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I! if T" nd tMvlnri, bed p leasure-grounds V and 1 bt licvc t'tft pH my wn country cousidcr ma rollicru nsjcciuWi mau. ' j Funny Cttrtr got up and courtseyed. liut. yet I have the character of being a severe fend sarcastic and morose man. Oao, that you are not J' jvairmly in. terraptcd the' littlo old maid. ' - " I am glad that you do not think so. Welt, I have one want in my house. "Can you guess what it ist'..-, - Fanny looked puzzled. ' Money will - buy every thing.', K A T V '. -3 i't I Not the thing that I want.' . Then it must be something very partic. ulaf indeed." " . .. , , ' It is something rery particular indeed. f. O, I'll help you to find it.' ,' ; 1 That is fery kind, and I hope you will I want something to love.' " The world is fullof such things, said the little old maid. ' To you who love every thing from the overflowing of your heart, but not me." Poor Fanny looked infinitely perplexed. I wish I could do any thing o nelp you.' 4 You can.' ' I told you I had a carriage and servants,1 and house and furniture, and plate and money', but I have no one to share them with me; no one to rido with me, walk with me, talk with me, take the head of my table to love, me if tlicy could. 7 In short I wont a wife Will you take ?thi troublesome office.' ' O, Mr. Jeffrey!' exclaimod Fanny Carr with a facQ as red as blushes could make it ' ' - .,...., The plain brown chariot with the brown horses and brown hammer cloth, and the servants in brown liveries, drew up with a great dash, quite in an unusual manner, at Mr. Pokeoham'a door. It is very evident thai every thing belonging to the brown af fair was in a considerable state of , excite mont, in fact quite in a brown ever or sort of effervescence, and some way or other the agitation was communicated to the family of the Pokenhams within. ' ., Who can it be?1 exclaimed Mrs. Poken. ham. Don't bring them in hero, but ahew them into the drawing room. I always like to receive carriage people in tho drawing room, ; and Jane, fetch mo a clean pair of gloves.1 , - - La mamma, a wedding,-look, af the white favors I ' exclaimed Miss Pokenham the first. ; ' ' Then there's one chance ! less id the world, said Miss Pokenham the second. It's all right,' said Master Daniel, I like brides cake, and I don't care how many people marry and are misorable, so that I iret a crood feast by it.' I like the quarrelling quite a well as the cake, said Master Humphrey. " Look!' exclaimed Mrs. Pokenham, I declare if it is not deaf uncle Jeff ; I thought he'd be clad to come back to us ; I made him so very comfortable with his chick? ns and easy chain, that I thought he'd soon want to be back again, if that little deceit, ful Fanny Carr had not poisoned his mind. ' Mamma' legacy will keep well it will be fine came,' said Master Humphrey. 4 How smart undo Jeff is!" said Miss Pokenham the first. White silk and pumps, I declare, and flower in his buttonhole !' And what on earth is that little lump of finery behind him 7' said Miss Pokenham the second. Why, goodness gracious !. you don't think that uncle Jeff naa been such 6 n ol J stupid as to get married himself!' said Miss Pokenham the hrst. ' , , I shall faint at .the bare supposition,' exclaimed Mrs. Pokenham' an unnatural monster!' f Here he comes, and his queen doll with him.' V ; . Uncle Jeffrey walked into the room as stately as the tallest eronadier in the ser vice of Frederick the Great, dragging after him a bundle of white satin and white lace and French blond and white kid gloves and orange blossoms, and it really was aston ishing to see how many dozen of yards they had managed to tie up together. Is it you, uncle Jeffory T shouted Mrs. Pokenham, of course not expecting an an. Bwor tojher question. - 1 1 have brought you myself and my bet ter half.' . , , ' What do you mean, uncle Jeffrey.' L You need not speak so Joud,' saidjjn cle Jeffrey. ' True, true,' said Mrs. Pokenham, ' I had forgot that you are not at all hard of hrJir'l.iir' . - ' T always told you that I was not deaf.' You did, of courso you did, t ' But you never bcliovea me.' 0"yes, that I am Sure I did,' shouted Mrs. Pokenham.' ,f Speak ia'a whisper as. you used to do. Can't you tell each other" what a fool, and ii dolt, and what, a piece of ugliness is cross and deaf old uncle Jeff.' - - ,. ; O uncle, and can you really hear ?' Ay, a pin fait to thtf ground ; I always - had excel lent hearing-i Yes, uncle, I know you had.' J. But jeu donH bclievo it.' ' O certainly, certainly, Well, if some people arb hard of hedr. ing, othcrs'are hard ot belief. Perhaps you wont believe mo when I tell you I urn mar. riod. . r '- Married ! and to whom V Uncle Jeffrey lifted np the veil of the bundle of white satin a,nd pumps and vanities and introduced Mrs.' Jeffrey. ' 'Fanny Carr!' bxclaime J tho wliole con gregation. Wretch of a man !' exchimod Mrs. Pokenham. Is it thus you come to wound "our feelings? - And to mako you what I hope you will consider a handsome present. " -r-1- How4iberal l-JuiwndJllexcJajmed . Mrs. Pokenham, her hopes reviving. Yes, indeed, I have brouglityou my ear horn, tied with white riband, and I hope ' you will keep it hung up here in the drawing room, to remind you of cross, deaf, old uncle Jeff.' An tnterotting Incident. A few days since we mentioned the arri val of the packet ship Montezuma at Liver pool, after a short passage from this port. At tho same time we published a compli mcntarj card tj. captain L6wder,vfor his exertions In saving the crew of the French brig which was fallen io with in a Binking condition. We have a IotU r before us from A. Williams, Esq., our next door noighbor, who was a passenger in the Montezuma, giving an interesting account of the manner in, which the unfortunate mariners wero take from the wreck. N. Y. Com. Adv. After describing the voyage, tho writer ays ,r...: - , " But the most thrilling scene of the passage ' occurred on Sunday, the 2nd of April, at 2, P. M., while the passengers were- promenading the deck, and contem plating the majestic and terrible heaving of the ocean, such a usually succeeds heavy winds. Mrs. Cipriaot, the only lady pas senger descried and announced a sail,' apparently louf or five miles distant from us, to which all eyes were immediately directed.,, Dr Pattison jocosely observed, Suppose it should be a wreck, and that wo should take off five or. six persons in distress 7' to .which . some ono answored, 'Very littlo. probability of that.' When oqr second. mate, taking the glass, said, in ar honest but blunt and gruff voice, ' dis. led. Oa hearing that word, tho Cup. tain as quick as thought, took tho glass, and niter a long and earnest gaze, with, a quick movement to tho .first mate, gave order to hoar dowa .toward lice, with all sailya&d saying ' tignal of distress, ' words that to a novice ou the sea produces a fear ful thrill of feeling he will never forget ".Whatever she wants she shall have, if I've got it." . v ; .Then corotrfencod a scone of activity among the crew, of watchfuluess by.tho officers, and anxiety among tho pustseugera that could scarcely be surpassed, As the vessel was neared.and her situation becamo visiblo to tho naked eye she was seen a dismasted. Jiu-Jr-pf . ',r. ,0SSod rroncb (Newfoundland fishing) brig, tuin- bling and rolling from side to side, with every swell f the sea sweoping her decks entirely across. , A small sail tied to a tern. porary(jury) mast wus all that kept tho vessel manageable, and on her deck, cling ing to her torn and splintered side, wore some ten or fifteen persons gesticulating violently for help, and ringing in our ears through tho gusts of tho raging wind, 'se cours (help.) On nearing her, as tho hutk rose from the trough of the sea to the crest of the swoll, the name ' St. Bernard do Fechamp,' was read on the stern, and it was evident that sho was in a sinking state, i With prompthc83Bli!l7and humanityy above all praise, our ship was hove to, our quarter boats lowered to those rolling billows and in them leaped the gallant mate (Moore) and some of her crew to pull for tho brig, now nearly alongside of us ; but at a mo. mont when one wave threw this littlo boat some 80 or 100 feet in ono direction, a tro mendous heave of the ocean brought the brig alongside, and within twenty feel of the Aliintezuma on her starboard quarter. The violence of the sea heaving both ves sels a terrific distance up and down mado us. fear an awful crash, perhaps fatal to both. The next swell came, and crash came the twov together. Our starboard stern being raised up in tho air, came with tremendous force down upon tho larboard quarter of the brig, crushing her bulwark and part of her deck, and . shoving her off soiTte SO or 40 feet, when by dexterous uso of our helm and sails, we kept clear of her. Moore, our mato, in this frenzied moment of peril ili boarded her, and was seen at the helm. Thenceforth she was kept clear of us, and our two boats went (lancing and rolling between us, some 4 or 5 limes each, till theso poor sailors, 10 in number, and most of their valuables, were brought on board our ship. The Captain, tho lust ono to quit his sinking vessel, half starved-, oppressed with grief and care, looked tho stolid image of mute despair. None of them could understand or speak a wordfff English ; but luckily Moore and Mr. Cipriant spoke the French, through whom we learnt that the brig had been dis masted and shattered, as wo then saw her, seven days previous, and all by a single sea, since which they had been tumbling as we saw them, having been passed by five vessels, to one. .onlyo. .which, could they raiser the signal of distress'; hut the violcnco of tho storm prevented them giving succor. A most remarkable providential circum stance occurred to heighten on our minds this scene, and not only had our ship for for tho twenty-four hours previously run exactly in tho direction of this brig, the usual distance of 280 knots, but at the mo ment Of pur nearing her tho intense vio lence of tho wind ceased, causing a com parative calm, and during'the taking off the wrecked an entire calm, the first and only one during tho passage, aftecwhich the breeze sprung uj and away we flow ngalH' at the rate of. 11 or 12 knots; next day,. after tho rescue, up rose the storm about thffBamahouT7thewtnd covertnghe-Bea-j with a white foam, in which the r rench commander said bis hulk would not have survived ten minutes,- and 'attributing the safety of their fives to Captain Lowder, who treated tbem throughout with the most liberal and generous hospitality. Not tho least happy of the rescued seem cd a noble dog, who seized and saved a boy as he was being swept exhausted from the deck, which he offered to Captain Lowder, who declined taking from him his favorite animal. The providential saving of this crew was more forcibly impressed upon us by our having just arisen from a sermon by tho Rev.- Mr. May, a passenger, on the subject of the care of Provideuco of those ' who go down to (h $ea tu thipt. Our ad miration of tho magnanimous and truly admirable conduct of Captain Lowder pro. duced an immediate meeting of the passe n. gers, who voted; unanimously to present him with a piece of plate, not for Us value, but as a testimony of esteem." A man of words many ; is uftcn without senso any. So saith tlt faurria. -' LTHE MESSENGER. D. R, M'ANALIY & J, ROBERTS, EDITORS. Friday, June , 1843. ' We give the readers of the Messen ger a long yarn thlswdek, but it is far from being without . its , moral. . .Wo. have seen much of the saW sort of game" played oa a small, scale. Read it,, and then say if you do not remember having seen nephews . ... "' ' or nieces or cousins, trying to come lue agreoable" with ttome cross old uncle or sunt because they happened to be rich. ' , ' , Gold ! Gold ! The gold mines lately dis covered in Haywood and Macon counties are like to prove the richest yet discovered in the State.' Some of them, we understand, yield from three to five dollars worth per diem to each hand employed. This is Ihe " boTter currency," and It seems our Hay. wood and Macon' friends ere about to lino their pockets quite bountifully with it.'; 07" A man in New Orleans has invented what ho calls a flying machine, with, which he expects to " soar aloft and" journey through the air.", Ho had better have a care lest he meet the fate of the Milleritc who attempted to' "soar" from off a tall trco to heaven, and fell Jo tho earth and broko his neck. ' , v - .TESJiE&SEE,.., The contest for tho August election in this State is growing wa rmer and still warm er... Some of, the Democratic papefs assura ihoir readers that Polk's majority fow clo. vernor will :not be less than from ton to twelve thousand whilo some of the Whig papers seem equally confident that Jones' majority for the samo office will bo from twclvo to fifteen thousand. The more calm however, of each party are content to claim about eight thousand majority for their re spective candidates. ' They have perhaps as much excitability on political matters in Tennessee as sny other Slate in the Uniontheir candidates are very busy traversing the State by lis. tricts and counties and companies, while the peoplol manifest WTrTuch"exclted soici. tudo as if the fate of the world, nowind forever, depended upon which party lad the ascendancy in that State ! A coititrn for the political prosperity V the country is right and proper, and it is the duty of v. cry man to feel such concern as vill prutnpt hiin to discharge, his duty in this respect j but it is an easy matter to bo so far car'led away in this as to neglect other duti s of equal importance. . If the time, labc and money that have been spent in Tenr ssco during the last ten years to advance t e in. terests of political parties had been jo di rccted, it would have built a school-hAso in every neighborhood in the State', fur ished each house with a library, and pa I, for years to como, the salaries of tho tci :hers. : FARMING. Though others may beofequalimpi tanco and as such entitled to like attention )C the part 6f the public journals of tho day jyetas there is no on v pursuit in which so rujiny of the citizens of this country are engaged, or ! one on which so many others depand- asl farming, we deem it tho duty of all cjbnduc tors of public papers to keep this iatorcst more or less before their readersataif times. Wo have often adverted to tho modes of farming as practised in this section of tho country, and published much which wo thought would be calculated to oid the farm, er in increasing the value and products of his farm." Most that we havo published lias been borrowed from other journals'," on whoso credit we gavo the articles without vouching for their correctness. Hereafter we design to confine ourselves to facta in relation to soils, experiments, products, systems, whioh come more immediately under our own notice or that of our friends in the section of country where our piper has most extensive circulation. This wo shall do becauso, in the first place, ticre are many things bearing upon the farming interest of this country which arc peculiar to the country, and in conscqucnco of this, 4 expimenl3which. succeed well iiipthr;i places will not do here at all ; and, second- lyy because many oftho receipts and rc- commendatiotis which go the roundsof tle papers are nothing more than the chimeras of the brain of some raw collegiate, who, however well ho may understand those branches of science and that portion of the classics necessary to bis graduation, knows practically nothing about farming. It is a subject, or if you please, science, with which we profesj to havo a practical ac quaintance ; and one, tho proper under standing and tinnagemcut of which would tend, perhaps, more than any tiling else to advance at present the interests of this por tion of North Carolina We shall proceed next week to shew wherein we think an improper course has been pursued, and wkcrcin a different ouo would tend directly to increase tho fanner's profits as well as the ?alue of his land. ' , OCT There is a' valuable agrlculturtl pa. per published at Jamestown, in, this $tate. It is p"inted on a medium sheet, every other week , it tho; tow price of one dollar a year, id advance. We would recommend it to the attention of the farmers of this part of the State. It is, so far as we know, the only piper io this State which is exclusively de voted to agricultural matters ; for that rea son, "end for its ' real worth I it Ought to be sustained. Address, the Editors of "The F armcrVAdvocateV' jamestown,"N. C. (ttr There has been an alarming drought in some parts of Georgia this spring. Much injury, it is apprehended, has been done to growing crops. ; frtr Tho Democrats of Indiana lately held a State Convention, which propounded sundry questions, embracing subjects of National policy,, to Mossrs., yan Buron, CulhouQ , Cass, Johnson and Buchanan '; to which inquiries these gentlemen have re spectively frp1icdV arid all of, .jlicm avow their opposition to a National Bank, and other prominent measures which tho Whig party deem important to the Interests of tho t We arc sorry to - see that Mr. Simms is about to retire from tho editorial department of the Magnolia. He did honor to the work and to himself. , v . .. . i The Lady't World of Fashion, for May, has also been received, which we think we noticed sometime sinco. It is in our opin ion among the best works of tho kind in tho country. . . . - : OirWe havo had some remarkably hot wealberjiereabouts f let0- Vorv indeed ir"C!'ops look very promising this sea son thus far. Irr som, parts wo have rarely seen wheat look bettor. - Tiis La w or Kindness Don't rpeak so cross," said one little boj yesterday in the street to anoth: er. " Don't speak so cross there'i no use in it." We Happened to be passing at the time, and hear ing the injunction, or rather the exhortation for it wis mado in a horatory tone and manner we set the juvenile speaker down as an embryo Phi. losophor. In sooth, touching the point involved in tho boyish difficulty which made occasion for tho remark, he might properly be considered as at maturity. What more could Solomon have said on the occasion T True, he has pat it on re. cord, that " a soft answer tumeth away wrath, and this being -taken-M-4rae-and everybody knows it to be so it is evidence in favor of the superiority of tho law of kiodnoss over that of wrath. ; But our young street philosopher said pretty much the same substantially, when he said, aon i spcaK so cross uiere's no use in't-" ' Wo indeed there is certainly no use in it On the eon. trary, it invariably does much harm. Is a man angry? it inflame his ire still more: and eon. firms in his enmitv him who by a kind word, and a gentle and forbearing demeanor, might be eon. verted into a friend. It is iu fact an addition to fuel to a flams already kindled, And What do you ram by it ( Aothmc desirable, eertainly an. less discord, strife, and contention, hatred, malice, and ail nncharitableness,'' be desirable.' Us speaks "the words of truth and soberness. " Don't speak so cross, there's no use in't" ' Jk. Rcmaskablr MiN. At a temteranc mwt. ing rccontly held in Alabama, Col. Labmanousky, who had been twenty-three years a soldier in the armies of Napoleon Bonaparte, addressed the meeting. He arose before tho audience, tall, erect, and vigorous, with the glow of health in his face, and said : " You see before you a man seventy-nine years old. I have fought two hun dred battles, have fourteen wounds pn my body, hare lived thirty days on horse flesh; with the bark of trees for my bread, snow and ice for my drink, the canopy of Heaven for my covering, without stockings er shoes on mv feet, and with cnly a few rags for my clothing. In the deserts of Egypt. -. I have marched for days, with a burn, ing sun upon my naked head, feet blistered in the scorching sand, and with eyes, nostrils and mouth filled with dust, and with a thirst so tor. menting that I have toro open the veins of mv arms and sucked my own blood ! Do' you ask how could I survive all these horrors! I answer, that, next to the kind providence of God, I owe my preservation, my health and vigor, to this fact, that I never drank a drop of tjiirttuou liquor in my h"-i-an4 he continued, " Barron Larry, chief of tho medical staff of the French Army, has stated it is a fact-that the six thousand sur vivors who safely returned from Egypt, were all men who abstained from the use of ardent spirits." Young IVorLB. Whenever vou hear a vounr UVIiss lecturing her mother on gentility, contra. uiciing ncr paronut, pouting and complaining whenever she cannot have her own way, depend upon it she will make a poor companion. In pros, perity she will never be saluficin adversity she will despond an) complainin sickness she will distress herself and all around her never choso her for a life companion. On the contrary when vou see a mild, modest, unassuming girl who may be sometimes seen minieterine to the wants of poverty and sickness, who is ever mindful of the wants or wwhes of her friends, and unmindful of berown, who is ever ready to relieve distress by kind words and good works, and who never nub. lislies her benevolent labors she will make your home a paradise she wilt cheer you in prosperity sustain you in adversity smooth and soothe the pillow of sickness she will indeed bo a trea. lire with or without wealth she is a pcarlabove all price. . - . When von hear vouns men anecrinff af itioir old fashioned Tparcril, or listening IS such remarks irum ouicrs, sngnting or teasing their sisters and brothers, disobliging and unkind to servants and others, fond of -grumbling, too lazy to keep np tha uroorgui mcrascivcs a arms or water, such a fellow is a bad chance for a husband. On. the" contrary if he .oves his parents is kind and ob liging to his sisters and brothers,, industrious and sttentve to ins business or bis studies, kind and umiBiacraic to toe poor and unfortunate be will be a good man or a good husband. External ArrucATion or lAvtknm. A mm of death from the absorption of laudanum appli ed externally, boslust oceiired in Paris. A young dramatic writer, M. Camilla Bemay, whose first attempts liad betmry-favorably spoken of, was ordered by his father, who is a physician, to apply for a alight indisposition a poultice on the stomach, on which he was to let fall a few drops of laada- let fall not four or five droDs. but tha enntni rJ uuni. xo assuare me nam. which wu arnto a whole" Vial. The effect was almost rastantane.' eusaiWthe-applieatiea of the poultice, Anli- I dotes were applied immediately, but M. C. Ber nay died shortly afterwards. . .", . Several of tho most extensive landlord in Int. land had reduced their rents 20 per cent, of eauraa much to the satisfaction of tenants. f. ' : For the Messcofr-I , X - v THE. LIFE AND ADVENTURES, ;' V hin'Whaias, and Opinions r OUVEB ODDnSH, es4. IT WBALBN WHACKBMWUX,SCUOOLJUSTBB. -V 't f. CHAPTER I. . .. Outer Oddfish was born that is, 1 suppose he was born, though I have no positive proof of the fact ; but for the life of me I know not how else he could have found his way into this sin-polluted world : and until there is some evidence to the con trary, pr at least until some ono denies the position, I shall consider it true." lie was bornwithout knowing why himself, or his parents knowing what for on tho 10th of January old stylej Anno Domini, 1777 and consequently, as any ono,,;by a plain sum in-simple subtraction may see ; was just sixty-six years old last January. ' To know on what particular day of the month he was sixty and six, you have but to calcu late the difference between the Old and New Styles, which many who will read this, his biography, are no doubt 'utterly unable to do, so great and snd has hecn tho change in the modus pperandi--Cthcre now ! there's a little scrap of Latin which I havotincon scipusly let slip f' but neve mind It will show thatr am' not as' Ignorant' as' sorrto mfght suppose) of teaching, since' men like my humble and unpretending self have been neglected, "and preference given to those who have lost sight of tho substance i n the shadow, and for the sako of the flower havo forgotten the fruit. 'r'"" Oliver was born of respectable parentage or, at least, they were certainly as much so as their neighbor9.' I know that 1 am using a definite term.' People's ideas of respectability are as vague and-unscttlcu as the residence of Jack O. Lanthcrn, and as diverfiedas qheconfiguration of thci faces, "With some, a nmn respectable in proportion to tho amount of filthy lucre ho may havo heaped together, without re gard to tho means used in tho acquisition, or tho end proposed in the uso of it. With others, respectability consists in tho ability to trace back the fumily genealogy for some twentv fenerations, act! nofnitn mimnnula Count, Marquis, or even a vastly vich man, as a sort of parent stock, from whence, the rest have sprung. The present generation may bo as poor as Job s turkey, which, I havo always understood, wo so poor mat it could never afford to wear more than one feather in its tail at a time; but no matter xthere wrt a rich man in the family once. Ur u the present race bo rich, tltcy are respectable, though their ancestors were poor, or mean, or anything elso you choose. With old fashioned men Iiko myself, a man Is respectable in proportion to the soundness of his principles and the correctness of his practice, whether he be rich or poor. And by this rulo alono am I governed when I say that Oliver's parents wero respectable. Men of the manners and habits of the old revolutionary times do not judge of a man's respectability by the weight of his purse, the fineness of his coat, -the length of his hair, or the size of his wkiskers. We have seen many a proud family which, like po tatoes, the better part burg under ground, vaunting themselves upon what they were ; and , others claiming respectability because they happened to be able, from lime to time, to get credit for fine clothes, to curl their hair like a Frenchman, covor their fuces with whiskers like a pirate, snort a cane ke a fencingmaster, and, put on airs Iiko a fool. . With ui, these thuics weigh lighter than a feather. Old folks as we aro. look for honesty of heart -love without hypo- crisy friendship without . affectation industry, frugality, and etojiomy, without a variolous ness liberality jand benevolence without prodigality a readiness to do what ever ought to be done, regardless of incur, ring the charge of being " common" and a constant exercise of that uprightness of conduct, and common sense, prudence, which will secure the love of the good, the esteem of tho bad, and fill his houso with peace and his barns with plenty. Such is " old times" respectability, and such wero the parent's of Oliver Oddfishr ? . The place which he claims as having tho honor of giving rise to his illustrious name, was a beautiflil little viliago way down East -that is tosay, somewhat this side of sun rise, to whichnc always proudly looked as being characterised by larger onions, better cider, moro applo sauce, merrier quilting frolics, prettier girls, better children, fewer old bachelors and old mauls, a soberer dea con, and a better parson, than any other town in the State., This, you know, is "perfectly natural. Early recollections are fondest and best ; most endearing and last ing. "Wherever men wander, to what sub. ject soever they turn their thoughts, how. ever well they may prosper or blqst and happy they may be, still " There is a kind of every Innd the pride," to which the heart fondly turns, and on Which it looks with a. thrill of pleasure, known or felt in reference to nothing else. LTiioJiQinB of childhood ! How sweet the word how precious thelhought liow en. chanting the recolleclitJrt ! How many tliousood JelightfuLscciiesM the memory! Tho houses the trees tho gardens tho fields tlirfarm chair of the father the cushioned seat of tho mother the play.grounds of Ihtlo brothcis and sis ters and above all, thoso parents, and brothers arid sisters themselves ! i The mel lowed and affectionate voici of a mother tho -kind, instructive words of a father tho innocent prattle of brothers and sisters who loved each othor so well! Ah! the recollection of these innocent and happy days forms one of the brightest spots ia man's existence ! Out to the subject of this memoir, and to tho writer, as well as to thousands of others, they aro all gone I Yes cold" reality rushes tn,-an4 ells w they are all-gone f Forever gone i The soul Shudders and sickens, and turns away ; in search of something to relieve it but where" is that something to be found T Ah ! where ?-echo answers, where ! n But perhaps I have ppun out the present chapter to .a sufficient length; by your leave, therefore, gentle reader, (if gentle . you be, which I very much question) wo will both pause and take breath, for, like the Dutchman running op hill, I have " got so full of wind I must stop and plo some out.". ; :. ..; . . , , THS KULINO FASStolt 8TONQ IN DEATH. When Lawrence was lying stretched on the. deck of tho Chesapeake, mortally wounded, and the- immortal spirit about quitting its frail tenement, his lastdjin Injunction was Dint giv'e up'the ship?' When Bainbridge lay struggling in death, bri the bed of sickness, his memory revert, ed to the stirring scenes in which ho had many years before borne an acu've pari. He ' imagined himself in command of a gullant vessel surrounded by his officers, on the eve of an engagement and sum moning all his enorgies for a final effort, ho exclaimed,1 M CaU all hands-to-loardihe enemy." , ..: "... . When Porter, in a foreign land, was sinking in the grave his body worn out with the exposures' and hardships to which ho had been subjected for a period of many J rears, in the service of his country in his ast moments he directed that hit h1 should be buried at the foot of the flagstaff, that even -after death thegkrimu stars and stripes of .America might wdveover him ,' Boston Journal. . : : - . Spectral illusions. A young lady in New York, haying lately received a violent blow on tho middlo of her forehead, by running against a door in the dark, suffered very much from pain about the part, and also from a disturbed stato of mind. Tho luttcr being' considered by two scientific gentlemen os caused by a local affection of tho brain, they enquired if she was not visited by apparitions of persons and other objects. She replied at once that she was, and described them in a vivid manner. Thasetrpparhtons terrified her very much, -Until sho was told that they were caused by a morbid condition of the brain, in consc. quenco of tho blow sho had received, when her terrors vanished, and she docs not now mind tho visit of apparitions, on rcflectin that they proceeded from this causo. This caso, with mai;y others of the samo charnc. tcr, i3 highly important, both in mental and medical science, as they give to this fiinc lional derangement local and ascertainable external cause. The settlement in Africa. The bark Globe, at New York, brings intelligence from Monrovia, Africa, to Uietfth of March. The settlements are generally represented in a favorable condition. Tho Methodist Mission is in a very prosperous condition at Monrovia. Tho schools are full, and every thing looks very encouraging. Mr. Chase and Rev. Mr. Wilson had.- with a company of fifty, made a visit to the Gon. lah country. They soon lost sight of any human habitation, pitched their tents in tho woods for many niehts. and finallv readied a distanco of 300 miles from the startinir point. The country through which they passed is represented as a beautiful farming section, and- will do doubt in time bo thickly studded with Colonial settlements. A larire miantitv of fnrcim vhrat ha knl. leased free of Duty at Dublin, for the purpose of uvmg oisnuiaciurea into Hour and buiscuila fur the use of the emiorant vma1s m iLin. passengers for NorU America. To Husbands A!tn Wrvs..A man hnnasi Jmti!.f be bis earthly paradise. It should be. of all nth., spots, that which he leaves With most regret, snd mm io wnicn ne roturns with most delight. And in order that it may be so. it should be hi. aim in provide every thing convenient and comfortable for bis wife. .With every provision ho can posni. bly make, her's will bo a lifo of care and toil She is tho sentinel who can seldom if ever bo rc. licved. Others may sleep, but if there be one wliu must watch, it is she. She onjrht, therefore, to bo furnished with every com fort within the means of her husband. Hom and rre Arrrm.NS..IIuB' int m th affections of kindness ! How balmy the influence of that regard which dwells around our firesides '. Distrust ami doubt darken not the brightness of iU purity ; tho cravings of interest and jealouiy mar not tho harmony of that scene. Parental kindness and filial affection blosxom tbcro, in all tho freshness of an eternal spring. It matters not if the world is cold, if we can but turn to oar dear circle, and ask and receive all that our own heart claims; CuLTtVATiNo the CsArK. We hooo evorv farm. er and every mechanic(says tho Boston Culti. valor) who owns as much as six square feet of land, will have one grape vine growing on it a nativo vine, we mean, net a foreign one for a mcro show, but one that will bear fruit without artificnlaid. ' ""' It is surprising that so few of otir votmir men take any interest insetting gripe vines about ths house. It is not because they relish not tlie fruit, for you will see them traversing the meadows wood to filch what does not bclonir to them : and to make sure of their prey they will pluck it be fore it is fit to eat flow much less labor would it be to take home a root or, a cutting and plMott where tho grapes might hang on till they were fully ripe ! We havejriany fine native rapes, in our mead ows and by the woodside which "re at least equal to the imKrtc,d kinds. In addition to the com mon purple grape, many sorts of which are rich and excellent, when they are permitted, to ripen on mo vines, wo nave several sinas ni reauwn grapes i that have not. tho foxy taitowhlch some elmliko in the purplo kinds. Then we have a variety of wild white grapes. . Thczrnne is cultivated with less labor thai! any other kind of fru7f,'andH7s a constant bearer. it is less subject to depredations of worms snd inserts than most kinds of fruit, and there is Iris troubk) in bavin? it in one's own gardon than ia going a mile to borrow a supply from a neighbor's meadow. Any one may bo Informed that erapes can bo propagated from cuttings ; that is, by burying a vine cut irom a growing one. We eopy the following from tho Van Buren (Arkansas) Intelligencer of the 29th nil : Gov. P. M. Bim.es has just returned from a visiTtoths Indian tribes in the south-west... He bad been sent oat' as' a commissioner by thepv vernment,-to act in conjunction with the Com. missioners ot the Texian Republic, for the pur pose of entering into a treaty of peace and friend shin with those tribes. The commissioners went met by all the tribes, except the Coroanches, t ihelft aeo vffiageTTnrB-WBi-Tlo treaty entwd into. 1 ne Indians and Texians exchanged tugs of truce, and arrangements were mado for enter- -ing into treaties at a future day. Immense meetings for the Repeal of the Union, continue to be held in different towns, in Ireland- 1! s i f- J' ' i mi
Highland Messenger (Asheville, N.C.)
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