MlSUELUXIiOVS.
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Oh! what is it can e'er efface,
The mem'ry of myheart's first io've;
Or, from it's page that name erase,
Shall wait the hand of death's re
move? Her's was the form, so perfect in
each part,
The eye that beam'd with love for
me i
Andher's the kind ana gentle heart,
With social spirit ever free.
And fancv brirgs a living view
Of past delights, forever dear,
Where infant love it's smugglings
knew,
Or broke in murmurs on her ear.
If delusion would a form assume,
To cheat us of our hearts awhile,
Oh.' let her in fair Anna's bloom,
And wear her own, her winning
smile!
POOR TOM.
HOPE.
There is a charm for those ' who
mourn,
And waste their nights in sorrow;
It is a star of glory born,
That gilds the dawn of morrow.
It lights the lonely pilgrim's way;
It cheers the gloomy prison;
And on misfortune's darkest day,
This friendly star has risen. .
It cheers the watchman mariner,
On midnight ocean's wave;
And sheds a peace diviner far,
Upon the good man's grave.
Sweet Hope! the lonely pilgrim's
star,
Shines with no meteor blaze;
But with a light divinely fair,
Illumes life dreary maze.
This is the lamp, whose heavenly
ray,
Dispels the prison's gloom ;
And on the night of sorrow's day,
Sheds joy's sweet smiling noon.
This is the star which once arisen, ;
Shall never cease to shine,
Till the Arch-angel's final trump,
Shall sound the knell of time.
It is a pledge of glorious rest,
To weary mortals given;
A flower we cultivate on earth,
To reap the fruit in heaven.
From the New-York American.
MATRIMONY.
Whoever makes trial of mat-
timonv on1 nvnorlonnne o
wifft n.! I liavp. thft VflliiP nf nlnln
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good sense, warm affections, and ;
a practical knowledge of busi -
ness, will agree with me in ad -
vising young men to keep clear
of flirting Jnripe drls of six-'to
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teen.
However their
beautv
vivacity and youth may charm
UULV,
the senses, it is all a delusion,
onminii tu r u .ii, :
soon
faues
awav.
and
is jrone
lllvP. thp PHrlv lnr. rroir n1
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livp.lv snirifs. witU tl-io UoK.f i
ing graces of figure and move -
ment, sink under the touch of
disease, and are lost entirely in
a few fleeting years. Mar1,
this, my fair countrywomen,
and be studious to lay in sucha
stock of useful knowlf.fi. Knnh
refinements ot the mind, and
wv...
such stores of good nature as!
will bind the hearts of your
husbands to you, as "with hooks
of steel,' when those attractions
have flown, which at first may
have influenced them too much.
Ah, me! these women, so like
unto angels, s0 fuu of anurc
ments, sobut
"Who hath not felt h0w feebly
words essair v"v
To fix one spark of beauty's h
venly ray!" y uca
What I was going to say is,
women are very dangerous crea-
j. J T J ' it
tuies; auu a auvise au youn"-
men, since it is natural and pro
per to love, and consequently,
natural and proper to marry, to
be very careful whom and what
they are enamoured with. The
time will rnno I
in sw lnro fKu i w,,1,octiei sympathy uncon
to say, since the hey-day in my -nected with the senses. The
i iiiii iiiji. viii'nr
blobd is over, that matrimony isjl
the sepulchre of love, ion Know
Uo onntrarv; oui me time
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will come in every man s life,
Tvhfn the heart, "and the un
derstanding also," will call for
more substantial enjoyment than
can be found in faded beauty,
and the stale, and worn out arts
of fashionable pleasing. I can
find no objection to the just ad
miration ot the beauties ot "the
human face divine;" and in
deed, I should avoid the man
as a dangerous companion, who
can look upon beauty without
fMnntinn. nsneciallv when the
qualities of the heart and mind,
arc also worthy ot admiration.
Hut a beautiful face, and a weak
head; a brilliant appearance, and
a depraved heart, those may
love who can: my taste lies an
other way.
Very few young ladies trou
ble themselves with reflection;
and a still smaller number make
any use of opportunity for im
proving their minds substantial
ly, before they number eighteen
or twenty years. Juvenile em
ployments and pleasures, cards,
dress, and dancing, together
with making love,
"and all that
sort of
thins:
consume one
third of this short life, before
souer sense nas nine 10 luue
herself, and urge her moment
ous claims: and consequently, it
is very rare that a girl is mar
riageable before she is twenty-
1 1 a! a
two or twenty-three years old.
That preparation for the active
duties of life; the forming of
such habits and tastes as will
render a mother respectable, and
happy, do not enter into the
of gay and trifling
girls. It is, therefore, utter non
sense for them to marry while
the mind is yet in its infancy,
ignorant even of what is neces
sary to personal health, and still
more a stranger to the trials and
hazards of the nursery, and
which must be met with the pa
tience, the tenderness, and the
skill of mature years.
Of what worth is the love of
a little girl ? Can a man of
sense and reflection please him-
jself with the thought that he is
'preferred and admired, no one
iKn0U'S Wll)r'
Really the con
verse and the Jove ot a main
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thc a(?vantaSes mature
7 m a ?0mPan,10n likely
securc' !s worth V0 1,1 on.c
momeni inan a wnoic cterni-
l P "e lonuness.
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not combatting the
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sentiment
cun Ud
marriages
best pro-
mote happiness, for I believe in
it. I he Question to be settled
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at what period should men
is,
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antl
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women be esteemed old.
Sure1 WTn ar youn5 at
, twenty, and men at twenty-two
1 10 twrenty-five- 1 cannot an"
; swer for other parents, but the
7"? man Wll persuades my
dauhte.r ,out of mY arms before
.sne 1S clSnic or twenty, must
be a very pleasant, kind, good-
i hearted fellow. If there is any
thing pure and holy in human
affections, it can be found in the
love that warms the heart of a
father and a daughter; and when
it is broken up and placed upon
other objects, let reason yield to
the demand with due considera
tion, and nature hallow the
p
vent with her warmest, holiest
tears. LaIjan.
COUNTENANCE.
There is, in the human coun
tenance, a species of moral beau
ty as superior to mere charm of
surface as mind is to matter. It
Js in fact, visible spirit, legible
intellect, diffusing itself over the
features, and enabling minds to
commune with rh nthpr hv
enma o--
V. . . - : ' iUofllHlA rpm.orlrnWft ' tliat the light-
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lace, -- v -
US a COnv lCtiuu uiauicu r
posite to the audible expressions
of the mouth; and we see thro
the eyes, into the understanding
of the many long before it can
communicate with as by utter
ance. This emanation of cha
racter is the light of a soul des
tined to the skies, shining thro'
its tegument of clay, and irradi
ating the countenance, as the
sun "illuminates the face of na
ture before it rises above the
earth to commence its heavenly
career. Of this indefinable
charm, all women arc alike sus
ceptible: it is to them what gun
powder is to warriors, it levels
all distinction's, and gives to the
plain and the pretty, to the ti
mid and the brave, an equal
chance of making conquests. It
is. in fine, one anions a thousand
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Power is perpetually evincing
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his benignity; affording to eve
ry human being a commensu
rate chance of happiness, and in
culcating upon all, that when
they turn their faces toward
heaven, they should reflect the
light from above, and be anima
ted by one uniform expression
ol love,
tude.
resignation
and crati-
Optical Illusion. A young
lady who lately died in En
rrl.mrr hnrl lippn snmfi time nre-
vious to her death attended by a
x
gentleman of the medical pro
fession. On the evening of her
decease, as this gentleman was
sitting in company with a friend
of his, and in the act of taking
a glass of punch, he imagined
he saw the lady walking into
the room where himself and his
friend were sitting, and, having
but a few hours before visited
her, and found her in a dying
state, the shock that his nerves
experienced was so great that
the glass which held the punch
fell from his hands, and he him
self dropped on the floor in a
faintingfit. After he had per-
fectly recovered himself, and I
made inauirv about the lad v. it
was ascertained that a lew mi
nutes before the time the medi-
cal sentleman imagined he
had
seen her in his friend's apart
ment, she had departed this life.
Scientific. A beautiful and
singular experiment was lately
shewn before a learned Society
in Edinburg. A small lump of
platinum, which had been gra
nulated by having been dissol
ved, precipitated, roasted, and
triturated, was placed on the ta
ble; a bladder of hydrogen gas,
to which was fixed a glass pipe,
wi h a very minute aperture,
something like a blow pipe, was
produced. On applying the
pipe in such a situation as, when
the bladder should be pressed, a
stream of gas would be directed
on the platinum, a brilliant and
instant flame arose, which con
tinued as Ions as the stream of
gas was supplied. This appears
to us to be the most simple, the
most beautiful, and most elegant
(providing another receiver for
the gas, in lieu of the bladder)
mode of obtaining a sudden
light hitherto invented. It may
be so arranged, that, upon pull
ing a string, a light will instant
ly follow, which will be extin
guished as soon as the string is
relinquished. The advantages
of such a light, for a chamber, at
night, are obvious, and we can
not doubt but that something of
this kind will be very soon a
dopted. The purpose to which
such a means of obtaining in
stantaneous light may be ap
plied, are innumerable. It is a
proofs of that system of com'-He then showed us how he sha
pensation, both physical andjved himself with his razor in
mnwl. bv which a Superior; h tops, andean curl his own
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and heaviest suosiances
nown,
should be-.jrougni 10-
gether in this experiment.
EASTERN PRODIGY.
From the Calcutta Journal.
I invited William Kingston,
thont arms, to
breakfast with me. He highly
entertained us by putting his
naked feet on the table as he sat,
and carried his tea and toast be -
twecn ins gieui aim stv-nu
to his mouth with as much faci-
my ix . r
hand, ana ms toes imgs. x Nineveh, Balbcc, Pal-
put half a sheet of paper uponj ' VeTSCv0y'i Yes vtw
the floor, with a pen ahd ink- m a rasepIis. Yes, what
int. iiuui, vvjLii i r will our boasted four corners
horn in the toes of his left foot,' . ., , ,.
V i J i !V i ruittne city-hall, court-house, arsc-
He then wrote lines, as
C.luinM ,.;
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HIS UIV II Mliw uujvi
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hair. He can dress and undress
hiincnlf. nxecDt buttoiiiner his i
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clothes. He fet
He feeds himself, and j "ts glance, to the -emote ages
7 ,i , 'i u:Jof antiquity. When the natn-
can bring both his : meat and . his
broth to his mouth by holding
the fork or spoon in his toes.
TT 1 nnrl
r n r. u ans iiir uvvii anuwi aim
knives, light the fire, and do al-
most any oiiit:r uuuieaut uu -
j
ness, as well as any other man.
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He can milk hi
.is cows with his!1' i,uisulwc- Vf
toes; cuts nis own hay, binds
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up in bundles, and carries
about
the field lor his cattle.;
He can
, 11 ,1 1 c .1 iij v iinnu wnn so many pro
do all the business of the r J , . . ,
Innnrl etri rincr nnH nvf pim.h
hTirfinM pvrnnt mnwinir. ns
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last ana as wen wun ins iocs as
others
forks.
can do with rakes and
He goes to the held and;
o
batches his horse; he saddles ZZui - f lu n?
, i -j i -4, i- would not leap into the well, be-
and bridles him with his teeth, ' '
, 4 rr i i u cause thev couid not leap outa
and toes. If he has a sheep a-. . r "uta
i n i a, -i gam.
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thing, lie can
separate it from
the rest and drive it into a cor
ner.
when nobodv else can. He
is so strong in his teeth, that he
can lift ten pecks of beans with
them. He can throw a great
sledge hammer as far with his
feet, as other men can do with
their hands. In a word, he can
nearly do as much without, as
other men can do with their
arms. He began the world
with a hen and chickens: with
the profits on them he purcha
sed an ewe; the sale of these
procured him a ragged colt (as
he termed it) and a sheep; and
he now occupies a small farm.
THE MUMMY.
From the Charleston City Gazette.
I have just come from visiting
the greatest curiosity I ever be
held; it is a young lady only
three thousand years old a
sombre complexioned lass from
Egypt, the land of the Pharaohs,
the Ptolemies, the Pyramids!
She is arrayed in a cere-cloth
framed on the banks of the Nile,
and stands in a "narrow house,"
decorated with all the taste and
science of the most learned peo
pic in existence, long before the
invention of letters. "Dark and
unlovely are her looks," though
she does not actually "grin hor
ribly a jrhastlv smile," her fair
and well set teeth appearing full
and undecayed as the everlast
ing brightness of the star under
which she was embalmed.
Singular-fated girl! Little did
she think, when on her dying
couch, that she would be expo
sed in this "undiscovered coun
try," some thirty centuries af
ter her mortal existence, to the
keen gaze of male curiosity,
without a sense of shrinking
modesty, and serving as a spec
tacle of curious wonder, and a
mere "thing to make compari
sons, on," and show the belles
of this new world, in the death-;
less Language of Shakspeare, a
man of yesterday compared with
her, that "though they paint an
inch thick, to . her complexion
mnt tViPT- rnmo nt Inst
Alas
poor Cleopatra! did I view a
symbol of thy matchless beauty
in this thy ancestor of "th olcL
en time."
Three thousand years ago the
lady I now look upon, was in
Thebes, the city with its hun-
i j j i .
j Charlcon.
area 2.aies sue is now in
what a traveller!
Three thousand years hence,
what, will Charleston be! Aw-
"ful comparison! What is P.;
Iful comparison! What
nd -Michael's church
with its lofty spire, what will
i'theybeinthces! Bu
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in eartn or ocean, irom
I K nc-n 1 f
which they rose, and
, rtuu nut a
stone to tell where they lie.'
. Three thousand years is a
rklnd of eternity to the humaa
Irhind. It brines us, at a mo
' ''they
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patn-
em-
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6. And so doubtless was Po-
tipnars wite, and this object
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.now before mvr eyes mirht nos-
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!sibly be the remains of that vc-
'. T mnot nn-nCcc 4Kr r 17 4,1
it:..r . . . . .
-..tmcial or natural curiosities I
it 1 n m 3
7 V" t
nary sensations.
7 O' "A
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tninjr I ho frrtn-c -.r. .ir
EAGLE HOTEL
THE Subscriber having taken,
the large and commodious house
in the town of Halifax, known by
the name of the EAGLE HOTEL,
formerly occupied by Henry Gar
rett, and lately by John Gary, ten
ders his services to the Public ge
nerally, and hopes, from the expe
rience of 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. 37" 'The.. Bar ivill be furnished
with the best of Liquors and the
table unth an good as the market
affords.
THOMAS GARY.
March 26. l-tf
NEW HOPE
SPRING HACKS
WILL commence on THURS
DAY, the 22d of April, and
continue three days, viz.
First Day A Sweepstakes for
three year old Celts and Filleys
mile heats $200 entrance
half forfeit three entered and
closed.
Second Day A Subscription Purse
of gl50 two mile heatsen
trance $15 two or more to make
a race money hung up. Free
for any thing.
Third Day A Poststake for three
and four years old $200 en
trance two mile heats to close
the evening preceding the Race.
The track is in good order. Good
Stables and litter furnished Race
horses gratis.
37" The Rules of the Course to
govern in every instance.
JAMES JONES, Proprietor.
April 2. 2-3t
Printing neatly executed
AT THIS OFFICE.
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