The Wabash Courier, Volume 12, Number 14, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 9 December 1843 — Page 1

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This common field, this little brook— What ie there bidden in the* two, That I an often on then look,

Oftener than on tbe heavens blue No beauty lies upon tbe field Small moaie dotb tbe river yield And yet I look and look again. With aome something of a pleasant pais.

•,/jTia thirty-con*t be thirty years, Since last I atood upon this plank, When o'er the brook ite figure rears.

And watch'd tbe pebbles ss tbey ssnkf Mow white the stream! I still re member Its margin glassed by hoar December, And how the sun fell on the snow* Ah can it be so long ego

It cometh back So bmne, so bright, It harries to my eager ken, As though but one short winter's night

Had darkened o'er the world since them It Kwha suite clear dazzling scene rterhnps the

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is scarce q* gften

Perhaps the nvei's troubled toice Doth not sopUtinlgsay—"Rejoice

Yet Ntrtare surely never ranges. Ne'er quhs her gay and flowery crewn Jhit, ever joyful, merely changes

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The primne# for the tbiatle-down, Tii alone who, waring old, Look on her with an aspect cold. Dissolve her in our burning tears, jDr clothe her with tbe mists of ysars!

Then, why should not the grasa be green Andwhy should oot the river's song Be merry,—aa they both have been

WbIn I was there an urchin strong Ah, true—toe, true! I m« the sun, Through thir^printer years hath run, For grave eyes, (Itfrrored in the brook, Usurp the urchin's Isoghing look!

So be it! I have lost,—and wqpl For, once, the past was poor to me,— The future dim and though the sun

Sited life and strength, and I was frect I felt not- Anew no grateful pleasurei All seemed but as tbe common measures But wow—the experienced Spirit old Turns oil the lender) past to gold

From the Cincinnati Gazette.

A S A N O I 1 IS W I E ON TUB SKMT'CKNTKNAHY AKMVBXAAKT OT TBKIB WSO DIMO DAT.

This day Completes just fifty years, Since heart and hand we plighted, To wend through life as fortune veers,

In sunshine or benighted.

I saw the anguish of your lieart, Andaaw.U»eg«alim*gtefti%,^s?.*^ 'sn ^^.y.^Wiih aisters, brotliers, all to pari,

And parents, doubly dear.

Your feelings could not be suppressed On quitting friends so dear It fixed your empire in my breast,

Twas proof of love sincere.

Since then we've wandered, side by side, As fortune led the way, And I have never known you chide,

Though oft I've gone astray.

When strangers in this goodly land, And all were then no less, No friend to lend a helping hand,

Whatever our distrtse.

When atekness paralyzed each power, And reason quit its throne, Then, Mary, came the trying hour—

Reserved lor you alone.

When death seemed hovennfi^f tfc* msAI, All earthly prospects fled, Then, Aaron-like, you stepped between

The living and the dead.

And with your unremitting care Restored mo back to life, With you for many a tear to share— *, Contentment without strife.

And what remains of lile* fleet sands* To us beneath the sua, God grant, that in our long tried lands,

Together we may run.

And, Mary, should we meet afar, Beyond the world we're In, Bexthoa, henceforth, my bosom star,

Af tt inoti,

Cincinnati^ Oct- 31, IMS.

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POETRY.!

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LETTERS FROM MR. WEED.

Correspondence 4IUay/*«ra«L 0HAVRE, Ace. 89,

letter from France, with French Pane and Ftesft Ink 1" *We got into the docks ait 151 o'clock and I set foot onthsnml of "La France amid the chntterirtgu of won* monkey* nnd pnrrota, m\\ in ft langMkge alike unintelligible. I feel, for mow wndbly tKnn I expected, the embermwment and morttftcntton and reproach of being ignonwt of htngoag® which hat be. come to uaiwrsah My fi«t impure was to return, intend of attempting te travel deprired of two of the wnae#—-for deprived am, in aW that can iniercet or instruct—of the aenae of hearing and of •peoeh. The ear* and tongoea of those who neither understand nor apeak French, are quite uaelena. Wo are even woree off than mutea,

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they have a

language of signs. It i« on such occasions a* these that we reallie and Wtment the waate of time. A very few of the hour* and da ye and weeks that have eouftndered, directed to tbe acquirement of the rench language, would have now spared me the mortification of trav dling through France virtually deaf and dumb! But tntwe regrets, so far as my own enjoy* ment is concerned, are wholly unavailing.— Should others however, read this letter, lei them be admonished to learn French Ian. gunge, whteh can always be done without in* terference with other studies. With such ft knowledge of French as assy be acquired from the books, a few days rsaidenoe is France, to MBUiKoni the ear to its pronuaeietton, eaatice the student to apeak floeatly aod with «•».

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er's attention at Havre. I am far more interested here with the People than the place. I had only seen the French individually. Here I encounter them as a Nation. We know that they ore constitutionally, a gay, polite and amusement"sreking race but their gayeties, politeness, and frivolity far exceeds my expectations. You would infer, on landing at Havre, from the numbers of Monkeys and Parrots upon the docks, that these were tbe main articles of French commerce. And in walking through the streets, from the endless variety of gewgnws and frippery displayed in the shop-windows, you would suppose that the French people were given over to levity and lightness. As for the people themselves they seem to be living without responsibility or care. In strolling through the place, I find nobody anxious or thoughtful—nobody miserable or even unhappy. And the few mt-ndicants you see, come not with woe-begone faces and a pious tale, but seek to amuse you with the tricKsnfn Monkey, a while Mouse, a young Alligator, or some fantastical contrivance in meclianism.

On landing at Hnvre a traveler, (especially if he comes from England) begins to experience some of the Custom-House annoyances and exactions which vex and plague you throughout Europe. Our party, fortunately, had nothing contraband but a few Segars,on which they made u* pay a second duty, but the searching operations upon others were rigid and inquisitorial. A lady from Ireland who came here to educnte her children, brought a trunk full of clothes upon each and every article of which she was required to pay & duty amounting, in most cases, to more than the articles would have cost here ready made, and in all cases, more than the material cost!

Havre is spolten of as a modern lown, tho* founded some half century before the discovery of America. It has derived most of its commercial importance from the trade with our country. Thore are no castles or monuments here, but a few historical associations. There are but four hours in twenty-four when large vessels enn get in or out of the docks, which are capable of receiving U50 ships.-— There are American or English partners in most of the shipping Houses here and the English language is more spoken here than in any other town in France. Havre was a point of considerable interest during the early wnrs between France and England. The Duke of Richmond embarkod from this port in 1485, with 4,000 men furnished by Charles VIII, and with whom, backed by the forces which joined him after he landed at MilfordHaven, he encountered and overthrew the usurper and Tyrant Richard the Third. Shnkespenre, you will remember, makes RatclifF report the rumored embarkation of Kichmond to King Richard thus:— •'Moat mighty Sovereign, on the western coast

Rideth a piiaantNavy to the shore Through many doubtful, hollow-hearted friends, tJnarm'd and unresolved, to beat them back 'Ti« thought that Richmond ie their Admiral, And there thy hull, expect but the aid Of Buckingham to welcome them ashore."

The Huguenots surrendered Havre to Queen Elizabeth in 1662, hut the English under the Earl of Warwick, were subsequently driven out by a besieging army commanded by the Constable Montgomery. The fleet of William 111 made an unsuccessful a'.tempt to recapture the place in 1694. And in 17* 06 Sir Sidney Smith, in attempting to cut out a French ship from under its batteries, got upon the sand-banks, and was himself captured by some gun-boats.

English or American travellers, on landing at Havre, are required to go personally before the Mayor, who receives their passports and gives them temporary permit for Paris, where the originals follow them.

ROUBN,

Aug. 80.

We left Havre this morning at 8 o'clock, in the steamer for this place, which is about 90 miles. There were from 260 to 275 passengers, with a sprinkling of Monkeys, Par* ro» and Poodle®. There is no regulation here* which prohibits •'smoking abaft the wheel.*' Some twN&nty or thirty French gentlemen, with huge mustaches, are puffing their segars in the faces of an hundred ladies. Such an exhibition of bad taste and ill-man-ners, in America, would have furnished John Bull with chapters for at least a dozen books but in France they pass such things without

Hie day was bright and the passage up the beautiful Seine exceedingly pleasant. The bay, at the mouth of the River, is seven miles wide* We stopped at Honfleur, (ooeof the towns in France matte classical in the "Sentimental Journey'*) to receive passengers. It is a dirty looking place, with 10,000 inhabitants, whose principal traffic is in eggs, of which they send seven thousand dosen to England weekly. They raise excellent fruit here, soow of which (melons and peach* es) was brought on board. There are several towns on tbe Stine, enjoying considerable commerce, asia indicated by the number of vessels at their wharves. There is much rural beauty along its banks but in Agriculture France is evidently a centtTry behind England and America. The various products of the toil are cultivated in patches instead of fields. The country seems divided into gardens rather than farms. There are no fence* here, as with us, nor hedges asia England.

hence by three French ponies, tandem, to the Granary In this way a dozen people consume a day in harvesting an acre. Two third* of the persons I saw at work in the fields were women.

At 12 o'clock the Passengers began to order their Breakfasts, which are served, as io their Cafe's in small rooms upon the guards of the Boat. The breakfasts generally consists of red-wine, a mutton-chop and bread. A few ordered Coflee instead of wine, and some added butter to thpir bread while others substituted a boiled egg for the muttonchop. As there were more than 200 persons to be provided for in this way, the cidinary department displayed much activity for two or three hours. I have known People, however, whose fastidiousness would have preferred a long fast to a breakfnst upon plates and with knives and forks that bad nerved twenty others without having been removed frotn the ..L

it,'! '-.V fe( v.C There are several very pleasant '.owns along the Seine, the prettiest of which is Candebec, that seems, in passing, like a beautifully painted landscape. All around Cahdebec you see lovely villas and chateaux. This town was taken by the English, under the Earls of Talbot and Warwick, in 1419.— Quilleboeuf, an old town with considerable shipping at its docks, is situated upon a projecting promontory, and shows very conspicuously.

Our first visit was to the cathedral of Notre Dame, a vast and venerable pile. *whose frown,' (as Counsellor Phillips said of Napoleon,) 'terrifies the glance his magnificence attracts.' Without attempting to describe this splendid church, let me remind you of some of its associations. One of its tall spires was destroyed by lightning in 1822, in the place of which, somebody's bad taste, suggested a long, horrid looking iron tube or chimney, which now deforms and mars the view. The first Duke of Normandy was buried here in the 13th century. Tbe heart of Richard Coeur de Lion, and the bodies of hi* brothers, Henry and William, and their uncle, the Duke of Bedford, were interred here. During the French Revolution, the enormous bell, together with the coffins in which several of the Cardinals, &c., bad been interred, were taken away and melted intocaonoo and coin by the Revolutionists. -y

The

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see hut few cattle or sheep, and

no hogs. A Farmer of Western New York, who ifrf**— into his hundred acre wheat fie«d with a force sufficient to cot, rake, hind a«l thrash it in two or thirea days, would be infinitely amused with the primitive mode of harvesting in France. Here the wheat is all cut^ with the sickle, and then bound by women, who place the sheaves ia a sort of scraggy rack upon the back of donkeys, that move along behind the reapers. When the donkey gets loaded (some eight or ten small sheaves in each of his woodden saddle-bags) he is marchad off to the road, where tbe wheat it transferred to a eteosy wagon and drawn lastly

••PRINCIPIIS OB8TA."

TERRE-HAUTE, IND. DECEMBER 9, 1843.

The navigation of the Seine, at this

point, is difficult and dangerous, on account of the rapidity with which the tides change the position of the sand bars. Vessels are frequently lost here. During the French Revolution the Telemaque, a vessel containing the money and jewels of Bourbon Princes, was wrecked and sunk here. These immense treasures are talked of, coveted, and sighed for, here, as is the specie supposed to have been swallowed in the British ship of wa* sunk near Hur'.-gate during our Revolution.

There are clusters of hamlets along the river, all enjoying the shade of fine groves, where the peasantry seem passing lives as pastorally tranquil and hnppv as falls to the lot of man. Indeed passing up this charming river, I saw many cottages the grace and beauty of which awakened sensations ns delightful as those expressed so sweetly and melodiously by Moore:— "I knew by the wnoke that so grncefulty curl'd

Above the green elms, that a Cottogo was near. And I mid to myself, 'If there's peace to be found in the world, A heart that is hamble might hope for it here1

This place (Rouen) is the capital of ancient Normandy, and is second only to Paris in historic associations and in somo resper.ts scarcely second even to Paris. Under the auspices of Capt. Funk, the excellentand popular Commander of the packet-ship Baltimore, who had just arrivsd from New York, and who accompanied us to Paris, we visited tho numerous objects of interest in and about Rouen. In going to our Hotel we passed through several long, narrow, dark, damp streets, rudely payed, and without side-walks, whose gabto fawd buildings at the eares approached so near as almost to form an arch, and to exclude all but some feeble rays of heaven's light and ai.*" Arrivnd at the Hotel I was shown into the i»Jlh story of a most antiquated building. Tho stairs are of stone, into which footsteps hove worn several inches.— The bed-room is paved with a species of brick, octagonal in form, and variegated colors.— There is an oaken table and two rurfe chairs in my room that are probnbly as old as our good city of Albany. Rouen, though very ancient, is not in any respect ruin. It is a busy, bustling, thrifty town. Its commerce is large, and its manufactures very considerable and it contains a population of 92.000. The Seine spreads out 1000 feet here, and Rouen has docks and wharves for 250 vessels. Along the Quay the old buildings have been demolished, and replaced by blocks of spacious and massive yellow marble. These modern structures present a beautiful front or facings, for an interior of dark, devious, desolate, winding labyrinths, from which a stranger extricates himself with difficulty. In walking the central parts of Rouen you encounter bad pavement, all sorts of filth, and most villainous od rs.

PnWifW of Eouen, con

tains 38,000 volumes, among which is a richly ornamented manuscript history of the Normans, written ia the 12th century. The

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is rich in cariosities, and

no stranger should pass Sooen without seeing them, fa this culleciioo, yon me tbe door of tihe house ia which Cot aeAla was born. Its windows are all of the painted glass from suppressed convents, churches, dtc., and form a chronological series from the 13(h to tbe 14tb century. Among the autographs, is the •mark' of William the Conqueror, who could not write! There ore also the signatures of Richard Coeur de Lion and several Norman Panose. Adjoining this building is a Museam of Natural History.

The church of St, Jeorais is supposed to be the eldest ia Rouen, and one of the first christian edifices in Fraace. Its Roman title, and ils ij ii id* maWSII mtliniini belief that

its construction was commenced as early as the 4th century. William the Conqueror, suffering from the wound received at Mantes, retired to tbe Monastery of St. Gervais to die, deserted by friends, plundered by dependents, and abandoned even by his own sons.

There is a very miserable statue near the PftHX.de fa Puce'lle* which indicates' the spot where the heroine Joan d'Arc was burned alive as a sorceress in 1421. The Quarterly Review, in an article vindicating the characleM&this christian enthusiast and martyr, sayfrth&t she was sacrificed in the presence ol Cardinals, Priests, and a multitude of people that-while the flames were circling around her'she held up the emblem of her faith and died expressing her convi»rtion in the truth of mission. In prison she was subjected to insults, tieochery and outrage. She was dragged to trial without counsel, and brow-beaten by-hw brutal judges. But shameful as was tho l^uat^ce of England towards this illustrifMi'tknrHn, they were not alone cruel and remorseless! Her accuser, her unjust Judge, and the false Priest, who, under the guise of friemlahip, acted the spy, wore Frenchmen. And even Charles VII, who owed his throne to her enthusiasm and gallantry, extended neitkpr his protection nor his sympathy to her. Some twenty years after her death, her innocence was proclaimed, and the French, having tacome masters of Rouen, raised a cross on flie spot where she had been bound to the stake, jc,

It was at Rbuefi that Henry VII!. attended by Cardinal Wolsey, hqd an interview with Francis I. The house in which Corneille was borA stands in the Rue de la Pie, and a splen-did-statue in honor of the great writor is soen at the end of the beautiful bridge over the Seine.

Rouen is the Lowell of France. Its manufactories furnish employment CQr 5Q»000 people# •«,

I have been trying to stop this sufficiently longyarn. but my pen has kept running, with sort of cork-leg pertinacity, until it flns at least exhausted tho patience of those whose good nature may have beguiled them halfway through a •thrice-told tale.' So now I'll to bei} in a cell strong ami gloomy, and old enough to have been some unlucky wight's prison-house three or four hundred years ago. PO OF MUSIC ON NIGHTJ^C

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MOTHERS, BE CHEERFUL.

Not in studies above their years, or in irksome tasks should children be employed. The jovoue freshness of lh«i young natures should be preserved, while they MM» the duties that fit them for this life and the next. Wipe away their tears. Remember how hurtful are the heavy rains to the tender blossoms just opening on the dsy. Cherish their smiles- Let them learn to draw happineas Irom all surrounding objects since there most be some mixture of happiness in every thing but sin. It waseace said of« beauiiful woman, ihat from her childhood, ebe

hsd ever spoken smilingly, ss if the heart

nooreo from ihe lipe as thev turned it into'besuty. May I forgiven for so repeatedly pressing on mothera to wear ihe lineaments of cheerfulness! "To be good and disagreeable too ia high treason against the the royally ot virtue," aaid a correct moralist. How Bidsh is it io be deprecated, when the only foundation of true happiness fails of making ihat joy visible to every eye! Its happioese ia melody to tbe aoul, the concord of feeling with the circumstances of oar lot, the haraMey,ef ihe whole being with the will of tbe Creator Nf desirable that thia melody should produce the rasplpee of sweet tones, and a smiling eoanienance, that evetralight observers may be won by ibe ettarms of ita ext&aai symbols\—Mr$. Sigoumtg.

The following is the transcendental for «*Mis«, will you take my arm Tn •-Young lady will you condescend so far to sacrifice your own convenience to my picasare. as to insert the five digitals and part of the extremity of your contiguous arm through the angular aperture formed hy the crooking of my elbow against the perpendicular por. tioo of frame f"

A F*e#cb priest who was exceedingly c6t~ pulent, coming late one evening to a fortified town, asked a countryman whom he met, "if be could get in at the gate?** "I should think you might," replied the peasant surveying his proportions, "for! saw a load of bay ia this morning."

Tn Forxtes Shoer.—The Otaasi BcpebQsaa CMtsi*s a autooeat. smarted by affidavit, sworn to before a Jssfiee of the reaee, which we thiak ear pttwtn* allereario*. Mr David B. Shepherd, of Otsego, proves as sforeaaid, that on the third tav of this pteaeot month, be did. between 4 o'clock A. M.. and 15 minutes past

P. M-, the viaea. dig sod pick op three bandies of mniinas

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GALES.

-The Whig principle of Protee* TS instead of of man-

lise fans attdessc^psrfers instead •betarad eottoos-rtjsoKsrs ummd ot of saUwws tysrfc" invwsd of unlaws of mixed etoths —*ad aswmriaa instead of unarui of Srseir— WW (baa aboald bard ssoeey msa opposs a Protective

NO. 14.

PARLIAMENTARY WISDOM

Legislative blunders are not leea arousing than instructive. An English paper states that so carelessly have acis of Parliament been Framed, that one, in prohibiting the doing of a certain act under pain of traneportation, contained a clause dividing the penalty between the King and the informer. The 6th George III., cap. 48, passed for the protecting of timber tree*, enumeratea all the frees which it wee supposed would come under this denomination. Seven yeare afterwards, it wee necessary to pass a no liter act, adding to tbe enumeration poplar, alder larch, mi pie, and hornbean trees. An act of Edward VI. made it a capital fotonjr to steal horsra it was doubtful if thia included tbe etealins o( a single horse, and an explanatory act was accordingly passed to compoae tbe doabt. In one session there was a law made enfajeciing hackneycoachmen to a penalty if they had not a check string and the next s»ssion another law was made requiring tbe coachman to hold the string ia bis hand.

Lord Rochester, tbe wit of "Charles' days," is said to have complied with the directions of an act ot pariisment requiring a lamp to be placed over every door but he would not Buffer it to be lighted, the act COR taining no words to that effect. Sheridan used to compare the numerous Acts amending the errors of receding Acts to the story of the "house that Jsck uilt." "First comes a Bill imposing a tax, then somes a Bill to amend the Bill imposing the tax then a Bill to explain the Bill for amending the Bill imiws* ing the tax followed by another Bill for remedying tbe defects of the Bill to explsin the Bill for amending ibe Bill impoeingthe tax andsoonarfrnftti/Ksi." We could scnrcelv expect to find food for mirth in the solemn records of Parliament but rarely can we read them, at least euch as relate to our early ages, without meeting with some absurdity rendering the maintenance of gravity a difficult matter. While a Bill for the improvement of the London police, brought into the Houee of Commons in George Ill's reign, was going through Committer, a clause was read which enacted, that the watchman should be compelled to sleep in the day-time. An old Baronet atood up snd proposed that the clauae should be extended to Members of the House of Commons, for gout hsd many nights past prevented his sleep, and he doubted not that others, ae well a§Ju(njclft would be glad to be comptlltd to sleep! *-i _______ 3otto% Be*.

AMERICAN CHARACTER.

We can recall no instsnce which more truthfully exemplifies the energy and perseverance of our notional character, than the history of the celebrated epparatus called Russell's Planetorium. The maker of thia "Miniature Universe," is a native of one of the Eastern Sis tea but settled in Ohio, when that State was comparatively a wilderness his calling was that of an humble mechanic, and he selected the then small town of Columbus as his abode. Shortly after taking his new residence, Mr. Russell imbibed an earnest desire of forming a correct model of the solsrand planetary system, and the more he contemplated the grandeur and immensity of the purpoee, the more he Was snxious to accomplish it. Our young mechanic had received but a limited education, anil was trholly ignorant even of the principles of Astromomy, but between the intervals of labor he consulted what materiala on the subject he cofffd obtain, and hy ardent diligence he at length obtained the required information. And now began we prosecution of his cherished design—alone, with scanty means snd few friends, obliged to labor for his doily snpport, and amidst a wild and newly settled district this stupendous undertaking was conceived, commenced and finished. Yes, after years of untold

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plaintive melody is not by day suspended in the East, as in our colder region and it is said that several of those birds have expired while contending with musicians in the loudness and variety of their notes. It has, indeed, been known, according to Pliny, that in vocnl trials among nightingales, the vanquished bird terminated its song, only with its life. An intelligent Persian, wsio repeated this story agam, and permitied me to write it down from his lips, declared to me thut he had more than once been present when a celebrnted lutanist, Mirza Mohammed, surnamed Baltab, was playing to a large company in a grove near Shimz, where he distinctly saw the nightingales trying to vie with the musician sometimes warbling on the trees from branch to branch, as if they wishod to approach the instrument whence the melody proceeded and at length, dropping on the ground in a kind ofecstncy, from which he assured mo they were soon raised by a change in the mode. *And in one of Strada's academic Profusions we find a beautiful poem which tends to confirm the Persian, report for it supposes the spirit of emulation so powerful in the nightingale, that having strained her little throat, vainly endeavoring to excel the musician, she breathes out life in one last effort, and drops upon the instrument which had contributed her defeat.

Persia, nightingales arc said to abound, which nolAnly diner dufing* the night, hut wboseiw»jf tJii«»^wi»aH*«aj^an!4i» »njvertfcHrp«w»«*n' rrJr!!, wu. ...cnon^H 5n fed-asbneof the grandest s^mplishjnentsevvr exe-

pit. with countless difficalties to depress the mind and its hopeS^! we behold from the unaided hands of a solitnry mechanic, a work of combined science and art, which is the astonishment of the great and learn

cotcd by human ingenuity. Such ia Russell's Plsne tori urn, and we may refer to himself and his achievement with equal pride snd pleasure- And would you know the secret of this success, with every thing to oppose it 1 Simply energy and perseverance—ceaselesn and untiring—we trust the ever-ruling hescon. of our growing American Character."—N- Y. $un.

A NEW FASHIONED PAN*

Some years ago, in Natcliex. Miss., Professor Ma flit was announced to jjftesch in that city on a certain day. The fame of the gifted orator had preceded hiin and every person in the city of Bluffa was anxious to hear him. Somehow the news happened to reach the hovel of an old woman, who perhaps hsd not beard a sermon fora quarter of a century and very seldom went out into the world. She deiermined io hear the stranger. It being excessively warm weather at the time, and having no fan she started io purchase one. She got to a store where they happened to know her, a.id ware" of her ignorance, they determined to have aome fun. They told her thai they just received a new fashioned fan, a beautiful article, and handed her a common, guilt bellow! 8he tried its power to raise a breeze, anawas perfectly delighted with it. To church she went the house being crowded, she took her seat near the pulpit. The text was selected, and ihe speaker progressed and warmed with his subject, and so did the Old woman who now brought her fan to her face and conMMhcsri blowing awajr Ss if her salvation depended on her keeping cool. This attracted the attention of the audience snathe speskeriooked down to see what was the matte,*." His eyes Caught the old worttan he stopped and siruied at trie ridiculous figure she cot. The old woman observed him looking st her, and cried out "Go it magnolis, bress God l'se all attention." The audience fainted* he curtain dropped, snd we left, but the image of ttw old woman with the fan is still before us.

RECEIPT FOR CURING HAMS. We have been handed ihe following receipt for caring heme by one of the most eminent prasticioners in thia city the aajeratas is at least new to us, and we therefore publish it, although it msy not he anew ingredient in the receipt to others. In Cincinnsti, where large quantities of hams ore annually cured, pepper, allspice, cloves, natmeg, cinnamon, and other llttM ingredients are usually added but to the receipt-

Cover the bottom of the cask with coarse salt, lay on the hams with the smooth or skin side down, sprinkle over fine salt, then another layer of hams, and so continue until thecaek ia fall. This ought to be of the larger kind A cask holding 64 gsllnns is small enough, and it would be better if it held 120 gallons Make a brine in the following proportiona 6 gallons of waier. 9 lbs. salt, 4 lbs. brown sugar. 3 ox. saltpetre. 1 ox. aaleratus. Scald and scum, and when cold pour tbe brine inio the cask until the hams sre com-

iletelv covered. The hams should remain in ihia pickat leaet three montha,and a little longer time would do them no harm.

THE S EPA RATION OP THE SEXES IN RUSSIA.

Among the natives of Afghanistan and Perns, women are seen only by men in their privates part men ts. They go abroad, indeed, batao eloaely veiled that their very feet are concealed, and their own husbands cannot discover them- At Khiva, tbe same strictness prevsils in cities bat the Toorcumuns do not. because they cannot conceal their women, although I hey will not eat with them and their pursuits and amusements are quite distinct. Amongst the Kuzzsuks the same system prevsils- Tbe women, however. «s lese shy of strangers, and the prejudice is evidently wearing out as we progress northward. Tbe Cossscs or chfistianized Kuxzoults of ihe Oorabl, do not seem to admit their women into the social circle. At least I never (ootid them there. The reason assigned to me waa, that their ladies not understanding French, and not being much accustomed to the society of strangers, were reluctant to meet me, leaat I ahould report them barbarose- Tbe real cause ie a remnant of Asiatic prejadice, which lead the aexes to separate grounds of recreation. This the Roaeiana have not entirely lost. A ladv at St. Peteriborgh will not take voar arm. In tbe coaatry they are Teas fastidious. With as it is the reverse of this. There are many countrv towns when the arms canmrt be linked wit boat scandal whilst, ia London, a lady is resp-ctable only so long as she is hooked to an arm. These little restraints upon intercourse I fooad the most tiresome ot the drawbacks to !f iisii" *»^aggllln.lMdiae have no baahfalneas. and

think a party her^creatares the dallest of sit dnll sad bartwrouS Miibda of torturing time.—JMoiC*, Jwnurtf Kkim, Jfc.

Dnon vm Yowsw.-TTsi sueeeasof individasts through life, ts, noder God, greatly owing io their (canting to depend imon their «wa resource* Money, or the expectation of it by inboitanoa, has rained more persana than the want of ever did. Teach yoang men to rely apon then own efforts, *»be fraeal. indastrioos. and yon have f. rnwftod them with a prrdactive capital which others cannot wrest from them, and winch they thenar Ires wilt not disposed tojiiienate. tbe only sere aiar aad co«bin*! with peiasvcrsaesj will ovvrcome all obstscfe«.„

From the Iowa Kami By. IOWA TERRITORY.

I shsll bejstn a description of some of the priocind riven ol Iowa- First, the great fcther of wttm, the Mississippi river, bounds the territory

average widih is about one tfiouaaad yarde. TS* mote sources of this mighty river is w'd iobe Elk UW* a distance of 3160 miles from ibe gulf of Mexico, 1030 miles from the falla of St. Amhony, and iisaid to be about 1500 feet above the level of the sea. Thia »tK*ia flows northward, passing through aome small lake* till it reaches the tails of Packanma, which is aboat 350 miles from iu head. From that point its coarae is sonthwsrd, and falling over a stratum of rock 20 reefc, leavea the*ret savanoaha and lakes behind and paa» ing through a region of fomts and dry prairiafc abouilt ding with immense herds of Elk and Buflalo, it reaches the falls of St. Antbonv. Hete it fslis in the distance of 9 miles, about 80 fee't. From thia point to ita janetion wjib the great Missouri river, it flu we betweaa some lofty lime stone bluffs, sometimes nearly 900 feet high. The Dee Moines and Rock river rspids, in time of low water, impede the navigation of thig river. The water of thia stream aometimee has a blackish hue. It ia a famooa stream for fish. The valley of the Mississippi is fanr.:** throughout tbe civilised world for its fertility and ^bneasof aoil, noble tributary streams^ dense rort£(a and vast aad beautiful prairies, whoss endless vsrietiea of flowers in summer, and fine range for stock, both please and profit the inhabitante. Next in importance, ia tbe beautiful

Wapaipinecofi river is another valuable stream

this Territory It rises near the neutral ground ana runs near 200 miles, empties into the Mississippi about twelve milos above the head of the Rock Island rapids. The current of this sirenm is quite rapid and crooked, but it affords some very valuable mill seata, and good sites for machinery. There are some other verv valuable streams running thro' this Territory which afford fine water power, and are of immenae value for stock. The principal are Yellow, Volga, Little Makoqueta snd Fall rivcra. The Des Morts, Lytie's. Pine, Sugar, Rock, Wspsienonock, Cedar and Flipt cieeks. The main direction of all these stream a issouihesst. They generally run parallel with each other, and the distance is not verv great from one to the oitw Vast bodies of valuable timber line those streams. The intermediate spaces are beautiful, rich, rolling prairies. Sometimes there are barrene along the edges of the bodies of timber, next to the praries. But as 1 have gone through a short description of the streams in the Territory, I shall close thia

0 and wish peace, health, wealth, long life and an in* nocentand upright heart to enjoy life, to^t^y^rpadm.

A YANKRK TRICK—During tho Revolutionary war, two brothers, from one of the eastern ports, were commanders of privateers—they cruizod together and were eminently successful, doing great damage to the enemy and making much money for themselves. One evening, neingin the latitude of the shoals of NantuckSt, bat amy miles MPthe eastwsrd of than, ihay spied

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DES MOINSSriver,which

is for a abort distance from ita month, tbe boundary bat tween Iovra and Missouri state. Its general direction is south-east. It ia navigable for at earners 100 miles a a good stage of water. Keel boats, flats, Slc. can run thia stream almost at any stage of water. In a former No-1 noticed thia stream, above the new boundary line, ami my friend L- W. B. will pleaae give all the infoo mation which he can concerning thia noble and valuable stream, which, in time tocome, will be worth mora to Iowa, than any canal in tbe United Statee. Iowa river ia a handsome stream and is said to rise in the high table land Irom which descend some of the heads of the St. Petets. It rnna about 300 hundred miles be» fore it emptiee into the "Father of Watere."—This river is navigable for ateam-boata to the mouth of Red Cedar, and from thence to Iowa Citv it ia navigable* most of the time, for heel boats, flat bottom boats The Red Cedar river ia in fact the main branch of Iowa river, and is navigable for near 100 mi lee. It ie very much obairucted in navigation by email sand-bars ana islands. Turkey river rises in the high land north ol the neutral ground, and running eouth-east 150 milsi discharges its wstersinto the Mississippi. It is a beautiful stream, but is not nsvigable. Makoqueta river hns its whole source within tbesurveyed partaof Iovra. This river and its tributaries afford some of the beat water power, for varinua purposes, in the whole Terntory. The river runs northerly though a fine limbec country, has some of the best of limsstone in iis high and bold blufls^ which sometimes are near 80 feet high. The rock on this stream are very valuable for building and other uses. 8kunl* river tskes its source between the Iowa river aftd Des Moines it is about 150 milee in length, and is a clear besutiful si ream. There is much good rock along this stream, and it is of as great value to the country through which it passee, both on account of its good mill seats, and for its capability of suoceeeful navigation, which can and will be effected by the people. by clearing put some obstruction^, and csusing the owners of mills upon this stream to make locks te their dams.

British vessel, having the appearance of a merchantman, and mode toworda it but to their astonishment, found her a frigate disguised A very light breexe prevailing they hauled off in different directions—one only could be pursued, and the frigate gained rapidly upon him. Finding he could not run away, the commanding officer had recourse to stratagem—on a sudden he hauled down every sail, and had all hands on deck employed in 'setting poles' ss if shoving the vessel off a bank The people on board the Irigate were amazed at the supposed danger they had run. and to save themselves from being grounded immediately eiawed off, and left the more knowing Yankee 'to maka hitnself scarce,'as soon as ihe night rendered p,. pradent to hoist sail in a tea two iMoutand/athonu deep

MAN'S IMMORTALITY.

1 cannot believe the earth ia man'a abiding place, cannot be that our life ia cast up by the ocesn of ity to float a moment upon its waves and sink nothingness! Else why is it that the glorious aspirations, which leap like angels from the temple of our hearts are forever wsrt|pnng about unsatisfied? Wh is it thst the rainbow and the cloud come over us witi a beauty that ia hot-offae mrth, and then pass offand leave us to muse upon tM# faded loveliness Why is it that the stars who holdlhgir feativala around the midnight throne, are set abouMngrasp of our limited faculties, forever mocking usWifflnapproacliable glory. And finally, why is it tha't tiling lit ferine of ha? man beauty are pteaanted to our tnew and then taken away from us, leaytng ibe thoussnd streams of our sf* fections to flow back in Alpine torrents upon our hearts! We are born for a higher destiny than thatd^L earth. There ia a realm where rainbows never faolPwhere the stars will be out belore us like inles that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before as like shadows will stay in our presence forever.—Prmtice.

I'll go aboard of your sloop—never mind don't miod a dollar for safety.**

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We once witnessed a very funny ecene. showing how a man may sometimes pun his business to its injury. It was ss follows t—Two boats started every night for

Albany, from New York—the one ihe regular line, the other the opposition. Ranners from each boat, were aa asunl, on the wharf, who did up their buainess. aa they always do, with feverish haste each one talking of ihe biniuties of the boat to which he belonged. One evening a green looking son of the PiIgrimscame along down the wharf, with A small valics oa^S^fm, and a blue overcoat on the other. "Take the Rochester, sir?" said one of tbe runners, approaching the Yankee "Take the America, Mist erf aaid the other runner, sticking hia red proboscia between the traveller aad the first mnner, "fare only one dollar a large, capacious, splendidiferous boat—a butter, air." "A butter, is she!" said the Yankee, "then I don't go aboard of her. Du you think I come from ham on jouiney to b&blown up in the sir by oneof yoar bustin boats I fere—you (addressing the first runner,) jver mind the fare—I

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to the chagrin ai the second runner, who weai UMMdt in another quarter—probably with better soccess.'^^^

TBI ACMFFO

STSOSO ts OSATB.—One of tba

jpet characteristic illustrations of this fact ?bat has lately come to oar knowledge, occurred in 8oaih Carolina en me time einea. A well known belting man— the brother of a prominent torfman of ihe Old Dominion— was lying so dangeroualy ilUhat his friends ex-

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hie dissolution moinentafffy. ^Tbe physiciso, ding over hie dying patient, ippr«rd fuOMhat be could live but a few hours, whereupon the IttlSr fiiittly asked him ibe amount sf his bill. The ftoniabtd doctor, replied "Five dollars." "Then," repnOw dying ms»„ "111 bet you double, or quits, 1 ntltS morning T* He lived iost long enough to wtrbis doctor's bill, and then died!

WmiBS TOO oonwr TO BATS sag*.—A Clergymen, who in tbe habit of preaching is different parts of the coantry, happened to be at an inn, where he observed a horse jockey trying to take ia an bsneat man. by impoaing upon bim a broken winded horse for a sennd one. Tbe person knew the bad character of the jockey, sad. taking the gentleman aside, told him to be cannons of tbe person be was dee ling with.—The gentleasan finally declined be parchese, and tbe jockey, qaite nettled, observed, **Farsun, I bed moch rather bear voa preach, than see you privately interfere in bargaine between man and man in ihia way.'* "Why," replied ihe parson, "if yoe had been where you ought te hsve been lest Sunday. *oa might bavo beard SMT preach." "Where wee tbet t" inquired the jockey. "In the 8tat#Pr»o«," returned tbe Clergy man.

Aw ets Ns»aass—We sre informed, says the Cheraw (S C) Gasetie. that one plantation near Georgetown, there now lives, or did short time ago rest4s. caMsfbneble and bsppy in her old age, a negro woman, originally from Africa, whose age as near as can be computed ie aboat 199 years. 81M WSS brought to this 9\ fan ago, snd wss then tbe mother of a family tn Africa. Tbe children which ahe bore si no* her removal te thieeovmry. with herself, are all soperannaied. The old woman was. when oar informant last saw her, lively snd talkative, and enjoys herself andsr the protection of kind master, fastit mil and freatrom care. ..v