my .IWII.'HEI£_E1) LE./BF. ..
spare the lone Leaf, thou bitter blast,
That decks yon blighted bough ;
01,, spare it 1 for it is the last
That lingers on it now.
It mocks thee not—-its green is gone:
It bears no marks of spring :
See it is’ torn, and old and‘wan',
Then, tempest, let it cling .
They call that withered wasted tree,
The monarch of the wood ;
And long in mockery of thee,
Its stately honors stood.
But time will scathe the hardiest form,
And blight the fairest face ; '
Its trunk is shattered by the storm,
And fled its leafy race.
Then spare that one, so sickly brow-'n—.
Oh. dash it not to earth I
The faithful leaf, that stays to crown
The bough that gave it birth.
hus-monarchs flourish I thus the ' fall 3
T I
Thus some untimely hour,
l’inds them bereft, of Wealth and all
They e’cr could boastol power.
Yet ah, how few that find the friend,
\Vho basjked in fortune’s smile,
Still faithful linger to the end,
Though dark her frown the while.
Tlien spare the leaf, thou bitter blast,
'l‘hat decks yon blighted bough l
Uh, spare it I for it is the last
That lingers on it now.
XIX-’
FROM THE NORTHERN WHIG-.
To =lt< as at as
Thine eye of softeu’d splendor,
ls like the gleaming west,
‘Nhose tints so pure and tender
, The setting sun imp:'ess’d 5
Thy cheek. the summer flower
In pride of hue and l)lpom-—-
"fis now thy morning hour
Uushadnuetl yet with gloom.
Hope brightens now before thee,
As smiles the rainbow fair,
'lVhich bends its bright arch t:’c.t' thcc,
Circling the summer air.
Oh, may the frosts of sorrow
Ne’er blight that lilly 'ur.>w—
But may each coming xnm'row
Find thee as blcst as now.
But should thy sky be shaded
And swept by tni::.ery--
Should all thy hope he fad.'~;d,
Then, lov’d one, fly to me ;
W-'hen all thy joys shall leave thee
Iu fortune’.-a hour of ill,
These arms will rher. receive thee,
And clasp the fondl_v still. FL-OHIO.
_-... .._.._ .. .-.-.....
rttom ’l'l-I|.~:‘Il1-LRMIT IN Lo_\'1>o::.’
I-IIGl‘II.AND fIOSPI'l'ALIT‘[.
I-‘:'7z'z/1 gold and gcms- 2:/' ('.'/.-z'[z'.rm mmmza."rz.s-g./ow ;
If bleak and barren é.'coria’s /.-ills arise ;
T.’zc2'c, Plupuc and P0i.s-071, Lust and Ra/zincgrotw ;
Hcrc, /zcaccful arc z/2:: voles and /1117‘: 1/1.? .9.’.'z'cs,
.25.’/st!1*':'cc-do.-;2_jZr‘c'zr .':'.-‘ye :3-um‘-,:1.'zt'1 .'.y’1;:,rvl'./.:-.-.-..='.«z the eyes.
' I5z.-.'r'1r::.
I once resolved to leave London for at little
time, merely on the principle that ‘ shortabsence
urges sweet return ;‘ and as Quin, the famous
Epicure had said, that he would go down to
Lat.-<l’s Iintl to eat a John Dory fresh out of the
water, so I determined to set off for the Moors,
that I might see the game which they productia
dressed in the highest perfection.
. ‘ Put up half a dozen changes of linen,’ said I
to my servant, ‘six waistcoats, same mimber of
stockings and cravats, two pair of boots and two
pair of shoes, one strong and the other haiftlress,
with one coat, as I shall travel in Q'l‘(.‘dt coat
and shooting jacket.’ Thus equipped, 1 put my
dogs in under my gig,'t0ol< my servant and gun
by the‘ side of me, and set off. 1 will say nothing
ofmy tour until I came to Perth. There I was
delighted with its localities, with the urbanity of
its inh;tbi'tants, and with the easy, unembarrassed,
unceremouious lmsphality of its vicinity. I then
started for the Moors in tight earnr.-st, loaded with
all sorts of sporting tackle.
I remc.t'l;ed, at the very worst road-side inns,
built by government for the accomntotlation of
travellers, a degree of unobtrusive civility and at-
tention, of kindness and anxiety to please, highly
contrasted to the offrcious impcrtinencc of our
London landlords and waiters—-the former full of
consequence, the latter apeing the higher pup-
pies on whom they wait. VVe had no ‘ Coming,
sir,’ and ‘ yes, my‘lord: allow me to recommend
the old hook or hermitage,’ no obtrusive praises
of the cellar, no scraping and capering like that
of the frosty-faced waiter at Long’s; neither have
we bills as longin proportion. _ However humble
the fare, the wine was always excellent, and the
charge reasonable.”
I should have liiid pretty goO(l_.‘spnt‘t the first
day, but I‘ lost my way on the. Moors, and got
wet to the skin ; my strong shoes gave way like
brown paper; and I came to the inn almost bare-
footed. I called for some spirits to rub the soles
of my feet with-; and sat down by Atliei-zitchen fire,
in order to change a part of my apparel, and to
dry the rest. .’
In one corner of the huge fire-place sat Jean-
nette, the grat dmotber of the family, spinning
and singing an old martial ballad, which sounded
to me more wooden and monotonous than the
noise of her reel. In another corner was a little
ragged boy, reading Latin 1- (for education is eve-
ry thing in Scotland ;) and in the third corner,,a_
venerable looking, ruddy, silver-haired Highlan-
dcr, in the garb of old Gaul, with a thick staff,
reclining on one arm, and a short pipe in his
mouth. He very urbanely raised his bonnet from
his head, and asked me if his smoking was offeri-
sire? A courtier could not have done it better.
I answered in the negative. As I pulled off my
ragged shoes, he looked. at them with an air of
pity, and exclaimed, ‘ Heigh ! hcigh 1 what sort
0’ dancing shoon to cross our muirs wi 1 Na won-
. (ler an ye’ll have your feet sair 1’
‘ "-I now proceed to rub the soles of my feet with
‘ a mixture, as I imagined, of gunpowder, sulphur
and other eombustib_l~es,. which they called Fairn-'
‘*-:~,_ ~
an.-n..
quid nearly choaked me.
day._ I asked his age--‘ about eighty.”
always lived so? ‘ Much about it.’ I now found
that he was the grandfather ; and that he often
used todance all the night, with four and twenty
children and grand-children.
\Ve soon got quite familiar and intimate. As
I was proceeding in my toilette, he took out his
mull, and offered me a pinch of snuff; but it was
not to be endured : I would just as soon have ta-
ken l)llI‘l‘lll‘lg‘lOtlCll\VOO(l pulverized. I therefore
literally let it slip through my fingers ; and ta-
king out my gold snufl‘-box, in which there was
the happy mixture of Etrennes, Burean, Macau-
ba. and a Tonkin bean ; I presented it to the Cal-
edonian. He was dazzled a little with the box,
but smelling slightly to the delicious mixture, he
exclaimed with disdain, ‘ It is only fit for lasses.’
But, recovering himself, and repressing a blush,
which was partly tinged with a contempt of what
his severe and athletic habits deemed effcmina-
cy, and deeper crimsoned from a generous fear
that he had offended me, he'added, ‘but I’m a’
the same obleeged to ye; we dinna understand
the nick-nackeries of the toun.’ _
I made an excellent dinner on some muir-fowl
and a mutton-ham, and drank my bottle of wine,
with my highlander by my side (for I thought
the old man an original, and asked him to dinner.)
He sung me some war songs, with the voice of
a Stentor. They were unintelligible to me, be-
ing all Gaelic; but he explained to me that they
were about -.-var and love ; and as these two pas-
sions brought impressive rcmcinbranccs to his
mind, his color went and came, and a jewel of
the first water glistencd in his eye. In the course
of conversation. he told me that he had been oot
wi’ Charlie in the forty-five. Here he heaved -'.l
sigh ‘ for the days of lang sync,’ and for a mo-
ment, his manly features assumed a contempla-
tive expression of reminiscence, which would
not have disgraced the Roman pencil, nor the
Grecian chissel.
We parted good friends at night; and the next
morning it was agreed that he should lend me 3
pair of brogues for shooting, and that I should
both fish and hunt, as shooting is called hunting
in his wild country, and not wit.i'o-ut reasoti, since
a man hunts for game as well as shoots. It ivas
rnoreovei‘ settlecl that his boy, meaning his son,
a man nearly sixty, should be my guide, and that,
in return for the honor I did the old man, in ash-
ing him IO dine, I should pass the night at his
cabin, on my way to other moot‘s. The old man
ivas to wake me in the morning, and then to pro-
ceed on before me to prepare my welcome.
{e came at day-break, and finding my belt on
the chair by my bedside, ran off as if he ‘.v;\s ‘bit
by a m-?.(l- dorr. ‘ Donald, I-lorie, I‘./Ioggie,’ I ltC'.'t!'t‘l
him cry,whilst he held the belt in his hand,‘ shoot.
me, if we ha‘ na gotten a woman final-;;:ig't‘.vo
strong accented syllables of it) in bed lli.~'..‘,'.'.‘.sLl of
a man. Nae wonder that the puir thingy should
be sae worn out yestreen, an’ could nae drink the
whiskey 1’ I confess that this mortified me a lit-
tle but I called out lustily to him for my belt,
and assured him that all people of fashion wort:
them in town. For a moment he looked con-
tempt ; but changing to an air of paternity and
lcindncss, he said, ‘ bae, gas I wonders will never
cease. That I should live to see a man wear
stays’ 1‘ Vice} a west sirs; but (turning to me)
my dear, dinna wear the nasty things: _vou’re
\'.ecl made enough without them, and ye’ll never
climb our hills wi’ sic whalcbone vagaries.’ To
please my old man, I dressed myself without
them, and it proved pretty clear in the sequel
that they would have somewhat encumbered me
in hill climbing.
W'hen I had paid my reckoning, and received
athousand blessings and good wishes, to none of
which I was insensible, as they seemed to pro-
ceed from the heart, I set forward with the boy
of sixty, who certainly was a boy to me in his ac-
.i\'ity and resistance against fatigue. My good
hostess put in some cold moor-fowl and a’ llagon
of old brandy, for neither of which she would
take payment, observing ‘That my guidness to
flex‘ father merited any kindness, which. in their
humble way, they could shew me; and besides
that kindness to strangers and travellers was as
much their duty and pleasure as their interest.’
I heartily shook my landlady by the hand, and
proceeded on my way; a little boy begging to
lighten me of a gun until I came to the first like-
ly place for game. --
All this, though humbly and simply (lemon-
strated, is the very essence of hospitality ; but it
is nothing to what I shall have hereafter to state
of old Gregor"s (the gt'andfatlie:"s) cabin; the
recollection of which warms my heart wliilstl
am writing these lines. .
(The "sequel mxt week.)
-€Q§-—
Rcmetlyfor Hard Times.-——'Fo avoid hard times,
attend diligently to the following hints :
VVhen you see a Bank door, consider it as the
gate to destruction, and beware of entering there-
at.-
\’Vhen you find yourselves in the way to a
store, look around you, feel in your pockets, and
see if you have any money to pay for what you
are after ; ifnot, turn about, go home, put patch-
-es on your old coats, and wear them a year long-
or.
Never carry your credit to a store and take
therefor articles which you do not want, because
the rogue behind the counter tells you they are
c/zca/2.
Never promise bear skins until you have
catched them. ,
Never engage your bu_tter, cheese and pork,
for rum, calico, and looking glasses.
Do not tell me that these things are necessary,
and that you cannot do without them-—-away with
such nonsense‘; you can do without them until
fall, yea, until January.
Remember that the right of those things which
,1 tosh. ,.The aged-Higlilatidcr ‘was indignant atj
this, ‘Fie, fiel"cried he, ‘Lad, tak it i’your
mou ; it will be soon enough down at your heels,
without wasting and abusing the liquor sae.’ I
was going to comply with his advice, but the li-
It had all the smell of
a turf-cabin under conflagration, and was as hot
‘ as the flame. He laughed immoderately at sce-
ing me spit it out : and, taking two bumpers in
order to encourage me, and to prove that it was
not poison, and tapping me good naturedly on_the
shoulder, he informed me it was mother’s' milk
to him; that he always took a bumper fasting,
and that a bottle o’t would nae frighten him any
Had be
you obtain on credit, does‘ hot belong to you, but
to your creditor; w.ho will not fail to prove it at
a time which will be veryinconvenient
real and personal prosperity. /
hand, is from ten to thirty per cent.
land, raise the same number on t/Ircc acres.
Never run in debt for personal property-—bear
well in mind, yea, observe practically from this
time henceforward, what the Apostle says—0=wc
no man any tlzimr : 30 shall your houses be filled
wtih bread, your fields shall be ornamented with
fat cattle, and your folds shall be decked with
sheep ; yea, more, the constable shall not disturb
your rest, nor shall the sherilfinvade and drive
away your flocks and your herds.
Lastly--—-never imitate those who ride in car-
riages for which they owe, and for ‘which they
are visited by the sheriffs.
The way to be flu]:/zy.—-Tlie way to be happy,
is to look down on those who suffer, and not up
to those who shine in the world. The compari-
son, then, would be so much in our favor, that we
should cease to complain. So far should we be
from repining at the unequal distributions of for-
tune, that weshould set down contented with our
own lot, and be happy with the.blessings we en-
joy. Our pride would be humbled, and our peev-
ishness turned into pity—our murmurings would
be hushed at the sight of others. A little reason
and common sense would point out to us the ab-
surdity ol our pursuits, and prove how dangerous
it is to follow the deceitful track. How happily,
then, might people live, and what a figure they
might make in the world, were they to manage
the liberality of fortune with common sense, and
learn to despise the superlluities ofit? From a
want of this, "springs all the unhappiness of this
life—-and from a careful observance of it. pro-
ceeds every satisfaction we can wish to obtain.
"-'-€--?l’.-'|5>---
? Great S]zrz'ng.——-Tlie Blakely (Alabama) Sun,
of Dec. lst. contains a long letter signed Saml.
l-lainesfi giving an account of an excursion upon.
the Chacfawliachec river. in ascending a stream
called Holmes’ Creek, which empties into the
.C»l1l1Cla\VllaCl1Ct?, he says——‘ I came to the mouth
of an extraordinary stream of nearly the same
width, which allows entirely from a spring, only
one mile from its confluence with Holmes’ creek.
VV hen I entered this creek, I found the water
so perfectly transparent, that its bottom exposed
to view the smallest fishes, and the minutest peb-
bles. Our boat drew nearly three feet water,
and was of almost five tons burthen ; and we pas-
sed into the very head of the spring with as much
ease as we ascended the river: in fact, at all times
there appears to be -a depth of four feet at least
from there to its mouth. I should say that this
extraordinary fountain constantly delivers water
enough to tutnfotir saw mills. The water boils
up from beneath a jutting ledge of limestone, and
makes a sort of basin or crater ofthe size of an
acre of ground, surrounded with high solid earth,
covered with a growth of oak, hickory, &.C.'
At the fountain-head, the depth of water is at
least ten fathom ; and its ebullition is so forcible
as to throw off every boat that attempts to rest
upon it. "
In passing from this big spring to Holmes’
village, a distance of5 or 6 miles north, I found
on my right a chain of live ponds, apparently
from 100 to 600 acres in superficial extent, and
some of them of circular forms.’
A writer in the National Intelligencer, refer-
ring to M. Chaptal’s essay on the culture of the
vine in France, and his views of its great impor-
tance to the French nation, as affording an annu-
al product of 100,000,000 dollars, recommends
the encouragement of its culture to the attention
of Congress. As the climate of one-half our ter-
ritory is well adapted to the culture of this profit-
able plaut, and as making our own wines and
brandies would be a saving of our money that is
now sent abroad for the purchase ofthese articles,
and a great source of wealth, by augmenting the
means of profitable industry, the subject would
therefore seem entitled to particular considera-
tion. To be perfectly indc/zendcnt, which may
be considered as one of the primary objects of
c".rery enlightened nation, we ought, as far as may
be found practicable, to rely on our own resour-
ces for supplying all our wants.’
A Gerinan Journal states, that in 1512, four
persons were arrested and executed in a city in
the North of Germany, having been convicted of
robbing 631 churches, and committing 70 mur-
ders. Unfortunatcly, previous to their arrest,
the judges, deceived by probabilities and perjured
witnesses, had condemned and executed, as guil-
ty of the above crimes, 119 persons: namely, 3
priests, 18 sacristans, 80 men and 18' women‘!
Assuredly, adds the Journalist, had the institution
of the jury existed at that period, the judges
would not have had to reproach themselves with
these 119' judicial murders.
The court of Naples has concluded a treaty
with that of the Brazils, for placing at the dispo-
sal of the latter, 2000 galley slaves. They are
of war, and to be transported thence at the
expence of the Portuguese government. They
are to be selected from such as are condemned
for a longer period than fifteen years. They are
to have lands allotted to them‘, and their wivesand
children‘ to acco ipany them. Those who are
not condemned ' or‘-l«ife,',_will be permitted to re-
turn to Europe, at the expiration of their sen-
tences. After getting rid of the above number,
there will still remain 5000 galley slaves in the
Neapolitan dominions.--.Londan [Ia/Z81‘.
.5‘/zlenrlid Lam/z.—It is is agitation at Shefiield,
Eng. to erect a grand cast-iron pillar in the cen-
tre of the town, at the top of which is to be a
large ball, which is to be lighted up with gas, so
that the whole town and its environs may be illu-
minated thereby. The height of the proposed
pillar is to be 48 feet, and the diametar two feet
and a half.
./In erujzlion of Jlfouizt V esuvius occurred on the
15th of November, which continued nearly two
"days. It was preceded by a severe tempest.
to your
Recollect that the difference between things
gotton on credit, and things obtained for pay in
Be industrious, be frugal : and instead of rais-
ing one hundred bushels of corn on ten acres of
to be conveyed to Lisbon in Neapolitan ships -
“Warden; Esq. a native of Down, late Consul for
the United States at Paris, in his history of A-
merica, relates the following extraordinary eip.
cumstance, on the authority of Anbury, said to
j great heat of the month of July,l 758, a pond, con.
taimng an area of nearly 3 miles square, lost all
its waters, and the frogs which inhabited it, ma-
ny thousand in number, by some wonderful in-
nearly five miles; and passing in the night, mm’
the town of VVindham, the inhabitants imagined
that their noise was that of an enemy's d<itach-
ment of French and Indians, with whom not be-
ing able to cope, they fled, almost naked, [0 the
neighboring woods, where hearing a sound, drec
(cm, which it as supposed to mean treaty, three
persons were sent for the purpose of negociation,
who soon discovered that it was an army of thi;-5..
ty frogs, led on by their king, who refused an
treaty outof his natural element.
—-— ‘
The following remarkable anecdote was hand.
ed to us by a gr.-ntlt-.:nan on whom we can rely,
and who is well acquainted with the subject of
David VVilson, of I-‘ortwilliam. Gallutin county,
Kentucky, is 81 years of age. He. has had four
-wi-ucs, and by them _/brty-two clzilrll-en. His sec.
ond wife had five children at two births in eleven
months. Mr. VV. has but two ribs in his body,
there being a solid smooth bone on each side.—...
He is a man of small stature, and very active.
He is a native of Pennsylvatiia, converses wtth
ease and affability, and supportshis family by la.
bor. He has worn a hat l‘tt?c'7lty-I/.")'(‘(' ycarz.-, which
is still pass-ably decent ——II/1nsz.‘crn Sjzy.
A person in Oxfordshirc, England, undertook
for a trifling wager, to devour a hedgehog, fried
in bacon lat, for his breakfast ; a ‘rat, fried in tal-
low, for dinner ; and a carri-an crow, fried in
train-oil, for his supper, which the filthy german-
dizer accompltslied, to the grgttification of his
companions l
V ‘-"¢$'-:2':‘.’1—-
. 1ll.'1ltR!El),
In North Carolina, Captain I'Vz'llianz Graves to
Miss .7\’rn1¢y Graves.
The Graves ’tis said,
\Vill yield their dead,
VVhen the last trumpet wakes the skies;
But if God please,
From Graves like these,
A dozen living folks may rise.
DIED,
.At North-Haven, on the 8th inst. the Rev.
Be'njamz'n Trzun/Jz,z_.-‘/,D. D.’ Author of the History
of Connecticut, at an advanced age. At Corn-
wall, Mrs. 0.’:-cc 1lIal[o7'y, rclict of deacon Eliakim
M. W'hile engaged at work in l'S'.ldl l.{.-alth, she
was suddenly attacked with grett distress in her
stomach, arms, kc. and expired in ab’;-.it forty
minutes. At Ne'.v—Lnn(l0n, a child of Mr. John
Harris, aged two _vears——its (l(‘2llLll was occasioned
by falling i;_ito a kettle of hot lie, I‘.-lC'dllllOU'.~ly left
standing on the kitchen floor. At Lisbon, Maine,
Mr. Bryant, aged 64. isle went into the house
in his usual health seated. l-imsslfin a-chair, and
expired instantanec-usly, without a struggle or at
groan. At Boston, ‘z27:zu:=l1£/.'iott, esq. agetl 8 l,
leaving a property of more than a million of dol-
lars.‘ In l8l-.1.-, he gave $20,000 in specie to the
University at Cambridge, to institute a professor-
ship of Greek Literature. By his last will he
bequeathed $10,000 to the Boston Insane Hospi-
tal; $3000 to the I/Iassaclitisetts C,ongregational
Charitable Societies, for the releafofthe widows
and orphans of deceased clergymen ; and to" the
Overseers of Boston, $1,500, to be added to the
fund already subsisting for the relief of decayed
families, not dependent on public charity. These
were his public bequests; those to i‘ndi\iduals=
l-are very numerous.
At New-York, Miss Ilflz/zrta.’2e1 ll/'t°erI, daugh-
ter of Mr. Seth VVeed, of Stamford.
At D-.tn'bLrry, Deacon Daniel Judd, aged 75.
—-—--ea.-2::-eggeevzzz-¢--———
BANK NOTE EXCHANGE.
_ ( Corrected weekly.)
CITY or New-roux 8: NEW-YORK s'r.at'rn rto'rEs.i
New-York city notes par, Barker’s Exchange
bank, 70 to 75 per ct dis; banks of Albany", Troy
Mohawk bank in Schenectady, Lansingburg
and Newburgh, par; Orange county notes,
Middle District, Catskill, Columbia bank at Hud-
son -and Columbia Receivables 1-? per ct. dis
Auburn bank, 1 ; Utica bank 8: Utica branch
at Canandaigua, 1 ; Cer._tral bank at Cherry’
Valley, 2 ; Utica Insuranct: company, 5 ; Platts-'
butgh notes 2 a 3' ; W'ashington and ‘Warren. 62 ;
Ontario bank at Canandaigua, 1 ; do. at Utica, S ;
Bank of Geneva, 1 ; Aqueduct Association at
Catskill, 25 ; Hudson bank, 70 ; Chenango bank,
5a 12 ; Jefferson county bank, 36 ; Bank ofNi-
agara 7.5 to 80 ; Hudson Receivables 75.
NEW—JERSEY NOTES.
Jersey bank, banks in Newark and in New-‘
Brunswick, State banks at Elizabethtown, Patter-‘
son and Morristown, Sussex bank, and Trenton
Banking Company, par; State bank at Trenton,
‘zper ct dis ; Farmer’s bank at Mount Holly,
and Cumberland bank, 2 ; state bank at Camden,
1 a 2 '
Rlzadcfslamz’ 8: Jllassaclzztsctts notes, la 2pr ct.dis.
1’/zilaclcl/zlzia City notes, par to 1-2 per ct. dis-
(,'omzcctz‘cut notes.-—I1ridgeport bank, par ; all
others,unless payable in N.York,3-4 to 1 pr ct dis-
W--t 1_
STONE CUTTING.
iPh/ineas Hill,
NFORMS tho Public that he has just return-
cd from Long-Island, w here he carries on the
business of S'l‘ONE-CUTTING, at intervals,
and is now ready to receive all orders in his line.‘
and on as good terms as any other person. He
earnestly requests those persons who wish to pet'-
petuate the _memory of their deceased friends,
to call at his stand, a few rods north of the bridge,
and see for themselves, before they agree with
those who call at houses soon as they hear of
a death, and offer a percentage lower, and have
no standard to take their per cent from. This
public’s humble servant. P. HILL.
_ Norwalk, Dec. 28. 87
' ITTLE 8: SMIT'H’S collection of'Sacred'
Music, a new edition, revised and enlarged,
2
just received and for sale at this office.
j ./Iiiecdote of .«lmérz'can F'rogs.—--Davicl Bailie
be currently believed by the natives :_ During the "
stinct, set out for VVinnomantic, a distance of _
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Norwalk Chronicler