Terre-Haute Journal, Volume 5, Number 51, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 September 1853 — Page 1

THE TERRE-HAUTE JOURNAL, i« rwirreo AID rvuutuzt) Evaav run

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And frienda of corning never tired) Dinners and anpporv, port and punch—

1 lore my pleaaast, quaint old mill 1 It 'mlnda me of my early prhne:

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Ma. Eoiroa:—The followiof amart Ml appeared •everai year a ago, in a Dabiia Journal. The moral good aad aa nactaaary on thia aid* of the Atlantic

Do ia Othef People Do

Oss Dicky Daw, aa atoriea go, A "nwrejbant," lived in Pedler'a flow true domoalic atyU,

Dicky D**r would oft revlls: or &fer wanting something »aw,Jf| «X»» Dtek, t^rjsh 1MB yeas oold do aa other people do. •"There'a Miatreea Brown, ahe keep* a car, And drivea about both near iM/itj To Don ay brook, the Roekandatajr, out now and then, a night at Bray Then aince we all want aomething now, Dear Dicky Daw I wlah that you Woold do aa other people do. •'What now," says Dick, "What want yon next "Nay, Dick, my tore, don't now ha vys'd,, Yon know are live in dlirt and filth, A country fyntmiwo*M aa*e my health ,$ And lieni'aUt »j»ot With charming rfaw-t Dear,daring Diakf I know that you -J I Will do aa other people do." The hOttM wan boo((hl—a gardener liired,

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And dropper* In muat have a lunch And when poor Daw impatient*grew, "Dicky, my aonl," aho cried, "aaro yon Muat do aa other people do." But now Dick'a eaah ran very brief, Aud ao ho turned another leaf— The gardener went, the car waa aold. And all the furniture were told, "Oh, Dick," ahe Mireamed, "what ahall w» do7" uat do JUWhSr p60pk .. Poor Dlrkv Daw front CIMDM of life, ,, Soon lo«t)hto sngal a wlfS Aj.d now retrieving hi# »tUir*. Moat Ciiflatlun-llkii hi* loaa lie bear* And whan you aak him, how do yout Dlck crlM, *'tiidwd, to tdl'ydu trite, I do n* other people do."

Tho OldOriai Mill mr A. H. »TODDA*J.

Thi grlat mill stand* be»l«le the atream, With twn^.Qg rc^jf a«d tenniug wall old, that when the wind* are wild,

The mlH«sr irffiiblew (eat It full But mom and ivy nevor a«re, I I)f4eck ll from year to year.

Tho Aim I* itocp, and wepdtd greens Tha galea ara rained, the water* pour, And tHo bid whuel'* allppery Mop*,

The loweif! renud forevermore Meihliik* they have a *ound ol ire, 'Beoauao thoy canuot clliab It higher.

I"-, From morn till night, In autnmn time, When yellow harveet# load the plalu*, l)p drive tho farm or* to tho rnltl,

And hack anon, with loadod. walmj Tfri-y bring a h»»ap «tf goldenf grain, And take It home In tuoal ftguiu.

The mill ln*ltle tadim and dark, T., But peeping In 'he open door, You ace the tnlller flitting ronttd,

And duaty bag* along tho floor And by tho aliaft and down the *pout The yellow tnoal cumoa pouring out-

And till day lotig tha winnowing clialf Float* round it OH thaaultry broexe, And ahlneth Ilka a aattling awarm

Of golden-winged and belted be** Or *park« aronnd a bUckamlth'a door, When bellow* blow and forgea roar.

'Tla changed alnoa then, but not to mttch Aa 1 am by dtcay and time Ita wreck* ara ntowKwi from year to year. But mlm all dark and bare appaar.

I atand baatda tho atream of Ufa: The tftlghly carroht aweepa aloof, Lifting !4he lfood gntfa of my heart, turne the maglo wheel of aong, And grind* the ripened harvent, bronglit From out the golden Aald of thought.

How Moch Sleep.

"Show tis tho wun who abepa twelve Hour*," aaya a cotsmporary, "and wa will •how you a Ulookhaau."

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meaning of

tha writor aa we gather, from the reat of hi« article, is that tour or ftve hoars sleep ia aufltaicnt for any man. This however, ia aa error.- DUT«reaooa of oonatitution re* quirea (lifferenl quaniiiiea of sleep, (or while one iiemon is healthy on five hour* aleep, another requiree eight. Gooerally apeak* 1 ing, indMUuala in whom the nervou* organiaaiion predominate*) need the largcat amount of eleepjt he wear and tear being ao great, white they are awake, that a proportionate exoeea of rest is demanded.

Overteakmg iherotelvee, without adequate eleep, i« to such penona premature death: for neuralgia, if not insanity, ia sure to intervene, followed eventually by loaa of life. For this claaa of individual* to endeavor to lo with as liule steep aa thoee ditlferently oobstituted, is like exoeoting a oi^ern. fed by peHodieai raioa only, to yieW aa toe* hauaiahle supplies of water as a hydrant supplied by A publio aqtieducl. is look4ng for crop* when nothing is put on the land. It is exhausting vitality, ia a word and not allowing any time for rvoupermiion.

There are some portotfi* fortunately, cooatituted, who with high netvoue organiaalion yet require oomparttirely Utile sleep.

Broughao ts it linng instance. Napolwoe was stilt more woarkable The gr«at Emperor rttly fi*« hours. In truth he owed hie wonderful suocew a* muofe toh^s oapaoity to endui« fatigue as I tohisgwuus fo^heoould ou'.work two or1 4inary OMI il aet asere. Yet after periods of iomaoM and protracted exertion, be ||c erould stop Ibr Marty a day. Boarriwie, hit secretary galWM that after Napoleoo re* ivrtted Irem Rusais. he alepl eighteen houte vithout wskittg. Vary lew imeHetaal men however, 6MM have pettorwMMi Napoleoa'a quanttiity of work at %oy ii«e with link tfeep. Laboring with the brain is even more exhausting than laboring with the oMkicki, ami ooaaequeaUy demands as much repoae for (MirpoeMe of wcoj»eratk«,

JVasextkeletti there are pwow with whom aleep has become a diseaee. They riaa l«e, fam alter dinner, nod in the evening, and, in tact, may be aaW to be mora than bait awake. h" p*6apie bill themeeliei ia the cod, as surely a* if they fcad been deprived of needful steep, for ewiy vital funcuoo beoonwa torpid, life stagnates, and «Jea& ai last carnea oflT the ti&m.—FhU ~J

Foiling Rival.

'The critter loves me! I know the loves ma!' said Johnathan DooMfeins. as he sat on the cornfield fence meditating on the eooraeof true love, that was running just as Shaktijpeare always said it did—rather roughly. *If Sukey Peabody has taken a shine to if»at gawky, long shanked, hammerin', shy driller. Gusset because he's a city feller she aint the gal 1 took her for, that's sartin. No! Its the old folks—darn their ugly ptcter. Old Mrs. Peabody waa alters a dreadful highfaliatin critter, full of big tioas, and the old roan's soA head is driven abourby his wife jost as our old one eyed rooefft is drove about by our cantankerous Dorkin' ben. But if I don't spile his fun, then my name ain't Johnaihao. I'm goirg down to the city by the railroad next week, and when 1 come

back, woke snakes that's

all.' The above soliloquy may serve to give die reader some slight idea of the *lay of the land,'in the pleasant village where the speaker resided. .Mr. Johnathan Doubikins was a young farmer, well to do in the world, and look ing out for a wife, and had been paying his addresses to Miss Susan Peabody, of that ^flk, with a fair prospect ol success, when a city acquaintance of the Peabody'sone Mr. Cornelius Gusset, who kept a retail dry goods shop in Hanover street, Boston, had suddenly msde his sppesrance in the field, and commenced the 'cutting ouV game.—

Dazzled with the prospects of becoming a gentleman's wife, pestered by the importunities of her mamma, the village beauty had begun to waver, when her old lover determined on a last bold stroke to foil his rival. He went to the city and returned of his business there he said nothing, not even to a pumping maiden

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who kept house for

him. He went not near Peabodys, but labored in his cornfields and garden, patiently awaiting the result of his machinations.

The next day Mr. Gusset was silting with the old folk* and (heir 'darter/ in the room of the Peabody's mansion, chatting away as pleasantly as may be, when the door opened aud in rushed alurious Irish woman.

Is it here ye are Mr. Cornelus!' she screamed addressing the astonished Gusset. Como out of lhat before I fetch ye, ye spalpeen! is that what ye promised roe beforo the praste, ye haythen naygurt Coming away from me and the childer, foraakin' yer lawful and wedded wife, and runnin' alther the Yankee girls, ye infidel!*

Woman there must be some mistake here,' stammered Gusset, taken all aback by the charge.

Divil a bit of a mistake y'e edrptril. Oh! wirra! was it for the like of ye, I sacked little Dennis McCarty, who loved the ground I throd on, and all Jkcause you promised to make a lady ov me ye durty thafe of the wurruld. Will ye come to the railroad station, where I lift little Patrick, bek&se he was too sick wid de small pox to oum any further, or will ye wait till I drag veT**

Go—go—along,' said Gusset 'go and I will follow you.' Ho thought it best to temporize

Mr. Gussot was engaged in stammering out a denial of all knowledge of the virago, when the parlor door opened, and a little hlaok eyed hatchet laced woman in a flashy silk gown and a cap with many ribbons perched upon her head invaded the sanctity of the parlor. 7Z

Is he here? she cried, invla decided French acoent. Then she added with a scream, *Ah—mon dieut lo voila! Here he is. Traire monitref Vot for you run away from roet Dis two or tree year, I never see you never and my heart broke very bad entirely.'

Who are you?' said Gusset, his eyes Starling out of his head, and shivering from head to foot.

*1 give ye ten minnits,' said tne virago.— I yo ain't there, it's me cousin, Mr. Thuddy Mulgrudery, will be after ye, ye thafe!' And away went this unbidden guest.

He ask* who I am! 0, ladies! 0, you ver respectable old gentilhomme! hear what he asks! who am It Petrified! I am your vifel' wgp

I never see yctt fort—so held mi Bob, cried Gusset energetically. •Don't you swear!' said deacon Peahody. *Ef you do IT. kick you into fits by golly.— 1 won't have any profane or vulgar language In my house. •O bless you! bless youl respectable old man dell him he must come vix* ma. Dell him I have apoke to xe constable. Dell him—!' sobs interrupted her utterance.

Mils pesky bad business." said tha deacon, chafing with unwonted ire. 'Gusset you're a rasoall* •Take oare, Peabody, taka care!' Mid the unfortunate shop keeper. remarked you waa a rascal, Gusaet.— You hava gone and married two wivas, and that ia a flat burglary, if I know anything about revised statute*.' 'Two vifeal' shrieked tha French woman. **Now you clear o«it of my boaaa. and go away to the railroad station and clear out to Boston. 1 worn hava aoibiu' more to do with you. •But deacon bear ma.' 'I don't want to bear yo«» ye aarpiau* cried tha deacon stopping bis ear* with his hands, 'Marryin* two wives, and ootmn' courtin' a third! Go 'long! Leave 4bti bouse!'

Even Mrs. Peabody, who was tndioed to put ia a word for tha culprit, was adeocad. Susan turned from him in horror, and in alter despair he 3*1 lo the railway station, hotly pursued by the clamerous and iadignant French woman. .\

The same afternoon as Miss Susan Peabod Tiaras walking toward the village, she was overtaken by Mr. Jonathan Doubikins, dreesed ta bis beat, and driving hie fast going horse before his Saaday^p^MMMitag obaise. Ua reigned ap and aowatai her: *Eafio, Sake! get in and taka a ride!'

Don't oare if I da* Jobnatbaa,* replied Ai yoa eg lady accepting tke proflered aa^l. '1 say, yoa,' said Jofenathaa, griaaisg. 'that city Wter's tanad oat a party paafk ain't he!' 'Ita dreadful, if its troe," rep&ed tha lady. •You had a aura* escape (tidal yet' parsaed the

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tarer.

•Indeed,' aha ainwered. •But be aranrt nam ofaay aecoa^l, any bew._\Yt*ai 4a i%| $H MM it.*

•They hatn't said one word about it since the hour he cleared out •Forgot that night I droto you home from stngin* school!' ^ked Jobnathau suddenly branching off. •No I hain't,' said the young lady Mashing and smiling at the same time* -Remember them apples I gin youl* •Oh, yes.» •Got* a w5iole orchard of them kind of froit, Suke,* saia Johnathan suggestively.

Sussn was sQent. *(jro lang.' exclaimed Johnathan, petting iHhe bfaid on the horse. •Have you any idea where vou are going to.Sukef* •I'm going to the vfllage.* •No you ain't you are got with me.'' 'Whereto?* 'Providence. And you don't come back tHT you're Mrs. Doubikins, no bow you can fix it. Susan.' y*--, 'How you talk Johnathan.' 'Darn the old folks!' said Johnathan puting on the string agaia^ 'y,Ef I was to leave you with them any longer, theyld be trading you off to some fellow that's got half a dozen wives already.'

John Adams.

John Adam* waa lineally deacended from one of the old Puritan pilgrim*. He had also the blood of

Plymouth pilgrlma in hia voina, derived from marriage of John Aldan, one of the Mayflower'a paaaengora, with a lady whom ha had wooed as proxy for the valiant Capt. Milea Standlah.

The tradition la, that aome time after 8tandlah lost his firat wife, he conceived a penchant for oaa Mies Priaoilla Muliina, described aa a daughter of Mr. Wllitam Mulliua, but not otherwiae, to our knowlodge, a person of distinction. For seme reason, not given, the Captain commissioned his friend Aldan to act as his messenger in tha caae. The father waa to be eonaultad without delay. Then the damsel, by bis direcUon, was called into the room, and Alden, who TI all accounts repreaent to have been a very handsome man, delivered his errand in a very handaomo style. Miss Priacllla listened—paueed—mused—-and at length, fixing her tirigbt eyea upon him aaid, with a smile, "Prithee, John, why don't yon speak for yonraelft"

We will not pursue the details, bnt it may be aaalty conceived that the business was aoon settled between Iheae two partiea. The captain, II ia said never forgave his messenger to the day of hia death but the marriage nevertheless took place, and from this union have issued all of the name of Alden in the United States, not to mention a multitude of other names, baaido tha maternal ancestor* of two of our President*.

John Was educated at Harvard College, and took his first degree in 1755. Afterwards while studying law, he had charge of the grammar school in Worcester, Mass. Ho commenced the practice of law In his native town of Qalncy, then a part of Bralutree.

In 1763, he was married to Abigail Smith, a country clergyman's daughter, and an excellent woman, with whom, though rite died soma years before him, he lived more than half a century.

In the yoar 1775, John Adams, as a delegate to Congress, nominated George Washingtou to the post of Commander-in-chief of the American armies. The glory of the choice appears to belong principally to Mr. Adams and tills alone wonlo have been claim enough to his country's gratitude. Mr. Adams wait, also, one of the committee who drafted the Declaration of Independence. la 1777, he was appointed Commissioner to Frances and in 1785, he went out as the first Minister to tho Court of St. Jamea. Mr. Adams at length solicited his recall, and returned home in 178& During the Presidency of Washington, be was Vice President. At the close of Washington's administration, Mr. Adams was chosen President, by the House of Representatives. He had to conlend with violent opposition, and at the end of the first four years, Mr. Jefferson came in by a triumphant majority, aud President Adam* retired to domestic Ufa. Thia was in 1601, when ha bad reached tha aga of aixty-alx.

He died in 1826. His last words were, IwDxrtxFoasrsa! «•. if

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you are going long here

The next day, as Mr. and Mrs. Doubikins were returning home in a chaise, Johnathan Said confidentially: 'May as well tell yoa now, Sake, for 1 hain't any secrets from you, thai Gusset never seed them women afore the day ibey came stompin' into your house and bowed him out. had though. Cost me ten dollars by thunder! I told 'em what to say and I expect they done it well. Old Gusset may be a sharp store-keeper, but if he expects to get ahead of Johnathan "Doubikins, he must get up aplaguey eight airiier injhe moning.'

The following amusing story

ia a striking Illustration of the force of habit: A blooming Irish girl entered tha service of a lady who was Hi with consumption A friend of tha invalid seat twice a day to iaqnlrs how she was. Ellen regularly brought down tha answer: "My missus' compliments, and she had a veqr iudlfferant night or "my misses' compliments, am) aha facts very weak to-day."

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This west on far six weeks, and Ellen Beamed to grow more aad mora sensible of the kindness and attention ovary' time the messenger came.— The compliment* were saat back as usual, bat the bscBio® Mdkfo? ittd MMfttai** At length, one day, when the friendly Inquiry after the health of her mistime earns aa before, poor Ellen crept to the door, with swollen eyea straamiug With tears, and sobbed oat the melancholy answer—

My tatens* eompUmlata, and ahe died this moraing at eight o'clock."

Some thirty years siace, there lived ia MoatpsIter. Vt., a family ef the following description*: ••The husband aad wile the eoa and his wife the bartwad and his eight children—6t* SO** awl three danghtara the basbeod's father aad mothv. The ages of the fear patriarchs average over eighty years eecfe—total age ef the gtnadpareats, three haedrad aad tweoty two. All the mambere ef this fkmlly sal together at the same aitar. Its bead eras aae of tha oftoars «T the towa at tte organisation, la Matt* 1791, aad ts aew living at tha advanced age of eighty sine, ta October next, aad ae etgereaeta a«*ftai aad physical peWwr ss laker falty tahiaflaafreRaareary,aod trav»l, aafao», twiee a weak, artle a* more, to attaad laastlaga far maHgioaa wonttin. We doabt whether a parallel U» this extraordinary aad preepereas hall eeald be feaad ta the Dates.

Past Snuaootf Taavatwiae.—It Is aaid the etaaaaheat Alfda talaiy saade the trip frees New York to Psagfekespeie* *8es, ta tWee hears and ten mtnataa, aqaal to S90 mlkaa day or dke Attaatie la five days.

srag efceerrlaga SeRow ataai fisk aad pat It hte jacket, whteh wee lee short ta concent the&eft, baiteoed la tSasparleiaar te mm, tafiatare, a iesf»r jseksl, e» atael siwtaf fiah.

Pedaatry crass* ear haad* srtth Iwmd laaiber aasd tndse eat teabM te aaake reeea far ft

It has baesa disoowad th«a lirered in ih« Masaachoaetts Suae Cocvanttoa b) Sir. A. L. Strong, a delegate froaa tha western part of tha State, was, by sowa mistake or other, printed akaoat ewttelitt thirty years ago-

Who is Faaay Fera.

A writer in the Buffalo Daily Beptthlie, who evidently writes "in the spirit and with the understanding also'! furnishes the following interesting information concerning one who ia now engrossing a large share of publio attention.

The world wilf probably be surprised to learn that Fanny Fern is a

very practical

domestic lady thar, in all the mysteries of house-keeping, cookery, keeping wardrobes in order, and the care government and education of children in surroutiding a

home

with all the attractions which taste and elegance and ingenuity and tireless energy can bestow —thai, in short, in making of home a paradise, Fanny Fern is as superior as she is as a writer. Her exquisite taste has always enabled her, even when in the humblest circumstances, lo throw an air of refinement around her dwelling and her family, which the possessors of abundant means might well, envy and to see her in her own home, surrounded with her children (who are genuine Ferns,) and watch the play of her mind and heart, ia truly a most interesting and happy spectacle. It is seldom that a distinguished person can stand the test of intimate acquaintanceship, but this is not the caae with Fanny Fern. All w!if» come within the influence of her presence and conversation, are at once led captive by her genius and unmistakable goodlies* of heart. She la so brilliant, ao sensible, so food, and ap democratic aad juat in all her views and sentiment*, that it is impossible to withhold one's respect, admiration and esteem, and wonder how such a splendid creature has lived fa the world so long without having been found Out before.

Fanny Fern has had muoh and varied experience of joy and sorrow, which, operating on a mind of great strength and brilliancy and a heart as loving and true as ever beat in woman's breast, has produced that being who is now eleotrifying the public. Married to a man in every respect worthy of her, she lived happily for many years. Abundant riches and lovely children were theirs, and all those happinesses which superior beings fortunately situated can secure, were lavishly showered upon them. Theirs was one of those blissful unions which are so rare onaarth, and which, alas! are so apt to be broken. A bolt fell, sudden and merciless her husband slept the sleep that knows no waking, and on the spot where he was to sit dispensing happiness to hi* home-circle, the Angel ol Death brooded o'er a desolate hearth-stone, casting a shadow so broad and deep and long as to fill the whole horizon of her future. 01 the days and months and years that followed, 1 will not speak. If you would learn of them, read her book and judge how much of sorrow must have been experienced ere it could have been thus depicted.

But bright days have dawned lor Fanny. —Abounding wealth is fast (lowing in noble and powerful and true friends have gathered round and these, with her children's ardent and touching love—their unexampled devotion to, and admiration of their mother her great and rapidly increasing fame the all-sweeping admiration and sympathy of the publio, and those innumerable pleasantnesses which necessarily attend success like hers, are making ample reparation for the past and her readers will doubtless be glad to know lhat her Present is full ol happiness and her Future radiant with promise. CICELY.

A Sharp Ba*it»ess Letter.

-A cotenftporary publishes the following specimen letter from one of a class who thinks there is nothing valuable but trade in the world. It purports to come from a cute" merchant, who writes in reply to a boyish epistle from his son at bdarding school, to his master, to send him home for reasons which be thus characteristically explains:

SIR My son'a of 10th instant, came du ly to hand, and cont's noted. Sorry to hear he's been stud'g Latin, &c. What's use? I never studied any auch thing—? nothing but Webster's Sp'g Book and T)aboll's Arith'k and P'r Richard'a Alm'k yet got along well anough-—made money am Bank Direot'r, Mem. Chamb, Com., &e, dsc.. &o. Latin! better, look into M'Culloch—some ute in that. Learn all about Dr. and Cr., ct. pr. ct., cu?cy, exth., bank facil.. and md'xe. die, that's the commodity to true knowledge—-tha best md'se for, counting room—always in dem'd—-al-ways in market, when y'r Latin and y'r Greek would't fetch a soomarkee, as my oaptain says tut to point. My son is now 14 y'rs old—am in want of another clerk—must hava finiahed hia ed'n by this time stfrely would have let him stand another half year though, but for the Latin, and high rates of tuition at board'g sh'i Please ship him: on board "Swiftsure." with invoice and bill lad'g, his books. &a, consigned to Merry & Co.,

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go ao fiw aa t»

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eharge Ibe gwatkman wah plagiarism. Ha aaeats charge, however by eayiag that ha did not staal the apeach, but that be inherited it from hia fatter* by whom it waa srriitaa, and printod thirty years ago, whea h«, thre araaaai Mr. Stroog, waa too to attend to fee oMOar peraottafiy.-Xrf

l**k.

P. S. Send triti, and will remit by return mail. Stocks rather heavy Sh*d be glad to aell you a lot of damaged Java at 7 eta par lb.-very cheap, good enough far board'g Please advise."

Thi New York National

Dcmocrai

referring to tb« "spiritual rapping delusion, says Talk of tending missionaries to heathen lands while wa hava thousands ol such spiritually deluded souls at home! tnlk of the poor naked, Godless, aoanlightanad negro, who wanders

tha banks of tha. Niger or

the Oroooke! talk of tha Chiaeee. who cats his 4euy with scissors, or moulds him in pastel talk of the wretched Hindoo, who immolates hi* victim to Juggernauts, or aold Tartar who worship# the invisible Lama! talk of any or all of these, or go to what age or country wa may for examples of stupidity, is aot possible to find a more gross and beastly absurdity

light wowea aad atiS more deladed men. TSfc ancient baathea ased to look for hia departed frienda behiad ti»a btae moantains, where his aaoeatrat shadows waited hia arrival bat these more wretched modern heatheos expect to find the ao«t)e of the dead it wA apidars aad oookxwaeh earpeta and fianitara. Awial

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TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPtEMBW 18S3. no:' SL

Ita**, fhe tana, aa* On

Agdcatoa: ita TTaaftilnaw, Antiquity, Dignity, and PxogroM.

Tha oommani that tha Creator gave to Adam in Gden, is well worth being borne in mind by the tiller of the soil in the, present day. The injunction given to our great ancestor was, "to dress and to keep it," from which We gather that the working of the soil was an occupation, which from the very highest authority, waa deemed truly honorable, and the employment of tilling the ground was neither degrading nor humbling, bat doubtless conducive to health, Ijpppineaa, morality and independence.

No employment or profession can boast of more numerous or more noble patrons than that of agriculture. From the most ancient records, tradition and history have handed dowa to us names high among men, who have not been mernly patrons, but partakers of thtf labors and toil of the husbandman. and thus have sweetened their repasts,1 softened their nightly couch, and given a higher zest loall the enjoyments of lite.

We read ia Holy Writ, that Uzaah the Jewish kin was food of husbandry lhat Elisha was found ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, when Ellijah summoned him to bear the prophetic office and Gideon was threshing bis grain when God deputed him to drive the enemies of his country back into their own territory.

Cyrus, the great Persian king, often worked his garden with his own hands, and was extremely fond of horticulture. Cincinnatus waa found by his distressed countrymen driving the plough, from which he was colled to direct the destinies of the state, and when he had saved it, he returned joyfully to the s&me manly occupation.

And at the present day it is customary lor the Emperor of China always, one day in the year, to take hold of tha plough and turn a few furrows, that he may honor the labor of the Held, and thus give it his royal sanction in the eyes of his numerous subjects. l*t iSs|ti®»iS

The Romans gave'lhe natrfe of pfcunia to their coin, which literally means cattle thus showing that they regarded the produoe and oare of the field as the only real wealth of the oountry, as it ever has been, and mu*l ever remain so.

It has been justly said, slop the plough, and you will starve the world. And no greater truth has ever been uttered. We may ransack the bowels of the earth for the precious melals, invent all sortft of machinery, build steam vessels and erect telegraph lines jut all these mighty developments of the human intellect, must yield to more ancient and indispensable usefulness of the plough. It is the main spring by which all other arts and occupations become effective.

If we fleet' ifp6lrt the irftjfrbVSftTents which have been made in agriculture, no one oalling Or profession oan boast of greater progreas. The lime was, when a limb cut from a tree' served the purpose of a plough and the clatsic phrase of Virgil was truly descriptive, curvvm aratruoi and a bough cut from the same, took the place of the harrow.

When our missionaries ui Soufliern Afrlca introduced the plough at their stations, and the wondering chiefs saw hewr rapidly and neatly it turned over the soil they deolared that every plough was worth twelve wives, as the labors of the field among these savages were altogether performed by the females.

The great increaae of produoe per acre by the scientific application of artificial and natural manures, snd the practical knowledge spread abroad by our agricultural papers and Societies, attest the rspid advance that has beatt made ift every branch of field occupation.

When conversing with farfners in the mother country, the writer has often heard the remark that now he could graze and fatten as many sheep as he occupied acres of land, while the generation before dare

not venture to keep half thatf gwyn|)!|| upqn

The hop and the broom-corn are two remarkable instances of progress, and also of what great effects often result from trivial causes. The former not many years ago waa proscribed by the British Government, as a plant whose properties were pernicious, and prohibited from being cultivated but it has now become a staple commodity, pays an immense tax, gladdens the heart the peasantry, and furnishes employment for thooaanda of her hardy tons.

Whisk in thia country waa firat raised by Franklin ^rom a single seed, which be took from an imported broom and planted in hia garden. The Canada thiatla, of which ao ereat complaint is made, and which our Legislatures have eadeavored to prevent from splreadirig by exacting penal laws, was introduced by an emigrant emptying bis straw bed. in which were some of the downy seeds of this hardy weed. This is a plant exceedingly difficult to kill, as it has a single* tap root* which raas dowa to an amazing depth, aad nothing bat doep and frequent ploughing will exterminate it.

Where this pUnt luxuriates, tha land Is generally good, and tha elm tree ia often seen to rear its branching

lop*

in the same

vicinity, aa both seem to find a congeniality in the same kind of land. A blind man oooe took a bey with him to vurit a farm which ha had a daalra to aagaga, and when arrived ia one of the fielda, told the boy to tie his horse the boy replied ha could find nothing to fasten him to, except a thistle, of which there waa an abundant aad luxoriooe crop. The blind t»ao, Marieg ithis, made ap hia aittd to aagaga tha laadr ledariag that if it would grow thsatlaa, it would grow any thing he choose fo plant upon ii.,

To a stadioos, inquiring, and a philosophical mind, the. occupation of the field, (be ttirtl scenery *f tbe tooWry, asd the care of the various animals which collect foumart homestead, e&wd fee abaodaat matter foe obeerration and

Hera, like botanist, the liatar-

alist. aad tha chemist ara awrrooaded favorable oppartanitiee lor the gratification of tlMMr taste to any esteet. Tha habits of ifca foafbaeql tribe aiona yield a theoie w*kh is always iatereetiag, nor need we foci alarmed at tha taeraaaa of they winged eoogaters, aa it haa barn pct£*d baoootiwracsy that ifcay ara a fcteariag rather thia an ewL by dertroyiagttoe grabe

ap the produce of

Tho writer once kept for years large tame mala boxfcard hawk. whose use lo the garden waa of ao email amount* |fo fowl worn the yard dare venture within tha limits of his domain, and even strangers ol the human species had to be guarded when they ventured there without some of the family. He had been seen to chase and kill a weasel with dexterity and dispatch, and when any of the ground waa dog. Jack was always in attendance devouring the worms which were dug up by the spade.— In the spring he generally bui!t a nest in one corner of the arbor, and would shriek with a loud shrill voice for a mate: but having his wings alway clipped, he was unable to make any visits to lady hawks, and thus was obliged to waste his days in single blessedness: One morning he was found dead ia: tha garden, but not oold: some thieves hfid entered it during the night, and by a blow had terminated the life of this faithful guardian, over whose remains the writer ought to havs written an epitaph Cowper did over his hares. -f

It is pleasing to observe that agriculture ia oeginning to be thought essential to a complex college education. This would have a taadency to remove-that odium which many of our youth feel towards a country residence. Many olergyman and men of other professions have sighed for the time when, after long years ol servioe, they might retire and pass the evening of life iu some quiet spot in the country, but have been disappointed because pf their igno ranee of the proper management of rural af-

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WVwauT writer? t1*o wife wfll in the avocation of the field It is well to have philosophical digests of agriculture, but the poet and the essayist should use their pens to make the subject captivating.

Inqatrien about Shnnghni*. A Mohawk farmer wriies to an agricultural editor that the "hen fever" rages aome up that way, and enquires: 'Now what do you think of tho variety called the Shankhighs, whose name don't belie them! I tell my wile they have no body at all, and that when the head is cut off, the legs oome right apart. Am I right! Neighbor Buckingham's wife says, they sit and lay all at once. I don't believe it —-Its contrary to natur. I think they only recline a little as it were, and—Jerusalem how can them tilings set? My jack-knile can set as well as they can.' •I tell you Mr. EHtoK thi# put things out of joint dreadfully. When Buckingham'* wife got her Shankhighs home the other day old Kink happened to hear the rooster crow fur the first time, and not knowing anything about the matter, summoned half the hands on tho place to come and help get the old blink-eyed mule out of tha crib. Old Ivink aay». dey sit straddle of de stick cause why, when dey temps to sit as common chicken de head ain't heavy 'm^T for de legs, and dey fall oflTbackwards.'Correot philosophy that »vr •They ail when tney eai, for 1 vo seen 'em do it and I've soon 'em try to oat standing* but t'was ho go when ihey peck at a grain of corn on the ground they don't more than, half reach, it but the head bobs right between their legs making ihein turn a Complete summcr*et. May be the're like singed cats, worse than they look and that's bad enough, anyhow I'd as #oon aee a pair of tongs or compasses walking about the yard a* those Shankfiighs. And I had like lo have Jorgotten to tell you, that Pete says dey are big liars, 'cause dey crow long lime 'fore day in demornin' whenlaint day but Kink says Pete don't 'fleet dat deir legs is so long dey aee daylight long time 'lore common ohickens.'

Tomato Figs.

Aa the time for preserving tomatobs is at hand, the following recipe may be useful to many ol our readers. It wa* received by the Directors of the South Carolina Institute, from Mrs. Johnson, to whom a premium

wa3

the same homestead. "Put three pounds of clarified brown sugar

awarded at the last Fair for tomato figs:

every five pounds of tomatoes. Tney

must be first scalded to remove the skin then place in a stone jar tomatoes and sugar alternately, to extract ibe juioa in twen-ty-four hours boil them in their own juice until the sugar penetrate* and they look clear, but noi so much as to mash them. Very little boiling is necessary. Return them to the jar to remain two days, wheu you must pour off the syrup boil tt and throw over them. Let them remain two days, and then shake them from tha syrup and dry on dishes taming them every day for a week of good drying weather is tho son, Should the weather be damp after tho boil, ing ia finished they can remain in the syrup until good weather. Wbeo perfectly dry, pack down ipr small

wooden boxes, treating

each layer to sifted loaf sugar."

DBTTSO TOJUTOBS —The Ohio Cultivator ityi, (early last summer.) ^Wa ate aome very fine Tomatoes not long since, dried in the flowing manner: Fruit fully ripe was scalded, strained through a aeive, slowly cooked for half an hour, spread on dean platea,aad dried within a« oven, the whole proceaa requiring about two days before the fruit waa ready to pack away/

... IlearlagW**Ue TeethMany yean ago aa old aubaonbar who was entirely deaf, catted at our office, and with the help of aalate which ha alwaya carried with bim, we were enabled to cooverae with each otbor. fa the coarse of interview he remarked that for many yaara ha bad not been able to hear the loadest thunder,, bat added to hia great surprise, a few evenings before, he wa* at the house of a friend and waa eeated by 'he side of a pi«o, hia elbow noting oak. and his teeth upon bis thuaib, whes he beard distinctly the toaa which the daughter of his friend happened to be playing. Again aad again ba triad ibe experiment, aod ba coo Id alwaya bear wfeeo the ooaneotioa thus formed waa kept up. but could boar eoihiof however when it waa broken aitb#by the removal of his el* bow from the piano orjptadog his thumb on ttooa any other portico of twa /ace. Prom tba character of oar informant wa hava nevar had a doabtfflf Ike truth of his aarativa—

asd

we give now chiefly aa a suggestion whether some siotple instrument cannot be Craned by measa of which deaf paraoes may ba enabled to hear with Rtckmatti Wstokm*a.

5f 1?

Is Fraft Wkoledease!

Fruit of every kind is beginning to teen/ Into our markets, and the croaKera. aa u»ual,can see obotera, dysentery and aft manner of diseases coming down trpon u' Ifte a wolf on a fold," irr cousequence thereof, antf are earnestly engaged In advising those whrf would preserve their health io ahun it as a thing of evil. We do not know how nVanir will adopt this advice to liberally given, bu? we sincerely trust that croakers will maki? but few proselytes.

We do not wish to be understood as advocating the excessive use of fruit, any mofh than we do the excessive use of bread, meal, or any other artiole of food, indulgences* of all kinds are violations of the laws of our being. But to say that fruit is unwholesome, merely because it is fruit, is an absurdity not lobe tolerated. Unripe or decayed fruit? ia no doubt highly deleterious to health, a? are also, putrid meats, unsound vegetable.^ or badly baked bread, and should by air means be avoided. Hut nothing can be' more beneficial to the system, paiticularly during the summer months, than the mod^ erate use of good ripe, sound fruit. MostH kinds of fruits, cooked or unoooked are* wholesome, because they are of a coniing nature, and have a tendency to keep thW bowels genily open, and to remove front the* blood those impurities which render tlie" system gross, aluggish and bilious, ini

It has beeu proved beyond cavil thaf cooked apples are more healthful, and at the same time more nutritious than potatoes and if people could be prevailed on to u.W less meats, which are of a hot and highly, stimulating nature, and more fruits, some of the diseases which are now ao prevalent inr our cities^'during- the hot Weather, would be' rare Indeed.—Crn. CoiaVto -i&SwnH wB •i.L

NEW PART*.—The New: York Day Book' publishes the creed or New Party, which" it thinks ik' destihed to make a sensation iu* tha country. It is to be culled the AmerU oan Party,—goes for universal educatlob bjK means of free schools independent of any religious sect—for rnfurming naturalization' laws so as to extend the term of residence,' but not to interfere with those who are al* ready voters—goes for free trade in all liY* ticles not the products of this oountry, but a judicious tariff upon all others—goes for a Pacific Railroad—harbor and river improvements—selling publio lands to acfunl settlers—opposed to any legislation' whiolt* shall exclude the Bible from the public schools, or vest church property exclusively in the hands of the Clergy." The J)of Book bays "this is bound to be a'great par4' ly and to go ahead." ii'imn ii. '.!i»a full tr.

Modest.'

The ediior of the New York Dutchman' has been to the Crystal Palace. He thinks" Its—particularly the statuary. hat tm' idea to class such ohjKcts under the head1 of line arts! though he, beheld the great* number ol nude figures standing upon the' platform, smiling at him and each other, "They ahould be put under the head of •'vulgar arts," he remarked to h»i»»*lt',amr th«n added, "We can go nnked women, but' when it"bomei» to rush the masculines w'fh nothing on but their ear*, we beg leave to go into the next room, though they ara made of stone. Men are horrid orea^ tures and the less we see ofthem, the belter."

S ha a I

wrole Dr. -tu

BAD Si'si.MN'F.— A' gentleman Francis the following note 'Dear Doctor: I caught colli yoilcrday,' and have got a little horie. Please write11 what I shall do for ihem.'

Tha following was the answer ,j Dear P. For the cold take a pound of hut'.er candy. For the little horse huy a' saddle, and ride him out of town the first time we have pleasant weather.

Yours, Dr. I*.

Tifs HOT SUMMBU:—It is stated by a gen-* lleman who reoently visited the."imiibsonian^ Institute, at Washington which hat a stste*. ment showing the temperature since 1798, that this is tha warmest summer since that day, and perhaps the warmestever known in this oountry. What is some-' what strange, ibe average heat this summer of Richmond and Lancaster. Pa., exceeds that of any other localities in the Union.

Alioe Carey,

a late poem^—"An April1

Rhyme," published in the usea this very beautiful figure: j, ....

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Evas for tha dead 1 will not hi ad

Mr BOttl to grief—death cannot long divide Far la It not a* If the rtwu had ellmW My garden qrall aad blossomed on tha other »Ue."

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BROTHERLY LO'VB.— WO

am', teMiiVi'nmffiiif®, aee it stated irv

tha Cincinnati Sua thai Jadtfrffe, the Attorney' who has been malting desperate effrrti to impeach Judge Finn, and who was soundly beaten by that functionary on Friday, Is a brother4n-law of the aforesaid Honorable Judge. *r iiim "UfVi1" W** '-'A't'--

During fhe lastteven months five hundred: and ninety-eight marriage llcenne* have 1 Ueen ia*ued in Louisville, 'The Courier' •ay* "aot^good fore man to be aleaa.'* and the number of marriages thow thai both the girls and boys are of the same way of thinking.

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The only Stale officer to be chosen at thar ensuing October electioo io Indiana, is Reporter of tha Sulpram* Court. Albert 0Y. porter and J. W. Gordon, both of Indiana' polls, ara the candidates. 1

flanry Ward fteecher aaye. 'there ta groat deal more Gospel in a loaf of bread sometime, than ia an old dry sermon.'^

An old fogie waa asked why he rftcf no# uke a newspaper. ttecausr.' awid lie. *mf father, arhen ha died, leh ma a good many aewrpapfrs whioh I have not yat read1 through.''

At the last axaminailon in Wotf Academy, were 2SO Cadets, divhfed inte1 four dwwf. Twenty aeven offhfriw on andoaHoa were fmmd defitolwit, ORK! wertf, recoarmeadad for discharga.

•Refurued AtntraHans* begin to ba ar ftljk lure of BnjHIiah aociaty ami IfingUeb

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