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BY JAS. CLARK.
POETICAL
HURRAH FOR " ROUGH AND READY."
TuNt-00 Dan Tucker."—Palo Alto Metre.
When Washington and Jackson fled,
Folks thought our race of heroes dead,
But freedom to her soil still steady,
Sent gallant Taylor, "theliough and Ready."
Hurrah, hurrah,
Hurrah, hurrah,
Both night and day with voices steady,
Shout for our gallant 4 4 Rough and Ready."
A noble son of old Kentuck,
With a heart like a lion, an eye like a buck,
A head as clear as her skies so free,
And frame as tough as her hickory tree.
Mara, hurra, &c.
In eighteen 44 12" 'gainst twelve to one,
He bravely saved Fort Harrison,
And made Miarna's red skins fly,
From the lead of his guns, and the fire of his
Hum, hum, &e
At Florida in '37,
With five hundred men—the foe eleven,
He burnt red Alligator's Toby,
And conquered at Lake Okeechobee.
Hurra, hurra, &c.
There Thompson, Brook, and a hundred fell
'Mid the roar of the storm and the Indian yell,
But Taylor gave the cats such cracks,
That they hew from the field Bice the fur from
their backs.
Hurra, hurra, &c.
At last against she lurking foe,
The pride of Bandit Mexico,
He met them five to one quite handy,
And gave them Yankee Doodle Dandy
Hurra, hurra, &c.
He covered Palo Alto's grass,
And Resaca de la Palmas Pa.,
With heads and limbs, and being winner'
He fed his troops on Arista's dinner.
Hurra, hurra, &c.
And next he lead his gallant way,
to the heights of Monterey,
He made Ampudia's host bite the earth,
And showed them a Yankee Taylor's worth,
Hum, hurra, &c
Again in Buena Vista's vale,
He poured a gnat of iron hale,
And made Santa Anna fly with his flag,
But a little more grape from Capt. Brag;.
Htirra;'hu - rra, he
And when these glorious fights were o'er,
And our hero touched thronged Orleans•shore,
We hailed him with praises north and south
Vroni grateful tongues and the cannon's mouth.
Hurru, hurra,
nen hail to Zech the first of men,
With sword, or word, or with the pen,
For the people he's been true and steady,
And they'll always find him Rough and Ready.
Hurra, burro, &c.
The soldier's friend in camp or light,
The pauple's shield in every right,
No faCtion his, fame its own call,
Whose worth Ail in the hearts of all.
Hurra, hUrra, &c.
OLD ROUGIV AND RED'.
TINE-" Rowe the Low."
tome Whigs to the Flag that streams o'er us,
That waves not o'er men that can yield,
Join the rinib,—there's a Hero before us,
A Caesar in Council and Field.
A Cmsar,
Thoge whd fatten on spoils he may please not
They ask, «What great merits are his l"
We'll tell in a word what he is not,
lle has told us himself what he is.
Ile has told us, &c.
He is not a pompons Court•bred man,
A foppish, a parasite thing,
That robe, and then slanders the Red man,
And worships and praises a King.
And worships and praises, &c.
lie had told us on Rio del Norte,
Our fair fields he would not resign,
Nor while standing on 54 40;
Get frightened and take 49.
Get frightened, &e.
Santa Anna the Lion awakened,
Whom they sent to environ his lair,
May Cass—Santa Anna the second,
The fate of the first one beware.
The fate of the first, &c.
Then a little more grape" let us give them,
These foes of country at home,
Their fire sides wait to receive them,
May they keep them for ages to come.
May they keep them, &c.
But the breaches of State who shall mend them ?
The holes these sleek vermin have gnawed,
A man of the trade we will send them;
One Taylor made breaches abroad.
One Taylor, &c.
Then Whigs let us all rally round him,
Hdme treachery leads him to fame,
In the toils they wove him, we found him,
And we'll teach them there's strength in his
num,
And we'll teach, &c
stick to the Boat.
During the blow on the Lakes not very
long ago, a passenger upon one of our
Vessels, became very much frightened,
and all, in reality, stood a very even
chance of going to Davy Jones's locker.
He, believing that all was lost, went be ,
lei* and offered up a feeling prayer, of
ierCh he came on deck; but the
storm had nut abated in the least.
At this juncture he met the, cook; a
ivorthy descendant frond " Afric's sunny
fountain," and a wave of more than usual
force striking the boat, he exclaimed, at
the same time taking his hand, " Good ,
bye—Meet Me in Paradise."
The negro somewhat astonished, re
plied, "Tharikee, thankee, sir, but I ain't
g'wine. 1 sticks to de bode anyhow."
WE'LL CARRY BRAVE ZACH OF OLD
VIRGINIA.
Tons—Oh! carry me bock to old Virginny.
Oh! freemen wake throughout the nation,
There's no time for delay,
Prepare your hearts the tale to tell,
On next November day !
Swear to our country's Genius,
That Whigs shall sway once more!
And carry brave Zach of Old Virginny,
Of Old Virginia's Shore ;
We'll carry brave Zach of old Virginia,
Of Old Virginny shore !
Oh! carry brave Zach of Old Virginity,
Of Old Virginny-Shore.
From the great state of Washington,
And Harrison he comes,
Their noble spirits wave him forth,
Crying, onward from their tombs !
Like them our nation's peace and bliss,
His wisdom will restore !
Then carry brave Zech of Old Virginny,
Of Old Virginia Shore ?
Then carry brave Zach, &c.
He brings not his victorious fights,
To back his noble claim,
He (~lls not war's ensanguined tights,
Men's passions to inflame
A master mind, a patriot heart,
He bears unto the core,
Then carry brave Zech of Old Virginny,
Of Old Virginia shore, the.
Liken Cincinatus from the camp,
He ever sought the plough;
And prized more high than soldier', plume,
The honest sweat of brow !
And there his mighty mind caught in,
His country's laws and love !
Then carry old Zach of Old Virginia,
Of Old Virginia's shore !
Then carry brave Zach, &c.
Free from ambitious artifice,
Or power hunter's game !
The country's good, the peoples' bliss,
Alone are all his aim !
The Natives and the Loco's tried,
In vain to bribe him o'er !
And we'll carry brave Zech of Old Virginia,
Of Old Virginia shore,
And we'll carry brave Zach, &c.
With eagle eye he penetrates,
The schemes of foreign foes!
He looks through plotting parties plans,
Like the sun through April snows !
Such worth his country's seat shall till,
And New York's boy fill more (Fillmore.)
For we'll carry brave Zach of Old Virginia,
Of Ohl Virginia's shore,
We'll carry brave Zach of Old Virginny
Of Old Virginia's shore !
Using lip a Gang of Robbers.
The Western hunter (though rarely) has
been set upon by robbers, for the pack
of furs he was carrying upon his back
to some of the seaport towns to dispose
of; but as the fur hunters are generally
on foot, and front habits of watching
about for either hostile Indians or ani
mats, are always on their guard, and as
the robbers well know that they are to
a man riflemen who seldom miss their
mark, they avoid them. During my ram
bles in the wilds and fastnesses of
Calafornia, I have became acquainted
whith many of them, some from the
back settlements of the United States,
others from California. 1 have hunted
for months with them, and witnessed
some conflicts between them and wild
animals, in which the utmost daring
and recklessness were exhibited by the
hunter. These are not the men that rob•
bers like to encounter, but I have said
they take a l►keing to the valuable packs
of furs, which, if they find any facility
for obtaining, they may make the at
tempt upon. It is the very climax of
cruelty to plunder those poor fellows of
packs which were procured only by out
laying for months in the depths of the
forest, and wilds of the country, and
not unfrequently in the hunting grounds
of a tribe of hostile Indians.
I once hunted' three months in the
company of a hunter well known ►n Cal
ifornia. In idea, he was wild and ima
ginative in the extreme; but in his acts
of daring, &c., the most cool and philo
sophic fellow I ever knew. A commer
ciente, or merchant at San Francisco,
on whose veracity I know from experi
ence 1 can depend, told me the follow
, ing story of this man, which will at
once illustrate his character.
This hunter, , some months before I
had fallen in with him, making the best
of his way down the valley of the Tule
Lakes, from the interior with a heavy
pack of furs on his back, his never er
ring rifle in his hand, and two dogs by
his side. He wns joined at the north
most end of the valley by the merchant
I have spoken of, who was armed only
with a sword and pistol. They had
scarcely cleared the valley, when a par
ty of robbers rode out before them.
Thero were four whites fully armed, and
two Indians with their lassoes, coiled
up in their right hands, ready for a
throw.
The hunter told the merchant who
ttias on horseback, to dismount instantly
and to "eover.' i fortunately for them,'
there ttias a good deal of thicket, and
trunks of large trees that had fallen,
were strewed about in a tiery desirable
manner. Behind these logs the inerz
chant and the hunter took up their po
sition, and as they were in the act of
doing so, two or three s.hots were fired at
theta without effect. 'Eke hunter coolly
HUNTINGDON, PA., TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1848.
untied the pack of furs from his back
and ]aid them before him.
"Its my opinion, merchant," said he,
"that them varmints there wants either
your saddle-bags or my pack, but I rec
on they'll get neither."
So he took up his rifle, fired, and the
foremost Indian, lasso in hand rolled off
his horse. Another discharge from the
rifle, and the second Indian fell, whilst
in the act of throwing his lasso at the
head and shoulders of the hunter, as he
raised himself up from a log to fire.
"Now," said the hunter as he reload
, ed, laying on his back to avoid the shots
of the robbers, "that's what 1 call the
best of the scrimmage, to get them
brown thieves with their lassoes out of
the way first. See them rascally whites
now jumping over the logs to charge us
I in cover."
They were fast advancing, when the ri
fle again spoke out, and the foremost fell ;
they still came on to within about thir
ty }•aids, when another fell, and the re
maining two made a desperate charge
close up to the log. The hunter from
long practice was dexterous in loading
his gun.
_ . .
"Now, merchant," said he, "is the
time for your pop guns," meaning the
pistols, "and don't be at all nervous.
Keep a steady hand, and drop either
man or horse. A man of them chant
escape. . .
The two remaining robbers were now
up with the log, and fired a pistol shot
at the hunter, which he escaped 'by
dodging behind a tree close to him, from
which he fired with effect. As only
one robber was left, he wheeled round
his horse, with the intention of gallop
ing off, when the pistol bullets of the
merchant shot the horse from under him.
" Well done, merchant," said the hunt
er, " you've stopped that fellows gallop."
As soon as the robber could disengage
himself from his fallen horse, he took to
his heels, and run down a long sloping
ground as fast as he could. The hun
ter drew his tomahawk from his belt,
and gave chase after him. As he was
more of an equestrian than a pedestrian,
the nimbleness of the hunter shortened
the distance between them, and the last
of the robbers fell.
Thus fell this dangerous gang of six,
by the single hand of the brave hunter,
and as the " commercianto" informed
me, he acted as deliberately as if he
were shooting tame bullocks for the
market. The affair was rather advanta
geous to the hunter, for on searching
the saddle-bags and pockets of the rob
bers, he pulled forth some doubloons
and some dollars, with other valuables
they had, no doubt, a short time previ
ously taken from some traveller. The
saddle-bags, arms and accoutrements of
the four white men were packed up,
and made fast on the saddles of two
the horses, the hunter mounted a third,
the merchant another, his horse being
shot, and thus they left the scene of ac•
tion—the bodies of the robbers to the
wolves which were h6wling about them,
and entered San Francisco in triumph.
Curious Anecdote of a Dog.
The following anecdote was told to us
by an eye witness of the incidents; which
occurred a few days ago, in St. Albans,
Vt., in the presence of several respecta
ble citizens of that village, who are
ready to vouch for their literal truth.—
A gentleman, going from his house to
his office, was passing up the principal
street of the village, in company with
his dog, an animal of unusual size, when
the dog, observing an affray in the street
' between two other dogs of unequal sizes,
walked up to the combatants, and taking
the part of the lesser, (a stranger in the
village, by the by,) immediately drove
the assailant from the ground. The
gentleman passed on with his dog, and
having arrived at the door of his office,
a distance of some thirty or forty rods
from the affray, stood talking with sev
eral persons present, when the following
1 scene occurred. The little dog came
running up from the direction of the re
cent squabble, having a piece of meat
in his mouth, which he laid down on the
sidewalk, directly before the nose of the
big dog, his ally and deliverer. "Bluch
er" picked up the meat and ate it with
great deliberation; the bearer of the
collation standing by and wagging his
tail with manifest delight until the Meal
was over, when he wheeled about and
departed. The spectators having heard
the story of the rescue, looked at each
other with surprise, and each made his
comments in his own way, the substance
of most of their speeches being " that
it was certainly very remarkable for a
1 dog !" "Remarkable for a dog !" ex
, claimed the oldest of the by-standers,
a rather cynical person, and a shrewd
observer of men—and dogs : " remarka
r (hie for a dog! it is an instance of grat
itude which would be very remarkable
for a *an
Caesars Wife:
Most of our readers have heard the
saying "ii soldier's bravery, like Cies:lee.
wife should be beyond suspicion." The
following, which we take from the life
of that great Roman, recently published,
will explain the allusion :
Clodius was one of the men *hose
names occur most frequently in the his
tories of those times; a man who dis
graced his talents by the lowest person
al vices and by the prostitution of his
great wealth and eloquence to the worst
purposes of sedition.
This Clodius had a passion for Porn
! peia, Ciesur ' s wife. Pompeia was close
' ly watched by Ciesar's mother, Aurelia.
In the year when Caesar was prietor, a
favorable occasion for their meeting
seemed to offer in the celebration of the
mysteries of the Good Goddess, which
was held at Caesar's house, and attended
ouly by women. The Romans allowed
no man—not even the master of the
house—tote present at these mysteries;
even the pictures and images of men
were covered. The absence of men, the
music and dancing, and other entertain
ments; afforded the opportunity for a
young !mimic slave of Poiiipeia to ad
mit Clodiuv, a beardless youth, disguis
ed as a female musician. The slave
left him to inform her mistress of her
, arrival:
As he was afraid of exciting suspicion
by remaining alone, he wandered through
the darker parts of the apartments,
where he was met by one of Aurelia's
slaves, who put some questions to him,
taking him for a woman. His voice be
trayed him ; and the affrighted slave ran
to the company, crying that there was a
man in the house. Immediately Aure
lia put a stop to the mysteries, veiled
the statues and symbols of the divinities,
closed the gates, and searched every
part of the mansion with torches. Clo
dius was' found in the chamber of the
slave that admitted him. All the wo
men gathered around him and drove him
from the house. Caesar immediately
divorced Pompeia.
Both Aurelia, Caesar's mother, and
Julia, lakv. sister, related the story.—
When C wear was ealled upon for his tes
timony, he replied with his characteris
tic caution, that he knew nothing about
it. Being asked, " why then have you
divorced Pompeia ? he replied, "Because
Ctesar's wife should be not only free
from crime, but beyond suspicion."
Newspapers.
The following sketch many will recognize as
from the prolific writings of the late Willis
Gaylord Clark. He indulges his off hand style
with usual felicity. It will be perused with
interest:
" Commend me to a newspaper. Con
per had never seen one of °lir 1 . 4 sheets,
when he called such tour-paged folios,
"maps of busy life." They are more;
they are life itself. Its ever sounding
and resistless vox populi thunders
through their columns, to cheer or sub
due, to elevate or to destroy. Let a
scoundrel do a dirty action, and get his
name and deed into the papers, and then
go into the street, Broadway for exam
ple, and you shall see hig reception.
Why does every passer-by curl his lip,
and regard hint with scorn 7 Why is
he shamed, as if a netiSotee , pestilence
breathed around Mini I) 7 hat makes
every man observe him with a contempt-
OUS leer Because they have seen the
newspaper, and they know him. So, in
a contrary degree, it is with honorable
and gifted men. The news prints keep
their works and worth before the public
eye ; and when themselves appear, they
arc the observed of all observers. Hats
are lifted as they approach, and stran
gers, to whom they are pointed out,
gaze after them with reverence. Suc
cess to ne , .vspasers ! They are liable
it it is true, to abuse— as what blessing
is not I—but they are noble benefits, ne
vertheless. What an endless variety
of subjects, too, do they contain ! Now
we are entertained with original disser
tations on numerous important subjects;
then, to use the quaint old catalogue of
Burton, " come tidings of wedding
makeings, entertainments, mumeries, ju
bilees, wars, thefts, murders, massacres,
fires, innundations, meteors, comets,
spectrums, prodigies, ship-wrecks, pira
cies, sea-fights, law-suits, pleas, laws,
proclamationsorophies, triumphs; rev
els, sports, plays, then again, as in a
new shifted scene, treasons, cheating,
tricks, robberies, enormous *Hinnies of
all kinds ; funerals, burials, notV diseobe
ries, expositions; lOW comical, then
tragical matters. To-day we hear of
new officers created, to-morrow of great
Men deposed; and then again of fresh
honors Conferred ; one is let loose, anoth
er imprisoned ; one purchaseth, snottier
breaketh ; he thriVes, his neighbor turns
bankrupt ; now plenty, then again, dirth
and famine, one runs, another rides,
wrangles, laughs, weep, and so forth.
Thus we do dailey hear such like, both
public and private news."
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[Correspondence of the New York Tribune.]
ANECDOTE OF GEN. TATI.OII.
WASHINGTON, July 2.
While Cram (Wen COL) •Taylor. was
serving in Florida, he captured many
negroes in his conflitts with the Indians.
Many of these negroes were claimed by
persons in Georgia and,Alabarna, from
whose service or. froth the eervree. of
whose fathers it was contended they had
escaped,. Agents on behalf of the claim
ants were dispatched to Col. Taylor,,
seeking to recover, them: Proof of Wen,
tity of the persons claimed as slaves
was proffered, and the right of proper.
ty insisted upon, Col. Taylor refused
to allow the claim, or even to examine
it. He bad come to Florida to serve in
the army against the Indians, not to act
as a negro-catcher. His codtnissidn he
said gave him no judicial powers, and
he could not assume to detertriine mat
ters beyond his province.
The disappointed and enraged appli
cants, after having tried in vain other
means to operate upon Col. Taylor fa
vorably, carried their complaints to the
Secretary of War. He entertained their
view of the case. In consequence; tin
order issued from the Department was
addressed to Maj. Gen. Jessup, then
commanding ifs Florida, directing the
surrender of the captured negroes to
the agent Of the claimants. A similar
order was issued to Col. Ttiylor. The
following is his reply, as copied frOth
the record in the War Department :
"HEAD -QUARTERS, ARMY OF THE SOUTH,
Tampa, (Florida,) June 2, 1838.
General—l have the honor to acknowl
edge your communication of the 10th
of May, 1838, accompanied by one of
the 9th, from the Commissioner of In
dian Affairs addresied to Capt. Cooper,
acting Secretary of War, on the subject
of turning over certain negroes captu
red by the Creek warriors in Florida, to
a Mr. Collins their Agent, in compliance
with an engagement of General Jessup.
I know nothing of the negroes in ques
tion, nor of the subject farther than
what is contained in the communication
above referred to; but I must state dis
tinctly, for the information of all con
cerned, that while I shall hold myself
ever ready to do the utmost in my pow
er to get the Indians and their negroes
out of Florida, as well as to remove
them to their new homes west of the
Mississippi,l cannot for a moment con
sent to med dle in this transaction, or to
be concerned, for the tienefit of Mr. Col-
I
liras, the Creek Indians, or any, tine AR;
or to interfere in anY way between,*
Indiana and their negroes, which may
have a tendency to deprive the former
of their property, and reduce the latter
Ifrom a comparative state of freedom to
that of slavery; at the same time! shall
take every means to obtain and restore
to his lawful owner, any slave among
the Indians whd has abkonded or been
captured by them.
Very respectfully, I have the Minor
to be, General, your pbd't serv't,
1. TAYLOR,
Brcv. Brig. U. S. Army, commanding.
Gen. R. Jones, Adjt. Gen. U. S. Army,
Washington, D. C;" . •
Here General Taylor showed himself
as firm ui resistrfig_ what he considered
nu illegal and disrdcefpl bider
. of the
Department, as he had been previously
to the importunities or threats of the
slave-hunters. His commission was in
the power of the President to revoke at
any time : his honor was above the
reach of the President; it e'en dearer to
him than all commissions:
Insanity of Louis Philippe.
Thn Paris correspondent of the Boa.
ton Atlas gives the following interesting
extract front' a letter written by a French
lady, who had an interview the other
day with the Ex-Royal Family at Clare . -
mom :
"1 was ushered into a drawing room
on the ground floor, wherein were seat
ed the Queen and the Dutchess de Ne
mours. Her majesty was occupied in
writing, while the fair young dutchess
was engaged upon some kind of needle
work, which, from its MIA and homely
appearance, certainly did not present
any of the peculiarities of a lady's fan
cy work. Up and down upon the grav
el-path before the long windows of the
apartment strolled, or rather shuffled an
aged man bending his shoulders to the
sun, and Waiting upon it huge knotted
stick. He was followed by a large spin
who seemed to subdue his pace to
' that of his Waster ; and; altogether the
' picture thus presented was one.of the
moat forlorn and melancholy descrip.
tion. I cannot tell you how greatly I
Was shodked When this aged man enter
ed through a glass door, shivering and
Complaining of the cold, and I recogni
sed the features of our King, Louis
Philippe. His face is much bloated,
and he is older by ten years than when
I saw him in January last. He knew
me, however, on the instant, and endea-
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vorcd to join in conversation, but soon
sank into a fauteuil by the fire, and
seemed presently to be absorbed in deep
thought. The Queens was cheerful
enough, almost gay. Her excessive de
votion has created a degree of fatalism
in her mind like that of the orientals.
She beholds, eery thing which has hap
peited as the willpf Oucl;,and complains
not. It is believed that she even re
gards it as an expiation, and, accepts it
in At chastened spirit
,accordingly. . I
willect 011 you ihe general impression
which prevails in the Royal household
with regard to the King, but it is such
as s t., make one .regret that ho met not
his death on the threshold of the Tuile
ries, so that , his body might not thus
halm Outlived his soul !" Our reader,
will easily , percei;ie..the , nature of the
catastrophe at which the fair writer
hints. If true, what an .awful lesson
will it prove to the pride and vain glory
of man, and to his boast in the excess
of his cunning, and in the power tsf his
intellect.
The Product of Labor, the only Real
We*th.
Agriculture is the foundation of wealb.
The Sea renders her tribute ; but the
earth presents to skill and industry,.
richer, and infinitely more varied pro
daetitins. Mpney 0, pot wealth: It is.
only the represebtativeof Wealth., Non-
Cy 0 coveted because it can command
labor; but Of„Whia s t use would it be if la
bor enuld not be ,etinamanded.—What
would it avail to peSsess„the . riches
of Potost; if thereby we eisOld poi% ac
quire the products of agr iculture”(
What are manufactures concerned in
but these products"( What freights
the barques of commerce in their liquid
flight, threading every channel, and.
whitning every port, but the products of
agriculture I W hence does the govern
ment derive its revenues, but from the
fruits of agricuiture 1 What cons 4 7;
Lutes the wealth of the country, but het
cotton, hemp, sugar, rice, tobacco, wool;
wheat, beef and pork Agriculture
only, can be considered the creator of
wealth. The merchant, the manufac
turor, the sailor, the various artisans
' and tradesmen perform their part ih
snaking the products of agriculture more
valuable in transporting them, so that
the advantages of the climate are equal
ized, and in putting them in a condi
tion for use; but agriculture alone pro
. duces. Like the leader of Israel, she
strikes the rock, the waters flow, and
a, fa i mishing,people are satisfied. Agri-
Ch!turO, ip thO u .coniinanding, interest tlf .
the country, with which no single in
terest of a secular natore4tnliined; can
be brought into competit ion.
Shocking Accident.
The Rochester AClVertiser reports that
a melancholy accident occurred at
Springfield, Livingston county, N. Y.;
a few days since. It seems that while
a nutilber of nien Were engttged with
pfkes, in the act of raising a bent, twd
boys Were wrestling, near by, and one
of them was violently thrown td the
ground. His father, who was engaged
on the
,frame, seeing his son prostrate
and helpless, went tp,his assistance, and
upon tuking him in, his arias ;
6. My sod, he dead !" It was.imme 7
diately ascertained thrit the hoy's neck
Was broken by the fall. 'the men, ution
this shocking announcement, immediate
ly relaxed their hold, and the frame fell,
crushing six of them beneath its . heaVf
fimbers; not one of who m survivid the
injuries received. The father of th 6 Goy
escaped uninjured.
nave Insicts ti Language
There seems to be reasonable griinildi
to infer that insects communicate their
ideas and wishes to each other. Dr.
Franklin relates the following from hiti
own obseration:
He found some ants feasting on some
molasses in his closet. He took them
out, and suspended tlle pot !is, d string
from the ceiling. One ant reWitiine'd
and after eating its fill, found its *ay
up the string, on to the ceiling, and
thence along the wall to its nest. In less
than half au hour, a great company of
ants sallied out of their hole to the Ceil
ing, and crept dott , it the th ng u*niir the
pot. This was done by others, till the
molasses was all consumed ; one body
passing up the string from the sweet,
while another passed down it. The Dr.
inferred that the first tint had communi
cated to its contrades the new position
of their delicacy, and directed them to'
the only siecessible road to itt
pc-
." There are two things," sayi
Mrs: Farrington, " that should be at
home every evening at dark—cows and
women—especially if there are war ,
sing babies in the house."
—The Locos are explaining how Mr.
Clay was defeated in the Whig Convert•
tion. Old Zack will show them how'
COss will be defeated in November: