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Shooting, by Atcident.
Flase your lordship's honor and glory,'
replied Tim, 4I shot the hare by aci ident.'
'By accident,' remarked Captain O'Hallo
ian. 'By accident,' continued the postil
lion. 'I was firing at a bush, and the beast
ran across my aim, all of his own- accord.'
The gamekeeper tells a different story,'
replied bus lordship. 'Och! don't put faith
in what that man says,' said Tim Ryan,
'when he never cares about spaking the
truth, any how. He told me t'other day
yer lordship was not so fit to fill the chair
of justice as a jack-ass!' 'Ay, ay,' ex
claimed Viscount Ktlskiddery, indeed, and
what did you say?' Plaise yer lordship,
I said yer lordship was!
i From the Hartford Times.
The last Procession.
Mcthought at eventide I paused,
One cold November day,
Where dry and grim an "ash-pole" stood,
Like ghost beside the way ;
When on mine ear a wail arose,
And slowly o'er mine eye,
With solemn tread a lengthened train,
In funeral guise, swept by.
First, with a face whose depth of gloom
Ambition's blight had cast,
The "Mill-Boy of the Slashes" moved
The chiefest mourner past ;
And then to soothe his rising grief,
With sympathetic tear,
With solemn air, so meek and good,
Walked Frelinghuysen near.
With u branding-iron" in each hand,
From his far travels come,
Unsolaced in his deep despair,
Stalked "Roorback," dard and glum ;
While dolorous upon the breeze,
All wheezingly and wide,
Like his own windy bellows, the
" Poughkeepsic blacksmith" sighed.
And then that " coach expresdy built,"
And decked with silk and gold,
The great "embodiment" to bear,
With sullen motion rolled ;
And as along the dusky way
Its darkening course it kept,
Beside it, with his Clay Tribune,"
Poor Greeley walked and wept
Then thronged a long and dismal host,
A thousand men or mere,
And each upon a frowzy rag
A scurvy motto bore ;
And colporteurs, with "Junius" tracts,
A crushing, weary load.
Bent down with weariness and woe,
In sad procession trode.
And so-ely on his wounded calf,
With tear-drops in his eye,
The great god-father of the "Whigs,"
Th' immortal Webb, limped by ;
A doleful dirge Joe Hoxie sang,
Amidst that sorrowing train,
And "Glee Clubs" and '-'Clay minstrels" joined
The melancholy strain.
And thus they passed in long array,
Ai evening's sombre hour.
And grief was heavy on each heart,
With its o'crmastering power ;
For broken, "bnstcd," "gone to pot,"
Exploded, vanished, fled,
The great Whig party was no more
"That same old Coon" was
dead
Who is Mrs. James K. Polk ?
The Whigs were at first at some loss to
know something about the President Elect.
The enquiry ran thro' their papers, M Who
is James K. Poll?" Since the people
found out who he is, and since the whigs
now know him to be the President Elect
of the United States since they know that
he is the stone carved out of the mountain,
without hands, which smote the image
upon his feet, that were of iron and clay,
and broke them to pieces" since they
know who James K. Polk is, and are des
tined to know much more of the man,
who is armed by the authority of the peo-
pie with the highest off:;e in the Republic,
another enquiry has been started, " Who
is Mrs. James K. Polk ?" Upon this sub
ject, as married ladies change their names
without losing their virtues, some more dif
ficulty has been experienced and the ques
tion is running the rounds through the pa-
pers. Some error has been committed up -
on this subject, and the lady has almost
been as much mistaken as the master of
the household. We have already pub
lished a paragraph, that her maiden name
was Easton, but this is corrected in the
following paragraph from a Northern pa
per :
The President's Lady. We are in
formed, that the article published in our
paper of Wednesday last, and copied from
one in Philadelphia, m relation to the ear-j greatly superior. Here then are three bat
ly connexions of Mrs. Polk, is not correct, j ties, not to name more, which were fought
Mrs. Polk, the lady of the President Elect, ! on the sabbath, and in each case the force
was not Miss Easton, a member of Gen'l 1 which began the attack were defeated.
Jackson's family. There were three la- i The coincidence is striking, however it
dies who' did-the honors of the Presiden
tial Mansion at that period Mrs. Donald
son, Miss Easton, and Miss Lewis. They
were all distinguished by beauty, grace,
and accomplishments. They combined to
throw a charm around the private hospi
talities of the President, ana they gave
brilliancy to his public levees. Mrs. Don-
aldson, e wife of Major Donaldson, then'
n(n 0,,or. ,n .hp PrPSi,lPnt. 9ml now
' ,,a-- ,iQQ
Charee d Affaires to I exas, is now deceas -
ed. Miss Easton, in the first term of Gen.
Jackson's Administratron. married a mem-
ber of Congress from North Carolina. Il
is beloved that this gentleman's name was
nll linn nii'iin rice t tlio miaiAn.
ceptio'nir noticed: Ms Lewi, married
. .
Monsieur Pageot, then Secretary of the
French Embassy and Minister Plenipoten
tiary of France to this Republic. 8Hie is
the daughter of Win. B. Lewis, Esq., Se
cond Auditor of the Treasury Department
TZZ " M a Tola' Theol
7 U :7,. JLL-i
the President Elect, is, we arc advised.
peculiarly 6ttcd for the high station whieh
she will soon fill. With great dignity of
person and manner, she possesses rare cul
tivation of mind, and the greater affection?
of the heart, which at once command re-
spect and inspire esteem."
We understand that Mrs. Polk's maiden
ie was Childress, the daughter of Judge
Idiess of Tennessee. Thev have no
cmwren, and thus the President Elect is
. .
able to devote more of his precious time
to the interests of his country. Our peo
ple must be his children, as it has been
wah so many of his predecessors ; whilst
she niay dedicate her taste and talents to
grace the station to which an enlightened
people have called her fcusband, and to
smooth off the asperities which still pre
vail among the great parties of our country.
Hoe tibi erunt artes. We understand, by
a gentleman who lives in Columbia- (the
place of Col. Polk's residence,) that he is
eminently respected for his private virtues,
and she for her amiable and attractive cha
racter. Richmond Enquirer.
A Charming Portrait. Gaze into a
pure fountain in the moment in which day
divides itself from night ; see the magic
light of morning at once mirroring itself
there in with the heaven and its glittering
stars, and thou has an image of Nina's
soul. So pure was she so gleamed in the
depths oi her being ever eternal truth.
But all this sweet splendor broke as thro'
a twilight; it was a foretelling of light, not
of light itself. She was the original man
as man in his innocence in his first,
holy beauty. Her soul seemed to be one
with the beautiful body, it belonged to it,
and appeared mo! ton in it. Her manner
possessed that charming repose, which
nothing ol self-consciousness can counter
feit. Unconstrained but modest, she was
still self-collected. It gave sweet tranquili
ty to the mind and to the eye to contemplate
her. How beautiful and harmonious were
the movements of her tender arm, of her
fine white hand ; her gait how floating,
how quiet and noble! It would be difficult
to give a description of the beauties and
charms of her countenance ; but he who
has seen the pure finely arched brow made
radiant, silken soft hair, the wonderful eve
beneath their dark lashes, the small Gre-
cian nose. tl? bewitching mouth, the sweet
oval of her face, and the dazzling fair skin
must have declared with Miss Greta,
that she was the loveliest creature of God's
creation. Her eyes had the same form as
those of Iter sister Adelaide, but with a
much less lively glance. Over Nina's
dark blue eye, lay, as it were, a mist of
twilight, whose magic was indescribable.
Something pensive, something dreamy,
lay in her glance. No clear day, no gay
life, spoke out of it; but something fore
boding, something of an inward emotion.
When she listened to the words of anoth
er, she had the most amiable expression of
present sympathy; and when she answered
in her own manner, rather slowly, but in
the most delicious tones of voice, one
learned then to estimate one of the most
beautiful, but commonly most neglected,
of God's gifts to man. Southey.
Battle's on the Sabbath. Great men
, and military men, of whom it has been
said of the latter, "they know no sabbath.
are no more justified in violating the sab
bath on a large scale than on a small one,
no more than the most humble in the land.
The battle of Waterloo was fought on the
sabbath, and Napoleon who began it was
1 defeated. The battle of New Orleans was
j fought on the sabbath, and the British ar
my, who began the battle were defeated
with terrible slaughter. The naval battle
fought by commodore McDonough with
the British fleet on lake Champlain, took
place on the sabbath. The British began
the attack and were defeated, although
their force was so great that it was a mat
ter of wonder that a small American force
should have been able to capture a force soj
way be accounted for. Christian Repert.
How to catch Crows. Wilson, in his
American Ornithology, says that crows
have been employed to catch crows, by
the following .stratagem:
A live crow is pinned by the wings
down to the groOon his back by means
0 forked stick-. Thus situated his
I cries are loud and incessant, particularly
'if any other crows are within view. 1 hese
, " . ...
sweeping down about him, are instantly
gTappted and held fast by the prostrate
.1 . . I
Pri'oner- wil!'. lhe same i"icli'e imPulse
Vrf . " Vi. k
ery thing within his reach. The game be-
.ng-dengaged from Ins clutehes, the trap
;a .mm rPaHv fnr annilipr PTtiflrimnnt: anil
is again ready for another experiment; and
by pinning down each captive successively,
as soon as taken, in a short time you will
probably have a large flock' screaming a-
bout you, in concert with the outrageous
PH-ers below. This method of catching
i crows is, I believe practiced in some parts
j of England to catch jay, b. make
most violent outcry when pinned to the
ground.
What is Providence.
BY MIS 3 SEDGWICK.
Take, for example, a young girl, bread
delicately in town, shut up in a nursery in
her childhood in a boarding school thro'
her youth, never aecustimed either to air
or exercise, two things that the w of God
maa.o toot 111101 tu iiuauiii OilC IllUlTlcs I
, ., , , , ,
her strength is inadequate to the demands
upon it. Her beauty lades early. She
languishes through her hard offices of giv
ing birth to children, suckling and watching
over them, and dies early. W hat a strange
Providence, that a mother should be taken,
in the midst of life, from her children."
Was it Providence? No! Providence
has assigned her three score years and ten;
a term long enough to rear her children,
and to see her children's children; but she
did not obey the laws on which life de
pend? , and of course she lost it.
A father, too, is cut off in the midst of
his days. He is a useful and distinguished
citizen, and eminent in his profession. A
general buz rises, on every side, of "What
striking Providence." This man has
been in the habit of studying half the
night, of passing his days in his office and
the courts, of eating luxurious dinners, and
drinking various wines. He has every
day violated the laws on which health de
pends. Did Providence cut him off?
The evil rarely ends here. The diseases
of the father are often transmitted ; and a
feeble mother rarely leaves behind her vig
orous children.
It has been customary in some of our
cities, for young ladies to walk in thin
shoes and delicate stockings in mid win
ter. A healthy blosoming young girl, thus
dressed in violation of Heaven's laws, pays
the penalty; a cheched circulation, cold,
fever, and death. "What a sad Provi
dence!" ej&claim her friends. Was itProv
idence, or her own lolly ?
A beautiful young bride goes, night after
night, to parties made in honor of her mar
riage. She Ivas a slightly soar throat, per
haps, and the weather is inclement: but
Me musi wear ,,er ana arms Dare
1 - , 1 t t. : - t
lor 8aw a bride m a dose evening
dress? She is consequently seized with
an inflammation of the lungs, and tHegiave
receives her before her bridal days are o
ver "What a Providence!" exclaims the
vorld. "Cut off in the midst of happit
ness and hope!" Alas, did she Hot cu
the thread of life herself!
A girl in the country exposed to our
changeful climate, gets a new bonnet in
stead of getting a flannel garment. A
rheumatism is the consequence. Should
the girl set down tranquilly with the idea
that Providence had sent the rheumatism
upon her, or should she charge it on her
vanity, and avoid the folly in future T
Look, my young friends, at the mass of
diseases that are incurred by intemperance
in eating or drinking, or in study, orin bu
siness; also being caused often by neglect
of exercise, cleanliness, pure air, by indis
creet dressing, tight lacing, &c, and all is
quietly imputed to Providence! Is there
not impiety as well as ignorance in this ?
Were the physical laws strictly observed
from generation to generation, there would
be an end to the frightful diseases that cut
life short, and of the long list of maladies
that make life a torment of trial. It is the
opinion of those who best understand the
physical system, and this wonderful ma
chine, the body, this goodly temple, would
gradually decay, and men would die as if
falling asleep.
The First Wedding.
Major Noah thus pleasntly and philoso
phically discourses upon the "first wed
ding." He says :
We like short courtships, and in this,
Adam acted like a sensible man he fell
asleep a bachelor and awoke to find him
sc4f a married man. He appears to have
popped the question almost immediately
after meeting Md'le Eve, and she, without
auy flirtation or si; y ness, gave him a kiss
and hen elf. Of that fiist kiss in this
world we have had, however, our own
thoughts, and sometimes in a poetical
mood have wished we were the man 'what
did it.' But the deed is done thecha'.ice
was Adam's and he improved it.
We like lhe notion of getting married in
a garden. It is in good .taste. We like a
0
private wedding. Adam's was private. No
envious beaux were there; no croaking old
maids; no chattering a tin Is arid grumbling
grandmothers. The birds of Heaven were
the minstrels, and the glad sky flung its
lights upon the scene. , .
"One thing about the first wedding
brings queer things to us, in spite of its
Scriptural truth. Adam and his wife were
rather young' to :r5fe married -some two or
three days old, according to the safest
speculations of theologians mere babies
larger but not older without experience,
without a house, without a pot or kettle,
nothing but love and Eden.
Population nf Buffalo, N. Y. By a recent
centos, we tee that the population of Buffalo
is now 26,000, an increase of s,000 since UBiO.
I
s
yro(erioo. wnai ao yon tni
averioor l enquired 01 an old iellow
found one morning digging in my garden,
where he had been hired to assist by the
lazy head gardner. think of it? said
the old crab stopping and leaning upon
his spade, I thought it hell upon earth.
was utterly deaf with. the continued roar of
the artillery oa one side or the other, and
the sound of the musketry of the men be-
1 t 1 I ' x '
side me. I could not see my companion s
i f i. Jl l'i ..v
face for one minute fas he stood next fheV
for the thick smoke, and the next 1 found
him choaking. retching and vomiting .lfi
the agonies of death, and clutching my ve
ry feet. Sometimes a shot went tearing
through our ranks, and almost shaking the.
part of (he square where I had been for
some hours standing, seeming to loosen
our files as it knocked the poor fellows
head over heels, like ninepins on a bowling
green; and, then we heard the familiar tones
of the old Colonel, to prepare for cavalry
as these devilish cuirassiers poured upon
us, and we were wedged together into a
wall of iron again to receive them. Thate
all I kno w about my feelings, sir,' said the
old soldier, tit was a terrible sight, and
awful to look upon. It was hell upon
earth,' he muttered, as he resumed hie
spade, and commenced digging with en
ergy. United Service Magazine.
Marriage Outright.- In one of the up
per counties of the Slate ol North Carolina,
a young Iellow . named Ben Sykes, had
courted a fair one for socne years, but eith
er was not ready or willing to put. the
qustion; she was fully willing perhaps
too wining Din lie never come to tne
scratch.' At last she jot mad, and said she
would marry Bill Patterson, if he ever
courted her again. Bill, on hearing of this
determination, went once more and put his
claim;he was a scurvy fello w in somethings,
and neither 'ma ma' nor 'dad' was willing
to it. So he secretly goes to R , got
a license, and that night made off for a
Gretna squire. In their road to happiness,
however, who should they meet but Ben
Sykes. He had got an inkling of what
was going on; and when he met them he
understood how the case lay.
'Sally,' says he, kI have fooled you, that's
a fact, & I am sorry for it. But if you still
prefer me to Bill Patterson, just say so, and
I will give him a thrashing, take his li
cense, .and old Moody shall marry us to
night. .The old love was too strong for the new.
Beij'gaVe Bill a thrashing, took his galr'
and (what lie haled more) his license,
which cost him 75 cents, and was off with
hi(f)ludder to Moody's. The old squire
did not so welt understend how one man
could be married ef a license granted to
another. Ben said he did not himself un
derstand the law quibbles,' but this he did
know, that unless he did it, he (the sqeire)
would catch it too. This hint was enough
for Moody, who, whithout more ado, pro
nounced them man and wife.
Political Courtship. The following
little story, (says the Bait,; Sun,) which
belongs to lhe New York Mercury, is de
cidedly one of the best things produced du
ring the. late campaign, and inasmuch as
all the States hereabouts have concluded
their labors with the Presidential contest,
we think we shall run no risk of overset
ting the Constitution, or treading upon the
most fastidious toe in the universe, by af
fording our readers a chance for Uie same
hearty laugh into which we were betrayed,'
spite of the multitude of units, tens and
thousands, which the election returns are
constantly whirling through our inner man
Herei the anecdote ir , .. , . 1
Jonathan walks in, takes a seat, and'
looks at Sukey. Sukey rakes up the fire,
blows out the candle, and don't look at
Jonathan. Jonathan' hi'tches and wrig
gles about in his chair, and Sukey sits
perfectly still. At length Jonathan mus
ters courage and speaketh ;
Sewkey X ,
Well, Jonathan.
I love you like pizen and sweetmeats.
t)etf telk (
It's a fact, and no mistake wi--will
now will you have me, Sukey ?(
Jonnathah Higgins, what am your po
litics Y y . ,.- ,
I'm for Polk, straight. , ,
"Wall, sir, vou can walk right strait hum,'
more t won't have nobody that aint for
Clay that's flat.; .
Three cheers for the " mill boy of the
slashes," sung out Jonathan.
That's your sort, says Sukey,. When'
shall we be married, Jonathan V
Soon's Clay's elected.
Ahem, A-a-hem. . , ,
What's the ifiatter, Sukey X
Spoeen' he aint elected Jj ....
Jonathan did'nt go away till next mot
ningl Bui whether he answered the last
question, this deponent knoweth not
Vruied States 8tatiitu$.Takwg At poju
lation of the United States to be in round aero
be;, 17,000,000, the proportion .
r in airrifMllllirB IS 1,70UUV
1
core merce, fisheries, &cu 1 ,250,000
mines, forests, &e 1500,000