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RISING SlIY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, JVEY 15, 1837.

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MOTHER'S LOVE.

There's joy within a mother's breast To mothers only known, When o'er her infant, laid at rest, She watched him alone : With pleasing hopes her heart beats high While smiling o'er her sleeping boy. When first he feels a mother's care, And lisps a mother's name, Behold her eye what love beams there; How pine, how strong the flame J The tear of joy is scarce supprest; She hugs her darling to her breast. She fondly looks through years to come, And views bis prospects fair; She dreameth not of death the tomb; But breathes the silent prayer That God would gaurd her precious charge! His mind expand, his heart enlarge. Should sickness blanch his blooming cheek, And waste his withering frame, A mother, anxious, watchful, meek, Unchanging still the same, Stands by his couch, seeks no repose, She calms his pains, she sooths his woes. A sister o'er our bosom bent, To bathe our burning brow, Is, like a guardian angel, sent To do all she can da; Here is afTeetiori men adore But, O, a mother's love is more! I?:'"n,llps !berc a wretch upon this earth, Would slight a mother's name? Sure, such a wretch belies his birth, And knows no sense of shame, A mother's love, do all we will, By us is unrequited still.

HISTORICAL.

l.)se himself forever in its windings. It

lies in the mountainous wilderness of Engeddi, and is supposed to be the Cave of Adullam, where David received the mutinous and discontented spirits of his days, and where when Saul was in pursuit of him, he cut off the skirl of his garment, and suffered him to go away unharmed. In an hour more we came in sight of Bethlehem, seated on an elevation, a confused and irregular pile of while buildings. The star of the east no longer hovers oer it to mark the spot where the Saviour was born; and the mosque and the minaret proclaim the birth-place of Christ under the dominion of a people who reject and despise him. Heaps of ruin and houses blackened with smoke show that the hand of war has been here. Ibrahim Pacha, on his sortie from Jerusalem, and ou his way to Hebron, had lingered on his path of des truction long enough to lay in ruins half the little city of Bethlehem. It is a singular fact, and exhibits a liberality elsewhere unknown in the history of Turks or of the Musselman religion, that the height of his indignation fell upon the Arabs. He spared the Christians for a reason that never before operated with a Turk because they had not offended. He did another liberal thing moreover; seeing that Christians and iiussC'roafi:? could not live together in unity, he drove Cut from Bethlehem the Arabs whom the sword .had spared, and

left the place Christ in the

consecrated by the

exctus

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ceive the inhabitants moving through the

streets, and near their voices humming in my ears. I saw that it was walled all around, and that it stood alone in an extensive waste of mountains, without shrubs, or even a solitary habitation beyond its walls. There were no domes, steeples, or turrets, to break the monotony of its aspect, and een the mosques and minarets made ho show. It would have been a relief, and afforded something to excite the feelings, to behold it in ruins, or dreary and desolate like Petra, or with the banner of the Prophet, the blood-red Musselman flag, waving higk above it walls. But all was tame and vacaut. There is nothing in its appearance that afforded me a sensation it did not even inspire me witti melancholy; and I probably convict myself when I say, that the only image which it presented to nay mind was that of a city larger and better "in. condition than the usual smaller class of those within the Turkish dominion. 1 was obliged to rouse myself by recalling to mind the long train of extraordinary incidents of which that little city had been the theatre, and which made it, in the eyes of Christians at least, the most hallowed spot on earth one thing only particularly struck me its exceeding stillness. It was about midday, but there, was no throng of people entering or departing from its gates no movement of living creatures to be seen beneath its walls. AH was quiet as if the inhabitants

BETHLEHEM AXD JERUSALEM. From incidents of a Travel in Egypt, Arabia. Pttraa, and the Holy Land. By an American. Bethlehem. About a half an hour from Hebron, we came to a valley, supposed to be the Vale of Eshcol, where the spies sent out by Moses found the grapes so heavy that, to carry one bunch, it was necessarv to suspend it on a pole. On the right, we passed a ruined wall, by some called the cave of Macphelah, or Sepulchre of the Patriarchs; but which the Jews at Hebron had called the House of Abraham. We were on our way to Bethlehem. 1 had hired my mules for Jerusalem, expecting merely to Mop at.Bethlehem, and push on to Jerusalem that night. The road be

tween these oldest of cities, was simply, a . mule path over rocky mountains, descending occasionally into rich valleys. We had a'ready, on this our first journey in the i IIolv Land, found that the character given of it in the Bible is true at this day; snd

the Land of Promise is not, like the land

of Egypt, watered by the dews of heaven, hut hv conious and abundant rains In Jeed,

the rain was falling in torrents; our clothes

were already dripping wet, but we did not

mind it, for we were too full of thankfulni.!. that continued sunshine and dear

and unclouded skies had been our portion when we most needed them, in the desert

The heavv fall of rain made the track

slippery and precarious; and it was four hours before we reached the celebrated reservoirs, known to modern travelers under the name of Fools of Solomon. These jarge, strong, noble structures, in a land

ive possession of hi' were, like the Spaniards, taking theii

followers. True, he stained this act of; Jay sleep. We passed the pools of

clemency or policy by arbitrarily taking away thirty Christian boys, whom he sent to work at-the factories in Cairo; and the simple hearted parents, hearing that I had come from that city, asked me if I had seen their children. It is a happy thing for the traveler in the Holy Land, that in almost all the principal places there is a Christian convent, whose doors are always open to him; and one of the largest and finest of these is in

imitation, and so perfectly original in its I the man of medicine grew tired of her im

. . "..igcwcm, mm we cnuuoi p'Tiuiitues, anu invented a hundred stones forego the pleasure of extracting the fol- of impossible and improbable cases, with lowing passage from the paper alluded to: which he amused himself and ridiculed the "They have an extensive water power, old woman's love of the marvellous, but obtained by damming the Muskingum riv- which she swallowed with the same avider, which drives a large flouring mill, a ity as she did the. Westminster Catechism, saw mill, and other kinds of machinery. At one time he told her he bad been to Their meadows, extending each side of the see a patient who had the Mortal borborigriver, furnish to the eye of the agricultur- ums, and that he hadcured himcompletely ist a most beautiful view. Every stick or by taking out his "insides" and washing chip is carefully removed, and nothing is them in soap suds and vinegar. "Isitpospresented to the eye but a carpet of ver- sible, Doctor!" exclaimed the old woman, dant green. "well I hope the man will have a clear "Their hills contain great quantities of conscience after this." excellent stone ore, which they use to the At another time the doctor told her he best advantage. Their cattle are of good had called to see a child that was born blood, and carefully selected. without, any tongue. "G me!" cried the "Their sheep, though not of the finest old" lady, '.'how will the poor thing ever wool, are bred with a view to the profits talk! is it a boy or gal, Doctor!" "A girl," arising from them, and divided into small he replied. "Ah, well," said she," 1 aint droves, each of which has a shepherdess a bit afeard then but what it will talk well assigned to. it who takes some light work enough." in her hands, and, with the assistance ef a On a third occasion he told her he had dog trained for that purpose, moves her been to visit a woman who was bitten by

flocks slowly off to their hills in the morn- a rattlesnake. He said the patient was a ing, and gradually returns them to the great snuff taker, and she was one day fold again, by the time the sun is down picking up black-berries, the snake, which and the men are returned from their work, was concealed among the berries being "Their milk cows are kept constantly highly enraged at the smell of the snuff, in the stall, fed with the offal of the milk, sprang from his lurking place and seized hay, turnips, &c. and are said to yield the woman by the nose (?) "01ord!"ejasome of them twenty quarts of milk per culated the symphathizing listener, and day the year round, Their stables are giving her own nose a thorough wipe, thoroughly washed every day, and the "didnt it kill the woman?" 'No, by Jove,"

water used for that purpose is carefully returned the doctor, "but it killed the collected in a large reservoir built for the snake.'1 occasion, and daily distributed upon the But to return to the etymology. The root9 and plants of one of the finest hot- doctor from being so often questioned by houses and gardens in the country. the old lady, "who's sick?" at last began "The hot house is rendered a curiosity, to call the neighborhood of her residence not' merely by the neatness with which it Who's sick; and when asked dy his own is conducted, but by the extensive variety neighbors, "which way aie you riding toof plants and fruits it contains. The house day, Doctor?" would reply jocularly, "I'm is considered a great public convenience, going to Who's sick." This appellation

inasmuch as it enables all who wish to was at hist caught trom the doctor, and furnish themselves not only with choice familiarly used by his neighbors, and after-

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n .ast, our graceless wight fludintr the water washing his shoulders, and "there was no further mincing matters, waded ud again to the ark, and humbly entreated ad mission. But Noah was still inexorable and it was p ainly a gone case. ' Turning therefore on his heel, with all the disdain and indignation so natural to a man in his awkward predicament, "Go to thunder with your old ark" says our hero "I dc.n't.believe there is going to be much of a shower after all!"

Bethlehem. Hiding through the whole extent of the little town, greeted by Ch'. istians, who, however, with their white turbans and fierce mustaches and beards, had in my eyes a most unchristian appearance, and stopping for a moment on the high plain in front, overlooking the valley, and the sides of the hill all cultivated in terraces, we dismounted at the door of the convent. The walls of t'ie convent contain all that is interesting in Bethlehem; but outside the walls also are places consecrated

in liinie nisiory, ana wnicn me pngrim 10 Bethlehem, in spite of doubts and confusion

wm looK upon wim execeaing lmercsi. Standing on the high table of ground in

front of the convent, one of the monks

pointed out the fountain where, when David was thirsting, bis young men procured him water; and in the rear of the convent is a beautiful valley, having in the midst of it a ruined village, marking the place where the shepherds were watching their flocks at night when the angel came down and announced to them the birth of the Sivior. The scene was as pastoral as it had been 1300 years before; the sun was going down, the shepherds were gathering their flocks together, and one could al-

m st imagine that, with the approach

evening, they were preparing to receive another visit from on high. In the distance

beyond the valley is a long range of moun

tains inclosing the Dead faea, and among

them was the wilderness Engeddi; and the

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pools ot lieze-

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kian, ana came insight ot the mount of

Olives 'tind now, for the first signs of life, we saw strea..mil-? from the gate a long procession of men, women and children, on dromedaries, camels, a:d horses, and on foot pi'grirns who had visited Calvary and the Holy Sepulcher, and were nowbending their steps towards Bethelehem. We were soon approaching the walls of Jerusalem, and seemed to be almost at

their foot: but we were on one of the house nlants of everv description, but to wards bv those more remate; and thus

mountains that encompass the city, and return them there for preservation against not only the neighborhood of the inquisi-

the deep valley of Jehosonhat was vet be- frost during the winter. 1 his is done by tive old lady, hut in process oi u Tie me

tween us and the Holy Citv the sacred the inhabitants ot Cleveland, and other whole stream and the valley on its boi-

burying place of the Jews, the "gathering points on the lake shore, and the line of ders came by a slight alteration in its spel-

place of nations." Crossing this valley, the Ohio and Erie canal, which passes ling, to be called by the name ot iloosick

we ascended on the other side, and in a along the banks of the Muskingum, within

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it iiiL'iiiunin nuu uii uno ut wie seven it lew roua iiieii v'imgc -ciiut. BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT, hills on which the citv is built, and enter- nassinrr from the canal to their public house

ing at the Bethlehem gate. It was guard- vou cross a plain but substantial bridge, Man is a creature of interest and ambi

ed by a Turkish soldier, and half a dozen and enter upon a street that has the up- tion. His nature leads him forth into more lav basking in the sun outside, who oearance of having- been swept. Their struggles and bustles of the world. Love

raised their heads as 1 approached, their houses are all painted white, and covered is but the establishment of his early lifej

long mustaches curling, as they looked at with tiles instead of shingles. Their pub- or a seng piped m the intervals of the act

me; and, though thev gave me no greet

ing, they let me pass without molestation.

On the right was a citadel; and a soldier was on the walls, and a small red flag, the

A TRI E PATRIOT. What can better employ his time, his talent and attention, than'fitting his sons to be ornaments of society, and to be a crown of glorv to his hoary hairs? Rarely can a man serve fas country so well in any other way as by presenting to it a family of sons and daughters, and amply qualified to act a useful and honorable pari in the various stations which they may be called to fill. A good name, founded on real worth of character, is oi" more value than riches; and better is it for a young man to begin the world pennyless with this in his possession, than to be the owner of large est ates, and the inheritor of paternal fame, neither the disposition nor the ability to maintain them. There is no truer maxim than this, that every man is the maker of bis own fortune. He cannot

become wise, nor good, nor great, by proxy; and the earlier he is made to believe, and act upon this truth, the better.

was drooping a-

ut was an open raiently formed by .id of fallen houses, s, the stillness was

i i rattling of wheel

standard of Mahomm

gainst its siatV. T place, irregular, a clearing awav 0 As in all Tur!- : unbroken : x'

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ot horse:-. Old thin-; and new are strangely blend- ! ed in Jerusalem; and the residence of the ! 'P.. ,.!,:,.u - ; i i..,;i.i:.,

which, to this day, bears the name of Pon-

! ?ius Pilate. Paul told me its historv as we

house is conducted with the utmost lie seeks tor lame, tor torlune, tor space

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propriety and cleanliness, and nothing in tne world's tnougni, anu uoimmnn over spared to render those pleasantly situated his fellow men. But woman's whole heart who visit them." is the history of the affections. The heart

is her world ; it is there her ambition strives for empire ; it is tin re avarice seeks for

hidden treasures. feshe sends lorlh her

sympathies on adventure; she embarks

her whole bou! hi the traffic of affection;

apd if shipwrecked, her cause is hopeless,

ANECDOTE OF JO. DAVIESS.

Col. Daviess, of Kv., was a man of high

character, and highly popular in his native

State. He was a lawy er of great acute-

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nor even the tramp ness, and powerful eloquence, whose tor it is the pansruptcy ot toe neart. nen

character was tinged with the eccentn- disappointed, she is like some tender tree,

cities of genius. He was brave and chi- the pride and beauty of the grove; grace-

valric in his feelings, and having joined tul in its form, bright in its foliage, I m the American armv under Harrison, hu felt with the worm preying at its heart. VVC at the battle of Tippecanoe ere he had find it suddenly withering when it should

reached the prime ot life. At the time of

Important to workmen in Iron. The following information may prove

useful to mechanics andj others employed in the ue of wrought iron. It is mehaos

not generally known that wrought iron made red hot and plunged into cold water, renders it much softer than by cooling gradually in the atmosqhere, conseducntly rendering it more easy to be worked by the mechanic in the laithe, &c. tSoc. The prevalent opinion among smiths and mechanics, that plunging red-hot iron into cold water makes it almost too hard to be worked, is a mistaken idea; for instance, take a piece of iron wire and having made it red-hot, plunge it into cokl water till it is cold, which process will nearly render it as soft andWtough as copper wire; and; if that he jjLsath factory, let the mechanic prej!fe4Hece of iron which he is going tojftin in a laithe, and when red hot, Jpnge it into water, until it irf cold, along with unother, made red hot from the same bar, and let it be gradually cooled in the atmosphere: when such a bar vomcs to bo worked, the mechanic is sure to be con v inced of the above fact.

i - i . rt I m nk pointed out a small opening as lead to destruction, remain now almost as per- . 1 , . rw 1 . .1

lect as when they were built. There are UB l" "l " ' . f L r,i.m k,. 4RO.fi00: nn,t fittO whcrp Lot's wife was turned into

r. ; K.iV, nn,l 2S0 in breadth, and 0rl piN" of salt

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different altitudes, the water from the first runninor into the second, and from the second

into the third. At about a hundred yards

distance is the spring which supplies the reservoirs, as the' monks say, the sealed

Canticles iv.. 42.

The water from these reservoirs is con- horned with tapestry and paintings

veyed to Jerusalem by a small aqueduct, a round earthen pipe about ten inches in diameter, which follows all sinuosities of the ground, being sometimes above the croaud and sometimes under. It is easily

broken; while I was in Jerusalem an acci-

It was the hour assigned for the use of

the Armenians, and the monks were all there chaunting the praises of the Redeemer. The chamber of the grotto is thirtv-seven feet long and eleven wide,

with a marble floor and walls, the latter

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rectly in front of the door by which we entered, at the other end of the grotto, is a semi-circular recess, lined and floored with small blocks of marble, and in the center a silver star, with the inscription, "Hie natus

est Jesus Christus de Virga." (here Jesus

n were ascending ihe stens: and it passed I his death he was one of the most nonular

through my mind as a strange thing, that men in Kentucky and his memory is yet

almost the first moment after entering the dearly cherished in his native State.

citv. I was making a complaint, perhaps, I Many anecdotes are preserved of this re

in the same ba'l where the Jews had c m-1 markable man we lately met the follow-

plained of Christ before Pontius Pilate, ing:

having with me a follower ot tnat Christ "There was a difficult question to dewbom the Jews reviled and buffeted, burn- ci(je before the csurt of Kentucky, involv-

ing miner me inaigniiy oi uemg cauea a

Jew.

It was on Saturday afternoon when I

arrived at Jerusalem. I had a letter of in

be most fresh and luxuriant. Ave sec it

dropping its branches to the earth, and shedding leaf by leaf until wasted away. It falls even in the stillness of the forest ; and as we muse over the beautiful ruins, we strive in vain to recollect fhp blast or

thunderbolt tiat could have smitten it with

decay.

ing an important question in regard to the

i line oi ail usuiie, a no cmuim.!." long concatenation of facts and sundry

technical niceties. When the case was

troduction to Mr. Thompson, an American caie(ij a Kentucky hunter, with his mus-

dent happened w hich entirely cut off the Christ was born ot the Y irgm.) 1 he star Mater from their pools. in tl,e cast, which went before the wise There is everv reason to believe that men, says the tradition, rested over this those pools have existed from the date as- "Pt; and fourteen lamps, the gilts of signed to them; and that this was the si e Christian princes, burning night and day, of one of King Solomon's houses of pleas- constantly idummate the birth-place of ure, where he .nade himself "gardens, and salvation to a ruined world. On Ihe right, orchards, and pools of water." The rain descending two steps, ,s a chamber paved here ceased for a few moments, and cna- and lined with marble, haying at one end bled me to view them at my leisure; and a block polished and hollowed out; and it I nlL-PH nln iL c.wvl this is the manger in which our Saviour

il,nm!n ,w.i,i i!, Cfo.T i (A tholwas laid. Over the alter is a picture re

water's edge, it seemed almost the wild presenting a stable with horses and cattle, c,.oc; r. : .u mid behind a little iron wicker-work arc

wWcst .f mon l..i,.i .i, five lamps constantly burning. Directly

had strolled atong the same bank, and opposite is the altar oUlie magi, where the

stood on the verv same stents Ii was lik three kings

missionary, and the first thing I did was to

lot k for him. One of the monks ot the

convent gave me the direction to the Amcrican priest, not knowing his name ; and, instead of Mr. Thompson. I found M ".

Whiting, who had been there about a

year in his place. Like the governor, Mr.

Whiting did not want any credentials; but

here, being among Judges, it was not mv

dress and appearance that recommended

me. I was an Amencan, and, at that dis

tance from home, the name of countryman I uroli0 forth into a torrent of eloquence that

was enough, In the city ot Jerusalem, astonished the court and jury. Away such a meeting was to him a rare and most went the plantiff, law and evidence; and I !. I ll . ? .. .1..,'

welcome incident; wnue lo me, wno nrio so complete was the discomhture, that the so long been debarred all conversation, ex- nosing counsel made a most pitiful re-

annihilaling all the intervals of time and snace. Solomon and all his trior v ar de

parted, and little could even his' wisdom have foreseen, that, long after he should be laid in the dust, and his kingdom had

passed into the lianas oi strangers, a trav

eler from a land he never dreamt ot would

be looking upon his works, and niurmurim

tohimseit ihe woids of the preacher,"Van-

itv of vanities, all is vanity.

A little to the right of the pools, towards I a last look at Bethlehem, and my horse the region of the Dead Sea, is a very moving a few paces, when I turned again

large grotto, supported by great pillars ol 1 saw in full view the holv citv of Jeru-

the" natural rock, perfectly dry without salem. I did not expect it, and was star

Detrifaction or stalactites i it is a perfect tied by its proximity. It looked so Kmll

Jabvrinth within: and. as in manv of the and yet lay spread out before, ma so dis

C tacomb8, a man might easily tinctly, that it earned m if I ought to per

sat when thev came to offer

nrcsents to the Son of (Jod. Over it is a

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mrtnro rmrpspntinor them in me aci OI

ihnir olTorinors : and one of the

kings is rcpiesentcd as an Ethiopian.

Jeri-salem. In about an hour we came

to the (Jreek monastery of St. E'.ias, a large

stone building, standing on an eminence,

and commanding a fine view of Bethlehem

Storming to water mv horse at a fountain

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n front ol the monastery, 1 turned to tauc

ket and bird bag, loaded with provisions.

all equiiied complete, entered the hall and

took his seat among the lawyers. 1 here

was a grin on the faces of the bar, court,

jury and spectators. He, all unconscious,

took out his provisions and began to cat

with the greatest composure. Ihe lawyer on the side of the planhff rose and made a long argument. And who answers for the defendant? inquired the court. I do, replied the hunter, and rising,

ccpt with Paul and the Arabs, it was a

pleasure which few can ever know, to sil

down with a compatriot, and once more, in

my native tongue, hold converse of my

native land

Each of us soon learned to look upon

the other as a friend; for we found that an

old friend and schoolmate of mine had been

also a friend and schoolmate of his own.

He would have had me stay at his house;

but I returned to the convent, and with my

thoughts far awav, and full of the home of

which wc had been talking, I slept tor the

first night in the city of Jerusalem.

ply. 1 he jury found a verdict for the dc

fendant without retiring from their seats,

when the court adjourned and invited the

stranger to their lodgings. "No I thank

you, gentlemen ; and unless you will take a cold cut with me, I must go." So say

ing, he shouldered his musket, and with

great sang froid departed. Such a man

was Col. Llavicss.

SCHOOLMASTERS.

In every age, even among the heathen, the necessity has been felt cf having tutors and schoolmasters, in order to make any thing respectable ofa nation. Since then every state must needs have such, and since the great defect and complaint is that we have them not, surely we are not to sit and wait until thevgrow up of them

selves. We can neither chop them out of

wood, nor hew them out of stone: and

God will work no miracles to furnish that which we have inqans to provide. We must therefore apply our care and money to train vp and make them. For whose

fault is it, but that of the government, who allow our young people to grow up like trees in the woods, and bestow no pains on their education? It is an inhuman

wickpdness for men to say, "Let things go as they may under our government we care not what happens to our posterity."

Such rules should govern, not human beipgs, but dogs and swine, for they seek

only their own gain and ease Luther.

EARTHQUAKE IX SYRIA. A letter, dated Bcvrool, Jan. 2, 1S37,

says that the Earthquake felt in that city

the previous day, was accompanied by a rumbling noise, lasted ten seconds, and appeared to proceed from the north. No buildings were thrown down in the town, but seven or eight without the walls, and ore or two lives ere lost. In the neighborhood of Beyroot, the course of the river Outlines was suspended. When the water returned, it was turbid, and a redisli sandy color. Daring the day of the earthquake, the atmosphere was close, and charged with electricity. Four or five minutes after the shock, the compass was still agitated. At Da.masc.U3 four minarets and several houses were thrown down, and at Acre, part of the walls and some buildings ; Saffet was entirely destroyed, anj nearly

all the population, amounting to between 4,000 and 5,000, had perished. The

ground near the city was rent into fearful

chasms. Tioertod was almost entirely over-thrown and the lake rose and swept

away many of the inhabitants. The des

patch contains a list of thirty nine viiligcs

which had been totally destroyed, and six partially; and Mr. Moore says it had bceu

ascertained that the earthquake was felt on a lino five hundred milcd in length by

ninety m ureadtn.

Sour Grapes.

Perhaps there is no propensity of the

human mind more truly beneficial in di

verting, or at least softening the ills of life

nuusimi i lnan mat which leads us to slight and un

On the borders of the stream, now call- dervalue those blessings which arc abso

cd by this name, (as tradition saith,) there lutely and positively beyond our reach

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tormcriy dwelt a good old lady, oi ramer a in oia iraoition gives us a cui jous mgossiping disposition, and who was possess-1 stance ef this spirit as follows :

ed ot an insatiable cunousity to learn, I VV hen iNoah had snugly secured himsell

and nn unconquerable desire to be the in his ark, and llio rain had commenced

Time to Sieak. I have often heard a first rate anecdote told of some student of Chapel Hill University. What his name was, I know not but I do think his reply worthy of preservation. The College commons at that time were very poor particularly the article of butter. Ono day a plate of it was placed upon the table, which from long keeping, had become rancid. One of the students, upon tasting it, was so exasperated as to sei.e the dish, and throw it, butter and all, against the. wall. The dish of course, was shivered to pipes, but the butter stuck to the side of the room. One of the tutors instantly rose, and demanded who was the perpetrator of the mischief. There was no answer. The demand was repeated, when alter a few moments silence, a sharp voice

leplied "Ask the butter it is old enough lo speak for itself.1'

THE ZOARITES.

The Buffalo Patriot furnishes some inter

esting particulars of this industrious reli- first to communicate, all the wounderful pouring in right earnest, a reprobate who gious sect of Germans. Their settlement is news in the vicinity. Among other things, had long had h3 own sport with the aforccallcd Zoar, and is situated on the Muskin- she was prodigiously fond ot hearing of all said ungainly building, now finding the rrum river, in Tuscarawas co. Ohio. They the lamentable cases of sickness far and joke rather against him. and tho water up

own soveral thousand acres, accumulated near, and seemed to live on tho pains and to fo's knees, walked Up and desired to bv their industry since thev took up their aches, the "gripes and grumbles" of her treat for a .'chance, in.' Noah informed

residence there 10 vears since. The Bccnc follow creatures. With this fondness for him withth politeness of a diplomatist

of domestic quiet and happiness, of frugal- tho sad horrible, she never failed to run buf the A cision of a g?1Qra!t lhat Pro itv, temperance and moral propriety, which out when the doctor was passing and bawl position was uttt fly lnadmissable, A pe-

tuim mmnnitv p.thihit. nrpsnnts a nicture as loud as ehe could -"Docior toAo'a ate?" cond trial was attended with the sarao buc-

Matrimonial Advice.verv interesting piece of

-The following advice, was to

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our Knowledge, given ov -----i - of a maiden lady of thirty, who, at last, had thought of entering t "oly bands: "Tako my advico and never marry ma m, now you lav down master and get up mistress. I married a cross man ot a husband, and the very first week of our marriage, ma'am, be snapped me up becauso I put my cold feet to AwV You don't know mtn, ma'm, as well as I do."

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