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All Lettersandeommtmications addressed to the Editor by mail mast bo post-paid, or they will not be attended to THE GARLAND —"With sweetest flowers c nricled , From various gardens cull'd with care." ITOR TIM GETTTSZICIIG STAR AND DANNER. =TEC FOURTEEN' TEC OF JUNE • kneads of Ldierty and Right ! Grave the annals of this day With the sword of justice bright Oa the shield of Liberty. Write it on the altar piece la the shrine where freemen pray ; Where they offer hymns of praise lro the God of victory. Knee!leg down devoutly there Where our father's spirits rest, Offer up a fervent prayer For the lend they lov'd and blest. That this Day of triumph bo— Dal the day spring from on high, Doomed to spread from sea, to sea, Ina flood of victory ; Tell the spuit of misrule Nov camping Honor's seat Bend beneath her just control, Fall, and die beneath her feet. Then shall FreeZom's sons rejoice, Happy Bruflucrs as of porn; Hymning with united voice dEqual Erghts !! from shore to shore. Party name no more shall stand Walls dividing noble hearts, Join "d in concert hand in hand AU Isbell-nobly act their parts. Bo! Bright Education comes— With her spirit quicVning ray, Chasing all debasing glooms Fill= the freeborn soul away. Even now her ta6rning ponrs- : noly fight o'er earth and sea ; - Ignerance's vassalage is o'er, • All the blind we made to see Lawless seek in vain Onfreeolens on&oges to ride; Putnam Patriotivin shall reign. Joy and honor flourish wide. Then sh.all those who labor now Roth a blessing to obtain, Prove with Wand eirele'd brow That they have not toiled in vain Then shall St-Evens whom wo boast Hero of this glorious day. Best balov"d, and honored most, Bear the brightest palm away. THE REPOSITORY. Fr= Drake's Tales of the Queen City Putting a Blackleg on Shore. A numerous and peculiar race of mo dern gentleman may be found in the val ley of the Mississippi. A naturulist would propable describe them as a genius of bi: pads, gregarious, amphibious and migra• tory. They seldom travel "solitary and alone;' are equally at home on land or water ; and like certain vultures, spend most of their winters in Alississippi and Louisiana; their summers in the higher latitudes of Kentucky and Ohio. They dress with taste and elegance ; carry gold chrunometen in their pockets, and swear with the most genteel precision. They are supposed to entertain an especial al); horse of the prevailing temperance fa amid= ; and as a matter of conscience, enter a daily protest against it, by sipping `mint juleps' before breakfast, 'hail•storme' at dinner, and 'old Monongahela * at night. These gentlemen, moreover * are strong advocates of the face path and_ the cock Pt; and, with a benevolence, which they hold trely coasumaidable; patronise modest twenty by playing CHAPERON to those wealthy young men, who set out on the pilarininge of life, before they have been fully initiated into its pleasures.— Every where throughout the valley, these mistleti.v grotty are called by the original, if not altogether classic, cognomen of gißlack legs." The history of this eupho nious epithet, or the reason of its applica tion to so drininguished a variety of human. ity, is unknown. The subject biotic of con siderable interest, and worthy the early, at tention of the Historical Society, to which it is respectfully recommended. It was the fortune of the steamboat Sea Serpent of Cincinnati, commanded by Captain Snake, on her return from New Orleans in the spring of 1837, to number among her passengers, several highly re spectable Black legs. One of them Ma jor Marshal Montgomery, a native of the "Old Dominion," belonged to the "Paul Clifford" school ; and indeed had for some years past borne testimony to the merit o Mr. Bulwer's romances, by making the hero of ono of them his great prototype. In stature, the Major was over six feet, muscu• lar and finely proportioned. His taste in dress was only surpassed by the courtlines of his manners, and the ready flow of his conversation. In what campaign ho had won the laurels that gnve him his military title is unknown. It has been conjectured that tho warlike prefix to his name, may have resulted from the luxuriant braze o black whiskers, which garnished his cheeks. On a certain day, after dinner, the ladies having retired to their cabin for a siesta, the gentlemen as usunl, sat down to cards, chess and back-gammon. Tho boat had just "wooded," and was nobly breasting the current of the river at the rate of eight knots an hour. Captain Snake having nothing else to do, was fain to join in a rub ber of whist ; and it so happened that ho and tho Major were seated at the same table; This game, at the suggestion of Major Montgomery, was soon changed to 'leo ;' and played with varying success, un til at lenght a pool of considerable magni tude had accumulated. As the contest for the increasing stake advanced, much inter est was excited among the bystanders and still more in the players, with the exception of the Major, whose staid expression of countenance was a general remark. He seemed careless about the run of the cards, and threw them as if quite regardless of the tempting spoil that lay before him At length, the game was terminated. The fickle goddess disclosed her preference for the Major, by permitting him to win the "pool," amounting to near three hundred dollars. His success produced no outward signs of. joy,, he seemed, indeed, almost sorry to be compelled to take the money of his friends; and with much composure of ' manner, proposed ,to continuo the play ; maliiOg y 'at thosarne time a very polite ten der of. his purps,fo any gentleman at the table, who might need a temporary loan. ,In the group -of- spectators there was a tall spindle legged young fellow, from the Western Reserve, in Ohio, who had been to the South with a lot of cheese, for the manufacture . of which that thriving New England colony is becniiiing quite famous. This cheese monger had been watching the game from the beginning, and at last firing his eyes upon the winning major, said, in a low tone of voico, suited to a more lugu brious subject. “Woll, now, that's right down slick, nny how.” The Major, looking up, found the gaze of the company turned , .upon him. Knitting his brows he said sternly. in reply; "Let's have no more of your Yankee impertinence." "Now, mister," continued Jonathan, in his brawling tone, and with provsking cool. ness of manner "you hadn't ougbt ; to let them there little speckled paste boards play hide and go seek in your coat sleeve. This remark accompained with a know.. log wink of tho speaker's ey©, instantly transformed the Major into a young earth. quake. Springing upon his feet, as if tent on blood and carnage, ho bawled out at the top of his voice. "Do you mean to insinuate, you Yankee pedlar—you infernal wooden nutmeg, that I have cheated 7" Tie young cheese morchant, leisurely rolling a huge cud of tobacco from ono cheek to the other and looking the Major steadily in tho eye, replied with imperturablo gray. icy, GLORIA. "Why, your the beatomest shakes I ever seed : who insinevated that you cheated ? I did'ntno how : but if you don't behave a little gonteeler, I conclude I'll tell as how I seed you slip a card under your sleeve when you won that everlasting big pond of money." "You aro a liar," thundered the Major in a perfect whirlwind, at the tame time at tempting to bring his bamboo in contact with the shoulders of his antagonist ; but Jona than caught the descending Cane in his left hand, and in turn planted his dexter fist, with considerable'impulso, on the lower end of Major's .breast bone, remarking, "I say,..mister; make yourself skerse there, or you'll run against the end of my arm." Unfortunately for the reputation of Major Montgomery, at this moment a card fell from his coat sleeve, and with it tell his courage, for he turned suddenly round to the table to secure the spoils of victory. The Captain, however, had saved him the trouble, having up the money for the pur pose o f ? restoring it to those to whom it rightfully belonged. The Major, finding that his winnings and his reputation wore both departing, became once more highly excited, and uttered direful anathemas a gainst those who might dare to question his honor. It is, perhaps, generally known to the reader, that the captain of a steamboat on the western waters, is of necessity almost as despotic as the Grand Turk. The safely of his boat, and the comfort of his passengers, in performing a long and pe. rilous trip, require indeed, that such should ho the case. Between port and port, ho is sometimes called to act in the ROBERT S. P.IXTO.Ir, EDITOR eI.VD PROPRIETOR. vzt-t,ce telrazaca4ll.lao tkitgaz.vazodiEr - wPaar sa 9 ainme triple capacity of legislator, judge and ex ecutioner. It is rumored, perhaps with• out foundation, that in cases of great e mergency, more than ono of these corn• menders have scriourly threatened a re sort to the salutary influence of the "se cond section." Bo this as it may, travel lers on our western bents will consult their comfort and safety by deporting themselves according to the gentlemanly principle. %Vo throw out this hint for the public generally ; and in the fullness o our benevolence, commend it to the especial notice of tourists from the "fast anchored isle." Captain Snake made no reply to the im• precation of the major, having too much respect for his official station, to permit himself to bo drawn into a personal conflict with one of his passengers. Stepping to the cabin door, his clear shrill voice was heard above the din of the Major's volcanic burst of passion and the loud whiz of the Sea Serpent. Instantly the tinkle of the pilot's bell responded to the order of the commander, and tho boat lay to. Near the lee shore. Again the captain's voice was heard. "Jack ! man the yawl ; Major Montgo mery wishes to go on shore.' " Aye, aye, sir." The Major looked around in utter as tonishment. The Captain again called out, "Steward ! put Major Montgomery's trunk in the yawl ; he wishes to go a shore I" "Aye, aye, sir." The Major turned towards the Captain with a face indicating a mingled feeling of anger and dismay. fie had seen too mach of the life in the West, not to under. stand the fate that awaited him. Bef)re he could make up his mind as to the best mode of warding off the impending catas• tropho, Jack bawled out, "the yawl is ready sir ; and the steward cried, "the trunk is on board, sir." Captain Snake bowed formally, and with a courteous, but singularly emphatic manner, said : " Major Montgomery the yawl waits." The Major, however, retained his po- sition near the card-table, and began to re monstrate against such very exceptionable treatment of a Virginia gentleman, whose character had never been questioned. Ho concluded by a broad intimation that on their arrival at Cincinnati, ho should hold the Captain personally responsible under the laws of honor. In reply, the Captain of the Sea Serpent, bowed again most profoundly, and turning towards the door of the cabin saidcalmly, "Steward, call the Fireman to assist Ma. jor Montgomery into the yawl ; ho wishes to go shore." The redoubtable Major, in the vain hope that the passengers would sustain him in the contest, threw himself on his reserved rights, ran up the flag of nulification, and ferociously brandished his bowie knife : at this moment the fireman made his appear ance. He was a full grown Kentuckian, born on tho ceder knob of the Blue Lick, and raised on sulphur water, pone and 'pos. sum 'fat. Like many of his countrymen, ho was an aspiring fellow, for he stood six feet four in his moccasins, and exibited cor responding dovelopemonts of bone and mus• cle. Hatless and coatless, with naked arms and u face blackned with smoke and ashes, he might have passed for one of old Vul /can's journeymen, who had been forging thunderbolts for Jupiter, in some reg,io in fernalis. Ho stalked carelessly up to the bellicose M ajor,& before the latter was aware of it, seized the hand that held the upraised knife, and wren , :lied it from him. The next instant the Major found himself fairly within the brawny arms of his antagonist. He struggled stoutly to extricate his ele gant person from such an embrace but in vain. The fireman, displeased with the restless disposition of his captive, gave him one ofthose warm fraternal hugs, which an old bear is want to bestow upon an unman erly dog, that may venture to annoy his re treat from a farmer's hog pen. This lov- ing squeeso so completely metaled the re bellious feelings of the Major, that he sluff ered himself to be passively led into the yawl.. The Captain's shrill voice was again heard; "Pull away, my boys; Major Mont gomery wishes to go on shore." The oars dipped into the water and the yawl glided quickly to the beach. The afternoon was cloudy an] dark : a drizzling rain was falling ; the cotton wood trees wore a funeral aspect : no vestige of a human hab itation could be seen on either shore, and tho turbid waters of the Mississippi were hastning onwards, as if to escape from such a gloomy place. Many 'passengers supposed that after the Major had been degraded by being set on shore, he would be suffered to return ; but those who entertained this opinion knew very little of the character of Captain snake. That Major Montgomery should be a blackleg, was in his estimation no very heinous affair for ho held that in this repul;• lican country; and this deniocratic age, ovary man has a natural and inalienable right to choose his own occupation. But after having been permitted to play "loo" j with the Captain of the fast running Sea j Serpent, that the major should slip a card, and the lubberly rascal, be caught at it— this was too bad—absolutely unpardonable. There was something so vulgar, so very unprofilssional in such conduct that it was not to be tolerated. Tho yawl touched tho shorn and was has tily disburthenod of its trunk. The Major however, after rising on his feet looked wig. fully back upon tho Sea Serpent, and mnni• 4:3- PE A RLES S AND FREE.. Tested no disposition to take refuge in a cane brake ; whereupon the Captain, becoming impatient, cried out, "Fireman, lend a hand to assist Major Montgomery on shore." Tho huge Kentuckian now began to ap• proach the Major, having no particular relish for another fraternal hug, sprung to the beach and sunk to his knees in mud. Thinking forbearance no longer a virtue, ho poured out on the Captain a torrent of abuse ; and, with wrathful oaths, threat ened to publish him and his ugly snail creeping steamer from Orleans Point, to the alligator Swamps of the Balize. The Captain made no reply, but the fireman, roused by hearing such opprnbious terms applied to his beloved Sea Serpent, called out in a voice, that was echoed from shore to shore, "I say , M r. Jack•ollinaves, it looks rather wolfy in these parts." "Shut your black mouth, you scoundrel." retorted the Major boiling over with rage. "I say, stranger," continued the fireman, with provoking good humor, "would you swap those buffalo robus:on your cheeks for a pair of "coon skins ?" The Major stooped down for a stone, to hurl at his annoying foe, but, alas I he stood in a bed of mortar, and had no re source but that of firing another volley of curses. 'Halloo ! my hearty,' rejoined the fire man, "when you want to be rowed up Salt River again, just tip me the wink ; and remember, Mr. King of Clubs, don't hollot till you get out of the woods, or you'll frigLten all the varmints.' During this colloquy the young cheese merchant stood on the guards of tho boat a silent spectator, but at length, as it sud denly shocked by the dreadful profanity of the Major, he raised his voice and bawled out, '1 say, mister, it you was away down east, I guess squire Dagget would fine you ever so much for swearing so wicked ; that's the how.' Tho pilot's boll tinkled, the wheels re sumed their gyrations, and again the Sea Serpent Jonathan, with a look in which the sol emn and the comic were curiously blend ed, turned his eyes first towards the Cap• tain, then upon the Major, and exclaim• ed, iWell' now, the way those 'ere steam captains do things, is nothing to nobody, no how." And thus terminated one of those little episodes in the drama of life not uncom mon on the western waters. On the passage of the ship Alexander, from New Orleans to New York, a young lad about 14 years old, from a nat urally frulicksomo and mischievous disposi tion, became so troublesome in his pranks, that it was threatened by the Captain if they wore continued, thnt ho would confine him in a water•cask. Our youngster took no heed however, and at his next offence was put in the cask, which was heaped up leaving a large bung.hole for the admission of air. That night the ship encountered a violent storm and in a sudden lurch the cask containing the boy rolled over into the sea. The circumstance was not notic. ed by those on board. Fortunately, the cask struck bung up and floated about thirty hours, when it was thrown upon the beach at Cape St. Bias. Hero the boy made desperate efforts to extricate himself from his prison without success and in despair gave up to die. Some cows however stroll. ing on the Beach, were attracted to the cask, and in walking around it, one of the number, it being fly time, switched her tail into the bung hole, which the lad grasped with a desperate resolutiou. The cow bellowed and set ()fifer life, and after running some two hundred yards with the cask struck it against a log on the heath, and knocked it as we say into n cock'd hat. Tho boy thus providentially released, was discovered by some fisherman on the Point & taken into Apalachicola whore a small collection being made for him, he was enabled to proceed North by the way of Columbus.—Times GAMBLERS II OUTED.—On the 9th ult. fifteen faro dealing establiehmenis were bro- ken up in Jackson, MIS 9. and all the tables, boxes cards, 6/c.l burned in the streets. On the following day, the loth, the citizens held a meeting, and adopted resolutions, requiremg the blacklegs to leave the town within three days. The hint was not disregarded. On the third day not a gambler was to be seen in the place.—Spirit of the Times. LAUOIIABLE.--A young bell of Philadelphia, having heard a pretty little song, suna e' by the Miss Shaw's, nt the Philadelphia M useum, termed, "We loved each othor be cause we had nothin else to do," determined to procuro it, for that purpose, stepped into a fashionable music store, in Chesnut st. A young gentleman was behind the counter, busily engaged with hie pen, when the young lady enquired : Pray; sir have you nothing else to do 1" The gentlemen jumped from his desk, as if electrified—ho stamered—looked confused dr, replied: "Ye— yes--n..n•-no—nothing else to do miss." The blushing maiden was so amused with the look of the bewildered youth, that unable to contain her merriiment, she pressed her handkerchief to her laughing lips, and van• ished, ere the gentleman' had fairly recov ered from his shock. 'Have you Goldsmith's Greece?' asked a gentleman on entering n bookstore in Broad- "walked the wntere like a thing of life." REMARKABLE ESCAPE. way. No sir ; but they have some excell ent bear's oil, in at the next door,' replied the counter bov. Absence or Mind—Latest Case.—Tho St. Louis Republican says that a few days since an office holder remitted the total amount ofGoverment funds in his hands to tho depart- ment at Washington, and never discovered his mistake untill ho received a receipt, ac- companied by his dismission from office for neglect of duty, by remitting, instead of emigrating, with the spoils. There is a woman in Boston so ugly that her doctor has ordored her a quart of saff ron tea daily, to prevent it from striking in and killing her. A man praising ale, said it was excellent drink, that though iakon in great gnanti• ties it always made ham fut. have soon it make you lean,' replied anothor. The Now London Conn. Gazette has unquestionably perpetrated the best pun of the season, and it is a pity that it should not bo more extensively recorded to its hon. or or dishonour. Announcing the mar nage of Mr. John. Lait, of Wekuntoo, Penn. to Miss Julia S.-Never, aged 70, the Gaz ette heads the annunciation, "Better late than never." A stump candidate in Virginia, in the course of his address to the population, began to descant on "the silk stocking aristocracy," when 'one of his opponents seized him by the leg and lifting his foot up to popular view, showed that the orator him self had on silk stockings I It was done in humor and produced roars of laughter. It is said that many wore sadly disap pointed on Sunday evening because nobody happened to be actually killed at the rope performances on the Placed' Armes. This reminds us of an old lady in New Hampshire, who, after greedily devouring all the deaths in the . village newspaper for weeks without meeting with the names of any of her acquaintances, broke out with, 'Well, it's a real sin and shame 1 Here have I been looking over the deaths in this paper for over so long and havn't seen the name of a soul that I know. It dont seem as though any body web ever going to die ! —Picayune. A Mrs. Eliza Emery of Massachusetts advertises her runaway husband David. In describing him, she says: "There is a scar on his his nose whore 1 scratched rt.' She concludes by saying—" Printers in the West are desired to notice, as he said he was going West to marry some Hoosier girl, and preach universal salvation." "I'll bet a sheep," said old Meredith to his other half, "that our boy Otho is going crazy—for ho is grinning at the Plough, and ho is grinning at the barn, and ho is grinning at the table, and ho ie grinning to himself whereovor ho goes." "Poh," re plied the old woman, "don't you know he got a love letter this morning." A Yankoo down east advertises for a better half iri the following most curious manner : "Any gal what's.got 8500 and hasn't got tho itch, can find a customer for life, by writing a billo dux addressed to Z. Q.., and sticking it in the crack of Uncle Ebenezer's corn crib.' A man in Syracuse ie putting up a building of such immense strength and mag nitude, that it will require a stone pavement of remarkable strength to support the shad. ow only. A man at Poughkeepsie has invented a machine for making pin; into which the wire is put at one end, and the pine roll out et tho other, as fast as six men and two boys can count thom. A half fledged bardling dont us the other day the following lines. For the ben efit of posterity wo publish them, and Call attention to their peculiar merit. When weary I are, I smoke my cigar, And as the smoke rind, And gets into my eyes, I think of thee, dearest; And oh, how I sighes We have seen the beat of husbands slighted for a lap-dog, and men of genius discarded for a senselesS dindy: Oh, it is awful to think of the waste of female love, which is so often bestoWed on the worthless and insignificant. The love ter puppies among the ladies prevails to toe great an ex tent. %should like to have a personal inter vie* with "Justice."—Globe. Jack Ketch will introduce you soon enough.—Prentice. ' Said a fellow to a Jew, a ado, "did you know that they hang Jews and Jackasses together in England '1" "No 1 dithet," replied the Israelite, ""but if it be true, it is fortunate that you and 1 are not there, for one of us might be 'Ming for his nation and the other for his nature; and there would be an end of both." MASTER. AND SCHOLAR. There was a learned pedagogue at Nan• tuket, in no State, who used every morning to read a few verses in the Bible, and ox• pound the text as ho proceeded in order that ho might ascertain who were the bright boys of his school, by asking them INVIROLE NO: 485 questions as to how much they remembered of his commentary. On tine occasion hd read from the first chapter of Job thee: "There was a man in U2i. and his name was Job, Who feared dod and eschewed evil"'Eschewed evil." that is, he eschewed evil as I do tobacco—ho Would have notlri mg to do with it: With this very cleat and forcible °Weil dation of the meaning of the word eschew' he proceeded until the usual number avert sos were read and commented on in a aims liar manner. After a proper interval; whets the young mind had time, to digest its food, the pedagogue called up one of theyoUngef boys, and the following dialogue ensue& Who was that man that lived in ITt Job. Was ho good manl Yes. What did he do Ho chewed tobacco, when nd body Chid would havo any thing to do With it TEMPERANCE. For the Stai. if Banner. To the fr iends of Temperances coNcLISION4 In vain do we expect to consummate the work by procuring Legislative enactments for the suppreseioa of its tnanafacture, OS importation, while a majority of our eitizsruf are consumers of the article: No Legislai tive enactment can have force unless the greater part of our population are willing td tolerate its provisions& In our eountryi when the people are reformed, Legielitive action follows of course. t wish not to bd understood that there is no use in petition; ing. The propriety of bringing the vedette subjects of reform often before the Legis 4 lative powers of our country is obvious id promoting discussion and testing their ad= ' vancement. But, the reliance of the fried& of reform, must be upon the Pottier of Truth directed to the conseience end en' derstandings of moral and reasonable beingsi enforced by a consonant example of abstil nance from a participation in the evil. Let us not forget. thtit the rising genera lion may be made powerful agents in the completion of the work. Let the Subject be preSdnieii lb them in d comprehensible manner, their energies enlisted, and thoughts ttaihed to action. 'their inthunice will be felt upon the generation now pass:, ing away. The innocent and simple integz rity of children has many times produced unexpected results. One instance I will relate: There resided hi the tillage of ad extensive retailer of spirittios liquors. He was a generous hearted man, and beeatne interegted in the tense or tempera:Wet °fide lamented °the tmsbrable situtition of hid drunkard, but furnished him therewith: His OM, an active and. intelligent lad; read tho venoms tracts and documents setts ing forth the groat sinfulnesh of intehiptir; anco with which his father *as liberally supplied: Ho listened with animated feel ing, to his fathers glowing illustrations of the misery and crime arising therefrcima and his young heart beat strong In unison there•with. One day a feeble and emacia ted man came into the store, and setting his bottle down tip_cin the Co:lnter, said, ' 4 l want softie Whiskey." The father skid to his son "draw him 6011i0 2 1; the child look; ed ead---41esitated—therl asked, "kathei why give it to him, if it be so great a ein to get drunk 1" Without seeming to Retie, the question of the lad, the father e!iid attain; "go son, and get the man some Whiskey." Ho took the bottle went into the dinar, but feeling unhappy ho paused, then sotin "re; solved not to do it. He returned with the bottle empty. The father said; "have yeti got it for the man') He answered. "Why did you not get it s " Was the interirgz ative of the father, with.an alr of parental authority. Mark the meek tuutwer of. the child. "I felt so unhappy I could not do "Father, if it is so great an evil to get drunk, it must be wrong to sell liquor." The fa.; thor was silent—and the man wag gent away without. This simple conserentioun act of the lad caused the father to retied more upon the subject, and he Soon formed the noble resolution to aliandon the thorn profitable part of his business; the sale of spirituous liquors,. His clerks feceßed 6i; dere toosell no more," end *l'm they deli.; rted a plan to fiend it away to be sold at Wholesale, he intercepted and oiderod the heads of the casks to be broken in, and the ground literally dtenched with the pinverroue liquor. now - calm rand .have been the) feelings et that man, in , the cOnscioiemo6f - such. sacrifice fot the good of his fellow beings naW many of the 'Children tibitV ruing hp maturity might exercise siriiitme Mimics with their l parents if they couhf- iNhitereet. ad in it so as to induce that* to take as ac. two part? That the progress of the C0111"80 may be ever onward, is the ardent desire of As FRIEND.
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