economy, which is a kindred science, and as it mention the name of some particular steamboat to places of honour through the almost exclusive saves time and hack hire, it is of incalculable without leave asked of them, we cannot but be medium of the press, such are the men who de advantage to those who have neither leisure amused at the obliquities of human nature. By cry the servility by which, in some cases, it is chanor money to spare in a city like Washington, the independence of the press, most men mean racterized. If the senators to whom we refer do not where the population is so very much scatter- mere servility to their own private views-adopt as a general doctrine the proscription of edied, and where no one can pretend to pay vi- neither more nor less. They first bind an edisits to all whom they wish to see. We think, tor, hand and foot, with the shackles of indi-tors, for the sake of their own characters, as well as in justice to the respectable body of citizens whose that an opportunity is afforded for the esta-vidual opinions, and then reproach him for not blishment of a new branch of American Indus-walking abroad in the strength and dignity of vocation they have endeavoured to blacken, let them try, which would require no tariff law to give conscious independence. publicly state their views, denying that on such it proper encouragement, and we should not To us, the secret threats and open denunci- grounds their votes in the senate were given. be surprised, some of these days, to see signs ations of a few burlesque tyrants are of no con- Well is it said by the New England Review, "If stuck up in various parts of this city, "Visit-sequence, for we have a patronage that enables it be an object, that the American press should be ing by proxy done here." us to bid them a triumphant defiance. With honourable to our name and nation, those who con And whilst upon this subject, we will make some periodicals, however, the case is differ-trol it should have a prospect fitted to engage their a suggestion, for which we think we shall re-ent. The loss of twenty subscribers or of two noblest energies. The editorial profession is not ceive the thanks of a number of those who are or three advertising patrons would be their one of peculiar honour, profit, or pleasure; and if, liable to first visits, which is, that strangers be ruin. The proprietors of such papers, so long to the evils, which editors are already doomed to particular in their address on their cards. as the dear people are disposed to exercise an bear, is to be superadded the disgrace of ineligibility From the want of necessary precaution, visits intolerant censorship over them, have nothing are often not returned; for it is too much to re- to do but either to retire from their business or to offices of trust, there will not be, ten years hence, quire of the person called upon, who generally watch with never-ceasing anxiety the chang- a single high-minded editor in the whole United has some business to attend to, that he should ing whims, temporal and spiritual, of two or States. Men of proud spirit and nobleness of soul not only return a visit, but that he should three hundred individuals, and give place to will resign their places to such as have no better or waste his time hunting up the lodgings of the nothing in their columns, save what will square loftier passion than the mean ambition of being pro person calling. We know that great com- exactly with these whims in all their varied fessed scribblers for life. Then, indeed, the press plaints exist on this subject. absurdities.-N. E. Review. will become corrupt, and its influence either cease altogether, or become a loathing and a pestilence in SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. LITERARY PORT FOLIO. the land.” THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1830. We ask not for any peculiar privileges—we covet no exclusive advantages; but it is ridiculous and absurd to suppose there are any good reasons why the A vast deal is said, by almost every body, about the servility of newspapers. They are servile-timid-mean spirited-but to what is the evil to be attributed?-To newspaper-ediThe unjust attempt of a few arrogant senators conductors of our public journals should not stand tors? By no means. It must be traced home to proscribe the fraternity of editors, has excited on precisely the same ground as the rest of the in to the people themselves-the great body of the community. Editors are servile because the the ire and met with the just reprehension of all telligent community. public is intolerant-they dare not express independent journalists throughout the country. WESTERN LITERATURE.—The National Gazette, their own views, because they know that the Here and there, there is a timid and hypocritical some time since, quoted an article denouncing Bymeed of their independence would be starva- knave, who has sold himself to the monstrous doctrine ron, from the Cincinnati Chronicle, after having of proscription, before which he bows with all the found fault with a contemporary, a few days pre tion. We might detail a great number of facts in enduring patience of a martyr. Aptly is it asked vious, for quoting from an intelligent country paper illustration of the intolerant spirit that per- by a cotemporary, and one too, whose doctrines an article in vindication of the noble bard. To show vades the community. Not a few attempts have are in opposition to those of the present adminis- the literary character rank of the journal, whose been made to intimidate us. During our recent tration, "Out of what sort of clay can these crea-opinions the Gazette delights to honour, we quote visit to Providence, a friend, who had been so tures have been manufactured? The man who can the following specimen of poetry from its pages, at kind as to take charge of our paper, chanced come forward and openly contend for the perpetual the same time recommending its transmission to the to say in an editorial article, that it was not disfranchisement of the whole class of citizens, to pages of the National Gazette. good policy for Protestants to be continually which he himself belongs, must be on a level with TO E. M. G. abusing the Catholics and stigmatizing them as the ass, that is content if he but knows his master's Sigh not, my dear maid, for joys that have past; infidels. Well-what was the consequence? crib. The slaves of the south are dissatisfied that But sing thou only, of those that be; One of our Protestant readers-a man of some notoriety-withdrew his advertising patronage, their privileges are so few, and the editors of the I have loved thee-still fondly love thee, Alas! no lover e'er loved, like thy own E. D. and avowed a determination to injure us to the north are querulous because theirs are so numeextent of his power. Such a calamity has be-rous. Perhaps, if these classes of human beings Although parting has caused us a sigh, And started the sad tear of regret; fallen us, because the damnable heresy of bro-were to change places, the new arrangement would Yet never; oh! never; shall I, therly love and charity has been advocated in be highly satisfactory to both parties." Long enough Those soul thrilling moments forget. our columns. Nor are men more tolerant in has it been urged, that the presses of this country The sun of that moment brightly shall shine, matters of their own worldly interest than in do not stand upon the high ground of indepen- That blest thy fond E. D. with one sight of thee; the concernments of religion. Here is a case dence. Long enough has it been said that in And, pray that we never more parted may be. Come, let us kneel at; and worship its shrine, in point. A few weeks ago, a new steamboat many instances the conductors of our public commenced running between this city and New A more contemptible effusion than the above, never York, and we, in a paragraph of some dozen journals are mere instruments in the hands of defound place in the columns of a newspaper. lines, spoke favourably of her appearance and signing men, to whose sordid views and baser apaccommodations. This we did out of mere petites they pander. Yet for all this, some of those The editor of the Schenectady Cabinet thus plea courtesy, and without knowing or caring any who would be esteemed the magnates of the land santly relates an accident, which, to a printer, is thing about the squabbles, that might or might have exercised to the utmost their energies in an considered one of a most lamentable character. not exist among a few of our citizens on the endeavour to make the press, to a still greater de- "Yesterday, about 11 o'clock, when in the act of subject of steamboat competition. But what gree, servile and disreputable. They would shut carrying the third page of this paper to the press, we was the effect? Why-certain gentlemen-out all men of character, ambition and mind from a had the misfortune to fall with it, which caused no gentlemen of the highest respectability-noti- participation in the incumbent duties of those who material injury further than to make us a large heap fied us, on the day our little paragraph appear-regulate its destiny-they would have political ques-finger of our left hand, slightly wound the fourth of pi, injure our left knee, badly wound the fourth ed, that the light of their countenances would tions of high import, and public measures of deep finger of our right hand, delay the publication, cause no longer shine upon our establishment, with healing in its beams. interest, canvassed alone in dram-shops, taverns, and the omission of several articles prepared, and disapNow with all this we find no fault-none at at private caucuses. In short, they would have all point some of our advertising friends-which they will please excuse. all. Heaven knows we are willing, that every editors trammelled in the expression of their opi- We are happy that the editor has "survived the man should patronise the paper he likes best-nions, fearful that those opinions may emanate from wreck of matter and the crush of "--words! but, when we find men declaiming, one day, an ambitious aspiration, or have some weight in inupon the servility of the press, and, the next, fluencing the people. They would prostrate the JAMES G. BROOKS, Esq. late editor of the New endeavouring to annihilate a periodical because press to the lowest grade of degradation; and yet York Courier, has associated himself with E. J. it has the courage to inculcate charity, or to such are precisely the men who have been elevated Roberts, the editor of the Rochester Craftsman, a of such rank as the New York Courier. WM. LLOYD GARRISON.-We rejoice to see the unanimity of sentiment which prevails throughout this country, in reference to the imprisonment of this philanthropist, who is now confined in the Bala timore jail, charged with a libel against Francis Todd, of Newburyport, Mass. Todd was branded by Garrison in no mild terms, as being an abettor paper devoted to literature and masonry. Mr. morse, and the strong power of love as the chief to bring home the meat procured by his arrows, Brooks enjoys a creditable reputation as a poet, and influential agent of the moral universe. There is to relieve her of a part of the burthen by taking will no doubt contribute to the circulation of the little attempt at incident or description-the tale it upon his own manly shoulders. In due time, Craftsman. To be adjunct editor of a weekly news- depends for effect on the masterly way in which the she gave him a son; a sure token that however paper is, however, but a contemptible vocation for two characters, Lord Danvers and Cloudesley, his many more wives he might see proper to take, he would never put her away. The boy was one who enjoys the celebrity that Mr. Brooks does, valet, are delineated. The Earl is a man naturally the idol of his old grandmother, who could never and who has presided at the editorial desk of a print of high and refined feeling, but ambitious and fond of suffer him out of her sight a moment, and used a title, which weakness induces him to supplant his constantly to prophesy, that he would become nephew, (the rightful heir of the Earldom) and usurp a brave warrior and an expert horse stealer; a his family honours. For eighteen years he retains prediction that his manhood abundantly verified. these possessions, during which period he knows not In little more than a year the youngster was able to walk erect. About this time the band one little interval of repose. He marries, becomes] began to feel the approach of famine-Buffafather, but finds his children drop, one after ano-loes were supposed to abound on the river Des ther, into the grave, and himself solitary in his old Moines, and thither Payton Skah resolved to go. age. Borne down at last by such accumulating visi- His mother had cut her foot while chopping tations; shuddering at the past, and doubtful of the wood, and was unable to travel; but she would in the barbarous traffic of human flesh-in other future, his mind relents-he confesses himself a vil-not part with her grandchild. Tahtokah unwords, with being a slave dealer. A suit was in-lain-restores his estates to the rightful owner, and willingly consented to leave her boy behind, at stantly instituted against Garrison, who was, in our dies. The young man thus restored, has been the request of her husband, which indeed she view, unjustly, convicted of a libel, and in default of never thought of disputing. One other family brought up from infancy under the care of Cloudes- accompanied them. They soon reached the paying the fine, cast into prison. Garrison is doubtley, Earl Danvers' valet, who was accessary to the Des Moines, and encamped on its banks. Many less enthusiastic in his advocacy of universal eman-usurpation, but who, won by the affectionateness of wild cattle were killed and much of their flesh cipation, to a degree beyond the bounds of prudence; the boy's disposition, eventually resolves to befriend but it is a noble enthusiasm, and one for which he him and secure him his legitimate possessions.' should scarcely be punished with such severity. The work is replete with interest, and every way The Groton Herald, in alluding to this gentleman, worthy of perusal. says: SELECTIONS. PAYTON SKAH. His hopes destroyed, his heart-strings broke, cured. The young wife reminded her spouse that his mother must by this time be able to walk, and that she longed to see her child. In compliance with her wishes he mounted his horse, and departed, resolving to bring the rest of the band to the land of plenty. "We think we are thoroughly acquainted with the At his arrival, his compatriots, on his repredisposition and temper of this gentleman-and his character, from the earliest period of life, has been sentations, packed up their baggage and threw exemplary. Though a little in advance of ourself, down their lodges. A few days brought them we have watched his career since he first entered to where he had left his wife and her compaupon the public field-and more than once, since No voice nions. But the place was desolate. we have been sailing as it were, on the same course, hailed their approach, no welcome greeted their our memory has led us back to earlier days, where arrival. The lodges were cut to ribands, and a the name of Lloyd Garrison began to fill a conspicubloody trail marked where the bodies of their ous place among his class-mates. We have since inmates had been dragged into the river. Folknown him to be a bold and intrepid writer, main- We have before intimated that we cannot lowing the course of the stream, the corpses of taining independence with every breath, and promul- pretend to much accuracy with regard to dates. all but Tahtokah were found on the shores and gating his sentiments of equality in every station he has been called to fill-and we regret that so able a So we are not certain that the events we are sandbars. Hers was missing, but this gave her writer should suffer incarceration, for defending a about to relate did not happen five centuries husband no consolation. He knew that neither cause into which he has entered with so much sin- ago, perhaps more; but it is probable that the Sioux nor Mandans spared sex or age, and sup cerity and devotion. But the result is what might time was not so remote. Be that as it may, we posed it to be sunk in some eddy of the river. be expected in a court in the state of Maryland. Mr. shall give the facts in the same order as tradition And Mandans, the marks the spoilers had left G. has dared to go into the very land where slavery hands them down. behind them, proved them to be. constitutes the greatest trade in the market, and The Dahcotahs were at war with the Mandans. Now Payton Skah was, for an Indian, a kind where almost every white man is an owner of slaves. What more could be anticipated than conviction and Many were the onslaughts they made on each and affectionate husband. The Sioux mothers punishment, as soon as a single sentence of his other, and long were they remembered. Among wished their daughters might obtain partners writings could in any way be rendered libellous? the Sioux warriors who struck the post, and took like him; and it was proverbial to say of a fond But this, we trust, will not stay his course; his mind the war path, none was more conspicuous than couple, that they loved like Payton Skah and is formed for nobler objects, and the slaves in this Payton Skah, or the White Otter. He belong- Tahtokah. Yet on this occasion, whatever his country will still find him defending their rights with ed to the Yankton band. When he returned feelings might have been, he uttered no sigh, he unwearied exertions." from the field with his head crowned with lau- shed no tear. But he gave what was, in the Since his confinement he has written a letter to rels, or more properly with his bridle rein eyes of his co-mates, a more honourable proof of Mr. Todd, through the columns of the Boston Cou-adorned with Mandan scalps, the seniors of the his grief. He vowed that he would not take tribe pointed to him, and exhorted their sons to another wife, nor cut his hair, till he had killed rier, which does not tend to elevate the character of that individual. Indeed we cannot well conceive like Payton Skah. ride, to draw the bow, and to strike the enemy and scalped five Mandans. And he filled his quiver, saddled his horse, and raised the war how he can derive gratification, from imprisoning Payton Skah was a husband and a father. As song immediately. He found followers, and dea man who, he must know, has written nothing but soon as he was reckoned a man, and able to parted incontinently. At his return but three the truth. His feelings, in reference to this matter, support a family, he had taken to his bosom the obstacles to his second marriage remained to be cannot be enviable, and Mr. Francis Todd, of New-young and graceful Tahtokah, (the Antelope) overcome. "He seemed to love her, and her youthful cheek." buryport, Massachusetts, in linking his name with thought to be the best hand at skinning the In the course of the year he fulfilled the conslavery, and incarcerating those who decry its inhu- Buffalo, making moccasins, whitening leather, ditions of his vow. The five scalps were hangand preparing marrow fat, in the tribe. She was ing in the smoke of his lodge, but he evinced man purposes, will not elevate himself in the opinion not, as is common among the Dahcotahs, carried no inclination towards matrimony. On the conof good men. an unwilling or indifferent bride to her husband's trary, his countenance was sorrowful, he pined lodge. No, he had lighted his match in her away, and every one thought he was in a con"The Wilmington Gazette," of a late date, pub-father's tent, and held it before her eyes, and sumption. His mother knew his disposition lishes as original, with the signature of W. H. K., she had blown it out, as instigated by love to do. better. Thinking not unwisely that the best some beautiful stanzas, beginning→ And when he had espoused her in form, her af- way to drive the old love out of his head was to fection did not diminish. She never grumbled provide him a new one, she with true female That article appeared in the Philadelphia Album at pulling off his leggins and moccasins when he perseverance, compelled him by teazing and more than a year since. returned from the chase, nor at drying and rub- clamour to do as she wished. bing them till they became soft and pliant. A So the old woman selected Chuntay Washtay greater proof of her regard was, that she was (The Good Heart) for her son, and demanded CLOUDESLEY.-All who have read Godwin's Caleb strictly obedient to her mother-in-law. And her of her parents, who were not sorry to form Williams, or witnessed the drama for which it has Payton Skah's attachment, though his endear- such a connexion. The bride elect herself ments were reserved for their private hours, showed no alacrity in the matter; but this was formed the groundwork, must feel a desire to peruse were no less than hers. No woman in the camp too common a thing to excite any surprise or the latest work which an author so reputed and gifted could show more wampum and other ornaments comment. She was formally made over to has given to the public. The object of Mr. God- than the wife of the young warrior. He was Payton Skah, and duly installed in his lodge. win's present novel is, "to paint the working of re-leven several times known, when she had been He was not formed by nature to be alone, LITERARY. 1 Notwithstanding the contempt an Indian educa- unwilling guest. This last had now arrived at in spite of his Indian nature. He had not come tion inculcates for the fair sex, he was as sen. the conclusion that he was to die, and he had to kill any one as on former occasions, but to lay sible to female blandishment as a man could be. screwed up his courage to meet his fate with down his own life; and he remained constant in Though his new wife was by no means so kind the unshrinking fortitude of an Indian warrior. his resolution. as the old one, yet as she fulfilled the duties of He ate, therefore, in silence, but without any If it be asked why the Mandans left their vil her station with all apparent decorum, he be- sign of concern. When the repast was ended, lage in this defenceless condition, we answer, gan to be attached to her. His health improved, Payton Skah produced his pipe, filled the bowl that Indian camps are frequently left in the same he was again heard to laugh, and he hunted the with tobacco mixed with the inner bark of the manner. Perhaps they relied on the broad and buffalo with as much vigour as ever. Yet when red willow, and after smoking a few whiffs him- rapid river, to keep off any roving band of DahChuntay Washtay, as she sometimes would, self, gave it to the culprit. Having passed from cotahs that might come thither. Payton Skah raised her voice higher than was consistent with one to the other till it was finished, the aggriev- sat in the lodge of his enemies till the tramp of conjugal affection, he would think of his lost ed husband ordered his wife to produce her a horse on the frozen earth, and the jingling of Tahtokah, and struggle to keep down the rising clothing and effects, and pack them up in a the little bells round his neck, announced that a sigh. bundle. This done, he rose to speak. warrior had returned from the hunt. Then the A young Yankton who had asked Chuntay "Another in my place," said he to the young White Otter prepared to go to whatever lodge Washtay of her parents previous to her marriage, man, had he detected you as I did last night, the Mandan might enter, and die by his arrows and who had been rejected by them, now be- would have driven an arrow through you before or tomahawk. But he had no occasion to stir. came a constant visiter in her husband's lodge. you awoke. But my heart is strong, and I have The horseman rode straight to the lodge in He came early and staid and smoked late. But hold of the heart of Chuntay Washtay. You which he sat, dismounted, threw his bridle to a as Payton Skah saw no appearance of regard for sought her before I did, and I see she would squaw, and entered. The women pointed to the youth in his wife, he felt no uneasiness. If rather be your companion than mine. She is their silent guest, and related how unaccounthe had seen what was passing in her mind, he yours; and that you may be able to support her, ably he had behaved. The new comer turned would have scorned to exhibit any jealousy. He take my horse, and my bows and arrows also. to Payton Skah and asked who and what he was. would have proved by his demeanour "that his Take her and depart, and let peace be between Then the Yankton, like Caius Marius within the heart was strong." He was destined ere long us." walls of Corioli, rose, threw off his robe, and to be more enlightened on this point. At this speech, the wife, who had been trem- drawing himself up with great dignity, bared his His mother was gone with the child, on a bling lest her nose should be cut off, and her breast and spoke. "I am a man. Of that, Manvisit to a neighbouring camp, and he was left lover, who had expected nothing less than death, dan be assured. Nay more: I am a Dahcotah, alone with his wife. It was reported that buf- recovered their assurance and left the lodge. and my name is Payton Skah. You have heard faloes were found at a little basin in the prairie, Payton Skah remained; and while the whole it before. I have lost friends and kin by the at about the distance of a day's journey, and band was singing his generosity, brooded over arrows of your people, and well have I revenged Chuntay Washtay desired him to go and kill one, his misfortunes in sadness and silence. them. See, on my head I wear ten feathers of and hang its flesh up in a tree out of the reach Notwithstanding his boast of the firmness of the war eagle. Now it is the will of the Master of the wolves. "You cannot get back to-night," his resolution, his mind was nearly unsettled by of life that I should die, and for that purpose she said, "but you can make a fire and sleep by the shock. He had set his whole heart upon came I hither. Strike therefore, and rid your it, and return to-morrow. If fat cows are to be Tahtokah, and when the wound occasioned by tribe of the greatest enemy it ever had." found there, we will take down our lodge and her loss was healed, he had loved Chuntay Courage, among the aborigines, as charity move." Washtay with all his might. He could vaunt of among Christians, covereth a multitude of sins. The White Otter did as he was desired. His his indifference to any ills woman could inflict The Mandan Warrior cast on his undaunted wife brought his beautiful black horse, which he on the warriors of his tribe, but the boast that foe a look in which respect, delight, and adhad selected and stolen from a drove near the they could have truly made, was not true coming miration were blended. He raised his war club Mandan village, to the door of the lodge. He from him. as if about to strike, but the Sioux blenched threw himself on its back, and having listened Though one of the bravest of men, his heart not; not a nerve trembled his eyelids did not to her entreaties that he would be back soon, was as soft as woman's in spite of precept and quiver. The weapon dropped from the hand rode away. example. At this second blight of his affections that held it. The Mandan tore open his own His gallant steed carried him to the place of he fell into a settled melancholy, and one or two vestment, and said, “No, I will not kill so brave his destination with the speed of the wind. The unsuccessful hunts convinced him that he was a a man. But I will prove that my people are buffaloes were plenty, and in the space of two doomed man; an object of the displeasure of men also. I will not be outdone in generosity. hours he had killed and cut up two of them. God; and that he need never more look for any Strike thou, then take my horse and fly." Having hung up the meat upon the branches, good fortune. A post dance, at which the per- The Sioux declined the offer, and insisted he concluded that as he had got some hours of formers alternately sung their exploits, brought upon being himself the victim. The Mandan daylight, he would return to his wife. He ap- this morbid state of feeling to a crisis. Like the was equally pertinacious; and this singular displied the lash, and arrived at the camp at mid-rest he recommended the deeds he had done, pute lasted till the latter at last held out his night. and declared that to expiate the involuntary hand in token of amity. He commanded the He picketed his horse carefully, and bent his offence he had committed against the Great women to prepare a feast, and the two geneway to his own lodge. All was silent within, Spirit, he would go to the Mandan village and rous foes sat down and smoked together. The and the dogs scenting their master, gave no throw away his body. All expostulation was brave of the Missouri accounted for speaking alarm. He took up a handful of dry twigs out- vain; and the next morning he started on foot the Dahcotah tongue by saying that he was side the door and entered. Raking over the coals and alone to put his purpose in execution. himself half Sioux. His mother had belonged in the centre of the lodge, he laid on the fuel, He travelled onward with a heavy heart, and to that tribe, and so did his wife, having both which presently blazed and gave a bright light. the eighth evening found him on the bank of the been made prisoners. In the morning Payton By its aid he discovered a spectacle that drove Missouri, opposite the Mandan village. He swam Skah should see and converse with them. And the blood from his heart into his face. There the river, and saw the light shine through the the Yankton proffered, since it did not appear lay Chuntay Washtay, fast asleep by the side of crevices, and heard the dogs bark at his approach. to be the will of the Great Spirit that he should her quondam lover. Payton Skah unsheathed Nothing dismayed, he entered the village and die, to become the instrument to bring about his knife, and stood for a moment irresolute, but promenaded through it two or three times. He a firm and lasting peace between the two na his better feelings prevailed, he returned it to saw no man abroad, and impatient of delay, en- tions. its place in his belt, and left the lodge without tered the principal lodge. Within he found two In the morning the rest of the band arrived, awakening them. Going to another place, he women, who spoke to him, but he did not an- and were informed what visiter was in the vil laid himself down, but not to sleep. swer. He drew his robe over his face, and sat lage. The women screamed with rage and But when the east began to be streaked with down in a dark corner, intending to await the cried for revenge. The men grasped their gray he brought his horse, his favourite steed, entrance of some warrior, by whose hands he weapons and rushed tumultuously to the lodge to the door of the tent. Just as he had reached might honourably die. The women addressed to obtain it. The Mandan stood before the it those within awoke, and the paramour of him repeatedly, but could not draw from him door, declaring that he would guarantee the Chuntay Washtay came forth and stood before any reply. Finding him impenetrable, they took rights of hospitality with his life. His resolute him. He stood still. Fear of the famous hunt- no further notice, but continued their conversa- demeanour, as well as the bow and war club er and renowned warrior kept him silent. Pay- tion as if no one had been present. Had they he held ready to make his words good, made ton Skah, in a stern voice, commanded him to known to what tribe he belonged they would the impression he desired. The Mandans rere-enter, and when he had obeyed followed him have fled in terror; but they supposed him to coiled, consulted, and the elders decided that in. The guilty wife spoke not, but covered be a Mandan. He gathered from it that the men Payton Skah must be carried as a prisoner to her face with her hands, till her husband di- of the village were gone on a buffalo hunt, and the council lodge, there to abide the result of rected her to light a fire and prepare food. She would not return till morning. Most of the fe- their deliberations. then rose and hung the earthen utensil over the males were with them. Here, then, was an op- Payton Skah, indifferent to whatever might fire, and the repast was soon ready. At the portunity to wreak his vengeance on the whole befall him, walked proudly to the place ap command of Payton Skah she placed a wooden tribe such as never before occurred, and would pointed in the midst of a guard of Mandans, platter or bowl before him, and another for his probably never occur again. But he refrained and accompanied by the taunts and execrations ་ of the squaws. The preliminary of smoking cases which contain the enamelled amber. The his bed-curtain, for the sake of decency; that's over, the consultation did not last long. His Tusuk bazaar (the Paternoster row of Constantinople) easily said, child; but the truth is, that for the last new friend related how the prisoner had enter- is well worth visiting; several hundred scribes are fortnight the jade Fortune has been in a most spiteed the village, and unarmed, save with his to be seen there employed in copying; and even those ful humour with me. Faro, and all his host to boot, knife: how he had magnanimously spared the persons to whom the Eastern character is not legible have been most unmerciful. The sum is but a may still admire the neatness and beauty of their trifle of thirty pistoles.' 'A trifle! thirty pistoles! women and children when at his mercy; and manuscripts. The Koran, with its commentators, is It I had only one, I might take advantage of a lucky how he had offered to negotiate a peace be the chief object of their labours, but they condescend vein which I am positive was going to begin just as tween the two tribes. Admiration of his valour sometimes to fancy works, and the little illuminated I left off last night.' But in eight days I am to be overcame the hostility of the Mandans. Their almanacks which are to be bought in this bazaar are married; and it's no use talking; you must in the hatred vanished like snow before the sun, and it not without elegance. The workmen of Constanti-mean time find wherewithal to pay your debt.' 'Ah! was carried by acclamation, that he should be nople excel too in embroidering on cloth or leather you are going to be married! then it seems you have treated as became an Indian brave, and dismiss-with gold and silver thread; but their designs, though money; for alas! if you count upon my thirty pisrich, are unvaried; and, whether owing to pride or toles I lean upon a rotten staff, is that your ed in safety and with honour. indolence, they have not the faculty of working cor- meaning? Not exactly, child: I will assuredly At this stage of proceedings a woman rushed rectly after a model. A large bazaar is appropriated pay you one of these days: some morning when you into the lodge, broke through the circle of to the sale of Cashmere shawls; and another to the chance to find me in possession of the vein that I stern and armed warriors, and threw herself into embroidered silk handkerchiefs which are made in was forced to abandon last night. But, a moment: the arms of the Dahcotah hero. It was Tato- the harems, and are sometimes very rich and beau- thirty pistoles are not your entire portion? 'Cerkah, his first, his best beloved! He did not re-tiful. The Misr Tcharchi, or Egyptian bazaar, is tainly not: by dint of washing, and scouring, and turn her caresses; that would have derogated occupied by drugs and spices from the East, and a plaiting, and starching, I have amassed about a coufrom his dignity; but he asked her how she had neighbouring quarter is devoted to the sale of con-ple of hundred ducats. The devil you have! fectionary, an article of great consumption in the Jeannette, you have indeed starched and plaited to escaped from the general slaughter at the Des Levant, and which is to be found in the greatest some purpose. And who is the bridegroom? An Moines, and who was her present husband. variety and of the best quality in the metropolis. honest Norman coachee, who has promised to maShe pointed to the Mandan to whom he had Fuller's Tour to the Turkish Empire. nage our little household matters as carefully as he offered his breast. He it was, she said, who' The Abbassides.-The caliphs of the house of Ab-drives his master's carriage.' 'A coachman! Fie! had spared her, and subsequently taken her to bas thought it necessary to render the distinction fie! a girl like you might do better. Whom then wife. He now advanced and proposed to Pay- still more marked between their predecessors and would you have me marry? a duke, I suppose?' 'In ton Skah to become his kodah or comrade, and themselves, by a splendour in the appointments of truth, Jeannette, there are dukes who do not deto receive his wife back again, two propositions their court, and a munificence in the disposal of their serve you, and who are incapable of amassing in a funds, which would have seemed incredible to the century the two hundred ducats which your little to which the latter gladly assented. The Mandans devoted five days to feasting poorer and more frugal princes of the house of Om-hands have put together in so short a time. What mivah. And it must be admitted, that the eastern say you to me, girl, for a husband,-his majesty's the gallant Yankton. At the end of that time writers have recorded largesses of these prodigal valet-de-chambre and comptroller of the royal garbe departed with his recovered wife, taking monarchs, almost, perhaps entirely, unparalleled in dens? You, M. Dufresney! you marry a washerwith him three horses laden with robes and Occidental history. Among the other schemes de- woman? Why not? my great-grand-mother workother gifts bestowed on him by his late enemies. [vised by these indefatigable spendthrifts, for emp-ed in a garden.' A slight whispering of ambition His kodah accompanied him half way on his tying their coffers and commanding admiration, may tingled in Jeannette's ear:-'I don't exactly refuse,' be mentioned their splendid pilgrimages to the holy said she, with a downeast look; you are his mareturn, with a numerous retinue, and at part. ing received his promise that he would soon city, in themselves remarkable enough, but render-jesty's valet-de-chambre, and comptroller of the ed still more striking by the contrast with the sim-royal gardens?' 'Even so, child.' And in case return. We leave our readers to imagine the plicity, and even meanness, which their predeces of accidents, mayhap you could become valet-dejoy of Tahtokah at seeing her child again on sors considered it a duty to display on similar occa-chambre in some other great house, or gardener?' her arrival among the Sioux, as well as the sa- sions. Almost all the early princes of the house of I don't promise that,-but-I am a poct. Oh, tisfaction of the tribe at hearing that its best man Abbas performed the hajji in this novel style; Al- for the matter of that, your trade is not worth much. had returned from his perilous excursion alive mohdi may be fairly said to have eclipsed them all; I wash for twenty poets, not one of whom pays me; -Well! have you made up your mind? and unhurt. In less than two months Payton for in addition to immense stores of every other butSkah was again among the Mandans with six kind, he carried snow enough across the desert, not Here I am-quite dressed; give me your arm;followers, who were hospitably received and only to allay the thirst of his vast retinue, both go- we'll have the banns published immediately.' With ing and returning, and to astonish the Meccans with all my heart,' said the washerwoman, taking the entertained. An equal number of Mandans ac- the phenomena of icewater, but to preserve fresh poet lovingly by the arm; and in a fortnight the fair companied them on their return home, where an incalculable quantity of Syrian Mesopotamian starcher, whom we must now call the grand-daughthey experienced the like treatment. As the fruits, which formed a part of his provisions. Yet ter of Henry IV., was obliged to scrub and plait intercourse between the tribes became more amidst all this glittering profusion, it is curious to harder than ever to gain another couple of hundred frequent, hostilities were discontinued, and the observe how inefficacious wealth and its immediate pistoles, her husband having spent the first in a feelings that prompted them were in time for consequences are, to refine the rudeness and soften fruitless search after his vein of luck. But in a the asperities of social life. It is impossible for us week afterwards, Dufresney made his appearance gotten. The peace brought about as above reto go into the small details which would be necessa- with a thousand pistoles, which Louis XIV. had lated has continued without interruption to this ry even to illustrate this remark; but the rich store given him; his majesty good-naturedly observing, day. As to Payton Skah, he recovered his of anecdote preserved by the Arabic historians, that his relation, Jeannette, must not be suffered to health and spirits, was successful in war and the seems clearly to evince, that the manners even of starve for the crime of having married a great mochase, and was finally convinced that the curse the higher classes were, at this time, in a sort of narch's illegitimate grandson." fluctuation between the coarseness of half barbarism The Passover of Jews. On Wednesday morning of the Almighty had departed from him. [Tales of the West. and the elegant effeminacy of a luxurious age. This at nine o'clock this important religious festival to fact may be attributed in part to the natural influ- the people called Jews commenced. The following ence of the Mahomedan religion, but still more to curious ceremonies are observed on the evening the infancy and insignificancy of Arab literature. previous to the Passover. The master of every faThe peninsula Arabs, it is true, have ever been en-mily searches the different apartments of his house From late Foreign Journals received at this office. thusiastic lovers of poetry: but preceding caliphs for leavened bread after the following manner:Bazaars of Constantinople.-The bazaars and be- were, with few exceptions, little able or disposed to Being lighted with a small wax candle, he takes a zesteins of Constantinople are very extensive; a day afford efficient patronage to genius; and what is still whisk, gathering up all the leaven lying in his way. would scarcely suffice to walk through them all. more to the purpose, there was an almost total want As soon as he comes to the first piece of leavened Some of them are merely open streets, but the greater of those materials, books, schools, and men of pa- bread, he says "Blessed art thou, O Lord, our part are lofty vaulted cloisters, lighted from the roof, tient industry, without which the only sure founda- God, King of the Universe, who hath sanctified us and closed, when the hours of business are over, with tion of true learning and a lasting literature never with his commandments, and commanded us to clear iron gates. Each trade has its particular quarter, and can be laid. away the leaven." While he is gathering the pieces SELECTIONS each of the many nations which are collected at Con- Bossuet. The expression of Bossuet, to one who of bread, which are purposely laid for him, he does stantinople has certain trades assigned to it by ancient found him preparing one of his famous orations, not speak; when done gathering the bread he says without glass in the windows, and with a shutter fall-istic of the lofty and magnificent genius of the man. have not received, shall be null, and accounted as use and prescription. Those low-fronted shops, with the Iliad open on his table, is finely character-as follows:-"All the leavened or leavening that is in my possession, that I have not seen, and which I ing half down, and serving in the day-time to place "I always have Homer beside me when I make my the dust of the earth." He then ties the spoon and the wares upon, which are now fast disappearing from candle in a linen rag, with all the leavened bread our English towns, are the true representative of the sermons. I love to light my lamp at the sun!” stall of a Turkish artificer. On this shutter he sits Royal Descent: an Anecdote. We extract the gathered, which are kept until the next morning at work; and though his tools are very rude and in- following from the third and fourth volumes (un-(the morning of the Passover,) after breakfast, and ferior, he uses them with great dexterity. As he published) of the "Chroniques de l'Eil de Bonf." burnt. If the master is not at home, he annuls the sits cross-legged his bare feet are quite at liberty, "Dufresney, a descendant of Henry IV. by the leaven wherever he is. If the eve of the Passover and habit has made them as useful to him as a second left side, has just taken into his head to marry; but happens to fall on the Sabbath, the search is made on pair of hands. I have often stood to admire the skill only see to what excess a poet may carry his origi-the Thursday evening previous, and the leavened with which a Turk, with no other instrument than nality. A young and comely washerwoman, whose bread burnt on the Friday before noon, and every a very long gimlet, which he turned rapidly by means account with the wit might be compared to a thea-utensil used for leaven removed on the Friday before of a bow and catgut, would bore the tube of a pipe trical piece without a denouement, made her way the Sabbath commences, receiving only two meals through a cherry or jessamine stick, perhaps more one morning into the author's apartment, and in a for the Sabbath. After breakfast on the Sabbath than six feet long. The pipe bazaar is a favourite positive tone demanded, once for all, as she termed they shake out the cloth on which they have eaten, place of resort; and many a Tartar and Janissary it, the settlement of her account. Your account!' and put away the utensils, with those not to be used may be seen there looking wistfully into the glass exclaimed the poet, slipping on his clothes behind during the festival. The above festival lasts eight clear days, during which time the Jews are enjoined, war, when it was opposed by the puritans, a race of A Monkey Trick.-In 1813, a vessel that sailed between Whiteheaven and Jamaica embarked on her a few weeks old. A Curious Will.-A worthy and wealthy tradeshomeward voyage, and, among other passengers, man, who died a few years since, had the following carried a female, who had at the breast a child only extraordinary item in his will-as may be seen in One beautiful afternoon the capDoctors' Commons-"I bequeath to my youngest tain perceived a distant sail, and after he had grati-son, Thomas, two thousand pounds, and all my luck fied his curiosity, he politely offered his glass to his in the lotteries; and recommend it to him to advenpassenger, that she might obtain a clear view of the ture at least five pounds in every scheme-such a object. Mrs. B. had the babe in her arms; she wrap-pursuit being the means that enabled me to comped her shawl about the little innocent, and placed mence trade.” it on a sofa upon which she had been sitting. Scarcely had she applied her eye to the glass, when the helmsman exclaimed, "Good God! see what the mischievous monkey has done." The reader may judge of the female's feelings, when, on turning round, she beheld the animal in the act of transporting her beloved child apparently to the very top of the mast. The monkey was a very large one, and so strong and active, that while it grasped the infant firmly with the one arm, it climbed the shrouds nimbly by the other, totally unembarrassed by the weight of its burthen. One look was sufficient for the terrified mother, and that look had well nigh been her last, for had it not been for the assistance of those around her she would have fallen prostrate on the deck, where she was soon afterwards stretched apparently a lifeless corpse. The sailors could climb as well as the monkey, but the latter watched their motions narrowly; and as it ascended higher up the mast the moment they attempted to put a foot on the shrouds, the captain became afraid that it would drop the child, and endeavour to escape by leaping from one In the meantime, the little innomast to another. cent was heard to cry; and though many thought it was suffering pain, their fears on this point were speedily dissipated when they observed the monkey imitating exactly the motions of a nurse, by dandling, soothing and caressing its charge, and even endeavouring to hush it asleep. From the deck the lady was conveyed to the cabin, and gradually restored to her senses. In the mean time, the captain ordered every man to conceal himself below, and quietly took his own station on the cabin stair, where he could see all that passed without being seen. The plan happily succeeded; the monkey, on perceiving that the coast was clear, cautiously descended from his lofty perch, and replaced the infant on the sofa, cold, fretful, and perhaps frightened, but in every other respect as free from harm as when he took it up. The humane captain had now a most grateful task to perform; the babe was restored to its mother's arms, amidst tears, and thanks, and blessings. Macdermid's Sketches of Nature. The Drama.-The earliest patent for acting comedies and tragedies is dated 1574; and such was the rapid progress of this rational amusement, that early in the next century, not less than fifteen licensed theatres were opened to the inhabitants of London. The best plays, especially those of Shakspeare, were acted chiefly at the Blackfriar's theatre, or at the Globe in Southwark. A flag was hoisted on the front of each theatre. The price of admission to the best places was a shilling, to the inferior ones a penny or two pence. The critics sat on the stage, and were furnished with pipes and tobacco. The curtain drew not up, but was drawn back on each side. From the raillery of Sir Philip Sidney, it is doubtful whether there was a change of scenes. It is probable this deficiency was supplied by the names of places being written in large characters on the stage; stating, for instance, that this was a wood, a garden, Thebes, Rome, or Alexandria, as the case might require. The stage was lighted with branches like those hung in churches. Before the exhibition began, three flourishes, sounding, or pieces of music were played; and music was likewise played between the acts. Perukes and masks formed part of the stage paraphernalia: and the female parts for the first hundred years were performed by young men. One dramatic piece composed the whole entertainment; and the hours of acting began at one in the afternoon, and lasted about two hours. The audience, before the performance, amused themselves with reading] or playing at cards; others drank ale or smoked tobacco. For some time plays were acted on Sundays only; after 1579, they were acted on Mondays and other days indiscriminately. Such continued the state of the drama till the civil SELECT POETRY. TO A BRIDE. Drop from us treasures, one by one, They who have even been our pride, They whom we most have known and tried, Gifts that thou couldst not lose and live Well then-ever may these increases Sall on thy brow be written peace, Have power, as now, all cares to lighten, The sunshine in which others brighten. POETICAL PORTRAITS. SHAKSPEARE. His was the wizard spell, MILTON. His spirit was the home Of aspirations high; BYRON. Black clouds his forehead bound, SCOTT. He sings, and lo! Romance Starts from its mouldering urn, SPENCER. Within the enchanting womb WORDSWORTH. He hung his harp upon Philosophy's pure shrine; WILSON. 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