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BIRTHDAY VERSES—TO MY MOTHER.
BY N. P. WILLIS.
My birthday I Oh beloved mother,
My heart is with thee o’er the seas I
I did not think to count another
Before I wept upon thy knees—
Before this scroll of absent years
Was blotted with thy streaming tears.
My own I do not care to check —
1 weep—albeit here alone—
As if I hung upon thy neck,
As if thy lips were on my own—
As if this full sad heart of mine
Were beating closely upon thine.
Four weary years! how looks she now 1
What light is in those tender eyes?
What trace of time has touch’d the brow ?
Whose look is borrowed of the skies
That listen to her nightly prayer ?
How is she changed since he was there
Who sleeps upon her heart alway
Whose name upon her lips is worn,
For whom the night seems made to pray ;
For whom she wakes to pray at morn,
Whose sight is dim—whose heart-strings stir—
Who weeps these tears to think of her I
I know not if my mother’s eyes
Would find me changed in slighter things:
I’ve wandered under many skies,
And tasted many bitter springs,
And many leaves, once fair and gay,
From youth’s full flower have dropped away,
But as these looser leaves depart,
The lessen’d flower gets near the core,
And when deserted quite, the heart
Takes closer what was dear of yore,
And leans on those who loved it first Jte- '*
The. sunshine and the dew by which it* bud
was nurst.
Dear Mother! Dost thou love me yet?
Am I remembered in my home?
When those I love for joy are met
Does some one wish that I would come ?
•Thou dost ? I am beloved of thee—
But as the school boy numbers o’er
Night.after night the Pleiades,
And finds the stars he found before.
As turns the maiden oft her token,
As counts the miser oft his gold,
So, till life’s “ .silver cord is broken,”'
Would I of thy dear love be ''
My heart is full—mine eyes are^ret—
Dear mother! dost thou love thy long-lost
wanderer yet ?
Oh when the hour to meet again
Creeps on—and speeding o’er the sea,
My heart takes up its lengthen’d chain,
And link by link, draws nearer thee—
When land is hailed, and from the shore
Comes off the blessed breath of home,
With fragrance from my mother’s door
Os flowers forgotten when I come—
When port is gain’d, and slowly now,
The old familiar paths are past,
And entering unconscious how,
I gaze upon thy face at last,
And run to thee, all faint and weak—
And feel thy tears upon my cheek—
Ob, if my heart break not with joy,
The light of heaven will fairer seem,
And I shall grow once more a boy,
And, Mother!—’twill be like a dream
That we were parted thus for years.
And once we had dried our tears,
How will the day seem long and bright,
To meet thee always with the morn,
And hear thy blessings every night—
Thy " dearest," thy “ first born ’’ —
And be no more, as now, in a strange land
forlorn!
A MILITIA TRAINING.
••Tention, the hull! as you were!”
“I say, Capting,Mike’s priming his fire
lock with brandy!”
"Why, Deacon Michael Bigelow, an’t
•you ashamed to do such a thing after sign
in a temperance paper. I’ll report you
to the Court Martial”
"You, without bagonets on your corn
stalks,stand back in the rear rank—Trail
arms!”
"Capting, why the dickens don’t you
put the ranks further apart?—that there
chap’s bagonet stuck right straight in
Jim’n trowsers, and I rather guess he
wont set down quite so slick as he used
to.”
“I says, Mister, don’t blow your backer
smoke in my face.”
“Why, darn it, how could I help it;
this here feller shoulderin his fire-lock
stuck his bagonet right straight through
the rim of my beaver, and I rather guess
«s how any on ye would jerk your head
a leetle one side, smoke or no smoke.”
‘•Mister, hand me down my hat?”
"Can’t do it; wait till the capting tells
us to order arms; won’t bring down my
fire-Uck without orders if your head was
on top on’t”
"That’s right, Joe, rale soger I tell ye
—only arter this, shoulder your fire-lock
perpendikiler. John, you’ve a firelock,
what made you bring your umbrel?”
"Why, Capting, the wind was due east
and I heard the turkies a screechin, so I
knew we’d have a shower.”
"Tom, what are you bawlin about?”
"Why, Capting, Jim Lummins has
■mashed my toe with the butt of his gun
and I rather guess it’s a36 pounder, for
it’s tarnashun heavy.”
"Jim Lummins,jist have the perliteness
to take your gun off of Tom’s toes, and
look how you smash arter this.”
"Capting, I say, here’s an engagement
or rather an attack upon the right flank.”
"Why. Leftenant, you don’t say so—
what is’t?”
“Why, Parks Lummins and George
King fighting like blazes!”
“ Well, make a ring arter parade & see
fairplay; only tell them to stop till we get
done sogerin. I say, Leftenant what
made you put fat Arthur in the front
rank?”
"Kaze as how, Capting he is so tarnal
awitchel bellied he’ll keep the ranks in o
pen order. I rather guess if he should
•ver be promoted high as Major,he’ll look
like a sack of salt on horseback. If we
I should go to battle aud all be killed but
him, he would’nt be the skilleton of the
regiment.”
“Cubed Skinflint, you go on the right
of the company.”
“What for, Capting?”
“Kaze as how tallest men always do;
you are as long as the Grand Canawl.
and split up like a two foot rule, Now I
tell you if you dont go right off we’ll
make a lightnin rod of ye.”
“Capting, 1 say it’s arter sun down, and
I rather guess I needn’t stay any longer
corndin to law.”
“Well, I’m agreed, now get into a
sraight line as quick as greased lightnin.
Right Face! Dismissed!”
Leiters From the South.
Savannah, April 18th, 1835.
I gave vou a sketch at Charleston of a
remarkable young man by the name of
Payne—which I hope was received. I
spoke of the education he had obtained,
and of the pursuits he had followed, as
being creditable heretofore—whatever
may be said now—to the leniency of the
laws and of public sentiment regarding
his race. I have met here with another
specimen, of a little different class, and
raised nnder these far-bruited Georgian
laws, in the city of Savannah. I mean
Benedict, the slave now, and for forty
years past, in the employment of a gen
tleman, a principal merchant here, by
whose politeness I was enabled to gain
information of the substance of his history
and condition. He, too, is a “brown”
man, though a slave, as he always has
been. You are aware that he cannot be
emancipated here except on condition of
his removal from the State; and Sam is
altogether too shrewd a man to cast him
self adrift in this country, out of a situa
tion such as he now occupies. Fifteen
years, I think, he has been employed
where he is ; and he is now in the receipt
of a salary probably of between S4OO and
$500; that is to say, his owner is; and
Sam is allowed, and always has been, a
very considerable portion of the same.
Tfrus he has been enabled to marry, and
-maintain his family at his own cost —all
■es whom, if I am rightly informed by per
sons here to whom he has long been inti
mately known, have received more or less
of the elementary school education which
is commonly provided by legislation for
the children of all classes at the North.—
Here, you will remember, the laws run
the other way. How Sam has managed
the matter, I don’t know; but I infer that
the sanguinary severity we hear so much
about is more defensive and provisionary
than we have been taught to regard it;
that it was, as I have before intimated of
South Carolina, suggested contrary to the
good feeling of the public here, by the
threatening though well-meant movements
of the injudicious friends in the North;
and that public sentiment continues, as
long as it can, to connive at the abeyance
ot these laws. Sam is now some forty
two years old, and has grand children in
his family. The comfortable house he
lives in, would by no means disgrace a
substantial Connecticut yeoman ; and that
is his own— the result of his earning. Half
an acre of land is attached to it, laid out
into a garden, and lined with a variety of
fruit-trees; also sheds, and the proper ac
commodations for' a large company of
poultry, pigs, tec. not excepting a cow or
two most of the time. Within, is the
evidence not only of comfort, but of intel
ligence in tho enjoyment of it-—What
think you, for example of a library of the
value of some three or four hundred dol
lars—perhaps more, as books used to sell,
before the Harpers were born, selected,
collected, kept, and read, and by a
slave. A friend of mine gave me the op
portunity of a glance at them, as an in-]
dulgence to the curiosity to be expected 1
on such an occasion from one who has
had such opportunities of being horrified
by the sufficiently sTenuous setters forth
of one side of the subject. Here are—
what do you suppose? Why, Henry’s
i Commentaries, in six large elegant octa
vos—though bearing, to bo sure, the sign
i of having been well used—for,by the way,
Sam has some how contrived to pick up
an education, too; and he writes indeed,
' to my knowledge, as handsome a letter,
in all respects, as many a man who has
; “gone through college.” There are
Clark’s great work in six more; three or
four standard concordances; the works
i of Mosheim, Josephus, Stunn, Hervey,
Wesley in ten volumes, Rollin in eight,
Ramsay in three,and so on down to Tuck
er’s Blackstone, Richardson, Shakspeare,
i Goldsmith’s Natural History, Prideaux,
Franklin, and a lot of Key & Biddle’s
i Modern Poets, too numerous to mention.
Nor has Benedict neglected, in his zeal
> for improving his mind and his children’s,
the weightier matters. Few business
, men have a sharper eye for this cotton
business, which, as I understand, he Las
: pretty much the charge of—making the
i the purchases,deliveries, marking, and all
—and qualified, indeed, to superintend,
after a short drilling, the whole keeping
i of his employer’s books. He finds time,
i also, through this gentleman’s kindness,
r and his own activity, to employ no less
than four drays, which must, of course,
> bring him an income. Sam is the origi-
I nator of the expedition for Bassa Cove,
which is to leave here soon. But of that
t in my next.— N. Y. Mer. Adv.
Odd Translation.— AParisian author,
has translated Shakespeare’s lines, “Out
? out, brief candle,’” into French, thus:—
Get out you short candle."
The Wife.—That woman deserves
t not a husband’s generous love who will
t not greet him with smiles as be returns
from the labors of the day; who will not
I try to chain him to his home by the
- sweet enchantment of a cheerful heart.
I Thereis notone in a thousand that is so un
: feelingas to withstand such an influence,
i and breakaway from such a home.
A busy Editor. — Th© editor of th©
Camden (S. C.) Journal has better right
probably to use the personal pronoun
plural than almost any other member of
the newspaper brotherhood; for his vo
cations are more multifarious than those
of that versatile gentleman, the celebrated
Caleb Quotem himself. In the first
place, he is High Sheriff of the district,
and of course has not only to serve “ sum
pros” upon his subscribers, but to hang
them as occasion may require; though
that portion of his duties he will never be
called upon to exercise, we trust; for they
are among the best even of South-Caro
lina’s citizens. In the next place he is a
merchant, and buys cotton and bacon.—
Thirdly, he is an auctioneer, and knocks
down indiscriminately in all directions;]
in which capacity he has the advantage
of a certain predecessor of his, who used
sometimes to get knocked down himself,
but who generally left off about square
with the world in the matter of dry
blows. Fourthly, but not lastly, he is
" commissioner of locations,” which, we
take it, is a pretty important office, since
it implies the privilege of going where a
man pleases. Then, again, he is agent
of an Insurance Company, and superin
tendant of Sunday Schools. Now, if a
man holdingall these offices, and divers
others, “ too tedious to mention,” to
gether with the editorship of a newspa
per, has not the right to say •• We” in hia
multiform capacity aforesaid, we should
like to know who the deuce has. The
editor apologised a short time since for
lack of original matter, as it was “ return ;
day,’ and instead of fructifying his read- ;
ers with his pen, ho was taking some of
them incontinently into custody by autho
rity of the State of South-Carolina. Dum
Spiro Spero is a very positive old gentle
man ofthat region, who stands very much
upon his punctillios, and when the she
riff happens to be the bearer ofone of his
cards, there is no such thing as not being
“at home.” The editor,therefore, makes
a perfectly legitimate excuse, It is grat
ifying, too, to find editorial services so
properly appreciated as they appear to
be, now-a-days, in good old Kershaw.
Your editors in.that country, were wont
whilom, to be content with the dignity of
fourth coppral, and never aspired to any
thing more elevated than “Orderly Ser
geant” of a most disordely squad'of un
military and unmanageable wags, some
times called par excellence, and byway of
extraordinary distinction, the “barefooted
beat It is gratifying also to see the Journal
man promoted in the civil department as
well as the military; for the nullifiers eith
er did injustice to the she rift'editor’s fore
runner, or the columns of that paper were
not always upon so civil a list as they
might have been. At present, however
the conductor of the Journal is equally
good in all his capacities. That he is
an excellent sheriff, a good merchant, a
gent, auctioneer, &c, &c, we haven’t
the least reason to doubt, because he is in
all respects an excellent fellow, and that
he is a good editor, is manifested by his
paper; for it is conducted with a spirit,
tact and good sense very rarely found at
the desk of an inland establishment like
that; and we have only to express the
hope that he may find more loses and few
er thorns in his editorial path, than fall
to the lot of all those who spend the best
years of their lives in the endeavor to
benefit the public as editors of a newspa
per.—N. Y. Courier 4* Enquirer.
The American President's Drawing
Room.— ln the middle ofthe saloon stood
General Jackson, surrounded by Van.
Buren, the Vice President, Washington
Irving, and some of the secretaries of
State. The President is an elderly man,
of middle size, with art expressive counte
nance, and a sharp eye, indicative of the
firmness of character which he has evitP
ced upon so many occasions, and partic
ularly during the period of his Military
career, the laurels of which, it may be
said, he chiefly gathered at New-Orleans.
His hair is perfectly white combed up
wards from his forehead, which gives his
face a long and narrow appearance. His
manners are extremely condescending
and polite, without derogating from the
rank which he holds as the first man in A
merica. Republican custom obliges him
to shake hands with his visitors. Gener
al Jackson performs this part of the cer
emony without losing any of his dignity
and without appearing cold or distant.
I observed his actions for along while to
see if he made any particular distinctions
between those that presented themselves;
but, to his honor, as President of a Re
public, be it said he continued the same
the whole evening—polite and affable to
every one, and friendly to those whom
he knew personally, particularly the fair
sex.— The United States and Canada.
A Dumb Conscience. — Not long since
an Irishman named Peter, was arrested
in this city, for having stolen a sum of
money from a trunk. Peter stoutly per
sisted in his innocence. On© of his inquis
itors, however, pressing his hand upon
his breast, appealed to him, “Peter, is’nt
there something in here that tells you, you
have taken that money!” “Faith, sir,”
replied Peter, “there’s nothing in here
but some porridge they gave me this
morning before I left the jail, and that
your honor knows can’t spake.” Upon
the examination, the proof came stronger
and stronger against poor Peter, when he
at length burst out “Faith, and I don’t
know but I may as well confess it, for I
see you are determined to prove it upon
me at any rate.”— Providence Jour.
There are three things of which the
man who aims at the character of a pros
perous farmer will never be niggardly,
manure, tillage, and seed; and there are
three things of which he will never be
too liberal, promises, time and credit.
Gennesee Farmer.
THE ELECTION.
"The Richmond Enquirer predict* that
parties will stand in the next Virginia
House of Delegates as follows—Adminis
tration 76—Opposition 58. Nous Ver
ronsl [National Gazette.
Mr. Walsh may now compare our cal
culation with the result. The returns are
all in, but from eleven counties, sending
thirteen Delegates. The minimum we
can obtain in the House of Delegates,
is seventy-six, giving us a majority of
eighteen—(making a nett gain of 34
votes.) (There are four debateable coun
ties to be heard from—viz. Brooke, Cabell
Grayson and Randolph. If we gain
either of these, it will give us a majority
of 20—if all, 26.
In the Senate, we have carried two new
Senators, giving us a majority of 8, if
Dromgoole’s place be .supplied by a Re
publican.
And in Congress, we have gained 8,
and may gain 9—while we have lost but
one. The Whig politicians may now
talk of Whig or of White Victories.
We leave it to all impartial men to judge
by these dates of the fruits of the Cam
paign.
We are unable to-day, to make out a
complete Exposition of the Election. Sev
eral of the counties are yet ‘o be heard
from—but four only are believed to be
debateable. We shall probably receive the
entire return by Friday—find then, we
will give a coup d'ail of the battle
ground. In the mean time, we cordially
bid to our Republican brethren through
out the Uniort— All hail!—Richmond
Enquirer, of Qlh.
Another Walk-in-lhc- Water.— Some
years ago the famous Jemima Wilkinson
undertook to perform the miracle of walk
ing on £the Geneva Lake, or some other
lake away west. Having got her disci
ples together to witness the miracle, she
asked them if they verily believed she
could perforin it? “Undoubtedly,” said
they. “Oh, very well,” she replied, “If
you only believe I can do it it is just the
sameasifldid it.” And so Miss Jem
ima got off without wetting her feet.
But a certain Mr. Campbell, who re
cently engaged to walk across the Savan
nah River, seems not to have come off so
dry-shod. He performed the exptoit, in
deed, after a certain fashion, but it was
very different from walking genteelly on
the surface, as one would walk on a Tur
key carpet. He was merely towed across
holding a rope all the time, which was
fastened to a boat. Jemima’s mode of
doing business was, to our notion much
more judicious.— N. Y. Sunt
USE OF PLAISTER,
Extract of a letter from a subscriber in
Ovid, to the publisher:
"Our farmers here are becoming more
and more convinced ofthe benefits result
ing from the use of Plaister I presume
that in this town there will be double the
quantity used that there was last year.
The course generally pursued here is to
sow about a bnshel per acre on fields that
were seeded down the preceding year
They are then pastured or mowed the two
ensuing years. In the spring following,
they are planted with corn or summer
fallowed, and sown with wheat. The
wheat after corn is generally equal to
that sown on summer fallows. The ef
fect of plaister, when applied to wheat
that is backward in the spring,is also very
visible not barely in the increase of the
straw but in the length of the heads and
plumpness of the berry.”
GYPSUM AND ASHES.
A writer in the Farmers Register s.tys
that he has been in the habit of sowing
ashes with plaister, mixed in equal parts
using the same quantity as he formerly
had done of plaister alone,& that he has de
riv’?d equal benefit from this mixture as
from plaister alone, and he considers it a
saving of fifty percent. He prefers to
have the ashes damp, as it enables him
to sow with more regularity and in mod
erately windy weather.
Another writer in the Reg. recommends
the application of twenty bushels of plais
ter to the acre on "thin land.” He has
used it on com to that extent, with very
decided advantage to that and the succeed
ing crops.
A writer in theAmericanFarmer says
that he doubles his corn by putting into
each hill after the corn is dropped, a clam
shell full of two parts of leached ashes
and one of plaister.
RECIPE FOR MAKING VINEGAR.
You have copied from the American
Farmer into your paper, vol. 4th, page
264,‘short directions for making viengar,’
which are as follows:
“To ten gallons of rain-water, add one
gallon molasses,one of brandy—mix them
well together, and occasionally shaking it
in few a months it will be fit for use.’
Twelve gallons of the above mixture
will cost as follow, riz:«—
1 gallon molasses, . . $0 50
I gallon brandy,(adulterated whis’y) 1 50
$2 00
I would proposes much cheaper way
for families to be supplied with this indis
pensable article, viz:
Take one barrel of cider, —pure juice
ofthe apple,—divide it into two parts —
add one gallon clean rain water to each
part, place the casks and treat them as
above directed, and you will have thirty
gallons of vinegar, of superior flavor and
and much more enduring body than that
made of whiskey and molasses, and at
the same time of a much less price.Thead
vantage of dividing the quantity is that it
will be sooner fit for use.
February, 1835. OBVIOUS.
Life of Man.— Man passes his life in
reasoning ofthe past, in complaining of
the present, and trembling for the fu
tur©
AUGUST A,
MONDAY, MAY 11, 1 836.
We are requested to remind the public of the
meeting of the Library Society This Evening.
It is the annual meeting, and business of much
importance to the future usefulness of the Li
brary claims the attention of the Society. Let
us not neglect it.
LATEST FROM LIVERPOOL.
The Othello has arrived at Savannah with
London dates to the 26th March and Liverpool
to the 27th inclusive, having sailed on the 28th.
French dates of the 24th and 25th received in
London on the 26th, say nothing of the Ameri
can Indemnity Bill.
The following is the state of the Cottou Mar
ket :
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 25.—Sales to-day
5000 bales, of which 500 American on specula
tion ; the same quantity for export. No change
in prices.
Evening.— We continue to have a good de
mand for cotton from the trade, and rather high
er prices obtained. The sales of the last two
days will amount to 10,000 bales.
MARCH 26. —The sales of Cotton the last
four days are about 27,000 bales at full prices.
The market, however, this day is rather quiet.
We see no political news of the slightest in
terest.
VIRGINIA ELECTIONS.
The returns, as far as received, says the Pe
tersburg Intelligencer of the 4th, leave no doubt
that the Administration party will have a con
siderable majority in the next Legislature.
The Richmond Whig says—“ We have met
the enemy, and we are theirs.”
We understand (says the Army and Navy
Chronicle that considerable progress has been
latterly made in preparing the frigate Columbia
for launching; this vessel has been several years
on the stocks at the Navy Yard at Washington,
but no work has been done upon her for a Jong
time until recently.
The Northampton Massachusetts Gazette says
“ Snow fell all day Saturday last ; and was of
sufficient depth and solidity at night for sleigh
ing. The record should stand thus. April 25,
1835, Trees covered with snow blossoms.—
Sleighing fine.”
The private fortune of Louis Philippe, King
of the French, is said to amount to twenty-five
millions of dollars.
“ Here, please to give me two fives for this
Ten.” “ No, I won’t. But I’ll give you silver
for it.” Who could have foreseen such a result,
when we first knew Augusta? A fellow had
to pretend he was going to travel through the
Indian Nation to get a dollar of silver from any
of our Banks. And if you demanded specie for
their notes, they would turn you out cappers to
count for yoar daily amusement We lately
heard a witness say, he counted coppers for five
days, and found it very hard work to get SSO
in the day. Now silver is so plenty, the mer
chant will hold on to a ten dollar bill (which
used to be called rag money) and turn you out
the real Spanish rimers. We do not know but
this may become rather a grievance, when the
hot weather comes—3o or 40 dollars in silver in
a man’s pocket will not then be as comfortable
as bank bills. Mortals are strange folks, at any
rate. Thej’ are never satisfied. Formerly
they would have silver, if possible. Now the
rejected rag money is all the go— silver is too
heavy and rough. It is apt to wear a hole in
your pocket, and! so you may lose it. “ There’s
the rub”
Singular result of a game of Billiards .—One
player lacked one of being game, and his ball
and the light red were within the string—the
deep red out, nearly opposite and about one
foot distant from fhie- right side pocket. The
light red lay near the centre nail and the white
near the right termination of rhe string. The
player who Jacked two played from the left of t&e
spot, and intending to win with eciat,struck with
great force; but he entirely missed the ball at
which he aimed. "Game!” exclaimed his antago
nist; but the flying ball seemed togain increas
ed velocity, as it run its angles of incidence and
reflection, till it finally struck the white ball in
such a manner as to roll off and carrom on the
deep red, thus unexpectedly winning the game.
Fanny Kemble. — The following paragraph
from the London Age is rather severe on Mrs.
Fanny Kemble Buller.
We take this opportunity of commen
ting upon a Diary from the pen of the
quondam Miss Fanny Kemble, now Mrs.
Butler, in which, after commenting in sun
dry terms of revolting vulgarity on the
manners of a people from whom she has
received a vast sum of money, and a
mongst whom she has at length become
denizened, she fulminates in the same ele
gant strain against the “Press” by whose
assistance alone she made the reputation
she enjoyed, and which enabled her final
ly to possess a competence in life. When
we remember the state to which the man
agement of Mrs. Butler’s father reduced
Covent-Garden Theatre —that its goods
and chattels were seized fortaxes, and its
re-opening rendered hopeless but for the
mendicant application of her family to the
profession and the public, circulated and
brought about entirely by the Press; and
when we remember how the slight histri
onic talent Mrs. Butler possesses, was,
solely by the Press, magnified into im- i
portanceand attraction out of a purely ,
charitable feeling, we confess we cannot
find words sufficiently strong to mark our
feelings of execration at the ungrateful
and impudent manner in which Mrs. But- ]
ler has stated in her precious Diary, what i
opinion she entertains of the said Press. |
“Next to a bug,” Mrs. Butler professes to
abhor a Newspaper writer; that is, she
professes now to abhor them:but when she
was about to make her debut before the
public, and her family were literally beg
ging for a subsistence, then these “bugs”
were the most delightful things in exis
tence, and were swarming in every room
the house she lived in held. We per
ceive that a sister of Mrs Butler is about
to be launched forth into public life as a
singer, and it will be well to see exactly
what support she is to have from these
“bugs” at her starting, audit will be also
as well for these “bugs” to calculate in
their minds the exact return they are like-
ly to meet, and act accordingly. We
hear, moreover, that Mrs. Butler has pre
sented her husband with an heir-apparent
and if that be the case, and Grandpapa,
is likely to appear in the “youthful line
of business,” (as he has so many years
been accustomed to do) we sincerely hope
his friends the “bugs,” will stick to him
in the characteristic affection of the race.
“ Embryo Whales, when discovered in
in their earliest foetal state, are about 17
inches long, and of a whitish color. Th©
cubs when born are black, and vary from
10 to 14, or according to Cuvier, even 20
feet long. Generally, only one cub is
produced, occasionally two, but never
more. When the female suckles she
throws herself on one side on the sur
face ofthe water, and the cub attachesit
self to her breast. They continue suck
lings for a year during which time they
are named shortheads by the sailors, and
yield about fifty barrels of blubber. At
two years they will be called Stunts, and
thrive but little when weaned, scarcely
affording more than 20 barrels. • After
this period they are called Scull-fish and
their age is wholly unknown.— Mag,
Nat, History.
The Ship Orozimbo, at Baltimore from
Liverpool, brought an importation of
fourteen heifers and two bulls, ofthe full
blooded short horn breed. They ar©
said to be as fine a parcel of cattle as has
ever been imported into this country, and
are intended to be placed on the farms of
R. D, Shepherd, Esq- at Sepfcerdstown
A Philadelphia merchant espying a
country merchant on the pavement, in
front of his store, anxiously stepped up to
him, to solicit hrs custom.
‘Flow d’ye do, sir, I think I have seen
you somewhere,’ observed the city mer
chant.
‘Quite likely, for I have been there of
ten,’ was the reply.
The Philadelphian, nothing daunted,
propounded also the following query,
which met with a repelling answer.
•What might your name be, sir?’
•It might be Beelzebub, but it aiat,’ ra
plied the witty countryman.
Col. Crockett talks like a book. In
his trip to the North and Down East, he
says, speaking of a theatrical exhibition ;
‘ I did not think from all I saw, that the
people enjoyed themselves better than we
do at a country frolic, where we dance
till day light, and p®y off the score by
giving one in our turn. It would do you
good to see our boys and girls dancing.
None of your stradling, mincing, sally
ing ; but a regular sifter-eat-the-buckle,
chicken-flutter set to-. It is good whole
some exercise ; and when one of dur boy»
puts his arm round his partner, it’s a good
hug and no harm in it.’
An unsophisticated rustic’s notion of
‘ the master piece of concerted music :
I Their fiddling was pretty good, consid
ering every fellow played his own piece J
! and I would have known more about it,
if they had prayed a tune, but it was all
Uve«-wee-tadli»n-twadlum-tum-tum-taddltr
leedle-iaddle-leedle-lee. ‘ The twenty-se
cond of February,’ ortho ‘Cuckoo’s Nest,”
would have been a treat.’
The Colonel looks out for the preser
vation of his good name. When he war
in Boston, he says :
There was some gentlemen that invite#
me to go to Cambridge, where the big
college or university is; where they keep
ready made titles or nicknames to give
people. I would not go, for I did not
know but they might strikean LL. Dion
me before they let me go ; and > had no
idea of changing ‘Member ofthe House
of Representatives of the United States,’
for what stands for ‘ lazy lounging dunce,
which I am sure my own constituents®
would have translated rr.y new title to be®
knowing that I had never taken any de]®
gree, and did not own to any except
small degree of good sense not to pass
what I was not—l would not go ft.—-®
There had been one doctor made from®
Tennessee alreadj-, and I had no wish t<®
put on the cap and bells. I recollected®
the story of a would be great man who®
put on his sign, after his name, in large®
capitals, D. Q,. M. G., which stood for®
Deputy Quarter Master General; but®
which one of his neighbors, to the great®
diversion of all the rest, and to his morti-®
fication, translated into ‘damn’d quick®
made gentleman.’ No indeed, not me,®
anything you please but Granny Crock-®
ett; I leave that for others; I’ll throw®
that in to make chuck full the 'measure®
of their country’s glory.’
An interesting phi enological developc-U
ment.— The phrenologists are in clover®
in Philadelpia. Two “professors” are®
givinglectures and manipulating sconces®
at an amazing rate, and the Philadelphia®
ans are all found to possess an extra or-®
gan, being half a bump appropriated spe-®
dally to punning. The Gazette and Intel!-®
gencer has acapital illustration of the set-®
ence & sagacity of these craniological gen®
tiemen. ‘A friend of ours,’says the editors®
' “presented his cranium to the professors®
and asked them to read bis character.®
, They alighted with eagerness upon a®
vast protuberance, and told him that®
acquisitiveness was highly developed.No,®
said the gentleman, you mistake, that i«®
the bump of pump-handle-iveness. In my ■
boyhood I broke tny head against a pump®
handle, and the result is the protuber-®
ance you have discovered.— N. Y. CotuU
C OM M ERCFAIT ■
CHARLESTON, May 9. I
COTTON.—The operations ofthe week ia®
Uplands were almost exclusive! y confined to the®;
two days succeeding our last report, (Saturday®
and Monday) since then the market has been I
heavy and dull, and the transactions very light. ®
Purchasers are endeavoring, and in some instan-®
ces have obtained a reduction in price, for all ®
qualities except a choice select article. The®