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him, as | am sure she could, to commence house
keeping like other people. | expected, when
heard of his marriage with the daughter of Judge
L., that we should see a spendidly dressed, fash
lonable woman-that they would take the large
house on the hill, give elegant entertainments,
and lead the ton in our quiet little village. In
stead of this Mrs. Morris dresses more plainly
than either you or |, seldom goes out, unless a.
mong the sick Or poor, and worse than all, keeps
no servant, but little girl to run of brands and
admit visitors-of course she must do the work
of the family. This is too absurd, and | for one
shall not countenance such folly by calling up
on her
oh, JUN, how can you censure Mrs. Morris
for pursuing a course which oughtsto command
the esteem and admiration of every one who is
acquainted with their circumstances? DIR. Nor
ris is young man, who has his fortune yet to
make, and though he has good business, one
year Of eXtravagant living would exhaust his re-
sources, and burden him with debts which his
sensitive nature would feel most deeply True,
he has fine talents and bright prospects, but his
talents would be FILTERED away, and his prospects
wrecked in a life of fashionable folly, such as
you had marked out for him. His sweet wife,
the accomplished and admired Miss L., might
have married for wealth, had she chosen, and la
ken her place as the leading star of fashion, but
she wisely preferred happiness to splendor and
gave her affections and her hand to one whose
noble qualities of heart and mind she was fully
capable of approaching. She knew his circum-
Stances and resolved to conform to them, and
though well aware of the foolish preudices which
prevail In our little community, she feels that her
husbands integrity and peace of mind are worth
more than the applause of those summer friends,
who would hutter around her only in the sun
shine of fashionable gaety. | confess | had
some misgivings, when first called upon her,
for you know what foolish ideas of gentility we
imbibed at Mrs. BIS boarding school-but when
| saw her looking so fresh and SO lovely in her
neat and becoming morning-dress when | saw
the perfect order of her house, in which the mot
to seemed to be--'a place for every thing, and
every thing in its place'-while she was so en-
Itlrely free from that busting restlessness which
slmet.mes marks the notable houscwife-aboye
all, when | S the look Of confidence and hap
pness with which hel welcome was retorned by
her hush ind, as he came from his professional
dutes-I could not bat feel that she was Just
what a woman and wife should he--a hai0u3a
f'r her husJ md, in the tfucst sense Of The word.
No complaints d domestic trials OF unfllthfui
servants met his CIR, he seated hmsefat his own
tlteside after the fltgucs of the day--all was
pence and love, and if 1t was not actually an an
gels smile that beamed upon him there, it was
the smile of a fond and faithful woman,
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her husband in his efforts to obtain a competent
share of the good things of this life. But alas
for the man who has been guided by fancy in
his selection of wife, and who finds too late
that he has chosen gllded automaton, possessed
only of few external accomplishments, and
differing from Maezels productions only in a
fixed determination to spend his money, Just when
and how she pleases. 1t is vain for the unhappy
husband thus situated, to rise above the pressure
of circumstances Where industry and econo
my are wanting within doors, Skill energy and
perseverance will avail comparatively little with.
out Woman is the presiding genius of home
if she is false to her trust, no earthly power
can avert the evil consequences of her unfath
fulness.
Dark as is the picture we have drawn, there
is brighter side to it, if the women of oul
country can be aroused to a sense of their duty
and their highest interest. Correct opinions on
the part of mothers, and udcous system Of
female education, would make the young ladies
of this generation as practical and as useful as
any of their prede cessors, without detractlng
from the intelligence and refinement which shet
so bright lustre on female excellence There
is in the heart of woman, however it may be
pent up by wrong training and perverted sent.
ment, deep fountain of affection and benevo
lence, which when these artificial barriers are
removed, will gush forth in copious streams tC
purify and bless society.
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TIL E FIR L MAN
TUT IHt NIttl MuunIaIn NTeeman.
The BOndman'S Plea for the Bible.
For the Green Mountain freeman.

20 give us the Bible, in darkness we lie,
Afflicted and weary we labor and sigh;
Do pity the bondman, his rights all restore,--
Oh give US the Bible we ask nothing more.
o will you not, Christian, now list TO our wall?
By pleading our blindness VIC hope to prevail;
To thousands It's given, in lands far away;
Yet we are as needy, as helpless as they.
For years we have labored, unpitied, alone,
Surrounded by Christians ~ whose hearts are as stont
They tell us our duty, as if from their God,
Yet WELD in their phrenzy, the merciless rod,
IT'S true we are bondmen, but still we have souls;
Our grief and our sorrow this only condoles--
The hope of receiving from Christians nj henrt
The Gospel that bids man let the captive depart.
10 give us the Bible, that we, too, may read,
The truths of the Gospel untarnished indeed:
That we, too, may learn if it sanctions crime
That robs men Of happiness, money and time.
% will you not listen? you can but be moved
llffolIowers of Jesus, whom once it behooved
TO be made like his brethren, in veal and Distress
The weak to support, the afflicted caress
We wait here in patience, in labor and toll;
Though oft they aflict us, we will not recoil,
II IN the horizon star shall arise
That shall rid this vile system of all its disguise:
That shall sever our chains, our burdens remove
That shall bury the lash-that shall teach US to love
Not those of our color, but ALL in our land;
On freedoms broad platform, we then shall all stant
l..
Worran VI
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CHE GamtIp Circle,
From the Home Journal.
SPRIN G.

SPRING
The first glad note of Spring. blest harbinger
Of brighter days:-of leaf, and bud, and flower,
Of azure sky, and dancing rivulet,
And golden sunlight and rejoicing streams,
Stern Winter now farewell!
We do not grieve
TO part with thee, so drear and sad thou art,
Wrapt in thy drapery of snow and ice.
We love not thy wild music;--the deep roar
OF winds, the midnight blast, the stormy hurricane
The Spring hath brought US gentle harmonies,
The cOrolng of birds, the busy hum
Of insect revelry,' the whispering leaves,
That all night WOO the south,wind's balmy breath,
And all those myriad throngs Of living things
That lift to heaven their grateful hymn of praise
Each pulse of this glad, teeming earth, shall throb
With life, and hope, and joy.
The fresh, green grass
Will spring anew:-a verdant carpetlng
Inwrought with gorgeous flowers.
No Eastern looms
Can vie in workmanship SO exquisite.
The seered and naked branch will wake to life,
With strength and vigor; and each lonely nook
Be peopled with new forms of Iovcness.
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THE FUGITIVE.

a noble man OF sable brow,
Came to my humble cottage door.
With cautious, weary step and slow,
And asked if | could feed the poor
He begged if | had ought to give,
To help the painting fugitive.
told him he had fed away
From his kind master, friends and home
That he was black-a slave astray-
And should return as he had come
That would to his master give
The straying villain fugitive.
He fell upon his trembling knee,
And claimed he was brother man
That / was bound to set him free,
According to the gospel plan;
And fI would Gods grace receive,
That must help the fugitive.
He showed the stripes his master gave
The fostering sore-the sightess eye
The common badges of the slave
And said he would be free or die;
And if | nothing had to give
should not stop the fugitive.
He owned his was sable skin,
That which his maker first had given;
But mine would be a darker sin,
That would exclude my soul from Heaven
And if l would Gods grace receive,
l should relieve the fugitive.
bowed, and took the stranger in,
And gave him meat, and drink and rest;
l hope that God forgave my sin,
And made me with that brother blest
am resolved long as live,
To help the painting fugitive.
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BRANDON, Thursday, July s, 1S47.

tinguished individual, in which he told hin
that the room in which he then reposed, wa
that occupied by George JVaShington-that il
his last return here he had put up at tina
house, and lodged in that very room-tha
the furniture, the curtains the chairs anc
the toilet table, were still the same-that NJ
article he saw around had ever been changed
or moved since his former companion had left
the apartment, Lafayette dropped tear tc
the memory of George Washington, and kiss
ing the boy, babe him good night.
The morrow was to be the grand day Of re-
cepton. 1t came and although it brought
along wind and rain, yet before eleven O'Clock
the town was filled with people from all the
neighboring towns, anxious to shake by the
hand the Nations Guest. At twelve the
clouds had kindly dispersed, and the sun
again enlivened the busy town Of Newbury-
port. Its citizens came out in crowds, and all
wendell their way to the lodgings Of Lafayette.
The father Of our informant was the master
Of ceremonies, and introduced in an easy and
gentlemanly way all that came to him, whom
all came to see.
AT length, when the congregation in and
about the veterans lodgings was the most
dense, when it seemed as if all were there, q
tall and venerable gentleman, in the costume
of the Revolution, was observed coming down
the street. His cooked hat, his blue coat, with
wide cuff lapels and facngs his top boots and
black military stock and above all his erect
and military step, attracted universal atten-
ton.
On his nearer approach, the crowd were as
tonished to discover their old enemy, the sau
sage maker
Honor and shame from no condition
rise"
They unintentonally fell back, and our he
TO passed on up to the Generals room. Look
ing neither to the right or left, he walked
through the receding mass, and stood direct
ly in the presence of the Hero of two IIemi-
spheres, With slight inclination of the body
he raised his right hand in most dignfed
quiS !" The veteran slowly rose from his
seat, and drawing his hand across his eyes, as
if wiping long cloud of years from his mem
Dry, exclaimed as he fell into his arms, My
old friend, Capitane FoStere, my best friend
with me in all the battles-and side by side
we entered Yorktown-come to my heart,
my long best friend"
Captain Foster was not suffered to leave
his old companion while he remained in New
buryport. When he left, our hero returned
to his shop, but his destiny had been filed
he had lived down his enemies, who now
crowded around him with all the zeal Of new
born friends.
Within two months from this time, Captain
Foster lay down with the dead. The names
Of his parents, or the place of his nativity, he
never disclosed
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From the IN. W Scientific American.
The Progress of Useful Science.

Objects of utility, not amusement, are now
the things which command the attention of
the scientific world. The metaphysicians of
old occupied themselves in discussing the pos
sibity of two spirits occupying the same place
in the same space Of time, or the divisibillty
of spirit The philosophers Of the present
age must con6ne themselves to the divisibility
OF matter-what they can see with their eyes
hear with their ears and handle with their
hands. The spiri. Of investigation now direct
ell in right manner--in the true Baconan
spirit-traces effects to their causes and new
er looks upon a result as worthy Of consider
alton, unless the world in some manner is ben
Gifted, and the ,cor!d now, embraces not on
ly princes and patricians, but also mechanics
and artizans
Since Sir John Sinclair directed attention
to improvements in agricultural chemistry
and mechanism, such advancements have been
made in agricultural science during the short
period of half century, that double the
amount of produce is now the yearly result
upon an equal quantity of land. But few
years have rolled past since our farmers used
to consider that their lands run out in GER
tain number Of years, their manure at the
same time was piled in mountains in their
barn yards. Now the light Of useful science
turns the barn yard to fertilize the barren
fields and what was ONce a wilderness, BIOS
SONS like the rose Fields in Virginia-the
broad plantations of the descendants of the
cavaels-that had become sterile deserts, are
now through the instrumentaiity of progress
in science, yielding golden treasures to the
enterprsing farmer, and the whole agricultu-
raj world Is advancing with rapid strides in
the pathway of productive knowledge.
In the progress of science as directed to
manufacturing the advancement has been still
more wonderful than in the agricultural de-
partmcnt. In half a century, the means and
capacity of manufacturing machines, have not
only doubled but more than quadrupled. The
Cotton Gin of Whitney, can, by the help of
one man execute more work than 200 men
without it. The Spinning Jenny-mule
framo-of Arkwright, can spin as much by
the labor of one man and two boys, as seven
hundred female spinncrs, and in some frames
of 400 spindles, as much as 400, and this is
leaving out of the question the selfopera'OrS
altogether The power loom of Cartwright
can weave as much cloth in one day, attended
by single female, as could be done in seven
by any weaver on the hand loom. In other
kinds Of machinery and their applications, the
Improvements have been equally grand and
extensive. The steam engine attended by
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HISTORY OF
SIMSBURY, GRANNY AND CANTON,
Connecticut, from the gear 1912 to 1876 =
BY Moan A. PHELPS.


SIMSBURY, CRANKY AND CANTON,
Connecticut, from the gear 1912 to 1916 -
BY Moan A. PHELPS.
(Extracts continued)
The first settlers took early measures to cs-
tablish a ministry, and erect house for pub
lie worship. With them, these were objects
of high regard and duty. Nearly their first
care was to provide for the regular admins
tration of the ministry; to obtain which, they
assumed burdens which, in the infancy of the
settlement, they were but poorly able to bear.
As early as 1871, the town adopted meas
ures to build meeting house. All ecclesi-
aStical affairs, it should be recollccted, were
at this time, and until the town was divided
into several societies nearly seventy years af-
forwards, managed in town meetings. A
contract was entered into with Mr.. Thomas
Barber, carpenter, to erect the building
But difficulty soon arose, concerning its To-
cation, which retarded the work many years
though the timber for tile building had been
procured and framed before the war of 1895.
The controversy was the same as that which
many years,caused somuch excitement among
the people and arose from the question wheth-
er the house should be placed on the east or
oOeSt side of the river. The town had once
voted to place the building on the east side of
the river-at another meeting, at Hop meal
dow, near the dwelling house of the late Gen
eral Phelps; and then again to submit the
question to Mr.. Stone, the clergyman, for a
decision, who decided in favor Of Hop mea-
dow, but at still another place.
Under these circumstances, the inhabitants
of the town, finding that they could not settle
the question among acknowledgement to leave
the matter with Major Talcott and Capt Al
Ign, the Secretary, for decision These
gentlemen decided in favor of Hop meadow,
the house to be paced in front of the bury
ing ground, and advised the people "to
cheerful, loving compliance and condescend-
ency, one unto another,in joining together in
tie building of house for the public wor-
ship of God in that place.
But this decision did not suit the majority,
and it was rejected at a town meeting by
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HYMN TO THE CREATOR.

We find the following in the American Mail, bu
whether original or not we cannot say.
Almighty Power! whose high supreme command
Spake nature into beng-Lord of lords,
Creation boundlcss, vast, sublimely grand,
By Thee was formed and fashioned Earth records,
From hour to hour, and on from age to age,
How wondrous are Thy works, and now divine
Thy majesty; while mans high heritage
Is Thy paternal care and love benign
Whence Thy existence, whence Thy endless reign,
And whence Thy power we know no. not yet we know
G9d %2 as ana sa b og link sho"d go e CHAM
Into "primeyal nothingness' yet still
Thou art the living God whose endless years
Eternity's profound abyss shall fill
When ancient time dissolyes and disappears
Thine is the earth, Thine the suns which light
The countless systems which unceasing roll
In endless space Thy all sustaining might
Supports the vast, the universal whole
Thy word diSpelled the dark and brooding gloom
That dwelt with chaos ere the birth of time,
And earth came forth from out the sombre womb,
Fraught with the tokens Of Thy power sublime
Thou didst erect chamber for the sun,
That round its golden pathway glory spread;
Thou ddst point the course that it should run,
Life giving beams ofspotless light toshed
And for the moon Thou didst uprear on high
4 sapphire vault with richest gems embossedi
And throned above the jewelled canopy
The countless lcgions Of the starry host
Omnipotent Thou art! and from the first
TO Thee adoring nature homage gave:--
Her mighty winds in coral anthems Dursti
And echo answered to the mountain Wayei
The waterfall musical; tile rills
Reoiccd their hymns Of melody to raise;
And in the woodland green and on the hills
Were heard the songs ofsWeet and solemn praise
And what is man amid created things
The nobleSt work of Deity that wears
The glorious image ofthe King of kings
Thy richly bounteous love he freely shares;
"He knows he is immortal!' that the soul
Which I nou hast formed within him yet shall gaze
Upon the wreck ofmatter, till the whole
Sinks into embers mid the final blaze.
Giyer Of every good for him Thou hast
MADE earth as 'twere paradise; for him
The spring comes smiling when the winter past,
And then beside the fountains CLASSY brim
The si.hen flowers come fOrth-the lily opes
l,S silver Cha!ice at the early dawn;
the primi osc blossoms Where the upland slopes
omeet the runnel on the Verdant lawn
For him, when summers beauty crowns the earth,
Earth is indeed most beautiful. How fair
The woodland and the vale, where sounds OF mirth
Wake with the orient day spring, ill the air
l. vocal Songs of love and joy are heard
Amid the dropping foliage, While the bloom
Ofmyriad blossoms, by the zephyr stirred
Distils grateful, balmy, sweet perfumes
For him in golden light the landscape shines,
When autumn rests upon the fertile field,
While nature all her fertile store resigns,
And priceless wealth untold the sickle yield
He IS thy chosen care; from Thee alone
His every blessing comes! Then let him arise
His heart adoring, to Thy awful throne,
And wake his voice in songs OF grateful praise
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]. HOLCOMB, Editor 4 Publisher.

four men, can accomplish as much as five
hundred horses. Wonderful indeed has beer
the progress of useful science during the last
fifty years Science now is directed to pro.
duce, and the greater the amount of product
through its nstrumentality, the greater amount
OF benefits is conferred on the human family.
Machinery is not an evil, as some Think be-
cause 1T supersedes some occupatious-for
whatever machinery can produce, its products
are not for its own benefit but for the benefit
of man 1t may indeed be sometimes wrongly
directed, and some may derive benefits from
it, to the injury Of others, but this is the fault
OF its direction, not the thing itself Science,
mechanical or chemical has undoubtedly been
benefit to all, both high and low. The me-
chanic at the present day can enjoy the lux
'lry of a carpet, thing which Henry the 1st
could not do with all his wealth, and as for a
knife and fork, such things were not in all
his kingdom. Straw was then used for car
pets, and swords and daggers for knives. The
houses Of the working classes, too, in those
days were mere novels, yea before the Amer
lean Revolution they wereunversallv nothing
more throughout all Europe, but science now
steps in, and comfortable dwellings are.to be-
come the property Of the peasant as well as
the prince. A company has been formed in
this city for this benefcent object, and the
first prize given out in the British School of
Design, was for the best plan of neat and
comfortable workingman's cottage. Thus the
moral and physical sciences go along hand in
hand as they should always have done, and
which if they do, they cannot but make every
improvement, great and small, tend to the ell
ovation OF our race and the glory of the whole
moral statutes.
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vessels, (found only in alluvial countries in
ancient times,) we recognize the gourd as the
model ; the vessel, in the first instance, being
formed over the shell, which was afterwards
removed by fire. Upon this natural sugges-
ton, hint which nature everywhere holds
out, man has improved in his course of devel-
opment, and the elegant vase has supplanted
the gourd shaped vessel Of his primitive art
iSanShin= Odd EeLLOln
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journal says severe snow storm visited the
farmers near and above the Pennsylvania line
on Monday last. Snow fell for nearly an
hour in some places, and must have irJurcrt
the crops but we hear Of no serious damase,
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