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“The ferment of a free, is preferable to the torpor of a despotic, Government.’?
VOL. III.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 6, 1834.
NO. 25.
The Southern Banner,
is ruausiiED is the tows of Athens, Georgia,
EVERY SATURDAY, . '
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Tho sale of Personal Property, in like manner,
past be published forty days previous to the day of sale.
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Georgia and South Carolina
Almanac for 1835*
T HIS Almanac is ready for the press. Persons
wishing to be supplied by the quantity will bo
pleased to make early application. Great care has
been taken in tho arrangemont of tho matter, and
will be taken in executing the press work.
This Almanac contains:
1. Thccallendar anilusual astronomical informa.
tion, with tho time of hqjh water at Savannah : cal
culated and prepared by Mr. Robert Grier.
2. A t.iblo showing tho names of tho counties in
the State of Georgia ; the names of the county
towns, tho distance of each county town to Mil-
ledgeville, tho population of every county in the
State, including tho counties in Chorokco territory,
and tho names of tho sheriffs, tax collectors, recei
vers of tax returns, clerks of tho Superior and Info-
ri.-r Courts of tho several counties in the State. ■_
3. The Governor of Georgia.
•1. Tho Fittings of tho Superior and Inferior
Courts of Georgia, with the names of tho Judges of
tho Superior Courts and of the solicitors.
C. Military organization of Georgia, comprising
tho names of tho major and brigadier generals, with
the names of tho counties composing each brigade.
6. Franklin College, comprising tho names of the
Trustees, course of 6tudy, and the names of tho
gentlemen composing the Faculty.
7. Hanks in Georgia.
y. City of Savannah, comprising tho corporation,
city court, banks, &.c. '* • . ■
1). City of Augusta, comprising tho corporation,
city court, fee.
10. Rates of storage and commission adopted by
the ware houso keepers of Augusta.
11. Customary freights between Savannah and
Augusta, adopted by the Steam Boat Company.
10. South Carolina. The civil and military or
ganization of that Stato ; tho sittings of tho several
courts; tho names of the sheriffs and clerks of
courts; Medical Colleges; and South Carolina
College.
13. South Carolina Rail Road, between Charles,
ton and Hamburg, rates of passage, rates of freight;
L .un cf departure from the • several stations, up.
ward and downward.
U. Federal Government. The names of tho
principal officers, &.C.
August 10—23.
HR. G. W. JUSON,
SURGEON D ENTJS T,
ATHENS.
Juno 28—15—tf.
PLANTATION FOR SALE.
FflpiilE Subscriber offers for sale his
-H- plantation, situated partly in Jack,
son and Clark counties,on the Oconee riv.
er, eight miles from Athens, containing
1,100 Acres of Land,
330 of which aro cleared and now in cultivation.
Tho plantation-has every improvement necessary
for the convenience of a planter. A commodious
one story dwelling, with an excellent well of water
in tho yard ; a large Gin house, 22 by 30 feet, with
two Cotton Gins,Packing Press and thrashing Ma
chine. Also, first rate negro houses, Stables, Car-
riage house. Cribs, Blacksmith Shop, and a sett of
Mills. Tho mills aro in first rate order, with two
setts of Burrs and- a sufficiency of water to drivo
them. Likewise, a saw mill in complete order.
The Dwelling House stands on an elevated hill,
commanding an extensive viow of the surround,
ing country, and the spot is not surpassed in point
of beauty and health by any in Iho country.
The above plantation wil bn sold on reasonable
terms. , T. HANCOCK.
Also for Sale.
T HE HOUSE AND LOT at pres.
ent occupied by Mrs. Scriycn. Tho
lot is one acre, nrj in addition to the
5- dwelling and out houses, it contains a
two story shop, which rents for'a fair price. •
Also for Sale,
T HE HOUSE AND LOT formerly occupied by
Capt. Taylor, and recently by Mr. A. M. Niahet.
For terms inquire of T. HANCOCK.
August 23—23—tf. > ...
tloctra*
WARE-HOUSE
AND
COHIIISSION BUSINESS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
^STOVALL Si SIMMONS, grateful for tho liberal
patronage of the public, respectfully advise them
that they continue tho above business at their
Fire-Proof Warc-Dottsc.
Business confided to their c.arc will meet their prompt
and careful attention, as heretofore.
The usual advances will bo made on Cotton, Goods,
Sic. stored with them.
Augusta, August 1831.—23—8t.
W ARE-HOUSE
AND
Tho following effusion to tho Helicon Springe,
appeared a few weeks ago in tho “Southern Whig;"
At the request of tho author, wc publish it with
some additions, corrections, Sic.
- Eos. Ban.
TO THE HELICON SPRINGS.
Hero mid thy shades where nature reigned supreme,
And spread on all around, hor robe of green,
.Once divelt a nation, savage, wild and free.
As the soft breeze that sweetly blows o’er thee.
Hero through thy vallies, and thy .pathways wild,
Once roam'd great nature’s rude, untutor’d child, -
Jealous, revengeful, treacherous, imt brave,—.
And here was woman lov’d, but yet a slave.
Yes, here upon this lone secluded spot,
Tho Indian maid, onco rear’d her sylvan grot.
Form’d of the clustering vines of branch and flower,
With wild and savage taste, her rustic bower.
Here her dark eye hath pierc’d tho Indians heart,
And won him, wildly with her native art
Forc’d his rude breast the sweets of love to know,
And conquer’d him, who conquered every foe.
Here onco tho warrior, reeking in the blood,
Of Savago slaughter, in his glory stood.
Breathing revengo on him whose stronger hand,
Had sited the life blood of his chosen Jiand. -
And hero when battle’s ruthless din was o’er,
And echo, silent, answered not its roar,—
The praises of the buried slain were rung, *
Mid savago dances, revelry and song. ~
But now behold ! how great a change is here.
Where reign’d the savage, and where roam’d the
deer;
No more bis wild notes, float upon tho breeze,
His homo is now the “ Helicon’’of ease.
A temple built for fashion’s restless feet,
With classic charms, usurps his lone retreat,
And-in its halls, with music, mirth and song,
The varied crowds each passing hour prolong.
Here woman reigns, ini elegance and grace,
With mind enlightened, beaming in her face,
Possess’d of every charm, and every art
That wins the soul, and captivates the heart.
Oh! long may’st thou, sweet Helicon allure.
The ever restless throng ; and hearts as pure.
As those rejoicing now, within, around,
In each succeeding summer still bo found.
»tr . ... . ■ J.
CORMISSION BUSINESS.
T HE undersigned having leased that commodious
BRICK FiRE.PROOF WARE.UOUSE in
this city, (formerly occupied by Messrs. Slaughter,
and I.ahuzan,) offers hla services to tho Planters and
Merchants, in a ~
General Commission Business.
He wiil be proparod at all times to maltc liberal Cash
advances on Cotton stored with him, and his best ex.
ertious used for the interest of those who may favor
him with their business.
ROBERT MALONE.
Augusta, July 30.—22—St.
NEW Gimum
Will. C. WAY—Agent,
(Next door to Messrs. Turpin <5* D’Antignac,)
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
AS just received from New York, the follow
icg Stnplo and Fancy DRY GOODS, all of
which fie will sell very cheap s
Rich flagged and painted French and English Mus
lim:, all prices and colors, and very cheap
Grecian Chintz Calicoes, quito new patterns, and in
great variety
7-8 and 4-4 French and English striped plaid and
plain colored Ginghams and Gingham Muslins
Black and white and lavender Ginghams
Real French 4.4 sprigged Calicoes for children’s
wear, and Seersucker Ginghams, small stripes,
for samo uso
Very rich whito, and green blond Cauzo Veils and
Shawls, new patterns
3-1 and 4-4 black and fancy colored twisted silk
Shawls
Crape and Gauzo do.
Bonnet and Cap Gauzo Ribbons, some very splen
did patterns
A fine assortment of Lustring Ribbons, from No. 1 1.4
to 39, all colors
Black Italian and G.ro dc Sair Silks
Pea green and bottle green do. for Bonnets
Striped, mixed, and plain colored Cotton Floren
tine, for summer wear
Blown, Slate, and Grass Cloth do.
White and colored Marseilles and Jeans
Linens, Shirtings, and Long Lawns, all warranted
freo from cotton mixture
Linen Cambrics, white and colored bordered Linen
Cambric Handkerchiefs
Lon- Lawn and Clear Lawn Imitation Handker
chiefs, with borders r ' - .
Brown and slate colored Linens, for summer wear
French Linen Napkins, with red and purplo borders,
all linen
5-4 and 6-4 Scotch linen Slice tings'and Diaper
Furniture Calicoes and Dimities
Long and Short Nankeena
Whito and fancy colored Cotton Hose and half Hose,
black and whito English and French silk do.
plain and omhroidorod
Ladies’ white, and assorted colors II- S. Gloves, of
tho very .best quality
Men’s do. do. do.
Bobbinet, Quilling, and Thread Laces-and Trim-
nvings ■,
4-4 and 3-4 best Flaxen Osnaburgs
4-4 Heavy Lowell Cotton do.
5.4 and 6.4 Brown Cotton Sheetings
3.4 and 4-4 Heavy and fine Brown Shirtings, sc.
lectod qualities of brands
3.4, 7.8, and 4-4 Bleached Shirtings, at all prices,
some equal to the English long cloth Shirtings
Thread. Needles, Pins, Tapes, Bobbin and Cord#,
K.c. &c. .
Juno 14—13—3m.
Ware-House, Factorage,
AND
Commission Business*
J’ jj 'IIE undersigned beg leave t
-EL turn their thanks to their friends
for the liberal patronage extended du
ring tho past season, and solicit its
continuance. They will continue to transact a general
Warc-Iloiise, Factorage, and
Commission Business,
at tho .same stand on South side Broad street, and
will be prepared to mnko liberal advances on all pro
duce in store. They have also tlio pleasure of. an
nouncing to their patrons that the damago sustained
in their buildings by firo, is altogether repaired; and
being lirc-proof, as well as disconnected with all other
buildings, the greatest possible safety may be antici
pated for produce left in their store. They carefully
refrain from all speculations upon cotton.
MASON RANDLE.
Augusta, August 9.—22—2aw3m.
STRAFED OR STOLEN,
I ^IROM a post in the main street of Athens, on
• Iho evening of Wednesday, tho Gth of August,
small brown Horse, seven qr eight years old, a
small v.hi'o spot in his forhead and soma white about
his feet, with a small lump on his back, not .quite
sound when taken away. Tho Horse had on a sad-
die and plain snaffle-bit bridle—the saddle about
half worn,'with one'plated and one common iron
stirrup. Any information will bn thankfully-receiv
ed, and a liberal reward will'be paid on delivery to
tho subscriber in Madison county, or to Peter Ash
ley in Athens. WILLIAM ADAIR.
Aug. 23—23—31. *
LAND DEEDS,
Sheriff’s Deeds, and Mortgages, neatly printed
onfine, strong paper, far sale here.
From the Flushing Journal.
A SACRED MELODf.
Since o’er thy footstool here below,
Such radicnt gems are strown, -*•
O vvhat magnificence must glow, * -
My God, about thy throne !
So brilliant here these drops of light.
There the full ocean rolls, how bright!
If night’s blue curtain of the sky.
With thousand stars inwrought,
iiunglikc a royal canopy.
With glittering diamonds fraught,
Be Lord, thy_temple’s outter veil,
What splendor at the shrine roust dwell!
The dazzling sun at noon tide hour,
Forth from his flaming vase.
Flinging o’er earth tho golden shower, •
Till vale and mountain blaze, .. ■'
But shows, O Lord, one beam of thine ;
What, then, the day, where thou dost shins!
Alt! how shall these dim eyes endure
That, moon of living-rays,
Or how my spirit so -impure,
Upon thy glory gaze !..
Anoint, O Lord, anoint my sight.
And rube me for that world of light.
pUntcUms.
STRAYED,
F ROM, the lot of the subscriber in Athens, a Bay
Pony, roached. mano and long tail; Tho per
son returning the same, will bo rewarded.
hYM. R. CUNNINGHAM.
August 23—23—2t; '
From the New England Magazine for July.
THE BIRD’S NEST IN TIlE MOON.
Love, on this earth the only mean thou art.
Whereby we hold intelligence with Heaven.
And it is thou that only dost impart
The good that to mortality is given.
O sacred bond, by time thou art not broken !
- O thing divine, by angels to be 6poken !
The Legend of Pierce Gates ton, by Drayton.
-Did you ever, my friendly reader, in re
visiting your native place ; from which, like
rock, and finally past the Moon,* my Imagin
ation became dizzy, and I felt like a man in
a balloon, who has bid furewcll to sublunary'
scones, and scarcely expects again to tread'
the terrestrial ball. Bounding billows ! how
did you roll in majesty to my youthful eye !
Mighty scenes! how did you impress my
childish fancy with the first ideas' of vastitude
and magnificence ! Alas! .our conceptions
are all relative. . Every thing depends on
the state of the mind. One may see St.
Peter’s Church at Rome with less etribtion
than our State House, and stand at the foot
of ACtna itself without feeling or fenri
I love to visit those scenes ; for they give
me back the green days of childhood and
pleasure with all the freshness.of the origin
al impression. I do ttot mean to say that 1
view these scenes with the admiration and-
delight, with which they were once bbhetd.
But they form a kind of medium, a perspective
gloss, by which one can look back to the
time when every prospect was pleasing be-
cause every object was new. I love to go
to the Moon. I never shake off sublunary
cares and sorrows so completely, as when I
am fairly landed on that beautiful island. A
man in tho Moon, may see Castle Island, the
city of Boston, the ships in the harbor, the
silver waters of our little Archipelago, all ly
ing, as it were at his feet. There you may
be at onco social'and solitary; social, because
you see the busy world before you, solitary, be
cause there is not a single creature on the
island, except a few feeding cows ; to dis-
turb your repose.
1 was there last summer, and was survey
ing the scene with my usual emotions, when
my attention was attracted by tho whirring
wings of a little sparrow, whom, in walking,
I had frightened from her nest. It may be
necessary, perhaps, to tell some of the Clerks in
Washington-street, who, six months from'the
country, are apt to forget all the objects among
which they were born and-bred, that this
bird always builds its nest on tho ground.
I have seen their nests in tho middle of a
corn-hill, curiously placed in tho centre of
the five green stalks, so that it was difficult,
at hoeing time, to dress the hill without bu-
rying the nest. This sparrow had built her
nest as usual on the ground, beneath a little
tuft of grass, more rich and thick set than the
rest of the herbage around it. I cast a care
less glance at the nest, saw the soft down
that lined its internal part, tho four little speck
led eggs which inclosed a parent’s hope,
marked the cows that were feeding around it:
and I came away without the feast imagine
tion that I should write a dissertion on the
Bird’s Nest in the Moon.
But our minds are strange things. That
bird’s nest has haunted me ever since
could not but inquire why providence, who
inspires all animals with an unerring instinct,
had not moved the. foolish creature to build
her habitation in a safer place. A multitude
of huge animals were feeding around it, one
tread of whose cloven feet would crush both
bird and progeny into ruin. I could not but
reflect on the precarious condition to which
the creature had committed her most tender
hopes. I was thinking how the interest of
two beings, both created bv the same high
hand and supported by the same kind power,
might cross each other, and neither of them
know it, until the fatal moment when the fee
bler might be annihilated by the stronger pow-
er. A cow is seeking a bit of grass ; she
steps aside merely to gratify that idle appe
tite : she treads on-the nest, and destroys
the offspring of tho defenceless bird. Thus,
what is a trifle to one being is destruction to
another. > Before I proceed any farther,
I think proper to.apprize the reader that I
was in a right frame of mind to write a
meditation on a broom-stick; and, however
much wits may snoer, and critics condemn,
I am determined to make something of my
bird's nest.
As I came away from the-island, I reflec.
hcatt t0 COn *l 1 h a ve often thought it was unfortunate
demn thy folly, but rather to weep over thy that some of the great geniuses, who fintro
condition and my own. Our situations are undertaken ta enlighten tho worid by their
exactly alike. Thy choicest comforts come infidelity, were not married men. It would
entwined with para; and no sooner ta thy have done more tohelp them to digest theven.
callow young developed, than thou feeiest all om of their spleen, than all tho iSg Volumes
the cares that distract a parent s heart. How of rejoinders which have been written by met-
often hast thou been driven from thy nest! ^physical theologian. For, to say nothin*
How often hast thou fluttered thy wings- in of the powerful smiles of a woman, when that
agony, and taken up the wail of sorrow, as if woman is your wife, reflecting and beaming
thy children were already lost. . The care- the Very benevolei.ee of a creatin'* God —
less step, so indifferent to another- was. rap- there are some things in a married life which
ture or despairMp thee. aro enough to overthrow tbeiaith of tho inost
A man must be a fool not to perceive that stubborn infidel, that ever apportioned his in*
these remarks are written by a parent ; credulity to his ignorance. I myself was
I am sure they are dictated by. feelings, I rather inclined to infidelity when l was first
which none but a parent can understand, l marriqd. But the smiles of tho honey-moon
Well, then, let mo tell the secret, and be as softened mo, and I bought a Bible to lie in our.
foolish as the best of them, since, in this haifl parlor. When my wife first sent me after
age, none but a fool would have a feeling heart. I the doctor at midnight, my faith began to wa-
The, other evening I walked into the chamber ver; and I. was absolutely staggered when 1
where my children-.were sleeping. There I heard the new-born infant cry. As I looked
was Nathan with the clothes half kicked down, oh the little miracle, l war. ashamed, and re*
his hands thrown carelessly over his head, nounced my former faith; and every net*
tired with play, now testing in repose; there I prattler, that ha9 risen around me, has made
waa little Sal with her balmy breath and her I me a better Christian. I how actually read
rosy checks, sleeping and looking like inno- j the Bible with my children, arid we pray over
cence itself. There was Lucy, who has just it. I sometimes tell my former companions
begun to prattle, and runs daily with tottering j in infidelity, when , they try tp flout me out of
steps and .lisping voice to ask her father fo { my religion, that they, are welcome to our.old
toss her into the air. [I solemnly -wish, if belief—to all its wisdom, and all its comforts,
these remarks are read -by any youthful bach-1 They are old bachelors still.. -
elor of forty, who boards and means to board And no wonder that such an unnatural life-
all his days in Trcmont House, that he would j should lead to such an absyrd faith. Hume
read not a syllabic farther.] As I looked
upon these sleeping innocents, I could not but |
regard them as so many little birds, wliiclr I
must fold under my wing, and protect, if pos
sible, in security in my nest. But when.I 1
was an old bachelor, and every page of his
philosophy smells of his folly. Hobbs was an
old bachelor, and so was Voltaire, and Rous*
seau, Jeremy Bentham, and Tom Paine. I
have always thought it a thousand pilies, that
thought of the huge cows that were feeding Madamoisellc Curchoddid not wind her chains
around them ; the ugly hoofs that might crush
them into ruin ; in short, when I.rcmembered
the Bird’s Nest in the Moon, I' trembled and
wept. . • ■ v'
But why weep? Is there not a special Pro
vidence in the fall of a sparrow ? It is very
possible, that the nest which l saw was not
in so precarious a condition as it appeared to
be. Perhaps some providential instinct led
the bird to build her fragile house in the rank
er grass, which the kine never bite, and, of
course, on which they would not be likely to
tread; perhaps some kind impulse may guide
that species so as not to tread even on the
bird’s nest. At any . rate, chance might lead
to an escape. I have never heard, and 1
despair now of ascertaining the important fact,
more effectually around Gibbon’s heart. J
imagine that Cupid, the little god of love,
might have expelled a great deal of Paganism,
and perhaps infidelity, from the pages of hfo
splendid history. Some to be sure, will be
infidels, in the bosom of wedlock, as some
would be fools in the very palaces of Solo-
mon. But this is not the order of nature*
Her virtuous instincts lead to truth.
In that beautiful dialogue Which Plato has
written, in whiefi- he describes tho closing,
scone in the life of Socrates, Plato .makes his
master Socrates, in the course of the discus*
sion, attempt to aocount for the existence of
scepticism; and he traces it to the same, cause
as that which produces misanthropy. Ho
thinks that men of rasli judgments and im-
that the nest I saw was actually crushed hv l«Mv«cai|)ci9, miuu tucy uuve onco confided
the foot ofa cow. Perhaps the joyful moth- l ^ a character. superficially virtuous, and have
er saw her young expand Jtheir wings, and m- J f oun d themselves deceived, pass a judgment
herit their paternal air; perhaps the progeny on w hole species, and spend tho rest of
of those very eggs aro now singing m the t ^ 0 j r jj ves j n Te venging their disappointment
groves around Boston. There is a merciful by raiUng ^ manUind . In Hke mann er, he
God,, whose care and protection extend over r 8U pp 03e 9 ) that when a hasty mind has bc-m
all his works, who takes care of the sparrow s | deceived by an apparent demonstration' arid
afterwards discovers-that the demonstration is
children and of mine.
I think I have road somewhere, that, if a f u i ae> it loses its confidence in all reasoning,
man wishes to learn to pray, he must go to I an d views all things in the universe as float-
sea; but with all due submission to the an- ing, like the waters of tfie Euripus, withrijt
thorof this remark, I.think we should rather
say—Let him be married and have a . family
of children. It is almost impossible to be an
infidel with a little progeny rising round you.
If Hume could have seen a little lisping girl,
come and climb his knees and address him as
a father—“ Papa, who made all things V’ ho
would have almost involuntarily answered—
God. If a man wishes to learn to pray for
protection during the night, let him go, as I
have done, and see his children asleep, and
remember the pestilence that walks in dark
ness. Let hinriexperience the feelings of au
anxious father bending over the sleeping forms
of his tender children, and conscious of the
me, you had been separated by many years 1 te j that this bird’s situation, iu her humble
of wandering, experience tho sensation of I defenceless nest, might bo no unapt emblem
littleness, with which every object seemed J Q f man in this precarious world of uncertain-
clothed, shrinking in its dimensions as your ty and sorrow. We are impelled, by. some
order and without end. ' Such a men is de
prived of the certainty of real existence, and
imputes to reason the darkness of his own mind.
i have generally noticed that infidelity and
misanthropy have on affinity for each other,
and are often combined in the same heart.—
But how is .a man to avoid misanthropy ? No
man ever became a roisanthorpe under tho
smiles of an affectionate wife, and surrounded
by a family of ruddy, children. These are
tender chains, which connect us with the tinj*
verse; '-they bind us in harmony with our spe
cies; they lead us to fee! our need of a high^
er protector,-—to see the glory and the goo a.
ness, and therefore to believe inibe existence
nature.
For Sale or Rent,: .
T HAT extensive and convenient TAVERN in
the city of M ACQN, lately occupied by Mr. L.
A. EnwiN. It is well furnished and conveniently
fitted up for a public houso, with extensive stables See.
As it is well known, a particular description of tho
eita.blishmerit is deemed unnecessary. Persons wish
ing t 0 purchase will please call and examine tho
premises for themselves. ■ An -accommodating pur-
chase can be mado Oh time, and warranted tttlcs giv
en. For particulars apply to J. Cowles, Esq., mer.
chant of Maqon, or to the subscriber in this place.
JOHNNISBET.
Athens, Ang. 30—24—tf.
The Georgia Journal and Macon Telegraph wil‘
please give tho above 4 insertions and forward their
accounts to this offieo for payment w "
eye had become enlarged by a familiarity
with the nobler scenes of a wider world ? I
was born on the northern side of tfic Blue
Hills, which seemed, to my boyish eyes, as
the loftiest mountains that ever propped the
-incumbent sky. My first expedition on-the
ocean was down the capacious waters of Dor
chester bay, in one -of those vast floating cas-
ties; called a wherry, or a canoe, to catch
those mighty monsters, of the deep, denomina-
NOTICE.
'W® ftriqwain any person from trading for a noto
w w of hand executed by us, payable to G. W.
Wood of Jasper, Tennessee, for Two Hundred Dol-
lars; given in July, 1833, and payable-in October j
as we did not receive any consideration for said note,
and are detciminad not to pay it. ^
A. J. PATTON,
. C. L. WILLIAMS.
May 31.—11—3m.
of the tenderest instincts of our nature, to
form the conjugal connection; the eye of
some matchless beauty attracks our attention,
and melts our hearts ; we form the tender
union and we build our nest; committing to
it the deposites of our gentlest affections.
Bat where do we build this nest 1 Are wc
any wiser than the foollish bird ? No, the
nest is on the ground' of terrestrial calami
ties, and a thousand'invisible dangers are roll
ed tom-cod. O how did mv heart expand I foo V ouhd. We are doubled in wedlock and
as xve ploughed out of the great bason of wa- multiplied in children, and stand but a broad.
tetS called MiH-creck! What emotions °l I er mark for the cruel arrows ofdeath anddes-
subfimity did 1 feel when I reached the iunc. tni ction which are shot from every side.
turo where the dark Naponset, the mother of \Vhat are diseases in their countless forms,
frogs and mudturtles, rolls her copious streams accidents by flood and fire; the seduction of
to join thebillowsof Boston harbor! Whatsen- temptation^ and even half the human species
satioos of alarm entered my breast as we doub- themselves, but so many huge cows feeding
led that long cape called 1* arm-bar, renowned I ariiund our nest, and "ready, every moment,
for periwinkles and Haras! s How did Ilook to cnlsl , ^ dearesf hopes, With xatetew in*
with an aching eye over the boundless sur: j difference, beneath their brutal tread ? Some-
face of brine which separates Farm-bar from ^ we sit at homo, we can see the
Dor ehesteri heights, now ytleped South BoS- calamity’coming at g distafice. We hear the
ton- And, to look still further into the i®-1 breathing of tho vast monster ; we mark its'
penetrable regions of the north, and see, be- j wa vering path—now looking towards us in..a
yond tho forts, the dome of the Stato House I direct line—now capaciously turning for a
and the steeples of Boston, liftihg their tops roo fi,ent aside. We see the swing of its
in the bluo horizon, almost beyond the ken dreadful horns, the savace raoacitv of its bru
supposed must bo the shores of some ot the j flection that another and another are still be
westenYcouritties in Europe, - But when We 1 : -
camc'to sail through the* narrows of Bquam j «Mocn Liana, ia Boston Hart or.
thousand dangers, seen and unseen, that ho- J ^j 0 d.
ver around their defenceless heads. It was J . When a man is once on a wrong tract; eve*
over her dear little sleeping infants,—if she J fy g(e p j, e ta {j es only leads him'so much farth*
had any,—I imagine, that Mrs. Barbauld-j er QU ^ Q f the way. God, when he built the
penned the following beautiful remarks: “If I ^rfd, designed to pack men together in tami*
prayer were not enjoined to the perfection it jj es % an d it is tho only way in which you can
would be permitted to the weakness of the [throw the human species together, without
standing itf ft public road, arid saw-a team o
three yokes of oxen and a horse, moving ve-;
rv fast along tho road without a driver. A*
little child was standing in "tho road directly
before the wagon, with no time for escaping.
The whole Irain of cattlo passed directly over
the child, throwing it down, and apparently
crushing it into jelly. Every spectator thought
it dead; its life was not worth la pin’s fee;
the anxious mother ran to rescue- her off
spring; but, alas, too late; and her piercing
shrieks spoke her despair. But lo, when the
little urchin was picked up, instead of befog
found a Corpse, as was by all expected,' its
roguish smile seemed to say that it regarded
the event as a good joke, whieh it.would Wil-
-lingly see repfeated. Every one of the beasts,
though moving so rapidly t had contrived to
shun the childand'thia event, together with
the Bird’s Nest in the 3foon,.bave convinced
mo, that verily there is a God, sad that be
governs'the world by a parficu! V" ptoviaencc.
We should be betrayed into it, if J muring tlieir principles and endangering
we thought it sin ; and pious 'ejaculations-] their virtue. A man goes into a splendid
would escape our lips, though we were pbfi- j city,^-he-becomes too licentious, of too lazy,
ged to preface them with—God forgive" hie or mo proud to establish a family. He pas*
for praying!” I ses his.tim<> among the rebicund inmates of a
A family of children walking amidst a thou-1 fashionable boarding-house. He spends his
sand dangers, and often escaping, is one ofl even i n gs at the theatre or billiard-table. • He
the most striking proofs of a particular Prov- ra jj 3 a t woman, and hates children, because
idericethat ever met mv mind. To talk about he on j y knows 4ho vilest of the sex, and haa
the general laws of nature, immutable an d J ne ver seen a child which was his own. His.
unbendible to T the interposing will of the Dei- l.affections become warped, his heart is insul*
ty! Away with such metaphysical trash: it fed ; c and, hecause he has lost his humanity*
is just fit for old bachelors to write. Until I I be bas neviir found -his religion. O how I
had children, I never knew what the Scrip- J should-lHco* before subh a feHow goes to his
tures meant,-when they say that the very hairs j Jonely grai’e, and his rotten carcass, manures
of my head are all numbered. 1 was oncej ground, tothrow into his narrow heart,
J * oue straw from my Bird’s Nest tn the Moon.
Necatke Innocence.—" What’s tho mat*
ter; John n
Laint done nothin* father. .
“ Well, what aro you crying for then, yot»
lubber?”. ' . {
«I Was afraid you’d whip me.
u What! whip you when you hav’nt dona
“TviSu.” ''
u Go into the house you booby.”
John wont into the house, arid his father
went down to the farm. Very soon his fath.
eVcame back in a rage, and laying a cow--
hide over the urchin’s- back, said, did I
n&t tell you when I went away, to hoo tha>
egdV* . ' ; ~ " \ ■
- « Yes, Sir—but you told me jiist now. that
voh.wouldVt whip ma if J fiad’at wars Mi
thing.” ; -:".V