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About A Friend of the family. (Savannah, Ga.) 1849-1??? | View Entire Issue (June 29, 1850)
imaginations, but will only say that when Ellery and Jeane entered from their visits, they found them sitting tcte a tctc, and smiling. All was explained, Jeane and her affiance most magnanimously taking the blame, and Shirley, in fits happiness, pardoning the plot ters who had been the means of his present felicity. Arid so was the widow-hater cured of his prejudices by his mar riage. June, 18*50. €'fHtpcrnnrr. BOSTON, Junk, 13, 1850. Dear I* riknd. — Unclosed I send you an account of the celebration in this city on the occasion of the meeting of the National Di vision of the Sons of Temperance of the United States. There are about ninety del egates present, all the States are represented except Arkansas and Florida. There are delegations also from Canada, Nova .'cotia and New Brunswick. ‘1 here is much busi ness lor us to transact, and when we will get through, it is impossible for me to say. The national celebration of the order of the “ Sons of Temper ance ” —an event which has been looked forward to with much in terest by the members of the order —came off yesterday in this city. The weather was unfavorable fur the occasion. During the forenoon the blue sky was shut out by dark, heavy clouds, and at times the rain came down in refreshing but annoy ing showers. The early trains of cars came loaded with people from the neigh boring ciiies, towns and states, in attendance upon the celebration. At an early hour the Grand and Subordinate Divisions, and the Ca dets of Temperance began to march and countermarch, as recep tion committees to the out of town delegations. At half-past nine, Washington Division No. 1, of this city, accom panied by the Suffolk Brass Band, proceeded to the Eastern Railroad station, and received large delega tions from Newburyport, Salisbury, and Amesbury, and escorted them to Gibbs’ Hotel, where they break fasted. Mnzeppa Division, from Lowell, accompanied by the Low ell Brass Band, Shawsheen Divi sion, with the Lawrence Brass Band, the Worcester, Portland, Lvnn and Nashua delegations, each with a band of music, and the New York delegation, consisting of about five hundred, accompanied bv Din ale’s famous band, made our streets all alive with delightful, spirit-stir ring sounds. Long before the hour fixed for the procession to move, the various streets through which it was to pass were lined with spectators, eager to obtain a good stand. O o At nine o’clock the members of the National Division, Committee of Arrangements and invited guests, assembled at the Doric Hall of the State House. At about ten o’clock the proces sion to form under the direc tion of Win. A. White, Esq., of Watertown, Chief Marshal of the day. His aids, Col. Cowdin and Win. H. Wilson, Esq., were mount ed upon splendid chargers, and sta tioned in Beacon street in front of the Court House, commanding a fine view of the gathering hosts.— Large numbers of people began to collect in the vicinity of the above named point, and before eleven o’clock all the streets in the vicinity presented a scene of solid masses of human beings. The line was about two hours in forming, and for this purpose there was a constant tramp of detached columns, march in? and counter marching, an in- O O T cessant clang of martial music, flaunting of gay banner, varied by the clatter of the hoofs of the horses rode by the Assistant Marshals and Aids. At about twelve o’clock the head of the column began to move, the •bCTurent Divisions filiug out fiom right-Hwd left anti joining the proces : i°u in the proper places. The scene at this moment wg§ grand.— The line having been got fairly in motion, the procession moved along the route previously marked out, which was through the principal streets of the city to the common, by the south west gate, where it was dismissed. The procession consisted of be tween four or five thousand people. The officers and members of the National Division, representing ev ery State in the Union—rode in carriages, together with invited guests. Among the invited guests pres ent, we noticed the Hon. Robert Bantoul, Francis Tukey, Esq., city and alderman Grant. The streets through which the procession passed were filled with lookers on. Gay banners and flags and streamers were displayed at different points along the route, and the windows of the houses were radiant with the beauty of Boston, who put on their best smiles to wel come their visitors, and incite the noble cold water lovers to fresh en deavors to do good. The Mass Meeting on the Common. — At three o’clock the multitude gath ered upon the Common for the pur pose of hearing addresses on the subject of Temperance from some of the distinguished orators from abroad. A stand for the speakers was erected in the valley, half-way between the “ big tree ” and the Trernont street. Near the pond another stand was erected for the Suffolk Brass Band, who discoursed most excellent music between the speeches. Gen. Samuel F. Carey, of Ohio, the Most Worthy Patriarch of the National Division of the United Slates, presided, and made the in troductory speech—one of great power and eloquence. Addresses were also made by William A. White, P. G. W. P., the Chief Marshal of the day ; Rev. Thomas P. Hunt; Philip S. White, P. M. W. P., of Philadelphia; Rev. John Pierpont, Col. Win. It. Drink ard, G. W. P., of Virgina ; Rev. G. Conway, (Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh) Chiefof the Ojibbeways, and Dr. Charles Jewett, of Milbury. We noticed upon the platform a number of distinguished speakers ; among them were Rev. Mr. Par sons, of Ketvucky; Mr. Patterson, G. W. I\, ot Louisiana ; Past Grand Worthy Patriarch Willigford, of Georgia; A. P. Abell, P. G. W. A., of Virginia; Gen. J. P. Jones, of Medway; Gen. Wilson, of Natick; Reverend Edwin Thompson, Presi dent of the Norfolk County T. A Society; Dr. James L. Jones of Virginia, and J. H. W. Hawkins of Maryland. The speeches were all able and were very attentively listened to by the thousands whocrowded arouud the stand. The meeting closed with three cheers from the audience for each of the states represented by the dif ferent speakers and then three more “for our dear selves,” in answer to a proposition from Alderman Grant. * How to Marry. — When a young woman behaves to her parents in a manner particularly tender and respectful, from principle as well as nature, there is nothing good and gentle that may not be expected from her, in whatever condition she may be placed. Where Ito advise my friend as tohisehoice of a wife, rny first counsel would be, ‘look out for one distinguished by her attention and sweetness to her parents*’ The fund of worth and affection indica ted by such behaviour joined to the habits of duty and consideration thereby contracted, being transfer red to the married state, will not fail to render her a mild and obligincr o o com pan ion.— Fordyce. Hts Name. —The new prince of V icloria is to be christened ‘Arthur Patrick Albert,* the first in compli ment to the Duke of Wellington, the second in compliment to Ireland, and as commemorative of herMajes ty,s visit to the sister country, and the last after his illustrious father the Prince consort. Jllisttllnntj. One Way to Nullify a Bad Lease. There is a shrewd and wealthy old Yankee landlord away down in Maine, who is noted for driving hi? •sharp bargains,—by which he has massed a large amount of property. He is the owner of a great number of dwelling-houses, and it is said ofhimthathe is not over-scrupu lous in his rental charges, whenev er he can find a customer whom he knows to be responsible. His object is always to lease his houses for a term of years, to the best tenants, and get the utmost farthing in the shape of rent. A diminutive Frenchman called on him last winter, to hire a dwelling he owned in Portland, and which had long remained empty. Refer ences were given, and the Yankee landlord ascertaining that his ap plicant was a man ‘after his own heart’ for a tenant, immediately commenced to jew him. He found that the tenement appeared to suite the little Frenchman, and he placed an exhorbitant price upon it ; but the lease was drawn and duly exe cuted, and the tenant moved into his new quarters. Upon the kindling of fires in the house, it was found that the chim neys wouldn’t draw and the buil ding was filled with smoke. The window sashes rattled in the wind at night, and the cold air rushed through a hundred crevices about the house, until now unnoticed. The snow melted upon the roof, and the attics were drenched from leaking. The rain pelted, and our French man found a ‘natural’ bath room upon the cellar floor but the lease was signed, and the landlord chuck led. ‘I hav ben vat you sal call ‘suck in,’’vis ziz dam muison , —muttered our victim to himself, a week after ward— ‘but nimporte—ve sal see, vot ve sal see !’ Next morning he rose bright and early, and passing down town, he encountered the landlord. ‘A-ha! —Bon jour, monsieur , said he, in his happiest manner. ‘Good day, sir. How do you like your house V ‘Ah ! Monsieur-—elegant, beauti ful magnificent! Eh, bicn monsieur ; l hav but ze one regret’— ‘Ah ! What is that V ‘Monsieur —l sal live in zat house but tree lit tel year.’ ‘How so V ‘I hav find, by vot you sal callze lease , zat you hav give me ze house for but three year an’ I have ver, mooch sorrow for zat.’ ‘But you can have it longer if you wish’— ‘Ah, Monsieur—l sal be ver’ mooch glad if 1 can hav zat house so long as I please eh, Monsieur?’ ‘Oil,—-certainly, sir.’ ‘ Trcs bein , monsieur ! I sal valk rite to your oflees —an, you sal give me vot vou call ze lease for zat mai son jes so long as 1 vant zc house. Eh, Monsi ur.’ ‘Certainly, Sir. You shall stay there your life-time if you like.’ ‘Ah, Monsieur —I hav’ ver” mooch tanks for zis accomoda tion.’ The old leases were destroyed and anew one was delivered in form to the French gentleman, giv ing him possession of the premises for ‘such period as the lessee map desire the same, he paying the rent therefor, promptly,’ etc, etc. The next morning, our era ft v landlord vves passing the house just as the Frenchman’s last load of furniture was being started from the door; and an hour afterwards, a messenger called on him with a ‘legal tender’ for the rent for eight days, accompanied with a note as follows : ‘Monsieur, 1 liav bin shmnke 1 bav bin drowned—l hav bin frees to death in ze house vot I have hire ov you, ‘for ze period as 1 may desired l hav stay in ze dam house jes so long as / please ,’ an, ze • bearer of zis vil give you ze key !—Eon jour, Monsieur /’ It is needless to add that our Yan kee landlord has never since been known to give up ‘a bird in the hand for one in the bush. SPECIMEN OF YANKEE COURTSHIP. ‘Now darn it Sal, I say, where’s the use o’ this eternal sparkin’.— You know me anti I know you, so now if you’ve any notion of giltin’ married, just say so at once, and we’ll have it done.’ ‘Hey day ! Mr. Jonathan—jist as if I am obliged to hev you, if I get married at all—Fin not in such a despert hurry neither—l mought see some feller that ’ud take the shine clean off’ o’ you, afore I’m twen ty.’ • Now Sal, that’s smart, I swow. So your’e jist boldin’ outer me, tu hev a fool to fall back on when vou can’t get nothin’ better. I tell you now, I ain’t a goin’ to stand that.— Ye’ve either got to take me now, or say good bye ter yer. A feller ’t’ll take the shine off’ er me, I’d like ter see him.’ ‘ So’d I Jonathan, for he’d be worth seein’, I don’t think there’s many cud du it—but il there be one of course I’d like ter hev’irn.’ ‘ But seein’ ye’r not sure of such luck, wouldn’t it be better to take up with a good offer, than to wait for the chance of a better which ten to one, you’ll never git. A bird in the hand is worth two in the, bush, now I tell you. 4 Well, so it is Jonathan, but raly we’d better wait a leetle. I bain’t got my sheetin’ bleached, nor any diaper wove ; and my kiverlids are in the loom yit. Besides, I have got four bed kivers tu quilt, and a bed tick ter make up, pillows and all. I can’t get ready under three months any rate. Let’s see—its J une—J uly—August—September. That’ll bring the weddin’ intu the seasons of fruit, and we can have things nicer, without so much ex pense.’ ‘ That’s good argum’ Sal, you see harvest is cornin’, and mother’s git tin old and can’t do the work for the hands through the hot weather. Now if we could get married about the fust o’ July, it ’ud save me hi rin’ a gal, and the money 1 should have to pay for wages ’ud by us a set o’ cheers,’ ’That’s true Jonathan. ’Tis hard foryure good old mother ter haftu do so much work. Mebbe 1 can git ready by July—l kin leave the soil.’, and Su’ll help me with the weavin’ and quiltin’.’ ‘How many cows do you milk this summer?’ •Why, we’ve two ’ut gives milk, and tu heifers Till come in July.— Likely ’it’ll be some trouble to break them to milken. But you un derstand sich things and heard you say yu like to feed calves. ‘And Sal, I’ve got a pair o’ the new kind chickens as big as tur keys, an’ I’ll lay a dollar there’s no nicer sheep in the State ’n mine*’ ‘Mother says I’ve got all I need but a wife, and she says she’d ruth er hev y u’n any other gal she knows; and ye know I’d like ter marry tu please mother as well as myseif.’ ‘Now one word for all, Sal is it a bargain ?’ ‘ Well Jonathan, I don’t see as I kin du any better. Besides your mother needs iny help more’n my mother does,who has tu good good gals besides me. So l think we’ll fix it for the fust of July,’ •/ 4 That’s right Sal, and won’t we have a glorious Independence?’ A year of pleasure passes like a breeze—but a moment of misfor tune seems an age of pain. Beauty eventually deserts its possessor, but virtue and talents ac company him even to the grave. The friendship of some people is like our shadow, keeping close while walk in tlie sunsliine, but cle— serting the moment vve enter the shade. Experience is a torch lighted in the ashes of our illusions. They who weep over errors were not formed for crimes. ’ HOME. Home is a genuine Saxon word ; a word kindred to Saxon speech, but with an import common to the race of man. Perhaps ihere is no other word in language that clusters with in so many and so stirring mean ings, that calls into play, and pow erfully excites, so many feelings, so many faculties of our being.— ‘Home,’ —say but the word and the child that was your guest be gins to weep. ‘Home,’ —play but its tunes, and the bearded soldier, that blenched not in the breach droops, and sickens, and dies.— ‘Home,’ —murmur but its name, and memories start aiound it that put fire into the brain, and affec tions that almost suffocate or break the heart, and pictures that bewil der fancy with scenes in which joy and sorrow wreath with delirious strife for possession of the spirit. ‘Home,’ —what does it not stand for ofslrongesl of most moving associ ations’—for cbilddood’s grief and gladness,—for youth’s sports, and hopes, and sufferings, and passions, and sins,—for all that brightened or dimmed the eyes; for all that’ convulsed or tranquilized the breast fora father’s embrace, or for his death-bed,—for a mother’s kiss or for her grave,—for a sister’s love or a brother’s friendship,— for hours wasted, or hours blest, for peace in the light, or tears in the shadows of perdition. Philosophical. —ls a piece of wood which floats on the water, be forc ed down to a great depth in the sea, the pressure of the surrounding li quid will force it into the pores of the wood and so increase its weight, that it will no longer be capable of floating or rising to the surface. Hence, the titnber of ships which have foundered in the deep pari of the ocean never rise again to the surface like those which have sunk near to the shore. A diver may, with impunity, plunge to a certain depth of the sea ; but there is a lim it beyond which he cannot live un der pressure to which he is subject. For the same reason, it is probable that there is a depth beyond which fishes cannot live. They, according to Joslin, have been caught in a depth at which they must have sus tained a pressure of eighty tons to each square foot of the surface of their bodies. Cleansing the Bark of Fruit Trees. We have often recommended the use of whale oil, soap, potash, &c\, for cleansing the bark of fruit trees, and supposed that no application could exceed it for this purpose. A few weeks since we visited the seat of Robert Rennie, Esq., near the Lodi Print Works, and there saw the cleanest fruit trees it has ever been our lot to meet with. Mr. Rennie informed us that he used a solution made of one pound of best bleach ers’soda dissolved in one gallon of water, and applied it to the surface of his trees. All the fungi, dead hark, &c., are softened and readi ly exfoliate from ihe healthy part of the bark during the growth of the tree —the surfaces of the cherry, peach, plum, nectarine, apricot, and many other kinds of trees seemed polished, and of a color more close ly resembling the new growth at the ends of branches than usual; the trees were in excellent health, and we w'ere informed that they bore superior crops to those not so treat ed. Within the last few days we have applied the soda wash to our trees, and for the purpose of ascer taining if so strong a solution would injure the tender parts of plants, have sprinkled it over the leaves of many 7 tender shrubs, but as yet thev are uninjured, while the inert parts of vegetables are read i1 v decomposed by it.— Working Farmer, No compromise ever yet settled an important question. It is only saying to the evil day, come thou at a more befitting season, and then I will argue the question with thee. THE BETTING DaNDy'^ A young gentleman—wj,,, dium size, light brown mus| f e ‘ and such a suit of clothes ass. ionable tailors sometimes furnish * their customers‘on accotntnod* • terms’—that is, the insecure Cr system—came into a hotel in n” “ street, yesterday afternoon ,J ace * it- c i ’ af. ter catling for a glass of M aJ . turned to the company and offij,’ to bet with any man present, ,1, the ship Susquehanna woulj n o{ successfully launched on Satu I * The “banter” not being taken m he proposed to wager fi ve do|]j J’ that Dr. Webster wouklnot be h ° This seemed to be a “stumper,’ for nobody accepted the chance J The exquisite glanced around col temptuously, and remarked: j I want to make a bet of some iy I Don’t care a d—n what it i 3> I bet any thing from a I of segars to five hundred dolls. .1 is your time gentlemen ; what do I you propose?” Sipping a glass J one corner of the bar room, sat a plain old gentleman, who'lookedl like he might he a Pensylvania fail mer. He put down his glass and! addressed the exquisite *• Weill Mister, I’m not in the habit of ma J king bets, but seeing you are anxJ ious about it, I don’t care if Igrat-I ify you. So Til bet you a levy’s! worth of sixes that I can pour a I quart of molasses into your hat I and turn it out a solid lump of mo-1 lasses candy, in two minutes by the! watch. 4 Done ! ’ said the exquisite, ta king off his hat and handing it toi the farmer. It was a real Florence hat, a splendid article, that shone like black satin. The old gentieJ man took the hat, and requested ihel bar keeper to send for a quarto! molasses ; “the cheap sort at siJ cents a quart- -that’s the kind 1 use! in this experiment,” said he, hand-1 ing over six coppers to the bar! keeper. The molasses was brought! and the old farmer, with a gravel and mysterious countenance, pour-1 ed it into the dandy’s hat, while till exquisite took out his watch tonoJ the lime. Giving the hat two ofl three shakes, with a Signor Blitfl like adroitness, the experimentel placed it on the table, and stare* into it as if watching the wonderfl process of the solid ificatiorl “'Time’s up,” said the dandy. T:1 old farmer moved the hat, “ Wei I do believe it ain’t hardened yel said the old gentleman,with an al sumed air of astonishment, “hi have won the bet sir, and consel quentlv here are your sixes.” you have ruined my hat that five dollars for this morning, you must pay for it.” roared!* exquisite in a perfect frenzy. ■ did not bet the worth of the b* but the sixes,” answered the o* man, at the same time turning • ■ back directly upon our hero, a I taking a long sip at his glass win* he had forsaken. Enraged bey l measure our dandy rushed b 1 I into the street amidst ter long and loud. —Exchange f; I Experiments with a Pear .—ft-’ 8 P. Richardson, ofOlisfieltl communication in the Cln lsLli H ror, says that five or he grafted the St. Germain 1 I to a forest tree, called lfie w ■ Pear, and last year ‘ I nearly half a bushel of lIIL . B crous fruit. The tree as ’ 8 wild is one of the first that in Spring, and hears a fr ult 8 the size of a choke kc rr . v ’ B writer of this article ‘ 8 these hushes with a B spring and it has grown thrived better than tn e stocks. He also grafted ■ pear on a common which grew very thrift?’ length of eighteen ort' vf>nt *,_ 8 A small mountain ash ‘ vas , 8 cessfully budded 1 1 fruit —Portland Advocat^ Contentment brings a 5U 1 all who enjoy it. Profanity and polit cn6w 1 associate together.
