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FREE! 1 N 0 1. 1 tl) t VOLUME I. LOWER SANDUSKY, APRIL 21, 1840. NUMBER 9, OWE E SAND I l 1 I u ! fi itht' Conjtr ' Scm&ttskn irtrntan. , . . , - TEKMS. .irsvmeatiaadTsr.es.............-.;......... J; 1,50 !o. . withii. the rear.. ........ 2,00 " 5 !.. after ths aspiration of ths year ...v. .3,50 A tailors to notify nof desire todiseonttnue, is under stood aa wiaiitnff tw eantiBovlho nubsr?ruirion, and me pa per will be sent accordingly, but all rdr-rs to discoBtina, wuaa arrearage are paid, will be faithfully attended to. 1 ; jLaw of Newspapers. : 1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to the Contrary, r considered aa wiahiug to continue their aal - 2. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their pa per, the publisher mar continue to aend them oatil ail arrearare are paid. -v. . . -- - 3. If subscriber neglect or tefnsn to take their pa pern Irom the otnee to whino thy are directed, they are held responsible till they aetlle their bill and order their papers discontinued. - - ' -4. If subscriber remoe to other piece, without in farniin ttre poblisher, and the paper i aeut tothe form al direction, thfjare nld responsible. .... 5. , The couris have decided that refusing to take a lewxpaper er periodical From the office, or removing and leaving it uncalled for, is prima facie evidence of iutee- - How h stop a finn -First see that yon have paid tor it np to the time You wish it to slop: notify the poet master of year desire, and ask hifn to notify the publisher ander his treat, ls be is authorized lo do J of yon wish (aiacvaUB.BS.-i- ..... - Bnsincaa Director). COV&TTAXD TOWNSHIP OFFICERS. cjry.X Ekaier Baldwin, Woodyille,; Cpntmissioiiert, V John "L. -Gardner, York,; : ' '. " v ) Hiram Ilurd, Crcen Creek. :AndiibrH6taer Everett, Office Court House. " Treasurer- Oliver Mclntyr, : do. Recorder Benjamin F. Fletcher," ' do :"; "-"'-'- "J ProstcvtiHff Attorney 3. L. Greene, do. ; . . ' 7SAerjf-- James Parks, '.- " do. 'Sureeyor H. E. Clark,' office at bis residence. tr - J Alvih Ctie, .Sandusky, vl .Poor Home f j h Reed, "Washington, D t r e t a r t , j Franklin Ga!e. Grcen greek, COUTtT OF COMMON PLEA. " Prexiilent jiufge Hun, Ebenerer B. Suddler, San- dusky ctty.j.j : ' - -: ---- X" : .' ; y '-y; ' jv "' ; N -: - J Horh-A. Mclntyre, Townsend, Associate ' jwtqes V Hon. 3. &. Olmsted,' Sandusky, .-- ; ' Hoa F. Chapman. Bellvuc. . Clerk La Q. Rawson, Oflice Court House. ; lcojjfer Stimuel Crowell, of Sandusky tp. Master in Ckancfty Ralph P. Buckland, Office Tyler's block. ' - VT ; : . - Vommfgslwrer of r Insolvents Chester Edgerton, . Office Court Zbuse.' " ' , JUSTICES OF'THE PEACE. - - i - . l -l -John Bell, office over Edily's store, -Sandusky, Tp, V John L. Greene, office Co'i t House J David Engler. ; . Ballville -JoIib Monre and Jonas Smith. Green Creek- Atnos Fenn and Wm. H. Gala; . Washington John-Beery nnd James Rose. - ' ':RUey---Le'F.TuUleaiHl Wrtv- IL Reynolds.- -. 1York Wm.' Russell and Abrara P. Ferris. -.- Tuwnseud K A. Melntyre and A. R Lindsey. . Woodrille Ira K. Seaman and. & O. Baker. , . Scott-James A. Fisher and Daniel Baker. ; ... -: MadisonJeremiah, N. King and N. O.- Betts. . Rice- Ephraim Walters and David dinger. k - CORPORATION. OFFICERS. r-. i Moyor-fl,ysaiideT CI Bait 'Recorder-Francis C. Bell,7 - Treasurer C. J. Orton. - ' ' ConncVme--John 1 R Pease, Jesse S. Olmsted, ''Jonathan Bull, Christopher Doncysbn & I. Sharp. ".. o ''-"'v4.;-;; iTunes oio7dliff Courts in the Zth Circuit, 1848. Vafiy -March 26V June 18, October 15th. , ' revMarch 19, May 21, October lst.r . : . - ,v , won March 12,-June 4, September 18.- ' ...WiMxt-rApril 2,. October 23. ,-,. :. i Ottawa May 1, September 10.J ; j I .! . Luca April 6, June 25, Oct 26. :, 7 -; ;- ' .. IS 19.1 '; ' ' - ' U19. c. n. aic cutiiOcn, & co., ;!"'";v V BSALER3 1ST ' ' DRUG3, MEniCINES, PAINTS, DTESTCFFS, . BOOKS. STATIONARY. &e. , C Jj o wer Saudnikj-, Ohio. , t ( 3.. K c. c:.vocb.1, - , ' bort. i-'- '.- . - ; - 1849. i GEORGE BUIIT e CO., O M MI SSION MERCHA' N T S , f -1 - - .- : . -. ' ' - .ASrj SEALERS Iff ' ' 1 7T VcaiC Flour, Salt. Sheep Pelts, &c LOWER SANDUSKY, OHIO., cKOReft war. J'" c. k. mccolloch. ;. ItALFII P. BCCKIiAJSO, tr " A 'TTORSfEY "aad CooaseHor at law and .Solicitor ""XTL i Chancery, will attend to professional bnainess in - 6Hnkr and Adjoining counliea. - ,- O Offktk 8ecend ktery ef Tyler's Biock. ; " 9- t, .-- ll ' : JOHN Ij. gheexe, - ATTORNEY AT LAW and Prosecuting Attorney for Sandusky eeontv, Ohio, will attend to all pro- -iVssional business entrusted to his care, with promptness and fidelity. . .. r . .--. - y ... , , ; --. ,," -: . O Orncit at the Court Uooe. .. '. n ' 'CHESTER EDGEKTON, ----- ' ' " Attorney and Counsellor at' Law, :-; A i " : ' " - " , - . - , AND SOLICITOR IN CHAKCEBT. . TILL attend to the baxinrss of his profession, in T T : Bsodoskt and the adjoining counties. Particular attention paid to administration business. afrenc.es, eoUecttone, &.e. Er Office in the coort-hora. ;.-,." Fox. & Bcaagrand, ; ; PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS: X ESPECTl"ULLY tender their professionalserTicea - J.Ij W crhzeos at flower Bandaskr and vicinity; i ... ptyicr. Oo door sunt U of McCuIloch's Drujf store. ly. :', DOCTOR . J. CHAMBERL1N, , :B o tan i c P h y s i c i a n, TENDERS his professional senrioealo- the citizeiss of Lower Sandoskr and vicinity. From several Veara czoerienee. ti flalieni himself that lie has become thoroughly scqnainted with the diseasea Hiciclent to this r-limte, and hopes to merit a portion of public patronage. tit resides in the hetise owned, and lately ocenpied by W. W. A infer, and keeps an office in the brick bnildinz opposite David Deal's at one of which places he will be found at all seasonable hours, unless absent on professional business. - -" - ..-:""- " ' '' -' April 29th, 1848.' . . ' ' - - - Woolen Goodx liave feli: and come - fret bargains may now he had in broadcloths, easeitaere aad sattinelts, at' the Farmer's Cheep store. rf v -: - C J. PETTIBONE. P o c t r a . For the Freeman. - -. ' ' ' ' -. soxo. t would thon wert with mo now.", .. Tls often that I think of thee, Though thon art far away; . ;? '' Say wilt thou deign to think of me, -W hen thy young heart is gay. - ' They tell me thou wilt soon forget, Thine oft repeated vow I cannot, will not doubt thee yet I would that thon wert with me now. .- My heart is with thee, and shall e're . , Be thine, though we no more. Shall meet again: thine image dear My thoughts shall hover o'er. I care not if my weight.of grief, Shall make my spirit bev; , L; ..;The thought of thee will bring relief -.s . 1 would that thou wert with me now. . I've seen thee in my dreams, and there - Have pressed thee to my henrt, - But ah! those visions bright and fair, - - With waking all depart,- . i But memory brings thee ever near,' With rnild uncloudea brow, " -; "Tislhat which makes my sad heart cheer . " ' r would that thou wert with me now. ' Lower Sandusky, Ohio. - C. G. M. 11 1 s c c 1 1 a n t a n s . : , , THE POOH. Winter is the friend and advocate ot the poor. In vain does the preacher. remiud us, that "the poor we- have always with -us " in vain does the moralist reason upon the virtue of charity till the severity of the , season makes us feel, the subject kmdls our latent benevolence, calls tor " a sneiter for the houseless poor " a frujpi) meal, or a warm covering for starvins; penury and leads the feet of charity to the pauper's hut, or the sick man's couch no! to the garret or the cellar, winch has no couch, no led, no covering from the cold. "Ah! little think the gay, licentious proud, Whom pleasure, power and affluence surround. ; They who their thoughtless hours in giddy mirth, And wanton, otten cruel, riots waste; Ah! little think they while they dance along, How many feel this very moment, death And all the sad variety of pain. Oht if Jesus himself "learned obedience by the things which he suffered ". if "he was in all points -tempted," (or tried) that he might be able to sympathise in our troubles, surely it must require preceptors, rough as the northern blast, or drizzling sleet, to teach our unfeeling hearts compassion. So notorious is this fact, that the managers of many public institutions find it of little use to ad vertise them till the ice and the snow, and cold, bleak wind, " enter into the soul ". of those who alone are capable of supporting them.; e., FIDEMTY. Ttf ever fosalce a friend. When enemies gather around when sickness falls on the heart when the world is dark rn 1 cheerless is the time to try true friendship. The heart that has been touched with true gold-will redouble its efforts, when the friend is sad and in trouble. Adversity tries real friendship. They who turn from the scenes of distress, betray their hypecracy and proves that interest only moves them. If you have a tnena who loves you who has studied your interests and happinesss be sure to sustain him in adversity. Let him feel that his former kindness is apprecia ted and that hislove was not thrown away. Real fidelity may be rare, but it exists in the heart; who has not seen nnd felt its power! . They only deny its worth and powor, who have never loved a friend or labored to make a friend happy. The good and kind the affectionate and the virtuous, see and feci the heavenly principle. They would sacrifice wealth and honor to promote the happiness of. others, and in return they receive the reward of their love by sympathizing hearts and countless favors, when they have been brought low by dis ease or adversity. - , GOODADYICE John H. Prentiss, in his recent valedictory on re tiring from the editorial chair, which he had filled for jurtu-one years, has the following : u No man should be without a well conducted newspaper; he is far behind the spirit of the age unless he reads one ; is not upon equal footing with his fellow-man who enjoys such advantages, and is disregardful of his duty to his family, in not af fording them an opportunity ot acquiring a Knowl edge of what is passing in the world, at the cheap est possible teaching. Show me a family without newspaper, and 1 venture to say that there will be m inifest in that family a want of amenity of manners, and indications of ignorance most stri kingly in contrast with his neighbor who allows himself such a rational indulgence. " Young men especially, should read newspapers. If I was a boy; even of twelve years, I would read a news per weekly, though I had to work by torchlight to earn money enough to pay for it The boy who reads well, will learu to think and analyze, and if so, he will be almost sure to make a man of him self, hating .vicious indulgence, which reading is calculated to beget a distance." . Begin Forthwith Iwwill avail you nothing to stop and consider. Make a beginning and do something forthwith. You may wait a twelvemonth and consider still, without being any nearer biking hold. In the meantime you will be a year older, your family will have suffered, and you will have less heart to take hold and go ahead. What if you fail at nrst, begin again even seventy times seven and then you have no right to be discouraged. We would rather die trying to do something, even if we ac complish nothing with a sluggish body and a faint heart Give us energy and perseverance, though richea may not glitter in our path, and we are sat isfied. With this disposition we are prepared for any emergency ; can sleep soundly at night, eat heartily of whatever is placed before us, enjoy all the beauties of nature, and fight our way through ali the trials, sorrows, vexations, disappointments, and even sicknesses of life. Portland Bulletin. On Trees and Health. In connexion with the wise policy of Congress in setting aside school sections for the supply of men tal aliment to the rising generation, a proper secu rity for the health of the present and the future occupants of the soil would seem to require the fostering care of legislators in behalf of the preser vation of trees. - It was a characteristic of both Washington and Franklin to preserve a tree as something really precious, not only as an ornament, but as an important element in the preservation of health. Hence the lawn of Mount .Vernon in his day was skirted by abundant foliage that kept off, in great part the miasma arising from the conta gious shore. And Barlow, the poet, who succeed ed at a later day Franklin, at the French court, in arranging the beautiful grounds of Kalorama, in this district, often extolled the use of our forest trees as barriers against miasma that could be con veyed a considerable distance. Washington him self was very desirous of preserving the native growth near the brow of Capitol Hill, and the el der Adams, Jefferson and their successors were all friends to the growth of trees. Mr. Jefferson caus ed quadruple rows of trees to occupy the line of Pennsylvania avenue, but unfortunately that great highway was not at first properly graded, nor were the trees then selected of a durable kind, nor of the best shape for shade the Lomcardy poplar. ; Every enlightened being is the friend of the preservation of trees ; and one of the best reasons why coal should be tised whenever it can be ob tained is, that "the monarchs of the forest" will thus be spared to spread their branches towards heaven, while man and beast derive benefit from the sparing of their growth. It would be desirable that portions of the public lands should only be sold under restrictions to save a proportionate part of the trees growing thereon ; and the dinerent state Legislatures ot the western states should pass enactments to secure to travel ers the benefit of shade along the county ana state roads, not only for the eomfort of man and beast, but also to promote the health of the inhabitants of the surrounding country. The distinguished scholar, limothy Hint, in his lectures on naturrl history under the head of "Hy-dry-Vegetable Harmonies" has most ably treated these grave matters of the first importance; and, inasmuch as the enlightened corporate authorities of the metropolis have legislated to the security of trees, the following extracts are commended to the reflection of every mind studious of improvement : " . JN ant. intelligencer. "If we find water indispensable to the life of turfs, flowers plants and trees, these in their turn exert a powerful influence upon the waters of the atmosphere and the earth. We shall find that dis tricts covered with forests attract clouds, turn aside destructive winds, arrest electric meteors, and thus shelter and preserve the humble dwellers in cotta ges. Who is so destitute of taste and admiration of the works of the Creatoi as not to love beautiful trees ? Who has one touch of poetry and the love of nature in his heart cannot remember the hours of pleasant meditation which he has passed under the greenwood shade, teelmg the delicious coolness, imbibing the spirit of repose, admiring the ten thousand forms of the rustling leaves, and listening to the soothing hum of the insects seeking their nec tar on the foliage and in the flower-bells ? Who but a barbarian would unnecessarily apply the axe to these beautiful ornaments of the fields ? Who in cities, to subserve at once the purposes of shade, health and beauty, would not put forth sufficient public spirit to unite his efforts with those. who would procure the streets, squares, and public walks to be lined with trees "Cut down the forests of a country, and you change its climate. No country on the earth has offered such convincing proof of this fact as ours. If our climate was originally too humid, cutting down the forests has so meliorated it, as it has clearly tended to render the air drier, and rains less frequent i et it is a tact, attested, as it seems to me, beyond all question, that the primitive settlers, who reared their cabins under the shade of the un broken forest, were healthier than their sucessors, who lived in the cleared fields. The wide and gen eral clearings among our vast forests has had equiv ocal and double results. In various portions of the Ohio valley the air has become decidedly more sa lubrious since the country has been opened to the sun and air. In other districts ot the west as along the lower courses of the Mississippi and Red river, the reverse has decidedly been the case. "A forest so dense as to prevent the tree circu lation of the air, and to screen its reeking vegeta tion from the sunbeams, is manifestly insalubrious to the inhabitants. But if trees had been left over the whole surface of our pastures and unenclosed grounds at regular and proper distances, and espe cially, if our whole roadside had been left shaded, and our whole country had been made to resemble the country, half forest and half pasture, which in the west is denominated a barren, what an exquis itely beautiful landscape, surpassing that of all oth ers in the world, would the United States have pre sented! - "The plains of Provence, ia France, have been swept by storms unknown in former times. The change has resulted from cutting down the forests during the French revolution. The Cenhisus. that iiathed the gardens of the ancient academy, has disaopeared with the grave of Mount Hymettus. Travelers search in vain for Troas, for the river Scamander. It has dried up with the destruction of the forest of cedars which covered Mount Ida, whence it took its source. Italy, during the exist ence of the vast forests of the Tyrol, enjoyed a mild temperature. It has become a burning cli mate since their destruction. "A thousand beautiful springs in our country have disappeared since the forests have been cut down. A thousand streams in the west that con tinued to murmur along their limestone beds dur ing the highest heats of summer when they mean dered through a deep forest, now, that the verdant screen from the sun's rays is no more, are dried up every summer. Who of us that have seen half a century cannot remember cool spring sources in the deep shade where we were wont to slake our thirst and taste the coolness and repose of the for est, that are now dry and stripped of their trees? The barbarous axe has been plied in our country without taste or discretion. Would that the dispo sition to spare the trees could be infused into the ten thousand youthtul adventurers who are every year making their abode in our primeval forests! "It never rains in- the sandy deserts of Africa, be cause their arid surface, deprived of all vegetation, reflects the burning heats of the sun. The mass of warm air, which always radiates from the scorched surfHce, hinders the aerial moisture from condens ing, raises the vapors high in the air, and propels them towards the distant mountains. If the whole Sahara, large enough for kingdoms, were at " once covered with the forests of America, can we doubt that showers would form above them, that they would be watered with dews, and become the abodes of husbandmen, instead of retreats of the wild and cruel rovers of the forest ? " - "Extreme dryness of the air sometimes produses dangerous diseases in the neighborhood of Quito. To arrest their progress, it is only necessary that a few showers should temper the brightness of the sun. - Nature has taken thought of all the physical inconveniences of the region, and has covered the valleys and the surroanding mountains with vast forest& From their fair bosom rise those grateful dews which diffuse coolness throughout the air. ; "The vast prairie plains west of the Mississippi are both hotter in summer and colder in winter than the forest country east of that mighty stream. These prairies experience rarer and more scanty rains than the valleys that are covered with trees. Over vast extents of them are spread dry, sandy deserts, like those of Arabia, where the traveler wanders for days without seeing wood or water. In the days to come, when those plains shall be in habited, the shepherd and husbandman will plant trees, which will invoke the showers and call down the rains and dews. Liberty, aided by peace and industry, will spread fertility over the sands, and exactly reyerse that order of things which has con signed the once fertile environs of Nineveh, Baby lon, ladmor, Jerusalem, Athens and Jtome to ster ility and desolation.-' ' "But these beautiful harmonies between the earth and the skies extend further still. The de struction of certain trees, the eradication of certain plants, is sufficient to destroy whole tribes of useful insects, birds and quadrupeds which feed upon them, and with which their existence was identifi ed. A Dutch naturalist relates that an entire tribe of cormorants made their nests and abode in the thick forest of Sevenhuis ; the forest was cut down, and the birds were exiled from the ancient trees that sheltered them. They emigrated and estab lished themselves on the sea-shore, where they now build their nests among the reeds, offering," like Venice, the singular spectacle of a city built among the waves. "A celebrated modern traveler lias remarked a similar result on the magnificent shore of Lorento, near Rome. This valley of the- Tiber, which, ac cording to Plinny, was adorned with more palaces than all the rest of the world, not only presents at this time a mass of ruins, but it seems as if Nature had ceased to be fertile and beautiful in proportion as men have withdrawn from it The domestic an imals have disappeared with the shades under which they formerly ruminated, .bven the migrating birds no longer light upon the desert shores. Yielding to the mysterious indications of instinct, they divine the way to new countries which liberty, peace, and j industry have rendered dear to husbandmen ; and they are found in these few fields, demanding na ture's tithe of the harvest . It seems a settled law of Providence that the- presence of man should cause ferocious beings to retire, and should attract those that are innocent and useful. J. he benefits of Nature follow him in his journey over the globe, and abandons the places that he abandons. Ihe sky and the sea of Lorento preserve their serenity and azure, but the shores are no longer cultivated by proud and triumphant hands. Sadness and des olation have gathered over them, and all that dwell upon them seems hastening to decay. . "The ancients, without doubt, were acquainted with these beautiful harmonies between the vege table kingdom and man. We cannot fail to admire the profound wisdom of portions of their religious institutions which were predicated upon these har monus. Every forest contained sowething like an oracle or temple, which inspired respect . Every tree, beneath its rind, concealed a nymph. Every flower was animated by a being of celestial origin, who, instead of suffering death : and decay, had been changed to that beautiful form. Every spring source had its Naids, and every grotto its etherial inhabitant These sentiments stood as sentinels to protect the sacreduess of the solitude, and to pre serve the free wildness of nature The forests were guarded against the profanation of human avidity by the presence of gods. Even the sages, appar ently aware of their purpose, seemed to respect and adopt these useful superstitions. The grave Cato prescribes the formula to be observed in cutting down a tree, and the pious invocation which should be addressed to the divinity before striking the first blow. : "The Persians, victims of pestilential maladies, which arose from their humid rice-plains, called to their aid the balsamic plane-tree. There is no contagion at Ispahan,' says Chardin, 'since the Per sians have ornamented their streets and gardens with the plane-tree.' Here, then, is a tree with which nature has invoked us to shade and purify our naked marshes. "Who has not been inspired with regret in see ing the hundreds of new villages that have sprung up in the recently settled parts of our country, un sheltered by a tree or a vine) under the influence of a sun tnai-we may aimosi imagine pouring its rays with more fierceness on the soil for having so long excluded from it" 1 he thousand remains of the trees, like the bones of the slain after a battle,: in struct us how easily trees of shelter and shade might have been snared at intervals. The climate and soil alike invoke the inhabitants of these villa ges to repair the ravages of their want of taste and to health and comtort by planting the plain-tree, or sycamore, the supurb and odoriferous catalpa, the deep green pride of China, the peccan, alike useful and beautiful, and the cone-shaped sugar maple, so exauisitely rich in its fading autumnal foliage. In the south the orange and the fig tree should be ad ded, and the whole surmounted with the Isabella grape, so abundant in dehciaus fruit, so luxuriant in beautiful foliatre, and so easily cultivated. With these would come bees, humming-birds, the oriole, cardinal, and mocking-birds, as invited guests." Ebony Cokukdrcms. Gumbo, procede to di vulge vy a hem-lock swamp is like a rooster? I can't vindicate dat probability, cuff jis gib us de fix fax on de subjec. t Kase de crow comes from it Now let me ax you a cunderdrum: Vy is tunder like good bread 7 Veil dispatdh you sef refine your pers'ishun. Kase you can't hub it without de litenin. Oh!de Laud! The Model -Gentleman. ' He never broke a bank. He has never been known to dress up as a jockey, or try practical jokes on watermen, or empty flour bags on chimney sweeps. He shuns cross-barred trawsers, horticul tural scarfs, overgrown pins, and can wear a waist coat without a cable's length of gold chain around it His linen - is not illustrated, but scrupuously dead. - He never does little discounting, nor lends hand to a flying kite. His aversion to a gent is softened to pity. . He can look at a lady without the aid of an eye glass. He allows the performers at the theatre to talk louder than himself, and does not spring on the stage if there is a row in the Op era. He abhors a lie as he does the Sheriff's offi cer. He is not prodigal of oaths, and is equally sparing of perfume. . He does not borrow his Eng lish from the stable, and never puts his lips through a dreary, fashionable course of lisping. f He is not too proud to walk, or to carry an um brella when it rains, and never waltzes with spurs after supper, even in uniform. He never bets be yond his means, and is not fond of playing high at cards. He never ruined a young man-to say no thing more. , He bows scrupuously even to an in ferior. He never shrinks from an I O TJ, nor is he afraid of a bill, nor seized with sudden short ness of memory at the sight of an old friend whose coat is not so young as it used to be. He has nev er proved his cowardice by fighting a duel, giving satisfaction in a more gentlemanly way. - He pays tor his clothes, disdaining " to wear his tailor s in consideration for valuable introductions. His hors es too, are his own, "and not purchased from his friends by a series of profitable exchanges. : He is not madly attached to billiard-rooms, nor is he seen at Cozenzes. He locks up his conquests in his own heart, and his love letters in his desk, rarely expos ing either to his most intimate friends.' He does not bully his servants nor joke with them, nor cut a man because his father was in trade . He is not obsequious to a lord, nor does he hold' on to the skirts of the aristocracy, knowing that a man's nobility does not depend entirely up on his title, however old and unstained it may be. . He travels to enjoy himself, and does not attempt to crush poor foreigners with English gold or pride. He values a thing, not by its price, but by itt real value, and does not blush to drink beer if he is thirsty. He does not think it essential to his repu tation to keep late hours, to pull down sign boards, bait policemen, and besiege toll keepers during the night "He has no such violent love for door-knock ers, as to induce him . to collect them. He is not factious with waiters, or given to knock down a cabman by way of settling a fare. He is not afraid of laughing if he is amused, even in public, or of handing down an old lady with a forban to dinner, or dancing with his wife., He was never the hero of any wager, riding, runnings ra cing, rowing, eating, or swimming, and does not know a single prize fighter. He is fond of amuse ments, but does not lnstal himself at the Opera ev ery night, because it is fashionable. He is very unobtrusive in his dress, and very retired in his jewelry, and his antipathy for a white hat with a black band, and all violent contradictions either in dress or conversation. He is generous, but does not give grand dinners and expensive suppers to persons he does not know or care about lie lends money; and, if he borrows any, he makes a strange practice of returning it - ; He rarely "speaks his mind,' and is very timid in rushing into a quarrel of husband and wife espe cially. . He is a favorite with the ladies, but does not put too much starch iu his politenese, or too much sugar in his compliments. In matters of scandal is dumb, if not exactly deaf, and as to ru mors, he only believes half (the kinder half, too) ot what he hears. lie is not prejudiced himself, but has a kind of toleration for the prejudices of others. His golden rule is never to hurt the feelings of any body, or to injure a living creature by word or deed. All his actions, all his sentiments, are sha ped to that noble end: and he dies as he lives,, sans peur et sans reproache.' This is the Model Ukntlkman. - I London launch. - A Battle Field. Mr. Allison gives the follow ing description of the appearance of the ground on which the famous battle ot Jiylau was fought, on the morning after the battle : "JN ever was spectacle so dreadtuf as the held ol battle on the following morning. About 50,000 men lay in the space of two leagues, weltering in blood, ihe wounds were, lor the most part, ot the severest kind, from the : extraordinary . quantity of cannon balls which had been discharge.d during the action, and the close proximity- of the contending masses to the deadly banners which spread grape at half musket shot through their ranks. - Though stretched on the cold snow, and exposed to the se venty of the Arctic winter, they were burning with thirst, and piteouc cries were heard on all sides for water, or assistance to extricate the wounded men from beneath the heaps of slain, or loads of horses by which they were crushed. Six thousand of these noble animals encumbered the nela, or, maddened with pain, were Shrieking aloud amidst the groans of the wounded. Subdued by the loss of blood, tamed by cold, exhausted by hunger, the fbemen lay side by side amidst the general wreck. The Cossack was to be seen beside the Italian; the gay vine dresser from the smiling banks of the Garonne, lay athwart the stern peasant from the plains ot Ukarine. The extremity of suffering extinguished alike the fiercest and the most generous passions. After his usual custom, JN apoleon in the afternoon. rode through the dreadful held, accompanied by his generals ana stan, wnue me sun Durnmg piiei of serpallen and saussgraten sent volume's of black smoke over the scene of death ; but the men ex hibited none of their wonted enthusiasm ; no cries of vive I'Empereur were heard : the bloody surface echoed only with the cries of suffering or tht groans of wo." ' - The Post Matser General.-: It is pleasant to read our Whig exchange papers from the Green Mountain state and witness the unbroken satisfac tion with which they one and all speak of the se lection of Judge Collamer. one ot their most honor ed and respected sons, to the office of Post Master General We can, however, assure our Vermont friends that they are not alone in their rejoicing. The whigs of other states sympathise with them and bear their willing testimony, not only to the propriety of a whig President selecting one of his cabinet omcers from a state so justty enuuea to me honor, by long years of steady adherence to prin ciple, but likewise to the man selected by him. Boston Atlas. - The Post Master General and the Wkyl. Contractors-1 The dry, routine of official, duties isoc- -casionally relieved by something out of the usual way. An instance of this kind occurred on Monday, in the bureau of the Post Master General. ' ;!.. The approaching lettings of mail contracts brings - to. our city, at this time a large number of persona desirous of entering into engagements with the govO ernment for transporting the mails for the next four f years in the states of New England and New York, where existing contracts are- about to' expire; and . in the different states of the Union, upon new routes Itreated by a recent act of Congress. -, -. ; a - These gentlemen called in a body on - the post master general, some to. make his acquaintance, -and others to remind him of what they had previ-" ously suggested of the importance and advantage of a liberal course towards them in making the con- tracts. ' The number around him made the post master feel as if he was Upon, his old theatre of ae- tion the floor of Congress and he was all at once, " betrayed into a speech. ' '. .' , J ' ' .v-;; Onr informant says he cannot presume to report : it, not being prepared at the moment to do so; but : the impression produced by the remark was so agreeable, that he has attempted to' make the fot '' lowing imperfect sketch; '- , :v . . -V'J . Mr. Collamer said : Some of you complain of the change made in 1845 of the anode of letting routes to contract i This change was required by law.- ' It was, I know a procrustean operation."-" Every con tractor who was too long for the bedstead was cur tailed, in many cases where it was not .fatal, though rather disagreeable, by ' trimming him 'off at the feet; and in others by taking off, his head..' But the post master general was bound to execute the' law then, and he is bound to execute it now, tho circumstances have-somewhat changed. ' ' T ; : 1' .. He said he found that the service" they, were tS bid for was specified jn the advertisement, that he perceived that regulations were also promulgated ' under which the bids and the decisions were to be made ;- Without saying whether these "regulations . were right or wrong and he did not wish to be understood as making any objection whatever to any of them those regulations must govern the course. to be; pursued., . A departure from them' now would be acting hi bad faith to the public; but he found, by the regulations there were some ca ses in which he could exercise a discretion, and (hat he would endeavor to exercise it in such manner ns best to subserve the public interest .'iSome thought : economy was everything and nothing else was to be considered. He did not think the department was' . merely made to save money, if that was the only object, the best way would be to have no depart ment and save it all ; Another opinioft was, that expedition, and accommodation were everything, no matter what it "costf that the wheels were to be kept going, whether there was agy thing to grease them or not . ; " : i'-"... " .":-" ', ' This was the other extretrie; and it was plain to Bee that such a course would soon run the depart ment off its legs. He had traveled oyer some of their slippery roads, when the Question was, which is the best track to take ? " Some adyised to "drive on the upper side, dash ahead, and fear nothing.' Others said, "stick to te lower side, or you 11 up set" He was not disposed to run the risk of cap-, sizing the coach, nor ws 1i willing to drag along . in the drtch. ' He should keep the middle track. . It was the safest and best. It had been the rule of his life to do so. - .. .' These, with "other observations, shadowed out, iri a Very significant and at the same time .bumorou and agreeable manner, the upright, just,' and judi cious course that the post master jjeneraf intended to pursue. jJNatlnt &3T CoL Fremont's attempt to cross the moun tains was at Pueblo of San Carlos, in the neighbor hood of the most northerly of the New Mexican set tlements, on the Arkansas riven' He was repuls ed by the intense cold and deep'snowa The place is at the foot of Pike Peak, the highest rarigo of which, is from fifteen to seventeen thousand feet The failure of the expedition lias called forth the following remarks from the Philadelphia North American: - . : --;,;;'.., "This was trie Very scene of the well-remember ed sufferings of poor Pike, who, more than forty years ago, (in 1805-7,) with, a small party of sol' diers, entirely unprovided with winter clothing, him self wearing 'cotton overalls,', clambered over the snowy ridges and frozen 'cauions' ot these moun tains during two-thirds of the winter, until, in fact, compelled by the intense sufferings of his party, to wards the close of January, m the upper part of the , valley of the Rio Grande, , to construct lor winter quarters the block-house in which he was ultimately discovered and arrested by the bpamards. ritt i intrepid though confused explorations, had made the world well acquainted with at least tbeeastern range of this section of th.e Rocky mountains, and he had rambled through the stern solitudes of th Bayou Salade, or South Park, long before, trapper or trader had dreamed of its existence ; crosbing behind the 'High Peak which now bears its name to the South Fork of Platte, and even from-a mo"un- , tain ridge, looking down upon a main head branch of Grand river the Colorado of. the Pacific al though he mistook it for a branch of the Yellow- . stone Pike's difficulties, and the knowledge that . here is a culminating swell of the plateau from ' which such rivers flow as the Arkansas, Rio Grande and the Colorado of the West -must have induced the expectation of serious impediments to be ,- countered on this route It appears, however, thtt Fremont's "calamity arose from no ordinary rigors of winter. Facts mentioned in the . Intelligencer, and the last despatch from St Louis shows that the last winter in New Mexico set in unusually early, and was of unparalleled severity.;? Fremont IeftJ.be Pueblo at the close of November or at the begin ning of December. . On the 16th of the last named -month, at Santa Fe, the thermometer had fallen to' twenty degrees below zero;men froze to death, the snow was as high as a horse's back hv the mountain passes; it appears from the last accounts from St Louis that it fell much deeper, the mules and horses having, it may be said, been entombed under a fall perhaps an avalanche of thirty of forty feet deep. . And hence the failure of the pedition is to be attributed chiefly to a misfortune of an unprecedented character, although, in part also undoubtedly owingto the unfavorable nature of that particular tract W country. ' ' -' No woman is capable of being beautiful, who is not incapable of being false. .. , K -4