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is From Hood's Comic Annual. THE DUEL. In Brentford town, of okl renown, There lived a Mr. Bray, Who tell in love with Lucy Bell, And so did Mr. Clay. To see her ride to Hammersmith, By all it was allowed, Such fair outsides are seldom seen, Such angels on a cloud. Said Mr. Clay to Mr. Bray, You choose to rival me. And court Miss Bell, but here your court JSo thoroughfare shall be. Unless you now give up your suit, You may repent your love, I who have shot a pigeon match, Can shoot a turtle dove. Go pray before you woo her more, Consider what you do; If you pop aught to Lucy Bell I'll pop it into you. Said Mr. Clay to Mr. Bray, Your threats I quite explode; One who has been a volunteer Knows how to prime and load. And so I say to you unless Your passion quiet keeps, I who have shot and hit bull's eyes, May chance to hit a sheep's. Now gold is oft for silver changed, And that for copper red; But these two went away to give Each other change for lead. 3ut first they sought a friend a piece This pleasant thought to give When they were dead, they thus should have Two seconds still to live. To measure cut the ground not long The seconds then iorbore, And having taken one rush step, They took a dozen more. They next prepared each pistol pan Against the deadly strife, By putting in the prime of death Against the prime of life. Now all was ready for the foes, But when they took their stands. Fear made them tremble so they found They both were shaking hands. Said Mr. C. to Mr. B. Here one cf us mav fall, And like St. Paul's cathedral now, Be doom'd to have a ball. I do confess I did attach Misconduet to your name; If I withdraw the charge will then Your ramrod do the same? Said Mr. B. I do agree But think of honor's courts! If we go off without a shot, There w ill be strange reports. But look, the morning now is bright, Though cloudy it begun, Why can't we aim above, as if We had call'd out the sun? So up into the harmless air Their bullets they did send; And may all other duels have That upshot in the end. ON A DANDY. A Dandy is a chap that would Be a young lady, if he cculd; But as he can't, does all he can To show the world he's not a man. J2nti-Masonry.yQ learn from the Albany (N.Y..) Argus, that Mr. Solomon Southwick, formerly the khcad and front" of the anti-masonic party, in an address to the public an nounces that the National Observer, which he has conducted for several year, and which was among the first anti-masonic papers started in that State, "has fallen, through the mid night machinations of certain anti masons, to rise no more!" He an nounces also his intention to assume the editorial charge of a new daily and weekly paper in thai city, to be entitled "The Albany Annalist," to be exempt from politics, and devoted to temperance and morality. The following is an extract from his ad dress on this occasion, which exhibits some of the secret springs by which the wire-workprs nf mi nn::i.i faction may for a time not only gull t be r own loiu. 8 P "I hnvp nK x i i l nave nothing to ask nt the lianas ot those calculating in triguers, who, as anti-masons, have contributed to mv down la 1 as an anti-masonic editor. I hey have too little of my re opect, to permit me to wish for any patronage at their hands. At is to manly, noble-spirited, open and undisguised foes that 1 now appeal; and not to my XwiTs,,'n "Vpy wno will become, I venture to predict, ih0 deceivGrs and do Btroyere of any and every party that shall ever trust them. The difference between them arum me is, that they are anti-masons from expediency: 1 am an anti mason from principle. I have been ambitious, and have al ways frankly confessed it; con sidering a man without ambi tion, as worthless, if not some thing worse. They pretend to be unambitious, but would nev ertheless compass earth and sea, to get into office; every one of them while denouncing me for ambition, having taken good c are to get into Congress, or the Legislature, through anti masonry." Mr. Southwick subjoins the follow ing note to his address: "I was offered two years ago in behalf of my anti-masonic (I feel that the term is misap plied and profaned) persecu tors, a press and types, fcc. if 1 would move from Albany into some other county. They did not wish to have me conduct a paper at the seat of govern ment! These were the words of their agent. 1 rejected at once, and without a moment's delay, this magnanimous offer, and made the bearer of it blush for his agency, and acknow ledge, at the same time, that 1 was perfectly right in saying, as I did," that I would sooner be burnt at the stake than thus de grade myself. The bearer of this proposition was a well meaning friend of mine, and a true anti-mason at heart, who had entered on his task without reflection, a single effort of which satisfied him of its gross impropriety; tor he came to me the next day, and with tears in his eyes, expressed his deep re gret at having wounded my feel ings, and his entire conviction that 1 had not onlv acted ridit j -0 in rejecting the offer, but that 1 had done my duty faithfully to the cause, and was a grossly abused and persecuted man. Sometime afterwards, in July or August, 1830, through another agent, who had no scruples of conscience, and who pretended to be authorised by at least five gentlemen in i lie west, l was offered from 1500 to $2500, on condition, however, that I should relinquish my control over the editorial department of the Ob server, then secured to me by contract, and should, tell it not in Gath, exile myself from the Slate, and go into Pennsylva nia, which he said wanted revo lutionizing, and where, lie add ed, 1 should b provided with an establishment, &e. &c. This agent was Mr. Chauncey Web ster, who would not tell who his employers were, any further than they were five gentlemen in the west, &c. Ho represent ed them as leaders or the leaders of the party!! the first intima tion 1 ever received that the party was governed by leaders, or in other words by a self-created Regency! After all this, they had the still further mag nanimity to offer me a salarv to i .i edit or write for the Evening ; Journal; but not as nil indeneu ! T My writings, on ""uiy, were to do revised bv Tlmrlmv W..i such immaculate and superla -j uu. ui tjume tive genius! Can I ever view the men, who would thus have degraded me, in any other i"ht than than of unprincipled intri guers? I shall forever both pi ty and despise them; and I thank my Heavenly Father, that no adversity, however bitter it may be, can ever reduce me, in my own estimation, to their love1- But I cannot swell this note with further particulars; and l am perfectly resigned to quit forever this disgusting sub ject. From these facts I leav every honest man to draw his own inferences. Salisbury, Sept. 12. We learn from the Postmaster at Wilkesborough, N. C. that the stage from Salem to the west, was swept away on Friday, the 2d inst. while crossing Rcdors river, 11 miles west of Wilkes borough. The driver we are glad to learn saved himself and horses by cutting the gears; but the mail bags were lost and re mained in the water until the 7th inst. The papers, &c. are so much mutilated, that it can not be ascertained to whom they were directed. Car. Suisar. It is said, in a New- Orleans paper, that the Sugar crop will fall short 40,000 hog- ... n . l s hea( Is. in conseouenco ot tne damage occasioned by the late j hail storm. j i Nvw-Orleam, Aug. 2G. It is stated in the Louisiana Ad vertiser of this morning, that a number of fishermen and their families, amounting to no less than 150 persons, had disap peared during the late gale at ISarrataria. The huts of these unfortunate people were all washed away, and the boats in to which they had fled for safety in the storm, are no longer vi sible. It is much to be appre hended, that every soul perish ed. A great number of cattle, we understand, were? also drow ned. The cane, it is said, has not suffered to the extent which was at first imagined. vfupicrcctc. i nc editor or "the devils off" Mrs. Miller the Chambersburg Republican ; sprang out of bed and interfe says, he was in company with a j red Miller let go of the child gentleman on Wednesday last, 1 and seized her by the hair of direct from Halifax, (Nova Sco-; her head, and before die could tin,) who stated that he witness-1 extricate herself from his grasp, ed the trial of Henry Gambles, j he tore all her night clothes off! captain ol the Lady Sherbroke, , and bruised, bit, and scratched from Londonderry, wrecked; her flesh most shockingly; on near Cape Ray, on the 19th j making her escape she fled be ult. by which 273 persons lost j low stairs, and he followed nlno or: i mi ... their lives. Cant. Gambles was convicted of wilfully wrecking the ship to get the insurance, and sentenced to be Imng, after which he confessed the justice of his punishment. Atrocious Murder. Capt. James Pace, the keeper of the half-way tavern between Win chester and Mountsterling, in Clarke county, Kentucky, was stabbed in the side during the latter part of the past month, while lying in bed. The assas sin is supposed to have effected his purpose by thrusting his hand through the window im mediately under which tho bed was placed. Capt. Pace's wife, her father and brother, together with a storekeeper by the name of Orear, have been arrested. The latter is supposed to have been the paramour of Mrs. P. and to have given the death wound, and that the others were accessories. Murder most foul. The Ith aca (N. Y.) Republican states, tliat on the 26th ult. Guy C. Clark, of Ithaca, murdered his wife Fanny, in a shocking man ner. He first knocked her down, then choked her till she was nearly senseless, when he nearly separated her head from ker body with an axe, and man gled her face, arms and breast m the most shocking manner! lne reason is supposed to be, because she had caused him to be imprisoned for ill treatment of her. She was 44 years of age, and has left five children Clark made no attempt to es cape, and he was put in prison. Religious Frenzy... The Stam fnr.l ffhmn. Sentinel states that on Thursday night, the 8th inst. Mr. Stephen J. M titer, ot New Canaan, killed his two children, and nearly killed Ins wife, while in a state of aberra tion of mind. Mr. Miller had recently attended a "four days meeting" nf the Conjrreffntional Churchof North Stamford, of which he was a a member, and a similar meeting at New C i naan, conducted by the Metho dist persuasion; his mind was apparently much exercised, and on his return home, he told his wife he should do no more work and that he intended to leave all his 'temporal concerns to Providence, and prepare him self for death. From that mo ment he commenced tastmx, - u - declaring ho should in future live unon faith be then occu- pied most of his time, during the hours of labor, in reading the scriptures or at prayer. On Thursday niiiht he retired to bed at his usual hour, with his family, consisting of his wife and two children, one three and and the other one rear of nne. About midnight a thunder sho wer rose and the noise of the thunder woke them from sleep Mrs. M. observed to her hus band that the shower was very heavy, to which ho replied "yes, the day of judgment is at hand, and we must get up and prepare for it." He immedi ately left his bed, took his elder child and commenced beating it in a terrible manner, to keep (as he remarked t tlm timr. A . . " " alter her in her attempt to pass the outer door he caught her by the ancle, she fell out side, the door at the same time closing against her leg; iti this condition she lay nearly an hour, naked, and the rain pour ing down in torrents,he, during the time holding her by the an cle inside the door. He final ly, and of his own accord, let go his hold, and she fled to the nearest neighbor, almost life less. The neighbors being a Inrmed repaired to Miller's house and found him ranging about it; the windows were mostly stove to piecesthe younger child was found lying in the weeds, about two rods from the house, awfully wound ed in several parts of the body by blows apparentlv miWotA r . upon it with a hoe it lingered a few hours and died. The other child was found a corpse in the cellar, wretchedly man gled. Mr. Miller was taken be fore a magistrate, on Saturday, and after an enquiry had, was committed to Fairfield jail to """" 'egm investigation of wo ummppy circumstance. Married, at Lockport, N. Y n tne 3d inst. Col. VVm. M. Nnncy L. Bond, of Kcenc, N. ine JJnlanco elates, that ie parties, who ore considera bly advanced in life, had been married at an early oge, and n numerous and respectable farni. y of children were the frui,8 of that marriage. Efeht m,r. since, a separation took place,! after which a bill of divorce war procured by one of the parties under the laws of another State' A mutual reconciliation ensued' and resulted in this renewal, 0j rather repetition of their marri age vows. The children of former marriage, several 0f whom are heads of fainilies mingled in the wedding circle.' CTTiie Superintendent cf the Auburn (N.Y.) State Prison states in his report: I have un der my care about four hundred and fifty male prisoners, and nine females, and I would cheer fully undertake the care of an additional 450 men to be rid of the nine icomev!" tt?A few days since, "a tra velling merchant" from the land of steady habits, arrived in this place with a load of "notion," which with the accustomed tact of his profession, he ullered for sale in lots to suit purchasers. Among divers other commodi ties, was some Court Phuster of a very superior quality, which he succeeded in selling io a dea ler in curls and cologne at a fair price for a good article. Upon subsequent examination, how ever, it proved to be nothing else than black paper hand somely glazed. Verily this is a new invention, and the genius deserves a patent for the disco very which puts in the back ground wooden nutmegs, horn flints, bass wood pumpkin seeds and plaster cucumbers. Whaf next Cutskill Messenger. GCr'The American census for 1830 has been completed, and the result published. The po pulation of the United States, which was 9,037,000 in 1820, was lut year 12,976,000, or in round numbers, thirteen mil lions. What a prodigy is the growth of this Republic! When the Revolution commenced, in 1776, it had less than three mil lions of inhabitants, and now it has thirteen! Then it was on a level with Switzerland or Denmark; now it is the second naval power in the world! We rejoice in its progress, for its strength and its glory belong to the people, and to the cause of truth, justice and freedom all over the world. ..London paper. West Indies. Jamaica pa pers of a late date contain reso lutions passed at various places in Jamaica, of a strong minify ing character. A general Con gress from the British West In dia Islands is proposed, to con sider the grievances complain ed of, and the feasibility of se parating from the mother coun try, if they were not removed. One of the resolutions passed at 1 relawney, is as follows: Resolved That his Excellency the larl of Belmore be solicited to call an early meeting of the House of As sembly, in order that a deputation of he same may lay our grievances at the foot of the Throne, humbly to pray, if our most Gracious Sovereign and the British Nation consider us unworthy of the protection of our lust rights, equally with all his Majesty's subjects, we may be absolved from our allegiance, and altowed to seek that protection from another naiion. which is i so unjustly and cruelly with held us by our own. The main grievance com plained of, is the effort for the emancipation of the slaves, which has latelv been so and vigorously made in Parlia ment. Pet. Times. a?Marriageis the best state for man in general; and every man is a worse man, in propor tion as he is unfit for the mar riage state. Johnson.
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