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Volume XXV.
c O JI .11 r IV I C A T 1 o s .
For the FalLaJiiim.
More aboat ffm?n Ridin? in Public.
.Mrs. Mary Abbot, comes out in some very
sweeping remarks against this now movement;
he "lets off som? very xmcompliraentary opin
ions concerning these same female equistrians.
When wc first heard of this new movement, we
were much surprised, and were as weak as many
are. in condemning it, onlv because it was net,
bat when we heard of it being done at several
Fairs, our scruples, wliat few we had, vanished,
We know not what the opinion of people gen-
erally U io regard to this thing, but we do know '
that all are too apt to sot any thing down that '
comes up, that is out of the "old way," as im- j
pr.pc-r, buld or sinful, instead of judging accor-;
din" to ri ht or -wrong. We do not take it, that ,
thes women wished io "show themselves off :
wry eheaV the object to us seems to be, to .
show how far this beautiful accomplishment can j
be carried to perfection. We do not think any j
one's idea of Jenny Lind, is that she is a bold :
rou 'b woman; she. was endowed by her Creator'
with wondrous powers, by which she stirred !
emotions for good in the hearts of m any. It would I
have been hiding her talent in the earth, and
throwing aside God's precious gifts, to have let .
them run to waste or perish for w,int of nurture, j
And if a woman has been taught the art of riding!
on horse-ba'Tk (perhaps the firt lessons were taken i
on some old Dobbin as he went tired and slow J
to water, at noon time,) and has the nerve to ;
manage a hviae, and the grace of carriage that a j
good rider possesses; if she thinks this a healthful j
exercise and fcas made n habit of taking frequent j
rides, why should she be degrading herself by
riding at a Fair. Of course she has been looked
at when riding on ordinary occasions, for we
suppose there is no woman so very, very modest
as to choose her course through "some vast wil
derness, some boundfess contiguity of shade,"
or that she went entirely veiled except two places
for her eyes to peep through, for fear of the
gaze of men! "
As far as the principle of giving premiums
goes, we have long wondered whether this is
right. In regard to many things exhibited at
fairs, the question often arises, have premiums
been given justly? '
" It is quite common for concerts to be given by
prominent female members of churches; and
the pty they receive was for the benefit of the
church. If this is laid in these women, so much
the worse for their cause. Female teachers
-.aw inemseives seen ana neara at puonc exm- ;
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inatrumanV- , &,ng, , F7 n ' Wayne county, in the neighborhood of liich-
"maS adrresSw'v01.!0 l' T 1 ond, where k majority of them now reside.
to ride f publl? - ? S WrDS i Tl'e oUst ter, and mother of John S. New-
r I, . - ' - - . ,. . , . r lu.,, i.-,i,i , tlm Central R. R.. anl a dis-
. Would riot a sensible woman, riding at a ftur, tin isheJ membcr of tle diani Aar, w.n.r
be setung herself up as a ehow to the women as , . sinco d aw Tho olJest of thc jj-.
much as to the mn? The manner of sitting on ' iu u now seventy -iiix, and vo-f fc.-ix
her horse, and her dress "todcJ as a model at cl,s wie oiaest sister, in robust health. In
for the women. As far as men being- appointed ; connectiori with their residence in this region,
jud2raTtno reason probably is because there ; th rela(o m incidents and trials peculiar to
are so few females who know how to ride; it hu first settiers in the wiiderness of Indiana.
would be a difficult thing to find a committee of j It ;g amon tlie agreeable-irellections in which
women for the occasion. We are pretty sure ; lh ar(J pitted to indu'ge, in the evening of
that gentlemen would make the best judges j Jifej that the chain of brolhe"riT aifection and sis
though women1 are-trnerally the most trrai'.tifuU Ui,1y..-E1ujness is still hrtgkt, and that they eon
ana skillful nders, when they do undertake t-1 tl-ibuted their share in subduing the forest, and
We should be sorry indeed to thiuk that all the : matiuir tlie soiiUry places glad, while the records
men who have interested themselves on these of both cliurci1 au j state testify to their services
occasions, had an "impure or wicked cunesity," jQ eacn.
or that their object was to see women "throw " &
away their modesty," or that they thought this Daring Robbert bv Means of Chloroform.
was tho case. Our opinion of tli4 men is not The Augusta (Ga.) Constitutionalist says: We
that bad. Thc "Bible" says: "The heart of j have reatl and heard of many daring robberies,
man is deceitful above all things, and desperately but we think none of them will even b'ar a com
wicked." Hut certainly times have changed parison to one whioh took place on th Georgia
a little since these words were written, for we j Railroad cars on .Friday morning, between Ca
think women go ahead of men as far as deceit is ; mac and Berzelia. As wo learn, Col. J W. M.
concerned, but we are pretty well convinced Berrien, of Rome, and a." portion o his family
that they (the men) are ''desperately "wicked." , were iuthe cars on their way to this city. He
If there" a class of low men, who never see a had a large amount of money about his prson.
woman anywhere, but they degrade themselves, He was seated on the back seat, his daughterand
not the women, by their remarks, whoneed care? another young lady, a relative, on the set.t in
Should, not'every woman every true Lady, lift j front, and his son, an intelligent lad of twelve or
herself so far above such a man, as not to heed ' thirteen years of are, and a servant, occupbd j
what he may say to his associates as mean as ;
himself? There is one great distinguUhing mark
of a pentleman he treats every woman as '
he would wish his own mother, wife, sister, or
daughter treated. I once heard a man say: "I
would as leave takemy wife and children through
as much of the lower repo,s as through the
fctreeU of this town, on acoount f th vile re-
marks the fellows on the streets make about every j
woman that pasies.",- Now if there are certain '
mean corner loungers who make it their business;
to talk so of ladies, does it make it wrong for I
women to walk the, streets, to attend to their '
business, it to' risiti . Oh, for the sake of woman's i
independence; r 1 sake of the rising genera-,
tion; let this continual cry. this everlas'ing hack- j
nied theme be stopped, this favorite harp-string !
be broken: what will the men think, what will
the men say. how will it look to the men? We
do not feel like referring ta their judgment quite
so much, for we have no such an exalte! opinion
of fheni as that; though,, we knew one man who
had groat judgment and taste, when he but
never mind he did a-k a very important ques
tion. Is it right or wrong, or.what will the wo
JeaF, erhovr will iiWi; to die children, wuld
be
spend some of their precious time talking about i
some of their own sex. (if they must talk about !
people) they would be as well employed. There is !
Wide field of labor for them; ihev need n no 1
great distance to find sublets. If they would
quit smoking in womeu's faces, and stop that never !
ending shower-bath of tobacco juice, from their !
lovely mouths to th MTompu c-.il th
detieet'thin soles of ladies shoe's, it would suit
uiem jusi as wll; and if some of the women (it
thev must talk.te fti i t.it- k.,f t.u.,,.;.
vu' ; tv nuvuv: nitc cau i
fnl specimens ci humanity, and leave their own
sex alone, their time would be as well employed, i
to say the least. They nd the men had better
wait till women arc guilty of such impurities that
some men practice, before thev say such hard
tlvn-rcr ,1.., t-t. 1,K,, T. ..
lier article,' "Thev go against a'l the ru!
, xji inviii. Jin. .u'uin iTS irthiir nn in
article, "Taev o aauist a'l th mLc u;.i
aowa m th lUhle. to nvmhVe their mj...x t
litltl
inere we are nearly in accruer, for we are not
tare that we can rak up any scripture that has
ny direct bearing on the subject. There was a
Certain man named Paul, who said many things
respecting women, widows especially, as he
"ever had a wife perhaps he had sonvi little
grudge or pick at the sex, one piece of advice or
omninnd: was "wives obey your husbands."
ow, m these days civilization is so far advanced
tat wives dont do any such thing. A true wife
nsults with her husband, and thr ro m,nc
who s:and hhrh in the world's
est.mttian,
"Co gato their wives for advice, and taking
it
profit by it. Thn .I,;, tK..a,xAr h ...i
i l'atriar.-h. h- i tt . fu.
!d (and hischild too it was) out of house and
o "- "u. it was a; the insution of his wife
i. ' ,st did this wrong against the boni
.rj'-. f a maa in tlie south of these United '
S'-Ates were to do that sort of thing iti.jiege days
with his slacet. even his southern neighbo wout,j
be up in arms about it.
The daughters were sol I in marriage bv tu-
fathers to any young ma:i who fancied them, o
could afford to buy them the maidens of the!
present day woul 1 hardly like these examples to :
go by. Bat tim:-3 have changed since then, the '
Bible was written bv men who were used to see-,
ing women treated almost like slaves; the women ,
in tho-e days carried water on' their heals in
jugs or some Kina 01 eanr.eu iu
watered stock and tended stock. Christ laid
down rules to govern all future Christians; they
are the principles that can never change, they
apply alike to women, men, and children; he said: j
A new commandment I give unto you, that i
you love ona another. Ye are the light of the j
world; a City that is set on a hill cannot be hid; !
neither do men light a candle and put it under a j
bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light j
unto all that are in the house, and he said "judge t
not that Te be not judged," &c. Then there is
the case of the woman who was brought before
Christ to be condemned, and he said "he that is
without s;n, first cast a stone at her, weal! know
what was the result on that occasion. Robert!
Burns said:
"Hut-ii -p thu truth lmpmseu my miirl
1 liroujfti !1 His works nbmsd,
The licui beaevulant nul kiaJ
Tin tu. it resiiuiV.ea lr.,1."'
IIoosierdom, December, 1851.
NELLIE.
For the Ric!iin:riJ Palladium.
- A Fioneei Family Party.
Messrs. Editors: -A party of nine David,
Frederic, Henry and Andrew Hoover, with their
sis'ers, Elizabeth Bulla, Susanna Wright, Rebecca
Julian, Catharine M'Lain and Sarah Sanders
raet,Jast Thursday, at the residence of the last
named, lu tue vicinity ot iuclimunJ, Inu., ana i
partook, with many o:her relatives, of the hospi- J
tali ties of the house; and by way of reviving '
past recollections for comparison with the pres- j
ent, visited Dayton on Friday, by railroad, ta- I
king dinner at.the I'hillips House. J
Fifty-two years ago, last October, before Ohio j
was a State, tins same party, Willi their parents,
emigrated from North Carolina, passed through
Dayton, then a small log cabin village, and took
up winter quarters in a camp ten miles north on
Stillwater. Owing to the prevalence of the fe
ver and ague, they settled in the spring of 1803
within four miles of Lebanon, and remained
there four rears, and in the spring of 1007 re-
moyed to. Whitewater. Indiana Territory, now
the third seat. Between the two points above j
designated, tho lamp near the Col. was extin-1
iruished. His son took notice of it, but thought'
that it was done by the conductor, or some one .
connected with the train. Shortly after, a stran- j
ger took his seat by Col. Berrien, and after some J
conversation succeeded in administering to him ;
chloroform uutil insensible. He then cut the j
buttons oif his C03t and extracted from his side !
pocket a package of bills amounting to 85,160. i
Not content with this, he took from the panta- :
loons the Colonel's wallet containing about1
SI. 000.
Had he known that in the other pocket of the
pantaloons there was a package containing 2,000 j
he might have taken that also. The money sto- j
len was mostly South Carolina bills. In the large
package there were twenty $100 bills and some
htues.
Up to last evening Col. Berrien was laboring ;
under the effects of the chloroform administered,
and was confined to his b?d a'l day. As soon as '.
he is able, he will publish a list of the- bills stolen,
and he requests us to state that he will pay a ;
handsome reward for the recovery of the money
or detection of the bold robber.
- Catcuin-.-. a Tartar. We publish the follow-i
S-"T asa caution to peopie who are lond of;
s'lJ:i blscuU: A few evenings smee a party of la-j
Jies wera mvit,?J ta the Wjse of a physician, m
tlm Clty' to sew for some benevolent object, and j
ln ,he curJ of rnts-tea was rred; some un- j
commonly palatable soda biscuits were among the j
attraetuws of the entertainments, and the guests ;
a11 ate of thera nelJ- o!y after, the laly of
th.e house was seized with a distressing nausea,
and was obliged to retire. She had hardly made
Iter hurried apologies, before her guests, one af-1
ter another, complained of illness, and before their ;
friends or carriages could be sent for, were allj
prostrate on the floor, vomiting in every direction. '
The police in the streets canu in to know, the
cause of the rushing to and fro, and in and out,
a-; 1 the company were seized with fearful ap
prehensions that they had been poisoned. They ;
all had tinallytobe transported to their respective
homes in carriages. Upon an investigation i: :
turned out that the cook had, by mistake, gone to ',
the d'Vtor's closet and taken some tartar emetic, i
instead of cream of tartar, for her biscuits, and
had male them so very liht that they would not
stay upo i the stomachs of aay that ate of them
" i- !ve- 'st-
M. W. M. of the Grand Lodge, of Ma-;
sons in Ohio, states in hi Annual Cornraunica-'
tin, tna: me oninai cv.ise of the rresent insur-
reetion in China, was the cruel order of the Eta-''
- - " i
peror for the sur prvission of the "Triads" a kind
Frw' K,r n ypnttvm cu uie i naus a Siaa
of Masoaw Fraterniiy m the Celestial Empire, j
"oevenu aisuaguisneamemoers oi tnat urder are i
said to have been massacre J in the most brutal
tvay. ,
RICHMOND, WAYNE COUNTY, JANUARY 5, 1855.
MORAL MASONRY. ,
The gifted but erratic brother, John X. Mafifir,
at the conclusion of a Masonic address delivered ;
i, : r- - i , j ' 3
oy him m Missouri several vears before he died, '
.J ' '
-Hrodueed the lullowing splendid peroration:
:ral Masonry has pictures the proudest and '
uiime on me can
uic van rv. 1113 W'JIiU HIV
h them! Misrht I thrill
r a r.. 'tience witli the svmjohc lectures of
Alorai iuaon.., , . T , - . ,
and open Iwior'e - . . . . , , .
of the inner temnll' wx0,"ng y1S,on th.j glories
ad open before , "t"J" . v
of the inner tempi? wo""?y.on th.jglor
hearing tue seraphw oaies of tn LL
vonr
not made with liauds. tvrj : K.,t;fiiT.J:
not made with tiauds, typ ; ti.e beautifuT'.
. . naran
lines that our rreat (xrand ilt. i,.o HAvn unon d
tlie magnilicerit pile that is destHe(i to survive the ;
"Wreck of m t'.ter and the crush f Worlds"! 1
Never never until my tongue shall glow
wiih the iires of the upper Shechinah, and the
Grand Master of Eternity shall take the finger of
silence and secresv from my Hp, may I show to
an assembled world the emotions that have rolled
their grandeurs over my soul as the curtains of
the lodge rose upon the great moral pictures of all
time!
Human nature is grand even in .ruins! The
soul is a temple of angalie and superhuman pro
portions. Age cannot bronze it over with its
years. Aieath cannot aim . the outlines ot sud
limitv and K
Forever shall its prooortions
jauty.
sweii upon the eye of the spiritual world, develop
ing more fully, while the young eternity sweeps
towards the approachable goal of endless being,
the majesty of its powers and the splendor of its
moral achievments.
I leave untouched the vast picture of the cru
sades. I pass the age of chivalry. I take a has
ty leave of the great age of improvement and ac
tion, on each of which the sun of Masonry shines
with undying effulgence and glory.
I falter on this part of my subject the moral
dignity of Masonry. I am full of its intense beau
ty, ravished by its ineffable brilliancy. The broad,
wide aud holy pictures of its glory cluster on my
heated spirit, and I seem to seize one of the
grandest representations that ever hung out a
banner of illuminated stars on the outer wall of
heaven. Like the wings of an angel, half seen
and then withdrawn, it is gone its harmonies
die away cm my ear, aud its cloudy and far-reaching
splendors die to the eye of my imagination,
like faint pencilings of twilight on the tablets of
the west. .
Oh, how Masonry has suffered scorn, contume
ly and reproach, aud the fagot and the rack, and
tile, chill, f.i m ii tlss vears nf tha ilniKin's rl,wim
What a fiery trial has Masonry passed through of
late years throughout the world! The demon
that would drag up to the iron bed of Procrustes
all mankind, to cut them shorter if they were too
long, or to stretch them with cruel tenter hooks
if they were too short this maddening impulse
has often dashed against the foundations of the
ous sea; but the serenic rock. lias beateu back the
surges. How oft were the lodges surpressed,
their charters taken away yet ail the oaths and
inauisitioiis of the enemies of our order could n,H
A
worm out our secret, or make the fraternity recre
ant fr. their principles. Their attitude was ni
uultkj lUaaija who undertook to destroy the mas
sive diamond by dashing it to pieces but found
mat every scattered fragment wasjequaliy perteet
and in itself a fortune.
Break up the lodges and scatter the members
from Nova Zenihla to Peru, and still each Ma
sonic bosom would be a lodge in itself still would ani in?s in thf-' beauty of the farmer s style.
it hold in its sacred deposit the inviolable mysto-; But nl these obstacles and difficulties cau be over
ries' cume bv faithful perseverance. W. Garbutt.
Companions of the Order!
Knights Templars!
ivoyai -arcn, 1'ast, 3iarK and Master Atasons.
Fellow Craftsmen and Apprentices! thousands of
,-our mst honored niimbiis have heard already
he call of the Grand Mister above. They have
ntere.l, wj trust, through the gates of the city
hey are before the throne they are wearing the
inciure of Il '.ivenly M.i-onry, and are attending
o the instruofions of the Great I AM! )
We shall soon follow them one after another '
.ve will go the way of all the living. You will ;
leave your places in the Lodge aai others will ;
till up your ranks. Tiie procession will b3 form -,
cd it will walk silently and sally to the grave-'
yard. There you will be laid by brothers' hands
gen'Jy an I softly with, .the silent dead. The sol
emn service will hi pronounced over. your coffin
the sprig of cassia will fall lightly on yourculd .
nmaius, significant of your rising on the last great
dry.
11 1 4 1 t t , r i i i w . r
I cannot raUe my Iian 1 or voice to al Iress, to
initiate, to install, or to admonish a brother, with-
out remembering that Jesus Christ is the Chief
Coru.-r-ston-. of "Free and Accepted Masonry and '
the keystone of the topmost arch.
.1 lxk around to read your thoughts. Infidel
ity is i.oi here. You will therefore sustain me
when I say, in God s name, through the son of
ILs love, we will this day consecrate ourselves to
the saerul an I sublime principles of our order,
till each omber of the fraternity become a tem
ple sacred to virtue and the unsullied elements of
goodness. This, brethren, is to be Masons in
deed, brinjjngup not evil report to the disgrace
of our ordei that when we receive the sum
mons from tie Grand Lodge above, we may has
ten with glai-iess, clothed iu the regalia of the
skies, to meeiour brethren ia the Holy of Holies,
to go out no mre forever.
There is a signal known only to the "fraternity,
a: which the breath, of every "Mason is hu-he'd,
and deep silence pervades the Lodge; so, ' when
God rises in the magnificent temple of the Uni
verse and stretchts forth His hands, sleeping mil
lions will start tron their graves, and they stand
before Him a mulf rude no man can number. .
There " we shall neet our dead again and give
thera signals of out immortal love!
Again the same mysterious vision comes boom
ing across the ea ot imagination, as before, bat
more palpable and dstinot. I: is too big a pic
tune for my sou! ve'-1 must grasp it, while ray
ear trembles with stnuge music, and my eve be
holds beings of terrible beauty standing before
iu. aud takes in the fl ihin of banners of an in -
numberabb multitude.
I see the Christain Masonic procession as it
marches through this to the u
pper world-
ou-
sands upon t!i j i-anls niliwas upon mtUions! 'JI1 empires, ii sucn an imposition is maiunug
Hive th? Crusaders conve again, that they direct feere- v' W,;u-J he well for our police to lay their
all their hopes !o the Eas. aad travel toward the '' &ent?e hands on the author of it. 'An appropria.c
HoTv Land! See! they will not go back, the way 1 employment for him would be to clear our sabur
' of the procession g v?s onward sua, and rises lrh ; baa strAt aaJ lsn ?s of the Stramomium or
3!ve the nini'les of earti ' "Stink weed" which is here so abundant. Asa
I see the hierarchies of soul and
tJi6
Sovereigns of the order, the Knights of the Sun,!
of lY? Ril Cross, of the Brazen Trumpet, and of
the East and West I see the Princes of Mercy,
of the Tabernacle, of Libmusani Jerulsaem I
see tlie Templars, the Knights of the Holy S -p.il-chre,
and of the N;n;h A rob.
I see them come the Masters, thc- Craftsmen.
ent-ces ma c-yme the Ya-t arnar of
martyrs, the true iercpUrs of the Cross, the
.
pioneers of tie Jem p ion, liavsng on them the'
marks
of fire aai vioieice, red with their own'
blood-nd then a vast multitude of every nation.
kindred tongue and people. ... , . il
V.ha a Passion! The loud song of cymbal
andean, the harmonv of celestial choirs ring iu
- .i - i r . v. i t i. .
mv ears the wind of their banners fan my heat-
ed" brow -
Theyiave washed their robes and made them
white inthe blood of the lamb.
I lookhigher far beyond Calvary. I see the
everlastifg doors of the upper Temple open.
"L" ih',?e be Light!" speaks the sweet yoice of
th; Graal Master of Eternity. An exceeding
brighUie-s burns upon the head of the vast pro
cesaiorT. XJanneraud plume, and crosier and cross.
-are b.vthnl in the inetFable pure whit.j that rolls
MOi!i-'?an Su?a UTing purity. I see them
so
mer,
WrifeT:
Th dimmer toil of the
T oui Joarua!.
his leisure hours have come.
Th; .p-is"
iugs ate the time for Farmers to
reflect ,
Ps mM aie aua, V? "e inure; and n
is me une lor ineni io uoi a communion wnneacii
other:a;d, through the medium of the Arrieul-
tural Jorrnals, enjoy the pleasure, (aye, th profit
i'X.) f nterchanging thoughts and views on the
various tranches of their multifarious pursuits.
WouVf tjey but adopt the plan of informing each
other thn the medium of their Journals, what they
!iav'd the season past and with what success.
and wjia tney wisn to perrorm the coming year,
by gifviir a general statement of their farming
operadoti, it would give volumes of useful facts
that wbui be of great imporLauce to them all.
It would increase their agricultural knowledge,
and hibiuate them to think more closely ami more
a-curael; on all thir farming operations; and it
wouldghe a rich expansion to their agricultural
thougkts and be a real zestiu their leisure hours;
and tlie tue and labor necessary to accomplish
it would kj but trilling, would they but. make a
beginning.
Mabssmapof the farm, number the fields,
andmarlon the map the number of acres in each
field, utikeep a farm journal; set down each sea
son tlie nmber of acres that there are under the
various cops, together with their probable aver
age prediction; perfect accuracy is not essential
forgeaerd purposes, but the nearer correct the
more TaliRole it will be.
But I aai fully aware that there are many in
convetiieiees to be overcome for farmers to at
tend U ewn these trifles. We are not in the hab
it of writng, and our pen and ink are seldom in
order, ant often out of place; and after the fa
tigue f i long Summer's day we rarelv feel in-
elmcdto ook them up, and set down the num-
, T E acres plowed, planted or sown; and we
generally are a little affected with the impulse of
vanity' aid do not l.ke to mention our miss-goes
nur ie' oir poor crops be known, (which will
eonieUuei happen to the best of farmers.) We
mustfia- something great or wonderful
11 is nat ole bountiful crop, nor one or two fine
.animals, tilt is the evidence of the farn.' mntt,
: ut it is tie average production for a number of
years' '.taut ts the evidence at yooa cuuicaior.
And thuv f, ,v' us competent to put our
, thoughts mi paper,' in a free, easy, and fluent
styLe.jSor-ftriiig out wcrds to make long article.
But itjs more a disgrace to the farmer that he is
not a uent writer, that it is to the barrister that
he camot hold the plow. It is the farmer's pro
vince to deal write fa -is, and not with flowery
langurge. A plain and distinct statement of facts
Wheatland, N. Y., Dec, 1854. Hur. X. Y.
A Series of Impviitioas Their Remedies.
It isreporte 1, upon what may be deemed good
authority, that a c unmittee of a State Agricul
tural Society, loca.ed. towards the setting sun,
at a la;e fair, awarded a premium of five dollars
to a pa-son who exhibited a ''Petrified Vasps
Xest." Any child of fifteen years of age, in our
Cleveland Free-schools would at once have re
cognized that wonderful cariosity as nothing
more than a fossil-coralline -probably a species
of astea, or a kindred genus.
Gov. Slaie will, we trust, unload in that Stafe
his next cargo of Female teachers.
Another. Every few weeks some peniten
tiary looking foreigner presents , himself at our
door, snd hands out a p irchment, or printed pa
per setting forth that he has been an extreme
sufferer from fire, shipwreck, famine, war, or
kingly oppression; any pretence likely to excite
sympattiy,
and ootain a contribution from oar
Purse;
Th5s gaii ha? b ?:i played for years and is still
carried on throughout our country. Public au
thority should arrest every one of the imposters
and set them at work ia rf 'ball and chain gang or
perhaps in a more congenial occupation by hireing
them to P. T. Barnum to bo employed in solicit
ing subscriptions to his Auto-Biography
r-riLt. Another.
in the vicinity of t!
Several years since, a fellow
s city, collected together a
great amount of roo's and seeds of the most in
different kinds of dowers, together with a large
variety of the vilest of weeds. These were duly
arranged and labeled. To render them saleable
a book of paintings of flowers was exhibited, said
to represent the kind offered.
The importer traveled extensively in this State,
and in other pirts of f!:i c ran try, and disposed
of his trash ateuorm jus prices, nnderthe pretence
that it wa' an importation from the best gardens
in Holland.
; Onr friend, Dr. of M , made large
purchases, and among other valuable acquisitions
obtained for three dollars, was a specimen of
"Chinese Tuber." Happening to visit him the
summer following, we saw the items of his ptir
cha, one after another, developing themselves
' in the most worthless f?rro. The doctor winced
sons a: thc loss of his money, but more at tr.e
jokes of his family when his 'Chinese Tuber' leav
ed out as a 1'oke Hoot p'.ant.
There are reasons to srprehend that a new edi-
' OTl of tf,'s imposition is being got up in this place,
' at this urn-?. We would warn all onr Horticnltu-
ral and Florieultura! friends to be on the look
ou:. Their credulity m.iv be tried before the sea-
precaution he rhould set at work early in the J
summer, otherwise t:e rascal wouid from habit
gather up the rip? seeds an I next winter be off
selling them fr c-nion or flower seeds. ' X.
" Oh io Farmers
X-r A French: yardener is said to Lave diseov-
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XThe maa wto is truly just wiu nonnsn in
f?ie ol enry." r
from Arthar's Horn Gaxrtta.
THE FISH-WOMAN. . ,
A HOUSEKEEPER S COSFE3S10X.
The wind was from the northwest, and
air in consequence raw and -eoid. It so cap-
,' pened that there was nothing in the house for
dinner. Some one would of course, be com
pelled to go to market, and the market was a long
distance away. Cook was not well, I did not
feel like going out myself and getting thorough- j
ly dreuched, as I most certainly would, if.Ii'i
: ventured into the street
In tills dilemma my
; ear caught the welcome cry of a fish -women. 1
! 'The very thing!' I ejaculated, rising to my
; feet, and going to the window, upon which I
tapped as she went by. At was raining in tor -
rents. The clothe
A the
poor woman were
completely saturated, and clung to her body as
the wind swept heavily against her.
! 'Poor creature!' 1 ejaculated, with a feeling ot . i 0ften get meat enough for a few ceats to last me
.oal sympathy. I knew something about her, i several days. And the same way with yegeta
; tor ouoo she told me that she had five little chil-! bies. After the , markets are over, the butchers
aV m1' for whosa support she thus toiled !an(j country people, whom we know, let us have
about the street j ,oU of for almost nothing. soonr an
l his is a dreadltti morning for you to be out,' home. in this way we n,ae our slender
. I said on opening the door j meaus go a great deal farther than they would if
it is, indeed, ma am. but I can't afford io i. t.. P.. .u.i.: i... e
lose the sales of evn t.o,) ,i tt
fine bunch of fish for you, ma'am,' holding up,
: as she said this, a Urge string of rock fish. 1
j 'What is the price?' I aked. !
! 'A quarter dollar a bunch, ma'am.' !
'What will you take for two bunches? I ask-1
ed, instantly forgetting all about her peculiar sit- ;
uaiion, in the desire to save a few pennies that ;
, arose in my mind.
The poor creature paused a moment, and look
ed thoughtful. I can see her now, with her
! pale, sober face, standing in the drenching
storm, with thc water dropping from her shape-
j less bonnet about her breast and shoulders, cal-
i cuiating the amount ot reduction she could af
ford to make me on her goods.
'You shall have the two bunches,' she at
length said, 'torty-hve cents, ihey cost me twen-
t ty cents a bunch; but it s a dreadful morning,
-auI 1 donl feel v,erJ welL 1 want to Set Lom
as quick as I can.
Yery well," I returned, I will take them,
I then retired from the door, and took from
! my purse halt a dollar, which I gave to the cook
and told her to go to the door and get two bunch
es of fish.
Here is a half a dollar, I added. 'She will
iyive you Jive cents chtnye.'
I had hardly uctered the last sentence before
my conscience began to smite, me. But I stifled
iLs reproofs until it was too late. While yet de-
bating whether I should generously pay tho wo -
man her own price, instead of taking from her
one half of her meagre profits, the street door
' closed, and Jane came iu with two handsome
' bunches of fish. -A.s she handed me tUvlwugg
; ,J said, holding up the purchase
'They are cheap enough.'
I did not reply. They are dear enough' -.
1 would have sounded much pleasanter to my ears
; at that moment. How insignificant and unat
, tractive did the small piece of money I held in
; my fingers look and yet, to gain just that little
j piece of money, I had permitted myself to wrong
i a poor fish-woman, who had five little children
to provide with a home, food and clothing.
'She shall have it again!' I said, laying the
! coin upon the mantel-piece. 'The next time she
' comes round, if it is to-morrow, I will buy fish
from her, and return her this five cent piece in
; addition.'
t1 l. 1...: .
liiia reaoiaiioii umeLeu me murmunntrs oi
. - . u.iiuimg. yi
conscience. On the next morning 1 hstened for , home so, sakl 7
T' tUI a- n" fT0 'Well ma'am, I suppose you must take them.
nttghtSA'Miood. I was disappointed, fori felt ' vt i-.... n,J , niS. . a , " '
, , ... ' , , but it leaves me onlv a meie trifle for mv nrof-
anxious to mike restitution. The next day, and ! j3 r r1 r
the next passed, but the fish-woman did not ap-i . ,. . - , , , ,t
pear. never snw her again. t , ,A f erTant, ending by took the fish, and the
Several weeks afterwards I inquired of a wo- !J nded me a quarter, and held out her
man who called at the door to sell something if ! nnd l?r tht ,tge- :. 1 firf P" n five
she knew am thing about her. My description fent P1?0,' She continued holding rt out. until
was quicklv recognized. . 1 1 searched about m my pocket for a penay
Oh, yes",' she said; 'I knew her very well. 4 1,1,3 f-next PIaced m ber ,hand- A: , '
But she'is dead now.' 'So you've cheated me out of a quarter of a
'Dead!' I exclaimed, in painful surprise. , cent, at last,' she said, half laughing, and half
Yes, ma'am. Some weeks ago it rained very , in earnest. 'You are a sad rogue.'
hard, and she was out in it nearly all day. Shw I A little boy was standing by. 'Here, Char
took a dreadful cold, got sick, and died in about j ley,' she said to him. 'is a penny I have iust
ten days.
'And her
children? What of them?' I
asked.
j 'I took one of them, a little girl, into my own
; family, though it was large enough already, dear
; above knows! But I thought of my own chil
idren if I should be taken away, and that made
J me crowd and pinch a little for the child's sake.
The oldest has been put to a trade; one has
j beo 1 taken into another family, and tlie two
j youngest are in the alms-house.'
j 'Not in the alms-house!' I said, shocked at
! the closing sentence.
1 'Yes ma'am. I'm sorry to have to say it but ! some oae in the hou,e who WM ,1ck ; The Jady
. two of the poor little things had to be sent there, t aste(1 me if i woujd not 1Ike to taT , j
;No one that felt as she would like to. was able.sa5d yesfor my head wa, aching badly, and
j to tae them for we poor bodies have always I t fujt faint. And besides, I had not tasted a
; as many of our own as we can scratch for. ,cup oftea for seTeral days. She poured it out
j Sometimes I think it is a blessing that even the j for rae v hh her own hands and ith h own
I poor-house w provided, where they can at least j hand , brought it to me. I think I never tasted
i have a home if we should be taken away This j , uch . cu of tea in lifc u w ,ike cof .
, is often better than being about among families. d;ah Goi bless ter; When j a ;n weat out
j where they are too shamefully neglected, if notlaQn street, my headache was gone, and 'I
treated most cruehy. When I die I want to feU frh eTer j d;d ia life Before I
take all mine with me. I do not think I could j itopped at ttIs kl"B(1 lady's hoe, I was so worn
1 sleep quietly in my grave if any one were to a- j down and oul of heart that j determined to go
! buse my children.' 'How old is the child you i homef eveft thMJgbot half my fish were sold
, have taken? I asked. 'About five years old, j But now I went on cheerfully with confidence.
she replied. 'Is it well off for clothes? '
'No ma'm, not very; None of our children
' are very well off in this respect. It takes so
much ' to feed them, that we never have a great
t deal over for any thing else.' -
; A thought came into my mind at the moment.
How would vou like to part with the child,'
lafced, 'if I get a pace for it in the-rphaal
! asylum?'
rnuld be so mneh htt.roffthrA thT,
.make it, that I could not refuse to let it go,
a r ,r r.r, ; k,-.; oI.Za-
; seem,' she replied. .
'How many have you of your own'.'
i 'Four. " - - : - :
'All young?' .
i 'Yes, ma'am. The oldest is hut seven years of
j age. . . - . .. ;
. -..,. U..V v ... f v . u . . MUM J ,
'Have you a husband?"
The woman was disturbed at this question.
i So much so, that I regretted having asked it". But
she replied in a changed voice: . - t :
'Yes, ma'am. But he isn't much help tone. !
' L;ke a great many other men, he drinks too much, j
' If it wasn't for that, you wouldn't find me crying
fish about the streets" in the spring, and berries
i iroagh the summer, to pet bread fur nsy"chil-
drea. He could support us all comfortably if he
was only sober, for he has a good trad, sid ss
good workman. He ased to earn ten, aadasjsae
times twelre dollars a week.". ' " s
Number 3,
k 'IIow much do youtnake towards fctrpporting
your family?' I asked. - j:. s; ' . . :
. Nearly all they get to liy on, and thai iaat
much, she said bitterly. My husband some-
'times rats the rent, and sometimes d.vnt rn
i do"" that. I have made as Men as four cr fire
! dollars in a week but oftener two or three is the
most I geu
'How in the world can you support yourself
and husband, and four children, on three dollars a
yy v a
'I have to do it. was her simde answer.
'Therw are women who would be clad to tret thr
Idrdlar a.-wek. Thv wnuld thfnk (UmulrH
t well off.' - ' " ' r f
j .Bttt how' do you live on so small a sum?"
j .Ve have to deny ourselyea almost every little
1 comfort, and confine our wants down to the mere
. necessaries of life.
J to pay gooj prices for their marketing have been
j supplied, we come in for a part of what remains.
t . . . . .
thing. But, it too often happens, that what we
jain here, is lost in tlje eagerness we feel to sell
whatever we have, especially when, from having
walked ar. ' eried for a long time, we become
much fatigued. Aln. every one complains
that we ask too muu for our things, If we
happen to be one or two cents abova what some
body has paid iu market where Jie,e a al
most as many different prices as there ar persons
who sell; and in conseqence, almost every one
tries to beat us down.
'It often happens, that after I have walked for
four hours, and sold but very Tittle, I have parted
with my whole stock at cost to some two or three
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I lauies w no vt uuiu uot uave uougui irvra u ai wm,
i if they had'nt known that they were making good
bargains out of me and this, because I could not
bear up any longer. I think it very hard, some-
; times. when ladies, who have every thing iu fail
and plenty, take off of me nearly all my profits,
i after I have toiled through the hot sun for hours,
or shivered in the cold of winter. It is no doubt
j right enough for every one to be prudent, and
j buy things as low as possible, but it has never
seemea to me quite just ior a ricn iaay to oeat
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down a poor fish-woman, or strawberry-woman a
cent or two on a bunch or a basket, when that
vciy cent made, perhaps, one-third or one-half of
her profits. . ; -
lt was only yesterday that I stopped, at a
house to sell a bunch of fish. The lady took a
' faCJ a mce bunch of small rock, for which I
asted her twenty cents. They had cost me iust
sixteen cenia... ... - ,.,. u :ft -,w tK
'Won't you take three fipa?" she asked j
That leaves me too small a profit, madam, I
replied.
'You want too much profit, she returned. 'I
saw just such a buch of fish "in market yesterday
for three tips. -'
'Yes, but remember, I replied, .'that here are
the fish at your door. You neither have to send
for them, nor bring themlTSme yourself." "
'Oh, as to that,' she answered, 'I've got a
waiter whose business it is to carry the marketing.
It is all the same to me. So, if you expect to
sell your things, you must put them at market
prices. I will give you three fips for that bunch
offish, and no more.'
I had walked a srreat deal, and sold hut litt.l.
I was tired and half sick with adwudfu!
I v i, r .
.acne n was time for ixaIa thmV .Uni o;n
savea. i ou can buy candy witn it.'
'As 1 turned away from the door of the large,
beautiful houje io which that lady lived, I felt
something rising in my throat and choking me.
I had bitter thoughts of all my kind. Happily,
where I next stopped, I met with one more con
siderate. She bought two bunches of my fish
at my own price spoke very kindly to me, and
even went so far, seeing that I was iaded out.
i to tell me to go down into her kitchen, and rest
! myself for a little while. Leaviag my tray of
' fish in her yard, I accepted the kind offer. Il
tn Y nri nr? that f no tnlr tea tnatin tmm
In an hour my tray was empty, and. my fish
sold for fair prices. . . ' , . ' .
'You do not know, ma'am,' continued the
woman, how much good a few kindly speken
words, tnat cost nothing, or a little generous re
. fi"d ior us, aoes our oitoa couragea nearts.
, v r 1 r. t a
Mueholiener we are talked to harshly . about eur
exorbitant prices called a cheating set, or some
other such name that does not sound so very
asPIeasaat to.oareari. Thai there, are maar
i amonz ns who have no honesty, nor, indeed.
ivt. w . , - . .
any care aboot what is rirhl,' is too true. Bat
all are not so. To j'udxj us all, then, by the
worit of our class, is not right.. ? Ijrold not
be wsll f&r. the wor' V.lf ajl vrere thus judged.'
'Indeed.il would cat,' I laid, alsaost iavolun-
taiiljv , ' I t ....
-r otTering (he Women a" few encouraging
w . I gave her some clothes for the little girl
ab had taken,' and promised to use mj influence
f io get her into an asylum for orphans. '-This I
readily accomplished; ihws eelienng her a
burden, and providing the ekild with a eslforta
ble home... The two children who had Uen U
ken to the slms-house weighed upon my mind
a good deal. I could not pal" the thought f
them away until I had succeeded isr getting
them takea oat, and placed ia the carvf two
benevolent, kind-hearted women, who aeopte
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