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PRINTED AMD PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY,
BY HEED & HOSMER.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
MAUMEE CITY.
MAUMKIS CITY INSURANCE CO.
. . . Commercial Buildings.
" MUTUAL INSURANCE OFFICE,
At the Jefferson House, Wm. Kingsbury
Agent.
:,-cusroAi uousis ufficis.
Canal street.
STATE LAND OFFICE,
Erie street.
THOMAS CLARK 2d.,
A cent for Executors of L. Beebec's estate
E. Fairman's estate: and General Land
Agent.
SCOTT & DWIGUT,
General Land Agency. Office, opposite
the Miami Hotel.
REiruinrosAiiiit; r
Book &t Job Printers, Maumee Express
.. Office,
. . . Wolcott street.
DAVID A. WOODWARD,
Portrait Painter, Erie street.
DANIEL F. COOK,.
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
" YOUNG U WAITE,
Attornies & Counsellors at Law.
N. R.VTHBUN. .
Attorney and Counsellor at Law.
HENRY REED,
Attornev and Counsellor at Law.
NATHAN RAT1IUUN,
Justice of the Peace.
""HORATIO CONANT7"
Justice of the Peace.
DR. WILLIAM ST. CLAIR,
Physician h Burgeon. Erie street.
JUSTUS DW1GHT,
Physician and Surgeon, Woliott street
Li. S. HAZARD.
Forwarding and Commission Merc ha nt
water street.
SMITH, HOWE & CO.
Forwarding and Commission Merchants,
Water street.
' '. ' J. WULCOTT.
Forwarding end Commission Merchant,
Wuter street.
S. HARRIMGTON,
Dry Good and Variety Store, Commercial
Buildings.
W. WISWELL,
Dealer in Hardware, Hollow-waro, Tin
ware and Cutlery, Erie street.
S PENCE It It. MOOKi;
Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries and
Crockery, Erie street.
- ELISH A MACK,
Dealer in Dry Goods Groceries and
- Crockery, Front street.
G. k W. RICH ARDSON,
Dealers in Dry GoodH,Groceries, be. &c.
Erie street. .
G. H. NITCIUli CO.
Dealers in Fancy and Staple Dry Goods,
HoSfl Buildings.
.. ELfTtlTTS,
Dealer in Drugs, Medicines he.
Erie street.
L,nti
. IRA WHITE,
Dry Graadg, Books kc. Wolcott street.
CLARK & FARGO. :
Wholesale and Retail dealers in Groceries
and Provisions, Commercial Buildings.
C. A. k A. D. WILLIAMS,
Groceries and Provisions.
WOODWARD k SON,
Dealers in Groceries and Provisions,
Erie street.
J. WOLCOTT.
Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries, Provi
ions, Stoves, Iron kc. Wolcott etree-
ALLEN k GIBBONS,
Groceries and Provisions, Erie street.
H. K. STEELE
Dealer in Groceries and Provisions.
Erie Btreet.
D. C. FORSYTH b Co.
Dealers in Dry Goods, Crockery and Hard
ware, corner of Front and Conant streets.
LATHAM T. TEW,
' Coper to Tin Manufacturer, Wolcott
street at the late store of T. W. Crowell.
. CHARLES A. LAMB,
Cabinet Furniture Manufacturer rear of
Commercial Buildings.
JEFFERSON HOUSE,
Robert Gowor, Erie street.
MIAMI HOTEL,
By George Kirkland, near the lo'ver steam
. boat landing.'
CENTRAL HOUSE,
Elijah Clark, Erie street.
"AMERICAN HOUSE,
By Cyrus Tyriel, Wolcott street.
PERRYSBURG.
SPINK b HOSMER,
Attornies and Counsellors at Law.
..... BENNETT fc CAMPBELL,
Attornies and Counsellors at Law.'
COFFJNBERRY U STETSON,
Attornies and Counsellors at Law.
. PROTECTION INSURANCE CO,
D. C. Dnan, Agent.
EAGLE HOTEL, .
Joseph Crops, Louisiana Avenue. :
. HOLLISTER k CO.
"irjforwarding and Commission Merchants.
jffS; DOAN & EARL,
4 . varding and Commission Merchants.
GILBERT BEACH. ,
? Dealer in Dry Goods, Groceries kc. kc
; CUIITIS fc KRIDLER,
Boot, Shoe, b Leather Store, opposite the
T Temperance House.
C. D. WOODRUFF, .
Tin and Copper Manufactory.
TOLEDO.
DANIEL O. MORTON, - ,
Attorney, Counsellor and Solicitor.
. C. F. h J. G. ABBOTT,
Attornies and Counsellors at Law, and
' : - Solicitors in Chancery.
TITUS b Co.
Wholesale Dealers in Dry Goods, Groceries,
Hardware fcc&te. La Grange street.
" J. A. TITUS b Co.
3 Dealers in Fancy and Staple Dry Goods,
Groceries be, corner of Smmit and Locust
' . streets". . .
CARPENTER b MYERS,-
Forwarding and Commission Merchants,
Foot ol Erie fa Kalamazoo railroad.
AMERICAN HOTEL. j
R. N. Lawton, Summit street. ;
MAUMEE
Volume III. -.No. 39.
1839.
AMERICAN TUANSPORTATION CO.
MERCHANDIZE, Passengers, kc.
transported with despatch, via .Rail
foad Line, Steam Barges, on the Hudson
Tiiver, Mohawk and Hudson Jiail 7(0ad to
Shenectatly; and by first class line boats to
Buffalo, Steam-boats and vessels on the
lakes, American . Transportation Line,
Ohio Canal.
For Freight or Passage apply lo
P. Gradin, .',
D. P. Parker, 104 Broad-st. X.Y.
H. Niles b Co. Corner of Hudson d
Wm. B. Knox, $ (fay st. Albany.
L. Huro k Co., Schenectady.
H. Wrights k Co., Rochester.
Carpenter b Myers, Toledo,
Atwater & Jiuden, ) ,
Clark tobinson, i"-'?0-Snin'l.
P. Carter, Cleveland.
G. S. Hazard, Maumee City.
Strong k McReynnlds, Detroit.
G. S. Hubbard k Co. Chicago.
July 13. . 15.
1839.
TRANSPORTATION.
' BUFFALO LINE, Erie Canal.
THADIHJUS JOY & CO., Proprietor!
CONNECTED with steam freight boats
and vessels on Z.ake Erin.
The Proprietors and Agents of this line,
will contract tor the transportation of Goods
or Produce at fair rates, and pledgo them
selves to those who may entrust Properly
to their care for transportation, that' the
same shall be forwarded with care and des
patch; and that any damage that may oc
cur to property shipped by the nhovo lino,
which the Proprietors may be liablo for,
shall be adjusted in the most prompt an.
liberal manner.
AUTHOIUSKD AflEKTS.
Carpenter k Myers, Toledo.
Hiran Joy, No. 18 South-street, ,7V. Y.
Thaddetis Joy fc Co., Albany.
Joy fc Webster, Buffalo.
Richard Winslow fcCo., Cleveland.
Hull & Shepard, Massilon.
Priest & Page, Little Falls, JV. Y.
Samuel Adams k Co., Dresden.
B. Comstock fc Co., Columbus.
M. B. ifossfc Co., Portsmouth.
July 13. 15.
BUSINESS LOTS TO L.EASE.
rit HE subscriber for the purpose ofufford
X wg conveniences tomenof business,
who are desirous to settle in this place, offer
for sale at reasonable prices, or to lease at
moderate rents, the following lots, upon the
principalbusinessstrcetsin this town.
18, an, 21: north side Hroudway; 7H
West side of Canal street; 130 Corner of
William st. 4 in block 1, north side of So
phia st; Also a largo number of lotseiigi
bly situated for residences.
r or information and f orms apply to
I. D. BEAIIGRAND, Maumee City.
R. DICKERSON, J r . ,
LA. Q. RAWSON, Lower Sandusky.
15-tf
THE WHOLESALE STORE IN
TOLEDO.
TITUS, TOWNSEND fc TITUS, 229
Pearl street, New-York, encouraged
by the share of support their branch at
Toledo received during tire past year, will
continue the establishment. Experience
lias proved that they were not over san
guine when they claimed facilities which
enabled them to sell goods in fact cheaper
than any other House west of JVew-iorK,
and tlioy speak with confidence when they
promise lo offer stronger inducements to pur
chasers than any other firm in the W estern
country.
They would respectfully invite their old
customers, and the trade in general, Mer
chants, Contractors, Hotel Keepers frc. to
give their stock an examination. J heir as
sortment will consist as usual, principally of
Drt Goods and Gkocrriks, with many
other Buch articles as tho wants of the coun
try may require.
As fresn invoices will oe snipped irom
Neto-York weekly, through the season, they
will not now attempt to give a detailed list
of their goods.
5ore Joot of La Urangesl., Lower J otrao.
May 10, 1839. TITUS fc Co.
RETAIL, STORE IN TOLEDO.
TITUS, TOWNSEND fc TITUS, 229
pearl street, New-York, will, in addi
tion lo their Whulesalo Store, continue the
ketail Branch of their house at Toledo,
under the firm of J. A. Titus fc Co. Fresh
supplies of goods will be received weenly
through the season, and they will continue
their boast of having the handsomest, cheap
est, and best selected Stock ever offered in
Toledo, which will consist of Dnv Goons,
Grockribs, Boots and Shoes, Nails, Oil,
Carpeting fcc.
Their goods were selected expressly for
this store, and are of the choicest and rich
est description. Terms Cnsh only.
J. A. TITUS k Co.
Corner of Summit & Locust streets
Lower Toledo, May 10, 18)9. -
AMERICAN HOTEL.
Summit street, near the lower steamboat
landtng, Toledo.
RN. LAWTON takes this opportunity
to inform the public that he has taken
the above splendid establishment, and fitted
it op in good style for the accommodation
of all who may favor him with their cus
tom. He intends to try the experiment of
keeping the best ot every thing, and thus
meriting a substantial reward from the res
ident and travelling public.
March, 18 1839 ontt
NO MISTAKE.
DR. ST. CLAIR would give notice to
the people of Maumee City and vicini
ty, thai he has disposed of Ji is interest in
the. store of O. Williams k Co., with the
full intention of pursuing the science and
practice of Medicine. Therefore hdpee to
merit a reasonablesharo of tho public pat
ronage. -
March 5,-1839. ' .' ; 4Btl
PORK.
-g ff BBLS,, consisting of mess, one
J.J hog and primp pork, for sale by
October 5. G. S. HAZARD.
REMOVAL.
SPENCER & MOORE have removed to
tlia atnrn fnrmnrlv nfriinifi1 hv AToafira
Morehouse and Browulee corner of Conant
and Erie street. .
Maumee City, May 17 th 1839. . ,,7.
TO PRINTERS.
FOR HALE. A font of small Pica
. of about two hundred pounds, near
I now and complotc, with Italic and ca-
ica it this office.
Statu or Ohio, f Court of Commr.n
Lucas County es. C Pleas, Oct. Teim,
1)A. D. 1830.
Alexander II. Ewing, 1 in chancery.
vs. j IN pursuance of
unza riouari, Van on'er of Baid
Joseph H. Homer and I Court, the said Eli
Johnson H. Hobart, J za Hobart and Jo
seph H. Homer, are hereby notified, that
during the Ottnber Term A. D. 1839 of
said Court, the Complainant filed his Bill in
Chancery ngaiiiBt the said defendants, Bet
ting forth in suklance that, on or about
tho loth invof June A. 1). 1830. the said
Eliza Hobart and the said complainant enter
ed into a certain contract for the sale by the
complainant to said Eliza Hoeart of a part of
Lii io. ai), in the Town ol Maumee, upon
condition that said Eliza Hobart' should pay
or couso' to bo paid to tho Complainant,
the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars in
nana, and nve hundred dollars with interest,
in two equal annual payments, and build, or
cause to be bin Jt upon said lot, a good and
sumcient Building of two stories in height,
on or before tho first day of July A.D. 1837,
which said contract was afterwards assign
ed by the said Eliza Hobart to said Joseph
H. Homer, and by the said Joseph H. Ho.
mer to said Johnson H. Hobart. The
prayer of said bill is, that the said defend
ants may be compelled to perforin the con
ditions of said contract on the part of said
Eliza Hobart mentioned, and that in default
thereof, the interest of each and all the de
fendants in and to said lotmny be .sold, and
tho proceeds of such Bale applied to the
payment of such sum or sum? of money as
may be found to be due the Complainant on
account of the conditions of said ccntroct.
And the said Eliza Hobart and Joseph II.
Homer are further notfied, that unless they
appearand plead, answerer demur to said
Bill within' sixty days after the next term
of said Court, the Complainant, at the term
next after the expiration of said sixty davs
will apply to said Court to take the matters
charged in said Bill as confessed and decree
thereon accordingly.
YOUNG b WAITE,
Solicitors for Complainants
Nov. 23, 1839. 8416.
Statr op Ohiiio,
' Lucas County ss.
John P. Converse,
vs.
Benjamin Babcock,
I Court of Common
. Pleas, Oct. Term
I A. 1). 1839.
JN chancery.
IN pursuance of
an order of said
Court, the Defendant in this case is hereby
notified, that during the October Term of
said Cour', the Complainant filed Ins Bill in
Chancery against the Defendant) Betting
rorin lnsuosiance mat, on or auouiuic4th
day of July A. D. 1830, the Complainant
ana the .Defendant, by their agents duly
qualified to act in the premises, entered into
a certain contract tor the purchase by the
Defendant from the Com pi i nan t of lot No.
35, in Hunts addition to Maumee, for the
sum of two thousand dollars payable as fol
lows, to wit: Eight hundred dollars by a
draft on Babcock and Suydam, at sixty days
date four hundred dollars in ninety days
from the date of said contract and the re
maining eight hundred dollars with interest,
in one year. The prayer of said Bill is that
the said Defendant may be compelled to per
form the conditions ot said contract on his
part mentioned, and that, in default thereof,
all the interest of said Defendant in and to
said lot may be sold, and the proceeds of
such Bale applied to the payment ot such
sum or sums of money as may he found to
be due the Complainant from the Defendant
on account of the conditions of said con
tract. And the said Defendant is further
notified, that unless he appears and pleads,
answers or demurs to said Bill within sixty
days after the next term of said Court, the
Complainant, at the term next alter the ex
piratiou of said sixty davs, will apply to said
Court to take the matters charged in said
Bill as conlessed, and to decree t hereon ac
cordmgly. YOUNG k WAITE,
Solicitors fur Complainants.
Nov. 23, 1839. B4t0. '
State or Ohio, 2 Court of Common
Lucas County ss. Pleas, Oct. Term,
) A. U. 1830.
Isaac Kinney, 1 in chancery.
vs. IN pursuance of
Daniel Bowman, J an order of said
Court, the said Daniel Bowman is hereby
notified, that, at the October Term A. D.
1 839, of said Court, the Complainant filed his
Bill in Chancery against the said Daniel Bow
man, charging in substance that, on orabout
the 17th day of January A. D. 1837, one
Baxter liowmnn late ot said county ot Lucas,
mortgaged to the complainant those pieces
of land situated in said county of Lucas and
known as tlm W lot the IN. K. i of nec. Mo,
7, and the S. W. i of the S. E. 1 of Sec.
No 6, in Township No. 10, S. of Range No.
8 E., containing one hundred and twenty
acres, to secure the payment of five hundred
and ninety dollars to the complainant in
ninety days from the date of said mortgage
and that afterwards, upon the death ot said
Baxter Bowman, the said lands were devis
ed to said Daniel Bowman. The prayer of
said Bill is that an account may be taken of
what is due the complainant tor principal
and interest on account of said mortgage
debt, and that said mortgaged premises
may be sold and the proceeds thereol applied
to the payment of said debt. And the said
Daniel Bowman is further notified, that un
less he appears and pleads, answersor de
murs to said Bill within Bixty days after
the next Term of Baid Court, the complain
ant, at the Term next after the expiration
of said sixty days, will apply to said Court
to take all and singular thevliargcs contain
ed in said Bill as confessed, and to decree
thereon accordingly.
YOUNG k WAITE,
Solicitors for Complainants.
Nor. 23, 1839. 34t0
Robert A, Forsyth, ALL persons
vs. I interested will
Milton St. John and Make notice that
Sinclair Tousey. J Robert A. For
syth on the 2d day of November A. D, 1839,
sued out a writ of attachment from the
Court of Common Pleas of Lucas county in
the State of Ohio, against Milton St. John
and Sinclair Tousey, for the sum of f ,W5,
which writ has been served and returned.
Attest JAMES MYEHS, Clerk.
YOUNG b WAITE, Ally's, for Pl'f.
Dated Novomber IS, MS9. S4t6.
ATTACHMENT NOTICE. .
NOTICE. At my instance, an attach
ment was this day issued by David
Smith, a Justice of the Peace of Waterville
township, in Ixicaa county, Ohio, against
the roods, chattels, rights, oredits, moneys
and effects of C. S. Duey, an absconding
debtor. J. c middle! un,
Waterville, Nov. 9, 1830. S315
CITY EXPIRE
ItlAUMUE CITY, OHIO, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 38, 1839.
MAUMEE CITY EXPRESS.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 28, 1839.
Gov. Wallace's Message.- The mee
soge of David Wallace! governor of In
diana, Btrikes us as one of the most plain,
strait forward, respectable documents we
have ever seen. It does not exhioit that
evidence of ambitious conception and miser
able execution, that is visible in the Shan
nonian aftuir, but is eminently a plain, un
assuming cxhibitof those matters, of which
it is the province ol the governor to treat.
We select a few topics upon which our rea
ders will naturally feel the most interested.
The taxable polls, in the state, as return
ed by the assessors, amount to 95,291. The
governor, however, expresses an opinion,
" that a close and careful assessment would
have relumed not less than 115,000 polk."
As it is, the increase of the year is 6,750.
The number of acres of land taxed in
the slate, is 7,475,330; but it is proved, by
Gov. Wallace, that there are nearly nine
millions of acres subject to taxation.
The value of taxable property in the state,
as per assessment, is 105,218,415.
The state debt amounts to $10,094,000,
appropriated as follows:
Wabash and Erie canal, $1,272,000
Lawrenceburg and Indiana
polis, R. R. Co, 21,000
Bank stock, 294,000
System of Internal Improvements, 5,932,000
For State Bank, 1,890,000
9,609,000
In 1834, there will be 15,328,649 acres of
land subject to taxation, in the slate.
There is now due to contractors on the
public works $706,559, and to the banks
for loans to pay contractors be. 641,200.
To discharge these debts, the state has ow
ing to her, from New York banks $1,559,
808. The tolls collected on the public works
for the past year, amount to $13,338, bb fol
lows: Madison and Indianapolis R. R. $8,470
White Water Canal 020
Wabash and Erie Canal 4,248
The following are the lemarks of Govern
or Wallace, upon tho completion of the Wa
bash and Erie canal, by the state of Ohio:
" With regard to the latter work, it is
greatly to be regretted that Ohio has been
so tnrdy in pushing forward that portion of
it lying withit. her territory. The yearly
loss to Indians, in consequence, is very con
siderable. We shall have, by expending
some one hundred and sixty eight thousand
dollars more, one hundred and fprty four
miles of this work completed, eveny foot of
which however, must remain in a manner
idle almost valueless until we shall be
enabled to communicate with Lake Erie.
A knowledge of these facts it seems to me,
would tend much to stimulate Ohio to
greater exertions in our behalf; and, more
especially, when by doing so, she would, at
once, render the whole of central Indiana
tributary to her."
A more temperate appeal fur long delayed
justice, could not have been written.
Since 1834, and up to Sept. 1, 1838,
there have been purchased in Indiana,
6,961,573 acres of land, for which have
been paid $3,701,966. During the tame
period, the amount expended on the public
worke of the state, is a little rising of five
millions. It is to the surplus of these pay
ments, over the amount brought into the
state, that Governor Wallace mainly atlri
butes the exceeding scarcity of money, and
he recommends that the senators in Congress
be instructed, and the representatives be
recommended to procure the passage of a
bill dividing the proceeds of the public lande
among the state.
" The condition of the State Bank," he
says, " appears to be healthy. On the Slst
of October last, her assets amounted to $6,
240,328, and her liabilities to $3,493,042;
showing an excess of assets, over and above
all ultimate liabilities, except to the state'
and the ether stock-holders of $2,747,285.
At the same date she had $1 ,021,490 in spe
cie and $3,124,497, in circulation.
The message urges the importance of
prosecuting the work of improving the na
vigation of the Wabash river, and of the
necessity of a harbor at Michigan city. In
relation to the "latter, that there have been
474arrivals and departures of vessels with
in the year, and there have been shipped, as
follows: '
From Michigan City,
Grain,'
572,400 bushels.
10,308 barrels.
1,850 tons,
9,000 barrels.
Flour,
To Michigan City,
Merchandize
Salt,
The Governor argues against suspen
sion of the public works of the state; but
bis remarks upon that subject, we re
serve for a future number.
John Brough, (pronounced Bruff,) is said,
by the State Journal, to be the individual
destined to fill the chair of state, provided
the Locos suocecd at the next'gubernatorial
election. Mr. Brough is a man of fair tal
ents, of considerable weight, but of positive
ly no principles at all, except what is out
at interest
Mr. Flood,!!!' the House, called Mr.
Brouffh "his hiehness, the Auditor of
State;"- If he had said sis "widenets," lie
would havebit it.
Mr. B. II. Martin, delegate te the Na
tional Convention, from Arkansas, arrived
at Harrisburg, two days after the adjourn
ment, having been detained in his long jour
ney of over three thousand miles, by una.
voidable accidents.
Victimized. It eeeins, now, to be cer
toin, that Governor Shannon is to be sacri
ficed. No paper holding any standing in
the party has spoken with any enthusiasm
of his message, and if many cases, it has
been spoken against, or damned with faint
praise. The governor Iisb orred in forget
ting tho politician's definition of words
"things used to conceal ideas" and has
laid down a few propositions so plainly, that
they cannot be got around or explained
away, by any sort of quibbling or mental
reservation, whatever. Governor Shannon
also has Bhowu himself lo possess one fail
ing which cannot bo tulerated in a party
chief magistrate. He has a mind and an
opinion of his own, in political matters, and
has sense enough to bo a roformer without
being a radical, and a will to improve rather
than to destroy. The fiat has gone forth,
and Wilson Shannon is marked as its vic
tim. "Our flog is out," says the Cleveland
Gazette; "the banner of Harrison, Liberty
and the Constitution, we now spread to tho
breeze, as ouranehor of hope;' (hope you'l'
And good holding ground in the sky, brother
Hill!) Bays the Ohio Transcript; " we have
flung our banner to the winds," says the
Wheeling Times, and such a hoisting of
banners, tings, standards, sheets and so forth,
you never did see. All the old, worn out
quotations now come in play, such as:
" Forever float thai atendard ilieet,,r
and
"Hang out our banner on the outer wall."
The locofocos, too, have hoisted their
banner. Tho old petticoat Ins thrown a
gleam over theii imaginations. The petti,
cont is out, and tho Ohio Statesman 1ms al
ready touched a note, which w;ll soon meet
with a response from every locofoco print
in the state of Ohio.
Ap Shenrin. The Welch citizens of
Columbus held an indignation meeting, on
the 17th, because the locofocos would not
vote to have the Governors Message print
ed in their language. Certainly, the Welch
ere as much entitled to the privilege of lea
ding tho book of Shaunonian wisdom in
their own tongue, as the Dutch, and fur our
own part, we can see the utmost propriety
in translating it into Wyandott and Pota-
watomie, and sending it to the heathens.
A new Definition. " Mail stage" a
machine for the transportation of oysters.
From the Doaton Mercantile Journal.
AN AFFECTING STORY.
' Blie never told her love t
But let concealment like worm 1 the bud,
- Feed on her dnmMkchoek."
A correspondent of one of the morning
papers, over the signature of 'II, W.' in
describing a rocent visit to the Shaker set
tlement, at Harvard, Massachusetts, thus al
ludes to one of the femalo members ot the
society :
"Of the sixty -seven females that took
part in the services when we were there,
only one attracted the general attention of
the spectators. It is of her we propose to
speak. She was apparently of obout twen
ty years of age, with an intelligent eye, and
brood high forehead, and of surpassing
beauty. She seemed pensive and melan
choly, and went through her part mechan
ically. It was evident her mind and
thoughts were at the time elsewhere. Oc
casionally she would cast a glance at the
spectators who were presont, particularly
at a young and handsome widower one of
our party. We really wish we knew more
of this girl's history. She has already
caused ub some sleepless nights, and we
should like to know more about her. If;
we could lead her thoughts aright, she was
even then draining the bitter cup of suffer
ing and disappointment to the very dregs.
Doubtless some unhappy love affair, with
all its usual train of blasted hopes and
crushed affections, wbb the cause of her
thus separating herself from the world s
people, and connecting herself with the so
ciety of Shakers. Indeed, we had no inti
mation that such was the fact. She had
been in tlie society only ono year, and yet
her health was failing her very fast. Alas!
pour girl. A few short months and thou
and thy sad tale of unrequited love, will
both be alike forgotten. For thee there is
no rest but in the grave. Sad fate for one
so young and beautiful, and whose only
fault it was to love, " not wisely, but too
wel," Shakspeare has beautifully Baid
'The course or true love never did run nnootb.
Alas! how many since the line was writ
ten have had evidence of its bitter truth!
The young lady referred to in the above
paragraph is well known to many in this
city. She is the only daughter of wealthy
and respectable parents, who reside in one
of the towns of Middlesex county, and re
ceived most of her early education at one
of the private female seminaries in Bos
ton. .About four years since she paid a visit to
some of her old class mates in this city and
vicinity, and the writer of these few lines
remembers meeting her at a social party in
the neighborhood. She was just blooming
into womanhood, with buoyant and joyous
spirits intelligent far beyond her year,
and though "beautiful, exceedingly," yet
withal so affable and lady-like, as at once
to win all hearts. To crown all, she was
of a religious turn of mind, and, if I amnot
misinformed, was thus early in life a mem
ber of the Unitarian Society, in her native
town. Although not enjoying at this time,
a very robust stte of health, yet I little
thoughlshe had then the seeds of a fatal dis
ease within her, or that consumption,
'slow, but sure,' had marked ber lor his
own. .
Hio-hlv mlted by nature, and eiirronndea
by all that makeB "life desirable, I hoped and
believed that she might look forward with
confidence to many happy years in reserve
for her. But this bright pioture was decep
tive. Several of her family had from time
to time, fallen viotims to that dread mala
dy, so prevalent ill our New England cli
mate, and to a nico observer, ..acquainted
with this fact, it was evident sue loo was in
early life to fall a sacrifice to the same wast
ing diaeaBe. ' ; -
"Whom t haUoUs love, oie young.
I had since heard nothing of this interest-
ing lady, when early laat spring, happening '
Wliolc No. 143.
to be in the vicinity of Harvard, I was told
on inquiry, that she had unhappily placed
her aflections on a professional young gen
tleman, who being under a previous (but to
her unknown) engagement, could not recip
rocate the attachment, and that in a mo
ment of a melancholy desperation, sick of
the world and its vanities.she had withdrawn
from the circle of her relatives snd friend-,
and united herself with the Bociety of Slia
kers. The remainder of the mournful his
tory is told in the affecting laniruatre of
Wnl.r nr III U i . a
.....vuicu lur mesB row, But 1 trust i
uninteresting reminiscences. VV.
1 LAYING A TRICK UPON AN OLO PlaY-
er A true story. While detained some
day or two in the pleosant town of'Mont-
BuuiBry, last summer, waiting for a stage,
we heard the following anecdote told of an
old actor there, which is worth relating.
Mr. C, the actor in question, has for
some twenty years been continually before
the public as a delineator of the fuults and
foibles, the virtues and the vices of other
people. Age creeping upon him, like hun
dreds ot others he begnn to wax sick of tho
smell of the foot lights and the tinsel finery
about him he had seen enough of the
world the unreal had lost its charms, and
the only real comfort he could see through
the vista of the future was isajiaving a little
patch of ground upon which he could draw
for a sufficiency of poultry and potatoes,
turnips and beans, for a subsistence.
His plan was carried into immediate exe
cution. A little "place" was purchased,
potatoes was planted, the earth was turned
un to mnke room for turnips, and although
Mr. C. was not perfectly at home in his
new character, still every thing went on
marvellously well, lie purchased some half
dozen hens, and in order to increase his
store, sot them at work "a settin," as Sam
Slick says for an Additional stock. Ho had
a sufficiency of eggs fur all his flock except
one to procure these was his next care.
Meeting with a neighbor one day, a wag
ofa fellow up to all kinds of tricks, he ac
costed him with " Mr. T. have you any
hens eggs to spare? All my hens are set
ting except ono, and I'm out of eggs. Can
you do any thing for me?'1
"Ceitainly," said the wag, who at once
bethought him of a cnpital trick to play off
upon uis ignorant and unsuspecting friend.
'I can help you out, Mr. C. and will do it
with pleasure. You have no guinea-fowlB
eggp, have you?"
" No, mino are all the common chick
ens." " Well, you must have a brood of them
to a certainty. I'll send you a dozen or fif
teen immediately."
" Thank you, much obliged to you, and
I'll return the compliment," said Mr. C.
Theeggswore procured by T., but be
fore sending them to his friend the actor,
he boiled them some half hour over the hot
test kind ofa fire The next day Mr. C's.
old hen was comfortably installed upon a
nest of hard-boiled, Guinea hens eggs.
Time flew along in duo season brood af
ter brood of common, barn-yard chick
ens were ushered into existence, and went
peeping and chirping about the yard of Mr.
C. All were now hatched except the Guinea-fowls
eggs, and the old lion to whom
they were euUusted stuck to her task with
a zeal and patience truly commendable and
worthy of a better cause. In this way a
montn passed witnoutany signs ot an addi
tion to Mr. C's. stock of poultry, and he be
gan to grow impatient.
Meeting I . he enquired " how long does it
take those eggs of yours to hatch? '
' Oh, some time- You be natlent."
" Well, t am patient, but then it takes
thein so long. 7
Another week passed, and still no chick
ens. Again meeting T., the actor,with i
ruelul countenance, asked him "It he
thought the eggs would reall , hatch."
As a matterof couise," said the war.
" But how long does it generally take
tnem, enqniied me actor.
"Sometimes longer, sometimes shorter,"
retorted T. who could hardly keep his
countenance all the while. "You give the
old hen a fair chance and she'll bring every
thing out straight.
Ten days more elapsed and no more signs
of young Guinea-fowls thanever. '1 he old
hen had stuck to her post until she had be
come so poor anil light that the specific gra
vity would hardly keep her down, while the
patieneeof the poor actor was entirely ex
hausted. Curiosity at length led him to
break one of the eggs, lie saw, in a mo
ment, the cause of their not hatching, but
did not Buspeet the agency his neighbor
had in the affair. Meeting the actor short
ly after Mr. T. opened a conversation
with
" Well, has that old hen hatched the
eggs yet?1'
"Hatched h-ll! No. She's cooked 'em
though! You never saw harder done boil
ed eggs since you was born. Hatched! in
deed ! I'm much obliged to you for the eggs
but I dout think these common hens able to
do any thing with such outlandiah eggs in
the way of hatching them out."
Thus ends our story of Mr. C. and his
operations in the poultry line. If we have
hatched a readable story we have made out
better than he did in hutching Guinea
fowls. JV. O. Picayune.
The Rev. John N. Maffit is preaching at
Nashville, Tenn. His very particular
friend and quondam associate in the minis
try, Mr. Parsons, is playing at the same
place! So it goes.
The dry an witty editor of the N. Y. Ga
zette in all soberness and solemnity says,
that if Mr. Espy can make it rain to order
he ought to be encouraged especially in
dry weatlier! .
Sublime. An advertiser in a Providence
paper, in describing a country Beat, which
he offers for sale, says: "Amongst the oth
er delights of scenery, the canal meanders
through its banks, in lofty and majestic
splendor." Oh! hush! t.
No Stoi'Pinu them. Some writer with
whom we perfectly agree considers it 'con
summate follv for half a dozen bMtfier?, four
hinelca.agrey-l.eaded farther and three ser
vant irir a to unuertuKeiiii: ma ui stopping;
a young girls getting married to the man
she loves ana wnu iuv?b hit. jusi as n
rope ladders were out of date and all the
horses in tho world lei down or spavined.
. O. Picayune.
It is said that the vote at the Harrisbtlrg
Convention Btood steadily, through many
r .... ... V! .: '
oalloungs, lor uiav tua Harrison ,u,
Scott 57 Massachusetts voting throughout
for Harrison. Aewfc.lcV
A Nkoro with the Buns. t MT-3.
Johnsmg, what or you look ssobrdi
morning?. You moH usually oilers a htrSn.
but how you face looks as glooimfisd audi
brack as die last speH of wedder.'.'
" Wy, child, I feel's bad I'm got whak
de wluto folks calls d Moos, and de wua
sort at dat, dat'a what I has, Pete Gumbo!
"De what you call 'cm, Sam!"
De bloos de raal indigo bloos.""
' Durs wharyou corner-die child, Sam?
you s ahead ob me dis time. Now if it dont
make any 'tarial difference to you, I'd just,
like lo hear you expluinify. wat dis bloo
is.
' Wy, wy, Pete,- you rjbnt Knew ttoHrr.
I tort you d more 'quaintance wid de flwifr
ob de human mind. ...Well, jrou see, when a
man's got de bloos he looks furard into de
coinmin footoorily just as though he was
gwine to draw a blank "in de big lottery
he feels like as if all tie delightsum prizes
in dis low-down scene hadn't,a sino-lo n.m.
uci on cm. ven ne gets up in demornin
ho feels bad, and wen he goes to bed at
night he feels wussor. Ho tinks dat his
body is made ob ice cream, all 'cept his
heart, and dot dat's a big piece ob lead in.
de middle. All sorts ob eights are hubber-,
ing around, and red monkeys is buzzing; '
about h is ears. Dar, dem's what I got now,
nnd dom's what I calls de bloos. How to
like to hab 'em, Pete?" . .,
11 Tank you, Sam, dis child dont wish for
none, not if dem's do sort." Picayune,
A school boy in the Literary Emporium,
being asked to define the word 'admission'"
said it meant 2ji cents. -Twenty five
cents!' echoed the master , ' what sort of s,
definiton is that!' 'I. dou't know,' sulkily
replied tho imy, 'but I'm sure it says so on'
the adtertisemont down here at the show.'
Yes,' snid another boy, 'and children
halfprico''
Bev. CO. Kimball, late secretary of th
Massachusetts Baptist Convention, has been
deposed from the ministry by his own
brethren, for " gross improprieties, unbe
coming a christian minister." There was
a woman in the scrape. Wo should think,
the parsons might rot the girls alone- AV
Y. Alias. - ...
l.A. ., , ,ir , . . .
A Quaker in Philadelphia, wanting ti
buy some oysters, requested the oystermaD
to leave two or three bushels at his house,
" Pray, sir," said the oystcrman, " what
might, your t amo be!"'' It might be Bel
zebub," replied the Friend, but it is'nt."
InFdgecom'o, Me. recently, a Mr. Hatch,
entered ins dwelling and found his wife-
nanging ny a suein ol yarn, having just kick
ed the chair from under her. She was still
alive, but he left her hanging while he went
to a neighbour near a mile off. and informs-
ed him of it alleging that it was contrary
to law lo cut her down! They never lived,
happy.
Bachelors, now's the time to get mar
ried don't go shivering and lonely through
winter you needn't think such weather as
we had last week, is going to last depend
upon it we shall have cold nights between
this and March- JV. Y.Atlas.
An extensive gold mine is said to havsr
been discovered in Randolph county, Alaba
ma State. In a single day rold to tha-
amount of 4000 had been obtained. One.
lump was found worth over $30. It isi
supposed to be the richest in North Amen-
ica.
A New England merchant who had accn--initiated
a vast properly Ly care and indus
try, yet still was busy as ever, in addinr
vessel to vessel and store to store, thoupn.
considerably advanced in life, being asked
by a neighbor, how much property he sup
posed would satisfy a human being after-
a short pause replied, A little more."
The rivers, yielding to the severity of the
times, arc closing their accounts current or
running accounts, and are suspending oper
ations. " How hard," as the loafer said,
when lie broke his head on the ice.
The last case was that of a wood sawyer
up town, who, while musing on the destruc
tive tendency of coal mines and Mott's
stoves towards his profession, sawed his leg:
off, and did not discover his mistake until
he camo to split it. ,
There is a place in Maine so rocky, the
when the down easter plant corn they look
for creviscs in the rocks, and Bhoot the grains
in with a musket; they can't raise duck
there no how, for lite stones are so thick
that the ducks can't get their bills between
them to pick up the grasshoppers: and the
only way the sheep gets at the sprigs of
grass, is by grinding their noses on a grind
stone. There are one hundred and sixty convict
confined in the Georgia Penitentiary. Tha
bull ling is too Bnmll for them, and it is
therefore to bo enlarged. For the past
year they have behaved well and only one
ojcaped. Tne value of articles produced,
by them last yeor was 8000.
" No smoking allowed here, sir," said
steamboat steward to a loafer in the after
cabin, with an ignited long nine in his mouth,
I know it, sir," said Dicky, " and I'm not
smoking aloud." !
A set of Riibels were charged in Harris
barg with a " riot and conspiracy," and it.
appeared ill evidence that they were only
guilty of a conspiracy and riot so they
were immediately discharged by Judge Por
ter. Harrishurg Int.
Important to Farmers. A" farmer ef
Long Island writes that the half bred Dur
ham cattle are better suited lobear extremes)
of heat and cold, which they will be expos
ed to in this climate, than the pure Durhasa
as their skins are thicker, and their coats
closer nnd longer than the pure breed. The
m iking quantities of the heifers bred in this
way are almost beyond belief, eome of them
milking forty, and even fifty quarts a day of
rich fine milk. - : ii
Bankroptct. The contingent fnnd ef
the House, says the Madisontan, run out
long ago, and the members will be unable
(o get their mileage and pay, until Congress
appropriate funds from the Treasury. But
it is said that the Treasury has also run dry,
ami that the wheels of Government must
stop, or run upon tick, unless their own party
permit the House to be organized, the dis
tressed conduct of the Treasury laid before.
Congress, and ways and means devised to
raise the wind. Wnat a shocking thing it)
the credit system! Ohio Trans. ,: ,
'TTrotheri-t Kinonsss; Mr NorvelT, ed
itor of the Nashville Whig, and Mr. Nor
veil, U. S. Senator from Michigan, are brotb-cn-thc.-fonnor-
gives the following very
brotherly udmonilion: . --
We hope our Locofoco kinsman, of Mich
igan, wiB take warning from the signs of
the times,- and flee from the-wraLh tocomsi
He has three years left in which to repent
f hi naliiiral sin, and in al fraternal
i .k,i in
kindness; we advise him to go about ,