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REV. A. B. L. MYERS’
COMPOUND EX'I‘RAC’l‘ OF
lttltllt RIDSE AND SARSAPARILLA!
THIS ntediciitclias the reputation of being the
best ever used. for the ctirc of Dyspepsia. Liver
Complaint,Billions Diseases,Cutiineoiis Eruptions,
.scrofuia., Erysipelas, salt Rheum, Broiicltial Affec-
tions. Canker, sore Mouth, Colds, Cotiglis. Asth-
' ma, Clirotiic Diitrrhoia, sick Head Ache, Rlieuina
' itisnt, and General Debility.
The perfection of this valuable C0llIl'II)llll0ll to
the healing art, was r-aiiscil by years of hard study
in employing the various ingredients. so that they
would harmonize together. Over two tltosand
I bottles have been used within the last ye:ir through
its own merits, and without the effort of the discov-
error. It has been fuitttd, heretofore, but in vaiti
for relief—to be not only a cure, bnttlie best medi-
cine ever discovered for the above named
diseases. \Ve have certificates of its great
value from persons of high standing. Wlw
have been restored to perfect health, front the
diseases it promises to cure. The Rock Rose has
been used with great success for imiiiy years. Dis-
riiignislied medical men have speken of it in high
praise; each ingredient performs a valuable part in
' effecting aettrc.
Heaildi is one of the greatest blessings that man
-can possess. It is better than line gold ; and who
among the azfllicted wotild not give it few dollars to
possess an article that would restore them to health?
All persons who are laboring under the above dis-
cases are requested to tr
MYERS'.t.0.\lI’O.UND EXTRACT OF ROCK
ROSE AND SARSAPAl{II.LA !
. New Haven, Sept. 6, ]85l.
Rev. A. B. L. Mv.i:Hs—l)e:ir Sir: Having used
' your r-,~xtritct=of Rock Rose and Siirsitparilla for
Salt Itlieuin, which was effectually aeradiictited froiu
any syst-e-i.—i~t‘by its use, I can cheerfully recommend it
10 any who may have need Oftellcflll similar cases.
Yours. truiy, S. ILJEROM E.
Mr. A. B. L. Mvitntt 2 I have, from childhood _
oitfferod front Sick Headache, -iiicreasing _vearly.-u-n-
til last yeitrl was iidvi-ed -to use your Conipound
Extract of Rock Rose and sarsapiiriila. One
large bottle completely cured inc.
Yours, «Sac. NANCY PARSIILY.
I can heartily concur in the above.
IOHN PARSHLY. l83 Orange st.. New Haven.
From Chauncey Jerome, Esq., well known as
the leading iiiannfacturer of correct time.
Rev. A. B L. Myers, Dear Sir,Ei2htceu tnonslis
sincel was severely afliicted with Dyspepsia and
I found no relief until I was advised
our Compound Extract of ROCK ROSE
and SARSAPARILLA. and one large buttle_.I am
happy to say, completed a cure.
Yours, truly, CHAUNCEY JEROME.
For sale by IV. E. BIS."sELI., Norwalk: and
T. B. GRII"FE'I‘II, South Norivalk.
. swAi M is
celebrated Pancea,
FOR 'l‘llE CORE 0}‘
INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION,
icrofula, General Dcbilitv. White Swelling. Rheu-
mritism, Diseases of the Liver and Skin. and
all Disetisesiirisiitg froitt impurities of the
Blood,aud the effects of Mercury.&e.
SWAI-M’S PANACEA has been for more than
iiirty vears celebrated in this country and in Eit-
fope for its extraordinary ciires—tor the certificates
)f which reference was made to the directions and
‘warm (which may be had_ gratis) accoinpaiiyiiig
the Panacea. Some of winch give the _particulars
if cases too frightful for general piiblicauoti, where
he patients had beeit almost eaten up with Scrofu-
i.aiid were deemed incurable by Pliysiciiiiis.
It has been used in hospitals: and private. practice
-rid has had the singular fortune of being recom-
~ neuded by the most celebrated physiciaiis and oth-
,, ,-mfmen: persons. Among ‘others b,-,,.
’ ‘VV Gibson. M D, Prof of Surgery, Pa Uni-
yvcglillzfllltle Mott, M D. Prof of Surg. N Y
' ll .
Ullltlellillfleivees, M D, Prof of Mid, Pa Uni-
vt-rs’ .
'[‘uI’;ii-ks, M D, I’res't College, of‘ Physiciaiis,
Phila. _ _
Dr Del Valle, Professor of Medicine. llavatia.
Jose Enurenco, Prof of Surgery, Lisbon.
J Chipiiian, Member of Royal College Surgeons.
London. .
G \V Erving. late Minister to Spain. _ .
SirThomas Pearson, Major General British Ar-
mlliilbert Robertson, British Consul, &.c doc.
And also, the wonderful cures effected by
Swaitn’.-i Panacea have for many years made it an
invaluable remedy. The I‘anacea does not contain
' mcrcitry in any form. and being an innocent prep‘;
ar.ttiori,it may be gtveti to the mo-t tender iitfartt.
The retail price has been redpced to $l,50 per
bottle, (containing three half pints) or three‘ bot-
’ tlei for $4. .
BEWARE OF IMPOSITIONS.
_Sw:tims Panacea is in round bottles, fltitcd longi-
tudiiially, with the following letters lJl0Wll 00 the
glass ;— -
SWAlht'5-—-P.\NACEA——PlllLA.
and having the name of James Swaim stampcd_on
‘the sealing wax, and written on the label covering
the cork, and a splendid engraving for the side of
the bottle, coinprising nine different dies, which
have been turned for the exclusive use of the pro-
prietor, by Draper &. Co., bank note eiigravers, of
Philadelphia. In tlto centre is a portrait of the late
Wm. Swaini, copyright secured.
. ALSO S\VAIM'S VERMIFUGE.
A valuable Family Medicine, being a higlily_:i_p-
proved remedy for all dieeascs arising from debiliiy
of the digestive organs, such as Worms, Cholera
Morbns, Dysentcry, Fever and Aguo, Bleeding
Piles, Sick Headache, &.c &'.c See the I’aiitp|t
let (which may be had gratis) accompanying the
Veriitifuge.
Prepared only at Swaiin's Laboratory. the Qltl
stand. Seventh strect,below Cl-iestnut Pliiladelplna,
and sold by all the respectable driiggists in the Uni-
ted States.
. CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.
Persons wishing to obtain the gentiiiie Stvaim’s
'Panecca. and Swaim’s Vertnifugc, should be care-
ful to observe that the name
I . - Swarm
is spelled correctly on the bottles and labels, or they
‘tiny be imposed on liy medicines tnade in imitation
of them bf a person bearing a somewhat similar
itptue, we I calculated todeceive.
zbtzarzun Am-:ims roit Till-1 UNIT!-ll) STATIIS,
bCHll_3‘l“VF_LIN BROTHERS «Sc CO.,
104 and 106, John st., N. Y. ’
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Wanted Immediately.
TEACHER in Centre (School District,
Darien School Society. Applications
may be made to H. MORE HOUSE,
,, District Committee.
HE Iiilmbitaiits of the town of Norwalk
and iiott residents liable t.o pay taxes in
said town are hereby notified that the Board of
Relief for said town will meet at; the Connecti-
cut Hotel in said Norwallt, on Monday the 5th
day of Jait., 1852, at 1 o'clock,P. M.. to hear
and deteriniue all appeals to them made from
the doings of the assessors. and to equalize
and adjust the valuations and assessment lists
of said to,wu.
ASA E. SMI'l‘H, Board
LEWIS P.FlLLO\V of A
HENRY SMITH, Relief.
2151
Norwalk, Dec. 2'2, 1851.
Holiday Gifts.
THE subscriber is n_ow opening the lar-
gest assortment of fancy goods ever before
offered in Norwalk, selected expressly for the
holidays, consisting in part of card cases front
50 cts to $10, ladies work boxes, writing desks,
Jenny Lind music folio. ladies’ and gents’ port.
monies of every style, port folios. pearl and
shell fancy boxes, backgammon boards. chess
men.’ bouquet. holders, Lubinls extritcts, English
French and Gerin_an perfuiiiery in heaps and
stacks, pen imd pocket knives, i-nzors. wallets,
hair oils of every variety. ivory tablets, die. ;
in fact, a complete assortment of fancy goods,
and which will be sold at very low pricbs.
‘ \V. E. BtSSELL.
Norwalk. Dec. 20, 1851.
For the Holidays. , ,
HE subscriber has been in the city the past
week, selecting goods for the season, and
the hard times enable us to buy goods wiili cash
cheap. “fa have by fa r the largest assoi'tv-=ent
of rich Jewelry and silver wares that was ever
offered in Norwalk. A large addition to our
stock of lamps, great vii riety of gniiies and plays
-—tisel'ul entploytiient. for the leisure hours of
the young, and fancy goods in tiny quitritity.—
Call at DISBRO\V’S.
R. H. White’s
SECOND SO I RITE-
R. W. tltost respectfully informs the citi-
zens of Norwalk,nnd its vicinity, that his
second Soiree will take place on Monday even-
ing, Dec. 29th. I851, ritthe Conn. Hotel.
Mr. Kirtluud’s innch adinired Harp and Co-
tillioii Band has been engaged for the occasion.
Dec. 13th, 1851.
Danbury do Norwalk Railroad
company.
T it meeting of the President and Direc-
tors, on the 4th inst. it was voted :
That the instalment which was made paya-
ble oit tltelst of Jaii’y lust, and postponed un-
til fnitlier action of the board, be due atid pay-
able on t.lie l5tli inst. and that. notice thereof
be given by the 'l‘reasiii'er in the Nurwalk Ga-
zette and Danbury Times.
Sept. 5.
AT :1 meeting of the President and Direct-
ors of the Dan|.)ury 65 Norwalk Railroad
Company held on the lst. Tuesday in Decent
bet‘ last it was voted that the Treasurer demand
and receive interest from all the subscribers
that neglect to pay their instalment five days
- after they become due.
GEO. \V. IVES, Treiis.
Daubury, August *28th, 1851. _ 35
'riii-2 ci:Li-‘.1:iu\'ri«:I)
OXYGENATEDA BITTERS, ,
CONTAINING NO ALCOHOL,
A sure Remedy for
DYSPEPSIA,
IN ALL ITS VARIOUS roams,
Such as Pain in the Stotnacli. Heartburn, Ha-
bitual Costiveness, Acid Stoinach. Head-
aclio, Loss of Appetite, Piles, Night.
Sweats, Asthma or Pbtisic,
Flatulence or Wind in the Stom-
ach. Nervousuess, Coldness “of the
Extremities, Weakness of the Limbs.
General Debility,
and all the indescribable symptoms of this uni-
versal disease.- These are also the best tonic
known for the prevention and cure of
Fever and Agile,
These Bitters have received the HIGHEST
TESTIMONIALS ever offered to the public in fa-
vor of any medicine in the world, and are ap-
proved by some of the best physicians. who use
them in their practice. For the most satisfac-
tory proof of the success of this remedy, see
pamphlets containing full piirticulars and cor-
tificates froin Members of Congress and other
parties well known to the public. Any individ-
ual wishing further information respecting this
INVALUABLE MEDICINE,_
are invited t.o call on the Agents. and satisfy
themselves’ by reference to numerous letters
and certificates of-the highest respectability.
DR. GEO. B. GREEN, Proprietor, Wind-
SUI.» Vt-
REED. BATES dc AUSTIN, \Vholesale
Druggists. No. 26 Merchants’ Row, Boston,
General Agents.
Price $1 per bottle; six for $5.
CAU'I‘ION.—Eeah bottle of the Gen-nine
Oxygenaled Bitters. will have the outside
wrapper printed in Eneli-sh,Frenclt and Span-
sh, with the sigtiature of Goo. B. Green, Pro-
prietor, upon Three Sides, and in addition. it
finely engraved labelupon the top of the bottle
witlitlte signature of Reed, Bates 65 Austin,
who are the sole General Agents,and towbom
all orders must be addressed. ‘
For sale by W. E. BIS-SELL-. and drug-
_ gists,gene_rally in the U. S.arid Cjll_ll3_lI,8$-
POETEY. -
Cr-itdenden’s Death.
He stood among tlte gallant throng.
The bravest oftliein all ;
He would not turn his back to death,
Nor on his knees would fall.
“ Down on thy knees!" the Spaniard said,
“ Down on thy knees, and die l"
The hero curled his lip in scorii—
No tear was in his eye.
“ Turn round thy fiice l" the dastaril said,
And turn thy back towards death ;”
They feared to gaze upon that brow, '
' While yet the man bad breath;
" ‘Wliat, kneel to t.liee 1" the martyr said,
‘- \Vliat, turn my back on th )1! I
In God’s own image was I imide,
To God alone I bow ;"
“ Americans ne'er fear their foe,
But stand bini face to face;
And shall I turn my back on thee,
Of all iititnkiiid most base? '
He crossed his arms upon his breast,
- His lips moved as in prayer;
A peril of inn.-iltet. sliots-—and then,
Death met the briive one there.
A Vvelcome to Kossu-Ch.
A welcome to Kosciitli!
Abroad let its fling
Our “ stars and our stripes"
\_Vhile the Hero we sing-—
Miiy they pilot him safe
O’er Athint.ic's bright wave.
To the land of the free. '
And the home of the brave!
A welcome toKossu1h !
He has fought like our sires
For the altars of home.
For its Il8a‘ll'IS and its fires.
He has strugglctl for freedom,
Disdaining to own
A tyrant in cotincil.
A king on; the throne.
And shall we. it free people,
Made free by the blood
That oti hill and in valley
For liberty flowed-—
Refuse ltiin our smiles,
And it welcome to show
Totlie Magyar who will not
To tyranny bow?
Then it welcome to Kossutli!
Afar, let his name
Joined with liberiy's sons,
Fill the trumpet of fame!
And bette: than this,
In our free ironies we'll cherish
The name which like \Vasliingtou's
Never can perish.
Thou, God of our fathers,
\Vho guided their way,
Front oppressiou‘s dark night,
To freedoni’s bright day,
Olt, aid every patriot,
Striving to ‘,lit’eak
The chains of his country,
And tyranny shake. \
Yet shall froedoufs own bird,
From the east to the west,
Spread its broad wing unscittlied,
And erect its proud crest l
Yet shall liberty flow,
Like it streaiii, deep and free!
Yet unfettered, bold Kossutli,
Thy Hungary shall be!
.___o
The Modern Belle.
Extract qf Dr. Sc'r/c’: Poem at the late blan-
chestcr, N. H., Fair.
The daughter sits in the parlor,
And rocks in her easy chart‘.
She's clad in her silks and satins,
And jewels are in her liair—
. She winks and giggles and sitnpers,
And simpers and giggles and winks,
And though she talks but little,
"I‘is vastly utore than she thinks.
Her father goes clad in russett,
And rugged and seedy at tliut-—-
His coats are out at the elbow,
He wears a most shocking bud hat.
He's lioarding and saving his shillings,
So carefully day by day,
\Vliile she, on her beaux and poodles,
Is tlirowiug them all away.
She lies a-bed in the morning;
Till neitrly the hour of noon;
Then comes dowit snapping and snarling,
Because she was called so soon ;
Her ltair is still in the papers.
Her cheeks still dabbled with paint.
Remains of her last; night's blushes,
Before she intended to faint.
She doats upon men unshiiven.
And men with "tho flowing liair,”
She's eloquent over mustnclies——
'I‘liey give such a foreign air.
She talks of Italian music.
And fitlls in love with the moon,
And though but a mouse should meet her,
She sinks away in a swoon.
Her feet are so very little,
Her hands are so veiy white,
Her jewels are so very heavy
And her head so very light;
Her color is made of cosmetics,
Though this she will never own,
Her body’s made mostly of cotton,
Her heart is made wholly of stone.
She falls in love with a fellow,
\Vlio swells with it foreign itir,
He marries her for her money,
She marries him for his hair;
One of the very best matches-
Both are well mated in life,
She's got it fool for her husband,
He's got it tool for his wife.
Bulreting the Bear.
Ifnow it huge and shaggy bear.
’By hunger driven from the North,
From the dark forest issue forth.
And in my neighbors garden fair
Has climbed and with his claws began to tear
My neighbor's children playing there.-—
And I the fierce assault should 886.
Should I permit the thing tube’!
Not. so indeed but ifI fail
To buffet him with iron flail.
May .nty right artn—no thoughtless prayer
Be tnuucli'd by him the Northern bear.
L_iEwr:u.,iit.
SMISGLLANY.
From the New England Farmer.
A few more Remarks ‘about Apple
Trees.
in’ itenrtir 1‘. reason.
A novelist, in one of his stories, portrays an
old ‘gentleman who set up for a wit, upon
one joke only, which he was careful to show
off as entirely new, whenever he met a
stranger, with the remark aside, “Well, I
don’t think I ever said that to him before,”
Perhaps they who have read what I have
said and written about apples and apple-
trees, may find nothing particularly new in
what may now be suggested, and may be in-
clined to liken me to that saute old gentleman,
but I can at least stiy,__that however much of
a_ hobby I have made of the subject, I have
never published anything upon it in the New
England Farmer.
And as my name is in print at the head of
the columns, it may as well be understood,
first as last, that I consider it my special mis-
sion among my agricultural friends, to in-
duce ihein to plant trees; slltzde trees of all
kinds for ornament, and fruit treeslor profit.
Altliodgh there are a few men in most
New England towns, who know perhaps, all
that can be learned, by reading, on these sub-
jects, yet the greater part of those who plant
fruit trees, as was remarked in a recent No.
of the Farmer,'plant and manage them so
badly, that not one of three ever produce: it
crop of fruit.
This is partly because the best mode of
culture is not understood, but oftener, per-
haps, the result of a sort of reluctance, appa-
rently natural to most men, to doing as well
as they know how to do. Any man of coin-
rnou sense knows that a hill of corn planted
in the turf of a grass field, would never grow,
and it would seem manifest that it tenderly
reared tree from a nursery, deprived of half
its roots in traiisplauting, Cullltl bear adversi-
ty no better, yet nearly one-halt’ of all the
apple trees in New Eiigland have been here-
tofore planted in rats: land, and the ten
thousand little mouths of the grass roots have
drunk tip the moisture and fertility of the
.=oil,and left the trees to shrivel and die of
tbirst and starvation.
It is not absolutely necessary to keep the
whole surface ofa young orchard under cul-
tivation. ' —
For the first. five years after an apple tree
front a nursery is set, the roots will find suffi-
cient space, if a strip eight feet wide. four on
each side of the tree, be kept tborou5_:_hly
worked and manured, leaving the remaindr-.r
in grass.
Perhaps it may be better to cultivate the
whole, but it is almost impracticable, upon
ordinary farms, to keep arty considerable ex-
tent of orchards constantly under the plow.
lhave, this autumn, prepared about three
acres of land for planting with apple-trees
next spring, in it mode lvhicb seems new to
those who have observed it, and which it may
be useful to owners of new land to know.-—
A heavy growth, chiefly of white pine, was
taken from the land three years ago. It was
never burnt over, and white birch and other
bushes had sprung up, so that it bad at month
ago as little the appearance of an orchard, as
any tract in tlteState. Having cut the bushes
I staked the land out for the rows of trees,
twenty-eight feet apart. Three men with
hand tools, without cattle, in one week dug
out nearly all the stumps and visible roots
within four and a half feet of the rows staked
out. Then with three yoke of oxen, in three
days the strips nine feet wide were plowed
by back-furrowing more than a foot deep.—
Two men were required besides the driver
and plotvman to do this work, one with a
sharp axe to cut off the roots which were
found by the plows, and another to follow
with a bog hoe to mend the broken furrows.
Tlte land, being free from stone, is thus
thoroughly worked in strips of nine feet
wide one way, through the tract, leaving
about two-thirds of it in possession of the
pine stumps, to be dealt with at sortie future
do
I am now having holes (lllg for the trees,
six feet across, and eighteen inches deep.—-
The soil thrown out is to be mixed with
about three bushels of compost manure from
my barn cellar, and halfa peek of ashes to
each tree, tolie in heaps until the time for
setting the trees in the spring.
I mention the manure particularly, because
an article has been recently published by
high authority, objecting to the use of any
manure in planting fruit trees.
Green manure should never be used about
any trecs;but compost, which will not ler-
mcrit, may be applied in the manure I have
mentioned, with manifest advantage, as my
own trees bear abundant testimony.
By planting the plowed strips of my new
orchard with potatoes and corn, I think the
trees will flourish as well for. five years, as
if the whole ground were worked. Then
the whole should be cleared up and subsoiled,
and the fruit will abundantly pay after that
time for any reasonable expense of cultiva-
tion.
'I‘o show by facts, and not theories mearly,
the advantage of raising fiuit,I will state
what has been the value of the crop of a single
orchard to which reference has been made
before in the Former. Mr. Joseph Robin-
son, of Chester, N. H., has an orcbard‘of less
than two acres, which produced 11 cr0p’0l
fruit in I847, for which he was offered six
hundred dollars, on the trees; in 1849, a
crop which Sold for six hundred and eighty
dollars; and this year he was ‘offered 8425
for the fruit on the trees, and declined the ol-'
fer. His orchared has been long -in full
bearing, and bids fair to last for a generation
to come. His fruit has been sold in the
neighboring markets from one to three dol-
lars per barrel. From his own account I
am satisfiedthat the average nett income of
that orchard for ten years at has been
ittore than three hundred do larsa year-
tlto irt_t,erest,of' live _tl_toii:aitit dollars !
A gentleman in Hampton, in this State,
‘sold the fruit of about four acres of land,
this season,‘ for 8800, and last year be receiv.
ed 81400 for the fruit of the same orchard.
"Now if we are credibly informed that so
California, flocks of our young men would
profitable a business as this could be done in
peril health and life even, to find the golden
soil ,' but it is too matter-of-fact a business to
remain and labor at home. It requires six
years for trees which we get from the nurser-
ies to come into bearing,and many of our
young men are too old to wait so long.
I recently meta gentleman, who has one
of the finest orchards in this Vicinity. Said
he,“ I am more than seventy years old, but
I have set over a hundred apple trees this
fall.” Mr. McClintock, of Portsmouth, who
is now ninety-four years of age, this year ate
ofthe fruit of trees planted with his own
hand when he was eighty-six!
And by-the-way, there is no doubt that a
man who plants trees in his old age, lives
the longer for doing it.‘ An interest in the
works of nature-_-which calls him to active
exercise, and keeps up his sympathy with
the pursuits of other men, prevents him from
breaking dowit at once like the retired iner-
chant or prolessignal man, who dies prema-
turely for want ofanything else to do!
As a profitable investm_ent of capital,therc
is nothing that now promises better for a
half century in New England, than fruit
raising. The cry ofan over-supply has been
kept up for fifty years already, and still the
price of.fruit has regularly increased. Mr.
Robinson saystbat when be planted his or-
chard with seedling trees more than fifty
years ago, his friends told him there could
never be a demand for so much fruit.
Nobody doubts tbatjust at this time, an
orchard is of more value than land in any
other use. The most obtuse intellect yields
to it mathematical deinonstratioit by simple
addition; but still the doubt is whether there
can be raised. 'l‘his question was ably con-
sidered in it recent number of the Farmer,
by one of the editors,and need not be here
pursued.
Let the subject of fruit be kept steadily
befuretbc public, in our Agricultural jour-
rials.
Many will read, and profit by what they
read,aml many more will doubtand hesitate,
and in future years, regret, as so many are
now daily heard to do that they had not be-
gun in their younger days to plant trees.
From the Christian I-Iclvocatc andJour1uil.
\Vltat about those Onions.
While our last General Conference was
ln Session at Pittsburgh the Temperance So-
cieties in that city held frequent meetings and
several members of the Conference addres-
sed the mectings. One of the delegates,
from “ dowit East” related an incident, in
substance as follows:
“ A mercbant,in a small village, sold rum,
and had of course a large number of custo-
mers, who became poor as a consequence of
his ruinous traflic. 'I‘he wife of one of
tliescinen had waited on the rum-seller to
entreat him to sell her husband no more of
his deadly drink. She was coldly received
and obtained no assurance of favor. It was
in vein that she told him what her husband,
once was, and what he would be again but
tor his traffic, which had already reduced
them to abject poverty. In vain she drew
the truthful picture of poverty, want, and
S0fi‘0W. No sympathy was inspired in the
beast of the rum-seller.
As time rolled on the inebriate husband
went still downward in his course, and had
not only sold for rum everything which he
could exchange for the fiery beverage, but
had run up a bill of a few dollars for the
article at the store of this merchant. For
though nearly all the labor he performed
was for this man, and all for rum, he was so
far destroyed in his physical as well as men-
tal and moral powcrs,as to be able to work
but litilc,besides rendering his home a place
of sorrow and want.
The afliicted wife struggled, as Well as
she was able, to provide for her little child-
ren herself and her ruined husband. A
smallplai of ground which composed the
yard of their poor rented cottage, was put in
order by the wife and her little boys, and
sown with onions. These were tended and
wecded with much care, and gave early and
unmistakable signs of yielding a fine return.
Oh, with what delightful nnticipations did
the children l'ook__ upon the work of their
hands; upon all which may could call their
own! And as some dollars were likely to be
realized, the mother told them of many little
comforts which might be procured for the
following winter by the sales of their little
harvest. No wonder they looked eagerly
for the time of gathering their only wealth!
At last the time ari-ived,and the little hand
which re-at’ed,were now busy in securing the
cultivated treasures. But little did they know
the grief and disappointment which awaited
them! On the very day which they hoped
to gather their harvest, they were to be rob-
bed of the fruit of iheirtoil. The rum—sel-
ler had long had his eye llpon that only fruit-
ful spot on the desolate premises of the vic-
tim of his cupidity ; and as soon as the on-
ions were out of the ground, the oflicer of
the law was there to seize them at the bid-
ding of the merchant on his detnand a ainst
the poor husband and father ofthe prodgucers
Such an aflliction was as great and over-
whelining to those poor ones as would be
the burning of the store ofa wealthy merch-
ant, with all its contents ; or the sinking of
it ship in which his all was ventured! It
was their all! and though that was little, it
was much to them! Despise not the trials
which come upon the poor, nor the the tears
which they shed over iillle, GREAT losses !-—
The deed of the oppressor was told in every
part of the village,and in an hour a hundred
hearts beat high with indignation. The in-
jured itnd robbed ones shared in the sympa-
thy of the good people, and this sympathy
took on substantial forms.’
But the tum-seller what wasdone ioltim?
Vcrily he had his reward l Did the ‘shvimg.
est men of the place hang him on the near-
est tree? No. Did they‘ give hint a bond.
red lashes on his bare back, well laid_on 2...
Nothing of the kind. Well; u'h,at’didthey
do? Noiv,be patient and I will tell you all
3b°“l ll- The)’ lefl lllm 10 the ladies; and
woe to the poor wight against whom they
combine. A large number met in an ‘l‘ indig-
nation ineeting,” and laid their planof ven-
geance. Its details can best be seen... in its
execution. Next morning one of the ladies
called at the store for the purpose ofexainin-
‘"3 39-"el'tll articles in the dry goods lirie.-—
After lO0I{IDg', and I\aVln:t._rl cgunrer we”
t0«'|_de<l by the obliging trader,she said, “How
is ll. about those onions?” and firmly told the
abaslted merchant she should‘ trade no I more
with sue/ta man.
S°*“'°9lY had be time to return his goods
to the shelves before another lady entered
“ml: 3°l“£'. lllfough a similar process. looked
him in the face, with an expression of con.
tempt, saying, “ What aboutthose onions _m
and left with the assurance that he could not
have her trade! -
Such were the calls with which the trade;
was favot'ed,in quick succession, to the num-
ber of a dozen or more ; each in turn ask.
lug, “ What about those onions?" and pour-
ing upon his miserable head their burning
Iuvecttves, worse than coals of fire; closing
with the declaration that they should trade
no more with him.
As the proceedings of the ladies became
lt_nown, the indignation seemed to be coma-
g|0uS; and even the little boys, as they pas-
sod the store, would shoot, “ How is it about
those Onions .7” ‘
Such, reader, was the vengeance which
was melted out to that miserable sinner!‘
And what do you think was its end 7 VVhy
it would have been easy to foretell il1at.~..:
W'hat could a man like him do? Not a man
would brave the displeasure of the ladies by
trading with him. He could not show his
head without bringing itin contact with on.
was.’ figuratively; and his quiet "as well as
his occupation was gone. Having an op.
portuniiy to sell out to a better man, he em-
braced it, and went to a land which was ve.
ry far off; it is hoped to reform his conduct,
and establish a good reputation. It is, how-
ever, doubted where 'he ever relished onions
" fried, roasted, boiled, or raw.”
Iwill not be sure, but my impression is
that alterthe tcmpter fled, the poor inebrime
was restored to his fornter srtbriegy ; and hgs
wife and children were again happy in his
love, and the peace and plenty which bless-
ed them with their presence. See what the
ladies con do! We read that “ the wrath of
a king is terrible ;” but it is nothing when
brought to its focus upon the head at such 3
man. Let all the good women of our land
take it firm stand against rumselling, and it
shall flee away like the onion-man !
B. M. HALL.
Schenectady, N. Y:
Kass-u!Ii’s Prayer over I/ie Graves of (/1035
who had fallen at Ifapal/ia.— He stoodlby the
last resting place of ntany of his dear-es;
friends, and of thousands whose fearless
hearts but a few short hours before bear in
unison with his own in its high aspirations
after national liberty and glory. Kossmh
raised his face to heaven, and uncovered his
head,an action in which he was imitated by
all present; a smile of unearthly beauty
played round his lips—it was not kindled
by joy,but by faith—-as he clasped his hands
together, and with a bearing that can never
be forgotten, uttered the prayer, of which
the following is a transl- '.lon from the Ger-
man: " '
“Exalted Ruler of the Universe, God of
the warriors of Arpad, look down from my
starry throne upon Thine unworthy servant,
from whose lips the prayer of millions as-
cends to heaven, extolling the infinite power
of. Thine omnipotence. My God, Thy
bright sun shines above me, whilst beneath
my knees rests the bones of my fallen broth-
ers. Thy stainless azure over-canopies us;
but beneath, the earth is red with the sacred
blood of the children of our fathers. Let;
the fructifying beatns of Thy glorious lumi-
nary shine upon their graves, that the crim-
son hue may be replaced with flowers,‘ and
the last resting place of the brave be still
crowned with the ienibleins ofliberty. God
of my fathers and of my race, hear my sup-
plications; let thy blessing rest upon our
warriors, by whose arms the spirit of a
gallant nation seeks.to defend Thine own
precious gift of freedom.
Help them to break the iron fetters with
which blind despotism would bind a great:
people. As a freeman,l prostrate myself be-
fore Thee on these fresh graves of my slaugh-
tered brethren. Accept the bloody offering
which has been presented to Thee, and let it
propitiate Thy favor to our land. My God,
suffer not a race of slaves to dwell by these
graves, nor pollute this consecrated soil with-
tbeir unhallowed footsteps. My Father ! my
Father !--mightier than all the miriads of
earth--the Infinite Ruler of heaven, earth
and ocean—-lot. a reflex of Thy glory gsbine
from these lowly sepulcbres upon the face of
my people. Consecrate this spot by Thy
grace, that the ashes of my brothers who
have fallen in this sacred cause may rest un-
disturbed in hallowed repose. Forszike us
not in the hour of need, great God of battles !
Bless our efforts to promote that liberty or
which Thine own spirit is the essence; for
to Thee, in the name of the whole people, I
ascribe all honor and praise.”
“Children and fools, says the old adage,
“ always tell the truth.” “ Mother sent me,"
said a little girl to a neighbor; “ to ask you
to come and take tea with her this evening.”
“ Did she say at what time, my (liter '3’’.—-
“N0, ma’rna; she only said she would ask
you and then the thing would be 08" her
iitind; that was all alto stiitllf’,
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