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Miscellaneous STANZAS. The heart that beats in lightness Will feel the pangs of pain The smiles that beam in brightness Will fade to bloom again. The tears that tall in sorrov, O'er Virtue's grave to-day, Will vanish on the morrow, From the cold and silent clay. Affection's glowing fingers May press the hand of love, While cold deception lingers Upon the lips that move. The hopes that rise in pleasure The smiles that bid them stay Will pass like dreamy treasure, From our waking thoughts away. We weep with care-worn sorrow We smile with beauty's bloom To-dav we live to-morrow We vlumber in the tomb! And !ove will shed its brightness Upon our lowly bed, And offer up in lightness Its sorrow for the dead! And whv should sorrow move us To weep o'er Virtue's sod? The heart that beat to love us .Vow gives its love to God. Its flight is calmly taken Its tears so freely shed; Leaves us alone forsaken, More wretched than the dead. WHAT I HATE. I hate the toth-ache, when with maddening jumps, Like torrent wild, it raves among the stumps; I hate the whole dire catalogue 01 aches, Distempers, fevers hot, and ague shakes. I hate mad dog.s snakes, dandies, fleas and bugs, Tea parties, wild cats, toads and vhikey jugs, Hard times, bad roads, stale fish, and broken baojis, Stale news, cold scup, light purses, and lawyer's thanks. I hate long stories and short ears of corn, A costly farm house and a shabby barn; More curs than pigs, no books, but many guns. Sore toes, light shoes, old debts and paper duns I hate tight lacing, and lcose conver sation: Abund iiit gab, and little information; The fool who sings in bed, and snores in meeting. Who laughs while talking, and talks while eating. C7A gentleman who left Sk Augustine, (Florida) on the Gth instant states, that in the early part of February all the country exhibited the bloom of spring and the fruits of summer. The or ange trees were covered with blossoms and with oranges. But the cold, which was so severe here on the first day of March extended to St. Augustine, and destroyed every thing. The fruits and flowers were destroyed, and it was feared the trees were also ruined. The country appeared as desolate as if a fire had swept over it. (OThe property of the Jesuits in Spam, which it is now propos ed to confiscate, amounts in th sum total to 3ii7 millions of reals. Tooth Ache. A correspondent of the London Medical Gazette, lias discoveered that soda is a remedy for the tooth ache. He says the most pleasant and agree able soda will either immediately or in a few minutes cause the eih tire cessation of pain, by filling the decayed tooth carefully with the pow dered carbonate, so that it may descend to the nerve which its solution in the saliva will soon after allow it to do. He says he is aware that it will not make a permanent cure, altho' it will re- lieve the sullerer, ana lor many hours; and it does not seem to lose its efficacy by frequency of application. It will not be useful, however, where pain had arisen from formation of matter. (t?The Legislative Council of Florida have passed an act chang ing the seat of Government from Tallahassee to Mariana, Jackson county. (IT'We learn from the Alex andria Gazette that at .a conven tion of the Episcopal Church from tbe States of Mississippi, Louisi- ana and Alabama, Francis L. lawks, D. D. Hector of St. L'houWs Church, New Yrork, has been chosen Bishop of ihe three States, composing a Southwestern diocess. Dr. Hawks, it" ex pected, will make New Orleans Mis place of residence. The gen eral convention of the Episcopal Church of the United Slates, will beheld at Baltimore the ensuing autumn, v hen it is probable, the Bishop elect will be consecrated, at which convention the House of Bishops will be formed by the following prelates: The venera ble William White, Alexander V. Griswold, Kichard C. Moor, Thomas C. Brownell, Henry U. Underdunk, Levi S. Ives, James John H. Hookins. Ben- amu i. omuu, unaucs iMcllvam, George W. Uoane. Melancholy Accident. It falls to our painful lot to notice another melancholy occurrence resulting in loss of life, by the incau tious use of fire arms. A highly respectable gentleman of this Town, distinguished for more than ordinary discretion, step ped into his garden yesterday morning, and for the purpose ol frightening some birds from the irees, hastily discharged a horse . nan's pistol among them, not dreaming for a moment that he would endanger much less des troy, the life of a fellow-man thereby. The ball with which the pistol was charged, in descen ding, at the distance of between oJO or 400 yards, passed through the head of a worthy and indus trious individual by the name of Alley, at work repairing a house, and caused his immediate death. The unintentional author of this afflicting accident, and the family and friends of the deceased, have the deepest sympathy of this com munity in the calamity which the one has caused, and the other suffer. Petersburg Con. fXTThere is nothing about which it is more easy to gull the public than the remedies for the decays of nature. Men trust their lives hi hands where they would not think a shilling safe, and are induced to do so by the very arguments which applied to money, would destroy their con fidence entirely. If a man were to come here from a distant country and advertise in all the papers that lie could so conduct ail the branches of business as to insure unheard of profits, would the people flock to him with their money! They would understand tnat sucn pretensions were in themselves proof of imposture But if a stranger advertises that he will cure all diseases with one remedy, and declares most round ly that if he were universal doctor, death would be driven from the world, he will probably have plenty of patients who commit health and life to his quackery. mi i s . ine doctor in Connecticut some twenty years ago who cured con sumption in all its stages with rain water drops, was an innocent fel low enough, especially as he charged nothing for his drops, and only made each patient buy a book filled with certificates of his wonderful cures. But most quacks do not deal in rain water. Their nostrums either kill or cure, and generally it is the former. Yet they declare they never lost a patient. There have been some such quacks in Cholera practice, who have asserted roundly that all their patieuts recovered when in fact corpses were strew ed all along their path, many of them killed wuuoui me nelp ot Cholera at all. The more safe impositions of quackery are practised upon (the cure of diseases of parts of the system such as the eyes, the ears, the teeth, he. One de clares he can make a bald head sprout with all the freshness of youth and cause ringlets to flow from an old poll, luxuriantly as they do upon the head of a mer maid. He has plenty of certifi cates, of success, and thousands pay freely a dollar, or whatever the price may be, for a phial of the precious fructifying liquid,! and apply a irora day to day to their unvegetatmg pates, and wait, and feel, and look in the glass, to catch the first germinations ol new locks, but wait in vain. They find at last that the only way to lulfil the promises of the quack, is to buy a "scratch" ol the barber. Deafness can be cur ed infallibly by filling the ear with "the Imperial, never failing, sound-restoring suporific," poured warm upon the tympanum. Hun dreds try it, and all hear less than ever; though a few imagining that they hear noises which were nev er made, give certificates of won derful cures. No one, so far as we know has ever promised to make new teeth grow in old churns. But it would be a good thing: crowds would buy "the royal tooth restoring drops." As it is, teeth arc pulled out without giving pain, and old stumps filled up so as to be just as good as new, and new teeth put in of imperish able materials, which last perhaps a year. All their work is hut mischiefs, for whoever deposifes any thing but gold in his teeth, makes a grand mistake. Howev- er, it is useless 10 iuu dumi. quacks. They are the standing subjects of ridicule ai.il contempt, and yet so fond are p ople oi be ing fooled with, that quacks will always find plenty of customers, and so will laush at moralists and saliri?ts. Jour of Com. Antiquities of Arkansas. Arkansas in common with many places of the West, basils anti quities, and they are surely, mo-l nuzzling fnijrmas to the antiqua ry. A h iter from a gentleman, now resident m that territory, to his friend in Ohio, gives some account of those unaccountable remains. It says: " The country was once inhab ited; and I propound thin question ii your anliquitarians: when and by whom? Two miles from this on the Banks of the While river you can see the brick foundation of houses. Six miles from this, 6 0 acres are enclosed by a wall, and in the centre there are circu- ar buildings. North of this there are the ruins of a city; parallel streets, crossing each olhrr at right angles, may be traced by hrick foundations, one mile in length. The bricks are shaped like modern bricks." Main moth Press. M essrs. Hoe &. Co., of New York, have recently made a single cylinder Napier printing press, which is said to be the largest in the world, and capable, of printing a newspa per double the size of the Courier and Enquirer. The cost of the press is S-1000. Mammoth Sheet. The New York Courier anil Enquirer of the 7th instant is printed on a sheet 4 leet 7 inches long, and 3 feet 11 inches broad. It contains b4 columns, an amount of matter equivalent to eight volumnes of the ordinary sized novels, and is decidedly the largest newspaper ever published in this country probably in the world. Mason1 s and Dixon1 s Line. The question is often asked "what line is this?" And it is often an swered, I dont know. At the suggestion of an intelligent friend, we state what line this is. It di vides Pennsylvania, and Mary land, commencing at a point at a certain distance north of Cape Henlopen on the Delaware, and running west to a certain point of longitude. Long and vexatious chancery litigations were had be tween the4 proprietaries of Mary land and Pennsylvania, respec ting this line. It was finally run and established by order of the English court of Chancery. The surveyors were two gentlemen of the names of Mason and Dixon. Hence it is called Mason's and Dixon's line. Cin. Guz. Imporla nt Decision. By let ters from VVashington, we learn that the Supreme Court of the United States, has finally deter mined the long pending suit of Colin Mitchell and others vs the United States, respecting lands in Florida, by confirming the claim of the appellants to the lands. We understand that this deei ion will enrich several individu als, who will now come into pos- session of some twelve to'fourleen hundred thousand acres of land :n Florida, including the town ships of Apalachicola, Magnolia, :nd other very valuable districts. Their claims have been contested lor about lourteen years. jtV. Y. Mer. Adv. How to save shoes. In these days of reform and retrenchment, it is not uncommon or strange that people should bethink them selves of lessening expences in a domestic way, and discuss the modes as ardently as our Congress men. Not long since, these, were the topics of discussion by some half dozen rubicund visaged politi cians, assembled at a country bar room. Each one told his story o( savin's spun oul to inordinate length, and many were the won derments at the nub of the yarns, that they met with such good success in their experiments. At length it came to turn of a quiz zical old genius, who had hitherto remained silent, to tell his tale. " Two years since," said he, "I bought me a new pair of cowhide shoes, put them on, gave them a thorough greasing, placed them away, and let them remain six months. I then put them on a gain, and have not purchased a pair of shoes since, and they are nearly as good as new." "Wonderous," said one of the group "how did you make them last so long?" "Why, I wore boots!" (pMr. Burse, on the part of the Island of Jamaica, has made an appeal to the English privy council, against the award of ihe commissioners of the compensa tion fund; that their inquiry has been too limited, &c; that the mortgagee is benefitted to the de detriment of the mortgager at the compensation falls so far short of the actual value of the slaves, their value in Jamaica alone, being estimated at X'JO, 000,000, which is the whole a mount granted to all the islands. AV w Yo rk Po liccJui 'C n He Emigrants. Thn e young heal thy looking lads calling them selves Christopher Lilly, Thomas Carroll and Joseph Clark, the old est not twenty years, were brought up by Captain lliei n of the Liverpool packet ship Ajax, under the following circumstan ces. Two days after the vessel had sailed from Liverpool, to the great surprise of Captain II. and his crew, the three prisoners made their appearance on deck. On being qnrstioncd how they gut there, they stated, that they had run away from their parents re siding in Liverpool with the in tent of getting to America, and that the day before the Ajax sail ed they came on board and stow ed themselves away under some canvass in the steerage, where they remained until driven out by hunger. Capt. Hiern commise rating their destitute condition, directed that thev should be well taken care of for the remainder of the passage, intending to re store them to their parents on the return ol his ship to Liverpool. He accordingly applied this day to the magistrate to order them into custody for safe keeping until the vessel sailed. The order was granted, and the boys were de tained. iSlar. Cruet Deception. It appears that t lie Lhinn.-way Indians, ex hibiting at London, have been decoyed there, under the delusion that they were sent for by the King, relative to a treaty with England, which had occasioned some uneasiness among their tribe. They consisted of thf principal chief, three warriors, and two squaws. One of the squaws, and also one of the war riors are dead. The persons who entrapped them, antl who, we are ashamed to learn, are Americans from this city, after exhibiting them at Liverpool, it; war dances at the theatres, under pretext that the people of England wished to see them, cruelly deserted them at Birmingham, on their way to London. Here the poor creatures wandered without shelter or food. in the woods, to which they nat ually bent their steps, until some uenevoieri persons look charge of them, and brought them to London, and to the Foreign Office, where the Earl of Aber deen has made arrangements for their comfort. Arrest of the Murderers. The lather and two sons, named King, who recently perpetrated the horrid massacre upon the fam ily of Mrs. Casey, at St. MaiyV ((2a.) have been arrested. Their accomplices have also been taken. Thus all concerned in this unex ampled butchery will soon be made to answer to the laws for their agency in the dark tragedy. QJThc ladies of New Haven, it is said, have pledged themselves neither to walk, dance or in any other way hold communion with natives who use tobacco, either by chewing or smoking. (JA new species of potatoe has been introduced in the prov ince of Ardeche, France. One small root of half an ounce pro duced 4S pounds; and two bulbs in two vears six cart loads! "But he is a gentleman." Not long since we chanced to hear a short dialogue between a mother and her daughter, who had just arrived at the age of "sweet sixteen," on the proprie ty of associating with a certain individual who was not named, but whom the mother seemed anxious that the daughter should shun. From what we could learn from conversation it seemed thai the individual in question, pos sessed a prepossessing exterior, dressed well, was familiar and affable in this manners, had man aged to keep up his head in what is generally termed "good socie ty'' in consequence of his winning ways, but who was nevertheless a heartless, depraved wretch a debauchee and a notorious ram bier. It was after these qualities of the man had been portrayed by the anxious mother as a warning to her inexperienced daughter, that the artless girl exclaimed as tho' she had hit upon a reason that more than outweighed all her mother's objections 4-llut he is a gentleman." These words struck our mind forcibly, nor will the honest sim plicity with which they were ut tered be soon effaced. 13ut he is a gentleman?" What then? Why these cannot be vices, a gentleman would not practice any thing that is not proper, is undoubtedly the conclusion to which the unsophisticated mind ot this girl at once arrived. How many heartless villains are there who move even in the first cir cles, and whose characters are known to be infamous, who yet hold up their heads for no other reason than they are gentlemen that is to say they possess the ex terior of gentlemen, a comely person, affable manners, and a good suit of clothes. How few are there, especially anions: the young, who look beyond these accomplishments in forming theii estimate oi character. L.el a man be ever so corrupt, let his nrivak character be what it may, if he only possesses these little external accomplishments, it will not an swer under the present constitu tion of society to censure him, for "he is a gentleman." But let a female wander from the path of propriety, yes, let her even be suspected of it, though she mav be ever so accomplished, though she may be ever so charming, the grand salvo "Hut she is a lady," will not be sufficient to cover her failing. Such a certificate will not sustain her she must be con signed to disgrace and infamv. In what consists the difference? Why is it that men may practice with impunity vices which will not be for a moment tolerated in the other sex? That there is a jalse standard gentility set up in society there can be no doubt. Ihe good old maxim of Pope's that "worth makes the man," has got out of vogue, at least with a very large portion ol society. Or else a different standard of tcorth has been set np which is to meas. "re a man's worth by the oualiu of cloth he wears, or the jtpp with which he bows. Cholera at Martiniaue. Cunt Smith, of the schr. Northamp- ton, arrived at New y, days from St Uan, ;('' ' the Cholera had a,i pearance at Martini sel which arrived ;,t form that place, was i(()tr to enter. fJjThe PensHoh, f;i? the 21 St, contains an a,,',', brilliant cntertainim i,t vt given by the officer, (fltH Army on that station. ht' ters of national Fr,. f, . War Endymion, now i;,. sea. "We call it a brilli-,,? tainment, not so nu there was any thing npt, showy about it, a friends of the Aaw the occasion, thtir ii,, and bienstance, in all t!,e .,' lions and details of t,e " Lavallet's large ball i,,, tapestried with flays,, and with a whole forest of ev and flowers. vriie brui.t hungup for monument 'V ladies (God bless t lieiri r as if they recked not tb was in existence suchat;; twenty-five million of fnii,..: as if the night would last f ... Origin of Day and .1. Blacking. Mr. Dav w ad dresser in a humble ua.;i then, as he now is, beneiici .; charitable in the extren j. day a soldier entered .;5 , and stated that he had pM from an expedition, and i,;tj march before him to it,;; regiment; that his i;ic.,f; gone, and nothing tut s!, fatigue, and punishment v. him, unless he could get a a coach. The worth v i presented him wiih a ; when the grateful soldier t v ed, "God bless yon, sir, i , I ever repay this? I have i in this world, c.c ept''; dirty piece of paper ou . pocket, "a recipe for M idi, is the best ever was een; l; half guinea hae I had for :: the ollicers, and man v r have I sold; may you be a. get something for it, to repr. you have given to the pojr ier; your kindness I neve: either repay or forget." .Mr ' .vho was a shrewd man, i:,:. into the truth of the story. . the blacking, and finding i:: commenced the manufactti:: sale of it, and realized theL he now possesses; hut uei; no one can say that he o-: ceived or wronged a Iimnm: and his charities, particular almshouse near Kdgewan.. make him for ages to come, he certainly has been, a r character, and a lesson id il future generations of what can do in this wealthy anJ' conutry, from the smaller i nings. Oracle of Health. fXpAt the late death Shah of Persia, his son? ; bled over his corpse for I -monds, in which strode ti them were killed. 'J lie pa:: Shah Mohammed, to win king bequeathed his seep: marching against the prett. with an army of 7000 men 24 pieces of camion. 1 thought he will have iec'i: 40,000 before he reaches I ran. He is accompanied;, great number of English lf; diplomatic agents of Jli'f?lJ England, &:e. I.atv of Divorce. A bill b the Legislature of Massac proposes to alter this law so1 to give the Supreme Court F1' to decree a matrimonial when the husband has been; tenced to confinement in Prison; also, where the wik been convicted and sentei confinement for any crime r by law is now nnnished by ll finement in the State lJr';" other cases. No pardon restore the sentenced pan conjugal rights, and apl'fl fordivoice to be made belc expiration of the sentence. A sensible Query. 'he use," aiU ; fellow, man's working himself to1" to jret a living."
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