MISCEJAJXEOVS.
From the KeHf-Englawi Farmer.
PARAMOUNT PUNNING:
Or, setting up, and 'sitting down.
A chap nce told St. Patrick's dean,
While rising from his scat, il mean
To set up for a wit. " tnie,
"Ah!" quoth the dean, "If that pe
The very best thing you can do
Is down again to sit."
Too many, like that would-bcwit,
Set up for what they are not nt,
And always lose their aim;
Set up for wisdom, wealth, renown,
But end the farce hy sitting dovn,
With poverty and shame.
A middling farmer thinks he can
'Set up to be a gentleman
And then sit down content;
But after many a turn and twist
Is dovn on the pauper list,
A fool, not worth a cent!
When farmers wives and daugh
ters fair
Set up with silks andLeghorns rare
To look most wondrous winning,
They set upon a slippery stand,
Till indigence, with iron hand,
Upsets their under pinning.
Some citv ladies too, whose geer.
Has made them to their husbands
dear,
Set up to lead the ton;
Tho' they sit high on fashion's seat,
Age, death or poverty, albeit
Will set them down, anon.
Some tools set up to live by law,
And tho' they are "all over jars,"
Soon fail for lack of brains;
But had the boobies only just
Known where they ought to sit at
first,
They'd sav'd a world of pains.
A quack sets up the doctor's trade,
But could he use the sexton's spade
Nobetterthan his pills,
The man might toil from morn to! j. iniquities, but to mingle in
. "'S11 v 1 in vJits strifes and trials, to be stay
To burv half he kills. jed and supported by those a-
round us. and to do our part in
You may set up for -a hat yoc chcose
As easily as wear oil shoes,
If e'er so low it present; .
But when vou have m f up in vain,
And find you must . doivn again.
Tis terribly unpicaiiar:t-
Frcm the London literary Gazette,
VALEDICTORY STANZAS,
Oh, not that look to me. my love,
Oh, not that look to me;
Cold looks I may from others bear,
But never one from tlfce !
I cannot bear that alter'dbrow,
That wandering smile of thine,
To see it fix on others' eyes,
On any but on mine.
I meet thee in the glittering crowd,
We meet as strangers do;
The pang that rive, my inmost soul
muunradUU uy uu'
Last night we met as now we meet, 11 mey icau puiu nv w,
Akoreeousthronsr wcrenih, rotate their span without any
I heard you scoff at constant lov e,
1 ilea stciaiy pass mv uj.
It is enough! I do resign
My claim on love and thee:
I will forsake the hope that long
Had fed on memory.
Then look not so, I will forget
What once those fond eyes said:
The dead will scon forget and I
Shall soon be with the dead!
THE WOULD.
There is somethinsr so plea-;
sing in thc descriptions ol the; found in the exercise of social
happiness which poets and even ! duties and virtues, Ictus not bc
philosophers have often assured ijieve thc world merely a scene
us are to be found in obscurity jof selfish bustle and noisy strife,
and seclusion, that vve can hard-; though gross vice be sometimes
ly help regarding society as )cr- precluded the insanity 'of seclu
nicious in proportion to its re-jsion; though passions never
finement. To judge the world ; roused, and virtues never called
from the language which divines into action, may render a cha
and moralists at all times hold iracter apparently more unsullied
towards it, it is a picture where! than are those which have with
folly is relieved only by the I stood trials and temptations, and
darker shades of guilt; honor 'made some positive advances.
and benevolence, the mere
gloss of selfishness and hypocri
sy. But in the beauties of na
tural scenery, and the calm plea
sures of seclusion, all seems
soothing and delightful; and inj
the "pomp of woods and garni
ture of nelds,,, and the pleasant
associations which tell us that
such a life must be both pure
land happN c sec . -
trast to ths smoxy
city,its discordant uproar, where
U heard the mingled voice of
labor, poverty, vice and plea
sure, its streets -eternally crowd
ed with a human throng, mixed
but not united, and jostling each
other in the eager . career ot
wealth, amusement or fame.
The first impression of a city
is always unfavorable; one feels
Ai'cn on rid i nor tmvai'ds it. as if
leaving both health and inno
cence behind him; if as the at
mosphere which hangs over it
like a canopy, and marks its
place from afar, could scarcely
be breathed without contamina
tion. But is this a true picture?
Is retirement always followed
by philosophy, the encroach
ments of languor and low in
dulgence never invited by the
stillness of seclusion? Does the
mind pun strength by being
left to prey upon itself, the cha
racter acquire firmness by avoid
ing confusion? If not, the culo
giums on solitude must be set
down as fictions of the poet, to
whom natural beauty ami human
innocence appear to walk hand
in hand together, the self-deception
of the moralist, who,
seeing the world to be vicious,
imagines retirement the abode
of virtue. In short, we are
made for society, and for socie
ty onlr. It is the home of our
joys and our sorrows, our pas
sions, our interests and our vir
tues. We were born, not to turn
cur lucks on society, and pass
our lives in vain meditations on
Stavin- anj supporting others,
j tQ the cjrcle jn
,7, n ite ft,
: which we move, its taste, its
morals, and its lchgion. It is
in vain in us to alfect an inde
pendence on the community
'and its exactions, an ability to
'steer our course unaided by the
bacons of the virtuous and the
wicked, or the precepts which
daily experience and hourly ob-
servation inculcate, vve
,sess no such independence or
ability. The monk may retreat
I to his cloister, and the solitary
1 to his cell; but the walls which
shut out the joys, virtues, "
sympathies of life, have never
bcen founcI to shield them trom
lits misery and temptations ur
trikin" lapse from virtue, where
is tneir mem aim wuu mauu
better by their example?
1 - 1 u
inereciusewnueuiuempiaiu.v,;
the world "through the loop
holes of retreat," may derive
some pleasure and satisfaction
some pieuMwc
irom uiu specie c, ut. 0 'vard in the in0vv one settin
pleasure of an id c spectator o-l(Il hb h(;d and thcothcron hg
ly, a cypher in the moral world, f vhiln (hc him
hy whom not a single human,. . :nVprns tL flln a.
beintr is made cither wiser or!
better. If happiness is to be'
1 Pastoral innocence and simpli-
city exist but in song, while thc
brutality of the savage and the
stupidity ot the rustic, uie min-
;gled intolerance and sensuality
of the cloistered monk, and the
morbid wretchedness of the vo
luntary recluse, are matters both
of history and observation.
It. I. xdmer.
rrrv-r TO TltF LADIES
HINTS TO THLLADIE..
a into London Daner, in an article
on the dress cf the Ladies, makes
the following remarks:
Wc hate of ourselves a still
o-reater fa?.U to find with the re
vival of he "system of high
Mnw J? i; nn nnnrineer WTOuId
f
call it: we
mean the odious j
in of the waist;' now
serewinsr
springing ip. If women fancy
it graceful they are wofully de
ceived, anil if they do not find
it prejudicial to their health,
why, we are deceived, and not
they.
We believe i is entirely ow-
i'nn- tn iho. pnsfi and. freedom ofj
female dress for the last few
years, that our young girls are
all so healthy, so well formed,
and so forward in their growth.
All this will be decked by this
most unnatural screwing in and
torturing-the bod jr.
To talk about health to a girl,
in opposition to ftshion,wc fan
cy is useless; and therefore' wc
will take the screwing system
upon its effect, which is to make
fat elderly lad'es look like oil
jars, and young ones like hour
glasses. Four or five years
since, wc had fools among our
young men, so supremely fools,
as to squeeze in their waists,and
this during the time the ladies
had abandoned the torture, as if
they were wearing out the cor
sctts of tieir female relations,
and to strengthen this supposi
tion, as s(on as these persons
have abanloned the folly, our
fair countiywomen adopt it; a
folty which has not the merit of
either being pleasant or be
coming. Simplicity in dress is its
greatest beauty; artificially it
becomes distortion, and we se
riously recommend an immedi
ate abandonment of the vice in
question; assuring our fair read
ers that ladies, unlike ships, are
much best "when slack in stays.
MATRIMONIAL COMFOPvTS.
Female Retaliation. At
KennebunkPort, (Maine) there
livnn mill hv nnrnn nt (!
pos-,who for t j time has paid
particuiar honors to Bacchus; in
jhis fits of evotion hc has 0ften
jassume(1 tjc ancient priviledge
jof fl n his wife, turning her
out 0f doers, &c. Last w eek, wc
:umcrstanj there went three
:women to his house in the cve.
imniiately aftcr he had
been at honorable business;
one knocked at the door, when
lb Q. llrt-l-lf
v-m
3nd u Qnc of thc hcrQ
incs s,. , j cxtinfi;ilished the
,rht h- ,.v nnrc
and pushed him out of the door,
when by thc help of the other
'Uvo thcy jai(1 him face down
mount of flagellation which he
had besto'ved on his wife.
It was a piteous sight to ken
Yet all the people said Amen.
ROSE VIVIER.
This young lady was brought
before thc Criminal Court at
Paris, charged vrith having at
tempted to kill her lover. On
trial, it appears they had been
attached to each other for eight
years; but,instead of exchanging
the customary presents usual on
such occasions, Rose had loaded
her lover with divers gifts, a
mong which she enumerated a
chest of drawers, a watch chain,
ring, &c. Hearing, however,
that he was on thc eve of matri
mony with another, she de
manded her presents, which her
faithless swain refused, but of
fered to sell, (oh, shame!) thc
fring, that type of their future -EAGLE HOTEL
took fire at thisE Subscriber . having take::
monstrous insult, and boldly !e
clared that she would finish him
if he "married without her con
sent. . In spite of her threats he
was married the next day. Hose
was nearlv as crood as her word.
jfor she aimed a blovwith a
fe-. at his faith ess heart.
-which, was fortunately parried
without much injury; and the
next moment, repenting her vio
lence, she threw herself into his
arms. During the trial she
wept continually, and pt her
eye fixed on her former lover.
It is little to the credit of French
ffallantrv to add, that poor Rose
was condemned to hard labor
for life, and to be branded as :
malefilctor
JEWISH SABBATH.
Warsaw, Dec. 6. The Jew
ish Rabbis and Elders have met
in a general assembly at Plats
kow, and have decided that the
celebration of the Sabbath shall
be changed to the Sunday.
Thc above cannot be true.
Considering thc Sabbath as a
... .
political as well as religious in
stitution, intended not only as a
day of rest for man, but hu
manely for servants and ani
mals, it may not be of much
consequence what day is select
ed. It is an affirmative pre
cept, however, 4,Six days shalt
thou labor, and the seventh day
thoit shalt rest;" and there is no
diversity of opinion throughout
the world, that Saturday was
the Sabbath of the Lord the
day On which he rested the
day which is always sanctified
by the chosen people. The ce
lebrations of the new moons;
thc observance of many of the
ceremonials, and the computa
tions of time depend upon Sa
turday being, as it has ever been
considered, the Sabbath day.
The Council of Nice, in ballot
ing for a religion, and changing
the Sabbath, gave no reason for
the measure excepting expedi
ency. The religion in itself has
been productive of much good,
in enforcing the obligations of.
morality, and encouraging acts
of charity and good will; but
there never appeared to us any
reason for altering the Sabbath;
and a class of Christians, called
seventh-day baptists, still keep
Saturday instead of Sunday;
particularly in Connecticut.
These reports must be always
received with caution and doubt
That which has existed 5582
years, will not be abandoned at
this day. Nat. J2dv.
Independence. Who is he
that is truly independent? He
that has ships on the ocean,
lands in the country, houses in
the city, slaves at his back, and
money in the funds? No. He
alone is truly independent, who
can proclaim himself to the
world as the gentleman of the
empty purse. -What is the
election of a Governor or Pre
sident to him? What cares he
whether Mina is faithful to the
cause of liberty, or Abisbal is a
traitor to itwhether Alexan
der is the tool of an unprincipled
nobihtv, or the friend of thc hu
man race: What cares he for the
failure of Goldschmidt, or the
success of Rothschild, the price
of Cotton, or of Bank Stock?
He smiles amid the ruin of for
tune, and the fall of empires
laughs at the pick-pocket and
the highway robber; defies the
constable and the sheriff, and
holds the even tenor of his
way,
"Unhurt amid the war of elements,
"The wreck of matter and the
crush cf worlds. " 1
J. the large and commodious hous..
in the town of Halifax, known bv
thenameof the EAGLE HOTEL,
formerly occupied by Henry Gar
rett, anu lately oy John liary, ten
ders his services to the Public ge
nerally, and hopes, from the expe
rience cf himself and assistants, to
share a portion 'of public patron
age; as nothing shall be wanting on
his part to render every thing com
fortable. !X7Tfte Bar will be fumhked
with the best of Liijuors, and the
table with as good as the market
affords.
THOMAS GARY.
March 26. i-tf
jrOTICE.
,4 T Halifax February Session,
Jl. 1824, thc Subscriber qualified
as Administrator on the estate f
the late Col. HENRY DAWSON.
All those who have any claim or
demand against the said Henrv
Dawson, are hereby notified to pre
sent them (duly authenticated) for
payment, within the time prescri
bed by law; otherwise this notice
will be plead in barr cf their reco
very, Those indebted to said
estate .will please make payment
as indulgence cannot be given. .
GEORGE W. ALSTON,
March 15, 1824. 2 Atinvr.
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