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VbL V-NO. 11. KALIDA, PUTNAM COUNTY, OHIO, FRIDAY, MAY 2,1815. WHOLE NO. 219.
POETRY.
t.!. ' ?'om Columbian Magazine, for May.
Coed Bye. .
.. 'I . TM.C.HILt.
' v.. My bark is all ready,
"" The breeze bloweth steady,
To waft me away, ,
And yet I delay, ' ' ;
'Till I write on the innermost leaves of my heart,
.The names of those dear ones from whom I now
'Li. - p". . :
, n ,i- . ' Sheet home and belay!
' Heave anchor! away!
'J'..-'." Ease off the main sheet,
" With a turn round the cloet!
For I'm off on the wings of the nortli-weatcrn blast,
While my colors are waving " good bye" from the
mast. v
fr- t." Top-gallants, away!
" Spread canvass to-day !
, And we'll .shout a " good byo"
' With a watery eye;
.And those tears of regret, 0 we'll dash them away.
To the winds and the waves and the beautiful spray.
vU ;'. . Kalida! "goodbye,"
Thy river, thy sky,
' Have wooed me to stay,
"V '". Yet I cannot delay;
For I'm off on the wings of the north-western blast,
And my colors are streaming " good bye" from
" ' the mast,
. 3 ,. " Good bye! Good bye!" from tho mast.
A village in Putnam county, Ohio located on tlie tanks
of the beautiful Bwinonio.
MISCELLANY.
From the Ladies' National Magazine,
i The Borderer's Child;
OR WASHINGTON AT EIGHTEEN.
BI MARY E. SPENSER.
It was a calm, sunny day in the year 1750:
the scene a piece of forest land on the North
ern neck of Virginia, contiguous to a noble
stream of water. Implements of surveying
ing were lying about, and several men, idly
reclining under the troes, betokened by their
dress and appearance that they composed a
party engaged in laying out the wild lands
of the then frontier of the Old Dominion.
These persons had apparently just finished
their noon-tide meal, for the relics cf the
banquet were scattered around.
, Apart from the group walked a young man,
evidently superior to his companions, though
iliare was nothing obtrusive in his air, which,
on the contrary, was distinguished by affabi
lity. A certain dignity of aspect, however,
accompanied him. Added to this, ho was
of a tall and compact frame, and moved with
the elastic tread of one accustomed to con-
stant exercise m tho open air. His coun
tenance could not have been said to be hand
some, but it wore a look of decision and
manliness, not usually found in one so young;
for. apparently, he was little over eighteen
years of ase. His hat had been cast oft", as
if for comfort, and he had paused with one
foot advanced, in a natural and graceful atti-
inrla. at the moment we nave introduced
him to our reader.
Suddenly there was a shriek, then
ano-
iiar. then several in rapid succession. The
trnirfl was that of a woman, and seemed to
proceed from the other side of a dense thicket.
At the first scream the youth turned, his
head in the direction whence the sound pio
mfided. but when it was repeated ho pushed
aside the under growth which separated him
from it. and Quickening his footsteps as the
cries succeeded each other with alarming
rapidity, he soon dashed into an open space
nr " clearing" as the borderers even then
called it, on the banks of the stream, in the
centre of which a rude log cabin stood,
whose well pole poised over one end, and
smoke curling from the chimney, gave signs
of habitation. As trie young man, witn e
face flushed bv haste, broke from the under
growth, he saw his companions crowded to
gether on the Darin 01 me river, wmic m
their midst a woman, from whom proceeded
the shrieks, was visible, held by two of the
most athletic of the men, but still struggling
violently for freedom.
.. It was the work of an instant to make his
way through the crowd and comfort the te
mli The moment her eves fell on him
aha exclaimed
. " Oh, sir you will do something for me
Mfllia them release me for the love of God
My boy my poor boy is drowning, and they
will not let me PO."
"It would be madness she will jump
into the river,1' said one of those who held
her, as the frantic mother strove again to
break rrom nis grasp. d
dash her to pieces in a minute."
The youth had scarcely waited for these
words. His eye toon in, at a siugia giuin,,
iv, munnino- of the sad eroup. He recol
iected the child of the woman, a bold little
foiw nf four vears old. whose handsome
blue eyes and flaxen ringlets made him a
favorite with strangers and filled the mothsr's
heart with pride whenever she gazed on him.
W had been accustomed to play, at will, in
a little enclosure before the cabin; but this
morning, the gate having been accidentally
. left open.he had stolen out when his mother's
back was turned, reached the edge of the
bank, and was in the act of looking over,
when his parent's eye caugm mgui ui imu.
The shriek which she uttered precipitated
-the catastrophe she feared; for the child
frightened at the cry, lost his balance, and
foil ,oniifnir into the stream, which, here
went foaming and roaring along amid innu
merable- rocks", constituting the most dan
n.rnm raniffa known in that section of coun
... fiKmm nm fallowed scream in rapid
ll J. i wviv.ii. .
succession as the agonized parent rushed to
the bank. She arrived there simultaneously
with the party whom we have left reclining
in the shade, and who were within a few
steps of tho accident. Fortunate was it that
they were so near, else the mother would
have plunged in after her child, and both
been lost. Several of the men immediately
approached the bank and were on the point
of springing in after the child, when the
sight of the sharp rocks crowding the chan
nel, the rush and whirl of the waters, and
the want of any knowledge where to look
for the boy determined them, and they gave
up the enterprise.
Not so with the youth we here introduce.
His first work was to throw off his coat ; his
next to spring to the edge of the bank. Here
he stopt for a second, running his eye rapidly
over tho scene below, and taking in, with a
glance, the different currents and the most
dangerous of the rocks, in order to shape his
course by them when in the stream. He
had scarcely formed this conclusion, when
his gaze rested on a white object in the water
that he knew at once to be tho boy's dreBS,
and, whilo his companions, aghast at his
temerity, were prevented as much by con
sternation as by the awe with which he had
already inspired them, from interfering, he
plunged headlong into the wild and roaring
rapids.
" lhank God ho will save my child.
gasped the woman, "see there he is oh!
my boy, my darling boy, how could 1 leave
you?"
Jivery one had rushed to tho brink ot the
precipice, and was now following, with eager
eyes, the perilous progress of the youth, as
the current bore him onward, like a feather
the embrace of a hurricane. Now it
seemed ns If lie would be dashed against a
jutting rock over which the water flow in
loam; and now a whnl-poou would drag him
in, from whose grasp escape would appear
mpossible.. At times the current bore him
under and he would be lost to sight; then,
just ns tho spectators gave him up, he would
re-appear, though tar enough trom where ho
vanished, still buffeting amid tho vortex.
Oh! how that mother's straining eyes fol
lowed him in his perilous career how her
heart sank when he went under and with
what a gush of joy she saw him emerge again
from the waters, and flinging the waves aside
with his athletic arms struggle on in pur
suit of her boy. Hut it seemed as it his
generous efforts were to be of no avail, for
though tho current was bearing off the boy
before his eyes, scarcely ten feet distant, he
could not, despite his gigantic efforts, over
take the drowning child.
On thev flew, tho youth and the child, and
it was miraculous how each escaped being
dashed to pieces against the rocks. Twice
tho boy went out of sight, and a suppressed
shriek escaped the mother's lips; but twice
ho re-appeared, and then, with hands wrung
wildly togother and breathless anxiety, she
followed his progress, as his unresisting form
was hurried onward with the current.
Tho youth now appeared to redouble his
exertions, for they were approaching the
most dangerous part of the river, where the
ranids, contracting between the narrowed
shores, shot almost perpendicularly down a
declivity of fifteen feet. The rush of the
water at this spot was tremendous, ana no
one ventured to approach ils vicinity, even
in a canoe, lest they should bo sucked in.
What thon would be tho youth's fate unless
ho sneedilv overtook the child? He seemed
fu lv sensible ot the increasing pern, an
urged his way now through the current with
desnerato strength. Three several times ho
was on the point of grasping tho child, when
the waters whirled the prize from him. The
third effort was made just as they were about
entering within the influence ot the current
above the fall, and when it failed the moth
er's heart sank within her, and she groaned
aloud, fully expecting to see the youth give
up the task. But no! he only pressed
forward tho more eagerly, and as they breath
lessly watched, they saw, amid tho broiling
waters, as it bearing a charmed me, trie pur
suer and nursued shot to the brink of the
orecinice. An instant they hung there, dis
tinr.tlv visible amid the glassy waters that
seemed to pause on the edge of the descent
Everv brain crew dizzy at the sight. But 8
shout of involuntary exultation burst from
the spectators when they saw the boy held
aloft by the right arm of the youth a shout
alas! that was suddenly checked by horror
when the rescued vanished into the abyss,
A moment rather many moments, claps.
ed before a word was spoken or a breath
drawn. Each of the group felt that to look
into tho mother's face was impossible. She
herself had started eagerly forward and now
stood on the bank, a few paces nearer the
cataract, where she could command a view
of its foot, gazing thither with hxed eyes,
as if her all depended on what the next mo
ment should reveal. Suddenly she gave a
glad cry:
" There they are," she exclaimed, " see,
they are safe great God I thank thee!"
and for a moment turning hor face wildly
towards heaven, she hurried with trembling
steps along the side of the river in the di
rection of the fall.
Every eye followed hers, and sure enough
there was the youth, still unharmed, and
still buffeting the waters. He had just
emerged from the boiling vortex below the
cataract. With one hand he held aloft the
rhilrl And with the other he was making for
the shore.
They ran, thoy shouted, they scarcely
know what they did until hey reached his
side, just ns he bad 'struggled to the bank.
They drew him out almrst exhausted. The
boy was senseless, but his mother declared
he still lived as she pressed him frantically
to her bosom. His preserver, powerfully
built and athletic as he was, could hardly
stand so faint was he from his exertions.
Who shall describe the scene that follow
ed the mother's calmness while she strove
to re-suscitate her boy, and hor wild grati
tude to his preserver when the child was out
of danger and sweetly smiling in her arms?
Our pon shrinks at the task. But her words,
pronounced then we may hope in the spirit
of prophecy were remembered afterwards
by more than one who heard them.
"Uod will reward you," said she, "as I
cannot. He will do great things for you in
return for this day's work, and the blessings
of thousands, besides mine, will attend you."
And it was so; for to the hero of that
hour, were subsequently confided the des
tinies of a mighty nation. But throughout
his long career, that tended perhaps to make
him honored and respected beyond all men,
was the self-sacrificing spirit which, in the
rescue of that mother's child as in the more
august events of his life characterized our
Washington.
From Oregon.
Tho Peoria Register cive3 a letter from
Mr. McCarvor, (who is Speaker in the
Lower House of the Oregon Legislature,)
giving the particulars of business there.
Mr. McCarver says:
Tho harvest is just at hand, and such
crops of wheat, barley, oats, peas and pota
toes, are seldom, if ever, seen in tho States,
that of wheat in particular the stalks being
in many instances as high as his head, the
crams generally much larger t wouia not
much cxiigguiuto to onv tUoy nre as large
again ns those grown east in the mountains.
the sou is good and tho climate most supe
rior, being mild the year round, and very
healthy, more than any other I have lived in
tor somo length ot time, l'roduce bears an
excellent price pork 10 cts; beef, 6 cts;
wheat SI per bushel. These, articles are
purchased at the above prices with great avi,
dity by the merchants for shipment, gene
rally to tho Sandwich Islands and ltussian
settlements on this continent, and are paid
for money in stores and groceries, tho latter
of which is the product of these Islands, par
ticularly sugar and coffee, of which abut
dant supplies are furnished.
Wages for laborers are high common
hands are getting from one to two dollars
per day, and mechanics from two to four
dollars per day. It is with difficulty men
can bo procured at these prices, so easily
can they do better on their farms.
1 he plains are a perpetual meadow, fur
nishing two complete new farms in a year,
spring and fall, the latter remaining green
through tho winter- Bocf is killed from the
grass at any season of the year. If you
have any enterprise left, or if your neighbors
have any, hero is the place for them.
Dr. McLaughlin has just commenced a ca
nal around the Willhatnctte rails, which he
expects to complete in two years, at a cost
ot thirty thousand dollars.
Our Legislature, (the Lower House of
which I have the honor to be Speaker,
which, has just finished its session, granted
the Doctor a charter for W years; he enter
cd into an agreement to complete the canal
for boats of 13 feet in width to pass in sate
ty; the whole to be completed in the course
of two years, as above stated. He has
number of hands now engaged in its con
struction and no doubts are entertained of
his ability to.complete it. He is construct
ing a large flouring mill, with four run of
burrs, which will bo ready for business this
fall. He has already two saw mills in ope
ration at the fulls. Everything is flourish
ing in this country.
Yours, respectfully,
M. M. M'CARVEIt.
Waterloo." What did you think of Wa
terloo?" I enquired of an old fellow I found
one morning digging in my garden, where
he had been hired to assist by the lazy head
gardener. "I think of it?" said the old
crab, stooping and leaning upon his spade,
" 1 thought it hell upon earth. I was utterly
deaf with the continued roar of the artillery
on one side or the other, and the sound of
musketry of the men beside me. ' I could
not see my companion's face for one minute
ss he stood next me for the thick smoke
and the next I found him retching, choking,
and vomiting fn the agonies of death, and
clutching my very feet. Sometimes a
shot went fearing through our ranks, and al
most shaking the part of tho square whero I
had been for some hours standing, seeming te
loosen our files as it knocked the poor fel
lows head over heels, like ninepins on a
bowling green; and then we heard the fa
miliar tones of the old colonel, to be pre
pared for cavalry, as these devilish cuiras
siers poured upon us, and we were wedged
together into a wall of iron again to receive
them. That's all I know about my feelings,
sir," said the old soldior. " It was a terrible
sight and awful to look upon. It was hell
upon earth," he muttered, as he resumed his
spade, and commenced digging with energy.
U. Service Magazine.
The President has caused Lieut Wm. De
catur Hurst to be stricken from the Navy, in
consequence of having been engaged in a
duel with Midshipman Creighton, on the
Coast of Africa,
Scraps for the Economical.
If you would avoid waste in your family
attend to the following rules, and do not des
pise them because they appear so unimpor
tant: " many a little makes a mckle.11
Look frequently to the pails, to see that
nothing is thrown to the pigs which should
have been in the grease-pot.
Look to the rrease-pot, and see that noth-
ng is there which might have served to nou
rish your ewn family, or a poorer one.
See that the beef and pork are always
under brine; and that the brine is sweet and
clean.
Count towels, sheets, speons, &c. occa
sionally; that these who uso them may not
become careless.
See that the vegetables are neither sprout
ing nor decaying: n they are so, remove
them to a drier place, and spread them.
Examine preserves, to see that they are
net contracting mould; and your pickles, to
seo that they are not growing soft and taste
less.
As far as it is possible, have bits of bread
eaten up before they become hard.
Attend to all the mending in tho house,
once a week, if possible.
Make your own bread and cake. Some
people think it is just as cheap to buy of the
baker and confectioner; but it is not half as
cheap.
An ox's call will set any color, silk, cot
ton. tr weollen. 1 have seen the colors of
calico, which faded at one washing, hxed by
Tortoise shell and horn combs last much
longer for having oil rubbed into them once
in a while.
Indian meal and rye meal are in danger
of fermenting in summer; particularly Indian.
They should be kept in a cool place, and
stirred open to the air, onco in a while.
A warming-pan full of coals, or a shovel
of coals, held over varnished furniture, will
take out white spots. The place should
be rubbed with flannel while warm.
Spots in furniture may usually be clean
sed by rubbing them quick and hard, with a
flannel wet with the same thing which took
out the color; if rum, wet the cloth with
rum, &c.
Sal-volatile, or hartshorn, will restore co
lors taken out by acid.
Spirits of turpentine is good to take grease
spots out ef woollen clothes ; to take spots
of paint, &e. from mahogany furniture; and
to cleanse white kid gloves.
An ounce of quicksilver, beat up with the
white of two eggs, and put on with a feather,
is the cleanest and surest bed-bug poison.
Lamps will have a less disagreeable smell
if you dip your wick-yarn in strong hot vine
gar, and dry it. 1
Those who make candles will find it a
great'improvement to steep the wicks in lime-
water and saltpetre, and dry them, lhe
flame is clearer, and the tallow will not " run."
Britannia ware should be first rubbed
gently with a woollen cloth and sweet oil;
then washed in warm suds, and rubbed with
soft leather and whiting.
Eggs will keep almost any length of time
in lime-water properly prepared. One pint
of coarse salt, and one pint of unslacken
lime, te a pailful of water. If there be too
much lime, it will eat the shells from the
eggs; and if there be a single egg cracked,
it will spoil the whole. ;!
New iron should be very gradually heated
at first. After it has become inured to the
heat, it is not as likely to crack.
It is a good plan to put new earthen ware,
into cold water, and let it heat gradually,
until it boils, then cool again. Brown ear
then ware, in particular, may be toughened
in this way. .
Skim-milk and water, with a bit of glue in
it, heated scalding hot, is excellent to restore
old, rusty, black Italian crape.
Wash-leather gloves should be washed in
clean suds, scarcely warm.
The oftener carpets are shaken, the longer
they wear; the dirt that collects under them,
grinds out the threads.
Do not have carpets swept any oftener
than is absolutely necessary.
It is. not well to clean brass andirons,
handles, &c. with vinegar. It makes them
very clean at first; but they soon spot and
tarnish. Rotten-slono and eil are proper
materials for cleaning brasses. .
Feathers should be very thoroughly dried
before they are used. For this reason they
should not be packed away in bags, when
thev are first plucked. They should be laid
lightly in a basket, or something of that kind,
and stirred up otten.
If feather-beds smell badly, or become
heavy, from want of proper preservation of
the feathers, or from old age, empty them,
and wash the feathers thoroughly in a tub of
suds; spread them in your garret to dry, and
thev will be as light and as good ns new.
New England rum. constantly used to
wash the hair, keeps it very clean, and free
from disease, and promotes its growth a great
deal more than Macassar oil.
If you wish to preserve fine teeth, always
clean them thoroughly after you have eaten
your last meal at night. .
Rags should never be thrown away because
thev are dirtv.
Linen rags should be carefully saved ; for
they are extremely usetul in sickness.
After old- coats, pantaloons, &c. have been
cut up for boys, and are no longer capable
of being converted into garments, cut them
into strips, and employ the loisure moments
nf children: or domestics, in sewing and
' braiding them for door-mats,
If you are troubled to get soft water for
washing, fill a tub or barrel half full of ashes,
and fill it up with water, so that you may
have lye whenever you want it. A gallon ef
strong lye put into a great kettle of hard
water will make it as sou as ram water. . ;
An Inginiocs Rogoe. The following de
tails of a pieco of roguery, lately practised
in Paris, surpasses, in ingenuity and wit, any
thing recorded in the annals of the living: ';
An individual, well dressed, presented
himself at the shop of a female who sold ready
made linen, in- one of the retired parts ef
Paris, and observed te her that she appeared
to keep a largo assortment of gentleman's
shirts. ' , ; '
"Oh, yes; she had them of all descrip
tions, and very cheap."
" Pray, madam," said he, " have you any
garment of a similar description and supe
rior quality for ladies? I am about to be
married, and wish to make my intended wife
a present of three dozen."
"Certainly, certainly, sir, I have some
which I am sure will suit you;' and forth
with three parcels, each containing a dozen,
were exhibited on the counter.
One was opened, and the stranger examin
ed it with much attention. At last he said.
"Iam afraid these are too short;" then
seeming lost for a moment in thought at the
difficulty which presented itself to his mind
of ascertaining the precise size wanted an
idea seemed to strike him: "Madam," he
said, " you are about the height and size of
the lady I shall shortly marry would it be
asking too much of you to draw one of these
over your dress?"
" Not at all, I'll do it with a great deal of
pleasure."
In a .minute the good woman appeared in
the shop completely enveloped in one.
The stranger looked at her, walked round
her and stooped, apparently to draw down
the garment behind her to its full length, in
doing which, he very adroitly fastened her
clothes te it with a large pin. She, suppo
sing his examination finished, attempted to
take it off again, when, to her astonishment
she found her clothes rose up with it. At
this moment the fellow grasped the parcels
and made off with them. The poor woman
hesitated to follow made another attempt
to divest herself of the superfluous covering,
but, failing to do se, ran atter him. &o
much time, however, was lest, and so many
bcyj collected about her, at the novel ap
pearance she presented, that she was soon
compelled to return to her shop, and put up
with the loss.
Gbn. Lamar. The history of his life is
like a story of romance. Like the Paladins
of old, he" won the heart of his bright lady-
lovo by years of perilous toil, and only won
her to see death snatch the prize from his
bosom. Texas then became his second love.
Many of his personal friends bad been
tempted to settle in the colony, and when a
Mexican army overran the country and drove
back the inhabitants by fire and sword, he ea
gerly hastened to their aid. It is said that
his horse gave out, and no other being ob
tainable, he walked thirty miles to join tho
army at San Jacinto. He led the Texan,
cavalry in tLe eventful battle which exter
minated the flower of the Mexican army,
and made Texas a nation. An anecdote is
recorded of him in a British magazine,'
which is so characteristic that we will give it a
place : " When General (then Colonel) La
mar charged upon the Mexicans, his eye fell
upon an officer whose cold blooded cruelties
had made him particularly obnoxious to the
Texans. Without pause or stay, he dashed
through tho tripal array of Mexicans, and
cut him down, and then coolly wheeling his
horse upon the surprised foe, he cut his way
back again, before they could rally an effec- '
tual resistance." lie was elected vice presi
dent, and then president, almost by acclaroa
tion. St. Louis Rev, . . ; '
A Beautiful Idea. At a late public
meeting in New York, says the Telegraph,
.the Rev. J. Spaulding dwelt a few moments
on the deathless nature and extent ot moral
influence. " Away among tho Alleghanies,"
said he, there is a spring so small that s.
single ox in a summer's day could drain it
dry. It steals its unobtrusive way among
the hills, till it spreads out to the bsautiful
Ohio. Thence it stretches away a thou-'
sand miles, leaving on its banks more than a
hundred villages and cities and many thou-,
sand cultivated farms; and bearing on its
bosom more than half a thousand steam
boats. Then joining the Mississippi, hV
streaches away and away some twelve huo-;
dred miles more, till it falls into the great
emblem of eternity. It is one of tho tribu-'
taries of that ocean, which, obedient only to
God, shall roll and roar till the angel with
one foot on the sea and the other on the land
shall lift up his hand to heaven and swear
that time shall be no longer. So with moral a
influence. It is a rill a rivulet a river
an ocean, beundlcss and fathomless as eter- T
nily." "
John W. Bear, the " Buckeye Black y,",
the man who was appointed by Gen. Harri-: "
son, Sub Indian Agent, at Upper Sandusky, -O.,
and who left the Wyandolt' Reservation '
between two days, was delivering temperance , i ,
lectures, a week or two since, in the tily of j
New. York. A more worthless vagabond?
and arrant knave never went linwhipped.
Democratic Mirror,