Indiana American, Volume 13, Number 35, Brookville, Franklin County, 29 August 1845 — Page 1

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Our Caautry Oar Country's Interests- and our Caunlry's Friends. BY C. h CCARKSON. BUOOKVILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY, INDIANA, Fill DAY", AUGUST 2J, 1845. VOL,. XIII. NO. 3 5.

SELECT TALE. 1'i om the Saturday Courier. UA Fine, Generous Fellow." PY T. 9. ARTHUR.

(Concluded.) "They have flattered my weakness" he said, bitterly, to eat and diink, and ride at my expense. It was easy to say, 'how free-hearted he is,' so that I could hear them. A cheap way of enjoying the good things of life, verily! But the end has come to all this. I am just twenty-seven years old to-day. In five years more I shall be thirty -two. My salary is one thousand dollars. I pay one hundred and fifty a year for boarding. One hundred & fifty, more shall clothe me, and furnish all my spending money, which shall be precious little! One year from to-day, if I live, I will owe no man a dollar. My kind old mother, whom I have so long neglected, shall hear from me at once ten dollars every month I dedicate to her. Come what will, nothing shall touch that. After I am clear of debt, I will save all above my necessary expenses, until I get one or two thousand dollars ahead, which shall be in five years. Then I will look out lor a golden opportunity such as Mer win has found This agreement with myself I solemnly enter into, in the sight of heaven, and nothing shall tempt me to violate it." "Are you going to ride out this afternoon Peyton?" said a young friend, breaking in upon him at this moment. "Yes, if you'll hire the buggy," was promptly returned. "I can't afford that." "Nor I either. How much is your salary?" "Only a thousand." "Just what mine is. If you can't, lam sure I cannot." "Of course you ought to be the best judge. I knew yon rode out almost every afternoon, and liked company." 'Yes, I have done so. But that's past. I have been a 'fine, generous fellow,' long enough to get in debt and mar my prospects for life, perhaps. But I am going to assume a new character. No doubt the very ones who have had eo many rides, oyster suppers, and theatre tickets at my expense, will all at once discover that I am as mean and selfish as Merwin. But it's no great odds. I only wish I had been as truly noble and generous in the right quarters, as he has been." "You are in a strange humor to-day." "lamina changed humor. 1 hat it is bo very strange, I do not see unless for me to think wisely is Grange; and perhaps it is." "Well, all I have to say is, that I, for one; do not blame yon, even if I do lose a fine ride into the country now and then," was the frank response. Peyton went tojwork in the matter of re form in right good earnest. But he found it bard work. Old habits and inclinations were very strong. Still he had some strength of mind, and he brought this into as vigorous exercise as it was possible for him to do, mainly with success, but some times with gentle lapses into self-indulgence. His mother lived in a neighboring town, and was in humble circumstances. She supported herself by keeping a shop fur the sale of various little articles. The old lady sat behind her counter one afternoon, sewing, and thinking of her onlj son. "Ah me!" she sighed, letting her hands fall wearily in her lap, 'I thought Henry would have done something for himself long before this. But he is a wild, freehearted boy, and I suppose spends every thing as he goes along, just as his father did before him, I'm afraid he will never do anything for himself. It is a long timo since he wrote home. Ah, me!" And the mother lifted her work again, and strained her dimmed eyes over it. "Here's a letter for you at last, Mother Peyton," said the well known voice of the postman, breaking id upon her just at this moment; "that boy of yours don't write home as often as he used to. . , "A letter from Henry! oh. that is pleasant! dear boy! tie dpesn't forget his mother." "No. one would think not," inullered the postman, as he walked away, "considering how often he writes to her.'' "With trembling hands Mrs. rey ton broke the seal. A bank bill crumpled in her finj gers as she opened the letter. A portion of its contents were: 'Dkab Mother I have had some very serious thoughts of late about my way of living. ou know I nevei liked to be considered mean. This led me to be, what seemed to every body, very generous. Every body was pleased to eat, and drink and ride at my expense; but no one seemed inclined to let me do the same at his xpense. I have been getting a salary for six or seven years, and, for apart of that time, as much as a thousand dollars. I am ashamed to say that I hava not a farthing laid by, nay, what is worse; I owe a good many little bills. But, dear mother, I think I have come fairly to my senses. I have, come to a resolution not to spend a dollar foolishly. Thus far I have been able to keep my promise to myself, and bv the help of heaven I mean to keep it to the end. My first thought, on seeing my folly.Jwas of my shameful disregard to my mother's condition, 4n this letter are ten dollars. Every month you will receive from me a like sum more, if you need it. As soon as I can lay by a couple of thousand dollars, I will look around for some means of entering into business; and as soon after as possible make such a provision for you, that your last days shall be spent in ease and comfort." "God bless the dear "boy!" exclaimed Mrs Peyton, dropping the letter, while the ears gushed from her eyes. The happy mother wept long for joy. With hertrembnnj hand, she wrote a reply, and urged im by the tenures! and most sacred con-

siderations, to keep to his good resolutions. At the end of a year, Peyton examined his affairs, and found himself freed from debt. But there were nearly one hundred dollars for which he could not account. He puzzled over it for one or two evening, and made out over fifty dollars spent foolishly. "No doubt the rest of it will have to be passed to that account," he said, at last half angry with himself. I'll have to watch closer than this. At the end or the next year, I'll not be in doubt about where a hundred dollars have gone." It was but rarely, now, that you would hear the name of Peyton mentioned. Before, every body said he was a "fine, generous fellow." Everybody praised him. Now he seemed to be forgotten, or esteemed of no consideration. He felt this. But he had started to accomplish a certain end, and he had sufficient strength of mind not to be driven from discourse. "Have you seen Peyton of late?" I as

ked, some two yesrs after this change in his habits. I spoke te one of his old inti mate associates." "No, not for a month of Sundays," was his lightly spoken reply. "What a remarkable change has passed overhiin. Once, he used to be a fine, generous fellow his heart was in his hand. But now he is as penurious as a miser, and even more selfish. He will neither give nor take. If you happen to bo walking with him, and, after waiting as long as decency will permit to be asked to step, in somewhere for refreshments, you propose something, he meets you with No, I thank yea! I am not dry, or hungry, as the case may be! It's downright savage-U is!" "This is a specimen of the way in which the world estimates men!" I said to myself, after separating from the individual who complained thus of Peyton. "The world is wonderfully impartial in i's judgment of men's conduct." . At the end of five years from the time Peyton reformed his loose habits he had saved up and placed out at interest the sum of two thousand dollars; asd this, after having sent to his mother, regularly, ten dollars every month during the whole period. The fact that he had saved so much, was not suspected by any. It was supposed that he had laid up some money, but no one thought he had over four or five hundred dollars. "I wish you had about three thousand dollars," said Merwin to him, one day. Merwin rj business had turned out well. Iu five years, he had cleared over twenty thousand dollars. "Why?" asked Peyton. "I know a first rate chance for you." "Indeed. Where?" "There is a very good business that has been fairly established, and is now languishing for want of a little capital. The man who has made it will take a partner if he can bring in three thousand dollars, which would make the whole concern easy, perfectly safe, and sure of success." "It's more than I have," returned Peyton, in a voice that was slightly sad. . "So I supposed," Merwin said. 5' Although such needn't have been the case, if I had acted as wisely as you, through life." Jt's uever too late to mend our ways, you know." 'True. But a year mis-spent, is a whole year lost. No matter how hard we strive, we can never make it up. To the day of our death, there will be one year deficient in the sura of life's account." "A just remark, tin doubt. How much would every roan save, if he would take good care of not only his years, but of his weeks and days. The sum of life is made up of small aggregations." "And so the sum of a man's fortune. A dollar mis-spent, is a dollar lost, and never can be regained. . You say that it will require three thousand dollars to admit a partner into the business of which yon just spoke." "Yes. Nothing less will do." '. "I have but two thousand." "Have you so much, Peyton?" Merwin said, with a brightening face. "I have." , "Right glad am I to hear it. I only wish that I could furnish you with a thousand more. But it is out of my power entirely. Our business requires the use of every dollar we have; and it would not be just to my partner to draw so large a Bum out for the purpose of assisting a friend in whom he can feel no interest" "No, of course not, I neither ask nor expect it I will wait a little longer. Something else will offer." "But nothing so really, advantageous as this.. Let me see. I think I might get you live hundred dollars, if you could bor row as much more." "That I cannot do. I never asked a fa vor of any one in my life." 'Thnilnh - J .1 sands." . ... "Foolishly, perhaps. But no matter. 1 will wait.' . . A week afterward, Peyton, who dismissed all thought of embracing the proposed offer of going into business, paid a visit to his mother. He had not seen her for a year. She was still cheerful, active, and reiamea her usual good health. "I think it time you gave up this shop, mother," he said to her. "You are too old now to be working so closely. I've got something saved up for a rainy day, in case any thing should go wrong with me for a time. You'll give up this shop, won't you?" "Xo, Henry: not yet. 1 am still able to help myself, and so long as I am able, I wish to do it. If you have saved any thing, you had better keep it until an opportuni ty Tor going into business offers." "Such a chance has just presented itself, But I hadn't capital enough." "How much have yon saved?" "Two thousand dollars." ' ' ' "So much? How much is required?" ! uThtte thousand dollars."

"And you have but two?" "That is all though a friend did offer to get me five hundred more. But twentyfive hundred is not sufficient. There must be three thousand." Mrs. Peyton made no reply. She sat a few minutes and then arose and went up stairs. In about ten minutes she came down, and approaching her son, with a warm glow of pleasure upon her face, placed a small roll in his hands, saying as she did so "There is all you need, my son. The money you sent me so regularly for the last five years, I have kept untouched for some such moment as this. 1 did not feel that I needed it. Take it back, and start fairly in the world. In a few years more I may need rest, as life draws nearer to a close. Then I trust you will be in circumstances so good that I needn't feel myself a burden to you." "A burden? Dear mothei! Do not

speak of evei being a burden tome," the young man said, embracing his parent with tearful emotion. "No no," and he pushed back her hand; "I cannot take that money. It is yours. I will not risk in business the little treasure you have saved up so carefully. 1 may not succeed. Nono!" and he still pushed back his mother's hand "it is no use 1 cannot 1 will not take it!" The roll of money fell to the floor. "It is yours, Henry, not mine," urged the mother. "I did not stand in need of it." "Ymir son owed you much more than that. He was wrong that he did not doub le the amount loyou, in order to make up for former years of neglect. No no I tell you, mother, I cannot take your money. Nothing would tempt me to do it. I will wait a little longer. Other opportunities will soon offer." It was in vain that Mrs. Peyton urged her son, until her distress of mind became so great that he was almost forced to re celve the money she pushed upon him although in doing so, it was with the inten tion of leaving it behind him when he re turned to the city. But the deep satisfac tion evinced by his mother, on his consen ting to take it, was of i kind that he did not feel it would be right for him to do violence to. When he did return to the city, he could not find it in his heart to leave the money, just six hundred dollars, on the table in the little room where he slept, as he had at first resolved to do. He took it with him. But with the intention of investing it for her in some safe security. When he again met Merwin, he was urged strongly to make an effort to raise the capital requisite to become a partner ia the business, that had been named to him, that, after some severe struggles with himself, he at last consented to use the money he had brought home with him. His friend loaned him four hundred dollais to make up the required sum. The business succeeded beyond his expectations. In a few years he was able to marry, and live in a very comfortable style. He would hear none of the objections urged by his mother against living with him, and brought her to the city. No one who saw her during the remaining ten years of her life would have called her unhappy. I know Peyton still. He is not now, by general reputation, "a fine, generous fellow." But, he is a good citizen, a good husband, and a good father; and was a good son while his mother lived with him . He has won the means of really benefitting others, and few are more willing than he is to do it, when it can he done in the right way, so. He is 'generous, still but wisely Absence from Home. A late number of the Philadelphia Gazette, in a seasanable article upon the advantages to the health and spirits, arising from a change of scene ?n the summer time and from a relaxation fr Jin the daily cares and duties or life, introduces some excellent comments upon absence from home and the joys of returning. In selecting the closing portion of this article for the attention of our readers, we cannot help commending the truthful beauty of the sentiment it conveys: It is good occasionally to wander away from home in another sense. We should miss for a time the sweet voice, the ready smile, the kind greeting, and the thousand little comforts that cluster within the pre cincts of a well regulated household, in order that we may appreciate them the more on returning from our joutneyings. Thoughts, associations and reflections are apt to find their way to the heart and the mind, when we are away from the loved & the cherished, which are indulged too seldom perhaps, when the enchantment of distance does not lend its aid. When absent moreover, many a gentle recollection is apt to soften the heart many a fotfnt of affection is likely to gush forth, that was before concealed even from ourselves, and many an inward resolve is made as to ref ormation in tone, manner and general intercourse. Many a penitent thought is indulged for hasty expressions, acts of unkindness, looks of anger. We dwell upon the past in a contemplative and philosophical temper, and we soon begin to yearn for the scenes, the amenities, the affections of home. And then the joy of returning the anticipated embrace, the welcome of friends, of relatives, of parents and oicnildren. What could be more delightful? What could yield to the human heart, purer or holier pleasures? t is then that we appreciate home and its enjoymentsit is then that we feel that life still possesses ranch that is worth living for. mproved in health, gladdened in spirit, enlarged in mind, refreshed and invigorated, we recommence our pursuits with a lighter heart and firmer hand, grateful to God for the blessings enjoyed, and resolved to make an effort more fully to deserve them. 53" The Post Office Department, it is said, has come to the conclusion to receive only American coin for postage?; if foreign coin be tiken.'o do so by weigh'.

The Excitement in Lexington. We have already given the letter of the Committee appointed by Jthe meeting on the 14 th inst. to Mr. C. M. Clay, and Mr. Clay's answer. Since then we have received the response of the Committee, to Mr. Clay, and subjoin it. Their response was reported to a public meeting and adopted. After the reading of the correspondence Mr. Waters offered the following address and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: The answer of the "Editor of the True American" to a note directed to him yesterday by a committee of thu body of the

citizens of Lexington, acting under a resolution of the 6ame, demands at our 'Jiands a deliberate reply. The editor, in his response to the note of our Committee, which will appear in our published proceedings,uses the following language: "I say in reply to your assertion that you are a committee appointed by a respectable portion of the community, that it cannot be true. Traitors to the laws and constitution cannot be deemed respectable by any but assassins, pirates, and highway robbers. Your meeting is one unknown to the laws and constitution of my country; it was secret in its proceedings, its purposes, its spirit and its action, like its mode of existence, are wholly unknown to and in direct "violation of every known principle of honor, religion and government, held sacred by the civilized world. I treat them with the burning contempt of a brave heart and a loyal citizen. I deny their power and defy their action. It may be true that those men are excited as you say, whose interest is to prey upon the excitement and distresses of the country. MTiat tyrant ever failed to be excited when his unjust power was about to be talien from his hands!" Appended to the handbill, which appeared this morning over the signature "C. M. Clay," there is an appeal addressed to "Kentuckians," in which this meeting is denounced as a band of Tyrants worse than the 'Athenian Thirty," and closing with the following significant summons: "Men who regard law men who regard all their liberties as not to be sacrificed to a single pecuniary interest, to siy the least, of doubtful valuelovers of Justice enemies of blood laborers of all classes you for whom I hare sacrificed so much, where will you be found when this battle between Liberty and Slavery is to be fought?" The meaning and the 'purpose of the man can scarce admit of question. For whom is it that he has made such sacrifices? For which class of laborers in our community, is that particular description intended? Had the scheme of Abolition ripened to its final explosion among us, were the non-s'.aveholding laborers of our country prepared to make common cause with insurgent Blacks, and to flock to tbe standard of a "desperado," in a war for universal liberty, this proclamation of one who seems to be mad, would be, iudeed, appalling. As our object, however, is not to put forth a counter manifesto, to unfurl the banner of civil war, or to advertise for recruits, we proceed calmly to examine the circumstances which led to our assembly and proceeding; circumstances, which, in our judgment, demand the suppression of the "Tiue American" by the force of public opinion, if possible. We do not mean to discuss the question of slaveiy with the editor of the True American, or any one else. With his theory of human rights,or his application of the principles of "The Declaration of Independence" to the African race in America, we will have no discussion. We know that there is a party in the United Slates, waxing stronger, active, vigilant and utterly fanatical, who maintain that African Slavery should be abolished.forthwith; the freedmen remain ing upon the 6oil, and admitted to all the political rights of citizens. With this party the editor of the True American is associated; by them he is sustained, and has erected his press in Kentucky, for the pur pose of urging their principles and effect ing their objects. From the first establishment of the pa per, the editor has borne hunse'f like a man engaged, consciously engaged, in a desperate and unlawful undertaking. Defiance and threats were his earliest heralds. This community have heretofore borne with patience, the continuance of the paper, from a variety of causes needless ts be enumerated. The Tuesday's No. Aug. 12, (however, contained matter so unequivocal, so unexpected, so audacious, that men must have been bespottcd, or stupefied, or paralyzed utterly, by the basest terrors not to have been roused, to notice the "subject with decision. The leading article in that day's paper, occupies three columns and a half, and is davoted to the detail of the vwdu-s operandi of abolition. The fundamental proposition of the writer is this, in his own language: ,:Our Legislatures, Slate and General, should raise the platform upon which our free colored people stand. They should give to them full political right to hold of-1 fice; to vote; to set on juries, to give tlicir testimony, and make no distinction between them and ourselves." This is bad enough, quite bad enough, but it is by way of recommendation; the instrument upon which the writer relies is moral suasion, directed to the masters. The editorial, however, of that day, assume another tone. He docs not persuade, but threatens. Discarding tho mild but as he thinks, hopeless agency of moral reasoning, hs appeals diractly to physical force, in its most appalling forms. The paragraphs to which we refer, and which were the direct cause of our proceedings, are the most remarkable ever put forth in j this community. In explanation of ourj conduct, we quote ihem at large. Theed-J itor,after anticipating that in case he should perish, some other philanthropist would arise to fill his place, proceeds: "It is the weakness and disease in the. State that has forced u- into our present

position, and if we should perish, the same causes would raise up many more, and abler than we, to vindicate the same cause We had hoped to see on this continent, the great axiom that man is capable of self-governmefrt amply vindicated; we had no objections to the peaceable and honorable extenjion of empire, over the whole continent, if equal freedom expanded with the bounds of nation, gladly would we have seen untold millions of freemen, enjoying liberty of conscience, resting under their own vine and fig tree with none to make them afraid, standing upon a sacied and inviolate constitution at home, and

just toward all nations such was the vis ion of the immortal Washington, and such was ours. But we are tuld. the enunciation of the great and soul-stirring principles of revolutionary patriots was a lie as a dog returns to his vomit, we are to go back to the foul and cast off rags of Euro pean tyranny, to hide our nakedness: Slavery, the most unmitigated, the lowest. tne basest that the world has seen, is to be substituted forever, for our better, more glorious, holier aspirations the Constitution is torn, and trampled under foot; justice and good faith in a nation are derided; brute force U substituted in the place of high moral tone; all the great principles of national liberty which we inherited from our British ancestry are yielded up and we are left without God or hope in the world. When the great hearted of our laud weep, and tho man of reflection maddens in the contemplation of our national apostacy, there are men pursuing gain and pleasure, who smile with contempt and indifference at their appeals. But remem ber you who dwell, in marble palaces that there are strong arms and fiery hearts and iron pikes in the street, and panes of glass only between them and the silver plate on the board, and the smooth skin woman on the Ottoman. When you have mocked at vicluelenic I the agency of God in affairs of men; and mada rapine your hocied faith; tremble for the day of retribution is at hand and the masses will be avenged." There is a miserable effort in CM. Clay's handbill this morning to explain these hor rible passages. He says in his commentary upon the article, that, "It will bo per ceived by the reader that the whole piece alludes to National policy and the loss of a high sense of justice in the administra tion of our national affairs. That he means by the masses the white millions who will in the course of lime when that poverty the consequence of slavery presses upon them follow the example of their plunder ers, ana in turn piuiiuer them." 1 his is the idea conveyed, he says, "in his ellipti cal manner." It was of slavery the most unmitigated, the lowest, the basest, the kditor was writing. The passages are clear, distinct and unambiguous. There is no ellipsis in the case they are protuberant in their horrid fullness. Tremble, for the day of retribution is at hand. By what elliptical figure can this be made to relate to far future. There was and ia but one impression in Lexington as to these articles. The excitement was treat and natural. That an ally of the Northern abolitionists should claim the benefit of the freedom of the press, and the full protection of laws, whosa validity in one of the most important of our social relations he absolutely denies, that he shoulJ claim for himself the right to excite to sedition, by inflammatory publications; addressed to all the passions of our slaves, and to arm as though it were an arsenal, the den from whence he fulminates his infernal bulletins againt the settled institutions of the country, and the safety and the peace of our wives and daughters, and at the same time deny to us the right of meeting in peaceful and unarmed council, to delibcrate ot tne best moae ol preventing ingiiiiui and threatened outrage, of is a piece with the terrible fanaticism of the sect to which the "Editor" belongs We assembled to endeavor, in advance .. ,r r ,, , . . . waits the rckless incendiary, which does not always, and 'sometimes cannot pause, for the slow effort of Jaws, to endeavor by mildness and remonstrance, to turn him from his purpose, and consequently avert the storm of publx indignation which he seeks to raise. We have made the effort, and encountered hie denunciation. Mercv to our slaves: a regard for the public peace.

s"?!f respect, and respect for the character j "Some ye r since, a N mh Carolina of the community forbids u to be beaten ! Lawyer, yet living, undertiMk to convince back, by the outrage and abuse heaped up-j a Methodist preacher of some celebrity, on us by one desperate man. j that his manner of preaching, in threatenWe assume not to decide for a society J ing his auditors with damnation, was injuwho have with us a common interest but 'didou; and ihit arguments an! exhortaas a portion of that community, reccom- J lions of a milder character, would be more mend a general meeting of the people of j successful. After lntenin; piiiemly, the

the city of Lexington and county of t ay - ette, lo be held on Monday next, August 16th, to concert measures for the suppression of the farther publication of the '-Abolition paper" called the True American. Be it therefore I2esolo:d, That a notice be published for a general mci ting of the people of this city ani county tbe held on Monday, 11 o'clock, A. M. at the Court House, to take into consideration the inostf tTecionl steps, to secure our interests from the efforts of Abolition fanatics and incendiaries. Mr. Henry Johnson offered ihe resolution to print, which was adopted. Kcsrived, That lO'Jh) copies in handbill form of the Journal of proceedings v( this meeting along with their address bo published for circulation, and lint a committee of three be appointed to superintend the publication. Mr. II. Johnson then moved an adjournment; which was cirried unanimously and llie meetinj adjourned. IIF.NUY JOHNSON, ) THOS. II. WATCIiS. Com't DUDLEY M. CRAIG, 5" BEVERLY A. HICKS, Chairman ''I i icmlshii. is define.! to he inliinacv wiih a man who has pleutv m ni'iii.'V and s'H-n l- it frceh .

SPLINTER S.

Washington Wheat. While the Hon. O.H.Smith was ia the U. S. Senate the statue of Washington, by Gieenough arrived, and from the straw in which it was packed, he obtained an ear of wheat with 21 grains. He sent it to his nephew, Win. Parry of Burlington Co., N. J., who has raised from it enough to sow broad cast; and the last Farmer's Cabinet says, that last year he raised three bushels lacking a quart to one-twelfth of an acre. The head is remarkably large and well filled. It is proposed o call it the Washington Wheat. Ind. fanner. To Cook Tomato He that does not love tomatoes is an object of pity. Every art of cooking should be employed to inveigle appetite of every man to love a vegetable so wholesome. PjcI a dozen ripe tomatoes and fry them in a little sweet butter,( which nine Hoosiers out of ten will understand to mean a ltlle clean lard) together with two or three sliced green peppers, sprinkle on alittlesall; and finally slice up an onion or two, and let the whole cook thoroughly. This is the Spanish method,' of preparing them. Another method, which, from a long experience, we know will wear well, is ss follows. The directions are for a mess of tomatoes amounting to about three pints when cooked. Begin by parboiling two onions. While this is doing, peel the tomitoes, which is easily done after hot water his been poured over them; cut them up and add ihe onions, alsoa teaciipfu! and a half of brea ! crumbled fine, a table spoonful of black pepper, a lump of butter of the size of a turkey's egg. or about four table spoonfuls. Beat these thoroughly together andj set them over a slow fire, gradually to stew. They should cook slowly and for a long lime; never less than three hours, but the longer the better. About fifteen minutes tiCtorjlney are to he used, neat up six eggs aim sur iiiein in, ana put inein on fresh coals and give them one grand boil up, stirring them all the time. When so cooked, no directions w ill be needed howto eat them. The art of cooking the tomato lies mostly in cooking them enough. They should be put to work the first thing after the breakfast things are out of the way, even I if you do not dine till three. A IJ7f. 'When a man of sense,' says Mrs. Moore, ' comes to marry, it is a companion whom he wants, not merely a creature who can paint, and play, and dress, and dance. It is a being who can comfort and counsel him; one who can reason, reflect, and feel and judge, and act, and discourse, and discriminate; one who can assist him in his cares, soothe his sorrows, purify his joys, strengthen his principles and educate his children." JO" A young lady was lately fired in New Orleans, for wearing boy's clothes, thus deciding judicially that females should not w ear the breeches until they get married. Kr Where will fanaticism end? The Mormons, who have been residing in St. Louis have had a revelation that a great portion of that city is soon to be burned down. The prophecy has created ronconsiderably stir amongst them, and they are preparing to remove to Nativoo immediately. lO"There is saiJ to be a young la ly in Tennessee, as broad as she islong, who carries a tame bear to church with her, nccnpi.'sa wh ilj ps-.v aiasrj, 1 fin herself with a pot lid. UuiRinurio.N Tim editor ofths Hartford Patriot sr ho has had a pair of btiots given him .which wcresot'ght tint tlr?y ; camc ncir Iinking him a Urnvfr-ihst, be ca9e hi received Li p imsUuwi.t as h. vent a! . A Dtira'ilc Paiat. T. prevent t!ie washing off rf white lead from the suri face of house, wnen expos . d to the ! , , weather. dissolve in the oil me J for mixing, anmiHwu imin-CTui i.iuri ruiwrr ,u unit jiicvi-a 'rra.ii j iiikii, ij iionn i ii. - gelher, an 1 applying the p tint in a mi :n slate. A firm. glos.y anJ Uuraiie stiriace is thus obt ined. .4 r7.y.J O i A correspondent of "mo ! New York. S:)irtt'' relates the f'hwi:i ! preacher replied -"My mend,' you are mistaken. Sin is like a terrapin yo:i miy exhort, admonish, even kick him, an 1 h; not move; but merely draws his hea 1 within his shell, and your labor is lost but place a coal of fire on his bark, an J he travels. Hell fire is the article. : E3The Nanvoo NeihVir, th.i Mormon, organ, says that tho nuny destruc" live fires which have occurred this year are owing to the "an jer of th L rd" treatise llit! murder of J e Smiih aid h is brother II v ra n Ins not been nt ned for! JC3A laJy with an infant in herarm stepped into Congress Hall, Philadelphia. Ihe other day, and asked for a room, styiti thai her husband would soon arrivp with her b-igjagc. O.in wai provided for her, which she entered and immediately rung the bell for a servant girl. The gill answered the call, when th lady requested her to hold the infant until she coul I step out and buy a pair of stocking-: the the servant girl took th? child, ai1 mother has not been seen since. toe JC-The Alleh my M-tholist Coiference lately resolved: ' That no miniter shall be a Iniitled into this Couferem-i-who uses to! acco in any of it f cept as a medici.ie. a.i 1 in i'i it i-f s"tory evi lenoe 'n!i h-? g-vetr inns, e isj s i!

H3The Devil, it is confidently reported, is disturbing the good folks rf Groton, Mass, and they don't know why the critter should stick around there. It is a hairy animal, about the size of a4 smallish dog and keeps folks awakeof nighis by making singular noises. What is more remarkable than this, however powder arnd balls do not have any effect upon it; repeated shots have been made at it, but it is invariably found that at the instant the smoke has disappeard the creature is behind the gunner, instead of before him as at first. A very queer critter indeed. Sjitlhcrn Liberality. We are gratified to find that a new rivalry has sprung n; between the South and Massachusetts, and Mr. James A. Everett, of Houston co Georgia,deiermining not to be excelled fry Boston munificence, has made a d nnition of S3003 to the Wesleyan Female Colleee at Macon; the only condition is that the donor shall have four perpetual scholarships in the institution, designed for the

use of the poor. Curious. Franklin was strongly in favor of making the wild turkey the emblem of our national character instead of the eagle. That venerab'e apostle of liberty and science advocated this proposition principally on the ground that the turkey is a bird indigenous to this country, whil.-t the eagle was a resident of almost a'.l couuries. 'u'ii S m. Government tfChi'Jrcn. Mrs. Cunant, the Editress if the Mother's Monthly Journal, gives a pretty good specimen of family management in the following dialogue: Child. Miiiher, I want a pWo af cake. Mother. I haven't got any, iln all gmie C I know there is some up in the cupboard I saw it when you opened the door. M. Well, y.n don't need a iy now; cake hurt children. C No it don't; (whining.) I want a piere 0f c;ik I want a piece of cake. J. lie still, I say; 1 snan t give ynu a bit if you don't leave offcryingC- (Mill cr ing,) I warn a piece of cake; I want a piece of cake.' .1. (Uising hastily and reaching a riece.) There, take that, and hold jour tongue! Eat it up quickly; I hear Ben coming. Now don't tell him you've had an : (Ben enters.) C. I've had a piece of cake; you can't h ive any. Icn. Yes I will; mother gh'O . me :i piece . M. There, lake thai, it scents rseif I never could keep a bi of any thing in tne house. You see sir, (to the cliild.) if yon get any tiling next tfrue. fc ( Another ro m ) C. i'e h u a ;iiee; of cake? , Youn? Sister. Oh, I w.int some too. C. Well, you bawl, and mother'!! tivo you a piece. ftfMr. Jadton. This veteran missionary, who has, for a quarter if a century, been laboring in Im'ia. and hitherto refusing so many pressing in vit ations to return , i now on his way to visit his intive landDr. Judson is the father of American Ba;. tist Missions. Mr. Abbott, with .his liitl children, and Mr. IVivenpon and -wifo are also on their" way homi id?" V man in Silesia was lately arraigned for the crime of bigamy. On the trial il appeared that he had successively married nine wives, all of whom were ia court. The Judg decreed that the worst punishment would be, to m ik him live here after w ith the whole nine. Th'J unhappy prisoner p'.e ided the capital punishment on heiriiiJ the decision, but without effect. The Cu il w n inexorable. tOfKafing Xiii, Scion i,-r. The Baltimore Sun records the deiih of an idiiitie M colored woman, the cauc of which was al first unknown to ih physicians. On a post m riem examination, about one hundred nails weie found in her intev.ines - together with a 1nrg? two-ineli screw, and S'nc croot-ed twelve penny i mils a'out tour inches lonesome pins l hent u an-' two pnvi f a'lt'irarite coai. i -j-jip iK.ilfivere genera V lour penny, six j rPny.ind eight p-nuy some of them t-r.. ken. ):ieoft!ie stirlpim weighed them, and fon il tin ,uheiy mils, now at the a1rtis-h"ii e, to wei'i on p un l. Tf '' llid-l: Cau; :; a. 1 1 L ire. J . J. lUrdiil, of J u ksoovili o nm jnication in t'i' 1 I'M l lis, in a liri i Farmer, says: A farmer of this county, -Mr. Bnjimin Concilium), h is theory and cure (or tins terrible disci so in h;r.ses, whie'i d.?s;rves the attention of aii owners of i'iesT valuable animals. Hj says that tli- disease oi iem ites from a horse not sdiedding, his j rv tiieih at the proper tune. All hordes shed their thin j iw teeth a well as iljrir front teeth. If a tooth is not hed in llie tipper j iw, the ho:i of ihe heal b ;ins to grow avl this causes th big-heal. If a tooth inl'ij l'-ver jiw is not do;i;ied, ihj bone grow an 1 itiis inscs '.he bigj iw. His remedy is tlii;-: lie lias a pair of to '.!i drawers in ale after the oil far,on of such i is'.ru-n? Us ii-.'' 1 by p'lvi-urn of a sue MiTiicient to diu v a !i ir ?'s to.uli with a ha idle like an ait.'er. Tiiis heapplies to l!u disease I toolhiul extracts it The h tse will th-;. g.'l we!!, unless d i vnwiil, ihe complaint- I have heaid several persons bear witness i the cure thus effected. Such is Mr. tuchinan s theory and piaciie 11.J invites a;l w ho wish in, ascertain correctness, to examine the skull of h irse which hive died from either big hea I or big j w, and ho siyslhey w ill fi.id ill ? origin 1 coil's tooih rem tilling, sh .ving iiself to be the cau?-; of the disease Mr. Couch m an is an intelligent farmer and does not know of this article being wriiten. Bui l! suggestion U lo me, ri o!.t lim s,m in. eiiiirfl v ti.w. a 1 1 seems so - J plan-iMe an I 1 li 'e leenw J it eil s iot i iii ale I, i hat I pr-i.r to all Hiteirioa to 1 it i jo gh io u v tin i !

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