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POETRY.
. . For the Gazette,
TO AN ESTRANGED FRIEND.
As to the wand’rer o’er Arabyfs waste,
The cool.Oasis of her desert seems.
In this cold, heartless. and deceiving world,
So wert than to me. Around thee fondly
My spirit clings—in thee I hoped, Ithought
That I had found a friend. Thou wert to me
A beacon-guide that o'er my life then shed
Its cheering light——thou wert to me a star’
That lit my path, as poured its brilliance o'er
Life's darltsonievoyage. But it is past! the light’
The beacon ofmy hop- has fled—-the star
That brightened o'er my path is clouded, hid
From my sight. ’Tis Fate’: decree, thus ever
Dashing from mortal man the cup ofjoy.
"I‘is past 3--’twas but a glim’ring, transienibeam
Of bliss that cheered my heart-—darkiiess now
shrouds
My hopes, and chills my life stream in its flow.
Experience tells us that 'tis thus on earth:
There's naught but disappointment here to man.
We may not look below for friendships pure,
And spirit-healing power. Yet thus I thought
Not once—time was when dreams of happiness,
Of friendship‘s perfect bliss, of Love's pure hope
Dweli in tny breast; Fancy then pictured forth
Her airy visions, and dearest ’mongst them
Stood a trusted friend—one other phantom,
Lovely within the cherished dream there lived.
It might be called, and was no doubt a vain
And foolish hope, begotteniofa wild
And fever’d fancy. Yet I did prize it,
And looked to find it realized in thee——
In" thee I vie\v’d the home of virtues pure,
And priceless more than gems that glitter on
The coronets of Princes, or deck the brow;
Ofhaughiy wealth-—tliere be-.im’d from out thine
eye,
An image ofthe heart within—and there
I view’d a {hunt of tenderness and truth,
Unsullied by a thought or wish of ill-—
I always lov'd the pure, the beautiful
And good wherever found. and could I fail
To worship at so fair a shrine? I loved,
And evermore shall think ofthee while life_
Dwells in this form. Yet what is that to thee?
I ne’er can hope to live within thy thought—-
No Mem'ry in thy brenstshall tell" of me;
No! Fate's dread doom hangs o'er my sadden'd
life,
And I must lead a sorrowing, lonely lot,
\Vi'ih nnno. in enotba the. illct of mortal cares.
Or calm the ruffled breast in trial’s hour.
Norwal/c, June 4, 1840.
From the Knickerbaclccr.
TI-IE TEACHING OF THE DEAD.
BY MRS. SIGOURNEY.
B.
“ I feel that the dead have conferred a bless-
ing on me, by helping me,»to think rightly ofthe
world.”—-Rev. Orville Dewey.
Call’st thou the dead our teacliers?
Must we come,
And sit among the clods, and lay our car
To the damp crannies ofthe loathsome tomb,
And listen for their lore’! There breathes no
sound
From all those stern and stone-bound sepulchres,
Save that through rustling grass the low wind
weeps,
And stir the branches of you dark-browed pines,
In sullen undiilation.
' Yet thou say’st
The dead are teachers.
, \Vould they stretch their hands,
And on our tablets write one pencil-trace,
How would we board it in our heart of hearts!
All motionless! All passionless! All inutel.
Oh, Silence, twin with Wisdoin! I wouldpress
My lip "upon you cradle-infant's grave,
And drink the murmur of its smitten bloom.
A mother‘s young pride in her beautiful,
Laid low! laid law! How slight the aspen stem
Round which her heart's joy twinedl Ours too
are frail ‘
Like hers. Theflowret in the reaper’s path
Hath as good hope to greet the golden morn.
Read I thy lesson right, my little one’! in
L0. by thy side the strong irian sleepeth well-
Tlie tall, proud man, who towered like Israel's
king.
\Vith head above the people. Yet his wail
Was not weak as thine, when Death launched
home - ,
The fatal arrow! ‘ Dust to dust!’ should be
The mournful watch-word ofthe born of earth,
And the deep teaching ofsuch lonely creed
Best cometli from the dead.
_, Ah, let mekneel
Here, on this mound, where sleeps my early
friend, . A -
And wait her words, in lowliness of soul..
Speakest thou not to me '1-—thou, whose loving
voice
Gav’st the sweet key tone to our fond discourse,
When lost in lonely haunts, wewandered long,
Shunning the crowd l
, Dear as thou wert to me,
In that cementing time, when school-day sports
Make lasting sisterhood, even now, it seems, .
I loved thee not enough. S-ay. was it so,
My lost companion ? Were there tender words
I might have said; to thee, yet said them not?
Were there not higher flights ofglorious thought,
And nobler trophies on li'fe’e‘rugged steep,
To which I‘ might have urged thee’!
Blindiand weak!_ '
I thought to have thee ever by my side;
And so t-be hours swept by, till thou didst spread
A hidden wiogyand prove thyangel birth. '
Oh, teach me, with a firmer gr-asp. to-Seizfi
The passing day‘, nor with omitted deeds,
Nor the defrauded sympathies of love.
Load the uncertain future. So thy tomb
Shall be my blest instructor, and I’ll ‘go
Sadder. yet wiser. to my work again,
Amid the changeful ministries of life, ’
. . - .. - , .- " ' 5“ ;'—
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MISCELLANY.
THE LONG PACK.
[Conclutled]
They were soon all three in the parlour.
and in no little terror and agitation of mind
unloosed the pack, the principal‘ commodity
of which was a stout young man, whom
Edward had shot through the heart, and
thus bereaved of existence in a few minutes.
To paint ll'le’f€elll‘t§_"S, or even the appear-
ance of young Edward, during ‘the scene,
itis iiiipc_Jssible;_he acted little, spoke less,
and appeared in a hopeless stupor; the
most of his employment consisted in gulp-
ing down mouthfuls of-breath, wiping his
‘eyes, and staring at his associates.
It is ‘most generally believed, that \\'l1t'.‘n
Edward fired at the pack, he had not the
mostdistant idea of shooting a man; but
seeing Alice so jealous of it, he thought the
Colonel would approve of his intrt-Ipidiiy,
and protect him from being wronged by the
pedlar; and besides, he had never got a
chance ofa shot at such :1 large thing in his
life, and was curious to see how mariy folds
of the pedl.'tr’s fine haberdashery ware Co-
peri./tagen would drive the drops through, so
that when the stream of blood burst from
the pack, accompanied with the dying groans
ofa humanbeing, Edward was certainly ta-
ken by surprise, and quite confounded ; he
indeed _a_sse_rted, as long as -he _lived that he
saw something stirring‘ in the pack, but his
eagerness to shoot, and his terror, on seeing
what he had done, which was no more than
what he might have expected, had he been
certain he saw the pack moving, makes this
nsseveration very doubtful. They made all
possible speed in extricating the corpse, in-
tending. to call medical assistance, but it was
too late; the vital spark was gone for ever.
"Al-as!” said old Richard, heaving a deep
sigh, “poor man, ’tis all over with him; I
wish-he had lived a little longer to have re-
pented of this, for he has died in a bad cause.
Poor man! he was someI2,0cl_7/,’s son, and no
doubt dear to them, and nobody can tell how
small a crime this bath, by a regular grada-
tion, become the fruits of." Richard came
twice across his eyes with the sleeve of his
shirt; a thought of a tender nature shot
through his heart. “Alas, if his parents are
alive, how will their hearts bear this, poor
creatures !” said Richard. weeping outriglit,
“ poor creatures!” God pity them.”
The way he was packed up was artful
and curious. His knees were brought up
toward his breast, and his feet and legs stufl-
ed in :1 box, another wooden box a size lar-
ger, and wanting the bottom, made up the
vacancy betwixt his face and knees, and
there being but one fold of canvass aroitnd
this he breathed with the greatest freedom;
bit! it had undoubtedly sen the heaving of
his breast which had caused the movement
noticed by the servants. His right arm was
within the box and to his hand was tied a
cutlass, with which he could rip himself
from his confinement at once. There were
also four loaded pistols secreted with him,
and a silver wind call. On coming to the
pistols and cutlass, “ Villain,” said old Rich-
ard, “see what he has here. But Ishoulcl
not call him a villain,” said he, again, soft-
ening his tone, “for he is now gone to an-
loquacious orator, can bias the justice of the
sentence pronounced on him. He is now.
in the true world, and Iam in the false one.
VVe can judge only from appearances; but
thanks to our kind Maker and Preserver, that
he was discovered, else it is probable that
none of us should have again seen the
light of day.” These moral reflections
from the mouth of old Richard by degrees
raised the spirits of Edward: he was‘bi:tvil-
dered in uncertainty, and had undoubtedly
given himself up for lost; but he now began
to discover that he had done a meritorious
and manlul action, and for the first time,
since he had fired the fatal shot, ventured to
speak. “Faith ‘it was lucky that I shot
then,” said Edward; but neither of his com-
anions answered either good or bad.-—
Alice, though rather grown desperate, be-
haved and assisted this bloody affair better
than might have been expected. Edward
surveyed the pistols all round, two of which
were ‘of curious workmanship. “ But what
do on think he was going to do with all
these ?” said Edward. “Ithink you need
not ask that,” Richard answered. “Faith
it was a mercy that Ishot after all," said
Edward; “ for if we harlloosed him out, we
should have been all dead in a minute. I
have given him a devil of a broadside,
though. But look. ye, Ricliard, Providence
has directed me to the right spot, for 1 might
as readily have lodged the contents of Co-
penhagenin one of these empty boxes.” “ It
has been a deep laid scheme,” said Richard,
“ to murder us, and rob our master’s house;
there must certainly be more concerned in
it than these two.” _
Ideas beget indeas, often quite difi_'ercnt,
and then othersagain in unspeakable grada
tion, which run through and shift in the
mind with as much velocity as the stream-
ers around the pole in a frosty night. On
Richard’s mentioning of more concerned,
Edward instantaneously thought of a gang
of thieves by night. How he would break
the leg of one-—-shoot another through the
head—and scatter them like chaff before the
wind. He would rather shoot one robber
on his feet or on horseback than ten lying
tied up in packs; and then what a glorious
prey of pistols he would get from the dead
rascals——how he would prime and load and
fire away with perfect safety frorriwithinl
how Alice would scream, and Richard
would’pray,'and all would ‘go on with the
noise and rapidity of a windmill‘, and he
would acquire peverlasting fame. So high
was the young and ardent mind of Edward
wrought ‘up by this train of ideas, that he
‘ was striding up and down the flo.or,_ while
'dogs'.""said he with great vehemence, to the
‘pointed toward the court-gate, every orb ofl
vision was strained to discover the approach-l~mlSf0I‘lt1nCS flml dl33PP°l”im9“l5-
swer at that bar, where no fzilsdwitness, nor .
his eyes gleamed as ‘wiitlra tint ‘of. madness
“ Oh! if I had plenty of,guns, and nothing
to do but to shoot, how Iwould pepper the
no-small astonishment of his two associates,
wh_o’thought him gone mad. "‘ What can
the fool mean ?”“-._sai_d old. Richard, " What
can lie all at the dogs?” ‘;‘,Oh, it is the rob-
bers that I mean,” said Edivard. “What
robbers, you young fool .7” said Richard.-—
" lVhy, do not you think that the pcdlar will
come backat the dead of the night to the
nssistcittce of his friend, and bring plenty of
help with him too,” said Edward. “ There
is not a doubt of it,” said ‘old Richard.——
“ There is not a doubt of it,” said Alice, and
both stood up stiff with fear and astonish-
ment. “ Ohl merciful I-Ieuven l‘ ivhrit is to
become of us,” said Alice again, " what are
we to do .7” “Let us - trust in the Lord said
old Richard. “I intend, in the first ‘place,
to trust in -old Copenhagen,” said Edward,
putting down the frizzel, and "making it
spring up again with aloud snap five or six
times; “ but good Lord! what are we think-
ing about? I’ll run and gather in all the
guns in the country.” The impulse of the
moment ivas.Edward’s monitor. ,Off.he ran
like fire, and warned a few of the Colonel’s
retainers, who he knew kept guns about
them; these again warned others, and at
eight o’clock they had twenty five men in
the house, and sixteen loaded pieces, inclu-
ding Copenhagen, and the four pistols found
on the deceased. These were distributed
among the front tviiidows in the upper sto-
ries, and the rest armed with pitch-forks, old
swords, and cudgels, kept watch below.-
Edward had taken care to place himself
with a comrade at a_ window immediately
facing the approach to the house, and now
backed as he was by such a strong piirty,
grew quite impatient for another chance with
his redoubted Copenhagen. All, however,
remained quite, until an hour past midnight,
when it entered into his teeming brain to
blow the thiefs silver wind call; so, with-
out ivarning any ofthe rest, he set his head
out of the ivindoiv, and blew until all the
liil_ls and woods around yelled their echoes.
This alarmed the guards, as not knowing
the. meaning of it; but how they were as-.
tonished at hearing it answered by another
at no great tlistance. The state of anxiety
into which this sudden and unforeseen cir-
cumstance threw our armed peasants, is more
easily conceived than described. The fate‘
of their master's great wealth, and even
their own fates, was soon to be decided, and ;
none but He who surveys and overrnles fu-
turity, cotild tell what was to be the issuc.—
lcerti_tude,,until tlie-opening dav discovered to
them -by degrees, that the corpse were re-
moved, andtnothing left. but large sheets of
frozen blood, and the inot'ning’s alarrr:s_ by
the ghost and thenoise of horses, had been
occasioned by some of the friends ofthe ‘men
that_ha_d falvlt-n_,_ conveying them at-.'ay.for the
fear of discovery. ' ‘ _ I
Next morning the news flew=like fire, and
thcthree servants were much incominoded
by crowds of idle and_ofhciqus people that
gathered about the house, some inquiring af-
ter the siiiallest pnrticulai's, some beggirlg to
see the body that lay in the parlour, :ind,oth-
ers pleasedtlicmselvrs with poring O\'Cl' the
sheets of crimson ice, and tracing the drops
of blood on the road down the wood. The
Colonel had no country factor, nor ony,p::r-
ticular friend in the rn.-iglfborliood, so the af-
fair: was not pursued with that speed which
was requisite. to the discovery of the accom-
plices, which if it had, would have been pro-
ductive of some very iitiplcasnnt clrcLtnistun-
ces, by iiivolving sundry respectable fumi-
lies,_as it afterivards appeared but too evi-
dently." Dr. I-Ierbcrt, the physician who at-
tendvdtlic faiiiily occasionally, write to the
Colonel, by post, coiiccrning the-affair‘, but
thotigh he lost no time, it was the fifth day be-
fore he arrived. 'l‘hen indeed advertisetnents
were issued and posted up inall publitrplnces,
offering‘ rewards for a discovery ofany person
killed or wounded oflate. All the dead and
sick within twenty miles were inspected by
medical men, and a most extensive S0f1l'Cl)
mride, but to no purpose. It§\\'IlS too late;
all was secured. Some indeed were mis-
sing, butplausihle pretcnccs being made for
their absence nothing could be done. But
certain it is, sundry ofthcsc were never seen
any rno_re in the country, though many of
the neighborhood declared they were such
people as nobody could suspect.
'I“lie~body of the unfortunate man who
was shot in the pack lay open for inspection
a fortnight, but rioiie would ever acknowl-
edgegso much as having seen him. The
Colour.-l then caused him to be buried at
Bellirighrim; bu_t it was confidently reported,
that‘ his grave was opened, and his corpse ta-
ken tiwn_v._ In short, not one eugagt-tcl in
this base and "bold 11llt’1'!l])l._ was c.ver,dis,cov-
cred. A constant watch was lioptby night
for some time- The Colonel rewarded the
defenders of his house liberally. Old Rich-
ai'd.-remained in the family during‘ the rest
of his life, and had a good sal:try,for only
saying prayers among the servants every
night. Alice was ninriied to a tobacconist
at'I-Iexham. Edward was made the Colo-
ncl’s gamekeeper, and had a present ofa fine
gold mounted gun given him. His master
Every breast heaved quicker, every breath
tvtws ‘cut slitirt, every gun was cocked and:
ing foe, by the dim light of the starry cuno-l
py,and every ear expanded to catch the dis-
tantsounds as they floated on the slow frosty
breeze.
The suspense was not of long continuance.
In less than five minutes the trampling of
horses was heard, which increased as they
approached to the noise of thunder, and in
due course, a body ofmcn on horseback, ac-
cording to the account given by the Coloncl’s
people, exceeding their own number, came
up at a brisk trot, and began to enter the
court-gate.
self any longer, fired Copenhagen in their
faces; one of the foremost dropped, and his
horse made a springtoward the hall (l'O0l‘.—-I
This discharge was rather premature, as the
wall still shielded a part of the gang from
the windows. It was, however, the watch-
word to all the rest, and in the course of
two seconds, the whole sixteen guns were
discharged at them. Before the smoke dis-
persed they were all-fled, no doubt greatly
amazed at the reception which they met
with. Edward and his comrade ran down
stairs to see how -matters stood, for it was
their opinion that they had shot every one,
and that their horses had taken fright at the
the club below warmly protested against
their opening any of the doors till day, so
they were obliged to betake themselves a-
gain to their berth up stairs.
Though our peasants had gathered up a
little courage and confidence in themselves,
their situation was curious, and to them a
dreadful one; they saw and heard a part of
their fellow creatures moaning and expiring
in agonies in the open air, which was in-
tensely cold, yet durst rot go to administer
the least relief. for fear ‘-f a surprise. An
hour or two after this great brush, Edward
and his messmatc descended again, and
begged hard for leave to reconnoitre for a
few minutes, which, after some disputes,
was granted. They found only four men
fallen, who appeared to be all quite dead.—-
One of them was lying within the porch.-—
"Faith,” said Edward, “her.e’s the chap
that I shot.” The other three were with-
out at a considerable distance from each oth-
er. They durst not follow their track fur-
ther, as the road entered betwixt; groves of
trees, but retreated into their posts without
touching any thing.
About an hour before day, some of them
were alarmed at hearing the sound ofhorses
feet a second time, which, however, was on-
ly indistinct, and heard at considerable inter-
vals,.and nothing of_ them ever appeared.——
Not longafter this, Edward and his friend
were almost frightened outfiof their wits, at
seeing, as they thought, the dead man with-
in the gate, endeavoring to get up and es-
cape. They had seen him dead. lying sur-
rounded by a deluge of congealed blood, and
nothing but the ideas of ghosts and hobgob-
has entered their brains, they were so indis-.
creet as never to think of firing, but ran and
told the tale of horror to some of their neigh-
bors. The sky was by this time grown so
Edward, unable to restrain hiin- *
noise, and gallopped off without them; but F
afterwards procured him a commission in :1
regiment of foot, where he suffertd many
He was
shot through the shoulder at the battle of
Fontcnoy, but recovered, and retiring on
half pay took a small farm on the Scottish
side. His character was that ofa brave, but
rash officer; kind generous, and ()pt.‘l]-llt21l‘l.-
ed in all situations. I have often stood at
his knee and listened with WOD(l(’I‘.t1Il(l.'.‘t-
inazenieiiit to his stories of battles and seig-
es, but none of them ever pleased me ‘better
than that of the Long Pack.
» From the St. Louis Republican.
The Farmer’s Dc7nocrc3/.--Passing a retail
store it few days since, we stepped inns is our
custom, to have a friendly, chat with those
we usually find round the stove. One of-‘those
band box raised cliaps,»a fellow-wliosc hands
were as white and as soft as a newly‘ made
kid glove, was prating about Democracy and
Van Burenism. In the store was“ an old
Kcntuckian, whose head bore the blossom
of soineseventy or more winters, buying
some articles for his farm-—for his appearance
bespoke him a tiller of the soil. For A seine
time he paid no l1ttE‘l‘ll.lQnrl.0 the Van Buren
champiori’s declarations about the federal cati-
didate, the old granny, the petticoat hero, &c.
When ttheold man had finished his purchases
he rtturned to this pink of modern democra-
cy, and looking him sternly_in the face ob-
served-— . » I .1991 :-
" You say,Gen. Harrison is a Federalist?”
" Yes.”
" You called him granny Cl”
“ Yes.” - '
" You called hi-m ti petticoat hero '1”
“ Yes, my old buck, and what if I did '2”
" VVhy, I willjust tell you what—I served
under this Federalist, this pctticoat hero. I
followed him through the snow when I hadn’t
a pair of shoes as good as that negro; Iliavc
fought with him, eat with him, and slept with
him. I have seen him where you darcn’t
show your calf skin; and although I don’t
know that I shall vote for him for President,
or for any body, yet by golly, if you dont
say you lied about him, 1’ll make you-—that’s
all I have got to say my, old buck, as you
call me.” The musliroon _bt-gun to apolo-
gise. but the old man wouldn’t let him off;
he made him chew his words over and over
again. ‘When he had finished‘, the old man
remarked,“ you call General Harrison 11 Fed-
eralist, because he was fighting for his coun-
try, when your Democratic Presi.dent, Van
Buren, was doing all he could to assist the
r-nemies of his country, by opposing Mr.
Madison and his Administration.
" If to fight for my country makes me a
federalist, I am so; and if serving in places,
where I am well paid, and am in no danger
oft-ny hide, makes inea Democrat, I ain’t_no
Democrat. I tell you striplin, you'll" find
plenty of old men here, that won't stand by
and hear their old General abused, no way
you can ‘fix it ;and hereaftt-r, when you want
to abuse at man who has fought for his coun-
try, yon had best go out to one side, where
you are sure none of the old settlers will
hearyou ;. ifyou don't "you'll catch it certain
,_The first vote I ever gave was for.Tom Jef-
jferson, and if I live to give another it will
Ldark, that nothing“ could’ _be seen with pre-
cisioii, and they all remained in anXlOllS_l!1-
‘be for old Tip.” , \
“This no’ fancy sketch. ' At least four
men, residents ofthis city, witnessed it; and
one of the number, after the old man wen out.
vote for Harrison.”
-. - - ‘.
“ 1-Ln};-W-.. 'Ou 8 Of 03. rfien in Cork, ‘says:
, 3 T6 on o a laugh—ii Lat do
you think of the following? A priest here
htid long been donned by his candle maker,
with ivhom he had run up along bilL One
day lately, the candle maker was called on
by a stranger, who demanded the padre’s.
bill, paid it, and took away it receipt. The
following day came the priest hirnsclf, who
upon hearing the circumstance and recei-
ving a descriptioirof his friend. in iieéd, de-
Cli1l'l:!(l it must. have been St. Itt‘i‘i‘.:‘S 01.‘ St.
Anthony.
cliurcli.’ Upon arriving tlicréivhat was the
astonishment-of the man of tallow and the
spectators, to See the statue of St. Anthony
lioltling the receipt for the muttons. The
donning chandler was horrified at having
taken the money from a holy saint. He in-
stnntly rcfunrlud it through the priest, and;
the latter has received the personal. congrat-
ultition of the king upon his interest its
heaven ! l” .
T H E B l B L E .
Whence but from heaven, could men tiusltill’d
iirarts,
In dif-fereut nations born. in different parts,
\Veave such agreeing truths? Or how, or why,
Should all conspire to cheat us with a lie '!
Unasketl their pains, ungrateful their advice.
Starving their gain, and tnartyttioni their prize.‘
t
Durban.
Qttltrl at Last.—-A bickering couple resi-
ding near Manchester, were recently over‘-
heard in h-igh controversy, and the repentant
Benedict exclaimed, ’I’m determined to have
one quiet -wet-.-k_wiih thee 1’ “But how ivilt.
ihoit get it? how wilt than get it? how wilt
thou get it? said his taunting spouse, with.
that agreeable reiteiation, which inariierfi
ladies so provoliingly practit'e. ‘I'll keep-
thee a wool.’ after-tliou _art dead,’ was the
tender l‘€_l"C)ll'l(.l€l'.
...—.-an...
An .-émusiizg Incirlezzt..—-Yeaterdiay,.when
the Rosalie \\l‘-.3 leaving port, at num-
ber of the VVhigs of‘ the city went down to
bid the delegations from the Upper Missi.:-:-
sippi good lTt_\='('. As the boat put out from
the shore, the citizens gave three clicers.——--
‘Wlien they were through, a good sturdy
looking fellow, standing in the street, song
out, solitary and alone, “ hurra for Van Bu-
i'en;" he had scarcely finished his hurrar,
when a big dog jumped out and seized him
by the leg. The IL‘llO\V turned ro.uud,, and
with gt'cat good humor exclaimed, "it’s time
for the to turn ovt-r when even dogs bite me
for burr-.1iii,:_,rfor Van Buren.” Such perils
of laugliter as followed this expressiori we,
have never heard on any other occasion.
St. Louis Republican.
I//1,7221./lance a7ztlP’appg/ism Rclmhcd.--—lVIr'..
John Van Blll“c‘tl, the hopeful son of the
President of the United States, had the im-
pudeiice ti few days since, to cl-eclare in the
phul)ll((:;Bal'-F100;? offlongrcss llall, Albany,
int cnera arrisori was rt COWARDl F-
Fortnnritcly for the cause oftruth, an officer
of the army was. present, who promptly re--
a M p
quired of the coxcoinb unfi-mmedintc retrac-
tion of the slander, at tlih‘ hazard of being;
held personally responsible for his language.
After a very little bliistering', this promising-
son of his father, 8l'l‘l‘VC(l at the conclusion-
that “ Discretion is the better partof valor” ;,
and humbly ivithdretv his charge in tho,
some public rnanrier in. which it was made.
Courier.
In former times, the VVhigs were always
under the necessity of submitting to present
defeats, and trying to console themselves
with anticipated victories. The poor Loco-
Focos, however, are now in the "same awk-
ard way. ‘ \Ve are beaten in Rhode Island,‘
say they, ‘but we shall carry the State at the,
next trial,’ ‘TVs are beaten in Connecticut,’
say they. ‘but we shall annihilate the whigs
in that State in one more battle.’ ‘We aro
beaten in New York,’ say they, ‘-but we shall
sweep every thing before us in the Empire
State in November.’ ‘We are beaten in
Virginia,’ say they, ‘but we shall play the.
very d—l in the old Dominion at the Presi-
dential election.’——Pre7ztr'ce.
Civil rmswer.—-A stranger in the city a
few days since, having lost his way, said to
an aivkaisdzlooking fellow, ‘I want to go to
Dover street.’ ‘ VVell,’ replied the fellow,
coolly walking on, ‘ why the d—l don't you
go there ?’
Bloch is worn by doctors out of respect to
the memory of their departed patients-—andt
by lawyers out of respect to their mastentbo
devil.
Lawyers find their fees in the faults ofour
natrirc, as woodpeckers get. the worms out of
the rotten parts of trees.
A western editor says that the rivers are
now higher than they have been at anytime
tion .’
Tip and T3/.—The Cincinnati Gazette
saysthat: a lady in that county lately pre-
sented her husband with twin boys. They
were baptized Harrison and Tyler, and are
familiarly called Tip and Ty.
Conundrum.~— Wli=y vwill Harrison and
"Van Buren be alike next Spring .7
Ans-wer;——Beca.use it will be March 4th
for General Harrison. and it will be "March
for: ” for Martin Van Buren.
A letter dated» New Orleans, May ,I5tl'r,.
says; “ To-day about three o’clock the Levee
gave way above C'a-rro-llton, and there are:
;about 300 hands engaged in endeairoring to
lclose the crevasse.” ‘ ‘
1‘em0Fl€(’d..—-“ My mind is made up-1 will
‘ Come with me,"lie says, ‘to the .
since the adoption of the Federal Constitu-
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