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THE MECHANIC.
lam Nature 1 * own nobleman, happy and freo,
A peer of the realm might well envy me.
For the land of the P.agTe has given me birth*
And my sons are all freemen that meet Y nitnl my
hearth.
Vour cities, now rising with beauty an l might,
Whose palace-like towers are fair to the sight,
My band helped to build them, my strength lent its
aid.
And by the sweat of my brow, your prouud ci its are
laid.
The ship that sweeps prou lly o’er tho far-spreading
sea,
Has been ti \ bered and fashioned by tho labor v>f me,
And the pure massive marble that strikes on the
view,
Is chisstl'ed and firmed lay the anizan too.
The sini'h, as he hums o’er his anvil a glee,
lie toils not for honors, or power—not he,*
He dreads not lost office, he seeeks none to gain
And the smithy's a king in Ins own proud domain.
The bravest men from mechanics have sprung,
And the sweetest of lays the mechanic have sung,
And the proudest of hearts’ mechanic should wear,
When conscious of right in their bosoms they bear.
We find in the New York evening Ga
zette (lie following malicious stanzas,evident
ly from the pen Ola disappointed old bachelor.
His mode of revenge will amuse her who
made hiiu a victim :
One eve of beauty, when tho fiun
Was setting on the Gatidalquiver,
To gold converting—one by otic —
The ripples of the mighty rivor;
Bc-ide ni*’ H on the bank, was scut and
A {Seville girl, with auburn hair
And eyes that might the world have cheated—
A wild, bright, wicked, diamond pair,
She stooped, and wrote tfpon the sand,
Just a< tho setting sun was going,
With such a small, soft, shining flthd,
V*u would have sworn *twas silver flowing ,
Her words were three, and not one iure—
Wha couhl the maiden’s motto be!
The Syren wrote upon the JSho e,
“Death, not IncoNitancy.”,
And then her two large languid ryojj
So turned on mi e, that—devil lane me—’
I set the air on fire with sighs.
Ami was the fool she chose lo make r^e.
St. Francis would have been decivt-d
By such an eye ami such a hand ;
But one week moie.aud I believed
As much the woman as the said.
Bxnckkx:
MISCELLANY.
NIGHT ATTACK ON FORT ERIE
{August Hth 1814.)
By “ Pequoi” ft new correspondence of the “ Spiri
of the Times.”
Ilost’.er ! bring up tho horses, wo will
crosG the Canadisn shore, and ride leisurely
o'er its battle-grounds. Tighten the girth,
John,—Jump—l’m in my saddle. Are you
read ’—Allans Well broken is that grey of
yours, he lias a good long trot —how easy it
makes yotl riso in the saddle, and how grace
ful is the gait. But here we are at tho Fer
ry. Now, we stand on British ground! Gen
erous and gallant blood has deeply stained
i’e soil : Olmetve these crumbling works—
the stone fort facing the river—the remains
of ramparts and trenches—here a bastion—
further on, a redoubt—there again lines and
earth-works, forming a continuous circle of
defence, but all now faet sinking to their
original level. These are, or rs'herwere,
the fortress and defenses ot “Fort Erie.”
When some years since Ir, de over the
ground with our kind and excellent friend, the
Major, 1 listened with great interest to his
narration of the part of tho campaign acted
upon this spot and adjoining country. I will
repeat it to you as we ride over it. Jump
your horse upon this decaying mound—it
was a bastion.
Standing on this bastion, “Here,” said tho
Major, “we had thrown trp our lines, making
the defences as strong as practicable. The
British had also erected formidable works
about huff a mile in front, (the forest inter
ven ng,) composed of a large stone battery
on their left, and two strong redoubts, from
which they kept up an incessant discharge of
shot and shells for several successive days,
which was returned by us will) equal vigor.
At length a shell from the batteries having
fallen upon it, blew up one of our small mag
azines but with trifling injury to the rest of
the defences. They greatly miscalculated
the damage, and were elated with their sue.
cess, anil Gen. Gaines received secret infor
mation t hat they in'ended to carry the works
by storm on the following night. That night,
said the Major i shall not soon forget. It
set in intensely dark and cloudy, extremely
favorable to the design of the enemy. Eve
ry thing was put in the fullest state of pre
paration to receive them. The men enthu
siastically awaiting the attack, were ordered
to lie on their arms. Extending along the
lines, and manning the tort and bastion, our
little army, in perfect silence, awaited their
coming.
The forest had been cleared about three
hundred yards inlront of our works—beyond
that were, as you see, the woods. As the
u gilt wore on, wo listened with earnestness
to every sound. A little after mid night, we
heard on the dry leaves the stealthy sound
of footsteps—pat—patter— patter- We lis
tened—they caine nearer. A short, sharp
challenge; “Who goes there ?” issued from
that farther redoubt. The footsteps ceased,
as if irresolute to advance or recode, and all
was still. Anotherquick challenge—a rat
tle of the musket, as if it fell into the hollow
of the hand—followed the reply : —“ Picquot
guard, forced in by the enemy’s advance.”—
‘•"Back, guard ! back to your posts instantly,
or we will fire upon you,” rung the stern
voice ot our commanding officer. Tho loot
steps of the stragglers slowly receded, and
entire stillness again obtained. It was as
profound as the darkness, not even the hum
of tho insect rose upon tho ear. We laid our
heads upon tho ramparts, and listened with
THE UNION OP THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OP THE STATES.
COLUMBUS, GA. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10, 1815.
all our faculties. We listened. Perhaps
half an hour elapsed, when we imagined we
heard the dead, heavy sound of a large body
of men—tramp—tramp —tramp —advancing
thro’ the pitchy darkness. A few moments
passed—a brisk scattering tire, and the pic
<[uets came in in beautiful order under the
brave subaltern in command. The mea
sured tread of disciplined troops became ap
parent. E very sense was stretched to the
utri'.ost in expectancy—every eye endeavor
ed lo fathom tho darkness in front, when,
from Towson’S battery, towards the river,
glanced a volume of inusquetry, and in anoth
er instant, the whole line of the works; bas
tion, redoubt, aud rampart, streamed forth one
living sheet of flame. The eighteens mount
ed where we stand, were filled to the muzzle
with grape, cannisler, and bags of musket
bullets—imagine their havoc. The enemy
came on with loud shouts and undaunted
bravery. By the continued glare of our dis
charges, we could see dense dark masses of
men, moving in columns to three separate
pomts of attack upon our works. Our artil
lery and musketry poured on them as they
advanced a continual stream of fire, rolling
and glancing from angles, bastions, and re
doubts. Repulsed—they were re-formed by
their officers, and brought again to the charge
to 15 again repulsed. At such times, hours,
fly like minutes. A life appears concentrat
ed to a few moments. We had been engag
ed perhaps an hear—perhaps three, when J
heard in that bastion of the Fott, a hundred
feet frum tne, above the uproar, a quick, fu
rious struggle, as if of man engaged in fierce
death fight ; a clashing of bayonets, and
sharp pistol shots, mixed with heavy blows,
and short quick breathing such as you have
heard men make in violent exertion—in cut
ting wood with axes, or in oilier severe man
ual labor. The conflict, though fierce, was
short—the assailants were repelled. Those
that gained a footing were b iyuoetted, or
thrown back over the parapet. In a few
moments I heard again the same fierce strug
gle, and again followed the like result and
stillness—ifstiliHesS could be said to exist
under continual roar of musketry and artille
ry. A third time it arose, sudden and des
perate ; it ceased, and presently a clear loud
voice rose high above the battle from the
bastion : “slop firing in front there, yotl are
firing on your friends.” An instant cessation
followed. We were deceived. In another
moment, the voice of an officer with startling
energy replied : “Aye, aye, we’ll stop; give
it them, men, give it them !”—and the firing
renewed, was continued with redoubled fu
ry. The head of the centre column, com
posed of eight hundred picked men, Ike veic
raneof Egypt, led by Lieut. Col. Drummond
in person, alter three several assualts, had
gained possession of the bastion, and by that
ruse, endeavored to cause a cessation of the
tire—a result that might have been fatal to
ue, had not the deception been soon discern
ed. But the prize was of little value, as the
bastion was commanded by the interior ot
the works, and the men, under cover of the
walls of an adjoining barrack, poured into
the gorge that led from it, a continued storm
of mu-ketry! The firing continued with
unabated fury. The enemy, repulsed with
greit loss in every attack, was unsuccessful
in every point sure the bastion, the posses
sion of which they still retained—when I
heard A groaning roll and shake of the earth,
and instantly the bastion, bodies of men, lim
ner; guns, earth and stones, were blown up
in the air like a volcano, making every thing
in the glare as clear as noonday. A de
scending timber dashed one of my arnllery
men to pieces within a foot of my shoulder.
Profound Hark tics and silence followed.
Naught but the groans of the wounded and
dying were heard. As if by mutual consent,
the firing ceased, and the enemy withdrew,
repuUed on every side, save from the p’rape*
which they purchased for their grave. A
huge quantity of fixed ammunition had been
placed in the part, and a stray wad falling
upon it, had blown them all up together. My
duty required that I should minted lately re
pair this bastion, and most horrible wns the
sight—bodies burnt and mutitated—some of
them still pulsating with life, among them
Lieut. Colonel Drummond, the leader of the
attack. There he lay in the morning light,
stark and stiff, extended on the rampart, a
ball having passed through his breast. His
tory mourns, that his courage assumed the
character of ferocity. His war-cry of “No
quarter to the damned Yankees,” his own
death warrant, was long remembered against
bis countrymen. The enemy did not re
sume the attack, but retiring to their en
trenched camp. strengthened their works,
and prepared to make the.T approach by
regular advances.
But come, spur on, wo have far to ride—
spur on. Here we are upon the works.
Here is the stone water battery and there
the two strong redoubts, and back of them
the remains of their lines, and deep entrench
ments. These are tho works which were
carried in the memorable and despefate sortie
of Fort Erie. The right by Davis and Mil
ler ; the left by Porter arid his volunteers.
Here, on the left,quoth the Major, fell my
gallant, my accomplished friend, Lieut. Col.
Wood, at the head of his column. lie was
one of the most brilliant officers in the service
and as beautiful as a girl. I olten gazed
with astonishment at the desperate dating
that characterized him in action ; here he
fell ; bayonetled to death on the ground on
this spot;”—and here the Major’s voice
quivered, and he turned his face from me,
for the cruel death of Iris dear friend was too
much for his manhood. His ashes sleep
amid the Highlands of the Hudson, beneath
their monument, near the flag staff at West
Point, peace *0 Ins gallant spirit ! The stars
of hie country, celt wave over no braver of
her sons.
The following is a fair sample of the
puff oblique, while it has its fair allowance
of humor. We find it in the M\ Y. Atlas.
Two newsboys are supposed to be contem
plating the smoking ruins of the Tribune
office, a day ot two after the fire :
“i say, Torn, it was easy enough for that
old covey Noah to keep afloat on that ere
raft of his’n when the waters riz ; but
what could a feller do in a gineral covjlag
gerafinn ?”
“Why, Bill, I guess I’d jump into the
North river. They wouldn’t go to set that
on fire.”
‘‘A-fire ! no ; but if the airth was red
hot, in course the river ’ud all be sol a-bil
ing. Now tell us, Tom, where’d you stow
your body and bones ?”
“Well. Bill, I’in'blamcil if I know.”
“ Then ye’r a spooney, Tom. I’ll tell
ye what I’d : just run down to 139 Water
street,jump into one o’ them sallymander
safes, shut the door and tell the rest of the
world to go to blazes 1”
“ Bill, y’er right; there’s no burn up
about them—l’m darned if ihero is.”
Tho Potomac Shad and Herring fishe
ries promise an abundant yield this sea-
SOUt-
THE SULTAN AT HOME; THE IMPERI
AL HAREM AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
Before the Sultan enters his harem at
night, (and it is not customary for him to do
so during the day,) he communicates to the
aghain waiting the name of the kadinn whom
he proposes to summon to his couch. The
aglta conveys the message to the Khet Kbo
do, who announces it to the first lady in
waiting the kadinn, all of whom have the
honor of receiving the Sultan’s visits in regu
lar succession. Should indisposition prevent
this, the next in turn is selected. At the
appointed time, which is generally after yat
sy namazy, (night of fifth prayer,*) tiie Sul
tan proceeds lo the door dividing the harem
from the tnabain or salamlyk. Here all his
attendants, save the black agha on duty,
niake their obeisance, and the door is opened
by the portress inside. Care is taken that
all issues looking upon the inner galleries,
through which the monarch passes, shall be
closed. No person iG permitted lo appear,
and perfect silence is maintained.
The Fultan has a suite of apartments with
in the harem, to which the designated Indy
is generally conducted, and from which she
withdtaws at dawn. But sometimes ho hon
ors the kadinn in her own apartment, in
the latter case a signal is given by the agha,
who proceeds the menarc.lt with lights ; and,
the door being opened, the Sultan is receiv
ed by the lady and her slavbo with the most
abject demonstrations of respect. The same
silence aud mystery -we observed in the
morning.
Should his highness bathe within the ha
rem, which never occurs unless indisposi
tion should prevent his quitting the interior,
he is served by women allotted to this duty.
They consist of gedelik, (chosen,) who are
alone entitled to this honor. This process
is conducted with rigid attention to etiquette
and propriety, under the superintendence of
two or mote elderly costa. The imperial
bather is enveloped in crimson silk cloths
embroidered iu gold called pestamel, and the
attendants are attired in light but ample
dresses.
This ceremony is contrary to our ideas of
.delicacy. Nevertheless, it is more decorous
than might be supposed. The old oostas
performed the required services while the
Sultan is within the heated room; arid it is
not until lie returns to the vestiary that the
younger gedeklik approach, in order to offer
refreshments, and to divert him with songs
ktr stories, and this with most severe aud
rigid respect fordcccrumt
When it id tho Sultan’s plfiasuro to take
refreshments in the apartments of any lady,
ho is waited upon by that lady’s slaves.
Sweetmeats, cakes, fruits, shfcrbets, collee,
ices, and other delicacies, prepared by their
own zealous hands, are presented. Each
kadinn has a small kitchen, and great rivalry
is exhibited in seeking to gratify the monarch
with dainties, for which he is known to en
tertain a predilection. The evening is em
ployed 111 playing with the children, if the
kidinn be a mother,! in listening to thp songs
or recitations of tho most accomplished
slaves, and in examining jewelry and dress
es ; in short, the time is passed much after
the manner of all other wealthy Turks, when
within tiie privacy of their harems. On
these occasions the Sultan withdraws about
the usual hour of repose ; for it is a rare oc
currence with him to pass the night iu any
other than his own apartment.
The process of the night toilet is simple
and expeditious. When within his own pri
vate chambers the Sultan generally wears a
hght caftan and trowsers during aiimtncr,
and a kurk lined with furs in winter, with
warm (dial wars and entary. Wlieu tho hour
of repose arrives, these upper garments are
laid aside, and under vestments retained. A
skull cap, of white linen 01 plain brown felt,
confined by a handkerchief, is substituted for
the fez.—Tho use of bedsteads, except in
barracks aud hospitals, is scarcely known.
Orientals prefer couches placed upon the
floor. Those consists of two or more mat
tresses filled with wool or cotton. The
Sultan’s couch differs, however, from edl oth
ers. The mattresses are placed upon a bed
stead, or frame, of ornamental mahogany,
protected by curtains Slid mosquito nets.
Upon rising for dawn prayer (sabahh nama
zy) the Sultan passes into a sido chamber,
where some of Hie gedeklik pour water over
hie hands for ordinary ablution, and offer him
embroidered towels. He then performs his
devotions, and, if disposed, .is eerved with a
cup of coffee and a morsel of light cake. Af
ter that, when in good health, he generally
returns to tne apartments, where he is wait
ed upon in due time by the Berber Basliy,
and completes his toilet. This being accom
plished, he partakes of his first meal, con
sisting of various light dishes of meat, con
fectionary and fruit.—Sometimes,’ especially
on Fridays, ids highness proceeds direct from
the harem to the bath.
When the Sultan receives one or rfrori
ladies in his state apartments within the ha
rem, he is attended by all the great ladies ol
the palace, and is Waited upon by gedekhk,
and also by the first ladies attached to the
kadinns or sultans who may be present.
Sometimes the whole harem is admitted to
his presence, and diverled with music, dan
ces, and mimic exhibitions, performed by
slaves constituting what may be termed the
corps de ballet, The crowd of beauty, the
splendor of drosses and jewelry, the richness
of furniture, and brilliancy of illumination are
then said to rival the fairy creations of the
Arabian tales ; but f with the exception of
one frank lady, a Spanird, residing’ at Pera,’
ho stranger was ever admitted to these daz
zling spectacles^
The idea of one man ruling uncontrolled
over an assemblage ol sotne three hundred
and fifty women, two-thirds of whom are se
lected for their personal charms, almost be
wilders imagination, and ieads to strange re
flections. But our notions on this subject are
for the most part erroneous. The harem
etiquette is observed with the most minute
punctiliousness and severity, and forms a
barrier to indulgence. Indeed, if religious
and moral scruples, combined with court
regulations, did not curb the will of the mas
ter, the jealousies of kadinns, and the watch,
ful eye of the KhetKhoda and oostas would
restrain indiscriminate indulgence.
Every movement, every look of the Sultan
within the harem or mabain, is regulated
by scrupulous attention to rules and to the
claims and privileges of each individual enti
tled to notice. Infractions of these rules,
and gratifications of caprice, doubtless, take
place ; but the tales that are recounted at
Pera, the pandemonium of ignorance, false
hood, and venality, and the absurdities we
read of unbounded profligacy, are ficiions
♦This prayer is invnri bly announced an hour and
K'hulf after Aksham (sunset) namazy.
fThe children of each kadinn remain umtdr (ho
mother’s care, and the utmost vtpilunco is exorcifced
by them in watching over their charges, lest the
jealousy of rivals should lead to fatal consequences.
JThe lady in question, gifted with great raus'ica)
talents, was iuvitnd, by the Sultan's command, to
I passthiev or four days with the kadiruu and sulta-
IMI.-
founded upon malice on one side and upon
excessive credulity on the other. The avid
ity with which foreigners seek for and listen
to the inventions of Perote informants, en
courages the latter to amuse themselves at
the expense of travellers, and thus to mislead
Europe. Fifty instances, some of which
have appeared in print, might be enumerated.
Now-a-days Ihc Sultan dares not openly
overstep the bounds of propriety, nor can he
indulge his caprices secretly without adopt
ing precautions not to offend the laws of de
corum and the admitted rights of his kadinns.
Even in former days these rules could not
always be infringed with impunity. Ono of
the causes that fed to the death of Sultan
Ibrahim, in 1643, was his contempt fur harem
regulations, and his abuse of power over his
numerous Icinale slaves. Similar disregard
to domestic duties and morality led to the
disgrace and death of Damad Zadeh Effendi,
Sheikh Islam under the Sultan Abdoul Ham
id, A.D. 1735. This vizier, not less cele
brated for unbounded profligacy than for tal
ents and learning, long fascinated the Sultan
and people ; but he carried licentiousness to
such extremes that the very lowest classes
were scandalized, and he fell scorned by all
men.
The Turks are by no means patterns of
morality; but it is indisputable that the vices
and defects of their personal character and
domestic institutions are constantly exag
gerated. In portraying Turkish character,
the generality of writers eagerly seize upon
the dark side of the picture, and support
their arguments by examples selected at will;
while at the same time they studiously omit
all traits of worth; generosity, and virtuous
propriety, of which abundant instances are
publicly acknowledged.
The Sultan has rarely an opportunity of
speaking to women appointed to wait upon
him, unless in the presence of many others.
The strictest watch id held over t hese wo
men by day and night. Their dormitories
are under the charge of superior Oostas,
whose duty it is to maintain silence and or
der. A lamp placed in a glass niche in the
wall gives light both to the chamber and ex
ternal corridor, where an agha is on duty at
night §
When the sultan is in company with the
kadinn, it would he as insulting for him to
notice lof herslavesas for a crowned head
in Christendom to distinguish a lady in
waiting upon his consort. When within
his own apartments in the haretn it would
be equally indecorous for the Sultan to no
tice on gedekilk more than another.
If preferences be show n, they are man
aged secretly; so much so, that a lady is
sometin.es elevated to the rank of kadinn
without any person, excepting, perhaps,
the Kliet-Khoda, being aware of any previ
ous predilection. These secret arrange
ments are the less difficult, as the consent
of the slaves is of secondary cousideralion.
In most cases, indeed, they feel flattered
aud honored by the Sultan’s notice. De
prived of all intercourse with the other
sex, they centre all hopes in their imperial
master.
The law which ordains the legitimacy
of all offspring of free Moslem, fathers, no
matter what the mother’s condition, also
acts as a check upon indulgence. Tho is
sue of female slaVes being entitled to all
privileges of inheritance, although the mo
thers be not kadms, the result would be a
most inconvenient multiplication of legiti
mate heirs, or it.discriminate infanticide.—
Unfortunately, the latter expedient, anterior
to birth, is often resorted to in the imperial
harem and in private families, although it
is rigidly forbidden by the law, and perpe
trators are liable to the penal.ies awarded
for murder.!! U'Jiite’s Three Year) in Cun
stantinojile.
§The night watch, within and without the scrag,
tio, is set about ten, p. m.; and alt tires and lights,
save those in the niches, are extinguished. The
signal lor extinguishing lights and for the whole ha
rem to reiire to rest, is the explosion of several r*ck
ets, tired t'roin the guard ship at anchor near the pal
ace-
|[ It is notorious that sundry women gnin their
livelihood by preparing drugs calculated to destroy
life in the germ, whi'o oiticrs eni iy a most unholy!
reputation for their skill in producing still births, even
at Ibu moment of travail.
MRS. CAUDLE’S CURTAIN LECTURE.
JWr Caudle has bech at u Tavern with a friend.
Poor me ! I’m pure I don’t know who’d be
a poor woman ! I don’t know who’d tie them
selves up to a man, if they knew only half
they’d have to bear. A wife must 6tay at
home, and be a drudge, whilst a! tfrsn can go
anywhere. It’s enough fur a wife to sit like
Cinderella by the ashes, whilst her husband
can go drinking and singing at a tavern. You
never sing! How do I ever know you sing?
It’s very well for you to say so; but if I could
hear you, I dare say you're among the worst
of ’em.
‘And now, I suppose, it will be the tavern’
every night. If you think I’m going to sit up
for you, Mr. Caudle, you’re very much mis
taken. No : and I’m not going to get out
of my warm bed to let you in, either. No :
nor Susan shan’t sit up for you ; nor you
shan't have a latch key. I'm not going to
sleep with the door upon the latch, to be mur
dered before the morning.
‘Faugh! Pah! Wheughi That filthy
tobacco smoke ! It’s enough to kill any de
cent woman. You know I hate tobacco and
yet you will do it. You don’t smoke your
self. What of that? If.you go among peo
ple who do smoke, you’re just as bad, or
worse. Yon might as well smoke—indeed
beltter. Better smoko yourself, than’ come
home with other people’s smoke in your hair.
‘I never knew any good come to a man
who went to a tavern. Nice companions he
picks up there. Yes people make it a b >ast
to treat their wives like slaves, and ruin their
families. There’s that wretch, Prettymen.
See what lie’s come to. He dosn’t now get
home till two in the morning; and then in
what a stale? lie begins quarrelling with
the door mat, that his poor wife may be afraid
to speak to him. A mean wretch. But don’t
you'think I’ll be like Mrs. Prcttyman. No
I would’ntput up with it, from tho best man
that ever trod. You’ll not make me afraid’o
speak to you, however you may swear at tho
doormat. No, Mr. Caudle, that you won’t
‘You don’t intend to stay out till two inthc
morning! How do you know what you’ll
do when you get among such people ? Men
can’t answer lor themselves when they gel
boozing one with another. They never think
of their poor wives, who are grieving and
wearing themselves out at bomb. A nice
headache you’ll have to-morrow morning—
or rather this morning; for it must be past 12.
You won't have a headache. It’s very well’
lor you to say so, but I know you will; and
then you may nurse yourself for me. Ha !
that filthy tobacco again ! No, I shall not
go to sleep like a good soul! How’s people
to go to sleep when they’re suffocated?
‘Yes, Mr. Caudle, you’ll be nice and ill in
the morning! But don’t you think I’m going
1 to let you have your breakfast in bed like
[VOL. V.—NO 16.
Mrs. l’rettyinnti. I’ll not be such a fool.-
No, nor 1 won't have discredit brought upon
the house by sending for soda water early,
for all the nighborhood to say, .‘Cmdlc was
drunk last night !’ No, I've some regard
for the dear children, if you haven’t. No:
nor you shan't for dinner. Not a
neck of iilutton crosses my threshold I can
tell vou.
‘You won’t want soda, and you won’t want
broth! All the better. You would not get
them if you did, I can assure you Dear
dear, dear ! That liithy- tobacco ! I'm sure
it’s enough to make tne as bad as you
are. Talking about getting divorced—l’m
sure tobacco ought to he good grounds. How
little does a woman think when she marries,
that she gives herself up lo he poisoned !
You men contrive to have it all ol your own
side, you do. Now, it I was to go and leave
you and the children, a pretty noise there’d
be ! You however, can go and smoke r.oend
of pipes. You did’nt smoke! It’s all the
same Mr. Caudle, known by their company.
Y ou’d better smoke yourself, than bring me
home tiie pipes of all tho world.
‘Yes, I see how it will he. Now you’re
once come to a tavern, you’ll always be go
ing. You’ll be coming home tipsy every
night; and tumbling down and brer.king your
legs, and putting out your shoulder ; and
bring all sorts ot disgrace and expense upon
us. And then you’ll begetting into a street
fight—oh! 1 know your temper too well to
doubt it, Mr. Caudle—and be knocking down
some of the police. And then 1 know what
will follow follow. It must follow. Yes,
you’ll be sent for a month or six weeks to
the treadmill. Pretty thing that fora respec
table tradesman, Mr. Caudle, to be put upon
the treadmill with all sorts of thieves and
vagabonds, and there, again that horrible to
uacco !--aud riffraff of every kind. I should
like to know how your children are to hold
up their heads ; after their father has been
upon the treadmill? No; I won’t go to
sleep. And I’m not talking of what is im
possible. J know it will happen—every bit
ol it. If it was’nl for the dear children you
might be ruined, and I would’nt so much as
speak about it, but-—oh, dear! at least you
might go where they smoke good tobacco—
but I can’t forget that I’m their mother. At
least, they shall havoone parent.
Taverns! Never did a man go to a tavern
who did’nt die a beggar, And how your pot
companions will laugh at you when they see
your name in the Gazette. For it uiuet hap
pen- Your busiuess is sure to fall oft; for
what respectable man will buy toys for their
children of a drunkard ’ You're not a drunk
ard ! No; but you will be—it’s all the
same.
‘You’ve begun by stayingout till midnight.
By-and-by ‘twill be all night. But don’t you
think, Mr. Caudle, you Blind ever have a key
I know you. Yes; you’d do exactly like
that Prettyman, and what did he do, only last
Wednesday ? Why he let himself in about
four in the morning, and brought home with
him liis pot companion, Leanly. His dear
wile woke up and saw Pretlyman’s dirty boot
at her side. And where was the wretch her
husband I Why, he was drinking down
stairs—swilling. Yes; worse than a mid
night robber, he’d taken keys out ot his dear
wife’s pockets—ha! what that poor creature
has to bear 1 and had got the brandy. A
pretty thing for a wife to wake at six ‘in the
morning, & instead of her husband to find his
dirty boots!
‘But I’ll nst be fftade your victim, Mr.
Caudle, not 1. You shall never get at
toy keys, for they shall lie under my pillow
—under my head, Mr. Caudle.
‘You’ll be ruined; but if I can help it,you
shall ruin nobody but yourself.
‘Oh ! that ltor—hor—hor—i—ble to —bac-
co!’
‘NOT A DROP MORE MAJOR, UNLESS IT
13 SWEETENED.’
In a small village in the southern section
of our State, resiues a certain Major, who
keeps a small cosey; comfortable inn, famous
for its sweetened drinks, as Well as it jovial
landlord ; and few of the surrounding farmers
visit the neighborhood without giving the
Major a friendly call te'taele tfis Mixture.—
The gay host With jolly phiz, round person,
bright eye and military air, deals out the
rations spiced with jokes, which, if tliiy are
not funny, are at least laughed at, tor the
Major enjoys them so vastly himself that his
auditors are forced to laugh out of puro sym
pathy.
A good couple, who resided about six miles
from the Major’s for a long period had been
in the habit of tfisitiirg Intrroticc a month; and
as regularly wein home dreadfully sweeten
ed with the favorite mixture, but of late we
learn that (he amicable relations which exist
ed between tho Major and the old visitors
have been broken off On the last visit, good
cause for an end being put to any more sweet
drinking.
Uncle Merrill, how are you, any howl
was the Major’s greeting—and l declare if
the missis ain’t w ith you too,’ —just as it he
expected she would’nt come. ‘What’ll you
take missis 1 Shall 1 sweeten you a little of
about the best rectified that ever was toted
into these ere parts! it jest looks as bright as
your eyes!’ and here the Major winked and
looked so sweet, that there was no resisting,
and s*>e did take a little sweetened.
The houis flew merrily by and evening
found tho old couple so overloaded with
sweets, that it was with difficulty they could
be seated on tho old gray mare to rolurn
home, but after many a kind shako from the
host and just alloflW drop of his sweetened,
off they jogged, see-siwing from side to side
on the critter, the old lady mutter ng her
happiness, and the old man too full to find
words to express himself.
‘Such another man as that Major,’ said the
dame, ‘ain’t no where—and such A mlxtur as
ho does make is lemptin to temperance lee
turers. He is an amazin’nice man. If any
thing, he sweetens the last drop better than
the first. Good Gracious! what a pleasin’
creature he is.
Ever and anon, the encomiums on the
Major and his‘mixtur’broke forth from the
old lady, until of a suddon on passing a small
rivulet, a jolt of the mare silenced them, and
the old man rode on a short distance wilh
perfect quietness. At length he broke out
with—
‘Old woman, you and that ero Major’s
conduct to-day, was raythor unbecoming;
liis formalities was 100 sweet to be mis
look, and you ain’t going thar again in a bur.
rv?
Silence was the only answer.
‘Oh,you are huffy, are you ?’ continued the
old man. ‘Well, I guess you'cad stay so, till
you give in’—and on he jogged in a silent
mood. On arriving at the farm, ho called to
a servant to lift the old woman off, but Sam
stood gazing at him in silent astonishment.
‘Lift her off you Sain—do you hoai ? and do
it carefully, or some of her wrath’ll bile out.
In spile of the Major’s sweetning she's mail
as blazes!’
‘Why de lor, massa,ideole ’omanaiut dar,?
replied Sam, his eyes standing out of lifS
countenance. ‘Jest turn round mass, and
satisfy yourself dal de ole ’ouian ciar gone
and missin’-—de ola!’
And sure enough, nn a minute examina
tion by the old man,she was *'ound missing.’
I lie major aas charged at once with aluluc
ti m, instant measures were taken for pursuit
and a party despatched to scour the road. On
proceeding about t.vo miles on the road to
the Major’s the party were suddenly halted
to the small rivulet, by finding the missis’
head lying partly in tho stream, its waters
laving her lips, and softly murinering—
‘Not a drop more, Major, unless its sweeten
ed !’
Shortly offer this, a temperance meeting
was held ut the neighborhood, and the first
who signed'the pledge were the couple above
alluded to.—Report says that according to
present indications, the demand for the Ma
jor's ‘sweetened mixtur’ bids fair to be won
derfully diminished.— f Ex.
THE WAY TO CURE A GIGAR-SMcK!NG
HUSBAND;
Mrs. Reed Williams never looked more
beautiful than she did that evening when
her husband returned. Perhaps there had
been more than usual solicitude about the
shade of a ribbon or the adjustment of a
curl, but il there was, looking-glasses ‘‘tell
no tales,” and neat and plain attire would
not proclaim the fact to fin ordinary obser
ver. She started nervously as he entered,
but she controlled herself and greeted him
kindly and calmly as usual.
“Well,my dear,”said he, advancin? gaily;
‘T have not been smoking to-day.”
‘‘Oh, thank you, thank you, dear hus
band,” exclaimed Emetine in the fulness ol
her heart, “you will never smoke any more,
will you?’ and her soft pleading eyes, were
raUed to his with an expression that am
ply repaid him for the sacrifice.
Days passed, and the young wife felt hap
pier than she had ever felt before, for her
beau’s idol had relinquished erett his la
vorite cigars, and for her sake.
One evening, as he sat by her side, she
thought he seemed unusually depressed,
and her cheerful smiles and her animated
conversation failed to restore his wonted
gaiety. She did not ask the cause, but she
almost felt as if she had been selfish in ex
acting such a sacrifice as she knew it to be.
At length he rose—‘-Emelihe, I think I must
have a cigaf.” No word of fond entreaty
stayed his course, and he soon returned. ‘■
‘1 have got one bunch, they will soon be
gone, and then I will smoke no more.
He looked up in her face, but he could
not read the expression there. It was not
gtief, disappointment, anger or love, but a
most marvellous calmness. lie was about
to retire to his studio; where he generally
indulged iu the luxury of smoking, but a
suit voice recalled him. “Will you not
stay with me?”
“ I thought,” said he hesitatingly. “I
thought smoking was very disagreeable to
you.”
‘‘lt will ba more disagreeable still, if it
deprive me of my husband’s company,”
said Emeline, as she gently drew him back
into the room, and placing a luxurous rock
ing chair for hu reception, seated herself by
his side.
She then selected two cigars from the
lot, lighted one and placed it in her hus
band’s lips, and performing the same opera-”
tion with the other, commenced puffing a
tvay with the gravity of an experienced
smoker. Both maintained the same im
perturable coolness for several minutes; he
looked every instant to see her give up the
attempt, and she still smoked as if it had
been a habit for years.
At length, bursting into an uncontrollable
fit of laughter, he flung the remnant of his
cigar into the grate, exclaiming, ‘-Emeline,
you have won the day—if you will leave off
smoking, I will.”
“Certainly, I always imitate those I love;
but had we not better, smoke this bunch, it
is a pity to waste it?”
“No we will keep them in remember-”
ance of our mutual promise.”
“Well, then I have been thinking as I sat
smoking, how much did you give for these’
cigars’”
“Three cents a piece.”
■‘And you smoke four in a day, that is ar
moderate allowance, is it not?”
“It is.”
“Then twelve cents in a day, is forty
three dollats and eighty cents a year;
the same for myself, would make it
eighty-seven dollars and and sixty cents.
Am I not a good arithmetician? In
one of my rambles the other day, I met
wilh a very poor old woman, Who, with her
grand-daughter lived in one of those little
wooden houses just over the Schuylkill. I
soon recognised her as being the Mrs. Elli
son of whom you have spoken as being so
kind lo you when'a child. She is in ex
treme poverty, and of course feels it more
severely after a life of affluence. Now you
remembef that pretty white cottage near’
our country residence; it is to rent, very
low only fifty dollars, and is plenty large
enough for Mrs. Ellison and her little girl.
Now our cigar money would hire it for her,
and the remaining thirty-seven dollars and
sixty cents would be some relief to her.—
Then she would be so near that we bould
run in at any time, and see if she is Com
fortable. What do you think, dearest, of
my plan?”
EFFECT OF FEAR AS A MORAL AGENT.
The fear of punishment may certainly
produce sorrow and penitence. Strong ap
prehensions of future evil, coinciding witli
present distress, may force men into a
change of conduct; and the satisfaction
arising from the change may induce them
to persevere a sufficient time to preveut a
relapse: but this is barely a possibility.—
Fear produces only temporary effects—it
produces a species of sorrow, and occasions
restraint, but never influences the inclina
tion oi habit. Three vices incident to all’
educated youth are falsehood, intrigue, and
dishonesty, respecting properly, and which
may be discovered to have arisen from tho
restraints of poverty, or the injudicious au--
thority of parents and monitors. The pow
er of laws over poverly, or of austere pa
tents and tutors of children, may impress’
fear or terror, without materially affecting’
the vicious dispositions which are gratified
by deceit. Tho first praclices of youth are
the first efficient lessons of their education;’
their first sufferings inure their minds to pain’
and punishment, and they gradually im
prove in fortitude and callousness, util:!’
their virtues or vices are established in hab.
its. This may account for risks they run’
without apprehension, or the celerity with
which they reeoverfroin cireutnslauces if
shame and humiliation.
It is commonly observed that tlie vices of
falsehood, intrigue, and fraud, are incurable.
We generally have recource to power and
terror, which are the sources of the evils;
and if they do not frighten a” man out of
the vice, and deprive him of inclination to
return lo it, they blunt his sensibility, im
prove his artifice, and secure him in its
pratice. Severity of pnnishtnenf increases
that meanness which is tlie origin
induces greater caution in future attempts,
occasions improvements in the secret prac
tice ol vice. The best effect ever produced
by such means is the acquisition ol outward
decency, in the operations of wickedness.—’
The fear of pain or reproach have given
them caution anU'dexlerily m the practice df
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