1 1824 1825 Mild winter with but little snow; river closed 1825 1826 Weather generally very mild, though there 1826 1827 A severe winter; river closed on 24th Dec. MARY MILLER AND HELEN PARKS, OR THE FOLLY OF DISCONTENT. mercury fell on 25th January to 7 degrees this Place, on their March thither. I detached Colonel below zero, one degree lower than in Febru- Gregg, with two Hundred Men under his command to ary, 1817; as cold weather probably as was stop their March. In the Evening I had Information by Many years ago I read a story which strongly illustra ever experienced here. The Hudson was Express, that there was a large body of the enemy on ted the folly of discontent. It was in poetry, but here is crossed on the ice between this city and their Way, with their Field Pieces, in order to March the substance of it, in a dress of plain prose. Powles Hook for several days. During the through the Country, commanded by Governor Skeene. A Farmer's daughter, I will call her Mary Miller, was last hundred years, the river has been pas The 14th, I marched with my Brigade, and a few of this permitted to take a walk in the fields on Saturday aftersable on the ice in the same way only four State's Militia, to oppose them, to cover Gregg's Retreat, noon. She had been to school all the week, and this times, viz. in 1740 41, 1764 65, 1779 80 who found himself unable to withstand their superior privilege delighted her very much. She soon left the 1820 21. Number, about four Miles from this Town, I accordingly dusty road, and rambled from hillock to hillock, gathering 1821 1822 A severe winter with but little snow; river met him on his Return, and the Enemy in close pursuit the flowers which pleased her fancy. Sometimes she closed on 13th December; mercury as low of him, within Half a Mile of his Rear. But when they watched the glassy brook, and listened to the merry birds, as 1 below zero. discovered ine, they presently halted on a very advan. Sometimes she bounded after the gay butterfly, and then 1822 1823 No very severe weather till February and tageous Piece of Ground; I drew up my little Army on ran to pick some flowers whose gaudy colors attracted March, river closed on 24th December;-an Eminence, in open view of their Encampments but her eye. In short, wherever her light heart prompted, lowest degree 3 above zero. could not bring them to an Engagement; I marched her nimble feet carried her. 1823 1824 Very mild winter; river closed on 16th De- back about a Mile, and there encamp'd; I sent out a few She was near the roadside when she saw a glittering cember; open in January for a short time. Men to skirmish with them, kill'd thirty of them, with coach pass slowly by. There was no one in it but a two Indian Chiefs. The 15th it rained all Day, I sent little girl about Mary's age. A driver sat in front, guid. ont parties to harrass them. The 16th I was join'd by ing the sleek horses, which trotted in their rich harness. this State's Militia, and those of Berkshire County. When the girl wished to stop, he instantly checked them ; divided my Army into three Divisions, and sent Colonel and when she wished to go forward, they started at his Nichols with 250 Men on the Rear of their left Wing; word. A footman was on his stand' behind. If the Col. Henrich, in the Rear of their Right, with 300 Men, little girl saw a flower in the field, or by the roadside, she ordered when joined, to attack the same. In the mean had only to speak, and the carriage stopped, while the Time I sent three Hundred more to oppose the Enemy's footinan ran to fetch it. In short, she seemed to have no Front, to draw their Attention that Way; soon after I wish ungratified. As Mary looked at the coach her heart detached the Colonels Hubbard aud Stickney, on their sunk, her feet lost their lightness, her spirits their gaiety, 1827 1828 A very cold and blustering November, fol-right Wing with two Hundred Men to attack that Part, and her face its smiles. She walked gloomily along, and lowed by the mildest winter since 1801 '02; all which Plans had their desired Effect. Col. Nichols with sour looks and pouting lips, she entered her mother's river closed only about three weeks at differ- sent me Word that he stood in need of a Reinforcement, humble dwelling. ent times through the winter. The mildest which I readily granted, consisting of one hundred Men, 'Have you had a delightful walk, my child?' said she February since 1778 79, when vegetation at which time he commenced the attack precisely at 3 'Ono,' said Mary, pettishly. I should have enjoyed commenced and flowers were gathered in o'Clock in the afternoon, which was followed by all the it pretty well, but Helen Parks came along in her car the woods, and in Pennsylvania peach trees rest; I pushed forward the Remainder with all speed; our riage, and when I saw how happy she appeared, with her blossomed in this month. People behaved with the greatest spirit and Bravery im- coachman and footman to wait upon her, and remembered 1828 1829 A long severe winter; river closed on 1st aginable; had they been Alexanders, or Charles of Swe- that I was a poor girl, and must always go afoot and January and opened on 29th March; lowest den they could not have behaved better; the action wait upon myself, I could hardly help crying. If she degree, 6 below zero. Much suffering lasted two Hours, at the Expiration of which Time, we wanted anything she had only to speak, or point to it, among the poor in February. forced their Breastworks at the Muzzles of their Guns, and the footman instantly ran and brought it to her. But 1829 1830 Weather generally mild till 23d Jan. when took two Pieces of Brass Cannon, with a Number of what I wanted, if it was ever so far off, I must go and the river closed; weather then very severe Prisoners, but before I could get them into proper Form get it myself. I dont mean to walk out by that road any for several weeks. As much ice in our har- again, I received Intelligence that there was a large more.' bor as in 1826 27; lowest degree 3 above Reinforcement within two miles of us on their march, Her fretful voice was scarcely hushed, when Mrs. Parks which occasioned us to renew our Attack, but lucky for came in. 1830 1831 A very severe winter with several deep us Col. Warner's Regiment came up, which put a stop How did your daughter enjoy her ride this afternoon?' snows; ground covered with snow from 6th to their Career. We soon rallied, and in a few Minutes said Mrs. Miller, when her wealthy guest had thrown Jan. to 28th Feb. a longer period than in the Action began very warm and desperate, which lasted herself languidly upon an uncushioned chair. any winter since 1808 09. Severe and un- till Night; we used their own Cannon against them, Here the reader should know that Heleu was lame, so interrupted frost for upward of five weeks, which proved of great Service to us. At sunset we that she had not walked in several years. during which time there were but three days obliged them to retreat a second Time; we pursued them She would have enjoyed it very well,' said the young in which the mercury rose as high as the till dark, when I was obliged to halt for fear of killing lady in a tone of condescension, but just as she came freezing point; lowest degree, 5 above zero. my own men. We recovered 2 Pieces of their Cannon, where she had the finest prospect, she saw a little girl Much distress among the poor-river closed together with all their Baggage, a number of Horses, skipping about the fields. She watched her happy move on 23d December, opened again by heavy Carriages, &c., killed upwards of 200 of the Enemy in ments as she ran wherever her fancy led her, and when rains and closed again on 10th January. the Field of Battle; the number of the wounded is not she remembered she could never enjoy herself thus, she December 10th-Thus far the coldest Dec. known, as they are scattered about in many Places. I said she could scarcely refrain from tears.' 'You cannot since 1766; lowest degree, 14 above zero; have one Lieut. Colonel since dead, one Major, 7 Cap- think,' said she, how sad it was to feel that I must be tains, 14 Lieutenants, 4 Eusigns, 2 Cornets, 1 Judge- lifted into the carriage whenever I wish to take the air; Advocate, 1 Baron, 2 Canadian Officers, 6 Serjeants, 1 and when I see a pretty flower, I can never pick it my Aid-de-Camp, 1 Hessian Chaplain, 3 Hessian Surgeons, self, but must wait till some one, who works for money, The following is a copy of Gen. STARK's official ac- and seven Hundred Prisoners. I enclose you a Copy can go and fetch it to me. count of the Battle of Bennington: 1831 zero. river closed on 3d December. BATTLE OF BENNINGTON. PORTSMOUTH, August 28, 1777. Sunday Evening an Express arrived at Exeter, with the I BENNINGTON, August 18th, 1777. GENTLEMEN, I left Manchester on the 8th Inst. and arrived here the I watched the happy girl, of Gen. Burgoyne's Instructions to Col. Baum, who said she, for a few minutes, as she danced so gaily among commanded the Detachment that engaged us. Our the birds and flowers, and then ordered the footman to wounded are 42; 10 Privates and 4 Officers belonging bring me a few daisies which grew by the road side; but to my Brigade are dead; the dead and wounded in the I soon threw them away,' she added. for I could not other Corps, I do not know, as they have not brought in bear to look at them.' She directed the coachman to the Returns as yet. I am, Gentlemen with the greatest Regard, and Respect, your most obedient Humble Servant, JOHN STARK, Brigadier General. P.S. I think we have returned the Enemy a proper drive home, that her feelings might no longer be aggra vated by the sight of pleasure which she could not share. When the footman brought her in, and placed her care. fully upon the sofa, she laid her face upon my lap and wept profusely. Mother,' said she, 'I will never ride out by those fields again.'-Cabinet 9th. The 13th, I was inform'd that a party of Indians Compliment in the above Action, for the Hubbart-Town tempt too much. They should remember that he is a were at Cambridge, which is twelve Miles distant from Engagement. It is the great fault of men of enterprise, that they at great hunter who catches some, not all. riod. ANOTHER REMINISCENCE. mile of the shore. From the New London Advocate. down towards the place agreed upon; keeping the farrival in town. He sat on the right hand of Mr. Baron movements of his little bend concealed from the enemy. Gurney, with Lord Brougham and the Grand Duke of by marching through such woods and cornfields as could Saxe Weimer-the latter a young man not, seemingly, A few days ago we published an incident which ocbe interposed between his party and the fleet, which was out of his teens. To see the two greatest men of their curred at the attack of Stonington on the 10th of August, little more than a mile from the shore. The ruse succeed- day, the one the master spirit of the Old, the other the 1813. As the article has been copied by papers whose ed exactly as designed. After passing out of the river, master spirit of the New World, thus sitting so near to good taste we appreciate, and as we have nothing more Captains Haley and Burrows kept close in shore, and each other, was a sight of no ordinary interest. Nothing interesting to offer to our readers, we are encouraged made all sail to the westward, as if anxious to escape could be more striking than the contrast which the perto present to them another recollection of the same pe- observation; but, as they expected, before they passed sonal appearance of the two illustrious individuals Avery's point, a long black row-galley shot out from the presented. The large broad countenance of the AmeriAfter the fleet under the command of Sir Thomas lee of one of the ships and pulled for them with every can citizen seemed more ample, when the eye took in Hardy had been fairly beaten off by the little band of assurance of getting a prize-our friends instantly hauled at the same glance the narrow contracted face of the heroes at Stonington; on the fourth day of the attack, their wind, and seemed to make every effort to get back English peer. Lord Brougham's hair looked more grey finding that no impression could be made on the battery into Mystic river, but before they could reach it, they when seen in juxta-position with the almost jet-black which defended the village; and finding also that the were cut off by the barge, and were apparently forced hair of Daniel Webster. While there was no hair on militia of the adjacent country had assembled in such to beach their boat, which they were careful to do at a the forehead of the latter, the small low forehead of the force as would prevent the possibility of a landing, the spot which Capt. Barber had indicated by setting up a former was so over-lapped with it, as almost to render it Commodore withdrew his squadron from their inglorions little birchen wand over the brow of a sand ridge.-doubtful to those who knew no better, whether he had attack, and moving up Fisher's Island Sound with his Scarcely had our two friend's esconsced themselves any forehead at all. The English ex-Lord Chancellor's whole force, anchored off "Groton Long Point," nearly behind the ridge, and the keel of the British barge small grey eyes appeared to dwindle into yet more diopposite the mouth of Mystic river, and within about a grated hard on the shore in hot pursuit, before thirty minished proportions, when placed side by side with the muskets were levelled at the surprised crew, and before large dark eyes of the leader of the American bar. The Gen. Isham, who commanded the force which had it could be prevented by their commander, one division tall, slender, bony frame of the Englishman arrested the been collected near Stonington during the four days had fired. Of sixteen British, one fell dead, pierced by eye more readily when witnessed at the same time with bombardment, immediately on learning that the enemy seven bullets, two were badly wounded, and the other the full, middle sized, broad built figure of the American. had anchored near the mouth of a river where a large thirteen, with the exception of their commander, a lieu- While the dress of Mr. Webster was plainness itself, that amount of property was exposed, and where a defence- tenant or sailing master, were floundering in the water of Brougham had so much of positive dandyism about less population would be subjected to the incursions of into which they threw themselves to avoid a fire which it, that a Parisian swell would have been proud to put the enemy, ordered the 8th regiment, then under the came upon them so unexpectedly. The moment the his persou into it. I have already described the apparel command of Col. Belcher, to proceed forthwith from catastrophe was discovered from the squadron, boats, the former wore on the occasion. The noble and learned their encampment near Stonington, and take position fully manned, were seen to put off to the rescue; but, lord patronized a blue, tastefully made surtout, a white at the month of the Mystic river. The first battalion, before they could arrive to the help of their unfortunate waistcoat, white trowsers, white stockings, and thin consisting of five companies, arrived at Mystic soon comrades, the little company of militiamen had manned shoes; and on his breast was a handsome gold chain, after the enemy had anchored. It was commanded by a the two boats, and, with the killed and wounded, had, while from his small-clothes' watch pocket there was gentleman who has since received testimonies of the under the pilotage of their gallant coadjutors, placed suspended, by a small looking riband, a cluster of massive regard and confidence of his fellow-citizens. Immediate themselves within the protection of the fire of their fellow gold seals. His appearance altogether, with the exceply after his arrival at the point to which he had been soldiers, who now lined the beach by scores, to witness tion of his grey hair, his complexionless face, and large ordered, he met with Captain Simeon Haley and Capt. and assist in the event. features, was remarkably boyish-like. He reminded ine Burrows, the former of whom had been one of that Mr. Stewart, late British Consul for Connecticut, &c., of a youthful student at some country academy, “trimlittle band who gained immortal honor in defending the a gentleman who retains a deep and abiding place, as med up" for the annual ball. The severity of Mr. battery at Stonington, and who will always be kept in well in the affections as in the respect and esteem of all Webster's countenance, the repose of his features, and grateful remembrance by such of his fellow-citizens as who knew him, was on board the Ramilies at the time. the motionless position in which he sat, must have struck remember the war and its incidents-the latter we believe He has since told our informant, that he was dining every one more forcibly from the perpetual smile which also to have been one of that brave little company; but with Com. Hardy under an awning on the quarter deck, played on the face of his lordship, the incessant and rapid of this we are not assured. These two gentlemen made at the time the boat was sent in pursuit, and that the movement of his muscles, and the infinitely diversified an arrangement with the Commander of the detachment Commodore had watched her progress until she touched attitudes into which he put his body. He laughed, which resulted in one of the most brilliant little affairs of the beach, when hearing the volley of musquetry he spoke and acted, with hands, feet, and face, during the seized a spy-glass, and gazing earnestly for a moment, whole of the time he sat on the bench-his body thus exIn order that the arrangement may be understood by he turned to Mr. S., and remarked, "My poor fellows hibiting a singular sympathy with the well known restthe reader of the present day, it is necessary to state that are Yankied. ' during the period while the British fleet infested the waters of the Sound, all communication by means of regular coasters was cut off, and that flour, pork, and other heavy articles of necessity were conveyed from place to place along shore, by means of a kind of craft called Vineyard Boats." These were generally very fast sailors were sharp at both ends like a whale-boat, with a great breadth of beam, enabling them to carry about 25 barrels burthen-they were generally navigated by two men only, and of course for safety depended on Mr. Grant, the author of "Random Recollections of was surrounded by the admiring and adoring crowd, and their speed alone. Many of these boats were taken the House of Commons," has recently published a new whithersoever he moved, a concourse followed him. A from time to time during the war with cargoes which work of a character somewhat similar to that. It con- preacher, whose piety was wounded by their homage were very acceptable to the blockading squadron. tains a long elaborate description of Mr. Webster's per-paid to a mortal, asked the people aloud-Why they thus the war. It is worthy of remark, that after this event no coasting boat of the kind alluded to in the above sketch was attacked by the boats of the blockading squadron, but ever afterward were permitted to make their way along shore without molestation. WEBSTER AND BROUGHAM. A CONTRAST. lessness of his mind." AN ANECDOTE FOR MAN-WORSHIPPERS -Patrick Henry's biographer gives the following incident. When Mr. Henry was verging towards three score and ten years, the political aspect of affairs induced him to forego the comforts of his retirement, and to be presented as a candidate for the house of delegates. On the day of the election, as soon as he appeared on the ground, he Captains Haley and Burrows had such a boat in readi-sonal appearance, as the author beheld him during his followed Mr. Henry? Mr. Henry, said he, is not a God! ness, and it was immediately arranged between them late visit to England. At the close of this, is a physical "No," said Mr. Henry, deeply affected, both by and the Major commanding the detachment, that they contrast of the American Statesman with Lord Brougham, the scene and by the remark, "No, my friend, should place on board their boat so much ballast as should which is worth quoting. Mr. Grant has previously de- I am but a poor worm of the dust: as fleeting and ungive her the appearance of being deeply laden, and pro-scribed Mr. Webster as dressed in a brown coat with substantial as the shadow that flies over your fields and ceed out from the mouth of the river, as if bound west- velvet collar, a buff waistcoat, dark sinall clothes, and is remembered no more. "" The tone with which this ward; and that if chased by a British barge, they were Wellington boots-the first-mentioned article of which was uttered, and the look which accompanied it, affected to put back and run the boat ashore at a point agreed on, the author hopes, for the credit of English tailors, was every heart, and silenced every voice. Envy and oppojust outside the entrance of the river. This being ar- made by some Yankee, for a more clumsily executed sition were disarmed by humility; the recollection of ranged, and the boat having started, Captain John Barber, production than it was, especially at the back, he had his past services rushed upon every memory, and he a brother of the commandant of the detachment, who seldom seen." read his history in their swimming eyes. Here was an had by this time communicated the plan to Col. Belcher "The first occasion on which I saw Mr. Webster was affecting illustration of the principle, that he that humhis commanding officer, proceeded with thirty volunteers in the Court of Exchequer, three or four days after his bleth himself shall be exalted. 44 INTERESTING ANECDOTE.-An officer in the United States Navy relates the following interesting anecdote, in a volume just published: POPULATION OF AMERICAN CITIES. The annexed] REVOLUTIONARY PATRIOTISM.--Gov. TRUMBULL, of statement shows the population of various cities and vil-Connecticut, was one of the most efficient men of the lages, according to the census just taken, compared with Revolution. No exertions were too great, no fatigue too over-powering for his undaunted spirit. He was alIncrease. ways ready to second the Commander-in-chief, whether in prosperity or adversity. One of our Lieutenants told me a story of a sailor the population of 1830:-N. Y. Jour. of Com. attached to a ship, that interested me much. "He was an excellent seaman, and so religious and peaceful, that he New York, was called par excellence, the Quaker. He was religious Philadelphia, in all his doings, and, with few companions, seemed to Baltimore, stand apart from the majority of his shipmates, as one Boston, who had little sympathy with them; but every officer and Brooklyn, sailor respected him, for he was intelligent and faithful-Cincinnati, as brave as he was religious,as ingenuous as he was reserv- St. Louis, ed. He devoted his leisure to mental improvement and the Washington, Bible; but if a daring work of duty was to be done-a Pittsburgh, deed of danger and of skill-there was none so prompt Dover, and firm as the Quaker to undertake it. Once a storm Wilmington, Del., arose suddenly at night, and (though I have forgotten Middletown, the peculiar nautical circumstances,) it carried away a Bridgeport, mast, the ship broached to, and a heavy sea broke over Norwich, the quarter; when as she heeled and the decks filled, it New London, was discovered that all the lee ports had been closed, and New Haven, the scuppers were not enough to release the accumulating Hartford, flood. The flapping of the loose sails against the rigging New Orleans, -the moaning of the winds and waters, quite drowned Savannah, the voice of the trumpet, and there was great danger of Newburyport, the ship's going suddenly down in the trough of the Wilmington, N. C. billows. Then as the lurid lightnings for a moment il- Natchez, luminated the deck, confusion and consternation were Newport, revealed in every direction-the men were rushing for Buffalo, the boats, the binnacle lights were out, and the weather Portland, helmsman had deserted his post: when at the critical Gardiner, moment, the voice of one, touching his hat at the time, Canandaigua, said firmly to the officer of the deck. Sir, shall I take Troy, the helm? no one is there." "Who speaks?" said the officer. "It is the Quaker, sir." "Yes, take the helm, my good lad, and be quick, but first knock out a lee port, while I hold the helm, and let out the water. The ship lays like a log, while these fools are crazy." 3,950 313 1,172 3,712 He infused his noble spirit into the people of his State. They ever showed themselves ready to follow the recommendations or obey the orders of their Chief Magistrate. This was well exemplified in an occurrence which took place during the most gloomy period of the struggle for independence. While the army of Washington were retreating through the Jerseys, and after Forts Washington and Lee had fallen into the hands of the British, Governor Trumbull recommended to the householders of Connecticut, who were not obliged by law to do military duty, to form themselves into companies, choose their own officers, and equip themselves for the defence of the United States. A number of aged gentlemen of Waterbury, among others, complied with this suggestion. They embodied themselves in a company, cousisting of twenty-four men, all married; the sum of their ages amounted to one thousand years. When they marched to the place of rendezvous, they left behind them one hundred and forty nine children and grand children. One of them, fifty-nine years of age, had nineteen children and twelve grand children. Their officers were honored with commissions: and when a resolve of the General Assembly ordered the regiment to which this company was attached into service, they were the first to arrive at the place of rendezSuch were the examples of patriotism recorded in the newspapers of the Revolution for the encouragement of the people; they were copied from journal to journal, and doubtless read by almost every fireside in the country. Who can measure the effect such things 6,249 produced in sustaining the cause of liberty 1-Boston Decrease. Post. 1840. 312,234 1830. 202,589 258,832 188.797 109,645 21,753 8,754 1,770 3,004 52,088 The Quaker sprang with prompt alacrity down the half sunken deck, up to his waist in water-a vent was SALARIES OF GOVERNORS.-The Baltimore Sun consoon made, and the whirling currents' hurrying to escape, tains a statement showing the salaries of the Governors of Zoology, and such like, we propose an additional almost took the dauntless mariner with them but in a the various States composing our Union, of which the science, as a finishing touch to young ladies' education, moment he was at the helm. Silence and obedience following is an abstract: were restored among the crew, and the broken mast was cut away. The Quaker fixed his steady eye upon the breaking sea, headed the faltering prow to the wave, and the ship once more being relieved soon righted-the sails secured were closely reefed, and safely re-assured. But had not the Quaker been there, where might have been the ship and its trembling spirits? And what was it that armed this man with such fearless self-possession in the midst of peril? It was surely more than natural courage yes, it was a firm reliance on the providence of God, a submission to the decrees of duty, whatever or wherever they might be; it was the courage of a religious faith-a faith that "casteth out all fear." CONFLAGRATION OF THE STARS.-During the last three or four centuries, upwards of thirteen fixed stars have disappeared. One of them situated in the Northern Hemisphere, presented a peculiar brilliancy, and was so bright as to be seen by the naked eye at mid day. It seemed to be on fire, appearing at the first of dazzling white, then of a reddish yellow, and lastly of an ashy pale color. La Place supposes that it was burned up, as it has never been seen since. The conflagration was visible sixteen months. How dreadful! A whole system on fire, the great central luminary and its planets, with their plains, mountains, forests, cities, villages, and inhabitants, all in flames, consumed and gone forever. A dumb scholar is like a pious hermit-of but very little service to the world. The remark of Thucydides of Grayson, Seward, McDonald, Louisiana, Massachusetts, viz.: Spinology. Our grandmothers of olden time, who $7500 made good wives for patriotic men that achieved our independence, knew how to spin. They were, too, 4200 4000 expert at weave-ology; and as to cook-ology, none of learned ancients could go ahead of them. As a conse4000 quence of all this, they enjoyed good health, and such things as dyspepsia and consumption were seldom know. But in modern times those sciences, so honorable to the matrons of the Revolution, have gone out of date. A lamentable degeneracy, both physical and moral, has followed. Then the country had women, now we have none. Females have all turned ladies. 3666 2500 2000 If our fashionable schools cannot be induced to estab lish departments in spinology, weaveology and the like, 2000 we would suggest that some worthy matrons, if a num 2000 ber qualified for the business can be found,-should go into our cities and towns and set up spinning schools to teach your ladies-not how to spin street yarn; this art 2000 they have generally achieved already; but good substantial wool and linen, in a work-woman-like mauner 2000 This should be preparatory to a High School for teach1500 1500 ing the healthy and ingenious art of Weaving; and 1500 when they have become proficients at both, a good 1500 knowledge of cookology should entitle them to a regular 1333 diploma, with the honorary degree of F. W.-Fit for Wives.-Maine Cultivator. There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness The SUPPLEMENT TO THE COURANT will be fur was a good one: "To know a thing and not to express-no better cure than business. Better to do to no nished to those who do not take the paper, for ONE DOLLAR BY MRS. J. L. GRAY, OF EASTON, PA. I remember, I remember, when Sabbath morning rose, We chang'd for garments neat and clean, our soiled weekday clothes, And yet no gaudy finery, nor broach nor jewel rare, Or where the little rivulet danced sportively and bright, I've wandered forth, and thought if hearts were pure like this sweet stream, How fair to heaven they might reflect heaven's uncreated beam! I remember, Tremember, the second sermon o'er; But hands and faces polished bright, and smoothly parted] And round the well-filled, ample board, sat no reluctant hair. 'Twas not the decking of the head, my father used to say, But careful clothing of the heart, that graced that holy day'Twas not the bonnet nor the dress;-and I believed it true; But these were very simple times, and I was simple too. I remember, I remember, the parlor where we met ; Its papered wall, its polished floor, and mantel black as jet ; 'Twas there we raised our morning hymn, melodious, sweet and clear, And joined in prayer with that loved voice, which we no more may hear. Our morning sacrifice thus made, then to the house of God, And our old Pastor's time-worn face, and wig of silver gray. I remember, I remember, how hushed and mute we were, While he led our spirits up to God, in heartfelt, melting prayer; guest, For exercise gave appetite, and loved ones shared the feast! Then ere the sunset hour arrived, as we were wont to do, The Catechism's well conned page, we said it through and through ; And childhood's faltering tongue was heard to lisp the holy word, And older voices read aloud the message of the Lord." Away back in those days of yore, perhaps the fault was mine, I used to think the Sabbath day, dear Lord, was wholly thine; When it behooved to keep the heart and bridle fast the tongue, But these were very simple times, and I was very young. The world has grown much older since these sun-bright Sab bath days The world has grown much older since, and she has changed. her ways Some say that she has wiser grown; ah me! it may be true, As wisdom comes by length of years, but so does dotage too. To grace his action or his voice no studied charm was lent, Oh! happy, happy years of truth, how beautiful, how fair, Pure, fervent, glowing from the heart, so to the heart it To memory's retrospective eye, your trodden pathways are! The thorns forgot; remembered still, the fragrance and the flowers; went. Then came the sermon, long and quaint, but full of gospel The loved companions of my youth, and sunny, Sabbath truth Ah me! I was no judge of that, for I was then a youth, I remember, I remember, as 'twere but yesterday, Can I find aught in modern verse, so holy or so dear! And well do I remember too, our old preceptor's face, When David's words, to David's tune* five hundred voices hours! On his bed of withered leaves, NO. 28. He drags his snowy sheet around him; His palsied hand no more receives The rod of power, as when they crowned him. His fading eye no more retains The faces near him, friend or lover; The clock! it strikes the midnight round, He stands and listens to the sound- Twelve-and the moment that the bell But hark! what means this merry chime, The young heir, the New Year bringing. Bumpers to his health and glory! To the merry New Year. Joyous, blithe he seems, and gay, Full of hopes and promises— God be with us-we know not Unknown fate for us provideth. In his smiles hope on, hope ever; But make ourselves, amid his favor, From the Lady's Companion. "HIGH CONNECTIONS." BY FRANCES S. OSGOOD. "I grant him good and handsome, dear, This charming Julian Stanley: A genius and a hero too, And courteous as he's manly. I own his heart a generous one, And rich in warm affections, "None know him but to praise him," love: But has he high connections? "He has, the highest!" Jane replied, By Sympathy-the only tie, That Death will fail to sever; Have won for him a home in Heaven: A wise man has observed, that the laws, habits, man. ners, and customs of the world, change with the year; but ita folly and vices remain the same in all ages. Miscellaneous Selections. - From the New York American. FOREIGN RAMBLES. GLANCES AT MEN AND THINGS. commemoration of men who have distinguished them-[reverend gentlemen were handled with unsparing freeselves on the field of battle, in the halls of legislation, dom by the public press-reminding me of the violent or among the more quiet walks of science and literature. political contests of our country. Dr. Hill succeeded. A tall stone tower, overlooking the city and affording Here is his portrait, as sketched by one of the most a wide view of the surrounding country, was raised as moderate of his opponents. I present it, not because it a memorial of Nelson's victory of Trafalgar. A small is a tolerably correct likeness of the original, but as a Edinburgh! I have been so bewildered with the Grecian edifice, surmounted by a dome, and flanked by a specimen of the manner in which clergymen of the number and variety of objects I have visited in this city, moniment copied from the lantern of Demosthenes, at Church and State Establishment are spoken of by the that I hardly know which to single out to discourse Athens, was erected in honor of Dugald Stewart. A more respectable and calm of their newspaper antagonists. "At the last meeting of the General Assembly there upon, or what to say of those I may chance to select, similar building calls to remembrance that eminent man, EDINBURGH, October, 1840. The appearance of Edinburgh is decidedly unique. In Professor Playfair; while an elegant structure, which sat a gentleman in black on the losing side of the house, this respect, it stands alone among British cities-admir- combines the majesty of the Norman and the grace of a few paces to the right of the Moderator's chair. He able, wonderful, unaccountable. It is situated on and Grecian styles of architecture, bespeaks a tear for the was tall and thin, and distinguished chiefly by an uncomin several hills, vallies, and ravines, which are scattered fallen virtues and blighted genius of poor Burns. In the mon length of neck and face; a complexion inclining to around in such peculiar confusion as to leave no doubt interior of this monument, is a portrait of the Ayrshire sallow, a stiff upright position, and an imperturbable that its foundations were laid in some terrible earthquake bard, copied from an oiginal likeness, and a marble gravity of countenance. He reminded us of one of or volcanic eruption. I entered it from the South, and statue, which is said to bear a striking resemblance to Holbein's portraits, a little overcharged. We perhaps passing through the Old Town along a busy, handsome him who was at once the glory and the shame of his never saw before so prodigious an extent of folded street, I occasionally caught glimpses of streets running native land. Several other monuments-one to Hume neckcloth, a figure so immovably rigid, or an expression in the same and opposite directions, teeming with shops-that crown this proud summit, might be enumerated, so inveterately grave. This tall and sombre gentleman and bazaars, men and women, and horses and carriages, were there time-nor will I weary you with descriptions was Dr. Hill, of Dailly. We stood looking at him, 60 or 80 feet below me-a city standing upon a city of the various useful institutions that science, literature, curious to ascertain whether he ever shifted his position The buildings in the Old Town are mostly of stone, and and law, have erected on Carlton Hill. The High or moved a feature, and had the pleasure of seeing him ower to the height of 6,7,8, and even 9 stories. Their School of Edinburgh, a building that would do honor get up to address the house, much after the manner of style of architecture is a combination of the ludicrous to any city in the world-the Observatory, connected other members, only somewhat more stiffly and slowly. and unseemly with the majestic and venerable-challeng- with the University-the County Jail and Bridewell His words came marching out like a funeral procession. ing the most fixed attention, and scorping all attempts at structures whose exteriors resemble palaces more than It was evident, however, that great truths were for the description. After crossing High-street and the Canon- prisons-these can merely be mentioned. Leaving the first time to be communicated to the world. He laid gate-at whose head stands the Castle, with Holyrood Castle, Holyrood House, the College, and the Courts down his first principles. Law is law,' thundered out House a mile distant at its foot,-I soon reached the of Law, to challenge our attention in a subsequent letter, the profound lawyer in the farce, when pressed for a bridge that unites the Old with the New Town. It spans we will hastily glance at one or two of the men whose definition; law is law. Judgment,' exclaimed the a wide deep valley, that was once covered by a marshy names and fame are so closely identified with Edinburgh, Rev. Dr. Hill, ‘judgment, Moderator, is an act of the lake, but is now occupied by elegant gardens, crooked that the mere mention of the word awakens vivid recol-ind.' There was a laugh from the Non intrusion side of the house. The Doctor drew himself up, and looked streets, and odd houses, down whose chimneys the vision lections in regard to them. of the traveller might leap but for the smoke they puff If the delighted reader of Dr. Chalmers expects to across the area in dignified astonishment, as if desirous in his eyes. In the night, when this valley is lighted by hear a smooth, polished speaker, he will be doomed to to single out the men who disputed first principles, 'I street lamps and from the windows of the shops and severe disappointment, should he ever venture within am in the right,' he solemnly reiterated, judgment, dwellings, and when the hum of the voices and rolling the range of his oratorial artillery. A coarse Scotch- Moderator, is an act of the mind.' He went on with carriages ascends in confused echoes from the illuminated man, with high cheek bones, broad shoulders, and a his speech-it was a dead skeleton of logical phraseology, depths below, the passenger over the bridge is greeted heavy, rattling voice broken into fragments by a rough divested of the muscle and sinew of consecutive thought with a strangely beautiful scene, having, it is believed, brogue-two brawny fists that bolabor the pulpit right-the argumentative form dissociated from the reasoning no parallel in any city of Europe. and left, as if they would drive the ideas through the faculty--a piece of knitting full of down loops—the speech The New Town, stands on a rising ground on the cushion-rapid utterance and frequent repetitions-- of a man whose father could argue, and who, without north side of the valley, and commands a view of the volved sentences turning abrupt angles-illogical dog-a particle of causality, tried to argue too, sheerly through Old Town, Salisbury Crags, with the Palace of Holy-matisms hooked together by strong links of argumenta- the exercise of active imitation. A nervous torpor rood at their base, and Arthur's seat lifting its majestic tion-originality stumbling over commonplaces-odd crept over the house as he spoke the reporters rested shoulders over all. On the right is perched the Castle, metaphors interspersed among beautiful similes-bold their pens--the very gas seemed to burn with a rounder looking down from its rocky eminence upon the entire deductions marshalled under bad grammar-tame analo and dimmer flame, and when the last member of the city, and seeming as if it were suspended from the skies gies fading before the brilliant flashes of a glowing peroration had died amid the far galleries, and the spell by some unseen and mysterious cord. To the northward imagination,-this is Dr. Chalmers's extemporaneous was broken, there was a stretching of limbs and of jaws, lies the port and town of Leith, beyond which spreads eloquence. He would remind you of Dr. Beecher, of and a raising of heads over the benches and a straining to the broad Firth of Forth, over whose quiet bosom the Dr. Brownlee, of a street-crier, of a locomotive engine, colleet and concentrate scattered thoughts; members eye wanders till it rests on the uneven ridges of the coast and, in action, of a blacksmith, hard at work over his began to discover that they were actually met in assembly, of Fife, or is lost among the mists of the ocean. Every anvil. He is now ludicrous, theu commanding, auon and the first exercise of their renovated faculties brought traveller is extravagant in his praises of the New Town. rapid, again majestic, and always interesting and noisy. before them the question of the evening." It is indeed above the reach of all adulation, whether With his sermon elaborately prepared and committed While at Edinburgh, I spent a few hours at the house we consider the beauty of its location,. the regularity of to memory, (his usual practice on great occasions,) he is of Mr. Combe, the Phrenologist. He has retired from its streets and squares, the richness and variety of its probably much the same in manner, while in the matter the bustle of the city, to a lovely cottage-retreat in its shops, the clegance of its private dwellings, the splendor he is that which has won him a crowd of admiring readers cuvirons, to secure leisure for the preparation of the of its public buildings, or the grandeur of the numerous on both sides of the Atlantic, and placed him in the front work he intends to publish during the winter, under the status. monnments, and pillars that stud it in every part. rank of the pulpit orators of the age. His waning re-title of "A Phrenological visit to the United States." It is built catirely of light-colored hewn stone, has not a putation in Scotland is variously accounted for-some As this fact is notorious in Edinburgh, and as he spoke mean edifice in it, and owes its uniform magnificence attributing it to the declining vigor of his intellect, con- freely upon the subject, I betray no implied, certainly no to the fact that it is the work of the last 30 or 40 years, sequent upon advanced age-others, to the violence with enjoined confidence, in making it public in America. and has been erected under the critical eye and fostering which he has, of late years, engaged in theological con- The work will consist of three volumes-the first of patronage of Scotland's taste, wealth, and aristocracy, troversy-while his friends charge it to the opprobrium which is already printed. Though its title seems to ind he has encountered from "the High-Church and State- cate that it will be confined to phrenology and incidents It boasts that it has no peer in Europe." A lofty pillar supporting a colossal statue of Lord Intrusionists" because of his opposition to Governmental connected with the author's professional tour through Melville, formerly Henry Dundas, of the Commons, and interference with the ecclesiastical proceedings of the our country, I am assured that such is not the case; but, the right arm of William Pitt, stand in St Andrew's Scotch Presbyterian Establishment. That the sun of that it will treat largely of the manners, customs, and Square, at the head of that long pile of palaces, George's his fame is partially obscured, there is no doubt-and institutions prevailing in the United States-though no street. In the same avenue stands a fine colossal bronze probably by emanations from each of the above mention- doubt, all who know the author will not be disappointed Late Willium Pitt, and also one of tha ed causes. While I was in Glasgow, an election was in finding a strong phrenological ingredient mixed with liceous coxcomb and royal libertine, George the held to supply the vacant Divinity Chair of the Univer- the compound. Nor, I apprehend will those who have Fourth. Carlton Hill, which is the eastern terminus sity. Dr. Chalmers, and Dr. Hill, were the prominent perused the writings of Mr. Combe, or enjoyed the of Prince's street, is thickly wet with monuments in candidates. For weeks before the day of trial, these pleasure of his society, or listened to his public lectures, statue of |