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I D HAVE THEE MINE.
I’d have thee mine,
In the first dawning of thy loveliness,
When all around thee speaks of spring’s fresh blossom,
And all of thee is fitted to express
The radiant thoughts of my too happy bosom —
Thus would I claim thee first!
I’d have thee mine.
Not for the transient pleasure of an hour
Not for a feverish fancy that should vanish,
But ns a star set in my spirit’s bower,
Whose light no storms of time nor fate could banish —
To rule Love’s heaven for aye!
I’d have thee mine,
To cheer my youthful steps along life’s way—
To si lare my triumphs in the world’s wide field —
To cure my griefs when wounded in the fray ;
And nerve my spirit, if it stooped to yield,
To sterner battle still!
I’d have thee mine,
That I might toil for thee, and watch thy brow,
To chase each shadow from it; and still bring
A newer joy within thy breast of snow,
’Till life should seem all made of light and spring,
And music softly tuned.
I’d have thee mine,
That I might see, through thy maturer years,
Thy soul grow brighter, casting off all dross,
And fitted to inmate the purer spheres,
Where higher purity becomes no cross,
But highest blessedness!
I’d have thee mine,
That when the labors of our genial prime
Were over, and the frost of age came on,
We might recall the pleasures of this time,
And join its tender love with years not gone,
But growing fonder still!
I’d have thee mine.
That when the last dread hour came o’er my heart,
Thy hand should smoothe my pillow, and my head
Rest on thy bosom, and my soul depart,
Mixing with thy dear prayers that thou mighl’st tread
Soou the dim path with me !
I’d have thee mine,
That when thou, too, should’st leave this weary earth,
Alike in soul, thought, feeling, we might be
United in a land of higher birth :
One—one in being, bliss, and ecstacy,
And one in immortality !
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LEAVES FROM IRVING’S GOLDSMITH.
JOHNSON AND GOLDSMITH,
In this year, 1761, Goldsmith became perso
nally acquainted with Dr. Johnson, towards whom
he was drawn by strong sympathies, though their
natures were widely di He rent. Both had strug
gled from early life with poverty, but had strug
gled in different ways. Goldsmith, buoyant, heed
less, sanguine, tolerant of evils and easily pleased,
had shifted along by any temporary expedient;
cast down at every turn, but rising again with in
domitable good humor, and still carried forward
by his talent at hoping. Johnson, melancholy
and hypochondriacal, and prone to apprehend the
worst, yet sternly resolute to battle with and con
quer it, had made his way doggedly and gloomily,
but with a noble principle of self-reliance and a
disregard of foreign aid. Both had been irregu
lar at college. Goldsmith, as we have shown,
from the levity of his nature and his social and
convivial habits ; Johnson, from his acerbity and
gloom. When, in after life, the latter heard him
self spoken of as gay and frolicksome at college,
because lie had joined in some riotous excesses
there, “ Ah, sir ! ” replied he, “ I was mad and
violent. It was bitterness which they mistook for
frolic* I was miserably poor, and I thought to fight
my way hy my literature and my wit. So I disre
garded all power and all authority.”
Goldsmith’s poverty was never accompanied
by bitterness; but neither was it accompanied by
the guardian pride which kept Johnson from fall
ing into the degrading shifts of poverty. Gold
smith had an unfortunate facility at borrowing,
and helping himself along by the contributions
of his friends; no doubt trusting, in his hopeful
way, of one day making retribution. Johnson
never hoped, and therefore never borrowed. In
his sternest trials he proudly bore the ills he could
not master. In his youth, when some unknown
friend, seeing bis shoes completely worn out, left
anew pair a( his chamber door, he disdained to
accept the boon, and threw them away.
Though like Goldsmith an unmethodical stu
dent, he had imbibed deeper draughts of knowl
edge, and made himself a riper scholar. While
Goldsmith’s happy constitution and genial hu
mors carried him abroad into sunshine and en
joyment, Johnson’s physical infirmities and men
tal gloom drove him upon himself, to the re
sources ofreading and meditation; threw adeeper
though darker enthusiasm into his mind, and
stored a retentive memory with all kinds of knowl
edge.
VAGABOND ASSOCIATES.
Sometimes Goldsmith would make up a rural
party, composed of four or five of his “jolly
pigoon ” friends, to enjoy what he humorously
called a “ shoemaker’s holiday.” These would
assemble at his chambers in the morning, to par
take of a plentiful and rather expensive breakfast;
the remains of which, with his customary benevo
lence, he generally gave to some poor woman in
attendance. The repast ended, the party would
set out on foot, in high spirits, making extensive
rambles by foot-paths and green lanes to Black
- heath, Wandsworth, Chelsea, Hampton Court,
Highgate, or some qther pleasant resort, within a
few miles of London. A simple but gav and
heartily relished dinner, at a country inn, crowned
the excursion. In the evening they strolled back
to town, all the better in health and spirits for a
day spent in rural and social enjoyment. Occa
sionally, when extravagantly inclined, they ad
journed from dinner to drink tea at the
Conduit House ; and, now and then, concluded
their festive day by supping at the Grecian or
Temple Exchange Coffee Houses, or at the Globe
Tavern, in Fleet Street. The whole expenses
of* the day never exceeded a crown, and wereof
tener from three and sixpence to tour shillings ;
for the best part of their entertainment, sweet air
and rural scenes, excellent exercise and joyous
conversation, cost nothing.
One of Goldsmith’s humble companions, on
these excursions, was his occasional amanuensis,
Peter Barlow, whose quaint peculiarities afforded
much amusement to the company. Peter was
poor but punctilious, squaring his expenses ac
cording to his means. He always wore the same
garb; fixed his regular expenditure for dinner at
a trifling sum, which, if left to himself, be never
exceeded, but which be always insisted on pay
ing. His oddities always made him a welcome
companion on the “ shoemaker’s holidays.” The
dinner, on these occasions, generally exceeded
considerably bis tariff’; he put down, however, no
more than his regular sum, and Goldsmith made
up the difference.
Another of these hangers-on, for whom, on
such occasions, he was content to “ pa}” the shot,”
was his countryman, Glover, of whom mention
has already been made, as one of the wags and
sponges of the Globe and Devil taverns, and a
prime mimic at the Wednesday Club.
This vagabond genius has bequeathed us a
whimsical story of one of his practical jokes upon
Goldsmith, in the course of a rural excursion in
the vicinity of London. They had dined at an
inn on Hampstead Heights, and were descending
the hill, when, in passing a cottage, they saw
through the open window a party at tea. Gold
smith, who was fatigued, cast a wistful glance at
the cheerful tea table. “ How I should like to be
of that party,” exclaimed he. “Nothing more
easy,” replied Glover; “allow me to introduce
you.” So saying, he entered the house with an
air of the most perfect familiarity, though an ut
ter stranger,and was followed by the unsuspecting
Goldsmith, who, supposed, of course, that he was
a friend of the family. The owner of the house
rose on the entrance of the strangers. The un
daunted Glover shook hands with him in the most
cordial manner possible, fixed bis eye on one of
the company who had a peculiarly good-natured
physiognomy, muttered something like a recogni
tion, and forthwith launched into an amusing
story, invented at the moment, of something which
he pretended bad occurred upon the road. The
host supposed the new comers were friends of his
guests; the guests that they wnre friends of the
host. Glover did not give them time to find out
the truth. He followed one droll story with
another; brought his powers of mimicry ii to
play, and kept the company in a roar. Tea was
offered and accepted ; an hour went off’ in the
most social manner imaginable, at the end of
which, Glover bowed himself and his companion
out of the house with man}/ facetious last w r ords,
leaving the host and his company to compare
notes, and to find out what an impudent intrusion
they had experienced.
Nothin” could exceed the dismay and vexation
O
of Goldsmith when triumphantly told by Glover
that it was all a hoax, and that he did not know a
single soul in the house. His first impulse was
to return instantly and vindicate himself from all
participation in the jest; but a few words from
his free and easy companion dissuaded him.—
“ Doctor,” said he, coolly, “we are unknown;
you quite as much as J ; if you return and tell the
story, it will be in the newspapers to-morrow;
nay, upon recollection, I remember in one of their
offices the face of that squinting fellow who sat
in the corner as if he was treasuring up ray sto
ries for future use, and we shall be sure of being
exposed ; let us therefore keep our own counsel.”
This story was frequently afterwards told by
Glover, with rich dramatic effect, repeating and
exaggerating the conversation, and mimicking,
in ludicrous style, the embarrassment, surprise,
and subsequent indignation of Goldsmith.
It is a trite saying that a wheel cannot run in
two ruts ; nor a man keep two opposite sets of
intimates. Goldsmith sometimes found his old
friends of the “jolly pigeon” order turning up
rather awkwardly when be was in company with
his new aristocratic acquaintances. He gave a
whimsical account of the sudden apparition of
one of them at his gay apartments in the Temple,
who may have been a welcome visitor at his
squalid quarters in Green Arbor Court. “ How
do you think lie served me ?” said he to a friend.
“Why, sir, after staying away two years, he came
one evening into my chambers, half drunk, as I
was taking a glass of wine with Topham Beau
clerc and General Oglethorpe ; and sitting himself
down, with most intolerable assurance, inquired
after my health and literary pursuits, as if we
were upon the most friendly footing. I was at
first so much ashamed of ever having known such
a fellow, that I stifled my resentment and drew
him into a conversation on such topics as I knew
he could talk upon ; in which, to do him justice,
he. acquitted himself very reputably ; when all of
a sudden, as if recollecting.something, be pulled
two papers out of his pocket, which he presented
to me with great ceremony, saying, * Here, my
dear friend, is a quarter of a pound of tea, and a
half pound of sugar, I have brought you; tor
though it is not in my power at present to pay
you the two guineas you so generously lent me,
you, nor any man else, shall ever have it to say
that I want gratitude.’ This,” added Goldsmith,
“ was too much. I could no longer keep in my
feelings, but desired him to turn out of my cham
bers directly; which he very coolly did, taking up
his tea and sugar; and I never saw him after
wards.”
A LEAP FOR LIFE.
As the Supervisor of Inland Revenue, at Aberys
twitb, Mr. J. Miller, his nephew, and two profes
sional gentlemen, geologists, were last week ex
amining some strata of rock in the cliffs between
Aberystwith and Llanrhystid, they proceeded
along a narrow ledge of projecting stone on the
face of the cliff, about 120 feet above the level of
the sea, which providentially happened to be at
full flow. In passing round a projecting angle,
“which for ages has frowned on all below,” the
professors and the revenue officer had rounded
the point, and the young man was in the act of
doing so, when the rock suddenly breaking from
under his feet, he was whirled round with his face
towards the sea, and, as he descended, he seized
with one hand the ledge beneath his uncle’s feet,
whilst he extended the other hand to him, and it
was firmly clasped by the revenue officer, who
held him suspended for full five minutes, during
which time he with difficulty maintained his posi
tion, there not being more than six inches to stand
upon.
At length a breathless pause ensued, whilst
Mr. Miller gazed on a rugged projection of rock j
about 90 feet below them, and on which he con
cluded the unfortunate youth was inevitably
doomed to be dashed. But the uncle, (who calls
himself “ an awful coward ”) at length said, with
all the calmness imaginable :
“ Tom there is but one way for it; I’ll save you,
or we will both perish together,” and, with a
firm voice, he commanded the young man to
loose his hold of the rock, which was mechani
cally obeyed, with a faint reply, “Yes uncle.”
At this awful moment Mr. Miller horizontally
sprang into the air, carrying the young man with
him ; and such was the force with which they
leaped, that the check caused them to perform
several summersets over each other as they de
scended linked together. With the rapidity of a
flash of lightening they disappeared beneath the
foaming billows, having cleared the craggy ledge,
which projected more than six feet from the per
pendicular of the point over which the youth was
suspended. To the delight of their companions,
who were momentarily horror struck, they rose
about twenty yards apart, buffeting the heavy
swells of the flowing and returning waves. At
length they struck out for a rock that lay 70 yards
in the sea, on which they were shortly seated, and
from which they gave three hearty cheers. Their
companions attempted to procure their rescue by
obtaining a boat, but, owing to a breech in the
ledge, found it impossible, and had to proceed
onwards for more than three hours before they
were able to extricate themselves. To their de
light, the geologists then found that their brave
and dauntless companions had once more com
mitted themselves to the deep, had swam to an
accessible part of the cliff; and returned to Llan
rhystid where, with the exception of the loss of
hats, the officers boots (which he had taken off
on first starting on the ledge,) and a few slight
cuts and bruises, they appeared not a whit the
worse from their perilous adventure.— English
‘paper*
Female Influence. —I have observed that a mar
ried man falling into misfortune is more apt to re
trieve his situation in the world than a single one ;
chiefly because his spirits are soothed and re
lieved by domestic endearments, and his self-re
spect kept alive by finding that, although all
abroad be darkness and humiliation, yet there is
still a little world of love of which he is monarch.
Whereas, a single man is apt to run waste and
self-neglect; to fancy himself lonely and aban
doned, and his heart to fall to ruins, like a deser
ted mansion, for want of an inhabitant. I have
often had occasion to mark the fortitude with
which women sustain the most overwhelming re
verses of fortune. Those disasters which break
down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in
the dust, seem to call forth the energies of the
softer sex, give such intrepidity and elevation to
their character, that at times it approaches to sub-
Nothing can be more touching than to
behold a soft and tender female, who has been all
meekness and dependence, and alive to every
trivial roughness, while treading the prosperous
path of life, suddenly rising in mental force, to
be the comforter and supporter of her husband
under misfortune ; abiding, with unshrinking firm
ness, the bitterestblastof adversity. As the vine
which has long twined its graceful foliage about
the oak, and been its sunshine, will, when the
hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling
around it with caressing tendrils, and bind up its
shattered bough ; so it is beautifully ordained by
Providence, thatwoman, who is the ornament and
dependant of man in his happier hours, should
be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden
calamity; wind herself into the rugged recesses
of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping
head and binding up the broken heart.
DOCTORS.
Hear what the great editor of the London
ico-Chxrurgical Review , Dr. James Johnson
of them : ’ Sa - Vs
“I declare my conscientious opinion, found.r
on long observation and reflection, that if there
were not a single physician, surgeon, apotheca
man-midwife, chemist, druggist, or drug, on the
face of the earth, there would be less sickness ad
less mortality than now. When we reflect tC
physic is a “ conjectural art,” that the best
cians make mistakes, that medicine is administered
by hosts of quacks, that it is swallowed by multi,
tudes of people without any professional advice
all, and that the world would be infinitely more
careful of themselves if they were conscious that
they had no remedy from drugs —these, and mam
other acts, will show that the proposition I have
made is more startling than untrue. But as it is
drugs will be swallowed byrail classes, rich and
poor, with the hope of regaining health and pro
longing hie, and also with the expectation of beb?
able to countenance the culpable indulgence o;
the appetite and passions.”
There, think of that, ye pill-eaters ! ye who are
continually abusing your systems in various wavj
and then run to doctors and quacks for relief,
think of this testimony from one of their own craft,
and learn to let them alone. I have observed
during many years, that those who have the least
to do with doctors and medicines, outlive those
that arc forever nursing and dosing. Good, whole
some food, and temperance, instead of overeating
in the use of it, with pure cold water lor drink,
and to bathe in, with fresh air and plenty of ex
ercise, and a clear conscience, will do more lore
store or preserve health, and prolong life, than
all the doctors and medicines in the Universe.—
Portland Pleasure Boat .
HOW TO AVOID A DUN.
“ My father,” said the General, “ told Colonel
Wood, one evening, that he was going over to
F the next morning to collect a debt of Capt.
Adams, and invited Col. Wood to ride over with
him. “We shall get a fine breakfast,” said the
old man, “and be back by noon.”
Lo, the next morning, away went my father
and Col. W. to collect the debt of Capt. Adams,
it was a fine frosty morning, and after a two hours’
ride, they arrived at the Captain’s, and right glad
did he seem to see my father and Col. Wood.
“ Walk in, gentlemen,”'said he, “take a seat
in No. 1. Hello, Sam ! take this horse to the sta
ble, and rub him down well. Os course you’ll
have breakfast, gentlemen? Jim, kill a couple
of fat pullets, and get breakfast for two; all ready,
gentlemen, in half an hour.”
Well , when my father and Col. W. had warmed
themselves, the Col. proposed to take a stroll
about town, while my father was settling with the
Captain; but no sooner did my father enter the
bar-room, than the Captain began again.
“ Here’s a nice toddy,” said he, “ I don’t be
lieve yc u have ever tasted a better—try it.”
And sure enough, my father found it the vert
best gin toddy lie ever did trv. Before he could
finish smacking.his lips, the Captain was at him
again, and kept up such a continual jibbering that
my father could’nt get his debt in edgewise.
Presently in came the Colonel, and the bell rang
for breakfast. Everything was as neat as anew
pin, fine steak, prime chickens, fresh eggs, and
rare coffee, and then such toast!
“Take it easy,” said the Captain, as he bowel
in and out with the fix ins. “i’ll have the horse at
the door in good time.”
Breakfast ended, sure enough there was the
horse all ready, and all my father and Col. Wool
had to do was to jump in.
“ Well,” said the Captain, as he gave the reins
to my faiher, “ all right, I take it, gentlemen—
call again soon, do—pleasant ride to you—good
morning!”
Now, as they drove along home, said Col. W.
to my father—
“ Did you get your debt paid ?”
“ No,” said my father. “ What prime toasts
“ Yes,” replied the Colonel; “ but why did’nt
you get your money ?”
“Why,” said my father, “the fellow blufk.
me square off* with his brown toast and toddy
I’ll be whipped if he gave me a chance to a*i
him for it.”
The following are the dates when the respect!'*
States entered the American Union:—“Del*
ware, December 7, 1787 ; Pennsylvania, Decern*
her 12, 1787 ; New Jersey, December IS, 17$
Georgia, January 2,175S ; Connecticut,
9, 178S; Massachusetts,February 6, 1788; W
land, April 23, 1788 ; South Carolina, May* 3,
1788 ; New Hampshire, June 21, 1788 ; Virgil’
June 26, 1788; New York, July 26, 17S8, N° rtb
Carolina, November 20,1789; Rhode Island,M
29,1790; Vermont, March 4, 1791; Kentucky*
June 1, 1792 ; Tennessee, June 1, 1796;
November 29, 1802; Louisiana, April 8,
Indiana, December 11, 1816; Mississippi* J's,
cember 10, 1817 ; Illinois, December 3, ‘
Alabama, December 4, 1819 ; Maine, March ‘
1820; Missouri, August 10,1821; Arkansas, J un
15, 1836; Michigan, June 20, 1837;
March 7, 1844 ; Texas, December 29,1845; ‘ Vi
consin, December 29, 1848; lowa, 1849.
One is too apt, when he comes into this vvc ! r V gs
find swaddling-clothes ready made for his m lll
well as for his body.