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POETP.T.
SONG OF EMIGRATION.
There was heard a song on the chiming sea,
A mingled breathing of grief and glee;
Man’s voice, unbroken by sighs, wag there,
Filling with triumph the sunny air: *
Of fresh green lands, and of pastures new,
It sang, while the bark through the surges flew.
But ever and anon
A murmur of farewell
Told, by its plaintive tone,
That from woman’s lip it fell.
“ Away, away, o’er the foaming main!”
—This was the free and the joyful strain—
** There are clearer 3kies than ours afar.
VVe will shape our course by a brighter star:
There are plains whose verdure no foot hath press’d,
And whose wealth is ail for the first brave guest.”
But alas! that we should go,”
Sang the farewell voices then,
“ Fiom the homesteads warm and low,
By the brook and in the glen.”
“ We will rear new homes, under trees that glow
As if gems were the fruitage of every bough;
O’er our white walls we will train the vine,
And sit in the shadow at day’s decline,
And watch our herds as they range at will .
Through the green savannas, all bright and still.”
“ But woe for that sweet shade
Of the flowering orchard trees,
Where first our children play’d v
Midst the birds and honey-bees!”
■“All, all our own shall the forests be,
As to the bound of the roe-buck free!
None shall say, * Hither, no farther pass!’
e will track each step through the wavy grass!
e will chase the Elk m his speed and might,
1 bring proud spoils to the hearth at night.”
“But oh! the grey church tower,
And the sound of the Sabbath hell,
And the shelter’d garden bower—
We have bid them all farewell!”
gave rise to wish the fit
and myself live fifty yi
“ Let my wife
longer than na
ture has designed.” “ It shaft be done” cried fished.—The kingdom of Chu, founded by
ill give the names of our fearless race
bright river whose course wc trace;
leave our memory with mounts and floods,
path of our daring in boundless woods,
works unto many a lake’s green shore,
e Indian graves lay alone before J”
hit who will teach the flowers
•Vhieh our children loved, to dwell
a soil that is not ours 7
—Home, home, and friends, farewell!”
DEATH OF MARY.
uthor of “ Lines on the Burial of Sir John
J»loore. n
had thought thou couldst have dj&d,
might not weep for thee ;
I forgot when bv thy side
mortal 5^: •
mind had passed,
be o’er,
id look my last,
tie no more.
. iace I look,
ill smile again;
ight I will not brook,
J That I IT1U& ,jbk in vain.—
. But when I speak thou dost not say
l What thou ne’er left’st unsaid;
And now I feel—as well I may—
Sweet Mary, thou art dead.
If thou would’st stay, ev’n as thou art,
AU cold, and all serene,
I still might press thy silent heart,
And where thy smile has been—
While ev’n thy chill bleak corse I have,
Thou seemest still my own:
But there—I lay thee in the grave,
And now—I am alone.
1 do not think, where’er thou art,
Thou hast forgotten me;
And I, perhaps, may sooth thy heart,
In thinking still of thee;
Yet there was round thee such a dawn
Of light, ne’er seen before,
As fancy never could have drawn,
And never can restore.
From the Connecticut Mirror.
JAN SCHALKEIS’S THREE WISHES.
A DUTCH LEGEND.
At a small village in Dutch Flanders,there
Is still shown the site of a hut which was an
object of much attention whilst it stood, on
account of a singular legend that relates to
its first inhabitant, a kind hearted fellow who
depended on his boat for subsistence, and
his own happy disposition for cheerfulness
during every hardship and privation.
Thus the story goes: One dark and stormy
night in winter, as Jan Schalken was sitting
with his good natured buxom wife by the fire,
he was awakened from a transient dose by a
knocking at the door of his hut. He start
ed up, drew back the bolt, and a stranger
entered.—He was a tall man, but little could
be distinguished either of his face or figure
as he wore a dark cloak, which he huo con
trived to pull over his head, after the fash
ion of a cowl. “lama poor traveller,” said
the stranger, “and want a night’s lodging.
Will you grant it to me.”—“ Aye to be sure,
(replied Schalken,) but I am afraid your
cheer will be but sorry. Had you come
sooner you might have fared better.—Sit
down however, and eat what is left.” The
traveller took him at 'his word, and after
wards retired to his humble sleeping place.
In. the morning as he was about to depart,
he advanced toward Schalken, and giving
him his hand, thus addressed him—“ It is
needless for you, my good friend to know
who I am ; but of this be assured; that I
can.be grateful; for when the rich and pow
erful turned me last night from their inhos
pitable gatesv you welcomed me as a than
ehhuld welcome man, and looked with an
eye of pity on the traveller in the storm.—
1 grant you three wishes. Be they what
they may those wishes shall be gratified.’
Now 'Schalken did not certainly put much
faith in those promises, but still he thought
it the safest plan to make trial of them 4 and
and accordingly began to consider how he
should fix his wishes. He was a man who
had few or no ambitious views; and was
contented in the way oflife in wMch.he had
been brought up. In fact he w as m well sa4
tisfied with his situation, that he hid dot the
least inclination to lose a single da*
laborious existence; but on the co
had a sincere wish of adding a few ye;
those which be was defined to live.
the stranger.—While Schalken was puzzling
his head for a second wish, he bethought
himself of a pear*tree which was in his lit
tle garden, had been frequently despoiled of
its fruit, to the no small detriment of the said
tree, and grievous disappointment of its own
er.—“ For my second wish, grant that who
ever climbs my pear tree shall not have
power to leave it without my permission be
given.”
This was also assented to. Schalken was
u sober man, and liked to sit down and chat
with his wife of an evening ; but she was a
bustling body, and often got up in the midst
of a conversation that she had heard ten or
twelve times, to scrub the table or set their
clay platters in order. Nothing disturbed
him so much as this, and he was determin-
d if possible, to prevent a repetition of the
nuisance. With this object in view he ap
proached close to the stranger, and in a low
whisper told him his third and last wish ;
that whoever sat in a particular chair in his
hut should not be able to move out of it un
til it should please him so to order. The
w di was agreed toby the traveller, who after
».■ >y greetings departed on his tvay.—
Years passed on, and his last two wishes had
been fully gratified by often detaining thieves
on his tree, and the wife in her chair.—The
time was approaching when the promise of
longevity would be falsified or made mani
fest. It happened that the birthdays of the
fisherman and his wife were the same. They
were sitting together on the evening of the
day that made him 79 and Mietje 73 years
of age—when the moon that was shining
through the window of the hut seemed sud
denly to be extinguished, and the stars rush
ed down the dark clouds and lay glaring on
the surface of the ocean, over which was
spread an unnatural calmness, although the
skies appeared to be mastered by the winds
and were heaving onward with their mighty
waves of clouds.—Birds dropped dead from
the boughs and the foliage of trees turned to
a pale red. All seemed to prognosticate
the approach of * 1 death ; and in q tew min
utes afterwards sure enough fib came. He
was, however, very different from all the
worthy^coupfe h 6ar d or fancied of him. He
wa s .certainly very thin and had very thin
‘1 air, and very little colour, but he was Well
dressed and his deportment that of a gentle
man. Bowing very politely to the ancient
pair, he told them he merely came to give
notice that by right they should have belong
ed to him on that day", but a fifty years res
pite was granted, and when that period
should have expired he would visit them
again. He then walked away and the moon
and the waters regained their natural ap
pearance. For the next fifty years every
thing passed on as .quietly as before : hut
as the time drew nigh for the appointed ad
vent of death, Jan became thoughtful, and
he felt no pleasure at the idea of the antici
pated visit. The day arrived and death came,
preceded by the same horrors as on the for
mer occasion.-—“ Well, good folks (said
he,) you can now have no objection to ac
company me ; for assuredly you both have
been hitherto highly privileged, and .have
lived long enough.” The old dame wept
and clung feebly to her husband, as if she
feared they were to be divided after passing
away from the earth ort which they had
dwelt so long and so happily together. As
they passed by Jan’s garden, he turned to
take a last look at it, when a sudden thought
struck him. He called to death and said,
“ Sir allow me to propose something to you.
Our journey is a long one, and we have no
provisions. I am too infirm or I would
climb yonder pear tree, and take a stock of
its best fruits with us ; you are active and
obliging, and will, 1 am sure, Sir, get it for
us.” Death, with" great condescension,
complied, and ascending the tree gathered a
great number of pears which he threw down
to old Schalken and his wife.—At length he
determined upon descending, but tohis sur
prise and apparent consternation discovered
that he was immovable, nor would Jan al
low him to leave the tree until he had given
them a promise of livmganother half century.
They jogged on in the old way for 50
years more, and death came to the day. He
was by no means so polite as he formerly
had been, for the trick that Schalken had
put upon him offended his dignity and hurt
his pride not a little.—* Come Jan,* said he,
“ you used me scurvily the other day,
(Death thinks but little of fifty years,) and I
am determined to lose no time—come.”
Jan was sitting at the table busily em
ployed in writing, when death entered. He
raised bis head sorrowfully, and the pen
trembled in his hand as he thus addressed
him: ;.•••
“ I confess that my former conduct to
wards you merits blame, but*! have done
with such knaveries now, and I have learnt
to know that life is of little worth, and that I
have seen enough of it. Still, before I quit
this world I should like to do all the good I
can, and was engaged when you arrived in
making a will, that a lad, who has been al
ways kind to us, f may receive this hut and
my boat. Sutler me to finish what I have
begun, and I shall cheerfully follow wher
ever you may lead. Pray sit down : in a
few minutes my task will be ended.” Death
thus appealed to,could refuso no longer, and
seated himself in a chair, from which he
found it as difficult to rise as he had for
merly to descend from the pear tree. His
liberation was bought at the expense of an
additional fifty years, at the end of which
period, and exactly on their birth day, Jan
Schalken and his wile died quietly in their
bed, and the salt-water flowed freely in the
little village in -which they hqd lived long
enough fo be considered the father and mo
ther of all its'inhabit ants.
Thomas Topham—the strong man.—Top-
ham was born in London, in the year 1711,
and presented the most extraordinary in
stance of human strength recordein mo
dern times. The first proof he gave of his
V/onderful powers, was in pulling against a
horse in Aloorfield ; he next lifted a rolling
stone of 300 pounds, with his hands only,
standing in a frame above it, and taking hold
of a chain that was fastened to it. Dr. Hut
ton, in his “ History of Derbyshire,” gives
this account of him:—
When this second Sampson appeared at
Derby as a performer in public, at a shilling
each, he surprised every one by his feats.
This wonderful man in whom were united
the strength of twelve, could roll up a pew
ter dish of seven pounds, as a man rolls up
Chinese Historical Traditions ;—From
Tinkowski’s Mission to China, just pub-
Leiouchm or Lieou-pie, having been inva
ded by the enemy, Koung Ming ordered a
stone statue of a man, of the ordinary size,
to be set up on the high road by which the
hostile army must advance. The statue
held in one hand a sword, and in the other
a book, the leaves of which were impregna
ted with poison. The general of the ene
my’s army doming to this spot, and seeing
the book open began to read it, and found it
interesting. As he frequently put his lin
gers to his mouth in order to moisten them,
to turn over the leaves more easily, he soon
felt the effects of the poison. He attempted
to retire, but could not, his coat of mail be
ing attracted by the pedestal, which was of
loadstone. Enraged at this, he seized the
sword which the statue held in the other
hand, and struck it. This action proved
stiff more fatal to him. The stroke having
caused sparks tb fly, they kindled the com
bustibles enclosed in the intf rior of the sta
tue, the explosion of which killed him. His
army terrified at the sudden death of its gen
eral was obliged to retreat.
On another occasion, the same Koung
Ming was encamped opposite to the enemy
from which he was separated only by a riv
er. Having his camp higher up the stream,
he caused straw puppets of the size of life,
to be put on board the boats with lighted
torches in them. The boats were carried
down the stream to the enemy’s camp ; who
seeing them full of soldiers, as they imagin
ed, discharged many thousand arrows at
them ; so that they soon emptied their quiv
ers. Koung Ming who had foreseen this,
passed the river, and gained a complete vic
tory over the enemy, who did not expect to
be attacked.
a sheet of paper; hold a pewter quart at
arms length and squeeze the sides together
like an egg shell, lift two hundred weight
with his little finger, and move it gently
over his head. He broke a rope of about
two inches in circumference, which was
\Vound round a cylinder of 5 inches in di
ameter, having fastened the other end of it
to straps thatw<fot over the shoulders. Lif
ted an oak table six feet long with his teeth,
though half a hundred weight was hung to
the extremity, and held it in aliorizonta) po
sition for a considerable length of time, st
is true the feet of the table rested againlt
his knees, but as the length of the table was
much greater than its height, that perfor
mance required a great strength to be ex
erted by the muscles of his loin9, neck, and
jaws, besides a good set of teeth. He took
Mr. Chambers, vicar of All Saints, who
weighed twenty seven stone, and raised him
with one hand. His head being laid on a
chair, and his feet on another, four people
(fourteen stone each) sat upon the body
which he heaved at pleasure. He struck a
round bar of iron, about a yard long, and
three inches in diameter, against his naked
arm, and at one stroke bent it like a bow.—
He lifted two hogsheads of water; heaved
his horse over a turnpikegate ; and carried
abeam of a house as soldier would his fire
lock. Having once thrust the bowl of a
strong tobacco pipe under his garter, his legs
being bent, he broke it to pieces by the ten
dons of his hams. He broke such another
bowl between his first and second finger, by
pressing them together sideways. What are.
hollows under the arms and hams in others,
were filled up with ligaments in him.
Topham, once finding a watchman asleep
in his box, near Chiswell street, Moorefields,
he took both, and carrying the load with the
greatest ease, at length dropped the watch
man and house oerer the walls of Tindalls
burial ground, and while he was at Derby,
he was insulted by the ostler at the Virgin’s
Inn, and he took one of the kitchen spits
from the mantle piece and bent it round the
ostlers neck like a handkerchief; but as he
did not choose to tuck the ends in the ostler’s
bosom, the cumbrous ornament excited the
laugh of the company till ho condescended
to untie his iron cravat.
Topham was in height nearly 5 feet 10
inches, well made, but nothing singular ; he
walked with a small limp. He had former
ly laid a wager,the usual decider of disputes,
that three horses could not draw him from a
post which he should clasp with his feet—
but the driver giving them a sudden lash,
turned them aside, and the unexpected jerk,
broke his thigh. 0
At the time of his/(bath which happened
on the tenth of Aug^sf, 1749, he kept a pub
lic house in Hog Lai>e, Shoreditch. Hav
ing had, two days before, a quarrel with his
wife, he stabbed her-in the breast and imme
diately gave himself several wounds which
proved fatal to him'; but his wife recovere
rain, to stop at a farm house on the way.
The master of the house was a clergyman,
who, to a poor curacy, added the care of a
few scholars, and gamed in all about 80/.
a year, with which he had to maintain a wife
and six children.
When the duke alighted, the clergyman,
not knowing his rank, begged him to come
in and dry himself. His excellency accept
ed the offer, borrowed a pair of old worsted
stockings and slippers, and otherwise war
med himself by a good fire.—After some
conversation, the duke observed an old
chess board hanging up; and as he was
passionately fond of that same, lie asked the
parson whether he could play ? His host
answered, that he could tolerable, but found
it difficult in that part of the country to find
an antagonist. “ ll’in your man,” says the
duke. .** With aft my heart,” rejoins the par
son ; “ and if you’ll stay and take pot luck.
I’ll try ifl can’t beat you.” The day still
continued rainy, the duke accepted his offer
when the parson played so much better, that
he won every game. The duke far from
fretting at this, was highly pleased to meet
a man who could give him such entertain
ment at his favourite game. He according
ly inquired into the state of his family affairs;
and just taking a memorandum of his host’s
address, without discovering his title, thank
ed him, and left him.
Some months pa ssed over without the
clergyman thinking any thing of his visiter ;
when one evening a footman in a laced live
ry rode up to the door, and presented him
with the following billet:
“ The Duke pf Nivernois’ compliments
wait on the Rev. Mr.'———, and as a re
membrancer for the good drubbing he re
ceived from him at chess, and the hospitality
he showed him on alateoccasion,hegsthathe
will accept of the living of (worth 400/
a year,) and wait on His Grace the Duke of
Newcastle, on Friday next, to thank him for
the same.”
It was some time before the honest par
son could imagine the letter any thing more
than a joke, and he was not for going to
town to wait on the premier ; hut his wife
insisting on his making the trial, he came to
London, and to his unspeakable satisfaction
found the contents o f the note literally true.
Duke of JYivt'rnois.—AY hen (he Duke of
Nivernois was ambassador to England, lie* *h£s
was going down to Lord Townsend’s seaft h
in Norfolk, on 9 private visit; quite in disha- c:
bille, and with only one servant; when he in/*his .
was obliged, from a very heavy shower of all foat'remaiued
All for Love—Paris, June 25.—The fol
lowing horrible crime, the effect of disap
pointed love, and jealousy, has just been
committed in the neighbourhood of Toulon.
A young man named Augustus Toulousan,
residing at Sollies Pont, in the arrondisse-
ment of Toulon, had for a long time back
carried on an illicit intercourse with a girl
named Adelaide S——, to whom it is said
he had made a promise of marriage. His
family, however, who were averse to his u-
nion with Adelaide S. had induced him to pro
pose for another girl in the neighbourhood.
The circumstances coming to the ears of his
mistress, she wished to be assured of the
truth of it from his own lips, and on the 12th
of this month she sent a person to him, to
request that he would call upon her at eight
on that evening. At the hour appointed she
was at the window, and on seeing her love
approach, she ran down to the door. Tou
lousan, however, instead of coming to her,
stopped at the door of a neighbouring house,
and sat down near a young girl, the friend
and confident of the young woman to whom
he was going to be married. He affected to
enter into a very animated conversation with
her, and seemed to delight in exciting the
jealousy of his mistress, who with fixed eyes
and haggard air, stood looking at him du
ring the two hours he remained thus tor
menting her.—-At ten o’clock he returned
home, without having Once approached or
addressed a word to his mistress. Toulou
san fastened the door of his house ; but in
the wall close by was an aperture, sufficient
to admit a moderate sized person, which
was closed only by a large stone on the out
side. It is supposed that about eleven Ade
laide S. repaired to his house, armed with a
razor, removed the stone that closed the
aperture in the wall, ascended to his room
and cut his throat. In her flight down stairs
after the horrid act she dropped the razor
and one of her shoes, and let herself out by
the front door of the house, which was se
cured only by a wooden bar.
The uhfortunate Toulouson started from
his sleep and made to the window, to call
for succour. His stifled and inarticulate
cries resembled the bowlings of a ivild beast,
at least such was the description of them
given by the neighbours. Finding, it would
appear, that he could not produce an articu
late sound to call his father, whose room
was on the opposite side of a little yard, he
threw his woollen night-cap at bis father’s
window, but this not awakening him, he
descended the staircase, holding his throat
with both his hands. In this way he went
through the stable, and through a yard to
another part of the premises, where his bro
ther and his wife slept, the blood flawing
abundantly from his wound, and tracing his
progress the whole way. His lamentable
cries, or rather frightful howling, awoke his
brother and wife, but they thinking,it to be
some wild beast, h arricadoed, instead *of
opening their door, and began to cry for
succour themselves.
Toulousan continued for sopm time
knocking at the doqir, and uttering inaKjdpng
late sounds that served only to terrify still
more his brother and sister-in law. He at
length descended the staircase that led from
their room, but his hands no longer sufficing
to stop the blood that rushed from his wound
his throat, he staggered and fell upon the
e staircase. At this moment
of the neighbours, who
the knocking and cries,
was foe mutilated dead body of his son, in
a state of perfect nudity, and surrounded
with blood!—The father dropped senseless
on the body, .
At ten o’clock in the morning, the proper
authorities were informed of the circumstane.
Adelaide S. was arrested. There was found
in her room a handkerchief stained with
blood, with which she is supposed to have
enveloped part of the razor while commit
ting the crime, and a stocking, the vamp of
whit h was covered with mud. The shoe
found on the staircase, near Toulousan’s
room fitted exactly one of her feet.
Brought into the room, where the body of
her lover was exposed, she appeared to be
yielding to a fit of hysterics, hut at the first
question put to her by the Magistrate, she
recovered herself, and looked on with dry
eves.
m
Caledonian method of teaching JV/ustc.——
A Highland piper having a pupil to teach,
disdained to rack his brains with the names
of semibreves, minimi, crotchets, and qua
vers. “ Here, Donald lad, gie’s a blast!
so, so—vera weel blawn mun; but what’s -
sound, Donald lad, without sense ? Ye may
blaw, an blaw for aye, without maken a tune
o’t, gin I dinna tell ye how thae queer
things on the paper maun help ye. Ye see
that big fallow wi’ a round open face,”—
pointing to a semibreve between the two
lines of a bar—“ He moves slowly frae that
line to this, whiles ye boat ane wi’ yere fit,
and gie a long loud blast. Gin ye’s pit a
fit till him, ye make twa’ o’hirn, and he’ll
rauve twice as fast.—Gin ye black his face,
he’ll rin four times faster than the fallow wi*
the white face ; but gin, after blacking his
face, ye’ll bend his knee, or tie his legs,
he’ll hop eight times faster than yon chap I
showed ye first.—Now, whene’er ye blaw
yere pipes, Donald, mind ye this, that the
faster ye tie these fallows’ legs, the quicker
they maun dance, and the faster they’ll be
sure to rin !—Atlas.
One evening at Malta, while nnjoyiqg my
segar at Mickliffe’s Cafe, in the Sirade Tea*
tro, I was much amused by a young exqui
site, but lately imported, and who was laced
and buckled up in all the paraphernalia of a
modern dandy, militaire in de Sance, the
thermometer at 82, and siroc wind, hot
enough to have thrown even his Satanic
majesty into a fever. Indeed the dandy’s
countenance exhibited symptoms highly fe
brile—though I was rather inclined to im
pute them to the apoplectic effect of corsets.
“ Waiter,” exclaimed he with an infantile
lisp, and throwing himself carelessly on a
bench, “ bring me a lobster’s claw/and ice,
with fifteen drops of champalgne in it.”
The master of his majesty’s ship : » }
af. rough a tar as ever spliced.* maiitbrace,
came in just at the time foe exquisite dtrtk.
vered his precise demand, qnd eveiug the
dandy with a, look of the most'profound
contempt, roared in a voice as .hoarse
rowl of Seber, “ Waiter, brii
ass’s hind leg, and a tumbler
Let every .Man mind his own Business.—
Of all things, deliver us from the man who
attends to his neighbour’s business and
leaves his own at loose ends. A meddling
body is a torment to a neighbourhood, and
not much comfort to himself; for, continu
ally interfering with that which is none of
his business, he subjects himself to the just
reproof of those he would thrust his gratui
tous services upon.' It matters not whether
it be in religion, or politics, or the common
concerns of domestic life, let every man at
tend to his own business, and then every
man’s business will be attended to. Advice
comes soon enough when asked, and no
man likes to have his neighbour’s nose gra
tuitously poked into his family concerns or
his out of door business, or his manner of
thinking upon any subject; all believe it is
their privilege to do what they think fit in
their own premises, and to do it in their
owu way.—The man who interferes with
the business of others, almost always ne
glects his own; and while doing that which
no man thanks him for, not unfrequently
permits his family to come to wanh No
man, who strictly attends to what interests
him, will have time or inclination to manago
the 'concerns of his neighbours/; he will
pursue his own course, and suffer others to
do the same '; he will hie generous enough
to believe other folks know something as
well as himself. It is intolerable to be con
tinually bored, in this way, in the most tri
vial every day business of life. What is it
to me if my neighbour permits his cucum
ber vines to run on the ground, instead of
furnishing them with bushes as I do—or
rubs his razor on an old book cover instead
of a metallic strap—or prunes his fruit trees
with a coarse or a fine saw ? What right
have I to find fault with the dress or educa
tion of his family ?—with the colour of his
hat dr the cut of his coat? And if lie
built a house, does it concern me whether
it front north *or south—or whether it be
large or small, convenient or inconvenient?
if it does not—if it be my neighbour’s right
to consult his own taste in these matters,
let us yield him his right: and when dipping
our fingers into other people’s porridge
dishes, we chance to get them scalded, let
it teach us to mind nobody’s business but
our own.—Warren Star.
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ire seemed about to rise, but his eve hap-
pened to glance on a trusty piece of timber,
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inches in circumference,} which soundings
always carried, and facetiously denomina
ted his “ tooth pick,” he thought it prudent
to bridle his wrath, and contented feftnifeif
by elevating his eye-brows, and lisping in an
under tone, “ O quel barbuer. 1 ”
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