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By J. G. M ’iVhorter♦
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THE CITY GENTLEMAN AND
COUNTRY GIRL.
“His home is there
In the sweet cottage ofcontent whereclings I
Heart unto heart, and both beat tenderly.”
Has it not frequently happened in your |
time, courteous reader, that a face you '
have been long accustomed to see daily
has suddenly disappeared —and absence
has led to the impression that he was
dead; gone to the West. Indies, and caught
by the yellow feverjkilled near the Rocky
Mountains, or eaten by the. cannibals at
the Fejee Islands? However, gone he
was, disappeared, vanished, and the rea
sonable conclusion was,that he had “gone
the way of all flesh.” Has it not also oc
curred, that with this impression you have
come upon such a personage suddenly in
the streets, and found him alive—in jo
cund health and spirits; and even Time,
with his mellow hand,had made no wrin
kles on his brow? Even such a person-<
age, so dead as I supposed, aye, and al
most forgotten, I did encounter in Broad
way, a few days ago. He had been fora
few years the very supreme of the bonton
the mriror of fashion, the life of the draw
ing room and convival board, the dashing
blade ofthe lobby —the first fellow at brag
—at a race —a rowing match—or a cock
fight; a rare good fellow who loved life—
had a small fortune, and lived as if that
small fortune was getting into a gallop
ing consumption.
“Why, Bill, is it you—alive? why, my
dear fellow, we all though you dead some
years ago: give me your hand; aye, it is
substantial flesh and blood; you have not
‘slept the dreamless sleep?’ ”
“No, no, my dear friend; I slept longe
nough, and am now wide awake—an al
tered man; look at me would you have re
cognized Bill Trifle,-in this pepper and
salt coat; this plain jacket, and fustian pan
taloons? I am married—have long cut
fashion and folly—have a dear good wife
and three children—go to bed at ten, and
rise at dawn, with a clear head, a sound
heart, and nerves braced by labor and ex
ercise: I am a farmer; live within a few
miles of the city; sell eggs and poultry.
There’s a change, my boy, in the course
of human events; the dashing Bill Trifle
who used to sport a tandem down Broad
way, or drive to the Union course with ‘a
terrier between my legs!’ ”
He looked fresh and healthy, and had
lost that cadaverous and sickly appear
ance which always foilow nights of dis
sipation.
“But tell me; how did all this happen?
'ti&a conversation miraculous, how came
you to run away from the world and play
the jilt to fashion?”
"Oh, tisa long story; but here comes
my little wagon from Fulton market; jump
in and ride to my cottage and take tea;
’tis but half an hour’s ride, and you shall
know all, but stop, let rne see if I can re
cognize some of my bld companions of
the pave.”
It was one, and the only one bright
sunny day of last week when the whole
fashionable world had thrown aside the
muff and tippet, and gone abroad to wel
come the return of spring with verdure on
its brow and primroses in its hand. We
were leaning against the iron railing ot
St. Paul s, and the gay throng were pass
ing in rapid, and careless, and countless
currents.
“As I live my old flame, Miss Merry
gold! she could outtalk and out dance all
creation; the brightest jewel in the cap of
fashion! but oh! how altered; sunken eyes
pale complexion, slender form, wrinkled
brow, permature old age; she has lived too
quick.”
The lady cast a cold and vacant gaze up
on him, and passed on.
“Who is that fellow in specs, buttoned
up in his great coat? he with gray hair,
a shuffling gait, and an air of fashionable
decrepitude? Why; it is my old friend and
associate, Doctor Snufflebags. Many a
game of whist,and many a glass of cham
pagne have we cracked together. He is
gonetoo.in the‘yellow leaf;’ coming down
the ladder as quick as possible.’.
Ho thus ran on for sometime; recogni
zing some, gazing with strange fancy on
others and at length said, "come, let’s be'
off: they don’t remember me. I look too
florid, too healthy, too well, to be recog
nized as the old rake who, on fashionable
principles, ought to have run his race half
a dozen years ago.”
We rode to the cottage and alighted at
the whitewashed gate. The grounds were
neatly laid out and planted with vegetables
a sheep or two was browsing on a rising
ground; the cows were waiting for admis
sion ttnw the barn,and ihe winch tfo,rbuik
ed his welcome as w’e entered a plainly
furnished room, where every thin<r was!
useful,nothing superfluous; where a cheer i
ful smile and kind salutation were extend-'
ed to us by the fair wife, in whose beauti-.
ful and modest face was blended all that!
was sweet dj amiable,courteous and polite.
Did you ever take tea in the country? How
unlike every thing intown Butter just
•burned; cream just skimmed from broad
zinc pans;| bread of the purest flour, fresh
ly baked eggs; brought from the nest by
the little rosy cheeked country girl in at-;
tendance: smoked shad of their own cur
ing; preserved peaches and quinces from
their own garden. A hearty welcome and
a keen appetite, give to such a meal far
greater attractions than,the sUffl ptuousa nd
luxurious board spread by fashion for the
gratification of folly.
After tea, seated on the piazza, with a
bottle of sparkling cider before us, he be
gan thus; “You thought rne dead; I was
so dead to every consideration and reflec
tion which makes life desirable and on
the high road to ruin; my fortune almost
gone, and my health seriously impaired
gunning, you may remember, was my
save rile sport; one day 1 walked over bog
and fen,and wadeel through bog and quag
mire, in search of game, until the shades
of night encompassed me. I felt jaded and
fatigued as alight gleamed from the ivy en
circled casements of this very cottage,and
resting on my gun, with my pointer dog
crouched at my feet, I gazed with intense
interest at the scene before me At one end
of the table, placed near a cherful fire,sat
an old man, whom lat once recognized
as a veteran of our revolutionary war, at
the other end his daughter was seated,
reading to him from a bible, by the broad
light of an astral lamp. I never saw a
creature more beautiful; her face beamed
with piety and intelligence; her long eye
lashes were pensively closed, and when
she read from the sacred book before her,
her coral lips parting over teeth of pearl,
and her voice sweet as balsam to the soul
rivetted me to the spot with rapture and de
light. ‘I must have her,’ said 1: she shall
be mine, such a girl should not be per
mitted to waste her sweetness on the des
ert air—l’ll carry herotf, take her to the
city, and conceal her at one of my old
haunts—the bucks and bloods of the town
will envy me. She continued to read to
the old man the sublime passages from I
saiah; her voice was loud and sweet, and
her face beamed with fire and animation
‘Hold, hold,’ said Ito myself,‘let us talk
this matter over; what will become of her
old father? what will the soldier do when
I have carried off his child? he who has
shed his blood for the very liberty which
lam enjoying. No matter; yet I cannot
marry her, she is a country girl, and I am
a gentleman; the fashionable world will
only laugh at me. A gentleman, a gen
tleman, I repeated to myself for shame,
for shame; is it the province of gentleman
to steal, like a serpent, at night under the
casement ;f this cottage; to twine around
this innocent girl until her destruction is
complete—to bri >g her aged father to the
grave in misery,ventingcurses on us both
to blast and destroy all the happiness 1
see around me? It this is the act of a gen
tieman, ofa man of fashion, I am not so
utterly lost to reason and to virtue: no I
will marry her, the rose of health and
beauty, and not of guilt, shall bloom up
on her face. Let the world scoff—let fools
deride—let fashion frown—let proud an
cestry discard—she shall be my wife, my
honest, wedded wife.’ Well sir you have
seen her; tis needless to recount how 1
wooed and won her, honorably, faithful
ly, and how sincerely and truly happy I
have been ever since. 1 seldom visit the
city, because I have more powerful attrac
tions at home; I read and labor alternate
ly, and realize the delight ofa well
governed, well regulated marriage.”
What a lesson for all fashionacle fops
and decayed rakes! how full of instruc
tion and example—what an escape from
a precipice—what a change from the pros
pect of an early and unhonoured grave to
all the realities and blessings of a well
spent life!
One moral—one strong persuasive,
convincing fact arises from this story; the
necessity, the advantages of pausing, re
flecting, and considering the effect of any
sudden determination before we take it.
Let us commune with ourselves—look in
to our own hearts—contrast a vicious with
a virtuous act, and we shall realise the
blessings of a just and righteous decision,
as was the triumphant case above referred
to. — N. Y. Mirror.
For the Mountaineer.
RE VOLU T ION AR Y 1 NCI DE NTS.
GENERAL BUTLER.
The life, character, revolutionary ser
vice of Major General William Butler,
are well known in the upper part ofSouth
Carolina. He entered the service of his
country when a very young man, and con
tinned actively and ardently engaged
through the whole of her Revolutionary
struggle. 1 here was no one who espoused
the side ot Liberty and his country with
more zeal or devotion. Endowed by na
ture with an ardent and impetuous tem
perment, high and honorable feelings, and
a bold and fearless spirit, it was impossi
ble for him to remain inactive, or look
with indifference on the scenes through
which his country was passing. In the
darkest period of her distress and subjec
tion, as well as in the sunshine of her vic
tory and success, he was ever found man
fully maintaining her rights, and fearless
ly fighting her enemies. The upper
part of the State was emphatically the
field of his gallantry and usefulness. He
served for a great while under General
Pickens, with the rank and command of
a Captain.—Whilst in this service he
had frequent skirmishes with the Tories
and many incidents might be related of
him, which well deserve a page in the
history of his country.
But it is not the object of this article to
give a sicetcn ot Gen. Butler's Revolt!-'
tionary services. They are, perhaps/
better known to the community General
ly, than they are to the present* writer. :
His object was to relate a most extraordi
narycircumstance, in which Gen. Butler!
figured conspicuously some yeais after
the close of the Revolutionary war. It is
really characteristic of those unsettled I
times which ensued the troubles and hor
rors of a seven years war. The incident
is well known and cannot be denied now; I
but in after ages it will be regarded as a i
most barefaced falsehood. I
Whilst the Circuit Court was sitting at
Cambridge, for the District of Ninety
Six, there was a fellow by the name of
Loveless brought before the Court on a
charge of horse stealing. He had been a
noted Tory and plundered during the
Revolution, and was one of a murderous
band which had killed General Butler’s
father and uncles. On his trial, it was
discovered that the testimony was insuffi
cient, and the Jury were compelled as a
matter of course, to bring in a verdict of
not guilty. But no sooner was the ver
dict pronounced, than General Butler,
with a few friends, determined that Lov
less had other and higher offences toatone
for, than that of taking his neighbor’s hor
ses; and that although he had escaped
I punishment in the one case, he should not
be so fortunate in the other. The blood
i ofthe Butlers and other Whigs, who had
[been murdered by this lawless ruffian
cried out for revenge, and their descen
dants determined it should be had in a
very summary way. With a file of men,
General Butler went into the Court House
and in the presence of Judge and Jury,
seized the prisoner, before he could be re
leased from the bar, carried him out into
[the Court yard, and there hung him to a
tree which grew in front of the Court
House. The spectators, composing an
immense crowd, did not attempt to inter
fere, but looked on with emotions of sur
prise and astonishment.
The presiding Judge was the Hon.
Edanus Burke, a man of high talentsand
great legal acquirements, and afterwards
Senator in Congress from South Caroli
na.—Judge Burke was an Irishman by
birth, and educated in Europe He was
very little acquainted with the manners
and customs of the people in the upper
country, although he had been an active
Whig ip the lower country during the
whole of the Revolution. His Honor,
though a bold and courageous man, was
not a little startled at seeing a prisoner,
■ who had been pronounced innocent by
1 the verdict of a Jury, carried out of Court
iin defiance ofthe Judge and Law, and
immediately executed in contempt of the
trial through which he had just passed.
Judge Burke was a man of unbounded hu
mor, and loved a jest most dearly. It is
said that he once ordered a Jury to acquit
a prisoner of the charge of horse stealing
because it appeared from the testimony,
that he was drunk on corn Whiskey,
when he stole the horse. “I know,” said
his Honor to the Jury “that the vile stuff
you call corn whiskey gives a man a pro
pensity to steal I was once drunk on it
myself, and could scarcely keep my hands
off a fine horse which I happened to see.”
But although his Honor loved a jest,
this matter of hanging a man, was press
ing the figure a little too far for his Irish
I humor. He was unable, however, to in
terpose his judicial authority, and save the
prisoner. The wife of Loveless happen
ed to be present, and with tears and dish
evelled hair, she prayed his Honor to
rescue her husband from the gallows.
But the spirit with which the “regulators”
were acting, was too manifest for him to
think of interfering. He replied to the
woman’s prayers and entreaties with the
following frank confession: “ Before God
my good woman, I dare not—They will
hang me if I attempt to save your hus
band.” Instead of attempting the rescue
ofthe prisoner, His Honor thought it de
cidedly more prudent to have his horsts
caught and put off for Charleston. It is
said he reached Orangeburg that night, a
distance of seventy or eighty miles.
The tree on which Loveless was hung,
stood for many years after the Courts had
ceased to be holden at Cambridge, and
was cut down by an old African negro,
justbrougnt into this country, to whom
the tree was pointed out as the one on
which people were hung. The African
supposed that ifthetree was down, there
would be an end of hanging in this coun
try, and he was rather fearful that it
might otherwise come to his turn aftera
while to take a swinging in the air.
After the close of the Revolutionary
s t ru gglf. Gen. Butler was a member of
the Legislature, a member ofthe Conven
tion which adopted the Federal Consti
on, and for many years a member of Con
gress from Edgefield and Barnwell. He
was also Brigadier General, and the suc
cessor of Gen. Pickens as Major General
ofthe upper Division ofSouth Carolina
Militia. B. F. P.
THE FRENCHMAN’S TRICK.
Monsieur Duphot was a French re
fugee who had fled to America in the be
ginning of the Revolution, and settled him !
self in Boston. His judgement of the
Yankees was expressed without reserve
—“Ils sont house efans, mais ils no savant
pas jouer le violon.” But Monsier Du
phot had a waggish neighbor, who if he
could not play the fiddle, could play a
trick, as the Frenchman found to his an- 1
noyance,having been April fooled, and sent |
trrants after pigeon’s milk, more times
than once by this mischeif-loving fellow.
He would have paid him in his own coin,
but his bad English was sure to carry him
into some blunder in the attempt, and the
joke which he plotted commonly exploded
on his own hands. However good luck
and his own wit made him amends, now
and then. One day Mr. B. the joker a
foresaid, met him in the market where
the Frenchman was cheapening a quarter
of mutton.
"Ah!" monsieur,” said he, “you and I I
am on the same errand. You dino on 1
mutton to-day?” ..
“Yes sair; the mutton is mure sheep as
de bief, voyez vous.”
“True, and if you and I buy a bit togeth
er, it will be cheaper still. What do you
say?”
Ve well, allons; let us see—how much
you vant?”
‘ Oh, about a quarter.”
“Bien, bien.and so do I. Den me buy
half a mutton en semble, and den me make
him too half chacun apie. e.” >
replied B.
So straightway making a purchase of
a side of mutton, he cut it in two, and ta
king the hind quarter for himself, offered
the Frenchman the other.
“Attendez!” said the Frenchman; “it is
de hind quarter I want.”
“Really! now it happens to be this very
part I want too!” said the other, pretend
ing surprise.
The Frenchman grinned, and shrug
ged his shoulders.
“Come,” saidß., "let us toss a cent, and
he that wins, shall put his hand upon one
piece, and say, ‘Who shall have this'?
while the other turns his back, and an
swers ‘l’ or ‘you.’”
“Very well.”
“.Here it goes then; head, I win; tail,
you lose.”
The former proposition was uttered as
the coin flew into the air. “Ay,” said the
Frenchman to it, and “No” to the latter,
for he had been tricked that way before.
Mr. B. was caught in his own trap, for
it was not a head. However, ’tis an equal
chance yet,” thought he.
“Tournez done,” said the Frenchman,
and slily whipping out his pen knife, he
chopped oft’the tail from one portion of
the mutton, and clapping it upon the oth
er, cried out, as if in his usual blunder
ing way, “Who shall have dis wid de tail
on?”
“I,” replied the other, jumping round
ip great glee, at the supposed etourderic
of his companion.
“Den you take him for de fore quarter.’
Mr. B. scratched his head, without
saying a word, for a moment or two, till
the explosion of laughter which accom
panied the trick, had in some degree sub
sided.—Then, with an exceeding foolish
look, he marched away, carrying his
fore quarter of mutton with the tail on,
which winds this tale off— London New
Monthly Magazine.
TuGU S T A?
VV EI)NE9I) AY, JUNE 1 O .
We. perceive by the New York papers, that
the Hon. Richard H. Wilde and Col. Jos. M.
White sailed from that city in the packet of
the Ist for Europe.
Thepeople of Savannah are progressing well
in their arrangements for the Rail Road from
that city to Macon. They have it now on the
right basis—the enterprise of individuals. Let
every part of the State be thus improved, by
the citizens of the different sections, and then
local jealousies will cease.
The Branch Bank of Darien in Savannah
has been robbed of SIOO,OOO by forcing its vault.
$5,000 in reward are offered for the robber and
money. To avoid the loss, the old emission
will be all called in, and the holders of the bills
are requested to present them immediately, and
the public cautioned against receiving any more
of that Branch or the Mother Bank, in which is
the principal amount lost. There are said to be
“ well founded suspicions.”
CHEROKEE TREATY.
We understand, that Gov. Carroll, of Ten
nessee, and the Rev. Mr. Sciiermehorn arc ap
pointed Commissioners to negociate with the
Cherokees; to which commission our towns
man, R. J. Meigs has been appointed Secretary.
FIRE IN CHARLESTON.
The Fire, which we noticed as raging in
Charleston at our last dates, was truly an aw
ful conflagration. The streets on which it was
most destructive, are Market, Meeting, Pinck
ney, Guignard, Ellery, and Anson, with Maid
en Lane. The Courier thus notices it:
“ The number of buildings destroyed in this
wide spread conflagration, is estimated at from
3 to 400, some of them large brick mansions,
but much the larger portion of them two story
frame bouses. Only a small portion of the
buildings consumed,as compared with the whole,
were occupied as stores -the loss ot goods or mer
chandize, is therefore probably not very great
in proportion to the extent of the fire, but the loss
of furniture must be considerable. Insurance
had only been effected, we learn, in the Fire In
surance Offices of this city, to the amount of
$90,000 on the property destroyed—a very large
number of the sufferers were uninsured, and
many of them such as were the least able to bear
such losses. We have heardofseveral thriving
citizens and mechanics—thriving on the hard
earnings of their own industry—who havebeen
reduced by this calamity, to utter, or compara
tive poverty, and agreat number of persons have
been rendered by it homeless and houseless, and
their situation is such as to demand the sympa
thy of the feeling heart, and prompt relief from
the benevolent and liberal purse.—lt is, per
haps, the most calamitous fire that has ever
I ravaged and desolated our city—that of Oct.
9,1810, in which 194 dwellings were destroyed,
may have equalled it in extent of ground; but
the present calamity has fallen upon a large
proportion of those in moderate, or needy circum
stances; and the portion of the city which has
been subjected to this fearful visitation, having
been intersected by numerous streets, and crowd
ed with both habitations and inhabitants, the
loss and suffering are therefore very great in
proportion to the space covered by the fire.
We are rejoiced to announce the safety of
the Dolphin, Capt. Pennoyer, which was de
tained so long in her passage from Norfolk to
Charleston, that serious apprehensions began
to be felt, that our friend, the Captain, had
cracked his last joke. We had ourselves sev
eral times sighed “ Alas ! poor Yorick !” But
he was only stuck in the mud, in some of those
dirty little salt-water creeks off the coast of N. ;
C., which were never intended to be naviga- '
ted by any thing but SeaTurtles.The Captain’s i
og book seems to intimate, that he begins to i
think as much too; for he found that his Pilot [
was not as well acquainted, by a jug full, with I
Core Inlet, as “ any Turtle in it.” For said
pilot run the Dolphin on mud bank after [
mud bank, till she had very nearly stuck final- j
ly fast. W ell, she is not the only dolphin, we j
expect, that has stuck its nose in the mud, and
ve presume it will not be the last. However,
in case of any similar accident in future, we
had rather be aboard the one commanded bj’
Capt. Pennoyer, than eny'of her namesakes in
those waters.
In the House of Representatives of the State
of Connecticut, resolutions have been adopted,
by a vote of 190 against 97, instructing their
Senators in congress to vote for expunging the
obnoxious resolution censuring the President
of the United States. The same resolutions
w-ere adopted in the Senate by a vote of 20
against 15.
The Board of Trustees of the South Carolina
College, at the meeting recently held, made the
following elections:
Dr. Francis Lieber, of Philadelphia, Prose -
sor ot Political Economy and History.
Dr. Wm. H. Ellet, of New York, Professor
of Chemistry and Geology.
Thomas S. Twiss, late assistant Profes'-or of
Mathematics in the West Point Academy, Pro
fessor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.
Dr. Wm. Capers, Professor of Sacred Litera-
; ture and the Evidences of Christianity
I Isaac W. Stuart, late Principal of' Beaufort
j College, Professor of Greek and Roman Liter
i ature.
, The office of President is left vacant till De
cember.
BURKE UNION MEETING.
Agreeable to previous notice, the Union
Democratic Party convened at the Store
House of Mr. Kirkland, Bark Camp, on
the6thinst. On motion, Judge Lowrie
was called to the Chair, and Dr. Chas.
M. Hill appointed Secretary. On mo
tion, a committee was ordered to draw up
a Preamble and Resolutions, expressive
of the sentiments of the meeting, and the
Chair appointed the following gentlemen:
Allen Inman. John Ward, Wm. Hines,
Win. Murphee.A.C. Holliday, Jas. Cross,
A. E. Harris, and W. C. M’Cullers.
After a short deliberation, the committee
through their Chairman, Mr. Harris,
presented the following preamble and
resolutions, which were unanimously
adopted :
Whereas the Nullification Party of
this State are extremely active and vigi
lant through the medium ofa Convention,
and other means more effectually to or
ganize themselves and establish their
doctrines through our country, we deem
it an imperative duty, in order to counter
act their indefatigable exertions, and to
maintain, in their first purity, those high
constitutional principles, which we believe
to be both in theory and practice the sub
stratum of our political system,and for
which we have but recently,faithfully and
successfully contended, to approve of the
proposed Convention to be held in Mil
ledgeville, on the first day of July ensu
ing, and also to appoint delegates to re
present the Union Democratic Republi
can Party of Burke County in that Con
vention,
Therefore, Resolved, That in confor
mity with the above, the four following
persons, Doct. Chas. M. HUI, Wm. Hines,
Esq., Major Moses Mulkey, and Wm. W.
Wigins, Esq. be and they are hereby,
appointed to represent the Union Party
of this County in the Convention to be
held in Milledgeville on the- first aay of
July next.
Resolved. That in the event of either
of the above nominees failing to comply
with his appointment, the Chairman shall
be vested with the power of filling any
vacancy.
Resolved. That we recommend, to our
friends, the necessity of holding similar
meetings in the several Counties of the
State, that mutual harmony and concert
of action may be the result of our efforts.
Resolved, That the Union papers
throughout the State be requested to pub
lish the proceedings of this meeting.
Resolved, That the thanks of the Meet
ing be tendered to the Chairman and Se
cretary for their polite and dignified at
tention while presiding over our delibera
tions.
SIMEON LOWRIE, Chairman.
CHAS. M. HILL, Secretary.
FOR THE GEORGIA COURIER.
Mr. Editor :
Improvements in mechanics have suc
ceeded one another so rapidly of late that
the mind can hardly anticipate the result
of any of the propositions now before it.
Astrology and Alchemy, under the influ
ence of the square and compass of Geome
try, have risen to an eminence among the
sciences that will not be readily accorded ■
to any other,but especially to mechanics. I
It depends on the improvements already ■
made and those in progress for a correct
influence in producing that “ spirit of the .
age” so essential to the success of the
arts and sciences. •
Among the projects that are now under
the investigation of engineers, is that of
balloon navigation, for useful purposes.
r l here is no association of engineem in i
this country ; their efforts must therefore
be separate: aud U is only by publishing
th.tt they can hope to obtain the reflections
and experience of each other, and with >
this view, I have penned the following '
remarks, trusting they may prove accept
able to your readers.
In seeking a comparison to guide us
to the proper arrangement of a flying
machine, the great book of nature must
be opened, and among the works of the
Deity, the “ bij;ds of the air ” present
themselves under various circumstances.
In one division we find the animal doubly
or rather triply armed for locomotion ; on
each side it has wings for the air, and it
it.is furnished with a boat and paddles for
the water, and its paddles are sometimes
used as feet on the bank, f In the other
division, though similar in many respects,
the feathers do not constitute a boat and
the feet are not paddles. I’d apply the
analogy we have thus discovered, it is
evident that n flying machine must be fur
nished with wings; wheels and paddles
will not do in the air; they were, accord
ing to a law known to the Machinist of
the Universe, adapted only to water. In
all attempts that I have heard of men ma
| king to fly,they have preposterously con
nected the wings with the arms, under
too strict an application of the analogy.
The bodies or men are supported on the
earth by their feet, and if ever they are
sustained in the air, it must be by wings
attached to them. The human arm is in-
I capable ofthe requisite exertion, and fails
;in a few minutes. In the flying machine
! *t has been proposed to use a steam engine;
; but with all its attenuations it must still
be too ponderous. Air may be used in
: stead of steam, with an arrangement of
parts similar to the high steam engine,
, were it not for the difficulty of. forcing
the air into the boiler. According to the
law of Marriotte, air in a tube 1 inch in
diameter is compressed by 15 lib. to one
half its former bulk; by 30 lib. to yet an
other half, or one fourth of its original;
| by 60 lib. to one eighth, and by 120 lib.
Ito one sixteenth. To work an air engine
with practical effect, the pressure,without
friction on the boiler, must at least be 160
lib. per inch, which is, as we have shown,
■ more than the pressure required to com
. press the air in the forcepump to one six
teenth its original bulk, and therefore
with that arrangement it would present
an insurmountable difficulty. To the ex
perienced engineer this difficulty is met
with several contrivances, which need
not b« now attended to. An air expansion
I engine is not in any respect similar to
j the air gun, though I may acknowledge
that the idea was derived from it. The
air for the airgun is simply compressed
by the efforts of the person charging the
air holder, and the impulse imparted to
the bullet is a portion of these efforts col
lected and simultaneously applied by the
apparatus. Expansion has no agency
whatever in the effect produced ; it is al
together owing to the elasticity of the air.
Expansion is produced by caloric, and
according to Arnott, one fifth caloric to
air produces by its expansion an effect
’ equal to one caloric, to steam, hence the
weight of water is entirelydispensed with,
as well as four fifths of the fuel, besides
diminished furnaces, &c. &c.
Respectfully, <fcc.
A YOUNG ENGINEER.
; ♦ The recent proceedings of the New York
j Mechanics Institute reminds me of the incon
i sistency of Manual Labor Schools in a state
1 supporting a penitentiary. If mechanic arts
I are used as a punishment for crimes, how can
I they ever attain that elevation to which the
i youth of our country are taught to aspire? I
would invoke all good men and true, true to
themselves and to their country, to elevate and
improve the character and condition of working
men. Let the Lawyer, and Doctor, and Mer
chant, say what would be the measure of theft
indignation if law, physic, divinity and com
mercial science, were made branches of peni
tentiary education?—“A word to the wise,” &c.
t It would perhaps be as interesting a meta
physical inquiry as that respecting the
whale being a fish, were we to ask if it is really
a fact that a d uck swims. I would say for my
self, that it does not. Will any of your corres
pondents dispute the correctness of the asser
tion? A Y. E.
From the Southern Literary Messenger.
The following beautiful reply to the stanzas
of Mr. Wilde, published in the first number of
the Messenger,is attributed tothe wifeof a dis
tinguished physician of Baltimore, a ladyjwhose
fine taste and poetic capacity, are most happily
displayed in these touching lines. The answer
is a very perfect counterpart of Mr. Wilde’s
stanzas, and if we were called on to decide up
on their relative merits, we do not know which
of the two would most demand our admiration.
[The lady’s of course.—Ed. Georgia Cockier.]
ANSWER
To “My Life is like the Summer Rose.”
The dews of night may fall from Heaven,
Upon the wither’d rose’s bed,
And tears of loud regret be given,
To mourn the virtues of the dead:
Yet morning’s sun the dews will dry,
And tears will fade from sorrow’s eye,
Affection’s pang be lull’d to sleep,
[ And even love forget to weep.
The tree may mourn it’s fallen leaf,
And autumn winds bewail it’s bloom,
And friends may heave the sigh of grief,
O’er those who sleep within the tomb.
Yet soon will spring renew the flowers,
And time will bring more smiling hours; -
In friendship’s heart all grief will die,
And even love forget to sigh.
The sea may on the desert shore
Lament each trace it bears away;
The only heart it’s grief may pour
O’er cherished friendship’s fast decay:
Yet when all trace is lost and gone,
The waves dance bright and gaily on;
Thus soon affection’s bonds are torn,
And even love forgets to mourn.
DIED,
On the 31st May, George William, only son
of Thos. S. Metcalf, aged twenty months and
twenty-three days.
As the sweet flower scents the morn,
But withers in the rising day,
Thus lovely was this infant’s dawn,
Thus swiftly fled his life away.
It died ere its expanding soul
Had ever burnt with wrong des-ires—
Had ever spurned at Heaven’s control,
Or ever quenched its sacred fifes. •
It died to sin, it died to cares,
But for a moment felt the rod.
O mourner! such the Lord declares,
Such are the children of our God *.