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MISCEIiLAIVY 



MOTHER OF WASHINGTON. 



The following beautiful lines were written by Mrs 

 SiGOURNEY, a few years since, while on a visit to 

 Fredericksburg. 



MOTHER of hiin whose godlike fame 



The Good throughout the world revere, 

 Ah ! why without a stone or name. 

 Thus sleep'st thou unregarded here .' 



Fair pensile branches o'er thee wave. 

 And Nature decks the chosen dell, 



Yet, surely o'er thy hallowed grave 



A Nation's mournful sighs should swell. 



Rome, with a burst of filial pride, 

 The mother of her Gracchi viewed ; 



And why should we restrain the tide 

 Of reverential gratitude? 



She to sublime Volumnia paid 



Her tribute of enraptured tears. 

 When the dread Chief that voice obeyed 



Which sternly curbed his infant years. 



Thou, in the days of Sparta's might, 



Hadst high on her illustrious roll 

 Been ranked amid those matrons bright. 



Who nobly nursed the great of soul— 



For, disciplined in Wisdom's school. 



The lofty pupil owned thy sway. 

 And well might he be skilled to rule. 



So early nurtured to obey. 



No enervating arts refine'd. 



To slumber lulled his heaven-born might, 

 No weak indulgence warped thy mind. 



To cloud a hero's path of light. 



Say, when upon thy shielding breast. 

 The Saviour of his Country hung. 



When his soft lip to thine was pressed, 

 AVooing the accents from thy tongue — 



Saw'st thou prescient o'er his brow 

 The shadowy wreaths of laurel start ? 



Or, when his infant hands were taught 

 By thee in simple prayer to rise — 



Say, were thy own devotions fraught 

 With heightened incense for the skies ? 



Well may that realm, confiding rest. 



Heroes and mighty chiefs to see. 

 Who finds its infant offspring blest. 



With monitors and guides like thee. 



Some future age, than ours more just. 

 With his shall blend thy honored name. 



And rear, e.'iuUing o'er thy dust, 

 The monument of deathless fame — 



Shall thither bid young mothers wend 



To bless thy spirit as they rove, 

 And learn, while o'er thy tomb they bend, 



For Heaven to train the babes they love. 



A late Tory Essex Member of Parliament, having 

 at apaiocliial meeting made some proposals which 

 were objected to by a sturdy farmer ; ' Sir,' said 

 the great man, ' do you luiow who I am ? do yon 

 know timt I have sat in two parliaments ; and 

 that I w.as brought up at both Universities ?' ' Why, 

 replied Hodge, ' that may he ; I had a calf tliat 

 sucked two cows ; and tljc more he sucked the 

 bigger calf ho grew ! ' 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



A rich old farmer in the north of Devon, speaking 

 to some of his friends of the scholastic progress 

 his nephew liad made, e.\claimed, ' Why, a shud a 

 made Dick a parson, I think, but a look'd such a 

 good hand to holding the ploiigli, that Iz thoft 

 'twas a i)ity to spoil a good plongbmaii.' 



A gentleman on horseback finding himself at a 

 spot where four roads met, asked a countryman 

 who was working on one oftliem, where it ran to. 

 Clodpole raising himself from bis stooping posture 

 and scratching his bead replied with a grin ;' I 

 does'nt know where it rins to, zur, we finds it here 

 every morning.' 



It is a beautiful trait in the history of the Ameri- 

 can government that it has never shed a drop of hu- 

 man blood, nor banished a single individual for State 

 crimes. No renegade minister grows immortal there 

 by 'saving the constitution and crushing the "hydra 

 of jacobinism," at the e.\pense of human blood and 

 human liappiness. I am delighted to find that the 

 more popular a government grows, the more mdd it 

 becomes ; and that the glory of dispensing with the 

 services of the hangman in political affairs, was re- 

 served for the first government erected and conducted 

 by the people ; — by those whom the planners of our 

 bloody treason and sedition have chose to designate 

 as " ferocious rabble." ' — Scotsman. 



Female Fashions at Malta. — When abroad 

 tijey are all arrayed in black. They put over their 

 >ither dress a robe or loose shirt of tliat color, brought 

 high on the bosom, and in place of bonnets their 

 heads are covered with a black silk mantle which 

 invests their shoulders and descends half way behind. 

 The part which covers the head is furnished with a 

 piece of whalebone inserted in the hem, which keeps 

 it in position and prevents the silk from dropping 

 over the eyes. One hand placed inside, is always 

 necessary to hold together the sides of the scarf in 

 front ; and the other is often hid under its folds, only 

 a fore finger being suft'erod to peep out through an 

 opening left for tlie purpose. Of course, under such 

 mufflers little can be seen of the beauties of form or 

 feature, if a Maltese nymph happen to possess them: 

 the eyes and a moving pall-black figure are all that 

 can be distinguished. But sometimes the fair one 

 deigns to exhibit her face to a curious gazer, in place 

 of engrossing to herself the privilege of seeing ; and 

 features, good humored, rather pleasing than hand- 

 some, and irradiated by a pair of fine sparkling eyes, 

 are displayed to the beholder. The complexion is a 

 dark olive, but partaking a little too much of a sort 

 of mulatto tinge. The mantle is obviously borrowed, 

 or rather it has descended from a distant age and 

 people. It answers to the veil of Eastern ladies.— 

 Bis;etow''s Malta. 



June 8, 18.S1. 



I Valuable and Cheap Land — -for Sale. 



\ The subscriber offers for sale, 14,000 acres of cbofci 

 I I^and, situated in tiie town of Pinckney, county of Lew 

 j and state of New York. Some of the land is" ini prove: 

 ] and under cultivation. The country is remarkably bell 

 thy, being entirely free from the fever and ague and frott 

 tlie common bilious fevers which often afllict llie town 

 upon Lake Ontario, this town being 18 miles east of til 

 lake. The soil is principally a sandy loam, luucliofj 

 covered with rich black mould. The timber is cliieflj 

 Sugar Maple, Black Ash, Butternut, Beech, Elm, &c 

 The land yields first rale crops of Grass, Rye, Oats, Bar 

 ley. Potatoes and Fla.x; and on .some lots, good \Vhe» 

 and Corn may be grown. To those wishing to obtain su 

 perior grazing farms, a fine opportunity now otters itself 

 The produce of pasturage and hay from an acre of thi 

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

 froih the same quantity of land in any other of the Blacl 

 River townships'. The land is admirably well watered 

 there being nut few lots which have nst durable ruiiDiiu 

 [ streams upon thenl. The land is well adapted to Orchj^ 

 i ing — the Apple tree thriving very well in this county 

 Slock of all kinds may be disposed of with the least possi' 

 ble trouble, and to the greatest advantage, the droves 

 purchasing at the very doors of the farmers, and payiof 

 the highest cash prices for their cattle, which will readilj 

 find purchasers at all seasons of the year. Several far 

 ' mers at present residing on this town, were originallj 

 tiom the New England States, and some of them fron 

 j Massachusetts, who are in thriving circumstances. Tht 

 above described land is offered for sale at the very loB 

 price of from two dollars and a half to three dollars pel 

 acre, lor the uncleared land, and from three dollars and; 

 half to five dollars and a half for the improved lots. Thi 

 land will be sold in lots to suit purchasers, and from tw 

 to five years' credit for payment, in annual insi.l!nieDts 

 will be given. As a further convenience to purchasers 

 the subscriber will receive in payment. Cattle, Sheep 

 Perk, Grain or Grass Seed, for which products he wil 

 allow the highest cash prices. The title to the land ii 

 indisputable, and good Warranty Deeds will be given ti 

 purchasers. Persons desirou-* of purchasing will pleast 

 to apply to the subscriber, at Henderson Harbor, counts 

 of Jefferson, State of New Vork, or to David Canfi A,ij 

 Esq. on the town. JAMES H. HENDERSON. 



March 9. epl6t 



Ai .'Ipology.— When John Clerk (Lord Eldon) wag 

 at the bar, he was remarked for the sang froid with 

 which he treated the Judges. On one occasion, a 

 junior counsel, on hearing their lordships give judg- 

 ment against his client, exclaimed that ' he was sur- 

 prised at such & decision!' this was construed into 

 contempt of court, and he was ordered to attend at 

 the bar the next morning. Fearful of the conse- 

 quences, he consulted his friend John Clerk, who 

 told him to be perfectly at ease, for he would apolo- 

 gize for him in a way that would avert any unpleas- 

 ant result. Accordingly when the name of the 

 delinquent was called, John rose and coolly address- 

 ed the assembled tribunal — 'I am very sorry, my 

 lords, that my young friend has so far forgot himself 

 as to treat your bencli with disrespect ; he is ex- 

 tremely penitent, and you will kindly ascribe his un- 

 intentional insult to his ignorance. You must see at 

 once that it did originate in that. He said he was 

 surprised at the decision of your lordships ! Now, if 

 he had not been very ignorant of what takes place 

 in this court every day— had he known you but half 

 so long as I have done, he would not be surprised at 

 mil/thing you did.' 



.Hmmunition ^£0 



Of the hest quality ai.rt lujrest jirices, (or s\iori\n»- 

 constantly for sale at COPELAND'S POWDER STOEE. 

 6". Broad Street. 



N. B. If the quality is not found satisliictory, it maj 

 be returned, and the money will be refunded, tf Jan. 7 



Hickory. 



This astonishing fleet horse was raised in Montreal, it 

 from an English blood mare, (sire unknown,) is not in- 

 ferior to any in the U. Slates for speed, action and bean- 

 ty. He is a fine sorrel, well built, good size, and pro- 

 nounced by (good) judges in every respect a first raK 

 horse ; trots a 3 minute gait, ..fast walker, and has pateii 

 around the trotting course. Long Island, in 2 minutes, 31 

 seconds, and was olTered publicly to match against any 

 horse that could be produced. It is considered unneces- 

 sary to say more, as his qualifications are too well known 

 to be doubted. 



Ho will stand at Abbott's Inn, floldcn, during tic 

 season. Terms $S, the season. 6t Jlay 11. 



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