WOMAN'S iLOVE. A woman's love, deep iir thJe heart, -.. Is like the vivid flower, That lifts its modest head apart, . In some sequestered bower. And blest is he whofinds that bloom, . Who sips its srentle sweets: He heeds not life's oppressive gloom, Nor all the care he meets. A woman's love is like the spring, Amid the wild alone, A burning w ild, o'er which, the wing Of cloud is seldom thrown. And blest is h e who meets that fount Beneath the sultry day; How gladly should his spirit mount! Ho w pleasant be his way! Awoman's love is like the reck That every tempest braves, And stands secure amid the shock Of ocean's wildest waves And blest is he who knows repose Within its shade is given; The world, with all its cares and " woes, Seems less like earth than heav'n. From the New-York Mirror. THE MINIATURE. William was holding in his hand 1 he likeness of his wife; Twas drawn by some enchanted wand. It seem'd so much like life. He almost thought it spoke he gaz'd Upon the picture still, And was delighted and amazed To view the painter's skill. "This picture is just like thee, Jane, Tis drawn to nature true; I've kiss'd it o'er and o'er again It is so much like you." "And has it kiss'd thee back, my dear?" . "Ah no, my love," said he; "Then, William, it is very clear, It's not at all like me." ' WORLD. ii the best world that wc This live in. To lend, or to spend, or to give in; cut to Deg, or to borrow, or to get a man's own, Tis the very worst world that ever was known. From the New England Galaxy. THOUGHTS OX .NOSES. I have more than once in my daybeen exceedingly pestered in ; deciding to my own satisfaction whether a man s nose, was on the whole, advantageous to him. It is doubtless desirable on ma- ny accounts, rirst, necause it . m&y amen uui iuuu lur me sen ses. Secondly, because it brings a man's head to a point. Third ly because it is a decent reposi tory for snuff when every other cavity of a man's head is crow ded with the Indian weed. Fourthly, it is a firm pedestal for that very fashionable orna ment, glasses. Fifthly, be cause it is of some use in keep ing a man's eyes from quarrell ing with each other. Sixthly, because people have got into such a habit of wearing them, that they have become as it were, necessary to their com fort. If there are any other ad vantages to be derived from wearing a nose, I have never teen able to nose them out! ow the inconveniences and botherations of a nose are neith er few nor small. Let any man pay attention to the subject, and notice how often in the course ota day his nose is in his own way, or in that 0f some body receiving ""' anftUi, and injury puiiiiumug unagreeable and mortifying through its int,- mentality, and he- will be vinced that the pleasure he has ceiyecl thro' the same medi ljm is far from being equal to it in fact the bare trouble of keen Vi Wowing and wipms:, the inconvenience and disa greeableness of carrying about, and flourishing in every body's gaze a filthy pocket-handkerchief is enough to neutralize all the pleasure and convenience from it. There is another thing which sirus.es me, in wnicn a man s nose is fruitful of much nain. If you should have the misfor tune to injure or displease a fel low creature all his vensreance is directed against vour nroboscis. it is this leature which seems to monopolize all his spite: and his darling wish appears to be to de molish it. 1 bus Mathews ex claimed, in the character of an enraged Frenchman, xoill strike y an on dc noseV and it is notorious that in those spar ring matches which redound so much to the honor of old Eng land, the principal aim of the combatants is to detach his an tagonist's snuffer. mi .i .i mere is anotner ininsr in which noses are fruitful of much vexation their shape. The snout of a man as well as that of i a pig, has an overwhelming in fluence in deciding the expres sion or his countenance. It is highly necessary to one who is ambitious of obtaining the fa vour of the ladies to have a re spectable nose dangling from his skull. In fact, he cannot get along without it. If a man have a nose like an elephant or a guinea pig, he can never hope to obtain the devotion of the fair, although he should have unlimited 'credit with every tai lor and perfumer in the city. A decent nose is indispensable in all affairs of gallantry; Cupid never yet shot his deadly ar rows from behind an ill-favoured snout. Let all parrot-nosed gentlemen remember this and not suffer their vanity to betray them. Aitnouirh all noses are re markably troublesome to their owners, yet there are some more so than others. I knew a poor devil, ruck Snuffer bv name. i who died of nothing under hea- jven but his nose. It is a new ! complaint 1 allow, "but it's a fact " Nick inhoritr.d from n; ture a proboscis of most uncom mou dimensions. It was not so very stout and lanre, but it was remarkably long, and the end of it curled in towards his chops in a most singular man- ner. It was said that his mo therwas frightened some months before he was born, at seeing an elephant pass through the town on its way to the metropolis for exhibition, and the consequence was, that Nick was born with the animal's nose. Be this as t may, his smeller has much the air of an elephant's trunk, and its size was not less remarkable than its shape. His relations. 1 - 7 however, consoled themselves with the hope, that as their calves and lambs had as larrc s when they were born as they ever had, so Nick's nose might remain as it was, until his imbs and body should grow in to something like Christian-like proportions. Uut, alas! they were disappointed. To be sure his nose but barely kent pace with his body for some three or lour years, but no sooner did the unlucky Master Snuffer berin to use his legs, than his snout gan to outstrip its rivals From that time till the day of his death, his nose was eternal ly in his way. If he tumbled down he was sure to go whack upon his nose; if he ever look ed for his hat in thf dark. hr was sure to run his nose against something; if he ever undertook to "split up oven wood." a lor JJ.as sure to fly up and salute ; 4 wu venose, ifheevcrquar reueo, vviin any oi the bovs. he s was sure to get a horrible bruis- ne in the nose: if he ever caught cold it was sure to settle in his nose; and moreover, that unfortunate member was con tinually studded with warts, biles, and carbuncles, like an old-fashioned knee-buckle. But still Nick kept up a good heart. As his nose was not so hand some as some others, his olfac tories were of the first water: and moreover from the uncom mon size and shape, his snout af forded him great facility in pick ing apples and cherries, inas much as he could h?.nc: by.it upon a branch, and pick with both hands, thus Nick conti nued to thrust his nose through the world with considerable eclat until he arrived at the susceptible age of twenty-seven; when his heart was most cruel ly wounded by the goggle eyes ot Miss Deborah Peeper; who (notwithstanding her venerable beard, declared herself but twenty-five,' though it was noto ious that her mother had been dead thirty-four years. Mis tress Deborah, too, had a plenti ful nose of her own, but it was essentially different from Mr. Hers, beins: turned up so abruptly, that her nostrils ran parallel with her mouth. It seemed as if nature had designed that the snouts of this lovely couple should be hooked togeth er in matrimony; and lor a time every body thought it would beeflected. Mr. Snuffer visited the amiable Mrs. Peeper every Sunday night in his go-to-meeting clothes, and the village folks talked about the match in cessantly, for about six months, when all at once the affair was blown up, nobody knew for what; Miss Peeper joined the church and went a lectur ing eight nights a week. Poor Nick Snuffer drew his nose af ter him to his paternal home, and brooded over his disappoint ment. It was his "first love," and he was sensible he should not survive the stroke. And in fact from that time, his nose was observed to change gradual ly to a more purple hue, and to increase amazingly in size, until at last it was somewhat difficult to distinguish his original head from his snout, it having much the appearance of a double-headed shot. His nose now became too much for him. He could not hold up his head under it; and continued to decline away, notwithstanding he daily des patched two quarts of New-En gland to keep the "cold ice of despair' from striking into his stomach, until at last nothing was left of him but his nose, when giving a most obstrepo rous sneeze, he was silent for ever! There were various opinion's as usual, among the meddling villagers, concerning the cause of his death. Some imputed it to the cruelty of Mrs. Deborah Peeper; others laid it to the emetics of Dr. Pthubard; others to the "beer barrel;" but I have not the least hesitation in ascri bing it to his nose. X.E. Gluttony. Capt Cochrane, in his Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Si berian Tartary, recently pub lished, rclates'as follows: "At Tabalak I had a pretty good specimen of the appetite of a child, whose age (as I un derstood from the steersman, who spoke some English and less French) did not exceed five years. I had observed the child crawling on the floor, and scraping up with its thumb the tallow grease which fell from a lighted candle, and I inquired in urprise .wherher it proceeded from hunger or liking of the fat. was told from neither, but sim- bly from the habit in.both Ya- kuti and I onions! nf catmsr whenever there is food, &: never permitting any thing that can be eaten to be lost. I gave the child a candle made of the most impure tallow, a second, -and third, and all were devoured with avidity. The steersman then gave him several pounds of sour frozen butter; this also he immediately consumed; last ly, a large piece of yellow soap. all went the same road; but as I was now convinced that the child would continue to gorge as long as it could receive any thing, I begged my companion to desist. "As to the statement of what a man can or will eat, either as to quality or quantity, I am a Iraid it would be quite incredi ble; in fact, there is nothing in the way of fish or meat, from whatever animal, however pu trid or unwholesome, but they will devour with impunity, and the quantity only varies from what they have, to what they in get. I have repeatedly seen Yagut or a Tongouse devour forty pounds of meat in a day. The effect is verv observe hlr upon, them, for from thin and meagre-looking men, they will become perfectly pot-bellied. Their stomachs must be differ ently formed to ours, or it would be impossible for them to drink off at a draught, as they readily do, their tea and soup scalding hot, (so hot, at least, that an European would have difficulty in even sipping at it,) without the least inconvenience. I have seen these gluttons consume a rein-dcer at one meal; nor are they nice as to the choice of parts; nothing being lost, not even the contents of the bowels, which, with the aid of fat and blood, are converted into black puddings." Greek Contribution. The New -York Greek committee lias made a further remittance to London, for the benefit of the Greeks, of $6469, making with the former remittance, the sum of 38,401 94. Neiv Hope Fall Races, ILL commence on TUES DAY, the 23d dav of NO VEMBER next, and will continue four days. First DaijA Sweepstakes for untried 3 year old colts and fillies of this statemile heats $100 en trance, half forfeit to close the evening preceding the race two or more to make a race. Second Day The Proprietor's Purse, $150 two mile heats $20 entrance two or more to make a race. Third Day A Jockey Club Purse, worth $250 three mile heats money hung up, with the usual discount $20 entrance non iubscvibcrs $30 entrance. Fourth Day A Produce stake mile heats $100 entrance, half forfeit five subscribers and closed. Rules of (lie Course to govern in every instance. The track is in goodorde- Stables and Litter fur nished Race horses gratis, by the Prvfirietor. Henry Wilkes, Sec'y. p.'7 BALL will be fur nished, on the evening of the 2d day's race, at the Eagle Hotel,'! the town of Halifax, Halifax, Sept. 8, 1824. 25 waited: THE Subscriber being about , settle -a ttlanto; -?ut to purchase the following article" PreWdkh0rSCSmUlCSbe 2 yoke of oxen. 10,000 lb. pork. 400 barrels corn. 15,000 wt. fodder. 100 bushels bcral price wilt be given, by Halifax, Nov. 10, 182-1. SAVE d JJOLUU. ,Nthe HthofNovemW .... y tickets in the QU WtiV-h ANAL LOTTEliVi-;nt i C following prizes mav l.o c Five Dollars: u I01 S5fc00: 5ofg2000: GofSioon. 3ofS500: 6 of $340: 133 of $50: 690 of $10. On the 25th inst. thp t . tery will positively be drawn w J the amount of 70,200 DOLL i will be distributed to the holders 0' tickets, in prizes of the above mar nitude. In the mode of draw adopted m-this Lottcrv, the prf are not kept in suspense bv m-o crastmatcd drawings: all rcrs have an equal chance fur t'le lapiuu prizes. U7Orders tor tickets or invQ enclosing the cash or prize ticket -' will be promptly answered bv re turn of mail if addressed to " HENRY 1VIIYTE. Petersburg, Ya. Nov. 2, 1824. One Hundred Bolltvs REWARD. UN AWAY, or was stolen from the Subscriber, on the nie-lit r.f the 8th instant, a bright mulatto woman (slave) and her child, tl girl of about four years eld. This wo man ran away from the Subscriber executor of John Hunt, deceased,' in the summer of 1808, ami passed as a free woman, by the name of PATSEY YOUNG, until about the first of June last, when she was apprehended as a runaway. On the sixth of the same month 1 ob tained possession of her in the town of Halifax, since which time she and her child ELIZA have, in compliance with an order of the county court of Franklin, been sold, when the Subscriber became the purchaser. She spent the greater part of the time she was runaway (say about sixteen years) i:i the neighborhood of, and in the town cf Halifax, one or two summers at Rocklanding, where I am informed she cooked for the hands employed to work on the canal; she also spent some of her time in Ply mouth, her occupation while there not known. At the above named places she has many acquaintances and friends. She is a tall, spare woman, thin face and lips, long sharp nose, her fore teeth in a state of decay. She is an excellent seam stress, can make gentlemen's and ladies' dresses, is a good cock and weaver, and I am informed is a good cake baker and brewer, &c. by which occupations she princi pally gained her living. Seme time during last summer she married a free man of color, named Achratl Johnson, who had been living in and about Plymouth, and followed boating on the Roanoke. Sincehis marriage he leased a farm of Mr. James Cotton, of Scotland Neck, (Halifax county) where he was liv ing, together "with this woman, when she was taken up as a runa way slave in June last. I have but little doubt that Johnson has con trived to seduce or steal her and child out of my possession, and will attempt to get them cut of the state and pass as free persons. Should this be the case, 1 will give Sixty Five Dollars for his detection and conviction before the proper tribu nal in any part of this state. 1 will give for the apprehension ct the woman and child, on their deliury to me, or so secured in jail or other wise that I get them, TUrtu Fiic Dollars. Or, 1 will give TverSj Five Dollars for the woman al ie and Ten Dollars io the child alf The proper name of the woman is Piety, but she will no douht change it as she did before. I f rewara all owners of boats, captains a:.i owners of vessels from taking (fi board or carrying away this wo man and her child Eilzaunder tie penalty of the law. KIT. J1UST, August 16, 1S2-1. 23-tf

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