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;VASHINGTON.
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710 , 11 yVASHIS . 4TON AND 111.3•GENEILU,S
' Froir this time, 1775, till 1753, when he
bade fa -ewell to his army, he moves before
as like some grand embodiment of virtue and
power.) :Whether bowed in fasting and
prayer/
efore God in behalf of his country,
Or takir g the fate of the American army on
his he rt--whether retreating before the
oVerwli lining numbers 'of the enemy, or
it:oaring his furious squadrons tothe chtirge;
ithetheir lost in anxious thought, as hip eye
ittelis iri vain fur some ray amid. the glpomy
prospecit that surrounds him, or spurnng.his
frightened steed amid the broken ice of the
AngryPelaware in the midst of the midnight
storm4whiither galloping into the deadly
lollies Of the enemy in the strong effort to
restore rthe fight, or wearing the wreath o f
!victory 'which a grateful nation placed with
finagled tears and acclamations on his broW,
be is the same self:collected, noble-niinded,
and resolute nartn.
• Peririps thek never was a public charac
ter so 1 ale understood-in the various quali
ties ish eh go to make ' it up as that of Wash
/
ington.i He is called' the-father of his coun-
that phrase embraces the man. We
slate the perfected, finished infiarac
er thinking of the formation state.l7-
- at the fruit alone, without asking
try, an
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mons*
Ind of blossom produced it. Or if
acts to liis boyhood and youth, it is
• he was just as grave, moderate, and
lected then as when a man. Such
nstantly held up to our youth, with
.ions, without enthusiasm, governed •
by judgment, And ,never by impulse ;
a miniature man from his earliest in-
ithstanding men's intimacy with hu
' aractei, so utterly ignorant are. they
t when tlkey find an extraordinary.
'ether good or bad, they are lookiiig
I l
1 an d
exception to general ru_es,and
ist on making tit from ' the outser,a
.
ityeither in ylce or virtue.. But,a
great ud good cliaracter is as much the le
pult of a,growth as a tree. It passes through
'differe t stages—indeed, through err Or
- • s virtue by self-control and wisdain
by ex i erience, and matures gradualli.--1—
Washi gton; as he appeared. when Nei
dent o the United States, and. Washingt on
as a s rveyor, seventeen years old, amid the . .
iAlleghanies, are two as different beings, as
"can well be imagined. There are ten*
moral qualities which adhere to one•throtigh
dire, and do riot change through all the .1 4'
cissitudes to which he.,is exposed. Az Stl.
terly selfish boy, for Instance, is ussalirj
selfish man; and'a 'child of generou s ' ~....
.noble impulse, no matter to what deFiravit
in other respects he may descend, gen y
retain these characteristics to-the last. - 4gs
,
' Wash u had a s high mac of bailor whim
a ley as when a ruse, and w4;imit fir:gir.
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,
erons and 'noble id feelings at sixteen,
as At forty- but-in other respects iie'was to
tally different: When .aixty years of age
.repOse and calm dignity were his great pe
`culiarities k at, twenty, ardor, enthusiasm,
and love of adyenture e .formed his chief char
acteristics.: ln mature years, peace was
his desire and. delight ; whilst in earlier
days he-loied the excitement of war, and
the scope it gave to his untried energies. In
youth, the whistling of the bullet was music
to his ear but in" riper age there was no
sound so!, sweet to him as the song "of dies
husbandinan. Washington might have been
just as good a man, though never so great
ohei,had he possessed the sane mildness
and qniedless nf character in his childhood
that tioadto his after years. A certain
amount Of , combativenesestructiveness,
if you please----is ebsoltitrAf necessary to
give a man energy, self-determination, and
power. Every good and great man, from
Moses to Paul and Paul to Luther, has pos
sessed it; Much more wicked or ambitious
spirits, who have succeeded in changing the
world. A Warm and fiery heart is necessary
to great resolution and force. It is when
this gets the mastery over the moral quali
ties and over the judgment that the man be
comes unbilanced and renders himself either
depraved or untrustworthy. Had Washing
ton
been the meek and gentle child so many
of our puhlic teachers represent him to be,
he would never have preferred the adven
turous life of a midshipman to that of his qui
et home; or the marshalling into companies
his young playmates in mimic battle, or af
terwards, the more vigorous leap and stern
wrestle for the more innocent sports of the
fireside and company of gentler children.— I
The truth is George Washington was a boy
of ardent and fiery feelings, and a youth of
strong and terrible passions. The military
spirit, so conspicuous in. the lad of fifteen
years of age, reveals the temper of the steel
that Was afterwards so severely tried. Hie
favorite sport, which was to arrange his
companieSinto columns of.attack and him
self lead the charge, did not indicate anY i
-
natural love of war, but simply a spirit of
fire and force.. His athletic. snorts and the
character of his amusements, show even at
this early age the surphis energy he pos
sessed, and which must out in sOme way.
This sent him off, when but seventeen years
of age, into the Allegheny mountains, as
surveyor. The wild bivouc in the forest,
the swimming of rivers, and clinibing of
precipices and surmounting difficulties, suit
ed well his adventurous spirit. Now plsent
ing his compass in some mountain ridge,
performing his duties with the skill and in
dustry of the most laborious mathematician,
and now sitting and musing over his " Ipw
land beauty," and inditing verses to her in
order to give vent to his • passions ; the no
ble young
dreamer presents a perfect speci
men of what a young man should be—full
of enthusiasm, feeling, and daring; and full,
too, of application and serious thought. 00l •
and correct in judgment, yet quick i his
impulses ; methodical and clear in his usi
ness arrangements, yet bold and fearl s in
danger, he possessed the basis of a strong el
evated character. None but a man of im
mense energy and great courage would have
undertaken as he did, at twenty-one 'years
of age, to go as a commissioner, acconipan
ied only by seven men, seven hundred miles,
half the way through an untrodden forest,
to the French commandant on.the Ohio riv
er. It is a perfect wonder that a stripling
Of his years should have shown such perse
verance and skill, and calm endurance and
forethought, as he did, during the forty-one
days he . was engaged. in this perilous enter
prise.
Bit it was the next year, when a lieuten
ant-colonel, he marched into the back wild
erness and attacked the French, that his
love of
. the excitement of the battle most
strongly exhibited itself. At the head •of
only three companies be continued his diffi
cult march until he came to the Great
Meadows, where he was informed by the
Half King,of Tanacharison, his friend, that
the French. were encamped within a few
tables of hit. .He immediately put himself,
at the head of forty men, and set off to the
Indian camp, ea miles distant. It was a
dark night in the latter part. of May, when
he started in search of his first battle. The'
sky was as black as the forest, and the rain
came down in torrents, drenching the little
band to their' skins, and they tumbled on
over logs and rocks, and knocked their mus
'tets against the trees as they groped about
to find their way. The pattering of the rain
drops on the tree tops above, and their con
stant dripping on the foliage below, were the
only sounds that broke the stillness around,
save when the :musket barrel of some poor
fellow, stutablinff in the gloom, rung against
a rock; or theifow word of command fell
from the lips of the intrepid leader who
strode on in a6ance. They were all night
long going the Six miles, and at sunrise ar
rived at the! Indian camp. There, uniting
with-die friendly savages they marched in
Indian file through the forest, and fell like
a thunder-40 on the astonished
,French.
Aftern . shOpt skirmish of a quarter of an
hour, in which the French commander and
ten of his nieuswere killed, the whole, of the
remainder were taken prisoners.: This was
Washington'S first engagement, and the
'kind of feeling he carried into it, and indeed
'brought out of it, maybe inferred fr om' hie
,own-language. In letter home, said he,
"I heard the ballets whistle, tuid believe
me, there is something. charming in the
sound." i There spoke the bold young war
nor, to whom the rattle of teaOketrY and
thundei artillery are the italic that his
stern 4041 lova.
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VOL. 2. NO. 1.
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Thiiaise the commencement of the French
and Indisui - ivar, and Washington , has been
severely, hy• French -wiiters for
his, attack on coned
Junoßrill9 ; and the.slaughter
tithe Wier hi. Ine,m.been tinned, a go
micie., batilieloinier simply obeyed - on leis,
and did Whit lie *lli expressly sent'into the
16W:tier* to 464-repelled the invaders of
,• - - • -
,Bat u v!ai **49ck's detest that : 41e
"EVERY DIFFERENCE OF OPINION NOT Ai DIFFERENCE OF PRINCIPLES"—JEPFERsos
exhibited those striking qu . ities which form
the great commander, and t at cool intre
pidity and reckless daring f.r which he was
distinguished. Joined as jaid-de-catnp to
Braddoek„ he started on .tlits fatal expedi
tion, which, though disastrous to its • com
mander, added fresh laurels to - Washington.
Taken sick on the way, he was left behind,
but in his eagerness to be present at the ap
proaching battle, lie started on while still an
invalid, and joined Braddock the evening
before it took place. The details of this
fight, the blind and obstinate adherence of
the. British commander to his European tac
tics, notwithstanding the remonstrance of
Washington, the ambuscade , and the terri
ble slaughter that fallowed,are familliar to
every One: That mdrning, as Washington
gazed on the British columns, moving in
beautiful order to the sound of stirring mu
sic along the banks of the Monongohela, the
gentle river on one side nd the green forest
on the other, while the as of the uprisen
ics
ni
sun were sent back in daz ling splendor ll'om •
the nearly two thousand bayonets that shook
in their light, his eye flashed with delight.
He was often heard to say it was the most
beautiful spectacle he ever beheld. He was
at this time ;23 years old, six feet two or
three inches high, and strongly made. Full
of tire and unconscious of fear, he thought
of the approaching fray only with the joy of
the warrior. As he had predicted, the ar
my fell into an ambuscade. As the advanc
ed"party of three hundred Inca were ascend
ing a hill, flanked on either side by a ra
vine, in which lay the enemy, they found
themselves suddenly encircled by a girdle of
flame. So Close and deadly -vas the fire,
that the soldiers could not bear up against
it, and, after a few vollies broke and fled
down the hill. Falling on the columns and
artillery below, they threw them also into
confusion, and the whole army became a
disordered multitude,driven hither and thith
er, while whole ranks were fallineat every.
discharge. In this dilemma, Braddock pro
hibited the Virginia regiment from placing
themselves behind trees and fighting the In
dians in their own way, and began to order
up his men in platoons, and wheel them in
to close columns, as he had been accustom -
echo do on the plains of Europe. Young
Washington gazed with indignation on this
sacrifice of life, and without the power to
order a single company, stood and saw his
brave Virginians fall: At length Braddock.
was struck down and his two aids ; borne
wounded from the fight leaving Washington
alone to distribute orders. Here his milita-'
ry qualities slidne forth in their greatest
splendor. Galloping, through the disordered
host, his tall and coimanding form towered
amid the smoke of battle, and- presented a
' constant mark to.thii sharp-shrioters. '.l%lten
were falling like grass 'on every side of him,.
1 yet reckless of danger, he spurred his steed
over the dead and dying alike, straining ev:
cry nerve to stay the reversed tide of battle.
At length his horse sunk under him, and he
fell amid his wounded and dead compan
ions. Springing on the back of another, he
pressed amid the throng , p ointing in this and
in that direction with his sword, and send.
ing his calm resolute voice amid the fright
ened ranks, but without avail. A second
horse fell beneath him, and he leaped to the
saddle of the third, while the bulletS rained
like hail-stones about him. Four passed
through his coat, and he knew that -he was
a sure mark for the !Indian rifles as lie thus
rode from about. But he seemed to possess
a charmed life ; for while nearly half the
I entire army which had psssed the Monongo
bele in such beautiful order and proud ar-
I ray, had sunk on the bloody field, and three
' fourths of the eighty-seven officers were dead
or wounded, lie remained unhurt. Cool as
a rock, his inward excitement was mastered
by his judgment, and he galloped hither and
thither as if on a parade. Absorbed in the
fate of the army, and intent on saving it, he
seemed to forget he had a life to lose. Amid
the thunder of artillery, the roar of musket
ry, the wild war-hoop of the Indian, and the
ranks melting like frost work around him,
he never once lost his self-composure. One
would have thought, lie had been tried on a
hundred battle fieldi; to see the daring firm
ness with which he endeavored to stem the
panic, instead of being as he was in his first
field fight. The. officers around him strug
gled bravely, charging together like common
infantry, to stimulate their men to bear up
against the storm, hut it was all in vain.—
The wreck of the *my rolled tumultuously
towards the river and over it. A rapid and
disastrous retreat back to the settlements fol
lowed.
As Washington, awing this engagement,'
was riding through the broken ranks, his tall
person on horseback presented such is fair
mark for a bullet, that an old Indian chief
took deliberate aim at him him several times
and bade his warriors do the same. But af
ter a while, finding that none of their shots
took effect, they ceased firing at him, believ
ing him to be under the protection -of the
Great Spirit. Years afterwards this old
chief came a' long journey to " pay homage
to the man who' was the particular favorite
of Heaven, and who could never die in bat
tle."
Hear what Dr. Robertson , says about the
Girls using the Skipping Rope :
The Skipping Rppe, a toy which is dis
carded by the young girl when entering a
premature womanhood, but which ougbt.to
be looked upon as a necessary article in 'ev
ery boudoir or privete room ocupied by a
woman of civiliied habits, is one of the
..it, ifnot tile very best of the gymnastic
.
exercises that I know. It exercises almost
- 'every muscle of the body.
HEAVEN.—A negro woman was relating
her experience to a gaping congregation of
her own calor. Among otherthingt , she
said she had been to heaven. One of the
brethren lays ;
Sister,, you see any black folks in heav:
out"
" She replied, ictoh, go wily Sint, don't
put *.body out 4 , Impose in do -Niche
when I was dart
MONTROSE, PA. ENE 17, 1847.
A DREA! TAIT WAS NOT ALL,A DiIEAM.I
I TRUE TARN OF TEE ■EStCAR (OAST.
:1n1834, when I was yet a youngster *-
fore the mast, Itook a trip to Tampico ill a
little trading schooner culled " The Eller"
cpmmanded by a jolly skipper from Florida,.
one That Marin, a dark skinned Spanioh
Creole, who, "for short" was by his frielis
always termed " Nig." The schooner grfp
erally carried out dry-goods and provisions
on her owners' account;: but I always had
an idea, (which I kept to myself,) that site
" tonned" more than her register made lAer
responsible for, and that her hold always
contained more goods than could be foulid
on her manifest.
But to return. We were only nine ddis
on our ,run from New Yorkout to the month
ot Tampico river; and about noon on the
tenth day we stretched in over the bar, with
a lending wind, that would t.ttsily 'have cUr
ried us with a flowing sheet um to'the ten n,
which was nearly twek'e miles above ; gut
for reasons best known to himself, the Cap
tau) anchored as soon us we passed the fort
and rounded Point Tammeco, just above aid
ottt reach of its guns. The revenue-bitat
from the gua . rda-rosta came on board before
our sails were furled and the custom-hotise
otlieers overhauled our papers and mnnif4st. ,
They seemed a little suspicious, and.oneof '
the officers was left on board to watch Its,
while the rest went aboard of their own
craft, which lay nearly a half a mile further
down the river, under the gunsof the fort.
As soon as dinner was ready the Captain
invited the revenue officer down into the
cabin to dine with him; and as they wCnt
below, the former winked his large laughing
eye at the mate, and I knew well that th4e
was fun in the wind. As\soon as the citp=
taut and Mexican got below, the mate shp
ped into the small boat and sculled aslnire.
I sat- no more of hirmuntil after dark tilat
night. In the meantime I could tell by the
lively voices in the cabin that theofficer rind
captain were getting along very welltogvh
er ; and once in a while the tinkle of triget
lag glasses and a jolly. song spoke o a
". spirit potential" that was playing upon the
hearts and senses of both parties. • I
As night came on„. more hilarious ware
the tones and more vivid the sounds which
arose frdm the cabin ; and it appeared that
1 while twilight began to get blue above, timy
,
I were fast getting " blue' below. , Firit I
' could hear our Mexican sputtering forth a
'Spanish bacchanalian glee; then Captain
Marin would give a touch of a sea-song; or
a specimen of his " nigger-melody." lAt
last, a little after dark, with a
, real Havitna
in•each of their mouths, they came on d4ck,
the skipper and the watcher. Both *ere
decidedly and unequivocally drunk, if ime
Might judge from their " walk and conversa
tion ;" but I could see at a single Ounce
that the captain was shamming, althoughlthe
" spiritual reality" was visible in the Mtiti
can. He seemed how elver to retain some
shrewd notions of his dty, and to krum chat
as night was over us, W I e intended to sug
tf,
gle, it was necessary to keep his eyes open.
So lie seated,himself on the taffrail with! an
air of drunken dignity ; and ai he. !mutated
a Spanish barcarole, kept watch over !the
movements of the creir about the cick,
glancing now and then sp and down the Mill
river. • 1
As the night advanced, I saw that Captain
Marin began to look uneasy and anxic,lus,
althOugh lie pretended' to he even more
drunk than his guest and spy. At last, when
it was near Midnight, the Mexican bec#rne
less frequent in his snatches of song, and the
" liqupr-drowse',' seemed to be homing over
him. He would all unwillingly closes his
eyes, and then his head would make a ng
slow bow tott'ards some being, imaginary or
invisible, until the chin rested on his bre(mt,
when up it would fly, as if a bee had siting
it, and slowly, drowsily the eyes would ci:ien
to the accustomed watch.
• ,
. Captain Mario now lay down besideithe
Mexican, and pretended to fall into a sound
sleep, attesting the same by a long, loud nod
regular snore. This threw the Mexicali
Completely off his guard ; and wrapping
his watch-coat closer around him, he follpw
ed suit; and theft the twain seemed tti be
trying which could snore the loudest. V 4 ten
Senor Mexican had got fairly under Iliad
way the captain rose lightly from the dqck,
passing forward, took the lunthorn from the
binnacle and held it for a Injnute over !the
bows. Presently I saw several dark obie, cts
coming out from under the shadow . on the
land, and in a few moments more six hirge
native canoes were alongside of us. Inithe
first one ihat boarded us was the mate tud
.4
a merchant whom I Well knew to belon to
one of the. first houses in. Tampico. he
boats came noiselessly alongside, and eir
crews crept stealthily on board. Wi t a
sound the hatches were raised, and p ge
after package of, rich dry-goods was passed
up from the hold and over the,side intoishe
boats, by the tawny, half-naked roscals.l
The boats were nearly all loaded, *hen
I, who had been placed to watch over the
sleeping revenue officer, saw him, open! his
eyes ; and before I ,could move or speak, be
saw and compreheuded all that was gjang
on. Springing to his feet, he shouted
" Guarda costa . 1 -1-4cmtrabandistas !" i
One bound. from where he steed by the
main hatchway to the tatrmil, and our, ap
lain write by the side of the Officer,, with his
brawny lianda incirclitig the windpipe from ,
which proceeded soiMuch poise. The Mei
ican tried to draw Itts, sword, and ,strogKled
manfully to get free, from tbe.choking grip ;
but Captain Maria /pew that the entirelless
of his vessel and ctgo would follow dlteo.-.
lion, and he was not disposed to irate.—
Mick,
a nd
the Merican,in spite Of :his ickS
and writhings, in his strong arras,' he 'lly
pitched him overboard ! It was quite ark,
and as the tide waa- ebbing swiftly 'Own
wad, he passed out of iiititt lestatttly 4 "tat
,I tbr minutes we coald hear him 4Plaikia_, g
and g urgling lot*, wateri, trying te: 11PO4.
Than all. Was Aill !again: We ' line!! 'riot
whether he had eat* of glineti the _shore;
nor, to tell the , truth; "did we Much . '
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' '
ii Bear a hand, boys !t Said the captain;
" tumble in these packaoss: get the test of '
the goods into the boa tii and le ' them get'
ashore. If that tego hash't-dran too much
water, be rimy 've.us siime trouble about
this matter lyet:r -
In a few Imonients theilast package to be
smuggled Was 'passed i6to the', boats; the
",patron," I who had made- the purchase,
counted out. the pay in doubloons; the ca
noes pushed off, and soon vanished up the
river. In 4 feW tninuteti our hatches were
replaced, the decks cleared up as before,
and the crew retired to dieir berths, with or
ders to be Found asleep *nd not to wake up
on any ace i bunt.'
All this vas 'Scarcely tirranged, when' the
dash of oars coining hastily up the river was'
heard, andlinnother inoment an armed
boat *dm the iiarda-edslit was alongside.
At the first sou dof the approaching boat,
t it
Captain Marin bad laiwilown where be first
pretended to go l tdaleePi and he was now
snoring lodder gum ever. Even the Clines,
many, 100 and .deep, di the angry , Mexi
cans, failed to rouse hi4from his deepslum
ber. The , officer who i bad been thrown
overheard,' still dripping from his involun
tary bath, rushed aft, and with no gentle
means tried to arouse thh . sleeper. _ At last
the captain, gaping and stretching, slowly
opened hisl eyea, and ail he yawned and
scratched his head, cool asked what was
the matter , and what 'Os wanted. Then
came a sate! All poitttin,g to the officer
who had hen taking a infidnight 'swim all
alone by I imsell, wbo,l with voice louder
than all the rest; swore dint he should have
been drowaed i!f St. Antonio hadn't made
the sentinels hear his vtfice. ed . beard the
guarda costa, and caused them 'lt o ' send-him
a boat. The captain ciuld not i be made to
understand whit was th 'annul; and when
he was charged with baiting thrown the rev
cube - officer overboard; and with having
smugglingboati alongrade, he raised 'his
hands in holy horror toddrds the stars, and
indignantly replied : "It's a d---ii lie !
Why," said he to the officers of the guarda
costa, " that gentleman dined with me ' • we
drank pretty freely, and then came up from
the cabin, when both - odes lay down here to
sleep. I did not wake up until now : he
must have been dreamibg, and have fallen' .
overboard in l l iis sleep ! i You all saw that I
was sound as eep when you came aboard-;
how then could I have ill owu him overboard 1
The idea is absurd, nonsensical;' the whole
story is improbable—yes, istpossiNe! See,
my hatches ore all bat(ened dOwn, just as
they were when you :were on beard, when I
came in from , sea to-da' ; nothing has been
moved ; my Crew are a I asleep. He .must
I
have beenldreaming: d while he dreamed
of smugglers,land the I e•of such , he must
have Men overboard. 1 'He knihrs very well,
that he was "xis drunk is s , a !ord.! " •
The story of the cap?ain was . well con
ceived, and told with still better effect among
all the revenue officerqsave the victim him
self, who called upon erery saint idthe cal
ender to come down add swear that his sto
ry was true. q But thet perfect order and
quietude of Mk vessel ;him crew all. sound
asleep ; the hatches battened droll', just as
they were in the morning; the lionestindig
nation of the , !sleepy - captain, and the ac
knowledgement of the ;victim that he had
been very drunk, comared badly with his
story, and th ' yarn of c aptain ' ' Maria was
believed. Th' ! r ' soaked" .official was taken
1
back to his -o n vessel ; to be tried for sleeti
ing on his watch, whiled another officer was
left in his plaee to keep us from smuggling.
When day-light carne,*e•weighed anchor
and sailed up! to the toltin, where we honest
ly dischargedithe,cargit per manifest, pay
ing honorably, all duties4nd charge's thereon.
Captain Mtrin only Cleared jfive thousand
dollars by that trip; tind we have often
laughed since at the scene I have described,
especially the Mexicants Dream, which mai
not all a- Dream.—Kncckerbocker.
NOTHING is i MADE IS VAIN.--This great
truth was never more forcibly er pertinently
exemplified than latelyi in the se of ii far
mer who was one of those ho think that
every farm should be '01; clea ing and that
the se
"clearing; signifies/1 place from which
all the trees htive been leared j a sort offer
mer, by-the-Way, wl4ch is very .plentiful
about these diggins." ;This individual hav
ing cut downithree nailf trees on his own
'ground cooly walked.oier to al neighbor and.
kindly voluntered to -itit down gratis two
magnificent emperor elms, w rich drooped
their arms over a mossji stone ear the door
of his friend. 1 The ast4dished and horified
neighbor, bad the self #Brninai d to be able
to restrain hifi just iniligdatii n, and with
great presence of inindlbegan o recite in a
slow and imrpiessive Inner be immortal
lyric " Woodinan spat:e that tree." , The
Goth was' struck with _this nov I manner of
meeting his pjropositio4 He istened atten
tively to the first lines OM the :cilia went 'on
he dropped 14 sap-thirly axe, •n d his eopn
tenance fell - With it, anjt as th • reciter con
cluded, he sa 'lt; down upon a log,' buried
his head in h s bands nod we it.aloud. -.
Since that ime ho lint had a raving ar
borphobia.• e will nit ride i a wagon be
causeit has x-le-treeii;_lfas illed- his dog
because he bMks ; flogged his soil • because
he is a sap ;-Stoped diking r. it bear ; re
fused to go to the tnentgerie est he :should
see an•eleph t with s 6 trunk and actually
dreadetol at YANitptral..nte because
it contains le res and •lirood c ts.
•
SWEDISH ' ,ffnuum4. , •Mr.
his Travels' rough iiistrotleit,si
uni
children, 'Om ogle -'of ti
eighteen
. nto the, tire !rail
ges s like cyl' driettl.wkk line I
contrived go; alp keei 'their
witholit inte ring 'width wi
They creiu - litit . om
or kid in An 'conveniireit , pnit
without - muck. nitity;',4llere I
great liklintilkt‘
.04 11 '
heard I the' 'cry of .ii - clird iii
Sweden.": t,. , . .4. ,• 0 „, ;
_,
v
or , Amilveniillag.„ - 4 i
:..,:- ~
Advt. , . .._ . , rl
alltscumuily. Mooned at. the usu 9
al =tonal fattm- square falba &skald 1,1
Twziert4 titnis foiesbah subsequent
~11
insertioM-1 • • l '.. - ' ' ' - ' • T
YearlytiAvertissinsints, ;with the Pityiletp of a 1..,
temilom not':to immed , . . '7 , - 1 4. `
QuartergubasaMmithOsirt, PectiumTnir, $ 001[
Half Court ,' ' ' lac 1 - 41 0 -8 00 il;
One Column,do , do 15 00 1 ,
&nines. Carfc do ° do . 300 I.
All other adyertisements inserted at remonabil
Advert ini :t er ts should be ..tnurked With tb° Pm° •J
ber of • • Hired. 1
MI
• , i
One !Fay : . Fill a.Picaum fiiaUeri. 3
A letter frcen Paris speaking of the siglity)
to be seen there, adds ::• 1'
, • . , • 5
The piesident of. the Council, Mars hal
. i''
Soult; - never throws open his sloore--itP_
would east money. A more 'avaricious" old(
Israelite }
„ does not exist in France ; aerie bet,
at all scrupulous as !to how he fills hii purse.
Ills Spanish, gallery of paintings, for
.itsil
stance were the spoils of - his Peniuselari
campaigns, Which, he was in honor bound tali
have depOsited in:the Louvre, hut preferred
keeping, Occasionally disposing 4480mi11/ere.
for a yak° ' sum. Not a fortnight since tel
thus sold the Pararytii, by Murillo, for eight
ty thmiitend dollars and was very indignant 4
stimuli Of the papers for saying that thei •
money tdiould go into the artny,chest. Acl
carding eil to 'his account,- every picture' wa' - , ,
percha.f— ra
and the tsactiorldy which hil
beesitne - the proprietor of the Paralytic (n
related by him after dinner to a friend) is •4 .
curinu piece of picture dealing : _ . ' l ll
." ' eoPle reproach - me for hiving stole'CO
pictures - in Spain, but-I bought them . 84%4 -
Let theni! ladled !' said the listener , with
an •inedible elevation: of the eye rowiii
'Yes, bought them, sir !' returned Soulti
' Ther ; fcir 'instance, is my Muerillo, th°
•famousl Pere/irk—a co t me two monkq
' Tivo 'honks !' ejaculted the listener. 'Y' -
two monks —tivo as fin fat, sleek, oily m
of God las you '
ever laid yes on .'
IBut t
monks for a picture !''e claimed the astoai
ished liitener. 'Yes, I ave two monks far
, that picture, sir !' said S ult, ' and it wasps
this wa that the bargain was made :-,-(
some more of the[Burgundy.) One eveniget
after having bebn rather hard pushed by .
Wellinton and his red eoated rascals I an
a grea i ' number of my, nien had taken o f
our qt±rers in a convent . We* made ifik
. laze oaks give us a geed supper, and pleii:
ty 'good wine, and therl we went to bed. 4
Next morning, when the men were muster•
ed, it ties reported. that some twenty or thiii- ,
ty of ni.* . grenadiers had been found wi t'
their throats cut--=thegood monks had j it •
seirereditheir windpipes as they slept, and s _ •
enough ' the poor fellows were as dead'
slaughtered sheep. Well; I immediate).* lei
i
all the i tuonks drawn up, and said to theis
" Youl infernal Tagatonds, I can't afford di
lose 1) 1 0? grenadiers in this way, and to coR
vince. ou of the fact I !bean to hang' eve
one o f yon It Such a •waril of despair I nes4 r
hea ollOred by_ pitetius sppplications
• To!
it : of
perdcia. After ' frightening them well, 1
consented 4, far to pardon them as onelyt
hang the same number bf them they had
killed of our men ; it 'was. twenty edd, arid
they vrere tn draw loth. The doomed, - *
were Soon set one side,! the ropes knmto,
around their necks, and my men were jig
a ut 6tringing them up, when two bi ther
victi ' declared thertiablves to be the abbOt
and his istant 'Sorry I can't Oblige
ou gentle en, but really (fill your glas s,) must hang you.' . ' Mercy, _oh save us r-14-
' Can't do it gentleman, you really intik
swing livid, the rag r 'I Listen said the' SO
bot, "we have hid away - Murillo's Paralyt
ic—tape has a ransom ' and let us ' go.' ' ,
thought this was fair enough bargain, I tO.
the me digniteries and 'up went the .stf,
thus giving the two monks fur the Mu Ilt.
And yet people will say that I don't be my
Spaniith gallery.' "
1
tar, A northetm correspondent sea, . ds
the following, which wos suggeiited b the
le
" Nutriber twelve, peg 0 heel" anecd , iit
our last gossipry :—" - n amazing , if
feet appeared in ,the ba -email of an . , to
tious village - inn, late o e evening, the oyirnir
of which inquired anx ously for the , bad
black.. The bell rang nervously, and in [ )s
momenta keen Yanked : , ilhistrator of ' Day
and Martin's best' popped into the Yootp.+
•• Bring me a jack !' exclaimed the nitin.,, -
of great t under-standing.' The waiter hit
voluntarily started forward, but-chancing.
iii
catch a glimpse of the boots , - he stop
shorta d a ft er another and a closer exa -
ination aid,-with equal twang and emph -
sis: .ti I say yeou, you taint agoin' to 'moire
this wpr in a hurry; you've got too godd
whold uoto the grouud. Want a b9otine4,
eh .1 W hy, bless your soul, there stint /a
boot-jick on airth big enough for theiabooti i
I don't believe that a jack-ass could gia
'em. off." My stars ! man !' cried . 'air
friend; of the big feet, ' What'll Ido? - I ca t
get my hoots of without a jack 1' I t4l
you what / should do,' replied' Boots,' 4f
they Were mine; I should go back •to the
fork of the road; and pull 'em off there 1 :4-
That ( would fetch them, I guess I' "—Kaick
el:locker. . 1 q
NED IBEIVTLINE.
;
'Donald, in
Young
e to that of,
Up in bandit
et*! which - aro
' straight,
.:their growth:
ia't 4 he wit%
of roOn — r the ,
thiP-fttiatin'
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Te 1 1 .
661. 4* - 4 1181
of :rx Cs
.' FIGHT BETWEN A. FDOG AND A Ronm.-1.
letter, of the 14th ult., from hurling - tor. c ,
lowa, to , the N. York Spirit of the Tim.,
tells thin story : L
, Whilst sitting near a small pond hint
month cooling t h yself after a hard traelp
through tan uglyi medow, after -snipe,. (44)-
d ug nothing,) nay atNntion.ivan attractedifiy
a robinhoppinglabout in the grass : near tie
edge Of the' water, and whilst making a Of
culationlof howl many, such bird" it wottld
take to make a potpie, a larg i 'fiirg of be
bloodYnoun speck., pounced , upon him 140
a cook on wimpy, seized him by the -heed,
and. Plunged . inn) the waterxith him Win
erisuid one 'of the toughest kttd; of a.:figh •
under nod on torround ;and ,round•—,l4
t
ions thetOtothe • Idid not knew *hick
bet on ; ithe oddp werelather in favor. ef
Frog;uiltil Rehrin looked hint! in the., fa
with Jail left 01.0..wbenihe let go and dol ,
leasing the fteldto his opponent who did
te l 4o
reMaialingitneugh for me Ici. Pere
himAtiling,-prilhahly, some. what ;oho' ...
lin v ithaiog it) near sucked in.l l , ‘• . , ...
_I.
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lietiati Rev. DlPiel Isik4G-Nflibotit l
s
iteli . Artig and o gnat IMAM: "...t. !thk'tiblie
T i me cried olitikt Who ourptiaaildia c*,
!ir
day with aai la ' hi., t" mou th e , .,sst, rat,
idyl; +., ~` , - 01 ;rnadawe - roidadita
iy i ebartuagiw- 1 '',., - , ,::
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