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MISCELLANY. 



THE FALSE ONE. 



^BY-T. H. B VILEY. 



I knew him not, I sousht liim not — 



He^was my f.ilher's guest; 

 I gave liim n.,1 one smile more kind 



Tlian those I gave the rest : 

 He sal beside me at the board, 



Tlie ciioice was not my own. 

 But oh ! 1 never heard a voice 



With half so sweet a lone. 



And at the danre again we met — 



Again I wa.i his choice — 

 Again 1 heard tlie gentle lone 



Of that beguiling voice: 

 I sought him not — lie led me forth 



From all Ihe fairest there. 

 And told me he had never seen 



A face he thought so fair. 



Ah! wherefore did he tell me this ! 



His praises made me vain ; 

 And, when he left me, how I longed 



To hear that voice again ! 

 I wonilered why my old puisuits 



Had loit their wonted charm, | 



And why the path was dull, unless 



1 leaned upon his arm. 



Alas ! I might have guessed the cause — 



For what could niaUe nie shun 

 My parent's cheerful dwelling place 



To wander all alone .'' 

 And what could make me braid my hair, 



And study lo improve 

 The farm that he had deigned lo praise — 



What could it be but love ? 



Oh ! little knew I of Ihe world, 



And less of man's cai'eer ; 

 I thought each smile was kindly meant — 



Each word of praise sincere ; 

 His sweet voice spoke of endless love — 



I li^tBned and believed. 

 And lillle dreamed how of't before 



That sweet voice had deceived. 



He smiles upon another now — 



And in (he same sweet tone 

 He breathes to her those winning words 



I once thought all my own ; 

 Oh ! why is she so beoniiful .' 



I cannot blame his choicL' — 

 Nor can I doubt she will be won 

 ■ By that beguiling vciice. 



Providential escape of Gen. Mina. — During the 

 last ill-fated attempt of the consthulionaiis's upon 

 the Spanish frontier, Mina, in order to detach the at- 

 tention of the enemy from hi3 flying friends, vvitli 

 two of his officers, atteinptud to retreat by another 

 route, which, from being on horseback, they hoped 

 to accomplish with the greater facilily. They were, 

 however, disappointed ; for the woods and defiles 

 through which tliey had to pass were so close and 

 intricate, that they were at length obliged to destroy 

 their horses ; and at the moment they were about to 

 •ink under excessive fatigue, they providentially dis- 

 covered a cave, in which they took shelter. The 

 enemy having discovered the t'oad horses, naturally 

 conceived from their having been recently killed, 

 that their prey could not be very distant, they con- 

 tinued tlieir search as long as daylight allowed them, 

 but, happily for the fugitives, fruitlessly. Several 

 bloodhounds were then procured ; but who will deny 

 the interposition of Divine Providence, when it is 

 stated that at this moment of extreme peril two wild 

 deer, animals rarely if ever met with in Spain out of 

 the royal preserves, started up, and tlie dogs so ar- 

 dently pursued them tliat no efforts could draw 

 them off. 



I^he merciless wretches then procured torches ; 

 but the utmost exertions of feeble men are unavail- 

 iiig when opposed to the all-protecting power of Om- 

 nipotency ; and thus the fugitives escaped their oth- 

 erwise. but too certain fate. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Kffect of CLfviATK. — The human race is natu- 

 rally the inhabitant of a warm climate, and the para- 

 dise described as Adam's first abode, may be said 

 .still to exist over vast regions about the equator. — 

 There the sun's influerce is strong and uniform, 

 producing a rich nnd warm garden, in which human 

 beings, however ignorant of the world which they 

 had come to inhabit, would liave their necessities 

 supplied almost by vvisliing. 'J'he ripe fruit is Ihero 

 always hanging from the branches; of clothing 

 there is required only what moral feelings may dic- 

 tate, or what may be supposed to add grace to the 

 form ; and as a shelt'-r from the weather, a few broad 

 leaves spread on connected reeds will complete an 

 Indian hut. The human family, in multiplying and 

 spreading in all directions from such a centre, would 

 find, to the east and west, only the lengthened para- 

 dise, with slighily varying features of beauty ; but to 

 the north and south, the changes of season, which 

 make the bee of high latitudes lay up its " inter store 

 of iioney, and sends migrating birds from country 

 to country in search of warmth and food, would also 

 rouse man's energies to protect himself. His facul- 

 ties of foresight and contrivance would come into 

 play, awakening industry ; and, as lo their fruits, he 

 would soon possess the knowledge and the arts 

 which secure a happy existence in all climates, from 

 equator almost to the pole. It is chiefly because man 

 has learned to produce at will, and to control, tiie 

 wonder-working principle of lieat. that in the rude 

 winter, which seems the death of nature, he, and 

 other tropical animals and plants which he protects, 

 do not in reality perish — even as a canary bird es- 

 caped from Its cage, or an infant exposed among the 

 snowhills. I!y producing heat from his fire, he ob- 

 tains a novel and most pleasurable sort of existence ; 

 and in tlie night while Ihe dark and freezing winds 

 are howling over his roof, he basks in the presence 

 of his mimic sun, surrounded by his friends and all 

 the delights of society, while in his store rooms, or 

 in those of merchants at his command, he has the 

 treasured delicacies of evi'ry season and clime. He 

 soon becomes aware, too, that the dreary winter, in- 

 stead of being a curse, is really in many respects a 

 blessing, by arousing from the apathy lo which the 

 elernal serenity of a tropical sky so much disposes. 

 In climates where labor and ingenuity must precede 

 enjoyment, every faculty of inind and body is invigo- 

 rated ; and hence the sterner climates form the pei- 

 fect man. It is in them that the arts and sciences 

 have reached their present advancement, and that 

 the brightest examples have appeared of intellectual 

 and moral excellence. — ArnoWs Phtjsics. 



MosTACHES. — There is r.o civilized animal that 

 looks respectable in Mustaches, but grimalkin. To 

 her they are quite becoming, for they suggest at 

 once ideas of use and fitness. But a man in mus- 

 taches — a human being with purrers — is an object 

 supremely ridiculous. If they are of no use to him — 

 and of this there can be no doubt — do they add any- 

 thing to his beauty ? To an officer, military or na- 

 val, they may, but not to a citizen, not to a boy whose 

 cheeks are hardly razorable. Young gentlemen who 

 cultivate mustaches arc like boys when first inbreech- 

 ed ; they strut about and fancy themselves men ; 

 but no oue but themselves is cheated in the belief 

 of it. 



[He must have been a bold fellow who indited the 

 above, for if known, there is but little doubt that like 

 Absalom he would fall a victim to hair. In England 

 the rage for whisker:; and mustaches is so great, 

 that the office of barber has become a sinecure — 

 that ancient profession receiving now the same re- 

 compense for thinning the hairy crops in the corners 

 of a man's mouth, as ihey did formerly for denuding 

 the whole face of the oxcresence. Shakspeare says, 

 soincthinj;- about ' the more hair the less wit ;' but he 

 being as lightly bearded as a spear of wheat, and bald 

 witlial. is not so good authority upon this subject as 

 some otliers, and cannot therefore be quoted as giv- 

 ing to ' /i-oiry nothings a local habitation and a 

 name.']--A^. Y. American. 



.Tune 1, 18 .91. 



Vntuable and Cheap Land — for Sale. * 



The suhsciiber otTers for sale, 14,01)0 acres of choit 

 Land, siiuaicil in ihe lown of Piiickniy, county of Lew 

 and slate of New York. Some ol the land is iiupiovi;,' 

 and under cullivalion. The rounliy is remaikably he»i 

 ihy, being eniiiely free IVoiii the lever and ague and l'i»U 

 the common bilious fevers which ollen atflici Ihe towi 

 upon Lake Ontario, this lown being 18 miles east ol II 

 lake. Tbe soil is principally a sandy loam, much of 

 covered wilh rich black mould. The limber is chief 

 Sugar ftlaple, Ulack Ash, Culternut, Beech, Elm, & 

 The land yields first rale crops of Grass, Rye, Oats.Ba 

 ley. Potatoes and Flax; and on .some lots, good Whc, 

 and Com may be grown. To Ihose wishing to obtain si 

 pel ior grazing farms, a fine oppui tunity now olfers itse 

 Mie pioiluce of pasturage ami hay h'om an acre of Ih 

 land, is very large, fully equalling if not surpassing Ihi 

 from the same quanlily of land in any olher of the Blac 

 River townships. The land is admliably well waterei 

 there being nut few lots which have not dui able ruiinin 

 siieams upon them. The land is well ailapled lo Orchan 

 ing — Ihe Apple tree thriving very well in this counl; 

 Slock of all kinds may be disposed of wilh the least pots 

 ble trouble, and lo the greatest advantage, the drove 

 piirchasing at the very doors ol Ihe farmers, and payin 

 the highest cash pi ices for Iheir callle, which will readilt' 

 find purchasers at all seasons of the year. Several fa ] 

 iners at present residing on Ihis lown, were originall 

 lioin the New England Slates, and some of tfiem fro; 

 Massachusetts, who are in Ihriving circumstances. Tl ' 

 above described land is olfeied lor sale at the very lo '■ 

 price of fioiii two dollars and a half to three dollars pi 

 acre, lor the uncleared laml, and h'om three dollars and 

 hall to five dollars and a half lor the improved lots. Tf 

 land will be sold in lots lo suit purchasers, and from t» 

 lo five years' credit for payment in annual inslalineni 

 will be given. As a further convenience to imrchaser 

 Ihe subscriber will receive in payment, Cattl", Shee- 

 Perk, Grain or Grass Seed, loi which products he wi 

 allow the highest cash prices. The title lo the land 

 iu'lisputable, and good Warranty Deeds will be given 

 ))itrchaseis. Persons desirou"* of pui chasing will plea; 

 lo apply lo the subscriher, at Henderson Harbor, coun 

 ofJefferson, State of New York, or lo Da viD Canfiei. 

 Esq. on Ihe town. JAMES H. HKNDERSOM 



March 9. epl6t 



Ammuvition <-£3 



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 6 ■ Broad Street. 



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Hicl'ory. 



This astonishing fleet horse was raised in Montreal, 

 from an English blood mare, (sire unknown,) is nolii 

 ferior lo any in the U. Slates for speed, action and ben 

 (y. He is a fine sorrel, well built, good size, and pp 

 nounced hy (good) judges in every respec( a firsttai 

 liorse ; trots a 3 minute gail, last walker, and has pace 

 around Ihe trolling course. Long Island, in 2 minutei,' 

 seconds, and was oflered publicly lo malch against to 

 horse that could be produced. Jl is consiilered unnwe; 

 sary lo say more, as his qualifications are too well know 

 lo be doubled. 



He will stand at Abbott's Inn, Holden, diirinit lb 

 season. Terms $8, the season. 6t May II. 



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