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HAPPY MOTHER $ SONG.
FROM THE GERMAN.
Look at me, mj r pretty boy,
With thy golden ringlets flowing,
Bright blue eyes, and cheeks all glowing;
• Was there ever such a one ?
No, 1 ’in sure there can be none.
Look at me, my sweetest boy,
Rosy as the summer morning,
Sweet as dew the leaves adorning;
Was there ever such a one ?
No, I’m sure there can be none.
Look at me, my kindly boy.
Not too forward, nor too fearful,
Ever kind and ever cheerlul;
Was there ever such a one?
No, I’m sure there can be none,
Look at me, my darling boy,
No sad naughty child could ever
Be so loved and lovely—never ;
You may wish for one as fine,
But, good folks, you can’t have mine.
Should a merchant come to buy,
Let him ope his golden coffers,
Would I take his richest offers ;
Never —buy where’er he cau,
He should not get my pretty man.
IliilliiSfi
EARLY TIMES IN INDIANA.
Said Major Oudesly as he casually dropped in
on us yesterday morning and commenced talking
away in his usual quick, chatty and peculiar
manner.
“ I’m sick and tired of this artificial way of
doing things in these latter dates,”
“ There is an eternal sight too much parade
going on.
I was at a wedding last night—the daughter of
an old and much esteemed friend was to be mar
ried, and I was so urgently invited that I could’nt
help going ; there was so much fuss and parade
I was perfectly disgusted. I could’nt help com
paring the proceedings where a couple was mar
ried at Lawrenceburg many years ago, when
Indiana formed a part of the great North Wes
tern Territory. At that time the settlement of
the emigrants were mostly confined to the rich
bottom lands of the water courses. Lawrence
burg was then a smaT village with a few log cab
ins. Mv father was the acting magistrate for
the district, and very promptly attended to the
various duties of that office, in addition to which
he was in the habit of doing a good deal of man
ual labor on his own hook.”
“ That was when you wasn’t big enough to do
much Major?”
“ Exactly. I was a tow-headed brat of some
eight or ten years old, when the incident I am to
narrate occurred, but I remember all the particu
lars as well as though it occurred but yesterday.
You see it was dinner time one day in the fall of
the year, when the old man being engaged in
laying in a supply of wood for winter, drove up
his ox team with a pretty solid load of fuel.
Just then a* young unsophisticated couple en
tered the village, hand in hand, inquired for the
Squire, and were duly directed to the house.—
The youth was barefoot, and wore a coarse, but
clean tow linen shirt and pants, and rough straw
hat of home manafacture. His fair companion
was dressed in blue striped cotton frock, pink
cotton apron, fine bonnet, and coarse brogan
shoes without stockings.
These were the wedding dresses, and their
severe simplicity and the thorough independence
they manifested made an impression upon my
mind that will never be effaced.”
“We come to get married,” said the young
man to the old lady, my mother, who was prop
erly busy among the pots and kettles.
. “ That’s a very good business said the old la
dy smiling graciously, “though you appear to
look rather young, but there’s the Squire, just
drove up, he'll splice you in less than no time,”
so out she bolted, to give that important function
ary due notice of the business in hand.
“ I can’t stop ’till I unload this wood,” said the
old man; ‘tell them to come out here.’
And out the}’ came—the old man was on the
top of the cart, and every time he threw off a
stick he asked them a question. Before he was
fairly unloaded he had the youth’s whole story,
having ascertained the names ages and residence
of the parties, how long he had known the young
woman, if he ready loved her, was willing to
labor honestly to promote her happiness, &c.
The youngster gave simple and satisfactory an
swers to all the qnestions propounded.
In the meantime, the old lady, perfectly under
standing Dad’s way of doing things, had sent me
out to say to the people that there was a wedding
coming off at the house, and by the time the wood
was unloaded, quite a crowd had assembled to
witness the ceremony.
“Jest jine hands,” said he to the young .cou
ple. It was done accordingly.
“I’m satisfied with both of ye,” continued he,
“You’ve a perfect right to get’ married,” and he
united them in short order.
“ As the rafters on this house are joined to
gether so I jine you—you are man and wife—
salute your bride. I dont charge anything for
the operation. Whoa haw, Buck, get along,
Bright”—and with an [eloquent flourish of his
Tong stick he started for another load of wood,
leaving the newly married pair amid the villagers
kissing each other with very distinct and partic
ular evidence of satisfaction. .
That was a wedding worth having,” said
Major Oudesley; I knew the couple afterwards,
and know them yet, for they are both living in a
high state of prosperity. And I know their chil
dren after them, too, and mighty fine children
they are, for one of them is at this very time
Governor of the State of Indiana. —Cincinnati yews*
THE SEVEN SHILLING PIECE.
It was during the panic of 1826 that a gen
tleman, whom we shall call Mr. Thompson, was
seated with something of a melancholy look in
his dreary back-room, watching his clerks pay
ing away thousands of pounds hourly. Ihomp
son was a banker of excellent credit; there ex
isted perhaps in the city of London no safer
concern than that of Messrs Thompson and Cos :
but at a moment such as I speak of, no rational
reflection was admitted, no former stability was
looked to; a general distrust was felt, and every
one rushed to his banker’s to withdraw his hoard,
fearful that the next instant would be too late,
forgetting entirely that this step was that of all
others the most likely to insure the ruin he
sought to avoid.
But to return. The wealthy citizen sat gloom
ily watching the out pouring of his gold, and
with a grim smile listening to the clamorous de
mands on his cashier ; for although he felt per
fectly easy and secure as to the ultimate strength
of his resources, yet he could not repress a feel
ing of bitterness as he saw constituent after
constituent rush in and those whom he fondly
imagined to be his dearest friends eagerly assis
ting in the run upon his strong box.
Presently the door opened, and a stranger was
ushered in, who after gazing for a moment at
the bewildered banker, cooly drew a chair and
abruptly addressed him. ‘You will pardon me,
sir, for asking a strange question ; but lam a
plain man, and like to come straight to the point.’
‘Well sir?’ impatiently interrupted the other.
* j have heard that vou have a run on vour
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bank, sir.’
‘ Well ?’
‘ Is it true?’
‘Really, sir, I must decline repying to your
very extraordinary query. If, however you have
any money in the bank, you had better at once
draw it out, and so satisfy yourself: our cashier
will instantly pay you ;’ and the banker rose,
as a hint for the stranger to withdraw.
‘ Far from it, sir ; 1 have not one sixpence irl
your hands.’
‘ Then may I ask what is your business here?’
‘ I wished to know if a small sum would aid
you at this moment ?’
‘ Why do you ask the question ?’
* Because if it would, I should gladly pay in
a small deposit.’
The money-dealer started.
‘ You seem surprised : you don’t know my per
son or my motive. I’ll at once explain. Do you
recollect some twenty years ago when you resi
ded in Essex?’
‘ Perfectly.’
‘ Well, then, sir, perhaps you have not forgot
ten the turn-pike gate through which you passed
daily ? My father kept that gate, and was often
honored bv a few minutes chat with you. One
Chrisimas morning my father was sick, and 1
attended the toll-bar. On that day you passed
through, and I opened the gate for you. Do you
recollect it, sir ?”
‘ Not I, my friend.’
‘No, sir; few such men remember their kind
deeds, but those who are benefit ted by them sel
dom forget them. lam perhaps prolix: listen,
however, only a few moments, and I have done.’
The banker, who began to feel interested, at
ot once assented.
‘Well, sir, as I said before, I threw open the
gate for you, and as I considered myself in duty
bound, I wished you a happy Christmas.—
“ Thank you, my lad,” replied you—“ Thank
you ; and the same to you ; here is a trifle to
make it so ;” and you threw me a seven-shilling
piece. It was the first money I ever possessed;
and never shall I forget my joy on receiving it,
or your kind smile in bestowing it. I long trea
sured it, and as I grew up, added a little to it, till
I was able to rent a toll mvself. You left that
part of the country, and I lost sight of you.
Yearly, however, I have been getting on ; your
present however brought good fortune with it; I
am comparatively rich, and to you I consider I
owe all. So this morning, hearing accidentally
that there was a run on your bank, I collected
all my capital, and have brought it to lodge with
you, in case it can be of any use: here it is,
sir—here it is;’ and he handed a bundle of bank
notes to the‘agitated Thompson. ‘ln a few days
I’ll call again;’ and snatching up his hat, the
stranger, throwing down his card, walked out of
the room.
Thompson undid the roll: it contained £30,-
000! The stern-hearted banker—for all bankers
must bestern —burst into tears. The firm did
not require this prop; but the motive was so noble,
that even a millionaire sobbed—he could not help
it. The firm is still one of the first in London.
The £30,000 of the turnpike-boy is now grown
to some £200,000. Fortune has well disposed
of her gifts.
NEWSPAPER READING.
The Newark Daily Advertiser prints a very
sensible Essay from a Correspondent on this
much practised but little understood business.
Speaking of the power of the press, it would
be considerably greater if there were not so much
of it. A neighbor of mine at my late residence in
the backwoods of Pennsylvania, had seen but one
paper (i.e. one No.) for six months; but that he
had carefully read; and made up his mind to vote
for Gen. Taylor. Such was the effect of one pa
per; but had he read more, it is quite likely he
might have been left in doubt; as the most are,
in respect to the principle topics of newspaper
discussion.
There are, in fact, two difficulties in the case —
the one, that almost every thing published is made
the occasion of controversy, and so much said for
and against it that readers in general know not
what to believe ; the other, that periodicals are of
such infinite platitude, that thoughtful men do not
read them at all. Take one of the large city
newspapers, a weekly, or semi-weekly—who that
has anything to do in the world ever thinks of
reading it? And if anv one is so unwise, what
does he get for his pains ? A confused mind , and a
weakened memory . Two very serious losses, for a
very small gain.
This matter of weakening the memory I sup
pose to be a very grave one—a chief mischief oc
casioned by the floods of reading supplied bv the
daily, weekly, and monthly press. You have
seen Averrhoe’s catalogue of the weakness of the
memory? Coleridge proposes to add light read
ing : I add, all reading where the extent is wholly
incommensurate with the substantial facts and
truths set before the mind and distinctly contem
plated ; and such is a large portion of all that the
periodical press now supplies.
For myself, a large paper is a huge annoyance;
and never do I witness the enlargement of a daily
or weekly sheet, without the painful sensation of
a mariner that has had one more of his anchors
dragged from its place—l have so much less hope
that wisdom is still to be allowed some place
among men.
Gold beating, I grant you, is good, but not for
all purposes. Put my half and quarter eagles in
the form of gold leaf and I should be iil-equipt
for travelling, or remitting funds to London. 1
want the gold in a substantial form, so that I can
handle it without fearing that a touch or breath of
air will dissipate the whole from my fingers.
So it is with the better than California gold for
mation of the mind. They must have a limited,
mJ
compact, stamped form —they must be capable of
a place in the pocket, and hand, or even in the
heart, where some (by a great mistake) put their
gold. They must have a certain palpability to
the meditative power; or they avail very little in
the great transactions of human life—that real
life, which here and there one deems better than
any given by gold and silver alone.
Were the periodical press not so much given
to the use of the yard stick in making sales, these
wares would be worth much more—adding to the
stock of human well-being. We should see them
potent elements of the powers that be—capable
of stirring up and laying such tempests as are
wanted and not wanted amon” men.
O
So I exhort the Daily, be quiet, never get en
larged, never print much (i.e. in space,) and
abide an example of real efficiency in this little
world of ours, as long as there is news to be told,
or no phantom of news to be kept back in the
shades where it belongs.
Vale, vale, C. S. A.
JACK BUNSBY ON CALIFORNIA.
The following hit is from the New York Sun
day News: ,
Being asked what be thought of the gold panic,
Bunsby crossed his boots, took a whif and said, 1
“If so be as how gold can be got in California
for digging, why, good ; the only questions would
be, to dig or not to dig. And so, but then, do ye
see, a man must do something else besides dig- ,
ging. He must eat, drink, sleep and be clothed
without; and must do other kind of works. Now,
if so be, another man should dig praties, and fill a :
tin kittle, and put it over the fire, in unison with
some wild kids and a few yarbs, and the man 1
who had been digging the gold should come and
say, give me of that ere mess, why, so, also.
Now, what would the pratie digger say? How
much gold have you dug? Oh, says the gold
digger, I have had great luck to-day, but I am
very hungry. Good, says the pratie digger, give i
me two-thirds of your gold, and you shall dine <
with me. Why, you inhospitable fellow, do you ‘
want to rob! No, says the pratie digger, but go
and eat vour gold; I’ll eat my dinner alone, and
save what is left until to-morrow, and then I can
go and dig gold, and }-ou can go and dig praties
for yourself. Now, says Bunsby, the pratie dig
ger would be the best off, for the other could not
wait until to-morrow for a dinner, and it’s there
fore my opinion that digging praties may be
under some circumstances, more profitable than
digging gold, and my name’s Jack Bunsby.”
Poetry has no more sonorous or prolonged echo
than the heart of youth in which love has just |
sprung up. It is like a presentimeut of all the
passions. Later in life, it is often theirmemory
and their design. It thus causes tears at the two
extreme periods of life ; to the young, tears of
hope ; to the old tears of regret.
Fashion for Spring, 1849.
IV'OBLE LYON, (Gibbon’s Buildings,) Hatter
11 Successor to Ives, Horsey A Co—The following varieties
may be found at the above named Hat Store : Fine Black and
Drab Beavers, White, Otter, and Pearl Brush, No. 1 nnd2
Moleskin, Drab and Black Brush. Also, Plantation Hats
Leghorns, Rutland and Palm Leaf, Men’s and Boys’ and
Children’s Coburg, and Infants’ China Pearl Hats, Ac., Ac
For sale wholesale and retail at New York Prices,
mar 29
Lamp Oil.
JUST Received per ship Hartford, a lot of su
perior Sperm Oil, which is warranted pure. For sale
verv cheap at store* 111 Buy street,
apl 12 ‘ GEO. H. BROCK.
Foreign Fruits.
RDE MARTIN, Corner Whitaker and Bay
• Streets, has made arrangemets to be constantly supplied
with choice WEST INDIA FRUITS and VEGETABLES,
selected expressly for his trade, to which he invites the atten
tion of the public. Orders from the country respectfully so
licited and supplied upon the lowest terms. Also, constantly
on hand a complete assortment of select Groceries, Teas,
Wines, Segars, Syrups, English Sauces and Pickels, Pre
serves, Ac., which would be to the interest of purchasers to
inspect previous to supplying their demands. ap 12
A CARD.
THE undersigned having re-opened, with an
entire New Stock of DRUGS, CHEMICALS and
FANCY ARTICLES, at No. 139 (South side) Broughton
sfreet, (formerly Walker's Marble Yard,) is now ready to
furnish any thing in his line, at the shortest notice. SODA
WATER, made in his own peculiar way, sent to any part of
the city, and always to be had at the store, in the highest state
of perfection.
Prescriptions put up with care and despatch.
The subscriber having served the public long and faithfully,
respectfully solicits a share of their patronage.
apr 2G “ THOS. RYERSON.
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING~~ GLAZING, &C.
r PHE subscriber having taken the store No. 121, Brough-
J- ton street, has re-commenced in the above business, and
will be happy to receive orders for work. He will also keep
or sale all kinds of mixed paints, window glass, putty, # oil,
turpentine, Ac.
March 22, ’49. 3m. JOHN OLIVER.
SPRING (biOODS.
THE Subscriber has just received, by late arri
vals from New York and Philadelphia, n handsome assort
ment of every kind of BOOTS AND SHOES, for gentlemen,
ladies, youths, misses and children, all of which he offers for
sale on reasonable terms. SAM. A. WOOD,
March 21. 105 A 106 Bryan-st.
HO I* i; It liiviMl IY <* SI O K li.
pOLLINS & BULKLEY, No. 10S Bryan-et.,
would respectfully invite the attention of purchasers to
their large and varied assortment of Crockery, Glass Wuie,
and House Furnishing Goods, consisting in part of Flowing
Blue, Mulberry, and W. G. Dinner setts; China and W. G.
Tea setts; Mugs Vases, Ornaments, Glass Lamps, Straw
berry Wines, Ashburtor Goblets, Solar Chimneys and Shades,
Julep Tubes, and a general assortment of Glass Ware. Stone
Butter Pots, Pickle Jars, Churns, Jugs, Ac.
LAMPS AND TIN WARE.
Burning Fluid Lamps, Miniature Solar Lamps, Hall Lan
terns, Bronze Candlesticks, Nursery Lamps for Invalids, Tea
Waiters, a fine assortment, Slop Pails, Foot Tubs, Coffee Big
gins, Oyster Stew and Venison Dishes, Dish and Plate covers,
Cake Boxes, Ac.
FAMILY HARDWARE AND CUTLERY.
Ivory Table Cutlery with Knives only, Buck Horn and com
mon Cutlery, Razors and Pocket Knives, Coffee Mills, Sauce
and Stew Pans, Soup Digesters, Ovens, Pots, Skillets, Spiders,
Gridirons, Wafer and Waff!e Irons, Furnaces. Brass Shovel
and Tongs, Andirons, Stair Rods, Whips, Quilling Scissors,
Paste Jaggers, Ice Breakers, Cork Screws, Mouse Traps, Ac.
WILLOW AND WOOD WARE.
Buckets, Tubs, Wash Boards, Sieves, Piggins, Churns, Beef
Steak Pounders, Lemon Squeezers, Wood Spoons, Butter
Prints, Cake Beaters, Butter Pats, Rolling Pins, Towel Roll
ers, faucets, Bird Cages, also Market Baskets, Waggons,
Hobly Horses, Travelling and Work Baskets, Dusting’ and
Scrub Brushes, Sweeping Brooms, and other brushes.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Straw Satchels, Knife Baskets, Paper Lamp Shades and
Frames, Thermometers, Spool stands, Swifts for windingsilk, Ice
Cream Churns, Knife Cleaners, Nut Picks and Crackers,
Gravy Strainers, Toy Hoes, and rakes, Apple Corers and
Peelers, Buckwheat Cake Griddles, of Soap Stone, Table
Mats, also Door Mats of different qualities, together with a
great variety of goods not enumerated. Also Camphine and
Burning Fluid of the best quality.
Housekeepers, Planters, and others, are invited to call as
their prices are as low aselsewhere.
BOOK AND” JOB PRINTING,
Os all kind*, executed at thin Office, with neamcM and
despatch.
HAVING lately put our Office in complete order
and made large additions to it, we have now the most ex
tensive Job Printing Office in the City and are prepared to
execute all kinds of PLAIN AND FANCY PRINTING,
with neatness and despatch, and on the most accomodating
terms. Office 102 Bryan-street, entrance on Bay Lane.
Savannah, March 22d, 1849. EDWARD J. PURSE.
A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY,
A WEEKLY SOUTHERN NEWSPAPER, PUBLISHED
EVERY THURSDAY, BY
EDWARD J. PURSE.
TERMS:—TWO DOLLARS A YEAR.
Three Copies for one year, or one copy three years, $5 00
Seven Copies, . - - - - - . 10 0>
Twelve Copies, # 15 00
%* Advertisements to a limited extent, will be inserted
at the rate of 50 cents for a square of nine lines or less, for
the first insertion, and 30 cents for each subsequent insertion.
Business cards inserted for a year at Five Dollars.
nP A liberal discount will be made to Post Masters who
will do us the favor to act as AgeDts.
iSF* All communications to be addressed (post-paid) to
E. J. PURSE, Savannah, Gb*
