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From the Eagle Enquirer.
Alabama.
BT L. VIRGINIA SMITH.
“The emigrant Indians, weary and dispirited, hav
ing crossed the river, the aged Chief stuck his hatchet
into the trunk of a giant cypres3, exclaiming * Alaba
jua; Alabama !’ (Here we rest, —Here we rest!)
O’er the rushing Chatalioochee
Came a swarthy calvacade,
In the sober autumn twilight,
Toiling through the everglade.
From the silvery Savannah,
And the rolling Ocmulgee,
To a widerness primeval
Fled the footsteps of tbo free.
Through the pathless thicket wending,
By the giant rocks up-piled,
Over dark ravines impending
Bugged ramparts of the wild,
Came the chieftain and his people,
Belted bravo, and his bride,
With her dark cheek flashed with fever,
And her red lip curled with pride.
Not a note of martial music,
Blended conch and atabal,
Mingled with the booming thunders
Os the rushing waterfall.
Xot upon a bloody war-path,
Panoplied in paint and plume,
Spread they like a stream of meteors
Flashing through the forest gloom.
But a spell of haggard silence
Lay upon each visage stern,
As if each his dead heart carried
la a monumental urn.
For those haughty spirits driven
By an unrelenting Fate,
Like a brood of forest-eagles
Left their eyrie desolate.
All the Orient is purpled
N'ith an amethystiue hue,
And the western heaven slumbers
in its hyacynthine blue.
From the sombre mists dark-rolling
Qn the bosom of the hill,
Sounds the melancholy night-watch,
A>f the lonely whip-poor-will.
Heavily the dry canes rustle,
NN ith the yellow-tinted vines ;
And the wild wiud-sugh is sighing
Through the ever-tossing pines.
Ledly east along the waters,
Aud the solemn gloom of night,
Streams tho ruddy glare of torches,
And the beacon’s blazing light.
1 “derneath the lofty arches
Ot the forest’s rocking dome,
Bise a thousand dusky wigwams,
‘ound the chieftain’s tented home.
And the venerable sachem
“li his tameless soul of flame,
the desert-plaee a nation:
And the wilderness a name ;
B Em he, turning to his warriors
-‘‘ ai,, ud him closely prest,
r °e the spell of silence, saying,
Alabama !—here we rest
For the Georgia Citizen.
In Old Woman’s Tale.
<jj BY E ’ L - H.
layjjjJ r d |er Jonathan,’ said good dame Tibety,
WQ Cr bating, wiping her tortoise shell
l^e Corner °f her apron, and looking
Rob^f.' n ’j t 0 l^ e farther corner of the room, where
a > D *'Ble Alice were busily engaged, compassing
“° n °F the grey cat’s tail, through tbo old
‘Re,’ h *° P ‘Nimble. ‘My brotlier Jonathan, ’ said
“ as one °F the greatest, kindest, —you Alice;
Jittk you doing with my cat. 1 ‘Us uftin ma lisped
i n?ll( ‘ lce > idling up to her mother’s knee and rest
,e ligio n a r 4 \ 0un g head upon that altar of childhood’s
th u ® a at bu V Robert rapidly jug
tefjjjj 6 °P ea to P thimble from off old tom’s caudal
tion, and depositing the animal in Mrs. Tibbe
l 8 lap a. . i; . °
Gttlt Uv * n g w-ager of his own innocence took
” e the band and awaited die denoument.
„ a ' Se< * * ils buck—and purred and mewed—
shat h j’" 1 ’ l ° ex P rese bis deep sense of the indignity
<j erst la been put upon liis tail. Mrs. Tibbety un
mor ° not the language—Old Tom, purred ; still
CWn ® ava ? el y, licked his mistress’s hand and then his
‘biinoie * st d’ ■“Murted from the rapid exit of the
his r finding the good Lady still ignorant of
n,n ?) gave one sneer of indignant disgust, turn
nic mpfuouly from tho party, and jumped into
the yarn basket, there to meditate, on the obtuseness
of old women-in general, and the ill manners of chil
dren-in particular. Dame Tibbety was convinced by
the sardonic sneer of the cat, that the young culprits,
had been doing to old tom, that which they had much
better have left undone, —and shaking her head solemn
ly, she assured them that if they did’nt leave her cat
alone, they should’nt budge a step to church next Sun
day, but should stay at home all day, Alice seemed
very penitent under the threatened penalty, but when
Mrs. Tibbety took off her specs and raised the glasses
with her fingers, the little minx seized the opportunity
to wink slyly at Robert, and whispered, ‘We’ll do so
some more, then, eh, Robiek.’ Tom cat snugly en
sconced in the hanks of yarn, saw the wink and heard
the whisper, aud started up; but remembering bis
mistress late du I ness of interpretation, lay down again
in despair merely saying to himself ‘dang it, the old
woman’s blind as well as deaf.’
‘My brotlier Jonathan,’ continued Mrs. Tibbety, af
ter we had all clustered around her feet, ‘was one of
the kindest, quietest, genteelest old bachelors as ever I
saw, to he sure the old gentleman was rather fond of
hearing himself talk, and liked to be made a great deal
of; but then you know, children, we all have our fail
ings ; and the very best of us, are not perfect?’ ‘You
are aunt, oh, yes ; you arc ma,’ shouted the children,
making a simultaneous rush upon the old lady; one
bearing off a kiss, another a hug and all seizing some
trophy of maternal favor, to be proud of. ‘Well, well
little ones, do be quiet; if my brother Jonathan had
any fault, that could be called one, it was his love lor
pommelling any body that interfered with him, and
sometimes, after beating a poor fellow nearly to death,
Jonathan couid’nt be indueed to let him up, till he
had made an apology; and, gave up , as you boys call
it—a good deal; but if every body would only let my
brother have his own way in everything, there was’nt
a greater, more peaceful man in the whole settlement,
than he was ; Its all nothing but a lie, about his being
quarrelsome; of course, if they would’ut let him do
;is he wanted, he’d pick up something and make them
do it for him; but just let him alone, and he was as
soft and mild as—as’—‘as whiskey aunt.’ ‘No Robert,
not as whisky, but as a lamb, poor fellow, he’s dead now ;
we'll never see such another one.’ ‘Dead ma, is un
cle Sam dead, why, ma, how can that be,’ —‘yes, chil
dren, your kind old uncle is dead, my poor brotlier is
not placed under the sod yet, in the dark grave; it
may be a long time before he is burried, but the spirit
is gone, children, and after tho soul of love and harmo
ny leaves us Alice, we are but moulded clay ; I am
afraid, (said darne Tibbety, sighing,) that lias left your
uncle—forever !’ ‘Oh my,’ said master Charles, who
was of a kindly disposition, ‘Aunt, can’t we bring un
cle Sam, to’—‘l fear not, Charles, and if you was to,
his children would’nt let him live in any peace ; he’d
better be dead.’ ‘His children, Aunt Tib, why bow
could lie have any ? if lie was an old bachelor,’ asked
Robert, who was thought quite smart for liis age.—
‘What naughty, ugly, children, they must be,’ said lit
tle Alice doubling up her fist, ‘I wish I had ’em here,
we’d show em, would’nt we Robiek?’ ‘Yes Robert,
my poor brother, was a bachelor, as I told you, but he
was very fond of children. A Britisher that felt all
over his head once, said, lie had the bump of Philo
pliilopro, something, Robeit.’ ‘Philoprogenes is it,
Aunt.’ ‘1 dare say it was—but it was very large, and
Jonathan would pick them up any where, and adopt
them for liis own,and they’s what killed him, (said she,
bitterly.) ‘He had soniewhere’s between thirty and for
ty, 1 never could keep up with them,’ continued the
old lady shaking her head, ‘but somewhere there abouts
1 know, and that’s enough, to kill any body.’ ‘Tell us
ail about it, do now that’s a good aunt, and we won’t
get a whipping no more, will we Alice ?’ ‘No never
no more,’ promised little Alice, earnestly. ‘Well, chil
dren its a long story, but I suppose I must tell it, —
Lord have mercy, Robert, what are you doiug with
my cat;’ This time the culprits were caught in the
fact, and old Tom, thimble on tail, was taken to his
mistress’ lap, where he walked around defiantly, say
ing to the dame in liis own soft way. l I told you so
marin, now you see there—gone and done it again,’—
with some trouble the open top thimble was drawn from
its resting place; Robert ami Alice were permitted to
stay in the room, aud the grey eat kept dose under
the shadow of his protector's wing. ‘One evening in
November,’ resumed Mrs. Tibbety, stroking the back
of her cat, —your uncle Samuel was sitting before a
lousing fire iu his great Hall, with a newspaper in his
hands—and a tumbler of punch on a table at his side,
from which he occasionally sipped. This punch, my
dears, was made of anew kind of wine that had just
been presented to him, by his new overseer, and the
old man was a little fonder ol it than he should have
been, but lie always had to have some kind of excite
ment or other, and the liict is, whenever he chose any
body to manage his estate, he was sure to take the can
didate that offered him the largest and strongest as
sortment of liquor, which children is the true cause of
all the trouble your uncle ever had ou his place. The
children were all scattered around the room, in diffe
rent parts, keeping very quiet as long as Jonathan kept
awake, but pretty soon, the old man's head sunk upon
his breast, his pipe died out, and lie began to snore
loudly upon liis big ann chair, which his childieu no
sooner perceived than they began to romp and quarrel
with each other savagely, the cause ol this quarrel was
one of the most foolish things you ever heard of; and
had produced much trouble in the family all ready, and
seemed likely to produce much more. About hall of
your uncle Sam’s family, were picked up on this aud
the other half came from that side of a particular line,
called Dixon’s line—that ran about middle way's be
tween the plantation. This had caused no trouble for
a long time, but oue morning some very wise man ot
other woke up, and discovered the fact, that as you
were born here, and you were born there, why of
course, you cannot be brothers and sisters consequent
ly you must lie enemies, —deduction you must bicker
and fight, and try your best to destroy each other.
And so they did, and this was what wore out Jona
than, poor soul!
The boys and girls as I said, were bantering and
abusing eaeli other, in one corner of the great Hall,
when all of a sudden, master Yorke the very biggest of
them all, yelled out,as if he were killed, and woke up his
father. The old man rubbed liis ey es; felt for his
punch, wiped his spectacles, and called his children to
where he sat. ‘What’s all this fuss for,’ said he, tak
ing down the family switch from where it hung by the
chimney wall, and speaking very short; ‘lt was'nt
me, Pa, it’s Carry and Georgia, and brother Boston,
and the rest of em ; it was’nt me, sir. 1 declare it
warn’t ’ ‘Yes, and they’re always mussing, when you
don’t know it, Pa,’ added little Mary who was fright
ened at her father’s looks, and hoped to escape the
switch by telling on the others. YY hat sit about,
can’t some of you tell me,’ asked your uncle Sam ;
holding up his rod as if about to whip the whole of
them. ‘Yes, sir, Pa ;’ answered Georgia a bloom
ing maiden, whose bright eyes were filled with tears,
and who really loved the old man and fe-ared liis frown
more than his hand. ‘Yes, Pa, it was me and us ; and
Boston and Augusta there, and they wanted to impost
on us, and we would’nt let ’em and so, and so.’ ‘And
so what, Miss, can’t you find your tongue ; my Lord
a mercy; can’t some of you talk,’ ‘yes, sir, I ean talk,
and I ain’t a fear’d to nutlier,’ said Carrie, stalking up
to her father’s chair, and looking contemptuously a
round upon the others. ‘She ean’t do any thing else,’
whispered Yorke, who was rather considered the wit
of the family. ‘Yes sir,’ continued Carrie, snapping
her fingers under the wit’s nose and causing that young
gentleman to start back considerably- Aes sir, they
wanted to impose on us, sir, and to steal our black cats,
and when our cats ran away, they threw them o\er
MACON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 14, 1852.
the fence, where we couid’nt get ’em ; they did ; Bos
ton and Yorke, and that fish smelling Augusta, and
the rest of ’em, the mean, wooden-nutmeg-making
scoundrels; and they pinched us, sir, and some of us
stuck our fingers in our eyes, and cried ; and 1 reckon
I slap and Mister York’s jaws, I did—and I guess he hol
lared some; did’nt you hear him, Pa,’ added she pro
vokingly—‘Your Uncle Sam, held in his hand, a
slip of old hickory switch that had once before brought
Miss Carrie to her senses, but on raising it now, the
switch broke and fell to pieces, it was rotten.’ ‘Hit
me, please hit me, do now ; 1 come into your rotten
old house of my own accord, and I mean to leave it
to-morrow ,’ cried Caroline, and then sat away off to
herself sulking; ‘Boston,’said your uncle Sam, sor
rowfully, ‘Boston, why can’t you let your sister’s cats
alone.’ ‘Why Pa, my conscience wont let me,’ ‘nor
mine nuilu-r,’ added the Porker, as the children called
him, ‘nor our’n.’ Your conscience, indeed,cried Florida
advancing, your conscience lets you starve them after
you steal ’em ; and lets you refuse Air. London the
money you owed him, for your fine clothes there!
humph ; our black eats are better cats and sleeker cats
and happier eats than your white ones, and they would
’nt begin to swap with yours; certainly not, of course
not.’ ‘No, nor with Boston hisself,’ put in Georgia ;
‘lf you say that again, I’ll pull your nose, Miss,’ said
little Rhoda, getting upon top of the table, and then
but just able, to reach Georgia’s car. ‘Get out of the
way little one, you’ll get hurt; you'll fall down and
mash yourself,’ cried, the holders of black cats, jeer
inglv; ‘I dont care a darn, father, what they say ; the
Lord knows his saints and will surely take care of his \
own. lie tells us to free all cats, black or white, and j
the Bible says knock and it shall be opened to you, and
so, we knock our Southern sisters hard, and certainly
their hearts will open ; aud let the poor, poor black cats ;
go,’ said Boston, putting his handkerchief to liis eyes
and iiis hand into Georgia’s pocket, whence he took a j
little kitten and passed it to York, who handed it to
another, until it was got out of the hall Window. ‘All
right,’ said York, ‘go ahead,’ ‘our Bible commands as,’
continued Boston, ‘to free the eats but it does’nt say any
thing about feeding them. We have eats of our own
and we cannot take the bread out of our children’s
mouths to give to slaves. ‘Did you say that cat was
safe,’ whispered lie to York. ‘Safe as Julius Ceasar,’
said his accomplice, but it was’nt. The poor kitten,
finding the out door hitter cold, had crept in again,
through the hall door, and was now pulling at Geor
gia's petticoat, begging piteously to be taken back into
her warm pocket. ‘I beg father,’ said Boston, ‘to hand
you a few texts of gospel news, upon this interest,ng
point, iv Rev. xx and xxii, Ist Channing, 13th, 3d,
1700th; 16th, Freesoil testamentation.’ As he spoke,
he handed tho old man a scrap of paper, and again
look the little kitten from Georgia’s pocket, and it was
again thrust forth into the cold, where, poor thing,
next morning it was found stiff and cold, frozen and
starved to death. ‘Very good night’s work;’ said Bos- j
ton to his friends, l lwo precious souls rescued from
degradation—two steps dumb up the ladder of charity
towards the living fields of heaven.’ And liis friends
echoed, ‘two steps towards heaven.’ Meantime Geor
gia and her sisters discovered the tlielt of her cat, and
the young maiden strode before her father’s throne and
bowing, respectfully spoke, with feeling and dignity:
‘My father, because I loved you and remembered the
deeds of love and greatness done in this old hall, and
the precepts taught us, of fraternal affection, from out
cradles, by our friend, now gone, and especially- his
dying bequests of ‘love one another ; I have borne in
sult and suffered injury, uncomplaiued of and unaveng
ed, but, my father, we can no longer bear what we
have borne, and we must right our wrongs with the
strong hand, if you do not intervene, and prevent the
uncalled for injuries and unavailing insults, to which
we are daily subjected. Yon scripture mouthing
sainting, of yours, is even now engaged in the work
of what he calls philcat’ophy. Even while handing
you his texts lie stole forth my favorite kitten. ‘I never
now,’ said Boston—‘hold out your hand, you villain,
hold it out and let me see sir,’ said the matter of fact
old man. “I'll bombard you. I’ll blockade you. I’ll
show you how to steal eats, you biblical scamp.’ So,
sure enough there was fur on Boston’s fingers. ‘You
bring that cat here, fetch it here, sir, directly, or 111
cal you.’ But the cat was never brought. ‘Children,’
continued your uncle riain, more composedly, calling
them all around him. ‘You have all dwelt with me iu
peace and plenty and affection, for a number of years,
you ean still do so, but you must now choose whether
it shall be as it has been, or whether you shall he made
miserable bv useless contentions, and I worn out by
your quarrels. Some of you have threatened, to-night,
to leave me. God forbid that this should ever be, but
it matters little whether you do or not. If you do not
now determine to restore the old ‘sign of the L nioii
and Washington’s head over our door, Boston aud
Yorke, and you thirteen others, will you solemnly pro
mise, to love, honor, pshaw, —I mean to let these fif
teen Southern children’s cats alone, to catch them it
they run away, and return them to their owner s.
‘Promise,’ said Yorke, poking Boston in the ribs, and
winking, ‘it don’t cost nothing, you necd’ut poke so
hard; What does the Bible say ? eh, Yorke?’ York
was now pleased, Rhoda pulled Boston s coat tail and
whispered, “Thou slialt not lie, thou shalt not steal,
except black cats.’ ‘Are you sure?’ certain, here s
the Hartford Edition, look,’ ‘thou slialt not steal, ex
cept black cats.’ ‘Well,’ ‘my father,’ continued Bos
ton, we here whom you have meulioucd solemnly pro
mise, faithfully to do all you require of us on one con
dition. ‘We promise,’ cried the others, ‘you know
father that when you brought our new brother Austin
home, there came along with him a young woman, who
wished to come into our hall, and be one of our sis
ters.’ Your uncle nodded —‘Miss Carolina, there and
the rest of her friends, wanted Iter to go into the
kitchen as most of us had done, or do dairy work, un
til the fit lime arrived for her to come in, but the young
woman says she’s big enough aud strong enough and
good enough to come in now, and as she is in out list
as regards the cats, we think so too, now, father, let
them agree to let her in and we promise, faithfully, to
perform all things herein after to be mentioned for the
sake of compromise with our sisters, inasmuch alwajs
father, as the Bible says, ‘it is good for brethren to
dwell together in unity,’ wo consent to these terms.
‘You are shure,’ asked lie of Rhoda, ‘that it is permit
ted to us to lie for cats ?’ ‘Sure, said lilioda,’ thump
ing her Bible. ‘What do you say, Georgia,’ asked
yjur unde Sam, turning to that division of the family.
‘For thy sake, oh father, we agree, said they all. ‘Th n
huzza for us, shouted uncle Sam; ‘d—u old bull and
the rest, let’em shoot guns and poppers, canons and
drink and be drunk, and hark ye, niggers; kill old
Duncow, and let us rejoice!’ and the old man laid one
hand on Boston’s head, lovingly, and the other around
Georgia’s waist, and muttered, in a low voice, bless you,
! and he wept. And then there were shakings of hands,
and sobs of joy and hoggings and kisses, and hearts
long, divided, cleave unto one another. All, save Car
rie, and Boston, put their hands in Georgia sand did nt
put their fingers in her pockets. And York seized
the opportunity to salute his sisters, and to drive a
bargain with them for their new handkerchiefs.
‘Come in,’ said your uncle turning to the door,
where stood the young woman Boston bad mentioned,
one half iuside the warm hall, and the other half in
the freezing passage. ‘Come in, what’s your name,
said lie to her as he took her trembling hand. ‘Cali
fornia, Pa,’ answered the girl in a rich voice, a Utile
touched perhaps with a foreign accent. Ha ha, girl
you Pa, me early,’ and your uncle kissed her forehead
and they all welcomed her to their home.
That evening there was happiness in the hall, and
joy in the kitchen, and your uncle became very jovia ,
drinking health’s with liis children, and he told them
about his history asfollow’s: ‘ W lien I was born,’ said
my brother Jonathan, ‘it was the custom for the good
Lilies to preside over the birth of kings and princes,
and give them all sorts of pretty gifts and fortunes, and
favor—sometimes one gave strength to the young
prince, another gave beauty, others wisdom, and so on
through the category ; but it rarely happened that one
baby country received more than one of these great
gifts, accompanied wish a plenty of little ones. As I
was neither king or prince, but was yet a boy of some
promise and power, the good people held a great coun
cil to decide whether to preside over my destinies or
wot. And all of them turned up their little noses at
the ‘butcher boy, and the democrat,’ as they called me,
and most of them declared they would’nt think of
touching sul’li a low born plow hoy as l was, without
a ten foot pole and rose water to wash in ; and a heap
such like smart things were said, aud a great deal of
fun made of the young gutterling. But there was
one kind fairy, Unity they called her, who advanced
to the throne upon which Oberon was sitting and bow
ing to the king, asked permission to take me under
her own especial charge, and Oberon would have ob
jected hut Unity was far too powerful to be angered and
so he could only qualify his permission with a saving
clause, as you would call it, Boston. And it was
agreed that the kind fairy should do as she wished, and
bestow upon me any gift that she could with ihe re
servation. And Unity eared not for the sneers of the
princely fairies but flew oft’ and gave strength and
beauty and a wise head and a good heart, and above
all, a happy home to her republican pet, and she de
creed, that my own life and my strength should be in
terwoven with those of my children, —that as they
increased, so should I increase, as they were happy so
should I be. —but likewise, if my children were dimin
ished in number or strength 1 should also be diminished,
and unless the spirit of harmony and love and uniou
were among them; I should die. And I have grown,
mv children, until the Royal Fairies fear and envy me,
and 1 have added to your number and each addition
lias increased me and made me great j and never have
I feared that the malicious reservation of the fairy King
would ever effect me, till of late. Lately l have felt
badly and weakly, as if my soul were leaving me, and
I have feared, my children, that the spirit of harmony
was going tar from you, for why else, should 1 languish,
as if 1 were about to die, if it were not so. But now,
I fear, we are all united and love each other, and I
feel life strong within me, and we will be so happy.—
‘And that Cary of mine threatens to leave her old fa
ther,’ sobbed your Uncle, as lie rolled oft’ his seat un
der tho table, for the old man was drunk!! And
while my brother Jonathan slept, the old quarrel sprang
up, and it grew fiercer and fiercer, and ‘Unity dropped
one tear and fled forever, and harmony and love took
their flight, and Oberon, laughed gleefully, and his soul
departed from your Uncle, I fear forever, and liis body
still lays in the old hall, and there liis children still
quarrel.’ Good dame Tibbety siglijid heavily as she
finished her tale, wiped her spectacles, looked at her
audience, who were all asleep, and catching up the
grey cat, found the everlasting open mouth thimble
again oil his tail.
Making a Needle : or how People liclp
each other.
It is curious to think how many people are at work
for you. ‘Ale !’ cries a little girl, looking up from her
hemming : ‘nobody is at work for me, I am working
for myself.’
Let us see. In order to furnish you with the small
pocket-handkerchief which you are now hemming, the
planter sowed and gathered liis cotton, the sailor car
ried it to the manufacturer, the spinner and weaver
made it up into cloth, the shopkeeper kept it in liis
store; so many at any rate, helped you to it. Then,
the needle you are hemming with, came thousands of
miles, besides employing a great many people to make
it in tlie first place. The child looked at her needle,
so small, so slim so simple. ‘lt’s only a needle,’ she
said. But it takes a great while and many workmen
to make a needle.
Let us go to England, where our best needles come
from, and take a peep into the workshops. In going
over the premises, we must pass hither and thither,
and walk into the next street and back again, and take
a drive to a mill, in order to see the whole process.
YVe find one chamber of the shop is hung round with
coils of bright wire, of all thicknesses, from the stout
kinds used for codfish hooks, to that for the finest cam
bric needles. In a room below, bits of wire, the length
of two needles, are cut by a vast pair of shears, fixed in
the wall. A bundle has been cut: the bits need
straightening, for they came oil'from coils. The bun
dle is thrown into a red hot furnace, then taken out
aud rolled backwards and forwards on a table until the
wires are straight. This process is called “rubbing
straight.’
YVe now ride over to a mill. There is a miller
peeping out at us. One eud of liis mill is for grinding
flour, the other for grinding needles. YY’o go down in
the basement, and find a needle-pointer seated on his
bench, lie takes up two dozen or so of the wires, and
rolls them between his thumb and fingers, with their
ends on the grindstone, first one end and then the oth
er. YVe have now tho wires straight, and pointed at
both ends. Baek to the workshop. Here is a ma
chine which flattens and gutters the heads often thous
and needles an hour. Observe the little gutter at the
head of your needle. Next comes the punching of the
eyes, and the boy who does it punches eight thousand
in an hour : and lie does it so fast, your eye can hardly
ke< p pace with him. The spitting follows, which is
running a fine wire through a dozen perhaps of these
twin needles ; a woman with a little anvil before her,
tiles between the heads and separates them.
They are now a complete needle, but rough and rus
ty, and what is worse, they are so limber as to bend
with a touch. A pretty poor needle, you will say.-
But the hardening con.es next. They are heated in
batches in a furnace, and when red hot are soused in a
pan of cold water. Next, they must be tempered, and
this is done by rolling them backward* and forward on
a hot metal plate. The polishing still remains to be
done, and to see this we must go back to the mill.
On a very coarse cloth, which lies upon another coarse
cloth, needles are spread to the number of forty or fifty
thousand. Emery dust is strewed over them, oil is
sprinkled and soft soap daubed by spoonfuls over the
cloth ; the doth is then rolled hard up, and with sever
al others of the same kind, thrown into a sort of wash
pot to roll to and fro for 12 hours or more. They came
out dirty enough, but after a rinsing in clean hot water
and a tossing in saw dust, they look as bright as can be,
and are ready to be sent to the maafactnry, where they
are sorted and put up for sale. But the sorting and
| doing up in papers, you may imagine, is quite a work
I by itself.
Enough lias been told you to see how various are
the branches of industry, and that even to furnish
so handy and common a little instrument as the nee
j die, how much labor is necessary, and ho.v many
workmen are employed. It should make us humble
also to see how dependent we are upon one anoth
er. While the bird, the cat, and all inferior ani
mals are suppled with ready made clothing, and need
I no help from each other, we cannot live comfortably
a day without being ministered to by hundreds whom
; we have never seen. This great law of mutual de
pender.ee should help to impress upon us those pre
cious lessons of brotherly love taught us in the gos
pel, as it makes wonderfully significant the whole
hearted rule of the apostle, ‘Do good to all men , as
yc have opportunity.’
53g~T0 pay the Printer is a cardinal virtue.
POLITICS.
PLATFORM
Os the National Whig Convention,
The YY’higs of the United States, in Convention as
sembled ; firmly adhering to the great conservative prin
ciples by which they are controlled and governed, and
now, as ever, relying upon the intelligence of the Ame
rican people, with an abiding confidence in their capa
city for self-government,and their continued devotion to
the constitution and tho Union, do proclaim the fol
lowing as the political sentiments and determinations
for the establishment and maintenance of which their
national organization as a party is effected :
1. The Government of the United States is of a
limited character, and it is confined to the exercise of
powers expressly granted by the Constitution, and such
as may be necessary and proper for carrying the granted
powers into full execution, and that all powers not thus
granted or necessarily implied are expressly reserved to
the States respectively aud to the people.
2. The State governments should be held secure in
their reserved rights, aud the General Government sus
tained in its constitutional powers, and the Union
should he revered and watched over as ‘the palladium
of our liberties.’
3. That while struggling freedom, every where, en
lists the warmest sympathy of the YY'hig party, we still
adhere to the doctrines of the Father of his Country,
as announced in his Farewell Address, of keeping our
selves free from all entangling alliances with foreign
countries, and of never quitting our own to stand upon
foreign ground. That our mission as a Republic is not
to propagate our opinions, or impose on other countries
our form of government, by artifice or force, but to
teach by example, and show by our success, moderation
and justice, the blessings of self-government and the
advantages of free institutions.
4. That where the people make and control the Go
vernment, they should obey its Constitution, laws and
treaties, as they would retain their self-respect, and
the respect which they claim and will eufore from for
eign powers.
5. Government should bo conducted upon princi
of the strictest economy, and revenue sufficient for the
expenses thereof in time of peace, ought to be mainly
derived from a duty on imposts, and not from direct
taxes ; and in levying such duties, sound policy requires
a just discrimination and protection from fraud by spe
cific dudes, when practicable, whereby suitable encour
agement may be afforded to American industry, equal
ly to all classes and to all portions of the country.
6. The Constitution vests in Congress the power to
open and repair harbors, and remove obstructions from
navigable rivers, and it is expedient that Congress
shall exercise that power whenever such improvements
are necessary for the common defence , and for the
protection and facility of commerce with foreign na
tions or among the States; such improvements being, in
every instance, national and general in their character.
7. The Federal and State governments are parts of
one system, alike necessary for the common prosperity,
peace and security, and ought to be regarded alike,
with a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment.
Respect for the authority of each, and acquiescence in
the just constitutional measures of each, are duties re
quired by the plainest consideration of national, of State,
and of individual welfare.
S. That the series of acts of the thirty-first Congress,
the act for the recovery of fugitives from labor included,
are received and acquiesced in by the YY liig party of the
United States as a settlement in principle and substance
of the questions to which they relate and so far as they
are concerned, will maintain them and insist upon their
strict enforcement, until time and experience shall dem
onstrate the necessity of further legislation to guard
against the invasion of the laws on the one hand, and
the abuse of their powers on the other, not impairing
their present efficiency to carry out the requirements
of the Constitution, and we deprecate all further agita
tion of the question thus settled as dangerous to our
peace, and will discountenance all efforts to continue
or renew such agitation, whenever, wherever and how
ever the attempt may be made, and we will maintain
this settlement as essential to the nationality of the
YY’hig party, and the integrity of tho Union.
[f rom the Manchester (JV. 11-) Democrat of January 8, 1852.
Gen. Fierce iu New Boston.
New Boston, Jan’y. 3, 1852.
The report in this paper is of much greater length,
treating mostly of local polities. YY’e give that portion
which relates to Gen. Pierce’s views on slavery.
The speaker now took up the subject of slavery.
He said it was the greatest trouble of the country ,
and was so regarded by Washington. As for him
self, he never saw a human being in bondage with
out feeling his heart revolt at it, Slavery is con
trary to the Constitution in some respects ; a moral
blot upon the character of the nation. But it cant
be helped.'’ lie referred to the great peril in which
the Union had been placed. Some, and among them
Rhett, of S. Carolina, openly avowed disunion ; and
John P. Hale had so far joined in the movement as to
crack his jokes with Rhett and other secessionists. For
himself, he was in great distress when he heard that
the Compromise measures had failed. lie was at
Meredith, and told the people he wanted to die if the
Union was to be dissolved—and dissolve it must, if
the Compromise measures did not save it!
The General then introduced Mr. YVebstor to the
attention of liis audience. lie had been charged with
going for Mr. YY’ebster. Tho fact was he had always
been opposed to that man, and his father at one time
like to have lost his office of sheriff by him. In com
pany with others he received an invitation to dine with
Air. YY’ebster at Franklin. His father often used to
entertain YY’higs at dinner. Much had been written
as to what he said on that occasion. ‘I will tell what I
did say,’ said General P.; ‘I said to Air. Webster, we
never have agreed before, and we never may again.
\Y r e agree upon the Compromise question, and let us
make the most of it.’ lie declared that there had
been much silly lying about this matter; but omitted
to state that the Boston Post, or its correspondent, who
was present at the dinner, was responsible for it. He
declared that Mr. Webster and Mr. Clay were sincere
in their efforts to save the Union. Air. Clay was dy
ing, and if ho had been as sincere in every act of his
life as in the part lie had taken in the Compromise
measures, he would receive from the great Judge what
we all so much desire —the approval, ‘ Well done,
good and faithful servant.’
After a few more exclamations in regard to saving
the Union, and announcing the fact that in the late
war ‘my own command and the Palmetto regiment
j stood together on the field of battle,’ the General again
took up the Compromise measures, saying that the
North got the kernel and the South the shell. He re
peated what Mr. Ayer had stated before, ‘that the pre
sent Fugitive Slare law, about which so much noise is
made, was in no particular different from the one of
1793 under which we had lived nearly sixty years.’
Here Mr. Foss said, that without interrupting the
speaker, he wished to make an inquiry : ‘lf in no par
| tieular different, why was it necessary to pass the pre
-1 sent law ?’
General P. replied that the old law could not be
executed because its execution depended on the State
Courts. He also said something which was not fully
understood about the law of 1793, as based partly on
the common law.
He then asked, ‘YY'as either the law of ’93 or the
present law, founded in any degree upon the common
law ?’
Gen. Pierce. ‘I can't go into n disquisition upon
the common law ?’
The inquiry was then made, ‘Do you regard the fea
tures of the Fugitive Slave law as consistent with com
mon law !’
Gen. Pierce. l Well , if I must answer. No, I
do not. I have been asked if I liked this Fugitive
Slave law. I answered. No. I hare a most re
volting feeling at the giving up of a slave ; the
Fugitive Slave law is opposed to humanity. [Here
someone inquired. ‘7s it not opposed to right ?’]
Yes, it is opposed to a moral right. But our fathers
made the compact, and we must fulfil it. I say noth
ing of the humanity of it, nothing of the right of it.’
Gen. P. then gave a vivid description of the scenes
that would occur if the law was disregarded. Fiist,
a party of twenty armed men would cross the Penn
sylvanian line to recover fugitive slaves ; twenty would
meet them to defend the slaves. Then five hundred
would come, to be met by an equal number ; and be
fore three months would pass an army of 500,000
would be in the field ; and the South would be as like
ly to plant their banner at Philadelphia, as the North
theirs at Charleston.
Again, at Alanehester, N. 11. on the 20th
Nov. 1850, there was a great Union meeting, and
among the speakers on the occasion was Gen. Franklin
Pierce, now the Democratic candidate for tho Pres
denev, who spake thus :
‘ Who did not deplore slavery ? But what sound
thinking mind regarded that as the only EVIL which
could rest upon the land ? The men who would dis
solve the Union did not HATE OR DEPLORE
slavery more than he did ; but even with it, we had
lived in peace, prosperity, and security from the foun
dations of our institutions to the present time. If the
constitution provided for the return of fugitive slaves,
it should be done. That was what lie wanted to do;
that was what our fathers agreed to do; and that was
what the friends of the union established by them
wanted to do. [Hisses.] These (said Gen. Pierce)
ae the arguments of the “higher law,’ I supp osc.
From the Pennsylvania Democrat.
Tlie Brigadier.
Tune—‘ Yankee Doodle.’
Come sing the gallant Brigadier,
YY’ho, as we read in story,
To San Antonio led his troops,
Then followed them—to glory.*
He kept the tent, Dor dared the field,
Lest foul mischance might rear, sir,
lie lose his sword perhaps, or head,
And they their Brigadier, sir.
Chorus —Good Brigadiers in camp.careers
To waste are rather skearce, sir,
For hundreds told of common mould,
There’s hut one General Pierce, sir.
Next morn Contreras threatened awe!
YY’ith waste of fierce exertion,
The Brigadier was called to play—
For General Smith's f diversion
“It’s sport, no doubt, for Smith,’ said Pierce
‘To me it looks severe, sir;
Who love the fun may play their fill—
Excuse your Brigadier, sir.
Chorus —Good Brigadier, in these careers,
For fun are quite too skearce, sir ;
You've hundreds told of common mould,
Excuse your General Pierce, sir.’
YY'hen Churubuseo’s strife had spent,
Among the heaps that lumbered, —
Os wounded, dying—that red field,
An officer lay numbered.
Is fighting done ?’ said he aghast;
‘Then let me off from here, sir.’
‘Art whole?’ Quite whole.’ ‘And safe?’ ‘Butfaint.’
‘And who?’ ‘Your Brigadier, sir.’J
Chorus —Good Brigadiers in camp-carecrs
Are hard to find, and skearce, sir,
For hundreds told of common mould,
You’ve but one General Pieroe, sir.
Then let us sing the Brigadier,
Renowned full wide in story,
YY'ho bravely marched—and marched—and marched,
And marched— almost to glory.
And may he still keep marching on,
So always it appear, sir,
YY’hen conflict comes he fiuds the (dace
He’s used to—in the rear sir.
Chorus —Good Brigadiers in eamp-eareers,
You'll find are quite too skearce, sir;
For hundreds told of common mould,
There’s but one General Pierce,
*Gen. Pierce, in this action, fell from his horse, just
as his brigade was about entering the thickest of the
fight.
+ At Contreras, the General-in-chief ordered the
Brigadier to occupy a positiou in order ‘to create a di
version’ in favor of Brig. Gen. Smith. In consequence
of weakness, arising, no doubt, from the fall from his
horse, Pierce had to remain behind, Col. Ransom sup
plying his place.
$ In this engagement the General unhappily fainted,
and ‘while in this position,’ to quote his language, ‘our
troops received a most galling fire which for a time
threw them into some confusion.’
GE3. PIERCE 0Y SLAVERY.
(£r GEN. PIERCE “IIATES & DEPLORES
SLAVERY!”
03- GEN. PIERCE LOATHED THE FUGI
TIVE SLAVE LAYV!!
IST GEN. pierce revolts at slave
ry !:!
03- GEN. PIERCE SYYS THAT “SLAVE
RY IS CONTRARY TO THE CONSTITUTION,
and a MORAL BLOT UPON THE CHARACTER
OF THE NATION !!!!
Jt+T For Southern Men to Read.
The following documents will serve to show
that Mr. Pierce’s ‘ antecedents’ are not exactly
of the kind which Southern meu have bargain
ed for !
[From the Concord (N. H.) Independent Democrat.]
At the meeting appointed at New Boston Centre
on Friday afternoon, January 2d, Gen. Pierce, to ad
dress the citizens of that town in regard to the ditficul
ties between and a portion of the democrats of that
section, lie occupied his hour in defending his military
character. He explained the circumstance of his faint
ing, and declared that, with the exception of a single
occasion he had led his command in the blaze of every
battle.
After this he commenced speaking on the Fugitive
Slave Law. He said that it differed in no important
particular from the law of 1793. A clergyman pre
sent, said that as tho invitation had been given, he
would like to make an inquiry : ‘Do you regard the
features of the Fugitive Slave Law as consistent with
common law ?’
Gen. Pierce immediately replied: l lf I must an
swer the question I say no, Ido not. I have been
asked if I liked this Fugitive Slave law. I an
swered no, I loathed it, / have a most revolting
feeling at the giving up of a slate; the laic is op
posed to humanity
Here Mr. Foss inquired, ‘lf it was not opposed to
right as well as to humanity ?’ Gen. Pieree replied
‘yes ; it is opposed to moral tight.’
The above is the substance of Gen. I’ieree’s remarks
on the Fugitive Slave Law. The quotation marks in
dude the very language used by the General, as taken
down at the time it was uttered.
One of tbe last, lowest and most despicable
charges which the enemies of Gen. bring
against him, is that he is a proud, haughty aris
tocratic man. They do not assail his political
principles, for in them they know lie is unas
sailable.
W ell, it may be that Gen. Scott is an aristo
crat —that he is a cold, unfeeling mat*—that he
has no genial sympathy in bis nature, but it
seems to us he has a very queer way of show
ing it. Did he exhibit any want of feeling and
sympathy, when in 1831—2, upon the north
western frontier, he sat night after night by the
bed side of the sick and the dying, administer
ing medicines from his own hands aud speaking
a kindly word in the ear of the poor soldier
who had else died without a friend to wipe the
death damp from his forehead, or to speak a
word ot consolation to him while trembling oil
the verge of the grave ? Aye, amid the dread
ful ravages of that fearful scourge, cholera,
Gen. Scott was literally a ministering spirit to
his men. Everywhere, in the camp of the sick
and the dying, where death was doing its terri
ble work, and receding in his most horrible re
past, might have been seen Gen. Winfield Scott,
going the rounds, giving advice and adding his
personal attention to that of those who were
appointed to watch the sick. Talk about such
a man being cold, haughty, aud proud; ave, it
may be he is cold, when there is no need of
sympathy ; it may be he is haughty to the su
percilious coxcomb, who wishes to catch his
notice, in order to attract attention to his own.
insignificant self; and it may be he is proud of
the distinguished services he has rendered his
country; and of the distinguished honors his
country has heaped upon him. If anything
can justify human pride, these things may well
do it, for no soldier that lives, has ever received
more or higher honor at the hands of his gov
ernment and people than Gen. Scott. Witness
the action of the Virginia Legislature in pre
senting him a sword ; of Congress awarding hint
a gold medal for his distinguished services; of
the Legislature of New York, by a unanimous
vote, presenting him a splendid sword, with a
gold scabbard, llemember the highly compli
mentary speech which that great and good
man—that statesman and patriot, President
Monroe, addressed to him, when lie delivered
the splendid gold medal ordered by Congress,
as a token of the high estimation in which his
country held his chivalrous daring and his heroic
exploits, and then think whether or not Gen.
Scott lias a r'ujht to be proud.
Gen. Scott is a true, warm-hearted, generous
Whig. He is one of the people, and the peo
ple whose servants have delighted to honor him
in times past, will themselves honor him iu
November next, by electing him to the Presi-.
denev, and thus put Lo silence the tongues of
the envious, and the slanders of the vile. — 1
Franklin Review.
——
Scott’s Antecedents.”
As Toombs, Stephens <fc Cos. seem to be dissatisfied
with Gen. Scott’s ‘antecedents’ on the slavery question,
we will endeavor to enlighten them a little on the sub
ject, on the authority of Mr. Cleveland, member of
Congress from Connecticut.
Mr. C. promised to demonstrate that the Compro
mise, Fugitive Slave law and all, was ‘ purely a Whig
measure in its origin und principles’ and ho made
good his word by showing the agency of Messrs. Clay,
Webster, Fillmore and Scott, in carry ing through those
measures.
Mr. Cleveland thus speaks of Gen. Scott’s position
and action in reference to the Compromise :
*• What motive governed Mr. Fillmore in this entire
change us the policy of the Administration—whether
it was love of slavery and power, or hatred of his ri
val, Governor Seward, I am not able to say ; I believe
the country is equally unenlightened on the subject.—
GENERAL SCOTT WAS, BY MR. FILLMORE*
PLACED TEMPORARILY AT THE HEAD OF
WAR DEPARTMENT, AND IN THAT POSI
TION, COUPLED WITH HIS MILITARY
FAME, WAS ABLE TO, AND DID EXERT A
POWERFUL INFLUENCE IN FAVOR OK
THESE COMPROMISE MEASURES.”
Again says, Mr. Cleveland:
“ When Mr. Fillmore got into the White House, the
first business was to pacify the country. * * *
The Constitution was to be overturned because we did
not give one-half of that territory in which to establish
slavery, and in a country, too, as free as Connecticut.
At this very time, the whole power of the Whig Ad
ministration was cast into the scale of this Compro
mise. O” I desire to do justice to the man who has
been arraigned here and charged with hostility to
these measures, or at least that he did not, or does not,
commit himself in favor of them. Justice to that
distinguished Whig requires of me that 1 should so >/
HE con.d NOT iiavk done more. 7/e was as active
a man as could he found in getting these Compromise
measures passed.
I WAS HERE AND HEARD FROM EVERY
QUARTER TH AT GENERAL SCOTT WAS AS
ACTIVE AND ENERGETIC IN HIS EFFORTS
AS ANY MAN IN WASHINGTON, AND NE
VER Dll) A MAN LABOR HARDER TH \N
GENERAL SCOTT TO PREVAIL UPON THE
FREE SOIL MEMBERS OF THE WHIG PAR
TY TO ABANDON TIIEIR POSITION AND
ADOPT THE COMPROMISE AS A ME VSURE
OF THE NEW ADMINISTRATION. They had
a sort of second Pentecost on the Whig side of tha
House. They went over and out by scores.” * *
“ These measures were passed mainly through the
influence of Clay, Fillmore, Webster, SCOTT and
Cobb. THESE WERE THE MEN WHO CVP -
RIED THEM THROUGH, AND EVERY MAN
WHO WAS IN THE LAST CONGRESS KNOWS
py i>* w
Add to this, Gen. Scott’s eloquent speech at
Castle Garden in behalf of the Union aud the Com
promise measures, and wc think thst the General’*
‘ antecedents are of such a character as ought to sat
isfy even those querulous and petulant
Messrs. Toombs, Stephens and Johnson, that they Lava
not given proper attention to the history of Gen. Scott’s
position and action, in reference to this subject, and
that, therefore, their opposition to liis election is fac
tious and unreasonable,
——i - -ff ~ —r—
llos. llexrt Clay and Gem. Scott.—The New
York Express states that Mr. Clay conversed with
freedom of Gen. Scott’s nomination, to one if not more
of his friends, after the nomination last week says he
spoke of it on Wednesday night, of last week, and
again on I riday night, to one of his friendly watchers,
and adds:
“ Ilia preferences were for Mr. Fillmore!; and they
remained unaltered to the last. His belief, too, in
gard to Mr. Fillmore’s fitness, availibility and services,
were unaltered to the end of time. What he wrote
in the letter which we published in May last, he rc-ut-’
tered in substanee in speaking of the Convention.—-
But ho was satisfied with the nomination of General
Scott, and spoke in the highest and kindest terms of
him, as a man, as a soldier, and as a whig, and the on
ly drawback to his full commendation of the final 3cts
of the Convaution, was the reiteration of his early
and known repugnance to the selection of military
men for the highest civil offices.”
NO. 19.