Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-11-17

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AppIes in human affairs; since the good old days
Of Adam and Eve, have played important parts;
or rather important parts have been played with
apples. g
Man has progressed but apples have degenerGted.
Then single apple decided question for whole
world; now, whole barrel Is required to decide
single question IN Massachusetts politics. That
wheelbsrrow bias already become chariot Of
fame. (Great applause.) That precious burden,
as il shall be dispensed into every State in the
Union, win be a symbol of the political pomology
Of this Commonwealth; and, in return for bearing
it. it viii proudly bear your name wherever our
flag shall have waved, or Yankee tooth shall
have Ben Perley by masticating ''fetctofl Pip,
piaxfp
Wishing you new hoDors With every turn Of for
tunes wheel and assuring you that the barrel shall
support the dignity Of fashion by wearing Shops"
st the ioOer end, respectfully invite you 10 an
entertainment at which may partske Of the ear
Hest fruits Of the campaign. Enthusiastic and
prolonged eheers.)
BANQUET AT THE FREMONT HOUSE.
The reception closed with banquet at the Ire
mont House, given by Col. Burbank. 1t a
most elegant affair, alike worthy of the reputation
of the house and the generosity of the host; and
was a 6t termination of the DAYS proceedings.
The tables were spread for about fifty persons,
and were supplied with all that this famous house
could produce. Col Burbank presided. At his
right Major Poore, and at the foot of the table
Col. Albert J. Wright. The company was made
up of well known citizens military gentlemen, mem
bers OF the press, &c. &C.
INCIDENTS. ETC.
The distance from West Newbury to Boston is
thirty, six and quarter miles. The roads in many
places are exceedingly 'hard" alike for man and
beast; aud particularly for man propelling 0hseL
barrows.
Major Poore made fifteen miles each of the first
two days, and six on the concluding day. The
Journey was quite exhausting. He lost twelve
pounds Of flesh on the road.
The Majors shoulders and back, over which the
strap attached to the handles of the barrow passed
are black from pressure His hands also Sc
verely bsteIed. Last evening he was exceeding
" weaIed. The task, which would have prOstra>
ted ninety.nine men in one hundred, has worn up
on him. 1t was only his indomitable pluck that
| kept him from dropping upon the road.
| The barrel, apples and barrow weighed lS5
| pounds.
| At the banquet last evening, portion of the
apples were served upon the tables. While Tie
banquet was in progress, numerous dispatches
were received requesting samples of the famous
apples Major Poore also received several epistles
congratulatory, sympathetic, poetical, &C., &c,
from various ladies. These no doubt, were quite
refreshing. If there is anything that touches the
deep places tits tender epistes from tender ladies'
Sundry attentions were paid to the Major on his
! journey. Among others that OF an old lady
| who made a bowl of nice tea. She admired bis
| pluck, she said, although Fremonter, could not
but admire his devotion TO his Flmore) principles
| BOARD wANTED.-A gentleman and lady without en-
| ID cumbrance, desire, etc.
One sees queer things set in little type in the
newspapers, sometimes, conveying by impiica-
! tiOn all sorts of doctrines, disclosing peoples
! ideas of happiness, when they least suspect it.
| AID affofding a clue to the faith in many a
| heart that is a sealed book to those that know
! it best, and yet all set forth so many times
| daily in dull advertisement.
| Sometimes, as in this agate expression Of "a
want" we have peoples definitions of things,
which set Webster and johnson at defiance.
"Without encumberance!" What young
| mother, when she feels tor the first time her
first born's breath, would ever imagine in the
! new blossoming of her new love, that any
where beneath the sun there should exist a
| lexicon, wherein uader the Els it should read
thus: Et, Eg, Eli, E, EN-.
EN-
ENoUMBRANoE, n. a young human being; a
child
There! What do you think of that, We old
| fashioned grandmothers, whose love is visited
upon the children even to the third and fourth
! generation2 "Rachel weeping for her encun1
| 6yances;;' there am l and the encum6rancG
thou hast given meln "And the leopard shall
| lie down with the lamb, and little encInabrancc
shall lead them!"
Those little motives in pink and fair dimity
that stir the pulses like clarion, that nerve ~
the weary and light up the hope, and fill NJ
the signing with song, are encumbrances!
So then the sweet little candidates for hea
ven's kingdom, that dance around the threshold
of the open heart and enter unforbidden; thai
keep the world from growing ole in sorrow anC
! in sin, are encumbrances, all
And when they are elected, for so Glasi they
sometimes are, as the green sward broken into
! little pillows everywhere, and the Raches tina
will not be cOmforted, so sadly attest, think
yet when the mother rocks the empty cradle
and looks upon the Impressed pillow, and find
/ in the ''tlln silken tress and pair of lit til
shoes that were laid aside for Sandals of light
that she fipds the name OF the wearer under
the En's9
That when the poet sighed,
"There is no fcck however watched and tended,
| But one dead lamb is there
There is Aresde h0wsoer DEFENDED,
! But hath enc vacant chair"
or when he who sang the "Airs of Palestine,
declared
II cannot make him dead
His fair, sunshiny head,
Is ever bounding round my steady chair
that either of them dreamed the burden of til,
song was mortgage, and not rather one sta
lost out of the visible heavens-that set
| "As sets the morning star, that goes not down,
| Behind the darkened West, nor hides obscured
Amid the tsmpests OF the sky, but melts
Away into the light OF Heaven"
May the bearths, the thresholds, and tn
hearts of the world never be without ''encum
brance;" let them all be mortgaged to then
who "hke the planets are nearest the SUM-"
An OssIFIED MAN.-In quiet village on III
Western Reserve in Ohio, says, the Prescott Trans
cript, there lives a man who, physiologicaLy con
sidercd, is certainly one of the wonders Of tn
world His joints completely oss6ed, turne,
to bone and he is not capable of making the slight
est movement except alternately opening and shut
ting two fingers of hs right hand. His body is a
rigid as iron. and il could not be bent forward o
backward without breaking some of his bones
This singular process of ossi6cation has been gon
on in his system for more than twenty years. II
is now about 46 years old and has not had the US
of bis limbs, so that he could walk since he wa
nineteen. 0ssihcation commenced first in his an