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POETRY. From the Forget Me not. EVENING SONG OF THE TYRO LESE PEASANTS. BY KR8. HEMANS. Come to the Sun-set Tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman’s axe lies free, And the reaper’s work is done. The twilight-star to heaven, And the summer dew to flowers, And rest to us is given By the cool, soft evening hours. Sweet is the hour of rest! Pleasant the wind's low sigh, And the gleaming of the west, And the turf whereon we lie. When the burden and the heat Of labor’s task arc o’re; And kindly voices greet The tried one at his door. Come to the Sun-set Tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman’s axe lies free, And the reaper’s work is done. Yes, tuneful is the sound That dw ells in whispering boughs; Welcome the freshness round, And the gale that fans our brows, But rest, more sweet and stilly Than ever nightfall gave, Our longing hearts shall fill, In the world beyond the grave. There shall no tempest blow, No scorching noon-tide heat; There shall be no more snow, No w T eary wandering feet. And we will lift our trusting- eyes, From the hills our fathers trod, To the quiet of the skies, To the sabbath of our God I Come to the Sun-set Tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman’s axe lies free, And the reaper’s work is done. From the British Magazine. AN UNCOMMMON PARTNER AT CARDS. In our regiment whilst in the Indies, were several wild young fellows none more so than I; and as our life there was very monotonous, the officers be took themselves to gaming. One day after dinner, cards were brought and all of us entered with such energy in to the fascinating game that every thing else was in a manner neglected. At length we changed it and betook ourselves in couples to separate games. I and ensign A , as gay and rakish a rascal as ever turned out from En gland, that we might pursue our game uninterruptedly, ordered the servant to carry out into a sort of summer house a decanter or two of wine and the cards: and thither we soon follow ed. We played with intense eager ness for several hours, till it grew so dark that we could hardly see what was before us. I had been the gainer all the evening. “Come, A .” said I, addressing my com panion, I’am sure it’s high time we should quit the cards and return for we’ve a good deal of regiment’s busi ness to do to-night. “Stay,—And finish the game, you will not move an inch till then. “I tell you A——, I must and will be gone; why should we thus make toil of pleasure and beside gain another rebuke from the colonel! I’ll away. “Stay and try one more game, said A laying his hand on my arm; and I’ll win back what I’ve lost! I may perhaps to morrow, but now go I will. “Then, replied my companion, “if you do go, I’ll stop and finish the game, if I have the devil for a part ner! “A merry game and pleasant companion to you—farewell? said I, and left the room, I hastened to my apartment, where I had a good deal of regimental business to transact. I had not been so engaged long when the door was flung hastily open and in rushed ensign A , and his eyes staring with horror and his cheek as pale as marble. He sat down on a chair, looked fixedly on me but with out speaking a word, I called for wine, and got him to swallow a little.—The cold perspiration burst from his fore head and his eyes glared into every ry corner of the room, as though ap prehensive that some wild beast was ready to spring upon him. “Why, A , said I, shaking him, what is the matter with you? Are you mad? He made no answer, except by a faint murmuring kind of distinct whis per. “Are you frightened—or— what! continued I, motioning to the servant to leave the room. By de grees my companion became compos ed. “Oh, T. said he faintly and slowly—“I am a lost man—a dead man! “Pshaw my good fellow what is the matter with you! You’ve been too free with wine; and that added to your heated spirits, has nearly over turned your brain. “No, T , he replied, I am sober now, if I never was before in my life. But my days on earth are numbered!—Next Tues day I shall be no longer an inhabitant of this world! There was something so indescribably affecting, I may say shocking in the deep deliberate tone of voice with which he uttered this as well as the steady ashy hue of his countenance, that I sat down by his side without speaking. At length taking his hand in mine, I asked him in as soothing a manner as 1 was able what had caused his terror. “Do you remember what I said T , on your leaving me to-night? Faith yes: was it not that you would play if you had the devil for a partner; Yes, re plied A , with a sickening smile; I did so, and he took me at my word, continued he gasping as if for breath. Why, why, stammered I partaking of his freight—Why, A , you don’t mean to say that—I mean to say sim ply this, replied my companion, with deadful calmness, that Satan has taken me at my word. A few moments after you had left me, I leaned my head on my hands, and shut my eyes. Immediately I heard a rustling among the cards on the table before me, I started, and, a convulsive shuddering shook his frame “there, sat opposite to me, in the chair which you had just left vacant a tall, pale man, dressed in black. Why, how in the s name did you come here? said I, in amazement. To finish the game with you, as you wished, said the stranger, deliberately, at the same time ar ranging the cards. I saw that his hands were as white as alabaster, and he put the cards in order with amazing care and skill. He offered me a pack. Why, why, who are you, and whence did you come? stammer ed I, at the same time that my eyes seemed dancing in my head, and my knees smote together with agitation. “I come to finish the game with you at your request, said the stranger, pre cisely in the same tone and manner as before. I would have answered but my tongue clave to the roof of my mouth. Why do you not take the cards! said the stranger, in a hollow tone—“Will you finish the game ac cording to your promise! “No! I contrived to stammer out. His eyes glared on me, as though his head was filled with vivid fire. He rose and bending his fiendish face close to mine, thundered in my ear, this night week then shall thou finish it in hell! My eyes closed, unconsciously, as though they would never open again; when I looked up, however, none but myself was in the room and as fast as my trembling limbs would carry me have I come hither. Oh, T 1 am a dead man!—I am doomed!—lam doomed! Such was the fearful narrative of en sign A . We got him to bed. A delirium seized him, the brain fever followed, and that night week he died. From the N. Y. Journal of Commerce. We made, same time ago, some observations on intemper ance, and related several extraor dinary cases of spontaneous combus tion of the human body in persons who had been habitually intemperate.— We thought at the time that such in stances were extremely rare, but sub sequent enquiries have satisfied us that they have been more frequent than we had supposed, and we shall give some of them, from the authors in which they are found. In the transactions of Copenhagen we have found the case of a woman who for three years had used spiritu ous liquors to such excess that she would take no other nourishment.— Having sat down one evening on a chair to sleep, she was consumed in the night time, so that next morning no part of her was found but the skull and extreme joints of the fingers.— All the rest of the body was reduced to ashes. The annual Register for 1773, con tains the account of the sudden and spontaneous combustion of the body of the Countess Cornelia Bandi of the town of Cesena. The same work mentions two other facts of the same kind which occur red in England, one' at Southampton, and the other at Coventry.—The Re gister also gives the particulars of the' rapid decomposition of the body of Mary Clues, aged 50, who was much addicted to intoxica tion. The circumstances of the case of Mary Clues, have a great similarity to those of one related by Vicq D’Azyr, in the Encyclopedia Methodique. A woman aboufhO years of age, who in dulged to excess in spirituous liquors and got drunk every day before she went to bed, was found entirely burnt and reduced to ashes. Some of the osseous parts only were left, but the furniture of the apartment had suffered very little damage. Vicq d Azyr adds that there have been oth er instances of the like kind. A woman of Paris who had been ac customed for three years to drink spirit of wine to such a degree that she used no other liquor, was one day found entirely reduced to ashes, ex cept the skull and extremities of the fingers. The transactions of the Royal Soci ety of London present an instance of human combustion no less extraordi nary, and which was attested by a great number of eye witnesses.— Grace Pitt, the wife of a fishmonger, aged about sixty was consumed by an internal fire, on the 9th April, 1744, having previously drunk a large quan tity of spirituous liquor. Her body was in some measure incinerated & re sembled a heap of coals covered with white ashes. Le Cat, in a memoir on a sponta neous burning, mentions several instan ces of combustion of the human body. The wife of Sicur Millet of Rheims was one. She got intoxicated every day. This woman was found consum ed on the 20th February, 1725, at the distance of a foot and a half from the hearth of her kitchen. A part of the head only, with a portion of the low er extremities, and some part of the back bone had escaped combustion. Le Cat relates another instance.— Madame de Boiscon, 80 years of age, exceedingly meagre, who had drunk nothing but spirits several years, was sitting in her elbow chair before the fire, while her washing maid went out of the room for a few minutes. On her return, seeing her mistress on fire, immediately gave the alarm, and some people having come to her assistance, one of them endeavoured to extinguish the flames with his hands, but they adhered to it as if it had been dipped in brandy, or oil on fire.—Water was brought and thrown on the body in a- bundance, yet the fire appeared the more violent, and was not extinguish ed till the whole flesh had been con sumed. The Journal de Medicine relates a case which occurred at Aix, in Pro vince, in the month of Feb. 1779, that of Mary Jauflret, a woman who was exceedingly corpulent, and addicted to drinking. Mr. Rocas was commis sioned to enquire into the circumstan ces of her dissolution, and he reports that he found only a mass of ashes, and a few bones calcined in such a man ner that on the least pressure these were reduced to dust. The bones of the cranium, one hand and a foot had in part escaped the action of the fire, the rest of the body having been en tirely consumed in the course of a few hours, without the appearance of fire in the chimney or the apartment. Another instance, related in the same Journal, happened at Caen in June 1782. Made-moiselle Thurus was ezceedingly corpulent, above 60 years of age, and much addicted to spirituous liquors, previous to the sud den decomposition and dissolution of her body. The remains were found with the crown of the head resting a- gainst one of the andirons, at the dis tance of eighteen inches from the fire; the remainder of her body was placed obliquely before the chipmey, the whole being nothing but a mass of ash es. Even the most solid bones had lost their form and consistence.—*■ None of them could be distinguished except some small portions, and these were so calcined as to become dust on the least pressure. None of the fur niture of the apartment was damaged; and nothing around the body was burnt but the clothes. The town of Caen affords several other instances of the same kind.— One, a woman of the lower class, who was known to be much addicted to strong liquor. She was found in her house burnt to ashes. The ex tremities of her body only were spar ed, but the furniture was very little damaged'. Another similar case oc curred at Caen in an old woman ad dicted to drinking. These cases are related more at length in the Emporium of the Arts and Sciences by Dr. Coxe of Philadel phia, & they are all cases of women. We have cited the case of John Hit- chell, from Ewell’s Medical compan ion and other cases of men are also on record. MADNESS OF A WHOLE FAMILY. A very singular case of sudden and nnaccountable madness in an entire family, of the Commune de Treverree (Arrondisement Brieux,) has excited much local interest, and has even cre ated an ineffectual inquiry into its cause on the part of the most celebra ted physiologists of Paris. Jean Lepage, a farmer and proprie tor of lands, the produce whereof en abled him to support, in comfort and respectability, his wife, his sister-in- law, a son and a daughter, and whose conduct, as well as every member of his family, had been marked by regu larity and inoffensiveness, who had lived on the most kind and friendly terms with his neighbours, some time since wholly withdrew himself from all communication with his acquain tances; and, imitated by the rest of the family, retired wholly from other society than that which his' own roof sheltered. They refused to reply to any one they met—they spoke not even to each other—as they passed along, signs were the only means by which they conveyed their sentiments. The hitherto well cultivated farms, hold- en by Jean Lepage were abandoned and neglected, and laid open to the in gress of every species of cattle; his grange which was well stored with corn was never resorted to; and, final ly, after long indulging their gloomy reserve, the characters of himself and his relations assumed all the marks of highly excited derangement. Whoso ever was met on their passage as they walked forth in company, was certain of being assaulted. They visited the church of their parish, but not for the purpose of devotion; on the contrary, their irreverent and riotous behaviour interfered frequently with the due celebration of its rites, and at length, ‘in excess of frenzy, Jean Lepage struck the curate even while he was in the performance of his sacred func tions at the foot of the altar. Repeated violence offered to their neighbors, coupled with this last out rage, induced an order for the arrest of the family; they were conducted to prison; and subsequently brought up for examination before the magistrate; but they refused to reply to inquiry- treated exhortation and remonstrace with disdain, and were wholly inac cessible to reproach ^r entreaty.— The two women and the children were called separately before the magis trates, without the latter being ena bled to induce them to speak. They were as a necessary precaution, re conducted to prison, but every atten tion to their singularly unfortune state was shown them. Lepage here re fused all nourishment; for eight days he never suffered aliment of any kind to pass his lips; his strength decayed rapidly; he sustained all the horrors of voluntary starvation with the fortitude of a martyr, & it was not until it be came too evident that his existance would be terminated by his obstinate refusal of nourishment, that he and his family were released from confine ment. They returned to their now wretch ed home, but the former violence they had exhibited was not repeated; a deep and settled melancholy seemed to have, possessed them. For the last twenty two months they have daily wandered forth, the father in compa ny with his son, and at a short distance behind them; the three females.— They speak not amongst themselves, nor do they address others; and the only offensive peculiarity in their man ner is that of never diverging from their path, let them meet who they may. All who encounter them, how ever, from humanity or fear move from their way; and thus they pursue their miserable career to the astonish ment and pity of those who, not long since beheld the half-famished, rag ged, and unhappy wretches, whom they now see, the most contented and most respected member of their small community. From the Tuscumbia Tel. & Patriot. Mr. Editor:--We notice lately the astonishing and salutary effects of Doctor Chambers’ remedy for intem perance, which has been thought and doubtless has been of great service to that part of our community that have been afflicted with the baneful desease of Drunkenness; but whilst we ac knowledge the beneficial results of this truly valuable medicine to socij ty in general, there is epidemic of, dangerous a character, that is prevalent in our town and country, cure of which has been too much nei lected for the good order and peaces society in general; I mean an “infet tious disorder of the tongue called slander.” I herewith send you a prJ scription from the Southern AdvocatJ hoping it may be beneficial to some i your readers; as I am convinced tha] if followed, it will be servicable, not an effectual remedy. CRUTO. Cure for Scandal.—Take of Goal Mature one ounce, together with grains of a root called Reason; com] pound these with a little Charity, (f<J failings) and a few sprigs of an herlj called by the natives Jllind your owi business; simmer them together for short time in a vessel called Circuffi.lL- spection, and it will be ready for usei. ' ’ Application.—When you feel a tunf of it coming on, take tea-spoon full! of the above medicine; hold it to youtl mouth, keeping it shut, and you will beg immediately relieved from all incon s veniences arising from this terriblef disease. The symptoms are, a violent itch ing of the tongue & roof of the mouth,® which invariably takes place when! you are with a kind of animals called Gossips. It would be advisable t»L. keep a phial full of the medicine withy 1 you, and in case of relapse repeat the 1,4 dose. Amusing.—It is not a little extra ordinary how many of our most impor tant discoveries owe their existence to chance. Every body knows the anecdote about Sir Isaac Newton and l the apple; Jenner and the milk maid; John Bunyan and drunken Perken, &c. &c. But every body does not know the anecdote of Sir Peter Pontop, who found the bottom of a coal mine by chance. I proceed, therefore, to relate it. Sir Peter had been quar relling with one of his workmen, the day previous to the catastrophe I am now narrating relative to wages.— There are two modes of descending into coal pits. The usual way is U be wound down in a machine; but thq to whom the exit and entrance are matters of custom, content themselves in descending by grasping a rope, which communicates to a counteract-, ing pully. The weight of the individ ual thus carries him downward with out dislocation. Sir Peter on the in question, adopted the latter expe dient, as usual, in utter darkness.— Judge of his horror, when on reaching the extremity of his journey, he found that his feet failed to touch the ground. He instantly thought that the work man with whom he had quarrelled, had in revenge cut short the rope.— He screamed and bawled till he was hoarse, but all the operatives had : so journed to their dinner. At length his strength failed him; he let go his hold, expecting to be dashed to atoms in the unfathomable abyss, and found that he had been for a full half hour screaming about three inches from the ground. Here was a chance dis covery which nettled Sir Peter sore ly insomuch that he actually felt half angry with himself for not having been precipitated some hundred feet, ac cording to his reasonable expecta tion.-—New Mo. Mag, Rather Queer.—A Western editor makes the following apology for the non appearance of his paper on t.He regular day of publication: “I feel ashamed to own the fact, but “murder will opt.” The plain reason was, my readers, that my dear wife said I must stay at home and take care of the children, while she went to a Camp meeting; and, as 1 am a peacemaking sort ofa rqan, I did as 1 was bid, which is the only apolo gy I have t6 make.” ft is stated that a person recently gave five thousand guineas for a twen ty-fourth part of the London Courier establishment; and expects to receive ten per cent interest on the invest-' ment. The Legislature of Connecticut ad journed on Tuesday last. A bill sub jecting dealers of foreign lottery tick ets to a penalty of $20 fpr the first- of fence, and $50 and imprisonment not exceeding six months for the second, passed tne House of Representatives by a large majority on the 27th. ..