N هذا DEVOTED TO THE CAUSE OF TRUTH, VIRTUE, AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. Vol. III. From the Louisville Journal. BEAUTY. BY J. RUSSELL BARRICK. There's beauty in the balmy spring, There's beauty in the summer days, When the free streams with fresher speed, There's beauty in the winter shade, The golded sun looks forth again In pride and majesty: When mist and dew from earth ascend, To blend with the mid air, And Nature lifts hor happy voice There's beauty in the glorious eve, When twilight stars steal gently out, There's beauty in the quiet night, Shine out of their eternal spheres, When the bright spirit, free from earth. On wings of thought can rise, 'Till in the future it beholds The beauty of the skies. From the Literary Companion. ADVENTURE OF THE MASON. BY W. H. STARR THERE was once upon a time a poor mason, or bricklayer, in Granada, who kept all the saints' days and holydays, and yet, with all his devotion, he grew poorer NEW-LONDON, CT. Thursday, May 31, 1860. and poorer, and could scarcely earn bread for his numerous family. One night he was roused from his first sleep by a knocking at his door. He opened it, and beheld before him a tall, meagre, cadaverous looking priest. "Hark ye, honest friend," said the stranger, "I have observed that you are a good Christian, and one to be trusted; will you undertake a job this very night?” "With all my heart, Senor Padre, on condition that I am paid accordingly." "That you shall be, but you must suffer yourself to be blindfolded." To this the mason made no objection; so being hoodwinked; he was led by the priest through various rough lanes and winding passages until they stopped before the portal of a house. The priest then applied a key, turned a creaking lock, and opened what sounded like a ponderous door. They entered, the door was closed and bolted, and the mason was conducted through an echoing corridor and spacious hall, to an interior part of the building. Here the bandage was removed from his eyes, and he found himself in a patio, or court dimly lighted by a single lamp. In the centre was the dry basin of an old Moorish fountain, under which the priest requested him to form a small vault, bricks and mortar being at hand for the purpose. He accordingly worked all night, but without finishing the job.Just before daybreak the priest put a piece of gold into his hand, and having again blindfolded him, conducted him back to his dwelling. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR No. 15. was relieved, on perceiving three or four portly jars standing in one corner. They were evidently full of money, and it was with great labor that he and the priest carried them forth and consigned them to their tomb. The vault was then closed, the pavement replaced and all traces of the work obliterated. The mason was again hoodwinked and led forth by a different route from that by which he had came. After they had wandered for a long time through a perplexed maze of lanes and alleys, they halted. The priest then put two pieces of gold into his hand. "Wait here," said he, "until you hear the cathredal bell toll for matins. If you presume to uncover your eyes before that time, evil will befal you." So saying he departed. The mason waited faithfully, amusing himself by weighing the gold pieces in his hand and clinking them against each other. The moment the cathredal bell rung its matin peal, he uncovered his eyes and found himself on the banks of the Xenil; from whence he made the best of his way home, and revelled with his family for a whole fortnight on the profits of his two nights' work, after which he was as poor as ever. He continued to work a little and pray a good deal, and keep holydays and saints' days from year to year, while his family grew up as jaunt and ragged as a crew of gipsies. As he was seated one morning at the door of his hovel, he was accosted by a rich old curmudgeon who was noted for 'Are you willing," said he, "to return owning many houses, and being a griping and complete your work?" landlord. money than it is worth to keep it in repair, for nobody will live in it; so I must contrive to patch it up and keep it together at as small expense as possible." The mason was accordingly conducted to a huge deserted house that seemed going to ruin. Passing through several empty halls and chambers, he entered an inner court where his eye was caught by an old Moorish fountain. He paused for a moment. "It seems," said he, as if I had been in this place before; but it is like a dream. Pray who THE REPOSITORY: briety, and happiness in the community of the best interests of society-of the welfare of his race, should ask himself the question, What can be done to remedy the evil? Will not every friend of humanity make the high resolve that if possible something shall be done to accomplish this result? Will not our young men who see some of their own number from time to time sacrificed to this worse than Juggernaut, make some effort to stay the progress of the fatal car, whose ponderous wheels are already being stained with the blood of new victims? Oh! could they feel the power how would they cry out with one of the of the deadly monster and realize how helpless they are in his tightening folds, most gifted of England's poets whose addictedness to the fatal bowl proved the wreck of his hopes and the ruin of his mind. "The waters have gone over me.— These are the words of one who of all others that have preceded us in the rations of men is reported to be wise.—geneOne who had not only the wisdom that occupied this house formerly?" "A pest upon him !" cried the landlord. was given from a higher source, but whose "It was an old miserly priest, who cared rience. He well knew the consequences knowledge was also based upon sad expefor nobody but himself. He was said to of "looking upon the wine when it was be immensely rich, and, having no relations, it was thought he would leave all and going "to seek mixed wine." He red," and of "tarrying long at the wine" his treasure to the church. He died sud- well knew the dangers of the tempting denly, and the priests and friars thronged cup, and the awful penalty of partaking to take possession of his wealth, but noth- of the intoxicating draught. And if there ing could they find but a few ducats in a leathern purse. The worst luck has fallen was ever a time when such words of warning were necessary to deter the un on me; for since his death the old fellow wary from the allurements of the poisoncontinues to occupy my house without paying rent, and there's no taking the law deadly coils of the serpent that "stingeth ous bowl, or guard the young from the of a dead man. The people pretend to like an adder," it is the present. hear at night the clinking of gold allly is a time of peril, and a time of deep in- desolation and be made to understand terest to all who have any benevolence of what a dreary thing it is when a man Alas! "who hath wo? who hath sorrow? with open eyes and a passive will to see feeling or any philanthropy of heart.-shall feel himself going down a precipice who hath contentions? who hath words his destruction and have no power to stop without cause?" and we might add who hath for his portion infamy, ruin, and night long in the chamber where the old priest slept, as if he were counting over his money, and sometimes a groaning and moaning about the court. Whether true or false, these stories have brought a bad name on my house, and not a tenant will remain in it." “Enough," said the mason, sturdily. "Let me live in your house rent free until some better tenant presents, and I will It sure despair? We need not wait for an answer. It echoes from the dark depths of wretched ness and woe in wailings too deep, and But out of the black depths, could I be heard, I would cry out to all those who have but set a foot in the perilous flood. Could the youth to whom the flavor of his first wine is delicious as the opening scenes of life, or entering upon some newly discovered paradise, look into my it, and yet feel it all the way emanating from himself; to see all godliness emptied out of him, and yet was not able to for get a time when it was otherwise; to bear about the piteous spectacle of his own ruin; could he see my feverish eye, fever engage to put it in repair and quiet the what can be done to remedy the evil?_ish with last night's drinking, and fever a troubled spirits that disturb it. I am good Christian and a poor man, and am not to be daunted by the devil himself, even though he come in the shape of a big bag of money." It cannot be denied that in our own city and among our own citizens it is on the increase. Its ranks, numerically, are daily receiving accessions from those with The offer of the honest mason was glad- we associate. whom we are acquainted and with whom ly accepted; he moved with his family those who are or should be the pride of the Young men especially, into the house, and fulfilled all his en- present and the hope of the future, are begagements. By little and little he restor- coming its victims. They may be found ed it to his former state. The clinking of in nearly all classes of society. Once algold was no longer heard at night in the lured from the paths of sobriety and purichamber of the defunct priest, but began ty they bow themselves in unhallowed to be heard by day in the pocket of the devotion to the shrine of this moloch of living mason. In a word, he increased souls. Branded with his seal of infamy rapidly in wealth, to the admiration of all they are reckless of consequence and by the his neighbors, and became one of the rich-fatal course they have taken, involve not est men in Granada. He gave large sums to the church, by way, no doubt, of satisfying his conscience, and never revealed the secret of his wealth until on his death bed, to his son and heir. only the loss of reputation, friends, health ishly looking for to night's repetition of the folly; could he but feel the body of be added to the list? Shall the deadly degraded, the inebriate, the wretched Will the friends of the households, the sorrowing wife, the despairing daughter, or the heart-broken mother, and even more than all this, the mistaken, misguided and almost friendforsaken vender of the miserable poison, make an effort to suppress, if possible, the temptation offered to those who cannot resist it, and while they endeavor to op- agents have not " certainly sent the lucky has increased to such an extent that the pose by every means in their power the package" to their address. Now we will daily expenses of this express company at use and the traffic of intoxicating drinks, not pretend" at a small “ prize" occasion- the present time are more than five thoulet arguments rather than invectives, ally is slipp in as another "bait" for a sand dollars per day. Its agencies extend and persuasion rather than wholesale de- larger investment, yet even these are few to all parts of the United States, and its nunciation be applied to those whom they and far between, while the principle in- messengers generally manage to keep from wish to recover from the rumseller's pen-volved in a “game of risk” of this nature, one to four days ahead of the mail. alty and the drunkard's doom. A BAIT FOR THE UNWARY. From time to time our citizens are deluded with missives from the South, under the title of " Benefit Lotteries," got up by some swindling concern in Deleware, who carry on a sort of contraband business in Philadelphia and elsewhere through pretended Agents, and by whom the unsuspecting and unwary are often fleeced of large amounts of money. Among hundreds of similar circulars which have been received during the past week, a friend hands us the following directed to his address. In character and substance it very closely resembles about a wheeelbarrow load which had recently found their way to the boxes of our friends at the post office. We give "To Correspondents! To avail ourselves of better Mail facilities we receive our Letters in Philadelphia. All orders addressed to us are filled in Wilmington, Del. Dear Sir. is a most loose and improper one to say the least, irrespective of the ultimate results. Let our citizens then, and especially our young men avoid the snare so speciously set to decoy them from the road to an honest independence, and integrity of character. Avoid the seductions of lottery gambling in all its forms. EXTRAORDINARY AGE,-The Ogdensburg Journal, in giving an account of the death of one Susan Wordsworth, near the village of Henvelton, states that she was in the 125th year of her age. She was born in the family of Mrs. Burritt in Middletown, Conn. In an interview had with her, she was questioned particularly about some of the leading events of the French war of 1756-'57-'58. She said she recollected the massacre of Fort William Hen the advertizers, Messrs. "********y by the French and Indians, under Montcalm, and the fall of Wolfe at Que***" Bankers, Brokers and special bec. In reply to a question as to her age agents for the "Delaware State Lotteries," at that time she said she did not know, our notice gratis. but she was as large as now" a good lump of a girl, that hurried through with her days work to go to de party." The fall of Fort William Henry was in Aug ust, 1757, and the battle on the Plains of Being anxious of enlarging our Busi- Abraham was in September, 1759. From ness we think the best way to do so would Middletown she went to Washington, be to send a Handsome Prize to your sec- Conn., and from thence she went with the tion of country, we therefore enclose you family of Judge Painter, to Middlebury, a Grand Scheme to be drawn in Wilming; Vt. She lived in this family for several offer you the refusal of a Package of Tick-years, and for the last nineteen years she ets in the above Lottery that we feel quite has been living in the farmily of Mr. Bell, certain will draw a Big Prize. The whose wife was a daughter of an adopted amount necessary to invest is but small. Send us $10 and we will send you by return of Mail a Package of 25 shares of Tickets that may draw you the Handsome Sum of FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS. As proof of the sincerity of our offer we promise that if the Package we select does not draw at least one of the $1000 Prizes, we will send another Package in ton, Del., on Tuesday May 29th, and one of our Extra Lotteries free of cost. Send us $10 and we will certainly send you the Lucky Package. May 1st, 1860. Very Respectfully, ******** & Co. This circular incloses a splendid scheme with list of 827,814 prizes amounting to $253,218,75 all ready for distribution to the lucky ticket holders, who, by the by will probably experience a blank disappointment when they find the promising daughter of Judge Painter. "Susy" was born free,-has always enjoyed excellent health, except an attack of rhematism, which caused her to stoop considerably, and until a year ago she could see to read and write without spectacles. Her mem. ory of events was quite distinct, though not able to arrange them readily, in chronological order, and she would frequently confuse the events of the French and Revolutionary wars. ADAMS' EXPRESS Co.-The Boston Transcript states that the Adam's Express made its first trip between New York twenty years ago. At first the expense was about five hundred dollars per day. From this small beginning the business CITY ITEMS. STEAM FIRE ENGINE.-We learn from the Chronicle that on Saturday night the steamer Vanderbilt brought up from New York the fire steamer Greyhound. The machine was built by J. B. Johnson, of Portland, Maine, and is of a very generly approved style. It has been exhibited at New Haven with others of different makes, and receiving the preference over all, a similar one has been ordered by the New Haven authorities for that city. It has also been publicly shown at New York and was there, likewise, very well thought of. At present it is at the Station house of Nameaug Fire Engine Company, on Masonic street, where it is to be kept while it remains in the city and can be visited and inspected. Company to dispose of their present maIt is in contemplation by the Nameaug chine in view of providing themselves with a steamer in its place; and the visit of the Greyhound is the special purpose of an inspection and possibly an ultimate purchase of it by that company. DEATH OF MR. JOHN DICKINSON. The announcement of the death of Mr. J. Dickinson of this city, which occurred last Thursday the 24th inst., was an occasion of deep regret and heartfelt sorrow to his numerous friends and acquaintances to whom he was much endeared. The Chronicle justly remarks, "His death was an event by which our town has been deprived of a good citizen, a wide circle of acquaintances have lost an estimable associate, and his numerous attached friends and relatives are bereaved of a beloved companion. Few in this community enjoyed such universal popularity among all with whom he sustained inter 66 COMMUNICATIONS. For the Repository. ARCTIC BOATS AND NAVIGATION. Polar Sea❞ of Doct. Kane. Doct. Hayes, It is truly to be hoped in all the prepa- B The public feeling, whether of curiosity or anxiety, more generally prevalent perhaps, than many are apt to consider, on the subject of Arctic search and exploration, now and then, as it were crops out,"as is seen in the "bent" of the minds of such men as Doct. Hayes and C. F. Hall. In these, we must conclude from their full knowledge of the trials and hardships unavoidably attendant on Arctic navigation and travel, that a peculiar anxiety animates and rules them, GREATNESS OF LAFAYETTE. shown in their almost impatience while they contemplate their approaching departure and voyage. It is to be hoped, that through the kind assiduities of the friends of those gentlemen, and the promoters, with them, of their interesting and humane projects, nothing will be omitted necessary to life and health, if even any thing for comfort, that can be foreseen. In the Boat department, one of such great importance and necessity, we may feel almost assured of perfection, so to speak. How many times and on how many occasions have "those who go down to the sea" found their only hope After the brief narration of some of the leading incidents in the life of this distinguished man, already published in the Repository, and the eloquent vindication of his true nobleness of character by one of the most gifted of New England's sons, narrated in our last two numbers, it might ter remarks: time with the Duke of Glocester (brother to the King of England) at the house of the commandant of that place, the conversation fell on American affairs.” "The details were new to the young Marquis. He listened with eagerness and intense interest. The cause seemed to him just and noble, from the representations of the Duke himself, and before he left the table he devoted himself heart and hand to it. He determined to offer his services to a people who were struggling for freedom and independence, And from that hour he could think of nothing but this chivalrous enterprize." "The property of La Fayette being at his own disposal (an annual revenue of two hundred thousand livres), he was enabled to pursue in this respect his heroic inclinations. Recollections of the glorious Past, its republics and their ancient splendor, arts, letters, poets, orators, and warriors, filled his mind, and mingled with the cry of the oppressed sounding in his ear, above the booming ocean which rolled between, fixing his firm resolve." "Born and cradled amid the most aristo cratic influences, brought up in the lap of luxury, and united to the object of his affections, rank, wealth, friends, power, whose blandishments are so blinding to the mental and moral vision, and so inimical to high purposes and noble deeds, were unheeded by La Fayette. That cry for succor was never stilled. He would ings of a generous heart were obeyed,— The sacrifice was made; to him no sacrifice, yet in truth a tremendous one, one which we feel with a thrill of gratitude, and shall to all generations." seem unnecessary to add more; but we cannot forbear transcribing from the Recollections of the American Revolution," a published diary, kept by the wife of an officer of the Revolution during the trying years 1775 to 1780, an admirable letter, evidently the production of a gift and deliverance from death in a little pen and an appreciative mind, entitled boat in comparison to which a "" ship of ed "Recollections of Lafayette," the folthe line" (in many cases) is of little worth.lowing just tribute to his purity of heart Yea, many a proud ship has been left and true greatness of character. The wri- not turn a deaf ear to it. The prompthelpless," a sheer hulk, and the very life of it departed, in a little boat, which goes away, as it were, dancing the waves with delight, in contrast, wonderful and striking. The ship-hitherto the object of all care, and felt to be the very ark of safety-The little boat,-snugly stowed away, of little thought perhaps, or, if thought of, as a necessary evil-rather in the way. Now, one bounds as it were, laughing o'er the wild sea, with its precious freight of human life, to safety, while the other sways, grinds, chafes and groans helplessly away on some girt shore" till not a vestige of the tall ship remains. How forcibly are we thus reminded that as the race is not always to the swift," so is not always" the bat tle to the strong." These reflections originate in the fact of Doct. Hayes visit to our city recently, for the purpose of having constructed two boats for this voyage, this summer, to the far North, in search of, or to establish the " open "In dwelling upon Washington, the name of another great man rises involun, tarily--La Fayette. His disinterestedness, noble heroism, and pure integrity, shine with unsullied lustre. We experiHistory will regard La Fayette as one of those immortal benefactors of our race ence a hearty reverence and affection; are proud that such a man espoused our cause, who have stretched their arms beyond and freely accord to him the honor of one one generation to embrace the children of worthy to be called the Friend of Wash-centuries in advance-a living model of ington." sea “Kindred in spirit, in aims, in hopes, Washington tempered the ardor of La Fayette, viewing him in the light of a dear son, while La Fayette reverenced the wisdom, greatness, and virtue of his guide, his example, his more than friend. goodness in every age! One of the few nobly great men who live on the pages of the worlds history, to teach us, when despairing of the onward destiny of our race, that there have been some who have dared to be honest under all circumstances and who have retained their benignity and love of mankind, when philanthropy became a reproach and a by-word! of "Married to a lovely and high-born woman in the year 1774, when but a little The honesty that rose to the dignity over seventeen years of age, in the sum-heroism, and the moderation which in mer of '76 La Fayette was stationed or classic story would be dignified as the military duty at Metz, being then an of loftiest philosophy, will leave unquestionficer in the French army. Dining at that ed the greatness of La Fayette." Day of the week. REGISTER OF METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, AT EAST NEW LONDON, Direction of the wind. Monday,... 21 54 56" 40" 50. Wednesday, 23 South. East. S. E. Friday, 25 Saturday,.. HORTICULTURAL. TO MAKE FRUIT TREES BEAR. 59 " 63" lowing summer, as though they had not been forced, and no injury will happen to the branch by this operation, if the directions are followed. I have practiced this VARIOUS methods have been proposed occasional for forty years, and can vouch for making fruit trees bear early. As a for the truth of it; and any person who general thing, it is not best to force trees will try this experiment, will have an op-ing base vines are these:-First it saves into early fruitfulness, as it is necessary portunity also to learn why a graft grows the expense of the base wire, or slat, on that they should have time to make a faster than the stock into which it is set, the trellis. Second, it saves the labor of good and substantial growth, and obtain a and why a tree grafted in the top is more keeping the base vine in its place.— proper form to bear, in after years, the likely to bear fruit than one grafted at the Third, the great increase of roots the vine gets. Fourth, the uprights can be strong demand made upon the vitality of root.-Rural New Yorker. brought out of the ground just where they the tree by successive crops. Root-prunare wanted. Fifth, it is now generally ing is apt to induce fruitfulness where the admitted that we will save a crop of grapes tree is making a too rapid growth, and pruning during the growing season, in June, will accomplish a similar result.Putting a wire around a branch of the grape vine, so as to obstruct the flow of sap, will improve the quality and size of Three years ago I had about 12 vines, the fruit, and cause it to mature early.-three or four years in bearing, standing in A correspondent describes his practice in my garden by the fence. I concluded to ringing the branches of fruit trees as fol-add more land and make a vineyard where lows: It frequently happens when young people set out young fruit trees, and nurse them with much care, that they do not come into bearing as soon as they expect. They wait long for the precious fruit, but it comes not, and they begin to feel like the man in the parable, "These three years I come seeking fruit on this tree, and find none; why cumbereth it the ground? Now, there is a way by which a tree, however barren, may be forced into bearing. Select a branch from one inch to an inch and one fourth in diameter, then, with a sharp knife, cut a circle clear round the limb and through the bark to the wood, then cut another in the same way, a little less than one fourth of an inch from the first, and with the point of the knife, peel out all the bark between the two cuts. This operation must be performed in the spring, when the buds are bursting open, and the next spring that branch will be white with blossoms, although there may not be another blossom on the tree, and these blossoms will be just as likely to produce fruit the fol they stood. When I set the vines for a The past winter I have taken these vines down, dug a trench, and laid the base vines under. To do it, I had to move the position of one, less than an inch and half in diameter, and so numerous were the roots on it, I concluded to count CRANBERRIES.-At a meeting of the Farmer's Club, New York, the Secretary stated that Jesse C. Young showed him a receipt for $150, the net result of onethird of an acre of the scrub-oak land of Long Island, cultivated in cranberries. This is the third year. He says: The soil is a shady loam-the sand quite coarse. We have to sink our wells 57 feet to get water, just where the cranberries grow.The vines were taken from the swamps on the island, where they grow wild. I set my vines in drills, 30 inches apart, and about 10 or 12 inches apart in the drills and kept them clear by hand weeding, using ro manure. I set my vines at any time in the Fall or Spring, when convenient. " |