The Kennebecker

THE KENNEBECKER.

BY HENRY KNOX BAKER. ’ N O . 9 7

ORIGINAL ESSAY. LADIES’ D PAHTM ENT.

No. 1.— The subject of introducing “ manu Story o f a Nun.— Reader, if your whim, or al labor” in o seminaries of learning, has of your necessities should lead you to Madeira, late v ars engaged the attention of many in go, for my sake, to the nunnery of Santa Clara. telligent and enterprising individuals in diffe.- It is at the western end of Funchal, and you ent parts of our country, the results of which may buy there the prettiest flowers for your have be. n attended with very happy consequen sweetheart’s hair, and the most ingenious toys ces on the minds of the rising generation, in in wax that are in the world. The nuns sell several important particulars. And this sub them very cheap, and all they get from you ject is gradually becoming more useful. I goes in real charity to themselves or their pen think this method of exercise decidedly superi sioners. Perhaps also, you may see poor Ma or to any other in which students are engaged, ria, if she be not dead; if she comes, speak to in these points, v iz .: Health, literary progress, her very kindly, and give my love to her;— happy state of mind, clear conscience, inde bnt you do not know me, or poor Maria either. pendence of feeling, and at all times a com Maria Clementina, the youngest child of fortable purse.— First, then, I will speak of Pedro Agostinho, was born in Madeira. Her health, which is all-important to the ambitious parents had an unusually large family, and scholar, who would excel and feast on the sub were laboring under some embarrassment, lime truths of knowledge and science. A reg from the unfavorable termination of an im ular plan being adopted by the student, he portant law-suit. What unfortunate event co knows the duty of every hour, and prepares incided with her birth 1 know not,’ but Maria himself accordingly ; for instance, he rises in was disliked by her father and mother from the morning to Ins studies, which he pursues the first years of her infancy. Her brothers with little relaxation till noon; he has accom neglected, in obedience to their parents; and plished much for the time, and needs rest and her sisters, who were ugly, hated her for her refreshment; he partakes o f a good dinner, beauty. Every one else in Funchal and the and soon enters the mechanical shop. Here neighborhood loved her, and she hud many of his mind is calmed by a change from study to fers of marriage at thirteen years o f age; labor ; liis physical (lowers are strengthened, which the little maiden Idughed at, and for and the bustle of machinery is good music to warded to her elder sisters.' The more she him. After spending a few hours in this em was petted abroad, the more was she persecu ploy he possesses a good appetite for food ; he ted at home. She was treated at length like resumes his studies with delightful feelings. Cinderella, with no chance of a fairy to help When he retires from these busy scenes, he her. Amongst other arrangements for the pur sleeps sweetly, his dreams are pleasant, he ri chase of commissions for two of his sons, and ses again betimes, refreshed and strengthened.; for giving portions to two of his daughters, He secures to himself good health, and many) Pedro Agostinho determined to sacrifice his blessings attend him. Consumption has not', best and sweetest child, Maria. At eighteen marked his countenance with the pale-] she was placed a novice in this nunnery ; at ness o f death ; incessant thinking has not! nineteen she took the veil, and renounced the thrown him into a fever, nor deranged his men-; world forever. At this time she was the most tal powers; indolence has not checked the cir-j beautiful girl in the Island ; and, what is re dilation of the vital fluid, nor left him dull and; markable in a Portuguese, of a fair complex without an appetite; a sleepless night has not] ion, with a brilliant color, blue eyes, and very disqualified him for the duties of the day. He long and glossy brown hair. has power to do much in his daily studies ; and A year after this, the constitutional govern why 1— He labors regularly. S ig m a . ment was established in Portugal, and one of llcadjicld 31. TV. Seminary. the first and wisest acts of the Cortes was to ______■______‘ ______order the doors of all religious houses to be thrown open. Santa Clara was visited by As length of life is denied us, we should at friends and strangers ; some to see the church, least do something do show that we have lived. — Cicero. and some to see the nuns. Amongst others a Portuguese officer, at that time quartered in lie who postpones the hour of living rightly, Funchal, saw and fell in love with M aria; he is like the rustic who waited until the river was a handsome youth of a good family, and should have flowed past him.— Horace. Maria returned his love with an earnestness T o risk one’s life is no small matter; but to which perhaps had as much a desire of liberty risk one’s reputation and glory is the last effort as female passion in it. A nun is emancipated o f intrepidity. from her parents, and the law declared the vow 66 THE KENNEBECKER. No. 9,

o f celibacy null and void. The marriage was stand. “ She does not understand,” said I.— determined on, her hair permitted to grow “ Yes, yes, I understand well ; speak.” “ Are again, her clothes prepared, and the wedding you happy, lady ?” The abbess, who was en day fixed. Maria fell ill, and the physicians gaged with my companion, turned her head, enjoined perfect quiet .for some time. The and Maria answered with an air of gaiety, “ O wedding was fatally postponed to another day ; yes, very happy.” I shook my head as in and before that day arrived, his faithful maj doubt. A minute elapsed, and the abbess was esty had dissolved his parliament, and fearful occupied again. Maria put her hands through lest heaven should lose one more of its daugh the grating, took one o f mine, and made me ters, had revoked the Jaw of the Cortes, and feel a thin gold ring on her little finger, and despatched an express to notify as much to his then pressing my hand closely, said, in an ac subjects in Madeira. Maria arose from heri cent I still hear, “ No n o; 1 have the hearts bed of sickness to return to her cell and herijache.” * rosary; her lengthening ringlets were again! The service began ; the old nuns croaked mercilessly shorn ; the mob cap, the leathern like frogs, and the young ones paced up and corset, the serge gown, were laid before her; down, round about in strange and fanciful fig and some old Egyptians, who could not better j ures, chanting as sweetly as caged canary themselves elsewhere, bade her return thanks| birds. I gazed at them for a long time with to God that she had so narrowly escaped mix feelings that cannot be told, and when it was ing again in the vanities of the world. time to go, 1 caught Maria’s eye, and made her On the fifth of January, a few hours before a slight but earnest bow. She dropped a court we sailed from Madeira, l walked with a hand esy, which seemed a genufiuction to her neigh some and very agreeable English woman to! bor, raised a violet behind her service book visit Santa Clara. I was very anxious to see to her mouth, held it, looked at it, and kissed Maria, whose storv I knew. After a little hes-j it in token of an eternal farewell. itation on the part of two or three venerable', I wish to know whether there would have ladies, who first presented themselves at the I been any harm in accepting the captain’s oiler great door of the house, Maria was summoned. of his coxswain and gig’s crew, and running She came to us with a smiling countenance,: I away with Maria Clementina. The thing was and kissed my companion repeatedly. Her perfectly easy, as we all agreed at the time ; color was gone; but she was still beautifully at the principal door there was nograting, and fair, and the exquisite shape of her neck, and in the court none but maimed or decrepit per the nobleness of her forehead, were visible un sons ; three men should stand at the outer gate der the disadvantage of a dress as ungraceful and prevent any egress till we had brought our as was ever invented for the purpose of mor prize down to the Loo Rock ; in a quarter of tifying female vanity, She spoke her language an hour we should be on board a man of war, with that pretty lisp which, I believe, the crit and even if they had taken the alarm and ics of Lisbon pronounce to be a vicious pecu fired from the battery, it is perfectly well known liarity of the natives of Madeira, but also with that the Portuguese government never allows a correctness and an energy that indicated a more than one half of the due charge of pow powerful and ingenious mind. I took half of der to its artillery, and so we might have laugh a large bunch of violets which I had in my ed at their impotent attempts. But ivhat could I hand, and gave them to my friend to present have done with my nun ? Her lover was, to her. Flowers are a dialect of the Portu heaven knows where ; and as to conjugating guese which is soon learnt. She took them, myself, although Maria was a very lovely girl, courtesied very low,opened the folds of a muslin I happened to have my hands full for the pres neckkerchief, and dropped them loose on her ent. So God bless thee, and again in very?br- snowy bosom. row I say, God bless thee infinitely, sweet and The vesper bell sounded, the door was closed unfortunate Madeiran ! If I were a tory,vas between the nun and the world, but she beck sure as I am not, I would pray the Cortes oned ns to go into their church. W e did so ; might get on their legs again, if it were only it was one of the finest in the island, and very to let thee out of thy prison.— Six Months in curiously lined with a sort of porcelain; at the W est Indies. tached to its western end, is the chapel of the nuns, and a double iron grating to,enable them Tight Lacing.— It is as gratifying to the lov to hear and participate ih the service of the ers of humanity, as it is to the admirers of fe mass. Maria came with some flowers in her male beauty, to see the strong hold which the hand which she had been gathering in the gar public mind is beginning to take of this evil. den. She took four of them from the rest, It is easier, however, to trace the monster by and gave them to me through the bars. “ How his evil doings, the deformed shapes, withered old are you?” “ Twenty-one.” “ And your vitals, dislocated frames, broken constitutions, name is— ” “ Maria.” “ And Clementina as premature graves, sorrowful hearts of parents, well ?” “ Yes, in by-gone’days.” — I leaned as lovers, husbands, friends, which he has pro close as I could, and spoke a few words in a duced, than to point out the means of his ef low tone, lyhich she did not seem to under fectual destruction. Vol. 1. THE KENNEBECKER. 67

Fashion we cannot destroy, nor dethrone, business is much depressed, and the profits of nor hold in check. Fashions may change, as labor and enterprise are small. Wealth we those of us who have lived long enough have cannot expect, but a competency is desirable. seen them change, in regard to the practice In order to obtain a sufficiency for the conven now under consideration. But whatever be iences of life, our expenses must be less, or the modification, fashion is fashion still ; and our income more. T o increase our income now, let idle moralists speak as they will, its sway is almost beyond a reasonable expectation ; is no more despotic in the polished city than but industry and increased exertion will do in the country village, the remote hamlet, or much. Industry may be compared to a pro among the lodges of the wilderness. ductive machine that loses nothing, but grows It seems to me that some recent revolutions better by use.— lt costs nothing, and will last in the habits and sentiments of society point a generation without repairs. Let us be indus out to us the secret of reaching the evil now in trious then, both for pleasure and for profit. question. W hen the current of usage or of Rut, how shall we diminish our expenses, ivith- feeling sets too forcibly in a given course, the out diminishing our pleasures ? Shan’t we eat ? only efficient means of checking its excess is shan’t we drink ? and shall we not be clothed ? to give it a powerful impulse in the contrary O y e s; by no means should we deprive our direction. Barriers and mounds across a rag selves of personal comforts for gain or profit. ing torrent only make it rage and foam and Our real wants are few, our imaginary ones fret the more, and by lifting up its flood on are numerous— the former are easily supplied, high, give it a still bolder impetus than that while the latter are met with difficulty. Our which was before dreaded. pleasures, ah, here’s the word that destroys us. The great secret of the effect produced by — T o the item of “ our pleasures” we can trace the temperance societies is, that they preached most of our expenses— most o f our p a in s - and practised “ total abstinence There is no most of our diseases— most of our sufferings, such thing as keeping people moderate in fash and most of onr sins. W e are too prodigal, ion more than in drinking. There are certain our pride and our fancy,— our indolence and persons, who have wealth, or personal beauty, carelessness, run away with us. You who have or independence enough to make them con never thought of these things,— who are com tented with being moderately fashionable : but plaining o f debt, hard times, and the scarcity those who are deficient in any of those partic of money, begin, and for one year, keep an ulars (and how few are n ot!) have always a exact account of your expenditures, for ne tendency to the extreme of the mode. cessaries and conveniences ; and another equal It follows that those who are qualified for ly exact account of your useless and unneces that service, ought forthwith to give the current sary expenditures, and such as you could dis of fashion a powerful turn in the opposite di pense with without any loss of comfort or real rection. This fashion has prevailed long enough. satisfaction.— At the end of the term foot the And certainly it has done mischief enough, and accounts, and the result will astonish you. cost lives enough. Let it be changed, and let Try it once, and if, at the end of the year, you t lie voice of the arbiters of tire beau monde be regret it, send to me, and I ’ll pay your trouble “ total abstinence from tight lacing.” That and expense.— Limerick Star. voice never was disobeyed, and it will not be now. Let it respond at once to the call of hu Childhood.— The green hills, the joyous gam bols, the pure friendships of childhopd, all manity. Nor need the fair, or their admirers, appre thrill thro’ the heart. The ancient man sits in the midst of a generation thrice removed from hend any depredations upon female grace and his own ; he appears insensible to those around beauty by the change. Fashion governs taste him— he is deaf, and participates not in their in these matters, Let them “ ask the fathers,” joys ; he beholds their sorrows with a cold, and they will certify, that years ago, when unfeeling eye. Rut why does he, at times con tight lacing was unknown, female forms were vulsively grasp his staff'-— and why does an un as graceful, and female beauty as admirable heeded tear occasionally trickle down his fur aud female excellence as lovely, as they have rowed cheek !— He is looking back— beyond ever been made by any of the girdling or screw the existence of the present generation: per ing processes of modern times.— N. Y .E . Post. haps the image of her who hath slppt in dust VAIIIEPIES". for half a century— she to whom his youthful heart ‘ was gathered up,’ appears before bis Internal Improvement.— While parties in the memory as once she bloomed— perchance the United States are arranging, dividing and sub mother who watched or wept over his cradle, dividing on the great question of Internal Im and enhanced the joyousness of his early life, provements, every man may examine this sub is breathing in his ear— or the bosom friend ject without leaving his own fireside. Let pol or companion of bis youthful wanderings smiles iticians wage a war of words, when and where upon him, with the truth and ardor he has so they please ; let eloquence exhaust her magic long been a stranger to :— where are they 1 upon this question, in Congress, or ou t; but let Another people have grown up to maturity since us bring the subject home. Money is scarce. their "raves ’ Cn 68 THE KENNEBECKER No. 9

Each bush and flower in early prime POETRY. Were flourishing in beauty there ; Naught felt the withering hand of time ; A Wish. ■ Nor had we known the thorn of care. [ o r i g i n a l .] ’T is winter: nature’s charms are o’er ; Where the voice of music calls, No green leaves deck the forest tree ; Where the touch o f fancy falls, The verdant bowers can charm no m ore; Where the flame o f inspiration The summer’s past;—and where is he ? Warms the breast of meditation, W here affection's breathings are On the earth’s broad unconscious breast Sweeter, from the pure breast, far, Cold, cold the snows lay, and impart Than odors, by the gusty breeze A hue of gloom by hope unblest— , When sprinkled on heaven’s shrine to please— A deadlier chill is at my heart. Be the spot to care unknown, No spring can e’er to me restore Where I may breathe the groves alone, The freshness of my primal day, And wandering where no eyes intrude, Or give the brightness that it wore Muse on the breast o f solitude ; When youthful hope and love bore sway. And hear, what time the morning beam W ------s. Kissed tlie lovely, smiling stream, The whispering breezes dancing o’er Its silver surface, golden shore— A Warning. Be the spot where Liberty Wandering mortal ! moulded clay ! Sifs beneath the laurel tree, Joyless journeyer o f a day ! Where dark crags and horrors froivn, Kiss not, kiss not pleasure’s lip, From the mountain sombre down; Lest it canker-pest thy breath. Far from busy haunt of men, Hold, nor at her fountain sip Deep in wood-enyironed gleri. Its fevered draught, the drink o f death. With one the moments to beguilo, Wandering mortal! sorrow’s son, Through falling tears whose rising smile Here to-day, to-morrow gone ! May shine upon my waste o f w oes; Love not, love not, or betrayed A sunbeam on the drooping rose, You curse the hour when you awoke. A beacon in the storm o f iears, Friendships form n ot; they shall fade, A star-lamp in the night of years. Leave thy heart’s chords bursted, broke. Then ne’er would Hymen’s chaste queen sway A paradise o f hearts more gay. Wandering mortal! weary man ! May I muse in lonely pride Hapless being o f life’s span ! * O ’er the misty mountain’s side, Trust not, trust not aught that lives; For off my rustic lyre, I ’ve strung Lurks destruction in its wiles. In moss-grown grotto rocks among, Shut thine heart, for what joy give* W hat time the sunbeam faintly shines Are the shadows when death smiles. Through mist, when parting day declines; What time the star o f evening reigns Weary mortal, wandering on ! Over nature’s green ddmains ; From life’s misery get thee gone ; And slowly from the pine-top hill Earth hath nollnug but doth fade: Winds the melancholy rill,. Friendships are but hope’s false dreams; Murmuring, as along it flows— Love a snare that grief hath laid; W h ere’s the bosom free from woes, Happiness a thing that seems. Save where zephyrs bear along Weary mortal! misery's child, t Through the mead, the morning song, Desolate upon the wild ! And gray mist o’er the cedar trees Speed thee, speed thee to thy grave, Walks upon the evening breeze? Ere w o’s mildew lights on thee; W h ere I may from noontide heat, There though rank weeds o ’er thee wave, Woo.some willow’s cool retreat; Peace dwells ’neath the cypress tree. Where the Sacred muses sing, . And poets sweep the sounding string; Mouldering relic of the tomb ! Where with an immortal fire Spirit gone to meet its doom ! Damans has touched the lyre, Better far that it should lie That Sirius soon astonished made, In its cold and narrow walls ; Peeping from the greenwood shade. Better far that it should fly, But when my few short fleeting years Peace to meet in heaven’s blight halls. Are past in this lone vale o f tears, R. I. Statesman. Mine be the breezy hill, the spot Where I may lie unknown, forgot, Fast by the brook or mossy stone, LIGHT READING. With hero and there a lily thrown ; And many a sun from ocean’s wave, O' Connell's Lament, a Tory Parody. Shine sweetly on my lonely grave. “ There was a profound silence in the house when Readjicld, July 30. W esleyan Bard. Mr. O ’ Connell entered, supported by Lords Ducannon and Ebrington.”— London paper. The Contrast. Not a sound was heard, nor a cough, nor a hum, [ o r i g i n a l .] And the porters looked dreadfully flurried ; Not a tory but looked ghastly and glum, I stood beneath the moon’s pale beam And wished that O ’ Connell was buried. With one I loved, ay, loved too w ell; And on a softly rippling stream He came to the lobby on Friday night, The silvery light had cast a spell. The oath o f supremacy spuming ; He thought of Guy Fawkes with fresh delight, And nature fresh as Eden smiled ; And his lantern dimly burning. Rich perfume breathed from every flower; Tall foliage east its shadows wild No maudlin feelings annoyed liis breast, And dark o cr many a leaiy bower. As he dreamed o f his lofty elation ; Yol. 1.. THE KENNEBECKER. 69

But he eagerly thought how to feather his nest, “ liis angling rod a sturdy oa k ; W hile lie talked of emancipation. His line, a cable that in storms ne’er broke; liis hook he baited with a dragon’s tail, Few and short were the words that passed ; And sat upon a rock and bobb’d for whale.” . And he looked with a look o f sorrow, Troy Sentinel. When he found that Jiis schemes no longer could last, And Ins glories would fade on the morrow. A few evenings since, just as I was sitting Ducannon and Ebrington, whigs, in their pride, down to read the American, and had cast my LeriLed him up to the chairchan unabashed ; . ieye over the first page, a little ragged, streaked- But the SpeakeiSpeakers s stern “ IS Noo ! ” was the word to decidedecidei ° , •, . , , That O’ Connell’s pretensions were smashed. faced boy thrust his head into the door and squeaked out— “ Daddy wants to borrow your Loudly they ’ll talk of the franchise that's gone, paper fo r a minuet er tu.” Zounds, Mr. Edi And the paddies will ever upbiaid him; But little lie 'll reck, if they lei him plead on, tor, 1 could have kicked the little rascal across With the briefs and the fees that are paid him. the street. I told him I had a peculiar habit Slowlv and sadly the paddy-whacks of nev. r lending my paper. I learned soon Will spell the sad end o f their story ; after that it was Mr. Jedediah Toper, a famous He ’ll care not a jot for catholic quacks, “ swill-tub,” who had sent for my paper. I But leave them alone in their glory. wotild advise the said Jedediah to break his bottle, and subscribe for the paper. And I al Rural Sports.— On that Red River,the migh so hope he can “ receive a hint without a tiest of many that hear that name, which has kick.” -*-Berkshire American. its head in the Rocky Mountains, and its mouth in the Mississippi, and whicn goes trenching Men never apply to a physician unless they the earth more than a thousand miles before are'< sick ; but women always-do when they are yielding up its tribute to that great river which iidle or ill-humored, which is abput two thirds drains a wider region than any other on the

“ Propatria.— Miss Frances Wrong, late o f the town o f Discord, will deliver lectures on Ignorance at tho THIS KBlffSirEBaCKER. ;Pagoda and Labyrinth Garden, near Fairmount, every THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1829. Jother afternoon tor a week. First lecture to-morrow on Marriage, addressed to old bachelors. “A ndrew’K ilpatrick, “ Do as other people do.”—Men as well as monkeys “ Professor of Political Economy to the Pagoda.” are imitative animals. The desire to do “ as other peo ple do ” is universal. Emulation extends even to the From the Philadelphia Democratic Press : size o f ladies’ waists and sleeves, and the tie of a gen “ A Card. T o Sammy Patch, the magnanimous tleman’s cravat; and in truth it is nowadays oftener jumper j o f the mighty city of New Y ork: Great sir,-— discovered in things o f trifling importance than in Perceivingj that you are the pride and boast o f the great matters o f more moment. It is the same spirit which est t city in the world, (except Boston,) I condescend to prompted Oliver Goldsmith, LL. D., to attempt to rival challenge c you to hop against my great antediluvian frog, the antics o f an ape. Sensible men can very readily see Uwhich was found in the solid earth at my Pagoda and how ridiculous others make themselves by imitating Labyrinth J Garden, near Fairmount, for 100 sovereigns. fops and fools; and yet sensible men are continually This ' 1 do for the honor o f Philadelphia. I am, great falling into the same folly. IIow often do we see peo- sir, s your ob’t servant, A ndrew K ilpatrick, Bonce.” pie whose claims to good sense and judgment are by noj Mr. Patch replied to this in the N. Y. Courier, and of means doubtful, vying with spendthrifts in the expense,1 feredj to leap into Tartarus, if the editor of the Press and with dandies in the fashion o f their dress ! Men],woftld bet two to one, and go first. He continues : whose heads certainly do not lack well-assorted furni-l “ I regret to perceive that exploits of a most daring ture. will follow hard up to extravagance itself in pro-!(character make but an indifferent impression upon a gal curing furniture fer their houses. And why? becauseJjlant people. Look at Leander, who swam across the some o f their neighbors have'endeavored to atone for, — 1 forget the name o f the sea, to got a peep at his empty and worthless heads by filling their habitations! sweetheart : history has not forgotten him. Look at with costly finery. The governing motive of half thei ■ Hannibal, who crossed the Catskill mountains in winter, actions o f most people is a wish to outshine the rest of before ( Mr. Webb had built the Mountain H ouse; look the community, or at least those immediately around ; at our late worthy President, Mr. Adims, who swam them. It is a miserable ambition, and the pride they!j across the Tiber at Rome, and the same river at Wash feel in its gratification is still more contemptible. We] ington city ; and look at me, who have jumped over the wonder when reason or discernment will suggest to these1,I Passaic Falls several times without being killed: will imitative bipeds how much they despise each other.!!history forget these exploits? will not Noah Webster in Fools who know no better than to run into extravagant! his next dictionary notice them? Every skimble-skam- excesses are to be pitied ; but those who have sense to i! ble thing in the country is patronized: an Italian singer, see the folly and ruin o f such conduct, deserve the de-jJa pair o f fat babies, a dancing corps, an Egyptian mum- gradation and wretchedness it will surely bring upon ;| my, or the dog Apollo, can make fortunes, and can visit their heads. When they have ruined themselves they j Saratoga Springs in summer; while I, who have done may still continue to act upon their favorite principle : I what Jove never did, can scarcely make up a paltry fifty when Mr. William W icks’s wife had persuaded him to:I dollars. Some day .or other I shall take such a leap that “ do as other people do ” until an execution was in the! you will hear no more o f me, and thus leave the country house, she whimpered, “ Vy, Villiam Vicks, vhat shall to mourn over their loss.” ve do ? ” “ Do ? ” (said lie) “ why, do— as other peo ple do.” From the Augusta (Ga.) Courier : “ (UP For any man in Georgia to labor for the public, Advertisements.— Genius and wit have occupied overy and spend his money honestly, it is an unhappy calling, field, and supplied every market: and poor pay. W . B. D avis.” “ Creation sees them spurn her utmost bound, From the Augusta Chronicle: And panting time toils after them in vain.” “ One good turn is worth another.—When 1 was go The commercial and business part o f the community at ing down hill 1 was supplied with kicks from the liberal last have called in their aid to make known their wants upright without asking for them. I am going up h ill: and superfluities to the world ; and advertisements are won’t they lend ine a few now ? becoming as much a matter of amusement for their humor “ July Sfi. H enry Shultz.” and point, as o f interest or importance from any ether consideration. The following are specimens : This Mr. Shultz was the founder o f the town of Ham From the Worcester Spy : burg, S. C., on the Savannah river, opposite Augusta, Ga. He was tried for causing the death o f a person “ Postrider's Notice. suspected o f stealing two ladies’ trunks, in endeavoring “ T * one and all who take o f me to force him to confess t{ie theft. He was acquitted, and The /Egis, Spy, or Yeoman, it appears is now rising in the world. I ’ll serve you with fidelity, Give just offence to no man. A writer in the Georgia Courier celebrated the 4th o f But I shall name a thing or two, July at home, with an entertainment which “ was pretty Should I no further dare go ; good, wiiat there was o f i t ; and there was enough of it, It must be evident to you such as it was.” The following toasts, amongst others, That money makes the mare go. were drunk wijli “ copious libations o f new milk ’ . a Ashhurnliam, July 8. Ivers W h ite.” “ The Sages and Ilcrocs of the Revolution : From the Newport (N. H.) Spectator : ‘ Oh ! who shall lightly say that Fame “ Notice.—The crazy preacher, Poor Dan, and the Is nothing but an empty name ! ’ Yankee Stranger, have agreed, if the Lord will, to meet Air—‘ How sleep the brave,’ &c. at 12 o’clock at Enfield meetinghouse, N. II., on the “ The memory oj Adams and Jefferson: first sabbath-day in September, 182!); there to have a ‘ Their fame no marble need record, free Quaker meeting, in spite o f the devil and his angels. In sculptured grandeur raised on high: “ Plainfield, June, 1829. D aniel B rocklebank.’ A country’s grief is their reward, From the N. Y. Evening Journal: Their monument a nation’s sigh.’ Air—‘ Low strike the harp,’ & c “ Communication.— If people must or will be robbed, << The President o f the United States: I wish some other location for the operation might be I could not praise him if I would ; selected than the quiet and respectable neighborhood And since I can say nothing good, o f L aight-street.” I ’ll e’en say nothing bad. From the Philadelphia Aurora, while Frances Wright Air—‘ O h ! breathe not his name, Jet it rest in the was lecturing in that city on “ Knowledge ” : shade,’ & c.” Vol. 1. THE KENNEBECKER. 71 fin odd fish.— T w o sharks, belonging to one o f about N E W S &C. 30 species, called the Sea Fox or Fox Shark, came up ______cour river on Thursday last, and one of them was killed “ Reform.” — Samuel Philips (editor o f the Republican in 1 our harbor the same day by Mr. Mann. He measured Watchman) has been appointed P. M. at Sagharbor, L.I., 13‘ feet some inches and girted in the largest place 4 ft, instead of H. T. Dering removed ; a German printer P. i£some inches— had three rows o f teeth, the dorsal fin M. at Aaronsburg, Pa., instead o f James Duncan re- j1and a tremendous tail, peculiar to this species of the m oved: John Fitzgerald (late printer o f the Nashville shark, s and calculated for great speed. It is said they Republican) P. M. at Pensacola, instead of W . H.Hunt make 1 great havoc among salmon and other fish on our (editor of a neutral paper) removed. Mr. Hunt has|‘coast. Most writers on Ichthyology describe the varie published several letters from the late P. M. General, ties 1 o f shark minutely and this among them, but few showing that officer's high opinion o f his “ capacity and would be entertained by the break-jaw terms o f Zoolo faithfulness in the public service.” gists, or would wish to know more o f an animal whose visits to our shores we hope may be “ few and far be The following is a further list o f rewards and punish tween.” His skin has however been stuffed and i3 in a ments by the present amiable administration : good state o f preservation.— Wiscasset Citizen. Rewarded. Punished. D C. Croxali ofN.J., Consul, Marseilles— Joshua Dodge. The Corporation ol Cincinnati passed an act impos W . D. Patterson of N. Y., Consul, Antwerp— ing restrictions, almost prohibitory, upon the residence John Jackson ofN.C., Consul, Martinique— [Nortonized] o f free persons o f color in that city, and the validity o f C. Grilling, Inspector, N. London, Ct.— Mr. Crannel!.; that act having been sustained by a solemn judicial de P.Wendell,to examine U.S. recruits,Albany— P.Williams cision, an association has been formed by this class o f C. P. Tutt, Navy Agent, Pensacola— Nathaniel Amory. l persons at that place for establishing a Colony in Cana Robert Joyner, Naval Storekeeper, do.— Richard Derby. da. Their Agents, who have visited Canada to select Timothy Souther, Collector, Ipswich—Asa Andrews. a part o f the country for their location, are in negotiation Wm. Pickering, Pension Agent, N H.—Jere’h Mason.f for “ the Gulf o f Bluff Lands,” which lies fifty miles John Swazey, Naval Officer, Salem— Henry Elkins, from Lake Erie, in 42 degrees North, on the Grand W m . Beach, Collector, Gloucester, Mass.— W Peirce jr. River. On this body o f land, the Agents report, there James W . Exum, Marshal, W . Florida— Adam Gordon. are already two flourishing settlements, one o f Dutch J. J. Hall, Coffin-maker, New Orleans— Joseph Adams.. people and the other o f Quakers.— JVat. Int. J . Hullen, Baker to the hospital, do.— George Baumgard. j It is stated that the late Governor Ridgely o f Md. In all these cases, it is believed, faithful officers have has, by his will, emancipated all his slaves, to the num- been removed, and political partisans appointed. ;bcr o f upwards o f fou r hundred. Those who have at tained the age o f twenty-eight years are to free im The N. H. Legislature have changed the name o f the mediately ; such as are over forty-five, to have some town o f Adams to Jackson. The more recent changes .provision made for their support, out o f his estate ; and in this vicinity are mostly the other way. those of tho younger class are to be free, the males at One Moses Wright, being one of fou r Jackson men^twenty-eight years o f age, and the females at twenty - ■whoheld a meeting in Medina, O., and probably votedI five.— Nat. Int. themselves to be the republican party, being on the listt| I Manufacture o f Salt.—A statement, published in the o f those assigned to Mr. Barry to reward, was appoint-;• ) Western Register, compiled from the quarterly returns eel Postmaster at Medina. But l o ! when his commission• o f the Inspector, shew the quantity o f Salt manufac-* arrived, the said Moses was not to be found, he having;i hired in Kenhawa County, Virginia, from the Salt been sorely troubled with “ debts to pay, and could not;;: Springs, to have been something more than two millions stay.” An express was sent after him, but in vain;; o f bushels. and the old incumbent found no one to whom he couldM In Augusta, Columbus Evans, a young man belonging deliver his keys. So says the Western Courier. j in this town, engaged in blasting jocks Aug. 11, was A. C. Pepper (late candidate for the office o f Lt.Gov.)>; killed by a charge exploding while he was drawing the has beep appointed P. M. at Rising Sun, la., C. A. Craft^ wire from it. His head was blown in pieces. removed. Mr. Pepper had the signatures o f a few meni ! There was a shower o f hail &c. in Fayette, Dearborn, in a town 13 miles distant, but none in his own town.. and the vicinity, Aug. 8, which did much damage. When his appointment beeame known, the citizens off| A young man in Windsor named Flagg killed himself Rising Sun forwarded a strong remonstrance, the Jack-' by cutting his throat Aug. 10. son men taking the lead. Milton Gregg, one of the ed itors o f the Indiana Palladium, up to that time a warmwarm!J ,TheThe S-S. W . ’ 5®ndBend BridSeBridge in Durham gave way AugAug. 8, friend o f Pepper, has come out with documents and.] whilevvl),le J°Joseph f P h Weeman was passing with a team and 6 facts which place him “ in an unenviable situation.” Ijoxen. oxen. He was instantly killed, and his oxen badly in jured. Another man in a wagon escaped, but his horse Jackson Party.—The Sentinel and Mercury, two dailyy was killed. Weeman left a wife and 3 children Jackson papers in Philadelphia, are abusing each otherr ------— like blackguards. The Statesman and the Bulletin aree New Publications.— A prospectus has been issued in at loggerheads in Boston. The U. S. Telegraph hass BostonBogton for an ««“ American Library,” to comprise 100 pickedicked quarrels wiwith i the e N.„Y. • Courier, the GeorgiajvoiumesGeorgiaa i volumes o0f f selectse|ect American works, to be compiled by a SJournal,ournal, and the Milledgeville RecorderRecorder, aall 1 o f which,hi literary lh individual in the decline o f life. The same peri being conducted by honest men, speak o f the Telegraph“ son advertises adJvertises sketches oof f all the men distinguished in as it deserves. So they go. our early history, to be entitled “ Vicissitudes o f Life, Speaking o f a certain obituary notice, the N. R. says.- Fetters, and the Age ” ; and also “ Antediluvian Anti “ One kennel paper has the meanness to pun upon it.” quities, Fragments o f the Age o f Methuselah,” a trans W e are truly sorry our neighbor should get into a pas- lation from documents replete with interesting informa son, and call names. Editors should keep co o l: “ Theii tion respecting the world before the Flood, pretty (CTs were never made to gouge, each other’s Is.' j Several artists in Boston propose to commence in De- Talking o f meanness, the owners e f the N. R. offei jeember next a monthly work to be called “ The Repos to advertise at 50 cents a square for cash, thus underbid itory o f the Fine Arts, Literature, & c.,” each number to ding their neighbors. Doubtless they will have theii contain 48 pages royal octavo, at $4 a year. reward. ^ v Putnam & Hunt o f Boston intend to commence in January next a protestant-episcopal monthly magazine, Simeon Cummings, for several years Representative with the title o f the American Christian Observer, at in the Legislature from Paris, and one of the mouth $3 a year. pieces o f the Jackson party, has declined a reclection Devereux, a novel by E. L. Bulwer, author o f “ Pel What office does he expect ? Carpenter declined as soor ham ” and “ The Disowned,” has just been published in «.s he was sure o f the Castine collector6hip. New York ; also Richelieu, a tale o f France. 72 THE KENNEBECKER. No. 9.

Foreign Neivs. Vermont—The antimasons have held a state conven Spain.— An attempt at insurrection had been made in tion, and nominated Heraan Allen (late hiinister to Chi Catalonia, in consequence of the count d’Espagne en li) for the office of Governor, Henry Olin, the present trapping Gen. Milan and several other distinguished Lt. Governor, for reelection, and a ticket for the Council. constitutionalists then residing in tTie borders o f France, Kentucky.—The election of Representatives to the bv inducing them to coine over the line, where they 2lst Congress was to take place Aug. 3, 4, and 5. were arrested. The rebellion was thought to wear a serious face ; but the count d’Espagne had a considera | Question.— There are 3 market-towns whose distances are as follows, namely: from the first to the second is ble force under his command to meet it. The late queen 18 miles, from the second to-the third is 22 miles, and left her jewels & c. to her household, and 100.000 francs from the third to the first is 19 miles rand the house I to the monastery o f the Escurial to have a daily mass now live in is north from the first, southwest by west said, and funeral services celebrated on the anniversary from the second, and southeast by east to the third. o f her birth and death. The British minister had de Quaere, how far do I live fiorw each ? manded his passports, on account ot his arms having been removed from liis door: but the real cause was The reformed Librarian to Congress is the 3d person supposed to be a coolness between England and Spain attached to the Telegraph office who lias been reward arising from Cadiz being declared a free port. ed. This (says the Petersburg Int.) is mentioned only Portugal.—The most dreadful state o f things existed as a curious coincidence. in Portugal. Executions had become daily, for the slightest offence, or the mere suspicion of an ofi’ence Marriages. against Don Miguel. Ip this town, on Wednesday evening last, Merrill Tib The emperor o f Brazil had appointed a Regency for belts, master o f the sch. Alacrity, to Miss Elizabeth W . his daughter during her minority, consisting o f the mar Burns. quis o f Palmella, the marquis o f Valencia, and M. Gu- In Gardiner, Mr. John P. Hunter to Miss Julia Stone. erreiro, to reside in the island o f Terceira until circum In Norridgewock, Mr. Joseph P. Bradbury to Miss stances will permit o f her entering Portugal. This "Mary Bryant. measure was said to be approved by France and Eng In Kentucky, Harrison Currans, aged 15, to Eliza land. Plough, aged 11 years, 11 months, and 11 days. Germany.— The report was again current that Han over was to be made independent o f England under tlie Deaths. duke o f Cumberland. In this town, aged 30, Harvey Dinglev, master o f the Russia, Turkey, and Greece.— The Turkish garrison brig Washington recently from a southern voyage. o f Silistria had defeated the Russians at Czermodawith In Madison, o f consumption, aged 34, Bridget W es reat loss. The oriental plague at Bucharest was very ton, wife o f Benjamin Weston jr. ?atal; 20 or 30 persons died daily. Numbers o f work In Newburyporf, Mass., aged 69, Dudley A. Tyng, men were emploved in making the wavs over the Bal late Reporter o f the decisions o f the Supreme Court. kan passable. The Turks were strengthening all the In Boston, found floating in tlie dock near the end of approaches to Silistria for 3 leagues northward ; and Long-wharf, and supposed to have been drowned the Clioumla was almost impregnable, lt was reported evening previous, in consequence o f being intoxicated, that the Russians had extendedxheir blockade 200 miles Henry Gates, a laborer, formerly o f Waterville. north and west o f the mouth o f the Dardanelles, and to In Lunenburg, Ct., aged 77, Peter Brown, a surviver Smvrna. 120 miles south ; and that 40 vessels had al of the fights o f Concord and Bunker Hill. ready been warned off. It was said that 80,000 Rus ^ In New York city, aged 32, William Gordon, late^U- sians would soon invest Silistria. S. consular commercial agent at Aux Caves. Missolortglii, Anatolioo, and the casfle o f Lepanto in New York city, aged 42, Charles G'ilfert, late man had surrondeied to the Greeks. Gen. Church had re ager o f the Bowery Theatre. His death was occasioned signed the command o f the Greek army. The Gieeks by madness produced almost instantaneously by hearing had taken the castle of Roumelia. that Mr. Hackett had taken the theatre with which he had been connected from its foundation. He neither ate Liberia.— A letter states that James C. Barbour was nor slept for G or 7 days, but paced his room, guarded by “ the military Saul o f the colony.” He is a black, and several men, until nature was exhausted, and fie dropped had distinguished himself in an expedition against some down dead negro-stealers. In Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 87, Mrs. Anna Chauncey, Oxford County.—The Oxford Republican convention mother o f Com. Chauncey o f the navy. met in Norway Aug. 5. ^Delegates were present from At Ravensworfh, Va., Ann II. Lee of Georgetown, 19 towns. Elias Stowell o f Paris was unanimously widow of Gen. Henry Lee of the Revolution. called to the chair, and Benjamin Bradford o f Livermore In the Ciierokee nation, Edward Finney, a minister, chosen Secretary. On balloting for candidates for the and a member o f the Dwight mission family. Senate, George French o f Turner had 35 votes, Mar In Alabama, aged GG, G. G. Mac Whorter, a soldier of shall Spring o f Hiram 32, and Sylvanus Poor o f Ando the Revolution, and subsequently a minister o f the Gos ver 3. The convention then voted unanimously to sup pel, in which capacity he was probably instrumental in port George French and Marshall Spring for the Senate establishing more churches than any other congregation at the ensuing election. Ebenezer Poor, Simeon Barrett al minister in the southern states. jr., Israel Washburn, Benjamin Wyman, and Elijah Hall were appointed to prepare resolutions. Levi Hubbard tET This paper is published weekly, at 25 cents a and Seth Morse o f Paris, William Parsons and Nathaniel quarter in advance, at the printing office o f ROBINSON Bennett o f Norway, Sylvanus Poor o f Andover, Benja & B A K E R , Hallowell, and may be had at, their office, min Bradford o f Livermore, and Ezekiel Richardson of or either o f the following agents : W illard Snell, Jay were appointed a county committee. Augusta : W illiam P a lm er, Gardiner; A lfred M a r Penobscot County.— The Jackson party had a conven tin , Winthrop Village ; Solon Be a le , M. W. Seminary, tion Aug. 7,, Isaac Hodsdon o f Bangor in the chair, and Readfield ; D. H. L ombard, Readfie'd Corner ; John Gilman M. Burleigh o f Dexter Secretary. They nomi W h e e le r , China; D avid P. Howland, Vassalborouirh ; nated Thomas Davee of Dover as a candidate for the E. Gow, Waterville; Josiaii P erham Jr,, W ilton; Senate. The Register says, “ Mr. Davee has served his J oseph B aker, Scowhegan Falls. Country before as a candidate.” Agents for the Kennebecker arc informed that wo Cumberland County-—The Jackson men held a con have on hand a sufficient number o f copies from No 4 vention in Gray Aug. 5, Josiah Dunn o f Poland presid to the present time, and shall continue to print enough ing, and James Smith of Gorham Secretary. Robert P to meet the probable increase during the present quar Dunlap, John L. Megquier, and Theodore Ingalls were ter. If the demand is sufficient to warrant it we shall nominated for the Senate reprint Nos. 1 ,2 , and 3 in the course o f the quarter.