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OND DOLLAR A YEAR, ? <°
INVARLABLY IN ADVANCE ~-
©. MYSTIC, CONN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1859.
ht vores ante
ness and love seem beautiful as angel's
faces, no matter what the guise in which
they appear; which stir up the gentlest
affections of the heart, and ill the soul with
emotions of pity and compassion for hum- | served his district two terms in Congress, °
ble suffering, and for lowly sorrow—these | during the Presidency of Jackson au
are books which it will do anybody good | John Quincy Adams. He is now in his .
to read, and ‘which we cannot have too| 82d year, and in comfortable bodily: and .
many of, They take stronger hold upon| mental health.” ah Ld aN
the heart than’ any mere ‘dry detail o: ' ee ;
facts,.and teach lessons of wisdom and
and at other times the thread would be | virtue which the common-place incidents
burned off by the firing of the gun. A| of life can never inculcate, . .
ne pigeon was then obtained and carried in-} °..A gentleman who’ acted ‘as private
© ig really very, pleasant, and speaks|side of the column. A pack thread was| secretary and amanuensis for Prescott,
four ‘different languages fluently, The tied to its leg, and the” bird was carried | the historian, gives some*extremely in-
King, his father, is ‘said to be worth 20] to the top of .s ladder by one of the gen-| teresting’ particulars ‘in relation to the
millions of pounds,” He. sang an‘ Arab|tlemen present, and thrown upward ; the i
made with the pack thread’ attached,
they could hardly be forced up a hundred
feet. A rifle was next obtained, and ex-
eriments were ‘made inside the column
y shooting the ramrod; with s pack
thread attached, upward, in the hope
that it would descend on. the. opposite
side of tho brace before mentioned ;. but
this plan ‘also failed, the ramrod some-
times meeting with obstacles which pre-
vented its taking the direction. wished,
table, and an officer who was so hoarse
he could hardly speak.; He had ‘taken
cold in the trenches before Delhi, and had
not yet recovered his voice. He is said
to be very brave. |, a
The remains of the house are sti]! stand-
ing in which the Duke of, Wellington
wrote his first’ despatch from India. : I
should like very much to travel in this
country... I have had introductions to the
two American consuls here, Mr. Moore and
Mr. Hatfield. e .
/ March 24th—Tast evening, the captain
or the new ship England took tea with us,
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, One Dollar a Year. nvariavly in advance
MYSTIC PIONEER,
_* PuRUSHKD RVERY SaTrRDAY,
‘BY AMOS WATROUS,
Ar No. 6 Wowve’s Boiipxa, Mrsti0, Cossecricet.
es occasionally. The name of such & |.
astor should be known; the Rev.Joseph*’ = ®
Richardson. Ie was agraduate of Dart- 2%."
outh, and since holding his office here, ‘ .
B
—--e.
| Rarroap Acctpent.One of those ter
rible railroad casualties, which seem to be
even more frequent than usual this sum-
mer, occurred on Tuesday evening, on the;
Northern Railroad,. near Schaghticoke,
about seventeen miles from Albany.
trestle-work © bridge, over which the
i r ® RMS ‘
Five cents a line, for the frst insertion, atid one cent
line for each subseqacut insertion.” ),
eto
Advertisements must be handed in by Tuesday nigh
t * to secure insertion in the next issue.’ .
+ All communications for the Poxxer may be addressed
to Tux Mystic Proxwer, Mystic Bridge, Conn. :
aa Ne NO
' THE DYING CHILD. :
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3
oo My
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heart is very faint and low, Lo
thoughts, like spectres, come and go;
el a numbing sense of woos win
, Until to-day it was not so! aie
I know not what this change may be.
STH UNSEEN ANGEL OP DEATH.
~. Ibs my voice within that calls;
»., His my shadovo, child, that fails <
i ls
Epon y spirit, and oy os
(1 Dhat hems thee in like dungeon walls;
is: Aly presence that o’ersha th thee.
BY MARY TOWITT., |<
7
‘Hength.
7 i of jewels, followed by lights, &c.
hs ide a , Upon one
. |and the bride so completely en’
{her scarf, that not the slightest portion of
The bride and
r person was exposed,
. | Song for us, with very goo
week, all our letters sent you by last mail
were handed back. Letters were’ returned
that had reached England, I think owing
to some change in postage arrangements,
The Jast time, we were on shore, we en-
countered a native marriage procession,
It was estimated at more: than 4 mile in
3 orses were decorated with
»| silver trappings, little children dressed in| v
, Jeloth of gold, and ‘covered with a profusion
effect, Last
March 29th—Somo of, the ‘regiments
company below, to frighten the bird and
make + it’ continue ‘its. flight - upward,
whooped and shouted ;:the bird flew
round in. the column, and at: last rested
upona recess’ designated for the recep-
tion of one of the: stones: presented by
contributors.’ » By “again whooping and
shouting, the bird was started and took
its fight upward, and rested upon the
ery brace over which it was desired to
cast the thread. ‘This was an anxious mo-
ment for: those: below. - If the bird de-
scended by the side upon which it rested,
the plan would fail for the i times if by
the ‘opposite side, all was safe, and the
end would be obtained. The shoutin;
was raised again, and the bird looked
horse,
veloped in
daily habits of that remarkable man.
was’ as regular in . his. movements
clockwork, and among his invariable hab-
its was that of listening every day of his
life, for the space of an hour, to some
story or tale, read to him: by his wife or
his secretary. - Ile" needed ; this: kind of
mental refreshment, as a relief from his
grave'study of the matter-of-fact histor-
jes in which’ he worked,as much as he
needed sleep or exercise in. the open air.
‘And ‘what .he ‘required, every mind: re-
quires.; Stories, therefore, are as neces
sary to the preservation. and improve-
ment of the human intellect as any other
kind of literary exercise. nl.
| down mail: train was’ passing,
98 precipitating all the cars and the tender
ve way,
of the locomotive into the chasm below, a
distance of forty feet. The number of the’
killed and wounded is not fully known,
but from ten to twenty lives were cer-
tainly lost, and probably every one of the; | ,
passengers who escaped destraction re-.,
ceived some injuries. The coroner's jury
rendered a verdict censuring the com-:
pany, and the community will not hold:
railroad directors, blameless, who have,. <
allowed one of their bridges to remain a “
day without necessary repairs—admitted, .
to be necessary—and proved in this case’ ;
to be so necessary that the timbers drop-i ..
ped to picces almost at the moment when. = *
from the interior; have come down, but me Jocommotive jumped upon, them Can
not the 78th. There is much excitement
here among‘ the merchants. ' The duties
have been raised: from. five per cent. to
twenty.. It has caused much isturbance,
down upon the noisy company below with | are to the sober realities of earth what} no experi ii t
a quizzical tno you don't.” ,.A: pistol | flowers’ are in’ the ‘vegetable ‘world. who ave. the Tne one et their,
was then fired to frighten ‘him, and after | Roses and violets are as important in the | keeping to use a little caution, and take a
some moments of suspense, the bird de-] economy of the universe as are oaks and |itte forethought?, Must each’ accident,
nt Ww my eyes, q
My will seems not within my power. . .
© Poor Johnny brought me flowerslastnight,
ite,
\
S\. The bive-t : 8 scended upon the sido of ‘the column de-| cedars, @ story-writer, therefore, is . ‘ :
«. Then they wore plawaneict iy sight; and affects business very sensibly, ,, |Sired. The pack thread was caught, a] not to be held in leas esteem than the au- ing? rathor asa Precedent than a warns; ~
But now they give mo no delight, . There is a singular kind of ‘grape here,] heavier cord was attached and drawn up, | thor of ponderous volumes of history or a . - ee
| And yet I Crave for something still." of a' brown’ color, and -very large: and| then heavier and stronger cords, until a] dissertations on philosophy and political] Terrtnie Nonweatan Muskerors.—I be-
: Reach me the merry bullfinch here, sWeet.'I much prefer it to the native| Tope of sufficient size was secured over | economy. Bach bas its phere, and is eu-| tieve there is no preventive against their
/ . He Knows mm voice; I think "twillcheer [green grape, 4). 2 yn 3+) 7p, | the brace to enable the riggers to proceed | titled to ‘respect according to the degree | ite which is ieatantanooass they dash
- SAW! oreo pining song to he re ‘he Pioneer experienced some very | with safety to. the work of refitting the| of ability with which he fulfills the daty 4 . i ey
through the smoke of strong tobacco like ~
ee ow ‘as soll to pay tho baker's bill. heavy, weather after ‘Jeaving Bombay ;/tigging on the top of the column, and which his talents qualify him ' to’ dis-]4 fox: hound through a bnlfinch; they’ 9, -*
j ©: Ohi why was Bary sont away? stove her bulwarks, lost her jibboom, &c.) putting the machinery in complete order | charge. .i) \ terke oy 5 creep under vail or gloves tike a. ferret '
_ »« Lonly asked that the might ay We freqnently attend the meetings at the | for future operations— Washington. Star shte Sot or ss fiutega ri le;*.where they. can
‘Beside me for one little day. Bethel. The minister is a Scotchman, one} }-" sore wil 7 THE OLDEST CHURCHIN AMERICA |heither dash nor creep, they “bide their”
;1 d thought not to be answered nay 3 Mr. Rosie. Ile seems like a very excel-|« FALLACIES ABQUT FICTIO on . z ing” nti
5
Just once--T would have asked ho mora.
lentyra ned elaniig te toe worn ana
N. @ ant op hieote Maree Timbo ting” gis tha nad .
pee wh ert ai1Ta 16 please. yea holy horfor'Beéverything Tike’ rite FRH Sans ding Tlouse ‘at Mingham, eaten tne emi pasdoane aniog
fof ~ Mother, Weep not! ‘oh, give mo ease; weary from hig.continued labor. ‘tion. . To read a novel they consider as | Mass., which he recently visited. is | or elbows, they. . «
“* Rai
wer
«1 ‘Luever felt the like before.
©! Ttig so stifling in this roomi—
1, [feel encom|
», O father! fathi
Know not what new pangs are these ;
and lay me on thy knees;
e closer in the tomb?
Bible.
y a gloor
! leave the loom,
y like the mill. one year ago t
ere are. water tanks here all along the
well remember walking up Saud street,
ay, and observing nu-
fic
the direct road to perdition ;'and any-
| thing likes story or imaginative tale is
for them and. theirs forbidden fruit. Their
first question about every book and every
narrative that. falls in their way, is the
one which children ask. when they hear
a story—‘ Is‘ it'true?” If not, ; they will
the oldest church edifice in, the country,
regularly occupied as a place of worship,
having been built in 1681, , The church
is quaint looking’ without, but more so
within.” The writer says: ‘ tt
\ “We entered by the front door, which
was upon the side of the house, and walk-
bite through and: through; they crept ,
in single file up the seams of the gloves,
and tried each’ stich in snocession, I
have seen J.’s coat and hat so covered as
he walked’ in front, that I could at any
time kill the shape of my hand in muske-
toes at a blow ; an have seen the un-
i . i it. |happy horses’ so overlaid from ears to
acs fall: merous persons bearing a labol pinned to] pot have it. . dup the broad aisle toward the pulpit. | bappy _ v 9 r
‘ ifthod act dieughtang patience ‘small, | their shoulders. . » This is rather a curious trait of charac-| Here we encountered the naked rope by tail with a clustering mse © 1 es
é “ Porgive mo! “Fain would recall) ‘A few evenings since, we rode to May-| {or and it is not easy to say in what it| which the bell.is rung, abont midway up that, will h the out 0 my f gery pou
, ~. Bach hasty word—1 love you alle agoor, and called upon Mrs, Clyne of the | nay its origin. « For thereis nothing moro | the aisle. This, too, is in accordance | Hot Dit. MAME Ae fhe OF a one
be ~~. Twill be patient, will be still. “Spirit of tho Times.” She has’ threo | tniversal than the taste for fiction—noth- | with the oldest fashion in this portion of oot -thirsty little st wily with
J gate UNSEEN aX Tittle girls,and has them with’ her, al-|i,¢ in which all persons, more nearly|the country; and I suppose :they wero puzzling’ question T ‘cannot solve | wi
Be still! my pinions o'er thee spread ;
A duller, heavier weight than lead;
Remeniber thee, and the life hath fled.
Child! thow ed
yi Thow
Arise!
4 Poor sla
now hast weal
¢ Thou
(* Hast bl
Rei
liss no poet’s ton:
ce f al
poor,
hast passed the portals dread 5
nove art of the earth no more.
thy spiritual wings unfold,
ce of hunger, want and cold,
since last Christmas.
surpassinig gold,
vo hath tol,
‘pain, all fear is o'er.
number of passengers,
: ,
For tho Mystic Pioneer.
thongh Ler accommodations are | very
her cabin being between decks,
Which makes the heat almost insupport-
able.' She has beon quite out of health
‘April 2d.—Yesterday we paid a visit to
i the Gildersleeve. She gocs out beyond |}, ‘notion lurking in the minds of these
the light-ship this morning. She takes a ‘i
among whom are
wife and child... Mrs. P.
bas been a number of times in China, an
told me many jnteresting things of the
acend tl 0
and find their only home in the regions of
fancy and imagination. There scems to
rigid haters of all fiction, that nothing
can be moral but the record of the fact—
that all beyond this must of necessity be
false and injurious. a. :
According to this theory, the “New-
ustally thus: accessible that’ the bells
might be rung instantly to give the alarm
of any. sudden : Indian ‘incursion. ~The
pulpit is upon. the side of the house op-
posite the front door, and is the least
ancient looking portion’ of the house.
Above it is a sounding board, very rarely
to be seen in any of our churches.»
The next strangest looking thing after
the bell rope, is the old-fashioned square
ew, just such as were common in New
ngland forty or fifty years ago.: Many
satisfaction. What do they live on when‘ 8
they don’t meet travelers ?—Letter from +
Norway. :
r ee ——— .
A Ccriovs Fact.—If an acorn be sus-*
pended by a piece of thread within half
an inch of the surface of the water con-
tained in a hyacinth glass, and so per-:
mitted to remain without being disturbed, -
it will, in a few months, burst, and throw
a toot down into the water, and shoot w)
wards its straight and tapering stem, witl
' ‘NOTES OF TRAVEL--No, 6.
a * Bosmay, March 4, 1859.
Yesterday we went on shore to hear
the German band sing; but as they did
not sing, we invited our few English and
American friends home with us, where we
Chinese. She informed me that the Chi-
nese ladies take a bath every evening at
éleven precisely.’ No matter if they are
out visiting, every one retirés and bathes,
thendressand return again. She visited the
island of Formosa, and as they had never
before seen a white woman, they wanted
beautiful little green leaves. young ‘-
oak tree growing in. this way on the,
mantle shelf of a room, is a very elegant.
and: interesting object. We have seen
several oak trees, and also a chestnut tree,
thus growing; but all of them, however, ;
di
gate Calendar” would be one of the most of these square pews abound in the house,
moral books in the world—for it is full of | though a few in the broad aisle have be-
facts from beginning to end; and on the | come a little more fashionable, being con-
other hand, the “ Vicar of Wakefield,” verted into slips, but not resembling the
“ Robinson Crusoe,” “Pilgrim’s Progress,” | modern article of that name scarcely in
and “Paradise Lost,” would be highly | the Jeast.. I cannot command -the lan-
&
It} have
spent a pleasant evening.
are the boly days among the
indoos.
jn the streets, with their white dresses, | ¥
smeared with red and yellow paint. « °
*: The Asteria left yesterday for China,
and I think I have s:
to go there. Me are caulking the ships
e
now. It
, again in Liverpool, and I anticipate much
pleasure from meeting old friends.
You see any number of them
‘Till my next, as ever,
aid the Pioneer also is
will be very agreeable to
B
to make her their Chin-Chin, or Queen,
believing sho had come down from hea-
‘en, and was nothing short of a goddess.
. 7: .
EXPERIMENT WITH A PIGEON,
We mentioned, a few days ago, that
Lient. Ives, the Superintendent of the
Washington’ Monument, was desirous of!
rranging the machinery and rigging on
immoral, because they do not profess to
the best books ever written are
fictions. The parables in the New Testa-
ment, which inculcate the most weight:
and impressive lessons of spiritual truth,
they are none the less beautiful and true
on that account.
guage to describe these square pews.
is enough to sa: were con-
. | structed in the oldest style, and enclosed
by what resembled more a high and sub-
stantial unpainted fence, than anything to
be seen in a modern church.‘ Portions of
the woodwork of these ancient pews are
now and then removed by hands, such as 1
the tombstone over the graves of Brain-
ard at Northampton, and of Payson at
Portland, to ‘gratify their antiquarian
ied after a.few months, probably |
owing to the water not being changed
sufficiently often to afford them the neces-
sary quantity of nourishment from the
matter.contained in it. . . '
——_~-e. .
Tur Boston Courier resuscitates the fol- | >
lowing anecdote : :
ears ago, during & sea-
[wo or thre ng
son of illness, Mr. Choate was visited by -
one of his friends, who urged upon him
recei S i, f horrible | tastes.. In several of these pews chairs . ‘
I have received, agreeable to my re- ¢ the column, in ordor to an ear-| , Who would call the records of | the importance of paying more attention
t, the autograph of Lord Ey; shiney ne., the top of f the work. All the means|and disgusting crime with which our | are yet to be seen, after the oldest fash- to hist healthe “Sir,” said the visitor,
nest, grap one. Ty beginning 0 t to be seen, after the oldest fas oe i /
$ Thave been led to observe, of late, how | of reaching the top had been removed| journals so constantly . abound, morat|ion.”'I believe these chairs were formerly |« you. gust. go away; if you continue: ve
reading? Yet they record nothing but
facts; they are true—the actual report of
things that have actually happened ; and
therefore, according tothe theory in
question, they must be much better and
more wholesome reading than: the most
charming works of fiction the world has
ever seen. 2 moe oo
These good people fall into’ the error
of confounding, moral trdh with actual
The truth that does the head and
much the chiltren are cared for here, and
how very richly they are clad. * Civiliza-
Yo. .* ¢%n or barbarism extends thus far; Tam
a at aloss to know which term to give it.
It scems that the men care’ more for their
children than their wives.” .
4 * March 21st—Saturday we went to the
i The .ship belongs to the
of Zanguibar ; her name was the
She went off beautifully. The
captain is an illegitiniate son of the Kin;
occupied by the grandfathers and grand-
mothers of the family. .
. We next ascended to the galleries that
occupy three sides of the house. These
have been considerably modernized ; but,
of course, the sacrilege of placing an or-
gan in the rear of the singing seats
except a single rope, attached to a strong
brace extending across the top of the
column, At first it was suggested that a
rigger might ascend by this rope, but
Lieut, Ives, in view of the possibility of
‘an accident by the undertaking, the rope
being rotten, abandoned the plan. Since
then several experiments have been made.
First, a man was produced, who, standing
upon the ground outside of the column,
threw a stone over it, more than 170 feet| fact.
your professional labors thus,’ you Ww) Ne i
certainly undermine your constitution.” °
Mr. Choate looked up, and with that grave «
irony aud peculiar twinkle of ,the eye
which were so marked and indescribable _
when he jested, said: “Sir, the constitu.
ys On yo 7) Ww
Hot yet been committed. We ascended | HOM WAS SOS Ss, 0g Fam now
still higher, into what may be termed the t
attic o! Here were exposed wo
in fall those huge oak beams, of which
oe
Srrawserry Bros—According
to our
esteem cruise gts
: > Ns ri * iohts | i ii he heart good, is truth of character—| the frame work of the house was built, in | agricultural exchanges, the present month
A \ vf gad about as Diack a neg o.as I ever ar in height avin ascertained That We teh of nature and of moral Principle. astonishing large numbers ; and the work jas a good time to make new beds of
ipa hs. eis, however, in e gent. I b 5 cor 01 ‘ah ‘attached to the stone, but the | Books or stories which embody that—| of decay has hardly commenced in any |strawberries. . The ground should be
i educated in: Eng} and, vt am Viet 4 hres’ Ye f{ the air to the thread pre-| which’ display and illustrate the ex-| of them. Indeed, if the house is kept rich, fincly pulverized, and the plants set
ay) learn bo has dined with Queen Victoria, resistance or ti ° dness, of virtue, of| well covered, wo sce not why it’may not| out before or after a shower, or in’ the -
ae and been the recipient of twany other fa-| vented his casting the stono mora than] cellence of goodness, * 2 red ine if ia th Y
yooS vors from her Aajest There-was a fine| half ‘tho height of the colamn. » Noxt, an honor, ‘of manly integrity and: of moral stand two bundred or: even five hundi evening ; if in that case, watered, _Rows
dinner’ provided ‘pon this occasion, and} Indian bow snd arrows; were obtained purity,’ aré good » books, and will do} years longer. » The very’ man who has | four fect apart, and. one foot in the row, .
‘asion, a
been the pastor ot the church worship-
ing in this house for’ fifty-three years,
still lives.as the senior pastor, and preach-
“4a “y
gooil,. whether the. incidents recorded
in them ever happened or not. Novels
which make honesty appear noble, kind-
aa > :
Smithsonian Institution, - The
q where a. cultivator can be us : ke
all the aristocracy of Bombay wero in at- the season in their oer most of - i
tendance. ad the honor of an intro- they will produce a fair crop. ee BE
duction. Lord Gibson sat next me at the
from the
arrows alone were fired over the column
easily, but when the experiment was
. .
a0 ide