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tigs ASMZOVBETTES. •She vowM, she ewere she wad be mine, She said she lo’cd me best of ony; But oh the fickle, faithless quean, She’s ta’cn the carl and lek her Johnny * MRS GRANT. Anatomists tell us, that there is an inti mate connexion between the nose and the eyes; and had I over felt disposed to deubt the truth of the assertion,the incident which terminated mv ‘first love’would have made me a proselyte to the belief. The shock upon mv olfactories, restored'to their proper tone, my organs of vision, and 1 was now enabled to view things in their true colors. What had before appeared to me an object ol the most exquisite loveliness, now put on the form of a rude and siatb riy girl. Golden tresses were turned to carrotv locks; rosy cheeks took the hue of an over burnt brick bat; a. clear, liliy complexion resembled a weather-beaten pine board; and that vo.ee, once thought so melodious, rivalled in discor dancy the screeching of a night-owu- Oh ladies beware of onions! * * ♦* Yes, it must indeed be ‘an ill wind that blows nobody good’, and I never found reaso to regret the bias’, that in extinguishing ’he firs flashes of my folly, blew me in o the good graces of Ellen 11. Years have s:nc< rolled by. and various are the vicissitudes which I nave witnessed and exp’ rieneed; and yet the form of ihat giil is now before me, as when I used to gaze upon it with all the rapturous fervency of y<> thltd admiration. Her stature was below the or dinary size of one just ripening into woman hood; bu< the airy elegance of her well-pro portioned figure, would beampie compensa tion, even in the eye of a connoisseur, for this blemish in her beauty. Iler features 01 tin finest mould, had n them that which imparted an additional power of charming.—a certau je. ne sols quoi of expression—a somctluna which denotes virtue and intelligence in the possessor—-a soul beaming countenanc which can never bo mistaken. A face m. have all the other requisites for rendering it what the world calls handsome, but withou this heav niv irradiation of the mind—this reflection of intellectual light, i can never b< really beautiful. Away with your looks that express nothing; I would almost prefer ti malig nant leer to the gapping stare ot fatuity. But Ellen’s personal beauty was nothin. when compared to the supremacy of'tier no- blc mind. The first was but the mirror of , the laiter—the type by which it was reprt- , Anted. But enough of description; tins is not my forte: and to discribe a beautiful fe mule is a task particularly difficult. It is like trying o tell th • colours of changeable silk. difference of position or the intensity of the light bv which •ou view it, will eff ct an altera tion while you are yet speaking. Ellen’s firsi appearance it our school, was on the very dav upon Inch occurred the af fray of which I have spoken; and ns her par ents had late'y arrived in that part oi the country, this was the first time that 1 had se n her. Whether r was that she discover-d something prepossessing tn my person, or whether she was mo e pleased with the gal lant manner m which I vindicated the ho or of my fair one, is a ques ion which I have nev r, even to this day, been ale to deter rnit)' - Vanity would cacti mo to think that ( both these causes had some influence: but H en that officious monitor, Common Sense insists | upon itthn’ my beauty is a quality which he j has never vet discovered; and he believes it ' quite impossible that one should no admired for his valorous spirit, when the only ptoofofl it is that he has received a drubbing. Howe, ver be the reason what it may, the fact was; clear. She conceived, or at least appeared to 1 conceive, a violent passion for my sweet Self; and 1, who have never been accused ot ingrati ■ tudo in this respect, was, to be stne not back ward in reciprocaling cr affection, in short I was t ken bv a coup d'ocil', and was forced t* surrender the garrison of my heart, without even being granted terms of capitulation. In plain English, a glanc. I’omhei bright twinkiers set my heart a dancing to the sweet music of her voice, and I in tore. We soon came to a perfect understanding, and weir every ti.ing to each other.’ We! played, we sung, we raml» ! e<l tho fields to. j • .. • I ... _ .1 gvtlwr. Our tasie were similar; —we read the s.une novels, admired the same poetry. Bv the by. speakin" of poe ry, I once even attemp ed my sell to address a eunnvt “To Elh-n’s <v« s’, 't hus it was: I had just returned from a Ion" moon-hglit 1 walk with tny charmer, more limn ever con-1 vinced of the many p. rfi ctiwns centred in the mi", lie creature, when the poetic furor seiz ed me. I sna’chcnl up a pen. and hastily seating myself at my desk, prepared to pour fou’th the‘virgin lay .* V tin • and unsulli. I sheet of immpcriai gilt edged paper was spread in tempting whiteness before me, kind. lv off ring its assistance for unburthemng my soul surcharged with hartnonv, and inviting me to make its pure bosom the confident of my passion, and the repository of my glowing thoughts, I began — The sun may shrink behind a cloud. The moon with envy veil her taco, F-zi natur ’•» voice proela ms a'oud That Eden’s eyes are— Are what? Here I came to a ‘dead ha't.' i< the .1 eo( me, I could find nothing th t we .id rhyme with face’, and y» l preserve s< me -shadow of sense.* Pface, j • ce, race, mot's, c sr— i? «-us a c ?.«?.) none of them wouh. answer purpose. I ur ed i.d’tWFui the verse into all ’'••am.or of bn cou d make nothing f better of it; I knocked at the front of my’ pericranium, a hollow sound was the only • i response; I sipped at the (’astalian fount, in the shape of rh\ming dictionary, but the draught was not inspiring; I severally invoked each muse, but the coy Pierian maids heeded not my call. I burnt the paper, threw away my pen spilt the ink. abjured poetry forever; con-j vinced that as my ideas refused to glide in metre, I must be content to limp in prose. ’j But, as old Paton used io say, ‘ ‘I hasten to the conclusion.’ I saw Ellen, E for the lust time,on the evening of the day on 1 which she completed her fifteenth year. On ( ! ihe next day her father had resolved to put, 1 in execution his contemplated removal to the | ’ distant town of I) ; and with many protestations of eternal constancy, an inter ; change of vows and an agreement to main tain a regular correspondene, weseperated. True to her word lor some time each mail brought me at least one letter, filled with the warmest language of love and endarmei.t. ut afterwards they came less fr qtienly, their contents appeared couched in a colder and more reserved style, a. d at last they ceased altogether. Unable to divine the cause, I was on the rack of anxiety; fearing the alienation of her affections, but yet tin willing to persuade myself that there was truth in ’he conjecture. After several we ks of disappointment, 1 called one day at the Pos’oflice more in despair than in hope, and again received the cheerless answer, ‘No letters lor you, sir. With a heavy heart 1 was turning away, when tnv eye fell upon a pack: t of newspapers from D which h d just arrived. With a listless curosity 1 .danced over the pages of one of them, and it) a corner, surmounted by two impabd hearts like gizzards on a skewer, was this brief no ’ice: • Hymeneal:— Married on I hurdav last, by the Rev. A. C. I) , Mr. .) M o this place, to Miss Ellen R , late of HARRY. *1 have since learned that this circumstance need i hav troubled me. It is the general opinion of the , .-pnt day that senseib ny no wans an i'de-penst ■ e requ eue in the manufacture oi ‘love verses;’ the •reference is at all times •be given to sound. Tile ist line might then have been, Those eyes will sure supply their place. HOUSEWIVES AND EDITORS. Between a house wife and an editor there . ay well be a sympathy of heart. To both, lay after day, there is a round of duties. — Hie Housewife, in providing for her family, must have their wan s ever before her. And so with the editor of a newspaper. He h..s a still mot" numeious family, and with more diversified wants to be provided for. She mils’ S' e that her meals bo furnished in due season, and in preparing them, tho health ami tastes of her family, and of the different members of it, are to be regarded. Just so <he editor. He must have in readiness, nt the regular times, the meals of his family; consult* ■ng with anxious care both their tastes and their healths; pr seating something w hich may be suited toeacn. And if ei'hcr fails in time, quantity, or quality, there is danger of wry looks, and of a goodly number of dry inter rogations. The housewife clears away the table hut to prepare it again for the new an I evc<--return mg wants of hunger. She must sec that she no only has something of a variety for <»ne meal, but a new and different variety lor th next, for appetites satiate with the same, how. ev< r good, and demand a continual change. The Editor, too, finishes rorrecting his last proof-slip (which is but washing up his dish es, 1 ) and begins to comfort himself with the thought that this is off his hands, when he hears the well known voice of tho printer. “Want copy again early in the morning,’ <lnd he poor editor wends his way horn*- rack ing his brains for something new to cook up for the next dinner. And then the prudent housewife must re gard economy, and the cold remains -of one meal must he hashed and dressed up in some m w form for the next. Here, again, there is a resemblance: the editor often finds him self under the necessity of eking out his »len. der dinner by serving up in some new dress, the leavings of firmer meals. In this he is ■ something equally unfortunate with si ter ■ housewife for his family find it difficult to de- ■ termine whe'hei his dsh is made up most of tnea'.of fish.or of fowl. And to both it happens • that these dishes come on sometimes cold, and some times piping hot ; sometimes too much i salt; and again an over qtian i y of vinegar; and no’ unfrequ* nlly their families think the seasoning has been a I forgotten, and the fire has failed to perform its duty. Then it is well for both if they escape having the w io|e dash* I m their faces by some disappointed gourmand. ’ But vet my good housewife, we arc some times cheered by the complinu nts to our dish. <s. n-“fine,” “delicious.’ “most excellent;” anti we always arc sure that this weU-merri led praise comes from one who knows wha’ 'is good; and we delight in seating those who manifest so good a taste close at our elbows. Have I not done well, then mv kind rca- • d< rs, to devout nw first page to those between whorn and an editor there exists so many bonds of sympathy ?—Cm Jour. THE PI ASA. ASIXOTIX TRADITION OF ILLINOIS. No part of the I'nited States can vie, in wild and romantic scenery, with ’.hr bluffsof Illinois. On one side of the river, often at the water’s edge, a pci-pen hetrtar wall of rock ns< s to the height of some hundred feet.— Generali* on th. oppos te shore is a level bot tom or prairie, of several w 'th; ex- ’ tending to a similar biuffthat rises parallel | with the river. One of these ranges com mence at Alton, and extends, with a few in tervals, for many miles along the left bank of the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. In de scending the river to Alton, the traveller will observe between that town and the mou h ol the Illinois, a narrow ravine, though which a small stream discharges i s waters into the 1 Mississippi. That stream is the Piasa, i’s 'name is Indian, and signifies, in the language of the Illinois, “The bird that devours them.” Near the mouth of that stream; on the smooth and perpendicular face of the bluff, at an ele vation which no human art can reach, is cut i the figure of an enormous bird, with its wings j extended. Tiie bird which this figure represents, Was ' called by ’h< Indians. ‘The Piasa”—and from | this is derived the name of the stream. Ibe I tradition ot the Piasa is still cum nt among all the tribes ofthe upper Mississippi and those who have inhabited the valley of the Illinois, and is briefly this: Many thousand moons before the arrivalpi the pale faces, when the great Magalomx and i Mosfodoiu, whose bones arc now dug up. were , still living in the land of the g pen prairies, ' th. re exis’ed a bird of such dimensions that !t<- ■ ould easily earn off in his talons a full grown deer. Having ob aim'd a taste oi human flesh, from that time he wou d prey upon nothing else He was as artful as he was powerful - would dart suddenly and unexpectedly upon an Indian, and bear him off to one of the caves in the bluff and devour him. Hu idreds ol warriors attempted for rears o des’roy him, but without success. Whole villages were nearly depopulated and consternation spread through ad th tribes of Illinois. At length, Owatoga, a Chief whose fame extended as a warrior, even beyou I the great lakes, sepa-1 ting ' imself from he rest of his tribe, fasted in [ solitude for the space of a moon, and prayed to the great spirit ofthe master oflifetha’ he would protect his children from the Piasa. On the last night of his fast die great s| in; appeared to him in •> dream, and directed him to select twenty of his warriors, each armed with a bow and pointed arrows, and conceal tie min a designated spot. Near the place of their concealment another warrior was to stand it) open view, as a victim .or the Piasa. which they must shoot the in- nt that he pounced upon his prey. When the Chief a woke in die morning, he thankedtho Grea Spi: t, returned io his tribe, md told them his dream. The warriors were quickly sei cted, and placed in am bush as directed. Owatoga off red iinself as ‘he victim, lie was wi lin o die for his t .be. Pacing himself in open view of the bluff, he soon saw the Pmsa perch ed on the efiffeyeing his prey. Owatog; drew up his manlv form to its utmost heigh’ and pl ,cing his feet fi irly upon the earth began to chaunt the death song of a warrior. \ moment after the Pi; sa rose mm the air. and, swift as i'ie thunderbolt darted down upon the Chief. Scarcely had he reached his vic tim, when every bovy was sprung and cverv arrow sent to the feather into his body. The Piasa uttered a wild, fearful scream, that re sounded far over the opposite side of the rivet , and expired. (Jwatoga was safe; not an ar row, not even the talons of the bird hid touch ed him. The Master of life, in admiration of noble deed of Owatoga, hud held over him an invisable shield. In minion of (his event, this image of the Piasa was engraved in the face of the bluff. Such is the Indian tradition, of course I do not vouch for its truth. This inuc however is certain, the figure of a large biid, cut into the solid rock, is still there, and nt a height that is perfectly inaccessible.— How, and for what purpiseit was made, 1 leave it for others to determine. Even at this dav, an Indian never passes that spot in his canoe without fir ng his gun • t the figure ol the bird. The marks of bails on the rocks arc most innumerable. Not a rreat while since I was induced to visit the bluffs below Hie mouth of the Illinois river,: and above that of the Piasa. My curiosity I was principally directed to the examination ofj the eave connected with the above tradition,; as one ofthose to which ihe bird had carried its human victims. Preceded by an intelli gent guide, who carried a s-pade, I set ou' on my excursion. Toe cave was extremely ditli cult «>f access and one [xiint ofour progress, I stood at an elevation of more than lot) feet on the face of the bluff, with handy room to sustain one foot, the unbrerk n wall towered NIIO'UHi MH’ .... above me, whi c below was the river. After a long and peril >tis clambering, we reached the cave, which was about 50 feet above the surface of the river. By the aid of a long pole, placed on the prnjec ing rock, and the upper end touching the mouth of the cave, we succeeded in entering it. Nothing could be more impressive than the view from the en trance of the cavern The .Mississippi was rolling in silent grandeur beneath us—high nvei our heads, a single cedar hung its bran ches over the cliff-on ihe blasted top of which, was seated a bald Eagle. No other sound or -ign o: life was near us—a sabbath stillness r.sted upon the scene—not a cloud in the Heavens —not a breath of air stinng—the broad Mississippi lay before us, calm and smooth as a lake. The land-ca|M! pres< ntcd the same wild like aspect as it did before it had yet met the eye <»f the white man. The roof «>; th • cav rn was vaulted, the top of which was hardly less than tw< nty-fivefi*et in height—: e shape of the cave was irregu lar, bu’ so far as 1 could judge, the bottom would average 20 by 30 fe t. Ihe floor ot the cave through its whole extent was a mass of human bones, sculls and ot ier bones were mingl’d together in the utmost confusion. To w at depth ’ ey eXV-nd, I am unable to de cide; but w e dug to the depth of hree or four fe<*’in every quarter of the cavern, and stilb we found only bones. The remains of thou* sands must have been deposited here. How, and bv wl oin, and for what purpose, it is im possible to conjecture. A HUNTER’S STORY. You see, folks that ain’t used to the woods, sometimes get mighty flurried when they meet with those wild animals. There now’s a man in ’I e next town who went out after moose, and when he heard one trotting along the same trail lie was travelline, squatted behind a stump to shoot him; but the fellow having never scon a moose, had no idea of the sort of game he was after; and when a greet bull j six venr old, ot the bigness ofa horse, and Imrns that looked far all creation as if they I never could pass between the trees of these I .woods, came crashing the branches with his I big hoofs, the man kinder shrunk like behind a log, aud sa\s la- to the moose, “Ifyou 11 only let me alone, I’ll let you alone.” Now ’he fellow only knew about bears as he had heard us . trappers, speak of them, as carry ing a hall’a dozen bulls in their bodies, and ; sometimes killing our dogs for us when we go j to take them out of our traps, after being held 'there by the j aw, starving, you don’t know ' how manv days. Well, this man was on a lake watching in h’s boat for deer, when hearing a plunge and a splash, he pulls round an island, ‘and finds a great she bear swim ming straight across the lake. Being a good fel’ow' with the oars, he pulls at once to cut off the bear from the opposite shore, which made the cretur change her course and try and swim r mid the boat. The man, howev er, again turned her, and the bear once more al < red her course, but s’iil kept for the same shore she had been ste< ring. Gathering ' spunk, now. the man. in turning the third time, | rowed nearer to the beast, expecting in this ■ wav 10 drive her back a little, so -is to keep i the bearout in the middleofthe lake until some one could come and help him. But when the stern of the bo.it, in swinging round, came near the bear, s! e put her paws upon it, and raised herself right in o lhe boat, and there she sat on end looking the man in the face just as quiet, now, as a bear could look. Well, the man, if he’d only knowed where to hit a bear might have brought one of his oars down on the back of her skull, just as easv as say so, and tough ash is better than a rifle ball wiih these vannin s. But he didn’t like that kinder quit 1 ’ look lhe cretur gave him; and i-icsnt, the bear looking at the man, and b( man looking at tin- bear. At last, when lie got over his fright a lit’ le, he began to move, ti soars slowly in order to creep toward the shore from which the Lear ha I started; but ’’;r crctiir wouldn’t allow this; she moved from her seat a 1 .tie toward the man, and showed her teeth in away h» didn't like; bn as soon as the man turned the boat, the bear took her old place again, attJ sat there just as quiet as you please; so ihe man pulled for the shore to which the beat bad been swim ming, watching the bear’s face all (he while. And would you b' lieve it, now, ’hat the bear made him back his boat in toward a rock, up on which the crelur stopped from the stern, •and turning round, gave the man a grow I for his pains before she walked off into the woods- Tormented lightning! to be fa- ti l so by ti hear’ Why. 1 would have died upon the spot before that bear should hive left the boat without trying which was the best of us.—Mir ror. wam)' iis IWVEL A.'T) S T Ipterary Entcrpisc—Novels, Eales, Biography, ' oyages, 'travels, Reviews, an t' the news of the Day, JT was on® of the great objects of “ Waldie’s Lt jit bcary.”-* 1 to make good reading cheaper,” and to br ng in* rattire to every mans door.” Ti. Cir object has been accomplished; we have given to hooks wings, ana they have fl»w.i t > the unarm >st parts ot our vest c ntinei t, carrying society t.» the s< ctu-ied, Occupa lion to the literary inform-niotr ot all. We now propose su'd further to reduce pr res, aid render the access to a literary banq i»<t, more ilian .wo tolls accessible; we gave and; shall continue to give in the qporto li brary, a volume wee kly, tor twoe nts nd.iy. We now propose to give a volume m the same period lor less tnan (bur cents a week, ana to add as a ptq Hint sea sowing io ihe dish, a <cw co uinns o' the shorter lite rary matters, and i summary of the news and even’s |ot tne day. Wo know by experience and calculations that we can go still further in th. mam r oi rciiueu >n, 1 and we n-el h t there is soli verge enough lor us to i aim at offering to an iucre.is.ng literary appetite, that men al food which it cravi n Tne Select Circulating L iirary, now as ever so J great a favorite, wi I ©orrinne to make its weekly vis i its, and to be issued in a tvrm t*r binding and preser vation, and its price nnd form w.lt r< mam die same. But we shall in th- first week of January, 1837, issue ; a huge sheet ot the sue oi the largest newspaper of America, but on very superior pape>; ffil<*d with books , ot the newest and most entertain ng. though tn their 1 several departments of Nove's’Tal.-s. Voyag. s, Tra ; vels. &c. select tn their character, joined with read '! tng such ns should fill a weekly newspaper. By this method we hope to accomplish a great good- to enli ven and enlighten the family circle, and to give to t, i at an expense which shall be no censidera ton to any, a mass of reading that tn book form would alarm tile pocke'c ol the prudent, and to do it in a manlier that the most sc. pticat shall acknow .edge, " the power •>l concentration can no further g-> ” No book which appears n Waldie’s Q sarto Library, will be publish ed tn the Omnibus, which will be an entirety distinct periodical. TERMS. 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The discount on uncur; rent money will be charced to the remitter; the low price and superior paper, absolutely prohibits paying a discount. • On no condition will a copy ever be sent until t.uj payment is received in advance. As the arrangements for the prosecution of this great literary undertaking are all made, and the pro prietor has redeemed ali his pledges to a generous pub lie for many years, no tear ot the non-titlfiilment ot the contract can bete.lt. The Omnibus will he rcgii gnlarly issued; and will contain in a year, reading mat ter equ;il in amount to two volumes ot Rec’s Ciclopc. dia for the small sum mentioned above. Address post paid*, ADAM XVALDIE. 4G Carpenter St. Philadelphia. Editors throughout the U lion, and Canada, will eonlei a favor by giving ’he a-iove one or more inset’ lions.‘and accepting the work fur a year as compensa’ tiou. ■ ; . , *,* A specimen number, nearly ready, will be for' warded to those who request it, providing such request be made free of postage. PROSPECTUS OF THE SOUTHERN REVIEW. be published at Washingion, quarterly, in an Svo N<e. 0f275 to 3,10 pages, price per air num. payable in advance. The place is chosen, not only for ns facilities of inform ition, literary and politi cal, but as that at which the Southern States can be united up.hi the underiakrng, with lhe greatest ease, and vi itb the completes! exemption from al! State or Pam jealousies. Ofthe matter, three.fourths (say 2Q5 pp.) shall con sist of regular Reviews, making about 9 of 25 pp. each.- These must, as literary works at least, return as a gc. neral-rule, somewhat towards that older method* now almost forgotten, nntl give a regular analysis ot the tmok reviewed, it nbn ol any merit. la Polities and upon Occasional 'i opics, there may be a greater liber ty <>f deviating into mere disquisition. Li this portion ol the Review, there w;lt be gi cm, in vai h No. a paper historical of the Politics and get;. | oral events of the (lav; to servo as a Historical Regia.: | ter. 1 3 evecution will always be commit led' to- lire 1 strongest hands onlv; and its purpose, to: give n unity and eonsisiencv to tha Public Doctrines of the Review sucli us can scarcely be so well efßcted in any other matter. Occasional Retrospective Reviews will also be cm boclicd in tins pari ol the p a >, wiih a view of favoring in a certain degree, lhe more cuneus studies; or '.o r<-‘ we the knowledge of importtml books, forgotten in the confusion of modern learning. Wn'e-s will he led, ol regular purpose Io give their papers, v\ herever ihc e-übjecl will peimit, llie.lot m of i service; in order not oily that they nmv thus ♦ iford i completer body of information, serve, a'so, ’o reprint apart, for popular circulation; a method ilia' will much •iignn nt both the reputation and trselu’neis ofthe Re. ■ view. A body of Miscellanies (say eime "Opp ) will form di? subordinateland'more aiHUi> r.g part ot the Journal. Its contents will be somewlrit-v.-.ri ins; but will, fur die nost part, consist at short Literary Notices; B.biio. graphical Ar icles; a critical list ot Nbw I‘ublii anous. foreign and domestic, and general Literary linclli , g< uce. ; In Communications, the moat compressed irmTe of writ rgv.il] be every where riquircd. Euptrs in which the woik- do not bear a just proportion to tho information conveyed or the effect intended, w ill bo ■ etilitr rejected, without sciuple, or abridged, wphoue in- rev To warrant this exaction, the ni-iial rate of compete ation tn writers will tie advanced to 2 1.2 dollars per printed page; a price (tint will niii r lair remuneration to the talents mil labor which we wi-tj i<> secure. Ol this rev vi! of a Review ol tin’ South, ihe pur; pose is. to t : .ve once more to our reg'ioh. now enim ently needing u) an Interpreter an.l a Offender ; thu •ominon R. i resentative ot our fnsiimtions, aud of tins M mil I'seit auiocg us. Such in that "rent (tongr. - s of Opinion, where the fates ol ctvifs -d nations are now so Inr it ly fettled, we do not possess and we have td ready sulTereil much for if. It is time io make our. selves understood and respected thcr . The Journal winch »hall d > tins, iruvt eombmo tiiegemral stro uh oi nil w bo, Hu otiglioui the Souih, love the country, and nre cap.ab'e of doing it intellected service. It must then be, not the Champion or the propagandist of lo cal opinion”, but the friend of rill t-lmt pursue tho pub 'l Im good. Into the vulgar nvthods of Politics, deb.as. i cd by r.irt'z'an rancour, or corrupted by the intere-t. ( or i.vcrhc.r o by the popular passion of the h"Wf, n must i not fall—V’roni it, the pride ot the Null fler must re ceive no diminution, the fidelity ol the Uniftfiists no r'-prowh : I’ must be no vantage ground to t'tfher part, nor serve but ns an equal field, vtherc they will only • c- ntend which shall most advance the cause of iho > Soudj.and of that older doctrine ot Jeffersonian Siam ' Kights, avowed by both parties alike, nnd now the . onlv hope of rallying and of rescuing the’ country. To vindicate, then, our peculiar Inrfitt'it'ione; to re. bel with argument, lest presently we be forced to re- • bcl with'arins. all interference with otf domestic coti diiton, against the wild rule <-f mere Chance and Cor ; rupiion, in uj hold a Rcptddicnn nnd Federative, aed s i tingnished from a Democratic and Consolidating nd. ministration of the Natiomil affairs, from the dtsor* i ' ders of the Ccotral government. Where .Reform in hopeless, and even us«*le««, nil you have given your wlves -tro.iger and wiser local systems—-to dried tho ■ public view mv.-ir 's n home policy o! th® State, enpti- ■ Me, through tteeffr to confer ttpnn us the blessings of well ordeted Liberty, expected in vain from the Fe deral Power; from the d- lus’ou of Party Poltiica abroad to call homo the «isß and brave have often raised petty Sta’cs into noble and prosperous Commonwealth ; to attncli men, if possible, to their birth place, at d convert them from wandering and selfish adventurers, into citizen*, the lovers of ci«ihz itioc, to re.animate public soirit, nnd give tt purpose, ns well ns energy; to hold, over parties and Politicians, the tribunal of a Public opinion far different from that idle nnd corrupt one. of which th- newspaper Press is the voice; for ihcsc p trposes, to diffuse through the land, sound andj w> 11 considered public doctrines, with knowledge and Tarfe, their n iturnl allies, snch will be the general aim <n that literary league, among the best talents of i the country, which has been set on loot in the present undertaking. Os its critical purposes, it is not necessary to specie so minutely. In general, it wtlf of course strive t" gtnde the popular taste towards the best sources in knowledge, and the truest models in Elegant Letters. Its judgments wdl however, found themselves upon j the dent ot his temporary renown, nor that of his birth on this or the otheretde of tho Atlantic. Towards the few good writers, the want of cultivation has yet > permitted us have in Amarica, it will know how to bo respectful. But tn Literature, as lately in 1 radc, ws shall insist that no man’s bad commodity be forced up on us, under patriotic pretences. Upon ail that school of wrttsined. Upon the Literature of mere amusement, existenco enj >ved bv th e literary grass, which flourishes green ly u> the morning, nnd is cut down and flung away be. fore Hie oig it. Lite s'co abort, Art too long, and'. Learning grown too prolific, for people to occupy them. ‘ selves more 'han an instant with bad books, whilo sush great bodies of good one# ire at their commacd-.