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THE GARLAND.
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—"With sweetest flowergenrioted ,
From various gardenocull'd with care."
THE WIDOW'S PRAYER.
BY LYDIA 11. 131001.711 NET.
The youthful maid—the gentle bride--
The happy wife, her husband's pride,
Who meekly kneel at morning ray,
Tho incense of their vows to pay,
Or pour, amid their household train
From love's full heart, the vesper strain,
What know they of her anguish'd cry,
Who lonely lifts the tearful eye!
No sympathizing glance, to view
Hor altered cheek's unearthly huo—
No soothing tone, to quell the power
Of grief that bursts at midnight hour;
Oh, God! her heart is pierc'd and bare—
Have mercy on the Widow's prayer!
Not like that mother's heavenward sigh,
Who seas her fond protector nigh,
Is hers, who raft of earthly trust,
Bath laid her bosom's lord in dust.
Sloops her young babel but who shall share
Its waking charms— its holy carrel—
Who shield the daughter's opening bloom,
Whose father moulders in the tomb?—
Her son, the treacherous world beguiles,
What voice shall warn him of its wiles?
What strong hand break, the deadly snare?
Oh, answer, Heaven! the Widow's prayer!
For not the breath of prosperous days,
Though warm with joy, or winged with praiser,
E'er kindled such a living coal
Of deep devotion in the soul,
As that wild blast which bore away
Its idol to returnless clay,
And for the wreath that crown'd the brow,
Left bitter herbs, and hyssop bough—
A lonely couch—a saver'd tio—
A tear that time can never dry—
Unutter'd woe—unpitled care—
Oh, God! regard the Widow's prayer.
MIICYBEEIiiiILCatiIaIVMQ
1 THINK IT'S LIKELY!
"Well, well, I think it's likely; but don't
tease me any more. Your brother has
married a poor girl, one whom I forbid him
to marry,—and I won't forgive him if they
all starve together."
This speech was addressed to a lovely
girl of scarcely eighteen years; beautiful
as the lily that hides itself beneath the dark
waters She was parting the silvery locks
on her father's high, handsome forahead,on
which her own was a miniature; and plead
ing the cause of her delinquent brother,who
had married against her father's will, and
had consequently been disinherited and left
to poverty. Old Mr. Wheatly was a rich
old gentleman, a resident of Boston. He
was a fat, good natured old fellow, some
what given to mirth and wine, and sat in
his arm chair from morning till night,—
smoking his pipe and reading the newspa
pers. Sometimes a story of his own ex
ploits in our revolutionary battles, filled up
a passing hour. He had two children, the
disobedient ton, and the beautiful girl before
spoken of.
The fond girl went on pleading.
"Dear
,father, do forgive him; you don't
know what beautiful girl he has married."
"I think it's likely," said the old man,
"but don't tease, and open the door a little,
shis plaugy room smokes so."
"Well," continued Ellen, "won't you just
see her now, she is so good—and—the lit-
Ale boy, he looks so innocent —'
"What did you say," interrupted the fa-
Pier, "a boy? have I a grand child? Ilyhy,
why, Ellen, I never knew it before; but I
think it's likely. Well, well, now give me
my chocolate, and then go to your music
lessons.
Ellen left him. The old man's heart
began to relent. "Well," he went on,
"Charles was always a good boy, a little
wild or so at college, but I indulged him;
and he was always good to his old father,
for all that; but he disobeyed by marrying
this poor girl; yet as my old friend and
solder, Tom Banner, used to say, we must
forgive and forget. Poor Tom! 1 would
give all the old shoes I've got to know what
has become of him. If I could find him or
pia of hts children—heaven grant they are •
RA! aufTpririgl This plaizuy smoky room.,
now my eyes water! If I did but know who
this girl was, that Charles married—but I
have never inquired her name. I'll find
out, and--"
"Then you will forgive him," said Ellen,
rushing into the room.
"I think it's likely," said tho old man.
Ellen led into the room a beautiful boy
about two years old. His curly hair and
rosy cheeks could not but make one lovo
him.
"Who is that?" said the old man, wiping
his eyes.
"That—that is Charles' boy," said Ellen,
throwing one of her arms around her fa
ther's neck,while with the other she placed
the child on his knee. The child looked
tenderly up into his face, and lisped out,
"grandpa, what makes you cry so? "
The old man clasped the child to his bo.
som, and kissed him again and again. Af.
ter his emotion had a little subsided, he
bade the child tell his name.
"Thomas Bonner Wheatly,"said the boy.
"I am earned after grandpa."
"What do I hear," said the old man,
"Thomas Bonner your grandfather?"
"Yes," lisped tho boy. "and he lives with
ma—"
"Get me my cane!" said the old man,
"and come Ellen,you come along; bo quick
child."
They started off at a quick pace, which
soon brought them to the poor L though neat
lodgings of his eon. There he beheld his
old friend, Thomas Bonner, seated in one
corner weaving baskets, while his swathed
limbs showed how unable he wairto perform
the necessary task. His lovely daughter,
the wife of Charles, was preparing their fru
gal meal, and Charles was out seeking em
ployment, to support his needy family. Mr.
Wheatly burst into tears.
"It's all my fault," sobbed the old man,
as he embraced his old &Kle', who was pet
rified with amazement. When they had
become, a little composed—"Come;;' said
Mr. Wheatly, come all of you home with
me, we will live together; there is plenty
room in my house for us all."
By this time Charles had come. He
asked his father's forgiveness, which was
freely given, and Ellen wad almost wild
with joy.
"Oh, how happy we shall be," she ex
claimed, "and, father, you will love little
Thomas—and he'll be your pet, won't he?"
"Ay," said the old man, "I think it's
likely."
--Ame •
ANECDOTES OF OF GEN. HARRISON
The following circumstance was men
tioned during the session of the Harrisburg
convention by Judge Burnet, of Ohio, a
warm personal friend of Gen. Harrison.
Many years since, while the great tido
of emigration was flowing throughout the
western states. the hero of the Thames hav
ing, for a whileoachanged the arduous du
ties of a statesman and a general for the
more peaceful pursuits of agriculture, was
on a hot summer evening, at the porch of
his humble "log cabin" asked for shelter
and a meal, by a minister of the gospel of
the Methodist Episcopal persuasion. The
jaded appearance of the steed, and the soil
ed garments of the rider, proclaimed the
fatigue of the day, and with his usual cour
tesy, the old General welcomed the strang
er. After a plain and substantial supper,
the guest joined with his host in social con•
versation; and the latter, laying aside the
character of the soldier and statesman,
willingly listened to the pious instruction of
the traveller. They retired to rest, the
good . old soldier thankful to a munificent
proildence, that he was enabled to admin
ister to the wants of a fellow creature, and
the worthy minister of Christ, invoking the
blessing of Heaven upon the head of his
kind benefactor. Morning came, and the
minister prepared to depart. He was in
the act of _taking leave, when he was infor
med that his horse had died during the
night. This lose, however severe, consid
ering that he bad yet two hundred miles to
travel, did not discourage him in the exer
cise of his duty; but taking his saddlebags
on his arm, he rose to depart, with thanks
for the kindness of his entertainer: The old
General did not attempt to prevent him,
though be offered his condolence upon the
loss, but an observing eye could have detec
ted a smile of inward satisfaction, which the
consciousness of doing good alone produces.
The guest reached the door, and to his as
tonishment, found one of the General's hor
ses accountred with his own sadle and bri
dle, in waiting for him. He returned and
remonstrated, stating his inability to pay
for it, and that in all probability he should
never again visit that section of country.
But the General was inexorable, and re
minded the astonished Divine,that "he who
giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord,"
sent him on his way, his heart overflowing
with gratitude, and his prayers directed to
Heaven for blessings on the venerable hero.
The following touching anecdote of Gen.
Harrison's goodness of heart should com
mend him at least to the respect and good
opinion of the Irish citizen; although he
might, in the free exercise of his political
sentiments, oppose the General as a candi.
date for the presidency. Generous hearts
should always sympathise; although on
matters in which the kindlier virtues have
no concern, they may be allowed to differ.
By the way, it is worthy of remark, that
Gen. Harrison had no truer friends and ad.
rimers while he was fighting in the late
war against a ferocious enemy, than the no
ble hearted, wholo•souled Irishmen, who
.were thou in the country. What a contrast!
The Irishmen who are here now "in these
piping times of peace," who cannot feel and
appreciate as their predecessors did, the
G. WASHINGTON BOWEN, EnITOR & PROPRIETOR.
" The Merit, to know, to sitter, clod to argue, freeilly is above aft other libertiesoP—MumoN.
enkiwftleaTEJW,Wli o ZPaQoa IPto)ala malt.. dun as set. agaeo
services rendered to this country by Gen.
Harrison, are his bitter and uncompromi
sing enemies!! And why? Their generous
natures have been soured against him and
their minds and feelings abused by their
association with a party who are using
them as stock in trade, to make their for
tunes out of! Who that has watched the
movements of that party for years past,will
doubt it? Who that has thus used them
will dare deny it?
About two or three years since, a young
Irishman, named John Hanley, of respecta
ble parents; emigrated to Cincinnati, Ohio,
•vith his wife, whom he married for love,
against his father's wishes, which was the
cause of his leaving his country. Some
short time after Hanley, who had kept a
email store in Cincinnati, heard of the death
of his father, who was a man of much prop
erty. Havir.g also been informed that he
would thereby come into a comfortable in
dependence, he sold out every thing and
embarked with his wife for Ireland. On
arriving there, what was his sad disappoint
ment to learn that he was left five pounds,
or in other words disinherited. He imme-
diatoly raised a small sum of money to pay
his passage and that of his wife, and retur
ned to Cincinnati, where the wife, who was
an accomplished and interesting woman,
endeavored
. to obtain a livelihood for her
husband by teaching music. Gen. Harri
son having heard of the peculiarly distres
sing circumstances abo%e related, with
whose touching and somewhat romantic
history he sympathised with that benevo
ence of heart which has ever been charac
teristic of his noble and chivalrous disposi
tion. There was the berth of a clerkship
in his office vacant. It was worth five hun
dred dollars a year. Many personal friends
of the General solicited it of him in behalf
of their sons. He reluctantly refused them
all, and gave the place to the poor young
Irishman, Hanley. And let all true hear
ted Irishmen remember,and what Irishman
has not a Waqn and true heart,that Hanley
held the office to the hour of his death, and
was paid up to that moment, though for the
last six months of his lite be had been ill
and unable to perform the duties of his sta
Lion. For authorities of the above state
ments, we refer you to the three following
persons at Cincinnati, viz:—Bishop Pur
cell, the Rev. Mr. Montgomery, and Dr.
Bonner.
ORIGINAL ANECDOTES OP DECATUR.--
The late gallant Decatur wits a sailor to the
very heart's core,and loved to tell anecdotes
of the common sailors. I recollect one
which he used to relate, to the following
purport: In one of the actions before Tri
poli, while fighting hand to hand with the
Captain of a gunboat, Decatur came near
being cut down by a Turk, who attacked
him from behind. A seaman, named Reu
ben James, who was already wounded in
both hands, seeing the risk of his comman
der, rushed in and received the blow of his
uplifted sabre on his own head. Fortu
nately, the honest fellow survived to re
ceive his reward. Some time afterward,
when he had recovered from his wounds,
Decautur sent for him on deck; expressed
his gratitude for his self-devotion, in pres
ence of the crew, and told him to ask for
some reward. The honest tar pulled up
his waistband, and rolled his quid, but
seemed utterly at a loss what recompense
to claim. His mess-mates gathered around
him, nudging him with their elbows, and
whispering in his ear: "He had all the
world in a string, and could get what he
pleased;" "the old man could deny him
nothing," etc. One advised this thing, an
other that; "double pay," "double allow
ance," ha boat-swain's birth," "a pocket
full of money, and a full swing on shore,"
etc. Jack elbowed them all aside, and
would have none of their counsel. After
mature deliberation, he announced the re
ward
to which he aspired; it was, to be
ex
cused from rolling up the hammock cloths!
The whimsical request was of course gran-
led: and from that time forward whenever
the sailors were piped to stow away their
hammocks, Jack was to be seen loitering
around, and looking on, with the most gen
tlemanlike leisure. He always continued
in the same ship with Decatur. "1 could
always know the state of my bile by Jack,"
said the Commodore. "If I was in good
humor, and wore a pleasant aspect, Jack
would be sure to heave in eight, to receive
a friendly nod; and if I were out of humor,
and wore, as I sometimes did, a foul weath
er physiognomy,Jack kept aloof and skulked
among the other sailors." It is proper to
add, that Rueben James received a more
solid reward for his gallant devotion, than
the privilege above mentioned, a pension
having been granted him by the Govern
ment. s * * On another occasion,
Decatur had received at New York the
freedom of the city, as a testimonial of re
spect and gratitude. On the following day,
he overheard this colloquy between two of
his sailors: "Jack," said one, "what is the
meaning of this 'freedom of the city,' which
they've been giving to the old man?"—
"Why don't you know? Why, it's the right
to frolick around the streets as much as he
pleases,
and
up a row, knock down the
men, and kiss the women!" "Oh ho!" cri
ed the other; "that's something worth fight
ing for!"
At the opening of the Whig Association
at Wrentham, Mass., a Silk Purse was pre
sented, on which was inscribed:
'The Ladies's Otli3ring to the Whig As•
sociation, hoping that by the election of
Gen. W..H. Harrison, this and other purses
in• the country may be WELL FILLED."
LEGISLATIVE ELOQUENCE.—The follow-
ing is given as an actual speech made,.be•
fore the Tennessee Legislature, by a repro.
sentative from Knox county:
Fellow-citizens:—l didn't come here to
make a speech at this time, but only jest to
extinguish myself as a candidate. Gentle.
men, I am the floating candidate for the su
perfluous district, and I only want to make
a few remarks at this time. A good many
of yoU, gentlemen, has never seen me be
fore, and I merely want to state my views
upon the question to be agitated. Gentle.
men, I was born in the county of Sullivan,
and feacht up in Knox, without parentage,
and if it hadn't a been for the goodness of
God and several other gentlemen, who tuck
me when an orphan boy at 12 years of age,
and gin me an education, I might have been
as ignorant as the common people, or you,
gentlemen. Gentlemen, my father was a
patriarch of the Revolution, and I am a pa
triarch. Gentlemen, my father stained the
walls of America with his blood, and when
Gen. Jackson killed the Indians at New Or
leans, I waded up to my knees in mud.—
Gentlemen I am opposed to Nullification.
Gentlemen, 1 would rather be a gallypot
slave, than for to be Nullifier. Gentlemen,
I haint got time to give you my views now,
and I will call upon you in a few days, but
gentlemen, there is a set of Big Bugs here
who are a tryin to put me down, but gentle.
men, 1 defy 'em. Gentlemen, I halk al.
ways been for liberty, independence, and
glory. Gentlemen, I hope to he delivered
out of the hands of the bullrushes. Gentle
men, come over across the square,and take
smeething, and we'll get better acquainted.
SANDWICH ISLAND DANDIEB.—The
cipal beauty of the islanders, in their own
estimation,consists in their being enormous
ly fat, some of them weighing upWards of
three hundred pounds; and measures are
consequently resorted to that will success
fully and expeditiously produce the much
desired result. With this view, the chiefs
take little exercise, and eat enormously.
Atter they have stuffed as much as their
stomachs will contain, without the risk of
positive suffocation, they roll over upon
their backs upon the ground, grunting like
large swine, when two attendants approach,
and place themselves on each side of the
patient. Ono wields a kohili, or feather
fly brush, to cool his master and keep off
the musquitoos; while the other commen
ces his operations by punching his fist vio•
lently into the stomach of the fallen man,
who with a great snort, acknowledges his
consciousness and the pleasure he derives
from it. Soon the other serving man fol•
lows, and the regular kneading process is
performed; but at first, slowly and cau
tiously, but gradnally increasing in quick
ness and severity, until the attendant is
forced to stop for breath, and the poor etu
pified lump of obesity forgets to grunt in
unison with tke rapidly descending blows.
This is the operation of rums-rturii, and is
usually continued for ten or fifteen minutes;
after which the patient rises, yawns,
stretches his limbs, and calls for another
calabash of poe. This custom is followed
almost exclusively by the chiefs, but is not
confined to the male sex, the women enjoy
ing the luxury with the men. The sumi
mini is also practised in cases of abdominal
pains, and in dyspeptic complaints. Even
foreigners sometimes resort to it, and find
it beneficial.-7.nonsend's Sporting Tour.
AN INCIDENT WORTITY OF RBI:MED.-A
low days since in a town in Illinois, a num
ber of citizens of both political parties as.
sembled to hear a discussion of political sub•
jects. Among those present was an old
man whose head was white with the snows
of seventy winters. He walked with a
long staff, and his hearing failed him. He
was placed on the speakers stand. Here
he sat patiently hearing the different speak
ers. At length, a young lawyer came on
the stand and shortly commenced a most
violent tirade of personal abuse of General
Harrison. The old man sat patiently lie.
toning to it all until the Speaker pronoun
ced Harrison a coward The utterance of
that word appeared like magic on the old
man. His eyes, dimmed with age, flashed
with renovated fire: seizing his stick, and
springing to his feet with all the buoyancy
of the age of 20, he seized the speaker
by the collar, and in a clear, shrill voice
that thrilled through the crowd, exclaimed
"you are a liar. I (said the old man) ser
ved under Harrison, and you shall not tell
that lie on my old commander to my face."
The effect may be imagined bat not descri
bed. The whole crowd, of both parties,
became so indignant at the speaker that he
had to be smuggled away to protect his
person.
Tux Docroft.—"Pray, sir, is the section
of country in which you are about to settle
sickly?" said an old gentleman to a couple
of young physicians who were displaying
their learning on board a steamboat. "Very
much so indeed," observed one of them; "I
expect to witness many a death-bed scene
in the course of next summer." "I have
no doubt but that you will," replied the old
gentleman,"provided you get much prat•
tic e."
VERY AZIPEC7INO.-A farmer going to
"get hi 3 ground" at mill, borrowed a bag
of one of hi. neighbors. The poor man
was some how or other knocked into the
water by the water wheel, and the bag went
with htm. He was drowned; and when
the melancholy news was Itrought to his
wife, she exclaimed, "My gracious! what a
fuse there'll be about that Imo!"
THE PENNSYLVANIA AND OHIO
CANAL.
The Cleveland papers announce nn event
of great importance, the connexion of Pitts
burg and Cleveland by a navigable canal,
and the passage of a bout over the Ravenna
summit on the 3d inst. The Herald says:
The Pennsylvania and Onio Canal is the
work of an incorporated company acting un
der a joint charter from the States of Penn--
sylvania and Ohio, obtained in the winter
ut 1827. It was undertook by the capi.
talists of Philadelphia, and unlike almost
every other work of a company for internal
improvement, has been prosecuted to a com
pletion. The work progressed with the
funds of the stockholders only, till the pas
sage of the now called 'plunder act' by the
Ohio Legislature, when it became entitled
to about $400,000 under that law. We
have not the statistics of this canal before
us, and cannot therefore give its history in
detail. It leaves the Ohio river at mouth
of the Big Beaver in Pennsylvania, and ex
tends up the valley of that stream to New
Castle. Here it bends westward, ascend-'
ing the Mahoning to Warren and Ravenna,
501 feet above Lake Erie. Thence de.
scending the valley of the Breakneck and
the Cuyahoga, it enters the Ohio Canal at
Akron, 39 miles from Cleveland.
Its length is about 100 miles, total of
lockage something less than 500 feet.
From Beaver to Pittsburg, thirty miles,
the boats will be towed by steam, and may
proceed by the Pennsylvania Canal. to
Johnstown, at the foot of the Portage Rai
road.
It is impossible to foresee the course of
trado in this changing and advancing coun
try. But it is difficult to discover any cause
sufficient to divert the sprjng and fall trade
of Detroit and the Upper Lake country
from this channel, when the tolls of the
Pennsylvania canal shalt be fixed at a rea
sonable rate.
It is well known by all who reside in, or
have visited Washington the past winter,
that our Democratic President, Mr. Van
Buren, the great Head and 'Chief of the of
fice holders of the Nation, has procured a
splendid service of pure massive gold,—
Golden plates--Golden cups--Golden
knives and forks—Golden spoone—Golden
goblets, arc. &c. and allipurchased with the
people's money; for the Commissioner of
public buildings at Washington, has said
that not one dollar has been paid by Mr.
Van Buren for a single article of furniture
in the White House. All, all, has been pro.
cured with the people's money. And what
becomes of this treasure when Mr. Van
Buren retires to private life? Does it go to
his successor? Scarcely—lt will most
likely be considered one of the perquisites
of his office, and go to swell his already
immense wealth. This our Democratic
' President. Working.men who have hith
to honestly supported Mr. Van Buren, how
do you like himl Are you willing to deny
yourselves and familes the comforts of life
that be may eat from golden platen and sip
his wine from golden goblets? if so, sup
port him. if not, join with us, and elect a
President who will think of something else
besides office and gold—who will be willing
to dispense with a golden dinner service,
and who will pursue a'course of policy that
will give us employment at old prices.
This is the best policy for as, whatever the
office holders may say to the contrary.
THE Pnoran.—New Haven Palladium.
VANDALISSI.---II is stated in the Balti
more Visitor, that there are two person in
that city so lost to every feeling of respect
for the memory of the father of his country,
so devoid of every. sense of honour and the
right of property, as to wantonly deface the
Washington monument. They laid a wa
ger that one of them could not hit the sore!l
in the hand of the statue, with a ball fired
from a rice. The fellow made the attempt
and succeeded, the ball striking the scroll
and shivering off a fragment. We do not,
we cannot regard this in the light of a tri
fling injury done to public property in a
wild freak. It is a gross insult to the city
of Baltimore and to the State of Maryland;
it is an insult to the American people, a
sacrilegious outrage upon the memory of
the immortal IVashington.—Pilifad. lnq.
Gorreepondenee of the U. S. Gazette.
GALvzsrON, March 2d, 1840.
LIFE Ii Txxxx.—J.. It. Cbandler.—A
few days after my landing in Texas, I was
standing in the gallery of our hotel—they
have more hotels here than in Philadelphia
—and saw a file of marines itr rusty gray
uniform coming up street past the Custom
House; they had in charge a person in like
uniform with themselves, whose arms were
pinioned, and entered a Magistrate's office
hard by; 1 followed, and from the officer's
examination, learned that the prisoner, who
was a Marine in service, at the Navy Yard,
at the west end of the town, had some days
previous murdered one of his fellows and
secreted the body which was only discover•
ed that morning, end some property of the
deceased found upon the person of the pris
oner fixed guilt upon him; I had visited the
naval barracks a few hour before, and it
struck me when I saw the want of cleanli•
ness and neatness in the wooden building of
the yard, andethe dirty and unsoldierlike
look of a half dozen men on duty, that
,the
police of the place was rather: lax. The ,
prisoner while in the office chattered and I
joked with as much nonchalance as if he
were merely, a spectator and his personal
safety not at all implicated; his companions
were in quite as good humor, and so was
the magistrate, who addressed the prisoner
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as Mr. Cock; after sometime I withdrew;
and the guard and prisotier shortly after;
made their appearance and marched to•
wards the fort, on the beach, about two
miles east of the town.'
There PIM a grocery nest door to the of.
Lice where this examination, had been con
ducted, as they came opposite to it, "halt!"
cried the Serjeant io command, and halt
they did upon the instant—urged as well by
instinct as discipline, each man was speed.
tly helped to the good liquors of the inn;
and mine host with commendable kindness
passed the glass to the lips of the helpless
Mr. Cook.
In one of our towns of the size of Galves.
ton an incident of this kind would have fur
nished matter for a week's gossip, and the
parade of a prisoner with arms pinioned
would have drawn after it a grove of boys;
but here, not a solitary urchin followed, nor
did I ever hear the matter spoken of.
Tice location of Galveston is beautiful
beyond description, and at no distant day it
will be the greatest city on the Gulf of
Mexico.. The trade along the Gulf Coast
is already very considerable and increasing
rapidly. An English ship sad French brig,
besides numerous Yankee crafts are here,
and small vessels are daily.arriving and de
parting for Sabine, Matagorda , Velasco,
Live Oak Point, an other places on the
Gulf Coast. A number of bmall steamboats
from the Ohio are engaged in the trade to
Houston.
Between this and New Orleans; there is
a line of boats plying constantly; the Nep
tune, New York, and Columbia are its fine
steamers as float upon any waters; they
make the passage usally in fifty hours, and
arrive mostly well freighted with passen
gers, merchandise, furniture. &c. These
boats carry the mail between "the States"
and Texas, and as soon as the curl of smoke
and vapor is discovered upon the Eastern
horizon, a crowd collects upon the wharf,
or slip, as they have it in Gotham—and
long before the plank is thrown our, will bo
heard the cry, loud above all other cries
from a dozen mouths, "what is our money
at New Orleans?" "five for one, " was the
reply, to these queries when theNew-York
came in some days since—that is, five dol
len in Texas promissory notes for one dol
lar in silver or "States money;" "damn the
Now Orleans brokers," vial the quick re
sponse—the brokers of that city are charged
with operating to a great extent upon the
Treasury Notes of the Republic. General
Samuel Houston is herein impaired health,
but in his fine Mexican blanket still looks
well; he was a member of Congress and has
just retared from Austin. From all I could
learn, he was the ablest member of that
body. He is the leader of the opposition
and will bo its next candidate for the presi
dency in opposition, in all probability to
Burnet. •
SIZES AND AGE. —The oldest man in the
House of Representatives is John Q. Adams;
the youngest Edward Stanley, of North
Carolina; tho largest, Dixon H. Lewis, of
Alabama, who weighs over four hundred
pounds; the tallest, Aaron Vanderpoel; the
shortest, J. A. Bynum; the prettiest, David
Petriken; the ugliest, Alexander Duncan;
the man who has the reddest head and the
prettiest daughter. is Frank Granger; and
the wisest man is H. A. Wise—in his own
opinion. All the others enjoy a reputation
for wisdom equally extensive.—N. 0. Sun.
Tho Boston Traveller states that a little
school girl bantered with her comrades that
she could o'skip a rope" one hundred times
on one foot without stopping. She perform
ed her boast, but it nearly ?roved fatal to
her. She was taken to the school* house,
and from thence to her home, covered with
blood. Not only was the foot on which she
skipped bathed in blood, but It exuded thro'
every s pore of her skin, and stood in drops
all over her body, arms and face. She re.
matned in an extremely dangerous state for
several days, but is now recovering.
PERSEVIIRANCE.—MackIin'a advice to
his son.—l have often told you that man
must be the maker or marrer of his own
fortune. I repeat the doctrine. He who
depends upon incessant industry and integ.
rity, depends upon patrons the noblest, the
most exalted kind. They are creators of
fortune and fame, the founders, and never
can disappoint or desert you. They con
ttol all human dealings, and turn oven vi
cissitudes of fortune's tendency to a contrary
nature. You have genius you have learn.
ing, you have industry at times, but you
want perseverance: without it you can do
nothing. I bid you bear this motto in your
mind constantly--'Perseverance.'
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.A worn:man% CLOCK.—A clock maker
of Vienna whose name is Mathias Ralzen
borer, has constructed a clock of which
the following description is given:
Its diel•plate, which is lour teen inches in
diameter, has in the centre the dial for Vi
enna, and around and radiating from it sev
enty-two cities of different parts of the
world, each with its own dial the name of
the place. It showe the difference of mean.
time between Vienna and the eeventytwo
other towns, and is set in motion by a four
pound weight only ; all the other clocke d
however, are put in motion from the teeth%
of the Vienna cloik, so that if the work
stand still, nothing more Is necessary than ,
to set the Vienna clock to maks a 1 other
clocks indicate the true time.
On St. Patrick's day, 10,000 Irishmea,
all teetotallers, marched the streets of Dub•
lm in procession, in honor of temperance.