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20,000, and even 30000, constitute the
great mass of the population, and on them
devolve the whole .’abors for the establish
ment. Theirs is the office of searching for
and collecting tie precious fluid which not
only furnishes their daily food, as well as
that of their young, and the surplus of
which islaAl up for winter stores, but also
the materials from which they rear their
beautiful oombs. In the little basket-shaped
cavity of their hind legs, they bring home
the pollen or farinaceous dust of flowers,
kneaded by the help of the morning dew
into tiny balls, which forms an important
ingredient in the nourishment of the brood;
and also the propolis or adhesive gum ex
tracted from willows,&c., with which they
attach their combs to the upper part and
side of the hive, and stop every crevice
that might admit the winter’s cold.
The natural term of the worker’s exist
ence does not extend, we think, beyond six
or eight months.
It is the opinion of Dr. Bevan, that all the
bees brought into existence at the queen’s
great laying in spring, die before winter.
But many never reach that period. Show
ers of rain, violent blasts of wind, sudden
changes of atmosphere, destroy them in
hundreds. In the clear, cold mornings and
evenings of autumn, their eagerness for for
aging entices them abroad early and late ;
on lighting on the ground, many are chilled
and quickly perish. And should they es
cape the blighting atmosphere at the close
of autumn, a bright sunshine in a winter
day, when the ground perhaps is covered
with snow, brings them abroad in multi
tudes, and the half of them never return.
The sole office of the male, or at least
the primary one is, to pair with the queen,
lie is the father of the hive. Indolent and
luxurious, betakes no part in the internal
operations of th ‘ domicile, and never leaves
it with a v lew of sharing in the labors of the
field. WJicn ne ventures abroad, it is only
in the finest weather, and during the warm
est part of the day. He is easily distin
guished from the workers by his large size,
by his heavy motion in flight, and by his
loud humming sound. His life is extremely
short.
THE PRIEST AND THE PENITENT.
The following is from a Dublin journal:
“ Have you any thing else whereof your
conscience should be purged?” asked Fa
iher O’Connor, of a kneeling culprit at the
confession.
“ Yes,” replied the penitent, “ 1 have
committed the mean sin of theft. I have
stolen this watch. Will your reverence
accept of it ?”
“ Me !” exclaimed the pious priest, “ I
receive the fruit of your vilkany ! No;
instantly return the watch to its owner !”
“ I have already offered it to him,” re
plied the culprit, “ and he has refused to
receive it; therefore, holy father, I beseech
you to take it.”
“ Peace, wretch !” rejoined the priest,
“youshould have repeated the offer.”
“ I did repeat it, your reverence, but he
wouldn’t touch it.”
“ Then,” said the priest, “ I must ab
solve you from the sin you have com
mitted.”
The purified thiefhad scarcely departed,
when the astonished father discovered that
it was his own watch that had been stolen
from the place where it had been deposited
nea. the confessionary !
WHO IS MR. 8188 ?
“The Whigs of Georgia, will have a
United States Senator in place of Mr.
Bibb.”— N. Y. Atlas.
[The Editor of the Atlas must have been
indulging his Aiftulous propensities when
he wrote that. Ed. News & Gazette.]
The following notice was lately fixed
upon the church door of Ludford in Here
fordshire, England, and read in the church ;
viz.,
“ This is to give notice, that no person is
to be buried in this church yard, but those
living in the parish ; and those who wish
to be buried are desired to apply to me,
Ephraim Grub, parish clerk.”
Advertising, (says the Portland Adver
tiser,) is to trade, what steam is to machi
nery—the grand propelling, go ahead
power ; and yet there are some persons so
blind to their own interests, as to ponder
over a cent which would yield them a hun
dred to a thousand per cent.
“ Dr. Porson,” said a gentleman to the
great Grecian, with whom he had been dis
puting—“ Dr. Porson, my opiniou of you is
most contemptible.”
“ Sir, ’ returned the Doctor, “ I never
knew an opinion of yours that was not con
temptible.”
“ The number of newspapers published
in Mexico, isfifteen. They are all of a very
small size. The price is never less than
$25 or S3O per annum.”
[Our opinion of the civilization of the
Mexicans is greatly improved by. learning
that they pay for their newspapers so gene
rously. Ed. News & Gazette.]
The North American tells an extraordi
nary story of the effects of extracting a
tooth.
On the 23d of September, a man resid
ing in Russell-street, (running from Eight
to Ninth and Shippen to Fitzwater streets,)
Philadephia, had a tooth drawn, and his
jaw bled fortwodays. Hethen called in,
one after theother, Drs. Stevens, McClellan
and Coats, and to the present date their
combined wisdom has not as yet proved ef
fectual, though several expedients have
been resorted to, such as cobwebs, burnt
eosk, burning with nitrate of silver, and
searing with a hot iron. From two o’clock
on Thursday morning until ten, he bled so
profuse us to be obliged to sit and let the
blood run from his mouth. From that time
until lour o’clock in the afternoon, the
bleeding was continually lessening, but
was then sufficient to cause death if relief
could not be soon had. This is certainly
a singular ease,and one of which the faculty
should take particular note.
REVERSES OF FORTUNE.
The United States Marshal, who has
just completed the census of Cincinnati,
mentions these incidents :
! met a man who had ruined himself by
intemperance, and was subsisting on charity,
that I knew in Pittsburg in the year 1815,
owner of a fine property and store worth
$50,000 at that time. The property alone,
I have no doubt, would since have brought
$150,000.
I found in the person of a day-laborer in
one of our foundries, a man who had once
owned a large iron establishment in Scot
land, on the Carron side. He had become
involved with others, and rendered thereby
insolvent. My sympathies were the more
strongly excited here from the simple digni
ty, which forbore repining or complaint,the
family manifested in the case.
I found also,the widow of a distinguished
professor in an Eastern college,who was at
the time eating her humble supper with her
daughter, under such eircumstnces of pen
ury, that their very table was formed of a
board laid across an old barrel !
I have found in the city two cases of age
between the oldest and youngest brother,
worthy of notice. In one instance the oldest
brother was 69, the youngest 25. In the
other when the father was living and aged
73 years, one brother was 46 and the other
2.
BEAUX OF FORMER TIMES.
We question whether the celebrated Beau
Brummel, and even the equally celebra
ted Romeo Coates, were not mere Quakers
in their dress, eompaired with some of the
distinguish dressers of the former days. Sir
Walter Raleigh wore a white satin pinked
vest, close sleeved to the wrist; over the
body a brown doublet, finely flowered and
embroidered with pearls. In the feather
of his hat, a large ruby, and pearl drop at
the bottom of the sprig,in place of a button,
his trunks or breeches, with his stockings
and ribbon garters, fringed at the end, all
white ; and buff shoes, with white ribbon.
On great court days, his shoes were so
gorgeously covered with precious stones as
to have exceded the val ue of £6.600,and he
had a suit of armour of solid silver, with a
sword and belt blazing with diamonds, ru
bies and pearls. King James’ favorite, the
Duke of Buckingham, could afford to have
his diamonds tacked so loosely on,that when
he chose to shake a few off on the ground,
he obtained all the fame he desired from
the pickers up, who were generally les
Dames de la Cour ; for our Duke never con
descended to accept what he himself had
dropped. His cloaks were trimmed with
great diamonds;hatbands,cockades,and ear
rings, yoked with great ropes and knots of
pearls. He had twenty seven suits of
clothes made, the richest that embroidery,
lace, silk, velvet, silver, gold, and gems
could contribute ; one of which was a white
uncut velvet, set over both suit and cloak,
with diamonds, besides a great feather,
stuck all over with diamonds, as were also
bis sword, girdle, hat, and spurs. When
the difference in the value of money is con
sidered, the sums thus redicuously squan
dered in dress must have been prodigious.
M. DE TOCQUEVILLE ON THE CHA
RACTER OF AMERICAN WOMEN.
M. de TocquevMle, after speaking of the
free and pleasurable condition of single wo
men in America, and contrasting with it
the austerities ofmarried life, thus contin
ues :—“Butno American woman falls into
the toils of matrimony as into a snare held
out to her simplicity and ignorance. She
has been taught beforehand what is expec
ted of her, voluntarily and freely does she
enter upon this engagement. She supports
her new condition with courage, because
she chose it. As, in America, paternal dis
cipline is very relaxed and the conjugal tie
very strict; a young woman does not con
tract the latter without considerable cir
cumspection and apprehension. Preco
cious marriages are rare ; thus American
women do not marry until their understan
dings are exercised and ripened ; whereas,
in other countries, most women, generally,
only begin to exercise and to ripen their un
derstandings after marriage. * * *
When the time for choosing a husband is
arrived, that cold and stern reasoning pow
er, which has been educated and invigora
ted by the free observation of the world,
teaches an American woman, that a spirit
of levity and independence in the bonds of
marriage is a constant subject of annoy
ance, not of pleasure ; it tells her, that the
amusements of the girl cannot become the
recreations of the wife, and that the sources
of a married woman’s happiness are in the
home of her husband. As she clearly dis
cerns beforehand the only road which can
lead to domestic happiness, she enters upon
it at once, and follows it to the end without
seeking to turn back. The same strength
of purpose which the young wives of Amer
ica display, in bending themselves at once,
and without repining,to the austere duties of
their new condition, is no lesspnanifest in
all the great trials of their lives. In no
country in the world are private fortune
more precarious than in the United States.
It is not uncommon for the same nian, in
the course of his life, to rise and sink
again through all the grades which lead
from'opulence to poverty. American wo
men support these vicissitudes with calm
and unquenchable energy ; it would seem
that their desires contract as easily as they
expand with their fortunes. The greater
part of the adventurers who migrate every
year to people the western wilds, belong,
as I observed in the former part of this
work, to the Anglo-American race of the
Northern States. Many of these men who
rush so boldly onwards in pursuit ofwealth
were already in the enjoyment Os a com
petence in their own part of the country.—
They take their wives along with them,
and make them share the countless perils
and privations which always attend the
commencement of these expeditions. I
have often met, even on the verge of the
wilderness, with young women, who after
having been brought up amidst all the com
forts of the large towns of New England,
had passed, almost without any intermedi
ate stage, from the wealthy abode of their
parents to a comfortless hovel in a forest. —
Fever, solitude, and a tedious life, had not
broken the springsof their courage. Their
features were impaired and faded, but their
looks were firm; they appeared to beat
once sad and resolute.”
A BOTTOMLESS LAKE.
A writer in the Troy (N.Y.) Mail,gives
the following account of a remarkable pond
in Sussex county, in the State of New
York.
“White Lake is situated about one mile
west of the Paulius Kill, in the town of
Still Water. It is nearly circular. It has
no visible inlet, but itsoutlet is a never fail
ing stream of considerable magnitude.—
The name is derived from its appearance.
Viewed from a little distance it seems of a
milky whiteness, except a few rods in the
centre, which by the contrast appears per
fectly black. The appearance itself is
singular enough, but the cause is still more
remarkable.
“ From the centre or dark portion of the
lake,at stated seasons,innumerable quanti
ties of shells are thrown up, of various si
zes and forms, but all perfectly white.—
These float to the shore and are thrown up
on the beach, or sink into shallow water.
Hundreds of bushels might be gathered
from the shore after one of these periodical
up-risings ; and the whole soil for several
rods on every side of the lake, is composed
of these shells, broken or decomposed by the
action ofthe weather. In the centre of the
lake, bottom has never been found, although
it has been sounded to the depth of several
hundred feet.
“ Where then is the grand deposite from
which has been swelling up since the mem
ory of man, these countless myriads of un
tenanted shells ? It is possible though far
remote at an elevation of several hundred
feet above them, this bottomles well, may
by some subterranean communication, be
connected with the grand shell marl depos
it® in the Eastern part of the State ?”
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
This apparatus was called info action
last week, on the Great Western Railway,
in consequence of an Irish gentleman hav
ing left, at one of the stations, fifty or sixty
miles from London, his greatcoat, contain
ing a very valuable snuff-box. On arriving
in London he made known his case. The
telegraph was set to work, and in three
hours he was put in possession ofhis coat.
On receiving it he exclaimed—“ I may tell
this story in Cork, but who will believe it ?”
Bristol (Eng.) Journal.
THE LOST BIBLE FOUND.
Most of our readers have seen historical
notices of the misfortunes of the family of
the Rev. Mr. Caldwell, of New Jersey, in
the Revolutionary war. Mr. C. was pas
tor ofthe Presbyterian church at Elizabeth
town, and like most of the clergy of that
church, at that time, was a zealous Whig.
His activity against the British made him a
mark for their vengeance, and in one of
their frequent incursions in that neighbor
hood, when he was from home, a company
of soldiers surrounded his dwelling, and
one of them deliberately Uvelled his mus
ket at Mrs. Caldwell while on her knees at
prayer, and killed her instantly. The par
ty then retreated, carrying off several arti
clesof plunder, and among them Mrs. Cald
well’s family Bible. Not long ago, and
more than sixty years after the event we
have been recording, an old woman living
on Long Island, called on one ofthe grand
children of Mrs. Caldwell, at Morristown,
N. J., and presented this identical Bible,
containing the family record as made by
the soldier who stole it; and various mem
oranda by subsequent possessors.
Found Out. —A gentleman who hap
pened to have a son very weak in his in
tellect, was continually recommending si
lence as the best method of hiding his imper
fections. It so happened that his father
took his son to an entertainment, and for
want of room to sit together, they were
obliged to take separate seats. After din
ner, two gentlemen opposite the son, differ
ed in opinion upon a subject they were
discoursing about, and rather than have
any serious dispute, they agreed to leave
it to the gentleman opposite them. They
then stated the case and desired his opinion,
the son was silent; they waited a little lon
ger, and then desired him to decide, still
he kept silent; the gentlemen looking
steadfastly at him, exclaimed, “ Why. the
fellow’s a fool!” upon which the son started
up and cried out, “ Father,father, they’ve
found me out!”
CONJUGAL LOGIC.
“ My dear, did you not buy a handsome
shawl for fifty dollars ?”
“ Yes, my love.”
“So I thought. Well, it is lying on the
floor in the other room. As the times are
hard, and I can scarcely pay my notes, I
hope you will be a little careful of your
fine clothing.”
“ Oh, that is of no consequence, for the
shawl must be cleaned before it is used
again.”
“ My dear, one of the children has just
thrown your handsome shawl down the cis
tern.”
“ Indeed, I am really sorry, but if
needed washing, and I will have it taken
out presently.” ...
On the next day, the husband desired his
lady to accompany him a short distance in
to the country, she dressed for the purpose.
“ My dear, why don’t you wear your
new shawl ?”
“It is not taken out of the cistern yet; I
will attend to it, the first thing, when we
come home. You know I could not wear
it all dripping wet.”
A week afterwards, a servant hooked up
the shawl by accident, with a cistern pole.
This elegant article was now transformed
into a dirty rag, and punched full of holes.
“ My dear, if you had taken it out when
I first mentioned it, all would have been
well.”
“ Oh, no, my love, it would never have
been fit to wear, after having been put into
that muddy cistern.”
“ But, my dear, if you had picked it off
the floor when I first mentioned it, it would
never have got into the cistern.”
“ I suppose it dropped from the table
where it was laid, which I am sure could
not be helped.”
“ But, my dear, if you had put it in its
proper place, when you first took it off, it
would never have fallen from the table.”
“ And if I had kept myself in my proper
place, I never should have been the compa
nion of such a wretched, miserly
body as yourself.”
“ My dear, you are always too dilatory.
If you had not deferred that speech until
after our marriage, you never would have
been taken from the arms of your beggarly
old father.”
“ Then I never should have gone from
under the protection of a gentleman to shel
ter under the roof of a fellow.”
“ I wonder, my dear, how a lady of your
refined and exalted notions, can continue
under the roof of a fellow.”
“ You will give me time for the horses to
be put to the carriage.”
She rings, and orders the carriage, puts
on her things, and moves slowly towards
the door.
“ My dear, are you really going!”
“ Yes, but why do you speak so kindly,
if you hate me ?”
“ I did not say that I hated you, my
dear.”
“ Did you not ? But the shawl.”
“ Let that go, my dear. It is not worth
a thought.”
“ Now, you speak like yourself. What
a dear love.”
They kissed affectionately. After this
little scene, the lady always did as she
pleased with her shawl, and her “ dear
love” compounded with his creditors, in a
few months, while his loving wife ran off
with a Colonel.
Another State for Harrison. —A clergy
man in New Bedford having recently mar
ried a couple in the holy bonds of wedlock,
called at their residence shortly afterwards
to pay his respects to the bride. A sprigthly
conversation ensued, of course, and, among
other pleasantries, our clerical friend en
quired of his fair entertainer, what she
thought of the connubial state ? “Oh,” said
she with characteristic readiness of reply,
“ I think it will go for Harrison !”
How easy it would be, and how much
satisfaction would be derived from it, and
how much more orderly and business-like
would it look, if people would just file and
preserve their papers after reading them.
It is true, yesterday’s paper may be a very
stale affair; but keep it for your grandchild
to read, and he will find it a richer treat
than wine of the same age.
“When I look upon the tombs ofthe great
said Adision, “ every emotion of envy dies
in me. When I read the epitaphs of the
beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out.
When I meet with grief of the parents upon
a tomb-stone, my heart melts with compas
sion. When I see the tomb ofthe parents
themselves,l consider the vanity of grieving
for those whom we must quickly follow.
When I see kings lying by those who depos
ed them ; when I see rival wits placed side
by side, or holy men that divided the world
with their contests and disputes ; I reflect
with sorrow and astonishment on the little
competitions, factions, and debates of man
kind. When I read the several dates of
the tombs, of some that died as yesterday,
and some of six hundred years ago, I con
sider that great day when we shall all of
us be contemporaries, and make our ap
pearance together.”
Good Advice. —The New-York Signal
gives the following seasonable hint to news
gatherers :
Friends of an Editor ! don’t bother
him and crowd around him when he is ma
king out his Election Returns ! “ You bore
him. Don’t ask him what the news is—he
has not found it out himself. Say nothing
to him till he has got through.
Be more careful to offer your salutations
to those that are poor, or who may have
been in any way distressed, whether in
mind, purse or prospects, than you are to
your more affluent acquaintance ; for, rest
assured, that they will feel your neglect
more acutely than either your equals or
superiors.
©[£<§)TO[]A EUECTQW KETQiWS,
The following Table is published for convenient reference, in comparing
the returns of the present Election with the preceding ones. w
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PRESIDENTIAL VOTE. CONGRESSIONAL VOTE
VOTE FOR GOVEfINOt
r~*■>* > , * >
Highest Highest
COUNTIES. &J g‘ on the on the 2
Ticket Ticket U £
S, ? Elected, defeated. §
a 5 s. 3.
? Dawson. Colquitt.
Appling - - 100 117 132 102
Baker - - - 201 240 278 136
Baldwin - - 731 533 337 326 2 29 278
Bibb - - - - 18 680 678 710 496
Bryan ... 58 89 36 7 99
Bulloch - - 25 386 7 365 312 7
Burke - - - 593 195 518 287 114 585
Butts - - - - 230 398 393 189
Camden - - 189 228 166 129
Campbell - - 202 530 481 166
Carroll--- 268 450 526 200.
Cass 147 ‘506 658 706 481
Chatham - - 591 647 560 630 330 260
Chattooga * - 213 268 228 168
Cherokee - - 363 512 480 326
Clark - - 630 319 637 352 372 593
Cobb 428 558 425 687 679 335
Columbia - - 470 223 480 271 252 374
Coweta --- 50 687 683 719 550
Crawford - - 435 459 419 446 479 255
Dade --- - 23 147 139 24
Decatur - - - 405 248 280 310
DeKalb - - 664 759 636 750 653 466
Dooly .... 228 331 300 137
Early .... 241 362 360 165
Effingham-- 158 55 173 75 66 143
Elbert -- - 9.78 105 911 132 79 905
Emanuel - - 131 177 152 114
Fayette - - - 130 408 539 475 286
Floyd ... 271 266 271 284 330 188
Forsyth - - 348 457 334 512 417 298
Franklin - - 441 815 689 306
Gilmer - - - 84 340 273 79
Glynn - - - 113 29 33 131
Greene - - - 894 127 860 96 71 786
Gwinnett - - 125 ‘ 713 679 619 608
Habersham - 290 761 350 810 594 384
Hall .... 445 504 556 652 506 470
Hancock - - 482 241 476 260 301 376
Harris - - - 944 - 397 465 792
Heard ... 329 376 389 264
Henry -- - 931 794 856 781 835 649
Houston - - 97 673 620 655 449
Irwin .... 63 187 257 14
Jackson - - - 30 548 569 520 506
Jasper --- 495 494 514 511 507 440
Jefferson - - 457 89 439 99 198 .456
Jones -... 107 500 45s 503 447
Laurens - - 443 7 5 389
Lee- ... - 303 131 215 233
Liberty - . - 65 153 116 87 139
Lincoln - - 317 123 294 152 195 244,
Lowndes - -’ 415 126 224 349
Lumpkin - - 355 736 316 740 651 249
Macon - - - 355 326 337 243
Madison - - - 357 286 325 296 509 279
Marion - - - 359 312 224 332
Mclntosh - - 16 102 146 128 119
Meriwether - 741 788 766 671
Monroe - - - 796 675 822 730 802 671
Montgomery 202 7 10 242
Morgan -- - 478 278 494 322 322 460
Murray - - - 242 482 572 89
Muscogee - - 235 971 833 850 861
Newton - - . 988 355 971 398 467 850
Oglethorpe - 654 127 612 132 104 479
Paulding - - 248 263 231 216
Pike .--- 532 626 492 349
Pulaski --- 37 213 312 313 160
Putnam -- - 468 310 448 350 245 524
Rabun ... 27 314 295 11
Randolph - - 544 591 508 490
Richmond - - 939 406 900 495 372 449
Scriven - - - 180 199 174 238 134 211
Stewart - - - 893 771 793 751
Sumter - - . 454 370 392 407
Talbot ... 152 896 818 855 787
Taliaferro - 431 47 402 60 33 414
Tattnall - - 250 24 68 276
Telfair - - - 191 132 189 174
Thomas - - 436 .-146’ 203 312
Troup 1134 432 646 940
Twiggs 24 380 424 461 327
Union - * - -. 96 415 448 20
Upson ... 632 293 638 311 393 544
Walker - - 383 509 471 237
Walton - - 102 531 677 623 442
Ware - - - 205 53 225 7
‘Warren * - 552 243 585 336 317 429
Washington 593 453 583 527 514 583
Wayne - - 77 80 109 20
Wilkes - - “ 438 353 464 387 361 426
Wilkinson - 47 467 505 490 391
39619 35562 34634 32081
The Knavery Exposed.
The following letter from General Har
rison to Mr. James Lyons, of Virginia, ex
poses the true character of the “ last card”
of the Locofocos:
“Cincinnati, October 21, 1840.
“My Dear Sir :—I have received a
handbill which contains a letter said to have
been written by me to Arthur Tappan and
others, in which I proclaim abolition prin
ciples. It has my name to it, but isa VILE
FORGERY. On the day, 2d of October,
I was at Columbus.
“ Yours in haste, the mail just closing.
“WM. H. HARRISON.”
“ Jas. Lyons, Esq.”
The JYorth-Eastern Boun
dary.
A correspondent of the Boston Mercan
tile Journal, writing from Bangor, says :
Two of the young men who accompanied
the Boundary Commissioners, have arrived
in this city. lam informed that the whole
ground has been carefully examined, and
that the Commissioners are on their return.
The report will probably come to us by the
way of Washington ; and until we get it,
we must put up with such information as
may casually fall from those connected
with the expedition? I am informed that
there is not a doubt upon the minds of the
Commissioners, that the line claimed by
the Americans is the true line ; and that no
person who makes the examination with
the intention of ascertaining the truth, cart
arrive at any other conclusion. This, I
have no doubt, is correct; and all we want
to bring this irritating question to a close,
is energetic and determined action on the
part of the Government.
The Apalachicola Gazette, of the 24th
ult., states, that a few days since, in Mid
dle Florida, three white men were taken on
suspicion of aiding the Indians, in their de
predations on the lives and property of our
citizens. It seems a company of men were
on a scout in search of Indians, accompa
nied by several of the bloodhounds, and
were led by several trails to,the house g#
these men, which at length.',|jndpoed
commanding officer to have them arrested;
and on examination, found they had scarce
ly freed themselves from the paint, with
which they had been painted to prevent detec
lion. They also found, on still closer exa
mination, other proofs of their connection
: with the Indians. This is, we believe, the
, first arrest ever made of white men for a
i connexion of the kfnd, and it is a convinc-
I ing proof of the utility of the dogs.,
