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VOL: I; NO: 2(5.
UPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO, THURSDAY, NOV. 3. 1853.
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-dUTII AND AGE.
Iuten hiuk each Jtottcring fof m
J That limps along in life's decline,
Oace bore a heart as young, as warm,
As full of idle thoughts as mine! .
And each has had its dream of joy,
JttapVn unequalled pure romance ;
Commencing when the blushing boy
First thrills at lovely woman's glance.
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And each could tell his, tale of youth, , .'
TVould kink "its scenes of lore evince
More passion, more unearthty truth,
Than any tale before or since.
. Ya 1. they could tell of tender lays,
. At midnight penned in classic shades,
Of days more bright than modern days
And maids more fair than modern maids.
Of whispers in a willing ear,
Of Josses on a blushing check ;
Each kiss;, each whisper, far too dear, , ,
Our modem lips to give or speak.
Of, pawions too untimely crossed :
:" Or passions slighted or betrayed
Of kindred spirits early lost, -
And buds that blossom but to fade f
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Of beaming eyes and tresses gay,
Elastic form and noble brow,
And forms that have all passed away, .
And leftjhem whalTwe see them now 1
And is it thus is human love
w So veiy light and frail a thing ?
And niust youth's brightest visions move
. - For ever on Time's restless wing ? '
Must all the eyes that still are bright.
And all the lips that talk of bliss,
And all the forms so fair to light,
Hereafter on'y come to this? .
Then what are earth's best visions worth,
fc If w at length must lose them thus?
If all we value most on earth .
. Ere long must fadeaway from us ?
baker, who is of majestic presence, being
as big as thyself. She will suit thee to a
hair; and if thou desirest, my wife shall
make proposals for thee this afternoon."
Matthias laughed and frowned, and went
on; and the Jew," chuckling, in .' his .beard
said: "0 Hanna, for how much wilt thou
free thyself from thy wager? Wilt thou
pay a hundred pieces and let all said?"
But the Christian replied: ' In five years
Saint Philotea wore away a stone .as big
as this stool with her kisses and her tears
in five years the heart of this man may
melt."
Matthias went not on his way unmov
ed after his conversation with the Chris
tian Tailor. He began to think that per
haps, indeed, he was wearing away his
life uselessly in solitude. There was cer
tainly no beauty and no satisfaction in
that manner of being:. It was better to
take to himself a companion. But where
find her? Amongst all the frivolous
daughters of Tarsus, was there one with
whom he would not be more lonely than
with himself? Their mothers had taught
them nothing but love of dress, and love
of themselves. How could their capri
cious and selfish natures find pleasure in
communion with a man whom this world
had sore tried, and who wished to wait in
meakness and in patience for the world to
come?
These meditations disturbed Matthias,
but they did not render him more unhap
py. They occupied his mind; they reliev
ed the monotony of his existence, they
prevented him from always turning his
eyes inward upon himself; they formed
him to look abroad. He went to the
houses of his friends and once more studi
ed the perfections or imperfections of their
daughters. His object Avas so manifest
that the joke went round that he wished
to save the Christian tailor from ruin.
People jested with the Jew as they brought
in their money to change. But, although
Matthias saw many beautiful girls who
threw the glances of their almond-shaped
eyes encouragingly toward him, he. saw
none that pleased his heart; and, sudden
ly retiring from society, he shut himself
up foi a whole year in his palace, seeing
nobody, and taking back melancholy and
discontent for his only companion. "
At length aJ atthias began to feel the
desire ot change, and. made it a. practice
every morning to have his mule , saddled
and ride out to the base of the mountains
and then, putting foot to ground, to wan-
A CHARMING STORY.
THE BONrJ-MAIDEN,
Or The Merchant's Heart.
Matthias, the Levantine merchant, had
spent his -. whole, life, from' his boy-time
upward,: in traveling for the sake of gain
to4he East'and to the. West; and to the
islands of the South Seas. He had re
turned, to his native place. Tarsus, in the
fullvigor of man-hood, and was reported
to, have amassed great wealth. His first
step was to make a prudent call upon the
governor, and to present him with a purse
and a string of pearls, in order to be
speak his good-will. He then built him
self a spacious palace in the midst of a
garden on the borders of a stream, and
began to lead a ; quiet life, resting after
the fatigues of his many voyages. Most
persons considered him to bo the happiest
of . merchants, but those who were intro
duced to his intimacy knew that his con
stant companions were thought and sad
ness. When he. had departed in his youth
he. had left his father and his mother,
his brothers and sisters, in health, although
poor; but; when he returned in hopes to
gild the remainder of their days, he found
that the hand.of death had fallen upon
them every, one, and that, there was no
one to share his prosperity, and a blight
came over his heart. -
The gossips in the bazsars soon began
to talk of his ease, and it was then that
Hanna, the Christian tailor, one day said
in a loud voice to his opposite neighbor,
the Jewish money-changer,""! will lay
the value Jf my stock that the merchant
Matthias will find consolation in marriage;
that lie will choose the most beautiful ot
our maidens; and . that ne - will round a
family which shall be celebrated In this
city as long' as its posterity . endures."
To this the Jew replied: - "What is the
value-of thy stock?' Three jackets re
furnMl nnrm t.hir bands a. j-imtin rmlr rf
, 11 c i ruly animal, and then make its keeper
scissors, an old stool and some bundles of i : , . , m ..
threadt Verily, the risk, is ' not great."
The Christian said a prayer or . two.'to
himself, that he might not curse his nei
ghborand then answered: 'I will throw
in Zarifch the ebony-black girl whom I
bought last spring to follow my wife when
she goea'out with the little Gorges to the
gardens! Whatsayest thou now?". .' -:
The Jew pondered awhile, leaning his
der until evening amidst the rocks and
valleys. On one occasion he went so far
that he could not return.to where he had
left his mule and servant before night
fall and lost his way. After going hith
er and thither for some time,he was com
Delled to seek the shelter of. a cave, and
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to wait until morning. Sleep overtook
mm, ana ne aia not wane unut tne sun s
rays, slanting through a cleft of the rock
played upon his eye-lids. He got up
and having said his prayers, went forth,
and beheld a beautiful green meadow
stretching along the banks of a stream
which came hom a narrow gorge, at no
great distance. He did not recognize his
whereabouts and was doubtful of finding
his way back, until he saw, at the further
end of the meadow, some obiect moving
rapidly to and fro. It was a young girl
chasing a cow that had escaped from her,(
and ran with a cord tangled about its
horns in the direction of Matthias.
"Ah!" said he, "I will catch this un-
pointout to me the direction of Tarsus
So he tucked up his robes, and, being
strong and vigorous, soon came up to the
cow that was wantonly galloping hither
and thither, and brought it to a stand
still. t f May blessings light upon thy
sturdy arms, stranger," exclaimed; the
girl, running up out' of breath and un
winding the rope from the cows horns
'if :Naharah had escaped they would
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gray usu.u uu tu uiuaot ms caiiau. h beaten , me."
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xc .cHiuueu uu luity years ueiore And who CQud find ifc m hig heart to
he,;tooMhad, returned .from travel with u eat , thfi mprfihflnt
his mpney.-bags, and had found his house hc looked h &nd . wondered at her
i.iiiiii lit 1 1 I '
csoiate;; and mat ne nad devoted . inmseii dejcate ioveu
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iuvv w ".uwj ivu, w vu. ,The fathers shc j.eplicd pulIing
eaping; oi mauuuuu upon ouun.- Naharah in the direction she wanted to
Ihe thought had therefore become fixed 0. ,.Triple biess5ngs on thee again"
life comes,' there can remain no affection
,in the heart, either of Christian! or of
Jew, or of Mahommadan, but for gold.
So he said: "Let the dds be equal. I
will venture five hundred pieces against
thy five hundred pieces, that . within five
years the merchant Matthias docs not take
to his bosom, a wife.", "Agreed!" cried
say,
stranger
"V - the Christian.
The neighbors were
cal-
Matthias forgot all about Tarsus, and
walked by the : side of the girl," asking
questions .of her.- Hgjlearned that she
was the bond-maiden ! of a monastary
situated in those mountains, and that her
duty was to take out the cows, and espe
cial this one, every morning to the pas
turage. . y'': :--.
"Do . nnt. fnllntp. mo " sairl cTia- Wlion
led in as witnesses, and every one laugh- tl , , . : -'' .
... ..they came to .the entrance of the corge
W at uie .aosuruwy oi: uie muic., from which tllfi RtrMm flnir1 ufnr T am
Matthias was not long in learning that (forbidden to walk with those whom I may
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, a. wager naa.oeen lata upon ms xuiure meet ' ' ,! ; ...
iiie,. and, m passing through the bazsar, Matthias thoueht awhile, and th
hft stopped one day and said "sternly to her adieu, having learned what path he
nit vuiisuau wuor; ."ison 01 rasnness. TOao rt frii w . qh rrf.nmpH tn i,;. .i
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ace full of nothing but the image of this
simple bond-maiden." 'T
I' Verily," said he to himself next morn
why hast thou risked more than the
whole of thy havings upon a.matter which
s only known to Heaven?I.have looked
upon all the maidens of my people, and
no amotion nas stirred wimin me. - v eri-
ly thou wilt become a prey to this Jew."
iuy iuiu, l epucu. tue tctuui, wuum,
ing' "I forgot to ask the name of that
girl. 1 must learn it," in order that I may
send her a recompense." Under this
poor pretense he. mounted his mule, and
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f?it is impossible for a good man to remain rode toward the mountains, and began
all his life alone If thou wilt come to his walk at the usual place, and repaired
my nouse and see my wite and . my little to the cane and passed the ni"-ht there
Gorges dancing in the arms of the" ebonyi and was out on the meadow before dawn
black girl, Darifehr thou wilt surely relent He soon saw four or ve 'cow's driven out
pno. seeK at qnce to be as 1 am. Ferhaps of the gorge, and the girl followed, them
, tPQinast not lQQHed well around) thee.-- leading the frolicsome Nahafah. vThere
she, smiling playfully, "unless thou wilt
drive my heard down to the water to drink
and take care that the black one goes in
first, or else she will gore the others."
Upon this, Matthias took the branch of a
tree and began to cry "Hoo! hbo!" like
a herdsman, and to beat the flanks of the
black cow, which scarcpered away and
ed him a long chase round the meadow;
so that he did not come back until all the
other animals had taken their morning
drink, and the girl was sitting on the bank
aughing at him, and wreathing a crown
of flowers to deck the horns of Naharah.
"Thou dost not know thy new business,'
said she to Matthias, as he came up out of
breath; where-upon he began to curse
the cow which had led him that dance
and to think that he had made himself
ridiculous in the eyes of the girl. How
ever, they were soon sitting side by side,
n pleasant talk, and the merchant learned
that the name of the bond-maiden was
Carinc. .
By this time he had quite made up
lis mind to marry her, if she would have
lim; but although reflecting upon his
wealth and her poverty, itseemed scarcely
probable that she should refuse, his mod
esty was so great that he dared not ven
ture to talk of love. They parted early,
and Matthias went away, promising to re
turn on the morrow. He did so; and for
many weeks continued these meetings on
which, for the first time since his youth
le found real happiness. At length, one
day he took courage, and told Carinethat
lie intended to take her away and marry
her and make her the mistress of his
wealth.
"My lord," said she, with simple sur
prise, "has madness stricken thee? Dost
thou not know that I am a bond-maiden,
and that there is no power that can free
me:
"Money can free thee, child," said
Matthias.
'Not so,' replied she, "for it is an an
cient privilege of this monastery that
bondsmen and bonds-women shall forev
er appertain to it. If any freemen casts
:iis eyes upon one of us, and desires to
marry her, he must quit his state and be
come a slave, he and his descendants for
ever, to the monastery. This is why I
was not married last year to Skandar, the
porker, who offered twenty pigs for my
freedom, but who refused to give up his
iberty." Matthias internally thanked
Heaven fofhaving given an independent
spirit to the porker, and replied, smiling,
'Believe me, Carine, that the fathers love
money they all do and I shall purchase
thee as my wife."
"It is nonsense," said she. striking her
lead, "they refused twenty pigs."
"I will give twenty sacks of gold, ba
by," cried Matthias, enraged at her obsti
nacy. Uanne replied, that shc was not
worth so much; and that, if she were, it
was of no use talking of the matter, for
the fathers would not sell her. "By St.
Maron!" exclaimed Matthias, "I can buy
their whole monastery." .
He was mistake. The monastery of
Selahka was the richest of all the East, and
he head of it was the most self-willed of
T-r .1 ,,i , " i ,1
men. ne cut snort the propositions 01 tne
merchant who went straight to him that
very day by saying that on no account
wpuld the liberty of Carine be granted.
"If thou wouldst marry her, said he,
looking, as Matthias thought, more wicked
than a demon, "thou must give up all
thy wealth to us, and become our bonds
man." With this answer the lover went
sadly away, and returned to Tarsus, say
ing to himself, "It is impossible to give
up, not only - the grains of my life, but
even my liberty, for the sake of this cow
girl. I must try to forget her."
So he went back among his friends, and
began to walk in the bazaars. When the
Jew saw him, he cried out "Hail, oh wise
man, that will not burthen himself with
the society of a woman." But the mer
chant frowned black upon him, and turned
away ; and to the surprise of all the neigh
bors, went and sat down by the side of
the Christian tailor, and, taking his hand
whispered to him: "Close thy shop, my
friend, and lead me, that I may see, as
thou didst promise, thy wife and thy
child." ' ' - . '
"Which child?" said the tailor. "I
nave now three, Gorges, Lisbct, and Han
na.' . : . ' .
"All of them," said Matthias; "and
also the ebony-black girl, Zarifeh."
Oh!" said the tailor, "I have set her
free, and she is married to the pudding
seller, round the corner." ; ;
'It seems," said Matthias to himself,
"that it is the law of Heaven that every
one shall marry."-"
The tailor shit up his shop and took
the merchant home and showed him his
domestic wealth this say, his pretty wife
his three stout children, and a coal-black
girl callad Zara, who was kneading dough
in the court-yard. "My frieSd, said Mat
thias, "what would'st thou do if the pow
erful were to say to thee, thou must be
deprived of all this,' or else lose thy liber
ty and become a slave."
Liberty is sweet," replied the tailor,
shrugging his shoulders; "yet some live
without it ; but none can live without
love."
-Upon this the merchant went back to
his palace and mounted his mule and rode
to the . monastery, where he found the
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1 court-yard full of people. "I am come,1
in the gateway, "to give up my liberty
and my wealth for the sake of Carine."
"It is too late,"jjwas the reply; '.'Skan
dar, the porker has just driven in all his
pigs, and they are putting the chain round
his neck in the chapel,' and all these peo
ple that thou seest collected are to be-wit
nesses of his marriage with Carine."
Matthias smote his breast with his hands
and the sides of his mule with his heels,
and galloped through the crowd shouting
out that nobody should be made a slave
that day but he. The chief of the mon
astery, on learning what was the matter,
smiled and said,; "That the porker had a
previous claim," but the monks, who,
perhaps, looked forward to the enjoyments
which the merchant's wealth would afford
them, ingeniously suggested that he had
the best claim wno had hesitated least.'
Carine's opinion was asked; and shc see
ing both of her suitors resolved.heartlessly
condemned the enamored porker to liber
ty, and said: "Xet the chain be put upon
the neck of the merchant." . The cere
mony was immediately performed; and,
whilst the head of the convent was prer
paring to begin the interesting rite of the
marriage, brother Boag, treasurer of the
monastery, set off to take an inventory of
a! 1 .1. 1 ' 1 1 1 il r n 1
iiie-weaun wmcii naa inus iaiien under
his jurisdiction. . ..
, It is : said that Matthias never gave a
single thought to his lost property, being
too much absorbed in contemplating, the
charms of the beautiful Carine. The on
ly stimulation he made was, that he should
be allowed to go out to the pasturages
with her; and next morning he found him
self in sober seriousness helping to drive
Naharah and its companions down to the
water's side.
, Meanwhile, the Governor of Tarsus
heard what had happened to Matthias,,
and was stricken with ragt, and caused
his mule to be saddled and his guards to
be mounted, and set forth to the monas
tery and summoned the chief, saying,
"Know, O Monk, that Matthias is my
friend; and it cannot be that he shall
be thy slave, and - that all his wealth
shall be transferred from my city to the
monastery. He is a liberal citizen, and
I may not lose him from amongst us."
The Governor spoke thus by reason of
certain loans . without interest, and pre
sents (over and above the purse and the
string of pearls which' the merchants has
presented at his first coming,) with which
Matthias had freely obliged the governor;
who also hoped a continuance of the same.
Whereupon the chief of the monastery
hid his hands and was humbled; and the
Governor and he had parted with a good
understanding and agreement.
It fell out, therefore, that after a month
of servitude Matthias and his bride were
called before an assembly of the whole
monastery, and informed that the condi
tions imposed were simply for the sake of
trial. Nearly all the wealth of the mer
chant, was restored to him, and he was
liberated and led back. amidst applauding
crowds to his palace at Tarsus. Of course
he made a liberal donation to the monas
tery, over and above a round sum w hich
Boag the treasurer had not found it in
his heart to return with the rest. Being a
just and generous man,' he not only re
lieved the Jew from the consequences of
his wager, but made such presents to the
Christian tailor, thathc had no longer any
need to ply the needle for his livelihood.
Tradition dilates with delight on the hap
piness which Carine bestowed on her
husband, who used always to say, "that
with wealth or without wealth, with liber
ty or without liberty, she was sufficient
to bring content into any house, and to
make the sternest heart happy."
TAKING ADVICE.
BY PHEBB CAEY.
Sue gave a word of good advice, '
She hoped to profit by, ;
And I shouldn't wonder if she thought
I came away to cry.
She thinks I stand in fear of her
I really think I don't;
She's sure my will will yield to hers -
I'm pretty sure it wont.
I knew my dear old maiden aunt
; Is prudent, good, and wise
But, Harry, don't you think with me
, She's rather too precise?
She said I must not fall in love
"Propriety forbid?" .
And I told her I should nevar
- Love you better than I did.
She said you roust not fondle me
She did not think you would -
I told her I'd be up in arms ' "
Against you if you should.
She said you must not kists wo - "
. - The first time, should you try ;
And I told her that you shouldn't
But I did not tell her why.
She said that suitor never yet
Had even pressed her hand;
I did not think the reasou
Very hard to understand.
And as for marrying, she knew
She'd die before she'd wed
' And I told her that I did not doubt
The truth of what she said.
Making: Augre Holes with a Giniblet.
"My boy, what are you doing with that
gimblet?" asked J of a flaxen headed ur
chen, who was laboring with all his might
at a piece of board before him.
. "Trying to make an augre hole," was
the reply, without raising his eyes.
Precisely the buisness of at least two
thirds of the world making augre holes
with a gimblet! '
Here is young A., who has escaped
from a clerk's desk behind a counter.
He sports a moustache, carries a ratan,
drinks campagne, talks about the profit
of banking or shaving notes. - He thinks
he is really a great man; but everybody
around him sees that he is only "making
augre holes with a gimlet."
Miss C. is a nice, pretty girl, and she
might be very useful, too, for she has in
telligence enough but she must be the
ten goes to plays, lounges on sofas, keeps
her bed till noon, imagines she is a belle,
disdains labor, forgets that her father was
a mechanic, and all for what? Why she
is trying to work herself into the belief that
The Way To Get An Office. .7
The following has come to us through a
source that entitles it to entire credit; ,"r
A huge two fisted, "broad shouldered
son of North Carolina appeared a few days
agoin the treasury building and inquired
for the Secretary. He was directed to the
proper door, but when about to enter the
ante room was stopped by the messenger
for not observing the usual ceremonies.
"What's the matter now?' asked Rip Van
Winkle. "You can't go in sir," replied
the messenger. "We'll see about that,"
replied Rip, as he gathered the messenger
in his brawny arms, and set him aside.
Arrived in Mr. Guthrie'sroom, and finding
several gentleman present, he 'asked,
"Which is the Secretary?"
"lam said Mr. Guthrie to the intrud
er, rather sternly. "How did you get in
here?" ' '
"Oh! we'll talk about that after awhile,
siad Rip. "I've come on .business, and
we'll attend to that first. You see, Mr.
Secretary, I am a democrat from North
Carolina,and there is alight-boat at ,
and a whig has the keeping of it now, and
I want it.- Mind how! It won't make any
difference in my voting, if you don't give
it to me. I always vote right anyhow.
Here's my papers: look at 'em and speak
out." Mr. Guthrie was quite taken with
his honest simplicity, and replied that he
would give him an answer at twelve,
"Mind now," said Rip, showing his watch
to the Secretary, "yousee thatlittle finger?
Well, whenitgets to 12 I'll be here certain.
No mistake now!".- - I--,--. .
': Where arc you stopping?" asked the
Secretary. t ' i
"Stopping, you may well say that. I'
e got no money to fool away stopping any
where. I got my breakfast at the market
house this morning. And you see I want
to start home in the mailboatthis evening,
for if I stay here long I can't get home, at
all. Now mind, Mr. Secretary, 12 o'clock
you know?" So saying he took his leave
During his absence Mr. Guthrie ex
amined his papers, and finding him pro
perly recommended, directed his commis
sion to be prepared immediately. Pun
ctual to the minute our friend appeared
and was handed his commission. He war
mly thanked the Secretary, took his leave
and now is doubtless at home attending to
his duties. We dare say that Uncle Sam
has not a better o fBcer.- Wash. Star. '
Hsaxtu or New Orijbajw; The ITetr Xi
Orleans Crescent, of the 14th, has the' 5
following: 1 ' -:- '"' :r',;- v' n01035
?- "We : are enabled this morning to lay' ' '-' .
before our distant readers the gratifying5
ntelligence ' that the epidemic has 1 disap- ' :
peared! from among 1 txa. The Board of (
HeaQmet yesterday, and passed a reso- : 3
lutibfl declaring that no epidemic at pres- 11 ;
ent exists in New Orleans; Trade' has 1 ' 7
assumed it3 former restless activity; com-"'
mercial houses have been refitted and re-; u
plenished with abundant stocks; and our 1
levee again groans, under the weight of 1 '
enriching commerce. ; Sickness is hot
spoken of among us; and that air of an-' '
xiety apparent in the features of all during J
the late disastrous visitation, has given
place to a prevailing cheerfulness and
busy activity that gives promise of the ;
renewal of former1 prosperity The "fiat j!
of the Board of Health having gone forth'
that the " epidemic has : disappeared our '"' 1
absent citizens may return without fear of '
the consequence." ' J "
James Gordon Bennet. The Philft-
delphia Pennsylvanian, 6ays the Enquirer
has; the following excellent editorial hit ".'
upon a recent bloviating article in the.N..- ,
Y. Herald, which intimated that the pro:,
prietor of that paper, the notorious Jas., ;(
Gordon Bennett, was about to establish
three other journals in the cities of Bos
ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore, all to be
under his superintendance. ;In order, to
appreciate it our readers will bear in mind . ,
that that Mr. Bennett has the misfortune v
to be cross eyed.
. "Now, any one who has seen Mr. Ben
nett, or the portrait of him that Was pub
lished in the Democratic Review, will at 1
once admit that owing to the advantage-
ous conformation of his eyes he would be
quite able to oversee two establishments at
one time; but we respectfully submit that
askinghim to look after four is asking too Ci
much. - '- ' ' " '''-
an augre hole can be made with a gimlet.
The Orator and the Netvspapcr.
Compare the orator, one of the noblest
vehicles for the diffusion of thought, with
the newspaper, and we may gain a faint
glimpse of the latter. .The orator speaks
to hundreds; the newspaper addresses mil
lions. The words of the orator may die
on the air; the language of the newspaper
is stamped upon tablets imperishable. The
arguments of an orator may follow each
other so rapidy, that a majority of theau
dence may strugle in a not of ratfiication;
the reasonings of the newspaper may be
scanned at leisure, .without the danger of
perplexity. The passions of an orator in
flames an assembly; the feelings of a news
paper electrifies a continent. The orator is
'or an world, the one shines for ah hour, the
other for all time. The orator may be com
pared, the lightning, which flashes over a
valley for a moment, butleaves it agafh in
darkness; the newspaper t a sun blazing
steadily over a whole earth and 'fixed on
the basis of its own eternity"
Printing has happily been defined the
'art preservative of all . arts.' Printing
makes the orator more than an ortaor. It
catches up his dying jwor'ds and breathes
into them the breath of life, it is the spea
king gallery through which the orator thun
ders in the ears ages. He leans from the
tomb over the cradle of the rising genera
tions. . ;
English Humanity.
The London correspondent of the Tri
bune gives an account of the way the hu
manities of British landlordism are de
veloped : -
You will perhaps have seen from the
Times that a Mrs. MacDonnell,; of -Knoy-dart,
Glengarry, has, in imitation of the
Duchess of Sutherland, undertaken to
clear her estates, in order to replace men
by sheep. The People's Paper, informed
by a correspondent on the spot, gives the
following graphic description of this Mal
thusian operation: ,
'This lady had a number of cottagers
on her domains, many of whom were un
able to pay their rents -some being con
siderably in arrears, as we are told. She,
therefore, ordered them all off, and drove
them to take refuge: in the woods and
caves, : where . .they.- have since ..been
lurking, or rather dying, while Mrs. Mac
Donnell's horses have been warmly bed
ded in secure and comfortable dwellings.
she at the same time offered them a free
passage to Canada, passage money being
cheaper than poor rolls, and permission to
sell 'their little stocks,' they having no
stock whatever to sell, except the ciothes
they stand in, a broken table, or a rheu
matic cat.' Finally, she forgave them the
arrears she could not get. This is called
"noble generosity.'"
Such ejections appear to be again the
order of the day, throughout the High-
ands. ; Thus, at least, we are informed
by Sir Charles Forbes, a Highland laird,
writing to the Times, "that sheep-farms
are now becoming so valuable, that it will
pay our English sheep-farmers to hire
sheep at any time,' and' to pay for the re-
movel of all who stand in their way."
Well Timed. The Journal of Com
merce well remarks on the cause of fail
ure among merchants, when it says : -There
are causes nearer home which com
plicate the web of our prosperity far more
than the Turkish question, but these seem
to be overlooked, while undue importance
is given to the other. There may be war
between Russia and Turkey, and it is
possible that France and England may be
involved in .it; although we deem the
the last improbable, and the first quite
doubtful.
But if we could stand well at home
if merchants and merchant's clerk would
stop dabbling in stock and other specula
tions, outside of their regular business, if
young beginners and houses with limited
capital would confine them within the cir
cle which they could span with their own
means, keeping down their expenses, and
aping neither the style or manners of mil
lion aries in short, if business men gene
rally Would show a desire to develop some
other traits of character, than the one,
ambition for sudden wealth the saber and
the scymeter might clash on the borders
of Europe, without creating any excite
ment on this side of the Atlantic.
-! Alarming Increase of Poets. Some
scandalous critic says, the number of po- ?
ets, in the United States, is now estimated
at 5,023. Greece had only one. This - s
shows the fertility of our soil when pou
drette is added to it also, that the age is
"fast." ..Some credit, however, should be'
given to the increase and improvement of.
machinery, as there is much .'.'machine
poetry." What an awful quantity of raw .
material must there scriblers consume, in '
the matter of zephyrs, breezes, sunsets, :
morning dawns, skies, clouds , ; stars ,
moons, silver lights, sighs, tears, heart-, .,
ache, love, trees, grass, buds, flowers,
pretty maids, rustic swains, angels, lovely
women, ' fustians, gammon, balderdash, '
&c, &c, ' It is awful to think about. ; -v-
There is Miriam, . the daughter of out is no need for thee to-day, stranger,' ' said said he to one of the fathers whom he met
Progress in Texas.; Col. Wm. C. La
cy, of Texas, arrived in New York a few
days fince from Lundon, having succeed
ed in making negotiations with a disting
uished London banker, for the building o
the Galveston, Houston and Henderson
Railroad. The company was incorpora
ted by the Texas Legislature on the' 7th
of February last, ; and the survey of the
whole route was made and completeted by
Professor Forshay; last May.' "J
v A' Moral for Younj Ladies.
Listen," said 'I, "listen and attend,
and you shall have a moral and an exam
ple. When the wasp now in the window
entered the room,', you flew at it with a
kind of violence. I wonder it don't sting
every one of you. Now, in future, let a
wasp, when-it comes, have a little bout,
and make its little noise. : Don't stir a mus
cledon't move a lip but be as quiet as
the statute of Venus of Diana, or anybody
of that sort,' until the wasp seemsinclined
as at this moment, to settle. Whereupon,
dippling the feather end of th pen in the
cruet of salid oil, I approached the wasp,
and in the softest; and tenderest manner
possible, just oiled it upon the body thtfl
black and yellow, like grooms' waistcoats
when down it fell, turned black and was
dead in a minute. ' ,'f There girls," said I,
'see what kindness and a little oil does.-
Now,, here's, my moral and example.
When a husband comes home in an ill-hu
mor, don't cry out and fly at him; but try
a little oil in fact, treat your husband
like a wasp." ' '
The Retort Uncourteous. A small,
cosy party rccnently assembled at the Mill
creek : House, to celebrate a wedding.--Song,
joke and good humor abounded, and
ail went "merry as the bell," which inby
goncdays was considered indispensable for
the ushering in of so auspicious a day. In
the course of the evening, a lady, not over
stocked with that most assential requcsite
for feminine impudence beauty Mralkcd
into the parlor, and seating herself at the
piano, commenced fingering the instru
ment In a style calculated to impress the
assembled company with an ideaof its forte
qualities. A gentleman present, a biped
of the old-fashioned school one who had
never attended the lectures of Lucy Stone,
Mrs. Mott, or Harriet Hunt, and who al
ways supposed the "Rev. Antonette
Brown" to be a gentleman of the old cleri
cal faculty with a rather singularly-given
maner, drawing his chair close to the in
truder, gazed upon her with a countenance
upon which the elements of astonisnment,
inquiry and admiration Were most strong
ly depicted. After a while the cast her
eyes upon her unconscious observer, and
in a bold,d 1-may-care tone of voice a
tone, by the way, universally in vogue with
the strong:minded Amazons, exclaimed:
"Why do you stare at me? Is itbecause
I am so pretty?"
'No, madam." replied old matter-of-
fact; "it's becaus you're so d d impu
dent!" ' " , . '"'
EXTRAORDINVRV FIDELITY OF A DoG. ,
There is at Saratogo Springs a fine New
foundland dog that for the last year and a ; ,
half has watched the approach .and - de- j
parture of the railway cars from that place.
The animal was accidently left at Sarato
ga about eighteen months ago, and since
that time not a train has departed nor one '
arrived but what this devoted dog is in the
depot, anxiously and faithfully watching '
for his master. ' For eighteen long months -"
he hasnot failed to be on the ground. He '
examines every stranger . minutely, but
makes acquaintance with noone. No- .
body knows where he eats, sleeps or any I
thing further about him than that he has .
notfotmd his master yet Albany Trans- ,
crift. ' ... , . '
' Lieut. Colonel Mason, breveted from
Captain, for services in the Mexican war,
whoj5ed. in San Francisco on the 7th of '
September, was appointed by President;
Pierce to superintend the construction of ':
the fortification in that harbor. He was a'
native of Providence, R. I., and for a'
long time had the charge of constructing 1
the fortifications at Fort Adams, Newport, "
where he married a daughter of the late
S. F. Gardner. He
ability. .
was a
man of great
itiT Fifty; thousand ' dollars Worth of
stock mules horses, cattle, &c, was sold
on the streets of Georgetown, Ky.i on last
Monday; County Court day ' ' "
Great Feats in Diving. Among the
remarkable feats of diving lately perform
od at Bath, England, it is mentioned that
a seamen dived down with a pair of laced
boots on his fee ts and a pair of Welling
tons an3 carrvin? the laced boots. ; Yfm
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afterwards dived with a jacket and a pair
of trowsersin his hand dressed himself
while' under the water, and on return
ing to the surface took a; pipe filled with
tobacco from his pocket,struck a light and
smoked white floating1 on hisb&ekv
Apologies for Matrimont. - Many
strange apologies, says the author of ,'Sal- r
ad for the Solitary,'. have been urged . for.
marriage, Wilkes wedded to please his
friends. Goethe said he married to ..ob
tain a respectability. Wicherly,in his old
age; took his servant girl, to spite his re
lations. The Russians have astory of a
widow who was to inconsolable for. the ;
loss of her husband, that she took another
to keep from fretting herself to death, . '
Death of Gen. Childs, U. S. A. ;
Brevet Brigadier-General Thos. Childs, :
(in the line, Major of the First Regiment '
of Artillery,) died at Tampa Bay, Florida, '
on the Cth inst. , General Childs was
among the most distingushed officers of
our army. He served in the Mexican war
under General Scott, and received several
brevets for his gallantry . He was appoin-; r
ted Governor of Puebla after its capture
by our troops. ' " 1 . :
An Array of Orphans. The How--ard
Association of New Orleans, announ-
ces that they have now' about three hun-1
dred orphan children under their charge,
whose parents have fallen victims to the .
epidemic, and that the Association will ,
have a surplus of about 100,000 after set-
tling all their liabilities. .
A' Femalr Barber. Miss Caroline E.
Putnam, of Salem Mass., has announced
to the public, that she has adopted the pro
fession; of a barber, and. will .take the
beard off gentlemen's chias at the rate of
6 cents the xnujr,L
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