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THE BELMONT CHRONICLE,
AND FARMERS, MECHANICS, AND MANUFACTURERS' ADVOCATE.
NEW SERIES. -VOL. 5. NO. S3. ST. CLJIRSFILll. (I1II0, FRIB.IV, HIV 13, 1853. ttPLE NO. SIS
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THE LAW OF NEWSPAPERS. POETRY.
SONG OF THE SHIRT.
THOMAS HOOD.
With fingers weary and worn, )
With eyelids heavy and red, i
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
riying her needle and thread p.
Stitch! stitch! stitch! t
In poverty, hunger, and dirt, (
And still, with a song of dolorous pitch,
Klic song the "Song of the Shin" ( t
"Work! work! work! '
While the dick is er owing aloof. '
And work work work,
Till the stars shine .through the roof. I
It's O !lo he a slave 1
Along with the barbarous Turk, I
Where woman has ncvrrr. soul to save, j
If tiiis is Christian woi kl t
"Work work work,
Till the brain begins to swim;
Work wor k w oik,
Till tho eyes are henvy and dim!
Scam, and guFset, and band,
Hand, and gusset, and seam,
Till over the buttons I fall asleep,
And sew them on in a dream!
"0! Men, with Sisters dear!
O! Men, with Mothers and Wives!
It is not linen you're wearing out,
But human creature's lives!
Stitch - stitch stitch.
In poverty, hunger, undent,
Sewing at ones, with a double thread,
A Shroud oa well ns a Shirt.
'"But why do I talk of Death
That phantom of grisly bono,
I huidly f( nr his teirlblo shape,
It seems so like my own
It seems to like my own
Because of tho lasts 1 keep,
O. Cod! that bread Should ho so dear,
And (loth and blod so cheap!
"Work work work!
fiy labor never llags;
And What are its wages! A bed cf straw,
A trust of bread and rags,
That shattcr'd roof and this n aked floor
A table a broken chair
And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank
For sometimes (a ling thoio!
"'Work work work !
From weary cbimo to chime,
Work work work ,
As prisoners work t"f crime!
Band, and gusset, and scam,
Seam, and gusset, and band,
Till the heart is sick, and the brain benumb'd:
Aa well as the weary hand.
"Work work work!
In the dull December light,
And work work work,
When the weather is warm and bright
Wliilo underneath the eaves
The brooding swallows cling,
As il to show me their sunny backs,
And twitnic with the spring.
"Oh! hut tobrenthe the breath
Of the cowslip and priunos.' sweet
With the sky ubovo my head
And the grass beneath my feet,
l or only one short hour
To feci as I used to feel,
JJeforu I kuew the woes of want,
And the walk that costs u meal'.
'Dh! but for ono short hour!
A respite however brief!
tio blessed leii-ure for hovo or Hope,
But only time for Urief !
A little weei lug would eusc my heart,
But in their briny bed
My tears must Blop, for every drop
Hinders needle a.id thread!
Wilh fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A ovomon sut, in unwomanly rngs,
Plying her needle and thrcud
Sileh ! stitch ! Blitch !
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still with a voice of iloloious pitch-.
Would that its tone could reach the Rich!
She sang this "Song of the Shirt !"
MISCELLANEOUS.
Extract from the North British Review.
LOUIS NAPOLEON.
In the first place, it is quite certain, and i
pow beginning to be admitted, evtm bv W
bitterest enemies, that Lonis Napojeon ia nc
the foolish imbecile it wan so long the fashio
to consider him. Those who aided in recal
ing him to France, and elevating him to til
residency, under the impression that one t
Billy and borne would be rendered a pliant toi
in their hands, soon found that they reckons
wlOiout their host. His mini, it is true,
neither capacious, powerful nor well-store
but his m.ral qualities re of most rare si
serviceable kind. His talents are ordinary,
but his pcrBverance, tenacity, power ol dis
simulation, and inflexibility of will, ure extra
ordinary. He is n memorable and most in
structive example that grcnt achievements arc
within the reach of a very moderate intellect,
when that intellect is concentrated upon n
single object, and linked with unbending and
undaunted resolution. Moreover, his mental
endowments, through neither varied nor com
prehensive, nro very vigorous. He is natur
ally shrewd, Becret & impenetrable, He has
tho invaluable faculty of silence, lie has,
too, been a patient and a wide observer. He
has studied politics in Switzerland, in Ameri
ca, and in England; he has devoted his mind
to that one subject. He is, too, n deep think
er. He ponders much; which few Frenchmen
Jo. His six years' captivity in Ham matnr
?d and strengthened, by silent meditation,
whatever natural capacities he may have poss
ssed. He writes well and speaks well; and
ill his writings and speeches, even where
hey betray the narrow limits of hi? knowledge,
ndicate an eminently thoughtful mind. He
ias brooded over the history, politics nnd so
;ial condition of France, till on these eub
ects he is probably one of the best Informed
ncn in the country, though, like most of bis
:oiintrymcn, wedded to many absurd and im
practicable crotchets, which a better knowl
edge of political economy would explode.
It is certain, also, that whatever he does
ind soys is his own. He acts and speaks for
limself, without reference and without assis
ancc. He listens to every one, asks advice
rom no one, gives his interlocutors no idea
vhether or not their arguments have made the
east impression upon him, but resolves his
iluiis in the gloomy recesses of his own brain,
ind brings them forth matured, homogeneous,
ind unexpected. The minutest details of the
oup d'etat were arranged by himself. All
hose from Changarnicr ami Thiers down to
Fuucher, who have endenvorcd to lead, drive,
r govern him, have all been baffled, outwit
ed, and cast aside. When ho rose at the ta
ile at Bordeaux to make his recent celebrated
ipeech, he observed to hi Minister on Foreign
Mfuirs, who sat next to him "Now I am go
ng to astonish you not a little." When he
innounced his intention of visiting Abdcl
iader at Aniboise, General St. Amuuil ex
iressed his hope that Louis Napoleon would
lot think of liberating him, made a long
ipeech, expository of all the evils that would
esult from such a piece of Quixotic generosi
y, and quilted the President cjuite satisfied
that he had succeeded in banishing nny such
scheme from his thoughts, Nor was it till he
actually heard Louis Napoleon announcing tu
his captive his approaching freedom, that he
was aware how much good argument he bat
thrown away. Whatever, therefore, of sa
gacity or wisdem is displayed in the language
or conduct of the new Emperor, must boned
ited to himself alone.
But we shall greatly and dangerously mis
conceive Louis Napoleon, if we regard bin
as n man of shrewdness, reflection and cal
culation only. The most prominent featun
of his character is a wild, irregular rnman
SOUS ImaginatOD which often overrides all hi
reasoning and reflective faculties, and spur
him on to actions and attempts w hich seer
insane il'they fuil,und the acme of splendi
audacity if they succeed. The abortions c
Starsbotirg and Boulogne, and coup d'etat a
last December, were equally the dictates a
like the legitimate progeny of thej sum
mental peculiarity. He believes, too, in hi
"star.'' He is even u blinder and rusher fu
tnlist than his uncle. From early childhoo
he believed himself destined to restore th
Dynasty of the Buonupartists, and tho ol
glories of the Empire. He brooded over thi
imagined destiny during long years ofcxih
and in the weary days and nights of his in
prisonnieiit, till it acquired in his fancy tli
solidity and dimensions of an ordained fac
He twice attempted to pluck the pear befor
it was ripe. His ludicrous failure in nodi
gree discouraged Min, or shook his cotivictio
of ultimate success. He only waited for nr
other opportunity, and prepared for it wit
more sedulous diligence and caution. H
"bided his time;" the time came: lie true
and won. After such success after haviti
risen in four years from being an inipoverisl
ed exile to being Emperor of Frunce -afb
hiving played the boldest stroke know
in modem history after having discomfite
deceived, and overpowered the cleverest, tt
most popular, the most eminent, und tho mo
experienced men in France we may well b
lieve that his luith in his "destiny" is co
firmed and rooted ulmost to the pitch of nio
omaniu, and that no future achievements, i
further pinnacle of greatness, will see
wild or impossible to him after a Past so
I ventlul, marvellous, and demoralizing.
Another peculiarity of his character is, th
he never abandons an idea or a project he h
once entertained. II ho meets dilfutilli
and opposition he dissimulates or postpone
ho never reully yields or changes. Co
patient, and inscrutable, he waits a
watches, and returns to his purpose when t
favorable moment has arrived. History ofl'or
few examples of such a pertinacious, endi
ing, relentless, inexorable will. This, of itse
is a species of greatness of tho most formii
ble kind. If, then, to this delineation wo a
that, reserved und silent as he is, he has t
art of attracting warmly to him those w
have been long ahouthim, and who have liv
intimately with him; thut, like most fat
: ists, he is wholly unscrupulous and unhesitati
as to his agents and his means; and that
entertains and has deliberately matured l
most extensive, deeplaid, and tnagnifici
schemes of foreign policy, we have exhaus
s nearly ull that we can speak of as certain t
reliable regarding this remarkable man; i
tlj assuredly we have said enough to satisfy c
nj readers that Prance has given to liersell
I-'master whom it concerns all Kurop
e statesmenthose of this country m
;o especially to study closely, and to wa
.1 unrestingly. Cool, daring, imperturu
id cunning, und profoundly secret a perplex
is compound of the sagacious calculator and
j; hosd-Btrong fanatic with a large navy,
id urn ivalieH army, and a prostrate snd appro'
nation, what is there which he may not at
tempt, and might not schieve? He never
abandons an idea or project; he recoils from
no rashness he believes !n no impossibility.
Why should he! Alter tho marvellous past,
why should he doubt the future! He succeeded
In Ihi coup d'etat why should he fail in a
coup de main exterieu1. He believed himself
destined to restore the Empire: he has
restored it. He believes himself destined to
recover the imperial boundary line, and to
wipe out the memory of Waterloo: is he likely
to nhrink from the adventure! It is said that
he ldmires England and her institutions, and
that ho is grateful for tho kindness and
prr tection he met with while among us.
Both we believe to be true, but when did
considerations of this Bort ever restrain a
politician who believes in his"star."
One other feature o! Louis Napoleon's mind
must be noticed before we can be in a posi
tion rightly to estimate the probabilities of
his future career. Iio is alee ami servile
copyist of his uncle. He has studied pro
foundly ' not only the history of the first
Napoleon, but his opinions on ull matters of
policy and administration. He believes, and i
we think just'y, that Napoleon understood !
more thoroughly than any Frenchman of his I
day, tho nature of the government which
Frunce needed, and the degree of self-govern- j
mcnt which she could manage and would
bear; that his sagacity and juif6 d'-spris on
nearly all subjects of administration approach
ed to inspiration; and tint, If he treads in his
too tsteps, he may aspire to emulate his glory.
This is a sentiment eminently misleading, ct
full of danger, The talents of the two men
are so wjio lly different, the internal condi-1
tion and, to a great extent, the character nnd
feelings of the nation have been so changed
by thirty-live years of peace and free InstitU
(ions, that maxims and modes of proceedings,
sound and expedient then, may be utterly in- j
applicable HOW. The dazzling fame and the
wonderful sagacity of Napoleon I nviy be the
ignis fatUUS which will lure astray Napoleon
III, to discomfiture and ruin.
LOST AN THE LIVING.
BY FANNY FERN.
Tli" husbands tears may be few and brLf,
IIh may woo and win another;
lint the daughter clings with unchanging fjtlel
j I'o the image of her mother!
But a fleeting twelvemonth hud passed
i since tho heart (that for years had beat a
gainst Ii is own) was. forever stilled, whin
Walter Leo brought again a fair young creu-
j ture to share his widowed home. Nor father,
, nor mother, nor brother nor sister claimed the J
' orphan heart that he coveted nnd won. Noj
expense or pains hud he spared to decorate
1 the mun-.ion lor her reception. Old familiar
objects, fraught with tenderest associations,
had been removed to make way for the Up
1 holster's choicest fancies. There was 110
' picture left upon the wall, with sweet, sad,
- mournful eyes, to follow him with silent re-
- proach. Everything was fresh and delight-
9 ful as the new born joy that filled his heart.
s "My dear Edith," said he fondly pushing
! back the hair from her forehead; "there sho'd
bo no shadow in your pathway, but I have
. tried in vain tu induce Nelly to give you tho
welcome you deserve; however she sJiall not
annoy you. I shall compel her to stay in the
e nurserj till she yields to my wishes."
"Oh, no! don't do that," said the young
(l step-mother anxiously; "I think I understand
, her. Let me go to her, dear Walter," and
, she trlpt lightly out of the room and left him
g to himself,
Walter Lee looked nftor her retreating fig-i-
ure w ith a lover like loudness. The room
e seemed to him to grow suddenly darker,
t. when the door closed after her. Reaching
e out his hand, he almost unconsciously took
.. up u hook that lay near him. A slip of paper
n fluttered out from between the leaves, like a
I. white-winged messenger. The joyous ex
1, pression of his face faded into one of deep
e sorrow, as he read it. It ran thus:
k "Oh to die and be forgotten. This warm
g heart cold these active limbs still -these
i- lips dust. Suns to rise and set, flowers to
it bloom, the moon to silver leaf the trees 'round
ii my own dear homo; tho merry laugh, the
d, pleasant circle, and not here. The wced.
ie choking the flowers at my headstone; the sec
st ered trees of sunny hair forgotten in its cuff-
velope; the sun of happiness so soon absorb-n-
ing the dew-drop of sorrow! The cipresi
n- changed for the orange wreath! Oh no, no
10 don't quiti forget! close your eyes sometimes
in and bring before you the face thut one. ', made
e- sunshine in your home! feel again the twin
ing clasp of loving arms; tho lips that toll
at you (not in words) how dear you were. Oh
us Welter, don't quite forget! From Nellie';
bs cleur eyes, let her mother's 60ul still epeuli
"MARY LEE."
Ml Warm tears fell upon the paper ns Waltei
ie Lee folded it buck. He gave himself time tt
ds rally, and then glided gently up to the nurse
ir- ry door. It was partially open. A little fair
If, creature, of some five summers, stood in tin
la-' middle of the floor. Her tiny face was hal
dd hidden in sumiy curls. Her little pinafon
he was-full of toys, which she grasped tight!;
ho in either hand.
ed "No you aro not my mnmmn," said tin
al- child. "I wan't my own dead mainnrt, and
ug am sorry papa brought yon here."
he "Oh, don't say that," said the young step
he mother, "don't call tue mamma, if itgivesyo
"nt pain, deaj. I am quite willing that you shoul
ed love your own mamma better than me."
ind Nelly looked up with pleasant surprlsi
md "I had a dear mamma and papa once," a!)
iui' continued; "und brothers and sisters, so man
a and so merry! but they are alldead, and soim
?an times my heart is very sad; I have no one t
ire love me now but your papa and you."
tel. Nellie's eyes began to moisten; and lukii
V,e, one alter unother of the little souvenirs ui
ing toys from her pinafore, she said, "And yi
the won't take away this and this and this-
an that my dead mamma gave me)-'
iny "No. indeed, dear Nellie!"
"Anil you will let me climb into my papa's 1
lap, as I used; and put my cheek to bis and
kiss him, and love him, as much as ever I can,
won't you!" i
"Yes, yes, my darling."
Walter Lee could bear no more, his heart
was full.
What! Mary's child pleading with a
stranger, for room in a father's heart! In th- ,
sudden gush of this new fountain of tender-1 ,
Hess, had he lorgotten or overlooked the claims j
of that helpless little one? Ood forbid!
From Nellie's clear eyes let her mother's soul I
Speak to you. Aye! and it did!
When next Walter Lee met his young
bride It was with a chaste tenderness. Nel-1
lie's loving little heart was pressed closely I
h gafftst his own. He was again her own j
papa. No lie did not "iiuite forget!"
"ONLY A CHILD."
"Who is to be buried here!" said I to the' ,
sexton.
"Only a chilJ, ma'nm."
Only a child! Oh! hail -you ever been a
mother had you nightly pillowed that little
golden head had you slept the sweeter for'
that little velvet hand upon your breast had;
you waited for the first intelligent glance from
those blue eyes had you watched its slum-1
hers, tracing the features of him w ho stole
your girlish heart away had you wept a will
ow's tears over its unconscious head hud your
desolate, timid heart gained courage from that
little piping voice, to wrestle with the jostling
crowd for daily bread had its loving smiles'
und prattling words been sweet recompense'
for such sad exposure had the lonely future
been brightened by the hope of that young
arm to lean upon, that bright eye for your 1
guiding star had you never framed a plan,
or known a hope or fear, of which that child '
was not a part. If there was naught else on
earth for you to love if disease came, and
its eyes grew dim, nnd food, rest and sleep
were forgotten in your anxious fear? if you '
paced the floor hour by hour with thut fragile :
burden, when your very touch seemed to give1
comfort and heuling to that little quivering
frame had the star of hope set at last then,
hud you hung over its dying pillow, when the '
strong breast you should have wept on was
in the grave, where your child was hastening
had you caught alone, its last faint cry for
the 'help' you could not give hud Its last flu t-1
taring sigh breathed out on your breast Oh!
could you have said "Tis only a child!'
FANNY FERN.
BOSTON SCHOOLS.
During the last eleven years Boston has
raised ami expended for public school purposes
10,8(52 -10. Notwithstanding the excess
of population in New York, Boston during
the last five years has expended a larger
amount lor cducntioiul purposes than thut
city, Tho, Bpatan Journal says that com
paring the schools us they now are with what
they were fifteen years ago, the change has
been verv striking:
"The c jurse o'' stil ly his be?n enlarged
the discipline has been modified, doing uwuy
with corporeal punishment to a groatexteut
more thoroughness of instruction has bee ii
j introduced and the examinations are nur e
; rigid. In the school houses there have been
'corresponding improvements. There are
thousand-; of jur citzens who remember A'ithno
I pleasurable feelings the little round stools
I without bucks, which they occupied in
' boyhood. Literally they were stools of
' repentance, und many a stoop of Consumptive
huhit may be traced to these odious nstruiiienU
j of torture . Another silking change in the
! int real ur a-.ige ment of tho school room is the
introduction of recitation rooms. Fifteen
yenrs ugo thesj were unknown, und the class
recitations weru ull held in one com men
room. Increased attention bus also been
puid to heating, lighting, and ventilating the
school rooms. These, und other changes und
improvements, add greajtly to the advantages
w hich the pupil of the present generation has
in the pursuit of knowledge. The change in
; the character of the pupils is still more marked,
The time bus been, within twenty years,
when hardly a dozen boys of Irish parentage
could be found in the public schools. Nov.
the majority of the pupils are foreigners.
These ure, us a class, fair scholars, and some
of them excel their American competit-
1 ors."
I
Mrs. Stowe's Visit to England.
i It is announced that Mrs. Harriet Beecher
, Btowe, the author ol Uncle Tom's Cabin, and
p her brother, Rev. Charles Beecher, sailed for
England, yesterday, in the steamship Canada.
- Tiiis visit is prompted by an invitation almost
I national in its character. Sixty thousand sig
natures, in black anil white, written by Eng
i lishmen snd Englishwomen, form the Induce
; ment for Mrs Stows to cross the ocean; und
j those sixty thousand represent six uplllbns, at
least, who will give her a hearty welcome.
, To the mere numerical force may bo added
. he value of rank as a rich eniboidery to this
public card of Invitation. "The blood of all
. the Howards" will be in waiting to receive her
, ut Liverpool, end the tide of heart-throbs stir
p red In the sea of huninnily, will hear her along.
, i This we are happy tu see. We believe Mrs
J Stowe to be an Artist. She has tnken hold
I of the humblest picture, that of Black Poverty
, friendless, folorn, wandering, hopeless, help-
less and enslaved. She has struck on ib
chain, and the world is resonant. Tho Ag
leaps up at this new rainbow in the sky. Tin
hopes of nations lie in her domestic tale o
j sorrow, toil, agpny'nnd death. For out of thi
crucifixion cometh a new Faith. The Fuitl
, is in Liberty. Liberty wide and bright as th
e sunny atmosphere. Liberty for ull men an
all women. Liberty to think, and act, an
f work, and repose. Libery to pray and t
' pruise. N. Y. Trilune.
ig Romanists ik tub Uxitkd States. Th
,j Roman Cutholie church in this country con
)U prises 8 archbishops, 2(3 bishops, 1,751 priesl
and 1,685 churches, with an estimated popt
lation of 2jD0ti,300. There arc 33 ecclesim
tical Ecmin'aries, 45 literary Institutions f
r'oung men. end I Oil fcmslo academies; there
ire 42 religious Institutions for males, and 'Jfi
ror femuh s; there ure 1 OS charituble instil u-ions.
Thomas Francis Meagher thus speaks Ol
:hc debasing influences of gold, in his ele
rsnt lecture upon Australia, As a feverish
lesire to grow ricli is our principal churuct
ristic, he could have said nothing more up
iropriatc to his Amerieun hearers.
"Gold which has caused many a brain to
iche. has blistered many I hand, broken mutiv
noble heart, has wounded many a Bouring
-mil, and clinging to il, bus bought it to the
Just, gold, which lias brought the integrity
jf the stutesman, und led hiswisdum captive;
gold, which has silenced the tongue of the
jrator, und bought the flatteries of the pa,t,
,'old, for which In the guy saloons of tashion,
nany a fair and noble girl bus plighted the
row which lias consigned her lile to bitter
ness, and locked upon her radiant neck the
make thut swells her veins with venom; gold,
which has stolen into the council of the
struggling nation, bus bred dissension among
her chiefs, has broken the seal of her Bacred
secrets, has forced the gates of her strongest
citadels, bus bought the evidences which
hurried her apostles to the scaffold, bus bo't
the, votes which made over her inheritance to
others, und her glory to a Strang people
gold, which has led the truitor to the garden
and wilh a kiss betrayed the Redeemer of the
world gold, which in so many shapes has
stepped with u stealthy truad or rioted u
mongst men which has been the fever, the
madness, the despair has been In turns and
quick succession, the spy, the swindler, the
perjurer, the assassin tlio foe of innocence,
the blight of beauty, the bane of genius;
gold has become u fountain of life, und joy &.
freedom the serpent has been trans formed
into a blossomed wand. Lucifer has become
the morning star. To you, the citizens of A
merica.it must be pleasing indeed, to behold
a new republic riring up to share with you
the labors and glories of a future, before
which the conceit o! the old world shall be
humbled, and in the light of which humanity
shall grow strong.
Mr. E. Bbuoks, one of the Editors of the
New York Express, is now in Havana, and
ill writing to his paper gives some well-timed
cautious uguiust placing implicit confidence
in the stories of outrages upon American
vessels which have b jen so frequent of lute.
Hesays that "the Ucorgiana, Bosan Loud, it
Captain Cray affairs had hardly thosemblancl
of fact to sustain many of the published re
ports of examinations grow ing out o! these
occurrences." And yet eueb one of these
ufjalra was made the cause of much bittei
feeling in the United States, and furnisher,
topics for strung denunciations of the lati
Administration. Mr. Brooks also says:
"My Impression is that so many falsehood
are sent to the United States in regard to th
Inland of Cuba, und the condition of thing
here, that no reliance can bo placed upon th
the bulk of published politicul corresponded
dated at Havana and published at home. Nc
that there ure not real grievances, but tha
prejudice, passion, or ignorance guide man
of the pens that record the state of affairs i
Cuba.'' I Vashington Intelligencer.
We have often heard ladk-s expressing
desire to know by what process the Ii ic gloi
observable on new lin.ns, shirt bosoms, c
cetera, is produced, and ill order to gratis'
them, we subjoin the following receipe fe
making Gum Arabic starch:
"Take tWO ounces of line white Cum Ar;
bic powder put it into a pitcher, and pot
, on it a pint or more ol boiling water, accon
! ing to the degree of strength yi u desire, an
then having covered it let it set all eight. I
the morning, pour it carefully from the drejj
into a clean bottle, cork l, and keep it fi
use. A table spoonful of tun water, stirre
' ''nto a pint of starch that has been made i
the usual manner, will give to lawns eitht
I white or printed a In k of newness whe
nothing else can restore liiefti after wushin;
I It is also good much diluted for white mu
j Ii ii and bobinet.
i Til? New York Tribune gives utterance I
the following! We only differ by saying tin
we view the tariff Still, as the means by whie
tho PaciSo road could be made more easif
and the people still retain their independei
inonled position. Still, there is no usu
pressing the tariff, now. The people wi
have their way, und Democracy must run i
course, until the tide again sets the nution i
a low ebb. Let it sleep till the lime come
Wheeling Gazette.
"We propose 'leaving the tilings that a
behind to go on unto perfection.' We don
cure even to revive the tariff controversy,
our antagonists therein will unite with us
urging forward the great Pacific railroad, sim
we believe many branches of our manufucturi
already so solidly established ns to need I
other protection than such as the mere
revenue duty will afford, and look to th
railroad to do more l r American manufactur
than nny tariff has done or could now, do
widening their market, and making the Unit
States insteud o Great Britain, the commerc
1 centre of the world."
i
A Patuiot's Duath. The records of u
' dent Greece und Rome do not exhibit a i
r bier instance of patriotism than is contain
8 in the following inscription found upon
i gravestone in New L indon. Connecticut. 1
- wonder our revolutionary fathers were invl
1 cible, while they wero actuated by such n
' lives as are here recorded:
D -On the 30lh of October, 1732, 40'i0 Ii
glish fell upon this town by fire and awe
700 Americans defended the fort for a Vjhi
e day, hue ill the evening about 4 o'clock, t
' commander of the besieged delivered up I
sword to an Englishman who inimediati
I- stabbed liiui. All his comrades were put
- the syord. A line of powder wus then 1
lt in tho tnagaine.t3 the '. lllL'rt l"
lighted and blow the fortress into tho air
William Hitman who lay not far distant wilh
three stroke of the bayonet in his body, said
to hi WOUnded friend w ho were still alive, ;
We will end- avo- to crawl to this line, tnd
thus we will completely wet the powder with
blood, and with ti e life that remains in us,
save the fort and IMgatlMi and perhaps a few
of our comrades who kf I nly wounded!' He
alone had strength enough to accomplish the
noble design. In his 3oth year, hi died on
the powder which he overflowed with his own
blood. His friend and seven of his Wounded
companion.-, l.y that means hud their lives pre
served.' After this narrative are the following word.-:
in large capita is:
'litre r uts William llatman."
PENCILLED PASSAGES.
FROM BLITHEDALE ROMANCE.
This is always true of men who have
surrendered themselves to an overruling pur
pose. It d aM not SO much impel them from
: without, nor even operate as a motive power
within, but grow incorporate with ul! ailn.
they think and feel, and finally converts them
! Into little else V that one principle. When
I such begin to be the predicament, it is not
j cowurdice, but wisdom, to tVold these victims.
i They have no heart, no sympathy, no reason,
! no conscience. They will kc-"p no friend,
' unless lie make himself tie mirror of their
1 purpose; they will smite and slay you, and
trample your dead corpse under foot, all the
more readily, if you take the flrat step with
I them, and cannot take the second, and third,
and every other step of their terribly Straight
! path.
Young or old, in play or in came.--'
; man Is prone to be a brute.
Little a we know of mi' life to come,
we may be ery sure, t',jr one thing, that the
good we aim at will not be attained. People
1 never do get just the go id they seek. If it
com at all, it is something else, which they
never dreamed of, and did not particularly
want. Then, again, we in cy rest certain tiut
i our friends of to-day will not be our friend
of a few years hence; but, if we keep one o!
them, it will be ut the expense of the others;
und, most probably, we shall k-'ep none. To
i be sur", there are mare to be had; but who
cares about mnkinj a new set of friends, even
should they be better tlun ihoa? around ul"
A man poet, prophet, or whatever h
mny be readily p-.r.inides himself of Hi r
I right to all the worship that is voiuntsrily
! I tendered.
, Despise woman! Nol She is th.
I most admirable handiwork of Gid, in In--,
- trjc pldC! uu ! eh iracter. Her place is a'
j man's side, Her office, that of the synv
i pothisers ''le unreserved, unquestioning be
, liever; the recognition, withheld in every oth
' ( or manner, but given, in pity,through wouao'i
p heart, lest man lould utterly bse faith it
j himself; the echo of G J's own voi ee, pro
e nouncing, 'It is well dunel' All the separa'.i
i action of woman is, and even ins been, un-.
' I always shall be, false, fpolisb, Vain, dca'.-uelivi
of her own beet and Iwliest qualities, void o
".every goad effect, and productive of iotoler
able mischiefs! Mm is u wretch witboui
woman,- but woman is a monster mil, than!
a Heaven, an almost impossible a id hithcrti
l iniigiia y monster without ra tn ns her ac
-t knowledged principal! As true as I Lad ana
y u mother whom 1 loved, were there uny pos
r I sible prospect of woman's taking the soeiu
j stand which some of them poor, miserable
i-1 abortive creatures, who only dream cf sue
ur i things becauso they have missed w oman"
1- j peculiar happiuoss, or because nature mad
J '. them really neither man uorwoman! if the:
n were a chance of their attaining the en
fs which these pettic.outed monstrosities hav
ir in view, I Would call upon my own sex t
d use its physical force, that unmistakable BVl
n deuce o: sovereignty, to scourge them b.ic
r within their proper boun Is! But it will BC
n be needful, The heart of true womanhoo
knows where its own sphere is, aud nevi
l- seeks to stray beyond it!
SetniT RAPPIRrja Alas, my coun'r;
men, methilik we have fullcD on an evil ag
in If these phenomena have not humbug nt ill
H bottom, so much the worse for us. What CO
h they indicate, in a spiritual way, except tin
fi the soul of man is descending to a lower poii
it than it has ever before reached while ii
ii crti.tte ! We ure pursuing a down ward coufi
II in the eternal march dt llms bringing ourselvi
Is into the same range with beings w hom dent
it n requital of the ir gruss and evil lives, h
?: degraded below humanity! To hold lute
course with spirits of this order, we mu
re stoop and grovel in some clement more vi
t than earthly dust. Thee gib Ins, if they e.
jj- ist ut all are but tho shadows of past mortulit
ln outcasts, more refuse-tu(f,ttdjudged unwor
.e of the eternal world, and, on the most 1'ivo
.5 able supposition, dwindling gradually in
,,. nothingness. The less we have to s iv to the
the better, lest we share their fate!
al It is nonsense, am! a miserable wren
s ;lui result, like s a many others, of DIUSClilll
in egotism, that the su-cess or failure of w
ed man's existence should be made to dope:
lei wholly on the affections, and on oi.e speci
of ulftctiou, whl e man. has such a uullitu
of other chances, that this seems but an i
cident. For its own sake, if it will d i
11 more, the world should throw open all
'j avenues to the pontpors of a woman's blci
ing heart,
a
Admitting what iscnllid pbilanthro)
n- when adapted us u profession, to be often m
io- ful by its energetic impulse to society at lur.
it is perilous to the iodividu il whose ruli
In- pussion, in one oxolusiv channel, it thus I
fdi Comsfi It ruin-, oris fear.uily apt to ru
ale lue heart, tho rich juices of which God uei
In meant should be pressel violeii;ly out, u
his distilled into alcoholic liquor, by anuniiatu
.'ly process, but should render life sweet, blui
to and gently beneficent, and insensibly i
aid fluence other hearts an. I other lives to t
be same blessed eud.
WiuliiMgt)N NtttiaMnl iYloiiiimciit
OOMCi
April 29, 1853.
The Board of Managers of the Washing
ton Nations! Monument Society do hereby
appoint Messrs. HlOHano B. Rvah, JlK
RaKTOK and ISAAC I). JollKSoi, of St.
' lairsville, Ohio, a Committee to collect
funds to complete the e rection of the (heat
National .Monument to the memory of thu
"Father ol his Country," nnd wo most re-
pec t ful I) commend tins Committee to aur
felloiv-ci iz-.-ns, us huviiii' given ample secu
rity for the faithful pel lormnnce of their
trust, snd as patriotic men who do this work
without fee or reward.
GEO. WATERSTON, Sec'y.
The :iitn 1 ties is aulh iriz id.to state that
the ruiiiie ul the largest contributor in each
village und dislric , not losi than 6 'HO,
ball be engraved up m a table, in tho Mob
umr-Bt.
To the American People.
From the great decrea se in the receipts of
contributions to the National Monument du
ring t.'ie lust six month", the B o.vd of Man
ager of the M jf.ument Association feel it
to be their duty to make another appeal to
the putio ism of the American Public.
They are un willing to believe that the peo
ple of this Country, under such dee p and las
tiiiL' obligations as they arc to the founder
of their liberties, and fueling, as they must
a profound ensc of gratitude for ihe Ines
timable services w hich he rendered to them,
, will suffer a monument commenced in hie
honor, and to ai 1 in perpetuating his name
; to the latest nge o! the world, to remain un
finished lor tin' w ant of tiiij means necessa
ry tu complete it. tt need scarcely be sug
gested tout a fact lik i this in the history of
our republic Would no: fail to reflect lasting
discredit on the gratitude and patriotism of
' its citizens, and prove io the world that re
publics ure lO'j apt to be forgetful of what is
due to themselves un l to the memory of
those wii.i, under Providence, have made
th to great, prosperous, and l.appy. It is
I often tbe fate of the most distinguished and
i Illustrious t j be nearly forgotten after they
have mouldered in the tomb for half centu
rv. iu the busy and ever changing scene
: o't- the World th" Stage of life is continuously
' oc upied by tii se wh ise acts excite the ia
' tercet of the living, nd exclude tue memory
I of such as have preceded them, though their
reputation may have beeam -.re brilliant and
I thair deeds more glorious, But it was be
I lieved that Wasuisot J w as ono to whom
the American people owed the greatest and
! most lusting d.bt of gratitude, and to whose
I memory every honor should be puiJ by his
I countrymen; that to honor him was but to
1 honor themselves, and that they were wtt
i ling and desirous to pay a just tribute to pre
I eminent patriotism and to unequalled pub-
lie anJ pr.vate virtue. Un ier this impres
sion, a sucii ty was established some seven
' teen years ago iu the city of Washington,
i ir toe purpose of erecting a magnificent
. ' monument to the Father of Lis Couotryjand
tbe Board of Managers of that society hav '-,
dc" tie that long interval, mude gratuitously
' ev try t-lfjrt in their power, from u pure feel
' ing of patriotism SUd desire to honor his
' memory, to obtaic the means necessary to
accomplish the object of its organization,
i Bv uuceasiug and untiring exert, on they
I hive succeeded iu collecting a sum sufficient
! only to carry up the proposed etruclure to
f au elevation of one hundred and 2i feet a-
bove tho surface, about the one filth of its
intended elevation; and they now regret to
say that, unless the Contribution are larger
' and more frequent than tbey have been for
' the past six mouths, It will be impossible to
continue tbe work any further. The blocks
5 of stone which have been sent from the dif-
ferent States, asBticlaliotis, &c, to be plac
1 ed in the monument, have done but little to
add to its elevation, though they may con
, tribute to i'a interest. That the public may
understand how expensive such a structure
must necessarily be, it may be proper to
state that each course of two feet in height
D costs upwards of .52,''U0. though executed
with the strictest regard to economy. Tho
e materials and labor, with a small annual
0 compensation allowed to the superintendent,
- end u still smaller t tue architect, amounts
!; to the expenditure ivbtcbbus been mention
it e j; and the Board ol Managers are well sat
,j isfied that, had the work been undertaken by
t .e Government, it would have cost double
:r the amount of .he present cost of the obe-
llsb so far.
-. : From two to three courses can be comple-
1 tid in a month, which require from fuur to
six thousand dollars, while the monthly con
trihutious have rot averaged, fur the past
" half year, more than two thousand dollars.
'' It will, therefore, be obviou that the work
l must necessarily lie stopped if more ar-i-
dull! an I p itriotit. feeling d es not prevail a--e
nung the people of thi country, nd a mote
is extend id und liberal contribution be not
!, made. To sll v. with what ease this great
,a object Could be effected, it ia only nccessa-
ry to state that lice cent- a head from each
" white Inliabl an. i f tiie L1 nited States would
be su.li dent to Complete the monument in a
' few year-: and yet such appetra to be the a
s" pathy and indifference existing iu relation to
' this noble undertaking that even that small
ty I sum cannot be oblalued lor so patriotic, und
r- glorious a purpose.
to Iii Norway, the three fourths of the a
in uiounl uecessary to erect a monument in
j honor ol Charles the Twelfth ass raised
i lutely bj voluntary contributions in two
g. days; W He I the Republic of the United
lejti.ates, brought In o existence by the valor,
perscv fane, , energy & patriotism of Wash
.jlingtoii; in a nation which now contains a
popula iun of nearly twenty-llvf millions of
, j souls, eujoyiug a freedom, independence,
und prosperitv nowhere else to be found,one
j li.iii only oi iho amount required to complete
B0 a monument worthy of the man in whose
it i honor it is now being erected has, after the
d- mast unceasing efforts fo? seventeen years,
been contributed. To the people, the army
and navy, masonic, odd-felloss, and other
'V- associations, ti e colleges, acader.ies, and
schools of the Uulted Stales; banking insti
;e, tutions, city und town corporations, Ac, p
Rg plication, urgently requesting pecuniary aid
ie- have been made by circulars addressed to
n all, and still ice contributions received have
. ' been insufficient to raise the monument be-
i youd its-present elevation. This is a pain
, ful and nu r Hying fact. It wUI now be
came the du y of the different State sjf the
"' Union to IOW the interest tlicy feel in this
" noble undertaking. to evince the estima
h" i ion und respect in which they hold the cbsr
icter and services of Washington by Con-