The Greensborough patriot [January 25, 1842]

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VOLUME 111. GREBNSBOROUGH, N. G., TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1842.
NUMBER 50.
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BV twsm s. aiu:imooP.
T "EH M S:
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jvanri.—or Three Hollars, niter Umexpin
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MIM K I. LAII.
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From the Saturday Evening Poet
OUT. WASHINGTON'S AITOINT.MKNT-HV
loan tinvn.
The follow nig iieeoiinl of I e ippninl
MM "I General Waabinfion lo Ihe »"
prrme cuiimiaiid of cnniini-ntal ami),
June 16, lVitl, has In in placed in out
hand* b) a gentleman ia whose veracity
we hnve lull coi.lideiicr. We cannot,
ihcrelotn doubt Ibe authenticity of-the an-eodatei
be (Wee, Thi* tuitjeel bei nl
l.id- (tear* been brought before ibe pub*
lie under VIM nun versions, and ha« III
every shape attracted attention. The
uccnuul WO now give ll an i-xtrnc. .ruin a
print* journal, nitrating a conversation
w ii: John Adams, s.-n'r, before thai great
■nan was tailed In III" final ret. Tin j
relation i« more ill detail thai- lliul which
ha* hilheiln been made public, bill ll
substantially corroborate! the found v. f-aiooi
«i iln.' causes winch led in the ap
iniiniiiieiii of Waahingtod, Loal wi
r.li.,11 :d. in aim way aiT.ni ibe anecdote,
we give it in. I lie ii i) wcrdtol llie narra-tor—
Ed. Pott.
The arm; wn* assembled ai Cambridge,
Mae*, under General Weed,and Congrats
was •.mine nl Philadelphia, Kvery day
new application* in behall ol the army
armed. The country wa. urgent Ihnl
CtH.grct* r-bnuld legalize llie raieing of
the army ; for until they had, it mint be
consider, d, and was in low considered,
onlv n iimli, a band of armed rebel*.—
The eeentry wa* placed inc.irc.imstnnc.-s
of peculiar delicacy and danger. Tin-snuggle
hail In iron, and yet every thing
By will blend lie in one mass
nin-» will be ri elaileae,"
Ai tins Samuel Mama teemed to be
greatly moved, Thiy lalkul over the
ii-. liiinnary circumstance*, and John
a-kiil biacnualn Ic second hii motion.—
Mr, A. wni m, took the floor,& poured
inrili all hie lireagti in the delineation.
in- had prepared; all aiming ai the adop.
nun nf ibe army, lie ami ready to own
the army, appoint a Con inlander, tote
a ii phi i,ami proceed in business. After
Ilia «-p< col. had boi n fmisln d.s.une doubt
nl, mine ohjl el. il, ar.il ► a feared. Ilia
warmth increased with the occaalon, and
n all tboae doubt* and hesitation* be re-pl
id,
•'<iei.iteii.en, f iln' Ono,tre»* will not
adojil iliie army Indue leu •innoim have
• i, New England will adopt it,and the,
she will undertake the etruegl* alone—
vna, with a atrmig aim ami a etear con*
science, the, will front the foe tingle-hand,
d.-'
This had the dntired efleel, Thev
•aw ihai .New Bngiand »»» n. nher pl iy-inc
nnr in be played with; ihey agreed to
i|i|iuini a day—ibe day war fixed. Ii
name, Mr. Adaml weul in, look the floor,
urged the laeaaure, and after a debate it
pawed.
The next thin|» war in gel a Coalmen-hit
expected forlune will place Inui be-yond
il,,: ixccuily of induatry. Uabitf
of Idraweea and extravagance are Ibu*
(oimed, and ai ibe deceate of the parent,
and the poeietiian of the fcrlunc—how
frequently, dues it happen that trace of
gaiety,fashion and profligacy commence*,
which ia not checked until the misguided
and the luia-ediicaled finds himself plun-ged
in all ihe horrors of diisipation, with
neither the mental nor the moral encrgv
In retrace Ins fooiaiepn.—The rich fathers,
we contend,do not educate their children,
except in rare instance", under a tytleui
in sun them for the possession and man-agement
of wealth. It seems to us, that
ibis is Indeed the moat difficult task thai
enuhl be imposed upon a parent. The
n.oi.1 advisable mode we will not attempt
m diearibe. The position of a parent
poa«c»siiio on iinuicnse fortune,with boys
on whom be duals with a lather's liuid-uess
and the consciousness at tho same
time, that his sons are not toiled lo the
management of money, and that their
possession of it i« as likely 10 lend In their
ruin as an) thing else, is one indeed prep
mini with dtmculiy. Look through the
c.iiiuni.iiiiy of Philadelphia at the present
nine, mill our iiinauing will he fully illus-iraled.
lloW many of the poor men of
lie present day, the bankrupts, llie ex
The New Orleans Picayune of the 21st
contains a letter dated Chiahuabua, Nov.
4, confirmatory of the facts detailed in
trie letter from Indepence, Mo.,an ex-tract
of which is given above.
The Louisullr Journal received last
night contains the following : "We yes-lerday
received a letter from (Jen. Combs
at New Orleans, who informa ut that he
has written to Washington, and that he
will, if ho can obtain authority from Go-vernment,
hasten lo Mexico to save, if
possible, a beloved son and Ina compan-ions
in misfortune. Most lervently do
we hope that the gallant General's appeal
to the Government will not be for a mo-ment
uuhieded."
Ill I lu-ll,
g
d.r for this army, wuh supplies. Arc. All! lwi, d spendi'.rifls, the dissolute and
nokod to .Mr. Adamt on Ibis occatiou ; |„|.j,cis of lympaihj—an- Ibe sons of the
.ml be was ready. II- look Ihe floor rich of tummi nines! How few on the
other band, of Ihe rch men of ihe present
.lay, In came so by the cslaleo Ii (l by
their father*) On the contrary,property
is eiins'nnily changing hand* in llns
country—Ihe rich and the idle Income
imnr, while the children of lb» hooeai,
Ihe II ilo-lrinns anil the enlerpri/.in",take
iheii pl»ec« iii the ranktrof wealth. Who
wen-our Ridgwaya and our Oirarda in
Thus, then, we argue Ibal
allhougll il may soinetiuies be t source
.liiinxii-lv that we cannot leave our cbll
dren abundance of wealth—that habita
oi industry, aatirity, peraetcranee ami In-tejruy,
are far mure likely to rehder ili.-m
happier, belter, wiser, and in ihe end
Uld wen' lull, a uiliinie il-'lllu-all.i
character ol Gun. Ward, beelot
nun the epilheis which then belonged lo
no one i lee. At the i ml ol 'Ins oulog],
In- said, "but ill's is i.-.i III- man I have
aliotm."—Iln 'hen wni into ■ delinea-tion
of ihe characii i of ■ Commander.
iifChief, such a* was required; by thi
peculiar tiluation of iln Cnlouiea al Ibal
juiiciurc. And after he had preeenlnl |carlv life 1
ihe qualification in Insstrnngi'sl lnn||unge
and given the reason lor ihe nomination
he was about lo make, he sanl,—
"Gentlemen, I know ihs. qualinca
nous tie Ingh, But wi all km.a I bey an
needful at ibta criwa, in DID Chief; din »
any nnr say tin r are not lo be obtained ,
in'lbe coiuilrj I I icply, Ihey lire, they j |,r>,„g|n up to I be- use of purple and flue
retidaH i ie of our ow u body, und h.- is | h,,,.,,, horses and ooatl* n hides, gay so-tbo
persiui whom I BOW mnale,— , r;elv an,| exlravag.-nl expectation*.
f.Wtfe Wa*hingi0n,of •"•^"•'"•" , .,.,,,, SA.NTA 1 I: I.Xl'Kl>rriON.
W» g.on, who sal on Mi. Adam* ™^ ^ ]{_ .,„ rn„u„„
ighl hand, was looking hi... „,len.,y .,, 11(| ^ .^^ ,„,,,,„ ,11|,.ncl.i HiMMrl|
AX BASTEBN TALE.
There ii an Kastcrn itory, which give*
an account of* certain gem, or precious
none, 10 entirely perfect a* to be inde-structible
by any human agency. It wai,
consequently, greatly etteemed, and held
at t price ol infiuito value.
Al length il became ihe properly of a
wealthy merchant; who, on dying, be-queathed
it to his only ton, ai hit princi-pal
patrimony.
For a lime tho young merchant consid-ered
himself llie wealthiest n.nn in Bag-dad.
He could al any moment have dis-posed
ol his valuable jewel, ut ihe neat-est
Baiatr, for a sum sufficient to have
bought up a whole slrccl ofCommon mer-chants,
with all their merchandise, to-gether
will, innumerable caravans fiom
the Indie*, with the rarest silks, spices,
and olher goods. And the (ireal Caliph
himself, it was supposed, would have
.hand his throne with any one for the
uosteetioti of it.
Hut al length the young merchant be-came
dltconlenled with his treasure.—
After ill, taid he in himself, if thieatone
should not hu what the opinion of the
world has to long held it lo be! What.
load of being inilislrncli'olc, as it is
exchanged for all the necessaries, the
comfort* and the luxune* of life, ll
flowed and circulated, aiul cilice rose up
as if by magic ; the forest gave place lo
fertile plantations, the savage n treated
before the maich of civilization, and
plenty, and cheerfulness *pread Iheui-talfea
over all the land.
But there were a set of politicians who
ro*c up and said to the People, Tbia cur-lency
of which you boast, and which
you fancy is working such wondf r» for
you, is all a mockery I ll,is worthies* I
It i* ba*ed on a credit which it rotten!
And, if you will permit us, we will make
experiments on it ; we will prove to you
that you have been deceived in the per-fection
of lhe»e agent*.
And to Ihe making of experiments
they applied themselves with a zeal wor-thy
of a better cause. Every body knows
the result.—Star of' Florida.
more prosperous than if ihey had been
Ihe 'ace, Ii
w
inahi
eras without older. The great trial now toamiu
te.-ini d lo bo in tin* question:—Who
should be Commander in Chief? It was
ixciiediiigly important, and was felt to
bu ill-- lunge ou which the contest inighl
turn far ol againat us. The Southern
uiu'. Middle State*, warm and rapid in
their /.i al for the mo*t part, were jealous
ol Now I'.ngland, because ihey fell thai
lb- "al physical force was here ; whai,
iii... w»s lo be done 1 All New England
adotid Gen. Ward! he had been in the-
Flench war; and went out laden with
fan.els. lie- was a scholar and * gentle-man.
Kvery qualification teemed lo
rlusler in him ; aod it wae confidently
belli ved that tbeatmy could not receiv.
any noannandoi aver him. What, linn,
was in ho done ! Dillicullint thickened
nt , very slip. The struggle*was lo bo
Liny ami bloody. Without union all was
last. 'I In- counl'V, and I lie whole coun-try,
ii'ii-l ironic in. One pulsation mutt
heal through all heart*. The cause was
one, ami the arm must be one.—The
member* hid talked, debated, considered,
niul guevaedi and yol the decisive step
h. .1 not been taken. Al length Mr. Ad-am*
came to bis conclusion. The me.ins
<il developing it wore somewhat singular
anil linn I v as follows : lie whs walking
one II. ii ruing before Congress Hall, ap-parently
in deep thought, when his cons
in, Samuel Adamt, came up to him and
aald,
"What is the topic with you this
morning ?"
••till the army, the army," he replied.
"I am determined what lo do aboul ihe
army at Cambridge.] I am determined to
go into the hall Ibis morning and enter
on a full di tail of. the slalc id Ihe Colo-nies,
III older lo thaw the absolute need
of taking Mime decisive sti pt. M) whole
aim will be lo induce Cungreet to appoint
a day for triopliugllM army n» the legal
army nf limit L'ottud Columns nf North
Aineiica; and then lo liinl at my elic-lion
of a Cmiiinaniler in Chu f."'
-Well," said Samuel Adams, " I like
Ibal, cousin John, but on whom ban- you
fixed nt .his t "oniinai del!"
„,ch ihe name he waa>ahoul I'c'ltra,
and not. xpeeling it would containing n.an,
lie bis own, he sprung limn bis seal anil
rushed into an adjoining roirftl. Mr. Ad-ams
had itykcd hfs brother Samuel lo
inon; lor an adjaurmnent.a* soon, as the
ii'iu.innliou was made, in order, lo give
ihe member* nine lodebhifale, and the
.esull is In-line the world.
I asked Mr. Adams, among Other ques-tions,
ihe following!
•■Did you hover doubt tho success of
ihe conflict!''
"No, no," nid he, "not for a moment.
I expected lo be hung and quartered, il
I was caught; but uo malli r lor that, mv
country would be free. I knew thai
George ihe •lit. could nol forge chains
long enough and siiung enough to reach
round these Slates."
Intercitini; Agronomical Fact:—The
quantity of aolar light received at the
planet Uranu*, i« 300 lime* Icta thin
that of the earth.
To an inhabitant of Mercury the tun
appear* aeven lime* larger than it doe*
to in.
If the degree ol heat upon the differ-ent
planet* i* in proportion to Ihcir dis
tance from the Sun, the aveiage temper
Wire of Mercury will ha 333 degrees,
131 degrees above boiling water; that
of Uranus, 12-J degrees below the freez-ing
point-
Mercury'* density is equal to that of
lead, being the densest planet in Ihe sys-tem;
Saturn the rarest, has very nearly
I'IC density of cork.
It would lake l.rainn nearly fifteen
yeais to fall lo the sun, if left to the foice
of gravity alone.
Scliroeler estimated a mountain upon
Venus lo be nearly i%i nulos ie height.
A locomotive, moving without inter
niaeioo at the rate of 80 mrtae per hour,
...id lo he, it I* susceptible of being I would be Ma yean in traversing Ihe dis-eruslnd
by a aingle blow ol the liaiiiiiu i!' lance between our I'.arlh and ihe Sun.
The Yovng Mechanic—Having some
butineii, in various printing offices in tin *
city, my attention awakened towatdt a
young man who was called by ihe foreman
to niul. i lake a pan of my job. He said be
could work only two hours of Ibe day.—
Oo inquiring Ihe reason, he told me be
was a member of college, and after at,
tending In hit regular duliet, he ***cd
two houit a day lo work in the printing
office, except Saturday*, when he worked
most of the day. He'receivcd about 1»
cert* an hour; and in th.a way be waa
learning a good trade, to which he could
resort if nece*»ity required j wn* occupy-ing
hit time, and procuring aouio extra
fundt for pocket money. I waa informed
that several memheri of the city colleges
were nlsn employed in the same office in
a similar way. I immediately determin-ed
to record this fact, and call the atten-tion
of amdenla and of ihcir parenta lo it.
—Lnuinille Advertiser.
A fiea- Rogue Jklcctor.—TUc Daguer-reotype
process of taking the "human
face divine," ha* now become an iuatru-mi
ni of the police in France for the *up-prcMioi,
of crime. When any euipiciou*
person or known criminal ia arrettcd,
they cause him to be daguerreotype.!,
ami his likenesa is appended lo the regie-ler;
sp tint if, after he is *et at liberty,
he shall again bo implicated in offence,
his likenesa being exhibited to the vari-ous
police agent*, tho delecticn become*
more ea*y. The rogue*, however, hnve
found ibis out, and now, when subjected
tu the process ol daguerreotypitig, make
inch hideous grimace* aa entirely loaller
the usual expression of their couutcuan*
Ce«. , .
A jackass beetling of bit ability to
figure advantageously and compiciuusly
in a hull, (aid as lo dancing he pcrhap*
would be a little awkward, *• he *eldoin
indulged in il;t.ut when the binding
part came on he could do hi$ part in lino
stvlc.
Frvwa lh>- Philadelphia Inquirer.
if ihi-particiilais 01 ihe,
ISanta IV cxp. dii.nn. Signor Alvarez,
"ihe An.eiican consul in New Mexico.
with live or six oihei gentlemen, arrived
at liiib Itelidence on .he Mill instant, af-ter
n trip nf fiflv days from Santa IV,
bunging nil Ihe lielail* of the the dita*.
irons .v. nl. We make an exlracl from
.me of ihe letter! from- Indopendimee,
pr.. Illg lhal iberc is not llie least
doubt as tu the truth of it I—LouittiUl
Journal.
The d. p.ilation, nn their arrival neat
Santa IV, were divided "Ho three parlies
one under the command of 1 lowland, an
oilier under Cook, llie Commissary tieu.
eral Irom Texas, and ihe olher under
Mel,-oil, or Lollll, Ih« Coiiiinander-in-
Chief, "hen near the place of dl slina
linn, Howland, with two more, were
sen! in advance aa spins m ate. Male il
Ifte VhUdnn of Ihe Rich and Poor— ditpoailton o! the Mexican, toward, them
Instead of being proof against the iufl
. nee of Ihe moat intense heal, what if
Ihe (ire might blacken and deface it !
Thus tormented with suspicion, which
had novel intend the breast of any pie
vious proprietor of the rare gem. Us pos-session,
instead of a satisfaction, a pride,
and an honor, became In the young mer
Ohanl only a source of disquiet, ol can,
.■nil anxiety, lie was oontinoelly haun-ted
with an over-weening desire to try
erperiittlUl upon it. Suppose, says he, I
were lo place it under the hammer and
prove whether or no it be capable of re-
-isiiug die i lions of mechanical power!
Or were I to place it in ihe luriiace for a
few days, and see whether or no it can
with land ihe influence of intense heal!
Morcurv's rate of notion in Hs orb.i,
it 80 miles per second, a velocity two
hundred tunes greater than ibal of a can-uou
ball, when it leaves Ihe mouth of a
cannon.
A body thai weighs one pound upon
Ihe earth, would weigh iwenty-seven and
a half pounds if transported In the Sun ;
ami an onlinnry sized man.would theie
weigh lour thousand pounds.
Hid a atoatp carriage set out from our
earth at "^la/creation, moving at llie rate
of SO miles per hour, il would Mill require
three seven hundred years lo reach the
orbit of I'ranus. Were the Siin't centre
placed over the earth, it would entirely
fill Ihe mnnn's orbit and extend 900,000
ihs beyond il, in every direction.—
In Hii" slate of nnml heconsulled with I The Sun is five hundred and forty-five
an old Dcrvise, who had been the Wend | time* larger than all the planetary bodies
tmetimo* hear parenta rcprel their | The, wore ..ripped and ordered not ie
lo lli-.ir cherish, dj leave 111-hnuiids.
nflspring .he men.,, of 'abundant ..-de- | They made .In ir escape, bu af er Ira-
,„,, I, me. Indeed, if We look through veiling five days and only ,rog,cs.,.,,jnf-soemty,
we shall ...I I toeei bun-1 'v mttea, they were taken by some .hep
dreda, who toil from day to day d from I beetle, brought in and »i
Seven more
yeai io year, nol for ihe means of |'»"" '»•« fompany were again s..,. in<-
i,,,,, ,„d, p,.„d, qge, no. bccaiccthcy■ ap-j Among them was Kendall, heedi.or 0
,p„r.e- l.. mIlp| ,ve,.v-I„,. finma do.ire ,o -he Picayune ; a son of la-slie ( on.h , o
lie. iimulale large loriui.is, and to leave
hehiiul iln m immenae eaiatea. And yet,
ihe experience nf all nine shows thai in
four came out of fin: the children of the
pour man, or nl least of the citizen in
moderate etrcumatancee, «rc more likely
to enjoy a fair proportion of earthly bap-nines*,
than those of the rich. The truth,~ ,
,, the sun Of . poor man is laugh. 10 do. Othcea, the ceplate. however disobeyed
pen I upon hi. 'own effort*. lie kkows ordeis, and took then, to the Govc.lor -
hat on ar.i.ing at Ihe age of I wenly-one, I Shortly alter seven y more, and .hen Ihe
,e« lb compelled .oe,,.er•.he^■...,V»fl"le..«".l-'Y.l:•^,1,'"W"^,ft8,,^,r0,,
a world where money Ie the chief oh led and taken ; Cook being the only one
Kentucky ; a Mr. Lewie,the) had in their
|in<i ssinii, Ihe Cnnsliliilioii and Irftwa of
Ti xas, the American passports, ate,, of
Kendall and other*. On iheli way in,
they were taken pusoncrs by a captain ol
llie Militia, and marched out before the
presented guns nf the company to lie shot
and counsellor of his father. " Be satis-fied,
my son," said he, "tvilh your tree*-
tile. l)o nol all men believe it lo be per-feel!
Is not Us value in the market
now as great as H possibly can be, ufiei
iithall have raaiatetl all your expcrioient*1
lie not the liist lo throw suspicion on
vnur own fortune—the gift of the proph-et."
But the young man listened not to the
advice of the old l)..rvi«e. lie subjected
his gem to the test of tho fire ana the
hammer. I'or a while it resisted all ef-forts
lo deface or injure it; and il seem-ed
lo deserve fully the reputation it had
an long borne. But the more tho pre-cious
gem resisted his cffuil* to destroy
it, and the more il aeemed to approach
il* reputed perfection*, the more wa* the
ambition of the .illy merchant excited
to try new experiment* on it. He went
lo wotk and built very expensive machi-uarv,
with new combinations of mechan-ical
power*, for the purpose of subject-ing
il to more trying te*l». All being
re.dv, the precious gem wa* placed in a
. I (volition to I e most easily affected by the
belonging lo the solar «y»tcm, taken lo
gelber.
To an inhabitant upon the Moon, the
earlh appeats thirteen time* larger than
the Moon doe* lo us.
The distance of the fixed *tar« cannot
be M> small a* 10,900,000,000,000 of
miles. It must have taken the light of
some of tho ttars a thousand years to
nach the earth.
I By ibe etiti.alic* of the prisoners and
I will "ell vou—Ii. urge Wa-hii.gt.ni I possible, to win his way to some.lung
of Virginia, a 'member nfihis House." i like forlune. He understands tntne bin
"Oh." replied Saiimcl Adamt, quicKly, I fine**, and therefore has ihe menus of
"ll.at will never do, never, never." I employing his lime, lie feels lhal rep-
"ll urns! do, il shall do," said Join.,' iilalinn is all cssenlial lo his success, and
"and for ihcse reason*.; Ihe Southern oiid] he therefore controls Ins passions, res.
pecis the laws, and endeavor! to act with
propriety, lie is hound, not only by self-mirnM
hut hv all ihe ordinary obligation*
petition with hie fellow-men with a atom with order* Irom ,,,,.■
let.i.ni.ied, if map, as he gave out. m..~ be I '>'""•«"'
I lift nil Ilia road side. I hr-y bad
i art niul a keen spirit,
Middle Stales are boll, to enter heartily
into tho cause, and their argument* au'
potent: they see ll.at New England hold*
the physical power in her hands, and ihe)
feat ihe .cult. A New England army,
■ New England Commander, with New
I
i
course is. lo
- mutilated force of the machinery, and
•be "I" —as made The ree^l JJ—-£* _£
was .oon ascertained. 1 lie co.tly .lone gj™ of ^.idren. and bad the
of man, to pursue a course winch shall
win for him not only llie esteem of Ins
fellow creatures, bill a due degree of con-island
perseverance all united, appal ttnlinen t and earthly liappinet*.
,n. Tor Ibis cause Ihcv hang back.— ! But ln>w is it with llie rich man s son '.
\ w Ihe only course is. IO allay Ih. ir lie soon .i-ceilains tlie wealth of hi* pa
gone lllirlv miles Irom Santa IV, (when
I heat men left,) and three of the number
were already slain in obedience lo the or-der.
Lewis, it is thought, by his knowl-edge
of the Bpailiah language, worming
1.1.ns. If in and becoming a Favorite with
tho Governor, proud traitorous and in-fo-
med him of Ihe distracted and ibsii-i.
ito situation of the company. Hence
Ihe disregard paid to llie constitution and
laws nf Texas, and espiCiully the pass
potfs of Kendall and the olher Americana,
of which they made a lion-fire in the
public square. The retidenl Americana
Kendall and Ins cum
,,",h || will fn• I eeenrtj-i h.-n it at once taken away. Hcperhop.lh.nk. prol.antlilj lh< cl. hinj
.' ■ rd. 'I - [toll, j inal Ii'- nmy dfty the woild " "'•
was ground lo powder!
" Did I not do well," »nid the young
merchant to the l)ervise,"when I snspec-n
d that this bauble was not what il had
been cracked up lo be 1"
"Truly, my ," answered the Dcr-vise,
"your experiment* have prospered,
and you have become a beggar for your
pains. Allah is great: he ha* punished
you with tuecess in your endeavor! to
undermine your own loetunea, and deface
the brightlieaa and perfection of hii own
gifts."
The young merchant passi d_ away a-iniil
the jeers and taunt* of the bystand-ers.
Now il seems to us that a very useful
moral may be drawn from the BaaleM
»',,r)''
Has not the conduct of those wicked
politicians, who hare experimented upon
ihe credit "f .be country until tin y hive
destroyed it, been very much like the
eouise of the filly young merchant of
Bagdad, who ground Ins peerleaejewel lo
powder only for tho sake of showing lhal
il was not quite so itideslrncliole as il
had been repri senli d to be?
The people ol this country possessed
il n rr mi/ hail ll upon credit, which W*»
.:, a mini: of wealth. It could bi
Having known lor some year*, old Mr-
.Vines Ilrou-n, whole death I sec announc-ed
in your Mat, permit me to *t*lc for
the public, BOOM of hi* trait*. He nev.
at flattered any man: he ncvei feared any
man: he never cheated any man :—he
never told a falachood. Oravc, dignified
and pleasant in hi* manner*. He w»* a
man of little learning from hooka: but
he wat an apt loarncr from thing*—hence
he knew much that would have astonish-ed
a philosopher, iff wa* remarkably
industrious, and wa* true to one maxim,
" base every thing done of good material*
and have it done well." Kvery thing
around him ai hi*death waaanug,orderly,
and' useful. Moral, aober.and devout, he
neverlheleist did not rcfu«o to enjoy the
ii a large
comfort lo
know at hi* death, that'lhore was nol an
unworthy one among them. Such is Ihe
efleel of moral lessons, taught by consia
tent example.—Carolina Watchman.
Duelling.—Governor Roman, of I.011
main says in hi., late Montage :—The
law against duelling ha. become a dead
letter. The slight regard paid to il by
juries, even when Ihe testimony ia unde-niable,
show* that it* execution is im-possible
so long as the country adheres
lo il. present mariner* and prejudices.—
Laws which cannot be executed shoold
be repealed or modified. If tho punish
menl of death were replaced by impti«on-nient,
if 1I1.1 survivor and second won
Pruning (irehardtin the Winter.~ Af
a general rule we believe il i* belter lo
defer the pruning until spring advance*
some, bcansc Ihe wound* will heal over
sooner, and the water, if<t insinuate* it-self
into the bark will nol be frozen and
bare) it off- But apuog i* a busy lime
with the farmer, and he often find* it lie-cetaary
to turn all his cttenlion and pow-ers
of labor tu ihose things winch mutt
he done ai lhat lime- Hence it it belter
to do some thing* io the wiutcr, when
there ia more leisure, and if occaaionally
a little damage i* done in the orchard by
winter pruning, on the whole a va*t deal
more damage ia done by not pruning at
all. ' Those who have orchards lhat need
pruning, and there are few that do not,
should turn iheir attention to them in tho
winter, and may thua apend some of llie
pleasant i!ay» v.ry profitably.
While upon tin*subject, would il not
be v.,-II to suggest that more than one
halj'ui the apple Irect in Maine, that
arc actually thrifty rnd heal well, bear
apple, hardly worth gathering, and that
by grafting them with choice kind*, Ihe
whole of them in three yeara from the
time of s. lling the »cion, would bear n-huiidantly.
This wotild be equivalent lo
creating so many new treet in three
years. Winter it the lime lo be collec-ting
scion, ready for selling in the spring.
—Maine Farmer.
fin tii HL- Manure under Voter during
Winter.—Prom what little experience
we have had, and from the testimony of
other, who nave been in Ihe habit of
keeping Ihe innnurc mode in the winter
from their cultlc, under cover either ie
cellar* or »heds, we have no doubt that a
•aving of one third in it. value and effi-cacy
will be made. Thi* i» worth alton,
ding to. The farmer who has hia barn*
in a suilable .iliialinn, and liable 10 con-struct
cellar* for Ihe reception of bi* ma-nure,
will find the co*l aoon.repaid to
him in tho saving of manure a* well a*
in the many other cooven..- _-v vbich
such place will afford bim ny pur-poses.
Those Who are not we ed Tor
cellar*, should construct she..», even if
Ihey arc onlv of a temporary kind, fur tho
purpose. The rain, and snow, of wmlcr
act upon the manure heap a. water does
upon attics, leeching or in other wordt
dissolving much of il. soluble matter,
which is then conveyed nway in llie
spring when the water begins to run, or
i. imbibed by .he ground upon which the
heap resls. It it a tubj.-cl worth alien-ding
to, for muck and manure is money
10 the farmer, and he who lose* any lose*
iiis money.—lb.
inent, 11 111.. survivor sou »<-........ »■ ■■ SSwwiinnee,, lthhaatl aarrcc kkeepptt mmoosrttilvy oonn firreesshti
tendered jointly and .cvcrallv liable .or g||(.h ^ rmt{f ,M Ar wjlll blll
the debts of bim who fall.. If .he guilty 11,.^ „„orl).(| (■„„,!, ,equiref fell a. of-were
beside* liable Car large damage* toL j m M f(lll(| of i; in it* eimple
be, recovered before a civic tribunal by l_ Hm| ^ mlJ(.1| (,,.„,.(;„ ,.,| |,y it to.-.,
tho heir of the deceased, the end the l>. | ^ §h 0| cnw Wl, „,,„ f..„„<l, hy
gislalure had in view would probably be 1 ririi|( rx[|oril,li(.1, ,,,.,, » „„„„,, |,og,
better accomplished. ^^^^ i confined to fresh food will eat an aver-
. would beami rWco. 1 ' ' "cerer-.
ihrcc pound*.