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'Taat. .v. \;a«> JS A FAMILY NEWSPAPER-NEUTRAL IN POLITICS. VOLUME L Mtkatfa to |§rfaw?, 3Ui«atiiTC, ^sttnt, fficsfystite $rtg, ®«npticsnw, 'itfc&g of Bagging iiafesnls, Jroicign an33 Soacgtic Mdligcnc?, 8rc. §r«. NUMBER ,4, BY S. C. CLISBE, & A. T. BOYNTON. MC'GRAWVILLE, CORTLAND COUNTY, N. Y.' SEPT.: % 184?. BY J. T. HBADXEY. THE TOWER. OF LONDON. man are clad in steel from head to heel; fthe splendor and luxury he has lost. He | particular gratification, was induced to en- and as I gazed on him there, I wanted to! did not, however, despair; he knew TOO ( ier and seat himself quietly in a corner. The Pinglish officers, in a strain of arro- gant biaoting, were recounting their deeds of chivalry, performed during their sever- al late excursions.. Many were the bitter whisper in his ears the names of his mur-1 well the weakness of his termagant mis- dered wives. Here all the pomp of royal \ tress, and so one day as he saw from that magnificence honored the nuptials of Anne Roleyn, and here, three years after, she 'ay a prisoner—the beautiful, the honored window the queen's barge passing by, he threw himself into a paroxysm of passion, and in his ravings besought the jailor to j curses gratuitously bestowed on one \ Nat and rejected— and wrote from her dun- i let him go forth in disguise and get but one • Randall, !: who had been the means of spoil- It is said that Webster had scarcely ar- rived in London, before he ordered a car- riage and drove to the Tower, probably no building in the world so lraught geon to her relentless lord, saying \ Let not your grace ever imagine that your poor wife will ever be brought to ac- There is' knowledge a fault, when not so much as a, lought \theerof ever proceeded * * * ; be sported to Elizabeth Raleigh i'ollow- 'with.history, and around which cluster\*)' Try me, good king, but let me have a law- | ed L u P the neWs whl * a well-timed letter, and varied associations as this— fulltryall; and let not my sworn enemies 1 whlohso won u P on lhe \^en that she lib- look of his dear mistress. His request be- j ing so much good sport for them, and ap ing refused, he fell upon the keeper, and geared to be cordially hated by all the offi- finally drew his dagger. Good care was j cers present. Finally Gen. Bird said to I taken that this extraordinary mad fit sho'd one of his ails, a fine looking, hut dandi- fied young officer, \I'd give £100 to catch to the boat in which they had crossed the sound, and mechanically assisted in their debarkation.. IS T at took good care of his prisoners, watching them very strictly, but acted towards them far more Humanely than thpy would have clone had he been a prisoner in. their hands They were even- tually exchanged for officers of equal rank; and A*at continued to fight upon the side ol liberty until the close of the war. many Kings have held their courts there, and'sit as my accusers and judges, yea there, too, lain in chains. Queens, prin-' ces, nobles, and menials, have by turns oc- ; cupied its gloomy dungeons. The shout of revelry, triumphant strains of music, and groans of the dying, and shrieks of | murdered victims, have successfully and ' together made its massive walls ring. Ev- ' ery stone in that gray old structure has a let mei e!atec ' mm ' ^ alc ' ' ie > ™ t ' 1 ' s rare f, pi st ' e : receive an open tryall,\for'my truth shall!\ M >\ heart was never broken tU1 this( %> fear no open shames * * * But if vou ! that L hear tll e q ueen S°cs away so far oil, have already determined of me, and that i wllom ' havo Allowed so many years with not only my death, hut an infamous slan-j s0 g reat love and dpslrc u l so ma \> r •i oul '- der must bring you the enjoying of vour i 11 \^' and am now >'' ft bt ' hind '\ a (lark desired happiness, then I desire of \God prison, all alone. While she was yet near that he will pardon your great sin therein.: at hand lhat l mi 3 ht hear of her once in 2 and likewise mine enemies, the instruments' 01-3 c,a - vs > m Y sorrows were the less, but even now my heart iss castt in'.o the depth of that fellow ; lie is always crossing our path and has given us a good deal of trou- ble ; if I could once get hold of him, his neck and a hempen halter would be likely to form an intimate acquaintance.\ Si'Vi-'al swore tht-y would soon relieve [MO§©IE[LLA[ri[i@P§o Filial aftcction of the Moors. A Portuguese was accosted one day by a young Moor from the country, who, ad- dressed him by the usual appellation of his Excellency's pocket of the triflinsr ji foreign doctors in that place, requested him amount, by bringing in the ' cursed rebel.\'to give him some drogues to kill his fath- The reward was a tempting one, and caus- er, and as an inducement, promised to pay ed the utterance of fearful threats, and him well. The surgeon was a Tittle sur- callecl forth many a malidictinn, and num-1 prised at first, as might be expected, and bf>rless anathemas against the unoffending Rebel. Profanity was at that time almost universally recognized as an essential part of the military education, and the Staten was unable to answer immediately ; but quickly recovering himself, (for he knew the habits of the people well,) replied with sang froid equal to the Moor's, \Then you It lias seen old monarchies crumble to pie- doubt not, (whatsoever the world may think ces and new ones rise, the feeble town be- of me.) mine innocence shall be openly re Vour mo&t luyall and ever faithful wife, ANXE BOLEYN. It availed not.proud king, and that beau- wiih his hauberk and helmet and shield,! disappear before the cabman and omnibus] driver of London. The pomp and glory: of knightly days have vanished before the ! t ;f u i lle ck was severed at thy command ; \^.^T spirit of trade and the'.hirst for gain. The but at that dread judgment to which she' \ was never too gross for her, and Raleigh knew it. He had often filled her royal ear with such nonsense ted by time, unchanged by the changes > shall be to thy ear louder than a peal of' fl ;, crv that destroy or modify all things human, thunder. Catharine Howard is another' ' It has a double effect, standing as it does swift witness • last though not lpast the' i~ • i i i r . o„,i i n &HIU wiuitsb , lasi, ujuugu nut leasi, im- r0 val ear u uh such nonsense before, and amifl modern miprovements. ' f!ountpqs of Salisbury This hicrh qnii-it i • i i i p i • . ,,,;i l cuurmssoi oausouiy. inisnign spmt-' seo n her wrinkled face relax into a smile i lie moment one crosses the ditch and • 0 d woman though seventy vesri nf no-e ! i- i -ie-. cu»um*ii, uiougn bc\Liny ytais oi age, 0 p tenderness—comical from Us very u<r- passes under the gloomy arch, he seems • was condemned to death for treason.—' u„„„ s„ „„ oc in another world—breathing a different at- When brousrht out for execution, she re- mosphere, and watching the progress of a | fu-ed to place her head on the block, de- diff'rent life. All the armor ever worn in ' daring she was no tratro.s, and the execu- ancicnt days—every instrument of torture tioner followed her around on the scaffold, or of death, used in the dark aires, crou-ns striking at her hoary head with his axe and scepties and jewels are gathered 1 ere with a prodigality that astonishes the behol- der. We enter by the '-Lyons Gate,\ and crossing what was once occupied as the Royal menagerie, pass to the Middle Tow- er, near which is the Bell Tower, where hangs the alarm-bell, whoso toll is seldom heard. not dwell The Unwelcome Guest. Here John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, f plain, the plumes seemed until she fell. But 1 win not uweii on these seperate figures. As I looked on this' long line of kings silting motionless on' their motionless steeds, the sinewy hand ! strained over the battle a\e, the identical'. sword they wielded centuries ago flashing! Lornr. Island and Staten Island, were on my sight, and the very spurs on their heels that were once driven into their steeds as they thundered over the to wave0 Iilfc'i Fomclttlmn.t * >>•• 1.1 1 ,.'';. ,c •;[ At every swing of the pendultim' a spirit: - J goes into eternity.' Tire measiife <bf'6ul£>' life is a hand-breadth ; it is a tale tha.Hs!;•• told ; its rapidity is: ri'ltethe sivift shu'ulen or the living arrow • it is brief a»'the fa»' 1 ding flower, or the transitory rainbow,<or • the dazzling meteor; it is a Ji bu'bble; , -it ii'\ a breath- At every swihg of the- pendui ' lum a. spirit goes into eternity. Between the rising and setting sun, 42,000 souli i; are summoned before their fcreaJ'orv-^' Death, is ever busy, night and d'ayv 'St ' all seasons, in all climes. True!'as Well as beautiful, are those lines of Mrs. He- man.-— Loa\es have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind,* bl»it, And stars to set—bat all, ' \'' Thou haet all seasons fer thine own.' O death !*\ He is supplied with a boundless Varifc^ ty of darts and arrows, with \which 'fie; accomplishes his work. Could all die? forms in which death cpmes to man be' written together, what a long and\ fear-' ful catalogue would it make. Think of the lmitunprable number of diseases at/ the command of death. Arid, as thoii'jjh these were not sufficient, see' how hrifti - is exposed to fatal accidents >n' every hand, and at every moment. It was a saying of Flavel, that \the smallest pore in the body is a door large enough to let in death.\ The leanest gnat In the' air, says the same writer, may choke pne, as it did Adrian, of the pope Jdf Rome. A little hair in milk may ?trtin- gle ope, as it did a councellor in; Rome^ A little skin of a raisin,'may'st^p ohe's breath, as it did the lyric poet Anacrefe on. A little og-nail on a finger, recently proved the avenue of death to a physi- cian of this city, who was hi the vigor of life, and health. Even the food' ytt eat to nourish us, and the air we breathe> niay introduce death' into Our systems.— i And though every thing else should fail to harm us, we might fall beneath our own hands should God permit a tiloud to- pass over our reason. Oh, how insecure-. is life! how near is death ! What has been said of the mariner in respect 16 his ship, lhat \he always sails within four inches oC death,\ may ~be said of the soul in relu tion to the body. If the ship split, then _ „ vr -,r , - • .... .the sailor sinks; if our earthen vessel During the winter ol 1//7, Mew lork, his coal and displaying a brace of savage the surgeon met his young acquaintance I urea | c t i le SO ul is plunged forever into the * shoreless ocean . o'f eternity. Were our senses not bentimhed and deadened, VJe should read a warning,in every sear leaf| and iie.ar an adtnonition in every wind that history to tell—ft stands the grand and thereof, and that he will not call vou to a « PVPII now my neart i cas nv.o tne m.pili gloomy«reasure-house of England's feudal' strict account for your unprincely and cru-' ml * e ''>'• 1 fat was wont m belv.ut nei and military glory. Centuries have come el usage of me at bis general judgment-\''\'? hl ) e , Mmmlrr, hunting like Diana, and gone, whole dynasties disappeared.and ; seai, where both you and me myself, must' tcaJhag ike lenia, thn ge,Ule wmi hlmmg . yet that old tower still rises in is strength, sbo. tly a P |H-ar, and in whose judgment, I , ^M Imr about her pureface. Ida anymph Island lasses could bear ample tcsumony | don t live comfortably w.th your father, \=-•'-• . J. o . . ,— sometimes silting in ihe shade like a god- 1 of the unquestioned familiarity of the Brt- suppose V \ Oh, nothing can be better, dess, sometimes singing like an angel, some- jtish officers with that branch of military returned the Moor ; \ he has made much come the gorgeous and far extruding city 1 corded and sufficiently cleared. \ ' Z/W* p/^g /ft e °Oralis. Behold the sci^ money, has married me well, and endow- —the Roman galley give place to the fleets | From my doleftill prison in the Tower,' arrows of tins world once amiss, hath be- | 1 he coated stranger kept his seat during ed me w.th all his possessions ; but he can- of commerce—the heavy armed knight, this 0th of May. reaved me of all, (fee. !the whole conversation, and just as the not work any longer, he is so old, and he i Elizab 'th was at this time sixty years contra dance was ended, he slowly rose seems unwilling to die.\ The doctor, of cdd. ualy as death's head, and yet the fool- and resumed his,former position at the door, course, appreciated the amiable philosophy iishold thing swallowed it all. Her tiger Another dance was called for, and as the of the Moor's reasoning, and promised to heart relented and she released her cun- gay officers were moving round the room give him what he desired. He according- ly search of their fair partners, the strau- ly prepared a cordial portion, more calcn- ,- . ., .. ... . - . . --•- - J- c -- — It seemed strange that a woman of her g^r unfolded his arms, and in a solemn lated to restore energy to the old man,than living tide rolls like the sea around it; yet, summons thee, her tremulous voice—lost slen ,, t h 0 f intellect could have a weakness I voice said : \ G.-neral, I'd like to speak a to take it away. The Moor paid him well there it stands, silent yet eloquent—imwas- here on earth in the whirlwind of passion— s o pcrfeutlv ridiculous ----.- - • pert and childlike. But word or two in your ear.' and departed. About eight days after, he The general wondered what could be tlie came again, to say that his father was not import of the communication he wished dead. \Not dead!\ exclaimed the apothe- to make, but he approached him, and po- cary, in well-feigned surprise ; \he will litely asked him what he had to say to him. die. He composed accordingly another \Nothing sir,\ replied the stranger, lay- draught, for which he received an equal So goes the world ; every man has ing his hand upon the General's shoulder,, remuneration, and assured the Moor that 1 huess. his weak side, and the strongest character is assailed in some one direction. Pride, or vanity, or envy, orcovetousness, or plo- sions, furnish an inlet to the citadel, and it falls.' I may yeLr^'er to the Tnwer again, for its walls are eloquent of the past. \only Tm Nat Randall, and you are my it would not fail in its effects. In fifteen priioner; The office! s liuw to recover days, however, the Moor came again, com- ' tin ir ship arms, of which they had dives.' plaining that his father thrived better than i-d ihemaflves at the commencement of, ever. \ Don't be discouraged,\ said the th' dance; but Nat resumed in an author- doctor, who doubtless found these period is hive tone; \ '\Tis useless to resist, the C al visits by no means unprofitable ; \give house is surrounded, and if you make the him another portion, and I will exert all 1 least resistance 1 have men enough to cut my skill in its preparation.\ The Moor you to pieces.\ At the same time opening took it, but returned no more. One day, ooking pistols, and a gleaming hunting in the street, and inquired the success ofi quiet posses-ion of the British Army, and , knife, he gave a shrill whistle, which was the remedy. \ It was ot no avail,\ he re r war. x \ n , SU ason for active operations not having j answered from without by the sound of voi- plied mournfully ; \ Mv father is in excel battle 'arrived, th?y lived a life of dull inactivity, ces, and the clanking of muskets, which lent health. God has preserved him fron before Marauding parties were. however,frcqucnt | somewhat dampened the courage of the all our efforts; there is no doubt he is a' was imprisoned for refusing to acluiowl-. m y eyes, and the shout of kings to roll ly sent over'ir.to New Jersey, committing j salatory soldiers, and admonished them , Marabout\—(a Saint.) edge the. supremacy of Henry Vi'll., and, through die arches. The hand grasped ; mally outrages, and making heavy levies, that their best policy would be submis- afterwards executed. A little farther on j the ruins on the horses' necks seemed a ' up0 n the \ Rebel\ population. is the \Traitor's Gate,\ and near by, the ij ve hand, and the clash of the sword, the '. Nat Rodoluh, or as the name was at ttlnn/-l,r r T/Mif«t . niU nnn l i I. n ..M .1, . f..... I'll 1.1 1 . . I I.I -IT. ' ' . « 1 , . .. • A Virginia paper tells; a good story of Ex-President Tyler, which shows that he is not the man to be headed so easily as K] . _ - -•- , - --.---.,.-- i , Uib *,.„„„.,,„, „. „„ „.*„ ..„j at that 1 \ Lav down your arms at once!\ thun- rJioody lower, where it is said tho two shield, and the battle-axe, and the mailed time usually pronounced -: Randall,\ was, dered Nat.and they were brought and pla princes, nephews 0 f Richard III., were armor, rung m my ear. I looked again,' a '• Rebel\ of gallant daring, and of the cod in a heap at his feet—and on the in- . suffocated by their uncle. The armory is | and the droam was dispelled. Motionless' j ersey blood. From his earliest youth he J 8 tant, nine faithful brother rebels n»hed . - rhp j= d( ,p S of the County Court last mostly gone, having o-en destroyed in the as the walls around them they sat, the j had lived ou the rising ground, but a short | in and took the parly prisoners, the coun. ' . flnil0 l ntetl him ove rseer of a very conflagration which took place a f«w years mare effigies of the past. Yet how signif-; distance from Kill Van Knhl Sound, near try girls at the same time securing their, h Vd road foreino- him to dischare a very ago. But here is the horse Armory, a icant! Each figure there was a history, Woodbridge Creek. He-had hunted over, arms. The British were more than doub- \nnnvin*'dutv-°or subjecting him to the hundred and fifty feet long, and thirty three, and all monuments of England's glory as ev0 ry acre of ground within many miles, ] e tho number of the Patriots, but this -i\ ' * |' ib V b sta t u te for a failure to wide, with a line of equestrian figures, as she Mas. - At the f.mher end of the adjoin- ! 0 f his natal spot.and lished in every stream , they discovered too late, and being de-, n .{ the public'business imposed on if in battle array, stretching through the. ing room sat a solitary \ crusader on his'and had acquired an intimate knowledge of prived of their arms, were obliged to sub-,.- f nsleaQ o{ neo-lectin^ the business centre. A banner is over thehead of each,, barbed horse, said to be 700 years old.\— PVerv bypath and each nook and corner, m it. 1 ' v ' r he ente-ed'upon ifwith great vio- the ceiling is covered with arms and accou-, Smrn old grim figure! on the very trap- |0 f ihe whole country. The British had, JYbw a few words of explanation as to, an( j c a Ued on'the fudges and others to trements, the walls with armor and figures pings of thy steed, ami on that thick plait-, [„ somB 0 f their foraging excursions, driv- how Nat received intelligence of the dance , ' t and wo ,. k on t he°road as required oi ancient warriors; and over all rest the ed mail, has flashed the sun of Palestine. j en 0 ff his father's cattle, and had shown a and of the number of officers, &c, to be; b < aW j\s the road was verv rouo-h, he dust and rust of time. Thai row of twen- Thou didst stand perchance with that gal- , particular hatred to all of the name in that, present, and how he was enabled to lay 1 j\ Une m to work on it for two months.— ty two horsemen, large \as life, armed to , lant host led on by the wonderous hermit, , region, because of their veil known sup- his plans for their capture. 1 ^j\ beo-o-ed '0 be let off but he refused the teeth, with helmet and cutlass and ; on the last hill that overlooked Jerusalem,. po ' r t of the Republican cause. Nat had A silly half-witted fellow named Joe | \ XQ d js C h a ° r g e them They then petitioned breastplate and coats of mail, and lances , and when the Holy City was seen lying, nol a w hit more love for the enemies of his Reckhow, a Staten Islander, who like Nat j him * Q re ^ ian but he declared it to be too and swords and battle axesand shields, sit- . like a beautiful vision below, glittering in country, than they had shown for him, and for his many good qualities, was allowed. 1 d jffi cu ] t ,Q oVinto office now. for him vol. ting grim and silent there, is a sight one , the soft light of an eastern sunset, that, often had he and his companions vowed n ' 's ' ' •\' M ' ' vengeance, and many a time had the Bri- tish forces felt his power without suspect- ing whence came the blow. During the winter, whilst hostilities were partially suspended on account of the se- verity of the weaiher, the British officers will not easily forgot. They seem ready _ flooded Mount Moriah, Mount Zion, and to charge on the foe, and their attitude and , Mount Olivet, with its garden of suffering, aspect are so fierce, that one almost trem-|more than all, Mount Calvary, the voice bles to walk in front of the steeds- j from out that visor did go up with the But pass along these dusty kings and , mighty murmur of the bannered host, \Je- knights of old; Here sits Edward I., J rusalem, Jerusalem !\ On that very heh of 1272, clad in mail worn in the time' of 1 met perchance has the scimetar broke, and igave'a ball at a small inn near Richmond the crusades, and bearing a shield in his ( trom that mailed breast the spear of the, Brigadier General Bird with his suite, left hand. So, haughty king, thou, didst I infidel rebounded. Methinks I hear thy ; succeeded in. gathering together about a look when the brave and gallant Wallace 1 battle shout, \ To the rescue !\ as thy gal-1 SC ore of lasses, who, though they were by • a y a prisoner- in these-dungeons-, from ' lant steed is borne into the thickest of the 110 means friendly to the cause of the in- whence he was dragged^by thy order, tied 1 fight, where thy brave brethren are strug- j vaders, did not object to a little harmless to the tails of horses,, and\ quartered and igling for the Cross and the Sepulchre. j amusement which would serve to beguile torn asunder with fiendish cruelty. | But crusades and crusaders are well, the weary hours of along winter's eve,and Next to the tyrant and brute sits Henry' nigh forgotten. For centuries the dust of a ff 0 rd them an opportunity of displaying VI., who, too feeble to rule the turbulent times, became the inmate of a dungeon .here, and was .one night darkly murdered in his cell. Gay Edward IV., in his dash- ing armor we pass by, for here sits an an- cient knight in a suit of ribbed mail, with ear-guards to his helmet and rondells tor the arm-pits, and altogether one of the li- the desert has drifted over the bones of the chivalry of Europe. The Arab still spurs his steed through the forsaken streets of ancient Jerusalem, and the Muezzin's voice rings over the sepulchre of the Sa- vior.* But let these grim figures pass. Here is the room in which Sir Walter Raleigh nest sqits of armor in the world. Beside'lay a prisoner. By his gross flatteries lie him is another knight, his horse clad in ! had won the.favor of Elizibeth, who lav- •complete armor, and a battle-axe hangino- atthe saddle-bow. Beware,you are crow- ding against the horse of old Henry VIII. That is the very armor the bloody mon- arch wore. v^His relentless hand has grasp- 'ed that short sword, and around his brutal form that very b^ltonce passed, and be- neath that solid breastplate his wild and fe- rocious heart did beat. Horse and horse- ished honors upon him until she at length discovered his armour with the beautiful Elizabeth Throckmorton. Her rage then knew no bounds and was worthy of her char> acter,and she cast the luckless,accomplish- ed courtier inte the Tower. Up and down this very stone floor he has passed day af- ter day, pondering on the sad change that has befallen him, and sighing heavily for their rustic charms, and flitting wi,th the gaily dressed officers. A couple of fiddles plaved upon (or rather tortured) by two colored gentlemen, were put into requisi- tion, and all exerted themselves to the ut- most to render themselves and each other merry. The door of the largest room stood in- vitihgly open for the benefit of the conn- try people who wished to feast their eyes upon gold lace, and the dashing scarlet uniforms. Many had come, gazed for a few moments, satisfied themselves and re- tired. Among others came a'stout» well- built, plain looking man, wrapped up in a coarse great coat Who stood for a time lean- ing against the door post, and at length, at the urgent solicitations of the officers, who intended to make sport oi him for their on account of hi lack of brains, to come and go when he pleased ; and the English officers regarded him as a natural lool,'of- ten spoke very freely before him. He had chanced to meet IVat the day previous to the dance, advised JVat to conceal him- self, as his life was in danger. IVat told . - _,_ - . , untarily to abondon authority vvnen corer sighs. Even sleep would be a mighty monitor oi death:—an ever present emblem of mortality. ' him he did not care a fig for the whole ]Let ChUaren Stop. .,_ We extract the following beautiful and judicious remarks from \Phrenology jpr children.\ It abounds.in passages fe.mar^. kable for their simplicity and eloquence S - \All-.children can learn to sing if they begin in season. I doijot siy/.all willnavef the same sweet voice of the nightingale ; for some have naturally svyeet,, mild andK soft voices when they talk, white others;' speak in, loud, strong and muscular tones* The same is true in regard to singjng. •'Iu Germany every child is taught td>', use its voice while young*. In , their schools all join in singing as a regular ex-, ercise, as much as they attend to the study pf geography ; and in their churches ihe singing is not confined, 16 a choir, who sit' apart from the others, perhaps iu'one c^r-. red upon him, besides he would bediable to u , jr 0 f t h e house, but there is a-va'st'ude of incense, going forth to God fr,om every heart w.hich.pa.ii give utteranpe to tliis laugu ( 4g« ftom tl»e jSpul.\ ( •,. '.*•.•' .. ; \Children sing! jea, sing with; yowr' whole hearts'! P.avid sang before,., the Lord, and it is meet that you sha/ila.^0 $1 a fine if he failed to have the road put in good condition* - They promised to pay the fine if he would back out; but he prefer- , red to be above any sueh favor, ,by doing his duty fully and legally. They were „ . . , . , , , .- . thus headed at their own'game, as British Army, and by his ingenous_ que«~| 8hort have siftce profred . . ttons drew out of him all the particulars ' , .. ., . of the intended dance, and the names and number of the officers who Were to form the party. their At that period, when every one was a soldier, it was a matter of no great difficul- ty to get togelher a few men, who delight- ed in a bold and daring, and even fool-har- dy enterprise. The thought of personal danger never crossed their minds and eve- ry other consideration was tost sight of in the sincere desire of serving their beloved country, at all hazai'ds. If through carelessness, or imagined se- curity, the British allowed themselves to be thrown, even for a moment, off their guard, some brave fellow, \ fighting on his own hook\ Was almost certain to discover the weak point—and collecting his neigh- bors,they were, either by means-of strat- agem, or their impetuous and unexpected attacks, invariably successful in their un- dertakings. Nat had arranged his admirably, and, was, as has been shown, successful. Joe Itcckhow followed Nat arid his party down Women Stronger llian Oscn, It is related of a' certain New England^ divine, who flourished not many years' ago,* and whose matrimonial relations are sup- posed hot to have been of the most- agreas hie kind,' that, one sabbath morning, while reading to his congregation the parable of the supper In Luke xiv., in' which' occurs this passage—\and another Said, 1 have bought five yoke of oxen, and'l go to prove them : I pray thee to have me excused % and -another said, 'I have married me , a wife, and therefore cannot co)ne,'-\he sud- denly paused at the end of this verse, drew off his spectacles, atid looking round ofihis hearers, Said with emphasis* \The fatst isj,» ' itiy brethren, tine woman can draw a manj farther from the kirigdom of Heaven than five yoke of dxenj\'' \' V' •' •• A Mend of ours re'eetvtsa k letter yester- day, in wh'icn weather was spell^Wethur..' He said it, was the Worst spell dt weather he had .oyer seeli.' s'.vme ; and always, jWshen angi$ J|ee^ings rise i,n your Bre^t^jCjUr'n and checkJb,eiB by singing-sweet^.nd, c|jeerful;songs. ( ,\ Serious Couaideratlow. ,.,-,. An unmarriedrladyion,>the wjntrjs side;, of fifty-j'bearing .i)|j;tjhe marriage! o||f^VpungT lady, her friend-, observed wit^a Jeep..and sentimental sighV'welli I suppose ft »,>Jf nai we all must cplmfc to.,' ;.; , ,,: // 1 A little girl,was ! wa,ll> - yW't\ tne ,^ !1 ?^ er X. .of Pere.,la-chaise, at Paris, r.^i^plrW afv.; ter another .the praise^ unon the'^rnfrs o£\' those who slept beneath, suddenly,\^kclainv. ed^'I wonder where ; they^urjf/'^-l' tlje sinners? /• ,, -, ii# f ,,, _ ,,, _ • < icn 'if your ^if e , «<%> ^y^*? I*; f^* 8 *. sir, Very'sick indade, .the poor cratu^'—- 'What is her eomplainti? / 'Clifliplaint,, your honor : ; tih,' riivera? word'ofeo'rt^taiilfc ( hive 1 heard ajtalt 1 ' She lays a& t[ttietaft* 'iamb, and' talt^QitKiii^^t a'rfrd|^ fehji*. key all day,.* ' '' .,,,';]. ,
