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OL. VIII.
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C. F. M. POLAND,
Attorney at Law,
Bafesvillc, A airs,
A. FOWLEil
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Little Rock, Feb. 24, 1837 . 47-tf.
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Dec. 30, 1836.—3Q-]y
THE SPELL BROKEN.
Oil, yes, thou art, though changed the same,
i read it in that auburii hair ;
Those speaking eyes, that thrilling frame,
Which breathed of heaven’s divinect air :
But yet there is a shade of gloom.
Which, to my spirit seems to say,
That care and grief have marr’d thy doom,
Wince girlhood’s bright unclouded day.
Fair creature ! gazing thus on thee,
The sunshine of the past returns ;
And o’er what nevpr more can be,
My time taught spirit hangs and burns.
Thou vvert a bud of beauty then
A star gem in a cloudless sky—
A glory, idolized by men—
And who thy votary more than I !
How fleeteth time away ! twelve years,
With shades of grief and gleams of joy,
Have come and gone in smiles and tears,
Wince thou wert girl, and 1 were boy ;
Since, unreserved, how oft with thee,
’Twas mine, through wood and wild to range ;
And art thou silent ! can it he
That, like our looks, the heart can change 1
When, within mine, thy finger thrilled,
Although ’twas but a moment brief,
My heart dilated, swell’d and fill’d
My bosom, with a gush of grief;
That pressure was a spell—that touch
The treasures of the past unfurl’d ;
Showing at onco, how time so much
Had chang'd thee, me and all the world.
Oh ! there is not an earthly woe
Wo bitter, as to see the form
Once overbright with beauty’s glow,
Went down beneath misfortune’s storm !
To mark the once dear, cloudless eye,
That swam as in the depths of bliss,
Subdued to darkness, and to dye
Of such a dull, grey world as this.
Would I had not known this! Thou wast
An image to my musing mind,
Amid the sunshine of the past
In glory and delight enshrined ;
But now the spell is broken,—now
I see that thou, like all, canst fade,
That grief canst overcloud thy brow,
And care thy cheek’s pure beauty shade !
Yes ! thou canst change like all beside;
And I have lived to look on thee,
All radiant once in youthful pride,
Chill’d by forlorn adversity ;
And though like July skies, of yore
Glow’d thy serene, unblemished frame,
I’ve sighed to hear black Envy pour
Her venom on thy favorite name!
Flower ol life’s desert! are thou sad !
Nought purer breathes beneath the sun
Than thee, in thy sweet meekness clad ;—
What could’statliou e’er have said or done,
That gloom should reave thy thoughts of rest,
Should dim the bright eyes, cloud the brow,
And hang a burden on the breast
Of aught so beautiful as thou !
Or is it that, from wandering come,
From travels of the land and main,
It was thy hope to greet at home,
The faces of old friends again!
Alas! if such thy cause of woe
Forever quenched thy jocund mirth,—
The old have died, and sleep below—
Thy young ace scattered o’er the earth.
We sow in hope—but from the seeds
Of promise nothing reap, save grief;
Joy’s flow rets fade to noisome weeds
Of vulgar bloom, and bitter leaf:
Age, when youth’s wine hath run to lees,
Confesses earth a vale of tears—
’Tis only hope’s keen eye that secs
Perfection’s glow in corning years.
LIFE IN THE FAR WEST.
Batesville, (Ark.), Dec. 6, 1836.
I had much fun at the Caddo races ; Giles Serog
gen kept my sides sore from laughter. lie is a Jew
el. Giles divides mankind as follows, viz : quality,
Bob Quality—commonality rubbish and trash. The
quality are those who have been well bred—they put
up with whatever the landlord has, pay their bills with
out grumbling, throw a quarter to the servant, and de
part satistied. The Bab quulihj always wear rufiled
shirts, with the collars so stiff, that it they are struck
hard upon their heads it cuts both their ears off: they
bulge up to the tavern door—“Landlord have my horse
rubbed and fed—set us out something to drink” — ask
for such and such liquors, find fault with every thing,
have their coats brushed, run their hands in their pock
ets, find they have no change, and put the servant off
with promises; they inquire for some man in the neigh
borhood who was once rich, but is now broken— lect
to have claims to a large amount on him—call for
their horses, tell the landlord they will he absent for a
few days—believe it possible they may remain longer,
and therefore take their saddlebags, promising to set
, tie their bills on their return, and put off never again
to he seen by the unfortunate Boniface. The com
monality are what modern politicians style the “ bone
and sinew.” They take everything as it comes. If
' corn-bread and fat pork are set before them they eat
and complain not: if it is fried chickens, tomatoes and
j Hour doings, well and good. They pay their bills when
they are presented and pass on smoothly and quietly,
i The rubbish always have a leader or king-bee; they tie
thbir horses to the nearest thicket and march up in a
body—spend their cash freely—run over town looking
| at every thing curious—go to a tavern—commence
drinking—in a short time become noisy. The land
lord says nothing, but takes the leader to one side, Hat
ters him, and asks his interference. Tho king-bee then
addresses them thus: “Come boys no fues; the land
lord treats us well.” This quells them, and they de
part singing and smoking, lhc trash toice, on toot,
generally with a little wallet on their backs—squat in
| the first chair—have nothing to say—watch the bar,
and when they see a half-pint set out, slide up—raise
the tumbler, smell of it—inquiie it it is such a liquor
! and take a real buckload—steal back to their chain:—
repeat the operation on every favorable occasion, until
they get their fill, when they put out.
The North licked up the South at the Caddo; but
Barkman the proprietor licked us all up—a dollar a
day for a man and fifty cents for bis horse. Talk ofj
long laces; you ought to have seen Sunday morning’s ;
settling up; pocket-books empty arid cheap. He has !
the prettiest place in the world—2-100 acres divided by
a creek—soil so rich that the corn has to be gathered
with ladders—lots of curly heads, plenty ol pewter,
owes no man, and has but two children—unfortunate
ly they are boys. The Club there will not prosper.
Old Juke set his coulter too deep at the s tart.
Have vou seen Noland & Tunstnll’s challenge.
They propose running C'ap/. Beon'c, by Momma, mile
heats—Independence, by Tom Fletcher, two mile heats
Charline, by Pacific, 3 mile heats, fir $1000 on each
against any nags in the world, f believe they will be
safe matches on their parts; for I know no man can af
ford to bring nags’from the ok! State- to run them f r the
sum of $1000 that are first rate, and 1 do not believe
any other kind can win. Boone F think the l est mile
horse 1 ever saw. His sire, Mormon, by Virginia.
The blood of the dams of both Boone and End* pen
dence are unknown.
Shall 1 give you an Arkansas preacher’s ideas of the
heat ot the infernal rep-ions'!—“My brethren, it is h
hot plate, a roust tremendous hot place; there sits an
old grey-headed sinner; if he were (hern a w eek and
then brought back and thrown in a cauldron of boiling
lead containing one hundred gallons, and that seven
times heated, why he would freeze to death in a min
ute!”
Enough of my nonsense. If your proof reader and
devil can make it out, and one of your many readers
is forced into a hearty laugh, 1 shall be satisfied, so
good night:—Truly yours, N.
What comlilyles an accomplished yonn ;• h,dr.—
There is perhaps; no term which has become more per
verted from the original meaning than the word accom
plishment. It signifies ‘completeness, perfection,’ and
implies u finish of character to which nothing can be
added and which leaves nothing to be desired. Milton
calls his heroine ‘Accomplished Eve.’ Now it is
morally certain that she could neither dance, (that is
by system,) play or draw or converse in any other lan
guage than her own. Where then were her ac
complishments ? True, she is in her state of innocence,
one of the most beautiful models of grace, propriety,
dignity and humility ever exhibited, and therefore we
must suppose that the author of Paradise Lost had ftt
view a far different standard of female excellence than
the fashionable one of our limes.—What then consti
tutes and accomplished female ! We answer, ‘A fit
ness for the sphere she is to occupy whatever it may
be, and faithful and conscientious discharge of the du
ties belonging to that sphere.’ She may not as a wife
and mother have occasion for those fr iiionable acquisi
tions which in some situations of te both useful
and ornamental ; but she may at J w4l i ave higher
opportunities for blessings and 1 ei ;g; ’ !issod. She
may bo the suitable companion o • (ten able man: the
[judicious mother of a risin>- ft.nr the.^at, orderly,
! and frugal mistress of an extent hrfJgPbhald. She
may he qualified to council her fftisband in the intra
cacies of life; soothe him in his troubles: lighten his
heart of half its load; and , jiidcr his home tin
spot of all most delightful, Sb# jtnav train up her chil
dren in the path of piety: fomwjhein to habits of vir
tue ; and thus bequeath a biffing to society when
she has gone to her rest in ll«ven. if this is a low
station and fit for nothing In, , vulgar qualifications,
i where on earth shaft"we find Ajie (hat is higher or use
ful? We would not be unc|>stood to set no value
whatever on what are usually tailed accomplishments.
Many of them are elegant, ftid in certain stations in
life, and where there is a dr ided taste for them, may
he highly useful. But we . > deprecate the ‘phrenzy’
of accomplishment which rtjtcs among all classes, and
induces them t<Abaerifice*>ime and money, which if
properly laid outjjnight have made ornaments to so
ciety, in pursuitSiti'orse th|S useless. The young lady
who can spend hut six mjfiiths perhaps at a boarding
school must, in comfoririiji to custom, throw a wav two
thirds of the whole of that precious time in forcing a
taste for music, or dancing, or learning French, when
it is understood that at marriage these hardly learned
acquisitions are to be laid aside never to he resumed.
There is something wrong here, and it v.iH never he
remedied, until parents have good sense and indepen
dence enough to adopt the means in the education of
their daughters to the end in view. It’ they desire
them to be any tiling more than mere puppets trained
for display, whose only aim is dress and be admired,
they must teach them by precept and example that
what is useful is infinitely to be preferred to what is
dazzling; and that virtuous excellence is to be more
ardently coveted than fashionable accomplishments.
If Solomon’s beautiful description of a virluous wo
man were to be adopted as the model of female excel
lence, what a change would be at once produced in
the moral aspect of the world ! Some of the most
powerful temptations to sin would lose their alluring
charms, and modesty, industry and chastity, be once
more what they should always have been—the sale
guards and the highest ornaments of woman.
JVeiu York Jl<irocale.
The Tobacco Trade.—A Select? Committee of the
House of Representatives of the United States of
which Mr. Jenifer of Maryland, is chairman, have re
cently made an interesting report on the memorial of
the Maryland Planters, and the resolutions of the Mary
land Legislature touching the high rates of foreign im
posts on American Tobacco. The archives of the U
S. Government furnish but few details on the subject.
The principal exports of tobacco from the United
States to foreign countries, are to England and France
on the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Holland, Bvigiurn.
and the IIan.se towns for Germany. Antmior to the
revolution, the culture was confined to Virginia and
Maryland, Between 17G3 and 1770, the average ex
port was 67,000 hogsheads ; declined much in the re
volutionary war; from 1790 to 1792, averaged 110,
000 hhds. which is the largest quantity compared with
what has been exported in any one year since. Singu
lar as it may seem, though the article is now grown in i
much larger quantity, and over a greater extent of ter
ritory, viz: in the states of Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessc,
Missouri, Indiana, and North Carolina, and in small
quantities in Connecticut and Pennsylvania, such i~,
the domestic consumption that the export is actually j
less than in 1700. " j
From 1700 to 1800, it averaged annually 70,308
hhds., and the manufactured about 200,000 pounds. I
In 1801 the exports were 103,758 hhds then declined,
and during the Berlin and Milan Decrees it was only
10,000 hhds—then rase to 66,000, and during our hist
war declined to 4000. From 1815 to 1835 the ave- j
rago has been 90,000, »nd 2,500,000 pounds manufac- >
tured; in 1827 and 1832 over 100,000 hhds. In 1832 !
3‘1,'5(5,071 pounds were manufactured. In 1835 and
ls;Ui (i n average has bet a about 94,353 birds, and
pounds manufactured. b'incc I7D2 tlio
weight of the hogshead having increased, the average
may i'i.r the bust ten years be considered nearly equal
Wtight of Tobacco—In 1780, the average weight
of the In gshead was 10CO pounds—now the Keniuoy
hhd weighs 1300. The general average factu all the
| States is about ]£CG lbs per hhd.
IViVe.—Th.is has declined liom-lbe war, when it
was $13 f,0 et to *£.*> I -1 pi r cwt. which it is at pre
present, and this though the export has not increased.
Value oj the — In 1M6, after the war,
$12,899,000—in 1885 $8,250,677 of unmanufactured
and id nuuuitactuicd $377,011. Thus the average,
1 with aii the foreign onerous imposts, is nine millions.
To this last cause is to he us( riled the present depths
■. ed state of trade. Mr. <Ji tiersnn, while Ministtr to
I’ranco in 1785, u.ado unsuccessful efforts to rctnn.ve
; the foreign lax. Since that our government, the re
port say, lias totally neglected this staple of American
trade. The quantity of tobacco consumed annually in
France is e.-timntc d at G7,CC0 bids—of this only 7( GO
is American. In 1833 die regie or Monopoly which
that government has of this article admitted only COCO
for sale, and that was leaf tobacco only from V irginia
Maryland and Kentucky. Only 20,COO is eonsiiiutd
in Kngland, the duty of 70 cents per lb., amounting
to a prohibition, in Austria the duty also amounts to
a prohibition. In (F rtminy and Holland are consum
ed f.3,000 birds American tobacco, 40,OGU of which
go to Cermanv. Here therefore if is most important
to remove the foreign impost, as the above amount is
uuue than halt the whole quantity exported from tho
Fished States. It is the heavy duty for transmitting
it to the interior which is most onerous. There should
be a reciprocity in our commerce with (leimuny and
France particularly, which last sends her luxuries, such
as wines, silks, Sic. almost free, while our tobacco—
a h xry to them—is prohibited. In Holland and llel
giutri the Maryland tobacco is obliged to pay higher
than any other, the so called reciprocity treaty between
us and the Hanseatic towns has been found to throw
the carrying trade into foreign ships us 6 to 1. In
F 35 there were Gi Hi emeu only 17 American. The
. ommi ITVcoe liuie with a resolution recommending
| the President to open negotiations with the countries
above named, and others, tor the removal of restric
1 tions on our tobacco.
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From tl e Tusrahomlai
Newspaper Patronage.— One word as regards what
is called patronage ! This word, by some, is (bought
1 to be synonymous with centering a favor on an editor
wilhout retching an equivalent in return, and such ns
arc undijT that impression assume to themselves the
attitude of a superior, and would fain he honored as
such by the supposed pensioner on their bounty !
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake such as our
nai nc's frailiy may excuse—'but really, this is too ab
surd uu error to be extant in the nineteenth century
we do protest against its further existence by ‘common
sanction.’ "We tire no more dependent than is the
merchant, the mechanic, or the physician.—Like them,
we perform an allotted part in the grand business of
life, having for our object the acquirement of our pros
perity and contentment—for the.^e, we pursue an avo
cation which is arduous, and fraught with disappoint
ments, perplexities, cures, vicisitudes and reponsihili
lies, rarely incident to other professions, and which no
man need hope successfully to follow,* who loves his
ease. No; we are not dependent on the “bounty” of
men. Week after week, we toil for a meagre stipend
promised—censured by enemies, damned by the faint
raise of friends, contemned for opinion’s sake, slander
ed by frenzied politicians, harassed by duns, defrauded
by rogues, confused by the journeymen, tortured by
iho “devil,” and annoyed by visitors—we toil unceas
ingly, and as it were, in defiance of men and devils,
through good report and through evil report and through
trials and tribulation, for the gratification, emolument
and well-being of others—for which wo receivo not
| quite ti bit a week from our customers, miscalled “our
i pal) one!” 1'or the said bit a week, unnumbered aro
j the tastes, and opinions we ought not to regard. If
| we wish to he “patronized” by the nuliifier, we must
not advocate the Union,—if we do not favor the whigs,
but few whigs will give us their “patronage”—the
neutral reader can’t bear our paper, because it favors
a political party—a fair acquaintance thinks the paper
ought to he filled with accounts of runaway matches,
poetry, and deaths and marriages—a religious old
I maid tells us she thinks opr paper ought to be exclu
; sively devoted to methodism; a philanthropic friend
: promises, if we will turn it into a temperance journal
I he’ll g< t “two of his neighbors’” to sign for it—and if
wo could do as all our friends suggest we should, no
doubt, suit all and be the most “popular” man in the
county. But, alas, we “can’t begin” to suit all—and
so content ourself with following the promptings of our
own judgment.
A correspondent complains that we do not give our
attention enough to little matters. Perhaps we have
erred in that respect; but as we cannot attend to
these things every day, and give proper attention to
more important concerns, we will, while on the subject,
try and make up fur lost time, and give it few items.
Item. A son of W. Crindcm, Esq. cut his finger
yesterday. 1Yc arc happy to say the wound is not con
sidered dangeruu»i"rr" 'Tsf “
Item. A horse broke away from his groom yester
day morning, ran up street at a furious speed,—knock
ed over nn old sow, arid terribly frightened a.sweep.
Item. Caution—more lives last.—We have it from
the most ur,doubled authority,-that while Mr. Firelock
was, on Monday Last, holdingjn loaded fowling piece
in a very careless manner, it went off, and sad to tell,
instantly LuiriiV out o! "existence two beautiful playful
little—cats, is is .surmised upon what ground we have
been unable to learn, that the act was done with “mal
ice, prepence and aforethought.”
Item. JWysterious Disappearance.—-Coneiderabl*
alarm exists in consequence of the mysterious and un
accountable disappearance of Mr. Tipple, who was
seen very late on last.Saturday night, in company with
a person of notoriously bad character, walking towards
the river, since which time he has not been heard of,
though several constables have made diligent search
for Liuj. It is strongly suspected that he is—among
the missing. JjjgSg
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