The Columbia spy. and literary register. (Columbia, Pa.) 1848-1848, July 01, 1848, Image 1
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE.] AND LITERARY REGISTER. NEW SERIES, VOL. 1, NO, 52.3 CEO. W. SCHROYER, Editor and Pubisher. Office---Pront Street, three doors above Locust. 'retina. —The CoI.UMnSL Ser is published every Saturday morning at the low price of ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE, or one dollar nod fifty cents,' not paid within one month of the time of subscribing. Single copies, THREE CENTS. TERMS or ADVERTlSlNG—Advertisements not exceed ing a square three times for el. and 25 cents for each additional insertion. 7 hose of a greater length In pro portion. t5-A. liberal discount made to yearly adver tisers. Jon Marino Stich as Iland-bills, Posting-bills Cards, Labels, Pamphlets, Blanks of every description Circulars, etc. etc., executed with neatnessand despatch and on reasonableterms. PRILADELPHLI ADVERTISEMENTS. WiT'ECY WILL VOU SUFFER. Thousands of bottles of the AMERICAN COMPOUND has been sold daring the past year and was never known to fail of curing, in a few days, the most cases of a certain delicate disease. Siminal weakness nnd all diseases of the Urinary organs. Persons afflicted using this pleasant and popular remedy, need fear no exposure, as it leaves no odor on the breath, requires no restrictions in diet or business—contains no Mercury or noxious drugs, injurious to the system, and is adapted to every age, sex, and condition. It is also the best remedy known for Fluor Albus or Whites, (female complaints) with which thousands suffer, without the knowledge of a remedy. This celebrated remedy has long been used in the private practice of a physician with unerring success, radically curing ninety-nine of the hitm dred cases in a few days. Around each bottle are plain and full directions. Irs—CAUTION.—Ask for the AMERICAN COMMEND, and purchase only of the agent. Price $1 a bottle. Sold by June 3, 1846.-Iy. R. WILLIAMS. 1i17X172/ES roil SALE at the sign of the "Red Curtain," Fourth and Market Street, Philadelphia. 0. WIIEELOCK, PROPRIETOR. CAKES:—Fruit, Sponge, Pound, Iced, Spiced, Queen Cakes, Scotch Cakes, Lemon Cakes, Short Cakes, Cheese Cakes, Rusk, Apples, Jumbles, Spice Nuts, and Ginger Nuts. - PIES e—Strawberry, Burtleberry, Blackberry, Currant. Cherry, Plum, Cranberry, Egg Custard, Cheese Custard, Apple, Peach, Mince, mod Rheubarb Pica pouring in hot from the oven at all hours of the day. CHEESE :—Timothy Jackson's, lie Plus Ultra Medal Cheese, (very superior,) Pine Apple Cheese, and a great variety of the Cheese,both new and old. N. B. Some of the Cheese sold at this establishment is equal to the best English Cheese. ire- TEMPERANCE DRlNKS—always cold—Rou sell's Mineral Water, Lemonade, Beer, Mead, Milk, dcc. Philadelphia, June 10,184.9.-9 m COUNTRY MTERCEE49.NTS. 'PAN save from 16 to 26 per cent. by purchas ing their OIL CLOTHS direct from the manufuctu- POTTER & CARMICHAEL have opened a Ware house, No. 135 North Third Street above Race, second door South of the Eagle Hotel, PIIILADELPLIA, where they will always keep on hand a complete assortment of PATENT ELASTIC CARRIAGE OIL CLOTHS, 28, 36, 40.46, 48, and 54, inches wide. Figured, Painted, and Plain, on the inside, on Muslin Drilling and Linen. TABLE Om CLorits of the most desirable patterns, 36, 40, 46, and 54 inches wide. Fimon Om CLOTHS, from 28 in ches to 21 feet wide well seasoned, and the newest style of patterns, all of their own manufacture. Transparent Window Shades, Carpets, &c. All goods warranted. Philadelphia, May 27-3 m 3-r:1-1 (IF TILE NEW CROP. DAVID RANRIN, Chestnut Street, PHILADELPHIA, has for sale the following TEAS, viz: 300 half chests Young.Yyson Teas. 100 do Gunpowder, do. 150 do Imperial,do. 10 do Dyson do. 1000 do Powchong, do. 200 do Ningyong Souchong 1.00 do Oolong, do. 75 chests Padre Souchong. 45 do Black leaf Pekoe. 25 half chests, do do. 25 do Orange do. 1000 matte Cassia. These Tens comprise the best chops imported m ships Sea Witch, Rainbow. Tonquin, Inca, and Huntress, and are equal to any teas that have been offered to this market. Philadelphia, May 6,1519.-3 m GILE.ILT DZISTRUCTION. HOW many die a most horrible death without the simple cause being suspected. Some linger for years, as they suppose, froin dispepsia, when it is worms, which causes most diseases. There has come under our notice several cases of supposed dispcpsin, of several years , standing, when we have recommended the Syrup, which has entirely restored them to health. We would say to AULTS when they are afflicted with Sour Stomach. Sick Head Ache, Fits, a frequent deceive to make Stools, Leanness, Bloated Stomach, Nervousness, Sickness after eating, Sensation of rising in the throat after eating, &c., be assured it is simply worms, and it needs but a trial of HOBENSACK'S WORM SYRUP to satisfy you it is so, and if you have any of the above symptoms and the Syrup tails to cure, the agent will re fund the money. TO PARENTS we would say, that the greatest sin you are convicted of, is to let your children suffer and die, when there is a simple pleasant Vegetable remedy at band. his said by our oldest Physicians, that Worms cause more deaths yearly, than all the other dis eases the human family are subject to. Then, how im portant it is to have a safe and pleasant remedy at hand. Parents, when your children have sore or inflamed eyes, you may rest satisfied that it is caused by worms, and you will do well to call on the storekeepers of your neighborhood and get a 'look of Hobensack's, containing certificates of cures and the symptoms of worms. Al ways kecpn Bottle of flohensack's Worm Syrup on lintid, it in a friend in need. READ ON! READ ON!! READ ON!!! Iffessns Honassses—Gentlemen : I take great pleasure in informing yon of the great efficacy of your Worm Sy rup ; having been afflicted for five years, and wasted away to a mere skeleton, without rccreving any benefff from various medicines, I was induced by Jesse Roberts to try your Worm Syrup, as he informed me it had brought worms from him; also, of Squire A. Tomlinson,of Ducks county, a man over fifty years old, whom I am well ac quainted with. I then commenced taking your Syrup, and it brought a very large quantity of worms, some ten tnches in length. and entirely restored me to health, and, I must say I feel like a new man, Yours, truly, JOHN HART, Phil'a co. Mr. J. Hart is a gentleman thirty-three years of age, living five miles out of the city, back of Second at. road, and is only one amongst the hundred grown persons that have been saved by HODUNSACK'S WORM SYRUP. Messrs. Hobensack I have been looking for some of your Worm Syrup for sonic time ; I have sold all but one. bottle ; I wish you to send me two dozen immediately. I believe it to he a good medicine ; I have seen it tried tc my satisfaction. I have Itnown one dose to bring from a child three worms, ten inohes long, and from another twenty worms, eight inches long in one day. I have sold different Worm Me dicines for a number of years, but never sold any that gave such universal satisfaction. Respectfully, yours, WM. BROOKFIELD, Bridgeton, New Jersey PIULADELPTHA, May 25, 18 . 17 . Messrs. J. N & G. S. Hobensack--Gentlemen-1 have been for some time using your 4 . Verrnifugen in my prac tice, and I am happy to say that in my bands it has sue eceded in its intention, so as fully to justify my confidence in its use. I think it among the very bestpreparauons in use. C. W. Arrseros, 34. 0., N o. 46, South st Prepared only by J. N. & G. S. 110BENSACK, ed and Coates street, Philadelphia, and for sale by all re sPetable Storekeepers M this and adjoining counties, whom we authorize to give back the money in every case it fails to give satisfaction. Price 25 cents. Also Hobensack's Hyena Tooth Ache Drops. Price Ili cents, a certain cure (or Tooth Ache. Hobensack's Rheumatic Liniment. Price 25 cents. do Cureall Salve. Price 121 cents, for weak backs, sprains, fresh and old gores, burns, etc. Ilobensadk's Totter and Ringworm Ointment. Price 25 cents, warranted to cure all irruptions of the skin— tor sale as above. Philadelphia May .17,—tno 1846. anga..0.12211 og. SON, I.IWEBI COMNISION and PORWADING MERCHANTS, No. 48 Commerce Street Wharf, Baltimore, Will receive and sell Floor, Grain Iron, and all kinds of country pro duce N. B.—Particular attention given to the sale of LVITSMS and cash ADVANCES made on a consignment when re• quired 'Waren 2.5, IPla 41m THE COLUMBIA SPY From the New Orleans Delta Looking over some poetry which I had selected from the papers, I was struck with the peculiar ap positeness of one piece to the present state of Eu rope. It was written some years since, by Mrs. Volney E. Howard, and published in one of the Northern papers: FANCY AUCTION. All ye who have romance within your souls, Nor weigh in veracity's scale Each beautiful phantom that brightens life, Haste, haste to our fancy sale! Oh—h—h yes! in Almanzor's palace of truth, For sale—or else to let, A thousand wild Vißiolls of the olden time, Parted from with regret. The rock where a Mermaid was wont to sing, A grave where the Dryads met ; A Naiad's well, and a fairy ring, To let, oh yes ! to be let! A hall where a spectre was wont to roam, O'er floors with his blood once wet, A headless horse and a black phantom dog, To sell—oh yes or to let. A piece of new music received to-day, Sung by a siren coquette, Writ by a Fay with a bumming-bird's To sell, but mrr to let! In the Bartz wild mountains a country scat, Built by n Gnome in a pet, When he chose from the lower world to retreat, To sell, oh yes! or to let. Some ancient thrones, with sceptres and crowns, They are not quite vacant Ter! But the race of Kings is vanishing fast— They'll soon be to sell or to let! From Chambers' Edinburgh Journul. THE BATH POSTBOY. [The Original of Fielding'', Squire Al[worthy.) It was in the early part of the last century, when the mail was transmitted from the principal towns of England in charge of a mounted post man, with holster-pistols and saddle-bags, and car ried from the smaller ones by poor boys, who re ceived a halfpenny a mile for serving the Post Office in all weathers, that the Postmaster of Bath informed all whom it might concern, by a printed bill in the window, that a. smart active lad of fif teen or thereby was required to carry the mail be tween that town and Marlborough, at the above. mentioned rate of wages. The road was long and rough; and three days had already passed, during which the mail was carried by the Postmaster's own good boy, and man-of-all-work, much to Iris discomfort, and the manifest dissatisfaction of the good people of Marlborough, to whom their letters came several hours too late; but no candidate for the situotics, had yet presented himself. At length, on the fourth morning, which was that of a Sultry July day, a thin, muscular, intelligent-looking boy, dressed in the habiliments of earlier years, which be had evidently outgrown, made his appearance, cap in hand, before Mr. Burton the senior clerk, and inquired, "Sir, if you ;della° ' would I be old enough to carry tho Marlborough bag? I'm only fourteen yet, but I'll always be growing older and wiser I hope." "And may be worse!" muttered the clerk, who happened to be out of temper that morning. "But step in here," he continued, pointing to another room, .‘ and Mr. Leathetn will see what you're fit for." Mr. Leathern was a quiet elderly gentleman, who had kept the Post Office for several years in the rich and gay City of Bath, which was, at the time of our story, the resort of all the fashionables of Britain, especially in the summer season, re. ambling, in that respect, what Brighton has since become. Ho spoke to the boy more civilly than his clerk had done; said he considered him tall enough for the business; and then ho inquired what was his name, where his parents lived,land if ho knew any respectable person who would give him a character for honesty and sobriety, as with. out such a certificate the Pust Office could not employ him 7 The boy answered that his name was Ralph Allen; that his father had been a poor tradesman, but iw, was dead, and his mother sup. ported herself by taking in washing; and " 1 wasn't brought up here, sir ; but my mother came in hopes of getting fine work from the gentry; and here's a certificate from a kind gentleman, the vicar of our parish : I used to run errands for him, and he said it might be useful to roe :" "This is to certify that Ralph Allen is a sensi. ble, honest, industrious boy, and I hope will con. tinue to be so. WILLIAM WA ILBURTOPL" said the Postmaster, reading loud. 4. Well, that's a good certificate, though the writer is unknown to me; but wo will let it pass for this time, and take you on trial." After several exhortations to be careful of the mail, and walk fast, that he might arrive in time, Ralph Allen was duly equipped with a leathern bag, suspended by a strap over his shoulder, con. taining all the letters and newspapers in those days transmitted to Marlborough, and sent forth to earn the halfpenny per mile. Day after day he performed that appointed jour ney, through sun and shower, going and coming to the entire satisfaction of the Postmasters of Bath and Marlborough. Roads were not then so convenient fur travelers, nor time so precious with the public, as at present; but Ralph was never known to loiter by the way, nor arrive an hour too late, which could seldom be said of other postboys. Travellers between the towns soon began to know him on the road, and remarked from stage-coach, wagon or saddle—the only modes of conveyance in those days—that his conduct was always care. ful and steady; and people who did not travel trusted him with small messages in consequence of their reports. If a lady wanted a fashionable cap from Bath, or a notable housekeeper some trifle which could be bought cheaper in Martha. rough, Ralph Allen was known to be a sober and less exhorbitant carrier than either the coachmen or wagoner, and be was preferred accordingly. This was a source of additional gain, which In creased every day, till the boy generally reached his destination in either town laden with parcels of all sorts and sizes, for the carriage of which he re. ceived from twopence to a farthing, as the case might be, or the liberality of his employers dictated. How the short tiime allowed between the close of his daily duty and his nightly rest was usually spent in his mother's poor bat clean garret, nobody could tell; till Mr. Leathern, who had by this time a very high opinion of his pootboy for general good condnet and correctness in his station, in quired one morning, while Ralph was waiting for the mail, what book was that protruding from his pocket? poctru. .s'tiert Zale. COLUMBIA, SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1848. "It's tho ' Universal Spelling Book,' sir," said Ralph, reddening as lie pulled out the well-worn volume. " I try to learn at home in the little time I have, and can now nearly read." " That's well, my boy," said Mr. Leathem : " I wish the rest of our boys would spend their leisure time so." "And, sir," continued Ralph, now encouraged to speak out, " I'm trying to write, too, and have got the master of the Blue Coat School to give me a lesson sometimes for doing his messages, air." "You'll be a clerk yet, Ralph," said the Post master laughing. "Bat it is a good endeavor, and I hope you'll succeed: but mind be careful of the mail." His employer's words turned out true, though spoken half in jest. Ralph continued to earn, by every honest though small way within his reach: his _earnings were saved to purchase an old book when he could not borrow it, or supply himself pens, ink, and paper, by which he at once amused and improved his few leisure hours in reading, or even spelling, to his mother, when her day's toil was also done, and practicing the chance lessons he could obtain from the schoolmaster. Reading woe at that period a rare thing in his class, and cheap books of instruction were equally so; but from the Spelling Book, Ralph Allen advanced to the Dictionary and Grammar; from strokes,' to writing a good fair hand. His savings also in creased by slow degrees, for both he and his mother were prudent ; and Ralph only wished for the time when he might aspire to some better situ ation and be enabled to add to her rest and com. fort. Five years had thus passed away ; Ralph Allen had grown almost a man, when all the mes sage-senders of Bath, among whom he was well known, rejoiced, even amid their regrets that they must look out for another carrier, to hear that Ralph Allen had been promoted, through the kind. ness of Mr. Leathern, to a clerkship in the Bath Post Office, and was actually seen in a new suit of clothes performing his new duties at the Post Office window. After this his mother washed nothing but lace and cambric, and Ralph was as steady and obliging in the Post Office us he bad been with the mail on his back. His salary was comparatively small,but his prudence was great, and in another year or two, people discovered that Ralph had something in the bank. His habits of reading and thought also gave him en ability to invent needful improvements in the Post Office, which was then very imperfectly managed. These were modestly proposed; and as their necessity was seen, they soon obtained the sanction of the superior authorities, and raised the young clerk, not only in their estimation, but in office also, as in three years after his entrance lie succeeded the senior clerk, Mr. Burton, by whom his application for the carriage of the Marlborough bag had been so ungraciously received, and who now retired to a small property he had purchased in the country. Two years more, and Ralph himself began to think of purchasing property also. There was a large sterile farm called Comma Down, in the neigh. borhood of the city, which the last three tenants had successively 101 l in disgust and weariness, de. daring that their labor and money were both lost on such an unprofitable spot, and the landlord offer ecl it for sheep-grazing on the very lowest terms. Great was the astonishment of all who knew him, when Ralph Allen became the purchaser of these poor and barren acres. Some said the young roan's brains were turned with the books he read, and even his mother shook her head, and hoped it would turn out for the best; but Ralph gave up his situation at the Post Office, collected round him workmen and tools, and commenced, not without creating much wonder and many surmises, to break up the ground in all directions, as if in search of IA mine. ..Dicighbor, do you expect to find a pot of gold in that farm 7" said an old farmer to him over the fence one morning, where lie and his men were delving at a rocky spot that never could be culti vated. "No," sold Ralph ; "but I expected, and thank Providence, I have found a good stone quarry, which will repay me, and be useful to von good town ;" and he pointed to the spires of Bath. "My stars!" cried the farmer, " he's not mad after all 1" And so thought all Ralph's neighbors, when buyers came and workmen thronged to the now quarry; and scarcely a gentleman's house or public building of any dessiription could be com menced in Bath without a supply of stone from Mr. Allen, us the Bath post-boy was now deservedly called. Mrs. Allen bad long given up washing, and gone to reside in a neat cottage with her son built out of Die first produce of his quarry ; and many of her former employers saluted the good woman as she passed to St. Mary's church in her black sar- Benet sack, high.heeled shoes, and velvet hood, like a respectable old lady of the period, About this time the works of the great Doctor Warburton were attracting public attention, and much talked of in the best society of Bath. Ralph Allen brought the latest published volume home one day, and found his mother sealed in the small parlor with his old .friend Mr. Leathern, who was about to retire from public business and had called to see him. " What books you do buy, Ralph 1" said the old woman, who had always a suspicion of her son's extrava gance on this point ; and she pointed to a largo bookcase, where Dryden, Tillotson, and all the bent authors of the preceding age might be seen in their works closely ranged together. "It was only last week," continued the good dame, "that you brought home that book about Fame, written by one Mr. Pope." "And don't you know, mother, who is the wri ter of this volume 7" said Ralph. "Don't you re memeber Mr. Warburton, the Parson of our own Greasley, in Nottinghamshire, who gave me the certificate which I presented to you, Mr. Leathern, ten years ago, when I wished to be post•boy to Marlborough 7" This was true• ' the vicar of Greasley became the celebrated Dr. Warburton, afterward Bishop of Gloucester; and it was said Mr. Leathern's family kept that certificate like a sort of relic. "Ralph Allen's making his fortune„' was the usual remark of everybody about Bath when the quarry was mentioned ; and it had now grown an important matter, as the whole property of Came Down, which so many farmers had called a dead labs, was found to be one vast bed of the best build. ing stone. Ralph was making money fast, and his deposits in the Bank increased every year; but his aims did not end there—the experience of Lis former situa. lion in the Post Office was at length employed to some purpose. Sundry useful arrangement. and inventions had lung ago made his name and abilities known to the authorities of that Department. At the period of our story, the Post Office in almost every county was farmed by some wealthy or enterprising person, who took its whole revenue and expenses in his own hands, paying to the Go. vernment a certain sum annually, according to his contract. Ralph. who had acquired a considerable acquaintance with all the details of the business, and bad, beside the good opinion"of the most in fluential functionaries, proposed to vest the small fortune already gained by the Come Down quarry in a Post Office contract for all England • and his proposal was accepted. From this period the ca. rear of Ralph Allen was one of uninterrupted pros. perity. Under his administration the Post Office revenue, even at that age of comparatively little letter-writing, was almost doubled in a few years, owing to the better arrangergents introduced by him in the transmission of mails, and various post age regulations, which have made his name cele brated as one of the few who have conferred bene fits of a lasting kind on their native country. But Ralph Allen was destined to become, if possible, still more honorably known to fame. From his earliest youth he had cultivated his mind, as well as improved his fortune; as without the former endeavor, the latter would have been but half suc cess, though wealth had been gathered like the sand. His Post Office contract in a short time re- • alized such an Income *swede the proprietor one of richest men in the neighborhood of Bath. Mrs. Allen had lived to see her son's prudent conduct and persevcrence rewarded to an extent of which she had never dreamed; and the good dame closed her days in peace and comfort in the pleas , ant cottage at Coome Down, having nothing to re gret, and no annoyance, but a shadowy fear, which at times slightly agitated the calm current of her latter-day thoughts, that Ralph was buying too many books. But having gained the summit of lois early ambition—a well and honorably-won fortune—he determined to enjoy it agreeably to his refined taste, in the munificent encouragement of Arts and Literature. He had acquired general respect as well as riches ; and his fortune raised him gradually in the scale of society, bad won the esteem, and formed the acquaintance of men cele brated for their talents, and still famous through their works. Pope, Fielding, Swift, and Goldsmith were among the number of his friends ; and the titled and fashionable paid a natural tribute to merit and success, by including Mr. Allen in their most select society. The country around Bath is one of the finest districts in England, being diversified with beauti ful wood.crowned hills and broad green meadows. One property, in particular, popularly called Prior Park, had long attracted Ralph Allen's eye from the barren slopes of Coome Down, and there, he often said, he should wish, i f fortune permitted him, to build a mansion worthy of the scene. This project was at lust put in execution. The posses sor of the estate ruined his affairs by carelessness and extravagance in London ; it was In cense. queue; offered for sale, and Ralph Allen, Esq., be came the purchaser of Prior Park. Here, on the slope of one of those wood.corered hills which ho had often admired, a splendid mansion was erect ed under his own superintendence, whose beautiful Corinthian portrico and tasteful ecorations were the theme of praise amen all the lovers of art; floe former especially being still regarded as unri valled in English architecture. Here Ralph re tired about middle life, leaving the field of active industry to younger and more needy aspirants; here, also, he gathered around him the most polish. ed society of that fashionable neighborhood, and many of the authors the purchase of whose works had once astonished his mother.* Mr. Allen is well known to all conversant with the literatute of these times, as its judicions and munificent patron, and, in particular, as the attached friend of the somewhat irritable poet, Alexander Pope, and the philosophic Bishop Warburton. The facts of his slaty, through not so generally known, belong to real life, and are verified by his cotemporarics. Prior Park has now become a Catholic College ; • but its romantic situation and fine Corinthian columns are still reckoned among the attractions of the district; and they offer a lea. son of how much may be achieved by a well di reeled energy and persevering prudence • Prior Park looks down a Leautiful valley, with the City of Bath reposing on the lower ground and rising slopes. On the right hand elope, (in Bathwich, if we re member rightly.) stands a very handsome house of the style of the seventeenth century, with tall rails and gate enclosing the front garden, and looking toward the noble mansion of Prior Park. Enjoying the scenery there one day with a clerical friend, he insermed us that in that house Fielding wrote his celebrated novel, "Tom Jones, and that the character of " Squire Allworthr was no other than his friend Mr. Allen. [Ens. Lwearoot. MERCMI4. (Prior Park was the reardence. thirty years ago, of John Thomas, a wealthy, public-slowed Quaker...4Ln. N. Y • Traamm.3 Miscellaneous. A DOMESTIC SKETCH. E= It is the duty of mothers to sustain the reverses of fortune. Frequent and sudden as they have been to our own country, it is importaut that young females should possess some employment by which they might obtain a livelihood, in case they should be reduced to the necessity of supporting themselves. When families are unexpectedly reduced from at. fluence to poverty, how pittifully contemptible is it to see the mother desponding or hopeless, and per. mining her danghtera to embarrass those whom it is their duty to assist and cheer. have lost my whole fortune,"said a merchant, as ho returned one evening to his home ; we can no longer keep our carriage. We must leave this largo house. The children can no longer go to ex pensive schools. Yesterday 1 was a rich man; to. day there is nothing I ran call my own." "Dear husband, said the wife, "we are still rich in each other and our children. Money may pass away, but God has given us a better treasure in those active hands and loving hearts." "Dear father," said the children, "do not look so sober. We will help you to get a living." "What can you do, poor things?" said lie. " You shall see, you shall ace," answered seve ral cheerful voices. "ILis a pity if we have been to school for nothing. How can the father of eight children be poor. We shall work and make you rich again." "I shall help," said the youngest girl, hardly four years old. "I will not have any new things bought, and I shall sell my great doll." The heart of the husband and father, which had sunk within his bosom like a stone, was lifted up. The sweet enthusiasm of the scene cheered hint, and hie nightly prayer was like a song of praise. They lea this stately house. Tho servants were dismissed. Pictures and plate, rich carpet and fur niture were sold, and she who had so long been the mistress of the mansion, shed no leer. "Pay every debt," said she," let no one suffer through us, and we may yet be happy." Ho rented a neat cottage and a small piece of ground a few miles from the city. With the aid of his sons he cultivated vegetables for the market. He viewed with delight and astonishment the econ omy of his wife, nurtured a■ she had been, in wealth, and the efficiency which his daughters soon acquired under her training. The eldest one assisted her in t h e work of the housel,old,and also instructed the younger children. Besides, they executed various works, which they had learned as accomplishments, but which they found could be disposed of to advantage. They embroidered with taste some of the ornamental parts of female apparel, which were readily sold to a merchant in the city. They cultivated flowers, and sent baguets to market in the cart that conveyed the vegetables ; they platted straw, they painted maps. they exe cuted plain needle-work. Seery one was at her [81,50, PAYABLE AT SIX MONTHS. post, busy and cheerful. The cottage was like n bee-hive. "I never enjoyed such health before," said the father. And I never was s° happy before," said the mo ther. "We never knew how many thin gs we could do, when we lived in the great house,' said the child ren," and we love each other a great deal better here. You call us your little bees." " Yes," replied the father, " and you make. just such honey as the heart likes to feed on." Economy, as well as industry, was strictly ob served, nothing was wasted. Nothing unnecessary was purchased. The eldest daughter became as sistant teacher in a distinguished female seminary, and the second took her place as instructress to the family. -The little dwelling which had always been-kept neat, they were soon able to beautify. Its eon. Direction was improved, and the vines and flower. ing trees were replanted around it. The merchant was happier under his woodbine covered porch, in a summer's evening, than he had been in his showy dressing room. " We are now thriving and prosperous," said he, "shall we return to the city 7" "Oh, no, no," was the unanimous reply. " Let us remain," said the wife, found health and contentment." " Father," said the youngest, "all we children hope you are not going to be rich again ; for then," she added, "we little ones were shut in the nursery, and did not see much of you or mother. Now we all live together, and sister who loves us, teaches us, and we learn to be industrious and useful. We were none of us happy when we were rich and did not work. So, father, please not be a rich man any more." TAKING IN A NATIVE. A FISH STORY. A ludricous scene occurred the other day in An. thony street, near where the new theatre is in course of construction, which, if a brief description may convey an adequate impression of it, is well worth telling. One of the laborers growing thirsty under the influence of a hot sun, went hastily over to tile nearest hydrant for a drink, and clapping his ca pacious mouth to the spout, imbibed the Croton just as it came, in the most forcible and plentious manner imaginable. Hardly had poor Paddy, however tasted the gushing flood that distended his cheeks, when he bolted upright, and, with a look of agonized horror, commenced a series of pantomi. rnic contortions which were absolutely painful to witness. "OW—ow—ugh l" lie groaned convulsively, at the same time clawing at his throat in a frenzied manner, while ho spirted the water forth again with the energy of a wounded whale ; then sudden ly recovering the use of his speech, he shouted " Och, murther but be's gone; it's all over wid me now !" "What's gone 1" exclaimed the crowd that had gathered around him. What's gone?" 4. I've swallowed him! Oh, howly St. Patrick I've swallowed him !" "And what the deuce is% yet c swallowed ?" " A snake, a murtheting snake, olt, howly Pat rick protect me!" " Sure then ye've made a saving ta' yer dinner!" said a fellow laborer, more alive to fun than sym pathy; while a shout of mingled laughter and in credulity followed, in which the poor sufferer could hardly refrain from joining. " But was it alive, man ?" inquired a sympa. thizing individual when the confusion subsided. " Alive, did ye say ? By the blessed powers, ye didn't think I'd Le after sting him dead? Alive IS it! and didn't he jump down my throat in spite o' any teeth r —Then clapping his hands to his stom ach, he exclaimed, "Och hone, he's squirming now! Oh, howly St. Patrick ! 0 why didn't yo do per work entirely, and kill the snakes In this murthcr. lug country, too ? Help! he'll bite the insides ov me ! 0, howly Moses! help! murther, fire ?" and poor Pat, distracted by fear, cut more capers than a Comanche at a war dance. "Tut, tut, tat! be quiet man!•' returned another "bow dayou know it was a snake?" "How does I know, is it? Didn't I (ale him wriggling his tail? 0, howly St. Patrick deliver me 7" A benevolent looking gentleman here suggested that it might possibly be a fish, or perhaps en eel; and remarked that there ought to ben filter attached to every hydrant in the city, as the water was full of all sorts of animalculte, &c. "It's an ail! it's an ail!" shouted a hodman, catching at the idea, "Mike, it's an oil! Run for a phalter, and ye'll catch the rascal prisintly." " A filter, a filter," war the general cry.—" Run for a filter, Mike 7" Without pausing to inquire into the feasibility of using the article in question for the purpose desired, the poor distracted son of Erin started with the speed of a race horse for the office in Broadway where thefigure of Hobe stand ing in the window "pours her never ceasing fount." "A what do ye call 'ens ?" cried he, ruaking frantically into the establishment. "A snake catcher, for the love of —; A snake catcher! Oh, !lowly St. Patrick !" he continued, snatching up a filter and applying it energetically to.his lips. "Come out wid ye, ye thief o' the world!" "My good fellow" said the asotnisbed knight of Diaphragms, "what's the matter with you f" "Matter, is it? isn't everything the matter? a snake is the matter ! I've got an ail in my belly ! Och, bullaboo ! hullaboo !" "An eel! how came an eel in your stomach ?" "And didn't the varmint jump into my mouth without saying "by yer leave ?" said the bewildered sufferer, endeavoring to screw the filter into his lips. " But my man, that won't do any good now. It should have bean attached to the hydrant, and then you might !lilac drank with perfect safety.', " And wont it catch him now 7" asked Mike, in a piteous tone, turning aghast as he dropped the instrument in despair. "Of course not, bow should it?" "Och, murther! what will become of me I" ex. claimed Mike, with an agony truly painful to be. hold. " Get a sockdologer fish hook !" shouted a wag from the crowd. "Run for a doctor," ■aid another, •• and get a stomach pump." • This suggestion was immediately followed, and lie started for a drug store near by. The spotlit.. carp, however, applied an emetic instead of the pump. and the poor fellow, after a violent retain, ejected a lively black eel, about six inches long. "Oh, hewly St. Patrick !" lie exclaimed, expert. encing immediate relief, " why didn't yo m a k e clean work of it, and kill the ails as well 1 sore and their first cousin to the wicked serpents. Di. oil a drop of water will I ever drink again in this blessed country, without a snake-catcher in my month." And, with sundry other meolutions which would have shocked the ears of a temperance man, Mike pale end trembling wtth exheustation, re• turned to his work.— N. V. Spirit of the rimro. CWIIOLE NUMBER, 943. BARON ROTHSCHIL9/. "To Mass Burrox.—Deranshire-Street. Febru ary 14, 1834 :—We yesterday dined at Ham House, to meet the Rothschild, ' and very amusing It was. He (Rothschild) told us his life and ad ventures. He was the third son of the banker at Frankfort. There was not.' he said, 'room enough for us all in that city. 1 dealt in English goods. One great trader came there, who had the market to himself: he was quite the great man, and he did us a favor if he sold as goods. Some. how I offended him, and ho refused to show ma his patterns. This was on a Tuesday. I said to my father, will go to England' I could speak nothing but German. Oa the Thursday I started. The nearer I got to England, the cheaper goods were. As soon as I got to Manchester,l laid out all my money—things were so cheap; and I made good profit. I soon found that there were three profits—the raw material, the dyeing, and the manufacturing. I said to the manufacturer, will supply you with the material and dye, and you supply me with manufactured goods.' So I got three profits instead of one, and I could sell goods cheaper than anybody. In a short time, I made my twenty thousand pounds into sixty. My success all turned on one maxim. I said, I can do what another man can; and so I sin a match for the man a ith the patterns, and for all the rest of them. Another advantage I had. I was an offhand man. I made a bargain at once. When I was settled in London, the East India Company • had eight hundred thousand pounds of gold to sell. I went to the sale, and bought it all. I knew the Duke of Wellington must have it. I had bought a great many of his bills at a discount. The government sent for me, and said they must have it. When they had got it, they did not know how to get it to Portugal. I undertook all that; and I sent it through France: and that was the best business I ever did.' Another maxim on which he seemed to place great reliance was, never to -.have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen,' said lie, ' many clever men—very clever men—who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but fate is against them ; they cannot get on themselves: and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they du good for me 1' By - aid of these maxims he has acquired three millions of money. I hope,' said that your children are not too fond of money and business, to the exclusion of more important things. lam sure you would not wish that ?' ' I am sure I should wish that,' said Rothschild. 'I wish them to give mind, and soul, and heart, and body, and everything, to business; that is the way to be happy. It requires a great deal of boldness, and a great deal of caution, to make a great fortune; and when you have got it, it requires ten times as much wit to keep it. If I were to listen to all the projects proposed to me, I should ruin myself very soon. Stick to ono business, young man,' said tic, to Edward; 'stick to . your brewery, and you may be the great brewer of London. Be a brewer, and a banker, and a merchant, and a manufacturer, and you will soon bo in the Gazette. One of my neighbors is a very ill.tempered matt: he tries to vex me, and has built a great place for swine close to my walk. So, when I go out, I hear first grunt, grunt, squeak, squeak; but this does me no harm. lam always in good limner. Sometimes, to amuse my self, I give a beggar a guinea. He thinks it is a mistake, and, for fear I should find it out, off ha runs as hard as he can. I advise you to give a beggar a guinea sometimes—it is very amusing.' " (The above is extracted from the recently published biography of the late Sir T. F. Buxton. Tire letter was written by that gentleman.] "where we have LADIES' CLUBS• At a time when the gentlemen of the Republic of France were asserting the "Rights of Man" no wonder the ladies arc protesting against the " Wrongs of Woman." Amongst the many Clubs, which the temporary triumph of Club-law has en gendered in Paris, there was lately opened a "Club des Femmes." At its first sitting much confusion was created by the criticisms of a number of the Lords of the Creation, who had intruded them selves upon the assemblage. This is unfair. What would be the result if a corps of ladies was let loose to criticise the House of Commons? The Club des Femmes." has promulgated the following Code of Rights.-1. Woman naturally is superi or to man. The rule of the husband by the wife is in the order of nature. - - 2. The wifo is the natural guardian of her hue band's secrets. 3. To the wife belongs the absolute control of ter own milliners' bills. 4. The extreme age of woman is thirty years. Sho may be be!ow this ago, but cannot pass beyond S. Woman has a right to her opinions. It is en odious tyranny which enforces the reasons of them. Code of Duties.-1.. It is the duty of the wo man to insist on her own way. This duty is para mount. The end justifies the moans. 2. It is the duty of the wife to love and honor her husband. The word "obey" is abolished except as a duty of husbands. 3. It is the duty of every woman to set off those advantages with which nature has provided her. Dress is thus invested with the sanctity of a reli. gious observance. 4. The human species is the only one which clothes itself, amuses itself and cook■ its food. Woman as the highest being in the scale of the I'u• Man species, has exclusive sovereignty in the three domains of—the Table, the Toilet, and Society. Project of Laws.-11..- A. law rendering it penal in husbands to grumble at cold meat. 2. A law imposing various terms of imprison• ment on the husband who complains of a deficiency of shirt buttons, struggles for the last word, or ex hibits impatience while hie wife is dressing. 3. A. law to constitute and punish the offence of lece.martioge, or conjugal treason--of which shall be adjudged guilty, a. Every husband found in the possession of a latch-key, without written permission of his wife! b. Every husband bringing home friends to din ner, without a notice of at least twenty-four hours, and en adjudication thereon by the proper author' ty: c. Every husband paying attention to any other woman in the presence of his wife: d. Every husband convicted of smoking, unless when the wife solstitial also. INTo mu.—" How far have you studied in Lat in, Georg 7" inquired a rung lady of a school. boy. "I'm in Cnrderii, mita," anowered the lad. "Oh !" observed she, "that's not as far as our John we. when he gave it up; ho had got into Virgil." " But it seems," said the boy, • Virgil could not get into John. The " Model Artiste*" having sued a Western editor fors libel. that gentleman expresses a hope that they will gain their Suit, Co they certainty nerd one among them. 11 DI M 11 11 M