Lower Sandusky freeman., March 03, 1849, Image 1

About Lower Sandusky freeman. (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]) 1849-1849

Image provided by: Ohio History Connection, Columbus, OH

                
an
77 TIN
Si II
iitfiii
VOLUME I.
LOWER SANDUSKY, MARCH 3, 1849.
NUMBER 2.
. r-
TERMS.
rsymentin adTance.... ;2,00
Do. within six months.... ............... 2,25
- Do. - after the expiration ef six month.... ..2,50
A laiiaret noiiiy uaol adesir todiscontiaue, launder
ttood as wishing to contioue the subscription, and the pa
per will bo eentaecordingly, but all orders to discontinue,
whea arrears ar paid, 'will be faithfully attended to.
Law of Newipapen. :
1. Subscriber who do not (five express notice to the
contrary, are oonaiaerea as wistuug to contuiae Uieirsub
crtptioes.
3. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their pa
pen, the publiaher roav continue to aend them until all
arrearages are paid.
3. If subscriber neglect or refuse to take theirpaoera
from the omce to which thv are directed, they are held
responsible till they aettle their bill and order their papers
discontinued.- -
V If subscriber remove to other places, without in
forming the publisher, and the panens aent to the form
er direction. theT are held responsible. -. ,
5. The conns hare decided that refusing to take a
newspaper or periodical from the office, or removing and
leaving- it uncalled fori is prima facie evidence of luten
tional fraud. . '
How to stop a rAFER. First see that too have paid
for K up to the time yea wish it to stop; notify the post
master of yonr desire, and ask himto notify the publisher
qder nia irana, as lie is authorized to dol ot son wish
discontinue. - ..-
Bnsinrss Directum.
COUNTY AND TOWNSHIP OFFICERS.
i ; ) Eleazer. Baldwin, Woodville,
Commissioners. V John L. Gardner, York, ,
f,s ." ; . ) Hiram Ilurd,. Creen Creek.
' Aitdiiot 'Homer Everett, Office Court House.
Treasurer- Oliver Mclntyre, . r 1 do. ,
Jlecorder Benjamin F Fletcher, - da.
Iroecvling Attorney- J. L. Greene, do. .
' ierif James Parka, v . 4- . da - V. . L -
:Poor House . ? Reed, Washington,
" rt ' - r ') Franklin Gale, Green Creek,
COCRT OF COMMON PLEA&
President Judge ion. EbenezerB. iSaddler, San
. dusky city. ' ' '.' .. '
i "5- - . ) Hon. A. Mclntyre, Townsend,
Associate . Judges Hon. J. S. Olmsted, Sandusky,
,. 'fZ r ) Hon. F. Chapman. Bellvue. .
Clerk -La Q. Rawson, Office Court House.
Master in Chancery Ralph P. Buckland, Office
. Tyler's block. .. - .? ."'."
Commissioner of Insolvents 'Chester Engerton,
.-. Office Court .flbuse. , ' , V- -
y JUSTICES OF. THE PEACE. 1
' ' ; ;, 'r- , V John Fell, office over Eddy's store
Sandusky Tp.- John L. Greene, office Co'rt House
- " ) David Engler. . ' ".
TiallvilleJblin Moon and Jonas'fenntli.'.;''
Green Creek Amos Fenn and Wmi H. Gale. - -Washington
John Beery and James Ron. ' '.- '
Riley Levi F.Tuttleand Wm. 1L. Reynolds. .
York Wm. S. Russell and Abram P. Ferris. -TownscndS.
AJ Mclntyre and A. BLindsey.
. Woodville Im JL Seaman and G. Baker. '
Scott James A. Firher and Daniel Baker. r
Madison Jeremiah N. King and N. O. Berts." f
Rice Ephraim Walters and David Olinger.
CORPORATION OFFICERS. .
ATayor Lysander C. Ball. ;'-,;;"'
Recorder- Francis CBelV' ' -"' J -
Couaeilmen John R' Pease, Jesse S. " Olmsted,
Jonathan Bull, Christopher Doncyson & L Sharp.
Timet efkolding Court ia the 13A Circuit, 1849.
Sandttslj( March 26, June 11, October 1st.
.We-H-March 19, May 21, October 1st
Huron March 12, June 5, September 18.
TTW April 2, October 23. , . . -
Ottawa May I.September 10. -. , .
Iaico i .. ., . ;
1849. -V - . , US49.
C. It. Mc CriiliOCHA; CO., :y
' .. 'BBAI.KRS IW V" V"?' ' ' ' '? ';
DRUGS. MEDICINES. PAINTS, DTESTl'FFS,
BOOKS. STATIONARY, Stc.)
Xower Sandusky, Ohio.
." " me csLtocai. : p bo. bdt.
1849. .. - ;-r, -' -4f 1849.
' . GEORGE BURT & CO.,
CO MM I SS I O N MERCHANTS ,
.V;;". "rJi;'.-' -.AW .lUS' V.. :ri v '''. I,
Arbeat, Flour, Salt, Slieei Pel:, Ac. '
, IXWER SAKDUSKT, OHIO. .
Citonoit tobtJ ; - - . c - sic cctlloch.
: RALFU P. BUCKLAJTD,
' a TTORNET and Counsellor at law and Solicitor
J in Chancery, will attend to professional business in
j5 twxiosK Y ana Anjoininjf coaniif. - -
r T Orvicv. Second iiory of Tyler's Biock.
" , JOHX L. GBEEXE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW and Proeecorting Attorney
for Sanduakr conntr. Ohio, will attend to nil pro-
i feaaional business entrusted to bis eare with promptness
and fidelity. " ' .. - -..-
CT Orica at the Court House.-"
.,, CHestER CDGERTON, -Attorney
and Counsellor at Law,
, AK 80UCITOB IS CHAKCKBT. '
WILL attend to the business of bis profession, in
Ssudnskv and the adjoining counties. .
, Particular attention paid to administration business,
rencies, collections, iStc. ICTOf&ce in the court-horse.
rand,
o
.PHYSICIANS
AND SURGEONS
, T ESPECTFULLY tender their professional services
L, to the citizens of Lower Bandosfcy and vicinity.
umee opposite the store of Kendall and Mime. -
.rf DOCTOR- J. CHAMBERLIN, ...
- Botani c Physician,
TENDERS "his professional services to the citiiens
of Lower Sandnsky and vicinity - From several
Years experience, be flatters himself that he has become
thoroughly acquainted with the diseases incident to this
Climate, and Hopes to merit portion 01 poouc patronage
' He resides in the house owned, and lately occupied b'
' W. W. Ainger, and keeps office iu the brick building
Opposite David Deal's at one of which places he will be
found stall seasonable hours, Unless absent on professional
business.
April 29th, 1848. - - - '
17ole Good have fell! and some
v Y groat bargains may now he had in broadcloths,
eassimeresaad sattioftls, at the Farmer's Cheap store,
- - , - Ci J. PETTIBOfliE.
MUFFS! MUFFS'.: .T.t
for sale cheap, by C J. CAA
received and
CAMPBELL. & Co,
Veo 2J, 1043.
ot tr'j..
- O" Tlie following beautiful lines are truly and physio
logically appiopriatet
V: PCRE AIR.
Throw open your window, and fasten it there!
Fling the curtain aside and the blind,
- And give a pure entrance to Heaven's pure air
Tis the life and the health of mankind.
Are you fond of coughs, colds, dyspepsia end rheums?
Of head-achee, aud fevers, and chills?
Of bitters, hot drops, and fumea?
And bleeding, and blisters, snd pills? -
Then shntyoureelf up likea monk in his cave,
1 ill nature grows weary and sad,
And imagine yourself on the brink of the grave,
Where nothing is cheerful and glad.
Be sore, when you sleep, all air is shut oat; .
Place, too, a warm brick at your feet,
Wrap a bandage of flannel your neck quick abont.
And cover your head with a sheet.
But would you avoid the dark gloom of disease?
Then haste to the fresh open air,
- Where your cheek may kindly be fan'd by its breeze,
'Twill make you well, happy and fair. .
O, price not this lightly, so precious a thing,
Tie laden with gladness and wealth,
- The ncheat of blessings that heaven can bring.
The bright panacea of health. , "
Then open the window, and fasten it there! .
- Fling the aerlaio aside, and the blind,
And give a tree entrance to Heaven, s pur air,
'Tut the light, life and joy of mankind.
ill is tUaneons.
LOVE IN A STAGE COACH.
BY AN OLD BACHELOR.
How it poured ! Rattle rattle rattle against
the casement Splash splash on the ground un
derneath all night, and now when I awoke, here it
was raining away harder than ever, as if a second
deluge was at hand. Confound that breakfast belL
1 do wish there was no such thing as a breakfast
bell on a rainy morning, for then one might lie
abed all day, or until the storm cleared off, Phi
losophers tells ns that rain is necessary for the
economy of nature--4t may be true, though I nev
er trouble myself about such a thing; but if so,
men ought to be made like- dormice to sleep on in
a semi-animated state, until the rain sees fit to
cease. JNature never intended us to be out in a
shower, or we would have been born with patent
oil cloth or Indian rubber skins. ,
Down it poured! What on earth was to
do ? - The day before had been the brightest one
of the month of May, and as I hadpassion for
walking m the country more loci "t ! -I had
trugged away off here, eight miles jjSd more from
town, to see a country wedding, er the good
orders used among friends.".. I mustiay that the
thing, was very handsomely done, and that I was
much edified thereat--so much -Ethat one of
these days, I shall perhaps tell how the parties de
ported themselves, how many new hats there were
in the wedding companies, who. dro the finest
horses, and all the other matters of iTfesip so inter
esting to young misses and old bachelors like my
self. The day passed off with a briht blue sky,
until towards dusk, when a thunder-shower came
up, that lasted until bed time ; but I retired, fully
resolved that the morning would see a clear sky
overhead.- But morning came, and here it was,
pouring, pouring down, in one dark, splashy, contin
uous stream, for all the world like an old maid's
objurgations when her tongue gets wagging!
Down 1 hurried to the breakfast table. I had
just buttered my - bread and was swallowing the
tarst moutbtul of cottee, when the horn ot the
ooach to town was heard, and looking out' of the
window, I saw the vehicle, with its four smoking
horses dashing down the turnpike. .. It was- my
only chance to reach the city that day. I bolted
my bread, gulped down the coffee till my throat
was scalded, jammed my hat on my heal, and
made, a dive through the door. The driver did
not see me, but cracked his whip with a flourish
and went on. I shouted. Still the old villain did not
notice we, but with another flourish of his whip, set
bia four-in-hand into a brisker trot and rattled
down the hill. Desperate with the fear of being
left, I pitched after him, spattering the mud around
at every step, and shouting at the top of my lungs
but 1 might have shouted and run on till dooms
day, had not a passenger seen me and stopped the
deaf old sinner. (Jut of breath, wet to the skin,
covered with mud from head to foot, and not in
the best humor from the loss of my breakfast, I
mounted into the coach ; but the instant I placed
my foot inside the vehicle all my sulkiness vanish
ed, for there sat the only passenger - besides my
self one of the lovliest angels that ever blessed
an old ricbety coach, or warmed the soul of a sour,
breakfastless bachelor, with her presence. ,
Did you ever Jail in love 7 Of course. And
the lady was the lovliest of her sex ? To be sure.
Then this stage coach beauty was twice as hand
some as your sweet-heart, and if so, after this, you
don t think my fellow passenger a cherub, then I
give up all hope of making you appreciate her.
Such eves, such teeth, and then such lips ! eged,
it almost makes me crazy to think of them. I put
myself down for the luckiest, dog in the world.
she was dressed in a plain straw cottage bonnet,
with a green veil "just snch a costume," said I,
as a recti lady wears when traveling " and then
she gave me such a sweet but half roguish smile,
as I tumble into the coach, in the plight I have de
senbed, that 1 knew her at once to be a paragon in
tbe way ot education, taste, fortune, and all that ; 1
resolved what knowing one would'nt; to make
the agreeable on-hand, for there s nothing like
meeting an heiress in a stage coach, where she
thinks she s unknown, and dreams that every at
tention paid to her springs from pure love ; ahem
your part.
I was in clover. What cared 1 for rain. Splash
splash splash, aye! rain away there like blazes
who cares ? One does not get tete-a-tete with a
pretty girl every day in the week so 7" determin
ed to make tbe most of it
" The storm without might rare and rustle,
Tom did na mind the alorm a whistle."
And, faith, what with a few silly compliments,
and my extraordinary good looks, I soon got as cozy
with my unknown beauty, and she with me, as if
we bad been acquainted since the days ot JNoah.
We talked of the wedding, for she too had been
there of the scenery, of the rain and of what
ever came upermost; and there was such a charm
ing frankness in all she said that I really thought
her the most winning little witch I had ever seen,
and I verily believe if the floor had been softer or
1 had known the accurate number
er of houses to
which I would be tenant in courtesy, I should
have gone on my Knees to her at once. 1 hate
showing one's learning off in public, so I avoided
anything like literature, though I saw by the intel
ligent eyes of my charmer that she had a soul
alive to the finer sensibilities of nature. At length
we got on the subject of house-keeping. ' Now, if
there's anything I hate it's a woman that can't
keep house, and I trembled at every word least my
angel should confess her ignorance of these mat
ters. Shade of Apicus ! how my 'heart leaped
when she told that hardly a day passed in which
she did'nt make bread, or pies, or sponge cake, or
some other of those shimshaws that delight the
heart of man; and when, in expatiating on such
delicacies, she rose to a pitch of eloquence that I
never heard surpassed, I conld'nt resist my feelings,
but snatched her hand to my lips and kissed it
Yes ! I felt that she was destined to be mine ; for
if there' enything a wife ought to know, it is this.
I came of a race-of eaters. My grandfather has
lunched on a half dozen rabits, and died at last of
a surfeit produced by eating two young pigs. My
father can break his last on a brace ot capons, or
devour a pair of turkeys without having to pick his
teeth; and the way a brother of mine can tuck in
the hundreds of pickled oysters and dishes of
chicken salad, does credit to the family. My Awn
exploits in that line modesty forbids me to mention.
No wonder I loved this rosy little beauty who
could get up such a choice fry, and bake such de
licious cakes. Ah ! what a life of domestic happi
ness rose before my vision, when I pictured myself
returning home from court at night, to meet a beef
steak ready broiled, or a bowl of the richest turtle
soup served up by the fair hand of the angel at my
side. I resolved, if there was virtue in a pair of
whiskers, in an elegant tongue, or in my blue coat
to win the seraph of pie-bakers.
There's no place like a stage coach for making
love. It comes natural. You do it eged, in a sort
of easy don't-care-for-ahy-thing style, that yon
can't for the life of you, assume in any other place.
What betwixt sitting on the same seat to talk more
conveniantly, and putting your arm around her
waist to keep her from jolting off, you soon get to
be wonderfully cozy, and ten to one if you don't
catch yourself squeezing, or varying the entertain
ments in some other way, before you're aware of
it For my part as I have said, I was ready to
surrender at discretion, and I already fancied my
self lightening the dear creature beside me of the
troublesome duty of collecting the rents of her
various fine houses. I was charmed to think of
the progress I had made in her affections. What
a delicately rosy cheek it was that I had just then
slyly kissed, she blushed the deeper from my
warmth. And then her saucy pouting lips, and
then her figure, just the very size for a man who
hated your thin, weasel-shaped young misses, as
he hated epidemics. AhLwhat a wife she would
make. How I thanked my stars that I had hith
erto set my face like a flint against every tempta
tion to marry, for now my firmness was to be re
warded by this beauty and heiress dropping into
my mouth. And then 1 preached to myseii a
mental homily on the short-sightedness of man, as
I ventured to steal another kiss from the conscious
and blushing little angel by my side. I was just
about to pop the question itself, when the ooach
stopped, and the driver descended and opened the
door. My charmer arose. 1 was taken all aback.
" Yes," said she, " I see Mr. Powell is waiting
for me.:' -
" Mr. Powell," said I, for that was the name of
a friend of mine from the - turnpike ; do you live
with him ? Parhaps you are a relative ! Strange,
I muttered to myself I never heard him speak of
this charming creature.
Before 1 could answer, if owell approached, and
while he hailed me, my fellow passenger sprank to
the ground as if by magic, and the next minute
was in my menu s vemcie.
" For heaven's sake," said 1, halt mad that the
hearty grip of Powell prevented me from hasten
ing to his ward's assistance, " who is that angel ?
Is she a relative, a ward, or what ? - I'm dying for
love of her!
Powell burst into a laugh, and laughed untill the
tears came into his eyes. Confound the fellow,
what did he mean ! I began to look angry. :
" Come my dear boy," he said, " don t get into
a passion, but consider bow odd it is that you, of
all men, should tall m love with my cook!"
I never make acquaintances in a stage coach,
until I have exchanged cards.
THE KING OF THE ARTIC OCEAN.
The following copied from the Honolulu Friend
for November last will remind many readers of J.
N. Reynolds' capital whaling story published sev
eral years ago of the pursuit and capture of Mo
cha iJick, a monstrous, oia, wnue-neaaea wnaie,
well known to the Pocific whalemen : -
"Oh ! the rare old whale, 'mid storm and gale,
In his ocean home will be ;
A giant in might where might is right '
And king of the boundless sea." .
Captain Roys, of the Superior, makes a report
which is confirmed by his ship's company, that
while cruising in the Artie Ocean, they discovered
a huge whale, which they were confident was too
large for them to "cut in with a vessel ot the size
of the Superior. All agree in asserting that it was
the largest whale they ever saw, and it it had been
taken must have yielded more than 300 barrels of
oil. It was not through fear for themselves, but
the "whaling gear" of the vessel, that they allowed
the king dt the Artie ucean quietly to noia on nis
way 1 THis kingship may congratulate himself upon
his good fortune, it he escapes another season !
"A wondrous tale could the rare old whale
Of the mighty deep disclose, - -
Of the skeleton forms of by-gone storms,
And of the treasures that no one knows.
Oh! the whale is free, of the boundless ae
He lives for a thousand years ;
He sinks to rest on the billows breast
Nor the roughest tempest fears.
The howling blast as it hurries past,
Is music to lull him to sleep ;
' And he scatters the spray in his boisterous play,
As he dashes 'the king ot the deep."
. We seek advice from others, oftentimes, not be
cause we do not know what we ought to do, but be
cause we do know and wc seek in our advisers
help for a weak will Kitcher.
. i - . INDIAN INCIDENTS. . .
A pair of incidents have come to our knowledge
respecting the Chippewa Indians, now sojourning in
the city, which are so characteristic of the race that
we cannot refrain from presenting them to our
readers: . , -. : 'v'--w.-
i The first of these has reference to one of the wo-
Lrnen whose name is Pam-ma-icay ge-one-no-yua, or
fWoman of the. Murmuring Stream.. She is the
wife of the orator of the party, and, when she left
lake Superior in October last she brought along her
only infant aged about six months. ' On the arrival
of the party m Philadelphia th child was suddenly
taken sick and died. The . grief of the mother
knew no bounds, and for several entire days did she
hang over the child, ever and anon giving utter
ance to a monotonous wail, and decking its head
with all the ornaments in her possession. All this
was noticed by Major MartelL who conceived the
idea of having a daguerreotype likeness taken of the
child, and, this having been accomplished, the child
was deposited in a vault and the likeness given to
the mother, ; v-.;
On Monday night last while oneof the chiefs
composing the Chippewa delegatiojJas relating a
story to the writer of this article, antTnvAhe pres
ence of the entire nartv. an allusion wasBhade to
the nature of death, which caused the chutUss I
4l- 1 1 1 1 X At . . . 1 """I
mother and her husband, as they sat together upoaj
the floor, to how thAir hArl9 Jn To.tWH4
proceeded, but we watched w'th intense interest
the movements of the bereaved mother, Then4t
was that we saw her take from her bosom (as if
unconscious of the company present) the" portrait
alluded to, and, as she pressed it convulsively to her
lips a number of times, she accompanied each
movement by this exclamation: "Oh! my poor
child my poor child!" She then handed the pic
ture to her husband, and, as his. keen black eye
suddenly filled with tears, he also kissed the picture
a number of times, and, returning it to his wife, he
turned his head towards the story-teller, as if en
deavoring to follow him, while the wtfe immediately
dropped her needle and hid her face irX the lap of
her husband. ' "-
A more touching picture" of grief than this we
have never witnessed; but Maj. Martell tells that
what we saw is only a repetition of what he has
seen a great many times since he left Philadelphia.
The unhappy parents, he tells us, are always the
first to awake in the morning, and they never re
sume their daily duties without first putting their
heads together over the precious picture for the
purpose of uttering an incoherent prayer. . The one
idea which seems to absorb tbe mind of the be
nighted Indian mother is this, that she may yet re
turn to Philadelphia, and upon her own back carry
the remains of her offspring to the burial place of
her fathers in the remote wilderness.
The second incident to which we have alluded is
of a very different character from the above, and is
as follows:
Five members of the Indian party already men
tioned lately went out in the afternoon to enjoy an
airing, lhey strayed over the JUmg Bridge across
the Potomac, and having been treated with a com
fortable glass of liquor by some kind friend, they
continued their walk until they reached a pleasant
woocT"on one of the hills loolnng.down upon the fo
tomac - They had their bows and arrows With them,
and succeeded in killing a rabbit and two or three
smell birds. Night came on, but instead of re
turning to their comfortable quarters in the city
(for the weather was cold) these wild fellows kin
dled a fire in the woods, and having enjoyed a gen
uine Indian repast and sung a number of strange
songs, they erected a few boughs over their heads,
and there enjoyed a sound sleep until tbe morning.
They returned to the city on the following day ap
parently greatly benefitted by their temporary re-
ease from the oppressive confinement of the me
tropolis. Nat Intelligencer.
A GREEK FUNERAL.
I remember when they buried that bright-eyed
Greek maiden, snatched suddenly from earth, her
young heart was light as her face was fair. They
arrayed her, so rigid and motionless, in the gay dress
she had never worn but for some great fete or gala,
as though this, more than any, were a day ot re
joicing lor her; and thus attired, with her long
hair spread out over her still bosom, all decked
with flowers, they laid her uncoffined in the grave.
At her feet they placed a small flask of wine and a
basket of corn, in accordance with an ancient Greek
superstition, which supposes that for three days and
nights the disembodied spirit lingers mourntully
round its tenement of clay, the garment of its mor
tality, wherein as a pilgrim and a stranger on the
earth, it lived and loved, it sinned and suffered.
As soon as the first symptoms of decay announce
that the curse of corruption is at work, they believe
that the purer essence departs to purer lealms.
Before the grave was closed, whilst for the last
time the radiance of the sunset cast a glow, like the
mockery of life, over the marble face of the poor
young girl, her friends as a last precaution, took
measures to ascertain that she was actually dead
and not in a swoon. The means they always take
in' such instances to ascertain a fact which elsewhere
would be insured by a doctor's certificate, is touch
ing in the extreme ; the person whom, whilst alive,
it was known the. deceased loved the best the
mother, or it may be the young betrothed, who had
hoped to place on her head the gay and bridal
crown, instead of the laurel garland of death, ad
vances and calls her by name, repeating after it the
word "ella" (come) several times, in a tone of the
most passionate entreaty. If she is mute to this
appeal; if she is dead to the voice dearest to her on
earth, then they no longer doubt that she is dead
indeed; they cover up the grave, lift their eyes to
the heaven where they believe her to be for the
Greeks do not hold to the doctrine of purgatory,
and having made the sign of the cross, they depart
in silence to their homes. But a year after on, an
niversary of the death, they return to the grave,
and kneeling down, lay their hps to the sod, and
whisper to tbe silent tenant that they love her still.
and she is yet remembered and regretted.-
His brawny arm beclasped her Waist,
With love their eyes did burn;
From his warm lips she snatched a taste, '
And then he tasted hern.
J53T" Nearly all women are aristocrats. Wealth,
power and high station, have charms to their eyes
and in their hearts more than really great qualities.
- - CONCIENCE. - -
Never did any man long forsake the straight and
upright path, without having cause to repent of it
whether it be pleasure, or interest or ambition,
that leads him astray, be is always made to pay
dear for any supposed advantage he gains. ' Wa
rily and cautiously he may at first set out and lay
many restraints on himself against proceeding too
far. : But having once forsaken conscience as his
guide, his passions and inclinations soon take the
lead of his conduct and push him forward rashly.
One bad step betrays him into another, till, in tbe
end. be is Overtaken, if not bv novertv and disease.
at least by dishonor and shame, by the loss of
mends, and the lorteiture of respect and general
esteem.
He that walkelh uprightly ,ha3 always been found
to walk surely, while in the crooked paths of fraud,
dishonesty, . or ignoble pleasure, a thousand forms
arise tomeet us. In the mean tune, to a bad man,
conscience will always be an uneasy companion. ' In
the midst of his amusements,' conscience will fre
quently break in upon him with reproach. At
night when he would go to rest, holding up to him
the deeds of the former day, putting him in mind
of what he has lost and what he has incurred, it
will make him often ashamed, often afraid. Cow-
ardice and baseness of mind are never failing con-
i 7 conscience. He who is haunt-
by 14 dare8 never stand forth to the world, and
ar in his own character. He is reduced to be
consnatiy studying concealment and living in dis
gttiserlle must put on the smiling and open look,
when dar&raesigns are brooding in his mind. Con
scious of his own bad purposses, he looks with dis
trust on all who are around him, and shrinks from
the scrutiny of every piercing eye. He sees, or fan
cies that he sees, suspicion in many a countenance,
and reads upbraidings in looks where no upbraid?
ing was meant' Otyen he is in great fear where no
fear is. 0 - 1 r-.-.:.',-"--1.-.-;-' fBlair.
' THE WORLD'S CHANGES.
It is a sad but instructive thought that we live
in a world of change. From the cradle to the grave
the evidences of this painful truth are ever impres
sing themselves on the mind. Of all the varied ob
jects that twine themselves round our hearts in
youth, how few of our precious hopes are not
wrecked and borne away on the restles wing of
change!-.Yet," sad as are the other effects of
change, it contains in its full quiver one arrow more
keen and deadly than the rest When he whom
we have cherished as "our heart s core, aye, in our
heart of hearts," meets us with a cold and averted
gaze when the eye that used to beam on us with
tender and mellow lustre, no longer returns our
glances, and the face of him that was dearest to us
wears "the look of a stranger" then has change
done its worst work for us, and we may smile at its
further visitations, it is hard to loose our friends
by separation and yet more painful and solemn is
it to lose them by death ; hut still we lose them as
friends -we lose them while affection is reciprocal!
and, as our Bpirits may still commingle, their mem
ory is "pleasant though mournful to the souL" But
when the being we love lives, and is estranged,
'there is," as one has truly said, "a gap between
us, deep and wide, which we can neither fill up
nor cross over. Then the past is dessolation, the
present is bitterness, the future is a blank, and the
only iodyne the crushed heart can hope to find, is
time and the lethargy of forgetfulness.
I Yankee Blade.
; SPIRIT OF PRAYER.
Prayer is not a smooth expression nor a well con
trived form of words; not the product of a ready
memory, or of a rich invention exerting itself in the
performance. These may draw a neat picture of it
but still the life is wanting. . The motion of the
heart God-wards, holy and divine affection makes
prayer real and lively and acceptable to the living
Uod, to whom it is presented. J. he pouring out ot
the heart to him that made it and theretore hears
it and understands what it speaks, and how it
moved and affected in calling on him. ', It is not the
gilded paper and good writing 0 a petition that
1 . 1 1? 1 a. .1 . ; .
prevails wnn a King, put we moving seuae ui m
And to that king who discerns the heart heart
sense it the sense of all, and that which only he
regards. He listens to hear what speaks and takes
all as nothing" where that is silent ; All other ex
cellence in'prayer is but the outside and fashion of
tf J this is the life ot it . Jbeighton.
Benedict ARNOLds-The following agecdote
aptly illustrates the detestation in which treachery
is held by all mankind. Even those to whom the
traitor .rnoia saenncea bis nunor uiu ibuic, uirum
upon him with the bitterest malevolence. How
full of wisdom is the lesson : ..
On the 2d of July, 1792, Lord Lauderdale, at
tended bv Charles Fox, Esq., met Benedict Arnold
near London, attended by Lord Hawk. Lord Lau
derdale received Arnold s hre unhurt, and refused
to return it On being asked why he. did not he
replied, "I leave him for the executioner." The
seconds retired for a few moments, and said that
Lord L. must fire at Gen. Arnold, or retract the ex
pression he had used. The nobleman replied that
"he did not come out to fire at Arnold, and if he
(Arnold) was not satisfied, he might fire at him tDl
he was." The' cause of the quarrel was this: - A
gentleman was about to introduce Lord Lauderdale
. ... f , ' Jl U L.l
to wen. Arnold, when tne iormer exciaimen, -wnan
the traitor, Arnold?"
' '
ScKira on the Ohio. Our boat stopped to take
in wood. On shore among the crowd, stood a re
markable stupid looking fellow, with his hands m
his pockets, and his under lip hanging down. A
dandy, ripe for a scrape, tipped nods and winks' all
about saying: , ' . ;--:
"Now I'll have some tun, i ll ingnien inai green
horn."
He iumped ashore with a drawn bowie knife,
brandishinar it in tbe face of the green 'un, ex-
. o
claiming: .
'Now 1 11 punish you. I have Deen looking ior
. - . . -1 - r
you a week." . . '..
The fellow suddenly started at his assailant" lie
evidently had not sense enough to be scared but
as the bowie knite came near nis iace, one ot nis
huare fists suddenly vacated his pocket fell solid and
heavy between the dandy's eyes, and the poor fel
low was floundering in the river. . Greeny jumped
on board our boat put his hands in his pockets and
looked around. "May be" said he, "there'!
somebody else here that's been lookin for me
week."
; PROCESS OF COINING GOLD. . ,
The process of coining cold is very accuratively.
yet succinctly discribed, in a letter to "the. Boston j
rost - . i rom it the louowmg description is con
densed: ',y-- ... -J'3--,. - .1 - -. :.
The minors have to grind the gold rock fine,
keeping it wet constaauy, and, as it becomes fine;; '
it washes on. They have a nara una ot stone ior ?
grinding. They then mix quicksilver with it and
that collects the gold dust . It is washed out, '
dried, and then goes through some kind of heat- -fe
ing. The gold dust is then usually sold to the su !
perintendent of the mint' To find the value each v
parcel has to be assayed, The assaying is the most
curious and scientific of all the business in the mint '
The meltars take the gold dust melt it and cast it '--
into a bar, when it is weighed, accurately, and
piece is cut on lor the assayer. tie takes it meiu
it with twice its weight in lead. It is melted with ;
some small cups made of bone ashes, which absorb --
all the lead, when a large part of the silver is ex-
tracted by another process, and the sample m then --.
rolled out to a thin shaving, coiled up, and pat in a
sort of glass phial called a matrass, along with, some
nitric acid. The mattrasses are put on a funiaie, s
and the acid is boiled some time, poured oft, a new '. 5
supply put in, and boiled again. . This is done te- .
veral times till the acid has extracted all the silver, '
and other mineral substances, leaving the sample -
puregold. The sample is then weighed, and by. .
the difference between the weight before assayed ,,
and after, the true value is found. The gold, af-. t
ter it has been assayed, is" melted, refined, and mix-";
ed with its due portions of alloy, (equal parts of
silver and copper,) then drawn into long stripes, in
shape, not unlike an iron hoop for a cask, the round',
pieces cut out with ; a sort" of punch, each piece "
weighed, and brought to the right side by a tie, u
too heavy, when it is milled on the edges raised,
and put into a stamping press, whence itconies
forth a perfect com, bearing , the endorsement ot :
United states." -v "i v-N.;.
US AD AND SILVER ORES IN VIRGINIA.-
We clip the following paragraphs from the Rich-
mondWhig: .. ' ( ' " '
Thb Lkad Obk nt KKL80it. The following facta. -
relative to this discovery have been communicated
to us. The mine was first discovered on a tract of
land purchased, by Mr. Wm. Faber, on the edge
of the Albemarle line, and 8 miles from the James
River canaL The lead lies four feet below , the
surface, and the vein is four feet and a half wide i
being at least a foot wider than any other known to
the world. ; It has already been traced four miles,
and the probability is, that it extends the whole;
length of the State, upon that line of longitude. -The
yield is enoirous, being eighty pe cent of -
pure lead and two of silver. , ;J. he owner nas ap
plied to the legislature for a charter. -v T . . .
Rich Ores! CoL Perrow, the. delegate .from
Nelson, has left ' at this office several remarkable , ""-
specimens of lead and silver ore, found in the coun- s ( H
. ... . .. ' i : 1 . - t
ty which he represents. ; p.e says mere is pieniy . : .
more of the same sort" lett where mai comes -
from. - we wish somebody would analyze it in or- .
der that we might .form some conception of the r
yield. We are sure that of the lead would not be
less than Mty per cent ' :
PROFFITS OF PLANK ROADS.
The ten miles of the Milan and Monroeville plank
road yielded, 'for-the month of december last, .
$317 27, net over the cost of collection and repairs.
The cost of the ten miles was $16,650 ; the net
receipts for December were at the rate of 3 per
cent per annum. Mr. Hamilton, president of the
Milan and Richland company, certifies that on tbe
completed portion, 6 miles, the amount of toll col
lected for 6 months ending on the first day of Jan
uary, 1849, as appears from the collectors books,
was $1,086. enough, after deducting expenses of
collecting to make a dividend on the entire cost of
ten miles of road, say is,oourot -juu; aiiowmg
that the road, when completed ten miles will earn
in the, same proportion for a yfiar, it will bef equal
to 28 percent on the entire cost . .
-. , (Uieveiano, zfervu.
v -V FROM CHINA..
A friend has handed oi a letter by the steamer
dated Boca Tigris, Canton River, November 25,
. . . . . .1 -S--T 'A 1 A
1848, from which we learn mat tne unitea states
ships Plymouth and Preble were at that place at
that date. The Preble was expected to reach
the Uuited States by June next The officers and
crews of both ships were all well Both, vessels
would sail for Manila on or about uecemner 1st, 10
be absent one month. . The gates of Canton vriU
not be opened for the admission of foreigners on
the 6th of April next as per treaty between Great
Britain and China. A serious difficulty is appre
hended if the British authorities persist . in deman
ding the fulfillment of the article. ; Bos. Tra.
Colds. Young ladies should take care not to
sit near the piano; for it is a well known fact that
the instrument has caused more dreodful colds
than all the thin shoes and draugts in the world.
The most beautiful creatures, who were perfectly
well and laughing the minute before, have no soon
er approached Grand Broad wood than they hare
been suddenly seized with a sore throat and have
lost in a minute the use of their voice. The com
plaint is less taking as the young lady grows older,
and rarely has any effect in a family where, there -
are several aiavcio. .
There have been employed the last year m the
war department 162 clerks, assistants, dwv of which
60 came trm tree states, ana uom Navc cwKj.
20 not specified. . ' " ' . ; : .4
In'the department of state there are employed
eighty-four clerks, See., of whom 29 . were from
free states, and 54 from slave states; two not spe
cified.. ' ' -
Dear to us are those who love ns, the swift t
merits we spend with them are a compensation for a
great deal of misery, they enlarge our life ; but
dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they
add another life, they build before us a heaven
whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply
to-us new powersout of the recesses of the spuat,
and urge us to new and unattempted performan
ces, i R. W. Emerson.
J&r Man shines abroad women at totoe. ;
m
-