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Vol. vir, No. 14.]
HUNTINGDON, PENNSYLVANIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1842.
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POETRY.
Sprlnff.
BY MRS. LYDIA JANE PIF.BSON.
The beautiful Spring, the generous Spring,
She has come to her own again ; From the gem-like isles thot repose in smiles
On the breast of the Southern main.
She comes with her angels, a beautiful train Ofthe sinless the bright and free ;
Who joyously fling from each glittering wing A sparkle of melody.
The Sun in his gladness salutes the young Spring, From his sapphire dome on high. Shining down from nbove, like the spirit of love, From his home in k clear blue sky.
The fountains gush up like a young maiden's
joyi And flow with a laughing song ; And the rivers give out a melodious shout, Ai their plum'd waves march along.
The bright dandelions bespangle the vest Of green velvet that Earth puts on ;
And Zephyrus weaves of the young forest leaves. Her silver and emerald crown.
Her lap is an altar to Spring consecrate, Fill'd with offering rich and rare;
Ofyoung dewy flowers from the balm-breath¬ ing bowers. And wild fawns and young lambs fair.
There's a rich gush of life in the myriad breasts. That feel the warm breath of Spring; There's praise all abroad, to the bountiful Lord, .And a free will offering.
The beautiful Spring, the generous Spring, She has come to her own again;
With a message of love from the bowers above. Where the pure and beautiful reign.
From the Edinburgh Observer.
monument lo Barnes High¬ land Mary.
It was not without some fear of disap¬ pointment that we availed ourselves ot an invitation to examine a dcg<g|n intended to embody the feelings and wishes of the admirers of this interesting though mel¬ ancholy episode in the life of Scotland's poet. Our fears were speedily and agree¬ ably dispelled on beholding the design itself, the result of a combination of tal¬ ent rarely to be found united, bul in every respect worthy ot so interesting an object anil so powerful an alliance. It consists of an elegantly proportioned monolithick obelisk and pedestal, simply and tastefully ornamented, designed by Mr. Kemp, the well known architect for the monument to Sir Walter Scolt. The pedestal is en. riched on three sides by panels sculptured in basso relievo, from the chisel of Mr. Alex. H. Ritchie, Fisher row, a young ar» list of brilliant promise, and a pupil of Thorwalsden, whilst the fourth side is occupied by a simple tablet, containing an inscription irom the esteemed pen of the
The following quizzical story was told at a temperance meeting in Hartford, by a reformed toper. It opens rich, and as the man hag become sober, one may now laugh over his absurdities with double relish.-— He said—
" I used to drink, and jaw me about it.    What d
said she ; what do jou jaw me for.^said I So wo agreed, and made a firm bargain that 1 would not drink and she would not scold. For three long days we held on firm—no drinking or scolding; but on the third evening, being in company with some good fellows, I touk a horn, and when that was down, I right oti' wanted anoiher, and in a very short time I found myself about 'how fare you,' with twenty horns safe and snugly in my breadbasket; (tremendous laughter.) By and by it got to be time to go home; but, as you may welt suppose, I dreaded lo meet my wife like the tooth ache, (laughter.) Howevgr, go I must; and so 1 staggered along, ho¬ ping to find my wife abed, (laughter.)— When I reached the house, I found it still lighted, and through the window I saw my wife up and waiting for me. (Laughter.) j Thinks I, I can't go in yet, but  I must
Free Trade.—The sticklers for free trade will (ind a striking illustration ofthe beauties ofthe system, so far as England is concerned, in the following rates of duties laid un American prijducts by the British Goverment; Duty on wheat 100 my wife used to ¦ P®'' *^^"*' Indian corn 200; o.its 300; barley do vou drink for? i "'y *""' Imckwhea 1,300 potatoes 150, cot-
greater here.   In all the members possess believed to be the true iiilerests of my
the  legislative power.     In   the foreign  country.
Senates, as in this, the judicial power isl    During thaf long'period, however, I
celebrated Delta.    Of the sculpture it is, .,,.-„.    ,  ,       ,.       -.    .  ,
not easv to convey, to our reade^rs an ade-   i      ; '^ e g ."e  f^b d f ^o there I stood
quale idea; the principal panel represents =•     ¦        --'
MISCELLANEOUS.
The SiionxEST way to Mubber Ciiah- ACTKR.—Profess your friendship for a man—tell him how much you love him —proclaim how many excellent qualities he possesses, then, vvith a very sanctified look, and impressive sigh, express your fear that all is not ns it should be. Whis¬ per suspicion and kt conjecture, with great strength, work out the ruini He who understands human naiure in its dee¬ per workings of damnoble cruelty, and selfish artifice, says a certain shrewd wri¬ ter, vfill mark the man who slabs another under the cloak of pretended alfection. The pretence has a lie, adds he, on the Tcry face of it. True afl'ection would ne¬ ver whisper a suspicion, save in the oar of the one beloved, and whom that suspi¬ cion concerned. Never trust that man who comes to you whining over his regard for another, while his tongue is a drawn sword to wound and kill—meet him promptly with the charge ofhis hypocri* By,and he will «ink with meanness before you.
the solemn pledge of the lovers at their parting on the banks of the Ayre; the fe¬ male is an elegant and classical einbodi'. ment of rustic sweetness, simplicity and grace { the expression of the head in par¬ ticular, is replete with lovely fascination — the figure and action at once bespeak sincerity, unafiected modesty, implicit confidence, and devoted attachment. The bard himselt is delineated with that ener¬ getic earnestness so characteristic of his compositions, and a gravity of deportmeni especially suited to the solemnity of that parting scene so touchingljr depicted by his own words—
" Wi' mony a vow aad lor.Vt embrace. Our parting was fu' tender ;
And pledging aft to meet again. We tore ourselves asunder."
There is no affectation here; neither gewgaw nor trifling frippery in attitude, action, nor drapery ; he stands erect and independent, proudly conscious of moral worth and selt-reliance, an embodied im¬ age of his own noble sentiinent—
I' The rank Is but the guinea's stamp. The man's the goud for a' that."
There is, however, an accompanying tenderness of expression, beautifully suit¬ ed to the circumstances oi the scene, and justly appropriated to the must sensitive admirer of female purity and loveliness. Of the suitable beauty of tho inscription by Delta, it is fortunately in our power to produce the best evidence by presenting a copy; il is worthy alike of the object, and of the accomplished author's well earned reputation- Erected In memory of Mary Campbell, Whose youth, beauty, and innocence Won the heart and Inspired the immortal mus<$ of Robert Burns With those strains which are unsurpassed For moral dignity
and
Depth of pathos.—
Her Mortal Rkkains
Have lain unnoticed in this spot
For half a century;
Yet
" The fame of her name "
Has pervaded the civiliicd world,
And the tears of millions havebeen shed
Forthe untimely fate
of Highland Mast.
half freezing in the cold rain two hours, (tremendous laughter.)   At last she went to bed, and I  crept in at the back  door, stumbling nver pails and chairs, but final¬ ly succeeded  in getting to bed without disturbing her. (laughter ;) but after do¬ zing a while, I awoke and found myself as dry as a fish, (laughter;) you know, breth¬ ren, how dry vve all used to be in the night, after we'd !;ad a spree, (tremendous laugh¬ ter.)   My wife always knevv what vvas tne matter with me, when  1 got up in  the night te drink cold ^ater, (laughter.)   1 hardly dared to get up, for fear ot my wife; but my thirst was greater than 1 could bear, (laughter;) so out I crawled, and gropeil very softly after the water pail, (laughtei';)'butno water was there, (laugh¬ ter;) I then felt round in the dark, on the tables and shelves, far something to cool my burning thirst, (tremendous laughter;) soon I found a tin pan full .>« it^i.;.! e^r-^^ thing} I seized and put it to my mouth, and took a long and hearty draught—the liquor at the same time running out at each side of my moulh, down my cheeks, (tremendous laughter;) and so I thought the liquor tasted odd, and at that instant it flashed on my recollection that I had fixed some poison a few days before  to kill rats vvith, (tremendous laughter   for five minules.)    Horror-struck, I stood— my hair standing on end—it was death to scream out, for my wife would jaw  me if she waked, (laughing and stamping;) and surely it would be death to hohl still; but scream I must, and scream I did, (riotous laughter.)    "What was in that pan ?"— " You are dry, are you?" said she. " What was in this pan?" shouted I, still louder. " What makes you dry?" screamed she.— " What was in this pan?" yelled I in per¬ fect agony of fear. " What pan?" "Why, the pan on the shell."   "Oh, you brute, you have drank up all my starch;"    (Tre¬ mendous  laughter fnr  Ave  minutes, and cries of order from the chairman.)    The next morning my shirt collar  was pasted fast to my neck nnd checks, and   it  took half an hour  to clear it off."    Here   Mr. Brown sat down amid the cheers of the whole Society.
ton 5; rice 150; tubacco 900: timber 250; sugar 2.10; whiskey 2500; fish prohibited; fruit 200 per cent; and we are called upon to admii evey article maufactured in Eng¬ land free of duty into this country, because our products are adinitted so free into British ports, that the restrictions imposed upun them amount to almost a complete prohibition!—National Eagle.
A Female Villaoe.—The following account appears in the Augsburg Gazette; "The village of Madane. which is about sixty English miles from Rustchuck, in Wallachia, oH'cra at the present moment a curious olhnographical singularity,having been inhabited by women only-tjor the last thirty years. At one period this female population amounted to 2,000. The la dies did not live as warriors, like the Amazons of old, but avoided-all inter¬ course with them, and drove away from their territories all who appeared with matrimonial intentions. This anti-social settlement is now supposed to be on the decline; at least, no more recruits are made from the disappointed or the love crossed, and the members ofthe population are rapidly decreasing. These women are nearly all Mahometans."
A Match Race—The Leeds Mercury gives tho following strangest of coincid¬ ences;—Mr. David llinchlifl'e, an opera- live fancy weaver, residing at Moldgreen, Huddersfield, was married upon the same day our gracious Queen was united to Prince Albert—his wife was delivered of a daughter the same day the Princess Royal was born; and she also gave birth to a soii tho same day the Prince of Wales came inlo the world!
The Hindoo   Girl The   iollowin;
interesting fact was stated in a recent lec
ture by Rfr. Pierpoint!— I      _.    _
"At the present day, the un educated   wag—and another clause of the act pro
The result oi the whole design is a trib¬ ute worthy ofthe united exertion of the gifted individuals who have contributed, each in his peculiar department, to the accomplishment ol so gratifying an object VVhen erected it will be one of the most attractive and interesting features of which Grecnoch can boast.
Husda»bs.—"Miss Lucretia Elvira, said a comical fellow to an old "young maid," have you heard of the recent act of parliament by which all ladies with small mouths are to be provided with husbands?"
"Indeed? no"--replied the lady, screw¬ ing up her mouth with the pucker.
It  is a fact, however—continued the
A Simple iMaonet.—Davis of Bos¬ ton, vvho is probably the greatest magne- tician in the UniteJ States, lately showed usa simple method of prod ucing a magnetic needle, a knowledge of which muy olten prove essentially usefull in determining directinns, where a regular compass can not be readily obtained. The process consists in simply twisting a piece of wire, or iron rod. Mr Davis took a piece of the smallest kind of nail-rod, about six inches long, and fixed one end in a vice, twisted the iron (cold) two or three times ruund; and then balancing it on the point ofanee- dle—the iron beins slightly bent for that purpose—it readily assumed its true mag¬ netic position of north and snuth. Such little discoveries tend tu bring the most useful sciences within the reach of every capacity, and contribute largly tothe pross perity of free and enlightened communi¬ ties.—N. Y. Mechanic.
Hindoo girl, by the use of her hands sim ply coulu surpass in delicacy and fine¬ ness of texture, the production ofthe most perfect machinery, in the manufac¬ ture of cotton and muslin cloths. In England, cotton had been spun so fine that it would require a thread of four hundred and ninety miles in length to weigh a pound—but the Hindoo girl had, by her hands constructed a thread, which would require to be exiended one thousand iniles to weigh a pound; and the Daccale niuslius, of her manufacture, when spread on the ground and covered with dew, were tA, longer visible."
vides that all those whe have large mouths shall have two husbands each!"
"0 my 1" exclaimed the lady, opening her mouth as big as a bucket; " what a curious t A w."
A  CoMPLIMBNT TO     THB     L*D1ES. A
minister a short time ago held forth to his female auditory in the following raan<< ner.
" Be not proud that our blessed Lord paid your sex the distinguished honor of appearing first tn a female after the resurrection, for it was only that the glad tidings might spread the tooner."
Evil Ekfeots of Tkjht hxctna.—A late Liverpool paper stales that a coroner's inquest was held at Chard, upon the dealh ofa young lady fifteen years old, whodrop- ped dead in the street from the bursting of a blood vessel of thu lungs, caused by tight lacing of her stays. Mr. Spieer, the sur¬ geon who opened the body, stated Ihat the deceased had died from the eifects of tight lacing, and the pressure of the bone of the stays upon her chest. He also eave it as his opinion that many of the sudden deaths of our young females wero caused by the overlacing of their stays, than which there could not bc more a preniciuus cus¬ tom. The jury returned a verdict in accor dance vvitli the surgeon's evidence.
^ivreuip.ll .<ttitit">aB nr Wfenrv Clay, to the Senate of the United States,
Mr. CLAY said (as imperfectly heard in the Reporter's galleries) that before proceeding to make the moiion for which he had risen, he begged leave to submit, on the only occasion oflered him, an ob¬ servation or two on a dilTerent subject.— It would be remembered that he hail offer¬ ed, on a former day, some resolutions going to propose certain amendments in the Constitution of the United States; they had undergone somo discussion, and he had been desirous ofobtaining an expres¬ sion of the sense of the Senate upon their adoption; but owing to the infirm s'tate of his health, to the pressure of business in the Senate, and especially to the absence at this moment of several Iriends, he had concluded this to be unnecessary; nor should he deem himself called upon to reply to the argument of such gentlemen as had considered it their duty to oppose the resolutions. He should commit the subject, therefore, to the hands of the Senate, fo be disposi^d ol as theirjudi;ment should dictate: concluding vvhat he had to say ill relatiun to ihem vvith the remark, that the convictions he had befoi e enter¬ tained in regard to th'; several ainendi mcnts, he still deliberately held, alter all that he had heard upon the sutijects ol them.
And  now, saiil  Mr.  (.'..  allow me   fo announce, fonnaliy .kiuX oflirially, my r tirenient from the t^enue of the United States, and lo preseiit the la.st motion   I shall ever ni.ike in I his body.    liut.before I   make   Hiat niution, I  trust I  shall  bu pardoned il I avail myself ofthe occasion to make a few ubservations which are sug¬ gested to my iniiiil by the present occasion. I entered the   Senate of the United States in Becember   1806.    I   regarded that body then, and slill contemplate it, as a body which may compare, without disadvantage, with any legislative assem> bly, either ot ancient or niudern times, whether 1 look to its dignity, the extent and importance of its powers, or the abil¬ ity by which its individual members have been distinguished, or its constitution.   If compared in any of these respects, with the Senates of either France or England, that of the United Stales will sustain no derogation.    With respect to the mode of its constitution, of those bodies I may observe that in the lluuse of Peers, in Englund. with the exceptions but of Ire¬ land and Scotland—and in that of France, with no exceptions whatever—the mem¬ bers hold their place under no delegated authority, but derive Ihcm from the grant of the Crown, transmitted by descent, or expressed   in  new patents of   nobility; while here we have the proud title of Representatives of the sovereign States, of distinctand independent Coininonwealths. II we look again to the   powers ex¬ ercised by tfte Senates of France and England, anil by the Senate ofthe United States, that the aggregate of power is much
power invested, although there it exists m a larg I'.I degree than here. But, on the other hund, that vast, undefined and undcfinable power involved in the right to co-operate with the Executive in the furmation and ratification of treaties, is enjoyed inall its magnitude and weight by this body, while it is possessed by neither of theirs: besides this, there is another of very great practi* cal importance—that of sharing with the Executive branch in distributing the vast patronage of this Government. In both the latter respects, vre stand on grounds dilTerent from the House of Peers, either of England or France. And then as to the dignity and decorum of its pro¬ ceedings, and ordinarily as to the ability of its memberg, I can with great truth declare that, during the whole long period of my knowledge of this Senate it can, without arrogance or presumption, sustain no disadvantageous compurison wilh any public body in ancient or modern times.
Full of attractions, however, as a seat in this Senate is, sufficient as it is to fill the aspirations of the most ambitious heart, I have long deterinined to forego it, and seek that repose which can be enjoyed only in the shades of privat: life, and amid the calm pleasures which belong to that beloved word, "home."
It was my purpose to terminate my connexion with this body in November, 1840, after the memoiable and glorious political struggle which distinguished that year; but I learned, soon after, what in¬ deed I had for some time anticipated from the result of my ovvn reflections, that an extra session ot Congress vvould be called; and I felt desirous to co-operate with my political and personal friends in restoring, ii it could be effected, the prosperity of the country by the best measures which their united counsels might be able lo devise; and I therefore attended the extra session. It was called, as all know by the lamented Harrison; but his death and the conse¬ quent accession of his successor produced an entirely nevv aspect of public affairs. Had he lived, I have not one particle of doubt that every important measure for which the country had hoped with so con¬ fident an expectation would have been consummateii by the co-operation of the Executive branch of Government.   And here allow me to say, only, in regard to that so much reproached extra session of Congress, that I believe if any ol those whu, through the influence ol party spirit or the bias of political prejudice, have loudly censured the measures then adap¬ ted, will look at them in a spirit of candot and of justice; their conclusion, and that of the country generally, will be that if there exists any just ground of complaint, it is to be found not in what was done, but in what was left unfinished.
Had President Harrison lived, and the measures devised at that session been ful¬ ly carried out, it was my intention then to have resigned my seat. But, the hope (I feared it inight prove a vain hope) that at the regular session that the measures which we had left undone inight even then be perfected, or the same object ob- tiiiied in an equivalent form, induced mc to postpone the determination; and events which arose after the extra session, resul- ti(ig from the failure of those measures which had been proposed at that session, and which appeared to throw on our po¬ litical Iriends a temporary show of defeat, confirmed me in the resolution to attend Ihe present session also, and, wheiher in prosperity or adversity; to share the for¬ tune of my friends. But I resolved at (he same time to retire as soon as I could do so vvitii propriety and decency.
Fioin 1806. the period of my entry on this noble theatre, with short intervals, to the present lime, I have been engaged in the public councils, at home or abroad.— Ofthe nature or the value of the services rendered during that long and arduous period of my lite it does not become me to speak; history, if she designs to notice me. and posterity, if the recollection of my humble actions shall be transmitted to posterity, are the best, the truest, and the most impartial judges. When death has closed the sceno, their sentence will be pronounced, and to that I appeal and reter myselt. My acts and public con¬ duct are a fair subject for the criticism and judgment of my fellow men; but the private motives by which they have been prompted are known only to the great Searcher of the human heart and fo myself; and I trust I may bc pardoned for repeat¬ ing a declaration made some thirteen years ago, that, whatever errors—and doubtless there have been many—may be discovered in a view of my public services to the country, I can with unshaken con¬ fidence appeal to that Divine arbiter for the truth of the declaration that I have been influenced by no impure purpose, no personal motive—have sought no personal aggrandizement; but that in all my public acts I have had a sole und single eye, and a warm and devoted heart, directed and dedicated to what im my best judgment 1
have not escaped the fale ol other public men, nor failed to incur censure and de¬ traction of the bitterest, most unrelenting, and most malignant character; and tliougli not always insensible to the pain itwas meant to inflict I have borne it in general with composure, and without disturbance here, [pointing to his breast,] waiting as I have done, in perfect and undoubting con- fidence,for the ultimate triumph ofjustice and oftrulh, and in the entire persuasion that time would, in the end, settle all things as they should be, and whatever wrong or injustice I might experience at the hands of man. He to whom all hearts are open and fully known, would in the end, by the inscrutable dispensations of his providence, rectify all error, redress all wrong, and cause ample justice lo be done.
But I have not meanwhile been unsus¬ tained. Everywhere throughout the ex¬ tent of this great continent I have had cordial, warm-hearted, it devoted Iriends, vvho have known me and justly apprecia¬ ted my motives. To them, it language were susceptible of fully expressing my acknowledgments, I would now oBerthcm as all the return I have now to make for their genuine, disinterested, and perse¬ vering fidelity and devoted attachment. But if I fail in suitable language to ex¬ press my gratitude to thera for all the kindness they have shown me—what shall 1 say—what can I say at all commensu¬ rate with those feelings of gratitude which I owe tothe Stale whose humble repre¬ sentative and servant I have been in thi3 Chamber? [Here Mr. Cs feelings ap¬ peared to overpower him, and he proceed¬ ed with deep sensibility ond with difticnit utterance,]
I emigrated from Virginia to the State of Kentucky now nearly forty years ago ; I went as an orphan who had not yet at¬ tained the age ot majority—who had never recogoi'^ed a father's smile nor felt his caresses—poor—pcnnyless '—without the favor ofthe great—with an imperfect and inadequate education, limited lo the ordi¬ nary business nnd common pursuits of life; but scarce had I set ray fuot upon the generous soil when I was seized and emti braced with parental fundness, caressed as though I had been a favorite child, and patronized wilh liberal and unbounded munificence. From that period the high¬ est honors of the State have been freely betowed upon roe; and afterward, in the darkest hour uf calumny and detraction, when I seemed to be forsaken by the rest of the world, she threw her broad and unpenetrable shield around me, and, bear¬ ing me up alolt in her courageous arms, repelled the poisoned shafts that were aimed at my destruction, and vindicated my good name for every lalse and unfoun¬ ded assault.
But the ingenuity of my assailants is never exhausted, and it seems I have sub¬ jected myself to a new epilbet, which I du not know whether it should be taken iu honor or derogation. I am held up to the (iountry as a "dictator." A dictator!^ The idea ot dictatorship is d^awn from Roman institutions; and at the time the office was created, the person who wiel¬ ded the tremendous weight of authority it conferred, concentrated in his own per¬ son an absolute power over the lives and properly ofhis fellow citizens ; he could raise armies ; he could build and man na vies ; he could levy taxes at will, and raise any amount of revenue he might choose to demand ; and life and death rested on his fitt. If I had been a dictator, as I am said lo have been, where is the power with which I was clothed i Had I an army? any navy? any revenue? any pat¬ ronage ? in a word, any power whatever? If I had been a dictator, 1 think that even those who have fhe most freely applied to me the appellation, must be compelled to make two admissions: first, that my dic¬ tatorship has been distinguished by no cruel executions, stained by no blood, nor soiled by any act of dishonor; and in the second place, I think they must own (though I do not exactly know what date my commission of dictator bears^I ama- gine, however, it must have commenced with the extra session) that if I did usurp the power ofa dictator—I at least volun'> tarily surrender it within a shorter period than was allotted to the duration of the dictatorship of the Roman Common¬ wealth.
If to have sought, at the extra scssi.in and at the present, by the co-operation of my friends, fo carry out the great meas¬ ures intended by the popular majority of 1840, and to have desired Ihat they should all have been adopted and executed, if to have anxiously desired to see a disordered currency regulated and returcd, and ir- rei,ular exchanges equalized and adjusted; if "to havo laboied to replenish the empty cotTers ofthe Treasury by suitable duties; if to have endeavored to extend relief to the unfortunate bankrupts of the country, vvho have been ruined in a great measure by the erroneous policy as vve believed, of