the women, and no fewer than 500,000 females are said own personal exertions for sustenance, to secure the which he had committed. His answer was, 'I feel the to prosecute it as a subsidiary business. Machines have, confidence of others, and, above all things,establish them- force of all that you say; but there are moments when however, been introduced; but it remains to be seen selves in the character of honesty? Poverty is no dis- the remembrance of my own sufferings come over me whether they will be able to undersell the yarn produced grace, nor do we believe it a misfortune-it is an incentive to such an extent, that in the dread-an improbable beby the hand. About 55,000 hands are supposed to be to action. When coupled with honesty and perseverance, lief, you will say-of a return to the deep misery of employed in linen weaving; and the total annual value it is destined to rise in the scale of prosperity, just as which I have felt, I imagine that an act of generosity is of the produce of this branch of industry, including that sure as the golden sun will rise in the eastern horizon almost a crime. That I am insane at such times cannot of lace, may be estimated at about £1,200,000 a year. after having sunk in the purple west. The young man be denied; but, alas! who can explain the various phaThis branch of industry is said, however, to be on the who has been thrown into the world, hopeless and friend- ses of the human mind ?'-Frazer's Magazine for October. decline in consequence of the growth of the cotton less, has nothing to fear if he establishes for himself the manufacture. According to the National Encyclopedia, character of honesty; while on the other hand, if he From the Sunbury American. 20,000 indivduals are employed in hand spinning, exclu- does not, he has no guarantee from the loathsome dunECONOMY IN A FAMILY.-There is nothing which goes sive of those employed in the factories, which are numer-geon of the jail, the penitentiary, or the almshouse.— so far towards placing young people beyond the reach of ous: 18,000 hands are said to be employed in the hosiery Go where he may, his good or bad deeds will follow poverty, as economy in the management of their dodepartment of the trade. There are about 500 bleach- him. If he take with him his good ones, as virtue ac-mestic affairs. It matters not whether a man furnish ing establishments in full work, and the manufacture of cords in unison with virtue, his prosperity is secure little or much for his family. if there is a leakage in his potash is considerable. if his evil ones, as vice and misery equally unite, his kitchen, much more in the parlor, it runs away, he knows The woolen manufacture is very extensive-in spin- downfall is certain. Every day's observation brings not how, and that demon waste cries more, like the horse ning only, 55,000 hands are said to be engaged, and in proof of the above fact. How often do we see the leech's daughter, until he that provided has no more to weaving, from 15,000 to 16,000; the weaving of woolen young man who lays the foundation of his life upon give. It is the husband's duty to bring into the house, stockings employs from 2000 to 3000 hands. The hat the irrevocable principles of honesty, rise like the and it is the wife's duty to see that nothing goes wrongmakers, furriers, &c., are estimated at 1200: and the Phoenix from its ashes, and live, enjoying the full confally out of it-not the least article, however unimportant leather mauufactures at 4000. There are about 100 fidence of the world, fauned by the salubrious and in itself.-to establish a precedent; nor under any prepaper mills; and the imperial tobacco manufactory at gentle breeze of happiness? He is taken by the hand, tence, for it opens the door for ruin to stalk in, and he Seidlitz supplies the whole country with that article, and nurtured in the affection and good will of others; seldom leaves an opportunity unimproved. A man gets through the agency of about 7000 retail shops. But his services are held as a treasure; and his superiors, a wife to look after his affairs and to assist him in his of all the Bohemian manufactures, none is nearly so in a pecuniary point of view, for whom he labors, and journey through life, and not to dissipate his property. well known in foreign countries as that of glass. Bohe- upon whom is his dependence, valne him as highly that The husband's interest should be the wife's care, and her mian glass is not so pure as that of England or France; they even subject themselves to his judgment, keep a greatest ambition carry her on farther than his welfare but the art of staining, painting, and gilding glass, is watchful eye to his interests, dread giving him offence, much better understood there than in this country, and and to crown the whole, he is frequently made their co- should be her sole aim, and the theatre of her exploits in or happiness. together with that of her children. This articles of Bohemian manufacture are unequalled in point partner in business. This is a strong incentive to young the bosom of her family, where she may do as much of lightness and richness of appearance. It is probable men to be honest. The principle is true and immutable, towards making a fortune as in a work-shop or a counthowever, were it not for the weight of duties laid on carrying with it the combined evidence of past experience ing room. It is not the money earned that makes a man glass in this country, and the troublesome regulations and the soundest doctrines of moral philosophy. Young wealthy-it is what he saves of his earnings. A good connected with their assessment, that we should soon men, we repeat it again, and we do it from the very and prudent husband makes a deposit of the fruits of his become formidable rivals of the Bohemians, even in best motives-we bring it home to yourselves, boldly and labor with his best friend; and if the friend be not true those departments in which they appear at present to fearlessly-if you hope to prosper, if you wish to become to him, what has he to hope? If he dare not place conhave the greatest superiority. Altogether, it is said that merchants or business men, if you wish to save your fidence in the companion of his bosom, where is he to from 1-5 to 1-4 part of the inhabitants of Bohemia are selves from degradation, strive under all circumstances, place it? A wife acts not for herself only, but she is engaged in manufactures. But then it is material to to secure for yourselves the character of honesty. It is the agent of many she loves, and she is bound to act for observe, that all the hand spinners and weavers combine the strongest barrier against suspicion, and will be ever their good, and not for her own gratification. Her huswith their business that of cultivators of patches of land, pleading at the shrine of innocence. and other employments. We believe, too, that the cotton trade of Bohemia, like that of the rest of Austria is entirely the creation of prohibitions and oppressive duties, band's good is the end to which she should aim-his approbation her reward. Self-gratification in dress, or INFLUENCE OF THE SUDDEN ACQUISITION OF WEALTH. indulgence in appetite, or more company than his purse on foreign stuffs and yarn; and that were these repealed I have frequently noticed that men who have been can entertain, are equally pernicious the first adds or materially modified, the manufacturer would be in- very poor, fall, when they become suddenly rich, into vanity to extravagance-the second fastens a Doctor's volved in the greatest difficulties. Owing to the want of one of the two extremes of imprudent expenditure or bill to a long Butcher's account-and the latter brings capital, many of the great landed proprietors are obliged excessive saving. The happy medium is only the result intemperance, the worst of evils, in its train. to engage in manufactures. Thus, Prince Kinsky, and of becoming gradually accustomed to the change. With WOMAN!-Woman! truly she is a miracle Place her Counts Harrach and Bucquoy, are the greatest glass many, however, the meanness is merely accidental, as if manufacturers: Prince Anersberg manufactures sulphur, there were a necessity for restraining the benevolence amid flowers, foster her as a tender plant, and she is a vitriol and colors; Count Urbna and Prince Widizhgratz of the disposition of an eccentric course. One of the thing of fancy, waywardness, and sometimes of follytin plates; Count Toun, porcelain; Prince Lobkowitz, most eminent surgeons, in London, who had struggled annoyed by a dew drop, fretted by a touch of a butterearthenware; Prince Wallenstein and others, beet root with poverty for many years, became by a single opera- fly's wing; ready to faint at the rustle of a beetle. The sugar, &c. Itis clear that manufactures carried on under tion almost a rich man; and his reputation being fixed, zephyrs are too rough, the showers too heavy, and she such auspices must be more expensive and less improved his fees for a single year far exceeded the amount of is overpowered by the perfume of the rose bud. But than if they were carried on by individuals dependent what he had earned in the whole of his preceding career. let real calamity come to rouse her affections; enkindle upon them.-M'Culloch's Dictionary. This gentleman had received from a grateful patient in the fires of her heart, and mark her then. How her the country a present of hams and poultry, and about heart strengthens itself-how strong its purpose. Place HONESTY.-The brightest jewel in the diadem of hon-three hundred eggs. When the hamper was unpacked, her in the heat of battle, give her a child, a bird, any or, is honesty. It is a fortune to poverty itself-it is the my wife was present. 'Does -like eggs?' said the sur-thing she loves or pities; to protect, and see her; as in safeguard of society, and the best recommendation to the geon; these are very fine.' My wife replied in the af- a recorded instance, raising her arms as a shield, and man of business. The responsible stations into which firmative and supposed, of course, considering the inti- as her own blood crimsons her upturned forehead, praymen are placed, are secured only by their integrity and macy of our acquaintance, that he would have sent one ing for life to protect the helpless. honesty. There is scarcely any station in life which does of his servants with a hundred at least to my house. Transplant her into the dark places of the earth, awaken not afford opportunities for violating this most important Deliberately examining his stock, he laid his hand upon her energies to action, and her breath becomes healing; principle. The temptations of the world are alluring; a large egg, and said, 'Well give him that.' My wife her presence a blessing, she disputes the stride of the and without stern integrity on the part of those exposed inclined to take this as a joke, but no joke was intended; walking pestilence when man, the strong and brave, to them, they may be induced to overstep the bounds of and he appeared much hurt when his own wife reproach- shrinks away pale and affrighted. Misfortune daunts rectitude. The clerk, in the counting-room, may, if so ed him with his meanness. This gentleman, on that her not; she wears away a life of silent endurance, or disposed, cheat his employer out of hundreds. The very day, had travelled six miles to perform a gratuitous goes forward to the scaffold with less timidity than to statesman has the same opportunities. Indeed, there is operation, and as I afterwards learned, had left two guin- her bridal. In prosperity she is a bud full of imprisoned no sphere of life in which impositions of this kind may eas on the table for the use of his poor patient. Many odors, waiting but for the winds of adversity to scatter not be practised. Then how important it is to all, and months after this circumstance occurred, I ventured to re- them abroad-pure gold, valuable but untried in the especially to young men who are dependent upon their monstrate with him on various little acts of meanness furnace. In short, a woman is a miracle, a mystery. ROB ROY ON THE WING.-A respectable sheep farm- of her marriage. She has a slight sore throat, perhaps, whole day; but in the evening about 4 o'clock, it was er, near Fort Augusta, has sent us a communication, of and the weather is inclement; but she must wear her neck taken. The commander of the besieged delivered up his which the following is the substance:-After a walk and arms bare, for whoever saw a bride in a close eye- sword to an Englishman, who immediately stabbed him; over his farm. at the beginning of this year's lambing ning dress? She is seized with inflammation of the all his comrades were put to the sword. A line of pow season, and on a very warm morning, he had fallen lungs, and dies before her bridal days are over. "What der was then laid from the magazine of the fort to the sea, asleep on a high hill. On awakening, he found his a Providence!" exclaims the world; "cut off in the there to be lighted, thus to blow the fort into the air. Wilbroad blue bonnet and a yellow silk pocket-handkerchief midst of happiness and hope!" Alas! did she not cut liam Hotman, who lay not far distant, wounded by three were both missing. At first he suspected that they had the thread of life herself? A girl in the country exposed strokes of the bayonet in his body, beheld it, and said to been taken by some person on the farm, but, on inquiry, to our changeful climate, gets a new bonnet instead of a one of his wounded friends, who was also still alive, every individual on the farm and neighborhood who flannel garment. Rheumatism is the consequence. We will endeavor to crawl to this line; we will completely could possibly have approached the spot denied all know- Should the girl sit down tranquilly, with the idea that wet the powder with our blood; thus will we, with the little ledge of the missing articles. Some weeks thereafter Providence has sent the rheumatisin upon her, or should life that remains to us, save the fort and magazine, and our correspondent and a party ascended a very steep and she charge it on her vanity and avoid the folly in future? perhaps a few of our comrades who are only wounded.”” dangerous rock on the farm to destroy the nest of a Look my young friends at the mass of diseases that are He alone had strength to accomplish this noble design. glede. Great was his amazement when the first article incurred by intemperance, indiscreet dressing, tight la- In his thirtieth year he died on the powder which he taken out of the nest was the yellow silk handkerchief: cing, &c., and all is quietly imputed to Providence. Is overflowed with his blood. His friends and seven of his then the broad blue bonnet with three eggs most com- there no impiety, as well as ignorance in this? Were wounded companions by that means had their lives fortably esconced in it; next appeared an old tartan the physical laws strictly observed from generation to preserved." After this simple narrative are the following waistcoat, with tobacco in one pocket, and Orr's alma-generation, there would be an end to frightful diseases words in large characters, "HERE RESTS WILLIAM HOTnac for 1839 in the other, the almanac having the words, that cut short life, and of the long maladies that make MAN.” barely legible, J. Fraser, written upon it; then came a life a torment or a trial. It is the opinion of those who flannel night-cap, marked with red worsted," D. C. J.;" best understand the physical system, that this wonderful Agricultural PURSUITS.—If I might be allowed to a pair of old white mittens; a piece of a letter with machine, the body-this "goodly temple"-would grad express my own opinions, I should say that the pursuit of green wax, and the Inverness post-office mark, an old ually decay, and man would die, as few now die, as if agriculture, the cultivation of the land, and the improvered and white cravat, and a miscellaneous assortment of falling to sleep.-Miss Sedgewick. ment of the fertility of the soi!, is one of the most delightremnants of cotton, paper, rope, &c. qua longum est describere. This bird must have been carrying on its ful, and most instructive, and most honorable pursuits Some years since, during the Session of the Legisla- in which a man can be engaged, and not only leads him larcenies on a large and miscellaneous scale. The affair introduced among the Members who boarded at the of nature, and of nature's God, but it also enables him, ture of Connecticut, at New Haven, the custom was to contemplate the wonders of creation, and the works rivals the maid and the magpie of dramatic celebrity, and may be taken by Sir Malacky Malagroth as a link in the same house, of meeting together in the evening in the by the aid of successful industry, and by the application chain of evidence to prove the increase of crime in the selected to read, for the benefit of all present, such Bills, blessings of Divine Providence, cannot fail to be advan public drawing room, and one of their number was of science, to effect improvements which, under the highlands consequent on the passing of the reform act. Documents or Newspapers as might contain matter of tageous both to the age in which he lives, and the genera We may guard against depredators on foot, but how are interest for the evening's entertainment. The subjects tions yet to come.-W. Duncombe, M. P. we to protect ourselves against those on wing? We thus introduced naturally gave rise to social discussions, commit this delinquent and his species to the vigilant and not unfrequently the style of reading was subjected not a very short one, I have applied myself to many and surveillance of the proposed new police constabulary You are well aware that in the course of my life, now force.-Inverness Courier. to pleasant criticisin. Upon one occasion, the reader various pursuits. but I have at last come to that which I "AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF and dignified manners, but whose education was of the of agriculture; the promoting of agriculture by my own selected happened to be a gentleman of most courteous believe to be my natural one; I mean the improvement CURE.”—There is much wisdom in the following from old school stamp, in perfect keeping with the powdered endeavors, and by assisting the endeavors of others. the Maine Cultivator an excellent paper, conducted wig, the short breeches and the polished buckles at the Mr. Duncombe told you, it was a pursuit worthy of with great talent, and what is better, great good sense. The means of health are simple. Regular exercise, and of which he was an ornament. His pronunciation that they find no persuit which gives more satisfaction; I knees, characteristic of the age to which he belonged, being followed; I tell those who are entering upon cheerful spirits, nutritious food in reasonable quantities, gave great offence to a pert little dandy of a fellow, who will say they will find no pursuit which will give so just with a care to avoid violent exposures, will save many a by some mistake was a member of that Legislature, and an occupation of their time with less annoyance, and less doctor's bill, and insure a blessing, compared with which, the frequent interruptions and frivolous criticisms which disturbance to their tempers. No other in which they all others of a temporal nature, are small indeed. The the coxcomb made, excited for some time the disgust of will feel such full satisfaction that they are doing good present fashions of society in meats and drinks and dress, the whole circle. together with an exemption from honest toil which is regarded disreputable in certain circles, are, we verily be. ble reader raised his spectacles and dropping his paper, pursuit to which one and all of us should wish success. Tired at length with his silly interference, the venera- they are improving the cause of agriculture. It is a in pursuing their own pleasures at the same time that lieve, the foundations of most of the diseases which pre- told the following matter-of-fact anecdote: maturely terminate life. Follow nature. Let fashion be brought into a subserviency to the laws of health, and a who, in connection with her regular Saturday evening time ever hanging heavily; an occupation interesting in "In the town of — there lived a pious old lady-follow; it is a pursuit which may be carried on without It is one of those pursuits which is most delightful to vast amount of suffering might be prevented. Above all devotions, was in the habit of singing some few verses the highest degree, and while the agriculturist is promo things, keep alcohol, in every form out of the stomach. from the old family hymn book; and, as the custom was, ting his own interest, he also promotes the interest of It is a poison. It deranges the functions of the stomach she read two lines and then sang, then read and sang every one of his neighbors. and brain, heats and disorders the blood, and sows, broad again. A trim, slick, pert-eared little puppy, that had cast, the seeds of disease throughout the entire system, been favored with a place upon the corner of the good sure to triumph at last. Another thing. Stern winter is coming. Colds are EARL SPENCER. life which will in due time spring forth, impair the health lady's hearth, frequently manifested impatience during brothers, from one of the eastern ports, were commanders and terminate the life. Beware of that enemy-he is this exercise, and upon one occasion interrupted the old of privateers; they cruised together, and were eminently YANKEE TRICK.-During the Revolutionary war, two lady's devotions by an ill-natured bark. successful, doing great damage to the enemy and making the first step to consumption. Let the body, and es- meekness and patience, but as he kept barking and of the shoals of Nantucket, but many miles to the eastFor some time she bore the brute's ill manners with money for themselves. One evening being in the latitude pecially the feet, be well protected. Both ladies and gen-growling more and more, she at length threw the book ward of them, they espied a large British vessel, having tlemen would do well to throw aside their thin slippers down before him, exclaiming, 'if you don't like my singand shoes, think more of life than of fashion, and procure ing, sing yourself-any thing for peace's sake"" and her; but to their astonishment, found her to be a frigate a covering for the feet which shall correspond with the thus finishing his anecdote, the venerable gentleman in disguise. A very high breeze prevailing, they hauled the appearance of a merchantman, and made towards dangers of the season. A want of this caution has threw the newspaper into the lap of the conceited and off in different directions. One only could be pursued, impudent coxcomb who had made himself a pest to the and the frigate gained rapidly upon him. Finding he HEALTH.-It has been customary, in some of our cities and towns for young ladies to walk in thin shoes yourself."-Troy Mail. whole circle, saying, "if you don't like my reading read could not run away, the commanding officer had recourse and delicate stockings, in mid-winter. A healthy, bloomto stratagem. On a sudden he hauled down every sail ing young girl, thus dressed, in violation of Heaven's the following inscription is found on a grave stone. The frigate amazed at the supposed danger they had run, and A GLORIOUS RECORD.—At New-London, Connecticut, shoving his vessel off a bank. The people on board the laws pays the penalty: a checked circulation, cold, fever records of ancient Rome or Greece do not exhibit a to save themselves from being grounded, immediately and all hands were employed with setting poles, is if and death. "What a sad Providence!" exclaimed her nobler instance of patriotic heroism: "On the 20th clawed off and left the more knowing Yankee " to make friends. Was it Providence, or her own folly? A beau- October, 1781, 4,000 English fell upon the town with himself scarce," as soon as night rendered it prudent for tiful young bride goes night after night, to parties in honor fire and sword-700 Americans defended the fort for a him to hoist sail in a sea two hundred fathoms deep. brought many a fair one to an early grave. CONNECTICUT COURANT. HARTFORD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1840. From the roof comes plunging the drowning rain; Without,-in tatters, the world's child 's poor Sobbeth aloud her grief, her pain! No one heareth her, no one heedeth her; But Hunger, her friend, with his cold gaunt hand. Grasps her throat-whispering huskily, "What dost Thou in a Christian land ?" (Witkin.) The skies are wild, and the blast is cold; Up in each glass to its beaded brim ; (Without.) She who is slain 'neath the winter weather,- Had greatness-vanity-maiden shame: She's gone,-poor life and its "fever" o'er. So, let her in calm oblivion lie; While the world runs merrily as heretofore! (Within.) He who yon lordly feast enjoyeth, He who doth rest on his couch of down, He it was who threw the forsaken Under the feet of the trampling town; Liar-betrayer-false as cruel What is the doom for his dastard sin? A BALLAD. His face is black like ebony, His white hair like the fleece, And the wrinkles of his forehead Do every day increase. His voice, once clear, is sadly broke, And yet, methinks, there twinkles fire The house of his old master, III. His talk is of the olden time, But now he sighs-and in his eyes For tender thoughts within him rise Old man, thy simple tale, if told Might many a smile and tear beguile VI. For death will shortly summon thee And the old servant then set free Miscellaneous Selections. CLEON. From the N. Y. American. VALE OF LEVEN, Oct. 1840. NO. 26. gentleman's boots, holding to the skirt of my coat and supporting her steps with a rustic staff cut on Ellen's Island-now scaling almost perpendicularly a crumbling crag-now dragging my path through a thick field of blooming heather-now leaping a rivulet that capered down the mountain-now wading a muddy bog-now slipping on a moss-concealed stone, and measuring my length on the sides of towering Ben, who cast his eye down some three thousand feet to laugh at my struggles. Then think of the poetry hanging in mist around the heads of the mountains, which peeped over each other's shoulders as we ascended-and of The burnished sheet of living gold, Loch Katrine, that beneath us rolledand of the torn boots and sprained ancles-and of the wild goats which scampered nimbly away, at our approach, in sheer mockery of our limpings-and of the dash of rain that slacked its thirst in our garments when we rested a moment by the side of the sacrificial rockand of the perspiration gushing from every pore,-0, it was the very effervescence of romance! After a lengthened contest Benjamin yielded, and then the prospect! It may be seen, but not described. On three sides of the wide panorama were mountains rolled on mountains, and crags piled on crags, in studied confusion, over which the eye wandered till their rugged peaks melted into the haze of the distant horizon. The peerless Ben Lomond confronted us at the southwest, bearing up the rim of the heavens on his broad shoulders. At the north stood the scarcely less lofty Ben Voirlich, once the dwelling place of Rob Roy, and at whose base the outlaw sleeps sonndly among "the braes o' Balquidder." Near it Ben Ledi lifted his tufted brow, overlooking Coilantogle Ford, where Fierce Roderick felt the fatal drain, And showered his blows like wintry rain. The eastern portion of the picture was bordered by the Ochill mountains, beyond which the Grampian Hills traced an uneven fringe on the fainter blue sky. The day was peculiarly favorable for seeing this grand spectacle in all its glory. The brilliant sun was frequently obscured for a brief space by small clouds driven fleetly across the heavens by a strong wind. The light and shade were chasing each other rapidly over the summits of Of course we went to Loch Katrine. Callander, 16 the mountains, alternately clothing them with brightness miles from Sterling, being the Ultima Thule of regular and gloom. Now the brow of Ben-Ledi glowed with a coaches, we travelled the remaining 10 miles in a post-golden radiance; and then it was shrouded with a pall of chaise. The road opened to us fresh beauties at every darkness. Soon, Ben-Voirlich caught the fire, which, turn. Sterile crags overhung verdant fields; woody quivering on its peak, flitted over the glen of Loch Katrine precipices clung to the sides of deep glens; and foam- to light on the rock-altars on the top of Ben Lomond. At ing torrents came leaping and brawling from the heights one moment, the long range of the Ochills were covered into locks which threw back the frowning shadows of with heavy black garments-in the next, they stood drest the mountains. We left our cloaks and other et ceteras in living green. A shadow would sometimes start at one at the inn of Ardkencrockran, and with two boatmen side of the landscape and fly with the speed of the courser for guides, entered the rocky pass of the Trosachs, After walking a mile or two, we emerged from their through a crevice in the clouds, which, running across wild mazes, when a dark sheet of water lay before us, the picture like a stream of molten gold, would dart up listening with slightly agitated bosom to the breeze-harp the side of a mountain, and, playing an instant on its top, of surrounding mountains. Loch Katrine is beautiful-glance athwart ledges of rock to another summit, and yea, romantic-and would be, though the Lady of the another, till it quenched its brightness in another glen. Lake had never been born. The boatmen rowed us to Often, the top of a mountain would be clothed in sunEllen's Island and all the other storied spots, and landed shine half way to its base, while the residue was envel us at the base of Ben-venue; on the crown of whose oped in shade. Then again, the light and darkness head we determined to set our feet ere we returned to would hang around the hills in long waving festoons, Ardkencrockran. A fierce sun was showering his zenith extending from their heads to their feet. A heavy cloud arrows upon us when we commenced the ascent. We would occasionally cross the sun's disk, and cover the found Ben a wearisome fellow to wrestle with. Fancy whole scene with a thick brown curtain. The breeze me toiling up the steep acclivity, with a lady, shod in would rend it in ribbons and scatter down a profusion of a With hasty oar, Push'd her light shallop from the shore. PERTH, October, 1840. B light and shade, here soft, there intense, which, as it frocky steeps that open the mouths of caves, which the danced over the variegated peaks and ridges, strikingly superstition of the rude natives who inhabit this secluded resembled the vagaries of the Aurora Borealis in its region has peopled with the ghosts of departed chieftains. which contains about 25,000 inhabitants, lies 42 mile I write from Perth (the chief burgh of Perthshire wildest moods. The Lowland prospect was scarcely less extensive the waves, next greet the eye. We escape the shadows may be regarded as the capital of a large and influential Waving lines of silver beach, laved with the ripplings of north of Edinburgh, is a place of much business, and and inviting. At the southeast stretched the broad plain of an abrupt promontory, when a rustic cottage, clinging portion of Scotland. Beautifully built, and pleasantly or Carse of Stirling, whose cultivated fields, checkered as for its life to the side of a mountain, peeps from the situated in the midst of a wide and luxuriant plain ber with yellow grain and green meadows, contrasted beauti- trees, and sends from its front a narrow strip of verdure dered by mountains, through which the broad river Tay fully with the stern grandeur of the Highlands. The down to the water's edge. The eye then glances upa makes a bold sweep-the centre of much that is interest eye slid gradually down the sides of the mountains into dark glen, which, of yore, drank the blood of hostile ing in the real and romantic history of Scotland—the this softened vale-now watching the smoke as it curled clans, and anon it rests upon a tufted knoll, whose every precise point where the ruggedness of Highland scenery from the chimneys of the diminutive farm-cottages-tree and shrub have been garlanded with the wildest ro- and Highland manners blend with the softened graces ef now tracing the hedgerows, which, in the distance, mance by the hand of poesy. In one of the defiles of the Lowlands;-a visit to this ancient town cannot bai resembled inky lines drawn on an unrolled map, and the Trosachs, that frown behind us, is the veritable grave gratify every admirer of the chaste and venerable in an now following the course of the Forth, whose windings of Cromwell's soldier who was shot by the Highlanders the grand and lovely in external nature, and the wild and shone under the beams of the sun like the folds of when he was coming with his party of marauders to rav- cultivated in the customs and pursuits of human society, glittering serpent. After resting a moment on the towers age these forbidden regions; and just beneath it lies the We arrived in Perth on Saturday evening. At the toll of Stirling Castle, 30 miles away, the vision traversed quiet island whence the ideal Ellen the valley of the Forth towards Edinburgh, glancing now at the field of Bannockburn-then at the ruins of of the bells on the following morning, I was surprised at Doune Castle-now at the dark walls of Linlithgow the great numbers of people flocking to church—it Palace, till it lost its way, where the Pentland Hills min- bounded by a range of mountains, at whose base Robert towers of the Kirk of St. John's, on account of the assoAs we approach the west end of the lake, the view is way to their respective places of worship. The antique seeming as if the entire population were wending their gle their blue summits with the clouds. Nor were nearer objects less attractive and interest-ern house occupying the site of the hut within whose Within its walls the Reformation in Scotland commen MacGregor Campbell was born. Yonder stands a mod-ciations connected with its history, drew us thither.ing. Below us lay Loch Katrine, now dwindled to a walls Rob Roy first saw the light. It is a fit spot for the ced. From its pulpit, John Knox first preached "the pool, and sleeping like an infant at the feet of giant birth-place of the daring outlaw. We have now reached newe doctraine" to wondering thousands, and uttered sentinels, while the rays of the declining sun were linger- the landing place, and must get all things ready for pass- those bold truths and fervent prayers that made Mary ing to dance and play on its polished bosom. Ellen's ing the glen between Loch Katrine and Loch Lomond. and Elizabeth tremble on their thrones. The edifice is Island seemed a little tuft of grass floating on its sur-Cloaks, trunks, umbrellas, guns, and guide-books, are worthy of inspection, as illustrating the practical charac face; and the Trosachs, which bristle fiercely when you hastily disembarked, and the competitory strife among ter of the Scotch, and their repudiation of tinsel and are among them, cowered obsequiously under the shadow the pony-drivers has commenced. There were at least ornament in the fitting up of their churches. It was of their master Ben-venue. Loch Achray reposed at a two ponies apiece for us (provided we had chosen to formerly a magnificent Roman Catholic Cathedral; but respectable distance below her more honored, though ride) and so, the equestrians set themselves up at auction. the Reformation did not produce more important changes scarcely more beautiful, sister Katherine. The rocky The bidding was spirited, and in a short time all the bipeds in the hearts of the people of Perth than in the interior stream that pours the superabundant treasures of the were furnished with quadrupeds at a reasonable price of St. John's. Instead of the paintings and fretted proud Katrine into the lap of the humble Achray, seems inflated with its errand, and rumbles and sparkles quite placed on a very small pony. The little Shetlander was pavement of the transcepts-the gilded altar, and carved A very large German lady (a Countess I believe) was arches of the nave-the stained windows and mosaic pompously, when you are beside it. From the top of entirely covered by the mountain of flesh on his back. ceiling of the choir-and chapels studded with the stat Ben-venue it narrows to a thread of fretted silver. He frisked about while two attendants held the Countess ues of departed Saints of doubtful piety, we now have Loch Vennacher, the next descending link in the chain, on-she never having placed foot in stirrup before. "Dis the plain oaken pulpit and pew, the pewter font, the though a very modest dame, and rather tame in her sur-beast is var too small for me," said the terror stricken unadorned gallery, and two stubborn stone walls that rounding drapery, boasts that Coilantogle Ford lies at lady, as the little fellow danced a Scotch reel under the divide the building into three commodious apartments her side. The eye can just distinguish the green plot overwhelming amplitude of her cloaks and robes. The for the use of as many different congregations. Probawhere Fitz James' Saxon blade drank the blood of pony, not being versed in high Dutch, mistook the words bly no protestant nation is more attached to its religion Roderick Dhu-as it can the rock on "Ben-ledi's living for a cry to break away, and scampering off with the than the Scotch. The page of its history is red with side,' where he dared the chieftain's sword, and the dark speed of a squirrel, down came the Countess-an im-blood spilt in its defence. Some have wondered why glen beyond, that saw the gathering of the clans. But mense mass of fallen human nature. The pony was Scotland, in the settlement of the Union, did not secure -I will not weary with details already tediously famil- low, the grass was high, and the lady was fat, and conse- for herself equal political rights with England; such as iar. Suffice it to say, from our airy height the whole quently, nobody was hurt, though all were frightened the presence of all her nobles in Parliament, &c The scene of the Lady of the Lake lies spread out at our feet. especially the Countess and the pony. Fairly on her problem is easily solved. Her hardy people cared litle It has been described a thousand times by tourists, and feet, she laughed, which was a signal for a general roar for coronets, stars, and feathers. They did secure ample the world knows the Poem by heart. Making due al- by the whole company. All agreed that it was a great protection for what they esteem of infinitely greater value lowance for the limner's eye in fine frenzy rolling, the fall-the largest event of the morning. As such, I note it their religion. They had shed too much blood in suppicture of Sir Walter Scott has a veritable original. Now for the descent! Would that we had reached in a little valley called Corr'arklet, to see a long Spanish it for the bubbles that bespangle titled legitimates. The When half way through the pass, we stopped at a hut. port of the faith once delivered to the Scotch, to hazard Ardkencrockran Inn with as much ease as I can record musket which has been shown as Rob Roy's time out of Union must be formed. Scotland could not save both the fact that we did reach it. Two hours saw us there mind. The old woman who owns it is a relative of Rob: her civil and ecclesiastic privileges without infringement. with weary limbs and a sharp appetite, tremblingly alive and in connection with the fact that he for a time dwelt She yielded part of the former to secure all of the latter. to the truth if not to the poetry of the couplet that some in this glen, which also is the birth-place of Helen Mctraveller has inscribed on the window of my room It is one thing to say and another to do, To toil to the top of bold Benvenue. animal, and two holding her on, brought up the rear. Gregor, the gun may be regarded as looking at. As I sat in St. John's Church, watching the stern counThe whole cavalcade arrived safely at worth The next morning we started for the head of Loch can lady, who rode her pony like another Die Vernon-rian devotion that left no doubt of the sincerity of the Inversnaid Mill-the van guard being led by an Ameritenances of the assembly when singing their odd hymns (as remarkable for excellence of sentiment as for utter Katrine-twelve in a boat, propelled by four stout Highlanders, who sung Gaelic songs and recited passages while the Countess, with one man leading her panting worshippers, it reminded me of those old Covenantere destitution of every semblance of poetry) with a stento. from the Lady of the Lake, keeping time with their oars. While waiting for the steamer, which was to give us the sides of their Highland streams and under the shadow of The sail was delightful-lifting the curtain upon most circuit of Loch Lomond, we rambled a few hundred their mountain glens, to worship the Divine Being acr scenes when that persecuted people assembled by the picturesque scenery that shifted and displayed new beau-yards up the banks of the cataract that leaps from the cording to the dictates of their consciences, each leaning ties at every dip of the oar. Reality and fiction have heights into the lake at this spot, throwing its spray into vied with each other in throwing their varied charms the windows of the humble cottage by the shore-the over the scene. The lake-which lies in an irregular scene alluded to by Wordsworth in his address to the wilds of Scotland as if they had been beasts of prey. ravine formed by the juxta-position of several high moun- mountain maid,— on his musket, ready to yield his breath but not his faith to the haughty Cavaliers, who hunted them through the tains-is of great depth, and its waters are as clear as a mirror. As our boat dimpled its surface, the blue arch and white drapery of the heavens, seemed as if floating mond, and landed us at the head of the Levon. have visited no spots north of the Tweed with deeper in the depths below. We double bold headlands and The steamer showed us the fine scenery of Loch Lo-by the blood of the Covenanters. Laugh though we must interest than those consecrated to liberty of conscience at some of their absurdities; differ though we may about the propriety of defending our religion at the bayonet's Sweet Highland girl! a very shower Yours, &c. RAMBLER. I Ta point, yet, who will not appland and commend to univer-from either side, who were to fight in the presence of the in an especial manner are the acknowledgments of all sal admiration that indomitable love for freedom of opin- King and nobles, till all were slaughtered or one party farmers due to Mr. James Gowen, who is always in the ion which nerved them to cling to their peculiar faith gave over the contest. When the day came, Robert front rank where public spirit or private liberality is with a tenacity that ferocious opposition and the utter-attended in state on the North Inch, which was covered needed. most violence could not relax? with an immense concourse of people assembled to wit- The Society have thought that no employment of the A little Loch, in the vicinity of Perth, was the scene of ness the conflict. The hour for the combat arrived, and additional means confided to them would be so useful of a cruel slaughter, nearly 200 years ago, of a congregait was found that one of the McIntoshes had fled, thus as to bring the farmers together, to exhibit the best specition of Covenanters, who, as was their custom on a Sab-creating a vacancy in the ranks of that clan. Harry mens of their industry; and by small but honorable bath day, had met for religious worship on its shores. Wynde, a saddler of Perth, who was standing among premiums to encourage a generous competition in every It lies in a deep dell overhung by woody precipices that the spectators, agreed for a couple of crownst to take branch of farming productions. The prizes for the best cast their wild shadows on its bosom; and is fed by a the place of the terror-stricken McIntosh. This matter crops must be decided at a later part of the season. But small rill that rambles down the mountain in playful being adjusted, the trumpets sounded the charge and the the exhibition of farming stock and farming implements meanderings, rippling among the crags, throwing its fight began. Long cherished animosity goaded each of is now before you: and it is made my duty to add somefoam on the branches of the willows and larches that the assailants to do his utinost. The shouts of the re- thing appropriate to the occasion. This I do cheerfully, lean from its banks till it leaps over a cascade into a rum-tainers of the respective families, and the waving of the and what I shall say will be very plain, very practical, bling basin cut out of the rocks, where it dances a mo- tartan scarfs of the partizan ladies, as one after another and, as you will learn with pleasure, very short. My ment and then creeps softly over a plat of greensward of the combatants fell, fired the living with more than a purpose is to say a few words about the real condition of and hushes its murmurs in the quiet lake. This carpet tiger's ferocity. The battle raged furiously till nineteen farming in Pennsylvania; its natural advantages; its acof secluded verdure was the place selected by these hunt- of the McIntoshes and twenty-nine of the McKays lay quired means; and then suggest such improvements as ed outcasts for their temple of prayer and praise. It is dead on the field. The remaining McKay, seeing no may make our farms more productive. surrounded by high precipices on every side except chance of success against the eleven McIntoshes, and There are perhaps few portions of the earth more where its narrow chain of silver beach is kept bright by thinking discretion was the better part of valor, threw favored by nature than Pennsylvania. Her soil is excel the gentle friction of the waves. It can be reached only down his armor, leapt into the Tay, swam to the Eastern lent and various-while even the parts least adapted in through a winding glen or gulph which is guarded by a shore, and made his escape to the mountains. As to the themselves for agriculture, furnish the best encouragepass in the rocks, so narrow that hardly two persons can part Harry Wynde bore in the fray, two stories obtain ment to it; for the hills which reject the plough are filled enter abreast. At this pass, and perched on a projecting credence among the people of Perth-one, that he fought with coal and iron, which collect large masses of the cliff that commands a view of the glen for several hun with great powers to the last, doing terrible execution people to be fed by the farmers. Her climate is a happy dred yards, the worshippers used to station sentinels to upon the McKays-the other, that in the heat of the medium between the long winters of northern regions, watch the approach of the hostile cavaliers. Who that strife, he left the arena; and when upbraided for his which close the earth for so many months against farm has read the heart-moving history of the Covenanters, cowardice and commanded to return, declared he was no labor and consume so much of its produce in carrying would not, standing on such a spot, have called to mind coward, but had fought enough for two crowns, and the farm stock over long months of idleness, and, on the the appropriate lines of Graham? Thy persecuted children, Scotia, fqiled The lyrat veteran heard the word of God would not rejoin the battle without further compensation! other side, the unvarying heat of southern latitudes, often Yours, &c. RAMBLER. These natural advantages she has also the means of improving by artificial means; for the limestone, so great Her plaint; the solitary place was glad, And on the distant cairns, the watcher's ear an element in farming, is found everywhere, in great Caught doubtfully at times the breeze-borne note." abundance. Plaster of Paris is obtained easily, and at But to my story. At the place and on the occasion I Note-Instead of a couple of crowns, the sum paid was low prices, from her neighbor, New York; the large half a silver mark, equal to half a French crown-vide the cities furnish vast supplies of animal manure, while, on have above alluded to, aud while the Covenanters were Old Chronicles and Scott's History. The story there related, the other side of the Delaware, lies a great belt of green listening to the instruction of one of their ministers, they is that when Wynd had slain one of the clan Kay, he drew were discovered by a party of marauders belonging said, "How is this, art thou afraid!" aside; on observing which, the chief of the clan Chattau sand, erroneously called marl, an original deposite of the "Not I," answered ocean, where, among bones of extinguished races of to the army of the Marquis of Montrose, which surpri- Henry, "but 1 have done enough work for half a crown." animals, and relics of a submerged world, there is brought sed and struck down the sentinels at the pass, rushed Forward and fight," said the chief, "he that doth not grudge his day's work, I will not stint him of his wages." ADDRESS AT THE Philadelphia Agricultural Exhibition. up this sand, highly useful even in its natural state, and if mixed with lime, as it should be, of great efficacy. upon the people below, killing some with their bayonets. speeding bullets through the bodies of those who took The implements of husbandry come next in order, and refuge in the trees and on the shelving rocks, forcing these we have of the very best kind, much better than others into the lake where they were drowned, and similar implements in Europe; lighter, more easily slaughtering the whole assembly except four lion-hearted handled, and there are one or two in common use with men who cut their way through the soldiers, sword in us, such for instance, as the horse rake, and that giant hand, and fleeing up the glen entered a wood and effected GENTLEMEN: We are assembled to witness our first instrument, the cradle, which are unknown or unused their escape. exhibition since the recent donation by the State. Our abroad. In truth, our people have had so much to do Every visiter to Perth will not fail to scramble over society, while engaged with all its own resources in with comparatively small means that their ingenuity has the Inches,―two remarkable plats of grass that skirt the improving our agriculture, appealed to the Legislature, been tasked to invent the most efficient instruments, and Tay at the north and south ends of the town as consisting mainly of farmers, and asked that, while to make the most active use of them. Thus there are They are about a mile long, half a mile wide, as level so many millions were expended in the transportation two words in almost all languages, and well defined in and soft as a carpet, and variegated with numerous of our productions, something should be given to assist most dictionaries, but of which Europeans have scarcely gravel walks that afford beautiful views of the town, of in rendering those productions themselves more abundant any idea, and these are the axe and the plough. To cut its river and its highly adorned banks, and of the distant and more valuable. Accordingly a law was passed down a tree, the great business of American settlers, is blue mountains that toss their heads towards the placing, every year, at the disposal of the Society a sum a strange event to a European farmer. And then it may heavens. The North Inch is noted for a bloody conflict of fifty dollars for each member of the Legislature for make us smile to see, as we may on the continent of Euthat took place on it in the reign of Robert III, 1396, the city and county of Philadelphia, to be paid out of rope, at the present time, a whole drove of horses-I between two powerful families, the McKays and the the taxes to be raised within the city and county. This, have myself actually seen eight in a single plough—and McIntoshes, and upon which Scott founded some of the though small in amount, is important from its example: sometimes the whole quadruped force of the farm, three incidents in his Fair Maid of Perth. A fierce quarrel nor, in entering upon the first enjoyment of it, should or four cows, and perhaps a bull or two, with the aid of had long existed between these rivals, that embroiled we omit our thanks to the Legislature for this mark of several horses, toiling slowly through the great work of all their retainers in the feud, and gave no inconsiderable regard for the farming interest, to the members from turning up the sod-nay, even in some parts of England, trouble to the throne. It was agreed to settle the dis- the city and county who liberally supported it, and more at this moment, may be seen six large horses, with two pute by an appeal to arms. Thirty men were selected especially to those members of this Society to whose full-grown men, returning from the field after having exertions we owe the success of this application, among ploughed during the day, three-quarters of an acre, * Grey. + Professor Renwick, of Columbia College, is the lineal whom it would be great injustice not to name George where one of our ploughmen, with a pair of horses, would W. Roberts, R. T. Potts, and Capt. Thomas Hayes, but have got through an acre or an acre and a half. descendant of the eminent divine here comemmorated. |