The Wabash Courier, Volume 17, Number 35, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 April 1849 — Page 1
Pusi»e9 nwuy.
More—more—thou hast yet nioro! These, thy heart's tredstlred storo, Trauhlerred t) hedVeti, may win immortal birth—
With Hiiiiniit seraphs there Mujr lunu ainbroshil air
To fver-glorying hymns of praise—while Barth, Like lingering music from soute htlrjlur gray, Pusses away.
l-Vum iih English Paper.
IN ritAisf: OF TIN: HHD ot» I'liOttar: Let them sing who may of the battle frtty,
And df the deeds that are long since past, Let them chant in praise of lite tur whd*c dn£s Are spent on the ocean vast I wduld render to these all the worship you please, 1 would honor them even now, But Pd give far more from my heart's full store,
To the cause of the Good Uld Plough.
Let them laud the notes that in munic (lorftf* Through their bright and their gHtteririg Halls While the amruus twirl of the hair's bright curl
Round the shoulder of Deatfty Mils *, Hut dearer to me is the song from tile trc8, And the rich and the blossoming bough, Oh! these are the sweets which the rustic greets
As he follows the (iood Old Plongfl.
Then how jocund the song as it comes along From the Ploughman's lusty throati Did the huuter's shout ever give out
To the brown woods a merrier note h'ho'ho follows no hound yet his day crowded With a triumph as good, 1 trow, As though antleml head lit his fbet It# dead,
Instead of the Otxtf 01f Plough.
Full many there bo that we daily see With a selfish kitd hollow pride* Whom the ploughman's lot in his humble cot
With a scornful look deride Yet lil rather take, aye a hearty shako From his hand, than to wealth IM bow« For the honest graty of that hand's rough (Hasp
Hath stood by tho C?ood Old Plough.
AH honor be then to those gray did men Wjtan at last they are bewed with toil Their warfare theti o'er, why they battle no iitdra^
For they've conquered the stubborn aoil. And the cftaplet each wears irv his silver hairs. And noVr shall tlie victor's brow With a lanrclerf crown to the grave go down.
Like those sons Hf theOood Old Plouglu
•"TO-MORROW.
Whatc'ct the grief that dims t!»c eye, Whate'er tlie eatfse of sorrow, We tnm us to the weeping sky,
And say well smile to-morrtftt, Atid when from those we tovw we pari,* Fro»n hope wv rontftiri $ AYM whisper to our achitigheart,
We'll ffftfc? agaiu to-tworrew. tut when to*morrow conies, 'Us still An image of to-day, ^till tears our heavy eydi«U fill,
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£tfli tnourn wo those awat And when that taorrow, too. Uixut, (A yesterday of sorrow,) Hope, smiling, chcals u8 to I
With visions of to-morrow.
The' Attany Knickerbocker give* the following rules of a boarding hootfe f» that city: "Boaidm are when they nHh* Ute, take oft U»wr boort beiorcwiant into bed
Staking faces t( the liinulAly not permitted."
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From tfif I Tome Journal. iiomi:.
Tbou, whose every hour la spi ni in Iloiue'a green Ixwer
Where Iove likegohlen fruit o'erlimi^ing grdUA— Where frienilu to thy »ou} sweet, United, circling meet Aft I lipping IcareH that form the entire rtisc— Thank thy God well! soon from this jdy thy day
Passes aWay.
Tltou, at whose household lite Still aitt thy aged aire
A-ti ongi guwt, with lore aa those ot oldMake thy young childrert'a care That crown of hoary hiiir, Which the cnltn hcavi-na love a* they b^Hdld I Hooti,«oon the glory of that sunsel ray
Passes away.
Thou, from whoso houselioUl nodks IVcp forth gay, gleaming looks, 'riio.te "fniry huad»" uhot up from opening floWcra,
With wondrous |H'rfuiue filled The fresh, the tiiidistllliil,
The overflowing Miss that childhood fho'WofS— 1'raiseiiiin who gave, and a I whose word their stay Passes away.
Thou, ^Hth another heart United, though upart,
As iwo clo*a Btarf that mingling shine but one--" VVbuso pleasuut pathway lies ''Neath (under watchful eyot, Where love shines clearer than the morning sun— Praise Ood for life, (hut in such soft array
gcntlcmasi htfs aulhcienuy, be
abruM teMe*th« table witildut g)f«MMnaf ««t(i bt is obliged to unhottou Wa taM." "Wnittlir^ in the parlor prohibited when ladies
of ttfe ^bOre wfti lew! to
Ore suspension of the uxfractor'a cotim *». breakas to he I
Alt tiW #tr«ff5» as Borf —dSf fcdieh 1f»»vc jwanl of a wheel within 1 whed. twit shown yesterday an egg ^'hin .n eeg A gentlcman p«r«^i«*« waritet, owe rt which waa observed to be rather hurf* apoo taking it, U»«w UOM^
nutmtig. Tlus haft: B#t T®t mm uruuiit wk» Rnae«tta«UyitMUJfei ww*tw« »«it UMre wwyM ftnolltor eauc within that. The bet is nddte for the na«iwE«». «nd a hint to egg nicrrhanla to be r*«ea»tjgty ihai.they thirU*n to thedoieu.
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Thus ends the first ad of the wdnderfBI clind'. Ten minutes are sappoSed td elaps&*-which is a good half hour, when a child changes its frock— and enter La Vanvulirrt. Well! I do dec! are! it's tho very picrture df JeritfV Lind—ami, as I live, too, i! plays the drum. The likenins is perfect: How prettily it sings!—why, it's the Rataplan. Well, I'm sure, it's quite astonishing in a child so young. "How old is it, pray "Only Seven uext Michaelmas!" "You don't snv so! On my word, it's perfectly marvellous! Will yon sing it again my dear And once more is the Rataplan drummed through, only more loudly than before when nurse appears, verv opportunely, to take the clever littie darling to bed.
Knd of act the second. The gentlemen dawdle up stairs to coffee, Wbeii there re the pretty little dear a^niii! Its fdtid mamma couldn't let it go to lied witlldut its showing the company how nicely ft dances theCachuca. It goes through this very juvenile dance, castattet§ nild ail, in a style that t'licits one uunuimoiis convictlod that 'i aglioni wouldn't have done it better.
Then its drawings are displayed, and a wonderful portrait of papa, it took wlieii he Was asleep, with the spect^'cicS on his forehead. Well! you never saw any thing like it. But this is not all. Just have the kindness to ask it what is thecule root of seventeen Positively, you couldn't have believed h, unless you had heard it. "Only seven years old, did yoti say f" "Not qnife—only seven next Michaejrnas." "Qtl yoor word—it's a per: feet marvel!" It can tell you also what gunnowIit is made of! and pray, look at the woruierful foliage ot tlmt tree—It did every leaf of it its little self—isn't it extraordinary, now
At last, tile wonderful child has exhausted its admirable Olentofj stock of tnlerits, biit before the company retire, it must recite fi few lines of Young'* Xigkt Thoughts, and it will be sure to mind its'stops. There—tluit will do—it's a dear gdod girl-rwid now it can go to bed, and be sure to get up tlie first thing, or it will never be able to lesrn its pretty lessons in time 'l*llc nurfte carries it off, and all the company arc in lbtld ecstaoies Blnfut Its extraordinary gifts, till
they leaVe the house when, oddly enough, they nil uiiiiuiinotisly contess to one otipther that that cliMd of Mrs! Pencdck's Is most "Hdrrible bore."
Tliese extraordinary gifts, however, which are most hospitably received one miiitUe, arid most harshly turiiod out of doors the next, are acquired Init by the Hiifafe'st stthlv: dS tho sickly appearance the Woiklerful child tdo plainly hetruys. Its cheeks are pale, its lips almost colorless, and Its auilken eye never shoWs the smallest rhy of mental llrht nt the recital df the grandest sentiments, btu maintains one dead stare all the while, as if the hook were before it, itml It was afraid of iniss: lilg the next lirfej the Btiine when it Is dancing or singing the gayest songs. It laughe even by roto. In fact, there is no childhood about it it is a living mummy, bound hand mid foot in rolls of previous accdtnplishmeftCa: It is very clever and very unndtUrdi: rile wonderful child as it gets older, grows evi ri more wonderful. It knows Latiii, is leatning ireek, sings. FteHfcH, Spanfoll Oerniiiti Italian, Swedish, 8w]as—draws, paints, composes, wites tc.rses, and studies astrology out of tho garret vvindUw when one chilly night it takes cold, is confiihiu Id Its bed ntul dies very suddenly. ItS pilrents are quite liuilrt-strlcfccif, but I hey staunch lu ir tears with the dry comfort that the "little thing was far too defer Hv«." Nt d»» to tell them that if they had not matte it so very clever, it might (frdbabl^ be living at the prvsciU time They preserve Its dtiUhs and scratches and rhymes, tind nave a cast of Wtmilerful head taken, little dreaming that it was the weight of that vrottderfhl head that In/lit its sleridcr body to the earth.
Tlus is tdo dftett tile ftlte df (I tiiodol genius. How many clever children liaVc been mortally tViiutided, if tile truth were knovVn, at thut Battle of I'ragMr:
lufluoncc of a Smile:
It is related in the life df a celebrated matlic1 matieian, William Ilutton, thut a respectable looking country wchiinn called upon him one day, anxious to s|feitk with hini. !rhe icfld him with an air of secrecy, that her husband treated her unkfthil^ and sought other company, frequently iiassiHg his eventligS from home, whlcll made her levl extrputely unhappy, and knowing Mr. Ilutton td be a wise ntan, she thought lie nilgnt be able to tell her hdw she cduld manage Id cure her huabarul.
The t^adst1 ^ftS contmdii one, and lie thought he could |»rescr!be for it without losing Ills reputation orf n' conjuror. "Tho renied^f is a simple one," »oid he, "mtd 1 have tu-^er kiio'Wn it to fail. Ahrnqs mrrt ynur Autfkintl.wlth it smite."
The wmUnn exprOB#ed 'h«* thank?: tfrHppTd^ curitji^, lutd went eway. A low months afterwsirds she wnited on ^lr. Ilutton, with o,coyple of fHwls, which she begaeil hint to accept, fir ttild him, while a tear Ot tdy ami grailtuile glistened ill war eye. that she nail fidl^wed his advic«, and her htisband was cunfl. He no 1 differ sought tlie ctwrtpany of otliers, but treated her \i»ith constant love and kindneaa.
SAONESS.—Tliere is a mysterious feelirtg that freqttentl^ passes, like Cloud, over the spirit It comes opon the soul id tlie busy bustle ot life, in the social circle, in tlie calm and sUeot retreat of solitude. Its power Is alike supreme dver the weak *nd lion-hearted. At one time it is catt^Kl by tlie Hitting ot a single thought acrots the mind,, Aijrfiri, a sound WiU come booming across the (idenn of memory, glo*my and stUemn is the denth-knell, tnershndowing ali the bright hopes and sutiti^ feelings df the lieart. Who cait describe it, ami yet who hastiot felt its bewiIdorlng influence Still, it Is a delicious sort of sbrrow and like a cloud dimming tho sunshine of a Hirer ait hough casting a momentary shade df gloom, it enhances the beauty of re turd lug brightness!
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PKACHIT.—A fentletnarf handed as yesterday the following, whicJl may be of aervioe to some of our leaders: A friend or mine has jUStt' fhformed me df the success he met with by tlie application of charcoal to peach trte*. A few fears ha had fttfme fine j«ach trees iu his garden which invaria Wy had wormy froit, and the tn*es were full of snnt« When the trait was about the aise of marbles if* had Hie earth removed front each about two feet round and three inches deep, and filled with charcoal. The result was that the fruit grew toa fine afabi fttfc frwn wonns, and every year the trees became gnni, while two trees left witfMttU tHe charcoal eontinne twbear wormy fruit ind arc unbe«lthy.—AioWr 2V*tWic.
IFOT BVIH NVIINRS
since the fruit has boah good, and th l*»althy add free TrofB gnni, while
Ortoiis Di«OvEft.-rtri the great Pyrsmid of Klftpt la a amall opening tft iw Itfp, the depth of which has neter beefl soandedt Another aperture of the same sice exists at the foot of the Pyramid. It was long conjectured that these two openings commtmieaied mith each o#her. but rid means could be devised to establish the 6tt, till the pro* bletfi was atiived recently by the ingenuity of an Arab. Ho took atl dfd t'ai tfrki her kittens, placed the old cat in one aperture Snd tlie kittens in anothec, and atopped up both with fttooee. TliejfeJtt day he opened them, and found cat and kittcaa all together at tho foot of the kmc pawgo-'
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Amador ours in Caiifocftiar writhnr from San Francisco, placcstthe richoeaatf jhttjou ia a very strange light. He hired wagotf, 'He says, tlie day after be arrived,«nd »olt a ride to the mioes. Wheo rntoh?!
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waehed it, mm the hitler Jiftden cMUra, and yet had thirty dollars to "make a night of." What a Kurd forsprod&JF!—.4&ta* Xi^nii^br. .TY^ 8 .^iLuX,." '•.....i mn l^jttur
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CJtristwtn
ter announces the award of tffe df $500 for Ufe best Essdy on tho Mexlftn war, offered by the Itttt^ican peace Socioty. toJRcv. A. A. Livepmnre, o( Kev«e, N. Hnow ahscoi in tho W«s* Indies for the benefit vf lib bealtlt.
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There is, generally, in every family, a wonderful child. It comes in with the dessert. It is an infant B&ddage'a machine. One pat on the bead, and off it goes. Its extraordinary powers of retolfectfcMi, qoently ei Parodist aradise Lost in a mioute. Dr. Watta, Wordsworth,. Gay, Cowper, are all stowed away in its littie head. You can ha*« auy piece of poetry you ltk^hy asking for it. li ^a^s tbe piaponlao.— You must hear the Battle of Prague. It does the "shriek* of the wounded" so naturally and, before you go, do listen to its singing. But stop— run and cltange your dres* m» dear.
The "Wonderful Child. Sketches of California.
•too painful fair the guests too frefor reciiaL" It runs through
sight, but along
thent lying on the ground and others stacked, are passed in review, and the efiect of the thing Is inost ludicrous. In aridther sketch the same officer is pictured as in a delicate situation for one of his grade. He is standing with a cap on his head, a sword by his side, and in regular regimentals but over the latter he had tied an apron, and in tho nfean time he is busily engaged blacking his own boots! Further on you see a couple ot deserters fighting with pickaxes over a gold bed, and this, is set down as the preparatory work always necessary in opening a mine. A hungry looking fellow, while exploring with a pickaxe, conies across something which at first sight he considers a potato but while congratulating bin self on his good fortune—upon Uie prolMibility of his making a meal—his hopes are suddenly dasht Ijy ascertaining thAt jhe su^oosed eatable is only a large lump of gold A melancholy looking o'tj gentleman, in a travelling cap and with a carpi bag in his hand, is seen lauding from a vessel apparently at the wharf of one of the maritime cities of France. A spendthrift nephew rushes up tp him, and, shaking him by both hands, congratulates him upoH his good fortune in finding a million of frahes in California. "Yes,
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The pian of manufacturing is to make an inner and an outer ches leaving a .tpace df '.«d or three incites betweeti fhem, Into which calcined plaster mixed with wnter to about the consistency ot cream is poured—this rather swells in drying and renders the chest completely air tight.
Various Otlieh Stlhsmiices, calculated to resist external heat Have been demised frdrfl time to tinte but the original principle as subsistiiig in the Wil: der Safes at New York, and L'rban'hSalamander Safes iir Cincinnati, has proved the most reliable of ail. Millions of dollars have been saved by tlie sates made upon this principle.—Cut's Adv.
Interesting Discovery
The Paris correspondent of the Courier drs Etats Unis, describes a marvellous discovery which has just been mide, relating to tho important subject of coloring grey hair:
Tlie new system succeeds in bringing about the internal coloring of tbe hair. The discovery is borrowed ffom the Chinese, who havo succc«xled in reaching and transforming, by tdeHns of medicine and a peculiar diet, the liquid Which colors the pilous system dud giving to white and red hair black tint, which maintaius itself during the continued growth. It is by this method that the Chinese Have been able to claim the title from the highest antiquily of the hlack ftnirrt nation
M. Debny has published a treaty tt)on it—and as the bones of living animals have been colored red by making them eat madder, and the internal vbood df trees has been chitngcd to different hnes by watering the roots with lioptd metalic salts, he wonders uiat the discovery lias ndt before been mtfde by those who thus experimented. The hair ami the beard belong to vegetable life, aiitl are disposed to the same phenomena. In fact, says AI. IVbav, after a sufficient quantity of ferruginous siiltsKns heen introduced info the body, the circulation takes them np, the blood loaded with these substances depositus them in tho follicules Ot (he hnlr, and this oii, saturalcd with iron, becomes black atld tho If hole hair with it.
(•ttide in Iluyingn Horse. A correspondent of the Prairie I'ltrtiit'r, cttntrrtrV io old mu^irris, undertakes to judge the chardcidr of iorse Outward appearance's and ofTers the following suggestions, as the result of his elosO observation and long experience:
If the tolor Bb bright sorrel Or chqsriut, his fetit, Itfgs, and face \frhite, tliese drd marks of kindness
If he is broad and full between the eyes, he may be depended on us a horse of good sense, and capable of Hfci ng trained lo anything.
As respects such horses, the more fcindly fou treat them the better YOU will be treated in re'tUril. iW will a horse of thilt ddstflption bear the whip if #cll fed.
If you waiit a safe horse, droid onfe that is dish-faced hfe Inay b^ so firr gendo as not io scare, but he will have too much go ahead iu him to ,bc safe for ctisrybody.
If you want a fool, bat a horse of great bottom, get a bay with not a white liair about him if his face is a little Wished, so much the worse. Let no rtfafl ride such a howc who is not ilfi adept in riding—they are always tricky and unsafe.
If yoti Warfl a horse that will never gtvc out, never buy a large overgrown one. A black horse ediinot stand lieat, nor a #hite one colJ.
If you want a gentle h«rs^. get 0«s with more or lc£ss &hlte rftwut iiim-^hc more tho better. A spotted one ts pff* ferable^ Mirny "suppose thrfx the pirti* colored horses belotiging to tho circusos, shows fee., are soteeted for thotr oddity. But the selection thus m,adc is oft accuutm of iiiretr iooi»ty aB^gwtbaes^
LjirfifcS jrifd frish to* preserve flow'^re reconirncndcd to t^y nitratqdf soda be held
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VJ W it Parisians love to laugh, but they love to canc*tare 'still more and every incident, whether of domestic or political character, that bubbles up and breaks updri' the great tide 3f life with tneiii, is instantly made the subject of good humored dr downright malicious travestie. The California gold fever could not of cotirse escape, arttf !tjfc Kendall, in writing to the Pieayarie from Pari9, sa^i axfr zt -It5 »^tM- It? "In one of these caricatures, see fol. la son
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says the old geiitlentan, with a look of lugubrious drollery, "but thecaptdin of the ship who brdught me home charged me a million and a half for the passage, and I now find myself five hundred thousand francs in debt." Such are some of the hits at the gold-hutftfng mania. lustration."
They appear in L'll-
-t,,( y. .• _. Fire Safes n?-.-, ,'*• Tire firsl df these articles was made by Daniel Fitzgerald, of New York, Itl 1834, hitdcr the folcircumstances: low
zt*ert /me lio ltdd bfct'iteitgaged in 1831 and 1832, among other things, in making plaater-of-paris images iind other toys, and on one occasion, when about ieaving his shop, he todft an Iron pot which he had been using tor the purpose of mixing and pre(ftiriitg tbe plaster, and the inside of which had a thick coat of ploster-of-paris on it, placed sohfe water In it and -set it over the fire to heat. After its being, ai he supposed, hot enough, he took it off, but found tho water just as cold as when he put it on. He tried ft second time with no better success—much surprised he phiced the vessel ovora third time and heated it nearly red hot, still the temperature of the water was
hardly
chartged.
It at once struck him that the discovery might be tiirned
finger p^Acod io tho, water
with the flowers will preserve tKeni fresh, it ia said, for a fortnight.
Tttiise gentlemen, liviiig as they doip tfie thifilV ibhtrtrited pottioe of our land, and among class of persons generally very far thair iuferit ts tu point of education, rarely enjti^tftgany thing thai may deserve the num£ of intellectual society, are too #pi to seek for ftfnusement in listening to the droll sto'rit*S .and odd things always to bo heard at rtlg country store or bar room. Every tiew expression anil queer t.tle is treastiroa'tip, and new ones manufactured against the happy time when they shall meet their brothers-in-law at the approaching term of the district court.
If ever pure fun, broad lutmor, and "Laughter holding both His sides," reign supreme, it is during the evenings of tliese sessions. Each one empties and disttibi^tes his wdll-tillcd buugot of wit and oddities, recoiving ample payment in like coin, which he pouches, to again disseminaie at his earliest opportunity.
Although we may lay down as a general ruiki, that the same words und phrases prevail tiirougli the sod tit and west, yet almost every state has its local peculiarities. Tex sis, for it aitce, the large admixture of Spaillsh words Louisiana, of French Georgia aitd Alabama lki*rqty many from the Indians. North Carolina is no'brious for a peculiar flatness of pronunciation ill such words tls crap for "crop," earn for "eoril," peert. for "port," &c. "/«//()».," meaning "I think," "I consider." is, we believe, of Alabama origin, and so is that funny expression. "done gone" "done done" implying "dlrfeadv gone,'* and "already done." In Virginia many of the lower class pronouHce ih ds d—ital for "that," dur for "there," dis for •'this:"
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some very valuable account. He kept
making experiments, and in 1834 constructed a little sale or cliest, and though imperlect, be fell satisfied If he coiild make it air tight, the object of perfect snfetyin tho greutest heat would be attained. After the great fire of 1835, he renewed Hts efforts, add applied at tllp Office In Washington for a patent, but wasntel lllefe by discouragement as to any bcHelit to bfc derived from the plat}—in lf*36 the.Patbtlt office as burnt, and all- tlhft Air: Fitzgeraid had was destroyed. 1H 1837 He tried antin, but was bftfUed, und advised to withdraw. Finally, Mr. Enos Wilder, now deceased, took hoid with hint, and a patent was obtained.
Thfesft, and other sittiulitr direlections, niay be trtlceu to the fact that ail children are inclined to make companions of the negroes, listen to queer rambling tales accompany them upon their "coon hunts," die., and thus acquire a negro style of jironunc'uitiotl, and many negro tVords that H.otiMng save a good education cttn eradicate, and even that does tlot ^HVdys perfectly succeed.
THere dr£ Wo great tjnd distiiict classes in the United Suites, liib Yiltikee and the Virgiuidfi the former ocliilpyinj* ih,e New England States, and^'ijiace spreading in almost every diftWBft, claiming great portion of the St«t» of Ohio, and even a share of Indiana and Illinois although ill tlie two lilsi-mettiioiied StdteS the southern pbculiaritics of speech are more cotrtHion the latter properly commencing dt tlhlt itniigtiiflrV (llvisioll, *'.\liison and Dixon's Line." and thence running south" and west. The intermediate states are divided between thejwTK Although New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey have been well inoculated with a solid basis of Dutch and Swedish in their infancy, ybt sdve here and .t'lere soitle strdv neighborhood of ancient Hollanders or sturdy Swedes, whose manners, customs, language, our intrusive Yankees have been unable to corrupt, a few terms and phrdses that have crept into general usage alone give token that a foHiigii tohgtie once reigned ovdr so largo d'sgcfiuh of our land
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The distiiteiiofi bettteen these two gferit eitlsae^ (tl»b Yankee and Virginian,.) is so wiife and clearly drawn, as to be visible atid palpable to every casual observer: Should ofle, howex'br, ever ilcsitdteas id tllb place of nativity of one of our free and enlightened citizfcns, there exisi.^ a test, tvhich, potent as the spear of hhuricl, will dispel all clouds of doubt that may overshadow his mind. Let the person.in question be r&quest&d io gi*e at) bptuion r»u any subject.— Should he "guess," write him down a \ankcc docs he "reckon,*' you may swear him southron. The Yankeeguesxes, the Sou ih ton reckons, which our New England friend never docs, except HV and with the aid, assistance, and advice of that estimable .arithmetician and pedagogue, Nathan DaboN, lisqj Per contra, however, the Yankee "calculates," atid pretty .shrewdly also, while the Southron ••allows." The one "wouldn't wonder" if some expected event sllould take place, tfhile the other, fnoro ardent and careless of assertion, "goes his death tfpon it," that it will.— To the latter, drdtting his comparison from his idolized rifle", 9 thing is, "as Stfre as shooting," while to tht former, more pious or snore hypocritical, it is **as sartin as pfb'dchin/' The one will bb "darned," ahd the rittttfr "tferned," both evading an oath in nearly the same mrffliter, the otitf difTercHefe'" be'ih'g tlie substitution of otji vowel for another.-:— Should this dssfc^ti'ratioQ require additioo* irt force, the northcrti men will be"gaul darned," and tin southrdn "dod dena cdrfous perversion' df sScred names ttr ease the c6tisience while giving vent td ontfS teutper. Iri fact, it is almost impossible*, atuoitg ihc many tofmptions of language of #hich both art guilty, io cite an eXjprressiqn in which some slight but marked difftifence does not exist.
To the northerrif man, evert silicetotis mass is tionpybe it large enough to d^eigh a totf, while the southern ignores the yortf lit ^9, and calls every thing of that dcscrtjutOTf toilt, though np larger th'afn a mjogt's wirier The a|»'pHtiik)ii erf" this ¥ord is Indloroos, to orie wht«e cars arc cKiaccustomed to it!
and we reiri&tfbci1 Jfauj*W|f1fB«rtfly the idea dr picking op 4 rock id throw at bird:'" WfifCfh man or boy, biped or ]uadru|«edf bird or bear»t, is pelted, tho
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Americanism.
[From a pleisent article entitled "Idioms and Provincialisms of the English language," in die March number of the American Review.]
Thte tfrfgiti *nd perpetuity of many of bur queer anil out-of-the-way phrases, may be traccd to tire semi-annual meeiing* of gontlomen of tlie bar, at the IkiUfts of" oarsontliern and-wosjern states.
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unfortunate recipient of projoculo" favors is said to be rocked, uftfegs iBfli wood be put in requisition, anLU
In Arkansas, howiv^, theitferm usurps the plsce of either cock or stone. That touching ami popular southern ballad, yclept *'Rosn thsp Bow," concludes in these pathetic Words: ...
The tiotfed Judge \V„ better Rlioitn as "three-leggbd Willie," once attended a barbecue for the purpose of addressing the assembled multitude, and soliciting their votes for Congress. His opponent had slain a maa in a duel, or street-fight, and was endeavoring to apologize and explain the circumstances connected with the act. Willie listened attentively with a sneer upotl liis ctfuritbtoancb, and w.hen he had finished arose and remarked "The gentleman need not have Wasted so much breath, in excusing himself for having saved a notorious rascal all of you know that I have shot three, and two of litem I got" jfl'rtyV.-.
The monosyllable "iHere," or in thb backwoodsman's language, thar—has it original triedtiirig so singularly pcrvertbi and enlarged, and lays claim to so many iind such peculiar significations, that it is worthy our especial notice.
The poor man, however,'''found out that, his purchase, under such circumstances, certainly \Vas/Aar, and thar ho wds likbly to remain, as neither words nor blows could induce- him to budge tx fOOt:
An amusing story is told in the south, which illustrates very well one of the many uses of this word. The king of beasts, it is ?did, infrttfed all His Subjects to a ball, and all attended ih compliance of the princely invitation, with the exception of the poor donkey, who remained outside, solacing himself with the music of the violins, that were merrily keeping time to the very fantastic tones if the jocund dancers. Several messengers in vain \yere sent to press his entrance, find finally his majesty himself condescended to seek the sage, and insist on his returning with him. "Your majesty," replied Jack, "I'm h'ot much of a Hand at dancing, but if there's any sittging to be done, ifrh^ I'm tUdf."
To MEASURE HAY IN THE Mow.—A correspondent of the Albany Cultivator says: "More than twenty years ago, I copied the following method of measuring hay from some publication, and hdying verified its general accuracy, I have both bought and .spld by it, and believe It may be useful to* many farmers, where the means of weighing are not (ft hand. .. i.*.. .^".*^1 ... "Multiply the length breadth and height into each othfcr, and, if the hay is somewhat sealed, ten solid yards will make a ton. Clover will tdke from teo to twelve yards for a ton.
Mr. Horace King, proprietor of the Iloxbury ooinibusses, has just purclmslife **NorfcflM Hotwe/* at a cost of t25/)00. Less than twenty years since, Mn King was employed as porter in the bouse of #hich he.is fiow the oitner. —J our ml' is uj »«.'..••• beihif asked if he Klwlrirfcfe)
A negro beih FluriUQi.! ZTnuih replied: ^osuU adzacDy kaow the geromen myself, but reckon as how he is one on em, as he hub !us name th alt cfe, drunfs.
It is not & littie remarkable, as indicating the progress of otf country io pop ulaiion, that the Seoai* at jpre^tff.consists of the same number *s the Itoust of Representatives in the first Congredf.
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"Then fetth me a couple of donochef val? a a a And do not foreet to write on it,
The name oi old Rosin the bow."
No shado^ d^tlbt caii possitil^ remain in the mincf of ^ny unprejudiced person, but that the sovereign State of Arkansas may lay just aiid true claim to the honor of giving birth to the interesting individual in questions "5:*
The further south you travel, the more rude, wild, and energetic, the language you will heqtr. Our newly acquired State df Texas excels all others in additions &thl corruptions. The old Tex.an has no farm, it is a ranche. A rope h6 knows not et£ry thing in that line is either a larriat or a caberos the one being made of raw-hide twisted or plaited, and the ldtter sptiii $y hand from the hair of horses or neat cattle. He never seeks or looks for ari^ *hing, but always hunts it. lie hunts bees, cattle, a missing pair of oxen (Ae fcaljs them beeves,) or a doctor. Nothing l&a'vfcs a mark to him, he only sees sign, whether of bird or beast, friend or enemy. You hear of turkey sign, baar sign, hog sign, cow sigii, Indian sign, &<Ji, &e. When he wishes td leave, he does'not say with the Yankee, "WeH, we'd better be a goin'," but "Let's vamos," or "Let's vamos the rdnche." He nevfer asks about the situation of the grass oh the prairie, but irlqfiirfcs dbout the summer or winter range. A fish spear is to him a groin a boat a dugout a halter, a bosaal a whip, a quirt a house, no house, but & tog-pen a drove ot horses is a caviarde, and when a universal fright among them occurs, it is stampede. He does not kill hisgdmb, He saves, or gets it, or makes it come. Apropos to this we will record an anecdotb, for the authenticity of which ve vill vottqh.
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The Mormons.
The Cincinnati Atlas says, in reference to those singular people: "We want to call the reader's attenion to the new and most extraordinary position of the Mormons, [sic] Seven thousand of them have found a resting place in the most remarkable spot on the American continent. Since the children of Israel wandered through the wilderness, or the Crusaders rushed on to Palestine, there has been nothing so historically singular as the emigration and recent settlement of the Mormons. Thousands of them came from the Manchesters and Sheffields of Europe to join other thousands congregated from Western New York and New England— boasted descendants of the Pilgrim fathers—together to follow after a new Jerusalem in the West. Having a temple amidst the churches and schools of Lake county, Ohio, and driven from it by popular opinion, they build the Nauvoo of Illinois. It becomes a great town. Twenty thousand people flock to it. They are again assaulted by popular persecution; their prophet murder-, ed, their town depopulated, and finally their temple burned!
Does all this series of signal persecutions to which they have been subjected destroy them? Not at all. Seven thousand are now settled, in flourishing circumstances, on the Plateau Summit of the North American Continent! Thouands more are about to join them from Iowa, and thousands more are coming from Wales. The spectacle is most singular, and this is one of the most singular episodes of the great drama of this age. The spot on which the Mormons are now settled is geographically one of the most interesting on the American Continent. There is no other just like it, that we can recollect of, on the globe. Look at a map a little east of the Great Salt Lake, and just south of the South-west Pass, and you will see, in the north-east corner of California, the summit level of the waters which flow on the North American continent. It be six thousand feet, perhaps
A man who accepts tin invitation to a frolic or a fight, a wedding or a fun'eral, probably answers I'm thar. A person wishing to imply that he is perfectly at homo in any thing, says he is thar a good hunter t»r fisher he is also thar. A jockby ohce sold & draught-horse with the recommendation: '•He ain't ho p'etikcler beauty, stranger, to boast on, but when you get t,o the bottom of a hill, with a heavy load he's thar, I tell you."f
iore, the level of the Atlantic.— this sequestered corner, in a vale hidderi among the mountains and lakes, are the jViormotis and there rise the mighty rivers, iiidri tVliicli tlo Continent' has greater.
Within almo^a st'eme's throw of one another lie the" liedd springs of the Sweet Water and tlie Green river:' The former flows into the Platte river, that into the Missouri, and that into the Mississippi, and. tlidt iiito the Gulf of Mexico, becomlHg pdrt b'f the Gulf stream, and Ibaves the shores of distant lands.- The laftcr, the Green river, flosvs into the Colorado the Colorado into the Gulf of California, and is mingled with the Pacific. The one flows Wdi-b tttan 3,500 miles: the other more than 1,500. These flottr-.jmp tropical regions^5Just north of the samS s{Jot are the head streams of Snake river, which flow into the Columbia near latitude 46 deg., after a course of 1*000 miles. Just south are the sources of the Rio Grande, which, after winding 1,700 mites finds the Gulf of Mexico. It is a remarkable poltlt tfri ilie eelrtll's surfac'b ^rhel'd tHe Mormorts are, and, locked in by mountains and lakes, they will probably remain and constitute a new and pdctilitir c'oloity. At
Accdrdiftg t'b tile hitcst intelligence received from Wales, (in England,) the Mormons appear to be making great progress in that colintry. In that principality alone they arc reported to havo no less than 156 elders, lOd pflcsts, 140 tcachers, and ,67 deacons and the number of indiVidudls baptized in 1848 was 1,939. The passion for bnligrating to. California has seized a large Hum o'er df individuals, an\l thousand^ are fiqft ou tijeir way io the great oirliiire of the West. An article from a »v ebsh paper remarks as follows:
»On Tuesday last Swansea qyite enlivened, in consequence bf tire arrival of several wagons loaded with luggage,' attended by some scores of the bold 'peasantry* of Carmarthenshire, and almost an equal number of the inhabittants of Mcrthyr and the surrounding districts, together with their families.—— Thtl fornliddbld ftartjr were nearly all Latter day Saints, and cdnrie io this town for the purpose of proceeding to Liverpool in' the Troubadour steamer, where a ship is irl readiness tb transport them next week td the glittering regions of California! ^This goodty company is tender the command of a popular saint, known as Captain Dan Jones, a hardy traveller, and a brother of the well known John Jones, of Llangollen, the able disp^idnt oH tfib subject of 'Baptisui.' Ite Arrived in town on Tucsdtiy evening ana seem* to enjoy tUt respt/ct and confidcnc6 of his faithful band. Atnohgfii tlie grotip were. many substantial farmer® from the igtfborKoods of Bfechfa and Llanyby__r, C^nitiritfeiishice nuhougn they were well to do, they disposed of their possessions to get to California, their New Jerusalem, as they deem it, where their fanaticism teachcw thdm to believe tliey will escape the general destruction Olid conflafrittion that Is shortly to envelope eartH, it i|4Hdtr. iuie^iionI wedrc informed,, not tff fisit the gol^l regfohs^ bui the agricultural districtsz where tiMty inusnd, they sajr. by helping oriC another, to reside iff peace and harmony, and toexemply vh6 trutl/ of'broilj«rly love' Hoi ifl natiic, but in pfaOtfe^i. ^Amongst ibe ^uinpber wlfo came her^, several werd aged meft", vcftyiog frqna tO to 90 years of agev and "whose hofcrjr Fofck^' hot only proclaim tKeir ",lengthtme*f but reader ij. very impcobDbic they 4r'tll live to see America yet are ITCH certain.—New York paper
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so deluded ^re the poor and sitnplo saints, that they believe vhat every on/] amongst them however infirm and ofc he may. ^e, will surely land safely, in Califqrijia.
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ordinary. On Wednesday n\orsning,afr ter being addressed by tjicix Jeayipf,!ali repaired on board iu admirable oifder, and with extraordinary.. resignaupo.-n-*
depariu.o was witnessed by hun
dreds of spectators, and whilst ibp steamer gayly passed down the river the Saints sang a favorite hymn.
The Swansea Herald states that tho jVformohs tttfvfe great cbntideHbb irir Captain Joiips, who, it seems, has been to California, and is now returning to (he valley of Salt Lake. About 350 Saints.go with him. It adds, "SOOlarge^ ship® coulcfcscarcely carry the lio^ls 6k saiftts who are now anxiously desiring to emigrate from this island.
A brother of the editor of the Niles Republican who lately emigrated to the Mormon country, communicates the annexed information as to the extravagant views of the Mormons respecting the erection of a new temple.
"The new Mormon temple at the Salt Lake is to be a splendid building. They enclose a lot seventeen miles long and twelve miles wide, with a mud wall eight feet high and four feet thick.— There are to be cities inside. They have discovered mountain rock that resembles cornelian stone, which is beautiful for temples and pillars. The size of the temple is not stated, but its highest point to be six hundred feet, and can be seen eighty miles either way." -----
rreservation and Care of Fire Woot|,^1 Wood for,family or domestic purposes should bo cut or sawed and properly secured front exposure to rain and tho weather. Green wood, cut in the winter and prepared for the stove or fireplace or oven the steam engine, ant} boused .iii,t(tho .spring, ami kept front moulding and Well seasoned, is worth, in the opinion of rrtany good common senso men, at least twentyjfiye per cent, more' than thesame wood would bo worth if left to all the changes of wet aud heai, &c., from.spriiig tl|l ^rst.o^.^itit,^. ,,
Some men who haVe thpjfeputtuion of being good farm^rs^re s$dly negligent in taking proper care of ,tlieif./iro wood after they had been at the expense of hauling, cutting, sawing, and splitting up their, yetif's supply of wood. It i^ freqdently in thfer country thrown up in loose piles and left through the summer without any covering, tlnd tnuch of thi) sap part of the wood becdrtlbs of a green ColoF, and so^gy, h&yinj£ lost a largq portion of the gases (by fertnehtation iti the sap of the wood)1vhidh gives jsuclj briskness aud heat to a wood lire wiien the wood has been properly taken card of and seasoned. «. ..
Many persons have not wood houses, in which all their wood can bo stored ih the spring, and there are yet some few,' though wb Hope ftutTtber is small, who have no w^od shod dr place for storing their wood under cover- out ljayo it to "bide the pollings of tho-pWle§s storms." We arc aware that it is .fibt ij} the power of every farmer and mcqiiqp1c \o have his' go sized, wpod-lid^o and all other ttppurtenaA^os
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The march of improvement has in-, vaded an Indian burial ground at Ucverly, on the Delaware, the location pf which.was noi known till thb'Irofics wtero turned up 1lt diggingthe foundation of ft house. Some ten ox a dozen skolotons havd bden exhumed,, and near the spot rfbout fialf litishe'Iof arrowheads. On Thursday last a. skele'toH disinter-, led. with Vrdt» orhamerits round tho arms and legs, a red. .clay,pine, skulfs, dcc., and even tho color of the clothing in which it had been buried distinctly visible* Tltb ploughshare had passed 9ver those ntoulde'Hrig relre* pf mortality for probably an hundred years* di
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happened id' ttf between Patrick and a brrigging dowribafter^ a fierce* contest as tp. tiie compafaiivb aize' of different pjiimals and and ti^j '^rrnld country,'^ when Air. O'Flaherty declW^rd that in Ireland tho "baas* wefe as big as a shape." "Very welh" interrupted Isi»bod/ how big art? tho Jiijjee.^" abi^ur rtl" Lit4 4* fro 4* ,yrn* jabbed "^Then hpw do the b^os gev intJ their hive??'I,dno .r
Paddy scratched his head, aff^l, afi^r a feyf nrotrierita reflapiorv, replied, th%look. qu0"
wealthy, farmers and professional men,' "but none so poor" but they mightpilq up thsir wood in high and snug piles dhd cover them with refuse boards, slabs, or some other cheap roofing, and tlterel^y save a large drriOtmt
uable jtbfiloh ot the d.o^biwtible part of their fuel, which is di^sip^e^ and!.lw»j{ when wood is suffered ly lay, exposed to the weather all summer. "i'ltis hard Work, and expensive tno.,()q cut. haul, and prepare the wood for al| the annual wants and UNOH of tlie fires iTi
Idrgb fifrtrii.fag psfablisltmont.: Eqonniy should always ,bb the'order of, the day in ftjirntmg opcr/iiiiih^-^^'^tp is alike disreputable whether arising from a reckless squandering aWay of proper? ty, or f^om suffering it to go to ^wrecl(j and ruiji" for watit of jpro^er,ca*o- ^nfl forHtHought.' "A word to tho wise is sufficient." said-thb writer of tho PJTQverbs.—Boston Cultivator.
Gtiifi&G ar& |SMg to wear large sack overcoats with. 3j£gve!« rffid standing linen collars, i^ir thought weitaw one, the other day with a pair of wbnt-you-call-'enis on,J and high-heeled calfskin boots but'wo'