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POETRY.
Spring.
BY MRS. LYDIA JANE PIF.RSON.
The beautiful Spring, the generous Spring,
She has come to her own again ;
From the gem-like isles that repose in smiles
On the breast of the Southern main.
She comes with her angels, a beautiful train
Of the sinless the bright and free ;
Who joyously fling from each glittering wing
A sparkle of melody.
The Sun in his gladness salutes the young
Spring,
From his sapphire dome on high,
Shining down from above, like the spirit of
love,
From his home in a clear blue sky.
The fountains gush up like a young maiden's
Joy.
And flow with a laughing song ;
And the rivers give out a melodious shout,
As their plum'd waves march along.
The bright dandelions bespangle the vest
Of green velvet that Earth puts on ;
And Zephyrus weaves of the young forest
leaves,
Her silver and emerald crown.
Her lap is an altar to Spring consecrate,
Fill'd with offering rich and rare;
Of young dewy flowers from the balm-breath.
ing bowers,
And wild fawns and young lambs fair.
There's a rich gush of life in the myriad
breasts,
That feel the warm breath of Spring ;
There's praise all abroad, to the bountiful
Lord,
And a free will offt.ring.
The beautiful Spring, the generous Spring,
She has conic to her own again ;
With a message of love from the bowers
abovr,
Where the pure and beautiful reign.
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE SHORTEST WAY TO MURDER CH so-
A CTER.—Profess your friendship for a
man—tell him how much you love him
—proclaim how many excellent qualities
ho possesses, then, with a very sanctified
look, and impressive sigh, express your
fear that all is not as it should be. Whis
per suspicion and ht conjecture, with
great strength, work out the mint lie
who understands human nature in its dee
per workings of damnable cruelty, and
selfish artifice, says a certain shrewd wri
ter, will mark the man who stabs another
under the cloak of pretended affection.
The pretence has a lie, adds he, on the
very face of it. True affection would ne
ver whisper a suspicion, save in the ear
of the one beloved, and whom that suspi
cion concerned. Never trust that man
who comes to you whining over his regard
for another, while his tongue is a drawn
sword to wound and kill—meet him
promptly with the charge of his hypocri.
sy, and he will sink with meanness before
you.
TILE lIINDOO GIRL—The following
interesting fact was stated in a recent lec
ture by Mr. Pierpoint:—
"At the present day, the un educated
Ilundoo girl, by the use of her hands sim
ply could surpass in delicacy and fine
ness of texture, the product ion of the
most perfect machinery, in the manufac
ture of cotton and muslin cloths. In
England, cotton had been spun so fine
that it would require a thread of four
hundred and ninety miles in length to
weigh a pound—but the Ifindoo girl had,
by her hands constructed a thread, which
would require to be extended one thousand
miler to weigh a pound; and the Daccale
MUSHUS, of her manufacture, when spread
on the ground and covered with dew, were
fri; longer visible."
THE JOURNAL.
From the Edinburgh Observer,
Monument to Buries High
land Mary.
It was not without some fear of disap
pointment that we availed ourselves of an
invitation to examine a design intended
to embody the feelings and wishes of the
admirers of this interesting though mel
ancholy episode in the life of Scotland's
poet. Our fears were speedily and agree
ably dispelled on beholding the design
itself, the result of a combination of tal
ent rarely to be found united, but in every
respect worthy of so interesting an object
and so powerful an alliance. It consists
of an elegantly proportioned monolithick
obelisk and pedestal, simply and tastefully
ornamented, designed by Mr. Kemp, the
well known architect for the monument
to Sir Walter Scott. The pedestal is en
riched on three sides by panels sculptured
in basso relievo, from the chisel of Mr,
Alex. 11. Ritchie, Fisher row, a young are
test of brilliant promise, and a pupil of
Thorwalsden, whilst the fourth side is
occupied by a simple tablet, containing an
inscription from the esteemed pen of the
celebrated Delta. Of the sculpture it is
not easy to convey to our readers an ade
quate idea; the principal panel represents
the solemn pledge of the lovers at their
parting on the banks of the Ayre ; the fe
male is an elegant and classical embody.
nient of rustic sweetness, simplicity and
grace ; the expression of the head in par
ticular, is replete with lovely fascination,
the figure and action at once bespeak
sincerity, unaffected modesty, implicit
confidence, and devoted attachment. The
bard himself is delineated with that ener
getic earnestness so characteristic of his
compositions, and a gravity of deportment
especially suited to the solemnity of that
parting scene so touchingly depicted by
his own words—
Wi' mony a vow and lock's embrace,
Our parting was fu' tender ;
And pledging aft to meet again,
We tore ourselves asunder."
There is no affectation here ; neither
gewgaw nor trifling frippery in attitude,
action, nor drapery; he stands erect and
independent, proudly conscious of moral
worth and self-reliance, an embodied im
age of his own noble sentiment--
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The man's the goud for a' that."
There is, however, an accompanying
tenderness of expression, beautifully suit
ed to the circumstances of the scene, and
justly appropriated to the most sensitive
admirer of female purity and loveliness.
Of the suitable beauty of the inscription
by Delta, it is fortunately in our power to
produce the best evidence by presenting a
copy; it is worthy alike of the object, and
of the accomplished author's well earned
reputation—
Erected
In memory
of
MARY CAMPBELL,
Whose youth, beauty, and innocence
Won the heart
and
Inspired the immortal muse
of
Robert Burns
With those strains which arc unsurpassed
For moral dignity
and
Depth of pathos.—
HIM MORTAL REMAINS
Have lain unnoticed in this spot
For half a century;
Yet
"The fame of her name"
Has pervaded the civilited world,
And the tears of millions have been shed
For the untimely fate
of
HIGHLAND MART.
The result of the whole design is a trib
ute worthy of the united exertion of the
gifted individuals who have contributed,
each in his peculiar department, to the
accomplishment of so gratifying an object.
When erected it will be one of the most
attractive and interesting features of which
Greenoch can boast.
ItusnANns.—. Miss Lucretia Elvira,
said a comical fellow to an old nyoung
maid," have you heard of the recent act
of parliament by which all ladies with
small mouths are to be provided with
husbandsi"
"Indeed? no"--replied the lady, screw
ing up her mouth with the pucker.
"It is a fact, however—continued the
wag—and another clause of the act pro
vides that all those who have large mouths
shall have two husbands each!"
"0 my!" exclaimed the lady, opening
her mouth as big as a bucket; " what a
curious L A W."
A COMPLINIRNT TO THH LADIES.--.A
minister a short time ago held forth to
his female auditory in the following man•
ner.
" Be not proud that our blessed Lord
paid your sex the distinguished honor
of appearing first to a female after the
resurrection, for it was only that the glad
tidings might spread the sooner."
"ONE COUNTRY, ONE CONSTITUTION, ONE DESTINY."
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1842
The following quizzical story was told
at a temperance meeting in Hartford, by a
reformed toper. It opens rich, and as the
man has become sober, one may now laugh
over his absurdities with double relish.—
fie said—
I used to drink, and my wife used to
jaw me about it. IVhat do you drink for?
said she ; what do you jaw me for?_said I.
So we agreed, and made a firm bargain
that I would not drink and she would not
scold. For three long days we held on
firm—no drinking
or scolding; but on the
third evening, being in company with
some good fellows, I took a horn, and
when that was down, I right off wanted
another, and in a very short time I found
myself about how fare you,' with twenty
horns safe and snugly in my breadbasket;
(tremendous laughter.) By and by it got
to be time to go borne; but, as you may
well suppose, I dreaded to meet my wife
like the tooth ache, (laughter.) floweNll,
go I must; and so I staggered along, ho
ping to find my wife abed, (laughter.)—
When I reached the house, I found it still
lighted, and through the window I. saw my
wile up and waiting for me. (Laughter.)
Thinks I, I can't go in yet, but I must
wait till she goes to bed ; so there I stood
half freezing in the cold rain two hours,
(tremendous laughter.) At last she went
to bed, and I crept in at the back door,
stumbling over pails and chairs, but final
ly succeeded in getting to bed without
disturbing her, (laughter ;) but after do
' zing a while, I awoke and found myself as
dry as a fish, (laughter;) you know, breth
ren, how dry we all used to be in the night,
after we'd had a spree, (tremendous laiigh
ter.) My wife always knew what was the
matter with me, when I got up in the
night to drink cold water, (laughter.) I
hardly dared to get up, for fear of my wife;
but my thirst was greater than 1 could
bear, (laughter;) so out I crawled, and
groped very softly after the water pail,
(laughter;) but no water was there, (laugh
ter;) I then felt round in the dark, on the
tables and shelves, for something to cool
my burning thirst, (tremendous laughter;)
soon I found a tin pan full mi;,,,,;.1 ,
thing; 1 seized and put it to my mouth,
and took a long and hearty draught—the
liquor at the same time running out at
each side of my mouth, down my cheeks,
(tremendous laughter;) and so I thought
the liquor tasted odd, and at that instant
it flashed on my recollection that I had
fixed some poison a few days before to
kill rats with, (tremendous laughter fur
five minutes.) Horror-struck, I stood.—
my hair standing on end—it was death to
scream out, for my wife would jaw me if
she waked, (laughing and stamping;) and
surely it would be death to hold still; but
scream I must, and scream I did, (riotous
laughter.) " What was in that pan ?"
" You are dry, are you?" said she. " 11' hat
was in this pan?" shouted 1, still louder.
" What makes you dry?" screamed she.—
" What was in this pan?" yelled I in per
fect
agony of fear. " What pan?" " Why,
the pan on the shell." "Oh, you brute,
you have drank up all my starch:" ('rre..'
mendous laughter for five minutes, and
cries of order from the chairman.) The
next morning my shirt collar was pasted
fast to my neck and cheeks, and it took
half an hour to clear it off." Here Mr.
Brown sat down amid the cheers of the
whole Society.
A chmery. ManNEr.—Davis of Bos
ton, who is probably the greatest !finite
tician in the United States, lately showed
us a simple method of producing a magnetic
needle, a knowledge of which may often
prove essentially usefull in determining
directions, where a regular compass can
not be readily obtained. The process
consists in simply twistinga piece of wire,
or iron roil. Mr Davis took a piece of the
smallest kind of nail-rod, about six inches
long, and fixed one end in a vice, twisted
the iron (cold) two or three times round;
and then balancing it on the point of a nee
dle—the iron being slightly bent for that
purpose—it readily assumed its true mag
netic position of north and south. Such
little discoveries tend to bring the most
useful sciences within the reach of every
capacity, and contribute largly to the pros.
perity of free and enlightened communi
ties.—N. Y. Mechanic.
EVIL EFFeCTS OF Troirr LACING.--A
late Liverpool paper states that a coroner's
inquest was held at Chard, upon the death
ofa young lady fifteen years old, who drop•
ped dead in the street 'from the bursting of,
a blood vessel of the lungs, caused by tight
lacing of her stays. Mr. Spicer, the sur
geon who opened the body, stated that the
deceased had died from the effects of tight'
lacing, and the pressure of the bone of the
stays upon her chest. He also gave it as
his opinion that many of the sudden deaths
of our young females were caused by the
overlacing of their stays, than which
there could not be more a prenictous cus
tons. The jury returned a verdict in accor
dance with the surgeon's evidence.
Fuzz TRADF..-.- The sticklers for free
trade will find a striking illustration of the
beauties of the system, so far as England
is concerned, in the following rates of
duties laid on American products by the
British Goverment; Duty on wheat 100
per cent, Indian corn 200; oats 500; barley
rye and buckwheat,2oo potatoes 150, cot
, ten 5; rice 150; tobacco 900: timber 250;
sugar 250; whiskey 2500; fish prohibited;
fruit 200 per cent; and we are called upon
to admit evey article maufactured in Eng
land free of duty into this country, because
our products are admitted so free into
British ports, that the restrictions imposed
upon them amount to almost a complete
prohibition!—National Eagle.
A FEmAry. Viunoz.—The following
account appears in the Augsburg Gazette;
of Madane, which is about
sixty English miles from Rustchuck, in
Wallachia, offers at the present moment
a curious othnographical singularity,having
been inhabited by women only-tor the last
thirty years. At one period this female
population amounted to 2,000. The la
dies did not live as warriors, like the
Amazons of old, but avoided- all inter
course with them, and drove away from
their territories all who appeared with
matrimonial intentions. This anti-social
settlement is now supposed to be on the
decline; at least, no more recruits are
made from the disappointed or the love
crossed, and the members of the population
,are rapidly decreasing. These women
are nearly all Mahometans."
A Maron Race.—The Leeds Mercury
gives the following strangest of coincid
ences:--Mr. David Ifinchlitre, an opera
tive fancy weaver, residing at Moldgreen,
Huddersfield, was married upon the same
day our gracious Queen was united to
Prince Albert—his wife was delivered
of a daughter the same day the Princess
Royal was born; and she also gave birth
to a sou the sonic day the Prince of Wales
I came into the world!
.1401.0 , 00 ne ilfpnra
Clay, to the Senate of the
United States.
Mr. CLAY said (as imperfectly heard
in the Reporter's galleries) that before
proceeding to make the motion for which
he had risen, he begged leave to submit,
on the only occasion offered him, an ob
servation or two on a different subject.—
It would be remembered that he had offer
ed, on a former day, some resolutions
going to propose certain amendments in
the Constitution of the United States;
they had undergone some discussion, and
he had been desirous ofubtaining an expres
sion of the sense of the Senate upon their
adoption; but owing to the infirm state of
his health, to the pressure of business in'
the Senate, and especially to the absence
at this moment of several friends, lie had
concluded this to he unnecessary ; nor!
should he deem himself called upon to.
reply to the argument of such gentlemen
as had considered it their duty to oppose
the resolutions. lie should commit the .
subject, therefore, to the hands of the
Senate, to be disposal of as theirjudgment
should dictate:concluding what he had to
say in relation to them with the remark,
that the convictions he had before enter
tained in regard to the several amends
['lents, he still deliberately held, alter all
that he bind heard upon the subjects of
them.
And now, said Mr. C., allow me to
announce, formally and officially, my re•
tirement from the Set' lie of the United
States, and to present the last !notion I
shall ever tithe in this hotly. But, before
I make that motion, I trust I shall be
pardoned it I avail myself of the occasion
to make a few observations which are sug
gested to my mind by the present occasion.
I entered the Senate of the United
States in december 1806. I regarded
that body then, and still contemplate it,
as a body which may compare, without
disadvantage, with any legislative assem
bly, either of ancient or modern times,
whether I look to its dignity, the extent
and importance of its powers, or the abil
ity by which its individual members have
been distinguished, or its constitution. If
compared in any of these respects, with
the Senates of either France or England,
' that of the United States will sustain no
derogation. With respect to the mode
of its constitution, of thew! bodies I may
observe that in the House of Peers, in
England, with the exceptions but of Ire
land and 6cotland--and in that of France,
with no exceptions whatever—the mem
bers hold their place under no delegated
authority, but derive them from the grant
of the Crown, transmitted by descent, or
expressed in new patents of nobility;
while here we have the proud title of
Representatives of the sovereign States, of
distinctand independent Commonwealths.
II we look again to the powers ex
, ereised by the Senates of France and
I England, and by the Senate of the United
1 , States, that the aggregate of power is much'
greater here. In all the members possess
the legislative power. In the foreign
Senates, as in this, the judicial power is
invested, although there it exists in a larg
er degree than here. But, on the other
hand, That vast, undefined and undefinable i •
power involved in the right to co-operate
with the Executive in the furmation and
ratification of treaties, is enjoyed in all its
magnitude and weight by this body, while
it is possessed by neither of theirs : besides
this, there is another of very great practi
cal importance—that of sharing with the
Executive branch in distributing the
vast patronage of this Government. In
both the latter respects, we stand on
grounds different from the [louse of Peers,
either of England or France. And then'
us to the dignity and decorum of its pro
ceedings, and ordinarily as to the ability
of its members, I can with great truth
declare that, during the whole long period
of my knowledge of this Senate it can,
without arrogance or presumption, sustain
no disadvantageous comparison with any
public body in ancient or modern times.
Full of attractions, however, as a seat in
this Senate is, sufficient as it is to fill the
aspirations of the most ambitious heart,
I have long determined to forego it, and
seek that repose which can be enjoyed
only in the shades of private life, and
amid the calm pleasures which belong to
that beloved word, home."
It was lay purpose to terminate my
connexion with this body in November,
1840, after the memo' able and glorious
political struggle which distinguished that
year; but I learned, soon after, what in
deed I had for some time anticipated from
the result of my own reflections, that an
extra session of Congress would be called;
and I felt desirous to co-operate with my
political and personal friends in restoring,
lit it could be effected, the prosperity of the
! country by the best measures which their
united counsels might be able to devise;
and I therefore attended the extra session.
It was called, as all know by the lamented
Harrison; but his death and the conse
quent accession of his successor produced
an entirely new aspect of public affairs.
had he lived, I have not one particle of
doubt that every important measure for
which the country had hoped with so con
fident an expectation would have been
consummated by the cooperation of the
Executive branch of Government. And
here allow me to say, only, in regard to
that so much reproached extra session of
Congress, that I believe if any of those
who, through the influence of party spirit
or the bias of political prejudice, have
loudly censured the measures then adop
ted, will lush at them in a spirit of candor
and of justice; their conclusion, and that
of the country generally, will be that if
there exists any just ground of complaint,
it is to be found not in what was done, but
in what was left unfinished.
Had President Harrison lived, and the
measures devised at that session been ful
ly carried out, it was my intention then
to have resigned any seat. But, the hope
(I feared it might prove a vain hope) that
at the regular session that the measures
which we had left undone might even
then be perfected, or the same object ob
tlined in an equivalent form, induced me
to postpone the determination; and events
which arose after the extra session, resul
tieg front the failure of those measures
which had been proposed at that session,
and which appeared to throw on our po
litical friends a temporary show of defeat,
confirmed me in the resolution to attend
the present session also, and, whether in
prosperity or adversity ; to share the for
tune of icy friends. But I resolved at
the same time to retire as soon as I could
do so with propriety and decency.
Flom 1806, the period of my entry on
this noble theatre, with short intervals, to,
the present time, I have been engaged in
the public councils, at home or abroad.—
Of the nature or the value of the services
rendered during that long and arduous
period of my life it does not become me , 1
to speak ; history, if she designs to notice
me, and posterity, if the recollection of l l
my humble actions shall be transmitted to
posterity, are the best, the truest, and
the most impartial judges. When death
has closed the scene, their sentcn2e will
be pronounced, and to that I appeal and
refer myself. My acts and public con
duct are a fair subject for the criticism
and judgment of my fellow men; but the
private motives by which they have been
prompted are known only to the great
Searcher of the human heart and to myself;
and I trust I may be pardoned for repeat
ing a declaration made some thirteen
years ago, that, whatever errors—and
doubtless there have been many—may be
discovered in a view of my public services
to the country, I can with unshaken con
fidence appeal to that Divine arbiter for
the truth of the declaration that I have
been influenced by no impure purpose, no
personal motive--have sought no personal
aggrandizement; but that in all my public
acts I have had a sole and single eye, and
a warm and devoted heart, directed and
dedicated to what im my best judgment II
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believed to be the true interests of my
country.
During that long 'per;oil, however, I
have not escaped the fate of other public
men, nor failed to incur censure and de
traction of the bitterest, most unrelenting,
and most malignant character; and though
not always insensible to the pain it was
meant to intlict . l have borne it in general
with composure, and without disturbance
here, [pointing to his breast,] waiting as I
have done, in perfect and undoubting con
fidence, for the ultimate triumph of justice
and of truth, and in the entire persuasion
that time would, in the end, settle all
things as they should be, and whatever
wrong or injustice I might experience at
the hands of man, He to whom all hearts
are open and fully known, would in the
end, by the inscrutable dispensations of
los providence, rectify all error, redress
all wrong, and cause ample justice to be
done.
But I have not meanwhile been unsus
tained. Everywhere throughout the ex
tent of this great continent I have had
'cordial, warm-hearted, & devoted friends,
who have known me and justly apprecia
ted my motives. To them, it language
were susceptible of fully expressing my
acknowledgments, I would now offer them
as all the return I have now to make for
their genuine, disinterested, and perse
vering fidelity and devoted attachment.
But if I fail in suitable language to ex
press my gratitude to them for all the
kindness they have shown me—what shall
I say—what can I say at all commensu
rate with those feelings of gratitude which
I owe to the State whose humble repre
sentative and servant I have been in thin
Chamber? [Here Mr. C.'s feelings ap
peared to overpower him, and he proceed
ed with deep sensibility and with difficult
utterance.]
I emigrated from Virginia to the State
of Kentucky now nearly forty years ago ;
I went as an orphan who had not yet at
tained the age of majority—who had never
recognized a father's smile nor felt his
caresses—poor—pennyless —without the
favor of the great--with an imperfect and
inadequate education, limited to the ordi
nary business and common pursuits of
life; but scarce had I set my foot upon the
generous soil when I was seized and ems
braced with parental fondness, caressed
as though I had been a favorite child, and
patronized with liberal and unbounded
munificence. From that period the high
est honors of the State have been freely
betowed upon me; and afterward, in the
darkest hour of calumny and detraction,
when I seemed to be forsaken by the rest
of the world, she threw her broad and
impenetrable shield around me, and, bear
ing me up aloft in her courageous arms,
repelled the poisoned shafts that were
aimed at my destruction, and vindicated
my good name for every false and unfoun
ded assault.
But the ingenuity of my assailants is
never exhausted, and it seems I have sub
jected myself to a new epithet, which I do
not know whether it should be taken in
honor or derogation. lam held up to the
Country as a " dictator." A dictator:—
The idea of dictatorship is qtavvri from
Roman institutions; and at the time the
office was created, the person who wiel
ded the tremendous weight of authority
it conferred, concentrated in his own per
son an absolute power over the lives and
property of his tellow citizens ; he could
raise armies ; he could build and man na
vies ; he could levy taxes at will, and raise
any amount of revenue h.! might choose
to demand ; and life and death rested on
his fitt. If I had been a dictator, as lam
said to have been, where is the power
with which I was clothed ? Had I an
army ? any navy? any revenue? any pat
ronage ? in a word, any power whatever?
111 had been a dictator, I think that even
those who have the most freely applied to
me the appellation, must be compelled to
make two admissions : first, that my dic
tatorship has been distinguished by no
cruel executions, stained by no blood, nor
soiled by any act of dishonor; and in the
second place, I think they must own
(though I do not exactly know what date
my commission of dictator bears-1 am
gine, however, it must have commenced
with the extra session) that if I did usurp
the power of a dictator—l at least volum•
tarily surrender it within a shorter period
than was allotted to the duration of the
dictatorship of the Roman Common
wealth.
If to have sought, at the extra sessin
and at the present, by the co-operation of
my friends, to carry out the great owns
urea intended by the popular majority of
1840, and to have desired that they should
tall have been adopted and executed, if to
have anxiously desired to see a disordered
currency regulated and retored, and
regular exchanges equalized and adjusted;
if to have labored to replenish the empty
coffers of the Treasury by suitable duties ;
if to have endeavored to extend relief to
the unfortunate bankrupts or the country,
who have been ruined in a great measure
by the erroneous policy as we believed, of