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""" To a Flight of Wild Geese.
From Mrs. Lydia Jane Prirsm's voluir
of Poems entitled “Forest Leaves.’*
ublishedhy Lindsay k Rlurkielon, Phi
• t ‘ tdelphia.
Dark wing’d courier# of the sky,
Riding on the stormy nir,
Shouting forth your clarion cry.
Winter comes, prepare! prepare!
Tell me, ye who ride the waves,
Ye vv ho breast the thunder storm
Issuing from the northern caves,
Saw ye winter’# icy form?
Time’s and sensons’ mystic hue,
How did ye, wild births, attain?
Which Astrologers of yore
Perill’d souls to find, in vain.
Read ye on the page of heaven
That which wandering planets write.
Are, by flaming metetns given,
Signals of your time of flight.
Or do spirit-voices come
From the night winds’ drifting car,
Whispering through yhit summer home
Of a lovelier land, afar?
Do yc on your mighty sails
Float majestically forth,
*' hen the cutrent of the gules
Rolls its billows from the North?
!'
Tel! me, Oh, ye lree, and strong,
Shouting thus upon the air,
Where y« love, and rear your young.
Where your summer dwellings are?
Lie they where some lucid lake
Looks to heaven with dimpling •mile#,
While its whispering wavelets break
Round the feet of fairy isles?
Rich with spirit-lnunted bowers
Where the languid south wind comes,
Dreaming through the noon'dnv hours
Cradled by the balmy blooms.
Where as soft as angelV dream*
Lie the lingering twilight hours,
And the moon’s pellucid beams
Steal like spirits through the bowets.
Where the richest grasses spread
Every where beneath your feet,
And the wild rice bends its head.
Offering a delicious treat.
Round.the islands of delight,
Fearless of the threat’ning gale,
'Thorn’d upon the ripples bright,
Did ye like fair galleys s>uT?
Traced y many a lovely shore
By the loot of man untrod,
Where the robe that Nature wore,
Was the handiwork of God?
Whither wing ye now your way ?
Will ye pass the wintry hours
Where the placid southern sea
Sighs along enchanted shores?
Beautiful, and wing’d with mig iul
Free as Freedom's mount on <>ind;
Heedless ye pursue your flight,
Leaving trace, nor voice behind.
INtaval Battles and Surviving
Naval Heroes.
War was declared in June, 1812._
Peace was signed at Ghent, December 24,
1814,and proclaimed by the President Feb.
19. 1815.
There were fifteen naval actions be
tween British and American vessels of wur.
In eleven battles, fought by single sni g,
the Americans conquered, in four only the
British triumphed; two of which were ht
single ships, viz:
Chesepenke, of 47 guns, taken by the
'shannon, 02; and the Argus, of 16 gun-,
taken by the Pelican, 20,
The other two captures were two one I
and four to one against us. During the
war there were captured from the British,
on the ocean, 3 frigates and 15 sloops of
war nnd smaller ships; and on the lakes
thirteen—several of them frigates and
sloops.
The whole number captured by the
Americans were 31. The British took
Irom us and destroyed at navy yards, but
23 armed vessels, viz:
Three frigates, Chesapeake, President
nnl Essex. 12 sloops and gun brigs, and 8
schooners
O he commanders who fongln the naval
h-itt i, there have died :
Decatur, who to k Hu Macedonian, Oct‘
3. 1812.
Hun bridge, who took the Javn, Dec. 29,
1S ! * •
.•» k nif i ea^ocK, f eu.
1813
l;'‘rr""s wlm took the Boxer, Sept.
1811
B kelv, who took the Reindeer, June,
1811;—uad also the Avon, September,
1814.
Com. Perry, of the Lawrence; Almy, o?
the Somers; Conklin of the Tigress; Se
nut',of t|i« Porcupine, of Coni. I’err\’s
tiedrod.
Mncdonoogb, of the Sara toga; and Hen
ry, **f the Ligte, uf tfv.u. »
squadron, that captured the four Bri
tish vessels on Uke Champlain, Sept. 11,
1814.
Allen, of the Argus, taken by the Peli
ran, 1813.
Com. Isaac Hu!! who took the Guer
riere, Augua', 1*12, who died in January,
1844
Darid Porter, who took the Alert, Aug
1812, and fought the ships Phoebe and
('hrrub at Valparaiso in 1814, died at Con
•Ununople in 1844, and waslmrsed at the
foot of tha flagstaff at the navy yard, Phila
delphia.
The Surviving .Xava/ Commanders in ,
the last war who achieved victories—
are:
Jacob Jone«, w|m took the Frolic in
1814. i
Lewis IVart mg ton, who t »>k the Eper .
vier in 1814.
Charles Slew si I, who look the l.e i
vant and Cyaiie, wiih the Constitution.
in 1815.
Jesso I), h it »it, win c un:mn.!«i the
Niagara in Petry's t ictory.
Ikiniel Turner, who commatided tin I
Scorpion
Stephen Cassin, of the Ticonderoga, in
Maodonmigli's victors.
How He Won Her.
We bo|ie th*> moral of th* billow mg sketch
will he prou ictne of nni« h go-al. Y>>ong
men who are ambitious of success iu th<
matnmenial line, should study wed the
grsnd aeciet. Our friend who furnish'd
the sketch says he sees no reason why it
should not be true.
A young lady ef eccentric chancier, but
of rare menial endowment* and extraonli*
nary personal attractions, had fne suitor*
equally assiduous in their attention. Un
able to decide upon whtcb she would be |
■tow her band, the gave them notice loj
call upon her at a certain hour on a staled
day, and each state hi* claim* in the pre
*eucr ot the ether*.
At the appointed lime the lovers arrived.
Four of them were confident of succea*,
the fifth had a downcast look, nod sighed
w hen he looked upon the object el bis de- ,
votinn.
•fJentleinen,’aaid she, *vou hvjra honored
me with proposals of marriage. I have,1
as yet, neither refuted nor accepted any ot \
|y.nu. I now desire that ea-h one of you
will stateyour claims lo my hand, in order
that I may know upon what grounds I mav
he justified in bestowing it.’
A. answered as follows—‘if you marry
me you shall live in a splendid house, have
servants and carriages at your command,
and enjoy all the luxuries of fashionable life
l am rich ’
B. spoke ^xt—‘My rival has said very
tviilv that he »s rich, and he offers you a
strong inducement; but lam of noble des
cent. My grandfather was a duke, and si.
though not w ealthy, I am of a family with
whom an alliance would be considered
on honor by the wealthiest heiress in the
land.’
C. staled his claims thus—‘I am a politi
sian, and have now a reputation that older
men have envied. Next year I shall run
for Congress, and I have no doubt of suc
cess. By marrying me your name may be
landed down to posterity.’
D. twisted his moustache with an air of
in exquisite, and said ‘Angelic creature!’
Pon my soul I think you have already
made up your mind in my favor. You know
low damnably I’m admired. Who is the
most fashionable dresser in town ? Who
requents the most fashionable places?—
IVho rides the finest horses? "ho is the
Incst judge of the Opera? Rumor says
D , but ’pon honor I’m too modest to insist
upon it.’
When it came toE’s time to speak, there
wasapause. All eyes turned lowardshim.
Poor fellow! he was dreadfully embar
rassed. .
•Well.’said tlie beauty, -what sav you,
Mr. E?’
Alas, was the reply, <1 yield to these
gcniic'iiuii. I .icy nave Uie advantage ol
me in every respect.’ And he took Ins hat
o leave.
‘Stop,’ said the lady ‘make your state
nent, no tinner how humbly may he your
daims.’
‘I uni poor’— .
‘Go on.’
‘I am not of a noble family’—
‘Go on sir.’
‘I am unknown to the world’—
‘No matter; proceed.”
‘I have neither the taste nor the means to
Iress fashionably. I «ork for my liveli
hood. It is hardly possible that 1 can make
you happy, for I can offer you none
f the inducements held out by my
rivals.’
‘I am to judgo of that sir—what
next ?’
‘Nothing, only 1 love you, and take a
nm'pape-!'
At this Messrs. ABC and D burst out
into a loud laugh, and exclaimed in one
voice—‘So do we!—I love you to dis
traction!—and 1 take four papers—ha!
|a! ha!
‘Silence,’ said the lady, ‘in one month
you shall have my answer. You may all
withdraw.’
At the end of the month the five suitors
appeared. Turning to each in succession
die lady thus answered:
‘Richess are not productive of happi
ness
‘Boasted nobility of blood is the poorest
'•fall recommendations.’ ‘Fnme is fleet
_1 _I at_l a . .
"hi iiia mu me UUlWUrU
vpesranre of a gen'U-mean is to he pi
tied,’
•I hire liken the trouble to find out the
name of the newspapers to which you all
subscribe, and I have ascertained that ncne
•i you. who have boasted of wealth, nobili
tr , fume and f shorn, have paid the printer.
Nor*, gen..e uen, this is dishoneit. I esn
uot in k of manyiiig a man who could be
mlty of a dishonest act. I have learned
that Mr. E. not only aubscribcsfor a paper,
but payi the printer /’
* I herefure, l aay, lie is the msn. I give
him my h»nd with the full conviction that
lie is one who is every way calc dated to
make me happy.’ •
Need we extend our narrative? The
disappointed gentlemen d.nappeared quite
mddenly; and the lucky suitor was united
to the object of his devotion; and in a few
rears, by his honssty and industry, be.
nme, not only a distinguished, but a
wealthy man, and wnseatee'oel b all who
(new him. Young men, he paid the printerf
Is there not moral in this?
Female Patriotism.
The Queen of Gatnere after having de
fended tjve fortresses against the foe, sh
retreated to her last stronghold, on I hi
[ Nerbudda, and had scarcely left the bark
when ihe assailants arrived in pursuit.—
I he disheartened delenders were few it
number, and 'he fortress was soon in pos
session of the foe. The beauty of the
Queen was an allurement only seconder}
to his desire for he: country and he iuvi
ted her to reign over it and bun. Denial
would have been useless, and would have
subjected her in .aslant coercion. f..r the
Khan awaited her reply in die lull below;
she theref ire sent a message of ussent,
and demanded two hours for unmolested
preparation, that she might appear in n|>
propriate attire.
Ceremonials on a scale of magnificence
equal to the shortness of the time, Was go
ing on; the song of joy had already stifled
the discordant voice of war, and at length
Ihe Khan was summoned to the terrace._
Robed in the marriage garb presented to
aim by the Queen, he hastened to obey the
mandate, and found that fame had done
justice to her charms. He was deshed to
»e seated, and in conversation full of rap.
ture on his side, hours were as minutes
is he gnzed on the beauty of the Queen.—
But presently his countenance fell—lie
complained of heat, punkas and water
were brought but they availed him not,and
tie began to tear the bridal garments from
liis frame, when the queen addressed him.
'Know, Khan, that your last hour is come;
our wedding and our death shall be sealed
together. The vestments which cover,
you are poisoned;you had left me ro other
expedient to escape pollution.” While all
were horror struck by the declaration, she
sprung from the battlements into the flood
beneath.
New Yoikaflordss'.rangesightsand
founds. We think we see the repor
ter for (he Morninw Ni.ni
thoroughfare, Chatham street, and
having his steps arrested by a crowd
of hoys pressing round a tall fellow
with a big show-boxon the side-walk.
In revenge for the interruption, the
reporter for the News thus shows up
the showman:
“Valk up! Indish and shintlemens,
and you sail see vat you sail sec, and
all for two pennish.
“ Indish box 1 has,mit moosh 'ruble,
all de citish and toonsh in He known
world, and I shall take you io dt.m all
mil moosh pleasure.
“Only two pennish de pas-age! now
who sail look? Who vill give two
pennish to see the grand panoramer of
de great mashers?
“Shtand cleer, dere, boys, as I sail
show de shentlemens all de bootiful
citish and loownishvot i gives for two
pennish'.
“ Dish, sir, is te citish of Toledo, in
Spain; you sees him mil all de grand
spires, and de sun shining on der roof
and vinders mil de clocks on de s!ep
lish, striking de midnight hours.
u rv^k ,,k .1 „ t-i.„k s, ru....
main, on de reever Rhine. Di-hish de
Church vat Si. Judasli preached in ven
he vas in Chermany looking after
Pontiush Pilate’s vife, vat runs avay
mit his hag of dollash. If you sail open
de door you sail see de dust vat he
shook off" hish veet ven he Auldn’l vind
her.
“Dish isde citishof Queen Victoria,
in Portugal?, and, if you sail look long
enuf, you sail see de bootiful Queen
herself, coming round de corner.
“ Dish is de citish of Dublins, in de
kingdom of Ireland, and dere you sail
see all de purty damsels down by de
reever washing dere shirts so dey sail
be cleans to-morrow. I was in Dub
lins myself ven it vas done, and dere I
sees DanyelcO’Con ne I?, de great ad ju
tant of de realms, mit his vife, and—”
“ Sure, honey, and is it O’Connell
yer nfther showing? Thin, be the
powers, ye must let me look, for the
divil a peeper have I put upon his
iligant futures since I left swate Ire
land. Here, take the c.int, and let m
- sae the grate repaler.”
5 “Two pennish—I hash no half pri
■ ci«h, and you sail not see de great c
' funnels now, vor he ish taking hi
vi,key mit Prince Albert and deDool
' ov Vellington, in the porter housl
vat is on de hacks!) of de pieter!
So Talk up! valk up, ladish am
•hentlemans, and see de grand pano'
ramer of de universal vorlds! It ii
p tter as goodsh, v*r you sail look al
all the elegant vomans, so long as you
sail ph ase, and dey ‘sail never stir
von voots, and all de animals and
Ireesh^and belle dogs sail never move
vile you sail ,quim,h so long vou like.
Reader, do you think you have look
ed through a magnifying glass within
the the last five minutes?
From the iV, Y! Spirit of the Times.
Ance Veasy’s Fight wtth Reub.
^Sessions.
“Are you in favor of Biennial Sessions
of the Legislature?’’asked a manager of an
election in Alabama of a voter.
“Who?” says the voter, whose name
__ a_ vr , ...
uiiu wimai tolerably
green.
“Are you in favor of Biennial Sessions
of the Legislature, sir?”
“Biennial Sessions! i don’t know Iran
is he any kin to Rtub. Sessions, sir? Ef
he is, I’ll be d-d ef you ketch me a vo
I in’ for him! You never liearn me tell about
that file I bad long wid Reub. Sessions, up
.in Shelby—did you?"’
“Never mind your fights now, Mr, Vea
sy;—answer, year or nay.”
“I dos’ent know what you mean by
your ya na’«; but I’ll be dod rotted ef I
vote for enny uv the Sessions family, no
how you can fix it! Bah! Bennfa* Ses
sions, indeed!—jest as much fit for Guv
nur ns h—11 is for a ice'house!’
I ‘Are von ill Javpyof the removal of the
‘Well I wonder ef tha is ’gwine to move
the State House agin? Why, they mov
ed it two or three years ago to Wetump
ka. I don’t see no use uv that movin’ it
enny more; 1 thick it’s in a very good
place myself—I does them, punkins!’
‘You are thinking of the penitentiary,
Mr. Veasy. It’s the State House they
w ish to move.’
‘Well, it aint nothin’ too me whether
tha move itor not; so I won’t vote for it
nor Bennial Sessions nuttier.
Several now jircsed irmil Ance, to
get him to tell about his tight with Rueb.
Sessions, up in Shelby. He sa>d he
would come to these terms: they were to
give him a good drink of whiskey, and he
was to give them the story. They agreed
to it ahd gave him the whiskey, and he
commenced:—
‘You see a passe! uv us fellers made up
a camp hunt botwixt us, and Rueb. he
went with us, but he never tuck no gun,
knse he was so infurnal lazy that he
wouldn't even take a stand and watch fur
deer. He jest went aluug to eat wenzon
ana ncip me ie:iera cook, wen, me nrsi
evenin’ we were out we killed araite^find
tow head deer, and we fotch linn in and
cooked wun quarter tor supper. llueb.
ett ’bout half uv that qurter; and arter we
went sleep,’bout midnite I got awake and
razed up, and thar wa9 Reub. eatin’ away
lik<‘ lie was paid fur it. I never sed nnth
in’, but laid down went to sleep; an’ ’bout
daylite I waked up and begun to get red
dy too go out and kill sum game, and
I’ll be darned ef Rcul wuzn’t eatin' a-i
way still—or rather, pickin’the hones, for
he had ett np ah the hole deer, an’ was
pickin’ the bones! ‘Git up, you holler*
legged, pot'gulted, turkey*buzzjrd!’ sez I,
an’ make tracks fur home jest as fast a* you
kin poot wun leg afore the tuther!' and I
tuck the feller side uv the head wuh my
fist, and sorter turned him over, hut he
got up p y soon and dun sum uv the tal
lest kind uv walkin’ fur home.
‘About two or three weeks arter that
hunt, we was all at Simmon’s Grocery, o.i
the the Montevallo road, an* I wuz idlin'
the fellers V>u Reub's. eitin’ a h e tow
deer an’ nawin’ the bones besides, an’ the
feller got rite ashy, hot I diJh’l mind him
nor never paid no attention to him, Mil
he bucked up to me an’ give nte • lecler
' Jri,e u,?der the ear, ml* I tell y„ it made ,ne
kinder dizzy. Wen he gin me the f.i*t
. lick ii made mesorter mad, but I wouldn’t
’ 8 minded ef he had’ot kept pilm’on the
t nS,)nJ ’bout my ears and smelier. When
. I did git my AorfCaroliner up, the way
i I pitched it in to him was a caution to
mules. We fit round an’round,’bout the
barrels an’ boxes ’bout half ao hour,
when 1 got his head under my arm an’ I
made him squeal immediantly, but I wuzn’l
gwire to let him off without givin’ him
sumthin’ to ’member Ance Veasy by, an’
I tell you fellers, J nattily peeled the skin
off his face an’ then turned him loose!—
He tuck up his hat, an’ when I sorter
turned my back to him, he picked up an
old axe helve an’gin me a wipe aside the
hed that laid me cole fur awhile, I tell
you. But I picked myse! up and started
sorter arter him, but he was on his boss
an’fast Banishin’out uv site over the hiU.
‘ Phe sheriff cum an’tuck me tip an’
tride me furtryin’ to kill, but he foun’ me
requitted, and let me loose, coz I gin my*
self up. But Reub., be run away kase he
thort he’d killed me, an’ staved away two
or three months; but when he heerd as
how I wuzn’t ded, he cum back an’the
sheriff nabbed him an’ carried him to the
_S . ' V /» a - _
— «.i wicu uir sail atr batter an7
murder with intent lo kill. Tha iound
him requitted of murder, but tha found
him guily Uv salt and batter. I didn’t see
enny salt in the fite, but thar wuz sum
batterin’ done, but I dun all the batterin’
myself, except wot he dun with the axe
helve. I don’t think the feller wot tride
dun fair hy him, kase tha kused him uv
tackin, me with pistols an’ knives, but thar
wuzn’t narry pistol nor knife on the ground
at the time. Enny how, the Judge sayshe
‘Mr. Sessions the jury has found you
guilty uv salt an’batter, an’you must go
to jail fur wttn month an’ pay twenty-five
dollars besides.’
‘1 don t keer ef you make it two months
hy --!’ says Reub.
swiSiiii *«i ^- • ~~ .»
‘I don’t keer ef you make it twenty dol
lars, by-■/’ says Reub.
‘Fine him twenty dollars and three
months imprisonment, Mr. sheriff,’ says
the Judge.
‘That made Reub stop cussin’ in the
cort-house an’ the sheriff tuck him off too
jail an’ locked him up, an’ he had to stay
thar four months by himself.
‘I had a fite wunst over on the Cahaw
ba river, with a Tennessee wagoner’s dog
—but did you ever hear me tell ’bout it»
but never mind now, I’m cilten m-t* y dry,
an’I have too wate until I git a nutlier
horn, an’ I don’t keer who pays for it, so I
don’t.’
A Noble J etv.
The London Athenseum records the de
base of a wealthy Hebrew named Mau
rice Zedekauer, who die i lately at Prague
the capital of Bohemia, Germany, and who
made his princely fortune hy his own toil,
and bequeathed it nobly. Fifty years
since, it states that M. Zedekaur came
penniless to Prague, hut he died leaving
hemnd him a fortune of aeven millions of
| florin*— £700,OJ ). In his life tune he
devoted the larger part of his revenues to
the encourage eot ot science, and nation
al industry, and to the relief of the indi
ffpnt, without distinction ot religion or
| rare; and by his will, he has bequeathed
| three millions of florins—£300,000 among
| benevolent institions of all the principal
\ cities ot Buhemia. He was followed to the
■ center ry ufhi« nation hy men of all ranks
ana Dene .•»—me poor, of o.iirse, the civil
and military authoritic s of the cupia!,all
I itsdi-uinguished men. and it is very pleas
, ant to add, many eleTymen of various
j Christian sects. Evetyv here, sa\s the
• A hrnaeum, the spirit la p ng into dis*
j honor which would once have “spit upon
the Jevi.h gaberdine,’ or trample.' on the
Jewish ga « ine,’ or tramp.ed the gr.va
(>fa manlike this
Irith EvuUmrt.— V\ hat p-.-Tou between
you and ih« pnaurerf* sail a Judge loan
I Irish witness.
‘Oh! titan, p case your worship, | act a
i Mike a top of the garden wall; •Pn,’Mva
he; ‘what,’soya I; ‘here,‘say. he; ‘Where’
s»ya 1; ‘whiat,’ any. be; *hueh,’ says l;end
that’s all I know steal ti, please yow m-t .
^tip.’