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1 TERM*.-One Dollar ut*m»y C*sl* 1B wltmttce K paper«irtttl»*4««>ttno^«>»dl «U»w ti - paid, except it tfce option of the fafelMier. JOB PBIMTfllO. ALL KOTOS or WB-ranmnfl JBEBT8TYLX- The Journal * Republican Office is now prepared with a new and Lute assortment of Job and F«nc Type. AH Job Printing will be executed with oeatneae an<l on Retainable T-enne. i _ , €\mt ||ff{% For the Journal & Republican. THE BUCK mm. •T OIOHOI W. BOKOAT. Under the aniile of cloudless skies, ' Over lilies blue as (lie eyes, Of the sweet maid whose glnd urprise, Lights lier (ace vtitn radiant flltiah, Through the thicket tangled and wild, Where the sweet briars blushed and smiled, i Like the face ot a laughing child, j Playing hide and seek in the bush. Down the rock stair.' ay rough and steep, Where coo! springs in the grasses weep. Where wood-larks sing ond leverets leap ; Where llic roar of the rushing tide Sounds like ihunders Jar in the air; And the cnlaroct'B trumpets blair. And ppray bedews the long green hair Of willows by the ri.er's side. We press our way no dange. heed ; See how the furious waters ppeed, Bounding past like a foaini- g *teed With rainbow bridles on his nock , On the pave of the river's street. Swift asthe rain-drops fall the feet Of th's wild courser stout and fleet, No human hand can tame or check. His inane is while as drilled snow, And he flings it up from rock below, Me runs a rate witlr'w.nds that blow, Whose £oal is llic oceau broad and free ; The woods along the tremblnfg shore, Clap their green palms, and'evermore Kcho repeats the river's roar. And cheers them on to Ihe shouting sea. KBrilBMtAN ESTABLISHED IN 183« TBBMS: tl,50 W 4?tyg|* r j u JMij }oqr# of feHfiojS, ./fferos, JMks^ei^ ft(*,. $eje»ee, &grit> 4ih|re *#\ Xrqfb: i $1,75 ATEHD OB T8E TEAK ^jaggiH^.>^^. Pisdlanemfl THE HOME OF THE POET BBYANT, a pedestal, to sustain a vise whose over- hanging fringe of vines veils what else were an unsightly, stump. fTo enter the house you pass beneath a Hying, verdant portico of flowejring creepers i JVataw's own architecture — which supplies a grateful shade, while far surpassing, in its simple beauty, the more pretention*] product of mere mechanical skill. .- The poet owner of all this loveliness was from home at the hour of, our visit While awaiting his return, we were debtors to the courtesy of Mr. Godwin, whose)cottage is pleasantly situated at convenient distance just outside of Mr. Bryant's inclosure. \Jftth Mr, Godwin for our guide, we made a tour ofVobsor- vation through the flower-garden and ad- jacent grounds. This is the unpropitious Season for buds and blossoms, but I cull- ed enough to form a small bouquet—a slight reminder of* what that garden must have been which now lies so beau- tiful even in its ruins. j ' The Houth wind searches for the flowers whuau j fragrance Inlo he horn, [ And sighs to find them in the wood and ' - ' LOWVlIjXE, LUmS COUNTY, Nv^PSfel^SSD^Y, MAY•\•:« I860. 'ti: ' T i-u., ——T'-ir i • i - [••ii i ' - i TUB PWRHI SHUI4ID. It was more than a hondred yertf s ago, upon asbriii^sfttflffteriioon of September, a coach and four, covered with dust, had just stopped in frqnjt of the only tavern of a smali&iUafefllin'the \merry country in France. ?r . The hostlers were busy taking the harness from the jaded horses, and, amidst tundry ejaculations and im- patient exclamations, were exchanging commentaries upon the rank or profes- sion of the traveler. The latter had dis- >peared with the host in the bright and leerful kitchen, where, in those days, guests and hosts used to partake, togeth- er, of the same fare. After giving his orders for a bountiful repast, and adding that he wanted it in a hurry, as he wish- ed to reach, before uight, a large town, somewhat distant, ho sauntered lejsurly along the street, gazed at by the children at play, and by the old women spinning in front of their dwellings.— All delighted to have such an event as a traveler\ to discuss. What a figure he .lore.\ WOtlld Cllt, HOW, t o l)C Stll'c! With ll Here, happily placed, a pretty arbor | carefully powdered hair, his three-eor- L'ited the passer-by to indulge in love's Inered hat, his bright blue coat, with shi- young,dream or some malurer reverie, uing bullions, his bun\ knee-breeches, and nd suggested the query whether this • buckled shoes, •.not the cradle of Bryant's brain-! denoted the rich 11U whole appearance the nifties on h\ and wrists were of the finest fib- wide and undulating with rare old hildreu—those glorious hymns to Na ture that so frequently are found among his published poems. Of such a spot j lace ; his hands, white and small, showed how appropriately can he sing: jno signs of hard work ; his step, even, Though forced to diudro lor the dregs of men, had that saunter and ease which tell of Andm?*7e S rm^T\ ^ hl \'''- V ' Ul,u ' ues P°« l k thc ' Where the sons of strife are mil>|io and loud— ! man owne r o f his time, subservient to 1 oltcn come to thit quiet place,\ etc. j no one. A cold grapery, covering \ s laden | He \ Who know* not Melville's beachv grove, And Kosliu's rocky glen!\ The home of Genius is always a hal- lowed spot; a jfhr'me whereat thj wor ship is the more sincere because self- prompted, sympathetic, and silent. We ' all love to linger amid the scenes that have furnished the inspiration and fanned to dame the g owing fancy of him .upon whose brow Fame has placed the laurel wivath. Naturally much of interest at- taches to the features, the manners, the habits, and other personal peculiarities of celebrated men. We flock to look at them in public. W e turn aside from dullar-worship, and even from, duty, to pay -yhole-hearted homage to the hero, the philosophei, the poet, whenever and wherever met. But while thus we muse the fire burns; and within us is begotten the wUh to know more intimately, or at least familiarly, the man whom the peo pie delight to honor. W e would segre- gate him from, the crowd that surrounds celebrity, and, following him apart from the mass, would don the garb of friend- ship and enter with him, a bidden guest, within the charmed circle of the great man's home. It was in such a spirit, and prompted by motives in .which mere curiosity bsd small concern, that, not long since, f paid a brief visit to Bryant at Roshn, his rural home. Roslvn is situated upon the northern shore of Long Island, about eighteen \miles from New-York, being opposite the town of Rye, Westchester county, an! until within fifteen years, was known bv the unromantic name of Hempstead Harbor. At the date of Mr. Bryant's removal thither, in 1843, the village consisted of about forty houses and a population of some two hundred and fifty persons. It has at.present the ap- pearance of a hamlet of perhaps five hundred inhabitants. It boasts of hav: ing furnished the site of the first grist mill built on the western part of the island, and .of the first papei- nill erected in the State—both of which were estab iished by an ancestor of the Bishops Onderdonk, The harbor runs up from the sound, for nearly a mile, between verdure-clad hills, which are said to be the highest peaks upon Long Island, and from whose summits the prospect, com- prising both landscape and water views, is grand indeed. Across the harbor's mouth a tongue of sand extends almost from shore to shore, leaving, ~on the east- ern side, a narrow opening for the chan- nel, through which the steamboat finds a passage up to the Roslyu landing-place. On either side of the harbor, at the base of the hills, are %en the houses of the inhabitants, while the declivities them- selves are dotted with white dvvelliugs of greater or less pretensions, The land approach to Roslyn is of rare beauty, the road being lined and overshadowed by locust and other trees, and the scenery varied and romantic- Entering the glen from the west or south the visitor enjoys, at a single glance, a comprehensive view of scenery remark- ably Swiss-like in its simple grandeur, and prompting the application ofVBry- ant's own lines: \ Her S. ... The boundless future, in the And lunely ri»er, seaward rolled.\ The house occupied by Mr. Bryant is a two-story frame building of liberal ar- rangement as to room, although far from modern in its general appearance. Na- ture, and not Art, has supplied its exter- nal ornament. A lattice columned piaz- za extends entirely across the southern front, commanding a fine view of the bay, and of the bills on either side, for- cibly suggestive'of. Swiss lake scenery. An attractive addition to the landscape is a little sheet of water, in front of the house, whose crystal surface holds a mir- ror up to Nature, aud duplicates the beauties of the spot. Over this lake, near its centre, has been thrown a trel- lised foot-bridge, of petit proportions, but of pretty design. A gravelled walk extends around the water's edge» and a boat-house, in an unseen corner, shelters a little skiff available for raineature ma- rine excursions. Here, too, is a vine- ciad cottage, formerly the residence of the poet's son in-law, Parke Godwin, hut now occupied by the farmer's family. From this little nest, of Nature'* build- ing, the wildest, of paths winds down- ward to the batH-house, on the beach, where, at will, one can beoome a part of * prettier aquarium than Ar t has ever formed. Turning toward the mansion- house, we found it shaded by noble spe- cimens of the willow* the locust and the tulip tree, and embowered amid shrnb bery of the most varied character, all redolent of Nature's sweetest ' Flowers abound. Honeysuckle^ rose. vines and other preeperi, taatetalf tranv I n^'y trimmed, traWne the bT, r , and J chmb TT A e clapboards in da- iightful order. Utilitarianism has trans- •med even the sapless tree-trunk into young man, perhaps not with ripening clusters, and dwarf pear- ; even twenty-two. His clear, blue eves trees of choicest grafts bending beneath iand fair complexion, showed, at a glance, \proportioned burden of golden;his northern origin;, his features were fruit, are among the attractive features ,• regular, his figure tall and straight, his of the garden. In fact, the grounds I whole appearance noble, around -the house are orchard-like in the As we have already said, the stringer number and variety of fruit-trees every- ; was quietly walking along the little vil- where noticeable. [ hige street, and soon had reached its last Before we had finished the inspection house, prettily inclosed by a little garden of these pleasing externals, Mr. Bryant | filled with the flaunting blossoms of the returned and welcometKus to the house, j hollyhocks and sunflowers. Here the Crossing the threshold wintere d upon street was merging itself into a lane—a- and enjoyed scenes that tehipt the'pen real old-fashioned country lane—mean- into personal details. Butlgeneralities dering among meadows, and crossed by I —\glittering however—it is hoped,! bubbling brooks, all fragrant with the must prove me not unworthy of the : many tiny flowers of the fie ds, and here j hospitable welcome I reeeivod; I have j and there overarched by the luxuriant! already said that the house is roomy and i wild pear-trees. It was near sunset :— ', antiquated. The'hall is in thc centre,'the lowing of the cows and the tinkling d wide enough to excite the envy of'of their bells was heard everywhere.— htisband'a friend*, but to those wfco hftd become intimate enough to be told;of her native, place and avocation, sfie\igied to say that wben'^be carried the milk- pails and milked feer father's co-ws^shf felt as high>bred, if nut las high-tkufntt the Brst lady of the land. NattjjpMud made her a lady, and circumstances had only given her the lady's attire. Her first child, a daughter, named af- ter Petronella's mbther, Jenny, married one of the most widely known religious writers. In that daughter's house m y grandmother, ended her. days, respected and loved by all* and beautiful in dei^th. She was. buried very near her native place, and, by her wish, in an out of the ^\'MCTT SERIES—No . 18 . N«'f Marriage ceremony. The \reporters\ have gone South, and one of theiir gives the following as the exact phraseology of the negro minister in marrying ft dark couple at Live Creek, Georgia:— j \Here is ti couple who hav*e walked out to-night, iwishing to be jined in, and through lovej and wishing dem daf have anything twixen dem come forward and speak now, if not, let them hold their peace now a^id forever more. I want every ear tolhenr and every heart to en- j°y- ! '• Mr. Jim Thompson, whosoever stands fastly by your left side, do you ft i —j \j *«y« \ .«»., .. . » — - —- - : — . v> u «*(juo IOOW* uj JUU1 IClb Blue, Ul way, secluded village church-yard, sur- take her for your dearly beloved wife to wait on her through sickness and through health, safe and be safe, holy rounded by shady fields. Extracts from the Connecticut Blue Laws. When these lice suites were col.ai I'nlo ihe mother tuition, AIKI in Connecticut the good OU nine Laws were in ftiuliiun. The following extracts from the laws ordained by the people of New Haven, previous to their incorporation with the Say brook and Hartford, colonies, afford an idea of the strange character of their prohibitions. As the substance only H given in the transcription, thc language is necessarily modernized :— No quaker or dissenter from the es- tablished worship of the dominion! shall be allowed to' :i vote for the' eh-< tion of magistrates, or ony officer. No food or lodging shall be afforded to a quaker, adamite, or other here- tic. Tf' any person turns quaker, he shall be banished, and not suffered to return, but upon pain of death. No priest shall abide in the dominion; he shall be banished, and suffer death on his return. Priests may be seized by any one without a warrant. No man to cross a river but with an authorized ferryman. No one shall run on the Sabbath-day, or walk in his garden, or elsev, here, ex- cept reverently to and from meeting. and be holy, loving and be loving 1 D^ you love hei] mother ? Do you lo- her father?, 'Do you love her'brother Do you love her sisters? Do you love! her master? Do you love her mistress?! ,Do you lovelGod the best?\ \ Answer.—M do.\ j \Miss Mtiry Thompson, whosoever! stands fastly 'by your right side, do you ' tnk to be your dearly beloved husband,; tf> wait on him through health and | through onfluthn, safe and be safe, ho- I Jy and bo holy ? Do you love his moth-1 er ? Do you, love his father ? Do you i love his brother ? Do you love his sis- | tcr ? Do you love God'the. best ?\ j Answer.—'| l I will.\ j \ shall pronounce Mr. Jim to hold ; Miss Mary lastly by the right hand,! and I shall pronounce you both to be '• man and wife^ by the Commtndnents of \ God. We shall hopes and trusting! through God j that you may die rijiht,} now and forever more. Now, Mr. Jim, I slew ypur bride. I \Let us sing a liime : Plunged inn gulf of dark despair, I Ve wrclr.lKJd sinners aio,'etc. Amen.\ | Anecdote of a Noble Woman. In 8-sense of an Adrertiiement. An Irish jjentleman thus advertises for sale his Horse \Spanker:\—\On the sixteenth of September next, will be p*soId or set up for sale, at Sklbbereen, a 8trsng, stanch, steady,' sound, stout, sin- ewy!, serviceable, smart, strapping, sup- ple, swift, sightly, sprightly, spirited,; sturdy, shining, sure-footed, sleek,! smooth, spanky, Well-skinned, sized and I shaped sorrel steed, Of superlative Bvm- j metry, styled Spanker j with small star | and stripe, square-sided, slender,should-: ered, sharp-sighted, and steps singularly j stately ; free from strain, sprain, spavin, spasms, striughalt, stranguary, sciatica, staggers, scowe'ring; strangles, seeling, sellander, surfeit, scams, strumous, swell- ing, aorrances, scratches, splink, squint, squirt, scurf, scabs, scam, sores, scatter- ing, shuffling, stumbling gait, or symp- toms of sickness of any sort. li e is neither stiff mouthed, shabby -coated, sin- ew shrunk, snrgalled, saddle-backed, shelbf'outed, shin-gutted, surbated, skin- scabbed, short-winded, splay-footed, nor sh.vhl.h'r-slipped, mid is sound in the sword- point and slifili; joint. Has neither sick-spleen, sleeping evil, set-fa^t. snaggle-teeth, sand-cracks, swelled sheath, subcutaneous, nor chattered hoofs. Nor is he sour, sulky, surly,\ stubborn, or sullen in temper;. Neither shy nor slut- tish, slow, sluggish, nor stupid. He never slips, Wupes, or strays, stalks, starts, stops,)-stakes, snivels, snuffles, snorts, stumbles**\or stocks in his stall or stable, and scarcely or never sweats. Has a showy, Stylish, switch-tail or stern, and a safe set of shoes on. Can feed on stubble, .iniii fain, sheaf-oats, straw-sedge, or Scotch grass. Cairies sixteen stone with surprising speed in his stroke, over a, six-footed sod or HJH Appefttanee of literary Celebrities. A | New York correspondent of the Springfield Republican gives the follow- ing account of thc pt rsonal appearance of the lcaditlg literary celebrities of our day. Erne-sou looks like a refined farmer, meditative and quiet. Longfellow like a good-natured beef eater. Holmes like a ready-to-laugh little body, wishing only the graceful gentleman, who has been handsome. Beecher a ruddy, rollocking- boy, Bancroft, a plain, nega five looking man. Whittier the most retiring of Quakers. Bryant a plain, serene looking man, dressed in gray. And thus 1 might name others. Not one of these gentlemen can- be called handsome, unless we except Beecher, who might be a deal handsomer. In this respect they can) bear no p;ilm away from Ive.ry intcllectunl women, who have always become very homely. There is nothing to a dominant- intellect, in con- tinuous, j'a, r reaching, wearing thought, to favor the curves o'f beauty\ ;—it con- sumes a greater quantity of tissue and lluids than it supplies. It dilates the eye, but depens the lines, sharpens the bones, and often wears ihe nerves to a torturing quickness. So this 45,00 . .25.0J' 40.00 35,0> 15.00 ^^Ti'l* 1 Notices, the rates aUowcd by jaw v Ten UriegnMkea square, and where a notice Is lesg -! -*i uar o i l L* eha J» o d a s °«>e. unless a *pecinl agreement is mad«lothe contrary. • The Journal and Republican has a large clrculaltoh- lius afforoKi* a desirable medium for advertising. What Shall'We Brink 1 Man is a guzzling animal. In every land and in every age, he has taken, in some form or other—to his cups. Now as a solace; now as a stimulant, now to soothe) now tt> quicken; now to in- spire; now to madden;—it is the same story the world wide over. Bacchus is, after all. King Perpetual—a king that has never been dethroned; a king that has never failed to sway obedient sub- jects ; a'king that binds'humanity in fet- ters it cannot break. Lot made\a beast if himself by taking \ a drop too much;\ Solomon divided a driveling sentilitv between wine and women; Alexander died with the delirium tremens ; Horace reeled down the Sacred Way hiccupping \O , be joyful 1\ Addison went to bed nightly \ feeling glorious; Pitt drowned out his wits in port. As the world goes, it will drink some thing. All the temperance societies in. existence can not prevent it. Von can no more place an embargo up.ni-men's appetites than you can dam the Nile with, bulrushes. \ We have tried the ,-x- perimentand failed-. We enacted a law • nlyjto see its provisions evaded, and its pirif trampled under font. We have .. . ea., passed license laws without limit. We son why intellecual women should carry [ have framed societies, published essays their quantum'of ugliness. j ; vithout number, put pledges into the Let us look at them us |they pass. ] minis of the people, coaxed, argued, ap- Mrs. Sigonrney,_ the grandmother_ of j pealed, threatened, until our hearts were -ick with hope deferred; and vet the American prime (if was quite ha is homely, ordinary in for Mrs. Stt Kirkland is Ellct looks Fill K-wall. His sire was the Sly So-j Cushman h: <ide?, of a sister of Spiddleshanks, iel Webster's and quite Sampson : a sporting son of Spark- has Elizabeth Bluckwell pstakes and subscrin-.] mcr looks like a man. I'female\' literature, may believe her portrait) dsome. Cathari IC Beecher Mrs. Beeei.er Stuwe, is so looks she has (jeeii taken i-els \Biddy/' Mrs. (I. M. fat downnger. . Mrs. E. T . ke a washei-wonlan. Mar- • was\ plain. Charlotte a face as marked as Dan- s stro the denizens of New-York's one-eyed modern dwellings. On cither side are two large apartments: on the left the parlor and the poet's library ; on the right, the dining-room and another. A rare refinement of taste is everywhere evident. An air of comfort pervades the entire house, and \home \ seems in- scribed orr everything around. The par- lor wears not that fixed and frigid look so frequently noticed in country parlors. Here easy chairs abound, fashion and form find no favor, and ceremony issum- larily banished. Choicest engravings, statuetts, and other w arks of art, adorn the walls, or rest upon the mantle. The poet's portrait, by Durand, hangs in a good light in one. corner. This is the \ h >riginal of the fine engraving recently published by the Century Club. Near the portrait is aCatskill Mountain^cene, also painted by Durand, ih whicn the poet and the-'arttst Cole, his whilom con- genial companion, are depicted in sports nan's garb, standing upon a rqck that overhangs : a mountain torrent. A por- t of Mrs. Godwin, by <Inman, is sus pended in another part of the room.— Articles of virtu, portfolios of etchings, j d books, are scattered profusely j around—Art and Literature vying withj each other in their liberal contributions! to the rational adornment of this rural j retreat. j The library was, I confess, a principal point fT aUrait to me; and I embraced the first opportunity to gratify a not-unnatu- ral curiosity respecting the poet's biblio- '.cal tastes. Like thc parlor, this m is tastefully ornamented with ob- jects of artistic interest, so far as-its lin- ing of shelves will allow. The collec- tion of books, although less extensive than Mrs. Kirkland had led me to ex- pect, is valuable and of great variety.— In poetry it is unusually rich, comprising the works of all the best writers of dif- ferent nations. The poets of Italy ,and Spain occupy considerable space, as might be expected. Books of reference, dictionaries, cyclopaeJias and the like, are numerous, many of the books being rare and costly. Horticulture and bot- any are largely represented on the shelves. These nave been favorite stu- dies^with the poet; to the book of Na ture he htis devoted many years of close attention, and respecting her works can truly boast of possessing much practical knowledge. The address delivered by him, before the New-York Horticultural Society, a few years ago, has placed his name enviably high among the fruit and flower culturists of this country. There is little literary lumber in Bryant's libra- ry, and few books of the kind ycleped \^ight reading*\ cumber the shelves. A secretaire, conveniently arranged both for comfort and light, occupies a prominent position in this room.— Surrounded -by such an assemblage of book-embalmed worthies, and amid so many appropriate appliances, this would seem to be just the spot in which to give a beingto the noble thoughts ftng-'tjt'tek- conaing fancies of that teeming boftin.— The very atmosphere is redolent of poe-^ try. Nature peeps in coyly at the win- dow, and the rays of heaven J refracted by the foliage, finally reach the eharabers of imagery, lighting up thJewaifnSgnwad and rainbow-hueiug every thoucht.— Smile not, good-natured reader, when I The fields were alive with tht pitls driving the cattle home. It was that cheerful hour of the day when L'very object is tinged with the brightest shades, and the sun, before disappearing, turns everything to gold. The traveler was enchanted. H e had, five days before, left the noisy and busy city of Paris, and ever since hurried through scarcely less busy or less noisy towns. Here, at last, he could refresh\ eyes and mind ; and he was feasting on that peaceful agi- tation of country life. Just as he was turning from the main road into a narrow path running along the laughing brook, he saw, coming across the meadow, a young girl, carrying on head a pail brimming over wtfh milk. She must have been wonderfully fair aud i ly, that rustic milkmaid, to attract! and rivet the. attention of the somewhat bias No one shall travel, cook make beds, sweep house, cut haii sh ave, on the Sabbath-day. No woman shaJl.kiss lier child o Sabbath or fasting-day. The Sabhafh shall begin at suns Saturday. To pick an ear of c< P - - n v in^ neighbor's garden shall be dei theft. : ' A .person accused of trespass •t on ned When General Jackson was a candi- date for the Presidency, in 1820, not only did- the partly opposed to him for his public acts], .which, if unconstitutional or violent, we!re a legitimate subject of reprobation, but they defamed the char- acter of his wife On one occasion, a newspaper published in Nashville was- laid upon the General's table. He . glaneed ovi r it, and his eyes fell upon the ! n \ article in which the character of Mrs. ight shall be judged guilty, unless he j Jackson was violently assailed. Si )'\ used to the beauties of Ii by the yard, shall be presented by the had he seen l| grand jurors, and the select the unrivalled city. N. perfection of features and such gracefulness of form. Her bare arm, raised to steady the pail poised on her head, though sunburnt, was faultless in ts shape. The rounded outline of her bust, and the beauty of the ankle and which neither shoe nor stocking concealed; the noble and graceful head, the bright red lips, and beaming eyes— nothing escaped the attention and scru tiny of the stranger. „TIe was at first spell-bound, little thinking that he should meet with such rare beauty ih such a rustic garb ; but SOOR.recovering tho't and speech, he jumped oyer the low fence that divided the path fiipm the meadow, aqd coming up to the young girl he ad- dressed her as, in those days, one of his class in life thought fit to address a pret- ty country lass. His first words were not heeded, only the girT gave him an astonished and somewhat scornful glance \ ' :h must have enhanced her beauty- tenfold, for the young man expressed his admiration'-in warm and plain language, ifi ventured on some proposals which, in his gay life in the capital, he had nev- er known to be refused. What must have been his astonishment when the young girl, who had not uttered a single word yet, took the milk-pail from her head, and-tbrowing its contents into the young* man's face, ex.claimed : \That's your answer, impertinent fellow!\ And leaving him thus deluged, she quickly walked off. There was no further traveling that night; nor the next day, nor for many- days after. The energetic ans4v>er of the ii suited girl had touched a vibrating chord in our young man's heart. From a mere amateur's admiration his feelings had turned to respect. It was so novel an adventure that he resolved to follow it to the end. On that very night, after he had an- nounced his wish to stajy at the innfor a few days, he made inquiries about the young girl. She\ was welt known as the \ beautiful Petroniella,\ arid better known as the proudest girl of fhe country ; one clear himself by oath. When it appears that an accused has confederates, and he refuses to discover them, he may be racked. No one shall buy or sell lands without permission of the selectmen. :• A drunkard shall have a master ap pointed by the selectmen, who are to de- bar him fbe liberty of buying and sell- ing. Whoever publishes a lie to the preju- dice of his neighbor, shall sit in the stocks or be whipped fifteen stripes. No minister shall keep a school. Men-stealers shall suffer death. Whoever wears clothes trimmed with gold, or bone lace, above two shillings en shall tax the offender at £300 estate. A debtor in prison, swearing he has no estate, shall be let out, and sold to make satisfaction. Whoever sets a fire in the woods, and it burns a house, shall suffer death; and persons suspected of this crime shall b ' imprisoned without benefit of bail. Whoever brings cards or dice into this dominion shall pay a fine of £5. No one shall read common-prayer, keep Christmas or saint-days, makr/j minced pies, dartce, play cards, or play- on any instrument of music, except the drum, trumpet, and Jewsharp. No gospel minister shall join people in marriage ; the magistrates only shall •join in marriage, as they do it with less scandal to Christ's church. When parents refuse theU children convenient marriages, the magistrate, shall determine thc. point. The selectmen, on finding children ig- norant, may take them away from their parents, and put them into better hands, at the expense of their parents. A man that strikes his wife shall pay a fine of £10 ; a woman that strikes her husband shall be punished as the court directs. A wife shall be deemed good evidence against her husband. , • Married persons must live together or be imprisoned. No man shall court a mat J in person, or by letter, without first obtaining c msent of her parents; £5 penalty for the offence; £10 for the second ; and for the third, imprisonment duriw the pleasure of the court. Every male shall have his hair cut round according to a cap. MERRIMENT AT HOME.—There is no enjoyment more conducive to health and contentment than amusements nt home. Don't be afraid of a little fun at home, good people! Don't shut up your hou- ses lest the sun should fade your car- pets ; and your hearts lest a hearty laugh should shake down ?»ome of the musty add that, from the position of h^s desk, the great-pbe* writes .by the helpi of thfe \ Northern Ugbte 1\ What wonder Abut, he.writes s&.weU? , Here, in the enjoyment of Naturjb's toveHest omfh», and stfrrddatfed by » family group, ?the venetftble poet ptee e hi* Summer months. Here* to t%i«?en- ing of life, it, ia his privilege and rigbfcto know the luxury of leisure, and ; in the, seclusion of these quiet scenes, t$-J*^$$ the cares qf journa.irsqj, the sino^atiejB, of party politics, aiid even jagM-jtselt; iti nfmisterrag wef bera$ minTaWred to, in exercising a twh>e-W««ed- lw*ita#,V--, and in winning the DOTSOBSJ eafcm of (^ r«s*^hrrefe : f-^hty -.fcfcd; those to trhem be plays the part^ f host. L * * -^—*—« — -*— «-«— as tne prouuesi. gin ui ™ vajuuuj , u»c - - , * to whom no one 5 dared | to offer the least P « cabwebs.there! J you wan to ru ; familiarity, an d who4 low birth was ^. your son ^ let them think that all hidden b^thherMle and spotless ™r« ^ «W™>1 1 must be left on character. Our traveler went to ^he! jh/ threshold Wthout^*^*ey oonw - T -- ' homeatmght.- Whe»pnce a home is regarded as only a place to eat, drink, and sleep in, the workis becun that ends in gambling-houses and reckless degra* dation. Young people most have fun and relaxation somewhere if they do not have it at their own hearth-stones, it wiU be sought, after in other and perhaps less profitable; places. Therefore, let the fire^firtfl>righUy at nigh^-and make the home ««t defiglrtftl with all those lit^e trttittart pweftte *>• perfectly onj- derstaqd. JM't.'^-epresa the buoyani \ \ \ \\ ' baif>jji hV small farm house where sh^ lived with her old parents, the you^geat o{ lour chiu3renV*nd t^ -toul^ {J df|ugbter. : ' H e I SAW her there \ \ ., he am»l^iaai tQ. h^T; 'he spoke totetifflk^-i&jfrMjpb ; w^ at fc^st,: alfter. majaj^^.psb-fiiy; a£d !dit*cusska» *|tfei the jtfld JSB^T^|KB } duog replied the witness, \for i considered the patient in danger as long as the doc- tor continued his visit9'\ f ir! was taken tp the seMot ofjibe neigh ormg (soatyenty |here. \lo^ be educated ; taught\ io read, 4n^>Rriii^*an4 embroider on satin—the three requisites of a lady's e*icatwo4n thoserphito aad eawjfiimes. ^ Thr«y«ra^dlihfes^-^i^r«iWl tbgday th%bgym« twoty,. £ « U»t 4#y,SJWDV,hjr the «p»stor of the^Jk^ e cht.**, -ate a* married & 0» ywfcg aam^whyuashe «wc«h«4sfr*rj|velyfwre- pulsed, and.whom patient waiting,a^d •'••• ' - \ £rd- . deferential oourtsW wVe <«Hy rewj Ud*f'th e k>vetonsa sndrar * beauty of I &'4*sti#$rii^^ hkdlU * oarin g Iwf tbei# p*r*«feo t>jr b«in^ ttsgM>** t«e««Sfci«l^ •^•-••^ -Vi *£A \ ^ Ai4- : Wife*f-*e ^m^H^^^mis^:^^^^ tor did notmake »^eral 1 ^T^ Jk ^^r^Sm t t Wffthfr i»' m t H& WtrfW 0 ] patients was oak of Awgi*0 \No t w hatipeg &* j^hfeyy<fte -Aads so-] quaurted ^tfcllrWly lift imd rather novel courtship < she did not wish to be- come a wonder and a curiosity to h^r £&& around the lamp' 'sind prei light tffrhome , Wo , & out the retoemlbrance of nruwy* imre- mad ftmatoyancs through thei oV*^;ll*#i^b«*«l^«f4v^^^™ take with. th^Bflj^jr»to. the wprld is the «nrSy^ seen influence of a bright domestic' saho-fg^ ; \ SisiRR. 1 '—Th,ere ii ing in the name of sister, j :teg& calls up the affeer\ ' th e tbonghts that cl ^uiet, beautiful, and pj %0 place with its *hride to Ifte «tar, 'fl, _ heart, the d^atnond above a an* bWft g M the noor.day # the gem^f ..milder light, the home, and set in a coronet of pearls. i talisman c soon as he had it he sent for his trusty j old servant, IJoonwoodie. \Saddle my horse,\ said he to him in a whisper, \and j put on my holsters on him.\ Mrs. | Jackson watched him ; and, though she ! heard hot a word, she thought she saw the devil in hi$ eyes. The General went out, after a few moments, when she took up the paper, and understood everything. She ran out to the south gate of the yard of the Hermitage, by which the General would have to pass. She had not been there more than a few seconds, before the General rode tip with the Countenance of| a madman. She placed herself before ' his horse, and cried out: \Oh! Gener- al, don't go to- Nashville ; let that poor editor live! ''Let me alone!'' he re- plied ; \how came you to know what I am going for ?[' She answered, \I saw it all in his pkper, after you went out ; put up your horse, and go back.\ He replied, furiously, \But I will go ; get out of my way!.\ Instead of doing this, she grasped his bridle with both hands. He cried to her, .\I say—say, let go my horse. I'll have his heart's blood. The villain that reviles my wife shall no£ live 1\ She grasped the reigns but the tighter, and began to expostulate with him, saying that she was the one who ought to. be angry,'but that sheforgave her persecutors from the bottom of her heart, and prayed for them—that he should forgive if he had hoped to be for- At last, by her reasoning, her entreat- ies, and her tears, she so workel upon her husband, that he seemed mollified to certain extent. She wound up by saying, \No General, you shall not take the life of even my reviler—y~\ nnt, ri«i it Ifor it. i s written. \Vr dare not do it, 'for it i written, \Ven- repay, saith the geance The iron-nerved hero gave way be- fore the earnest pleading of his beloved wife, and he replied : \I yield to you but had it nof been for you, and the words of the ! Almighty, the wretch should not bavei lived an hour.\ To Obtain Weight of Live Cattle. Take a string, putit around the breast, stand square just behind the shoulder blade, measure oh a rule the feet and ir chesithe animal Its in circumference^ thi called the girt; then with the string measure from bone of tail, which plumbs the line with hinder part of the buttock ; direct the line along the back to the fore- part of the shoulder blade. Take the di- mensions on the foot rule as before which is the length,-and work the figures in the following manner: girth of the ani- mal, say six feet four inches, length five feet three inches!, which, multiplied to gether makes thirty-one square superfi- cial feet, and thit multiplied by 32 {the number of pounds alowed to every su- perficial foot of cattle, measuring less than seven «m more than five feet in girth,).makes sejven hundred and thirteen f iounds. When the animal measures ess than nineajid mote than seven feet in girth, tfoH**ykt>m*[% th» ridmber of! pounds to eaoh superficial foot. Again, supppie a pig\ or any small beast should measure two feet in girth and two along the back—multiplied to- gether make fo^r square feet, that mul tiplied by elevecV the namber of pounds allowed to each square foot o | eattle measuring less < than three feet in girth, •*'**5a^jS$fiB2K' \S&SKS? _ _ i — ^. n ^^.,. . - 3r -.. w _._«_^».[ ponBdCTThe length of horned] cattle, lABsa awlfi ft \B& 9 S^T^ w ii^ their attention.-|-}Vally Farmer. tion plate last season at Sligo. selling price is sixty-seven pounds, teen shillings, aud sixpence sterling.\ Importance of good habits. Man, it has been said, \r, a bundle of habits; and habit is nature. ' Metastasio entertained so strong an opinion as to the powernf reppetion inact and thought that he saiJ, \All is habit in mankind, even virtue itself.\ Butler, in his \An- \h'gy impresses the importance of careful self discipline, and firm resistance to temptation, as tending to make virtue habitual, so that at length it may become more easy to be good than to give way to sin. \As habits belong to the body,\ be says, \are produced by external acts, so habits of the mind are produced by the execution of inward practical pur- poses, i. e., carrying them into act, or acting upon them—thc principles of;,. , obedience, veracity justice, and charity, | 1I S c and again, Lord Brougham says, when ! enforcing' the immense importance of training and example of youth, \I trust everything under God of habit, on which in all ages, the lawgiver, as well as the schoolmaster, has mainly placed his re- liance ; habit, which makes everything easy, and casts i^c difficulties upon the deviation from a'isvonted course.\ Thus make sobriety a habit, and repkless pro- fligacy will become revolting to every principle of conduct which regulates the life of the individual. Hence the neces- sity for the greatest care and watchful- ness against the inroad of any evil habit; for the character is always weakest at that point at which it has once given way; and it is long before a principle restored can become so fbm as one that has never been moved. It is a fine re- mark of • a Russian writer, that \habits are a necklace of pearls: unite the knot, and the whole unthreads.\ Wherever formed, habit acts involuntarily, and without effort; and it is only when you oppose it that you find how powerful it has become. What is done once and ac;aiii, soon gives facility and proneness. The habit at first'may seem to have uo more strength than a spider's web ; but once formed, it binds as with a chain of| iron. The small 1 events of life, taking singly, may seem, exceedingly unimpor- tant, like snow'that falls silently, flake by fiake; yet t accumulated, these snow- flakes from the avalanche. Self-respect, self-help, application, industry, integrity all are of the nature of habits, not be- -ILihiet lios- Mrs.' Anna S. sj Stephens, heavy and coarse. Mrs. -! Cakes Smith, is considered .handsome. I Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been a 'New York bell. Frances S. Osgood I had a lovely, womanly face. Amelia : F. Welby was almost beautiful. Sarah , ! J . Hale i.t her vmmg da> s, quite, unless ' .her picture fibs-.—The Davidson sisters, 'as well as their gif ed mother, possessed beauty. If we cross the ocean we find Madame tie Sta.-l : but Hannah More was handsome; Elizabeth Fry, glorious: Letitia Langdon, pretty ; M?S. llemans wondrously lovely ; Mary Hbwilt, fair matronly ; Mrs. Not ton, regally beauti- ful,—but alas! she who has the largest brain of all, with as great a heart, Eliza- beth Barrett Browning, in physique is angular, and though she has magnificent eyes, her face is suggestive of a tomb- stone. Charlotte, Bronte had -a look in her eyes better than all beauty of fea- tures. But if we look at British men of urns—Shakespear and Milton were handsome; Dr. Johnson was a monster of ugliness; so were Goldsmith and Pope; Addison was to! lief. _ _ _ A BAD COMPLINT.—The first physician in a certain case was discharged by his patient because he was honest and plain enough to tell the patient he had a sore throat; and the second doctor having some hint of the fact, answered the sick man, when questioned, t.bat his case was highly abnormal, and had degenerated into synanhe tonsilaris. ' : Oh, doctor,\ cried the patient, \ do say that word again.\ \ Why, sir ' I said that ^>ou were at present laboring under synanche tonsilaris.\ •' Why, thjiik, doctor, that fool told me I had nothing but a sore throat, and I told him 1 had no use f< such- a dunce. Doctor, wjhat did you call it?\—\ I tell you, sir, in plain terms that the morbid condition of your sys- tern was obvious, and that it had termin- ated in synanche tonsilaris.\ \ Oh, doc- tor, it must bo a !monstrous bad com- plaint ; think you ^an cure me, doctor V \ Now, though your diognosis is clear, your prognosis is 'doubtful, yet I think, by prudent care and skiilfuj treatment, you may recover.'' \ Oh, well, doctor, do stay alt-night, and I will pay you any- thing .you ask.\ : i LOVKO AHO Oorfte.--Wnat little things serve to rejnhjl u?j.ofJftH(> loved and lost! tl stream rolls on, darklv •urbtilently as ever. Millions of plcdj.'-' •s have been taken ; millions of promts- s have been exacted ; millions of re- -olves have been made;—yet '3runkeii- icss is prevalent as ever. There is no iign of abatement^ there is no token of nclioaation. Grog shops are as plenty is ever; topers flourish as numerotjslv is ever; our jails and almshouses are as •till as ever with thc victims of the dread c.urge. For twenty-five wars the b. si irain of the land has been battling the monster, but battling him in vain. \ In- temperance was never more deeply i-oi.r- •d in our American soil ; never euunt'-J his victims by greater multitudes ; never •iwaved his sceptre with more defiant iand than to-day. Wh'.le societi-s are 'mlding conventions, and agents are lub- n'ing for more stringent legislation, the .v'nrlt of death goes on without let or - interruption. The question is no longer, then.wheth- •i men shall drink at all'or not—for that has already been settled in the. affirma- tive— but \what shall they drink? Tea •md coffee are voted by common consent r o be mere prandial beverages—no •drinks\ at all, indeed, but rather paus- •s in the crashing harmony of ma.st.iea ion. Water, in its undulated state, is vulgar and insipid. The generation of 'small beers \ have practically passed iway. Cider has, to all intents and pur- poses, become a lost beverage. What, rhen, asks the thirsting \ million.\ shall we drink? Shall it be the essence of jckroaches \ done \ erably handsome; and Coleridge.iSael- Shall it be liquified red lead, tempered !„.. IJ . , AT. „ n „u. n r> ..if: .. . .. , , , * * . . .'-;.', l Byron, Moore, Campbell, Burns all were uncommonly so. Sir Walter Scott looked very ordinary in spiteiof his*fme head. Maranlnry is homely.!,- Biihver nearly hideous, although a dandy. Charles Dickens is called handsome, but I must be allowed to differ, aud covered with jewelry, he cair but look like a simpleton. I might go on almostW infinitum —but after all, in proportion is this class anv homelier than anv other?. -Th e fol- Samue] A yac%;%»S' j * pair o£ little shoes; a su^ stock k^ or a; chili's play thing, L -^ , ^..^..rf-.n^. * m* \ - m ' the Hod * •._ their sifid*, a«d W»terisbere ! my boy's ajed j it any more. 1 it, l^-{gB^fi» and now it has is^JitS h\M , . ... of| being J^ppy with ir they rente s thai ta«woo*med hangs *~ J will not need as Ihwksda t for ti e snow; i he has gone.\ -_,.., _>-*l*4:-'*tw% Mvety T^b&Ss&sa lust as be hmg left hehiod to fgTeeihl; Ji. strange rnM^'^V .. ^.sorrnV..tihi*3._, 1 U^aberwhile she ioo^s atl \ TH E OLD OAKEN BUCKET.\- lowing the reminiscence\ of Wood worth possesses sufficien we think, to warrant us in presenting it to our readers. It is a portion of a pri- vate letter recently received from one whose authority in the matter cannot be questioned. In reference to the period of the production of the \ Old Oaken Bucket,\ the writer says : \ It was writ- ten in the Spring or Suirfmer of 1817. The family Were living at the time in Duane street. The poet came home to dinner one very warm day, having walk- ed from his office, somewhere near the foot of Wall street. Being much heated with the exercise, he poured himself out aiglass of water—New-York pump wa- and drank it at a draught, exclaim- ing, as he replaced the tumbler on thc table, ' That is very refreshing, b»t how much more refreshing would it be fo take a good long draught, this wano day, from the old oaken bucket I left hanging in my father's well, at home !' Hearing this, the poet's wife, who was always a suggestive body, said, 'Selim, why wo'd n't that be n pretty subject for a poem V The poet took the hint, and, under the inspiration of the moment, sat down and poured out from, his very soul those beautiful lines which have itntbortalized the name of Wood worth.\ YOUTH.—How beautiful is thc Spring time of life, when the faculties of the human soul are just bursting into blos- som; how brilliant thc eye; how rosy the cheek ; how elastic the step ; how vi- vacious the spirit. 'Tis a season of del- icate beauty and radiant promise. But, alas, 'tis short and fleeting. Even while we gaze, it puis on the deeper coloring of meridian life, and as quickly passes on to the Autumnal shade. The beauty of the Spring; time has waned and gone —the gorgeous beauty of the Summer has departed-4-tbe! rose on the cheek has faded, and thej brilliancy of the complex- ion is lost. The step once so firm and clastic, is unsteady. The covering of the \ vital spark \ gives signs of decay. It is preparing tfc fulfill Nature's great law —\Dusttboii ar t and unto dust thou shalt return.\] How is i t *ith the im- mortal soul within 1 Does it still retain the vigor anoV freshness of youth, im- proved and strengthened by the advan- tage of experience in more mature years'? rk -- the beaikty of the cultivated mini y the plaice of the waning beauties; of \the flesh? I Has the vivid brightness of jthe youthful eye given place to the steady bcajminig light of intelligence and love? While the body gives signs of dissolution anjd dacay, does the spirit give tokens of a glorious emancipation? —Is it ready to pai* with tb« body Jas : ,,;yf>!Mf^ £3TTwo hundred thousand bnsfa- *)s of grain arrived! at Oswego Monday. composition, **ttes*wrtterin French • vast majesty snd har- riods, has been, know to upon a smgte page of 1 was never satisfied with the first production of his thoughts. ith logwood, and scented with e\' ed bedbugs, in- the.\way of\- 1 line «-Id Sherry ?\ Shall it be rank Xew Jersey^ cider,- quickened . into-effei'Cseeijs-' by deadly poisons,'to .the tune of two dkd-' lars a bottle ? . Shalf-it-lie srrScl-nin.* dk luted wilh.base afeoho^.'.under the iiamv ' uf \ Bourbon \r \Shall it be a'cvmpmmd of nitric acid's'i^d. fijsrCoi!./e«st ina^o a ' base of vulgar \ rve.\'uuder\the label' of \ Choice -Cogyjac'YTv Shall it be the . extract of {•operas ana -.sulplnu-ic arid. under-the titlej-nf \Jamacia rtim;;'\ .._\••-' AM yet unless- soiftelhing , beMer -Is Qjrnished—'unless s some substikrie tor these infernal 3rugs is ftmrid^-thv public •will go on burning*its'viscera, and mad- dening its brain witli the poisons of i?^> barroons and the saloons.\ What, shall this substitute'be? May we nop. bor- row a hint from our neighbors „<>;;, the Contin&ut—a' hint that may set us si-arch- ing in the right direction 1, Rev. TW> . dore P :i-ker—himself a strong advocate of temperance—in a recent letter'to the Liberator, makes the following suggestive statement relative to the use and abuse of stimulants in'France and Italy : In Europe you s]ee many things which seem strange to an American. Take the use of wine, if I am right, the Eu- ropeans consume about 0,600,000,000 gallons of wine. Jn France, have out of account the pasture land which is^not ploughed, and the forests, of the actual areable land, one-third is devoted to the culture of the grape.! Yet there are\ im- mense districts where no wine can be raised af all. 1 see\ it stated that the government returns make it appear that I lie people of France drink 850,000,000 gallons of wioe, and the calculation is that the amount is not much less than 1,000,000,000! Yet I don't believe, in the year 1859, there was so much drun- kenness among then39,000,000 people of France as among the 3,000,000 Yankees uf New England ! 1 have been four months at Home; there arc wine shops everywhere; 1 am, out of doors from three to six hours a day, and I have nev- er yet seen a man drunk ; now and then one is merry, never intoxicated. The Uomans, Italians, French, &c, are quite temperate; they drink their weak wine Aith water, and when they take liquors, t is only a little glassful at a time, (which db^s not make a spoonful.) 1 don't bel^ye there is a bar in all Italy where d^«1 step up and drink rum and watcr, : ;Li*imd water, &c.\ Tlius^i appears that in France and Italy, where the use of stimulants is uni- versal, drunkenness is almost unknown. How is thi;s to be explained? Not by the character of the people; for they are ardent and excitable, and the climate is warm. Will not the secret be found rather in tfte nature of the beverages is- . dulged in?| ^^ 8re J * bt and innoc u nus. /Ehey eheer, but do not inebriate. They satisfy the craving for artificial stimulant, but do not pervert the appe- tite. They leave nesting behind them ; they sow i e aeeps of disease and death. lie bop and' the vine become agents -of . i.-_^«.UilJ m^r ~i,H B tfer to the health— benefaction. They minister t and enjoyment of t«e people^ Oorlfewii country has every variety of: son* and climate. Why may we m»t nurture th^ vine? Wbf rosy not otar sunny hillsides yield ttesfcarvest of the grape i s weU as those 0 the Rhine, and ' ~eW«p£l** ^m&i&J *•\< * **- a W-maka#»d a w«e-drinking peoplsl ..>1M4a%r a *&#*>*&&* , avail ouWssV««*«* 1^\ whkh Prov iieo(« lirttplased in our hands by sub stituting wjtoe and beer which we can make ourselves, for poisons -which we pretend to import?— UtUaHerald.
