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VOLUME XI.
CADIZ, HARRISON COUNTY, OHIO, JUNE 5, 1814.
NUMBER 11.
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POETRY.
The Dear Chi of llic Tree.
BY WILLIAM WALLACE.
How bright are those eyes where the summel time beam,
Like a glory hung'over the blue
Where the calm sunny waves of the whispering stream
Are as bright and unchangoaDie too;
While the low silver music of Itnly rinjs
From the depths of her rose-b!u;hi:ig flowers,
And the spirits of love, on their tremulous wings,
Are awaked from an Eden of flowers.
Oh! brilliant the glance of the Castilian maid.
Who has looked through the jessamine leaves,
As if for the coming of one half afraid
At whnHB nhsnnco she mournfully erievss.
Not for these ! Not (or these shall we eagerly roam
O'er the soraline halls of the sea,
But nxclaim, as we kneel by our altars at home,
Give us tlie dear Girl of die Free!"
She is bom where the breezes are sent from the deep
Playitig over the cradle of love,
And at night time to watch 'round her innocent sleep,
The gold stars ever sparkle above ;
Oh ! her music 's the song of the geen forest-lyres,
And well may their harmonies roll,
For they find n strain sweetsr than wilderness choirs
In the melody breathed from her soul.
See the splendor that plays o'er her exquisite form,
See the glory that burnB in her eye,
As exulting she marks the star-flag, like a storm,
By her lover unfurl'd to the sky !
Then shout, while tlra banner displays ev'ry fold
Over mountain and valley and lea
Aye, shout, comrades, for all the bride of the bold
" Give xu tlie dear Girl of the Free! "
MISCELLANEOUS
A CHAPTER OIV MUSIC.
BY THE DITOR OF THE CADIZ SENTINEL.
Here in this our beautiful village of Cadiz, we
nave decidedly a musical population. The old,
the middle-aged, and the young, are all musi
cians. We have a Democratic Band, a Whig
Band, and a Tyler Band. This last association
is decidedly sui generis ! ' Who its members are
would puzzle a magician to tell, and whore
they get their music, no disciple of Mozart or
Handel can inform us! They are masqued non
descripts, who can't be found , in day light, and
don't know each other at night! They meet
semi-occasionally, when something of unusual
interest occurs, such as a wedding for instance;
and then the way they make themselves heard,
is a caution to bull-frogs! v
It is most delightful one of these lovely nights,
when pale Cynthia's soft and silvery beams en
liven and beautify nature, to listen to the anima
mating strains of the flute, clarionet or guitar,
when touched by some master hand.
The Bard of Avon" said:
" He who liutli no music in his soul,
Noris fill'd with the concord of gweot sounds,
Is fit for treason, stratagems and spoils. "
Every nation of the world that we read of in
history has paid more or less attention to the cul
tivation of the delightful art of Music. Whether
our ancient progenitor, Mr. Adam, or his amia
ble spouse, Mis. Eve, played on the flute, guitar,
or piano, we have no data from which to form
an opinion but it is quite certain that their
Paradise was a lovely spot, and made vocal by
the sweet notes of Philomel and her feathery sis
ters of song; and it would seem to be a natural
conclusion that Madam was fascinated by the
" concord of sweet sounds " on that tree, in
stead of the wily oloquence of Beelzebub.
Lucretius informs us, in the fifth book of his
poem "De Rcrum Natura,n that tho birds taught
man to sing, and that tho invention of musical
instruments was suggested by the sounds produ
ced from reeds, when the western wind blows
over them
-'i the birds instructed man,
And taught him songs before his art bogan ;
And while soft evening gales blow o'er the plains,
And shook the sounding reeds, they taught thewains ;
Aud thus the pipe was framed, and tuneful rood. "
The earliest record of music extant is found in
Genesis, where Jubal, tho seventh in descent
from Adam, is mentioned, as the " father of such
as handlo tho Jiarp and organ;" and it is cer
tain, that the Egyptians were tho originators of
music, if wo are to credit Heroditus; for musi-
cat instruments were found sculptured on an
Egyptian obelisk brought to Romo by Augustus
Moses sang after the miraculous passage of the
Rod Sea. Music formod an essontial part of ev
ery Jewish ceremony. The Priesthood wero
musicians by office, which was hereditary. At
the dedication of Solomon's Temple, Josephtis
says that two hundred thousand musicians were
engaged, blowing trumpets. Cadmus, with his
Phoenicians, introduced music into Greece.
Chiron, the Centaur, taught Achilles music.'
Terpander is said to have appeased an insurrec
tion in Lacedemon, by his songs. Lamia, a la
dy distinguished for her wit and personal charms,
after captivating many by her skill as a perform
er on the flute, and hor beauty, conferred such
benofit on the Athenians, that tlioy dedicated
a temple to hor. Pythagoras had a notion that
there was a music of the spheres, produced by
the motion of the heavenly bodies. Quintilian
partly ascribes the reputation of the Roman
troops to tho impression made by the warlike
sounds of the fifes and trumpets upon the le
ws.- Plutarch wag of opinion that nothing
was of greater use than music to excite persons
at all times to virtuous actions, and especially to
confront tho dangers of war. Dion Chrysostomc
nforms us that when Timotheus played one day
on the flute, in a martial strain, before Alexan
der the Great, that prince immediately ran to
arms. The poets assert, that when Orpheus
touched the lyre, tho most rapid rivers ceased to
flow, the savage beasts of the forests forgot their
wildness, and the mountains moved to liBten to
his song; aud when he entered the palace of
Pluto, the wheel of Ixion stopped, the stone of
Sisyphus stood still, Tantalus forgot his perpet
ual thirst, and even the Furies relented
' The Furies sank upon their iron beds,
And snakes uncurl'd hang listening round their
heads. " Pope.
Music was an essential part of the education of
the youth of Greoco; and Polybius, a grave and
serious historian, attributes the extreme differ
enco between the two nations of Arcadia the
one infinitely belovod and esteemed for the ele
gance of their manners, their benevolent inclina
tions, humanity to strangers, and piety to the
gods the other, on the contrary, generally re
proached and hated for their malignity, brutality
and irreligion, to the study of music, indus
triously cultivated by the one, and absolutely
neglected by the other. Socrates, at an advan
ced age, learned to play on musical instruments
Themistocles was thought deficient in polite ac
complishments, because at an entertainment, he
could not touch the lyre like the rest of the com
pany. Epaminondas was praised for duncing
and playing well on the flute; and Plato, in his
books of laws, prescribed judicious regulations
with respect to dancing and music. Dr. Cham
bers, tho writer of the " Bridgewater Treatise,"
beautifully says of music : " its sweetest sounds
are those of kind affection, its sublimest sounds
are those expressive of moral heroism, or most
fitted to prompt the aspirations and resolves of
exalted piety. " Who has ever read the Psalms
of "Israel's sweet singer" and did not admire
their lofty religious sentiment, and did not also
feel a desire to " serve the Lord with gladness,
and come before his presence with singing,
A Hebrew writer states that King David could
play on thirty-six different instruments. Homer
sung his own verses in the streetsof Greece, but
it was a want of broad that diovo him to such
i condition! Little did the author of the "Iliad"
think, while eating his crust in an obscuro gar
ret, that three great cities of his country should
quarrel, after his death, as to which of them had
the honor of giving hiin biitii! All Europe has
listened to the troubadours as they poured ou
their heroic and nmatoriul strains beneath the
windows of their "ladye loves;" and many a bold
Knight has warbled his deeds of chivalry, in stri
kins a blow for Palestine. In tho mountains of
the Tyrol (says a recent writer) hundreds of the
women and children come out when it is near
bedtime, and sing their national songs, until they
hear their husbandsfathers and brothers answer
them from tho hills on their return home. On tho
shores of tho Adriatic Sea, the wives of the fish
ermen come down to the beach about sunset, aud
sing a melody from Tasso's " Jerusalem Deliver
ed." Thev sing the first verse, and then listen
for some time; they then sing a second verse
and listen until Ihey hear the answer conic from
the fishermen, who are thus guided by the sounds
to their own village.
That music has ever had a powerful offect in
soothing our stormiest passions, and awakening
within us latent, but noble feelings, is a truth too
evident to admit of doubt or denial. Show us a
man who has a taste for music, and we will show
you a man ot benevolent disposition, genorous
sentiments, patriotic feelings and noble soul.
From Chambers Edinburgh Journal.
THE BEAUTY AND THE BEGGAR
Not long since, in passing through one of our
principle squares, 1 observed an elegantly dies
sed young lady, of tho finest form and features.
descend from a carriage, in order to enter a fash-
louablo mercer s shop. As she stopped hko a
queen across the pavoment, an infirm old female
beggar, whose hguro denoted almost the last
stago of wrotchcdiiess, curtsied to her for an
alms. Tho noble looking beauty passed on, with
out noticing tho petitioner, who slowly turned
away, with that patient and unofteiided look which
the habit ot sintering and denial usually give
and pursued her halting and toilsomo walk
Though my eyo did not rest above a moment on
this littlo scene, the contrast of the two figures
struck mo very forcibly, and I could not help fol
lowing it out into all tho circumstances in which
tho beauty and tho boggar might bo suppose d to
differ. .
First, there was tho delightful consciousness
in tho one, of possessing a porsou which procured
it perpetual incense of praise and homago, and
was likely to obtain for her a placo in life oven
more elovatcd than that in which sho had hith
erto existed; while, in the other, tho external
figure, bowed down by age, disease, and appar
ently natural decrepitude, clothed in rags, and
uupleasing to all who looked ou it, was only a
source of pain and humiliation, inspiring no oth
er hopo in her who dragged it along, than that
of its being soon shovelled into somo mean but
not unwelcome grave. In ono party, thcro was
the elevating sense of high connection with those
mire and loftv foelinus which, however ant to
I ' o ' i
bo tainted with fastidiousnoss and prido, are, af
tor all, the most enviable result of a perfect ex
emption from ignoble cares; whuo in tho other
there could only be, at thobest, a mortification
of all sense of personal dignity, and a despairing
resignation to every coutumoly and every sor
row. i ho ono probably went, home to a splen
did mansion, in which she could command, from
obsequious menials, every luxury that she could
desire; the other probably would hide, but not
terminate, her daily distresses in a hovel desti
tute of all comfort, where, huddling her shrivel
led form into a blanket, she would attempt to
sleep away the appetite she could not gratify.
Ou awaking to a new day of triumph and plea
sure, tho deliberations of the beauty would be as
to .what new or revived splendour she should a-
dorn herself with what robe of price, what lace,
what trinket; sho would ponder well and choose
late, finding a regalement in tho very difficulties
and troubles which caprico would connect with
her morning employment. The beggar, on re
viving from a sleep which she herself wonders
has not proved that of death, and dispelling the
additional feebleness which sleep itself seems at
nrst to leave, would have to weigh rag against
rag, and debate with herself up with them. But
is not alone in general circumstances that a
ditterence would be found. In everv particular
of form, thought, dress, habits, and associations;
in every outgoing and incoming; in every point
of worldly circumstances and destiny ; they would
differ. Nothing could be pronounced to be com
mon to them but the human typo, and the hope
of an ultimate existence, in which no such dif
ference shall be cognisable.
At a hrst view of such contrasts in the condi
tion of human beings, we are apt to tax nature or
fortune with partiality ; but, on consideration, the
charge is found to bo less mst than it at first ap
peared. No doubt the beggar seems to enjoy a
very small portion of that kind of happiness which
the beauty derives from external circumstances
sho has a body distressed with cold, disease, and
infirmity; a homo (if she have a home) which
yields no personal solacemcnts; and tastes no
share of that admiration, nor indulges in any of
those rehned sentiments, which give relish to tho
existence of her opposite. Her frame, neverthe
less, is capable ot its own humble enjoyments.
which tho very rarity of their occurrence ten
ciers oniy more agreeable, tier House can m
some measure give shelter, and her clothes
warmth ; she obtains the primary benefits of the
chief necessaries. She has also to reflect that,
in the course of nature, she could not, at her
time of lifo, except the same enjoyments as the
young and gay. Those enjoyments she in somo
measure had when she was herself young, and
now they must be resigned to others. But na
lure, m putting thoso enjoyment into tho remote
perspective of memory, has also taken away the
desire for them, and tho power of experiencing
them. Iho old never wish to be again young,
for they do not feel within them that which makes
youth happy keen sensations and active facul
ties. To manv, therefore, of her deficiencies.
indiflerouco kindly reconciles her. Again it
must be remembered that early habits have at
once inured her to the want ot many comforts
ana rendered hor ignorant ot their existence
Were a person who had onco known affluence
and comfort reduced to her condition, every new
circumstanco would be contrasted with tho old,
and all its bitterness would be felt. The most
of those who speculate upon the state of the poor,
judge of it with a regard to what they would
uiemsoives loel it it were unexpectedly to be
come their own lot. It is no doubt sufficiently
miserable in many instances; but it is neverthe
less a very different thing in tho eyes of the poor
from what it is in those of the rich.
And different as the beauty and tho berar
may scum in every external circumstances, in
how much are they similar! Gay and radiant as
that youthful figure may appear however Ho
me that face, however delicate, and refined
what is it but the same frame as that of the beg
gar, at a different stage of existence? Those
eyes that seemed fenced with their own light
nings, could not a moment dim them? those
cheeks, tinted with tho lovoliest of the hues of
earth, could not a moment pale them? that
step, proud and gentle as the fawn's, could not a
moment render it lame and halt as that of the
aged cripple, or lay it in everlasting torpor? To
every one of the natural ordinances, which have
inflicted physical misery upon the poor mendi
cant, this splendid form is also liable, and of ma
ny ol them it may ere long be the victim. By
the same aluuonl it is supported by the same
distomiicis it may be blasted. Leave out of view
but that thin exterior membrane in which boautv
resides, and there is ono fell melody which might
extinguish even this grand point of difference
the one possesses no native quality in which tho
other is deficient, or for which she can claim ex
emption from the slightest visitation of ill to which
the other is exposed. And who, under tho stron
gest impression that beauty and station can make
couid take it upon him to predict that thoso ad
vantages snail long remain with their present pos
sessoi I lake the commencement of tho beg
gar's existence, and the termination of the beau
ty's, and perhaps the difference will not be found
very great. Nor can any carefulness, any labour,
any exertion of cultivated intellect, ensure to hor
who is, for the.present, the most endowed with
the gifts of nature and fortune, that one of these
shall bo hers for ono day more, or that she shall
herself continue, for that littlo spaco of time, to
be at all. Touched by tho instability of mortal,
affairs, seers have thought they saw, beneath the'
splendour of such forms, the presage of early mis
ery and death; but tho very impossibility of thus
anticipating fate, is tho true humiliation of hu
man greatness. It may bo tho fortune of this
elegant form to flourish for many years after the
mendicant has closed her earthly woes; but it is
tiso possible that another week may see her (if
lifo bo wealth) in a condition bevond conception
poorer than any ever experienced by tho boggar
prostrated in that dust which tho beggar is still
allowed to tread a worm beneath tho foot of her
on whom she will now hardly deign to look.
Such aro tho communities of destiny which it
may be logitunato to traco on earth. Beyond
this lower sphore I do not look, not only bocause
it wero presumptuous to do so, but because earth's
accidonts must thcro be nothing. Earth, howev
er, may have its angels as wall as hoaven ; and
in tho language of compliment, such an epithet
might have been bestowod upon this lovely be
ing who shared in calling forth theso remarks.
She wanted tho most necessary of all tho elements
of his character; sho wanted charity. Tho be
stowal of the merest mite, nay, of ono kind and
compassionate glance, upon tho Jhumblo object
who stood beforo her in such strong apparent
contrast, would have given hor the enviuble titlo.
But tho eye which lookodjto sco hcavon met the
earth in golden sympathy, saw only ono cloud
pass another, and glory was forfeited for a far
THE ELDEST SON.
A SKETCH BY MISS BREMER.
Tho eldest son, our Lennartson. was in his
youth of a delicate constitution and irritable
temperament. Tho mother dedicated to him
tho greatest attention; not an effeminating, but
a tenderly cherishing caro, which makes strong
in love. By the bed of the boy the quiet mother
often sat, and related to him, or road aloud of
men who have overcome the infimities of the
body by the strength of the soul and tho will, and
who have become the glory of the benefactors of
their nation. Especially dwelt upon the great
men of his fatherland ; the strong-minded and
pious men, who by the union of those qualities
laid the foundation of the Swedish people when
this is truo to itself.
The boy listened inquisitively: his breast open
ed itself to great thoughts; and the soul nourish
ed by the marrow of heroism, soon raised up the
weaker body. I Ins also was strengthened by
useful exercises. At the ago of fifteen, Len
nartson excelled the greater number of his com
panions in pliancy and strength of body. The
mother soon saw the affectionate spirit of hor
son break forth in its whole wealth, but with its
dangerous propensities likewise. The voung
Lennartson had, like his father, a violont and in
flexible temper. His father's severity towards
his mother, excited him in the highest degree;
and this gavo occasions to scenes between fath
er and son which unsettled tho weak health of
tho mother, but strange enough broke also
the rude power of the father. He became, as it
were, afraid of his son; afraid, at least, in all
things which concerned the mother, and he no
longer dared to offend against her. This St.
John-like nature had brought up an eagle; and
this eagle uow spread its wings defendingly over
her. Happy in the love of her son, but terrified
aiso at the almost fearful temper which sho saw
break forth in him, she wished to teach this
young power to govern itself; and sought to
strengthen him in that which alone give all pow
er its truth, its proportions, and its right direction;
namely, in tho true fear of God. Early had she
permitted the great figures of humanity to stop
forward before the eye of tho child. Now she
endeavored to let the inquiring understanding of
the young man ascend to a clear conception of
the reality of lile and of the doctrine which had
cradled in unconscious lovo tho heart of the
child.
For this end she went to work in quite anoth
er way to most parents and teachers. Instead
of removing books which are looked upon as
dangerous to piety, she brought those forward.
She read with her young son the works of the
most renowned atheists and doists, from the old
est times to the present day, and let his reason
exercise itself with comparing their doctrines
with the doctrines in which a personally revealed
God gives the most complete solution of the
enigma ot life, as well as in this revelation of
His will and His being, the only securo, fully
eflicient guarantee for the fulfilment of man's
deepest longings, his holiest hope on earth.
She let him in this way surround himself with
perfect difficulties, and, as it were by his own
strength, open the way to the innermost centre
of life. Siie it was who brought forward objec
tions founded upon the doctrines of the Natural
ists; he it was who answered them. But tho joy
which beamed from the eyes of the tnoihor at
the happily solved difficulties, probably enlight
ened the son secretly in his inquirings.
And whilst she thus conducted him to an in
dependent and firm point of inind, she taught
him to have esteem for his opponent, and to
value all honest inquiry aud all sincere opinion,
and to acknowledge the sproutings of truth even
in immature doctrines.
Lennartson often spoke of this period of his
lifo, as of the happiest and richest. His mother's
affectionate glance and approving word were his
dearest reward. She caressed him but very
rarely, although ho often fell upon his knees be
fore her in fanatical reverence, and kissed her
and her dress. Only sometimes at those mo
ments, in which she remarked that the young
heart was too violently consumed by a desire for
reciprocation, did she allow his glowing check
to repose on mn iireast winch only boat lor him,
but which already bore the seed of death in
a cruel and generally incurable malady.
Carefully concealed sho fioni her son the
pangs by which she had been wasted for many
years. For tho first time, when an oporation
was necessary, Lennartson became aware of the
sufferings and tho danger of his mother. She
wished him to bo absent during the painful
hours, and sought by an innocent guile to de-
ceivo him as to the time. But ho allowed him
self not to be decoived he allowed himself not
to be sent away. His arms sustained her in the
painful hour; her eyes, rested, during it, upon
his, and for his sake she bore all without the
slighest complaint.
And she was able to hvo yet three years for
Ins sake yet threo years to bo happy through
him. Then broke out the malady incurably.
Whilst she spoke of immortality and of tho cer
tainty of seeing him ngain, and besought of him
to have "patience with his father," she departed
in his arms.
An old divine in Now England, asking a bles
sing upon his meals, was wont to name each sep
arate disli. Silting down one day to a dinner,
which consisted partly of clams aud bear slake,
he was forced in a measure to forego his usual
custom of furnishing a "bill of particulars."
"Bless to us our use," said he, "theso treasures
hid in tho sand : bless this But the
bear's meet puzzled him and he concluded with
"Oh, Lord, thou only knowest what it is!"
Tho latest illustration of the evils of taking a
ldrop too much,' happened to bo a man in Ne
villo, in tho western part of Now York. While
having one wife in tho cast; lie married a Miss
Amanda Drop, and was tho next week put in' the
county jail for bigamy. This may well be cal
led a bitter drop for him.
Poisoned by the leaf of the Pie-Plant. Tho
whole family of Mr. ilavens, of Bedford, wero
poisoned a few days since in consequence of ea
ting Rhubarb leaves boiled as greens, and it is
feared that two of the children will not recover.
Tho leaf of this plant, of which the stalk, is used
for pies without danger, contains a considerable
quantity of oxalic acid.
Reymonds, tho dramatist, observing to Martin
tho thinness of his houso at ono of his own jjlays,
added "I supposo it is owing to tho war."
"No," replied Martin, "I should judge it is owing
to tho piece r
The Beauty of Childhood. A lovely wo
man is an object irresistibly enchanting, and the
austere grace of manhood fills the soul with a
proud souse of the majesty of human nature; but
tliero is something far less earthly and more in
timately allied to our holiest imaginings in the
purity of a child. It satisfies tho most delicate
fancy, and the severest judgnieut. Its hoppy
and affectionate feelings are unchecked by one
guileful thought, or one cold suspicion. Its lit
tle beauteous face betrays each emotion of its
heart, and it is as transparent as tho silvery cloud
veil of a summer sun, that shows all the light
within. It is as fearless and innocent in its wa
king hours, as in its quiet slumbers. It loves
every ono, and smiles on all! 1 have sometimes
gazed upon a beautiful child with a passion only
equalled in intensity by that of youthful lovo.
The heart at such a time is nearly Milled with a
mixed emotion of tenderness, admiration, and
delight. It almost aches with affection. 1 can
fully sympathise in a mother's deep idolatry. I
love all lovely children, and havo often yearnod
to imprint a thousand passionate kisses upon a
stranger's child, though met, perhaps, but for a
moment in theatres or in streets, and passing
from me, like a radiant shadow to be seen no
more. The sudden appearance of a child of ex
traordinary beauty comes upon tho spirit like a
Hash ot light; and often breaks up a train of mel
ancholy thoughts, as a sunbeam scatters tho mist
ot morning. the changing looks and attitude;
of children afford a perpetual feast to overy eye
that has a true perception of grace and beauty
lticliardsori's Literary leaves.
How to treat a Wife. First get a wife
Secondly be patient. You may have great trials
and porplexities m your business, and m your
intercourse with the world ; but do not, tlierefon
carry to your homo a clouded or contracted brow
lour wife may havo had trials, which, though of
less magnitude, may have been as hard to bear.
Do not increase her difficulties. A kind concil
iating word, a tender look wtll do wonders in
chasing from her brow all kinds of gloom. You
encounter your difficulties in the open air, fan
ned by heaven's cool breezes, but your wife is
often shut in from these healthful influences,
and her health fails, and her spirits lose their c
lasticity. But O, bear with her, sho has trials
and sorrows to which you are a stranger, but
which your tenderness can deprive of all their
keenness.
Notice kindly her little attentions and efforts
to promote your comfort. Do not take them all
as a matter of courso, and pass them by, at the
saino time being very sure to observe any omis
sion of what you may consider her duty to you.
Do not treat her with nditterence, it you would
not scar aud palsy a heart, which watered by
gentleness and kindness, would to the latest day
of your existence throb with sincere and con
stant ahection.
Sometimes yield your wishes to hers. Sho
has preferences as strong as vou, and it may be
just as trying to her to yield her choice as to you.
Do you hud it hard to vield sometimes! lhmk
you is it not difficult for her to give up always?
If you never yield to her wishes, there is danger
that she will think you aro selfish, and care only
for yourself, and with such a feeling she cannot
love you as you ought. Again
Show yourself manly, so that your wife can
look up to you, and feel that you will act nobly,
and that she can confide in your judgment.
An Inhicppy Disposition!.
An unhappy disposition is the worst of ull des
tinies, because you cannot escape from it. It is
a plaguo you carry along with you. That a rest
less and unquiet mind can by any effort or reso
lution be convened into a tranquil and happy
mind, is what may be affirmed impossible. It is
easy to convert a thin frame into a stout, a pale
complexion into a flesh, and a fair into a dark.
Temper is constitutional, like the shape of the
nose, or mouth, or color of the eyes. Still it is
possible to improve any disposition by culture;
as it .is possible to improve the expression of any
countenance. You cannot change the original
character, but you can improve it. What the
world calls good tempers, aro, perhaps, at the
root, no better than tho bad. Tho bad arc gen
erally those of great energy and vigor, and only
require direction and care to make them most
useful and profitable. But without this care,
they aro liable to wild excesses which entail
great misery on their possessors.
The Woman for a wife.
She who dislikes wine in general, but especi
ally Champaign; she to whom plain stud" and sat
in are equal, who objects to feathers, and consid
ers jewelry unbecoming; who prefers the leg of
a jowl to the wing, and a mutton chop to cither;
who has no relish for plays, concerts, balls, parlies
or any kind of diversion whatever; and whose fa
vorite occupations aro mending her husbands
things and cooking his victuals she is the wo
man for a wife! So says the papers and we
shouldn't wonder if she is tho very dot, sure c
nough. Anecdote. A wine merchant received the
following note on tho day after tho firo in Walei
street tho other day, 4My dear L I am sor
ry to tell you that your store was last night bur
ned to tho ground, and your wine is all gono to
tho dovil!
Yours truly, M.
Ho replied as follows: Dear M , I am
glad my wiuo is gono whero my friends will be
most liKely to drink it! xourstruly, L.
Worshipping Unclean Beasts. Some be
nighted nations worship unclean animals, veno
mous reptiles, and birds of prey. Certian Indi
an tribes worship tho bear, bison, tortoise, opos
sum, &c, &c. But it was reserved for " all tho
decency " of the Federal party of 1840 to discov
er and appreciate tho pocuhar sanctity aud virtue
embodied in a Joon skin.
"Haloo, Mister," cried a passcngor in a stage
coach, to a rough looking ' passenger "can you
toll mo what has become ot those goslings which
wore hatched last year on tho top of that rock?"
"r our of them aro dead, sir, returned Jona
than, "aud the other, I perceive, is a passenger in
the stago coach.
It is stated that Col. A. Smith, who has charge
of tho survey of the North Eastern boundary, has
received direction from tho President to remove
the son of Mr. Webster from tho post of Sccro
tary of that commission which ho now holds, and
to appoint Col. Zubrisklo, of New Jersey in his
I placo.
GATHERINGS AND GOSS1PINGS.
' A snnppor up of unconsidered trifles."
East winter, it is said, a cow floated down the
Mississippi on a piece of ice, and became bo cold
that she has milked nothing but "ice creams"
evor since.
"Thomas, my child, tell me the biggest lie that
you ever told, and I will give you a mug of ci
der." "Me! I never told a lie in my life."
"Draw tho cider my son, you've done it."
Some ono has said that tho letter W enters in
to the composition of woman, in all the relations
of icifc, widow, tcirgiu and tcixen. Ho ought to
be tt-horse-it'hipped for his insolence.
There is a man in Vermont so tall that his
pantaloons have to be made in a rope-walk, and
when he goes to bed, his legs and arms shut up
as though he was a four bladcd jack knife. He
only breathes twice a week.
0-About one hundred Mormons on route for
ihe head' quarters of Joe Smithism, passed
through Pittsburgh on Wednesday.
Tho largost quantity of wasto land in any
county of England is in tho North Riding of
Yorkshire, there being no less th.m 132,815 acres
of common or wasto land out of 1,898,592.
07" A petition was recently presented to Par
liament, signed by upwards of 15,000 Canadians,
protesting against the removal of the seat of Go
vernment to Montreal.
The group of Statuary, executed by Perscio
for tho eastern front of the Capitol, has been
placed upon its pedestal, and is the subject of un
bounded admiration, the Spectator says, to all
who havo examined it.
Reamao Voyage. Tho schooner Laurel,
Harlow, from Labrador, arrived at Plymouth on
Tuesday, with 050 seal pelts all of which wero
taken, it is said, in one. afternoon! This is tho
first scaling voyage from Plymouth.
For Oregon. Five hundred emigrants pas
sed through Independence, Missouri, during the
week ending 4th of May Among them, five
slaves voluntarily accompanying their master.
Cotton coons for China. Tho bark Pio
neer, sailed from Baltimore on Friday for Ma
cao, and a market, with 1100 bales of cotton
goods. The entire cargo was valued at $100,
000. QncK Tiur. The steamboat J. M. White
made a trip recently from New Orleans to St
Louis, a distance of 1,300 miles, against the
current, in three-days and twenty-three hours.
Hard boiled eggs are said to be a cure for
love; they lie so heavy on the stomach, as to
make tho sufferer forget the weight upon his
heart.
Bad books are like piratical cafts, sailing un
der false colors in every sea, and delighting in
the wreck or conquest of everything precious.
An exceedingly tall gentleman was walking
with a short friend, in the midst of i. heavy show
er, when the latter observed "Bill, .lint it com
ing down?" Bill, lifiing his shoulders still high
er, remarked "1 don't know how it may be with
you--but it's raining like blazes up here!"
A dandy's locks aro recommended for chair
stuffings they partake of the nature of the soil'
and are so soft.
Five thousand one hundred and nine children
have been born in Havana during the past year,
being an increase of four hundred and forty eight
over the year 181! A fruitful place is Havana.
At Work. Tho Whig Native Amcricau City
Council of New York organized on Tuesday last.
Their first ac t was to turn out of the office of
city printer tho fearless and able editor of that
thorough democratic journals, the Plobian.
Ai.aii.oia Senator. A chair had been construc
ted purposely for Mr. Lewis in the Senate Cham
ber, and one that is large enough for two men,
weighing each 180 pounds, to sit side by side.
If we mistake not, Mr. Lewis weighs over 400
pounds.
At a remit fire in Boston, twenty poor fami
lies had their all destroyed. During the same
day, a lire broke out in another part of the city,
and several houses wore consumed.
Thomas Hogan, ono of tho owners and edi
tors of the Nashville Union, died at Nashville on .
the 11th inst. The Union comes to us in mour
ning in consequence.
Shot. Mr. Allen Carr, of Farmorsville, La.,
while seated by the side of his daughter, was a -few
days since shot dead by one of his slave:!.
Destroyed by Tire. Howard College, at
.Marion, Alabama, has been destroyed by ILe
the apparatus, which is also lost, cost $5000.
Illinois. Hon. Jos. P. Hodge and James
Douglass have been rc-nominatcd for Congress in.
their respective districts. -'' .- -
Laroer than ever. Cleared at Albany on -
Saturday evening, for Bulfaloe, Van Dowalcr's
iron boat New Era, with l.JO,000 Jbs. cargo, pay
ing $132 10 toll, being tho largest amount over
collected on any single boat. - i
" What is morally wrong can novcr be political
ly right," is a noble sentiment full of forco and
moaning and worthy of tho statesman who utter
ed it. It is a plain declaration of common sense.
and carries conviction to tho " feeblest individu
al's feeblest conscience."
A wag says that in journeying lately he was
put into a stage sleigh with a dozen persons, of
whom ho did not know a single ono. Turning a
corner shortly after however tho sleigh was up
set, "and then" said ho " found theiA all 6ut.n
A CooJcney ColoqvyH say, Jim, aro you '
going to soo that man hung to-morrow?' 'I don't
know, Dick; vol's ho tobeliungfor?' 'Vy, bloss
you, for 'orso stealing.' 'For stealing a 'orsct
vot a fool! Vy didn't he buy vouo ou trust and, ,
never pay for him?'
"Oh ma!" said a juvonilo to an elderly dame,
"there goes pa with a yoko of steers hitched to a
bob sled." "
"Hush, my child," said tho inothor, it is very
vulgar to say so; yflu should say a pair of gen
llcman eowa attached to a robert sleigh.'1
v A dandy in -New York, caught a violont cold,
ono day last week in consequence of walking out
with a serious rent in the littlo finger of his white
kid gloves! ' Tho air got in at tho orifice, ami
billions fever onaued iuiniodiutely. Poor fellow.
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