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FOR THE STAR AND REPUBLICANDANNER
ODE TO SOLITUDE.
This world's applause I value not,
Its frowns arc naught to me,
For trim, by it are soon forgot
Man's bliss and misery.
I value not the giddy smile,
Of this world's anxious care,
Its foul deceit, and winning guile,
Are present every where,
I value not the fond caresses,
Which man uncautious often gives,
Those friendly words he oft expresses,
While in his heart no fondness hives
I value not life's noisy street,
Whore frowns and smiles alternate reign,
Where busy. and unweary feet,
Traverse life's ever beauteous plain.
I value not that lofty dome,
Whoso top with Heaven appears to play.,
For it too must . lindia tomb,
And hide ita..beauty 'ninth the clay.
The cottage that contentment rears,
I love. yllift bettor far,
Its happiness, men's empty sneers .
Cannot molest or mar.
I value not the noisy glco, . •
Which pleasure's child calls bliss,
But let my spirit o'er be free,
From happiness Irk , . this.
But sacred SOLITVDc; thyself I love,
Reflection's dearest friend;
With thee 'tis exult:y to rove,
And countless hour:: to spend.
• NVlwn Mil bone prick the heart,
Aud t on row rends the hreust,
re , - ' rhea torn from tkm %voila apart,
la the lamed soul finds rest,
When in our rnidA dread Death appears,
Aud 13)s a I;lend beneath thu sod,
Then in thy breast, man bides his tears;
Andfprys in SuLiTuni; to (Jul. ,
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SQUIRE PA R E ViS l SPLORIFICATION.
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• I guess you neve heard tell of our town,
did you? Well, i you aint, I rather guess
you don't take the papers. Per about the
time of the lapd fever, it was cried up awful,
ly; iind some chaps down there in Portland,
got hauled in to the tune of ten dollars the
acre. And as to that matter, it wa'nt to be
wondered at, all things considering. For
ono Squire Parkins came up there and made
a kind of map of* it, and may I be bird into
apple sarso if it wa'nt the curiest thing fora
map that my eyes ever lit upon. Squire
Parkins staid at our house at the time, so I
seed the making of the whole consarn.—
The reason he staid there, was because
tnarm's pan dowdy some how agreed With
him.
IVO!, this map that 1 was telling of, the
squire ruled all into squares, and then the
way he put in the red and yellow ochre was
a caution, I tell you. May Ibe bil'd into
apple sarso, tt it wa'nt for all the world like
a checker board, and at first I thought. it
was one. But jist a 9 I suppos'd the squire
had given it the last touch, what does he do
but takes a bit of blueing, and starting at
ono corner of it, makes a kind of zigzag
mark clean through it. 'By Jehosaphat,'
isays I,
'No swearing,' says the squire.
'Well,' says - I, 'if you linva't dish'd that
pre checker board, may I be licked into—'
'Tut, tut,' says the squire, 'that's u map
of Scapiille.'
Well,' says I ‘if that wouldn't puzzle
Philadelfy lawyer: and that blue streak, I
take it, our Virginey fence.'
'No, you dunder head, that's n river.'
'A. river in Sna;zvillo! why, Fluke Par
!tins. NOW,' says I, I've made tracks On
every lot in this ero section, and If thertt:
any thing like . a Liver that toy legs can't
straddle, may I be bird into—'
`Thet'N gammon,' snys the squire, 'oil
gammen; there's rivor enough to float all
the In.'s that will be cut here this twenty
yea ri.'
Upon that I screatri'd a scream, I tell
you. Says T, 'Squire, upon that ground I'm
boat all hollow.'
Well, as soon as the Squire had done
titi'.ating his map, what does he do but in.
sist on it that 1 must go out with him on a
splorification. At first I rattier hung back,
cause there was no more chance of finding
a lot of pine trees, than there was offinding
a mare's nest. llowsoinever, at last marm
took up ter him—for you see tie kept pala.
vering about her pan dowdy, and then back
ing out Was not to be thought of lie how. I
had as licve's be in a hornet's nest as to try
thwart marm in any thing she's bent on.
Well, at lust we started off; and arter
we'd travell'd a long spell without seeing
any thing but here and there a scrub, the
Squire observed that he was nearly tucker'd
out, and upon that we halted. 'Simon,'
says he, 'this is a dry business, and 1 rather
guess you'd better take a drop.'
'Well,' says 1, don't care if! do.'
Upon this he took out a junk bottle, and
sticking it up in my face, 'There,' says he,
'that's the real genuine.' And then he
shook it, and it bore a bead I tell you.
'Well, says 1, 'Squire, hero's hoping,'
and the way 1 ewigg'd was a caution, for I
was dry as marries beans when she forgets
to put the pork, in.
- Well, artor we'd given our shanks a prot
tv good resting spell,and arter we had taken
another swig by way of starter, we jog'd
on a piece furder. Howsomever, we hadn't
made a long hitch of it, it wasnt a mile any
how, before the Squire, who lag'd a little,
bawl'd out, 'Stop, Simon, stop!'
Why,what the deuce is the matter nowt'
says I.
'Simon,' says ho, 'don't you feel a grain
dryish?'
'lf I don't,' says I, 'may I be bird into
apple sarse.'
'Well,' says ha, quite another horn of the
genuine—it will servo to strengthen the in•
nor man.'
'After you is manners,' says I. Upon
that the Squire took u.Sip or so; he didn't
liquorizo much, CRIME) he said he'd signed
the pledge, and then he-shook it as ho did
before. >Well, there was no mistake when
he thought I was dryish. The moment
that ere liquor struck my tongue, you might
have heard it guggle, gugglo, like a gallon
jug at a raising—it was a tickler, I tell you.
Now I had always had an idea that no
body could tell me nothing about Snagvillo;
seeing I'd been over it a hundred times;
and I'd have .bet a whole dollar to a sheet
of gingerbread that the whole town was as
flat as n pancake. But some how,when we
started arter this last swig that I've jist been
telling of, the ground seemed to be pesky
uneven, and sometimes I found myself up
all standing. But what bothered me the
beatermost was to see how I'd misculcula
ted about the stumpage. I'd always said,
and so had dad, that there wasn't in all Snag
ville five hundred merchintable pine to the
acre. Ilut, would you believe it, there was
now, for a rough guess, nigher live thou.
sand. Now there couldn't bo any sort of
mistake about it, for when I- obsctved it
. to
the Squire, ho &aid I had underrated, and
that it would he .a notch or two higher.
'You're all of a fever,' says he, 'a walking
so fast, and can't judge any thing about
take another horn, Simon, and cool off a
little.'
Well, I did feel a little hottish, thnt's a
fact, and so I took a purty considerable swig
I tell you. Upon that wo took another
start, and the furder yo, went the thicker
the trees grow'd till at kit, says I, 'Squire,
if uncle Ben can squeeze his belly through
this clump without touching, may I be—'
but here the Squire broke out in haw, haw,
like all possess'd and observ'd that there
was over ten thousand to tho acre.
S. Y. It.
'aver ten,' says I; 'over twelve, and not
counting the conchous ones.'
And then he haw haw'd again, louder
than ever, and asked if I was willing tocer
lily it.
'Yes,' says I, 'on the spot; it I don't may
ho bird into apple sarse.'
'I know'd you would,' says he; and upon
that ho fumbled awhile in one of his long
pockets and took out an inkhorn and a bit
of paper. And arter he'd scratch'd a few
lines as he rested on a windfall that was
there—he asked me to squat down and sign
it—nod likewise! did.
'Well,' says the Squire, guess we've
splorified about enuf—and as it's gaffing
towards daylight down, suppose, Simon, we
take up a back track.'
'Agreed,' says I; for I found 1 was get.
Ling dryish again—and as to squenching
thirst out of the Squire's bottle that wouldn't
be done, no how—'twas as dry us I was.
Well, us we were jogging along, says I,
'Squire, what are you up to with that ere
paper and checker board?'
'Why,' says he, 'l'm going down to Port
land to help some worthy young men there.
I mean to sell them my land on such a lay
that they'll make a fortin by it.'
'Squi e,' says 1, 'give us your hand—now
that's Christian like.' .
Well, as 1 was saying, he cleared out the
next morning bug and baggage; and the
next news I heard was the Squire had been
a helping on 'em down there in Portland in
way to kill. And Imw do you think it?
Why he sold out the whole consarn for ten
dollars an acre, one third right down on the
mil and no grumbling.
`Dad,' says I, 'if that's the way they help
tulles dow'n to Portland, we'd hotter give
'ern a lift with our bog lot; .it will
s;►rtyfying, for 'tis s . eliting land nay how.'
How the Squire could sleep atter helping,
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on 'em that way wns a puzzler. As for
myself, for throe nights afterwards I might
as well tried to take a nap on a harrar. The
moment 1 fell into doze, it seemed as if the
Squire took up that big windfall where I
sartified and let it fall co-chunk right on the
I vitals, and if I didn't spring like all gos
eess'd, may I be bil'd into apple sarse.
• Well, it struck my mind somehow that
the Squire would fink over puny consider
able, seeing as how I'd sartify'd in the way
I did; and so the next time he come up into
our section I kind a hinted about it. He
was rigged all out in superfines, gold watch,
breast pin, and ruffles,
.and scented up for
all the world like a pole-cat. When I stuck
out my hand ho kind of draw'd back, and
stared like a stuck pug—'twas as much as
to say, who are you, by the liokyl And
when marm set on the pan dowdy that lie
used to like so, says he.
Toss that ere into the swill pail, and
sarve us up a fry candy de fox,' (fricandeau
de veau.)
' Fry candy and what 1' says rnarm, 'you
nasty Critter you !'
'`Squire,' says if yen mean our old
fox that's chained in the barn-yard, you'd
be as gaunt as a woazel before lie touches
your jaws any how.'
' You be hangod,' says ho, I can lick a
dozen of ye.'
Upon that I was putty well ril'd, I to
you.
' Lick me,' says I, why the chap don't
"stand in your shoes that's up to that game ;
and as for that matter, I'll bait a whole
five' dollar bill that the old fox, upon a fair
pull, will jerk your carcass a couple of rods
any day."
Done,' says he.
Done,' says I, so plank the rhino, and
we'll try it this afternoon.'
Well, just hack of our tatur field there
was a mighty big mud hole—and as our
hogs used to go and snooze there, if it
want stumpy may Ibe bil'd into verse. On
the north side we had cleared up a piece,
and got it putty well into grass. But t'oth
er side had all run up into alders. Well,
at the time fixed upon; we all went down to
this grass ground by the mud hole.—There
was dad and marm, and the Squire, and
those of the Portland gentry that he'd been
helping so.
'There, Squire,' says 1, ' there's the
cretur all ready, and he's up to chalk I tell
you.' And there he ‘I as sure snuff: for
I'd been down before and flied him t'other
sale of thy• .mud-hole, right by the alders,
and there I'd hitch'd him to a rope which
stretched clean across to the grass ground.
Well, when they seed the fox they all be.,
gan to titter like mad—all but the Squire.
He looke'd kind a dumb-founded, as if
'twere lowering to one of his cloth, and I
guess would have slink'd out it it hadn't
been for the five dollars.
'Squire,' says I, are you ready 1'
Ready,' says he. And then he bustled
up and grabb'd one end of the ropo.
Stop,' says I, play's a jewel. Jest
let.nie take a turn of that rope round your
superfines, otiose why, if the fox gets the
upper' hand let go and wont toe the
mark.'
T. and be hang'd,' says he.
Well, now, least 1 should lose five dollars.
1 thought I'd fitsten ti.e fox to the mid
dle of the rope, and Corner end on it I had
carried right ittamong the alders, where I
had stowed away 'Stall Prescott, Jim Smith,
and our David. Tin' whole thing was cut
and dried completely an hour or two be
foto, when I drill'd 'em pretty considerably.
Says 1, boys. hug the airth and lay close
when you hear us co—ing on the ground ;
and when I scream strain me,' then jerk
like all natur.'
' Squire Perkins,' says I, are you rea
dy ?'
Ready,' says he
Upon that I let fall my under jaw, and
says I, ' fox, strain out, strain out like
twenty airtliquakes,' and the moment I
!ermined it, if the tarnal crittur didn't
scratch for the alder stump, may I be biled
into apple sarse. At the very first jerk,
the Slime pitched to the very edge of the
mud hole—and the . way he tugg'd and
jafted his heels into that soft clay, was a
caution, I tell you. But it wouldn't do no
how. The second jerk draw'd him right
out of his boots, and losing his balance, he
fell splash, ruffles and all right into the very
core on't. I've seen some big eyes in my
day, but I never seed any stick out .like
the Squire's, as he looked kind a sidoling at
us while splashing through that mud-hole.
How fur he got before he brought up'mong
the alders, I can't say; for dad and marm
and the Portland chaps, fell right down flat,
they haw haw'd so; and as for myself, if
I din't make tracts, may I be bil'd into up.
pie sarse.
The editors of the Niles (Mich.) Intelli
gencer report the following' "Homer Dia.
logue:"
Traveller riding up to a Hoosier cabin,thus
accosts the "master of the house:" "You ap
pear to have n pleasant improVement hero."
" 'Swich ?"
"1 think you have a pleasant improve
ment."
"Why, yos, stranger, considerable of a
smart chance, I reckon."
"How mach stock have you ?"
" 1 0 quite a heap."
"What amount may that be
"Why, strnangor, I reckon 1 've one
hor:e bens', two he critters, four she crit
terg, one brute, and, t.vo yearlings."
"What crops do you ruiseV
~0 slathers o' tall grain nnd, a sprink
ling & long sure
A SPEECH ri SENATI".: BY A Srcnen
—The follGwing is given—by the Quincy
(Illinois) IV big. of the Ist instant—as a
correct report of the speech of an honorable
member of the Senate of that State, on a
bill for "taking the back track," and re
pealing the act for the encouragement of
Internal Improvements:
Mr. Speaker, I rise, sir, not to make
speech—speech making is not my trade :
but to tell the friends of repal, that I am
fornet them, although I hate rail-roads as
bad as any man on this youth, prehaps,
and I have a good reason to hate them,
yet I shall vote - again repealing them, be
kase all my constituents on this side of the
river bodashiously are for them, and a good
many on the other side too—lt are a fact,
Mr Speaker, 1 know very little about rail
roads, but I guess I know ns much as some
other folks do: We have had a rail-rciad
in Clinton for some years, across the bot
tom there at Carlisle, and one ever Crook
ed Creek bottom, in Marion, and of all in
fernal roads to creation, for roughness, they
bangs the beater—but it's no joke—my con
stituents have lost, in the single . item of
breakage of eggi;, sir, a handsome fortune.
Scott, keeps tavern in Carlisle, and
rale tavern too, not one of your Springfield
greaseyes, but a right jam up chicken fixen
tavern, told mo that no mortal man could
tell the eggs that had been broken in bring
ing them to market across the infernal
rail-road, and Tully told me the same thing
exactly about Crooked Creek. rail road—
sa me smashing of eggs. You know lluey,
Mr. Speaker? I wish you could have
beam Huoy cuiso, the time his carriage
was jolted up into eternal smash, crossing
this same rail-road. [Hero the speaker,
unable any longer to control his risible fac
ulties, laughing observed, ." the gentleman
must confine himself to the question, and
to the rules of the Senate." Well jr,S, as
I was saying, he cost and he swore, and he
fairly snorted rigid!), but still be's rnil
roads. 'l'hoeo nre my notions, Mr. Speak
er, and I could not sit hero without belch
ing it nth ; [Hero the orator turned his
head, and in an audible voice addressed a
senator to his right; " Uncle Peter, what's
the name of your wolt bill but receiving
no answer, ho then, straightening himself
up, again addressed the Speaker.] As I
am now lip,• Mr. Speaker, I will give you
my notions on Uncle Peter's Wolf bill.
[Here the Speaker interrupted him again,
by reminding him that the wolf question
was• 'not before the Senate, and therefore
itl merits could not be discussed.] You're
mistaken in your man, Mr. Speaker; I'm
not a cussing character, and if 1 was, I
should be very far from cussing Uncle Po.
ter's wolf bill. No, sir ; I want you and
all thisliere Senate to.understand that I am
no Jupiter Iscariot, in this or any other
matter. I'm for that bill head and ears,
no mistake in shave tail—l go it, sir, on
the loud. One more thing, Mr. Speaker,
and I'm done—the.gentleman from Sham
'rock county—l don 4 think that's the name
exactly either—but the two headed gentle
man over there, said the other day—ltlere
the Speaker, assuming as much gravity no
possible, called the gentleman to order, and
requested him to take his seat.]
Alter looking the Speaker steadfastly in
the eye for at least twenty seconds, with a
wince of askance, he said: Are you in rale
ye:tritest, Mr. Speaker? If e,o be you are,
you're into me about a feet, I s'spose you
think; but sir look out! . I warn you, sir, to
keep a skin'd eve for terrapin traps and
moccasin trot - 6. I hava rights, sir, as the
two headed gentleman over there (pointing
to the gentleman from Hancock) said the
other day,. that shall not be trodden - on, nor
treated with discorn. I'm done, sir, I
would, however, before I sot down, say to
my friend from Union, not, to look so seri
ous, when he tells his funny stories, in his
speech, but to give us a sort of smile, as I
do, when he comes to the nub, or laughin,9
part, sa,that we may know when to ltegh
too. I have now got all I .was eater, Mr.
Speaker, and will conclude my speech.
The subjoined specimen of Indiana elo
quence, is a complete contrast to the above
It is an extract from a speech delivered by
a membei of the Legislature of that State,
on a bill to encourage the killing of wolves.
Its sublimity and granduer will remind the
imaginative reader ()film deep, rolling peals
of distant thunder, which so often filled his
mind with admiration and awe: •
Mr. Speaker: the wolf is the most fero
cious animal that prowls in our Western
prairies, or runs at large in the forests of
Indiana. Ile creeps from his lurking place
at the hour of midnight, when all nature is
locked in the silent embrace of Morphrus:
and ere the portals of the East are unbarred,
bright Pha3bus rises in all his golden ma
jesty, whole litters of pigs become a prey
to his relentless capacity.
—r.o e*..—
NOT BAD.-A bill concerning intermar•
riages between whites and blacks, being be
fore the Massachusetts legislature, one of
themembers rose and delivered himself as
follows:
"Mr. Spoakor--I shall vote in favor of
this bill,simply because I do not.w•ish to see a
law on the statute hook regulatirm a mere
matter of taste, for such I consider to he the
whole question of intermarriage between
persons of difTerent color. Tt is purely a
matter of taste, and if my friend from Nan-
rocket wishes to miirry n black, blue or
areen wife, I am content that he bhould have
full liberty to indulge his preference for eith.
er color. All ['request of him is, that when
I happen to pay him a friendly visit, at the
island, he wanot ask me to kiss Ms milk
and molassesebildrenr
AN ArrAT.l.vgn TRACED7.—The Pr:nk•
fort, Kentucky, Commonwealth, received
by the Western Mail of last night, contains
the particulars of a series of murders, with
out parallel in the history of this country.
The particulars are indeed appalling .
" A letter from a gentleman in Greens
burE, to a citizen of this place, of t h e date
of March the Bth, states that there has just
been disclosed and brought to light, one- of
the most shocking murders ever committed
in a christian land. tri,July, 1838, 'there
lived in Green county, about 7 miles south
west of Greensburg, a w6man by the name
of Loucida White. Sho and her two sons,
one about 15 or 10 years old—the other be
tween 13 and 14, and her daughter-in-law,
(whose husband lives in. the Southern
States,) with a child 18 or 20 months old.
were all living together. In July, 1838,
intending to move south to their relations,
a mari'by the name of Carrington Simpson,.
volunteered and updortook to remove them.
On a certain night, the younger Mrs. W hite,
her child, and the elder Mrs. White's youn
ger boy, were packed on. horEes, and after
they had gone not more than a mile, they
were knocked in the head and killed, and
burried in an old out house, in-a hole atiout
2 feet deep ! On the next morning, the
elder boy was sent off under some pretex,
and did not return for a week. On the next
night after the first murdarohe old 'woman
was killed at her own house, and put into
the same hole; and tho older boy returning
in aboUt a week after, was killed and bur•
tied in the same place maltin'i? id all, five
human beings ! ! Suspicions hove been , a•
float for some months, and grew stronger
and 'stronger, until the 27th of February,
when Simpson was arrested and carried be.
fore an examining court, and sent on for
further trial. Seine 60 or 70 men turned
out to hunt for the bones of the murdered,
which they found late on Friday evening.
On yesteiday, the coroner held an inquest
over _the skeletons. On last night I wont
to the prison, in company with several oth
ers, and Simpson confessed that he had
helped to kill them. He said that two
men by the name of—(Clio names are writ
ton in the letter, but omitted by .as,) had ai•
dcd him.
lie said the cause of killing them was
their money and property. I don't think
the whole of their money and property was
worth one hundred dollars, and the Most of
it was in clothing and bed clothes.
The two persons implicated by Simpson,
have been arrested; and will be examined
to•morrow.. No oter evidence than that,
of Simpson has yet transpired against them.
Simpson's family, 6 or 8 in number, have
all been arrested, and Will be examined to
morrow."
COMMON SCIIOOLCI IN PENNSTTVANIA. -
The Sixth Annual Report of the Superinten
dent of Common Schools of Pennsylvania
shows that the systeni is gradually extend
ing throughout the State and becoming
firmly established. Since the year 1930,
beyond which no etatirtios on this point are
furnished, the number anon accepting. dis
tricts has been successively diminishing.
The whole number of School Districts in the
commonwealth is now 1050; of these all
have abopted the system except 163.
The first act of tho Legislature which
provided for a "General System of Educa
tion" in the Commonivealth was paSsed in
1834. Prior to this date, that is in the year
1933, only - about sevente;ql thousand chit•
dren, exclusive of those belonging to the
city of Philadelphia, were educated by the
State.'' In the year 1930, as appears by the
report of the Superintendent, the number
taught in the different common schools, also
exclusive of Philadelphia } was two hUndred
and fifty•four thousand, nine hundred and
eight.
The want of competent to . achcrs in suf
ficie:tt number is seriously felt in the en•
deavours made to carry oat the common
school system successfully.. Various sug
gestion pie given in the Report tor reme•
dying this defect. Among other things it is
proposed to establish a Common School
joarnal at the seat of Government. ,
zscoNsi Th e Sponge La w.--The lo•
gislativo authorities of Wisconsin have hit
•upon a summary mode of escaping from the
pressure of the times. The paying of one's
debts is .very often a troublesome business
—especially when one has nothing to pay
them with. The Legislature of Wisconsin,
it appears,became convinced of this fuct,and
in a spirit of profound wisdom and transcon•
dant philanthrophy they have decreed that
all debts shall be blotted out. This is upon
the liberal princip!e of the man in the play
who exclaimed in the benevolence of his
heart—"ll I owe any body any thing I for
give the debt." As a measure of reform it
goes to the root of the matter, vindicating
the right of equahty.—Ball. Ativtican.
"It youth were to come again," said an
aged gentlemnr, "I would be a schoolar."
Aye; and how many more would be? What
a useful hint is this to youth. If every youth
would keep in view the fact that "sixty min
Wes make an hour," how much wiser than
the past would be the rising generation;
We see it stated that all the unmarried
stone-cutters employed on the Treasury buil
dm,' at Wa,hington, were recently discharg
ed; whereupon they came out in the papers
with an advertisement headed "Wives Wan
ted," in which they stated that they were
about twenty-eight to number, and wanted
tim: number of partners.. - "applicants must
he between the ages of 17 and 33 wars, of
good moral character and good disposition."
PP2F - 11)2a2 67Pbci, Zego
Ii r TIO WILT, GET TNT: NATION OUT OP
THE MUDI-1 t was related us a few days
since, by a gentleman from the wc!Aern part
of Illinoi that an old gentleman of that
State who had been a stain:eh supporter of
Gem Jackson, and even of Martin Van I3u
ren in 1925, called to see a fiicud of 11;s 'in
Springfield; a tva cm Harrison Man. '
" And you think that Old 'lip, con bring
the Government 6:vitt° kte former pu; ay 7"
eaid the rittrrison mnn.
" I do," said his friend—" For' remem
ber many years - ago, when driving my (earn
to Mad River Mills, that my wagon got in
to a mire.hole,from which the horses could
not draw It. While in this dilemma, Gem
Harrison 'came riding by. Without de
lay the, old eneral dismounted, pulled off
his coat, and putting his shoulder to the
wheel, helped me to get my wau,r.n out of
the rut. The people's wngon of the Gov
ernment IS in the mirehole of corruption,
and I firmly believe that Gen'l Harrison is
the only man whose services the people will
accept in helping them to get it out once
more on hard ground."
A GENERAL TOAST.--We find the follow
ing toast for the 22d of February in a Nash
ville paper•
General Washington—a great man and it
great statesman—but nothing like such a
General as General Jackson. • General
Jackson has proved himself the most pow
erful conqueror of the ago. fie has van
qiii,.-hed and annihilated both General Con
iidence and General Prosperity- , -while his
great Aids de Cimp, General Distrust,
General ignorance, and General RaScality,
are manceuvering throughout the States - -
Soon to ho superseded, by General Dia
tress, General Loss, General Vexation,
General Derangement, General Confuston,
General Beggary, and General . Bankrupt-.
cy—unless .we all rally under the &rimy&
banner of General Harrison!
To DESTROY • Vr ,„ iiEVILS IN, GRANARIES.
—A corresporideni:of the Farmer's Maga
zine, communicates the following item of
intelligence :
'Accident has discovired to a French
farmer n very simple mode of destrOyiiig
weevils in corn warehoues, happening to
lay in the granary in which there .was' a
quantity of corn, some sheep skins with the
(Pees on, he was not a little surprised to
find them; a few days after, covered with
Bond weevils. lie repeated the experiment
several times, and alvvays.with the sumo
success. A t last he ordered his corn to be
stirred up, and not a single weevil remained
in it.'
DOMESTIC MANUEACTURES.-A few days
ago, a lady living on the banks of the Ca
wha river, wove nine yards_ of cloth; af
ter which, before she wont to bed, she spun
four cuts of yarn, and the next morning had
twin children.
DESPERATION.—Fort) weddings were re.
cently consummated in ono week, in one of
the counties of north Mississippi.. Heavy
pecuniary embarrassments it is believed
drove them to this last net of desperation.
CrtAnAercn.,ln society, character is
the first, second, and ultimate quality.—
Never is a man undone who has not lost his
character; but when that is lost, for all mor
al and useful purposes he is ruined. Envy
and calumny will follow man's success like
his shadow but, if he is true to himself, they
will ho powerless. Virtues may ba tnisrep . .
resented, but they are virtues still. In vain
will an industrious man be called an idler
a sensible man, a fool—a prudent man a
spendthrift—an hpnest man a knave. A
good character is inherent. Its possessor
may ruin it--no one else.
A MICA POPULATION.—Tho Ameri •
can Journal of the Medical Sciences,"
speaking of Malta, states of the warmth of
the climate, and the double crops annually,
enable this rocky island to support a vast
population. The number of inhabitants is
about one hundred thousand, or rearly six
hundred to a square mile. Including Gozoi.
a very email island in the immediate vicini
ty, it is said the population equals;63B to a
square mile. This is eight times as great
as that of England, and more than tiventy
times as great as that of MaSsachusetts,
the most densely populated State in the
American Union.
PArrpEßisar.—Of 490 S State paupers in
Mris3achrisetts;, 2880 (inure than half) are
foreigners; and of these, 2415 are natives
of England and Ireland.—Those nre State
paupers who have no legr.l residence in
the State, and so cannot be thrown upon any
particular township or county.—Jour. of
Commerce.
NawsrApEue.—The following beatiliful
aphorism is from Junius:
"They who conceive our newspapers Firer ,
no restraint upon lililiten,or impod,mrth to
the execution of "ad measures, know noth
ing t.t this count' y. Our ministers and meg.
ist rates have really little punishment to fear,
end few difficulties to contend with, beyond
the censure of the press and the - spirit of re.
sistunce it excites among the people.
While this censorial power is maintained,
to sneak in the words of a most ingenious
foreigner; both minister and magistrate are
compelled :n almost every instance to choose
between his duty and his reputation. A di.
lemma of this kind perpetually before him,
will not indeed work miracles on his heart,
but it will assuredly operate in some degree
upon his conduct:'