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made to it. Encouraged l>y this freedom
being allowed, and as daikness had spread
her sable veil over that portion of the earth
on which the coach was running, he drew
her to him and imprinted a kiss on her nec
tarin lips. ,
The coach did not travel very quickly, but
the enamored youth thought it flew, when
lie found himself on the following day within
afewrodsof his uncle’s house, lie told
his fairy companion that they must shortly
seperate. Spoke of “ here we meet too
soon to part,” and made use of many roman
tic speeches, expressive of his deep regret
at being compelled to sever so soon from
one who had been as a bright and glottous
sunbeam on his earthly pilgrimage, and
whose memory would live forever, and a day
after, in his bosom. To his exceeding sur
prise, the young lady declared that lie had
been so exceeding kind that she couldn’t
think of parting with him ; that she would
go with him to his uncle’s house.
He told iier that he dared not take such
a liberty. That he had been in Europe for
some years, and that being himself a stran
ger, comparatively, to his uncle, he could
not introduce a lady who was a stranger to
him and his relations.
The lady evinced histerical symptoms ;
his arm again encircled her waist and their
lips again owned a secret communion. The
coach stopped. The gentleman had arrived
at the end of liisjourney. He bade the lady
farewell. It was no go. She insisted on his
protecting her. She got out of the coach
with him and followed him to his uncle’s
house.
He was in a dreadful state of mind.—
However pleasant a kiss in the dark was on
the previous night, the encumbrance of a
petticoat on such an occasion, was anything
hut satisfactory. He walked into the par
lor, and, what he conceived to be unblush
ing impudence, the lady followed. While he
was thinking how he could possibly explain
the affair, he was welcomed by his uncle,
and the young lady was welcomed too, and
kissed by all the family. She was hiscousin.
On his entering the coach office at Utica,
and booking his name and place ofdestinaiton,
•shekr.ew atoncethathe was her relative,and
resolved to have a laugh at his expense ;
and perhaps she did when she told her stage
coach adventure, and the flight to which she
put her cousin ! The gentleman was laugh
ed at considerable ; but let those laugh who
win. He won his cousin, and they are now
“ bone of one bone, and flesh of one flesh.”
N. Y. Adas.
©EPAETIMEIHnr
BEAUTY.
“The wind passeth over it, and it is gone.”
How often we hear men eager in the pur
suit of partners for life, inquire for a beau
tiful woman; and yet how brief the exis
tence of what they seek, and how unpro
ductive of happiness is its possession.
We know full well the satisfaction that
sleeps beneath the snow white lids of a beau
tiful eye : in the haughty curl of an exquis
ite lip ; in the blush of a rose that leaps into
a budding check ; in the nne turn of a swan
like neck, the gentle motions of a symmet
rical form, or iri the shadowy redundance of
dark and beautiful flowing tresses. The
hearts of the young and passionate leap
gladly, and are filled with wild impulses,
whilst gazing upon these things—but when
the soul is scrutinized, and found unblessed
by elevated thought and generous imagin
ings, when the intellect is uncultured, and
imagination cold, the slumber of forget
fulness will soon fall upon the dream of
beauty, and the flame of affection be quench
ed in apattiy or disgust.
With men of genius, strong feelings and
powerful passions are ever associated, and
if beauty is unmingled with the qualities of
wild thought and affections ; if delicacy, and
virtue are not admirably blended with men
tal attraction, the light of love will soon he
extinguished, and the general impulse of the
bosom chilled by apathy and contempt. —
Men of intellect may yield a momentary
homage to a beautiful woman, dispossessed
of other fascinations ; even a village urchin
will chase the gilded wing of a butterfly, but
in both cases the eternal splendor palls upon
the senses, and something of an inate char
acter is sought for, to sustain the regard
which beauty excited. Nothing is so flat
tering to the feelings of man, as the exhaust
less and quenchless regard of a sensible fe
male, and no incense so lich can he offered
upon the shrine of a woman’s ambition, as
the avowed and enthusiastic affection of a
man of genius. Beauty ! thou art a mean
and unmeaning toy, when contrasted with
depth of feeling and power of mind, and she
who would aggrandize to herself conse
quence, from the little ambition of personal
beauty, is too imbecile in her aspirations, to
merit the attention of an elevated thinker.
A Mother's Love. — Deep is the fountain
of a mother's love. Its putity is like the
purity of the “sweet south that breathes
upon a bank of violets.” The tear-drop
speaks not half its tenderness. There is
language in a mother’s smiles, but it betrays
not all her nature. 1 hate sometimes thought,
while gazing on her countenance —its digni
ty slightly changed by the inelegant accent
of her young child, as it repeated in obedi
ence, some endearing word, that the sanc
tuary of the mother’s heart, is fraught with
untold virtues. So fondly, so devotedly she
listens to its accents, it would seem she
catches from them a spit it that strengthens
the abodes of her affect.on. I have seen the
mother in almost every condition of life.—
But her love seems every where the same.
I have heard her hid, from her bed of straw,
her darling child to come and receive the
impress other lips, and,as hei feeble strains
-mingled in the air, I have thought there was
loveliness in them not unlike the loveliness
of an angel’s melody. And I have seen the
mother at her fire-side deal out the last mor
sel to her little ones so pleasantly, that her
own cravings seemed appeased by the pleas
ure she enjoyed. But who, that is not a
mother, can feel as she feels 1 We may
gaze upon her as she sings the lullaby to her
infant, and, in her eye read the index to her
heart's affections—we may study the de
mure cast of her countenance, and mark the
tenderness with which she presses her dar-
I ling to her bosom, hut we cannot feel the
i many influences that opeiate upon her na
! ture. Did you ever mark the care with
whic h she watches the cradle where sleeps
her infant I How quick she catches the
low sound of an approaching footstep !
j With what fearful earnestness she gazers at
j her little charge, as the sound intrudes !
I Does it move 1 Do its slumbers break ?
How sweet the voice that quiets it! Sure
! lv it seems the blood of hut one Dealt sus
tains the existence of both mother and child,
j And, did you ever behold the mother as she
I watches the receding light of her young
! babe’s existence I It is a scene for the pen
cil. Words cannot portray the tenderness
that lingers ori her countenance. When
hope has expired, what unspeakable grief
overwhelms her ?
Woman. —Female loveliness cannot he
clothed in a mote imposing garb than that
of knowledge. A female thus arrayed, is
one of the most interesting objects of crea
j tion. Every eye rests upon her with pleas
ure. The learned and wise of the opposite
sex delight in her society, and affix to her
character respect and veneration. Igno
rance and folly stand reproved in her pres
ence, and vice, in his bold career, shrinks
i abashed at her gaze. She moves, the joy—
| the pride—the delight of the* domestic cir
-1 ele. Sheexcitestheprai.se—the admiration
I of the world.
A female thus armed—thus equipped is
! prepared to encounter every trial which this
j uncertain state may bring. To rise with
; proper elation to the pinnacle of fortune, or
1 sink with becoming fortitude into the abyss
jof poverty. To attain with a cheerful se
| reliity the heights of bliss, or descend with
patient firmness to the depths of woe. —John
\ Q. Adams.
MmQELLIhMY *
From the N. Y. Herald.
ri'SEVISM IN THE UNITED STATES.
The developments of the progress of the ‘
| celebrated Dr. Pusey, in this country, have ‘
j excited a very considerable commotion in
the religious world here, and as there are i
’ a great many persons who ought to know !
i better, and whose neglect of theological lit- ‘
j erature is quite unpardonable, who really j
j know nothing about the nature of “ Pusev
ism,” we have become mercifully disposed
1 to enlighten them, and enable them with j
marvellously little trouble to understand all
about tiiis “heresy,” technically so called, j
which thieatens to cast “arrows, firebrands, ‘
and death” into the heretofore peaceable I
regions occupied by the Episcopal Cliuicb !
in this country. Our historical narrative j
has been complied from the most authentic j
sources.
In the year 1833, the late Rev. Dr. Rose,
of King's College, the Rev. Mr. I’recivat,
Dr. Pusev, and two or three other clergy- 1
men, met in the house of the first named j
reverend gentleman, w hen talking over the
progress ,of dissent, and the unpopularity
and even practical neglect into which high
church piinciplcs had fallen of lute years,
they came to a resolution to form them
selves into a society, though without any I
formal organization, to use their utmost es- I
fort to revive and bring into practicle re- j
cognition the class of principles to which I
we have referred. The celebrated “Tracts |
for the Times,” had their origin in the meet
ing in question. These tracts appeared at
irregular intcivals, and were published at
prices varying according to the quantity of
matter, from twopence to sixpence. The
tracts soon attracted general attention, from
the startling doctrines they advanced ; and
as the tendency of all of them was to exalt
the authority of the church, and increase
the importance of the clergy by investing
them witli a special sacredness of character,
the new class of opinions made rapid pro
gress among them. Evety successive tract
became holder and bolder in its tone, and
approached nearer anil nearerthe doctrins of
the Catholic Church. The principal writei s
were Dr. Pusey, ti e Reverend Mr. Waul,
the Itev.'Mr. Williams, the Rev. Mr. New
man, and one or two others. The scries
proceeded until it reached No. 90, which so
openly and strenuously advocated the prin
ciples of the Catholic Church, that the bish
op of Oxford felt called upon to interpose
Iris authority, and put an end to the further
publication of the Tracts. The last of the
series. No. 90, created a deep sensation, es
pecially as it was soon discovered that it had
i contributed to make several individuals go
| openly over to the Catholic Church. The
| doctrins now held by the Puseyites, who
are sometimes called Tractarians, so close
ly resemble the doctrins of the Catholic
j Church, that there can hardly he said, on
i most points, to he any essential difference
between them. Among the points to which
the Pusuyitbs attach special importance, is
the assumption that ail the clergy of the
Church of England, in common with those
of the Catholic Church, have descended in
a direct line from the Apostles. This is
| what is called apostolical succession. They
also maintain, that all children, baptized by
the Established clergy, are regenerated
I when the water is sprinkled upon them ;
but they refuse to recognize the baptism of
| the ministers of other denominations as
baptism at all. They hold that there is no
hope of salvation for those who are without
! the pale of the Church. They denounce
the Reformation, and look forward with ea
ger desire to a union between the Church of
England and the Catholic Church, They
maintain that the Church has an authority
; above that of the State ; and that the Sov
-1 ereign and the Senate are bound to submit
to the dictum of the Church. They lay but
little stress on those doctrinal matters which
the evangelical clergy in the Establishment
regarded as essential to salvation. They
attach much greater importance to the wri
tings of the Fathers than to the narratives
of the inspired evangelists and the epistles
of the apostles. They hold, indeed that the
■Scriptures ought not to be read at all by t lie
laity, unless accompanied by the exposition
i of their meaning to be found in the Rook of
Common Prayer. They virtually reject
the atonement, and set aside as fanaticism
what is regarded by other parties as the re
ligion of the heart. They maintain that the
! bread and wine in the Sacrament ate con
s(D mIBIB SI *aiIS®IBIfcILAW , Sf
verted, when consecrated by the clergy, into
the actual flesh and blood of Christ, and that
the sacrament constitutes a kind of continu
ation of the atonement of Christ on the cross.
This is a tolerably fair synopsis of the
doctrins of the “Puseyites.” 1 at once
be perceived that they are in close approx
imation to the faith of the Catholic church.
And indeed it has always been matter of sur
prise to intelligent and well informed stu
dents of the history atid creed of the two
great rival chinches of Christendom, why
they should have been arrayed in hostile
attitude. Their liturgy—ceremonials—
creed, and religions obseivanccs are very
nearly identical. The present movement
certainly promises ere long to consummate
re-union.
It is calculated that out 0f]2,000 clergy in
England and Wales. 9000, or three fourths
of the whole, are deeply tainted with Pu
seyisni. In Scotland, again, the whole of
the Episcopal clergy, with the exception of
three or four, are decided Puseyites. In
Ireland, also, the “heresy” is making great
progress. It is calculated that the majority
of the Bench of Bishops are mote or less
deeply tinged with it.
The end of the whole matter in our opin
ion will be, the union of the Puseyites with
the Catholic church, mid then the great final
conflict of thesect.s—ihb battle of Armaged
don—will begin in earnest.
We expect to be aide to lay the state
ment ol’Drs. Antbon and Smith, before our
readers to-morrow. This will of course,
elicit a rejoinder from Bishop Omlerdonk,
the six examining clergy, and most likely
from the candidate himself, The whole
subject will he thus fully discussed, all the
facts will he unfolded, and we will have
abundant display for six months to come, of
accomplished polemical gladiatorship.
Tide of Emigration. — We are rejoiced
to leatn from the cortespnndeuce of the St.
Augustine News, that the tide of emigra
tion is at length flowing into Florida, and ,
trust ere long to see that*section of the |
Union, which has echoed to the whoop of j
the red man and the report of his rifle,
“ blossom as the rose.” Speaking of Indian I
River, the writer says :
This noble sheet of water is now con
stantly whitened by the sail of the emi- j
grant in pursuit of land, and the stillness of |
its solitude broke by the splash of the oar i
and the merry songs of the boatman. At ;
night the camp-fires of the adventurer is
kindled on its hanks, preparation is made
fortlie evening meal, and, amid corner- !
sation and laughter, the toils of the day •
are lost in sleep. Refreshment ensues, and j
the morning finds them on their way, vigor- j
ous in frame, and sanguine in spirit. Game
abounds on its banks the deer break I
through the dense growth of the margin of j
the liver, and gaze upon the visitor—the
curlew give their short whistle and wing
their flight from the near approach of the
intruders —and the wild ducks,quietly feast
ing on the grass, take note of your approach
and remove, perhaps, to a spot more secure.
Splash, splash, goes the water —that’s the j
mullet jumping at the prospect of being
caught by you, or perhaps exercising its !
utmost activity to escape a hungry bass.— j
If you are furnished with a harpoon, ot any
barbed piece of iron, you can supply !
your voyage with fresh fish every day, and !
thus progress until the desired spot is found, i
Oysters ate the staple of the stream—banks ;
are as numerous as if an improvident legis- ■
lation lmd created them, although they tie- |
ver suspend payment or protest a draft for
want of funds. The lands North and South !
of Port Pierce, are rapidly filling up —and i
thus far, with the exposure of boating, fell- !
ing timber, planting, and the thousand iron- i
Lies of an emigrant’s life, every man is in !
the enjoyment of the best of health—doc-I
tors being at a discount, and forming the i
least useful article upon the rivet.
A Dear “Dottle of Wine. —The’Foreign
correspondent of the Enquirer, “ Agricola,”
i writes the editors from Bremen that he lias
! sent them a bottle of the celebrated rose
I wine, which is 22S years old. The writer
! gives the following account of it: “ This
; rare article can only be obtained at the Ccl
j lar in half bottles, and then in small quauti
i ties. Until recently it was only permitted
j to be used as a medicine in cases of extreme
i illness. Its flavor is exquisitely delicious,
| though its taste is not peculiarly rich. A
1 thimble full is as much as is usually drank
at a time. You may rely upon its having
attained to the age of 228 years ! It was
made about the time Pocahontas was born.
I present it to you for the use and benefit
of the individual States composing the A
nierican Union ; and as furnishing a lesson
with regard to public economy.
This bottle of wine costorigiually 20 cents.
| By allowing two per centum for leakage,
| shrinkage, Ac., and six per cent interest on
j the purchase money, added to the principal
i annually, afterwards bearing a like interest,
i and you make the present cost seven millions
! eight hundred and eighty four thousand sev
| en livndred and nineteen dollars and tieen fr
eight cents !/ / A larger sum than the en
tire public debt of Virginia. For my own
! gratification, I employed an accurate arith
| metician to make a calculation for me, and
j the above is the astonishing result. A sin
gle bottle of wine worth, at prime cost, with
compound legal American interest,the enor
mous amount 0f57,884,719 28.”
The one bottle and the thimble measure
, forbid us from exclaiming in the language
of Richard Swivellcr, Esq., “pass around
the rosy!”— llithmond Compiler.
Cure fur Stamercrs and the Hiccough. —
To repeat either of the following, in a sin
gle breath, is represented as a sovereign
remedy for either stammering or hiccough :
“ Peter I'iper picked a peek of pickled
peppers, if Peter Piper picked a peck of
pickled poppers, where’s the peck of pickled
peppers Peter I’iper picked ?” Or, “ brave
! blades, braiding braids. Brave blades, if
! you braid braids; braid broad braids.” Or,
j “ Here comes a thistle sifter, with a sieve
full of silted thistles and a sieve full of un
sifted thistles; if the thistle sifter sifts a sieve
full of sifted thistles, how many sieves full
j of s’ftcd thistles and unsifted thistles does
La Grippe Described. —Extract of a let- 1
ter from a Gentleman in Richmond, to a
Lady in Washington, dated July 15, 1843.
i As the “ Home Department” of the Na
tional Intelligencer has not advised distant
j readers of the appearance ofthe influenza
or grippe, among you, I persume you j
hatdly know what it is. I have got it in
j some perfection, and will tiy to give you an
I indea of it. I fee! as if I had been lieaten
i all over. The beauties of the epidemic are
j cold, cough, sneezing, and running at the
eyes and parts adjacent; fever, with very hot,
dry skin, acute pains from front to rear,
across the body, and diagonally; indeed,
it does not seem particular where it hurts.
The whole articular arrangements are in a
i state of Jcrnngement. Though it is a hot
day 1 am buttoned to the throat, and slept i
under two blankets last night; and what j
1 with pain, nervousness, and fever, and
sleeplessness, I was fain to say this morning,
with Clarence, “O! 1 have passed a miser
able night.” From the depletion and
medicine for thirty six hours I have hardly
energy or strength to hold my pen. Shak- !
spea re comforts me, as he has often done he- |
fore:
“ There is some sou! of good in things of evil,
Would men observingly instil! it out.”
And I wait to see what particular benefit
will accrue. I am writing because I am tired
of lying down and of sitting up —of trying
to read and trying to sleep.
I persume that in only a few extreme
cases is there any danger in La Grippe; but
it is assuredly a highly disagreeable compan
ion, and no sympathy. “What’s the matter?”
askes a friend, seeing my lank jaws and in
flamed eye®. “Grippe.” “Ah!” and he
walks off laughing. To avoid inflicting my
woes on my friends here, I give you the
foil benefit of my interest on the subject;
so 1 don’t deserve any credit for this letter,
as if gives me relief by diverting my atten
tion from my sufferings. lam free to con
fess that 1 should choose (bad I Prince Ilus
san’s fairy carpet) just now to dtop down
on you and listen to your chat all the morn
ing at your wot k, while I reclined quietly, se
duced from a consciousness of my own pains.
A Miser.' —The following account of Mi
chael Biard (or Baer,) who lately lived near
Little York, Penn., is extracted from the
Belmont (Penn.) Repository.
Mr. B. was of German extraction. His
father left him a valuable farm of five hun
dred acres, in the vincinity of York, with
some farming and household articles. He
kept a tavern for some number of years—
married a wife and raised four children.—
He accumulated an immense estate, which
lie preserved so tenaciously that he never
offered a dollar for the education of his fam
ily : He was never known to lay out one
dollar in cash for any article he might he in
want of; he would either do without it, or
find some person who would barter with
hint for something he could not convenient
ly sell for money. He farmed largely and
kept a large distillery, which lie supplied
entirely with his own grain. He keptja team
for the conveyance of his whiskey and flour
to Baltimore, which when he could not sell
for money, at a price to suit him, lie barter
ed for necessaries for his family and tavern.
In this way he amassed an estate worth
four hundred thousand, dollars. Such was
his attachment to money that he never was
know to lend or credit a dollar to any man.
Upon the best mortgage or security that
could he given, he would not lend a cent.—
He never vested one dollar in any of the
public lands. Neither would be keep the
notes of any Bank longer than till lie could
get them changed. He deposited hisjspe
cie in a large iron chest until it would hold
nO more. He then provided a strong iron
hooped barrel, which he also filled. After
his death his strong boxes, from whose
bourn no traveler had ever returned, yielded
two hundred and thirty thousand dollars,
gold and silver.
The cause of his <loatli was as remarka
ble ns the course of his life. A gentleman
from Virginia offered him twelve dollars
per bushel for one hundred and ten bushels
of clover seed ; but he would not sell for
less than thirteen dollars, and they did not
agree. The seed was afterwards sent to
Philadelphia, where it was sold for seven
dollars per bushel, and five hundred dollars
less than the Virginian had offered for it.—
On receiving an account of his sale, he walk
ed through bis farm, went to bis distillery,
and gave various directions to bis people.—
lie then went to a wagon house, and hanged
himself.
Coincidents. —We were struck the other
day, in looking at a work called the ‘‘Lives
of the Presidents,” with a few coincidences
of numbers which relate to the line of five
Presidents, begining and ending with an
Adams. Here is a table, for instance of the
periods in which they were born and went
out of office :
Born. Retired.
1735 John Adams ISOI
1743 Thomas Jefferson ISO 9
1759 James Madison ISI7
1759 James Monroe 1726
1767 John Quincy Adams 1576
Now it will be seen by this, that Jeffer
son was born just eight years after bis pre
decessor Adams; Madison eight years af
ter his predecessor Jefferson'; Monroe eight
years after madison ; and John Quincy Ad
ams eight years after Monroe. Another
curious fact to be observed is that Adams
was just 66 years old when he retired;
Jefferson was 66 ; Madison was 66 ; Mon
toe was 66 ; and John Quincy Adams, had
he been elected to a second term, would
have been 66. Adams Jefferson and Mon
roe all died on the 4th of July.
Giving a false Coloring to the Affair. —
Bejabers !” said an Irishman, who landed
here yesterday, direct from the great thea
tre of the Repeal agitations, “the yalluh fa
vor and black vomit must be very bad here
intirely!”
“ Why do you think so?” said his friend,
to whom he addressed the remak.
“ Faix,” said he isn’t it as plain as the nose
on yer face—and yer own is a tolerable size
smellin'-bottle yourself—isn't it as plain, I
say as the nose on yer face, from the number
of black an Ayallah people I see in tho street!”
Ptea nit/u.
From the Youth’s Companion.
Swearing. —Swearing is a sin against
Heaven and Religion, and is of all others,
the most extravagant and unaccountable,
being attended with no benefit or advatt
tage whatever. It is not only a breach of
good behavior but a mark of levity, weak
ness and wickedness; and no man, who
lives in the habitual practice of it, can call
biriiself a man of sense, of character or of
decency.
During the reign of George 11, it was
cotisideted a crime of no small magnitude,
and was punished with line and imprison
ment. As this is somewhat singular law, I
shall here transcribe it for the entertainment
of the curious. “Every laborer, sailor or
soldier, profanely cursing or swearing, shall
forfeit one shilling; every other person un
der the rank of a gentleman, two shillings;
and every gentleman, or person of superior
rank, five shillings to the poor of the parish;
and on a second conviction double, and for
every subsequent offence, treble the sum
first forfeited ; and in default of payment,
shall be sent to the house of correction for
ten days.” One of the clauses in the above,
if understood in its literal and tiue sense,
might have been omitted with propriety, for
no gentleman will swear.
This vice has been reproved by the wise
and good of all ages, but, it would seem, to
little purpose. Prince Henry, son of James
11, had a particular aversion to swearing,
and when at play was never known to use
profane language; on being asked the rea
son : “Because,” said he “ 1 know of no
game worth an oath.” He is said to have
given the same answer at a hunting match.
“ The stag, nearly spent, crossed the road
where a butcher was passing with a dog.—
The stag was instantly killed by the dog, at
which, the huntsmen were greatly offended,
and endeavoted to irritate the Prince against
the butcher ; but he answered cooly, “true,
the butcher’s, dog has killed the stag, but
how could the butcher help it ?” They re
plied that if his father had been so served,
he would have sworn so as no man could
have endured it. “Away,” cried the Prince,
“all the pleasures of the world are not worth
an oath.”
It is a fact, that persons least noted for
speaking the truth, are those who are most
ready to affirm everything they say with an
oath ; and men of good sense, generally
“ put their mark” upon such characters.—
If this be true, and it most assuredly is;
what do men promise themselves by using
profane language I Do they think, that the
swaggering, bullying air it gives them, is
becoming and graceful ? That to be a gen
tleman, he must give way to all fashionable
vices? And if this were the case, is not
that grace(l) purchased at the expense of
everything man should hold dear ? Os vir
tue, honor and character ? of happiness
here and eternal bliss hereafter ?
Then, I repeat it, the man who is in the
habit of swearing, cannot claim for himself
the qualities of a sensible, honorable or de
cent person. This may seem rather haish
to some; but 1 invite such to bestow upon
the subject a few momentsofealm reflection,
and I venture the assertion that few will
disagree with me; not even the most ad
dicted to ibis vice. M. T. P.
May 20, 1543.
Newspapers. “Encourage liberty of
speech therefore! Encourage it in your
Halls of Legislation! Encourage it in your
Temples of Justice—in your lecture rooms
—in all the business of life—but above all,
in your newspapers ! Your newspapers are
the mightiest preachers of earth. They are
more numerous, mote active, and more lis
tened to : and with them—liberty of speech
is everything ; not everything for them, for
they cun get along, and do get along, as you
may see, and prosper all the better, and
grow all the richer sometimes, for not being
permitted to think for themselves, or to
speak above their breath, but every thing for
you —everything for your children—every
thing for your country —everything for Man
kind !”— John Neal.
i A corpulent intellectualist is a eontradic
| tion in terms, a palpable catachresis. One
i might as well talk of a leaden kite, a seden
| tary will-o’-the-wisp, a pot-bellied spirit, or
lazy lightning.
Obesity is a deadly foe to genius ; in car
i neous and tin wieldly bodies the soil it is like
; a little gudgeon in a large frying pan of fat,
which is either totally absorbed, or tastes of
j nothing but the lard. Let no man attempt
| to write who has a protuberant stomach ;
I let no man reckon upon immortality who
cannot distinctly feel and reckon his own
i ribs; for the thinnest bow shoots the far
tliest, and the leanest horse generally wins
the race. Nothing fat ever yet enlightened
, the world ; for even in a tallow candle, the
illumination springs from the thin wick.—
Yankee Blade.
The sunny Side. —How much more plea
sant it is to the pure heart to be good—to
kindle the more gentle and noble fee'ings of
our nature —than by misrepresentations,
bints, or dark inuendoes to break into long
established friendship and disturb the good
i feelings of years of intimacy. In all our asso
) ciations, commend us to him who ever pre
! sents the sunny side of life’s picture to our
1 gaze; he who has a pleasant word to speak,”
and is ever disposed to fling the mantle of
1 oblivion over the foibles of erring man.—
1 Such a man we could wear in our “ heart’s
| core—ay, in our heart of heart’s.”’ But
from the mischief maker, whose bosom is
filled with a canker who knows no pleasure
except that which torments others, “good
Lord deliver us.”
Liability of Steamboat and. Railroad pro
prietors. —The following important decision
has been made by the Court of Errors, es
tablishing the doctrine of the common law :
1. That all common carriers are responsi
ble for goods put on board of vessels or con
veyances, without reference or respect to
any notice that they may give, that they
will not be held thus responsible.
2. That a notice on the part of the own
ers of any steamboat or conveyance, that
they will not be accountable, unless a receipt
is taken, does not exonerate them from re
sponsibility.
Comets and Women. —The subject of th
nature of comets has probably never excited
more study or inquiry, than since the an
pearance of the remarkable comet of lsp
which lately, Don Quixote like, tan at the
tilt of the sun. But after all the
tions and investigations of learned philosn”
pliers and astronomers, the result w-ill pro],
ably not vary a great deal from the conclu
sions at which a philosopher and a wit nr
rived some five and twenty years ago viz”
“ Comets doubtless answer some wise and
good purpose in the creation: 80 d 0 VVQ
men. Comets are incomprehensible, beau
tiful, and excentric; so are women. Cot
ets shine with peculiar splendor, but at niX
appear most splendid ; so do women. Com
ets ate enveloped with a lucid nebula
through which their forms are visible; so
are those of the women through their light
and elegant attire. Comets confound the
most learned men when they attempt t 0
learn their nature; so do women. Comets
equally excite the admiration of the philoso
pher and of ‘ the clod of the valley;’ so do
women. Comets and women, are there
fore closely analagous, but the nature of
each being inscrutable, ali that remains for
us to do, is to view with admiration the one
and almost to admiration love the other.” ’
Guardian Angels. The Earth, Air and
Sea are full of shadowless creatures, having
more or less to do with the dwellers of earth
and the business of earth, is a prevailing and
beautiful superstition, throughout the world.
Superstition! said we? But why super
stition ? how know we that such creatures
ate not real, ever present, whispering intel
ligences, appointed to everlasting compan
ionship with Man, and to the guardianship
of the blessed lhatstill abide upon the earth?”
—John Neal.
To el can looking glasses. —Take a news
paper or a part of one, according to the size
of the glass. Fold it small, and dip in into
a basin of clean cold water. When tho
roughly wet, squeeze it out in your hand as
you would a sponge, and then rub it hard all
over the face of the glass, taking cate that it
is not so wet as to run down in streams. In
fact, the paper must he only completely
moistened or damped all through. After
the glass has been well rubbed with the wet
paper, let it rest a few minutes ; and then
go over it with a fresh dry newspaper (fold
ed small in yout hand) till it looks clear and
bright—which it will almost immediately
and with no farther trouble.
This method (simple as it is) is the Lest
and most expeditious for cleaning mirrors,
and it will be found so on trial—giving a
clearness and polish that can he produced
by no other process. Jt is equally conven
ient, speedy, and effective. The inside of
window panes may he cleaned in this man
ner, to look beautifully clear ; the windows
being first washed on the outside. Also the
glasses of spec-tales, &c. The glass globe
of an astral lamp may lie cleaned with news
paper in the above manner.
Fivklivg Cucumbers. —A correspondent
of the New England Farmer gives an effi
cacious method of pickling cucumbers,which
he learnt from an old sea captain in the
West Indies. The receipt is very simple,
and the supetiority of pickles cured by its
directions,has been tested by many year s ex
perience. They are neither injured by age,
season, nor climate. The following is the re
ceipt. “To each hundred of cucumbers
put a pint of salt, and pour in boiling water
sufficient to cover the whole. Cover them
tight to prevent the steam from escaping,
and in this condition let them stand for twen
ty-four hours. They are then to be taken
out, and after being wiped perfectly dry,
(cate being taken that tire skin is not bro
ken,) jdaced in the jar in which they are to
he kept. Boiling Vinegar is then to be put
to them, the jar closed tight and in a fort
night delicious hard pickles are produced,
as green as the day they were upon the
vines.” The best vinegar to be used.
A Wife of the Proper Spirit. —The New
York Aurora is giving some reminiscences
of the band who went from New York to
aid Texas. A journeyman mechanic form
ed one of the number, who went from
New York so suddenly, that he left his wife
only two-and-sixpence to support herself
till became back ; in fact she did not know
what bad become of him, atul, like an indus
trious woman, went to work to suppoit her
self and child comfortably, and laid up
money. About a year after his mysterious
disappeatance, she received a letter from
her “liege lord,” dated somewhere in Tex
as, saying that he was almost starved to
death, and requesting her to send him §IOO,
so that ho might come home. His wife
very deliberately wrote in large letters un
der his communication, “stay and be starved!”
and re-directed the letter to his address in
Texas. The husband lias not reached
home up to this day.
Casualties, ]\lurder, Sfj. in four months. —
Some readers of the New York papers kept
an account of casualties, &c. chronicled
therein which took place in the United
States during the four first months of the
present year, which he published. A cor
respondent of the United States Gazette has
taken up the subject, and added thereto
those which have came under bis notice
since, from reading a multitude of newspa
pers from almost every State in the Union,
viz : a record from January to July, 1843.
Six hundred and twenty-eight houses and
stores burnt, with a part of their contents,
estimated at three millions of dollars.
Niue hundred and fifty accidental deaths;
about one half drowned, most of which oc
curred on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers,
and on the lakes. A portion were emigrants
going to the Far West.
Two hundred and fifteen murders, by
guns, pistols, bowie knives, &c.
Fifty-six by fire arms imprudently ban
died.
Forty-five by clothes taking fire.
Forty-six by lightning.
Forty-three by falls from horses, upset
ting of carriages, &c.
Eighty-six by suicide !
There are, it is said, 30,000 families in
Pennsylvania without a Bible.