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THE GARLAND.
—"With scveetest flowerienricled
From various garden scoli'd with care."
THE MISER.
To be frugal is wise; and this lesson of truth
Should over be preach'd in the ears of youth.
The young must be curb'd in their rpendthrift haste
Lest meagre want should follow on waste :
But to soo the hand that is withor'd and old
So eagerly clutch at tho shining gold—
Oh ! can it ho good that man should crave
The dross of the•world—so near his grave I
Sad is tho lot of those who pine
In tho gloomy depths of the precious mine;
But they toil not so bard in gaining the ore
As the miser in guarding the glittering store.
Ho counts the coin with a feasting eye,
And trombles the while if a atop come nigh;
Ho adds more wealth ; and a fiendish trace
Of joy comes o'er his shrunken face.
Ho seeks the bed where ho cannot rest,
Made close beside his idle cheat ;
Ho wakes with a wilder'd, haggard stare,
For he dreams a thief is busy there ;
Ho searches around—the bolts are fast,
Anil the watchmen of the night go past—
His coffers are safe ; but there's fear in his brain,
And the miser cannot sleep again I
He never flings the blessed mite
To fall the orphan child with delight—
The dog may howl, the widow may sigh,
Ho bears them not— they may starve and die
His breast is of ice, no throbbing glow
Speaks there at the piercing tale of wo ;
All torpid and cold, ho lives alone
In his heaps, like the toad embedded in stone
Death comes—but the miser's friendless bier
Is free from the sobbing mourner's tear;
Unloved, unwept, no grateful one
Will tell of the kindly deeds he'd done.
Oh ! never covet the miser's fame,
'Tis a cheerless halo that circles his name ;
And one fond heart that will truly grieve
Will outweigh all the gold that he can leave.
YiIII@OOLtaaRIMG)II.Oo
UPS AND DOWNS.
"Father," said Janette Oakely, o beauti
ful bat vain young woman, "I have made a
call on Miss Frasier to•doy, and what do you
think I saw there ?"
"Probably a giddy unthinking girl like
yourself, who is miserable till she possesses
every new extravagance that folly sets a•
float," was the half-gay,lialf. grave response.
"Why, father," continued Janette, "how
can you say so?" and assuming one of her
most witching smiles, she added, "Miss Fra•
sier has got a new Piano Forte of superior
tone to her old one, besides being far more
richly and beautifully finished."
"Well, what then child?" responded her
father, with pensive gravity.
"Why, I was thinking—but you will be
offended I fear."
"Not in the least, unless you do wrong,
as well as think. So you was thinking
that"—
"I should like a Piano like Matilda's,"
was the half timid response ofJanette.
"I thought as much," continued her fath
er, "but what is the cost of such an article,
my dear 7"
"Only fifteen hundred dollars father," and
Janette crouched down by his side and re
garded him with a fond depreciating smile.
Charles Oakely loved his daughter; his
hand pushed aside the rich tresses that shad
ed her polished brow, and imprinting there
on a parent's kiss,he added, "fifteen hundred
dollars is a large taim for such an article,
my dear, is it not?"
"True, father, but are you not as well
able to afford it as Mr• Frasier 7"
"It may be eo,but what say you my dear?"
addressing his •vile who had been a silent
but not a disinterested listener.
I am Anxious thnt Janette should prevail
with you. She and Matilda are each to give
a party soon, and I have a desire not to be
eclipsed by her in the ornaments of the par
lor."
"A most commendable pride," was the
equivocal respon,o
"rut," continued he, "what will you do
with the old or rather the present now one ?
You surely do not want two."
"0, We can sell it to Gen. Chandler !
Maria was admiring it much while here
yesterdny,though she thought it rather high
priced,"eagerly responded Janette, who was
happy to remnve the only barrier to the
gratification of her then predominant wish.
"Perhaps she too may wish a fifteen hun
dred dollar ono ! Gen. Chandler is surely
able to rand one even more costly."
"0, no father— , -she does not wish a bet
ter than mine—she has quite a plain taste
that way."
„How stupid she must be, Janette, must
she not?” queried Oakely. Janette'', face
was crimsoned at his pointed irony, but be
fore she could frame nny reply, her father
rose, and as he left the house said "let Miss
Chandler have the Piano Forte at her own
price."
Janette's heart leaped for joy. She was
not to be outdone by Matilda Frasier, and
she looked forward with exultation .to that
day when she would astonish her friends by
such an unexpected display. Her mother
shared her fond anticipations, and it was
soon arranged between them that Miss
Chandler should be put into speedy posses
sion of an article they now wondered could
ever have found a place in their dwelling!
Charles Oakely commenced the world
empty handed, nor had he accumulated
much when he sought and obtained a part
ner to his poverty. Both were poor, and
although they lived quietly together, his
wife was ever sighing for the splendor of the
rich. Though, in the main, a good sort of
a woman, she lacked that uncommon sense
so requisite to contentment in the posses
sion of little, as well as that knowledge of
domestic economy, generally so Important
in the acquisition of more. Janette, her
only child, and so like herself in form and
mind, was jest verging to womanhood, and
being heir, as was supposed, to an ample
fortune, she looked forward to a splendid
career in the circles of gaiety and fashion.
Had she possessed in her mother a wiser
counsellor,she would have been,at eighteen,
a very different person. She lacked not the
principles of an opposite character, but un
der the false training of her mother, they
bad been suffered to repose uncultivated,
while the weeds of folly were cherished into
an extensive growth. These defects of
mind were the more striking,as they mark
ed the more strongly the contrast with a
pleasing—a speaking eye, and a faultless
form.
Her father possessed none of the frivolity
of herself or mother, and offing to the stern
news of his iotegrity, and his industrious
habits success followed his efforts till the
time we have chosen for his introduction to
the reader. He had been, what is called
down in the world, but now he is so far up
as to rank among the first in wealth in the
city of his residence. But the time has ar
rived to drop individual delineations and to
group them again before the reader.
"Well, father, Miss Chandler is to have
the Piano. She will send for it this after•
noon," said Janette exultingly.
"At what price my dear'?"
"The same it cost. When she found you
had left it to her to set the price, she would
not take it at less. Do you think the sale a
good onel"
Certainly--the best you ever made—be
ing the only—one."
"Here is the check for the money—a third
of the cash for the new one."
"So you will lose only one thousand dol
lars after all, will you my dear?" was the
grave response of her father.
"What say you," he continued, address
ing his wife and daughter, "to a new carri
age—the present one is somewhat soiled,
is it not?"
"By all means," was the exclamation of
both! "Let the new one be fashioned like
Judge Arnold's, though not so spartngly
mounted I"
Oakely bowed, as Wm assent, while a bit
ter smile played over his features for a mo
ment, when all was calm again. The result
of the conference was a resolve to sell the
principal part of the furniture—all of a cost
ly character, and replace it with that more
fashionably splendid. Both mother and
daughter retired to rest that evening full of
importance, which their new display was
about to give them among their wondering
neighbors. Alas for the poor Frasier's! They
were to be overwhelmed by a competition
in finery, which a fifteen hundred dollar
Piano had provoked I
A few days sufficed to clear the house of
its most valuable furniture. Enough was
left, however, for convenience and comfort,
and when" this was done, the mother and
daughter were all impatience for that which
was to replace what was gone. But two
days remained to prepare for Janette's par
ty. Evening came, but Oakely was yet ab
sent and nothing had yet arrived. He came,
but much later than usual, yet he atoned
partially for his delay by the more than usual
kindness of his manner.
ieW here can you have been, Charles, so
late?" wee the query of hie wtfe,as she seat
ed herself fondly by his side.
"I have had an uncommon share of bus'.
ness to attend to, my dear, and I rejoice that
it is done. Come, daughter, bring forward
the bible, and read a portion of it for our mu
tual instruction."
The calm seriousness with which this
was uttered forbade any remark on his'usu
al request. It so happened that Janette
opened the book at the fifth chapter of Mat
thew, beginning, "Blessed are the pure in
spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven,"
and by the time she had finished the first
paragraph, her voice became ehoaked; and
unable to proceed, she gave way to emotion
in all the violence of grief. Her mother,
from sympathy or other cause, was equally
affected, nor was Oakely free from the same
emotion. When his wife and daughter had
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become somewhat composed, he knelt down
between them with the solemnly expressed
words, "Let us pray!" And he did pray
in all the fervency of a broken spirit. He
acknowledged his forgetfulness of God—
implored pardon fur his own, and for the sins
of those bound to him by the strongest of
human ties—prayed that both he and his
might expel from their hearts the pride so
long cherished; thanked his Creator for the
gill of existence—the blessings associated
with it, as also for the hopes of an immortal
existence hereafter, inspired by the promises
of the Gospel. He commended the world
to the can of him on whom all are depend
ent for the life that now is, as well as that
which is to come; and so deeply did the
spirit of his petitions effect his wife and
daughter that they joined with him in that
most solemnly expressive phrase, *amt.
That night a new spirit reigned in the
breasts of the Oakely family. And when
what they had been half led to believe, was
confirmed—when they were assured that the
wealth so long idolized was their's no longer
—scarcely a regret or a murmur escaped the
lips of mother or daughter, but both seem
ed anxious to forget that misfortune had
fallen on them. A situation more benefitting
their means was procured, and thither they
repaired to enjoy far more real pleasure than
when rioting in what seemed an exhaustless,
abundance. The party, the carriage, the
c
piano, and costly furniture forgotten.
Economy and industry t k the place of
fashionable folly, and they now prosper
ous and happy. Mrs. Oak s lost her pride,
but found contentment. Janette lost the
same, and also a foppish beau who had an
eye to her fortune, but she had found her
own good qualities, rind has applied herself
to their improvement, as well as the worth
of a young man who sighed for her when
rich, and who adores her now while com
paratively poor,and whom she will doubtless
reward ere long, by surrendering herself to
his care and keeping. Such is a sample of
the "ups and downs" of life, and happy
would it be if all who toppled from the pin
nacle of fortune could gain as much by the
descent as did the Oakely family.
—...tmee.--
From the New York Erprees
MAJOR DOWNING IN THE CABIN-ET,
ON THE NORTH BEND.
We lay before our readers the Major's
2nd letter from the Cabin, which will be
read with much interest. The idea (or we
should say notion) he shadq,ws forth that
the doctrine of the' Cabin is "no ;wildcat
favoritism" in the dittribution of the con
tents of the "great barrel politic of the na
tion," may not perhaps suit ultra expects.
tione. But it is sound Whig doctrine. The
great mass of the people are neither office.
holders or office seekers, all they ask is,
that the Constitution and the Laws of their
own making shall be the guide and rule of
those they select to administer the Laws.
The little incident of the electioneering
"Sub-Treasury" is happy. We regret
the Major did'nt make him holler loud
enough for the workmen to overhear him.
It is our "Express" duty.howerer, to make
him heard by the workmen.
AT THE CABIN OF THE NORTH REND.
Onto, April 3, 1840.
To the Downingville folks at home and
elsewhere.
Fellow Citizens—The Ohio has riz, and
so has the hull Western resare—one by
hard rain and t'other by hard cider. In
all my born days I never have seen any
thing like it. As for business, the folks in
all this quarter say there is no use in trying
to do any kind of business—as the present
office-holders git pretty much all the money
that trade puts in circulation, and change it
right off for hard money, and put in their
pockets for their wages. So there is no
use to do any thing, unless the wages of
the office-holders is to be cut down to hard
money prices—jist as flour and grain and
cotton is.
The office-holders and other government
folks out here are making great calculations
on Eastern Elections; they say that old
Connecticut will go all hollow for "Sub.
Treasury and no Credit"—and that New
York will follow and so forth. Well, I
don't know bow that is—but other folks oat
this way don't seem to care if all East and
New York City and State go that way, and
I don't wonder at their feeling a leetle in.
different—for folks living on the edge of
salt water, and never having been in this
everlasting western country can have no
idea on't; it aint here as in some countries,
where folks live in small cabins don't know
much except digging, and hoeing, and loaf.
ing, and are easily bamboozled—but here
every man stands strait up on his hind legs
—when troubles is upon the country, and
sasharares the cause on't most awful.
I wish some of tbe folks in our big cities,
who are considered considerable politicians
in their way, and go round among the peo
ple there, and get up processions, and ban
ners and other night work, and humbug
'em with motions about the importance of
carrying this ward or that ward, and that,
"as goes sich and sick a ward so goes all
creation." I wish, I say, they would comp'
out this way, and see the inside of thegreat
national pudding, they would feel pre*
small I tell ye. Why, till folks gat on dab
western side of the illegheny Mountains\
they haint got more, than about a leetle
arter breakfast time into the Union. Every
man knows the constitution here jiait about
as well us he knows how to pant corn: and
though, fora time, the men at the helm at
Washington may gat the old ship on the
wrong track, and succeed by aid of fogs to
keep the matter (Oct, but as-soon ae trou-
hie comes—as come it must, when the
wrong track is taken—then look out for a
regular raccoon hunt.
There is no place like The cabin here, to
know what is going on—East, West, North
and South: fur pretty much all creation,
coming and going,, atop in to see the Gine
ral—to say nothing of special committees
sent from all quarters and about two bushels
of letter every day; and the way the Gine.
rat gits along with matters, convinces me
more and more that he is one of them kind
of folks we read about, who, arter doing
good service, aro pushed aside by the crowd
for a spell, who git their eye on a new light,
or jack-o'-lantern, which leads them into
the mush, and then they git back agin if
they can and place the old and neglected
Veteran at the head.
It does me good to see how kindly the
Old Hero treats every body who comes to
see him, and no matter what they want to
talk about, he's ready for 'em; for in his life
time, he has had considerable experience in
pretty much every thing. But when folks
come tosound him, to write to him, to know
what course ho will take on this question or
that question, when he is elected Presideni
—he refers thorn to the Constitution and the
Laws, and says that they ever have been
and always will be his guides--no matter
what station he is in--whether in his Cabin
at the North Bond, or in the Cabinet at the
White House at Washington—whether on
horseback at the head of an army, or on
foot at a ploughtail—with a sword in his
hand, or a hoe in his hand—it makes no
odds—he knows no other political guide.
The Gineral says that jilt as the people
have made the constitution and the laws jist
so it is with his barrel of hard cider. There
is no use of promising one man a glass of
hard cider and another man a glass not
quite so sweet—another man a glass of ,
hard cider and another a glass a leetle har
der—they must all take it as it comes from
the same barrel, and no favoritising, and if
it don't suit 'em he can't help it—lt is his
business to keep the barrel still and quiet,
and full, and bung sp--and the spiggot about
as nigh the centre as possible, so that the
cider will run clearest and no man get dregs
and skums.
There was a chap come along through
these parts tother day from Washington,on
his way west with an appointment by Gov
ernment as "a receiver of Public Land
Money,"—and of course come along elec
tioneering. Whenever ha got among day
laborer,, he'd take out a hard dollar and an
old ragged paper dollar—" There," says he,
fellow citizens—look at this, and then look
at that—" Here, says he, is the kind of
money the "bank ruffles'' want you to take
for your labor —and here is the kind of mo
ney we honest hard working Sub-Treasury
folks want you to have." Well he work'd
his way along party well, though a good
many folks he talk'd to told him it was pur
ty difficult now-a-days to git hold of bank
money or hard meney,—but he told 'em to
hang on, and vote for the Sub-Treasury
folks—and no doubt in time the moat on 'em
would git an office, and that would give 'em
hard money at an rate.
Yesterday, this same critter called on the
Gineral jist as the horn was blow" 11 for din
ner, and the workingmen all come in from
the diggins, and the Gineral of course invi
ted all the strangers to take a seat with him
and hie people at the table; and atter the
Gineral had ask'd a blessing and we all got
to work at the dishes, this "land receiver"
or "Sub-Treasurer," got talking with the
Gineral about the advantages of the "Sub-
Treasury" system; and as he sot next to the
Gineral and I tother side, and he thought it
warn't necessary to talk loud, and so says
he, in a low tone, almost a whisper, "why
Gineral, this Sub-Treasury sweat will be
the making of any man like you who em
ploys laborers." "How so," says the Gin.
eral. "Why," says he, "you know it will
knock down the prices of labor, as Mr.
Walker and Mr. Buchanah says, to less
than half price what is now paid, and the
difference then you know, goes right into
the pockets of the employer!" The Gineral
looked at him and then he looked at me,
and says he, "Do you hear that, Mikity?"
"Not exactly," says I, "Gineral. Now
says I, stranger, speak up a leetle louder,
for I am hard of hearing in my left ear; but,
says I, take care not to holler too loud, or
the workmen will overhear you " You nev•
er see a fel:er so cut down; he look'd like a
streaked bass three days out of water.
We are looking out here now to know'
how the Connecticut election has gone; and
though we don't care much about it, yet
there are a good many folks from them
parts here and about in the great Western
reserve,—they feel a kinder pride about it.
—and "every little helps in the list go off,"
as the good old woman said when she empt•
ied her wash-tub in the big Erie Canal, the
day the great Clinton first floated in a canal
boat thro' that "wild, costly and destruc
tive State speculation."
Yours, withliiiat reifiect,
J. DOWNING, Major, &c. &c. ‘1;
airy think-of a- war-with - Gleifirßrita in,
waged under the auspices of the present ad.
ministration. Reader, here is a problem
for Solution. If our present rulers, with
three armies, one regiment of Bloodhounds,
and forty millions of money, cannot, in four
years, conquer 500 Seminole Indians, bow
(much time, what amount of money, and
what number of men and dogs will they re.
quiro to subdue Great Britain?
The locofoco, that works out this problem
first, shall go to the head of bis class. Cy
pher away for your lives, gentlemen.
Prentice.
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BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT.—The following
beautiful extract is from Gallagher's Hes
perian, a monthly publication issued in
Cincinnati, Ohio:
"Young womanhood! 'the sweet moon
on the horizon's verge,' a thought matured,
but not uttered—a conception warm and
glowing, yet not embodied—the rich halo
which precedes the rising sun—the rosy
down that bespeaks the ripening peach—a
flower—
, A flower which is not quite a flower,
Yet is no moro a bud. "
Upon this,• the Sundny news makes the
following capital parody:
"Young womanhood! molasses touched
with a little brimstone—spread on bread not
buttered—a being all joints and angles not
filled out—an unformed form, deformed by
stays—a pallid thing that loves the ripening
peach—a young woman—
A woman, which is not quito woman,
Yet something more, nor a gal."
AN INCIDENTAL AFFAIII.-A country
man lately, with his great coat rolled up
under his arm, on his way to the fishing
landings, after breakfast, had some curiosi
ty to see the famous East Room of the Pre
sident's House, and its mirrors of barn door
size, when ringing tho bell, a prime white
English waiter in attendance came to the
door, and seeing that only "one of the peo
ple" on foot was there, slammed it in his
facs,'atter saying, "You had bettor come
at seven o'clock; the Prosident'o rooms are
not open for visitors till ten in the morning"
—whereupon, the farmer, turned on his
heel, and significantly replied, "I'm think
ing the President's House will be open be
fore day on the 4th of March next, for ev
ery body; for Old Tip is a mighty early
riser, and was never yet caught napping."
Georgetown Advocate.
A Pawn. LITTLE BlLL.—During the
year 1899 there was expended in the New
York almshouse department $3,306 for
Champagne, Old Hock, &c., for the enter
tainment of the commissioners.
THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.-
We have been favored with a copy of the
minutes of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
which terminated its labor in this city on
Thursday last. We learn that 13 preachers
have been admitted on trial, that 9 remain
on trial, that 8 have bean admitted into full
connection, that 8 elders have been elected
and ordained this year, that there are 12
supernumerary preachers, and that only one
clergyman, the Rev. Joseph Rusting, line
died during the year. Tho Conference
contains within itslimits 34,070 white mem
bers, and 8,0 1 69 colored. Increase during
the year, 2101 white, and 339 colored.—
The Conference collections for superanua
ted preachers, and the widows and orphans
of preachers, amount to $1866 57. The
10 per cent. collections to $775 92. The
additional collections for necessitous cases,
to 8986 71.—Phi/u. inquirer.
Naw•BatlNswlcH.—The session of the
Legislature of New•Btunswick was closed
on the 31st ult. by a speech from the Lieut.
Governor. Sir John Ramey. The speech
contained the following allusion to the sub.
'act of differences with the United States:
"The prospect of any further disturbance
with the neighboring States appears to have
greatly diminvhed, if not wholly to have
vanished, in consequence of the prudent
course adopted by our more immediate
neighbors of Maine, in having placed the
conduct of the boundary dispute wholly in
the bands of the General Government of
the United States—thereby affording to both
countries the most satisfactory guaranty
that the peace and friendship now so happi.
ly subsisting between two of the greatest
and most enlightened nations of the world,
and in the maintenance of which their best
interests are acknowledged mutually to cor,•
slat, will not be suffered to be disturbed or
interrupted on light or insufficient grounds.
"In now taking leave of you, therefore, I
do so in the confident hope that nothing may
occur, during the recess, calculated to im
pair the prosperous and satisfactory state
of public affairs under which we separate."
GEOCIRAPII2.-A London weekly paper
informs its readers that "the two govern
ments of Washington and Maine are ex
ceedingly embarrassed in keeping the peo
ple of their respective provinces from actual
hostilities upon the litigated questions of the
American and British frontier:" and that
"Her Majesty's troops are stationed there
to protect vessels passing between New
Brunswick aid Lower Canada." An
English country Journal "regrets to hear
that recent disturbances in Albany threaten
a repetition of the late border warfare."
HONEST POVERTY REWARDED•-A gen
tleman of New York arrived at the Tre
mont Rouse a day or two ago on his way
to Lowell, and while in the city had occa•
sion to exchange some money. He placed
the bills in his vest pocket, and took the
care for Lowell. When ho reached there
he discovered that he had lost a five hun
dred dollar bill. The loss seemed irrepara
ble, and he abandoned all hope of recover
ing the money.
'rhe gentleman returned from Lowell,
and was not a little surprised to learn a
Methodist clergyman, the Rev. 'l'. C.
Pierce, had been put in possession of his
money by an honest orange seller, named
Connell. at thg, Lowell depot, who had found
it there, the gentleman having drepp ,, ti it
while procuring - it tickel for the care. The
first thing the gentleman did upon gett;lic
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his money back, was to. present Connel l
with filly dollars, and ho assured Connell
besides, that if ever ho was thrown out of
employment, he would always find a friend
ready to assist him. Such an instance of
honesty in a poor man is worthy of all com
mendation. It was fortunate, perhars, fur
the owner that many who pass themselves
off for gentlemen, were not the finders.
Tres CIICCINNATI BANK EMBEZZLIZIENT.
—ln the Cincinnati Chronicle of the 18th
inst. is pub'iehed the following extract of a
letter from a citizen of Cincinnati, now in
Paris. The letter is dated March 0.
"I met with a singular advi.nture to day;
walking down the Boulevards, who should
I meet with but Wu. SUILTEE9, Eaq the
ci-devant Cashier of the Mochnnics and
Tractors Bank, Cincinnati. He told me :bat
the newspapers bad fabricated many lies
about him, and that be was the injured
man! dce. He lives at Versailles, but says
he shall go to Italy in a few days; and
thinks of travelling all over the world. He
talks particularly of going to Algiers—
thougb I think bim quite an Algerine al.
ready.
According the calculations ol,n German
author, of the 1000 English travelling on
the continent, 333 are officers on half-pay,
100 ruined gamblers, 60 aiefike, 200
grooms, jock ies, ladies maids, and govern
esses, and to pass over the rest of the sta
tistical table, ONE only who goes abroad "in
order to improve hie mind and his heart."
A SLEEPER.-A story is told in a London
paper, of a person named Bradley, aged 22
years, who had been in ono continued nap
for the last 27 weeks. Ho is kept alive by
gruel and other liquids, which his mother
pours into his mouth. His body is descri
bed as much wasted; and the faculty had
not been able to explain his mysterious
case.—lb.
ALL ALIVE IN THE GREAT WEST
Extract of a letter to the National Intelligencer,
dated
Lortzsvitt.r, Ky., April 14, 1840.
Gen. HARRISON ie carrying all before
him throughout the West. The whole
valley•of the Ohio resounds with the name
of Harrison and Tippecanoe. Largo meet
ings are being held in every quarter. The
one at St. Clairaville, a few days ago, was
attended by upwards of 10,000 persons; the
procession extended for several miles; fif
teen hundred horsemen, one hundred wa
gons, well loaded, and thousands on foot.—
Among the former were a body of seventy
Quakers, carrying the banner of Harrison
and our country.
A great meeting was alsetheld yesterday,
near Maysville, where Harrison's old sol
diers were congregated, besides thousands
from all quarters. Several steamboats,
well freighted with good and true Whigs of
Cincinnati, attended, with a bountiful sup
ply, of provisions for the barbacue, which
was paraded in great form at the city mar
ket before being transferred to the boat.
The excitement is beyond all precedent.
Business is almost at a stand. Nothing is
talked of but Harrison and Reform. So
that you can safely sot Ohio down at 20,-
000 majority, Kentucky at 15,000, and In
diana greater than either.
In Western Pennsylvania and Virginia,
the samo feeling exists. Hundreds are
daily falling into the Whig ranks, all see
ing the necessity of a change of Adminis
tration.
ScHoOLMASTER.—"WeII, raise, can you
decline a kiss?"
Gm.—dropping a curtesp.—"Yee, sir,
I can;—but I hate to, moat plaguily."
DEPTH OF THE °MM.—The depth of
the Ocean is a point which alike has puzzled
philosopher and practical men, and is, after
all, left in the wide field of conjecture. The
most probable gaide is analogy; and the
wisest men, judging by this criterion, have
presumed that the depth of the sea may be
measured by the height of - the mountains,
the highest of which are between twenty
and thirty thousand feet. Tho greatest
depth that has been tried to be tneasured,is
that found in the Northern Ocean, by Lord
Mulgrave. He hove out a very heavy
sounding lead, and gave out along with it
cable rope to the length of 4680 it., with
out finding bottom.
LEGAL IsTarzcss.—The following section
of a bill recently passed both houses of the
State Legislature is of importance, and par
ticularly to the publishers of newspapers.
who have suffered from the practice which
it is designed to correct:
"In all cases where any Sheriff: Prothon
otary. Register of Wills, or Clerk of Court
shall be required by taw, or un order of
court, to publish any notice in the, newspa
pers, and is allowed by law or said order to
charge the expense of said officer to make
out a bill showing specifically the amount
actually paid for printing said notice, and if
said officer shall charge any other or great
er amount than actually ho paid for publisE
ing said notice, he shill. be subject to the.,
penaltieli prescribed by law for taking
gal fees, to be sued for and recovered in thtt
mode prescribed by the 26th section of att
act entitled an act establishing a fee, bilt„
passed on the 28th March, 1940; bet sub
iect to the tiinitnlion corit: , ittod in the 16thi
„,,,, t i on o f the .uppletnent to pas!.
.70.1 the 22,1 Fel.rwny,ii3 . 2 l : , ? viticrl,That
the not Wool wltii the Ist
Boston, Atlas.