POETRY. this convent in gratitude for an opportune sup­ ply of water and provisions; and (as the monks HOME. assert) gave them a firman, written by Ali which confirmed to their order Justinian's grant of the BY BERNARD BARTON. Peninsula. Not being able to write, Justinian Where burns the lov'd hearth brightest, spread ink over his hand and laid it on the pa­ Cheering the social breast? per as his signature. This firman was sent to Where beats the fond heart lightest, Constantinople, where Sultan Selim collectcd With humble hopes possess'd ? all the relics of the Prophet; and the monks re­ Where is the smile of sadness, ceived another to the same effect, which, they Of meek-eyed patience born, say, is now at Cario. It appears the monks of Worth more than those of gladness the convent are very ill used by the Arabs.— Which mirth's bright cheek adorn ? The gardens are spacious and highly cultivated; Pleasure is mark'd by ficctness vines are trained on trellises, and form shady To those who ever roain ? walks. The apples and pears are excellent, and While grief itself has sweetness BY WE G. BYE IS. PRINCIPLES AKD MEJS". $2 PES ANNUM, are sent to Cairo : melons, apricots, pomegran­ At Home! dear Home! ates, almonds, and mulberries are in great num­ There blend the ties that strengthen ber ; so also are oranges and lemons. There is Our hearts in hours of grief, a Greek church on the mount, which glitters VOL. 18. N"ORWAliK, MASCM 179 18o5. KG. *9. The silver links that lengthen with the golden portraits of saints and worthies. Joy's visits whtfn most brief; The floor is of mosaic gold; and the hands and There eyes in all their splendor skull of St. Catharine, to whom it is dedicated, are carefully preserved; but the great object Are vocal to the heart, olent an attack ; he stepped back, having never gained her courage, and as she raisedner eyes two, from two, four, in time a whole acre, and This tender and faithful mother lived to a of interest, "the Holy of Holies," is the spot where And glances gay or tender before felt the strong gripe of a human hand.— she saw lying at her feet a leaf which shone as at last a farm, and then shall Els}' have a new great old age in happiness with her children, and tradition has placed the burning bush, and over Fresh eloquence impart; He smiled kindly on the woman : do not disturb bright and yellow as gold. Quickly she sprung gown. lie had got thus far with his project, Numbernips' favorite grew to be a brave man, which a small chapel has been erected. This Then, dost thou sigh for pleasure, yourself said he, I am no flesh eater, as you sup up, ran with it to her neighbor, the Jew's wife", when Numbernips, raised a whirl-wind around served for a long time in the Emperors an;13' un­ bush is called Seneh, which means a thorny O ! do not widely roam; jiose, and will do you and 3'our children no harm showed her what she had found, with great joy. him and overthrew at once his basket of glass, der Wallestein in the thirty 3'ears' war, and be­ shrub, and may be the species of accacia called But seek that hidden treasure but let me have the boy, I like his looks, I will The Jewess owned it to be pure gold, took the so that the broken wares fell into a thousand pie­ came in time a verv celebrated officer. At Home ! dear Home! bring him up for my own, I will clothe him in usury and paid her for it two thick dollars down ces. This wasa thunderbolt to Stephen's heart : lens by the Arabs, of which there are many in satin and silk, make a brave knight of him and upon the table. Every heart's sorrow was now the desert. The word Sina is probably derived Does pure religion charm thee at the same time he thought he heard at a dis­ lie shall grow up a brave knight, who one of forgotten. Such a treasure in money the poor tance a loud laugh; perhaps he was deceived, MISCELLANY from Seneh ; and as the Lord says to Moses.-— ^ Far more than aught below ? these days will support his father and brothers. woman had never before had in hand. She ran "Put off thy shoes from off tlij' feet, for the place Wouldst thou that she should arm thee and that it was only the echo giving back the If you ask a hundred crowns for him I will pay to the baker and bought bread and butter and a sound of the breaking glass. He thought it was whereon thou standest is holy ground," this cus­ Against the hour of wo ? THE WHITE WEASEL, it now. shoulder of mutton, that she might prepare sup­ malicious triumph, and as the whirl-wind seem­ tom is strictly enforced by the monks ; and the Think not she dvvelleth only A VERY INTERESTING TALE OF TRUTH. Ha, ha, laughed the woman you like the boy, per for Stephen when he came home at night tir­ ed to him supernatural, he easil}'divined the au­ Major and his parly entered the chapel barefoot. In temples built for prayer ? do you, he is one of a thousand, that I would not ed and hungry. How the little ones jumped to thor oftfs misfortunes. Oh, complained he, oh In the reign of King George III, there lived a Horeb and Sinai form but one mountain ; and For home itself is Ionely, r sell for all the treasures in the world. meet their mother when she came in and brought Numbe.T.ips, what have I done to you that 3'ou bo\ in London, who was born in the neighbor­ this is the reason they are frequently confound­ Unless her smile be there : You fool answered Numbernips, have you them such an unusual breakfast. She gave her­ take away from me my morsel of bread, 1113' bit­ hood of St. Paul's Cathedral, by the name of ed in Scripture. A chapel has been built over The devotee may falter, not besides three children who give you trouble self up to the joy of feeding hungry children ; ter swe&! and blood—alas I am a man dead while Curtiss. He was left an orphan child at the age the cave which the prophet Elijah is supposed The bigot blindly roam ; and pain, whom you can hardly feed, and who and then it was her first care to get rid of the I am yet alive. He then got up in a kind of of ten 3'eurs, destitute—not a penny in the world. to have occupied during the forty days he was If worhipless her alter plague you day and night ? goat, which she thought killed by witchcraft, and rage, and uttered all sorts of reproaches to the The question was with him, althougn so3'oung, miraculously supplied with food. Mass is some­ At Home! dear Home ! to hide this family misfortune as long as possi­ mountain spirit—villain,said he, come and mur­ what shall I do ? He resolved that he would times said, and pilgrims perform their devotions 'Woman—Oh well I am a mother, and must iu it! The author compared the account of Mo­ Love over it presided), follow my calling, children give pain but they ble from her husband. But her astonishment der me, since thou hast taken away from me, run errands for any one who would employ him, r and early in the morning he sallied forth from ses with the present aspect of ihe mountain, and v With meek and watchful awe, also give pleasure. exceeded every thing when she b} chance look­ all tliar I have in the world. Indeed his life was ed into the manger and saw a whole heap of gold­ of no more value to him in that moment than a the hovel where he had slept the night before, in observes, he and his parly had the satisfaction Its daily service guidetb, Numbernips—Fine pleasure to bear with their en leaves. If she had read the Greek popular broken glass. Numbernips however kept out of quest of employment. He walked but a few of reflecting, that the features of the country could And shows its perfect law ; bawling, to drag them and feed them. not have changed since the advent of the Israel­ ^If there thy faith shall fail the?, tales she would have quickly supposed that her his sight and hearing, Poor Stephen resolved, minutes in the strand, near Somerset House, Woman—In truth, sir, you do not know a mo­ ites dear goat had died of an indigestion like that of if he would not carry his basket home empty, when a gentleman met him and accosted him ; for though the general face of nature is ev­ If there no shrine be found, ther's joy, all her labor and fatigue is sweetened er varying, and destruction or decay effaces the What can thy prayers avail thee, King Medas; as it was she supposed something that he must gather up the fragments of glass, thus, "My lad, would 3"ou oblige me b}' carrying by one friendly look, the pretty smiles and lisp- of the sort. She sharpened her knife, cut open that he might exchange them at the glass-house, this note to Chancery Lane?" at the same time works of man, the firm and lonely desert, and With kneeling crowds around! ings of the little innocent creatures. If I look the granite mountain remain the same through Go ! leave thy gift unoffer'd the dead goat, and found in its stomach a lump for at least a pair of glass dishes for the beginning handing the note, with an English shilling, say­ only at the little gold headed fellow as lie hangs time—undisturbed, unshaken, Leaving Molmt Beneath Religion's dome, of gold as big as a greening apple, and another of a new trade. Melancholy as the merchant ing, "1 will give 3'ou ibis shilling for so doing."— on ine, the little flatterer, he is not crying now Curtiss insiantW took the mone3T, and punctual- Sinai, the summit of which the author reached, And be her first fruits profler'd 1 1 1a smaller one in the stomach of the kid, w^°°e ship and its lading, its men and mice 1 you see. Ob, ifTlmri 1 - - b""' T and proceeding northward, he camc to Sar^ff*"" At Home ! dear -vou'ifflRliui" nuuilP - 1 delivered 'he note to whom directed. On his Now she~iaiew no end to her riches, yet in have all been swallowed"up~ni 1»J •ml'ufSfhVg ill-K had an, where, on a smalLjaViV. he found a lift and carry any thing in working for you, dear return, he met a poor woman near the Temple possessing it, she began to feel a care how she ocean, he descended the mountain bearing with nuinbeToHscfiTdstone tablets, from five to eight DEFENCE OF HOE-CAKES. little creatures. should keep it. She bccame uneasy, fearful, him many hard thoughts and occupied withma- Bar, who apparently was in want, and, although Numhcrnips—Buthas your husband no hands but a bov, she solicited charity from him. Cur­ feet in height, three feet in width, and two in Dinah, in her kitchen seated felt her heart beat, knew not whether she had 113* speculations as to how he should make up thickness. The greater number was enclosed to work ? better put her treasure in the chest, or bury it in his loss and continue his business, lie at last tiss asked the supplicant what it was she had un­ By the oven's vapor fann'd, Woman—0,rlndeed he has, I feel them some der herarm, to which she replied by showing him by a wall, part of which remained, but some To herself these words repeated, the cellar. She began to be afraid of thieves recollected the goat which his wife had in the stood on mounts on the outside of the wall; times. and treasure diggers. She was not willing that stall, \ret she loved it like her children, and wil- a little white kitten ; he immediate^ offered her Sambo' letter in her hand : r within were several small chapels, erected at dif­ Numbernips—What, does your husband dare Stephen should know all, since she feared that lingh' he knew she would never part with it.— all the mone3 he had for it, being the shilling "Hang de fellow!—dis is 110 cake, to raise his hands, and against such a wife ? I he had just earned, with which she was much ferent periods, one of which had columns. The Lorry marey—what I say ? he would be carried away by avarice, take pos­ He resolved, however, upon this trick to prevent tablets were covered on all sides wit.li hiero- will break him of that trick, the murderer, session of the gold, and leave her and her child­ his loss-being known at home. He determined pleased. Curtiss then set off with his kitten for He has sent me dis here hoe-cake, IVbnian—(laughing)—You will have a great Charing Cross; on his way thither, a gentleman glyphics ; were erected by different kings ; and ~ To eat upon de weddin' day !" ren to starve. She reflected long how she should not to go back to his house in the daytime, but recorded some event that had occurred in a par­ many necks to break if you break the necks of manage the matter, but could not come to any at midnight to steal in, drive away the goat to met him near Exeter Change, not far from the all the husbands who abuse their wives—they Adelphi, who espying the kitten asked the lad ticular year of their reigns. The enclosure had Then she sigh'd, and mix'd the flour, conclusion. the Schmeidberg market, and spend the money certainly the appearance of a burying ground ; Itoll'd the stubborn, dough, and then are a poor race, and those who wed take sorrow The priest of the village was the patron of all for which he sold it in purchasing new wares— what it was he had under his ragged blanket?— to bed, but it must be borne, for why was I mar­ Curtiss told him it was a kitten. The gentle­ but the monuments were not sepulchral, nor was Nothing said, for near an hour, good wives who were oppressed—whom he al­ but on his return he would reproach and up­ there the slightest reference to the well known ried. man requested to look at ir, which lie did, and Save—"Heigho—dem men—dem men !" ways supported, either out of kindness, or be­ braid his wife for having through carelessness forms which are found on everj' tomb and Numbernips—If indeed 3'ou knew that the examined it most critically: then said lie 'my on Middle notes—the watchman's, mission— cause he considered them the weakest party, he suffered the. goat to be stolen in his absence.— every mummy-case. They appeared to be me­ Fun and frolic—hopes and fears— men were a bad race, you were much to blame gave them all due honor, and never suffered those With this well arranged plot, he threw the bro­ lad, 3?ou are very much mistaken, it is no kitten, when you married. but a white weasel; will you sell it?' Yes, sir, morials not of victories or national events, but. of Crowded on her mental vision, husbands who were strikers to misuse his spirit­ ken fragments in a heap near the village in a some private act of the Pharohs, who set them Woman —May be so, but Stephen was a brave said Curtiss, what will you'give ? Five Guin­ Till pots and plates dissolved in Icais! ual daughters, but if complaints of such treatment hedge, and awaited with great anxiety for the up.—Proceedings of the Geographical Society. lad, who had a good trade, and I was a poor girl reached his ear he laid a hard penance upon the hour of midnight in which he might rob himself. eas, said the gentleman. The Kitten, sir, is Simple girl!—but, see, she raises 7 "without a dowry. He came to me and asked unruly house tyrant, and always took the side of When twelve struck, he took his theivish path, 3*ours. Curtiss received the mone3 , delivered Her greas'd face—all's MOONSIII.VK now, IMPOSSIBILITY OF MAN'S FLYING.—We are ine to marry him, gave me a. wild man's dollar, the wife. Thus he had never spared the slaff'cf climbed over the low gate, opened the inner door over the kitten to the stranger, then walked off Marvel not—she loves like blazes, so in the habit of seeing birds fly, and they fly and the bargan was made. He afterwards took penance over the grumbling Stephen, hoping by and went in with a beating heart to the goat's with his guineas in his pocket. The day follow­ Gaze upon that sable brow. r with such apparent ease that we are apt to over­ the dollar awa} from me, but I have the wild means of it to drive his ill humor out of the house. stall; he was fearful lest his wife should find ing, Curtiss (who by the by, was a very handsome Now she pulls her knotted TKKSSKS, look the many mechanical difficulties that have man still. The good woman hastened to this comforting little boy,) hastened to Cambourn alley to pro­ Smiles, and turns the hoe-cake o'er, him engaged in such wicked doings. Con tray to be overcome by their organization, But Numbernips—Perhaps you have made him soul curer, repeated to him her adventure with to the usual custom, the stall was open, which cure for himself proper and respectable clothing when attempts have been made b3' men to con­ To the jmoke her love confesses, wild by your obstinacy. that he might appear as well dressed as any of Which she ne'er has done before. Numbernips, told how he had helped her to a surprised him, though it gave him pleasure, for struct flying apparatus, or even accomplish the Woman—Oh he has driven that all out of me great treasure,and what anxiety she felt aboutit— he found in the neglect a sort of justification of the respectable boys in London, which lie lully apparently "much simpler object of directing a Hush !—she speaks again !—oh, hear her, I assure you. He is a violent fellow. If I be­ she proved the truth of her story by showing the his designs. But he found the stall all empt}' accomplished with two guineas. Being thus baloon, which floats buoyantly without any ef­ "Sambo, I am ALL ver own! haved like an angel he would be more furious in whole treasure which she had brought along and bare; there was nothing there with life genteelly equipped,jind hearing the bells ring- fort, because it is filled with gas specifically Tink my' fection more sincerer, the house than you good Numbernips are in the with her. The Priest crossed himself at the and breath, neither goat nor kid. In the first ingfordivine service at White Hall, where King lighter than the atmosphere, the altempters found For hoe-cake and you alone!" mountain, and then he tells me of my poverty wonderful occurrence, rejoiced heartily at the terror he '-bought some m°re adroit thief had been Charles the first was beheaded by that arch hy­ that the3T would require to go a long time to school and that stops my tongue. If I had brought wit h Sambo sought the dusky maiden, fortune of the poor woman, and turned his cap before, hiiti, for- mislortunes_seldom_come_ sin: pocrite and tyrant, Oliver Cromwell, he repair.- 1 me a portion, I would stand my ground better /]''^YnYfIfB fvib)ecTs."" Jt flying ap­ Pressed her to his heart for life— Sijfais'a'hft tt heavy sadness came over iiim that from the lips of the Lord Bishop of Durham, r with him 1assure you. , , ,, . feral- cfiw-r paratus, to be moved b3 the human arms, i3, And with lo\e and hoe-cake laden, - jSumoer/aps—Vv hat is your husband s Liaue 1 wealth, and also to find means to prevent the ill- this last attempt to renew his traffic had failed who on that, occasion delivered an excellent ser­ like the kindred fancy of a perpetual motion, a They.became—LIKE MAS AND WIFE! r Woman—He is a glass trader. His calling humored Stephen from getting it into his hands. him. mon. On leaving the Ro3 al Chapel, a lady, physical impossibilty ; and the attempt to con­ Do my readers ask, "Sir poet, makes him cross, sometimes. The poor fellow After he had considered the matter for some After-the bus3r Elsy had come back from the apparently of great distinction dropped her white struct one, is one of those absurdities into which Wherefore spin a yarn so long?" bears his heavy loads from Bohemia, year out, time, he said, listen my daughter. I will give you priest, she had employed herself very carefully cambric handkerchief, which young Curtiss ob­ men are apt to fall in the infancy of knowledge | To instruct you—and I'll show it; and year in. If he breaks a glass on the way I good counsel. Weigh the gold that I may keep in making preparations to receive her husband served as it fell. He instantly picked it up, ran when they have vanity enough to lead them Mark me well, yc wooing throng; and the poor young ones must suffer, but love it faithfully for you. I will then write a letter with a good feast, to which she had invited her to the carriage just as it was going to drive off, wrong, but want ihe requsite knowledge for keep­ Don't send your fair a sugar-show cake, blows do no great damage. in the Italian language which shall say, that your friend the priest. He was to take along with and preseuted to the owner the handkerchief, ing them right. Even if the aims could be trim­ If you truly, fondly feel; Numbcrnij)s—But can you love your husband brother who years ago went into foreign parts him a mug of spiced wine, and at the cheerful (who proved to be her grace the Dutchess of De­ med to perfect wings, bearing the same propor­ Send your love a real hoe-cake when he abuses you so? was in the Venitian service, and then sailed to feast to announce to Stephen the news of his vonshire.) The politeness and gallantry of the tion to the weight of the human bod}' as those of r itjtade o' the very best of meal! W/umun—Why not ? Indeed, is he not ray India, where he died and left all his wealth by wife's legacy, and upon what conditions she bo3 was highly pleasing to her grace, and she the bird of powerful flight have to its weight, children's father. That makes up for all, and will to you, on condition that the Priest of the was to share it. Towards evening she looked directed him to take a place in her carriage, that there are not in the human body any muscles by WAR AND LOVE. they will pay for all our troubles when they parish shall take carc of it for 3^011, that it ma3r anxiously out at the window, to see whether she might inquire into his situation and circum­ which such wings could receive any thing of a The boy most readly accepted of this War and Love have various cares: grow up. be for 3*0111" sole use. I desire neither pa3r nor Stephen was coming, went out of the door in her stances. flying motion. Then, if that difficuly could be kind offer, and had the honor of remaining in her I^Var sheds blood and Love sheds tears; Numbernips—Poor comfort, children reward thanks from 3'ou, 011I3' consider that you owe the impatience, looked up the street with her black got the better of which it is evident it could not; Tar has swords and Love has darts ; their parents with trouble and care indeed! The holy Church a thank offering for the blessing eyes, and wondered what kept him so late; and Grace's Palace until she placed him in the the spine would bend and the body cant over Westminister School—where b3r her bounty and KVar breaks heads and Love breaks hearts. last drop of comfort will be drained from your heaven has bestowed upon 3'ou, and dedicate a when night came, her care and anxiety follow­ and tumble to the ground 011 whatever part hap­ cup, when the Emperor sends them far away in rich mass robe to the vestry. This advice pleas­ ed her into her bedroom ; and she thought not of goodness he received an excellent education.— pened to be the heaviest. Or if this again could kVar makes foes, Love makes friends, his army to be killed by the Turks. ed the woman greatly ; she promised the Priest her supper, and no sleep visited her eyes until As he grew up, lie was distinguished for talents be got the better of, man is not adapted foi breath- War's soon o'er, Love never ends; Woman—Oh lie ! that does not trouble me : the robe, he weighed conscientiously in her pre­ morning, when she fell into a restless slumber. and worth, so much so, as to become a member ingon the wing, and thus the circulation would kVar makes wrath, Love makes strife; if they die, 'tis for their E mperor and country, in sence the gold to the last drachm, placed it in tae Poor Stephen was not less tired and troubled of Parliament, where he did himself great, hon­ stop, and there would be an end of the flyer in kVar takes wealth, and Love takes lile ; their proper calling. But if they live, they get Church treasury, and the woman took leave of in the stall. He had so little strength and spir­ or, particularly in advocating the abolition of the the very beginning of his flight. In short, it American slave trade. In the recess of Parlia­ War moves bold, Love moves sly; booty and gladden their parent's hearts. liim with a gay and light heart. it left, that he dared not knock at the door. At may be said without fear of contradiction, that no Upon this, Numbernips began again to traffiek Numbernijjs was no less the patron of the wo­ last lie aroused himself, knocked, and said in a ment, Mr. Curtiss visited the watering place at addition to the human body could make man a War makes us rave, Love makes us cry; Margate, where b3' mere accident he iell in com­ War's ruled by men, Love's rul'd by ihcTair ; for the boy ; but: she gave him no answer, crowd­ man than the parish priest, but it was with this sad tone—Dear wife, awake and open the door flyer. If the study of the structure of birds had ed the leaves into her basket, tied the little screa­ difference—the latter honored the female sex to your husband. As soon as El.-53' heard his pany with a most beautiful and accomplished no other effect than the preventing of such fan­ War needs many soldiers, Love needs but a pair. r mer fast to her belt, and Numbernips turned as particularly (as he said) because the virgin Ma­ voice, she sprung like a dart from her couch, 3'oung lad3 , about twent3' 3'ears of age—by name cies as these—fancies which, like the other ab­ if lie was going to leave her, but as licr load was ry belonged to it, without having ai^' predilec­ opened the door, and embraced her husband Deodama, who possesed eveiy grace and virtue, surdity mentioned, still useless—it would be TAL.ES OF THE IXARTZ. very heavy, she called him back and said, I tion for any individual maiden, which might with joy, but he returned her hearty embraces that man could wish or desire, to make him hap­ worthy of our attention. The author of this have called 3-011 once before, help me up, and il have brought reproach on his good name—Num­ in a cold and hasty manner, set down his bas­ py. On declaring to her his passion ; Deodama sketch remembers long ago, a case in which a ket, and threw himself sullenly on a bench.-— was equalhr pleased with Mr. Curtiss, who was voung man, in a small country town, had got A LEGEND OF NUMBERNIPS, you would do me any further kindness, give the bernips on the other hand, hated the whole hu­ boy who pleases you so much a Good Friday man race on account of one girl who had jilted When the gay wife saw his sad countenance, it of an elegant form—grace, manner, and most so much of the formal and colloquial part of sci­ (AVERT CELEBRATED GERMAN FAIRY.) penny to buy him a couple of biscuits. To-mor- him, though his humor had now taken a mild went to her heart. What troubles you, husband manly beaut3'. It was agreed between them ence, that he was looked upon as a prodigy, and Translated from the German. row the lather comes home, and will bring us tone, and induced him to protect and be gracious said she, surprised, whatis the matter? He an­ that it should be made kown to the father oi the among other things, a very Archimedes in me­ lady; which was done. The father not only One day as Numbernips was sunning himself some white bread from Bohemia. I will help to one single little woman. As much as the good swered 011I3' by sighs and groans. She contin­ chanics. Earth could not set bounds to his am­ you up, said Numbernips, but if you will not wife had won his heart by licr feelings and her ued to question him about the cause of his trou­ gave his consent to their union, but also settled bition, and he would needs fly ; so after months in the corner of his old garden, which was now upon his daughter twenty thousand pounds ster­ like any other part of the Hartz mountain, there give me the boy, you shall have 110 pemty.— conduct, so much also was lie displeased with ble, and his heart was so full he could not long of labor, he produced a pair of wings, and Very well said the woman and went her way. the rude Stephen, and felt a great longing to conceal his misfortune from his trust3r wife.— ling, and appointed Mr. Curtiss her trustee. On mounting to the top of a barn at his father's farm Ine trotting gaily along a woman who attrac- the day of her marriage, he put a diamond ring his attention. She had one child in her arms, The farther she went, the heavier grew her revenge the good woman upon him, to play him When she found that Numbernips had been yard, spread them for flight, and shot boldly in­ basket, and every ten steps she had to take breath. a trick that would vex and worry him, and playing him a trick, she understood the good in­ 011 the finger of his beloved daughter, of the val­ to the air; but no shot pigeon, or even pig of carried one on her back, she led one by the ue of two thousand guineas, as a token of his love id and a somewhat larger boy bore along a She thoughtfsomething was out of the way, and thereby make him so humble that the good wife tentions of the Spirit, and could hardly repress lead, was more true to the perpendicular, for the that perhaps Numbernips had played her a trick should have her wish and get the upper hand in her laughter, which would have displeased, poor and affection, which ring had some time previ­ wines barely saved him from a dangerous fall. ivy basket, which was to be filled with greens ously been presented to him by the great. Cath­ the cow. A mother, thought Numbernips, and hid a heavy stone among her leaves. So the house. For this purpose he saddled the Stephen. He did not take notice of her seem­ Mudie's Natural History of Birds. r arine, Empress of Russia. To Mr. Curtiss, he good creature to be sure, she drags on her she put her basket down on the next fence and morning wind, set out and galloped over moun­ ing gaiet3 , but asked anxiously about the Goat. presented a Bank Note of the Bank of England- medicine, emptied it. But their fell out leaves only and tain and valle3'", spied like an outrider all the This amused the good woman still more, for she In the chief tonics are bitter. The four children, waits upon them without a mur- of live thousand pounds, observing at the same misfortunes of life are intended to act as such. mer, even if she has the weight of the basket lie- no stone. Then she filled it half up, and put roads and cross paths of Bohemia, and when he saw he had been sp3'ing about the house. ^ AY by r time, "Mr. Curtiss, I verily believe that you When a long series of prosperities have left the side. These thoughts made him wish to have as many leaves in hrer apron as it would hold, saw a wanderer with a load he was behind him are 3 ou concerned about my Goat, said she: but soon it grew too heavy again, and she was and watched him as narrowly as the owner of a 3-0u have not yet asked about the children ? The have the greatest love and esteem for nw belov­ energies of our nature inactive—when the sun some talk with the good woman. She set the ed Deodama, my only child, and she having has shone so long and so brightly that we ba6k l-'t children down on the grass and stripped some obliged to throw away some more, which made basket looks after its contents. In this way it goat is carried off to pasture, perhaps—leave off the stout woman wonder greatly, for she had of­ was impossible for the heavy laden Stephen to vexing yourself about the malicc of Numbernips; signified to me her attachment for you, I give thanklessly in its beams and with scarce a con­ leaves from the bushes. In a little while the her to you for your wife. But first I must tell sciousness of its beauty—then comes on the low­ baby began to grow tired and to cry. The moth­ ten carried home much larger quantities of grass escape. At the hour of vespers came along a who knows but he will still make up your loss to 37ou in some other and better wayl You you, Ml". Curtiss, that, independent of your great ering sky of the approaching tempest—then er left off her work, played and frolicked with and never felt such fatigue. Nevertheless she stout man with a great pack on his back. Un­ r set her household in order when she got home, der his heavy steady step the burden that he car­ may wait long enough for that, said the despe­ worth and talents, 3 ^^ have strongei claims to comes on sickness, the loss of friends, pecuniary _tlie children, took the little one up, jumped about me for my beloved daughter, than any- other gen­ losses, disappointment hopes, unexpected fears sang to it, at last rocked it to sleep in her threw the leaves to the goat and little kid, gave ried was heard to sound. The watcher was re­ rate man. Oh! said the wife, good often comes tleman whomsoever. —and then it is that the dormant powers of our lis and returned to her work. Soon the flies the children their supper, put them to sleep, said joiced as he saw him at a distance, that his prey unlooked for—take courage, Stephen, to be sure, r "The facts are these—when Deodama com- noble faculties are stimulated—our sympathies, her evening prayers, and quickly and gailysunk was now secure, and roused himself to do his } ou have, no glass, and i have no goat, but we the little sleeper and lie began his music municatcd to me, that an attachment subsisted herself to slumber. best. The panting Stephen had nearly gained have four stout children, and four stout, arms to our fortitude, our reliance on GOD. in ; but the mother did not grow impatient; between you and her, I applied to her grace the went into the woods and picked strawber- The first red of the morning, and the waking the top of the mountain, the last swell of it alone feed them and ourselves: these are all our wealth. r Dutchess of Devonshire, your friend and patron- SUBSTITUE FOR IVREOSOTE.—The Boston baby, who called for his breakfast with a loud remained before him, and then his way home God have merc3 , cried the sorrowful man. it the Is and raspberries, and put the smallest child ness, to make some enquiry of her grace into Medical and Surgical Journal states, that a voice, disturbed the healthy slumbers of the bu­ would be all down hill. So he strove to gain goals are gone; then throw the four babies into her breast. This motherly management your history and character. The Dutchessgave French Physician has discovered that obstinate sy wife and called her to her daily labor. She the summit, but the mountain was steep and his the water, I can never feed them. Well then, I leased Numbernips much, but the little cryer, me, with other matters perfectly satisfactory, the cutaneous affections, and cancerous ulcerations, went first, according to her custom, with her load heavy. He was forced more than once to can, said Els3r. no had ridden on his mother's back would not most irrefragible proof of your being the identi­ may be successful^' treated with soot, instead of milk pail to the goat's stall—what a dreadful sight. rest, and put; his knotty staff'under the basket to At this moment the good priest came in; he contented, he was a naughty, violent boy, cal boy of whom I purchased theWlnte Weasel, the expensive article oi Kreosotc. Ihe lotion is |rew away the berries that his kind mother of- The good old goat, who nourished the family take oil"its heavy weight while he wiped off the had heard the conversation while he stood at the door. So he look up the word, and preach­ near Exeter Change in the Strand out of wdiich I made by boiling two large handfuls of soot in a red him and then cried for them to eat. At with milk, lay there stiff and cold, her feet sweat that stood in great drops on his forehead. piut of water for half an hour, and then straining stretched out already dead, but the kid was roll­ After stretching his strength to the utmost, he ed Stephen a sermon on the text that the love of m-ade my fortune, as follows:—I disposed of1113' ;t she grew impatient, and called out, come White Weasel to the great Bashaw of Egv'pt in it, , This is applied four times, or oftner, a day. lumbernips and take away this screamer. Im- ing its eyes in its head, stretched out its tongue, reached the top, and a fine straight path led money is the root of all evil, and after he had with sufficient sharpness explained the law, he exchange for ten hogsheads of opium, w'hicli I pdiately Numbernips took the figure of a coal- and shewed by man}' signs that it was near dy­ down the other side. In the middle of the path SIMILES.—ll hope I don't intrude,' as the knife announced to him the g'ood news of his wife's sold in the old city of Byzantium, which was Ian, stepped up to the woman and said—Here ing. Such a misfortune had never happened to lay a pine tree, which had been cut down, but said to the o}'ster. 'Come in,' as the spider said legac3% took out the Italian letter and interpre­ built bv a colony ot Athenians, (no./ -vulgarly jam, what would you have? The woman the good woman since she had been a housekeep­ the stump was left standing as straight as a can­ to the fly. 'Come on,' as the roan said to his ted the contents of it, that the present priest, oi the called "Constantinople,) to a great tea merchant very much frightened at this sudden appear- er; struck dumb with fear, she sunk down on a dle, and as smooth as the top of a table, and all boot. 'You make me blush,' as the lobstercried \ Jce, but she was a brave hearted woman, and bundle of straw, put her apron before her eyes, around it was the green grass. This sight was parish was to be the executor of the will, and of Canton, in the East Indies, and received teas and spices of that country in payment for the out in the boiler. # Ion gathered courage. I called you just now, that she need not see the pain of the kid, and so inviting to the traveller and so convenient for that he had already received the money into his 'Do you like novels!' said a Miss Languish to lid she, to still the children, but as they are sighed deeply. Unhappy woman, thought she, a resting plnce, that he immediately deposited safe hands. opium—my tea and spices I shipped, and brought them safe to London,(the queen, of all cities.) her up country lover.' 'I can't say,' answered |w quiet I do not need you, though I am much and where will my rude husband begin when his loaded baskct on the stump, and stretched Stephen stood stupified at the news, and rr\:;d he, 'for I never ate any; but I tell you what, [liged to you for your kindness. Do you know he comes home; the blessing of God in this world himself opposite to it 011 the soft grass. Here he do nothing but bow, as the priest from time to which in a short time after their arrival I had the good fortune to sell to a London East India Com- I'm tremendous at a young 'possum!' Id the old follow, that people do not call me is gone from me. In a moment she drove this thought over how much clear gain his wares lime mentioned the mighty Republic of V enice, If you will destroy your own repose, disturb |re unpunished ? I hold you to your word, thought from her mind—If the dear goat was thy would bring him this time, and found after a and took off'his cap as he did so; at last he em­ pan3', for one plumb, aiiasone hundred thousand braced pounds sterling, which was paid me in specie at that of your neighbor. , r , . re me the screamer that I may eat him, I have only blessing from God what is thy Stephen, and close calculation, that if he did not spend a sin- most tenderly his wife, and from that In marriage, prefer the person before wealth* |t met with'so nice a bit for a long time. As what are thy children ? She was ashamed that pie penny in the house, but depended on the time Stephen was the most pleasant husband, the the Bank of England. Under all these circum­ stances, Mr. Curtiss, I could not refuse you my virtue before beauty, and the mind before the said this, he stretched out his hand to take the she had been so hasty. Let all the wealth in skilful hands of his wife for food and clothing, kindest father, and most careful provider, for idle­ body—then you have a friend and a companion* the world go, said she, I have my husband and he should make enough tobii3' him an ass in the ness had never been his fault. beloved daughter, and at my death I sbalHeave you and her £ill my fortune, which is considera­ jA^ a hen when she sees a hawk hovering high my four children—The fountain of milk for my Schmeidberg Market, and to load him. The The honest priest from time to lime changed Since Colonel Crockett has made known his lthe air, or the wicked wolf creeping into the nursling is notdriedup, and there iswaterin the thought of how gaily in future he should load the gold into money, and hought with it a good ble.—-Go and be happy. determination not to be a candidate for the Free- Ird, first calls her chicks into the secure hen well for the rest—And if Stephen is angry and his beast and trudge along by his side, came to farm on which Stephen and Elsy lived the restof JOURNEY TO MOUNT SINAI.-"The last two idency, he has taken the cognomen of th© Urea* pp, then ruffles her feathers, speads out her him at the time when his shoulders were smar­ their life. The remainder of the money he put treats me ill, it is no matter, I shall lose nothing chapters of Major Felix's account of a journey DecUaed- " )gs and begins with her strong foe, an unequal ting under the pain of the load, and was so to interest., and guarded the capital of his parish­ by it. The harvest is near at hand, I can go to Mount Sinai were read. The convent on the btest, so did the woman seize the black coal- agreeable to him that he continued the train of ioner as carefully as the treasures of the church, after a Iap«e; and reap, and in winter I will spin till late mid­ mount was founded by Instinian, who endowed it The field of battle at WaferJpo, Jn fiercely by the beard, doubled her fist, and night,—so I shall be able to buy another goat, it. If I once get an ass said he, a horse will never taking any reward for his services but the of 19 years, is remarkable for~ r'its its e:extreme feytil- Mass Robes] which Elsy took care to make so with the whole peninsula of Sinai. When Ma­ " ' rank color' of jte neb crops oe 3d out, monster, you must first tear my moth- and if I get her, I shall have the kid without soon follow, and when I get a horse in the stall, sligion 7 heart from my body before yon take away doubt. I shall soon get a patch-of cround fo raise his splendid,tha^an Archbishop won homet V/23 sp: Vty' y human ,gQ: c, ear.Che is tain to have spared a I child. Numbernips had not expected eo vi- As she thought thue, she dried up her tears, hay upon -from one field .1 shall come to have ed of them. sword ever th

, 1 — (T?» The Whig Meeting held at the Hotel of The Tory press appears very desirous of We beg leave to express our sense of the From, the New Haven Palladium. Resolved, That this country owes to the firm, George Selleck, on Tuesday evening last, anac- charging upon the Senate the loss of the Fortifi- kindness and attention of the Hon. Gideon Tom- THE JACKSON CANDIDATES FOR timely, and able defense of the Constitution in­ count of which is given in the proceeding col- cations Bill. The facts themselves prove the linson, member of the U. S. Senate from this CONGRESS. ** terposed by the Senate of the , and umn, wos highly respectable, unanimous, and in contrary. That bill, before the three millions State, in sending us, during the past session, va­ Never has there been before the people of Con­ its uniform and effectual opposition to the en- the fullest sense of the word, large-for the were tacked to it, had been passed in the Se- rious public documents, upon the many impor­ necticut a weaker Congress ticket than that now croachmepts of the Executive Power, its present presented by the Jackson party. Look at it lea­ room could afford accommddations for no more, nate and sent to the House, at least eight days tant subjects which have come before that body. hopes of liberty and success. der, and if you know any thing of the character All present concurred in the opinion that the before the adjournment; thus leaving ample 03= We ask permission to repeat a request or abilities of the men composing it, you will Resolved, That the Whigs have, after a ma­ Whigs had no cause for fear. This appeared time for its arrangement. But with the view to say we speak the words of truth and soberness; ture and deliberate examination, the fullest as­ formerly made, that our advertising patrons— to be the settled, considerate and calm reflection put into the hands of the Executive the^ is- there is NOR WALK GAZETTE. surances of a triumphant majority at the en­ for whose favors we are always grateful—would of every mind, which was shown neither in the cretionary employment of three millions of dol- ZALMON WILDMAN, of Danbury, whose thirst suing election in this state; and that to secure send in their notices, whenever practicable, on for office is insatiate and ungovernable. He TUESDAY MARCH 17, 1835. hurrah nor uproar of the servants of his majes- lars, with the implied understanding that it might so desirable an object, we will neglect no honor­ Saturday. The press of mattef on Monday fre­ has resorted to all the artsof the practised dema­ Andrew the first. It was not composed of be used to forward the prospects of Mr. Van Bu- able means. quently forces them out. First come, first served. gogue to effect his purpose ; but as he has not men fresh from the influence of a pot house cote-' ren at the elections and strengthen the hands ol sufficient talent or cunning to hide his designs, WHIG Resolved, That a general meeting of the Whig ha has disgusted even those who are generally DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN rieoran electioneering ramble; but of quiet, de- the party in power, our relations with France From the N. Y. Evening Start Electors of this town be called at this place on WAR OR PEACE.—It is seldom that we quote but little disposed to censure intrigue. He will termined, and well informed, tradesmen and and the hurry and confusion incident to the last HomsMBosa. the Friday evening (April 3d,) preceding the from the Journal of Commerce,- but the followi & receive the smallest vote where he is best farmers, just from the field, the shop and theVo- 1 day of the session, were taken advantage of, and election. is the conclusion of a very sensible article in • known. FOR GOVERNOR, mestic fireside. Their meeting was cordial, not j the amendment sent to the Senate to inveigle CHARLES THOMAS, Chairman. ply to some folly of the Evening Post: i ANDREW T. JUDSON, of Canterbury is one SAMUEL A. FOOTE, "The Post may cry coward asit likes. Bef i t* EDWIN LOCKWOOD, ? . noisy; social, not bacchanal; and conducted that body into its adoption. But, the clear of the small beer politicians, a man of perfumes EOR LIEUT. GOVERNOR, SECRDARIES we make up our minds to a war with Fran and essences, soft words and effeminate actions. A. E. BEARD. S throughout as became the land of steady habits, |sighted members penetrated the flimsy artifice THADDEUS BETTS. we shall have the courage to inquire whet; •t An old democrat, upwards of 70 years of age, FOR TREASURER, decently and in order. These are the men who J at once; and, not until the amount was reduced the honor about which we are to fight, is reeiiy gave in this city in a few words one of the best EXECUTIVE PATRONAGE.—It would be ask­ think and then vote—and vote understanding^,' to eight hundred thousand dollars and specifical- of the kind to be worth what it will cost. V. e sketches of Andrew T. Judson that we have ISAAC SPENCER. FOR SECRETARY, ing too much of the Tory party to require them and with the single view to their country's good ; ^ ly appropriated, did they consent to its adoption shall contemplate this happy country exuberant" yet heard. The old gentleman remarked that with prosperity, and its free and generous sons THOMAS PAY. to reconcile their pretended dislike of monopo­ who have no darling schemes of party or per- j But the committee from the House, wanted not ne knew him from his infancy. "When he making all earth and ocean teem with their en- _ was a boy," said he "he was little puff— now lies, monied aristocracies, and incorporated soci­ FOR CONGRESS, sonal advancement; no pledged candidate from only the whole of the original amount, but also terprise, in peace; and its cities deserted, its- that he is a man, he is big puff" eties, with their support of that monstrous anom- NOYES BARBER, whom to expect private favors; n" political hob-' that the President should dispose of it as it might commerce annihilated, its merchants ruined, and DOCTOR LAUNCF.LOT PHELPS, of Barkham- oly in our government—that giant of monopo­ its citizens slaughtered in war. We shall turn our' 8tead, we leave to the electors of Litcefield coun­ JOHN M. HOLLY, bies to ride for the amusement of their masters ; suit his views, without reference to any particu EBENEZER JACKSON, JR. lies and aristocracics—an uncontrolled and al­ eyes on our institutions of religion and learning, ty. We believe him to be a harmless inoffen­ but men of stern, unbending integrity, equally lar object. Hence they refused to report until growing up on all sides, in peace, and vice and sive man ; as well qualified for Congress as for JOSEPH TRUMBULL, ^ most unlimited Executive Patronage. When SAMUEL TWEEDY, above the want and the desire of office. And the hour of dissolution had passed ; and the bill violence domineering in war. We shall look the Presidency. The doctor would be as much John Quincy Adams was President of the Unit­ of such men we have a good round majority in was lost. No sophistry can gainsay these fact at the allpervading supremacy of oar laws,- in astonished to find . himself in Congress as his EBENEZER YOUNG. ed States, we find the then democratic party this town-in this district-in this county; and These three millions of dollars, placed at the peace, and the danger to those laws by the in­ neighbors would be to see him there. crease of military forces and the eclat of military ELISHA HALEY, of Groton, is, we believe, a SENATORS. taking the same grounds that the Whigs take when we include the county, we include the unlimited disposal of the Executive, would give lOto District, THOMAS B. OSBORNE, favorites in war. We shall look at the prospect* good Universalist; a great enemy to every thing now; with this difference, that, in 1826, when State. is safe. It is impossible to him the power of deciding upon the question of such as it may be, of obtaining five millions of that in his quixotic mind smacks of Church and 11th do. STARR FERRY, Thomas H. Benton made his famous report, think otherwise. The tricks, tales, false esti- war or peace with France ; and of bringing into dollars by peace, and the certainty of its loss, State. We know not however how he gets 12th do. CHARLES HAWLEY. breathing the same republican spirit that Mr mates, scandal, bragging, boasting, of the tories ^e most efficient instruments of with five millions more, by war. And finally, along with the Rev. O. B. Brown and the Post WHIG MEETING. whoever may cry coward, we shall look^ at Office. In consequence of his religious views Calhoun's does now, exeevtive patronage had not party, to achieve the moral subjugation of the At a meeting of the Democratic Republican are all understood all set down at their max- France, our old and faithful friend, contributing he is considered by those who think as he thinks, been exercised to one thousandeth part of the ex­ whole country. It would be practically assent­ Electors of the town of Norwalk, at the Hotel of imum value. in no small degree to our happiness and honor as a very liberal minded man ; he is one of the tent it since has under Gen. Jackson. No such ing to the claims put forth in his Protest of ju in peace,—but with a warlike population triple original Jackson men ; is no twadler, but ex­ George Selleck, on Tuesday evening last, Mr. things as the Post Office abuses, the appoint­ IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE.—We understand risdiction over the military, naval, civil, and our own, a well disciplined army of three hun­ tremely bitter towards all who happen to differ Charles Thomas in the Chair, and Messrs. Ed­ dred thousand men, and a powerful navy, ready- from him in opinion, especially on religious sub­ ments, the removals, the disgraceful quarrels information has been received from Albany, di­ monetary force ofthe country. It would, in fact, win Lockwood and A. E. Beard, Secretaries, to be let loose oponour coast in war, defended as jects ; he has however more common sense than the extravagance, the pretensions to almost so­ rect, by some of the faithful, that the Tory ticket be virtually conceding to liim the sceptre and we are with half armed fortifications, and an ar­ a score of such men as Andrew T. Judson. after hearing the report of the Delegates to the vereign power, the direction of men's consciences, will have a majority of twenty seven—not to the crown. And these were beyond question my nominally consisting of six thousand men. SAMUEL INGHAM, of Saybrook is "twaddleum- State Conuention; two persons to represent this It is idiotism not to reflect on all these things be- dee twaddleumdum ;" he is one of the fencertien the doctrines of abject subserviency to the Pre­ mention fractions—in this town at the election the objects of what the party arc pleased to term town in the next general assembly were ballot­ fore we take irretrievable steps in pursuit of that —was lately denounced as such by the Hart­ sident, were known, or anticipated, unless bjr |n Ajvril npvt. No^hodv else has the news. ^ a^jlnpfttfnti"