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WHAT IS TIME ?
What is Time? an open river,
0;i whose tides few sunbeams shine,
Untitling headlong on forever,
Who can its dark depths define?
What is life? A stream that's gliding,
Smiling like a sunny clime,
l';:r away in sparkles riding,
Mingles with the waves of Time.
What is Hope? A gleam that borrows
All the brightness of its ray,
Frnm the yet unborn tomorrows,
('heating en, fnun day to day
What is 1 ve? A dream that brings us
Vi-ion'd joys of heavenly birih;
IV.se, as f nd,the songs it sings us,
Fleeting as ttie rluwers of earth.
What is Death? The ocean's billow.
Hearing high its mighty wave;
Tune, and Life's reposing pillow,
Love and Hope's enguliing gravei
I DON'T THINK I'M UGLY,
I don't think I'm "gly, I'm only just twenty, I
I know I should make a most, excellent wife,
The jiirls all r.'und me have lovers in plenty, J
l!ut 1, nut a swteiheart can get frr my lifei
It is not because I am not worth a penny, j
I Vr lasses as poor as I've dozens to win,
Tint I should have none ami the others so many, ;
I vow and declare it's a shame and a sim i
THE BNKS.
The General B inking Law, which lias
been so long under discussion in the
.Weinhly, was got out of Committee on
Wednesday last by a vote of 79 to 22, and
passed it third reading on Thursday b
6G to 23. It is now before the Senate,
ami uiil probably be passed with essential
modifications. As it stands, it provides
that any number of citizens may combine
to establish a Banking Association, undei
certain general and facile provisions. All
blanches of the business of Banking, ex
cept the issue of nou s, is thus thrown open
to all. Preliiniuaiy to the issue of notes.
the Bink must deposit with the Comp !
Um.f-r Mate blocks to the amount of $50,
000, and Mortgages to an cq ial amount on j
unproved, unincumbered Keal Esiate
uitiiiu ihis State, which shall be worth,
exelusivp of buildings, at least twice the
amount of the mortgages. Thee Stork
and? Mortgages being deposited with and
conditionally transferred to the Comptroll
er, he shall issue to the deposittr 100,
000 in bills struck from a uniform set of
plates, to be procured and kept by him,
so that all ihe notes of one denomination
issued under this law shall be precisely
alike, and known to all persons beyond
the danger of imposition from counterfeits
The Notes will b of such denominations
as the Bankers may require to be print
ed, oj course, at ihe expense ol the issuers,
countersigned by the Comptroller or his
dep n., and signed in chief hy the Banker
or Association issuing them, by whom they
are to be redeemed on demand in specie.
In case of a failure to do this, the holder
may protest them and present them lo the
Comptroller, who is authorized to sell at
auction of ihe Slocks and Mortgages depo
sited with hint by the issuer or issuers snfii
cienl to pay them, and thus cancel ihe
notes. These are the general outlines of
the project, which, it will be seen, contem
plates a radical change in the entire system
ef our Stale Currency. No interference
v.uh our existing Banks is contemplated;
'Tad there is no reason why the two sys
tems shall not move on side by side harmo
'.otisly, until experience shall demonstrate
tiieir comparative utility and safety.
Sylvester's Jf. Y. Beporter.'
Michigan The Legislature of tins
Slate, by a vote in the House of 30 to 18,
I'as suspended the operations of their new
General Banking Law so far as to prevent
formation of any more Banks during
l'ie current year. The system is found
suitable lo the present condition of Mi
(l ''ganfand conducive only to the mulli-
Tarborough,
plication of a very indifferent order of shin
plasters, in great abundance. We believe
the present number of Banks in the Stale
considerably exceeds that of the churches,
and is four limes above that of all ihe se
minaries of learning above the grade of
common schools. In short, the system is
loo free altogether, resembling Madame
F ranees Wi ighi D'Arusmont's scheme of
Matrimony. ib.
'Free li anting' in Michigan. TUe
'Willi Cat' system recently adopted in
Michigan does not seem to afford all the
advantages that were anticipated. We
find a notice in the Detroit p ipers from
ihe Bank Commissioners that the following
i;iiitutions have forfeited the public conff
dence :
The Bank of Lapeer,
Farmers' B ink of Genesee County,
Farmers' Bjmk of Sandstone,
Jackson County Bank,
Exchange Bank at Shiawassee, and
The Wayne County Bank.
'The Baok of Manchester' is also said
to be in a rotten condhiou. The 'Far
mers' Bank of Genesee' is said to be even
worse than its comrades in iniquity; though
we should judge that its notes aie j:ist
about as g o i as any of liiem. These
are all Free Banks. The Commission'!
do nol appear lo have examined ail the
others. ib.
Failure The Farmers' Bank of Can
ton, Ohio, stopped payment March 2Sth.
The Directors lay all the blame of the : i -aster
lo evil reports w hich had obtained
currency, the efiect of which it was impos
sible for them lo counteract. They adJ,
"the affairs of this institution have been
once before settled without Ionsio the com
munity, and we hope to do it again." ib.
CCThe New Mississippi Union Bank,
sith a capital of fifteen millions of dollars,
is lo be put into immediate operation.
The principal Bank was located by the
Legislature at Jackson, the seat of (joy
eminent, and the managers have since lo
cated seven branches one al Macon, No
xubee County, with a capital of 1,800,
000, one at Aberdeen, Monroe County,
with a capital ol $1,000,000, one at Lex
ington, Holmes L ounty, with a capital of
$1,900,000, one at Tiflatoba, Tallahatchie
County, with a capital $1,300,000, one at
Vickaburg, with a capital of $1,000,000,
and one al Liberty, Amite Coiulv, with a
capital of $2,000,000 ib.
Fillainij. A trick which would nol
hive disgraced Barirnglon himself was
played off in this place lasi Thursday, by
a sharper, who by means of a forged or
der, obtained from on bo-;id the p kt t
schr. Portsmouth, Captain Shiun, from
New York, lwt boxes of merchandize,
which lie had drayed to ihe whaif of ihe
Charleston steamboats, at the upper end
of the town, taking care on their w ay to
nave ihe in aiks obliterated and others sub
stituted. As ihe steamer Georgia did not
leave till Saturday afternoon, ihe boxes
were stored in ihe depot 1 1 ! I the hour ol
tier starling, and then put on boaid, and
carried off without suspicion. The rogue
deposited with Capt. Kollins of the Geor
gia, certificates of Bank Stock in Wheeling,
Va as security for his passage money,
which were said to be genuine. The goods
in the boxes were consigned lo Messrs.
Cook Si Bioniher of Portsmouth The
trick was not discovered until Monday
morning, when the Georgia was probably
at Charleston. Xorfolk Herald.
(EThe Merchants of New York now
pun base their cotton at Mobile w ith the
Bank bills of the Slate of Alabama, which
i hey receive on making their collections
of debts. Bills of Exchange are not now
drawn as the rates are enormous, and
many of last year remain protested. ib.
Curious Discovery. An extract of a
letter Irom a London chemist mentions a
discovery by a gardener of a means of pro
ducing intense heat without any apparel
fuel. The apparatus is contained in an
urn, which may be suspended in a room
like a lamp. The heat can be so increas
ed as to melt the vessel containing it. The
means of producing this heat is yet a se
cret will) the inventor.
A Brave Girl. In this State, no minor
can obtain from the county commissioners'
courts a license, without first obtaining the
consent of his or her parent or guardiau,
and without such license, cannot marry in
this Stale. Young couples frequently fly
lo the opposite side of the Mississippi,
where no license is required.
These "runaway matches," as they are
called, are very frequent. A laughable
occurrence of that kind happened a few
(Edgecombe County, JV. 6'J bafnritoy, rt7 21, 1838
weeks ago, which has made much sport in
mis region.
A Miss about 17 years of age,
who is ihe heiress to an estate valued al
$10,000, lately ran away in company with
a bridesmaid and her lover, who was near
ly thirty. Her gua.dian believing the
man totally unworthy of her, had refused
his consent. When they reached thbank
of the Mississippi, the ice was running fori
ously ii the river; but the young ladyex
peeling every moment her guardian would
arrive there in pursuit, urged her lover to
lose not an instant in pushing the boat
from the shore. His courage seemed to
have a good deal abated; but he, with ihe
owner of a large skiiT, and the bridesmaid,
embarked with his intended bride. The
had nearly reached the head of an island,
about a third of the distance from the op
posite shore, when the current became
more rapid, the cakes of ice very large,
and their situation extremely dangerous
The lover, excessively frightened, and for
geiful of every body but his own dear self,
bawled out in the most piteous accents,
"Oh! I shall be drowned! I shall b.
drowi..d!;' and bitterly reproached hi-lady-love
as the cause of his probabh
death. She uttered not a word, but In i
courage and presence id' mind seemed i.
increase with the peril. A tremendous
cake of ice fairly capuzed the b. at, but i
was so large that all got on it, the lovet
rendering her no assistance at all. It bon
hem lo the head of the island, and, a
good fortune would have it, the chute be
l ween it and the Missouri shore was frtz--.
over, and they crossed it w iihout difficult v .
reached a tavern near the river, and, afui
changing their wet garments and becom
ing warm at a good fire, the lover hiuie.
lo the young lady that it was time now foi
Ihem in have the knot lied, as the magis
trate had arrived for that purpose, and
was in the next room. She gave him a
most withering look of contempt, and de
elated she would never unite her destiny
with one who was so selfish and cowardly.
It was in vain that he attempted by entrea
ty and argument to change her resolution.
She was immoveable; and replied to him
wiin scorn.
A few days afterwards, she returned to
the house .f her guardian, thankful that
&he had escaped marrying a man whose
only object was her fortune.
Her lover lelurnetl lo this side of the
river also, but such showers of ridicule and
contempt were bestowed upon him that he
found it best to decamp, which he did a
lew nights ago, leaving behind him a host
of unpaid debts. Illinois Backwoodsman.
Abduction An express arrived in the
eitv this morning, from Erie, Pa., bring
ing intelligence of a didm extraordinary
outrage committed at place on the night of
the 5ih int. The particulars as stated in
handbill, published in relation to the afi'dr,
are as lollows :
As Miss llitmot, daughter of P. S. V
Hamoi, Esq. of that place, was returning
bom a patty, in company with a young
man of Mr. II .'s family, about 11 o'clock
t night, they were assaulted on the side
walk by Robert C. Bristol, Captain of the
Meamboat James Madison, ami four other
persons.; Ihe young man was forcibly se
cured, while Miss Hamot, amid scream
fur aid, was forced into a hack close at
hand, with the loss of her bonnet and other
articles of clothing, and ihen driving down
to the harbor; whero she was put on board
the Madison. The boal appears to have
been in readiness for the purpose, w ill:
steam up, and forthwith pushed out into
the lake, with lights extinguished.
Cnase was immediately given in the U.
S. Rev enue Culler, and the steamboat
Thomas J flyisoii was got under way as
speedily as possible; but lor the darkness
it was impossile to discover the course ta
ken by the fugitive boat.
The Madison was not fully in a condi
tion for sea, hav ing only part of her buck
ets in, and but little wood on board. Hence
Bristol is supposed to have pushed across
the lake for Canada.
The affair seems to have made quite a
stir al Erie, and from the respectability of
the parties; and the novelty of using a
steamboat of 700 tons on such an enter
prise, together with the attendant circum
stances, have caused it to excite some lit
tle sensation here.
We can hardly credit the fact that Capt.
B would have pursued such a suicidal
course as this, and incline somewhat to the
opinion, that it may turn out a mere
"Gretna Green" business after all.
Buffalo Advertiser.
fXThe Legislature of Massachusetts,
the most numerous deliberative body in
ihe United States, the popular branch
counting GOO, and the Senale 40, passed
in the former House by a vote of 229 to
10G, the bill to prohibit the sale of ardent
' "-- fim m miMnunnin
mm ill mi-twi.
spirits, in less q la.ilities than fifteen gal
Ions, except by licensed apothecaries and
physicians, lor medical purposes, or for
ihe use of manufactures and arts. The
attempt to include wine ami beer, and even
cider in the prohibition, tailed.
07 The I legislature of Tennessee, at its
last session, have entirely prohibited ihe
retail wi spirituous liqanrs in lesser quanti
ties than one q i art. Tney have also p issed
very severe and heavy penalties for the
carrying and use of B vvie knives.
A Fact for the Abolitionists. During
our late visit in New York, we met with a
mulatto man who was some years since a
slave in North Carolina, lie is now pass
ing as a while man in New York, and
doing a profitable business; hut in spite of
Lis, ii anxious to return to ;he South. In
other words, he prefers being a Negro in
the South, ti being a white man in ihe
orth. Bet. Int.
Fate, of the Patriots Two of ihe Ca
oada patriots, Mes-srs L )unt and Matthews
n ied at Toronto for high treason were coll
ected and sentenced to death March 28di
hy Chief Justice Robinson of Upper Ca
nada. John Anderson was to be sentenced
u the following day. Juo. Montgomery
ias been onvicled and recommended to
mercy. Sutherland also, has been found
tiuilty, and was to be executed immedi
ately. Upper Canada. We learn that Gov.
Marey has received a very friendly letter
from Sir Ceo. Arthur, the new Governor,
expressing a desire that all the amicable re
lations that hitherto subsisted between that
province and the U. States, may be imme
diately re-established.
The lost Parent Found. In our last,
we inserted a letter from a litlle girl, en
quiring for information respecting her ab
sent father. Through the public press,
the letter reached the ears of her only re
maining parent, and lias been answered by
him, through Ihe same channel. His re
ply is dated from Charleston, South Caro
lina. Our vounjr readers will no doubt
be much gratified with the knowledge of
tins tact. i hey will rejoice with little
Harriett Billings:, that the lost one has been
so speedily found. Religious Tel.
Blasphemy. The sentence at the Bos
ton Supreme Court on Abncr Knecland
for Blasphemy, is postponed at his request
in consequence of the conditionof his wife.
The whole of this trial should be spresd
before the public. Who, in this country,
are the arbiters of blasphemy? Is there
any persecution in this matter? Are felons
that rob the widow and orphan hy rag
DaiiKsio go unhung and a man to be incar
cerated for mere opinion sake? JV. Y.Star.
Infamous Outrage in Michigan. The
Ann Arbor State Journal of March 15th,
states that on the niijht of the 12th. the
Presbyterian Church in that village was
forcibly entered and numerous depreda
tions were committed, such as breaking
lamps, destroying the hangings of the pul
pit, and some other actsof too brutal and
revolting a character to be publicly men
tioned. 1 he 1 rustees of the Church have
offered a reward of S100, and the Town
Council another hundred for the nnnrehen-
sion and conviction of the perpetrators of
these infamous acts. Ihe next day the
excitement was so great that a public meet
inr was held, and the act unanimously de
nounced as execrable. Yet it is boldlv
added, that there is a class of destructives
in that town capable of being guilty of any
atrocity. ib.
Two futal affrays in Kentucky. On
the 20th, at Mills Point, on the Mississip
pi, an affray took place between Dr. Fer
guson, a Physician, and Mr. Rivers, a law
yer, in which the former being worsted
procured a rifle and shot Rivers dead. A
brother of Rivers hearing of it sought Fer
guson with a rifle, and after wounding him
rushed upon him with a pistol and des
patched him. ib.
Strange Death. The Cincinnati Whirr
of the 4th inst. says, a keeper of the blood
ed horse, near the Brighton House, a few
miles from the city, was instantly killed
on yesterday, by the horse biting him in
the jugular vein. We have not learned
the name of the unfortunate person.
New Printing Machine. Mr. Thomas
Trench of Ithaca, New York, is construct
ing his patent Printing Press at the Speed
well works near Morristovvn. The Jer
seymen mentions that it is to be attached
to one of the Paper Mills in the place, &c.
describes it as follows :
The Press takes the paper from the Pa
per machine, prints it on both sides, and
)assess it through drying cylinders, which
presses it smooth; thus in one operation
Vol. XIV lo. 10.
and in the space of three minutes the pulp
is taken from the mill and a book of 350
pages is ready for the binder. The paper
us printed in one continuous sheet, thus a
whole edition can readily be printed, roll
ed up and sent any distance. iMr. Trench
had on his press 'Cob's Juvenile Reader,'
of 21G pnges, of which he presented us a
sheet of 70 feet, neatly printed, and which
can be examined at our office.
'This new printing machine will cause a
complete revolution in the art of printing
and greatly diminish the price of standard
works and school books. Hereafter, wo
suspect, orders will be given for Bibles,
Spelling-books, &c. &c. by the mile instead
of volume, as in former time; but bo-that
as it ma)-, a sheet of five miles in length
can be made with nearly the same case as
one ol fifiy or a hundred feet.'
Georgia. A common school system
has been adopted by the Legislature, by
winch 5500,000, heretofore set apart as a
poor scnoof and academic fund, together
with one-third part of the surplus revenue,
is constituted a fund to be devoted to the
support of common schools.
The Cherokccs in Georgia. It would
annear from samp stunmonto u c
in me oavau-
njh Republican that the Cherokees are de
termmed to follow their leader Mr. Ross,
and not remove May 23d as it was intended
they should to the new home destined for
them out of the limits of the States. Mr.
Reagan who has iust he fill nmrkmr tlmm
enroll the names of such as would no, says.
v-.v,, iOWU3 ,a Georgia containing 2000
Infinite it (I T i
. .......j, ut iljji uuue ijurins reiuse.
Origin of "Ves, Horse" A rrnni
man travelling through the ninn -nn,iB r
. r - - "uua Ul
ucorgia, arrived at a settlement
evening, at one of the houses of which he
stoppeu tor the night. There happened to
be a ball in the neighborhood, and he bein.r
a stranger, was, as a matter of course, inv
ten. uuring the evening, the gentlemen
regaled themselves with whiskey and gin
i wine" New England, and the ladies amused
themselves with eating roasted potatoes
(which were handed round in place of
cakes and wine,) taking the peelings with
their finger nails. Concluding to dance,
the gentleman stepped up to a young lady
who was busily employed in disposing of
an enormous potatoe, and politely asked
her if she would dance with him in a spf
just forming? to which she replied: "Yes,
norsc, it i knows myself, I goes it. Here,
Sal, (speaking to a friend beside) hold my
tator, while 1 trots a reel with this 'ere fel
low! A fFedding Bide II is said that hor
ses were not introduced into the Colony of
Plymouth until twenty years after the
landing of the Pilgrims. The Exeter
News Letter relates, that when one John
Allen was married to Miss Priseilla Mul
lens, the belle ol the Cape and Colony, he
determined to bring his bride home in a
style becoming a gentleman; so he put a
ring into a bull's nose, and mounting the
animal, he rode thus to the wedding. Miss
Priseilla might well be vain of such a
husband, and so mounting the bull, in mo
ving home, she ambled gently along, her
gallant spouse leading him by the nose, and
walking by the sides of his valuables; his
wife and bull! The gentleman who led
and the lady who rode says the same an
thority, were the ancestors of some of the
first families in the country including two
Presidents of the United States.
Duelling. Lord Brudenell, son of the
Earl of Cardigan, ran away with a married
lady, who was divorced, and he married
her, and she is now Lady Brudenell. But
his Lordship, after the first escapade, was
somewhat surprised that he did not receive
a challenge from the injured husband, and
he was so anxious to make reparation, that
at last he wrote to offer it. His note was
worded as follows : "Sir; Having done
you the greatest injury that one man can
do another, I think it incumbent upon me
to offer you the satisfaction which one gen
tleman owes to another in such circum
stances." The reply was this : "My
Lord, in taking offmy hands a woman who
has proved herself a wretch, you have
done me the greatest favor that one
man can do another; and I think it incum
bent upon me to offer you the acknowl
edgments which one gentleman owes to
another in such circumstances." This man
took a cold-blooded view of the case, but
he was right; revenge, in such a case, is no
reparation, and the unvvorthiness of the
cause must completely neutralize its relish.
American Monthly Magazine.
A Long Tail. Vhe tail of Queen Vic
toria's dress measures 16 yards, and weighs
20 pounds. The Duchess of Kent has the
high and mighty honor of carrying the
latter end of it, assisted by three Right
Honorable ladies of nobility. One account
says that Victoria has a course, awkward
figure, a large flat foot, beefy ankle, and
that her face is as ugly as sin.