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MY BROTHER.
I iv is brn away dnvn at Rangor,
Where tradiu' is well untie rstood,
Wh' re Puukins are raised along shore.
And nutiaegsarc grown in the wood.
;,lv hv ther was fixed at 'astinc,
"In the pork manufacturing line,
F r !ie had a patent machine
To make bacon hams out of pine
Tie tirn-il concern did it slick,
si.l -iw ni'd make other notions with ease,
y..i. pat in a thuwleriiig stick,
Cut tumbled a white oaken cheesei
N tan article there was abused,
F( r he was so saving, 'twas said
The saw-dust was all of it used
Toa.ake the dyspepsery breadi
HtM a mil!, to, that worked as expert
Dv steam 'twas a curious caper!
V- u put in an old cotton shirt,
And it came out a handful of paper,
Aa a when speculation was rife.
My brother, who that understands,
M .inui'artured its true, on my life
Manufactured and sold eastern lands.
Bt, then, sir, the climax to cap,
The buyers of all these made a stir,
Th uirh acres they bought on the map,
They couldn't find out where they were.
They talked about going to law7
Then what could my poor brother do?
Byway of confounding their jaw,
He failed, and he's rich as a Jew.
Tie great first cause. John Mason Goode, cu
t. rcfthfi Studies ef Nature, and the translation
rf the Hook of Job, has in four stanzas stated the
'ru:nent in ftvor of an intelligent first cause, the
vise contriver of all the arrangements of this mat-rid
world, as strikingly as it could be stated in
a whole voluinci
THH DAISY,
N'-'t .worlds on worlds, in phalanx deep,
N ed w e tell a (iod is here :
IVdtisy, fresh from winter's sleep,
Tells of his hand in lines as clean
V hut power but his who arched the skies,
And poured the day-spring's purple Hood,
Wdnuu alike m all it tries,
t'uuid rear the daisy's curious bud;
Mould its green cup, the wiry stem,
Its fringed border niecly spin,
Aal cut the jrdd embossed gem,
That set in silver gleams within;
A-:-! fling it with a hand so tree,
O'er bill and dale and desert sod,
ifiit mm, where'er he walks, may see,
la every step, the stamp of God?
CTM'he late whirlwind in Rhode Island,
seems to have been of a marvellous descrip
li ':). The Providence Journal furnishes
the following additional particulars :
I" passing through Cranston, the whirl
Kind drew all the water and the fish from
ingue Pond. It also drew all the water
,rm a pond of several acres in extent on
form of Mr. John Burr. A powder
!l nise on the top of Fenuer's Ledge, in
Cranston, containing ten casks of powder,
carried away, and no traces of either
,lJe building or the powder have been
iUnJ although diligent search lias been
made.
I lie following is belter still, and seems
n show that Hecate and her imps were ac
liVly at work :
j2 Witch. One of the most amusing in
cidents of the late whirlwind occurred in
ranston. An old woman who has long
"ed an honest penny by telling fortunes,
promising rich husbands and hand
; te wives to the inquiring damsels and
.stood in her door, broom in hand,
''en the tornado passed in its fury: she
t'as borne aloft in the whirlwind amidst
j ees torn up by their roots, the ruins of
TSr w,,alever e,se had in the
i- of the tempest; but true to her char-
H '. . rode out l,,e slorm and descend
. "njnjured. The suspicion long enter
"eu thai the old woman holds converse
ll spirits of another world, has thus be
C0Rie certainly.
South by Sfeam.A gentleman from
in Carolina has handed us a map'exhi
lm; the routes as completed, in pro
Thorough,
gress, or in contemplation, for steam trans
d ,on ""ie south. Every body knows
m.c ..u,n oi steam communication i
complete to Baltimore, and il,.- ... m.
in one direction, and to Washington
lucie 10 rotomac Ureek.near Fred-
minuurP- another. On the latter
route a rail road is completed part of the
way, and will soon bp.ll ih ,o ... ui:
'ax on the Koauoke river. On the othpr
route a rail road will also c, u
pleted from Norfolk to the Samp rknifit nn
the Roanoke. Thence to Wilmington,
. C. there is a rail road in progress, and
for a considerable portion of the way com
pleted. To this point it may be expected
all the works will be ready for use by the
end of the next year. From Wilmington
to Charleston a rail road is contemplated,
and a line of steam boats is already in suc
cessful operation, which, running as thev
do near shore all the way, will be likely to
he less objectionable to passengers than
must open sea navigation. From Charles
ton t.i Augusta a rail road has for some
vars been in successful operation.
When
..v ..... ,,it. completed winch we
have named above, the passage may be
made from Aocusla to Boston in ihrp-
!ltf r-.ll p,v I . l . .
'1 iys and nights, the nights being spent it.
Meamnoais, and vt course in sleep
Leav ing Augusta in the morning, you come
on as follows
miles
2-n-
170
190
2K
To Charleston 1st day
Wilmington 1st night,
Norfolk 2d day,
Baltimore 2d night,
New York 3 1 day,
Boston 3d night,
1090
Some of these stints may be rather to
largely set, still no more U out down than
can be accomplished, we dure say, in two
years more. I he Rail Road bv Rich
mood and Washington would afford iqnal
and perhaps greater speed. We have se
lected that by Norfolk, merely to get a
night's sleep on the Chesapeake. Such a
line of communication to be traversed so
rapidly and with so little fatigue, is not to
be found on the earth besides; and all done
not by autocrats or Kings, but by indivi
duals, stimulated by nothing but the ge
oius of our free and secure institutions.
New Orleans is within two days of Augus
ta, when a rail road has been made on to
the Bay of Mexico. We might have ex
tended our table to the Kennebec River
n the Last, for steamboats run thither,
from Boston, and a rail road is just com
pleted to Salem, and is in progress to Port
land. The Lxpress Mail will soon be left
in the bark ground. By means of well
organized stages to fill up the gaps where
the R.til Roads are not completed, passen
gers are now transported South with great
despatch. jV. Y. Jour, of Com.
The Crerks. The Arkansas Gazette,
of August 3, saS : "It gives us pleasure
to publish the following extract of a letter
Irom our old friend, Col. James Logan,
Agent for the Creek Indians west :
"I have been on the eve of writing to
you several times, particularly nhen 1 see
any thing in your paper about the proba
bility of a war with die Creek Indians. It
is ridiculous to talk about such a thing. I
have been travelling among the Creeks
since the first of May, in order to make
myself acquainted with them, and can say
that, instead of preparing for war, ihej
are emulously engaged in the arts of peace,
i'hey are making more corn than I ever
saw in one country before, and are becom
ing well satisfied. I never talk with them
on the subject of war with the whites, but
stimulate them with the prospects of be
coming a prosperous and 'happy people.
They are desirous of mixing with the wliite
people, and becoming wise, as they call it,
like them. I am on my way to the Indian
country, whither 1 shall move my family
by Christmas."
OCr'It is stated in the Army and Navy
Chronicle that the requisition of General
Gaines upon the Governars of Tennessee
and Kentucky for ten thousand volunteers.
has been submitted to the Secretary of
HT - 1 I .1 - r-
War and in reply the Governors of those
States have been informed that the Execu
tive has nd authority to call out, or to ac
cept the services of, volunteers. Should
the contingency referred to arise, and it
may be necessary to call for troops, a mili
tia force is the only description that could
ko rcmiirprl rtr rerpivefl. Such a rpnnici.
bj V- .W'.a.V. v " I
lion will not be made without more pre-
cise information oi ine uesign oi me in
dians alluded to.
The same Daoer states that the Naval
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constructors irom ine scvcrai yuiu nave
ueen ior icu pao omnium ou-
ington as a Board, on business connected
with the construction of vessels of war.
been lor ten weens past sitting in vasn
(Edgecombe County, jy. C.J Muita September 22, ,838
Mavinrr cnrrrnlofQ.I .1 . i.i -i .
adjourned and I. Z . .k
J?"l.'Zndu
stations. Norfolk Herald.
Police. JVie slave robbery case. Mr.
Corse was yesterday examined before Jus
tices Lowndes respecting the negro slave
case, but declined answering, saying that
be did not wish to implicate himself being
unconscious of having acted improperly.
Men have very singular views of right and
wrong. David IWoles and several mlipr
colored and white persons were examined,
and it was proved that there is a negro
band of regularly organized paid conspira-
iui5 employed to protect runaway slaves.
JY. Y. Star.
Saving Trouble. A New Hampshire
Farmer going to oarish meetinc. met the
Clergyman, and told him they were going
to raise his salary, (which was a very mean
one,) to which he drily said, "I beg you
would'nt, 1 find it so hard to cet the little
you vote, that if von vote anv thirm mnrp
am afraid 1 shall have no time to do any
tiimg else."
Cure of Club Foot. The operation of
dividing the tendons of the foot, for the
i ure of club foot, has been successfully
performed by Dr. Togno, of Philadelphia.
The sole of the foot, which had previously
been turned inward, and stood in a verti
cal position, after the operation rested flat
upon the floor. The patient experienced
but little pain and is now.we II, and has the
full use of his foot.
d?A Berlin chemist having discovered
a secret of distilling brandy from common
herbs, by a most economical process, a
temperance society in that capital, alarmed
for the health and morals of the popula
tion, have, it is asserted, offered him 75,
000 florins not to publish his secret.
Famine in India. The upper provinces
of the Bengal presidency were (when the
last despatches reached England,) the
scenes of the most frightful misery and
mortality.
Owing to the extreme poverty of the
natives, occasioned bv the impolitic and
ruinous system pursued by the government
of India towards the occupiers and culti
vators of the soil, tens of thousands have
been reduced to utter starvation. On the
I4ih of April last 78,000 pining wretches,
men, Women, and children, were fed bv
bounty at Agra; and between the 1st and
15th of March 71,523 infirm and sightless
creatures were relieved in a similar man
tier. So great have been the ravages of
rJcaili that the air for nules is tainted with
the tfil'.ivia from the putrifj ing carcasses
o men and cattle, and the rivers of the
Jurna and Ganges hoaked up and poison
ed by the dead bodies thrown into their
channels. The water and fish of these
rivers are rejected as unfit for use, and
men are kept constantly employed in push
ing the accumulated bodies down the tor
rents. From the July number of the Ori
ental Herald we learn that starvation, dis
ease and death are doing their work at
Caivnpore, Muttra, Gwalior, and Delhi,
while the wealthier natives look on with
list irssntss and unconcern. Though a
famine fund has been established by the
European public of India, it is found im
possible to meet the necessities of the des
titute and dying multitude.
A correspondent in Calcutta thus writes
on the lOih of April : Since the despatch
of the overland mail for Borenice, which
left Bombay at the close of last month,
public attention in this quarter has been
engrossed bv the accounts which daily
reach the capital of the horrid ravages of
famine in the provinces to the west and
north west. It is impossible to compute
the numbers who die in their tedious pro
gress from the desolate districts to the
towns where food is procurable. We hear
almost daily of mothers deserting their
children on the highways; of infants crawl
ing around the granaries to pick up the
grains of rice accidentally scattered du
ring the process of distribution at the
doors; oi the roads being lined with dead
bodies: a prey to the vulture and jackal;
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of the course of small rivers actually ob
structed by the masses of bodies thrown
therein, by those wfro are employed to
clear the highways; of the inhabitants of
the large towns of Agra, Cawnpore, &c.
being compelled to abandon their evening
drive, from the impossibility of encounter
l IHl, V iAJ b.. ..W... fW.a.M VWIdlO
around! and the worst of it is, that two
iner trie emuvia irom me puma corses
months more must escape before a fall of
roin n hp PTtiprterl. and the earth vipIH
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r-nit tvhprewith to aDDease the irresistible
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cravings 01 nunger
Progress of Science. Among the many
new invention? which have lately astonish-
i
i P . ! r1 We lUlnU ' l,,at l,ie "Railroad
Counting Alachine" of Dr. IWr.
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"jy ue said to can the rlim-.v l. ,,i.
td by a dog! counts the pdU with unerr
g acclirdC:i!dist.ibutes lhem .mo ihe.r
Doxes.m and performs the labor of twelve
person.,'!! The greatest difficulty whieh
Hie proprietor has experienced in the pre
parauon of his pills, was in the time it
took up m counting them, so many to a
box; and this has been most happily ob
viated by his exceedingly ingenious in
vention. Dr. Peters is procuring a patent
lor his machine, and will exhibit it at the
t air of the American Institute.
. New Yorker.
Jl Land Flowing with Milk and Honey
lTiere are a great many stories told of the
prolific soil of the Great West; how that
bread, ready buttered, grows upon high
trees; that pigs' tails planted in the rich al
luvial bottom lands, in the fall. fr.,nfv. ;..
such wise, that on some finp pvunimr ;..
early spring, a crop of juvenile po.ker
wy ue seen marching into the sower
farm yard, from the "spot where ihe3
grew," w ith short squeak, and in military
order; and that jack knives are "raised" by
n.uureu agricultural process. However
this may be, we are credibly informed that
the truth of a statement en-iallv snrnrisiiw
can be easily established. In Illinois, it
i quiie a common thing for deer, being
previously accommodated with a "bucket
lull of sail" on ihcir tails, to walk up to a
squatter's tent in the forest, turn his fat
haunches to the fire, and keep lhem there
uimi properly cooked, and then permit a
oencious stake to be cut therefrom. They
then go about their business with equani
uniy. In some instances, it is farther sta
ted, they return at nightfall, to furnish
lortu a "cold cut." We have this state
ment in the hand writing of Mr. J.din Smith
of Illinois, who refers " rnnfi.leiiil v- in Mr
John Thompson of Ohio. -Knickerbocker. 1
ir e p"JUf. frc is method in
it. A Cincinnati paper tells asiorv of a
crazy vagabond who recently figured in
one oi me streets of that city, to the amuse
ment of the passers by. There was no
symptom of intoxication about him, and
we suspect that he was only mad "nor-nnr-w
estj" for there is a good deal of the Ham
let vein in his rhapsody. As he approach
ed several gentlemen, he cracked a large
wagon-whip which he held, and cut a few
antics exciting a laugh in the crowd,
whereupon he exclaimed, "do not laugh,
gentle.nen; every thing goes to the ciack
of a whip. The world would standstill
without it. When I was a boy I was
whipped to school and when there, the
lessons were whipped into me. Many a
scholar have 1 seen the whip make a dull
fellow. As 1 grew up, circumstances whip
ped me into employ menl and responsibili
ty. I was married, had children and
means; but death and misfortune whipped
all off and now fate whips me alone
round the world. Tis all to the crack of
a whip. You are all scourged by the dri
ver Time. He drives you at a gallop
along the road of life, whether you will or
not. You may whip the devil around the
stump, but the devil will repay every lash
ten fold. Here we go! All to the crack
of a whip. Patience! patience! Better
be w hipped by poverty, disgrace, bereave
rnent, ay, madness, in this world, than by
the fiends of hell in the next. Mere we
g! All to the crack of a whip!" And,
suiting the action to the word, the crazy
philosopher went his way.
tn peace prepare for war. ''The wife of
1 f"" A r I
i. r . cannon, ol INew balem, lately pre
sented her husband with four small Can
nons, or swivels. This fine little park of
artillery, at the last accounts, was in fine
serviceable condition. The lady deserves
an appointment in some of the public ar
mories. Important Decision. By a decision in
the Baltimore County Court, on the 7lh
iust. it appears that railroad companies are
not responsible for the value of animals
killed on the road by the locomotive or
trains, when it appears that the agents of
the company have used all due diligence
and precaution to avoid the accident.
(T?"A case of considerable interest was
tried in the New York Court of Common
Pleas a day or two ago. It was an action
hrnuoht to recover navrnent for a suit of
o r-
clothes which were made by the plainlifi,
to the order of the defendant, who ac
knowledged that the suit was well made,
but refused to take lhem away from the
store, because thev had been sent home
while he was absent, and taken away by
the messenger, who was instructed to do sol
ine messenger, wno was insirucieu io ao so
if the money was not paid. The Court
charged, that under these, circumstances
Vol XlVXo. 38,
the articles were as much "goods sold and
delivered," as though they had been taken
away and worn by the defendant, and the
jury uc ordingly rendered a verdict of the
lull amount claimed by the plaintiff.
New Cotton at Natches. The Cmvrier
uf the 2Sth ult. says: ' On Saturday,
eight b iles of cotton were sent in fiom a
planter in Adams county, to a house in
this city, for sale. Before the cotton was
one hour on hand it was sold at 13 cts.
per lb. This is the first sale of any part
of the new crop in this city."
Advertizing Jor heits A New York
paper advertises for the heirs of one
Thomas Stewart, who rame to this coun
try from Scotland, 40 years ago, and resi
ded in New York in 1822. There is a
large estate coming to them, if thev can
be found.
Dreadful Fire in New Jersey The fire
in the ISiew Jersey woods, we just learn
Irom a gentleman who left Bt-iduitowii
yesterday, has ine reased lo a most alarm
ing and frightful extent. Millions of pro
perty have already been consumed. A
space of 20 miles in length by 14 in
breadth, through Burlington and Mon
mouth connties, and consisting chi fly of
pine woods and cedar swamps, is now in a
state of conflagration. The clouds of
smoke are seen twenty miles off, and at
night the air is filled with a lurid bb-ze
which dims the moon. The grass and
woods are so parched from the drought
that the flames spread with lightning-like
rapidity, presenting at night a scene of un
paralled sublimity. A great many houses
and thousands of cords of w oods are de
stroyed; and it is feared a number of per
sons, hemmed in by the flames, have per
ished. Fatal Accident. Mr. John Hildreth. of
Phelps, Ontario Co. (N Y.) w as shot by
the accidental discharge of a gun which
his son w as cleaning and preparing for use
at a militia parade. The ball passed
w ithin an inch of hi mother's head, and di
rectly through the body of his father, who
died from a loss of blood, a few hours after
the accident. Mr. Hildreth was a farmer,
extensively known and esteemed.
$300 Reward. The Governor of South
Carolina has issued a Proclamation offer
ing a reward of three hundred dollars for
the apprehension of Abner Striplin. for
the murder of Hiram Addison, of Uirh
land District. Said Striplin is about ihir
ty years of age, five feet ten inches high,
well made, fair complexion, light hair and
blue eyes, sharp features, prominent full
mouth and white teeth, fond of gambling
and brags much of his manhood.
Imaginary evils. If we expect the bles
sings of strength, health, and the testimo
ny of a good conscience, all the other
conveniences an'd pleasures of life depend
on opiniont Except pain of body and re
morse of conscience, all our evils are im
aginary. Singular Marriages. A widower at
Camden, who was not very you np, became
smitten with a y ung and beautiful girl, and
married her. A short time after, the son
of this man by a former wife, became also
in love, not with a younger person, but
wih the mother of the father's new wife, a
widow lady still in the bloom of life. Ha
offered himself, and soon the young man
and the widow were united in the bands of
matrimony ; so that in consequence of these?
two connexions, a father becomes the son-in-law
of hia own son, and a wife not only
the daughter-in-law of her own son-in-law,
but still more,the mother-in-law ofher own
mother, who is herself the daughter-in-?awr
ofher own daughter- while the husband of
the latter is the father-in-law of his mother-
in-law, and father-in-law to his own father.
Sintrular confusion mav arise, if children
o J ,
should spring from these peculiar marriages.
Curious.As a train of railway cars
was passing along an inclined plane on the
railway from Bolton to Kenven in Eng
land, moving at the rate of thirty or forty
miles an hour, a man who was standing on
the side of the railway threw a stone about
the size of a hen's egg in a horizontal di
rection, and with considerable violence, at
the train. The stone was distinctly seen by
a gentleman who was Seated in the last car,
w ith his back to the enerine. and he re-
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marked that, when it had attained its max
imum of velocity, it appeared like Mahom
et's coffin, suspended in the air a few sec
onds, within afoot of the gentleman's head!
He seized hold ol it, ana aescnueu me eu
sation as similar to that of grasping a stone,
in a state of rest, suspended by a thread.
in a state or resi, ouan-v" j -
Thus it seems that the train and th
had both attained the same velocity.
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