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A FAMILY NEWSPAPER-ttJTRAl IN P0L1TICR *. VOLUME I. S>ctct.-^ U £=n?«r?, 2U:?*Hto?, l^fir?, pj\s] S'rtS, Syn^f-acr?, ^«s$ °- r j-^s^lug jEfcrns, Jrcwip amji Sora?«ik HnkJKgenw, 8r«. &e. NUMBER 11. BY S. C. CIISBE, READING FOE ANYBODY. ?AV\ T TO^ isiiii \.\. 'GRAWVILLE, CORTLAND COUNTY, N. Y. OCTOBEE 21, 1841 •_»_*_JHJ-M «' \ \ ** *** From Peterson's National Maguziuo. THE 1Y0CN611EBEL A Tale of the Carolinas. BY J. MILTON SANDERS. and mounted on a sturdy horse. His des- tination was the American camp, then lui to the notthward ; but as the intervening country was filled with the enemy, lie knew there would be considerable addn ss required to cii'ecl his purpose. Ui-fore his departure he saw a few of. his old play- mates, who promised to Ibllow him us soon as possible. Sight found him near a lonely farmhouse n,. tli, however, after a silent marct the wuud-., it broke upun their A light was At h-Ii- tbl'OUgl view. A light was burning in one of the windows, and when they arrived close to iIn; premises, the lively notes of a vio- Jack Bramble's Family Bible. BY WILLIAM H. 31 t'ALLA. 'You certainly have a strange manner in reached their ears, pioving that the of showing your grief at the death of arel- brotheis were not aw are of their presence, j alive,\ sajdQ.uibb'e, a smile lurking in his but enjoying themselves in imagined se- curity. Now. In a small farm-house, towards the close of the year 1780, sat an old man, his wife and only sou. The face of the father ap- peared troubled; at times he loiked tho't- fully on the floor, and then he would g:,z<? ^meT^lT war long and wistfully at his son, a fine, manly youth of twenty. At length he said, David, this is disastrous news from Cam- den. God knows what will become of the country now'! Congress net ds every man that is capable—ah ! uie, 1 wish this old wound 1 got in the French war had not lamed me—but fijr it, I should be now shouldering my musket, and marching to defend my country. Both the son and wife looked up at these words. The old lady ceased knitting and to which he proceeded boldly in pursuit of j torics, when I give the word, fire a volley a lodging. At first the occupant received'at the house by way of introducing our- j him coolly, but a chance expression selves : eon- j vineed David that his hast was a lory, he; mid enter it jallected the same political creed and wa> nnly welcomed. The roy- alist procured his cider after supper, and insisted that .David should join him in his notations; this the young man did, inking lady gazed inquiringly at her boy, and it w- evident, from the expression of her face, thatgpatriotism and moth n rIy affection were at variance in her bosom. The son, how- ever, after encountering his father's eye for a moment, turned confusedly away.— The old man's brow darkened, and he said warmly, David, .David, why do you linger about the village when your country needs your services so much ?—why, son, 1 am asha- med of you ! Twice, before this have 1 spoken to you upon this subject, but you appear to have no spirit! What! will you see us trampled upun by the brutal mercenary of i>'ritain, and si ill be more supinely? For shame, David—for shame! I will not call you my son. Long since you ought to have been in tie af- fray ! Joshua, Joshua, interposed the old moth- er, David is but a youth, then do no: sp ak to him so harshly. He cannot feel what you feel, who have fought so often against our country's enemies—Joshua, he is but a boy. A boy, indeed, Deborah ! such boys as David have already gained imperishable laurels since the war commenced. I could name a host of them!—why, were it not for the boys of this kind where would be our army, which I dare say, is one quar- rer conrposed of boys of David's age.— The old man was excited, and it was the first unkind word that he ever used to his boy. David arose and left the house. He walked some distance apparently in deep thought. in her most winning manner, \I should re- ally like to have some money this even- ing.\ \So would I, Mrs. Jones,\ replied Jack, with the most perfect sang froid. \I should like to go and see the new panto, mime at Astley's.\ \You would!\ exclaimed Mrs'. Jones, her voice grown suddenly as shrill as a cracked clarionet ; \you would like to go to the theatre', would you, instead of pay-iug your honest debts ? Now 1 just tell you what it is, Mr. Bramble : if you think I am goiu' to'go to market every mornin' of my life, to buy the best as the market af- fords for vieh idle, tobacco-smokin' fellers as you, you are mistaken. Not another day do you live in this house ; and, if you don't go to-morrow mornin', I'll get a po- lice officer, and have you put out, neck and heels. So remember 1\ And, shutting the door after her with a crash, she wont down stairs. \What is to become, of me f' thought The tori- s immediately made a rush at it. , some he had ever kuown^ but, as all things j Jaok '. as , soon , as sh . e A TTt' \'^ iS But it was already bar'red, and being made j must have an end, so had this, and eight! 110 mlstake about the old lady now. I< ve of stout oak plank, resisted all their efforts. . o'clock in the evening beheld Jack standi , t0 evacuate the premises. 0, un^, eyes, al'houyli he attempted to look seri- ous , \but allow me to congratulate you, men, whispered the lrader of the | Suck. U p >n your good fortune. 1 hope, he lay have L-ft you something handsome.\ \I hope an in.i,\ said Jack, from the bot- wo will then sunburn! the house , t mi of his heart. At that instant the deep ba\ | \But come,\ sa: 1 Quibble, get to work • jf a dog rung in their ears, and a large | a ml cupy that d.---u.\' mastiff s-pruug from under the house and! Jack one.'more mounted the stove, and rushed at the Major. , went to work ; but he wrote mechanically, Fire ! he cried. : his thoughts were anywhere but upon the Twenty guns broke upon the stillness of, pap-r befuv him, and he made so many lu- oare, however, not to indulge too ireply, j the ni.ht— the dog fell dead—every pane | dicrous blunders, that at last old Quibble while the farmer, overjoyed to find \vi at he I of glass in the front of the house was shi-' paid there was no use of his working any supposed a new recruit foi his party, 'Irani;. vend, and the tories yelled like ravages, more, and that Jack might take a holiday, without stint, and became more and uiore In an instant the light in the house was ex-j Of all other days in the year, this one communicative. To his honor Daw'! soon , linguished—and a noise made at the di>or. • appeared tj Jack the longest and mo^t tire- learni.-d that a party of loyalists, i'-J by j Major Wilson, celebrated for his loryism and ruthlessness, were to start the ensuing ana i umiessness, were to start uie ensuing i ui .-LULU van. piuutv, irsisieu an men uuui io. , o uiuoiv m me evening uuiieiu jaun. SLU.HU- day, on an exp'-ditou to seize and hang the | A rifle cracked from one of the upper win- : ing upon the steps nf lawyer B 's of- two Bunkers, who had made themselves j d'iws, and one of the tories fell desperately j tice, with a beating heart and terribly ner-1. eTi - u „ particularly obnoxious to the loyalist lead- : wounded. Another report succeeded, and j vous feelings. II u was soon ushered into i m § °J '?.'^ s > su \denly thought Jack, ers. David knew enough o uncle ! why did'nt you leave me a few. hundieds, instead of that old Bible ? Talk- <I ELOQUENCE.—A n Illinois lawyer, defend-, ing a thief, wound up his speech to the j«;, ry in behalf of his injured client fnritli tfjp, following rousing appeal: \ T^ru^he ^»J*,< rude—so air our bears, true, . he. VH, ; rough—so air our buftisrlers. But h». was a child of freedom, and his answer te., the despot and tyrant was, that ills home was on the bright setting sun.\ Persons who are in the habit of Jkie^f- ing Lucifer matches, ought fo ba careful not to leave them where the' fats or mjee get to them, as they are very fb'n'ffof thAi paste on the boxes,and will strew the maH£fe es in every hole and corner in the noa's'S; and under the floor-—many times fifes* 6t> iginate in that way and are atfribute'd i<t the act of an incendiary. The Public Lands continue to sell rijjJJ idly ; and the demand will not abate while there is such a tremendous influx of emi- grants into our country. The receipts of the land office in Green Bay, for one week lately, were over $175,000, and the* crj; was still they come. Some persons are always in love—the 'We of money first then the—women; loyalist icao- nuuuucu. ^.iioiuei itjuiinutucucu, <xuu j vuus leenii^s. no »^as suuu uaucicu IULU , --> • - <-• . this partisan ' another t»rv fell, and Major Wilson was ! tne office, where he found the other two re- W0 \ d T er > lf 1 I 1 , was ] t0 read a few cha P t f S \ n 1 ... « ., . , . ,-. . . i ' . . .. , , i t if nrtn\r\ nt rliconvoi- cnmc» wn\ r nt apt - warfare to be assured that no mercy wo'd ; now fully aware that Loth Bunkers were at be shown his fri-nds ; he also knew enough home and wide awake. A shed turned the of the character of the ikfajor to suspect, rain from the front of the house, and un- that some strong personal motive had led i derneatii this,the tories shielded themselves to the planning of so distant an expedition, when there were others as inviting nearer home. lie accordingly set himself to dis- cover from his half inebriate companion the truth. Nor was it long before succes crowned his adroit cr ss-examina- lion. Why, you see, said his host, 1 believe there's a little revenge for a slight receiv- es o ed from these fellow's sister, mixed up with the Major's desire to catch the Bunkers.— The girl is very pretty, they say, and the Maj r, when she was down here on a visit hist year—before the war got to be so bloody—wanted to marry her, but she would have nothing to say to him. Ever since, he has vowed to make her rue the day. You may depend upon it, he will have her on his own terms now—thank heav n ! there is no law any longer to prevent an lion> st loyalist from doing as from the fire of the Bunkers, went to work at the door. Suspecting such resistance— perhaps from a knowledge of their charac- ter—one of the men had brought an axe lations, (very distant ones, but who now felt very near.) together with a few friends already assembled. The will was broken open with all due formality, and read in this wise : \I Richard Bramble, of the city of Lon- don, England, being of sound disposing mind and memory, do make and publish with which he commenced hewing at the 'thin for my last vwll and testament. door, and soon cut it to pieces. Here a di s- perate baitle ensued. The two brothers were powerful men, and as courageous as tl.ey u ere strong : and now with clubbed rifles they disputed the en'rance of the whole tory force. The do-v being small, they stood their ground for half an hour, \To my second cousin, Thomas Jones, 1 give and bequeath the sum of five thou- sand dollars. '•To Augustus Jones, his brother, five I thousand dollars. i \To my well beloved nephew, John 'Bramble, if still alive, I give and beqeath felling during that lime some of those who > my old Family Bible, which I hope he will had the temerity to enter first, but finally !always preserve, as I think he will find it numbers overcame them, and they were , to be, as I have, the best friend he has ev- er known. \The devil he does !\ exclaimed Jack, in a perfect agony of rage and disappoint- ment. '-What the mischief does he think I want wiih a Bible ? Why, I have two already. If it was only a watch or a gun ; flung upon the floor and bound. The to'- ries, inflamed to madness at the great re- sistance which had been made, and at their own los-'es, now seized the mother and sister, and made preparations to hang the two brothers before their eves. The to those rascally is the Major now, lien the Major addressed loud lie ]ileases But yonder is the Major now, suddenly . of the victims said his host, starting up, I'll introduce you ( his men. to him at once—a merry fellow, you will' Now, friends, as soon as these villains find him—Lord love you, he is as brave as' are dead, we will set fire to the house—the a lion. old woman,he said with a brutal laugh, may David, though horrified at the diabolical \ be left inside—but the young one 1 reserve plot he had heard, saw the necessity of dis-, to myself. sembling, in order to learn further of the [ Hark! cried one of the men in tories' plans, and find means, if possible,, voice. The Major ceased, and they heard to circumvent them. He arose, therefore j a voice outside of the house. Altho' the What vill not woman do ? he at last an j s | 1O0 |. lhe ftlajor's hand warmly ; words were spoken low, the listeners dis- muttered-herel have been lmgeruigabout^ pi w ]g e j |,j m immediately in a brimmer; tiuctly heard—when I say fire, give it them! and soon c uitrived to make the loyalist be-j A man with blanched cheek now rushed lievethat he was anxious to join a troop and i among them exclaiming, the yard is full take part against the rebels. This induced j of men ! the Major to be unusually civil, for he j Fire! cried a deep voice from the yard wished to secure so athletic a recruit him-j —a general volley succeeded, and so well self. It was not long before a bargain had I had the aim been directed in the door, that been concluded between the two. David ! several of the tories ff 11 dead or desperate- refused to sign the agreement that night;! ly wounded. In turn, the tories retreated but pretended that several others of his | up the stairs, when David, our hero, rushed friends were disaffected and desirous of joining the loyalists ; and his objects, he in striving for it. And with this res- ' sa j ( | ) was t0 secure a commission for him- olution he turned about and retraced his sc |f jj V inducing them to join. This bait steps. ; took ; the Major promised him a command When he reached home he sought the; in nis troops j' n case 0 f succes3) a nd David ! sprang up, seized their rifles, which had stables, saddled his horse, and mounting • s jg ninec i n j s intention of setting forth, after j been left in the room, and prepared to re him, struck into a gallop which continued . he nad ta ]- en a few j lours rostj ni or( j er to for several miles. At length he stopped | ] ose no time in gathering together his re- and looked up to the windows of a farm- • cru j tSi ' The dread of discovery had been con- stantly before, our hero during the manage- ment of this negotiation, for his person was i well known to many of the Major's troops, ; and if any of them had come up, bis rtb'-is.— ropes were already tied around the necks j but a—a—. Pshaw! I can get one any. ! I- . I ... . . t M . • . _ 1 1 .. _ . - I ! 1 5, the village when I should have been oil' long ago. And for what ? why to meet a pretty girl, and to listen to her musical voice; but now I will be myself again ! what did he call me ? was it not coward ? Now, by heavens, I will learn him that he has a son who possesses the spirit of his father. Away then with love, for I feel that I am called upon to act, and no lon- ger dream! Ere a fortnight my father shall hear of me, or else 1 lose my life into the room, which they had just left,and cut the ropes which bound the boys, their mother and sister. May G id Almighty bless you for this ! cried one of the Bunkers. The two men house, half hid between clustering trees This was the residence of Mary Bunker, the mistress of his heart; the lights showed that the family had not retired, and he resolved to pay her a visit before his departure. She was alone when he 1 f e ig ne( j name would not have protected entered, and a few words acquainted her fc lm n . om detection. He wished to get off with his determination. She burst into j tnat n ight, as he had proposed ; but to this neither his host nor the Major would hear, and he was forced to remain till morning. What was his anguish to hear, on rising, tears. Nay, Mary ! he said, you must not un- man me. At first I resolved to leave you without a farewell, for I knew how much | that the Major had been gone some hours, you dreaded my taking an active part in . an( j was already on his way to the Bunkers this struggle. \But I could not be so cruel as to desert you without a word. I will compose myself, said the fair girl, with an effort to smile. I know I have been wrong to persuade you to stay ; but you cannot imagine the anxiety I suffer on account of my brothers, and I co'd not bear to have you too enter their danger. J5ut since this dreadful defeat at Camden, 1 feel that every man is wanted by our coun- try. Go then, deartst, and God be with you. My prayers shall attend you, night and day. David pressed the now weeping girl to his bosom, snatched a hasty Ida's at the sound of approaching footsteps, wrung her hand and was gone, The next day he left the neighborhood with his troops. Dissembling his anxiety, David partook of a hasty breakfast, and mounting his horse, rode slowly away.— But when out of sight of the hoti^e he struck into a fierce gallop which he con- tinued until he came in sight of a cross- road, where was a tavern. Here he stop- ped and learning the royalists had taken the high-road, he turned aside into a nar- row and more circuitous one. It is my only chance to avoid them, he said, again dashing into a gallop. Pray God, I may rpach the settlement in time to collect a few of our lads and march to the Bunker's. There is no other hope now left. l Night had fallen, as they expected, be- fore the tories were able to reach the vicin- of his father's house, armed with a musket, | ity of the house they were in search of.- taliate the treatment which they had just received. Long and desperate was the battle. The tories fought for life ; the vvhigs for revenge. But at length, the latter triumphed, though not until their enemies had been almost wholly exterminated. The Major fell by the arm of our hero, who sought him out in the hottest of the fight and engaged him single handed. JVb language of ours can express the emotions of David as he pressed his be- trothed bride to his bosom ; and his heart went up in thankfulness to heaven for his limely arrival, when he thought that a de- lay of half an hour longer would have con- signed her to a fate worse than death.— The gratitude of her brothers was express- ed in many words, but her's was silent and tearful, yet oh ! how much more gratify- ing. I almost called you'a coward,son David, said his father to him, when they met, but you are a chip of the old block and I did you wrong. You may founder one of my horses every day that you do such a deed —it beats anything I saw in the old French war. David's gallantry in this act drew around him, in a few weeks* more than a score of hardy young followers, who fought with him till the close of the war, when he*re- turned and was happily married to the he- roine of our story. whore. All condoled with Jack upon his singu- lar il'-fortune, and lawyer Brown handed him his share of the property, carefully j winpped up and directed to his name, the manner in which it had been received from America. Unfortunate Jack ! As he took it up, and putting it under his arms, walked out of the house, never did he in his whole life feel so strong an antipathy to the holy vols ume he now carried. The tears started into his eyes, poor fellow, as he gazed up- on its mouldering form, and once or twice he had more than half resolved to throw it into the street; but something whispered in his heart it would be wrong and ungen- e rous. \Never mind,\ said Jack. \I'll keep the old book, anyhow, just for fun—just to look at when I get a little too high ; it will so-, ber me, I know, as soon as soda water. So, carrying it up to his room, he laid it away very carefully upon the top shelf of his closet, and then, with a heavy heart, with all his bright golden visions of the fu- ture dissolved into empty air, and with all the many discomforts and wants of the present, staring him in the countenance, Jack undressed himself, and jumped into bed. About six weeks after the reading of the will, Jack found himself, very unexpected- ly, by the death of old Quibble, throwu out of a situation. Jack had no money and no credit. His landlady was at him from day to day for the small item, he owed her for board, and the wire of t the door bell was almost worn out by the importunate pull- ings of clamerous creditors whom he was totally unable to pay. Jack, however, took it very philosophically. He got up in the morning, and after eating his breakfast, he would go to some place^vhere he could see the daily papers, and read the advertise- ments all over very carefully, hoping to find something which would suit his abili- ties. From thence he would go and wan- der musingly along the docks until meal- time, when he would return to his board- ing-house, to meet the cold looks and eat the warm dinner of his hostess. One evening, after a day spent in this unsatisfactory manner, Jack was seated in his room, his feet resting upon his bed, with a mild Havanna in his mouth, (a present from a fellow boarder,) smoking away ve- ry complacently, enjoying the soothing properties of the delicious weed, when his meditations were very unpleasantly brought to a termination by the sudden appearance of his landlady. \My dear Mr. Bramble,*' the lftdy bpjgan it, if I could'nt discover some way of get- ting out of this diffieulty. Any how, I'll read a little in it. Maybe it's because I've never read any in it that I'm so unlucky. So here goes.\ Jack reached down the old Bible from its resting-place, and, placing it upon the little table, drew it up to the side of the bed, upon which he seated himself, and snuffing his candle, commenced turning over the yellow leaves of the ancient vol- ume, in order to find that portion of it which tells of Daniel's deliverance from the lions' den, as that he considered the. nearest of any similar to his situation, the only ve im- material difference being that Daniel was in the lions' den and unable to get out, while Jack was in what he considered nearly as bad a place, and had to go out. Jack had not turned over more than thirty pages, when suddenly his eyes rest- ed upon something lying between the leaves. With a cry of joy, he seizes it in his hands, and holds it up to the light. It is a bank note !—can he believe it 1 —and for one thousand pounds ! Quickly he turn's over another leaf; another note, and for the same large amount ! Lucky Jack, all thy woes are ended ' Precious leaves, twenty of them each concealing the same amount, making in all twenty thousand pounds !— Dear, dear old Bible !—and he fairly clasps it to his heart, and rolls back with it upon the bed for joy. The first thing Jack did upon the follow- ing morning, was to look into the precious book, and assure himself that he had not been dreaming, and the next, after getting change for one of the notes, to pay Mrs. Jones, which he did to that good lady's ut- ter amazement. He also startled all his other creditors in a like manner, and could afterwards walk the streets without moles- tation. Jack says it somehow got wind that he had become heir to a fortune, and it was astonishing how the number of his friends (?) increased in consequence of it. Jack Bramble is now a married mSn', with a large family ; and, although he loves his wife—and there is not just such another in the universe—and although he dotes upon his children, and thinks them a little smarter than any body else, yet better than all does he love the old vol- ume that brought him such good fortune ; and, as Jack has become a very sober fel- low, and a member of meeting besides, he says his uncle was right after all ; and, even if there had been no money in it, he could'nt have left him anything better than that \old Family Bible !\ i——i—i————— MECHANIC AET. iCom^sJton Ornaments. Thousands havfe dmired the p er f ectio jj of the figures produn^ by the i^ng. glass and picture-fram^ anufactur(Srs > oh tne corners and other paK of their elegant gilt frames; but the art hST bee n ke J ^ close a secret among the ch<v that' not even the apprentices of the'\o(Je haVe been allowed to know the secrk 0 f »w|s peculiar art, till near the expirBvj n Xf their term of apprenticeship. We\u_|j here describe the whole process as pKJ ticed by the best burnish gilders atthe prf ent time. The composition becomes nea/. ly as hard as stone, and the art WiO furriifh an agreable amusement to many, who are not connected with that branch of ,thi9 business: . •/ PROCESS.—Dissolve one pound of, gluo in one gallon of water; in another kettle\ boil together two pounds of rosin, one gi)l of Venice turpentine, and one pint ofTiu* seed oil. Mix all together in one kett}«» and continue the boiling, stirring them. to- gether till the water has evaporated ffoia the other ingredients : then add finely ptil. verised whiting till the mass is brought to the consistency of soft putty. This com- position will be hard when cold; but being warmed it may be moulded in any shape by carved stamps or prints, and the mould- ed figures will soon become dry and haifd, and will retain their shape and form more permananily than carvings of Wopd. They may be fastened with common glue on either plain surfaces or mould* IQ©©ILL^iKl[|®yi CONTENTMENT.— In Vienna, a magnificent house was built by a nobleman, on the front of which IB a stone with this inscription :—This house was e- rected by Count D , to be given to the first man who can prove he is really contented.'' One day a stranger knocked at the gate, and desired to speak with the master. \ I am come,'' said he. \to take possession of this house, as I find you have built it in order to bestow it upon the man who is really contented. Now I am in that state of which I am willing to make oath; you will therefore pleaae sir, to give me immediate possess- ion.'' The count did not interrupt him till he had finished his speech, when he replied, \You are right, sir, with respect to my intentions, but as I do hot discover the least pretension you have to the character of a contented man, I beg you will retire. If you were quite contented, you would not want my house. Choose a wife a« you would a knife—look io the temper. Bells. The nearer bells are hung to the giif- face of the earth, other things being equal the further they can be heard* Franklin has remarked, that, many years ago* -the inhabitants of Philidelphia had a bell im- ported from England. In order to judge of the sound, it was elevated on a triangle, in the great street of the city, and struck, as it happened, on a market day, when.'the people coming to market, were surprised on hearing the sound of a bell at a great- er distance from the city than they had ev* er he^rc? before. This circumstance exciw ted the attention of the curious; and it wag discovered that the sound of the bell, When struck in the street, reached nearly double the distance it did when raised in thef air. . In air, sound travels at the rate of fro'mi' 1,130, to 1,140 feet per second. In water sound passes at the fate of 4,^0$ feet per' second. Sounds are distinct at twioe the* distance on water than on land. Labor tff make a WatcnV Mr. Dent, in a lecture recently delwer« ed before the London Royal Institute, t(a> ted that a watch cSftsisie of 909 piecet;*nd that forty trades, and probably %l6 p*J*Dj)» are employed in making onp of ihotft jjttle machines.. The iron of flhien Jhe ballince- wheel is formed i&vtdu^&wmetbiijjg lew than a farthing; this produces «n ounce of steel worth 4$ pefl^; wiich is drawn into 3,250 vards of'«tee» *»re, and repre- sents in the'market ^13 J3s.; but atill kns other process of hkrdening thie, originally a farthipg'i? worth of iron, renders k worb able into ^ 50 balance spiingS, ytiiAt will realize) at the common price of.^ife 6d> each, X95G 5s.; the effect of \0a? alone. Thus, Ihe mere lab^f besfo#e* upon one farthing*s worth of iJCbn gijrejk ft the value of £956 $&.? wltic^ ^ .$lli$0# times its original value.' ' ,'