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"
-.With sweetest flowers enrich'd
From various gardens ctill'd with care."
From Me New York Herald.
TEMPERANCE TRACTS.—No. 1.
Ant—Woodman spare that tree.
" These Dock Wollopers are often found
on the wharves, astride of rum casks, and
imbibing their contents by means of a straw
sucker."—A": Y. Correspondent of Me Mad
isonian.
Loafer, spare that cask!
Suck not a drop of gin,
Forego thy wish; nor dare
Commit this deadly sin.
Know, loafer, that the cask
Though free of toll,
Is nought but devil's bait,
A gin to snare the soul.
Though ragged, filthy, vile,
Unused to soap or comb,
Satan will not disdain
To bear your:l./aril home.
'Then drop that straw, and fly
As if for life, I ask—
Haste! flee!—nor tamper with
The spirit of the cask.
When thou went hut a boy,
With tender, anxious care,
Thy lath:2r warned the oft
Of Ringo to beware—
Thy conscience now is seared,
By many years of sin,
Yet stay! else shalt thou find
its stings dee/icr in.
Go, loafer! leave the clock;
And sober, temperate live,
If e'er in want, conic here,
And I will succour give. •
It tempted e'er again •
Your woes in gin to drown,
Touch, taste, nor handle not,
But throw that sucker down.
EAU FRO!D.•
*Cola water
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From the L-uisvill© Messenger
THE FOREST 51URDElt,
A TALL OF INDIANA
The incidents which I am about to re
late, are not drawn from imagination, but
fact. They form an act of the never end
ing drama of human villainy.
''This is indeed a wild night,'' said
Chas. Gray to his wife, as they sat before
the blazing hearth of an Indian leg 'cabin,
—whilst the winds wailed around - the root
ati , ) went sounding through the forest.
"Wilder than I ever knew," observed
the wife, ''and Charles. how thankful we
should .be to our Maker that he has given
us this warm tire and close cabin to pro
tect us from the rude elements."
. .
"Thankful !" mid Charles Gray's row
assumed a scow!, which of itself spoke the
demon in his heart, 'Thankful, wife ! you
muck me ! What is this cabin to the luxu
rious comforts of the town folks.whom we
used to see in New York, rolling thro'
the streets in their cushioned carriages,
cr reclining on silk sofas, and laughing at
the ragged beggars that claimed their chari•
ty ? thankful."
Mary did not reply. She feared him
when in these moods, and was too judi
cious to irritate him even by words which
she intended to be soothii:g. For what
are words; though breathed from a• se
raph's lute, or syllabled by angel's lips, to
one whose soul has become absorbed in
the unrequired love of wealth.
Charles Gray was a native of New York
and had been left a handsome fortune;
but prompted by avarice, and too impa
tient to'continue in the safe business in
which he began, joined others of an equal
ly rapacious disposition in a speculation,
—which at, first proved promising.; but
entirely failed and left many an ardent
dreamer a ruined MUlL—Charles in this
lead aft.ir had embarked his all. Ho was
left without house or friends, for friends
are often bound by golden chains alone.
Ile determined, with his wile, to enligrate
to Indiana, for whose fertile soil, broad
streams, genial climate, and noble forests
so much was said.
With a bitter spirit he bade farewell to
his home, and with a small amount •ot
money, raised by the sale of his wife's
jewels, sought the almost unit odden wilds
of the west, With this small amount of
cash he purchased a few acres of ground,
feww miles from the spot on the Ohio }liv
er, where the splendid and beautiful town
"ONE COUNTK V", ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
A. W. BENEDICT PUBLASHER AND PROPRIETOR.
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEIIII3EII. 11, 1839.
of -- is now standing.—For a short
period he labored assiduously at his small
farm, anti cheered by the smiles of a love
ly and devoted wife, seemed to forget his
misfortunes. A short time before our
narrative opened, Charles had visited
L--, as a 'hand' on a flat boat, the
only species of water craft then used to
convey goods and produce down the river.
Whilst he was there he met several of
those who had failed in the same specula..
lion which mined himself. But whilst he
had remained poor, they by some means,
had revived their fortunes and settled on
the Ohio, where they were carrying on a
brisk business.-- , Charles returned home
an altered man. For whole days he would
sit idle and discontented, His sleep was
disturbed be dreams of gold; in vain did
that beautiful uncomplaining wife endeav
or to frighten the fiend from his bosom.
It was like one solitary star trying to dis
sipate the darkness of a storm•tossed
ocean.
Wilder yet roared the storm through
the crashing woods, and Charles. was still
brooding over his imaginary wrongs, when
a 'lloilo' was heard outside of the little en
closure which surrounded the cabin.
Mary sprang to the door, and after
scrutinizing the traveller, for such the in
truder was, by the light of a bark torch
which she held over her head, invited him
into her rustic home.
In a moment a gentleman of rather a
slight statue, bearing a portmaitteautin his
hand, entered and gave the usual saluta
tion. Mary called her husband to altend
to the traveller, but neither by word nor
;gesture did he exhibit signs of having
heard her until the stranger's ttnan
trait, on touching the floor, spoke to his
sordid soul of gold. 'the demon was
aroused, but he wore a smiling face.
'Welcome, stranger, welcome l' ex
claimed Gray; in so hurried and strange
a manner, that the traveller started back
a few paces :n surprise; but quickly 're
covering himself, exchanged salutations,
and seated himself on a rude chair alrea
dy placed for his convenience before the
lire
Conversation soon commenced, nor was
it interrupted until the night had far ad
vanced towards the dawn—George Som
ers was also, as he said, a native of New
York, and from the neighborhood in which
Charles Gray had lived. He informed
Gray that he had sold his property at the
east, and emigrated to the 'EI Dorado,' to
speculate in lands, having with him a large
sum of money for that purpose.
At last they all retired to rest. The
traveller to sleep—Gray to brood over
the wealth of his guest. What fearful
thoughts passed through the brain of the
wretch that night ! flow often did his
eyes wander to the bunting knift) Once
he was about leaving the bed, when a
slight motion of his wife in her ,!embers
detered him from his murderous intent.
Whose but the pencil of thr demon
could paint the fears--t he hopes—
, the dark resolves of the wretches! Gray,
while the wearied guest slept but a few
paces from Jinn, in that peace which vir
tue and weariness alone can give !
The morning came, and glowing from
his ocean couch, arose the sun, gliding the
distant bluffs and surrounding forests
with colors drawn alone from the pallet of
heaven. His beams shone down upon th.,
cottage, yet unstained with blood, and
aroused the sleepers. Did the evil spirit
slumber in Gray's bosom
* *a *
The simple breakfast was soon over,
and Somers asked Gray to set him in the
nearest road to M—. With a bland
ness worthy of the day!, when he stood a
respectable merchant behind a city desk,
he informed Somers that he would accom
pany him a part of his journey, and under
pretence of killing some game, shoulder
ing his rifle and led the way. For some
time they walked together, whilst renew
ing boyhood remembrances which called
to mind many a spot hallowed by child
hood sports and paternal affection.
They had thus proceeded about three
miles, and arrived among those beautiful
biting on the Ohio, since rendered celebra
ted by a deed which has given a name to
a•small crystal stream which dashes over
a precipice some hundred feet deep. A
bird swept over their heads, and wheel
ing on its light wings lit on the bough of
a majestic oak—which hears the name of
many an ardent lover of nature. Gray
asked the traveller to move onward while
he attempted to bring down his game.
Somers complied, and unsuspectingly left
Gray behind.
Asharp rifle crack rang through the
woods, and a shriek mingled in its echoes.
The host was a murderer—a murderer for
money. Blood may be shed for revenge,
and our sympathies may be excited for the
assissin—but who can find a chord in his
heart ft om which pity may draw a note of
feeling for him who, with blood stained
lingers, holds the glittering coin before his
eager eyes ?
Gray soon disposed of the body by hurl-
ing it over the precipice. As it wentraising a large morsel of jpotatoe to my
lumbering through the scrubs and jagged mouth, in order to reply as quickly as
taxies that lined the chasm, he perhaps possible, I hastily thrust it in, intending
felt.remorse, but it was but for a moment. to swallow it as hastily. Heavens ! It
II ith eager hands he opened the postman- was as hot as burning lays. What could
team mid rolling out the shining coin upon I do ! The lady's eves t were fixed upon
the leaves, for some minutes gloated over no, waiting a reply to her question. But
his wealth, for the country was almost un- my mouth was in flame, I rolled the bur
inhabited, and his demon spirit could re- fling morsel hither and tither, rocking my
j
oice in its riches undisturbed.
On returning home he deposited his ill- On
from side to side, while my eyes
which involuntarily I had fixed nit her,
gotten gold in the chest. His wife heard were strained from their sockets, She re
the ringing of the coin, and her qu i c k garded my grimaces, of the cause she was
mind told her that Charles Gray, her hus- ignorant, with the expression of amaze.
band, he to whom her very heart had con- ment and surprise, at which I can laugh
tided, was a murderer. She fainted. The now when I think of it.
wretch heeded her not, but gloomily seat- 'Monsieur is ill I' at length she gently
ed himself before the lire. From the floor and in an anxious tone inquired; I could
on which she bad fallen, Mary arose an hear no more. My mouth was flying with
altered woman. The rose fled from her intolerable pain; so, quietly abandoning
cheek, and a grave in the forest marked the point opene it to the utmost anti out
'by a simple stone, tells you where lies the dropped the infernal brand upon my plate.
broken hearted wife. Peace to her memo- Not the slightest tendency to risibility
ry ! She has gone where the blue streams ruffled the imperturable politeness of the
were, never crimsoned with blood—where lady. She soothingly teondoled with me
the dagger never flashes over the devoted on my misfortune, then gradually led the
wayfarer.
Charles Gray became a rich man. His conversation to a variety of topics, till ex
erting the magic influence that true polite
lands broad and fertile, bore luxuriant nets always
.exercises, I beg an to foget
harvests. A tall mansion arose among even my own blunders. radually my
those old avouch to shelter the murderer's cheeks burned less painfully, and I could
head. Strange to tell, lie lived unsuspec- join the conversation without the tear that
te.d. No one cared for the emigrant hi every word I uttered shared the fate of
the re ~t ry• from whia he came.
Yes .., rolled away. Villag es arose en the action I attempted, I even ventured to
hope, nay, to congratulate myself, that the
the i ! ins of that mighty forest. T h e catalogue of calamities was completed
steay - was heard with its perpetual (lion- for the day.
.Isr n, , lightning ascending and descen
ding beautiful Ohio, and lovely rest- 'Let no man call himself happy before
death,' said Solon, and lie said wisely.
The Ides of Match were not yet over.
dense a like gems, summoned up thie en
,Before us stood a dish of cauliflower,
ehante. 's wand from the earth's bosom,
nicely done in butter. This I naturally
studded the banks of the silvery river.
'Ube suspicious mind of Gray, (for the enough took for a custard pudding, :which
wicked are always suspicious,) rendered it sufficiently resembled. Unfortunately
him fearful of discovery, as emigrants my
. vocabulary was not extensive enough
were crowding into The State, and enter- to embrace all the technicalities of the tar
Vi i i
thosland in the mnst frequented.apots. ble, and when my fair ne .. ighbor inquired
if I Was fond' of corfleur, I verily took it
'The bones of Somers was still exposed ;
it they were found by any one rambling to be the French for custard pudding, and.
through the bluffs, the dark affair
might I) so high was my panegyric of it that my
plate was bountifully laden with it. Alas, investigated, and he meet with his just
deserts. Sallying forth one evening, he one single mouthful was enough to dispel
sought the wild precipice, and descended my illusion. Would to' heaven that the
by the aid of ropes to the spot
corfleur had vanished with it. But that Mimi laid
his victim. The moon but ned in the mid- remained bodily, and as I gazed despon
night with the lustre which she only wears dinghy on the huge mass that loomed al
onmostas large aneburning as Vesuvius, my
a winter night, when the snow reflects
her brightness, and the earth seemed to heart died within me. Ashamed ito cony
wear my mistake though I could as readil
the pearly robes of angels. One by
have swallowed an equal quantity of soft
one the stars had appeared - through the
mount I struggled manfully on against the
rich arch above, and around Ilse hills swept
the glorious river; for nature is still love- inous heap at its base—and shut
' ly, though for a few moments her beauti- ling my eyes and opening my mouth to in
'ld form may bear the record of crime hale as large masses as I could without
there placedby man. A young gentleman stopping to taste it. But my stomach
named Wilson, who was returning from a soon began intelligibly to intimate its in
tention to admit no more of this nauseous visit to his 'lady love,' passed by the pie. cipice, and observing the roles ai tacked stranger beneath its root, if not even ex
to a free which stood by his path, endear-
polling that which had already gained an
ored to trace the spot where they ended, unwelcome admission,
After a narrow search he saw them ha The seriousness of the task I hail en
ng-
iog against a rock that thrilled the base Of dertaken, and the resolution necessary to
the chasm around which the waters swet execute it, had given an earnestness and
their crystal current. p
rapidity to my exertions which appetite
could not have inspired, when my plate
In a few moments the youno. man per
havieg got somewhat over the edge of the
coved the form of one whom h e immedi
• table, upon my leaning forward ;tilted up
ately recognized as Gray, by his tall and
'muscular figure. He was gathering up and down slid the disgusting mass into
lap. My handkerchief, unable to
some white sebstance in a bag. At last m y
I
he seemed to have concluded his task, and bear se weighty a load, bent under its turn
throwing the bag over his shoulders, at-
and a great proportion of it lauded safely
tacking his strings to his neck and body, in my hat. The plate instantly righted
he commenced his ascent. B ras in itself, as I raised my person and saw as 1
y Bras in
the rocks with his hands whenever they glanced my eye round the table, and saw
that no one had noticed my disaster; I in
afforded a sufficient protrubing surface- congratulated meself that the nau
i and planting his foot firmly in the fissures
—Gray had succeeded in climbing half aeons deception was so happily Wisposed
of. Resolved not tc lie detected, I in
way op the chasm, when stopping to rest,
the shielly rock crumbled under his feet.
stantly rolled my handkerchief together,
The murderer made violent struggles to
with its remaining contents, and whipped
1
I sustain his position, but losing his bal. it into my pocket.
ante—he plunged headlong into the
of
f. The dinner table was at !might deser-
One wild shriek told that the soul of - the' ted for thedrawing room, where coffee and
liquors were served. Meanwhile I had
wretch had gone to its judgment. And
there lay the bleeding skeleton of his vie- sought out what 1 considered a safe hi
tim ! "Retribution"' had pealed forth ding place for my hat, beneath a chair in
from the throne of the avenging God, the dining room, thr I dare not carry it
and the spirit of Gray stood before its any longer in my Hand, having first thrown
I Maker. a morsel of paper to hide the cauliflower,
should any one chance in seeking for his
own hat, to look into mine.
On :my return to the ;drawing room, I
chanced to be again seated by the lady by,
whom I had sat at the table. Our conver
sation was resumed, and we were in the
midst of an animated discussion, when a
huge spider was seen running up her arm.
(Take it oW—take it off,' she ejaculated
in a terrified voice.
I was always afraid of spiders; so to a
void touching him with my hand, I caught
my pocket handkerchief hum my . pocket
and clapped it at once upon the nuscrant,
which was already mounting over her tem
pie wills rapid strides. Gracious heat..
ens ! I had -forgotten the cauliflower
avhich was *DOW plastered over her face
like an emollient poultice, fairly killing
the spider, and blinding an eye of the la
dy—while little streamlets of soft butter
glided gently down her neck and bosom.
'Mon dieu I Mon dieu I' exclaimed
the astonished Nis.
'Mon (lieu I' was re-echoed "from every
person's mouth.
LAUGHABLE STORY.
The following is a laughatle account of
the misfortunes which befel an American
gentleman upon a visit to a lady in Paris,
to whom he bore letters of introduction.
After relating a number of ludicrous and
amusing mistakes upon his entrance in the
presence of the lady, he thus proceeds.
' The ordinary routine of a French dim
ner commenced, A regular series of ser
vants appeared each insant at elbows, in
viting us to partake of a thousand darer
eat kinds of wine, under strings of names
of whicn Ino more understood 'their com-
Rosition, than they did my gaucheries.
esolute to avoid all further opportuni
ties for displaying my predominant trait,
I sat in the most obstinate silence, laying
out to every thing that was offered to me,
and eating with the most devoted appli
cation, till my fair neighbor, tired with my
taciturnity and her own, at length herself
began a conversation by inquiring how I
was pleased with the opera. I was just
[WHOLE No. 202.
'Have you cut your handrinquired
one.
'No ! no !—the spider—monsure is kil
ling the spider.'
'What quantity of entrails!' ejaculated
an astonished Frenchman, unconsciosly to
himself.
Well might he be astonished, the spray
of the execrable vegetable, had spattered
her dress from head totoe. For myself,
the moment the accident occurred, I had
mechanically returned my handkerchief
to my pocket, but its contents remained.
'What a monster must it have been,'
observed a young lady, as she helped to
relieve my victim from her cruel situation,
'I declare I should think he had been. liv
ing on cauliflower.)
At that moment I felt some one touch
me and turning, I saw my companion who
had come with me.
'Look at youiPiin lateens,' he whisper
ed.
Already half dead with the confusion
and disaster I had caused, I cast my eyes
upon my once white dress and saw at a
glance the horrible extent of my dilem
ma. I had been sitting on the fated pock
et, and had crushed out the liquid butter,
and the soft, paste-lik vegetable, which
had bedaubed and dripped down them,
till it seemed as if it were actually dis
solving my pantaloons.
Darting from the spot, I sprang to the
place where I. had left my hat; but before
I could reach it, a sudden storm of wrath
was heard at the door.
'Say ! bete: sac-r-e the rin the first
syllable being made to roll like a watch
man's rattle, miagled with a nattier epi
thet and name that any angry Frenchman
never spares, was heard raising like a
fierce tempest without the doors. Sud
denly there was a pause; a gurgling sound
as of one swallowing
.involuntarily—and
the storm of wrath again broke out with re
doubled fury. I seized iny4lat and open
ed the divt, and the whole matter was at
once explained, we had exchanged hats;
and there he stood, the soft cauliflower
gushing down his cheeks, blinding his
eyes filling hie mouth, hair mustachios,
ears and wiskers• Never shall 1 forget
that spectacle. There he stood astride,
like the Colossus, and stooping gently for
ward, his eyes forcibly closed, his arms
drooping out from his body, and dripping
cauliflower and butter Iron every pore.
I staid no longer; but retaining his hat,
I rushed from the house, jumped into a
'fierce,' and arrived safely home, heartly
• resolved, that to my laat hour I would
never again deliver a letter of introduc- .
tion.
NOVEL RACE.
We have seen all sorts of races in our
time, from two sailors 'skylarking' among
the intricate rigging of a man of war,
down to a dray race in New Orleans, and
to a country milk maid chasing a cow
through a field half grown over with net
tles. We heard of one the other day wich
beats all these. Two loafers having got
shut out of the market, managed by some
means to get a bed in some of the beastly
houses which this city is inflicted, where
through the effects of liquor, they made
ovt to sleep until morning. On waking.
one of them perceived a tremendous bed
bug on the dingy and discolored sheet.
'That's the boy for me,' said he in a low
growl. 'Tim, •wake up here,' (slapping
his bedfellow.)
frhat's in the wind now ?' asked Tim
as he pryed open his eyes with his fingers.
'Nothing but a bed bug; see if you cart
find another, and let's have a race.'
'Agreed,' replied Tim, 'but I have no
candidate!,
'There's one,' said the other, lifting up
the bolster. 'To be sure he ar'n't so big
as mine. but he's mighty bony:.
'PH take him' ivas - theansti;es - . 'What'll
you bet?'
'Cocktails for two,' said the other.
'How far shall they run?' asked Tim.
'From this spot of tobacco juice on the
sheet, to that large hole you see younder;
get your bukup, and give the wordl'
'Wait a minute,' said Tim•
During a short interval Tim might have
been seen pricking his bug with a sharp
straw, and putting snuff on the wound.
The animal pranced, gnashed his teeth,
and seemed'anxious to slope.
'Ready,' asked the other.
'Yes,' said Tint.
'Let 'em go then!' was the inspiriting
cry; so oft' they went. The track was in
bad order, the sheet being much rumpled,
and the straw matress somewhat lumpy.
'Tim's bug got the •inside track' however.
and they crawled °Mit a 'bloody pace.'
For the first two feet it was all up hill,
and Tim's bug ; being wiry, and not over
fed, got the lead, which he kept manfully.
During this time the respective owners
.were lying on either side of the bed res-.
ting upon their elbows--their eyes moist •
with gin and excitement, and their breath
ing suppressed first by interest and then
by hiccoughs.
Hurrah for my side,' said 'l'im'a oppo-