The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1826-09-06

Les, sara the strangely WuSu We dtc
asked TO show our suriosities, we al
ways inform TRAVELLERS that we have de.
posi- ed our rarest 10 the Museum of the
Nation, thinking that it shows off better
there than it could be made to do in our
little domestic Cabinet
The stranger here observed, that he
feared he was tedious; but | assured
him that nothing gave me more pleas
ure, than TO recolect anecdotes in re-
guard TO the eminent men of the coun-
try; and upon entreating him TO pro-
coed, be added, "Did you ever see
him Of whom ! speak ~ Never: |
should like to know something of his
looks.' '' AS to his looks, it is difficult
to describe them: words do not seem to
reach the human coHntenance but hav-
ing once seen him, you can no more for
get his appearance, than you can that OF
a Kaleidoscope, or a rainbow. 1t you
were TO meet him at church door With
a hundred more, you would be compel
led to say,"' who is that? A boy in
the country, who heard him in the trial
of cause, when he was very much ag-
itated, and reused Chat, however, is not
his usual manner, went home and ex-
claimed to his mother, Il have seen
Mr.. Webster have heard Mr.. Web
ster, in the courthouse, and the white
A~f his eye was all black!' 81 have
kuown," added the stranger, " this gen.
''1essTTan, and boy, from his youth /; | would
! coi1eyiefo him TO a spider, that never
borrows for her web. | attribute his
great successful several causes: to his
country education, where, you know, a
young man learns things as they are in
nature, and not arh6ciaily, as is too COM
mon in your great towns for the rivers
and the country were made before the
towns, unless it be true, as some emf
nent biblical critic has observed, sthH
Providence has shone out most benevo-
lently, in ordering that The great rivers
should in their course, pass by the great
cities TO his having been born among
the people in that common condition,
in which, in this country at least, a man
being able to walk, talk, think and act,
just like nine out of ten of all the peo-
pie that are born, has naturally that
: proportion on his side. Besides he be-
gan young. Here is dreadful mistake
into which many of our poor boys run !;
that Of beginning so late for TO get hic,
haze, hoe, at twenty, in their proper
seats in the brain, is like putting fingers,
fifty years old, for the first time to string
beads. Again, sir, / hope am not te-
\ 10
Now these lawyers are like the men in
the circus, always performing, and be-
fore large company and if they ev-
er make mistake, and lose their foot
hold, they must help themselves to a
seat.n
Crowing-Except mankind, there
are perhaps no animal more disposed to
cro1C, and boast OF their feats in war,
than du0g-hill cocks. When a victory
is gained by one over another, the VIC
tor uniformly insults the vanquished, by
growing. Sometimes, after fighting a
considerable time, one or both of the
combatants show willingness to sepa-
rate, and gradually retire ; then, if one
of them crows, this occasions the. battle
10 be renewed. have seen a young
cock, when nearly grown, gain victo-
Try over his sire. He crowed in triumph
till the old cock was SO enraged, that he
renewed the battle with such force as
TO come of conquerer, and to resume
his place as chief of the harana. have
also seen vanquished cock venture to
crow, before he was out of hearing Of
the victor; by this folly he brought on
himself revenge and additional suffering.
Men have various modes of Growing
for the victories they gain over each
other--all of which are repugnant TO
the spirit of The christian religion, and
are of an irritating and pernicious tep-
dency. To show the natural effect of
man-crOroing' one instance may be men
toned
10 the year 1898, Bernadotte, who is
now King of Sweden, was sent by the
French government on an embassy to
Vienna, "where he remained not long
for the inhabitants having joined to eel
citrate festival to show their ioy at
the warlike preparations of their vol
lnteers, designed TO combat the French.
who the preceding year menaced their
city--Bernadotte, thinking this anniyer-
sary ao insult TO his country, on the same
day gave a festival in his own palace, in
honor of the victories of the French
arms, and planted on the outside the tri-
coloured banner. The people of Wen
ma, exasperated, siroVe to compel him
10 remove the banner; the palace was
forced. and several guns were fred