Lancaster Gazette, 1828-11-04

frequently repeated by both; /he reason why they could not hear was, that it froze very hard at the time, and in the morn--.- ing the wall was. covered with " what da you says" in ice. A Fish Battle. We have now fallen upon something in our western hemisphere that we ma. exchange with our European friends, for th long expected battle news from the Balkan, as soon as we can get it. We refer to the Grampus battle, in Harps Harpswell - well Harpswell river, Maine. The particulars follow: A few fishermen discovered a large fish in Harpswell river, aud the inhabitants were raised to arms by the cry of a whale I a t^ale! Sixty or eighty warriors were soon water in boats, and the musquetry oWied a gallant fire on the enemy. The MVed sunk to rise no more. But this was not what the brave men of Harpswell want wanted. - ed. wanted. They drove the black columns of grampuses into a cove of shallow waterj east of the meeting-house, where a most dicrous conflict ensued - the loss all on onb side - the gain and the fun on the other. Mr. Curtis, the Representative of the town, preferring an outside birth to Jonah's inside seat, mounted the largest, without saddle or bridle, and rode triumphantly to land, where, like other political men, he took the life of the beast on which he rode. Mr. Reed, whose courage brightened up, like torch light, to see a sturdy fellow defeat a number of his friends, waded to his middle in the water, and seized the monster by the head, as he would have done a dog by the ears - * but the dog was too heavy for him, and he came off second best. Young Mr. Dunning pursued two large fish ashore, slipped a noose of his boat's painter over the head of one, tied him to a tree - then adroitly threw a rope over the tail of the other, and tied him to a bush. He was then at liberty to return and make other conquests. The result of the battle was that 22 men killed 71 fish. The largest was 22 feet in length, and 18 feet in circumference - the puppies were still at the breast, and about 7or 8 feet in length. Seventy-five barrels of oil, worth, perhaps, from 600 to 700 dol dollars, - lars, dollars, are anticipated from the blubber. The date of the battle is Oct. 6th. None of the assailants received injury, which is a re remarkable - markable remarkable circumstance, - when the size and strength, and violent struggles of the fish are taken into consideration. - Palladium. Upwards of 300 barrels of Maple Sugar have been received at New-York, by the Canal, which has been sold at 5 cents a pound. The supplies of Sugar from New- Orleans have already increased to such an amount, that they are rapidly taking the place of foreign sugar,and it is supposed by many intelligent persons, that in a very few years the supplies from New Orleans and elsew'here, will be sufficient for the con consumption, - sumption, consumption, and that no foreign sugar will be required. " The world," says a late paper, appears to be all on wheels, on land or water. The number of travellers continually visiting New-York is said to be immense ; one of the late steamboats from Albany bearing 500 passengers. A similar remark will apply to Boston, whose streets, although she has no steamers, are thronged with visiters hourly arriving in the numerous lines of stages filled inside and out, and in the fleets of coasting vessels, whose decks are fre frequently - quently frequently covered with passengers. Traveller. Curious Fact. We have before us the MS account of a remarkable fact which has recently transpired in Buckingham County. In working the James River Slate Quarries, a piece of pine bark, eight inches in length, five inches in width, and three fourths of an inch thick, was brought out of the solid mass of rock. The pine was as perfect and sound as if it had just been ta taken - ken taken from the tree, with the exception of its being a little scorched, smutted, and with an ashy appearance on the inside, as if from coals or embers, or perhaps occasioned by the blast of powder. It was imbedded in the rock about eleven feet below its top, and the rock itself was covered with ci<rht or ten feet of solid earth and clay, never probably disturbed by man before. It has somewhat of an antique appearance. The proprietor attempted to preserve the bed of rock in which it reposed - but the rock was too hard and solid to be seperated in any other way than by the explosive force of gunpowder? in the application of which unfortunately the bed was entirely shattered and destroyed. Richmond Compiler. Manufactured Earthquake. Thef Messrs. Boyntons of West Stockbridge, on Wednesday last, while engaged in working the celebrated marble quarries in that town, found a hole penetrating the rock about 15 feet: diameter at the top 18 inches, and at the bottom 4. This hole was charged with 204 lbs. of powder, and ignited in the man manner - ner manner commonly used in blasting rocks. The explosion was tremendous; the earth trem trembled - bled trembled as though shaken by an earthquake, and the trees in the vicinity waved from side to side as if tossed upon a billow. The mass of marble raised by the explosion is about 60 feet square upon the surface, 8 feet thick, and weighs, judging from the common rule of weight by measurement, more than 2000 tons. Counterfeit five dollar bills of the Hartford Bank have been thrown into circulation at Providence, and will no doubt find their way here. The signatures are written at length. On the true bills the initials of the first names are only given. From a single squash seed, of the crook neck species, there has been produced in a garden in Taunton the present season, five squashes, weighing as follows: 31 lbs. 26 1-2, 25 1-2, 24 3-4 24 - total weight 131 3-4 lbs.

cap with a dull, death-watching face, and a mouth yawning to the circumference of a Dutch-oven : and it was Mrs. Shufflebot Shufflebottom, - tom, Shufflebottom, the nightly nurse. " Mrs. Jones I presume, Madam 1" said Charles, bowin * most respectfully to her inaudiable lis°t shoes. " No," simpered the flattered feminine, very proud of the mistake, " Mrs. Shufflebottom, night nurse, &,c. at your service," curtsying herself down to about half her latitude. "Well, then good morning to Mrs. Shufflebottom, at my service! Pray how is Jones this morning 1 I 've just arrived from the West Indies, and the first thing which I hear is, that Jones, my dear Jones, is ill!" - " Yes, ill indeed, Sir, poor dear gentle gentleman - man gentleman : he's had five physicians !" "Five physicians !" exclaimed Charles, " that's very dangerous, indeed. He must be a hale, hearty man to survive such an at attack - tack attack ! Five physicians ! poor man ! poor Jones! Good morning, Madam: my compliments, and all that." " May I have the honour of your name ?" curtsi curtsied - ed curtsied Mrs. S. "Oh certainly, certainly; Hurricane, Madam - Mr. Hurricane, from the West-Indies - Hurricane, the agent. You 'll wake poor Mr. Jones, if he should happen to be asleep, and tell him that I cal called, - led, called, but not wishing to disturb him, will call again." "La ! Sir," exclaimed Mrs. S., " you are the very gentleman that Mr. Jones is so anxious to see!" " Very pos possibly, - sibly, possibly, very likely ; but I really cannot wait: I've my cousin Thomson to call on, and condole with him on the death of his wife's pug dog - poor things, they have no chil children, - dren, children, and such a loss is consequently very terrible !" But he is so anxious to see you," urged Mrs. S. " Ho! certainly he shall; but I must see Thomson immedi immediately - ately immediately ; you 'll say my name is Hurricane - Hurricane ; I am in the greatest possi possible - ble possible haste, or I would wait on Mr. Jones. Good morning, Madam ; Hurricane - Hurricaneyou you Hurricaneyou 'll remember ?" tapping Mrs. S. on the elbow impatiently with a walking cane ; and then off he went, leaving the nurse in all womanly wonder at his coolness. Two hours are past, and he has again knocked at Jones's door, as if he would knock him down who opened it; and again Mrs. Shufflebottom descends in all the freshness of a laced tucker, flounced apron, morning gown, and "shining morning face." " Well, how's Jones now ?" "The powers of goodness !" exclaimed she, lift lifting - ing lifting up her hands and her eyes ; " I am as glad as a May-queen that you've come back so soon, sir. Poor Mr. Jones, as soon as he heard that a white gentleman from the West Hinges had called, leaped out of bed like a lunatick madman." " Just so ! Then he is better; I'm very glad to hear it indeed - very! Good morn morning, - ing, morning, Madam, and my compliments, and whatever is usual to be said on these in interesting - teresting interesting occasions." (Going.) "But, my dear sir," remonstrated Mrs. S., seiz seizing - ing seizing him by the button, " he wishes of all things to see you ; pray now do, dear Mr. Harry Cane, walk in!" implored the kindly nurse. " It's impossible, my dear dearest - est dearest Madam !" " But he's dying, sir !" insisted she. " Very good : but he must not die 'till I see him; I've the most positive engagement with my particular friend, Wilson, who is leaving town for his country-house at Islington. The re resigned - signed resigned old gentleman would think me particularly unfeeling if I did not see him set off." " Well, but my dear sir - " " Mrs. Shufflebottom !" said Charles, with mock earnestness and solemnity, " it is impossible. Good morning, and my com compliments - pliments compliments as before." Mrs. Shufflebottom looked all astonish astonishment - ment astonishment ; and quietly shutting the door, and then opening it again, to look once more after the author of her wonderment, she shut it and went up stairs to poor Jones, who was more sick with impatience than any other complaint, and told him what a strange gentleman " that Mr. Harry Cane was." " The man must be a brute to tri trifle - fle trifle with a dying man !" vociferated Jones, as he pushed his patient nurse out of the room, and half-way down stairs. "If I had ever treated any man I should have deserved this !" - and then he kicked his rheumatick and venerable valet into the anti-chamber. At 8 o'clock Charles returns; the knock, the Mrs. S., and the " Well, how's Jones ?" again occur : to which the nurse, who had not yet recovered from the rude rudeness - ness rudeness with which she had been thrust out of the bed-room, " Ah, sir, poor Mr. Jones is certainly mad, and will not outlive this day !" " Exactly so, replied Charles, coolly playing with his cane; " then I 'll call to-morrow; for I have promised to meet the very best fellow in the world, my friend Jackson. Good morning Mrs. Shuffle "(" bottom" he would have said, but the good nurse at that moment remembering the push she had down stairs, or else impatient at the suppsed Mr. Hurricane's prevaricating puttings-off, shut the door in his face, and went off in a huff.) At nine he returns, and rings, for he was afraid the lion's head would not ans answer - wer answer his inquiries, as it was by this time muffled in white leather, and totally sick and silent; but the wary Mrs. Shufflebot-

convulsion in his face ; and when his olfactory nerves are affected by the smell. of flowers, lemons, &.c. he points to the ' middle of his forehead, as the place where he says he fetels pain. In the same manner he rejects every food but bread j aud water, as disagreeable to his unusu unusual - al unusual palate. His sight alone seems to re receive - ceive receive pleasure from new objects, all his other senses appearing influenced by the painful only. The feeling in his fingers seems to be acute, and he uses them often to assist his weak sight. His hearing has improv improved, - ed, improved, and he is fond of the piano-forte, which they are teaching him, but he ex expresses - presses expresses his dislike of singing, which he calls screaming. His memory is vert good; he repeats the names and titled do trifle with us iy Germany) of person, as well as expressions of civility, with uner unerring - ring unerring correctness, always 1 mentioning the people from whom he has received every individual word. But his attention is not great, except to what he is himself engag engaged - ed engaged in, where it is quite exclusive. He uses as yet the verb in the infinitive mood only. He seems to have no general idea; no trace of any religious notion ; no con conception - ception conception of a past or a future, every thing being present with him, even the success succession - ion succession of light and dark ; nor does he seem aware of right or wrong. He complains of the ill usage he received from his keep keeper, - er, keeper, only as to the pain it caused him, in the same manner as he does about the pain he receives from the perception of an object new to his senses, or about a burn, which he received at once touching fire. He is very compassionate, and ex expresses - presses expresses his concern even on seeing a flow flower - er flower pulled to pieces ; and he could not be reconciled to the correctness of pulling down an old house, which he witnessed, till he was told that it would be made Jine, as he was made, when they gave him new clothes for his old ones. Finding it diffi difficult - cult difficult to express himself fully with his de deficiency - ficiency deficiency of language, he is very vehement in his gestures. - London Weekly Rev. HIBERNIAN ACUTENESS. When General V was quartered in a small town in Ireland, he and his lady were regularly besieged, whenever they got into their carriage, by an old beggar woman, who kept her post at the door, assailing them daily with fresh im importunities - portunities importunities and fresh tales of distress. At last, the lady's charity and the general's patience were nearly exhausted, but their petitioner's wit was still in its pristine vigour. One morning, at the accustomed hour, when the lady was getting into her carriage, the old woman began - " Agh ! my lady, success to your ladyship, and success to your honour's honour, this morning of all days in the year; for sure did'nt 1 dream last night, that her ladyship gave me a pound of ta, and that your honour gave me a pound of tobacco ?" " But, my good woman," said the gen general, - eral, general, "do you not know that dreams always go by the rule of contraries ?" "Do they, so plase your honour I" re rejoined - joined rejoined the old woman, " then it must be your honour that will give me the ta, and her ladyship that will give me the tobac tobacco - co tobacco V' The general, struck with her ready wit, gave the ingenious dreamer the value of her drcam. ANECDOTE. Professor De Wolf, in one of his recent Lectures on Chemistry, speaking of the pyramids of cotton cloth now piled up in our streets, contrasted the present state of manufactures with what they were not many years ago, when our New-England fields presented a wide spread sheet of linen and tow cloth, put out by the indus industrious - trious industrious house-wife to whiten, among which a strip of cotton was not to be found. As a further illustration of the total ignorance of the use of cotton that prevailed at that period, he related an anecdote of an old lady who, before the revolution, received as a rare present from abroad, a parcel of tea and a bundle of cotton, the use of which had been carefully specified in la labels - bels labels attached to the packages. But unluckily, the directions for the tea were attached to the cotton, and those for the cotton to the tea, so that the good lady carded the tea and boiled the cotton ! The husband marvelled at the taste of a people who could make a palatable drink of cotton, and the dame was equally as astonished - tonished astonished at their ingenuity in making cloth out of such a material as tea. Munchausen. Two of Munchausen's stories are to be found in a Portuguese magazine, if so it may be called, publish published - ed published about four score years ago, with this title, " Folheto de Ambas Lisboas." The seventh number contains a tale of a hunt hunter - er hunter shooting a wild boar with a peach peachstone, - stone, peachstone, because he had exhausted his balls, and afterwards meeting the same boar with a peach-tree growing out of his loins. The other resemblance is less striking. A waterman talking one night, from the street, to a woman at a window, and as neither of them could hear distinctly what the other said, do yon say ? was

L TUESDAY EVENING. BY & co< ' fl dollars wr one dollar ft>ki W 01 oaths after the expiration ol the fifty cents - . _, conspicuously inserted three nil AR per square; less than a cents, and continued a longer - gazette Hn ts, Leominster. ® Whiting, Sterling. s,wyeb, Bolton. Jr. Lunenburg. #cn named above as Agents are Wsubscriptions to the Gazette, same. Advertisements, or any forwarded through them will re re - of riches. and Howard Jones the same school. Johnson set down for a lad of a and wit: and, apparently felt silently for all who n ,i sometimes for those who Jones with much loud talk a collection of the most ap - of charity at his tougue J s I never to possess either, were parted, and be be. - . be. as t, Charles burst out into the early morning of dull, but its noon after-day, whilst in his youth had excited the his friends, sunk into the world. Though the and sordid and the other a mere elements, " that plays in though one was poor rich: though as dissimilar light, as immixable as as opposite as ice and fire, such friends as the by that much-abused employed a skillful me - his chaise ; and the bu - as was his custom, he about paying. The had suffered his wealthy his books longer than for he was afraid (as a often is, to the shame of so great a man as Mr. paltry a sum. At length, herself will sometimes grow poor man called himself, not look at his bill then ; friend with him." there :) he might call again The humble man turned proud man's door with he had journeyed some passed away, and he but he could not see him : his particular friend Thom - might call again in in a week; he was not still more particular friend, then:) " call again not up : - " call again ;" not down : - " call in the out of town : - " call at the town : - in short let him and where he would, heart was shocked reluctance of Jones to part and resolved, when an to punish his unfeel - way that should exhib - in its true light. In (by one of those accidents poor man of letters, which him into an hospital as leg, and thus, by keep - Bartholomew's, keep him happening to have ten pocket, he privately paid the five he so much himself with the hope had thoroughly shamed his friend again into feeling, he soon served for his had lately had a large West-Indies bequeathed to unde, and was in daily ex- I receiving the proceeds, fl some means, had heard of the agent at Liverpool, but information. In the mean - such a feverish impa impact - ct impact the expected cash, that, and passion, and the which every day's disap disaphim, - him, disaphim, he took to his bed. Charles determined to a cure for his rapacious and to revenge tire neg- Khe had done to the sick on the following morning, shop-boys had watered in the dust of the dog-days, door, dressed in all the and loose nankeen trow - West-Indian. The knock - unmufiled : he knocked im - after a reasonable dressing s an appearance in a mob-

tom saw through the blinds that it was her old troubler, and perhaps out of momen momentary - tary momentary spirit of revenge tor the violence which had been hr - sacred office and more sacred person, refused to open' At ten, therefore, he sends a ticket portpr with instructions to ring long and loud: this succeds, and down descends the sur surly - ly surly nurse, looking as if she would ring his nose as long as he rang the bell. "Ho a gentleman wants to know whether Mr. Jones could see Mr. Hurricane some time next week 1 ' Jones heard this message and losing the little patience he ever pos possessed, - sessed, possessed, bawled out, " Tell the rascal to come here immediately, or I 'll have him arrested for embezzlement, and teach him what it is to trifle with a dvimr man!" , s The printer depots growling, and at twelve another .jay,that "the gem gemman - man gemman would wait onnmi to-morrow, as soon as he had seen Mr. Sampson, his tailor." At one a third inquires how Mr. Jones was at twelve; and at two the same porter come to know how he was at one; and at three Johnson himself re-appeared, and ringing louder than before, JonCs is heard, in the distance, swearing like a cutpurse. " fell the barbarous Barbadoes rascal to come up stairs, or I 'll send the contents of a blunderbuss after his heels!" were the last words of JuiiSts, as his man open opened - ed opened the door, with an " Ah, how do ye do, Mr. Johnson " How's Jones now ?' asked Charles, with a negro-bul negro-bullying, - lying, negro-bullying, West Indian sort of a voice, that seemed to be half choked with raw rum, raw sugar and suffocating cigars. At this critical juncture, Mrs. Shufflebottom ap appeared - peared appeared from a side-parlour, and Jones at the stair-head, in his bed-gown and valet cap. This was an unexpected denoue denouement. - ment. denouement. Charles was now compelled to enter; and being asked his motive for such an unseasonable frolick, and having explain explained, - ed, explained, " that it was to teach him who had been insensible to the sickness and pa patience - tience patience of another the cruelty of being tri trifled - fled trifled with, and the pain which is worse than sickness, of seeing man indifferent to the sufferings of his fellow man." (Here he produced the poor chaise-mender's receipt for his five guineas.) Jones saw, with a blush, the cruelty of his neglect of the needy creditor, and taking Charles by the hand, pressed it with more than his usual warmth, forgave him the manner of his lesson, forgot his megrims, and pa patiently - tiently patiently waiting the arrival of his agent, (who came the next day with the immense revenues of his estate) is now a man of great wealth - gives liberally to all who want and do not deserve to want - is kind and considerate to all, whether poor or rich ; and loves his friend above all men, as the man who taught him the true value of wealth, and that it can only give hap happiness - piness happiness where it bestows the means of making those happy who are less the fa favourites - vourites favourites of Fortune.

WILD MAN. Nuremburg, July 30, 1828. The attention of our philosophical publick has been directed for some weeks past, to the investigation of a very extraordinary phe phenomenon, - nomenon, phenomenon, which, unless the whole be an imposture, may prove important in the investigation of mind. About a month ago there appeared in this city, a young man of about twenty years of age, well proportioned, and of a healthy complex complexion - ion complexion ; he seemed, however, to walk with difficulty, his knees appearing stiff, and quite unused to mounting steps. He was poorly dressed, and carried a letter with him, in which a wish was expressed that he might be enlisted among the cavalry. His knowledge of the world seemed ex extremely - tremely extremely limited, and he spoke and under understood - stood understood but very few words. From what has been collected from him, it seems that he had been shut up in one room, about six feet high, from his infancy, dur during - ing during which time he never saw but one hu human - man human being - a man who brought him hjs provisions, and whom he called his father. He was kept very clean, and had two lit little - tle little wooden horses to play with ; but was beaten with a stick whenever he attempt attempted - ed attempted to stand upright. There was a window to the room, from which every prospect was debarred by a pile of wood placed close before it; and the situation of the room seems to have been such as to ex exclude - clude exclude sound as well as sight. From this confinement he was at last released by his keeper, who, after a foot journey of two days, brought him to the gates of this city, where he gave him the letter, and enjoin enjoining - ing enjoining him to enter, left him. He has now learnt many new words and things: the former of which are easily distinguished, from his pronouncing them differently from those of his original stock ; and for every one of the latter he can account himself, by mentioning his respective informants. He is as credulous as a child, receiving every information with implicit belief; and it is very difficult to make him change a notion or opinion after he has once re received - ceived received it, as he seems as yet a stranger to doubt or investigation. The least sound which strikes his ear unexpected, even the ticking of a clock, creates a slight