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From Moore's "Sacred Melodies."
Thou art, O GOD! the light and life
Of all this wond'rous world wc sic;
Its glow by day, its sir.ile by night,
Are but reflections caught from thee.
Where'er we turn thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are thine.
When day, with farewell beam delays,
Among the opening clouds of even,
And we can almost think we gaze
Through golden vistas into heaven;
Those hues that mark the mui's decline,
So soft, so radiant, Lord! are thine.
When night with wings of starry gloom,
O'ershadows all the earth and skies,
Like some dark, beauteous bird, whose plume
Is sparkling with unndmberM dyes;
That sacred gloom, tho.e fires divine,
So grand, so countless, Lord! are thine.
When youthful spring around us breathes,
Thy spirit warms her fragrant sigh;
And every flower the summer wreathes,
Is born beneath that kindling eye.
Where'er we turn, thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are thine.
Siirit of Contradiction.
A woman sauntering near a river's brink,
For thought, or thoughtlessness, or drink
No matter whichi fell in it;
And, as the story goes,
She ended quickly all her earthly woes
Was drowned, to pcak more plainly, in a
minute.
Viocn as her spouse the tidings knew,
Swift as an arrow to the spot he flew,
The corpse to find and the tost duties pay:
friend cries he with tearful eyes
If you know where my Peggy lies,
Tell me, I pray. w
Seek drivn tht: stream, said one ah, no,
Quoth he, I'd better vivurds go:
The wife on whom 1 doated,"
W as so obstinace a i u'.e,
That, by the mass, I'm much afraid.
She crainst the at ream has Touted.
nations through tho window, with
one-of Mr. Whipple's pistols.
Strang replied, that with a pistol
he should be as likely to kill any
body else as Mr. Whipple. She
then tisked him what he could
shoot with, and he replied, a rifle.
A riile was procured, Mrs. Whip
pic furnishing the money, and ex
amining it in the barn after it was
of purchased. She also iurmshed
powder, and supplying two panes
of glass to make his "experiment"
in order that she might come there
"when she returned from church."
It was in consequence of Mrs.
Whipple's doubts, "whether the
ball would not glance," that indu
ced Strang to institute his expe
riments. "Finally, Mrs. Whipple
put into his hand, the ball with
which the riile was charged for the
murder, saying, "J have taken the
last ball lu5 hail left for you to
to manage government than you
do. You never go over into Mr.
Lapstone's shop to direct him how
to make shoes you never go in
to Mr. Yardstick's store to direct
him how to sell goods why then
should you trouble yourself so
much in telling how the govern
ment ought to be managed is it
easier to govern a nation than to
make a shoe, or sell
calico!
I have got sick of your pream
bles about State Rights and In
ternal Improvements. You had
better send our daughter Mary off
to the boarding school to get a
little internal improvement that
is the best kind of improvement I
know of.
You are mightily troubled about
who is going to be vour next Pre
sident you iiav'nt sold your cut
ton vet von had better begin to
think about soiling that; andwhenshoot him with." She provided
that's done, enquire about as how! Strang with a pair of socks, so
the market is to be next year. 11. that he might walk without noise,
Politics. The following Ora
tion was uttered by Dame Dora
thy to her husband, John, -on ac
count of his unreasonable devo
tion to politics, and his conse
quent neglect of the needful,
he, like a good, patient and for
bearing spouse, kindly remon
strates with him at first; but find
ing that soft words w ill not do the
business, she conies at him in the
fashion here revealed. John calls
it a real trimmer, and attributes
his reformation to the irresistible
Females entitled to Vole..
Throughout the Provinces of C?,
nada, the recent elections lor i:
new Parliament, have been warm
ly contested, it appears that in
Quebec, the election of one of the
gentlemen returned is to be con
tested, on the ground that a IVi.
dote, who offered to take the oath,
was not permitted to vote. r
would seem that women have vo
ted in various parts of Lower Ca
nada; and members have, in,
doubt, been returned by their
votes, the legality of which lias
never been settled by a competent
tribunal; but the question will
probably now be settled. By the
Constitution of North-Carolina,
"all persons possessed of a free
hold in any town in this state hav
ing a right of representation," &c.
and rolled up the curtain of the "shall be entitled to vote for k
window where Whipple w as sit-1 member to represent such towi.
ting. Thus instigated, aided, 1 in the house ot Oommons. V roir:
abetted and equipped, Strang! this, it would seem, that women
perpetrated the murder. In con-'can vote in North-Carolina al
elusion, he expresses penitence though wo dont know whether
A H.'iltimnre editor savs he has 'and a reli-ious hone: declares ! they ever attempted to exerciii
lost three subscribers; one be- j himself pleased that he was not j that privilege. Salisbury Car.
cause he supported Jackson, a so- admitted as a witness against Mrs. 1
cond because he was for Adams, ! Whipple, and that she was acquit-1 Phenomenon. On Tuesday
and a third because his paper was ted: and he exhorts her to repen-j night (says the Albany Argus of
neutral but what is mostVemar-: tance. It happened in the at- the 30th ult.) "a highly interesting
present to ascertain the stitchc
taken in making the garmcm
They were 20,983; making abou:
18 stitches for a farthing.
von continue to sit in the house
talking about State Ki'-dits all the
day long, the state will carry you
right off to.Tail for your debts; and
that right soon too, right or wrong.
phenomenon was observed in tlie
heavens. !t was first seen iv.
about a quarter before 10 o'clock,
kable, the displeasure of the three tempt to poison Whipple with the
was excited by the same piece! j sulphur, t hat after talcing it him
i Sueh is the fate of editors 'self, he gave either from accident
they cannot please every body; or suspicion, some to his young shooting up in a broad column of
for, as sure as they essay to do so, son, and to Mrs. Whipple. She ! white, clear light lrom the eastern
they fail in pleasing any body did not dare to refuse, but took .horizon to the zenith. It soon
their best way is to please them- w hat was offered, and then turned ! passed over and down to the wes
sclves, and they are sometimes and spit it from her mouth; but j tern horizon, forming a vast arch
puzzled to do that. jshe permitted her child to take it; j or belt, somewhat appalling in it.?
declaring afterwards to Strang, ! appearance, but beautiful beyond
hi i an 'j s
Confession. The that she preferred that he should description. It appeared to be o!
Massachusetts Journal, the editor be killed, rather than herself dc-1 great width, wider than the mil
Jof which has read tin; published tected." Iky-way transparent, as the stars
Confession ol Strang, says: "'it! were distinguished dimly through
will surprise no one, that he fully! Xuir,Ir ;.remno nf:m rJit but white and remarkably dis-
implicates the wretched
itirs.
traordinarv case ol' suicide is giv- i tlIlc- All the
northern edge
Whipple in the murder of her bus- on in a oaoer nnhiished at Pooa- i seemed to be much more brilliant
band. She first made amorous van, South America. A woman I tnan lUc edge towards the south,
advances, first proposed elope- vears of a"e, had for a long I In this manner, extending from
merit, bur could not obtain, with- time concoivod"V design ol burn" j nca'hT the .edge of the eastern
out, tho knowledge ol' her bus-. i,,,,- herself alive and all her fa- Itorioii across the heavens, down
band, suliicicnt . money she lust niilv bene' asleep she entered an ' t0 lhc western horizon, and in
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t;iuuueiice oi ins no. we end it 4 , - - , ""v -ni - v.v. . i ,
recorded in the Yorkville fS. (-;.Vsnf(,'st( (I t,H; idea ot nmrder,and UVeu w hich was heated for the ; tiiat i,art ol 11 broader and more
title of ' UmM)ns(;, various memoes, une; purpose of baking bread, and Was j """""'us man elsewhere; it at
was lor Strang to go and work on ; immediately consumed.
the Canal, and get some of the
Irishmen to kill Mr. Whipple;
another was, to take a pistol, an
Encyclopedia, under the
Dorafhrfs Lecture.
I dont know nothing about your
Panama business and your mend
ing your constitutions: but J XetWUvxc, or a dub, and way-lay him
you what, John! we have not a pint about filly rods from the house:
ol meal in the house, and as lor
the matter of meat you may give
your jaw bones a holliday, and
here you set regulating the affairs
ot government and racking your
brains to pieces with them there
good for nothing politics yes,
and t'other day while you "was
.talking with our schoolmaster a
bout Mr. Somebody's fine Con
gress speech, the "hogs got into
the field and rooted up all your
potatoes. You arc not high farnt
enough to go to Congress your
self, why need you then be troub
ling yourself about your fine spee
ches you had better be thinking
about a fino stand of cotton, fine
craps, fine fat hogs, and fine fen
ces. It seems nateral that every
man should understand his own
nusmcss best. The
another was, to hire somebody to
kill him. Letters were writtten
anonymously to different persons,
offering a reward of 8300, the
money to .be found in the Post
office, for the murder of Whipple.
These letters were the joint pro
duction of Mrs. Whipple and
i Strang; but they do not appear to
have been sent: another method
proposed and tried, was by poison.
Three times, at Mrs. Whipple's
request, Strang purchased arsenic.
which Mrs. Whipple administer
ed to her husband, first in his tea,
and afterwards in flour of sulphur,
but without effect in one instance,
and with slight effect in the other!
Mrs. Whipple had prepared a
third experiment, but no opportu-
mij iui u uneieu. rmauy, Mrs.
est. the rrovcrnmniit V. nmnaonrl f,. i
iolkr. I reckon,, knows better lion- the object of their infernal machi-
iiaciea me gaze ot a ;at mini
jbei ot citizens, to whom, as welt
Jlnudc Editor.--Vhc prnprio-iaS 0Ursc,VC!!'it was Pectaclo o
tors of tho Phihuldphia Album 1 co, uty, of some dread,
i i ; i 4? i -nr. ; altogether new, and not entirely
nave proposed a saiarv oi b 1,00' P , , ' UhlIL -
i i! , explainable,
per annum to .Mrs. ileiuans, to- iT i i-
gether with a house, rent, free and )00AmS at it intently, a:
furnLshed, if she will accept the ' p.arts - "PPeared to be in mo
Editorship of their paper. Hon within itselt; shooting up h:
1 1 lays and many fanciful forms, bu.
A person in Massachusetts, per
ceiving the gooil effects of Dr.
Chambers' remedy for drunfeen-
ucss, has invented one to cure the!
habit ot tobacco cliewin
my
indistinct, and shewing in its gc
neral appearance the broad, white
and partially luminous belt that
wc have described. It moved
holly disap-
grraduallv from its orinrmnl
ri , : w. , o
. 11 SOUIC ! t inn imm iin-u-K' n.t tr. ,.-,-
of our nomous brethren to tho veral degrees iowards the soutli
Zt!'!" ""I I..?f tho heavens; and at
r; .: ' , , ., lu ," " '! about halij.ast ten, it became in-
... , u,u uouminss ue countcnan-ulistinct and soon wi
lou dv an uioso wlio are desirous nearcd
7 m o ul0Jr 1lal'"cs During all that and the previ-
o,- ' ; ' f dniUStlC ouscvcnin? 11,0 Aurora Boreal
C"01n--J "as unusually brilliant; and on
Auwua) 1,,oiU auer me appear
ancc of the phenomenon, it vtns
brighter and more extended than
any witnessed during the preser
ve ar
Tayloring. coat was re
cently made in Brockville, Cana
da, by Mr. O. W. Stevens, and
curiosity prompted one who was