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vojarxr. From an English Paper. THE ANTEDILUVIAN. “I’ve soon ptwi mony chmg«*u ^®* r * On carih 1 am nstranger grown. ’—Burns. Nine hundred years* upon the earth. My weary eyes have seen; Nine hundred year*! alas my birtht Would it had never been l The davs of youth long, long past by, All dimly now appea'; And faintly traced by memory, Are scenes that once were dear. A lather’s form, a mother’s grace, Of these no track remains; Nor ofthat loved and lovely face. That soothed my woes and pains, In manhood’s prime l stood among Friends, brothers, sisters dear; And joined the dance, or sung the song, With Minstrel or with Seer. I heard the Minstrel lift his voice, In song of other days; And strangely did my heart rejoice, To hear the Prophet’s lays. The Minstrel’s lyre for aye hath slept, The Prophet too—he died; Alas! alas! i could have wept, but age my tear had dried. I saw the victor ride in blood, O’er lields ot mighty slain; Cities o’eriurned by loe or flood, Re-pcopleu—fiuilt again. The Comets ran their mighty race, belore me o’er and o’er; They seemed as noth the well known face, We olt have seen before. I saw the forest’s strength and pride, Covering both hill and plain; They grew—they—liourish’u—wither’d—* ■tied, 1 saw them come again. 1 saw the oak that young and green, Crew up beneath my eye; Whose lile live hundred years had been, i saw it fade and die. Yet lived I on—1 could not die, My lonely being end; Nor in the lowly grave could lie, JNor find on earth a friend. Friends of my youth, your shades in vain, O olt invok’d—ah no! Ye came not back to earth again, To sulier mortals’ woe. Ages roll’d by, and Time’s black tide, Swept all away but me; I stood as stands the rock beside The wild and wasteful sea. The chain of being bound me fast, To earth and earthly thing ; I felt how vain was all the past, And wish’d that I had wings— Wings like a Dove, that 1 might flee Away and be at rest; To realms of bright Eternity, The refuge of the blest. Methuselah. * Genesis chap. 5, v. 27. Job chap. 3, v. 3. Bristol, Nov. 18, 1828. MlSORLiAWBOtfS. The following, front the London Athenaeum, is one of the most beauti iul things of its kind we recollect ever to have read. The periodical from which it is taken has been recently established in London, and promises to be one of the first magazines of the day. We have observed several ad mirably written articles in it, of a kind suited to the taste of the litera ry reader, and shall from time to time avail ourselves of its treasures to make onr readers better acquainted with its merits. Washington Chronicle. THE SHELL. AN HISTORICAL APOLOGUE. “The world was made for Man,” said he. “I will tell you an apologue,” an swered the teacher: 1. In a beautiful bay of the cele brated island Atalantis, a large Shell of the most delicate white, and the most rounded form, the relic from some previous world, lay "on the smooth and elastic sand. It was left for a long period undisturbed and unaltered; sometimes kissed by the extreme bubbles of the billows, and often trem bling so melodiously in the wind as to have furnished to the early gods he first hint of a musical instrument, ^nd to have been the prototype of the s ounding conches which accompained ^ith their deep notes the feasts on Olympus, and the Indian triumphs of gacclius. 2. The moist dust gradually ac cumulated within it, and the germ of a sea-weed fell upon the soil, and grew until a fair and flourishing plant, with long dark leaves, over hung the white edge of the thin and pioonlike vase. For many months (he ocean herb retained its quiet exist ence, imbibed the night-dew of the heavens; rejoiced in the fresh breezes from the sea, and lived in tranquil safety through every change of show er and suushiuc. At length a storm arose which rolled the waters upon tiie shore. The Shell was over whelmed, the plant washed out of it, and the light vessel swept into a clelt of the rocks. 3. After some days of calm and warmth, a bird dropped mlo*il a seed, which sprouted, anu became an or ange-tree. Its leaves were so thick and green, that they would have sup plied a graceful chaplet to a wood- nymph, and she might have delighleu to place in her bosom the pearly aud fragrant blossoms winch hung amid the tuft of verdure. The seasons with their varieties, and the stany influences of geuile nights, nurtured the shrub, and the pure flowers were changed into gorgeous Iruils, which gleamed through the foliage like the glimpses of a gilded statue in some deserted temple through the lobes and coronals of creepers which have overgrown it. The orange-tree had gladdened many spring-times with its sweetness and its splendor, when it faded and died; and the birds ot the air piped a lamentation over the shrub, amid the living beauty ot which they had so often nested.' 4. In alter years, when nothing re mained of the orange but a slight and dreamy odour around the Shell, auu ihe last light grains of the tlusl where in it grew had been borne away by the eddying breezes, a butterfly, as red and glittering as the planet Mars, came on its crimson w ings to the dim and spiral cell. It fluttered round the ivory entrance, poised itself upon it for a moment, and waved its silken sails. Then, after darting and cir cling, like a winged mole ot the sun beam, through the deep woods and over the sea, it returned to perish. While it sank into its quiet and beau tiful retreat, it yet seemed loth to leave a world which to it had been a fairy domain; but the necessity of its nature was upon it, and it closed the gay leaflets which had sustained its flight, and resinged itself to death. 5. It was followed by a troop of bees, which took possession ot the Shell, and, after their daily excur sions over meadow and bloomy bank, returned to its smooth aud undulated chambers with the materials of their combs, and with large store of bright and luxurious honey. The tiny echoes of their abode resounded with the constant hum of labor and happiness, and it was soon as brimming as a wine-cup at a nuptial-feast, with the rich and perfumed treasures of the in sects, arranged and scaled in the ex act compartments which filled the in terior of their silvery palace. But a bird attacked and destroyed their commonwealth, and again the Shell was left empty. 6^ A humming bird, all emerald, ruby, and sapphire, then discovered the lonely nook, and folded there its jewelled wings. 4t soon found a mate, and together they lived a flowery lile. lie who had seen either of them wandering at sunset through the glen, would have believed that the brilliant core ot the western sky was fluttering the li reign, moved forward with the graceful swillness ot a snowy swan, tilling ovei the light iipples of the water, auu when night came with its constella tions, seemed to uc useii a trembling star on the verge of Ihe horizon. Thai spirit, too, shall inhabit the Shell but for a time, aud shall then depart, that he may develop, in some other more tilling position, the whole capacities of Ins nature. The Shell w ill sink in to the waves, and be joiueil to the treasures of the ocean caverns, in them, also, to aid the existence ot other beings, and to fulfil anew cycle of its ministry. That Shell is the World: that Spirit, Man. Yet not for man alone was it created, but for all the living things in the successive stages of ex istence, which can find in ii a means of happiness, and an instrument ot the laws which govern their being. away along the earth; or theHittle animal might have been thought the choicest signet of a prince, transform ed of a sudden into a living thing, and endued with the power of flight. When they wheeled together towards their home at twilight, no pair of fire-flies, no twin-lights of the firmament could be brighter than were their diamond crests. The sweet essences of a thousand buds and flowers supplied their nourishment; and, while they sucked the delicious juices of ripe Iruits, their wings were tinctured by the iighest bloom of the plum and the grape. But the rain dropped thick aud fast into the Shell, and the gen tle birds, which seemed made to whisper love-messages in the rose bud ear of a lady, and to hide them selves in sport among her ringlets, departed from their nest, and sought in sparry grotto, or in southern bow er, a more secure habitation for their lovely but frail existence. 7. Lastly, at sunrise, seemed flit ting from the morning star an elfin spirit, which danced into the Shell and assumed it as its home. It thrill ed with life and pulsation; and, while a spring gushed of out the rock, and bore it along towards the sea, he spread his thin wings to the breeze and sailed in his lily-colored argosy away over the blue and sunny deei The white Shell, and its new aove From the London “Anniversary” for 1829. WiiO is A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN. Female beauty, in the limited sense of the word, is that outward form and proportion which corresponds with the theories of poets and ihe rules of artists—of which every nation has examples and of which every woman has a share. But beauty, by a mjie natural definition oi the word, is that indescribable charm, that union of many qualities of person and mind and heart, which insures to man the great est portion of happiness. Y\ herever there is most bosom tranquility, most domestic happiness, there beauty reigns in all its sueuglh. Look at that mud hovel ou one oi Hie w ild hills of Ireland; smoke is stream ing from door and window; a woman to six healthy children and a happy husband, is portioning out a simple ami scanty meal. Jsfie is a good moth er and an affectionate wife; and though tinged with smoke aud touched by care, she is warmly beloved: she is lovely in her husband s eyes, and is therefore beautiful.—Uo into yon Scottish cottage, there is a clean floor, a blight fire, merry children, a thrif ty wife, and a huso and who is nuisin the youngest child, and making a whistle for the eldest. The woman is lovely and beauliiul, and an image of thrift and good housewifery, be yond any painter’s creation; her bus band believes her beautiful too, ami whilst making the little instrument of melody to please his child, he 'thinks ol the rivals from whom lie won her, aud how fair she is compared to all her early companions. Or here is a house at. hand, hemmed round with fruit trees and flowers, while the blossoming tassels of honeysuckle per fume us as we pass iu at the door Enter and behold that English woman out of keeping with all the rules ol academic beauty, full and ample in her person, her cheeks glowing with vulgar health, lief eyes shining with quici happiness, her children swaim- mg like summer bees, her house shin ing like a uew clock, aud her move-, meats as regular as one of Murray’s chronometers/—There sits her bus band, a sleek, contented man, well fed, clean lodged, and softly handled, who glories in the good looks and sagacity of his wife, and eyes her af fectionately as he holds the shining ankard to bis lips,and swallows slowly & with protracted delight, the healthy beverage which she has brewed. Now, that is a beautiful woman; and why is she beautiful? She is beautiful, be cause the gentleness of her nature and the kindness of her heart throw a household halo around her person, a- dorning her as a honeysuckle adorns an ordinary tree, and impressing her mental image on our minds.—Such beauty in my sight—a creation more honorable to nature and more beneficial to man, and in itself infinite ly more lovely, even to look upon than those shapes made according to the line and level of art, which please inexperienced eyes, delude dreamers, fascinate old bachelors, catch the eye and vex the heart. the middle. The eggs which were in the circle we found to be quilt fresh, at which 1 expressed my sup- rise. The Hottentots informed me that these bad been provided by the ostrich against the hatching of those in the middle; when she would break them, one after another aud give them to her young ones for food; end that by the time they were all disposed of in this manner, the young ostriches W’ouid be able to go abroad with their mother, and provide for themselves such tilings as the desert alforded. 1 have seen large Hocks of these crea tures in South Africa. The fact which I have just stated, relative te the preservation of a quantity of eggs for the subsistence of the young ones immediately after they are hatched, affords as fine an instance of animal instinct, and as striking aa illustration of a superintending Providence, as perhaps the whole circle of natural history affords. DEATH. Death is at all times a dispensation of Heaven requiring all the philosophy af human understanding, and all the firmness t»f Christian fortitude to enable us to meet its approach with confidence and hope. Even the pale and emaciated form of the wretched and sorrow stricken, hovers in inquie tude of soul upon the confines ol im mortality, anticipating that the thread of life may be yet a little lengthened, and that the flickering taper of exis tence will burn a little longer, even should it be but feebly, in ils socket It is a hard thing to die—difficult it is for the young and ardent spirit lo forego the sunshine of hope, the day dreams of enthusiasm—and the ioml chords that have twined themselves among the affections—to sink regret ted, but soon forgotten, into the pre mature give. However shadowy m.iy be the path of life—however numerous the thorns that have started from the way side of being, iftl(,ere are those among mankind whom we fondly love—if there is one gentle spirit among the worldlings who sur round us, faithful with an intensity ot affection, amid the changes of fortune and the shadows of fate, il is hard, a very hard task to school the thought to death. Confused and undecided may be our speculations of futurity scepticisms have fallen upon our eon ceptions of another world, and all its dark and impenetrable mysteries; but wiien the last hour approaches—when the gasping breath and the fading vi sion proclaim that life is fleetly ebbing ail Hie fallacies of former years are lost iu the weight of the present crisis and the dying soul eagerly pants for some substantial hope or powerful illusion to point its aspirings up to Cod. ©tree be not perfectly convenient. But' they are the last poisons 10 whuitt promises should be broken, because they cannot comprehend the reason, if there be one, why they are not kept. Such promises should be scrupulously redeemed, though at a great inconven- venience, and even when inadvertent- inade. For the chid’s moral habit is of infinitely more consequence than any such inconvenience can be to the parent.—Lit. Claz. WEST INDIES. The West-Indies islands, in 1827 r contained by estintate 105,000 square miles; a white population of only 450, 000, and a coloured population of 1, 600,000. Of the 33 islands, 15 be long to Britain, 2 to Spain, 3 to Den mark, 4 lo the Netherlands, 5 to France, 1 to Sw eden, 1 to Colombia; I is partly independent & partly Spanish; 1 is partly independent & partly Brit ish. The islands belonging to England contain 14,595 square miles, and a population of 663,867. The islands belonging to Spain contain 58,140 square miles, 532,000 population. The 3 islands belonging to Denmark have 180 square miles, population 38,867. The French islands contain 1385 square miles, population 240, 877. The islands belonging to Ihe Neth erlands have 722 square miles, popula-' tion 36, 210.—Phil. Chron. Mode of growing Early Potatoes ik the North of jMncashire.— Put the* lotatoes in a room, or other conven ient warm place; about the 2d of February, cover them with a woollen cloth for about four weeks, then take- it off, and by so doing you w ill make the sprouts much stronger. Towards the latter end of March, set them* covering the sprouts about two inches deep. If the sprouts Be about two NATURAL HISTORY. The .Nest of an Ostrich, found in South Africa by Mr Broadbent, a mis- ionary. The eggs were forty-two in number, including the two which had been tak en away before, and were arranged with great apparent exactness.— Sixteen were close together iu the middle of the nest; ana on these the ostrich was sitting when we arrived; they were as many as she could cov* er. The remaining twenty six were placed very uniformly in a circle a- bout three or four feet from those in Parental Lies.-— We believe that the slight regard in which strict truth is held among mankind, is principally owing to the lies which are told to children by their parents during the few first years of their lives. Then is the time that permauent impressions may be as well made as at any later period. It is then, probably, that what is called the natural propensity of the child, is unfolded. Many persons who have.a great abhorrence of lying, and whip their children, if they detect them in it, yet make no scruple of tell ing and acting to them the most atro cious falsehoods. There are few pa rents who do not do this in a greater or less degree, though doubtless with out dreaming they are guilty of crim inal deception. With many, the whole business of managing their chil dren, is a species of mere artifice and trick. They are cheated in their amusement, cheated in their food, cheated in their dress. Lies are told them to do any thing that is disagree able. If a child is to take physic, the mother tells him she has something good for him to drink; if reluctant, she says she will send fur the Doctor to cut off his ears, or pull hie teeth, or that she will go away and leave him; and a thousand things of the same kind, each of which may deceive once, and answer the present purpose, but it wil inches long when set, the potatoes will be ready in 7 or 8 W'eeks after wards. A gentleman who had a green house, adopted the following planT- He placed the potatoes in the green house in turf mould or peat earth, in the beginning of February, and kept, them well moistened with water; he planted them in the opcn»air about (he end of March, on a warm border, leaving about half on i-/ich of the sprouts above the ground, and pro tected them during nights by cover- r ings of mats. By this pi an he was a— blc to have new potatoes about the beginning of May. It is considered ft very material thing to ge*tthe potatoes well sprouted before the y are planted.^ N. E. Farmer. Inconveniences of Corjtulcncy.—Mr.- B. of Bath, a remarkably large, cor pulent, and powerful man, wanting to go by the mail, tried foir a place be fore it started. Being toJd it was full, he still determined to :jet admission, and opening the door gut in. When the passengers came, llie ostler re ported that there was a. gentleman in the coach: he was requested to come out, but having drawn u p the blind he remained quiet. Hav ing, however, held a consultation on the means of making him alight, and a proposal be ing made to “pull him out,” he let down the blind, and laying his enor mous hand on the edge of the door r he asked who dared t<> pull him out, drew on the blind againi, anti waiting some time, fell asleep. About one in the morning, he awoke, and calling out to know whereabouts he was on, his journey, he perceived what w as the fact, that, to end the altercation with him, horses had been put to an other coach, and that he had spent. the night at the inn door at Bath,, where he had taken possession of thee carriage. KITCHEN ECONOMY. A friend Fas mentioned to us an im provement in kitchen economy which we think deserving of notice. It may be called an iron back log, and is cast hollow, to contain water. A small leaden leader is attached to this iron cylinder, which is placed at the bot tom of the wood fire, and connected with a cask or tub of water near the- fire place, or in any convenient part of the room, The family jnay thus have a constant supply of hot water, with out encumbering the fixe place, and with much less than the ordinary con sumption of fuel for that purpose. Long Island Star. invariably fail afterwards. Pa ) are too apt to endeavor to paci fy their children, by making promises they never intend to perform. If they wish, for instance, to fake away some eatable which they fear will be inju rious, they reconcile them by the promise of a ride, or a walk, or some- thigelse which will please them, hut without any intention of gratifying tmAT’imsi * them. This is lying, downright lying. CHLROKEE NATION, People think nothing of breaking their | for the years 1826, 1827 «$• 1828. fo* promises to children, if the perform* sale at this Offica. LAWS or THE