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IE FLOWER SEED
n die. ,Thall he, line again ?"—Job 10
WM
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"Char , dear, iu the early spring
made my garden bed,
Von 14g ed at my doing so strange a thing
--)ts itniting the seeds that were dead.
"Awl ion . wete sure. I never should . see
The4edves come bursting out
For 0,40 u, thought, how strange it would be
If sittliose seeds should sprout!'
'•I wily )11 w wait till the gentle dew;
The4l: :nul the shower,
Had sltwu us all that they could do
To dhti.v from the seed the flower.
"And Von 't you remember, aftcre
I whihol von to come and see
qty gaiticn bed, you asked with a smile,
NY ll o"er all those seeds could be?
"1 tohtyrt then that evry seed
ined a living power,
Wlti4fnitm the dry envelope freed,
WoOdl soon produce a !lux% er.
Audpftn since, you'N e watched my flowers,
Wh.ge grow ing.7, on knew not how:
But disiden stram: , r than those bright bowers
Invdesl your attention now."
And th,e tnothor led her thoughtless son
To cponue burial ground :
And tsert•, a, they thoughtfully wandered on
A Ili‘Vis• Made trrave they found.
Flow#, , ivere growing ani' und the tomb,
Thos4--i , and the fweutthl briar;
:,,
And ticj.) - ..:eented to say by theirbright rich bloom,
Thaka rootber's lore was there.
"o.p rive is a beautiful place,
'Smithy flowers are all in bloom
And Alen he raced his innocent fime,
It hid lost its; gatheretl gloom.
"Bat e fairest flower, my Charley dear,
Thai plant has ever given.
Will siring from the seed now buried here,
AnOhlom in the bowers of heaven..
•
Thelar'vest day will surely appcnr, -
Whin the seed will hung the sod,
And figrt- from all IL:a could mar it byre
Shi . ti,rlll by tilt• throne of Gold. " '
oth,ior,.s of 2\-gt-,urc
GULF WEED
MMIMMEC!
_ •tVaNtry Recd, tasi.ed to and fro,
I keur;i , dr-mheil in the ocean brine,
hiri, and sinking .
lolimt along Witkortl.
j. 411 the spoom of the surging sea,
Otilg7 the foam afar and linear;
:gap . my manifold mystery—
Growth and grace in their place appear.
I lniarromal, berriei s gray and red,
lctailless and rover though I he;
My prangled leaves, whet, nicely spread,
P#boresce us a trunkless tree ;
Cu ti dslcurions mat Inc o'er,
*bite and hard in apt array;
Jib the wild wave,' rude uproar,
(fratiefully grow I, night and day,
11 eirts they; are on the som.a . ling sham
leis
tbing whispers soft: to me.
Re#leis and roaming fur evermore,
Bike this weary weed of the sea:
Beiir they yet on each heating hreasti
eternal Tylie of the wondrous
GrOwth unfolding amid unrest,
(3raec informing, with silent soul.
liliscellann.
-1 NIAGARA FALLS
We
We eitract from the " Democratic Re
view,/ ftir January, the following) interest
ing fict t relating - to this great Cataract,
which were contain Melted by 114 Hall, in
his r4cetont report of the Ge4ogic4l.Survey
. z
of .Ntttv York :
1
' In . Prder to obtain a correct understanding
of test merits of this subject and itshearings,
let uistrite clZ,arly what the present condi
tion of is magnificeut cataract it: - Lake
Erie is s tttated 331 feet abuve Lake Onta
rio.tween them runs, in a 4directiou
main. , omit, an immense river, which with
in th chstanee of little more than one mile,
falls irough the greater part of thikdeep de
seen Through this river runs every Mix' l
ute Mitts of water, probably not varying
mug from 20,000,000 cubic feet, or every
five 01, dl one half days a cubic mile, or every
yeaysixty-six cubic miles ! not far•from the .
one tree-hundredth part of all the fresh wa
ter 4 the globe ! From Luke Erie to Lake
Ont. - o the whole channel of the river is
Ivor through the rock, forming every where
a de
i t
, perpendicular chasm. But it iste -
lowie falls that the deepest portion of this
Borg eXists. From the falls to Lewistown
/
is setptitniles, and for this whole distuneo
the' bottom of the, river is at the botio of
an e c 'iltion from three to fi re hundyfedfeek
il
deep a d from'twelve hundred to twoithous
and:i e. For the first two miles' after
leav;) g
Lake Erie, the course of the river. is
quit jr pid ; it then becomes slOwet,' tepar
atin4i two branches at Grand, island; and
fart t own expanding into, a troad lake
like ith et of water, filled with little islands.
At the oot of this the stream begins to pre
senttl.l ifferent aspect. It suddenly con
traeigs i width . , and plunges with inCotreeive
labl,e ocity doWn the rapids. 'llithertothe
ilesept from Like Erie has been bUt fifteen
feet ithin'aboul a mile it now falls 'fifty=
two ee down the rapids, and theti plunges
will te rific randeur over a fall 0163 feet.*
1
It
..' n descends 0.111104 feet before, leoaCh
.„,kr lake telow.
I is will known to have lowg b een !the
7 CFoche , Sill
the I#. , au g
b
ably, tha pisieritrui c i! n w full . il4. ndlr 167.7e5t . ‘ fet ;
lr krona Lake Eiie, D freplfattly raise lu s ftto " m n .
164. higher.
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belief of those who have paid much attentidn
to the subject, and we believe it is a current
opinion in the neighborhood of the falls, that
the cataract was! once at the point where
the Niagara rivet empties into Lake Onta
rio, or at Lewistown, seven miles below its
present place. It is believed by the adeb:
cafes of sticha theory, dint the cataract has
retrograded through these seven miles by its
own action upon] the rocks wich 'give it ex
istence, and that:in retrograding it has dug.
out the ittlmense gorge already• described,
which forlias the !river's bed below the fitllS.
An oppite opinion has also prevailed,
and heretOfore extensively ; for to the minds
of some there hall appeared one element in
such a calculation wanitng. That element
ayes time.' Until recently a school of phi
losophers has taught, that the; '
utmost: limits
that could'be placed to the age of the falls
was some six thOusand years ;,'and that pe
riod, long as it appears without the troub
le of calculation far short of that required to
dig this vast ravine, in comparison with the
greatness of which the miglitieSt of man's
works sink into insignificance.' But we take
a different view of the subject: •
'Ye say, that ifthe cataract can,be proved
to recede at all, even though an inch an age,
then, if ages enough be found, the cataract
must have reached its present position hr
recession. And ,we say farther, that if the
cataract can be shown to recede ,now, ; it
must have been 'receding ever since it com
menced to flow. But if it has been receding•
it must have worn a portion, at least, of the
ravine. If, then, the cataract has worn its
way back a:portion of the seven miles, th.•
presumption is, that it has worn its wa r y
back for all the sieven miles, and time enough
must be allowed: for the work to be accom
plished. If sin thousand years are not
enough—then, if necessary, sixty thousand
must be granted', and the onus probandi lies
with the opponents of our argument, in
showing that for some satisfactory rea
so much time cannot be allowed. It I;ti s
with them, too, to explain away the alisur
dity.of believing; that while half a mile of
the ravine, or mire or less, must be charg,ea
to the action of the cataract itself, the other
six and a Ma miles of the same ravine, per
fectly agreeing With it in character, must be
attributed to other agencies.
We have amag,nificent a priori argument
thundering in our ease the conviction, that
at some far distant age, the water of Niaga
ra 'poured theniSelves into Ontario over a
precipice seven miles below its present posi
tion. No sane : man can escape it. lie
might=as well visit the studio of an artist,
and: after watching him carve out the fia
gerof an almost:finished Venus, sagely mid
with candor that with regard to
eto 6. ri swot
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and that it was even ntitlAY Ptt'slialV that - 10
the game source might be attributed the hand,
and perhaps the ann ; but as for the head
and:form, and divine proportions winch the
marble presented, no reasoning should ever
convince him, that so weak an instrument
as a man and aChiselhadever accomplished
so much.
With respect; to the rate of the present re
cession of Niagara, unfortunately neither
history nor observation can reveal much. :It
has scarcely been known. to civilized. man
more than fifty years. Many of the resi
dents lorits vicinity, who have known it for
aboutjthis period, say that within fifty years
the fall has receded fifty yards; but this
seems to Mr. Hall an over-estimate. But
still, the frequent 'Undermining and
away of the cliffs which form the cataract
show conclusively, that whether slow or oth
wise, there is yet a very sensible recession.
,yvellzknown fact, which goes to ; af
fitm the same opinion, that the American
fall is constantly growing more and more
cerved in its outlines. In 167, Father
Henepin visited Niagara, and made a draw
ing of it, which Mr. Hall has kindly furnish
ed us with in his report. It is, to be sure,
something of the rudest, but it yet serves to
show that a manifest and important change
has taken place in the whole appearance
and contour of the falls. 'How great this
change kes.been it is impos t sibleto - estintate.
It is sufficie4i - for the argument to know
! that any change has occurred. To put j th'e
truth of the Matter to test, Mr. Hall, ; by
Governor Seward's direction, caused a trig
' onometrical ..survey to be made of the pi,
I and the moan' talents of the survey to be prop
erly secured pn both sides of the river. A.
few years will be sufficient to throw some
'true light dpOn this subject.
One question, which has been freqetitly
mooted respecting Niagara, has been happi
ly set at rest 'by the -ruvestigations 01 Mr.
Leyell : Why, if the present be of the
river was worn by the river itself, did it take
its present course in preference to any oth
er ? The answer is, that the stream :runs
along the bottom of an ancient valley, formed
doubtless like many other similar valleys by
the agency of water, long before the conti-
I neat had so far-risen from its native bed as
to have given birth to the thousand water
courses, and the great lakes among them.
which intersect its surface. Thelpriiof of
this lies not altogether in the topographical
surface of the country, but in the fact,' that
in the earthy portions of the banks of the ra
vine, at the bottom of which is the river's
';beds and Upon Goat bland, and upon the
platform on .either aide, there exists, at
heights above the water, diminishing as you
go towards Lake Erie, fresh water shells of
modem genera, indeed resemblin g those
-now found in Sims lakes aboveand hlow.—
The evideu9i .18 complete that ere Niagara
'ives, a fresh water sea existed in the ;basic
-.Which now forms its bed. , The rivet' , occue
Ivied it because if afforded it a proper cline
- lie, but the valley existed before the I nver..
Slade that distant period, a river has graded
for itself a path through solid stone,; from,
tilvelve to twenty handed feet %Vide, and from
three:to five htitidred deep.
-But now the sublime inquiry presehts it
'self: t How has been this , periPtl ?
't-How-lorto . since Niagara commenced :
Idesing at* long,lthe time it has con
sumed in Moving backwards from Lake On-
"EVERY DIFFERENbE 0
tario to its prekient po
in vain for ani answe
chronometer, )ut its i
actersdefying'ptire tl
to decypher. i It mi;,
easy enough, Iknowit ;
given - time, td. comp'
recede seven 'miles;
rdispels the illtision.
aract has diudnished
tnenced ; for eon side
and topograiMical el.
tans, that when it
could not have beep
height ; it halgraduz I
St:ata which, when
its base, ha% e disappe
those rocks (Ater whi
stream itself May liar
In some parts lof its c
ly formed -a mirrowe
forms ; in others, a
of its course, he cha
which its force has b
ualiy changedb It a
feet of very thick bed
Niagara grouo,) whit_
of the Ihll, and of al;
shale, which forms it
supporting tie lin)
*rates by the action
tog out, sufices the lit
and 11111 down; into
such data as these, u
calculation, it ,its only
eoinpute the 4g«)lN
is a fact, that A% Ain
a!readv the el
of the werld has sear,.
animals ha% e iwopled
w:!ic:; pruccdth!
out n
i.arc A v. all Ilia! du:
of le:
a!:1:44-.; !eliutig . et
R hen loekediat, 111
eternity of tittle w hick
the Potsdam l4itid,t4l4
ila, the t!rstiktoiwn
;dim e Lt.,: less
er forCifer,4n4 locks,
have been torined
granite iierc ikon; ,1 0
of age—whoht. ..as ‘i
stone, a1.,1
ceeding-stratili.i teem
of annual 4iad ewetai
inal and vegetable lire
it, eliarieters; I)ri
turies of centuries co
to produce vege
ell:inked by alliundre
constitutes the audit:
tl as' vast owll fields,
r..;,lyd.=tlr.
liappeas ae•ailt : the
whole strata are- fur
again the' coit!tinent a
ptcrodaetyli—t-rriou at
winked reptill:s start
vallies at-c formed,
f. - ont ut,linowit regio,
tiacnt ; ha.-inis of firs
appeal!. Yes:
agaraconinicnces.
hears it. It t)erfurm.
signed it, ballot one
Mastodon alai 1.. tigt
it. l..ist of all
at It, anti Avo l r fur
ancient a ltib aneegt
tv - ctilit th Lfc-jIL-ratiun
Wt; niunt Urea s c
is, the emi,eipirtice
ul (h( p
ia.rara.
Mr. Hall has show
has continually
that it inut.t contioni
of this is the southi
the strata,over n loci
estimates, that a
receded two :lilies,
at a point Where tot
ready been Said, far
in heiiiht, the bottoi
nvcr which is the fa
appeared beneath II
cession 1111.1:0. he Uhl
tion of the water wi
upon the thick bed
now lint worn away
underlying shale,
tected froth the age
on it. Four or iii
tion will bring the
ter ; and then, if th
ded limestone—all
above the falls,, c
,present codition, tl
have ceased to ex
I being all that is le
Some persons I
this has occurred, t
of these rapids nth
deluge those portio
ada bordering Lak
ions are chimurica
were to be poured
tario, it would on]
fifty feet above its
surely. But, for
age, even If it ever
gradual. ,But hef
inttevenc.-I The G
lag up of the lures
regions whence tl
must diminish in
and unlo4,ed-fur
alter the Whole fay
BRQOSs!CORN.
id deteriution of ti
()flute a subject
plaint. This is d
quences insepera,
ner in which it
near Indian corn
and in a short ti
istic fvattires and
To prevent this'
be selected from
have been grown
etieS.--Maine p)
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OPINION IS NOT A DIFFERENCE
' OF PRINCFPLE. -_T FFEBSON.j
"
TROSE, PA. JAN, 27, 1847.
AlO
;Mon ? Alas, we look
Niagara may be a
ial is engraved in char
an a Com polhon's skill
lit, at first sight, seem
ig the recession for any
Lie the time required to
but farther reflection
We know that the cat
in height since it coin
•a!ion sof a geological
aracter render it cer-
as at Lewistown it
ess titan 350 feet in
Ily diminished till now.
t commenced, formed
trod or dipped beneath
it now pours. The
I. been altered in size.
tanuel it has nianifest
i'cataract than it now
rider. In every part
new of the rock upon
:en spent, has contin
w consists of about• 63
ed limestone, (of the
forms the upper part
it the same amount of
base, underlying and
:stone. This disiate
f the spray, and wear
, iestone to break au aft,
abyss below. With
nat which to found a
mdio•ss to attempt to
agara Falls. But it
period, as We have
I ar,xter of the fauim
ely clmnged ; the same
:•
th" fr, di water
tta, as now people its
lei . tilt , c
c,.ury
i!ic Jobe ita
1! I!Jvi 111,1 a sped.
..citriparisou
has , ;titer:enc.,' ...in—/
C, %%Atli iti little
h:tn :firer ol'ot h
ich its
r.j;,-al.” .1 ::!I.l.ffinuis
11 !II d,••
is uIL d up ‘v:111
ts;i4 - 11 ,qIC
11111E\(lllll
tae refflitiai
leale and their :ou
r 111 . fillt lltly C 17311211 1,,
:did vas formed ; ecn
lid only :tare suffieed
able rzion:th which,
1 circums.adues, now
Hite, and the coal of
of the event of which
v land disappears,
ned ab we the coal :
spear., sa,ariam,
formod of life, and
into h. Inv, hills and
houldeN are washed
s over the whole con.
t oat r,v,ith louder'
l•rday, as it were, Ni.
t thunders, but no ea'
I the functions tiod as
!etc. it. J o!.1. How ilu
aion trcidilled us thi•t
has hc:flia 1:1101;1
loath, it it can be a
!irs of the hundred an,
traminz, from which the true dignity and
lie mon(' point, and tht permanent happiness of life atone can conic,
f the entire reres,io !Lover teaching them habits (if self-sacrifice
s2pectne conchtion i atal ;Ind control, rather by
example ite:tructing them in evil speaking,
n, that thus far the fie in tita_iltaritaideness, iti.envy} rand in false
uished in. height, ad ! hood, I think, with a sigh, of the patch on
to do so. The eau- ! both Nees and gloves nil.
-aid or upward dip ;.! When I t;r•e a family in a dold and selfish
the river runs. M !solitude, not habitually warniing their lions
ion the fall shall hat 'es With the glow of happy fates, but lavish
will then have arrive • ing that which should furnish thehospitali
shale; whtch, as has t i ty of a whole year, upon the !profusion or a
for about sixty fo !single night, I think of the patch on both
• kw cs and 4rlf,res on.
of the encamploy
I, will have entirely di ! When 1 see a !Kluge profusely famished
e water. Here the t ! with sinnptuous furniture, ricti Curtains, and
oat stopped, for the luxurious carpets, but with no books, or
then b e w h o ll y spa none but a few tawdry annuals, I am re
ed limestone, which minded of the patch on bath knees and gloves
but undermined by t
inch will then be ni
idles which nuw act
e ►wiles of retro,;,rraii
tnestone below the
rock—a very tl►in in
eh now forms the iapi
minucs to maintain ,
cataract of Niagara NI
st —a precipitous rai
of it.
aye fearer], that tilt
sudden tic caring tc.i
It. drain Lake Eric, II
is of New York and C 4
• Ontario. But such
.
Even if all Lake E 1
constantly into Lake
raise it one hundred 4.
irt scut Icy (.1. Limo;
bviuus reason, this dra l
occur, must be slow 4 , 1
ire it countless ages ttli
cat Lakes, from the els";
and the civilization ofl
Ley derive their wat
• ize, and ;1 thousand ri
geological changes
c of the continent.
lln ninny sections the; ' 1
Lliis production has heti.
f almost universal c
übtless one of the cu
le from the careless ,
s cultivated. If• pia
it willinevitably "ti
e assume the chart
qualities of the form
-teriatiou ' 'the seed sh
ell dOveloped plants
emote from all other
nner. •
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' :t l I ATCH ON BOTH KNEES CO GLOVES ON.
I
The following, from the BOston Courier,
is one of the cleverest essays; we htive met
with for many a day. Similar in kyle, it
is not inferior in point to Franklin's best : "
When T was a boy, it was iny.fortnne, for
a lung time, to breathe what Aome =writers
term . ‘• the bracing. air of ilulVerty.i'' My
mother—light lie the turf upon the form
which once enclosed her strdug and gentle
spirit—was what is cotntnonlx calledlan am
bitions woman ; fur that quality, whiCh over
turns thrones and supplants dynastids, finds
a legitimate sphere in the hUmblesi abode
that the shinlow of poverty Over da'rkened.
The struggle between the wish to keep up
appearances and the' pinchin' gripO of no
ce.,sity, produced endless shits and Contriv
ances, at which, we are told som6 would
sntile, and seine, to whom they would teach
their' own experience, would high. But let
me not disturb that veil of oblivion: which
shrouds from profane eyes the hallowed
mysteries of poverty. .
On one occasion, it was necessary to send
me on an errand to a' neighloir in better cir
cumstances than ourselves, and therefore it
was necessary that I should lie presented in
the hest possible aspect. Grdat pains were accordingly taken to give a Smixrt appear
ance to my patched 'and dilapidated ward
robe, and to conceal the rent and chasms
which the envious tooth of tine had made
in them ; and by way of throwing over my
equipment a certain sr. , or and sprinkling of
go:nil:iv, my red and toil-htirdened hands
-were enclosed in the unfamilikir casing of a
pair of gloves, which had belonged to my
. :anther in days when her yerirs were fewer
and her hear; lighter.
I 'allied firth on my errand, and on my
wity encountered a :tack older and bigger
bee, a he evideuilv belonged to a family who
had al! our own dragginir povierty, and none
of our uprising wealth of spirit. His rags
Xtirly fluttered in the brek-re i his hat was
i •iii,ti-net•id en the most approved principle
olventilatiou, and his slows, from their yen
. rable antiquity, might have iwen deemed a
pair of t;issil , hoes—tlic very 'ones on whirl.
Shen) shoaled into the ark. Vie was an im
pudent varlet, with it'd:we-41MA swagger in
his _air, and a " Pin as !food its YGO" leer in
his e , e—the tern whelp to throw a stone at
a n ell-dr , ssod horseman, beeatniw he was
n ell-dressed ; in u-ar a boy's rut' les because
he aas clean. As soon as he I.aw me, his
eye detected the practical inc onsistencies
' that eharaeterized my c‘isatime, and taking
',MC la the shoulders, tut-Magna.. round with
ino gentle laud, and surveyilq; me. from
• head to fttot, exelanned, with a seernfal
iategli of der,sion, "a patch, on both bites
•:_ , ll 1,.:,-. , ..1"'
.•
hich !Amt through me at [Moto words. To
parody a celebrated hoc of 11 - ,.‘e immortal
T Li
4 ." 'filar day I won) my o:we , no nufre
But the lesson thus ruddy Criforced, sunk
deep into my heart ; -and, in after-life, 1
have had frequent occasion to make a prae.-
i tical applicamm of the words; of my raged
when 1 'have observed the practical
• inconsistencies which so often mark the con
duct Of Mankind.
When, for instance, I see' parents care
; .
;idly providing l .r the ornanional education
of their children, furuisLing them with teach
ers in music, (lancing and drawing, and grv
rui• no thouirlit to that inoralj and religious
When I see the public men cultivating
exclusively those qualities which win a way
to office, and neglecting those which qualify
them M fill honorably the posts to which
they 'aspire, I recall the patch on both knees
4rtores on.
When I see men sacrificing. health of
body mid peace of mind to the insane pur
suit of wealth, living in ignoiance of •the
character of the' children who are growing
up around them, cutting themselves of rona
die highest and purest pleasures of their
natures, and so pnrverting their humauity,
that diat which was sought as a means, in
sensibly COltlt'd to he followed as, an end, I
say to myself, a patch on both knees put
glares on.
When I see thousands sqaundered for sel
fishaess and ostentation, wit.' nothing he
stowed for charity—when I gee line Indies
be-satiaed and be-jewelled, dheapeniug the
toils-of dress-makers, and with harsh words
embittering the hitter bread of dependence;
when I ree the poorturned away from proud
houses nhe re the erumbsof the tables
would aft;ird theta a-feast, I think, of the
patch yn bath knees and gloves on. -
'HINTS ADMIT Foob.—Roust meet con
tains nearly double the nourishment or bpil
ed, but boiled meat is hotel adapted to weak
digestion. Frying is one of the very best
methods of dressing - food, as broiling is one
of the best. Baked meat has a strong fla
vor, is deprived of some of its nutritious
qualities, and is difficult of digestion. Spices,
sanees;tand melted butter, -should never be
used by an invalid. , .
11 47 an liVayander, a discharged sergeant
of the T. S. , artillery, and who lost a leg at
Pah? 21.1t0, was robbed of all his CM
on lending !,it New Orleans,
lIY C IIAIILRS LAS JI
Cast of the lllin
: f
i _ 1 _
IS4irved,.B.ock is the unpOic name of
, atiligular spot on the 1114104 r ver; about
I
ei lit miles south of Ottawa: lit is a rocky
Ihlfiff rising from the margin ofih stream•to
I tlt height'of more, than ti - hundre feet, and
isiseparated'from the inaiti laftd . by 'a . par
raw chasm: chasm; Its length' mialitt probably
I - asure two hundred and ftyl feet. Its
si es are perpendicular, and tlt.re is but one
pint where - it can be ascenditd, and that is
i l
by a narrow! stair-like path. It rs covered
with many . a cone-like eve ' tn, and in
summer, roe by luxuriant. and ivy
e.
Ivi , and clusters of richly c orled flowers.
. il q
ItliS ondoubitedly the most cod picuous and
I biautiful
r pietorial feature of' he sluggish
I and lonely Blitioisond associ t
ed with the
r filial extinction of the Indians. • The legend,
I w)lich I listened to from the li s of a.vener
i
, able trader, is as follors:- - , I
I i Many years ago the 'whol4 region' lying
1 biftween Lake Michigan and [rtelVlEississip-
I pi, was the home and dominion of the Illi
, nUis Indians. For them alon did the Buf-'
fop and antelope range over t e broad !val...
I ..
ries ; for them, did the finest f Irivers roll
1 their waters into the lap of Me ico, and bear
I ) their birdhen canoe, as tl,eylsought to,
, capture-the wild . water fowl ;genii far them
; atone did the dense forests, ctilV c , din upon
in
these strens, shelter their un n ,
itibert7d den
ikns
•
I , • 4 .;
•, .
l. In every direction might be stea the smoke
t
, (4 Indian wir4ams curling uptvards to min
.l 4 with thelsunset clouds, widelil told them
! tales'of the spirit land.
Years palsed on, and thes ecintinued to
hi at else inltheir possessions. B u the the white
inan from the fareast, with thi Miseriesthat
hive ever accompanied him On !his march
o usurpation, began to wander into the wil-.
cltrnessand trouble to the ikor red man
tits the inevitable consequenc4. The bane
. fill " tire-water," which was fife gift of civil
*non, created dissensions arnotig the say
aie tribes, until in process of time, and on
account of purely imaginary villi, the Pot
trfwattarnies from Michigan etermined to
make war upon the Indians o llinois. For
nine, or rather destiny, smile tt upon the op
pessors
and the identical ro4 in question
iWes the spot that witnessed th# extinction of
alt aboriginal race..
, i It was the close of a longeige of cruel
;Airfare,r and the afternoon of a iday in the
gdtliglntul Indian summer. *he sunshine
rew a mellow haze upon th 4 prairies, and
Awed the multitudinous flotfers with the
diepest. gold;; while in the diadows of the
Ilrest islands, the doe and heAfawn reposed
iis perfect quietness, lulled in+ a,temporary
-4.. 1...",-.1- - *;,.,„,, .........,r..t,..-, rlrt 4.!•...,., cw.l3 - C{A
(.f a perfect Sabbath._ But no to the twink
ldig, of an eye, the delightful solitude was
bfoken by the shrill whoop and dreadful
strugg..le of bloody conflict apt the prairies
mild in the..woods. All ov the country
were seen the dead bodies , o the ill-fated
Illinois, when it was ordered itv Providence
that the conidudinfr skirmish- between the.
bstile parties shou ld r ' take pl.4ce in the
.vi
cinity of Starved Rock. -?; 4
.•
The Pottawattainies ntirribtied near three
. hundred warriors, while . the Illinois tribe was
reduced to about - one hundO, , who were
mostly aced Chiefs and youtlit4l heroes--the
npire desperdte fighters havini already per
ited, and the women and cipdren of the,
tube having : already been ntssacred and
clnsumed in - J- their wigivam, The battle
I tats most desperate betweeni the unequal
piirtie:. - c.
4 . I
i The Illinois were about to give up all for
lit, NI hen in their frenzy, the g:lve a defy , .
it shout and retreated to tit , reeky bltk
horn this iti was an: easy n . ttdr !to keep
Mick their enemies, but alas! om that tn-o
-f
nnt
ioent they', were to 'endure . un bought of
sOferitig, to the delight of r baffled, yet
victorious, cderaies. -
i r -ind now to describe in weds
that followed land was prololed
dks, were utterly impossible.Tl
NI hisarted Indians, in whom ana 'mil
, become extinct, chose to ie
1
strange fortress by starved° - at
ther than Surrender . them elvi.
sga I ping k nifil of their . exterinkbet°
liith a few e*eptions, this wlis th
iti which - theyrdid perish. sowl
indeed, a desperate man wottl.d li:
s 1
lf, hoping thereby to escape' utl
hwk would cleave his brain b fort .
e the ground, or the waters
I Day followed day, and thesfi bei
I ties sat in silence, and gaze in
upon their broad beautiful ` lane
Idtnghanger
er was gnawing into thir
Mght followed night, and the lot
the silent stars and beyond di
the Great Spirit, but they m inti
i t
Ids decree. Atid-if they slept,.thi
tliey once more played with t eirl
t
1 diem, or held Converse with titir }
: Named the w l pods and praises
I ft
edom. 'When -morning thivvr4
i
tl e harbinger iof another' day Of a'
vt ten the ev ning cattle, a O f
sinictitnes bri hten up a lin gal
nhnce—for th pubr, unhapp sot
ter eye of au obscure faith ; • lad
I g 'llipse of tie spirit land., Da
day and the last lingering Ito v
gmed. Then: destiny was s ale
tinge for good could possi y
fdr the human blood-hounds 4 th
their prey, were utterly widut
I.9le.feeble, w6ite haired eine cre
thicket and there breathed l s -
f
recently 'strong-bodied wart r,
ptcted but teeble yell °rev, tat
As maliewkjupod some. fie .
then yielded _ himself up to t o p
;e6ndition. Tice blithe form th
tithe parted] with its - streitgth
:• mpelled to inner and . :fall knot
rigid die. Teti weaq,;veardal
I I
4, and. the strongest num ; t e '
4aeo, was numbered awing ,
,inglorious ban T rat, was iirese
ti g)e and raven/
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Advertisements , conspicuously insetted4t. the 04
al rates of. Irrry CENTS
. IX 7 go re. f or E rg! " ai d
TwEsri=hvx fads sBlbseorent
Yearly Adyerisements, With the .priiilegio of
teration, not to exceed • ' •
Quarteri Column, with the paper, pet-e ar, •$3 00
Cdlumn • do B, 09
One Column, do do' 13 00
Btadneis Cards, do . 3.00
All other advertisements inserted a 4 remigiablip
rates: -
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El
Advertisements 'should be marked with the ism- .
ber of inseribes required. 7 . • •
•
`The poor have no• business with Buell
feelings--they should be crushed ;' , exclaftnz
ed the wealthy Colonel. H. to, a young girt
whose lean. stern sorrow had well nigh bra
ken.
'Crushed, Uncle, crushed !' replied she;
her voice choking. - Were they not given.
us-by God 1 -And is he not a Father ttithe
poor as well as the. rich'!"
Hush, hush, " girl !' answered the Ool:
warmly. 'You are looking too high ; grasp; i
inn• at something which you can never
reach; and I tell you 'tis your place tolie
humble r
Yes, I know it is,' replied she; 'but- not
in the sense in which you would Wish:
Be
cause I am pqM you would have me crush
all the better feelings of my naturebanei
my' purest .and holiest hopes foi a few Olt.
Illl,Cltll/1 :IL a dui , lhas _ rkr war.
chain'ine.'
She paused, fearful of having givennt"-
fence, and her Uncle left the room withhigay
step.
The sorrowing girl leaned her facelfn
her hard and gave full vent to her feelings.
Ah ! well might she weep—well might she
sorrow; for he to whom she had early-given
her young heart's • affections then'lived but
in heaVen. She -was aldne' He Who hod
loved her with a whole heart's devotion,
who would have shielded her )from the
world'ir cold selfishness, was not there to
sooth and. comfort. Alas hers *nB=a• bitter
trial, and it well nigh 'drove the blood fiber
her yeins.
Alaa! how many there are like Colonel
IL; hOw many who would sell even their
very sOuli for filthy lucre.' But islith• hearts
can know little of true happinesk ('Selfiall
ness and 'a greedi love of gain' must have
reigned like a :tyilint in their bosoms, de
throning all else. Such persons deeetre
our,p4y rather than censure.' Besides; thty
may libt .have - always Veen add it bitiy
be that even now these "fits of selfishridat are
but momentary, and pass away like' the
fleecy :cloud before the noonday's Let
us bmiare then, how we• conderait,-renietii
bcring that 'he that is without - tin - thodld
cast the first stone.' - •
the scene
or several
/OSe stout-
'was about
brion their
thirst,
s to the
But' while we would most willingly ex
tend to them the hand of tharity, 'we can
but see the utter fallacy of their reasoning.
The poor no business with feelings, in-'
deed'!' Then why were they given? Surely,
God bestoweth nothing in vain. Let them
be cherished, then. Let the coldness' Rid
selfishness of the world have no poWeitta:
pollute them ; but lerthtse high and 'noble
aspirations be litpt pure end holy, even as
tit*. they comit, Then, indeed, 'they will
be a blessed do preferable to thti world's
whole wealth. . I
And,
le manner
;1 and di it
borer hi -
. I the to a
he tou
1
dpless c p
daplorin4ly
ids ; whsle
Jery vitals.
oked upon
1e home ; of
Bred not at
And rather than let povei4y prove alitt
tier to the mind of feelings, let it - nightly.,
urge then] onward. Ay, and how frequent
ly it does! Go ask the , annals of the titi#,
and What tell they? Is it not thattminy,
very many of our greatest minds have'been
nursed in the-cradle of comparative *lntl
True therlind the geins of a striantiiiill
within thentt- but the' indulgencep 'wealth
might; haieJenermted. As it wan;"-111#
Went bravely on, have risen UpleVniiirtheitt.
blessed, so let it lever be. ; Let`Tinverybe - ttir y
stay: ; Indeed it; Cannot be whern'thereii l a
strontmind ad determined finiiiase: - 'Si il 1 .
know nophithrsjAave those -Which
cast aiide till this.' mortal 'put nu inumi,•itali
ty, and death he swtillo*ed up in victory.'";
eir-drcams
(little chit-
Wives, and
in perfect
0 it was
'cony ; but
le would
;d counte
1, through
caught a
followed
as -aban-
i; and no
pike - place,
watched
j INerouvr AT Sstaitt.o.--When • Wiest.
Wortb's command' was approaching :Salta
lo, and Were about, three miles distent'lroes
the, city, fuur young women Whited Inuall.
merican dress were sect, standing ~ by,
road ,side.. COriesity ran high to . know who
they were, and they received matipis
oialate as the troops passed, therriz, , At
last tin officer rock) up to see, who.they were.
,Theyi; Informed him ihtit they4erelnms
New lersey, and engaged ialuperintendirig
ili e ,t e i no le operatives of ti .cottoe : mud, !we&
.
ritotery hard. by, andi.expressO v in: the
coarse of tbeir, ,cnnversatioti", a desire a) bear
againAlg Old National Air. Ysiokir De*
mercy.
t into the
.ast. The
uttered a
ion, hurled
©low, and
tins of his
soft=eqed
and we's
the earth
Vs passed
st of his
end ; - and
to.the
Tomis of Adirerta4;ll. f:
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UE tiILGIUM'S 80C,14.
BY Mn.'. A. 0. WELD,"
When first the lonely ➢lay Flower flex: ;
Her canvauss to the breeze, .
To bear afar her pilgrim crew, - .
Beyoud the dark blue seas, •
Proud freedom to our land had flown,
And chose it for the brave; •
Then formed the nation's comer **mut.
I. And set it by the wave, •,. •
That when the pilgritheanchored thenir •.!
Their Stepping-stone might he;
That consecrated rock of prayer, •
The bulwark of „tbe -fire.
And there they stood-4eacb brow
' Was wan with grief and air;
And bent each manly form: but oh,:
Another sight was there—
Fond woman, with her sweet sad Face,
All trembling, pale and chili
.;
And oh, there was in that lonely Owl -
A sight\more Muciting still
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The cheek of childhood pale with fear;
And hn.thed it 3 voice of glee.
And they are gone, but we are here;
A bulwark for the free. •
. . .
.., . .
Our pilgrini sires are gone, yet still
A nation in its pride . . . .
• ..
}lath poured o'er every vale and hill, ,
In a bright unbroken tide; f .
And still their sons shall flood the IMad..;
While I that old rock appears. '
Like a pilgrim's spirit, torn to stand -'
The mighty- wreck of.years;
And oh ! while float the' ind and wave;
That billowed reek shall be -. •
The tbreshild of the good and brave,
The bulwark of-the free! . .
iroygny Cainuit Chaiii:
MEM!
B
BIM