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CHILDREN.
BY MISS CATHERINE 11. WATERMAN.
I love a band of children
That gather in their mirth,
They are the brightest blossoms,
Upon our blooming earth.
They bring us back glad feelings,
And scatter o’er our ways,
With their own shining presence,
The light of early days.
Old scenes start up before us,
And youth's romances rise,
With all the perish’d beauty
That used to glad our eyes.
Again we tread the pathways,
We loved to tread of yore,
And our own laughter's echo,
Breaks on the ear once more.
Time, seems to have forgotten
To mark us in his flight,
Day looks as tho’ its brightness
Since then had known no night.
A band of happy children,
Is our own pictur'd past,
The glow that gleams around them,
Upon our heart's was cast.
Our shouts, like theirs, rang freely
Upon the summer air.
And the same breezes wafted
Our locks of sunny hair.
They quit us—and the darkness
Ofyears comes o’er the sight,
We feel time’s mighty pinion,
Has swept us in its flight.
Our laughter has no echo,
Our hush'd hearts cease to glow
With the deep swell of gladness,
That fill'd them long ; go.
The sunny locks are darken’d,
Thro’ which the breezes played,
And all our summer brightness,
ti-.-
Oh! for youths blessed morning,
Os feelings free and wild,
Would I could be forever,
A bright eyed happy child.
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SIINCEL L A Y V .
[From the Cincinnati Daily Gazette.]
A RELIC OF TIIE REVOLUTION.
Among the eminent actors in the Rev
olution of 177(5, probably no man more
estimable for his personal merits, as a pri
vate man, or more able and efficient, as a
soldier, statesman, or politician, in the
best sense of the words, was found more !
capable, and practically efficient, than
(Jen. Nathaniel (Jreene, of Rhode Island.
Whether viewed as directing the work
of destruction, in the hour of battle, or
encountering the almost insurmountable j
wants of the army and the country, or
resisting the formidable force which the
British Government employed, in order
to reduce the State to their subjection ;
his conduct was such and his success so
great, as to entitle him to the perpetual
recollection and gratitude of all who justly
appreciate our privileges as a free people,
aiid the great and pervading influence, the
principles and practice of equal rights,
just legislation, and a free people, who
control and regulate their Government, as
is done in these U. States, is excrcisiii ,r
and pervading those older nations of the
European world, from whence generally
we are all derived.
Some incidents in the life of this eminent
soldier & citizen, may entertain and profit
the reader; and while the writer admits
he almost worships the memory of Nathan
iel Greene, he has had good grounds for the
matter herein stated. Part being derived
from those whom lie understood to be
relations of the man; and others from
accredited printed authorites.
An eminent divine of this city, in a
recent lecture, stated, that in his younger
days, he had personally labored on the
iron—such was Gen. Greene’s original
occupation; and he is stated to have carried
on a forge, and been distinguishable for
j his gf>r,d qualities as a man of business.—
!He was born and raised in the Friends’
Society. On the prospect of war, he
associated with others, in organizing and
! preparing for war. When the war began,
j in opposition to his connexions, he resolv
ed on devoting himself as a soldier, in tho
cause; and a more dauntless, resolute, and
j capable one, was not found in the contin
| entnl service.
It is stated, when his mother found oppo
sing his design was useless, she said, in
simple Quaker style, “ Well, Nathaniel, if
thee is resolved to go as a soldier, never
come back with a wound in thy hack.”
One naturally is drawn to the conclusion,
that such a mother, and such a son, arc
mutually entitled to the greatest honor,
and dircctlv honor each other. In the
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 21,1838.
army he soon became conspicuous, and
attracted the confidence and regard of
Gen. Washington. It is stated, that Gen.
Washington, after he became apprised of
his capacity, gave his advice to Congress,
that if any casualty befel himself, they
should give the chief command to Gen.
Greene. In all the services he was engaged
in he was conspicuous for unflinching
resolution in battle, and skill, and ingenui
ty, in meeting all contingencies before, in, !
aud after his conflicts were over.
It was remarked of hint, that he was
more formidable the morning after the
defeat than most Generals after a victory.
To go much into details, is beyond the
limits allowed in a newspaper article. It
is stated that when an attempt was made
by a British detachment from New Y ork,
to invade New Jersey, about 17(80, lie be
ing in command with inadequate means,
near Springfield, the skilful and resolute
measures lie adopted, defeated them of
their objects, and compelled them to re
tire.
In the attempts to surprise and cripple
the English forces near Philadelphia, the
advance was obstructed by a small force
occupying Mr. Chew’s stone house. Gen.
Greene advised, that a sniaii detachment
be left to look after the party in the house,
while the main force should press for
ward and effect the object in view. The
chief doubted, and hesitated, consulted,
the time passed, the British received no
tice and the plan was foiled. Afterwards,
it was perceived, Greene’s course, if acted
upon, would have been successful. In
the course of events the British army left
Philadelphia, and Gen. Washington made
an effort, which proved of no substantial
use, to arrest their progress at the battle
of Brandywine. In this conflict, the di
vision under Greene was the only one
which partially kept them in check. Af
ter the British made New York their head
quarters, and continental paper had explo
ded, the American forces were nearly dis
organized, and Congress had no means.
Gen. Washington, in this hopeless dilem
ma, urged on Gen. Greene to become
Q u arter-M aster-G ener al, aud in some
shape keep the force together. Greene
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event of battle, he should act regularly in
line. This was acceded to, and his serv
ices have been represented as the means
by which the cause of independence was
sustained. His sagacity and address be
ing equal to the extremity. At this peri
od the letter, of which a copy is attached,
was written; and merits great confidence,
being tho testimony of a man who com
bines all the qualities of the good man,
the Hero, Statesman, Politician, and Man
ager; free of duplicity, vice, insolence,
and vanity. A man of sound, solid,
common sense, and judgment.
After Gates had been at Camden, Con
gress called on Washington to name an
officer who could retrieve the South. The
chief named Greene, who readily assum
ed the desperate task. YVlien he assum
ed the command, liis force and means
j were w holly unavailing; he was obliged to
fly before liis powerful foe. His policy
was to get the wreck of Gates’ army into
Virginia, and there recruit. He is stated
after the battle of the Cou pons, fearing
I Gen. Morgan might go into the moun
| tains, to have crossed the country and ro-
J quired Morgan lo retreat with him into
| Virginia, which tiie hero declined, only on
j condition Greene took the responsibili
ity of what Morgan deemed a wrong
| step. The retreat was successfully effect
■ ed. and when Greene was in Virginia,
1 Lord Cornwallis halted. Greene was in
j stunt in preparation, aud having recruited
liis force until lie felt competent, resolved
jon going hack into Carolina. When rc
| monstrated with, on account of the great
hazard and peril, lie showed liis dominate
J character by the memorable words, “V
■ will recover the country or perish in the
ejjort."
He passed over, and in March, 1781/
fought under great disadvantage, the hat-1
tie of Guilford; in which the British,!
though they held the field, were so crip- j
pled they left the interior, and went to j
the sea-board, where their ships could he i
reached; and at Yorktown closed their 1
career. It is stated that Gen. Greene, in I
1 dressing his head, wore liis ear-locks curl
j ed, and in this battle had one cut off by a \
j musket ball, being all the injury he ever j
j received in battle. An excellent trait;
he and isplayed, was liis decision in suppress-1
ing the civil war between Whigs and To-!
ries; and desertion from liis camp, which,
by severe examples, were suppressed. He
shared the hardships of his .camp, and
won the good will of liis soldiers; of this,
the battle of the Eutaw Springs, the clos
ing contest for the country, is a striking
evidence, it being stated, his soldiers ad
hered to him, even destitute of clothing:'
| some in this battle arc said to have had 110
dress hut breech cloths; these men,
ing their guns at their sides, on the word 1
given, rushed upon the British regulars!
with their guns and bayonets, and broke, I
and drove them, w inning the battle and I
1 recovering the country as their General
declared he would do. The British retir
ed to Charleston. In the language of the
Poet,
“ his deeds proclaim
The genius of the matchless man,
Whose banners often gleamed amid the solar
rays.
Among the lightning's glare—
Mid torrid realms of more than burning days;
bad haunts of death, and plagues, and pu
trid air.
While the shrill music lengthening down the
line,
Urge rank, on rank, the dubious Btrife to try—
And Greene triumphant ruled the vengeful
storm.”
A wonderful discovery of secret blood
(shedding, which ever speaks “with most
miraculous organ,” lias lately taken place
( in Ireland. Three brothers lived togeth
er in the county of Carlow: one of them,
the eldest, was the possessor of consider
able wealth, and frequently declared that
his nephews and nieces s r be
the better for bis moneypr as he was- re
solved to leave it to 'illegitimate
children residing in a neijrhbdßng ’town.
This man was suddenly iripicd; his broth
ers gave out that he had gone Ri America
and the report was currently believed.
Several months passed on—a child, not
yet four years old, the son of one of the
remaining brothers, became alarmed
when left in the dark, refused to go to
bed alone, and at last, so much bad his
horror of night increased, cried whenev
er the declining sun pointed out the
usual hour for the children’s retiring. No
attention was paid to his fears, till a
neighbor, kindly inquiring into the re a-1
son of his timidity, ascertained that when
ever he was alone in the dark, lie saw his
dead uncle with a great wound in his j
throat—and heard him struggle and moan
just as lie did on the night when his (the
boy’s) fatht r rut hint with a knife. The
police authorities were quietly informed
of the child’s remark; he was sent for, j
and privately questioned, when lie stated
that one night, some time past, lie was ly
ing awake in his little bed, when lie saw
his father and his uncle thrusting a big
knife into the throat of bis uncle Larry,
who moaned and cried a short time, and
then laid unite still. That his father and
Ins uncle seemed very much irightonod,
and, tying uncle Larry up in the bed
quilt, they carried him out of the house,
aud did not come back again all night;
that when lie got up in the morning early,
he saw his father burying the bed-quilt in
a big hole in the garden. He had said
nothing about his uncle Larry to any one,
although lie had heard many persons in
quire after him, and had been present
when his fatiier had assigned a voyage to
America as the reason for the absence of
his brother. Many months elapsed; and
the child still kept his secret, although lie
had not been urged to secrecy by the
murderers, who were ignorant of his
knowledge of their crime; ' hut when
alone m the dark and silent chamber, the
scene ot blood, his imagination pictured
the repetition of the murder, and the hor
ror of the nightly visitation became too i
I much for the child’s endurance—hut with j
! that fit a I blindness which so often affects!
; the guilty, neither his father nor liis un
■ cle noticed the frequency of his com
plaints. The fratricides were arrested—
the garden searched—and in the spot
! pointed out by the hoy, the bed-quilt,
| heavily stained with blood, was discover
! ed, blit the body of the victim has not
I keen found. A niece of the murdered
i man is also implicated in the crime. The
j child has been removed to Dublin, and
j will constitute the principal evidence
| against his wretched lather at the ensuing
! assizes.
Tie Mii.i.stom: that Runaway - with
the Man. The boors of Scliilda had
buiita mill, and with extraordinary labor
they had quarried a mill stone for it,
out of a quarry w hich lay on the summit
of a high mountain; and when the stone
was finished they carried it with great
Jabot and pain, down the hill.—When
they had got to the bottom, it occurred to
one of then, that they might have spared
tlieufcclvs the trouble of carrying it down,
by Iftting it roll down. “Verily,” said he
“ vv«are the stupidest of fools, to take these
extrjordinary pains to do that which we
migjt have done with so little trouble.
Welvill carry it up, and then let it roll
dowi the hill by itself as we did before,
with the trees which we felled for our
coulcil house.” This counsel pleased
then all, and with greater labor they car
riei the stone to the top of the mountain
agah, and were about to roll it down,
whai one of them said, but how shall we
knov where it runs? or who will he able
to til us aught about it? “Why,” said
tliebailiff, who had advised the stone’s
hciig carried up again, “this is very easi
ly Managed; one of us must stick in this
hoi/(for the millstone had a great hole in
thqmiddlc) and run down with it.” This
wa agreed to, and one of them having
chosen for the purpose thrust liis
he«l through the hole, and ran down the
hill with the millstone.
Mow at the bottom of the mountain 1
I was a deep fishpond, into which the stone
! rolled, and the simpleton with it, so that
the Schildburgers lost both stone and man,
| and not one of them knew what had be
come of them. And tl[ey felt sadly an
| gered against their old companion who
j had run down the hill with the stone, for
they considered that he had carried it off,
for the purpose of disposing of it. So they
published a notice in all the neighboring j
boroughs, towns, and villages, calling on j
them, “ if any one came there with a mill-1
stone round his neck, that they should
treat him as one who had stolen the com-!
moil goods and give him to justice.” But
tiie poor man lay in the pond dead. Had
lie been able to speak, he would have been
willing to tell them not to worry themselves
on liis account, for lie would give them !
their own again. But his load pressed so [
heavily upon him, and carried him so deep j
in the water, that he after drinking water,
enough—more indeed than was good for
him—died, and he is dead at the present
day; and dead lie will, shall, and must re
main.— [Foreign Quarterly Review.
Value of Birds. Some of tho ad
vantages of a general scientific survey of
our territory, are pointed out in the fol
lowing extract from a document present
ed to the Massachusetts Legislature:
It will of course be asked, what direct
good may he expected from accomplish
ing such an object. Os what consequence
is it to the farmer, to know any thing
about birds, arid hugs, and shells? A few
examples may illustrate the importance of
a zoological survey. Animals arc destroy
ed, whose natural habits render their de
struction of doubtful utility such as crows,
black birds and woodpeckers. It is true
that the crow pulls up the blades of corn
for the sake of the kernel at its base.
But then he preserves a ten fold greater
quantity from the inroads of the worms
which he devours. “Why then should
the farmer be so ungrateful,” says Mr.
Audubon, “when lie secs such services
rendered him by a provident friend, as to
persecute that friend, even to the death!”
When I know, by experience, the gener
osity of the people, I cannot but wish that
they would reflect a little, and become
, more imiulffent towards our poor, humble
harmless, and even most serncoame mra,
I ‘l'e crow.” History tells us, “that when
V irginia at mi enormous expense, had ex
tirpated the little crow, the inhabitants
would willingly have bought them hack
again, at double the price, that they might
devour insects.” Also, that when the
farmers of New England, by offering a
reward of three pence per head on the
crow blackbird, had nearly exterminated
them, insects increased to such a degree
as to cause a total loss of the herbage:
and the inhabitants were obliged to ob
tain their liny from Pennsylvania and oth
er places. No bird is more universally
or unjustly persecuted than the woodpeck
er, because of liis supposed injury to the
tree. lie is furnished by a kind provi
dence, with a bill capable of penetrating
the hark and a long tongue, to draw out
the insects which are destroving the tree.
It is also usual to stone the sparrow
from our gardens, under the supposition
that he picks up the seeds which wo have
deposited there, w hen lie is really devour
ing nothing hut the grubs and other in
sects, in which the rich garden earth
abounds, and which are the real destroy
ers o( tho seeds. It has been calculated
by observation, that a single sparrow,
with her young, devours 3,350 caterpil
lars, in a week, or 480 per day.
Whitewashing extraordinary. The
Rev. Mr. Williams, whose return to the
South Seas noticed in the Herald a few
days ago, gives, in one of liis narratives,
a laughable account of the effect produc
ed 011 the natives of one of the Islands by
a successful attempt which he made to
convert the coral of their shores into
lime. After having lauglted at the pro
cess of burning, which they believed was
to cook the coral for food, w hat was their
astonishment when in the morning they
found the missionary’s cottage glittering
in the rising sun, white as snow! They
I danced, they sung, they shouted, they
1 screamed for joy. The whole island wa#
soon in commotion, given up to wonder
and curiosity. 'Fhe bon ton immediately
voted the whitewash a cosmetic and a
Kalydor, and superlatively happy did ma
ny a swarthy coquette consider herself
could she but enhance her charms hi a >
dab of the white brush. And now party
spirit run high, as it will do in more ciy
ilized countries, as to who was or who
was not entitled to preference. One par
ty urged their superior rank and riches;
a second got the brush and were deter
mined at all events to keep it; and a
third to overturn the whole, that they
might obtain some of the sweepings.
They did not scruple to rob each other
of the little share that some had been so
happy as to procure. But soon new
lime was prepared, and in a week not a
hut, a domestic utensil, a war club, or
a garment, but was white as snow; not
an inhabitant hut what had his skin paint-j
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cd with the most grotesque fluUlßu, not
a pig hut what was similarly whitened;
and even mothers might be seen in every
direction capering with extravagant ges
tures, and yelling with delight at the su
perior beauty of their whitewashed in
■ funts.—[English paper,
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1 Industry. The following anecdote
| may give some encouragement tothf m-
I dustrious husbandman:— Not long ago, a
country gentleman had an estate of j£2oo
| a year, which he kept in his own hands,
1 until lie found hinteeif so much iu debt,
that to satisfy l*is creditors, be was oblig
ed to sell the hdlf, and to let the remain
der to a farmer for twenty-one years.
Towards the expiration of the lease the
! farmer coming one day lo pay his .rent,
1 asked the gentleman whether be would
| sell the farm. "Why, will you buy it?”
j said the gentleman. "If you will part
with it, and we can agree,” replied the
farmer. “That is exceedingly strange,”
said the gentleman.— “ Pray, toll me how
it happens, that, while I could not lire
upon tw ice as much land, for which I
pay no rent, you are regularly paying me
a hundred a year for your farm, and able
in a few years, to purchase it?” “The
reason is plain,” answered the ’farmer:
“you sat still, and said, ‘go!’ I got up, and
said ‘come!’—you laid in bed and enjoyed
your case; I rose in the morning, and
minded my business.”
David Crockett. —Col. Forbes has
recently related to us an interesting
anecdote of the celebrated Crockett. — At
the commencement of the war the latter
arrived at Nacogdoches accompained by
several volunteers. Soon after their arrival
they proceeded lo the office of Col. Forbes,
(w ho was then first judge of that municip
| ality,) to take the oath of allegience. The
Colonel immediately wrote out the follow
ing form:
“ I do solcmcnly swear that I will bear
true allegiance to the provisional Govern
ment of Texas, or any future Government
! that may be hereafter declared, and that
I will serve her honestly and faithfbily
1 against all her enemies and oppressors
| whatsoever, and observe and obey the
! orders of the Governor of Texas, the
wullis illlll tlcorooo oftlio proennt &i. future
authorites, and the orders of the officers
appointed over me, according to the rules
and articles for the Government of Texas,
so help me God.”
' Upon offering it to Crockett, he refused
to sign it, saying that he was willing to
take an oath to support any future repub
lican Government, but could not subscribe
liis name to this form as the future gov
ernment might he despotic, the Colonel
therefore inserted the word republican
between the words future and government,
and Crockett readily signed the instru
ment. The original has lately been
deposited in the office of the Secretary of
War, in which the word republican appears
interlined and beneath it is the autograph
| of David Crockett.— Texas Telegraph.
I Quackery.— Dr. F , a physician
I of Montpelier, France, was in thehabitof
I employing a very ingenious artifice. When
he came to a town where he was not known
he pretended to have tost his dog, & order
ed the public crier to offer, with beat of
| drum, a reward of twenty-five louis to
whoever should brjng it to him. The crier
I took care to mention all the titles and
academic honors of the doctor, as well as
his place of residence. He soon became
the talk of the town. ‘Do you know,’
says one, ‘that a famous phisician has come
litre, a very clever fellow, he must be very
rich, for lie offers twenty-five louis for
finding liis dog.’ The dog was not found,,
hut patients were.
Not to he cheated. It is the boast of
| the hardy fishermen and coasters of the
North, that they can tell their whereabout
without any other instrument than lead,
and no other observation than a scrutiny
of the sand brought from t’ne bottom upon
it. A famous anecdote in Nantucket, is*
told of one Captain Bunker, a branch of
the great amphibious family of Bankers.
Being sick and below, he directed that
the lead should he brought to his berth
for liis inspection. The craft belonged to
Nantucket, and was in sand ballast. The
mate of the vessel, somewhat of a wag,
and a doubter of the Captain’s infallibility,
wet the lead, and dipping it in the ballast,
carried it down to the berth. Old Captain
Bunker’s eyes dilated with astonishment
as he asked—“Do you say that you got
this sand by sounding?”
“Y'es, sir.”
“Then Nantucket’s Sunk, and we are
right over Tupper’s Hill!”
The mate went on deck.
. V
How TO MAKE A IIoRSE GbOW.
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“Y r es. I guess you can't account for it,”
replied Jonathan. “No how,” saidLudhtw.
“He belongs to so and to, the Hvery man,
and his tallness comes through his haring
been regularly higher’d (hired) every day
for (lie last seven years.” ,