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From the Louisville Journal.
DEtiF.IITED FARM,
We gazed upon the peasant's home:
It was a pleasant scene,
Secluded in a little dell,
A stream kept ever green;
While a small strip of faded grass
Show'd where a swing had been—
Ab, many n merry-hearted boy
Had frolick'd there, I weer,
My heart grew sad; the walls were bare,
No breathing thing was near,
And fancy sicken'd at the thought
That death had revelled here. •
On the green sod we pitying dropped
A sympathetic tear,
To mourn the happy group that once
Had congregated here.
There was a wild rose trained with care,
A mark of woman's taste,
A drawing rudely scratched with chalk
Some childish hand hail traced;
And everywhere the neat white walls,
With pictures rude detaced.
Oh, what,had made this humble home,
So pleasant once, a waste.
New was the ruin, yet I found
A mark of man's decay;
A broken crutch, upon ti c floor,
In one dark corner lay, [ed,
Which once methought might have sustain.
A dame or gran:hire got ay;
I called aloud—the echoing hills
Repeated—" Where are they ?"
We kit with hearts oppressed and sad
The desolate abode,
And saw a sturdy rustic lad
Come whistling down the road;
We asked, what caused that ruined scene
And begged him to direct us—
"MY, stranger, that was Brown's old'place
WHO lIHCHE AND WENT TO TEXAS."
VKRS AILLES
LIFE
BY BARRY CORNWALL
We are born; we laugh: we weep
We love: we droop, we die !
Ah! wherefore do we laugh or weep?
Why do we live or die ?
Who knows that secret deep ?
Alas, not 1 !
Why do the violet spring
Unseen by human eye?
Why do the radiant seasons bring
Sweet thoughts that quick') fly?
Why do our fond hearts cling
To things that die ?
We toil—through pain and wrong.
We fight—and fly;
We love; we lose: and then ere long,
Stone dead we lie.
life is all thy song,
Endure and—die ?
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THE RAt
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From the United States,
ISAAC NEWTON HOBBS,
Or the Lawyers Transfigu
ration.
A Tale, intended chiefly for the perusal
of Oil People who have Promuing chil
dren.—lly h. A. ll ilmer.
CHAP. I
In one of the rectilineal streets of a
city famous tar the st raight• forward habits
of its population, there lived a manufac
turer of rag carpet, whose name was
Michael flobbs,—a person of much in
dustry, and, in most particulars, a goad
manager, but subject to some weaknesses
which, as we ;hall presently see, were a
considerable draw-bad , on has worldly
prosperity. Mr. Hobbs was ambitious—
incredibly ambitious ; to raise himself in
the world had been the ruling motive of
his life; hut, at the age of forty-tive, he
began to despair of succeeding in his own
person, and so determined to ant his
object by proxy. The plan lie struck out
was to get married, to have a son, and
one only, to make that son a prodigy, and
to solace his own disappointments with
the advancement of his representative to
the liiolest dignities of the nation.
This scheme, you will admit, was most
excell:nt, and the first part of it was found
quite practicable and convenient. -Mr.
HolAs got married ; (he had hitherto beets
a bachelor; at a suitable time Its Wile
bore him son. Thus far every thing went
so smoothly, and argued well Ins the
li
nal success of the enterprise. Ilad fate
so ordered it that the first fruits of .Ins ,
wedded love had proved a daughter, the
ardor of his expectations might have been
[ somewhat damped ; but in the birth of a
son, according to Isis previous arrange
meta, he found a preasage of every thing
lucky and.auspicious. All that now re
mained for him to do wa,, to mould that
son according to the pattern of greatness
he had fixed on in his own mind, and he
Ousted that unrcmitted effort on the part
of his successor would du all -the rest
Mr. Hobbs was one of those persons who
imagine that the name ()lan individual has
great influence on his fortunes, and its fur.
therance of the old gentleman's plans, the
new burn bier was invested •vith the im-'
posing title of Isaac Newton !laths Mrs.
Ilobbs was ass amiable and tractable wife;
her ideas and expectations were modelled
precisely after those of her husband, and
so the energies of both parents were all
directed to the same object, viz. to maste
a great man of blaster Isaac Newton
Hobbs. With this sublime object in view,
toil became a pleasure, and prNation a
sacred duty.
In the mean time, the young gentles
man made his . corporeal developments I
but slowly; at the age of live years, be
was smaller by many degrees than chil
dren of that age usually are. This was a
vivifying circumstance :—."Men of great
intellect," remarked Mr. Hobbs," are in
variably small in body." A candid ac
quaintance observed that the child exhib
ited a very dull aspect. "Quite a philo
shophieal phiz," exclaimed the fond dad
dy, "all your philosophers have a sleepy
look; the boy is as deep as a well, mind 1
tell you." "Ay, indeed," added - Mrs.
Hobbs, "it would snake your. hair bristle
sometimes to bear how sensibly he talks
in his sleep."
NV e have said that Mrs. Hobbs adopted
most implicitly all the plans and ()pillions
husband. • Part of Michael's scheme
was to have but one child. and Mrs. It,
appreciating his motives, never bore hills
another.
A skilfulidirenologist was called in to
inspect the boy's head, and made a must
favorable report, fir which he was liber
ally renbmerated by the fiither. Michael
had previously been a little skeptical iu
relation to science, but now he became a
bigoted advocate of its doctrines.
Little Isaac was sent to school, was
well spoken of by his teachers, and at a
suitable age was sent college, where he
continued for some years- - Ithough his
some yea,,, a. Jg..
parents were sorely pinched to supply the
requisite funds. At the age of nineteen,
Mr. Isaac Newton Hobbs quit college and
commenced the study of the law, and al
ter the usual team of probation was ad
witted to the bar.
'Once a lawyer," suliliquized the elder
Mr. Hobbs, "anu the gates of preferment
are open before hint ; nothing else but
perseverance is neces , ary. Worious pros.
pects Well done done
Mike Ilebbs I Well done, at last, my
boy You shall hear, one of these days,
the folks whispering, 'There goes Mr.
Hobbs, Senior, father of the distinguished,
celebrated, or illustrious Isaac Newton
Hobbs, member of Congress, and so forth,
—Secretary of Sate, perhaps,—or faith,
who knows but it may be President'?"'
Here the old fellow took the riht
course; for when people do build castes
in the air, it is well to have them as lofty
as possible. It is just as cheap to ima
gine one's sell a S.dtan as a Gr,,nd Vizier.
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION; ONE DESTINY."
A. W. BI NEDICT PUBLISHER' AND 'PROPRIETOR.
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1841
For several years, however, after the'
junior Hobbs had opened his office, he
entertained the idea that the condition of
l a young limb of the law is a condition of
more honor than profit. Adis father, nev
i ertheless, supplied the needful ;" the
shuttle flew merrily, and the money for
Isaac's boarding, apparel and rent, was
disbursed by the old man with a most
willing heart. That moment which sliould
hail bon as the father ofan M. C., a Se
cretary of State, or a President, would
amply repay him for every sacrifice. At
length the senior conceived the idea that
the time had arrived when his sun should
begin to figure in polittes, and according
ly advisee him to commence the study of
stump oratory. But what was the good
man's consternation when Isaac modestly
intimated that he had no talent for public
speaking.
CHAP. 1 I
This communication from the young
lawyer was the first damper on the father's
hopes. Michael knew the value of elo
quence, and would not permit himself to
doubt that his son possessed that essen
tial quality. Persuading himself that too
much diffidence, (a very favorable symp.
tom,) originated the startling declaration
he had heard, he endeavored to rally the
youth and encourage him to attempt
speaking at pvblic meetings, promising
him that, on trial, he should find it much
easier than he expected.
"To tell you the truth, father," said
Isaac, ^1 am tully convinced that nature
never intended Ole for orator, a lawyer,
or any thing it the kind. I cannot utter
half a dozen wo ds in the coat t room with
out being laughed at, and I feel that I
shall never do any better. Ai a lawyer.
I must stand the lowest among lawyers ;
—had you made me a weaver or a tailor,
I might have been first (limy profession."
Astonishment, horror, dismay, and
mortification, locked up the tongue of the
old man fur some minutes. At length he
ejeculated in a sepulchral voice :
"Isaac my son have y . ou no ambition ?"
~I,•hope so," repliedlsaac, am ams
bilious to make a decent figure in any
business I undettake. I should much
rather be a skilful mender of shoes, than
an indifferent egponntler of the laws."
"Then I am the greatest wretch in the
universe !" exclaimed the old man, wild
ly clapping Lo:h hands on his temples, and
exhibiting a countenance wrung by the
most intense anguish. •
The sun was struck with remorse and
pity, and remained silent
Hour young lawyer was insensible to
the charms of glory, as his poor old fath
er suspected, he was not insensible to the
charms of a certain Miss Ilarriet Petite,
the daughter of a flourishing baker, wh o
resided and kept his shop exactly oppo
site Mr, Hobbs' oilier. /Then a young
man Is expatiating on such a dry subject
law, there is something °particularly per
ilous in the proximity of a fascinating
young lady. It was a good idea of De
mosthenes to retire to a cave on the sea
shore, when he rosecuted his studies, he
knew the expediency of avonling all oh
jects of interest that might draw off his
attention. Mr. Hobbs, eh. was not wil
ling to make a similar sacrific. He
would not base missed the satisfaction of
gazing on Harriet Petite, if by means of
such self denial he could have ri tailor?
the repu!alion of Demosthenes. It Is ,
probable, however, the Athenian never'
met with as pretty a girl as Harriet, or he
might have been as little celebrated as
Isaac Newton Hobbs. By means of a
deep laid scheme, viz: crossing the street
three times a day to purchase ginger nuts
at the baker's counter, Isaac had estabs
fished a speaking acquaintance with Miss
Peelle, who attended to the calls of cus
tomers. The conversation which com
monly passed between the young people
may be imagined to be us sweet and spicy
as the small article of confectionary which
served to introduce it, and the souses
quence was that in a very short time ack•
imwledgments of love and rows of con
stancy were reciprocated. Mr. Peelle,
Harriet's hither, had observed the grow-
ing intimacy between his daughter and
his legal neighbor, but any occasional
warmth he observed in the maiden's de
portment he attributed to an excellent
tact of hers fur drawing custom. Had he
suspected that a genuine love affair was
on the tapis, it is possible that his indig
nant feelings might have overbalanced the
pleasure of selling Mr. Hobbs nine cents
worth of gingerbread per diem; and in
that case, Isaac would have been forbid
den the premises. Mr. Pedle ha►t a sur,
'prising prejudice against 'young lawyers,'
of whom in the mass, he spoke as idle,
worthless, and poverty stricken objects;
declaring often, to poor Harriet's great
discomforture, that he would rather unite
his daughter to a boot-black than to one
of the tryos of jurisprudence. Mr. P.
did not use those very words, but some
thing to the same purpose.
CHAP. 111,
%Yidlst these matters v ere in progress,
Mr. Michael Hobbs, in assuming the re
sponsibility for several considerable debts
contracted by his son in the purchase of
books, clothes, &c., had involved himself
in much pecuniary trouble, and soon saw
his household furniture, looms and every
thing else, swept away by his creditors
and landlord. Farther claims coming
against him, he was committed to the
debtors'. apartment of the county prison.
But all these afflictions and mortdications
were trifles with old Michael ; he had not
a Sigh of regret, a groan of anguish to be.
stow on any 4.ubject but the sad disapp& at
meet he had received in the prospects of
his son. The same tempest of misfortune
which stripped the elder Hobbs of all his
earthly possessions and consigned him to
a dungeon, took effect on Isaac himself.
The latter was ejected from his office in
consequence of arrearages of rent unpaid,
his personal property was seized by the
legal cormorants, and with a heavy heart
and light pocket he crossed over to Mr.
Fettle's to purchase his final treat of gin.
ger nuts, and to bid, as he thought, a last
adieu to the enchanting little Harriet.
After much sorrowful discourse, and
many rromises and protestations, Harriet,
with faltering Accents, communicated to
young I lobbs a piece of intelligence which
produced a wonderlully renovating effect
on his spirits.
"There was one condition," she said,
"on which her father had promised his
consent to their onion ; but that condition
—(here she could scarcely speak for too•
debt confusion)—that condition was one
which she could never expect her dear
Isaac to comply with. No; she would
not esen locution it to him ; it was ask
ing too great a sacrifice ; it would be cru
el to propose it"—
Here Isaac volunteered something like
an oath, that be the condition what it
might, he would embrace it with as much
rapture as— . . .
While he paused for a simile, the glass
door between the shop and the back par
lor slowly opened, and Mr. Pedle, with
an awful dignity of aspect, appeared be.
fore them. The fond pair stood with
dowttcast looks and palpitating hearts be
fore the disposer of their destinies. A
dead silence prevailed fcr some minutes,
when venturing to raise their eyes to the
countenance of Mr. P. they recognised
most sublime expression of benevolence
and compassion, as he commenced speak
ing as follows:
Young man, I find !fly daughter likes
yoU, and vou like her. That's very reas
onable. - Your father came herc the other
evening and bought some small matter—
ginger nuts, I believe;—flarriet, did you
show Mr. Isaac Hobbs those improved
' ones of my own invention therei"
Isaac hastened to say that he had alrea
dy purchased some, and exhibited a hand.
ful by way of confirmation.
" , Very good," resumed Mr. Pedle, "you
.will find them capital. I studied the com
position of them, day and night, for more
than a fortnight; that's very reasonable,
as it's my business. NVell, your father
came in here the other evening, (he and I
have some acquaintanc,) he seemed to be
down-hearted, and I recommended him to
try a lew of them very ginger riots, as
they are first rate for raising the spirits.
So when he had tasted a few of them, and
recovered the use of his speech, he says,
'that son of mine,' Mr. Pedle, will bring
my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave;
and I wish, (says he,) that he had never
been born.' it's very reasonable for you
to say so, says I, considering that you are
his father; but what has turned up?
'Turned up!' says he, and seemed very
angry, 'why he's turned up a fool, that's
all ; though his schooling cost me more
than eight hundred dollars. He's no
more ambition than my olal boots.' Well,
I thdught to myselif that's reasonable
enough, and ten to one it turns out that
the young man has more sense than the
old one; that's very reasonable. I thought
this, but 1 said nothing. Now what lam
going to say to you is, that if you will give
up the law 'and take to the baking bust
' ness, I st ill give you my daughter in wed
lock, and teach you the trade in the bar
gain. Will you?"
"Will I!" exclaimed Isaac, enthusias
tically, "ny indeed, and thank you for the
offer. Here's my black coat," he contin
ued, stripping off the garment, "the only
coat I have ; take it, burn it, drown •it,
cut it up for carpet-rags—l am done with
black coats and Blackstone forever!"
"No, no," soothingly remarked Mr.
Petite, " the coat fits you welt; wear it ;
wear it oat in the service of a better trade
than that you have been fallowing; wear
it by all means; it will be a triumph, a
trophy as the novel books call it; a sig
nal of victory, as it were, gained by your
new profession over your old one."
That very evening did Mr. Isaac New
ton Hobbs, (who had been discarded for
want of funds Irma his boardin,,r , house,)
take up his residence in the famfly of Mr.
Pedle. "flow much better," thought the
youth, "to make bread, as a baker, than to
take it out of the mouth ut widows and
orphans, as a laWyer:" Belore the expi
ration of a week, Isaac had learned suffi
cient of his new vocation to be useful to
hi.. 5 father-in-law ; fur the first time in his
life, he felt that inexpressible satisfaction
which must reside in the bosom of every
man of spirit, when he can depend upon
his own exertions, when he finds himself
released from the humiliating and soul•
hat rowing necessity of asking or accept-
ins favors.
Two months were to elapse before the
arrival of that day of perfect felicity fixed
on 1.),. Mr. Peelle as the wedding day of
Isaac and Harriet. In the interim, the
thoughts of our fortunate young gentle
man dwelt on the situation of his unhap
py parent, who still remained in prison,
and refused to be comforted. The day
after the business and matrimonial ar
rangements had been etleeted between
Isaac and Mr. Pedle, old Hobbs was sit•
ting in his cell in a state of gloomy ab
straction, when he observed through the
grating in the d ,or some person who,
when the face was presented. he took to
be his sun, but when the individual turn
ed his back to speak to the jailer, Micha
el was confounded by the appearance of
' his dress. He was scarcely less perplex
ed, when the door was unlocked and the
visiter admitted.
'•.lsaac! —no; can it be?—yes, I see;'
he has gone crazy. Your unfortunate
boy, where have you beenl—rolling in the
meal, eh? Well, no wonder—it is enough
to madden a saint in paradise. Wretch
ed lather and miserabie son:—better that
you were bath buried in one grave togeth
er
Isaac, with a cheerful countenance,l
communicated the intelligence that, by
the kind assistance of Mr. Pedle, he had
been etiat led to discharge all pecuniary
obligations, to obtain his father's
libera
tion, and even to redeem the household
goods, implements of trade, &c. Old
Hobbs heard him with little appearance of
satisfaction.
''And why th , s masquerader' said he,
glancing at haat:. apparel.
Appearancea seemed, indeed, to re
quire some explanation. Isaac's clack
suit was 'powdered profusely with the
dust of the bake. house, making him an
exact representation of the lawyer deliv
ered from the sack, in the farce of "No
Song, no Supper."
"1 am a lawyer no longer," said the
young man man resolutely; "I have em
barked in the baking business, under the
tuition of Mr. Petite."
The declaration was too horrible to be
withstood by old Hobbs; he sat with a
petrified aspect, glaring at his son for sev
oral miuutes. Isaac proceeded to justi•
IY the decisive step he had taken, remar
king that by this change of vocation he
had been enabled to raise the necessary
funds for the liberation of his father, and
the redemption of his goods.
"And do you think," excla;med the old
man, "that I would not rather have lain
in this jail to the last hour of my life,—
never to look on the light of day, or to
breathe the pure air of heaven—than to
hear you acknowledge yourself such a
baseininded rascalk—go, I have done
with you. Say no more--not a word; by
heaven, the sight of you is torment! Leave
me leave me instantly."
Observing that the old man's excite
ment was very great, the son thought it
most prudent to retire and to wait a calm
ler moment, it hen he hoped to convince
Otis lather that the course he had taken
was all for the better. Soon after Isaac's
departure, the jailer formally announced
to old Hobbs that he was nu longer a pris
oner. . ._
"I am as well here as any where else,"
said Michael, doggedly.
"I am really very sorry," observed the
man of keys, "that we are not able to ac
commodate you any longer. You are a
ware that our rules make the thing impos
sible; otherwise," he continued in a tone
of great suavity, "I should be happy to en
tertain you For a whole life time, and 1 as
sure you it will afford me infinite pleasure
to receive you again, I ain authori
zed and empowered to do so."
So saying, the jailer, who was a per
fect model of courtesy, handed Mr. Ilobbs
out of the apartment, conducted him
through the various passages, and finally
dimissed him from* the outer gates .of the
establishment. Michael proceeded to his
place of residence, where lie found one
sympathyzing friend in his wife; and the
ancient couple talked and wept over th a
wreck of their long cherished expectations
CHAP. to
I wish most devoutly that half our ju•
nior professors of law could have contem-
plated the comforts and enjoyments of
Isaac's present situation, and contrasted
that situation with the one he abandoned;
it• most of them, with such an example ue
fore them, would hesitate to apprentice
[Wiro!.E No. 293.
themselves to useful trades, then I must
remark that most young lawyers have less
intelligence and sound judgment than is
usually accredited to them. The only
drawback on the felicity of young Hobbs
was the displeasure of his parents, for
both of the old people continued irrecon
cileable. To compensate him for this, he
had the smiles of Harriet and the encou
raging exhortations of Mr. Pedle. The
'good baker often gazed on the legal suit,
(i. e. the black coat and pantaloons ivh;ei
he had persuaded Isaac so convert into a
common working dress,) with great tri
umph and satisfaction.
"It seems to me, Isaac," said Mr. P.,
"when I look at that coat, and see how it
begins to change colt,' —for it was black
once, and now it is almost white—it
seems to me that good principles ore get•
tins the upper hand of bad ones. That's
reasonable. White, I have read some-
where, is the emblem of innocence; and
black !represents all sorts of villiany and
rascality. That's very reasonable. It
has struck me that by the time that coat
turns completely white, which it will do
when the flour gets incorporated with the
grain of it, then all the lawyer will be wor
ked out of you, and you will be as honest
a fellow as one would wish to +nest with.
Don't spire the coat, on no consideration;
make it pay for the mischief it might have
done. Ha, ha, ha—that's very reasona
ble."
Thus encouraged by the amiable family
in which he lived, - Isaac found the two
months which were to precede his nup.
tats not very tedious, and o hen the spe.
oiled time arrived the wedding soletnni
ties were performed with a good deal of
taste and elegance. There was no scar
city of cake, for Mr. Fetid himself was ex
pert in preparing confectionery, and his
• ginger'ne d enjoyed au unrivalled reputa
tion throughout the city.
From that period, fortune smiled on all
the worldly rinks of Isaac Newton Hobbs
The resentment of his father and mother
gradually subsided, and parental affec
tion once more had the aszendancy. Mr.
Pedle took Isaac into partnership, and the
firm of Petite & Hobbs ltd at astonish
' ing business; in less than five years Isaac
I was a man of wealth and influence. He
became celebrated for his public spirit, wit ,
universally esteemed for his integrity,
and generally beloved for his benevolence
and urbanity. In consequence of this
favorable impression on the public mind,
he was nominated to Congress, and•elee.
ted by a large majority.
On going to pay his respects to his pa
rents the morning after his election, Isaac
Iwas received by the venerable pair with
every mark of contrition; they acknowl.-
. edged their error in condemning his aban
donment of the legal profession, anti ad
mitted, (a sad and humiliating admission
fur parents,) that their son had thought
and acted more wisely than themselves.
DISTINCTIONS.-A French Abbe tray.
elling in the stage, was asked by a young
clerk, a would-be wit and athiest, it he
knew what difference there W4S between
a priest and an ass, and upon being an
swered in the negative, said that the priest
carried the cross on his breast, and the
ass on his back.
Alter the laughter had subside.l, the
Abbe asked if the clerk knew the differ
ence between a clerk and ass, “No," was
the reply—" Nor 1," rejoined the Abbe.
Twelve Spanish silver dollars were
lately deposited in the savings Bank in
this city, which had been in the family of
the depositor between fifty and sixty years.
If they had been at compound interest
they would have increased to $376 00.
Although coined nearly one hundred
years ago, they were not worn and were
as bright as new dollars.—[ll artford Cou-
rant.
del Min of Family.—A man and his
wife and NINETEEN children arrived re
cently at Milwaukee, on their way far
ther west. It was understood that ho
had left part vf his family behind.
Piducia says that the most innocent
sights in the world, are, a baby biting its
toe, and a kitten in active pursuit or its
"I must exchange my quarters," as
the counterfeiter of 25 cent pieces said
when he heard the police were after Into.
The city of St Louis has commenced
the issue of small bills, denominated war
rants.
Btihver says that honesty exists in the
hreehes pocket, and likewise that worth
makes the man and the more a man is
worth the worthier he is,
"My brethren," . baid a staid and learn
cd oracle, "there is a great deal to be
and it is time WC Were An up and did
ding on'l."