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LITCHFIELD, <CONN.) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER », 1832.
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HYMN FOR TipilNKSGIVWG,
»t do- rr etch sou.
. As Israel's people, in despair, ;
Redeemed hr rtwIMMKrphcrd’seare,
In gratitude rejoice,
SstsaSrisfc'sfiitr ■
With hallelujah’s voice;
Or, ns by proud Euphrates’ stream, '
They rais’d to Thee the heav’nly iliemcT
OTWbnder,'love, and praise; t- , *
So we, for'all thy bounteous eare,
Thf Providence, divinely la is,
Our hallelujahs raise.
How vast thy gifts, Almighty King,
From thee, what matchless beauties spring.
Our grateful songs shall telf;
' The raptures liberty bestows^
The fcrav’nlv joys thy gotfpel Shears,
, i Oar haUelojaba swell!
Say, should we searchthe globe around,
Where ran such happiness be found J
Or who such comforts know ? .
t Here Plentjtpeigtnr; here. Freedom sheds .
Her clmicest blessings on.sour beads;, ,
Let liaUelujah*'swell! ;
t With cheerful hearts nndfiowing tongues.
We’ll raise sloild united Songs
To God; who war reigns!
Jehovah here bath fin’d pis throne*
- And this through every age we’ll own
With halleliijali’s strains.
,.r;‘ THANKSfetVINO.
“ It is at (Mice a beautiful and melancholy
season, when.at. the close of the year we
meet together, tbo long known and the
well loved, ft the banquet and before the
altar, at the social board, and in the tem
ple of the Eternal, 't'hey‘whom interest
or distance, or perhaps uhkindne$s> hSs
estranged from the family board, meet to
gether now, hand grasps hand, and heart
expands fo heart. I well remember with
what eagerness I used to anticipate.the re
turn' of this anniversary—when after the
morning service, which to me never ap
peared so long ns on this occasion, we
met at the family board, from the hoary
grandsire down to the noisy members of a
third, and even-fourth generation. And
when evening closed in upoo the cheerful
circle, there was an annual game of blind
man’s buff, where the oldest were happy
to become children again, and the wise
aqd the a'ged, to lay aside wisdom and
yean, and roturn once morff to the spirit
of days that for them hod long passed a
way. Then, when the youngest of the
party had reluctantly retired, and the eve
ning circle w§» enlarged by the addition of
a few invUedTriendsrthe metrv dance suc
ceeded ; when the light foot vied with the
lighter heart, and many a laughing girl
took her partner for a longer dance. And
music too wns there ; and then might be
seen the youth hanging over the fair and
I favorite performer of som© favorite sir;
its sweetest tones sweeter, that they were
breathed'from loved and lovely lips, that
sent every note thrilling home to bis heart.
All were there—the watchful mother and
4he blooming maiden ; youth with its high
and generous feelings; manhood with its
calm and thoughtful brow, and age living •!
over again the past and the present.
There too might-be seen, amid the gen
eral blending of joy, the private feelings or
policy of individuals, where esteem had ri
pened to admiration, and admiration had
kindled into tortS, hn timid doubting ad
vances, or even more eloquent avoidance
of its object, the silent watchfulness of the
mother,.the blushing Consciousness of the
maiden ; the artful manoeu vering of friends
and opposers, to unite or separtte them,
and there is always this pretty machinery,
the keen glances of the lover, noticing eve
ry thing, yet apparently observing nothing,
and the affected unconsciousness of all;
and on the contrary where private animos
ity existcd.the marked oolite ness, easy ad
dress, and nice observance of the slightest
etiquette—all was there. d^ll are now
gone. The ardor of that love is quenched
in age or buried in death ; the busy tongue
has gone down to the house of silence;
friends have forgotten their friendships,1
and foes have buried hatred under the
.green sod of the valley fe-ell are gone—-or if
a few yet remain, they are as the solitary
autumn leaf that the winds have spared;
they hfve withstood the^gmpest indeed
for a time, but now -when the tree trembles
they must tall. Fronj|the verge of 'the'
horizon of life, it is pleasant and well, to
look back to its early days—to blot out the
years we have lived, and to breathe once
more amidthc shadows of our youth ; lov
ed friends, proud expectations* desolated
prespects, pad disappointed. hopes. Tlie
feelings of youth will remain when youth
has departed, and beautifulrecollectionaof
distant days linger in the memory, like the.
setting sun beam on the far hill top.
Yet there » something sad In the thought
that'our rejoicing is over the grave of the
season. We know indeed that decay must
follow change, and that death will tread oa
decay. Trees put forth their leaves, aed
they are scattered even by tho i
breeze. The rose tree bangs out i
sotns to the sen, sad the
ever them, and the garden is strewed with
their beeufiful ruins. And the wild bird
sports amid the summer branches, and he
too has the wings of our hopes, and whea
the winter comes he dies aqp'Hf* tat
shriek aot the test from
know aot the time whea ft
call for Ms prey. Aed it
mockery when be ehooees that hour which
ssah has sac apart for joys, when they
wham wo leva depart with the (aiding
at their desertion tbemore, that we weep
hopeless, and desolate, and alone; that
fresh leaves shall return, Sod flowers put
forth again in the spring,, and we turn into
the loneliness of our own deserted hearts,
and feel “ They WMt with the flowers, but
they shall not return." There are thooghts
that come up amid the joy of the feast
like the death** head at the banquet of the
monarch of yore—and speak yet a deeper,
and a sterner language } for they tell us,
hot that wo are mortal, but that the chili
of mortality is breathed on the fair flowers
that are rooted deepest in our hearts, and
that death is written over the portals even
of our life. True, the day of rejoicing ar
rives, but where-'the arrow is driven the
poor heart will ache on. Tig noth of
praise is indeed heard, but whtPfean enter
the secret sanctuaryV who cart number the
tears that are not j^ard—who can meas
ure the bitterness of cfespaflHhftt is buried
in the silence of the broken heart. As the
wounded deer seek tfMhe. dark covert a
shelter from its companions and from man,
the spirit buries in its own dark depth, the
wound, on which, it shrinks from Commun
ion with aught hut its God.
There arein every bosom feelings, that
if roused, will not sleep again ; a spark that
if once kindled, will burn on, till it flames
out in the volcano. It matters little what
be the cause that excited them, whether it
be ambition, or hatred, or revenge, or love.
The tempest is abroad, and it matters Uttle
that we know whence cornea the thunder
bolt, that has simtiem fair hopes with
scathing and desolation, ft matters little
too, what may be the character on which
they act; whether it be the feeble mind,
that seeks relief in the bitterness of com
plaint, or the dark spirit that revels id
hope of revenge, or the lofty deep-toned
mind, whose own thoughts have become
the minister of despair, yet, in the strength
of silent endurance, stands calmly .and
proudly amid its ruined hopes, triumphing
■till even over its own desolation—there
they are—mountains may shut in the vol
cano, the ocean may ridi over the fires,
thdt should have burst from the earth*
quake; but not nicuntaati*, nor oceans,
can shut in the' fulness ef the heart, when
the awakened spirit will be heard.
There ik, I am persuaded, at the bottom
of every heart, thisltnge ef strong, perhaps
romantic feeling. We may bury it deep
from the observation of other!; we mrifi
| throw ovet it the veil of icy manners and
cold pride—we may conceal the weakness
of thefheart, in the heart’« secret chambers,
till it is bidden even froer our eyes; but
when unexpected circumstances have sud
denly roused it into liie, then his slumbers
shall be shaken from the sleeping lion.—
The feelings we had vainly chained in the
prison-house of hearts, will rush forth like
the tempest. The barriers we had idly
heaped before them, will he whirled a way
like the autumn leaves, and the strong
feelings of nature will break forth, bearing
destruction before, leaving desolation be
hind, them. But those are recollections and
feelings that are fast passing away.—
Time robs the diamond,” and ono by om
sweeps away our heart1* idols and hopes
till we feollthat we ate left aleno in the
world, hoping nothing, Joving nothing,
fearing nothiog. “ Without tho tie, for
which we loved to live or feared to die.”—
We have stood perhaps like , some gaudy
tree, which has long retrod its blossoms in
the pride of its beauty-but hud after bud
ia blighted, blossom after blossom is scath
ed—branch after branch has the storm
rent away: but the hand of time hits been
bitty at its Heart, and it tails—in the lone
liness of the desert it falls—and its graceful
ruins cumber the ground it was wont to
fresh|ft with its shade. And yet so grad
ual APthe footsteps of change and decay,
that WC hardly notice their approach, till
the recurrence of their anniversaries warns
os, as it were, to for * moment
from our course, sod to look back for those
who left the goal with ns« and but now
were at our sides, and in our hearts, but
their places have beta blotted from the re-'
cords of life, and if our Memory has treas
ured their names, it baa hut added thetrt to
the sad catalogue of broken and forgotten
I friendships. Then the past rises from us,
and feelings that have long slumbered in
the grave of years, bound again into being.
There is no voice like the voice of the
dead, when from the “ shoreless sea” it
calls to us, who yet linger behind, and with
our sails trimmed, wait but the breeze that
is to speed us onward and homeward with
them. So it most still be. They who
were many as the snow flakes around me,
have melted like them away. The past is
now but a pleasant dreafn, and the world of
spirits, and the valley of stjgflows are be
fore me. And as my “ feet atutnbls <yi the
dark mountains” and I go forth alone on
my homeward path, there is a stem con
solation in the thought, that snrriviag all,
there are left no ties that Am heart t re in
to bftak. f would not that it were
ise. Unmounted, unmounting 1
< depart. Ail as the chains (hat
would have grappled my spirit M the earth
are f ' I wait but the summons to
aourn the
Oe a certain
habitants of a pariah
hell into the steepl* of i
other were averse to the undertaking—
The plan, if a good one, vwegeod for all
All were alike in interest, nod in fact, Uac
no interest but . a- fair ‘participation in t
common benefit, except a few men who ex
pected to profit by making the beR and
Airmailing the necessary accompaniments,
and another equal number who believed
that if the job were put off until another
year, they should have the doing of it. At
first the great mass of the inhabitants see
med to care but little about the matter.—
But by degrees they diyided in opinion,
mid the mere discussion thfjfee was, and the
more effort each party used to convince the
other, the wider they were separated. At
length the whole parish came to.be divided
into “ the Bell” and'the. “ no-Bell” party.
The arguments in the case lost their point
as the partizaus grew warm, and something
mor^e pungent became necessary. Resort
w«ts had to impeaching of motives, calling
of names, dec, dee. tire two small interested
clans nil the while taking the lead, and
blowing the flames with aN their might.—
At length the party in the affirmative de
termined they would at all hazards have
k~ti nri— .1 i _
wheel, and passed a rope over by which to
hoist it to its place. Then came the tug ;
for no sooner had the slack run down, than
■ soma of the “no-bell” party seized hold of
it, and calling their companions, would
have hauled it entirely over, but that the
bell party also called aloud fur help, and
so the V parties were balanced.” Express
es were immediately sent to alt parts of the
parish, and before night every man by
means of hooks, poles, rope yaarts, and one
contrivance or another, had brought •* his
influence to bear.” You would* tee a fath
er hanging on one aid?, and exactly balan
ced 4>y his son on the other. ' Such a scene
of scolding, throwing dirt, and all sorts of
abuse, was never Witnessed, except on an
election day—until in it great struggle the
rope broke, and tumbled the whole parish
into an indiscriminate mass of “ raw heads,
and bloody bones.”
From the American Farmer.
The Chinese Mulberry—Moms Multi
caulis.—This newly introduced variety of
mulberry for feeding silk worms is undoubt
edly ail important acquisition, and more
particularly so to this country, whore silk
'is on the eve of becoming a staple article
of production. The editor of flt0 Ameri
can Farmer has had this variety Jibber cul
tivation for twq^years, and has made him
self acquainted with its peculiarities both
as to quality nod the manner of cultivating
it. Not having a sufficient quantity for a
full trial of feeding silkworms with it, he
has been obliged to confine'hir experiment*
to occasional feedings, at. which times the
worms promptly left the Italian white mul
berry leaf and devoured tlio new Chinese
with aridity. The leaves of the new mul
berry frequently measure a fooLln lenjpl
and ten inches in width-. Indeed Mrs
Parmenticr, the lady of the late Andrev
Parnmntier of the Brooklyn nursery am
garden, who lias 1600 of the trees folktale
in a letter to the-editor says, that some r
the halves in tlmt establishment measun
13 Inches in lehgth, and the worms loft ah
different kinds of mulberry to feed on them
Although the number/,q&|eaves on the free
is not so great as thut ofthose on tbe white
we shquld judge that the weight*of the leal
is much greater—it is so greSVin fact that
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young trees are bent o I most to the ground
by tlid weight of their foliage. This mul
berry bears no fruit, or rather it is so mi
nute and so small |n quantity that the prop
agation of it from seed is never practised.
But like all other vegetables of difficult
propagation by seed, it is remarkably easy
of production by ether menus. By laying
down-the young trees/ covering them With
•earth, and leaving the end) of the branches
out, every branch will* Who root and be
come a young .tree in two or ttfrfii weeks—
so that every tree one -vfear old will by
proper managemen^produce from ten to
twenty in onto sunnmr. We laid down a
tree mi Friday, 28tb JjHy, and a part ol
the stock near the root, containing.nc
branches, was left out ofground. On the
Friday following two buds were seen thodt
ing front the naked stock, and earth wai
then covered over the stock and arount
the buds. The young trees from these
buds now measure 2 feet 6 Inches high*—
This fret will serve to illustrate the great
facility of propagating the monu muliicau
lit by layers. As ihis mulberry doe* not
grow high, the leaves can always be gath
ered by hand from the ground without the
aid of ladders or the danger attending the
climbing of large trees. They can be
planted pretty close together,and-we should
judge that an acre of ground would produce
more foliage with this than with the white
3mulberry. The mores mult results being
as yet quite scarce in this country, they sell
fa; but every one wb* ^
tivsting silk should obtaii
laying them down in July*
, By this means ten tra *
would, In five years,
of tress, allowing each
every year, which we era
will certainly do; that »,
1832 there would bo 100;
in 1834, 10,000; in I
1836, 1,000,600—ond tbert «e have n<
hesitation ha saying would preducn ««'
times as much foliage as could be produe
| ed with tbs Mine expense and labor in the
same time, of the white mulberry or any '
other kind. We hope editors In th#coun
try will give free circulation to these facts,
(hat the cultivators of silk, and those who
contemplate entering upon that business^
may avail themselves of the advantage of
this mulberry in commencing their orchards.
Wertfeopied aome weeks ago, an amusing
story of “ The 'Wankee’s Visit to Sir Joseph
Banks,** which our readers will probably
remember.’ Thd bbro of the story, if we
may credit a correspondent of the New
Yorfc Gazette, is still living in the West
ern part of the State* His name i? Shack
ford—he is father' to Capt. Shackford, a
well known ship master out of the port of
New-York, and is the oply man who ever
crossed tke Atlantic alone ? m
He built, or purchased, a small vessel,
in which he embarked alone and navigated
her lo Great Britain. Wltfea he arrived in
port, he Was supposed to be M pirate—who
Itad murdered the crew of the vessel—and
was arrested- He, produced liis shipping
paper, which contained one name only, and
other documents to prove his proper char
acter, and it was not till after some -
time persons in England were found Who
knew him in' this .country that he was set
fll liKwrlw
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Diving for Lott Treasure.—There is a
smalt cutter now lying in our (Yarmouth)
roadstead, belonging to a man named Bell.
Her crew consists of six men, severakof
whom arp very expert in diving. She satis
about, from place to place, to offer assist
ance to recover lost treasure, dbc. She
has arrived for the purpose (by permission
of the Admiralty) of endeavoring to obtain
a portion of the treasure lost in the Guern
sey Lily transport, which got on the Cross
Sand, doatod #ff, and afterwards foundered
ip the' ceufiro of Yarmouth roads, in 43 feet
of water, coming with stores, See., from
Holland, after the Duka of York’s expedi
tion in 1799* The transport was laden
with Horses, ammunition, (in which theje
were 23 brass field nieces,) a stock of wine,
dfcc. The methpitf (heed divers use is cu
rious : The hotter ip placed immediately
over the wreck ; the diver then, habited jn
an Indie rubber air-tight dress,-having a
tube attached at the buck of the neck t%
receive the air (which is constantly kept
pump.ing in,) doscends from a rope ladder,
and fives signals for certain things to he
sent down by a small line, which is attend
ed to by those on the deck of the cut ter I
by this line baskets and other utensils are
sent down for the use of the diver, and seat’
up again with wine, dee., taken from the
wreck. The diver’s head dfbss is curioui;
it: is composed of copper, and is a complete
covering made much after the mnnner of
the anctenf helmet, only that it ik made
larger thtm the head, end has in itfc upper,
part three gfess windows. It weighs fifty
pounds. He has two dresses on besides
' that above mentioned. He carries down
1 with him one hundred and twenty pounds
» of lead in two bags, With all this weight
f he declares that when hi the water, he ep
’ nears perfectly free from weight or incum
/ bronco of any sort; There hks been al
reauy nrougni up a large quantity oi wine,
(the' bottles Cnriotfsly tattooed with large
. and small oysters,),,which have Been last- *
ed, end are excellent; some copper, irou
handles of chests* pieces of gun-carriages,
dec#. They hope soon to bo in tlie pos
session of the brass guns, valuable plate’, .
and the dollars, which it is known the
transport had on board (hr the purpose of
paying the troops employed In the above
mentioned* expedition. This Admiralty,
we understand, ha$ handsomely 'dives*per
mission f»C#|| to make wHat usAhe „
B(leases of the articles fouod. only condt
ionidfe that the brass guns (if recovered)
shall bo given up, for which they will rd
wurn their value. Great numbers of per
sons from different parts of the country
have bean off 10 view t Ms novel and singu
, far undertaking. Boatmen are in con
stant attendance to take off, at moderate
charge, those persons who wish to witness
this effort of nuntan ingenuity and enter
prise. I The diver, when under water, dads
his strength sp,increased, that he can bend
the ends together of ibo large icon crow
bar (of 3 t-3 feet in length, and 2 1-2 in<*h
m sixe) which be takes down with him to
part the wreck. These divers go down af
Saturday, and has -bean vopeated every
day since, which has proved a great trait
to numbers of all racks, who have attend- '
ed to observe this surprising—perhaps un
SuaUod exhibition.—-Norwich (England)
ercnry. . '
Napoleon aud ike twelve Apostles.—Na
polaon having entered one of the cities qf
Italy, thelfoly fathers recommended to hip
the relkpaas of their church. “ Sire, will
. you deign to take oar Apostle* wider yawr
; "
i tbev thent” “Of silver,
r silver.” “ Of solid silver!”
f poieon quickly. ** Yea, I t
; to fulfil tbair mission ; W
, ed that they should je
► world, end they »baU.,T
u the Emperor sent the s A
• I the llliut of Paris.