The Greensborough patriot [May 19, 1855]

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VOL. XVII. GEEENSBOROTJGH, N. C, MAY 19, 1855. NO. 832
Sut Lovegood'a Daddy " acting Horse."
BY .S 1.. OF TKXNKSSKE
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
BY M. S. SI IKK WOOD.
" Hold that era htm down to the yeath."—
Terms: 93 a year, in advance ; j « |[c-s „ Kpreadiu'* tail to fij now. •• Keep him
go 51) <//7rr<*/"" months, and 13.00ayrer twelve *here he is" " Wo." " Wo." These, ami i'ke
months,from date of'subscription. expression*, were addressed ton queer looking,
long legged, short bodied, small beaded, white-
Rates ol Advertising, haned, hog eyed, fmwy sort of a genius, fresh
fhedollar per s luare (fifteen lines) for .he h>« !V"i" >"u* **™» ."SB* J*"'* .«•■»■ ">»!'-•' •«.
,;.,. [X^nty-U cent, for everyweek :here a'"! ™««*d •»« " T«.rpJka» « awfc tailed bow
... Inclions made in favor oi standing adver, necked, long, poor horse, half dandy, half devil,
■. ;.- follows: •>"'} enveloped all over with a perfect net work of
cum home and I'll food you. I sorter thank yon
wont need any eurrvin' fur a week or so. ' 1
. w.s), I,nay nearer see to morrow, (dip) of I tat, ,>,„..„, rf fc ,,..,, ^
dip) when 1 got out sezdad Bat . tweg,. ^ R
High Price of Bread stuff J'
In an article under tills caption, the Baltimore
t brings together some iu-ruinate
you (d s that: broadMoffa have
tor say you wish you may never see another bald n(W ^.^ ^ unnsui„ y. • ,„ Mareh
hornet oTyou ever play hoss agin sez 1,-i.nd : j-9r ^ M fa ^^J ^. ... . ^
' ' ' ' " ''unas ruled, with oecasioo.1 fluctuations, upTto
hen sales wi re un:de in the month ol
$11.25. Prom this period until 1805,
the ranee was from 18.50 to 87-50- In March of
Eitowin (tails unniolliiitu natur J tiroite iroui , , , . • ures rule
them parts and sorter cum to the. copper mines, jggj ^y
I staid hid out till next arternoon, when 1 wed i yrarcl. .
o feller a travelin', and sez I, ' What was going j '., ' '
3 MONTHS. fi MONTHS. 1 Tr.Aii bridle, rein:, crupper martingales, straps, cir-nare,
$3.50 £5.50 $8.00 j cingle8, and rod rcretin, who had reined up in
7-,!l1 «0"° 140° I front or Pat N\ish\i grocery, among a crowd of
15.00 20.00 wM 1!,:,;n!;,:i;,.,,>i (l,,| „,',„,,. al,d mean whkkv.
Hall column, 35.00
MISCELLANY.
Last Journey c* Ji snry Clay.
liV Mlts, BIOOL'KXKY.
I [.. passes on hi- Way.
i ic man to senates near,
'Jin; silver voiced, whom gi tliercd throngs:
Still in 11 their breath to bear,
lie liath no warrior's crown;
No laurel on his I ;•• ■;.-!,
l!nl Peace her droopim: olive binds
Amid I i.- stiinli ■ - i ;■ t-j
!|c *hr nk n ' •' IIH |"'-t
Till the sp il< r ,i.-|- hi.- hand.
\n 1 sternly chained the i-ilver tongue
Whose mu-ic i harmed the laud.
Mhl stimuli .' - gin i°ii ■ pride
With the initup of an iron -t- ed,
He -weep -ih ...I.I . i the n aim i..- loy'd,
liui Lin !■!• .-e ! i-ve taker no heed.
(lur cities vi ileil their head*
A- through their gates he passed.
\nd the mournlul vou-e of tolliiitl.i IIS.
Wailed out upon the blast;
\nd forth mi'- in hie ! came
To guard their sacred trust,
\inl weeping woman ea-l her wrealn
I'puii the honored ilu i.
lie passoth on his way
In mole pimp than kiugly state
And silent children press : i gaao
I 'pun the lidleii great;
While fnun the ran parts pr ltd,
Where liis country's banners fly.
The booming ciiiiiion speaks his prais ;
itul be dcigncth no reply.
There's soriow on the wave
As the coffined dead they bring—
The passiug ships their penuioiis furl,
Like au eagle's broken wing;
\ml as the rippling streams
Their precious burden bore.
The murmuring rivers tell their grief
To every shore.
lie passeth on his way,
'In liia own cultured lawn—
The shadow efhis planted trees
That bloom when he is gone;
And ngoti zing lo. <■,
lichold" with stilled moan,
\ nation's tear unon the bier,
Tliat mingles with In r own.
How down in reverent n
.. his s-iblo pall.
The frit n ! of man, who fearlc-s souuht
I i !' nli!
Strong in a Sai iour's ■ tr■■:•.:,;!:
s trail web w - riven.
I • n he |i vedoii i urth
ill Hi Yen.
" I say, you durncd ash cats, jnst keep your
I shirts oil will ye? Vou have never seed a real
boss till i rid up: Tearpokeis dust next to the
beat IKJOS that ever shelled nubbins an' hu'j dead
i as a still worm, poor old Ticky-tail.
'• What killed him, Sut V says an anxious in-
I iiuirer. '• \\ hy nuthiu', you 'tarnol iool he iu"t i
ilied so, dh d a ntandin' up at that.—Warn't that
good pluck ' Prune .-liti; no, not exactly, bat
starved fuat. aud then froze afterwards, -so stiff!
that when dad and me pushed him over he just
stuck out so, (spreading his arms and legs,) like
a carpenter's bench, and wo waited seventeen
days for iiiiu to thaw before we could skin him.
Well thai-we was—Dad an' me (counting on bis1
lingers —Dad an' me, an Sal, an' Jake, ( Pool
■lake we call biui for short,,) Jonas, an' Puineas,
in'me. an' ('aline Jane, an' Sharlottcan, :.V
Sinn HI .-::iii. an' •'::-"■: -. ileury Clay, an' S.f'ti
Dan Webster, an' me, an' the twin gals, and ,
!('atiiiiuc .'-e.-i.inl. MII' t'leiu. the baby, an' the
! jui..j.'l. an' mum herself, all left without aiv
, horse to crap with.— t'hal was a ui'-c mess tor u'
I '.-jieela'ulc lauiili lo he .-li-lii-i' about iii. warn! it:
; I be uurued ii i didn't feel like sorter steal'in' a
h- sometimes. Well. w« waited, au' rested
nii'l wishe<), an 1: pin some stray boss m ait
come ;:'■ MI.:. LUI J ig iu\ cats, et eny sii-h luck as
thai evel eiimes wliar dad is, he's so darned mean
i i ... • .. i i i
had lit the lust sign o» au eye—all smooth. ,,
'. ..l ,hat, man was v/ tiiuilI,I sez *Ji . v.Keen muchi, •,uerl-r-i'- r.eb„ru,,a,rgv£, and M,.a.,r,ch, sal,e,s w,e-rei made at
.f.iti.n..in..th.is nei-gh.bioirhoodI, Ila.tIely says .tuhe .tr.iv> . "'-•« to 910.50 : and $11 was the highest ffiiggiu-,
, ..,■ v" .1. ,* , ■ r..e.7s .o..b-tmaiilnlaIbUlICe iinn 1i'8-1i.8i.. iJnII 1■ -8-117, .. $■ 1 i 4i .25 w.. a.i s- t, hi..e kr,' r,ather "inJv ..'.->u,n wu,tn sn\e.a.kin O>V. puar*tv":igni oit prieeob..ta■i n e d, ,and>•in 1IO8I1O85(i1n0.-.o:. iF>rom
s .ha v or neriieiilarly, sez I. ' .>mv, poys, 1 ' ,i - S \ i.--.i. : t i .• , .' I , - . •" , 11 i V ii . tli'it period up to l-?olj, pi-ii-es ruhvl eo'iiii-trative- I'l-n' i s.een. da,a since, and would i be. r!•oaired • to ■r_tr •lo,w:, .n.o,t.:ri:sing abi ove *A'.J, , andi liiinlu-ng as liow, in
meet him la the next ten years. Lets Iicser. j ^jari.i, lg"(: .,'s «• .-()
Por a short poriod, during the years of 1846
: and 1847, while the great famine prevailed in Ire-
■ land, prices reached as high as 89.87i. One sale
Waa inadc at $10 to the Government, but on such
Voting Machine.
Th° National Inte'ligencer mentions the issue
of a patent to Than. C. Connolly of Washington j terms that it was subsequent!; settled for at 8'J.-
Citv for t!ie invention of a voting machine,'.iliich ;
s' *• having been subject to transactions at that
makes known to all as the vote proceeds the num-' P™* bJ other parties.
,lmr o,f. votes given and, t.,he si•d,e on w,hi■ ch, cad.i 1. In January, February, and March of ls:i.",, s,e „.,., • . . ,,-, , -,,,-- , ,'
_. ... . saieawre-uiakiiigatSli to 911.i5 per barrel.
member votes. The intelligencer gives toe tub I in ] s:;,< ,,,.;..,., ,(j| u, gg .„,.( Kj5> Wlj lVjln
lowing description :
We .-h.il not attempt to fully i J„
lazy, a: n ugly, and was: •. I
•• \\ ell, one uite, tiiiti he lay awake all itite.
• slim-in ' an' rolliu', an' a blowin' an' scratehin'
jt11' a whi-pe; in' .;; liiiini, and nest lliornill says
he 'Sut, Iii till you v. Ii.it we'll do; 1 11 be boss
. in.selt, and pull the plow wiii.'e Vou drive me,
au' we'll break up corn ground and the old (pi'lt
(that's mam I an' the brats kin plant or let it
aluue ji-t -is they d ;i please. .So out we
goes to the imwimw thicket, and pealed a right
peart cliance of hark, and mam and me made
gears for dad. and mey bocum him uiitilv then
he would hav • a bridle, so 1 p'U an old iiinbrcll-er
what 1 found it's a little forked piece of iron,
sorter like unto a pitchfork, ye know, an' we
bent and twisted i! sorter into a bridle bit, .-:;..Iii
shape (dad wauled it crub, as mite sorter fell his
1 oats and go to cavort in"). Well, when we got
the bridle all Oxed on dad, he chomped the bit
like buss, i he allers was a must koraplicatcJ.
diira'd old foul, cny how, and main allers sed so
when he warii't about,j then ! pit on geers, and
out del and nie goes to the held, 1 a leadin' dud, by
l the bridle: and a totin the gopher plow ou my,
back. When we come to the fence 1 let down a
gap, an' it made dad mad ; be wanted to jump
the fence on all fours boss way. 1 hitched him
into the gopher, and away we went, dad leaniu
fuiward lu hi* pilllin' right peart, and we made
sharp plowiu' dad gohi' right over the sprouts
and bushes same as a rale ho<s, the only diflerence
• wus he went on two legs. Pn sciitly we emu to
1 a sassafat bush, and dad. t i keen u;i his caracter
:;-. .1 hoss, bulged square into i:. and thru it. and
lure down a hornet's ncsl nigh onto as "big as a
1 boss's head, and ; II the fril-c kivere-i him rite
• ?tr.',;.--. lie rarcd and ki Led once or twice, rnd
fotched a si|iie..i wus n, r aiy h-.-s. in the district,
and sot i:ii" ruuntu' iiT.iiy jist as natural as ever
I ycr s»-ed. 1 i ' uo the line ami hollered, 'Won,
I i.i I, won '' but ynu in i" as wi II a -iii ■ woa, hi
a liH-«.u<iti\e.—tiewiiiiikius! how he did n
plain i!.s miH
■ /■ rumii, but will simply state that the names of
all the members of the body are arranged in a
column, so that they can be distinctly read by
every member and spectator present. When tbo
signal to vi te is given each member, moves a lit-tle
lever at hi» J- sk, and in an instant the names
in view are thrown into Ihree columns, each hav-iuic
is appropriate beading, the centre column
comprising the nanies ol those who arc absent or
not voting, the left column comprising the yeas,
and the right column the nays. Two, three,four,
or fi\0 minutes being aeivcd upon as the time fol
voting, that time may be consumed in an exam-ination
of the whole vote, and in a change of votes
by those who may have erred, as some very ol'ii u
do, in their understanding of the nature of the
question, and of which change no record will be
made. During the allotted time members may
c.out- :n from couimittee-room? and obewherc
and vote. Free conversation may also be indul-ged
without detriment to the business or the or-that
on to I8-V5, they again ruled low, with gen-erally
an utuiid.ilit supply. The lowest figures in
March 1840, were $4.25, and in March 1843,
:■'.!■> Fmin this on for several years, prices
were not much above §0.12}, nor below ■-'<. In
ISi4. or since the war in hiurope, there has been
generally a good demand, with occasional fluctua-tions.
In the spring of 1855, including January,
February, M irch, sales were making at ' 8.50 to
$9 •" iin e then, up to the presi lit. there iias been
a general advance andnctiv« demand, caused mere
fit in the evidence of a short supply than from any
other cause. To-day we quote at $10.87, which
is the highest price obtained since i*-I7.
It will be seen that wheat has also risen to high
figures; the highest for mans years. Our com-mercial
report to-day exhibits wiles of White at
82.C5 lo$2.70, and Hed do. 92.55 per bushel.
1 here is also a decided advance in corn and all
kinds ofgrain.
'1 here is some controversy with reference to l!:c
shortness of the present breadstuff* supply, in-deed,
it is reduced to a certainty that the stock is
der of the lb At the■ expiration of this "S"^ »>'d most continue so until replenished bya wy, ,,,
new crop.
lime the presiding officer presses a spring, which
arrests all further movement of the names, and
the result is then before the gaze of all. And
! n.-w why need the clerk read cut iiie wmies ? I Infidels have objected t2 V.;* size of the ark,
ihey have been thorouglily inspected, and each ! .^j i,,.,ve asserted'that it is quite absurd to sup-
Size of the Ark-voter
is satisfied. Uttt how shall the clerk record page that ever there could be a vessel constructed
them by an unerring means, since the names in
view are all soon to be changed in their position
The Rooster's Lotter
" .Tern-, have the hens been attended to f" in-j
quired Mrs. Preston, as the boys were about
; starting from home',
'• I dou't ku.-.v—I haven't fed them," replied
•Jerry.
'• Ton ought to know whether tlicy are seen to
or not; it's ycur business to tai:a care of them,"
' said his mother. '• Don't you go off this morning
(ill ytu have fed them. \ ,.u ought to have done
it an hour ago."
i The care of the fowl* had been committed to
! Jerry, but be; did not feel much interest iu them,
i :uiJ needed to be reminded of his duty pretty of-ten.
More than once the hens had been without
food and water nearly a whole day. bcoanse tie
forgot to attend to them. Jerry now went back,
in obedience to his mother, ami gave the lowls
their usual allowance of corn, an 1 a vessel of
[freshwater. Bo also looked into the nests to
see if there were any newJaid eggs; and he was
not « i;:t!e surprised to find i.i one of them a
small billet, neatly folded up, and addressed "7%
matter Jury " lie looked at it a moment and
tried to imagine what it could be; then he open- |
el it and read the following, which was neatly
written with a 'pencil :
** Tat HENROOST, June 12th. !
" Master Jerry—1 have determined to write
you a few words in behalf of my dear suffering I
family. The sun is scorching hot, and yet we
have not got a drop of water to save as from
parching up. My poor biddies Lave been walking :
bach and lorth all day, pantin: lor wal T, and |
calling for ii as pi..in as they eon!.I speak : but id!
in vain. We have r. ci:-.. d our food at very ir-regular
times too. and sometimes W0 ha-- !•»•! is
keep a fast nearly all .!-•.-. if I were the only
sufferer, I would say nothing about it Rut I
cannot bear to see my poor 'lock dying by im lies
in this way I'o take pity on 0s, and se< that we
have plenty of corn and water hereafter. Poine
of my funiily. who pride themselves on bi ing good
layers, complain that since yon have kept us in
such narrow quarters they cannot find any thing
to make their -g- shells of. Now, if yon would
give us some old burnt bones, pounded up fine,
or a little lime, once iu a while, I do not think
you will lose any thing by it. And as you v ill ■
in it let us go out to scratch for ourselves, what is
the reason that you cannot dig us a few worms
occasional!] '. It would be a great treat to us. 1
hope you will heed my suggestions If you do -
not, 1 can assure you of two things : yon won't
have many eggs this slimmer, and fat chickens
will l-s scree iu this neighbourhood next
thanksging time. But Mrs. i'euowneck has just
laid an egg, and I must help her cackle over it ;
so I Wil: V.-'-l wriioany thing more at present, but
sign myself,
'• l our faithful, but afflicted
'• SUANGIIAE llOOSTJSB."
The Indian Grave.
In the K.uth-wcstern part of Hnrnett County
is a circular mound, some twenty feet in diame-ter,
full of d«ad men's bouex. La«t Sabbath
evening we stood upon it and gazed oo the moul-i
aering relicts of mortality at our feet—for the cu-riosity
ofsous passer-by bad eshmod quantities
of the bones, which lav there crumbling into dost
1 In our boyhood we recollect to have Veen skull
and thigh bones bleaching and falling to pieces ai
[thisapot. Tradition; bath it that largo twol hos-tile
tribe*of Indians— hunting parties we sup-
, poae—met aUAia place and had a bloody battle,
and that the slaTn were hurried beneath themonnd.
, Close by tiie spot b S pond tboat three hundred
yards long and seventy-five yards wide, thickly
! covered with whortle-berry" bushes and other
growth ; and i» this pond ii iasaid one of tbepar-
• ties lav concealed until the other ciuie up, when
; those in ambush rushed OBt and the f::ht ensued.
j The country around is intersperse 1 with a great
j many small streams of the purest nod best water ;
and when this battle took place it mu..t have been
one of the most delightful hunting grounds in the
world Bojthe sturdy Warriors who escaped the
carnage of that dreadful day have passed from
earth, their descendsots have tdl disappeared, and
no one is loft to te'l the story.
•• They died not of hunger nor wasting decay:
The stool of tl.o white man bath swept then
away."
/'.-. .tr-jts.
and thrown into the centre column airmn ' \\ e
reply, an infallible permanent record is made by
the machine itself. Ju.-t as the namesarearrong-ed
on the large table already described, so by the
same means are they arranged on a printing appi-
. ratus in its rear, which,immediately alter the vote
; is completed, i.-striking off exact copies of the vote
at the rate of twenty per minute. These copies
| are banded to the recording clerks, to the repor-ters,
and to the members. And thus in three
n.iunt-s mnj be eoiii-ummated in an entirely satis-factory
manner that which now occupies the l.'ni-ted
S:ates |lon-e of Representatives from twenty.
three to thirty minutes, and which is ever, upon
large enough to hold all the creatures which must
have been placed in it, together with sufficient
food—it may be, for six or twelve mouths—water
for the fishes, corn for the four-footed animals,
seed tor the birds, .and so on. Now we will take
the dimensions of the ark from the record of .Mo-ses,
and calculate them on the lowe-t possible
scale. '1 here are two defillitons given ofs cubit:
one, that it is eighteen inches, or a foot and a
halt; the other, that it is one foot eight iiiches-
We will take it only at the lowest. Moses states
that the ark was three hundred oubits long; this
would make it four hundred and fijty fool king,
or nbout the length of ft Paul's Cathedral, Lon-don.
Thebreadthof it he states to be fifty cubits ;
we then have it si vi nlv-live foot in breadth, lie
There is said to be honor even among thieves
that even such men as these v. :il 1 ,cp a Bacrrd
obligation among themselves; sml yet there are
men in our midst, who would inculcate ■ iole of
mn a' ty that thieves c\c i v ou! I. eo-n io:.dopt,'and
heathens and pagan idolaters would not observe,
for fear of the visitations of vengeance by their
wooden gods and images. Vos ; we arc told that
an nhligntion, deriving additional sacredqssa and
binding force, by the solemnity of an oath, it not
morally binning. That is, a man can break' such
an obligation and bo none the less a pontleman
am! still be entitled to the oonfidonee and esteem
of his fellow-oitizens! According to this, a man's
word is worth nothing, plighted faith and sacred
vows and promises are mere empty sounds, and
sili.ng iisa man docs not render himself obnoxi-ous
to th« law, let bi'ii be guilty morally of the
most hellish perfidity and inAuny, he* is still a
clever fellow, and does not compromise his stand-ing
in society ! Good liord deliver us from such
a state of society, is would obtain from such
teachings as thtse ! Pandemonium itself would
he preferable to such a slate of things .' Wc un-hesitatingly
say.-that any man who would violate
au oath, extra judicially administered, and volun-tarily
taken, to do ornol to do< m thing, not wron"
jur«<-, would n«ji 'ec'ili.to to swear a falsehood iu
n court ofjustice, ifhe thought it would be to his
advantage,—. !■•/■■ ;■■/■
the present plan, a wearisome and an unpleasant ^atea it to lie thirty cubits high ; so that it was
task.
' There Are alread a number of " voting ma-in
Congress, whose levers nr :w. "*
forty five feet in height. In other words
as long as ,St. Paul's Cathedral, nearly as
the White llo
that this new!
bunch."
Us
111
; but we are inclined to think
rented one is '• the best of the
.......... LLil. The toiina
to I lie calculate n ofiuoui m
>_ ,. .._. -. ,. -,; ip, \, in II In ■ u :.. i 'i.i.-u. ii. I el.-.-■!- :!-e t»| ol it,
,; .',;,.. . ,., .Mlili'f sopher an' all; p rhaps be Iholighl there must
n i.iugaii e»«ri-t, wluoe be a nest oi Uud horn. W, in it. and thai it war
■ he prixaU! CM-iii the piblic taicr t.. go ov.r lUn thru, and quicker done j
i a lair . Ii.r rebuke •'^": '>.•»• and I cu he ■; I | iw loc sides ol
. ., , ,,. ..,.•;,.., , ,v. ,!,,!! his l.eui «ithfir.noii-j :■ :■- . . ..u i the together,
I .Mr \.. il .!.;-;..,., sldn't bngii,-' then he d gm m:i ly a r,|«ii handed snip, thai
., ;-, H iy„:,11.,...ld,l„v.Ili.M.und.-uhkea waggin whip. >■,,„„,„ all llu-l,m.,
tili . ::,!.... ,., :..,.._. ;,, ,:,.. and a kemii';thi.t gopioti- ji.-t about as last an as
.,.,:_i withl....re dire.1 h^hfroi..theye!,rthaS.-ve.ag..1.ncrwasc!irrK,
I him, I', or ofs Hi-thing ■!.-■ »«•»«■ M«n he .inn to the Icnce ho busted
.loth great au.iov.inci .flh, ;-r.<. lite th.-u il.tairin down nigh unto seven piinneLs.
Id ,I.IN piiisuin I.U lavorite theme, pattern an alwua lb. rm.s init.ly; and bere
■ :',-: -T.m.ig gcmlomen, be left gopher, gteiv. sintl I ee and khvis. i.ll
I ■ - . tl .1 ; have my little niixe-J up n I woit.i a ivm. Mo.-t ov his shirt
I..I ■ I am a e.r// peculiar man— stucs on the sphntct it end ofabroken rail, and
.,., particular. Now my , nigh onto a p...t oM.-.r.iet« staid with the shir
l>.l|...H..cul,ar.— „y p uliai .,'- • Mingin it n^*. «-J whiw w em. oboul n
I- me ,- you anin- gallon and a hall kepi en wtth «U,d. HeRt-umd
...... i: , w'idebed-ar<rV to run jist ad«.et y as last a« s h-.ree. ioul.1 fly,
.... . ;t burning Uj the side fonlwurtu tightest iree I ever did sec. Jluwn
-(.hi r.isit* bin'tiuitV niv vi,v.- Now thru »he sedge grass they all went the hornets
lor. i«.it n - i. all this making it haik-orler a smoke all reuii dads
• nil,, wifeofMr. A, wasno- Uld head, and he wUh nuthtu on vearth nv Inn
., . 1K,M ;„ |UW1, .. „ |, ,he bridle, and n:gh onto a yard ol p.ow-lli.e a
. . ;: resiK-i :.' mi . one ol the saihn behim
snrpiisingly
It was
broad,
f the ark. according
[.rpentem, mti-t tiave
been thirty-two thousand iunes- The largi -t Kng-lish
shin-of-war, the St. Vincent, lor inslai ,
which is ofa sice altogether unimaginable lotho*e
who have never seen it, i- two thousand live hun-dred
tons burden : so that the ark mnsl have bet n
equal lo seventeen first-rate ships-of-war, and if
armed as such ships arc, 't would have contained
The Bible in School.
P'Aubigne tells an affecting history of perse-cution
lor reading the Bible :—"There lived at
Coventry a little band of Serious Christians—four
shoc-ibakcrs, s glover, a hoiser, and a widow
named Smith—who gave their children a pious
education. The Franciscans were annoyed, that
laymen, ami even a woman should dive meddle
with religious instruction. On Ash-Wednesday,
1519, Simon Morton, the Bishop's gunner, ap-prehended
them all. men, women, and children.
On I lie following Friday, the parents were taken
to the Abbey of Maekstoek. about six miles from
Coventry, and the children t-> the Greyfriar's
Convent. ' Bet us sec what heresies you have
been taught ?'said Friar Stafford to the intimi-dated
little ones. The pair children confessed
they had been taught in English the Lord's Pray-er
the Apostles' Creed, and the Ten Connnand-nionts.
On hearing this, Stafford told them an-
A i.ti:.\r i'vi!Mi:!t—Tun " I-*,M:PTI.VXT " A-iir.
vT 1—Probably the largest firmer in America
is a large elephant which i-< engaged at plowing
up the farm of I'. T. Barnnm, near Bridgeport,
Conn. Passengers who came by the New York
and New Haven Railroad yesterday state that
they bad a fine view of bis " Kk phantine lligh-noaa"
as they pissed the farm in question. Ho
is said to be very docile, walks three times ns
fist as a pdr of borsos, and drags a bu"gp sulisoil
plow, driving it ftoni lb to Jl inches d. en This
■aim animal was used in India to work on the
roads, pile timber, Ac., and il is said that ho
don't stick up his nose at any reasonable work
that his Yankee owner places before hi:u.—.V. 1".
£n>rr«.
gniy, 1 forbid v unless you wish to be burnt
The Doctor and bis Korse.
Studious persons are somelinn
ignorant hou toael on ordinarj occasions. A Scot-tish
papi r savs that I !r. Chalmers came home one
evening on horseback, mid, as neither the man ' much beyond eighteen thousand men, and provi-v
oo had the charge of his horse nor the key of sions for them for eighteen months. Boffon has
the stable could bo found, he was for some time ' staled that all the four-footed animals may be re-i.
.1 a little puzzled where to find a temporary resi- j duced to two hundred and fifty pairs, and the
dence for the animal. At last he fixed on the
•rarden as the fittest place he could think of for
llio purjiose; and, having led the horse thither,
he placed it on the garden walk. When his sister,
.who had also been from borne, returned, and
i was told that the key of the stable could not he
.'oan I. she inquired what had been done with il.e
birds to a still smaller number. On calculation,
therefore, wc shall find thai the ark would have
held mi re I hi n five times the nee ssary nuiubi r
of creatures, and more than five limes the requir-ed
<|uantii« of food to maintain liie:n for twelve
uioi.ths. — Dr. ('ummiwi.
: I in one respect it isn't. I can «... 'IS1 CseCeUd nnooww ttnhrn.it nheewwaisLrsirmiie^nn.fuurr ™tlie sswwiimi.i--
:;;. .... ...-,/ /.,./. ii. h.i:c on Lie k..-.-k.« ■■- to- ke'l is, vcrtce.,-
, ;..,,. ,i.e i,. in tyJJvc Ihet pwpondickcl* tu the water and KS
, ; | .- _j, , „ighonto tenfeel deep. A\cll. o keep up h -
karat-tcr as a, lu>ss, wnen he get to the Hurt l-c
! off, nr rather he jist kept runnin'
; he weni ; I seed the ^>i-h'
i -e
"I ti«'k it to the giirdon." said the doctor.
'•To the garden!"' she exclaimed; "then all our
Sower and vegetable beds will be destroyed."
"Don't be afraid of that," said the doctor.
"forl took particular care to place the horse, on
the garden walk."
"And did you redly imagine," rejoined the
sister, "that be would remain there:-"
••I have no doubt of il," said the. doctor; "for
so sagacious an animal as the horse could not tail
:n !•. answer of the propriety of refraining from
injuring tin products of the jpirden."
'••I sin afraid," said 5*i>s Chalmers, "tti.-t v-.u
will think less favourably of the discretion of the
horse when you have seen Harden
•• ;'o decide ti.
Ths House of God
in the
organ,
divine
Its! lea] ■
Ki • -lug into the ere
the
controversy by an appeal !•
The glory ofa? sacred edifice lies not
vaulted roof, and lofty spire, and pealing
but in im- glory that tills the house—the
presue-e ; nol in the fabrics of goodly stones, but
in it- living stones, polished by I he hand of the
Spirit: not in the pointed windows in the gospel
fiaht: not is. the choir "l singingmenand ofsing-ir.
g women, but in the music ofwell tuned hearts,
not in the sacred priesthood but in the great High
!'iii-.-t if every stone were a diamond; and
every beam a cedar; every window a crystal, and
.•very d<a r a p arl: if the roof werestudded with
sapphire, and the floor tcssclated wiTfrrd! manner
ofprecious stones; and yet if Chirst^nd the
Spirit 1 e ii.t there 'ho building has nojglory. 'i he
;-s your parents will be. to have any thing to do
with the I'iiter. the Credo, or the Ten Coi-mand-ments
in English.' Five weeks after this, the
men were condemned lo be burnt alive ; but the
judges had compassion ou the widow, because ol
her young family, for she was their only support,
and "they let her go. It w..s night; Morton of-fered
to see I'an.e Smith home. She took his
arm. and they threaded the dark and narrow
streets of Coventry. ' lih, eh !' said the app-.ri-tor.
on a sudden, 'what have wc here!" llu
heard, iii fact, the n.'isc of paper rubbing against
s imcthing. ' What have you gotjlii re V be con-tinued,
dropping her arm, and putting his hand
up her sleeve, from which he d.cw cut a parch-ment
Approaching a window, whence issued
the faint rays ofa lamp, be examined the mysteri-ous
scroll, and found it t" contain the l.ord'fl
1'raver, the Apostles' Creed, and the Ten Cum-niaudmeots
iu Kugli-h. ' O, O, sirrah." said he,
■ come along. As good now as another time.'
Then seising the j• --i- widow by the arm, he
dragged her before the Bishop. Sentence of
death was immediately piotiouneed on her; and
on the 4th of Ap. I'a i uiith, llobcrt Uol-chetta
Archer and Hawkins, Thomas Bond Wry-sham
and Langsdale; were burnt alive hi Coven-try,
iu th" littii' park, fur the crime of teaching
their children the Lord's Pray r, t!:- ApostW
.Creed, and the Ten Commandments ofUod.''
:•.. they went to the garden, and found, from house oi Cod must hive a glory beyond wbatSol-n-
tsoflJfamMert.—flic Bal- lor fly plum above the bluff from wlar 1 was.
nsavs: We me informcJ Now rite thar boys he over d.u the thing, it thai
- - V, ;.,•.:.: th.e,•f•ol■l•owing cir- w....a.^s w, n'■. ■,w: i'■.< ■ -.■• • - a■-rt' ■■•■- 'l•u•r there - narv. nus" ever
-,, -i . • . i . I'oaldeJ darned fool enoiign to tope over cn\ siell
:. |y transpired on bntnnluj ' • J ,. ^^ ;„„.. ■ lm! dll(1
■;■ ,,. . , w .-n't aetin'.:..,:■•. I. re? up to the edge and
■eil for various Stakes, ;,,;„•, Vl.r: thar was dad's bald head for all the
the futhless devastion which the trampling and
i-ooiliiig of the animal bad spread over every |«rt
of it, that th i natural philosophy of the horse was
I a subject with which the lady was far more ac-i
curatelv aoqnaimtcd than her learned brother.
"I nevi r could have imagined," said the doctor,
. "that burses were sash senseless animals."
onion's cunning workmen can give it even
Lord God, who i- "the glory thereof."
A'.,,..-/,,.-..'' li'c Wm. Jarkto*.
the
■. ;• i ■ : . .- inoReti over; i.iai- »•■- ■■ . - •■••■ ■ ■
• em, a woman, becoming, in .,, .-. ., „„.,;..; ,,:;.... a \.::.]:, m.:
... .1 II t • _A«- I ... ........ • ... . • ':..'..
and down.
In North Carolina, it is frequent, among her
forests of fnt pine, fora lover in distress to send
the lair object of his affections a bit of its staple
vegetable production, with an eye printed upon it.
It signifies " I pine." if favorable to him. the
voung lady selects from the wjid pile the best
and smoothest specimen of a knot—this signifies
But if, on the other hand, sh
Camphor V3 Pea-Bugs-
Having observed in the Horticulturist, an i.i-nuiry
relative to seed-peas damaged by bug«, ■
will offer a remedy, perhaps not new, b it n -w to
me. Four years":..."., last spring, my sced-pcas
were more than half-de-tr.iyed by bugs, the larg-est
and best varieties being n.o«t injured. The
summer following, 1 had boSTS made, one f.r
each variety, with a cover : and when the peas
were gathered, I put into each box, with «tw■>
juarts of peas, from si I to eight bits of
"ritUoutamurmurto the ^mnor.'{^v^'p't]^'V^ renlly tbard ov
-jTarTyeT~' Boss' flU b ■• r so, dad ;
The in,r.vi.fe,] who was eo.,ty„l ih:., bis life i they're rale (dip) ^""'^Jj^^J?;
* M- lin] ! with iime,ha found a stromr'infernal ews! 'Well, da.;youh have to st,,
• ..:. U,:,,-till mte and alter ihei , I.. r-H , •..
"inne not. -•-. ■-, - -- -
test him. (lucre is no mid iio ground between de- camphor, the size ol a large pea, ana mixed men
testatum and adoration with young women') she together, and closed the box. The next aprinc
hums one end of his ilinni'»| n . and UILJ generally t'uerc was not a [<a injured. I have pun
throws the yoong wan in despair, for it means san." eoursa every year since, an
•• I make l.-ht of vour r.inui2. —S'.'•/■" (Ala ■ one pea affected by bugs.—/'<
.l«i-r/. 1
:i it
./•-
/:,.
A GliOft Iii .'."'■-—A firmer who hi 1 latrlt
bee imo ii wi lowi t was aroused at midnight by the
h..vA barking of his dog. On going to i' the ani-mal
displayed extreme terror, whereupon the far-mer
tool; his gun and proceeded loan inspection.
All at once he saw a phantom, clothed in a white
I sheet, rise behind the hedge. The farmer tui ned
deadly pale, and his limbs shook with dismay.
He howevi r, contrived t (ejaculate, "Ify. u pome
from God, speak; ii from tlie devil, vacishl""
■•Wnt I.!'' exclaimed the phanton, "I am your
i1.. en.- 1 wife.comc from the grave to warn you
i not to marry Marai A •'" wh an you arc mak-ing
love. The only woman to suoceed me i» '■
I Henrietta 15 .Marry her, or persecution and
eternal torment shall, be your doom''' This stra-
■ nge address from the goblin, instead of dismaying
. the fanner, restored his counge. lie according-,
I ly rushed on the ghostly visitor, and. stripping
i ilrV its sheet, di- -ove:"- : '-'"•■ fair Henrietta 1!
herself, looking extremely foolish, it is said that I
I the larxcr. admiring the girl's trfel has had the
Innns published for his marriageVwith her—;
Untnha.l, i:».j "'
I
\i. ignorant fellow, who wa'- about to get mar-ried,
resolved to make himself perfect ill the
responses of the marriage service but, by mis-lake,
he committed, the office c;f baptism for
:' •■!' i*jicr years; so, when th" clergymen
Naked him, in the church, 'Wilt thou have this
woman to be thy wedded wife' the bridegroom
answerd in a very solem tone. 'I renounce them
ail." The astonished minister said. •! think you
are a fool:" to which Iu replied, "All this I stead,
lastly klehe."
.1 I (i-«- without an E.—The following verse
contains every letter in the rCnglisb alpeabet ex-cept
'•K/'dt is a tiueirtiou wbetliir any other Eng-li.-
li I'.vine mii In- produced tin print) without the
I. r.i r K, which is a letter employed more than
any other;
A jovial -wain may rack his brain
Ami lax his limey's might,
'fo quiz in vrin, fbr'tis most jilain
'1 hat what 1 s-i\ is right.
A ehnp!Vilcu vietiai of unre«|uitted love sings
i:i this lamentable strain : I'll throw myself into—
The deep briny ocean —\\ here mud eels and cat-fish—
On my body shall ii >t,—And fiunnder- and
flat-fish—Select mo lor diet;—There soundly I'll
slumber—Beneath the rough billow,—And crabs
without number —Shall cranrl o'er my pillow,—
Kill my -pirit -hall wander through gsv eoral
bowers,—And frisk with the mermaid—it shall
by tic powers!
Arln'am W'-U /;.-/,.,«.•/.,/.—•(In the 1 111. inst.,
il.. Vrtesian well in >•!:...-., Alabama, whieh had
reached a depfl of 440 feet, and waa delivered
nearly 500 ipillons of water per minute, suddenly
sunk some lo or 20 feet b low the suif.ee, f..r
an extent of aboul 300 yard- in length, and of a
varying width. Tlie most extraordinary rouse-ouence
of this phenomenon is, tliat all the wells
in the vicinity base become dry.
Marriage —The more married monwe have the
fewer crimes there will lie. Examine the fright-ful
columns ofyour criminal calenders—you will
lind one hundreJ youths executed to on; father
ofa family. Marriage renders man more virtuous
and more wise. The lather of a family is not
willing to blush before his own children. lie Ls
afraid to make shame their inheritance,
Tin- -.Tam" in maliionable life is to pin. !n
•aiiist ■'.iv.noii'i-art*
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