Meigs County Telegraph, 1851-10-07

"SEtEll! NKVtR! NEVEIIP ' . ! may be nssked,' and Imvti been ' asked, When I am for a dissolution of the Union ? fir 1 ;ansver,-Neve? !;Ncvc'r? iyuf !'IJnv Cwy.Y :;:; ' ''' k . ' Y GEORGE W. CDTTEIl.- , '. ' '1 :.' -"-.Vr;. :' ' -V .'i' - I ' You nsk me when I'd rend the scrul! i , Our fnlH'ra, names aro written o'er, When; I Would see our Aug unroll, ; Its minglod stars and stripes ho mire; When with a worse than felon's hand, Or Teloii counsel I would sever J1 -; ' ' Th Union of this glorious land -u : I answer, "Never, never, never.''-- , 'SVhWfmA'ffrfdf'irt lawless mlgU,"" 1J, ' , Where carnage treads its crimson wuy. ' VV heto burning cities gild the night, Where cannon smoke obscures the day; In towns deserted fields of ground Abandoned by tho faithful plough, Security hope peaco profound, The blessings heaven vouchsafes ye now. Think yo that I could brook to see The emblem wo have loved so long, Home piecemeal o'er the distant sea, Torn, trampled by a phrensied throng, Divided, measured parceli'd out, Tamely stirrender'd up forever To gratify a Ian less rout Of traitors! Never, never, never. On yonder lone and lovely steep ; The sculptor' an, the builder's power A Ittixlmitrk o'er ihr el(li' r's sleep Huvo reared a lofty funeral tower. There ii vill stand until the river That rolls beneaih shall cease to flow: Ay, till that hill itself shall quaver With nnture's last convulsive throe. Upon that column's marble lias--, lis hafi that soars into the sky Tht. re still is room enough m truco The list uf millions yet to dio. And i would enter .nil its h'-'ht And hrcodih. before ih hour of shamo, 'Till fjiiicti shall full wliereim to write liven th! ii.iiials of a nanio. Nay, I would hnsiv to swell thn ranks, Dinxt tbe firo or I nd ilu v-ny Whne bnnli! swepl the rifled r.uik. And Kite lbs lerrifi -d files away. Full blecdieg in the d.iubil'ul strif) l1,enea:fi tin ni": "f " sir,'!' . ' And dmw rny I at. biraili of lifrt IJjl'i.r thai Union fl:ig expires. Difsolvo the Union nay. removo Thu lust asylum that is kaown Where patriots find'n brother's love. And truth may shelter from n throne! C.ive up the Imp. of high renown, The- legacy our father' will'd, Ti ar our viciorintts fajl'M down Before ihetr mifwiun is fullil'ed. Dissolve tin Union while the lartli Has yet a ijrnnt tn be slain; As well repress the liglnnii'g's birth, Or stop the henving of th main. Dissolve the Union God or Heaven, Wo know too well how much it cost; A million bosoms sbnll be riven, Ueforo one golden link is lti. Nay, spread aloft our banner folds High' as the heaven they resemble; That every race this pliinei holds Oenenih its shadow may assemble. - And with the rainbow's dazzling pride, Or clouds that burn upon the sEtes, Inscribe upon its margin wide , . Peace, Freedom, Union, Compromisel

The following sialemsnt of a curious plic plic-stsmenon - stsmenon plic-stsmenon in vegetable, life,: must, 1 think, prove valuable to every fruii-growcr and ag agriculturist, - riculturist, agriculturist, as it is cenuinly interesting to every investigator ol vegetation. 'About iho first of July, I ob;crved in a small pear orchard some ix or eight large and healthy looking trees entirely divested of the bark, Iron) th.Vlotver limbs to the ground, a spaco of more ihanix feel. 1 inquired of tho: own:r, who, with a neigh neighboring - boring neighboring farmer wasiunding by, "whether he desired' io kill thoso trees?" He replied that, he did not, but that Im had removtd the bark in order u impiovo their fruit and gen gen-'jral - 'jral gen-'jral health. This, with my view v( the vegetable eco'nrjmy, appeared so absurdly ridiculous, that I laughingly remarked, "ho might jusi as well cut oft a man's head, and expect him lo live on in renewed and vigor vigorous - ous vigorous health." He told me that hq once thought so also, but ho now know that w hen iho bark was entirely striooed from ilm bodv

THE BACHELOR'S LAMENT. I om weary of a singlo life, 1 really wish I had a wife, My years consume in grief and pain, rtllU i.uiuiu pMivu) I t C til tain1 I've lived so long in doubt and fear, The girls now fly mo liko a deer! And if 1 ask a rosy miss, If sho will grant me but a kiss? Or Nancy will you bumy bridof . Sho laughs as if she'd break her side! Good Qod! must I endure such scorn ? I really wish I'd ne'er been born, Or had I shunned this deadly woo, Sy wedlock twenty years ago. . '"Jut well they may revile at me, 'I'm not the samo I usod to be; . Iy beard is long! .My hcud is grey ! !My cyes'nresoro! my teeth decay ! .Ily shin is dirty and much worn ! "My coat Is old my clothes lorn ! 3Iy shoes, alas! ihey have no soles I My stockings have five hundrod hob s! And all these woes and ills of life, Aro owing io my want of my wife', . Ploaao God if , I livq and tarry here, I will have ono befuro a year; ' But should I unsuccessful prove, In all tho fond intrigues of love. -Should they despise mo and my poll', I'll buy a rope and choke myself.

Postmaster, hia only assistant being that of his talented wife, ihoreby proving her doc doctrine, - trine, doctrine, that woman has only to be properly educated to prove herself competent to trans transact - act transact many kinds of business now wholly given up to men. 1 Some few persons at a distance hove sup supposed - posed supposed because Mrs. Bloomer camo out in print ns a fearless advocate of short dresses and trousers, that her manners were coarse, bold, and masculine, and that her appear appearance - ance appearance in ihe sireet must, as a matter of course; bo far from that of a refined and modest- ladv. Nothing, however, rnn !, lanner Iroin tno irutu Sum such a supposi supposition. - tion. supposition. We huvo met her in various parts of the Empire State, and, whether she appears in' the streets of her own village, or among entire sirangcrs, she ulways has that same unassuming, modest deportment, and child childlike - like childlike simplicity, so univurntlly admired and praised in the female s- x, but s i seldom

".There was o moral i that dream." A dream of the "Milford Bard," during one of hia fits of mania a potu. It seemed to--me," aaid'the Bard, as though I had been suddenly aroused from mv slumbers. - I looked around and found myself In tlie center of a gay and happy ciowd.' The first, Bensation I experienced was that of b;;ing borne along with, a pecu peculiar - liar peculiar gentle moiirjnr. i looked aound and found that I was In one of along -trai n of cars that were gliding ver a railwuy; I 'Could sco the tram fur, far ahead ;-it was .turning a bend in the railway and seemed, to be many miles in length... Il was composed of cor.,; Each ear opened at thu top and was filled with men and womtn all, happy, all laughing, talking Vnd "sln'gTng. "The pecu peculiar - liar peculiar gentle motion of the car 'interested mo, I looked over the side, and to my astonish astonishment - ment astonishment found that the railroad and, cars were mado of class. The class wheols moved

--0 O I ,y 1 ! -it- l.j ' .V i .. Last summer, while engaged in. the to tobacco - bacco tobacco and cigar business, I used to have for a customer in cheap cigars one of those knowing fellows' whose knowledgo serves battel to bore his victims, than advanCO sci science.., - ence.., science.., .Ypu .cotjldn't rnako, him , believe that oh n I,, Tell him there wore regalia cigari that, cost 440 per thousand it might dd to stuff !oWn khe throats of those who knew no better; Hwas none of thom. .' And so it was with, vy thing; it always appear appeared - ed appeared his delight to Jrawrjio into some contro controversy, - versy, controversy, po matterwhai the subject,' in order id hear himself (djd foWhV'r'triod 'every ayA L oould1 ttrinko td-i cirtrhycnt Mm, and lat length 1 didsucoeed in,, laying , him out as flat as .flounder... ,. . It was on Saturday in tho afternoon, ho came In. made' bis purchase, seated him

of a treo, during any of the three or four longest days in June, it wotild be replaced with new bark, and the tree would bs alto altogether - gether altogether more thrifty. 1 started on my horse, and with a very significant gesture, inquired "if he saw anything particularly verdunt besides the troes." His neighbor then in interposed, - terposed, interposed, and assured mo that nil 1 hud boon told was serious truth, und that if I would go wiih him to his orchard, ha would show me healthy and flourishing irees. that had been barked in iho sumo way some years be before, - fore, before, thu bark being now perfectly ronowed. 1 did not go to sae them, but a few days ago I examined those first mentioned, and found the denuded trunk covor,ej ,?r'ii,h',orttfl inch thick. I have passed ill se trees ut utmost - most utmost daily, since the commencement of this process, and could not discover tlint :Iu ma-