Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1840-08-04

water in the old tide mill pond. The great
hill TO the east OF the old Charlestown
bridge has furnished the material for ex-
tending the city over the waters in that dI-
| rection. A portion of the old "North
| End" remains somewhat as it was in1797,
when the noble frigate Constitution, since
consecrated TO liberty by more than one
victory, was constructed upon that ground.
| Further south, new wharves with rows Of
splendid Quincy Granite stores have been
built up, on piles driven into the mud bear
ing the weight of many thousand tons of
rock and gravel brought from the islands
below. Northward and southwark from
Long Wharf has the land been extended
down to the very channel of the sea, and
| upon it have arisen streets and wharves
and stores, doing business now more ex-
tensively than within half century was
| the whole mercantile business Of the thir
teen United States.
AS if there could be no end to the extern
sion of Boston, city peut up in penin-
sula of three steep hills, not only have the
hills been leveled to make additional
ground, but, since the ready means Of
heavy transportation have been furnished
| by the railroads, the hills and rocks Of the
country are brought in to extend its limits.
| On the Charles river side some forty or if
ty acres Of land near the termination of
Cragie's bridge have been made at the
! Lowell rail road depot: the soil composing
the new ground has been taken from the
| bosom of old Prospect Hill in Charles
town, through which the Lowell rail road
passes-that hill over which the brave old
Gen. Putnam marched the American boys,
in Indian file, in sight of the enemy the
day previous to the battle of Bunker Hill.
On the other side, Boston has been con-
nected with Dorchester heights, how South
Boston, on which the Yankees suddenly
appeared one night with the breastwork
and hogsheads Of gravel intended to over
whelm, by rolling them on the attacking
enemy-a diversion which drove the Brit
ish troops from Boston in ITS. Fifty
acres and more of land have here been
built upon the waters, ia an incredible
short space of time; and over the new
made land the brick edifces continue to
grow.
All these improvements, and this growth
of Boston, are but the unerring index of
the prosperity Of the interior country. it
is the agriculture Of New England shat is
the parent Of all. With what intense anx-
! icty should we cherish the soil and its pro-
auctions. Every man, be he merchant or
mechanic, lawyer, doctor or priest, owes it
to himself and his country, to encourage
the farmer, as the great instrument, under
Heaven, OF comfort and happiness to tie
people.
COBBETT'S ADVICE TO LOVERS.
Another description Of lovers with whom
it is useless to reason, are those who love
according to the rules of arithmetic, or who
measure their matrimonial expectations by
the chain Of the Iand-surreyor. These are
not love and marriage, they arc bargain
and sale. Young men will naturally, and
almost necessarily, fix their choice on
young women il their own rank IN life,
because from habit and intercourse they
will know them best. But, if the Length. OF
a girls purse, present or contingent, be
consideration 18th the man, or the length
of his purse, present or contingent, be q
conside ration with her, it is an affair OF
bargain and sale. | know that kings,
princes and princesscs, are, in respect tc
marriage, restrained by the law; | know
that mobiles, If not thus restrained by posi-
tive law, are restrained in fact, by the We
ry nature of their order. And here is &
disadvantage which, as far as real enjoy
ment of life is concerned, more than coun-
tefbalances all the advantages that they
possess over the rest OF the community
This disadvantage, generally speaking,
pursues rank and riches downwards, till
you approach very nearly to that hume
rous class who live by manual labor, be
coming, however, less and less as you de-
scend. You generally find even very vuI
gar rich men making sacrifice OF theiI
natural and rational taste TO their mean
and ridiculous pride, and thereby providing
for themselves an ample supply of misery
for life. BY preferring "procident mar
riages" to marriages of love, they think tc
secure themselves against oil the evils Of
poverty; but if poverty come, and come i
may, and frequently does, in spite of The
best laid plans, and stmodes of conduct
if poverty come, then where is the counter
balance for that ardent mutual affection
which troubles, and losses. and crosses, al
ways increase rather than diminish, anC
which, amidst all the calamities that car
befal man, whispers TO his heart, thai
his best possession is still left TO him un.
. in,nairedl The WoRcFsTFRsHfRE RARo