at Saratoga for the night, and as Eome tall whiskerando looks at him askance, as if about to swallow him, he bids his friend good evening, and we pass on. The following is for Mrs. Rush, the celebra ted lady of fashion and fortune of Philadelphia. A sweeping skirt goes by. The air makes way for the lady that carries it hats come off, and very genteel bows are made, and all is fuss and obedience. After recovering your breath, you inquire who it is that thus ttarts up fash ionable life in her walks, and learn that it is Madame Rush, the "Queen of Philadelphia," a lady of immense wealth and intense fashion. The "Way they do thinu Ji Elii Coxxniy. The editor of the Elk County Democrat talks familiarly of droves of elk in that region, and attempts to poke fun at his neighbors who have nothing better than beef-steak, he says : A few days ago, a couple of well-known hunt ers of our country, while pursuing their legiti mate trado of hunting in these prolific forests, came across a drovo of elk, and in less than five minutes killed seven of them. It 13 a fact well known among hunters and almost every body else, that elk are generally found iu droves of from three to twelve or fifteen. We aro not in formed as to the number in thi3 drove, but there were a few more left of the same sort. This species cf game the most magnificent tho country affords is becoming somewhat thinned cut ; yet occasionally, as in tho present ins tance, some fortunate chap lights upon a drove of these 'antlered monarchs of tho forest,' when if he don't happen to get tho 'buck fever,' woe unto them. Whenever you see a hunter com ing in from an excursion, you can tell the mo ment you set your eyes upon him whether he has brought down one of these monsters or not. If he has, he seems inflated as much above his usual size as a huge elk is larger than tho most tinny fawn His very step is more elastic, and the twinkle of his eye tell3 you plainly, 'lam one of'em,' 'I have focht him.' If he hns killed half a dozen of them at one time, you can't see Lim all over at once, you are in the same predicament with tho fellow whose sweet-heart was so large J:at he couldn't hug all round at once. His very breath savors of elk meat, and he woulan waste his ammuni tion upon small game, euch as deer, bear, or wo!ve3 for a fortnight after. For the benefit of our friends abroad, who can't get any thing to eat, but beefsteak, and 'flitch and molasses,' we would say that elk steak, we are sorry that you can't have some, has been rapidly oa tha decline ever sinco those fellows were taken, and still has a slight tend ency downwards. London in 1852. Mr Weed, of the Albany Evening Journal, in a late letter from London, says : "Have you a realizing sense of what London, population and magnitude, realy is ? Do you know that in population it is larger than the census of 1810 showed the entire State of New York ? The inhabitants of tho cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Albany, Troy, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester, and Buffalo combined, would not make, by three or four hundred thousand, another London ? It has already swallowed up all the neighboring villa ges, and is extending its 'lamp districts' in ev ery direction, as rapidly as Milwaukie or Chi cago spread themselves. I have been driven five, six, seven and eight miles in different quarters without getting through the wilder nrss of dwellings. The railroads run for miles, not through, but over the city. And as for the wealth of london, why, that is beyond the pow er, if not of figures, at least of computation." MMBER 47. j TIIItEE HAYS L AT Ell FROM ElllOl'E. t Arrival of the America. Thef steamer America sailed from Liverpool on the 21ft., and arrived at Halifax last evening at six o'clock, bringing three day later intelli gence than the Washington, which left South ampton on the lfiih. We subjoin thee following news by the America. Tho news of the capture of the Taga by the British is confirmed. It is thought that Burmah will be annexed to Englund. Queen Victoria has returned to Englaud. The Fishery queetionexcitee no further une asiness. A ministerial paper announce "ho mstter as in process of amicable adjustmeuL The grand fete at Paris on the 15th, passed off tranquilly. The steamer Magdalena arrived et ffSathmp ton from the West Indies with $11000. Advices from Australia to thiaidJIa f May State that the yield of gold has been immense far outstripping California. A new steamship is building at Dumbarton for the Cunard line ; she will be 8000 ton kurthen, and fifty feet longer than the Great Britain, andVill cost upwards of one hundred thousand dollars. The ministerial journals announce perfect con fidence in the termination cf th Fishery dis pute on terms of absolute reciprocity, o far as the right of fishing is concerned. By tha terms of the treaty, the Americans will have th liber ty of fishing in the British waters, and the Erit ish in the American waters, within three milea of the shore, to be measured nearest the ehuro without distinction of Bay or openea. It is reported that the screw frigate Termagant is fitting out at Portsmouth to join the fishing squadron. The Leeds Chamber of Commerce hav ad journed without taking step in reftrace to the dispute with the United States. The Coroner's inquest held over the boaie shot at the election riot at the six mile bridge in Ireland, returned a verdict of willful murder against John C. Delmadgc, Justice cf th Pc&co and eight soldiers of the 31at Regiment. The potato crop is improving. It estimate I that one half the crop in the'infected districts will be saved. France. The American minister did not dina with the corps diplomatique on the anniversary of the Emperor Napoleon at St. Etienne. The re ligious services advertised by tho French Consul to take place on. the occasion were stopped by tho police. Louis Napoleon was not present at the Ball at Marchandcs Innocents, on Tuesday niht. Rumor says a conspiracy to assassinate him, if present, had been detected. The America brings 150 passengers. Tho Artie arrived at Liverpool on the ICtb. The British Parliament was prorogued on tha 21st. Darmstadt has made concilitary offer t Prussia. Brazil has purchased eight shipe cf the Ger man navy. A new Austrian loan is contemplated. Russia has concluded a commercial treaty with the Tope. The Cholera is depopulating Russian Toland. The Duke of Hamilton is doad. The Princess Yasa has returned from Austria. Her marriage it is supposed is broken off. A French war steamer has seized three Eng lish vessels which were fishing within three miles of tho coast of France. The Turkish Ministry is overthrown. AH Tacha is chosen Viceroy. G. P. R. James, the novelist, has been ap pointed British Consul to Norfolk. There has been a 6light loss in the Liverpool markets from tho advances of the previous Tues day. The Bishop of Tittsburg has arrived at Paris. The change in tho Turkish Cabinet was cni by a remonstrance cf the French envoy respec ting tho affair of the Holy Cities. Tho re-opening of the Zollvcrin Congress is postponed until tho ISth. Tho Austrian government is about to open ne gotiations for a loan of 50,000,000 florins. Great damage has been done in the Northern provinces of Spain by rain storms. In some parts the crops are totally destroyed. The vind disease is spreading near Barcelona. A national Exhibition at Copenhagen is to be opened in th Crystal Palace on tho lGth of Au gust. The Conference of Plenipotentiaries at Stut gardt closed on tho 14 th. IIox. Pieb.sk Socle, the distingishod Senator from Louisiana in a private letter to his partner, thus speaks of Gen. Pierce : . I have seen the man, and a man he is ; of lofty mien, of winning manners, and easy and elegant speech, of great diretness of purpose, of facile access, and yet dignified and imposing a man I tell you who will grace the Presidential chair, add to the credit of our party, and do honor to the nation. In him we may repose the most absolute and unreserved confidence. His mind is of the highest order. What strikes in him most, is the bold confidence with which he ad dresses himself to any subject an unerring re velation of conscious rectitude and of moral amZ mental strength. : i 1 ! is . i -. ! i i ' s t ' 4 L
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