Star And Banner, The (Newspaper) - August 24, 1849, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania u in. 13 If D. A. i C. H. VOL. J AND TWO DOLLARS PER PA. FRIDAY AUGUST 24, 1849, 135. For the Star and TO II Whoever Beauty unadorned though it charm fervent love a thousand bosoms by a sweet Whoever loveth ever with kindliest beams Of sunshine from the heart and gladdening streams Of thought from the Whoever lovetli that driveth from the heart and fearless openeth every part To meet the eye of friend or Loveth Whoever loveth Tenderness of that ever stands beside The tho' 'tis but a worm that hath Pours forth in tears her lovely Loveth Whoever loveth that with a kindling Such aa the dew brings to the thirsting And waketh up the cloudy Whoever that kindliest angel of Giving man promise of a nobler birth In the Eternity to Pennsylvania A CHAMBER She rose from her untroubled And put aside her soft brown And in a tone as low and As love's first breathed a Her snow-white hands together Her blue eye sheltered in its The folded linen on her breast Just swelling with the charms it hid And from her long and flowing dress Escaped a bare and slender fall upon the earth press like a soft and mute from and Like a young spirit fresh from She horded Sight and And prayed to be God if souls unsoiled as mercy at thy 2f upon her bended Our loveliest and purest a face so pure and We accm her sonic stray child of If with these soft eyes and after in her first kneel and pray for grace from What far deeper need have we 1 hardly if she win not our bo forgiven 1 JEANNETTE The following little snug is all the rage in Paris words arc by Charles are far Far away from poor There is no one left to love me And may forget But my heart will be with Wherever yon may Can you look me in the face And say the When you wear the jacket And the beautiful I fear you will forget All She promises you made With the gun upon your And the by your You'll be taking some proud And be making her your Or when glory leads the be madly rushing Never thinking if they kill That mv happiness is gone If you win the A you'll Though I'm proud to think of What will become of me if I were Queen of France Or Pope of I would have no fighting men weeping maids at home All the world should be at if Kings must show their let thorn who make the quarrels He the only men to THE FIRST is o date prior to sin only relic o a. paradise that is left to one smil that God fall on the world's innocence lingering and playing still upon its The first marriage was celebra lad before God who in IIi own the office of and There stood the two forms of fresh in the beauty of their unstained The shades of the and the green car smiled to look upon so divine The waters pun and transparent as The cd flowers breathed incense on the sacre answering to their upright Ai round from all the vocal na was the a spontaneous ntip tial such as a world in tune migh ere discord was blessed her two children and lei them forth into to begin her The first religious scene knew was their own marriage before th Lord They learned to love him a the interpreter and sealer of their love to each and if had continued ii their life would have been form of wedded sacred mys tery of spiritual oneness and They did not Curiosit triumphed over They and knew it in their i changed man's heart and woman's hear nre no longer what the first hearts were Beauty is Love is debased Sorrow and tears are in the world's cup Sin has swept away all nul and the world is bowed under its Slill one thing remains it. Ood mercifully spared one token of the innocent world and that the to be a symbol forever of the primal And this is This one flower of Paradise is blooming yet in the desert of Dr. AN ELOPEMENT IN OLDEN The Dowager Lady Ashburton died at a short time and icr history contains materials for a lid This lady was an and among other incidents of note re- corded in connection with her the will be read with interest She was the daughter of Hon. William a Senator of and fifty her father was a wealthy and merchant in He was a man of and the family were among the leaders of the Ion in the Quaker at that Then he was ied with the interests and institutions of the United States he was recognised as one of the and was always remarkably attentive to the nobility ng this About the period he was elected by the State of Pennsylvania to the then sitting in ic built what was then called a splendid and costly occupying an entire quare of with gardens and all kinds of enclosed by a arick fronting on Third and Spruce and now known as Head's sion Mr. Bingham entertained Senators and the with princely His family led the fashions of those and a very ly intimacy existed between him and eral The French revolution drove several noblemen to the United States as among whom were two professed Count de Tilly and Viscount de The Viscount either brought letters to Mr. Bingham from General or he obtained an introduction to which led to his admittance as an inmate in the Having acquired the confidence of Mr. Bingham by his address and he managed to introduce the Count de Tilly into that hospitable The Count was as noted for his profligacy as he was for his skill with the small sword and understanding all the arts of a he soon obtained the good opinion and admiration of Mrs. Bingham and Miss Maria Matilda an only In those and even a man or German was received with marked attention in al. wealthy There was much blood coursing through the veins of the young Republic royalty and nobility were not as at a discount Viscounts and Barons were whenever they made their and young ladies were enamored with tho This Count de Tilly soon Miss Bingham to elope with and also bribed some clergyman to unite The city was not then very and the whole world of fashion was thrown into the greatest at hearing that Miss Bingham had run away with the French Count de Tilly and Mr. Bingham himself a very but not very distinguished excepting for wealth was dreadfully mortified at this rash step of his not then sixteen years of The whole city called it a vile The est indignation was everywhere expressed and Captain commanding a packet and a man of took occasion to thrash the Count for some The couple was forthwith and the was the subject of con- versation for some time such an event seldom occurring in those quiet and cent Mr. Binham A COLLEGE The following capital story is told by who of Dr. and cannot fail to amuse our On one several of the students of South Carolina College resolved to drag the tor's carriage into the and fixed upon a night for the performance of the One of their number was bled with some compunctions and managed to convey to the President a bint that it would be well for him to secure the door of his carriage Instead uf paying any heed to this the Doctor proceeded on the appointed to the carriage and ensconced his portly person inside the In less than an some half a dozen young gentlemen came to his and drew the carriage into the When they were fairly out of the college precincts they forgot their reserve and be- gan to joke freely with each other by One of them complained of the weight of the and another answered by swearing was heavy enough to have the old fellow himself in For nearly a mile they proceeded along the and then struck into the to a er which would conceal the king themselves infinitely merry at the Doctor's and conjecturing how and when he would find his they at length reached the spot where they had resolved to leave it. Just as they were about to once more agreed that carriage was heavy enough to have the old Doctor and all his tribe in were startled by the sudden ping of one of the glass door and by the well known voice of the Doctor thus addressed young you are going to leave me in the are you 1 as you have brought me here for your you will not refuse to take A SCENE ON THE Blackwood's in a Review of of a Voyage up the furnishes the following description of some of the strange scenes passed through can conceive few things more ex- citing than such a voyage as Mr. Werne las accomplished and Starting the outposts of he sailed nto the very heart of up a stream whose upper waters for the first were furrowed by vessels larger than a stream of such gigantic proportions that its at a thousand miles from the gave it the aspect of a lake rather than of a The brute ation were in proportion to the magnitude of the water The hippopotamus reared his huge snout above the wallowed in the gullies that on either hand run down the stream enormous diles gaped along the shore elephants played in herds upon the the tall giraffe stalked among the lofty palms thick as lay coiled in the slimy swamps and ten feet towered above the Along the ly peopled hordes of savages ed gazing in wonder at the strange and making ambiguous variously construed by the rers as signs of friendship or Alternately sailing and as the wind served or constantly in sight but rarely communicating with them of- ten cut off for days from land by ble fields of tangled the expedition pursued its course through innumerable guarded from most of them by the liquid rampart on which it Lions looked and savages shook their but neither showed a disposition to swim and board the An anecdote is related of Miss the which powerfully illustrates the grand pha and omega of woman's When far hue of the me back for buckle and let us return it is getting late There was no appeal for the window was and the Doctor resumed his Almost without a the discomfited young gentlemen took their places at the all was with a tremendous the back of the and quite as ANOTHER LETTER FROM MAJ. Mason and August 11, 1849. MY DEAR MR. You don't know how glad I be to see how you have spunked up since my last letter to You are giving it to corrupt cile I should think every and every and every among 'em must have a bunged eyes by this You do give it to 'em right and left about Un- cle Joshua says you are the Tom Hyer our and can ip any body the Feds j can bring into the But now I begin to feel uneasy for fear you'll overdo self and break and then we shant have nobody to take care of Don't you remember the story of the tame phant that was used to help launch vessels One time they put him to launch a vessel that was too heavy for After he tried once or twice and couldn't start the keeper called away this lazy beast and bring At that the poor elephant roused up and put his head to the vessel and pushed and ed himself so hard that he laid down and I don't want you to do so. When I writ that letter to you two or three weeks ago to rouse you up a I mean to make you so furious that you should run your head agin the tion so hard as to break your or strain yourself so much as to fall down Nor I didn't mean that you should kill off all the as dead as in two I meant to give you two or three years to do it in. Any time before the next tion would If you should kill right we have time to choose any body to take their you would have all tho Government on your own and I'm afraid it would be too much for So I think you had better try to cool down a it ain't prudence to down east in the State of that drove down to Portland past extreme and the so That I mean and yellow had on your own for fear you should gun to displace the roses and lillies of her j yourself and break And she accompanied her father in an electioneering tour where then again there is such a thing as drawing too long a bow to hit the thing you shoot Major Longbow used to be quite un- almost sunk under the but it became necessary to open some negotiation with the to buy him as he only ran away with the girl for her The in the course of these negotiations represented himself to be deeply in and that it was im- possible to leave the country without his creditors to the amount of in ready and an annuity of which was paid and secured to and he left for the marriage having been declared Mr. and Mrs. Bingham never recovered from the and died shortly A young English by the name of subsequently arrived in delphia with letters to Mr. and forming an attachment for his married and carried her afterwards the head of of Baring and was created a Baron under the title of Lord and was the negotiator here of the celebrated The Lady recently was the girl who had excited so much attention and polite when run away with by the Count dc some fifty years Her the great By her strenuous efforts among I lucU that you can make folks and with less did they retrace their j thc alul of and j a middlin fish you woman's intuitively j leR it but if you trv to back it llp opens the way to a ready appreciation of a tarnel great they'll go right back again and swear they dont believe the fish It's ous guns to for then there's no knowing which will get the worst of him that stands before the muzzle or him that stands behind the So I hope you'll try to cool down a for I'm since my last you are firing away your ammunition too be- I don't think it's right for you at your time of life to be so Nor don't think it's necessary for In silence they dragged tlic riage into its wonted and then re- treated precipitately to their to dream of the account they render on the When they had the Doctor quietly vacated the and went to his where he related the story to his family with great He never called the heroes of that nocturnal expedition to any nor was his carriage ever after dragged into thc woods at Break not a jest where none can in Be thc sai ports to the injury of j a loaf of bread under his TRAITS or HON. JOHN C. is probably known to the public of the personate of the great nent of South Carolina than of any other of our eminent A number of facts in reference to bis al have recently been which will prove of interest to our Thc family of the Senator consists of Mrs. and seven Of one son is a planter in the next a captain in thc army at New eldest daughter is in wife of our charge at Of the three sons at one is a physician the others arc young men of 20 and Mr. Calhoun has upon his table thing of Southern but is self a spare The view from his house commands distant mountain ranges 40 and GO miles His study is 20 feet south of his has but one room and one His library is not but and most of the books relate to the Union and her Thc key of this ing he keeps always tinder his immediate j control when at No one enters it but unless he is His house stands on the Seneca 1000 feet above the level of the and 200 feel above thc There are haps 70 or 80 negroes on or about thc Thc largest part of his negroes are in where he owns a large cotton under the of his eldest Mr. has a peculiar manner of drainage and planting of such utility that his neighbors regard his ns a model His crops nre resented as far before those of any other cultivator in that region of His j farm is known as Fort from a fort which once stood there in thc time of thc revolutionary Mr. Calhoun's its are very He rises at or 5 on or in along walkover thc farm for an hour writes until breakfast at 8, after is busy in his library until one or On which is mail ho rides to thc His of which large numbers arc sent to arc spread in thc hall for the use of his He is very is a great lion even in the very with ns hood of his own and in all the left a baker's shop vale is a most and the latter she was mainly instrumental in securing Mr. W's In the glorification of the triumph which her father's supporters enthusiastically cheered the lady before the doors of the hotel at which they put crying oat with stentorian Miss Wilberforce forever Miss Wilberforce In the midst of the uproar she stepped forward on the and waving her intimated a desire to be Silence immediately took pin might have been heard is up all over the Our party is all coming together and going to carryall It's trus the flocks and herds of our party has been dreadfully broke up and scattered The didn't know their and the sheeps hadn't no and the was up who found a purse of said ihe father to his ed replied the he was up before who lost Be not curious to know thc affairs to fall when gaily she uttered these rable words Miss Wilberforce forever Not so. if you please i Am I the only one of all your female ances whom you thus forbid to change her name? That is not 1 test against it with all the ardor of a true woman's best hopes 1 It is needless to say that a thunder of applause broke and as the witty lady into the her name was again echoed far and wide on the air but sedulously divorced from the hated words Miss it is was afterwards and it she had her will by CAMPBELL TO THE UNITED United your banner wears Two emblems one uf fame Alas the that it of our Thc white man's liberty in types Stand blazoned by your what's thc meaning of your They mean your it too and have strained yourself so hard agin the Administration that it's ed your I beg of you my dear to let all drop right where 'tis leave Mr. Burke to do the burkin and and you go right out into the country and put yourself under the cure and see if your head won't come right I and you going to strip the mask from me my dear if you could only be up here five minutes on our new on Mason and Dixon's side of Salt and jest lift the mask off of my face one you'd know me jest as easy as the little boy knew his Your head be so turned but what you'd know me for you'd see then the very same old friend that stood by you and Gineral son and eighteen years ago the same old friend that coaxed up Gineral Jackson and made him forgive you for calling him such hard names be- fore he was It's very tul for you to forget me that if you was in your right For I'm the same old the same Jack that was born and brought up in away and in 1830, with a load of handles and and found the Legislator in a dreadful all tied and and up and down a whole and couldn't choose their I found my and wouldn't so I took to poly- tix and went to writin The foul and fout all winter but I kept and at last I got 'em straitened I kept on writin for a whole and got the of Maine pretty well Then I see Gineral Jackson was getting into and I footed it on to ington to give him a And you know I always stuck by him afterwards as long as he I helped him fight the battles with Biddle's monster Bank till we killed it off. I helped him to put down and showed exactly how it would work if it got the upper in my letter about carrying the raft of logs across go when Johnson got mad and swore he'd have his log all to and so he cut the lashings and paddled off on his log alone and then his log began to roll and he couldn't keep it and he got ducked head over heels half a dozen and come pesky near being And that wasn't all I did to keep off fication and help put it 1 brought on my old company of litia to under the command of cousin Surgeant and kept 'em there with their guns all loaded till thc danger was And I used to go up top of the Congress house every and keep and listen off towards Sou tli so as to be the first ment nullification bust up to order Sargeant Joel to march and The Gineral always said the spunk I showed was what cowed nullification down so quick and he always felt very grateful to me for it. I stuck by the Gineral all weathers and I kept writin letters from Washington to my old the from Mr. Polk to Mr. and how I carried a private message front you to Gineral to try 10 coax it out of him which side he was coming out Good my dear friend I hope next time I hear from you you will be ed and in your right so as to know me and see that I ain't for you got a truer friend on and Dixon's side of Salt River than your old MAJOR JACK OPINIONS OF THE man who would cheat a printer would steal a ing house and rob a If he has a ten thousand of its size would have more room in a eye than a bull frog in the Pacific He ought to be winked at by blind and ed to death across logs by Harbor thousands of such souls as that man's would rattle in a mustard dance upon ihe point of a wasp's march abreast through the eye of a cambric A solar microscope would fail to discover and when found they would not fill the smallest cranny in such a being would molasses out of a sick ginger cake from a drunk man's mouth his last of all night through the rain to deprive a blind sheep of its fifty miles on a fasting stomach to cheat a dying woman out of her steal the out of a dead dog's Such a man to be tied jo sheep's tail and butted to rence Taylor wolves has been about the I editor of the Portland and kept country and carried off a great many of i old Hickory's popularity alive among the But from what I hear all over the I and t let nobody meddle with country I am satisfied they are all his Administration to hurt it. comin together and on a new Well you the in and that platform is Mason and the summer of 1832, started off on his side of Salt Mr. John grand tower down and I went with Van Buren is all over the You when we got to Northern and driven of 'em up and the people swarmed round Hon. TO ly England whence each glowing That tints our flag of meteor The streaming the deeper Crossed with the moonbeam's The blood and BLUE the Let Asia's groaning millions The tells of color fled From starving Turin's pallid cheek This much more pointed and calling than the was sent to who acknowledged its receipt and its by sending Lunt a complimentary letter and a splendid edition of his Here is a little nest of contradiction for thc lovers of thc Our language is rich in the materials of word is ns great a contradiction as we have in thc The was fast because the ice was and thc ice for the contrary it was A clock is fast when it goes quicker than But a man is told to stand fast when he is desired to remain headin of 'em all as fast as he can towards Mason and Dixon's side of Salt Mr. Calhoun in Southern States is whistlin round his springy making the hair and skin and headin 'em all Mason and Dixon's side of And Col. Benton is cracking his long whip all over thc great Western and headin 'em all across the ries towards Mason and Dixon's side of Salt And Gineral Cass you where he always has on up towards Salt him so thick they almost smothered him to death and the Gineral got so tired shaken hands that he couldn't give another and come pretty near away and then 1 put my hand round under his arm and shook for him half an hour and so we made out to get i sent thc whole account of it to my old friend of the Portland we jogged along to New York and you we come pesky near getting a ducking when the bridge broke A PORTRAIT BY a letter dated at Mr. Greeley takes the portrait of a stage coach It is well and will swer living originals in the I lost at Wheeling my three ious of the mail two of them worthy men but the third deserving of special lie was an Ohio er of tape and a chewer of plug some thirty years of who had set tip for a wit on a very small capital of low and had a very narrow escape from turning out a natural It was his chief employment through the day to bug those we met or by ing to hold out to them some valuable or to call them back under thc pre- tence of having some important cation to His standing topic of re- mark was the fair for whom he fessed and doubtless felt the admiration a hog has for Host quite resigned to the probability of never seeing him THE AT late foreign papers state that the French Government has given full authority for the holding of the Peace Congress in the French and have expressed their warm approval of the object of the ing and the motives of the The English delegation will comprise some dreds of gentlemen from parts of the United Many also will at- tend as without being personally identified as members of the The American it are to be represented in this Congress by nearly a hundred So says the English and that the English and ican delegates will proceed in one party from London by special train on the 21st of Mason and Dixon's side of Salt with at Castle I sent the whole a handful of salt in one hand and a nub of corn in and lookin all round and account of it to my old Portland the next the Major THE PURCHASE OF ington correspondent of the Boston says it will be the special duty of the new Minister to the Court of Gen. to procure a reduction of the duties to which the produce of the U- States is subjected when imported into adding the late tion made a standing offer to the Spanish Government of for the land of but that this oiler has been or will be by the present ad- to come to him and he'll Downing published his first original letter feed So you sec we have every in a New York giving an account thing to encourage Things look bright of the ducking at Castle Nobody It won't belong be fore all the couldn't what this was thc true flocks and hoards of our party will got together on this new platform on j although my of it had son and Dixon's side of Salt going on and published almost every then we'll have things all our own week for two I say nobody couldn't and Taylor and the Wilmot dispute because 'twas proved by viso mav fo to turc and poetry For the Bible My drar old friend I've hc lasl jest got the Union of last and jaml events cast their Vm amazingly struck and my shadows So the tho to sec that you've got so had been flying about that you seemingly don't know j country for more than two years before It's a melancholy sign when old the original event got I hope your have j folks get so bewildered that they mistake head will get you can sec nothing to and when opportunity Every married man let his wife have the management of the Home De- and give as the their oldest and best friends one for your head is turned How say that I was a fictitious through these things and understand and know me jest as you used t can't bear the idea of your not knowing me. Major Jack Downing and that my last and thinking I'm A Among the thousands to whom Father Mathew the pledge in thc es at last was the Rev. leb a who received it with all the solemn ceremonies employed in thc of at his own lie said to Father Malhew that he could see no impropriety in any person professing to be a Christian recognizing the significance of thc sign of cross as tho emblem of man's The can is credibly informed about 18 inches was creeping into the mouth of an infant of George Thc child was asleep when the mother came ami in first attempt to draw it out she tore of She then grasped it with thc letter to you was a II Kl V 111 V Du try to refresh your mind a little blanket ami extracted it. It had entered i t i TnC SO ill v U tit i ua cui i v i LU j v J i control of the different It won't i nnd that you would the mask from think how I stood by you and Mr. j about halt us to let her have the control me T feel bad now about writing my and helped you along through the Mexican about I -t f i the War letter to you for I'm afraid you took I war and how I carried out dispatches ro JEWS PA PER I IN SPA PERI
