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Our promising yoiiiio sirler was horn on , contrast
I It is run irnsifuljuict tl,e P’ cefc ^' li S iiC '
, count was furnished by Gen, Oglethorpe.
I Oor sister sliiniM in February next, prepare
her Centennial festival. It would be an nmus-
i in" illus!ration of her sudden magnitude, to
tber io their lives, been, of uli* thu l*,bes oijseolte iotcroal, except the recollect.ons tvhicu
min, the most keenly susceptible to love i i must crowd upon tho mind, while contempla-
their solitude feed* their passion ; when lo.vo I ting the birth place of Washington,
is once admitted to their lienrl*' there is nn J “ In 1816, immediately after the ratilicatior
countercheck t« its emotions, and no escape i of the Treaty ol peace, Mr. Cuatis repaired ii
POSSET.
1 Friday, Utli February, 1733, and therefore is; .1 plentiful Dinner far
| now in her hundredth year, yet though of litis j Colony in 1733.
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From the New York Mirror.
TO FITZ-GBEENE IIALLCCK, KSQ
BY THfc LATt JOSEPH n. PIUKP. M. t’.
“You damn ine with lain t praise.”
Yes*, flint wan my applause ami cold tnv prni.w*.
Tunnel soul wan glowing in each poli.-lird liner ;
Hi t notih*r euhjecU claim tin? poet’s lavs —
A^hfighter glory waits a muse like thine j .
J.et nmoroua fools in love-nick men ore pine,
J.ct Strangford whimper on in fancied pain, •
And leave to*Moore the hacknied rop.* and vine , i
11** thine the tank a higher cr iwn to gain—
The envied wreath that decks the patriot’s holy etrmu f
j ago amlrnhoupoittl in uppt*nriiurc,Hlie 1ms not | 4 fit Hogs
- ,yet reached uhove u fourth of her growth. i ® |(h' 1 | ll «r i'ancl,
i Tim following doscrip'ion of ‘her christen- | , i.'imI." (leer, &ic.’
j ing will interest equally,Carolinians and Geur- j tfo|| . M ubo(|od up „„ vvhic |, , icr Centenial
Orators might insidt with justifiable pride:
Wirh a scanty Dinner for
the Slate ill 1S33.
15,qp0f.ii tings,
•J 1,000 Turkics
3,0(10 'ihils. if Punch,
3,000 lidJs. Beer, Ua.
from its excitation.
j Woman, whoso love is so much tho crea-
| i U re of her imagination, always asks some,
j thing of mystery and conjecture in the object
oflier affection. It is a luxuty to her to .per-
Iplex herself with a ihnusand apprehensions;
and tho more restlessly her lover occupies her
mind, the more deeply he enthrals it.
Tho consciousness of how little individual
Yet not in proud triumphal song a In
Or martial ode. or.ad sepulchral dirge ;
There needs no lay to make our glories known f
There needs no song the warrior's son! to urge
To iread the hounds of danger's stormy verge ;
Columbia siill shall win thchaittu's pri/.o !
Itof lie it thine to biJ her mind emerge ;
T.i .trike her harp until its soul ariso
Finn 11 lie neglected shade where low in dm it lies!
Are iheru nn scenes to touch the poet’s soul ?
No leedsof arms to wake the lordly strain ?
Shall Hudson’s billows unregarded roll 1
IVhilinarsli's S. ('. (inzrttc, March 31. 1733. j Among others, they ntuy with safety assert
FIRST [ilvNF.lt, FIRST SF.IIMON, AND ! tint! she hud surpassed every otto of tho old
FltlST IldOF. !thirteen in tho tapidily ol her growth. Penn-
Account nfilic progress of tin: first Colony jsvlvoniu, whoso progress during her first ceil-
sent to Georgia. j tnrv exceeded that of ull the others, possessed
“ We set sail from Gravesend nn Iho 17th ! •** 1790, which was 110 years alter her settle-
November, 17:12. in tho ship Artnc, of two'ment, a population of 435,000. Georgia, tie
red tons, .John Thomas, master—luting! for* she Ita* completed her first century has
Hh» Warren (ought, Montgomery died, in vain ?
Shame ! that while ovary mountain, atreuin, nod plain .
Hath tlieme fur trutti'a proud voice or fancy's wand, i m the bar ol the
No native hard the patriot harp halli*la’en, I miles from llcailforl.
But left to minstrel of a foreign at rand I On the 18lh lie went oil shore upon French
To aine the beauteous scenes of nature's loveliest i. , , , , ~ , - . , '
land! j Island, and left a guard of eight men upon
John’s, being n point of that Island wiiicli
nhout one hundred anil thirty pet,-suns, and nr- [reached 516,000. Again, those of the old
rived off the bar of Charleston on the 13ilt I thirteen who ara beyond tho Potomac,indulge
January following. Mr. Oglethorpe went on j much self-complacency in the delusion that
shorn to wait upon the governor; was received j their movement is nil celerity, and that the
with great marks of civility and satisfaction ; j .South is sluggish, stationary, and rather acP
obtained nn order for Middleton, tins king’s t rancing backwards. Now, so far from this
pilot to carry the ship into Port Royal, nnd jbeing the fact, Guorgia lots dislaaccd every
for small craft to carry lit" colony from thence jono of them in her increase, except N. \ork,
to Snvnnnal), with a promise of further nssis- and her she Inis dearly heal. I he popula-
tanco from'the province, lie returned on ! lion of Pennsylvania at present is but sonte-
ard the 1 Ilk day, and canto to anchor with- j what more than three limes its amount forty
"oy
his own vessel to the birth place, having pre
pared a stono with a suitable inscription, to bn
deposited on the ruins of tho Mansion. Mr
C. was accompanied in the execution of this'
pious duty by Samuel Lewis, Esq. great neph
ew of Washington, and the late Wm. Grymes,
Esq. tho son of an officer of the revolution,
who hold a command in the body guard. The
party landed at Wakefield, bearing in their
genius can do to relievo the mass grinds out, j arms tho stone, encircled by tho slar spangled
as with a stone, all that is generous in uinbi-! banner, and having gathered together as much
tion; and to aspire from iho level of lilb is but I materials from the remains of the ancient
to he more graspingly selfish. | mansion, bb would serve for a rude pedestal,
Even the dreams of the philantrhopist on- they deposited the stone thereon, with this in-
Oli! for a neat on Appalarlin’s brow,
That I might Mean tlief'lorion* prospect found !
Wild waving woods and rolling flood*
Smooth levplplodca and fields with grain crtihrownM ;
High heaving hill* with tufted forest* crown'd.
Urnring their proud tops to the heaven’s blue dome !
And cmctald isles like banners green unwound.
Seen floating o’»?r the lake, while round them roam
blue billowy helms and dancing plumes of foam.
'Tia trno, no fairies haunt our “ verdant mend:*,”
No grinning imps deform our blazing hr irfh;
Heueath the kelpies’ fangs n«» traveller blued.-*,
No gory vampy res taint our holy eurtli,
No spectres stalk to frighten harmless mirth,
Nor tortured demon howl* amid the gale ;
Tair reason checks these monsters in their inith;
Yet have we lay oflove and horrid tale,
Would dim the manliest cyo anu make tho bravest
pale!
Where ia the sterile eye that hath not fin'd,
Compassion’s dew-drops o'er the sweet .M’Crea 7
Through midnight wilds by savage bandit led ,
“ Her heart ia sad- her lovo is far away
l.lntethat lover waits the promised da v.
When tie snail rlanj* his blooming bride again •
tihine on, sweet visions! dreams of rapture play l
Soon tho cold corse of her he loved In vain
fchall blight Ills withering heart und fire his frenzied
• brainy
Homantie Wyoming / could none ho found,
ttCailthut roam thy Edcn-bowers among,
To wake a nutivo harp’s untutored soumh
And give thy tale of woe the voice of nong?
Ob ! if description’s cold and nerveless tongue
l'rom stranger harp such hallowed strains could call,
Mow doubly sweet the dcsv.awt wdd Ivol rung,
From one who lingering o'er “ thy ruin’d w all,”
Had pluck’d thy mourning (lowers and wept thy time
less fall!
-The Ifurrfn chief escaped from fjemen nigh,
His frail bark launches on Niagara’s tides;
V Pritle in' his port! defiance in his eye!”
Pinging his song of death t[tc warrior glides;
Tu vaiti they yell along the river's aides ;
In vatu the arrow from it* sheaf is torn ;
Calm to his doom the willing \ iclini ridi s,
And till ndown the roaring torrent borne,
Mocks them with gestures proud, und laughs their rugc
to scorn f
Arou«e} my friend—let vivid f.»ney*onr;
1.ook with creative eve mi nature’s fare—
Ilnl ” pohlinadatnn’d” ill wild Niagara roar,
And view in every lichl u fairy race!
Spur thy good juirolft to speed apace,
And spread a train of nymphs on every rhorr !
Or if thy muse would woo n ruder grace,
The Indian’s evil maniloes e.tpf'»ie,
And rear the wondrous tale of legendary lore.
Away! to Susuuehunr.a's utmost spring**
>\ here throned in mnuntuiu mist Aromki reign ’,
Slimudiug in lurid clmicls hi» plumetesa wings,
And sternly sorrowing o’er Ids tribe’s remains !
lhs was the arm, like comet ore it wanes.
That tore the streamy lightning from the shies,
And smote the mammoth of the southern plains!
Wild with dismay the Creek nftiiglited flies,
While in triumphant pride Kencava’s eagles rise.
<)i westward far where dark Miami wends,
Seek that fair spot as yet to fame unknown,
Wlrero when tho vesper clew of heaven descend j,
Poll inflate breathes in utility uinching tone ;
At times so sadly sweet it seems tlio moan
Of Home poor Artel penanced in the rock—
Anon a louder hurst—n scream! a groan !
And now amid the tempest’s reeling shock,
Gibber, and sluick, und wail, and fiendish laugh, and ;
mock. , j
Or climb the palisado’s lofty brow.« f
Where dark Oinanaa waged tho war of hell,
'Till roused to wrath the mighty apirit rose J
And pent tho demons in their primn cell:
Full on their bead* the uprooted mountain fell, **-
Enclosing all within its horrid womb!
Straight from tho teeming earth the waters swell,
-And pillar’d rocks arise In c'tceiless gloom.
Around the them abode, their lust, eternal tomb.
He then*? your lofty lliomm! but ne’er resign
Tho smil of song to laud your lady’s ryes;
<io kneel a worshipper at nature’s aiinne !
For you her rivers flow. Iter bills arise;
For yon Iter fields,fro green and fair Iter skies ;
And will yon scorn them nil to pour your tamo
And heartiest lays ol forced or fancied sighs ?
Still will you wrong the mu**, nor blush for shamo,
To'cast away renown and hide your bend from fame!
* Come! shake your trammel* off! let fool* rehearse
Their love* and raptures in unmeaning chime ;
Cram close their ijrudc conceits in maw kish verse,
And torture Itacknied thoughts in timeless rhyme:
lint thou shall 8oar *" tth>ri«»n* verse subliitio !
With heavenly voice of music, strength, and fire,
Waft wide the wonders of thy native clime ,
With patriot pride each patriot heart inspire.
Till Europe’s bards arc .mute before Columbia's lyre.
ay, nnd rnrno to anchor with- j wliat more than throe timon
Fort Itoyal at about sixteen years ago. that ol’ New York loss than six
lirncH, whereas that of Georgia approaches
sevenfold its 1 amount in 1790.
Another truth, wliirlt a Georgian may he
excused in rontemplaiing with satisfaction,
may ho specified : it is ihis, that while the
“ Old Dominion'’ is yielding In an inexplica
ble infatuation which will destroy herself, and
is already shaking the foundation of Southern
prosperity, this young member of the Ameri
can family, cherishes ike spirit, and resolutely
adheres to tho institutions of tho I'lantalion
Stales. We admire her fidelity. May she
ever combine Hie profitable contest of seeing
which etui do the other the most good, with
her sister und friend,
SOUTH CAROLINA.
mmands the channel, and is about half way
between Beaufort and the river Savannah.—
They had orders to prepare lints for the ro-
caption of tho colony against they should he
there in their passage.
From thence ho went to Beaufort town,
where ho arrived uliout one o’clock in the
morning, and was saluted will) a discharge of
all the artillery, and had tho mUv barracks fil
led up where the colony landed on tho 20th
day, and were in every respect cheerfully as-
aisled by Lieut, Walls, Ensign Farrington,
nnd lltn other officers of Ins Majesty’s inde
pendent company, us also by Mr. Dclnharr,
and other gentlemen of tho neighborhood
While the Colony refreshed themselves
there, Mr. Oglethorpe went up the river, and
chose a situation fora town, and entered into
it treaty with Temo Chi Chi, the Alien, or
chief of the only nations of Indians living nvar
it.
lie returned on the 21th day and they cclo
braied the ISunday following (viz : 28th Juttu
ary, 17*53) nn n datj of thanksgiving for their
safe arrival, and it sermon was preached by
the Rev. ATr. Jones, (the Rev, Dr. Herbert,
who came with tho colony preaching thnt day
at Beaufort town.) There was a great rest of
tho gentlemen of that neiglibothooj and their
families, and a plentiful dinner provided for
the colony, and ull that came, by .Mr. Ogle
thorpe, being four fat hogs, eight turkeys, be
sides fowls, English beef, and other provis
ions; a hogshead of punch, a hogshead of
beer, and a large quantity of wine; nnd till wus
disposed in so regular a manner, that no per
son was drunk, nor any disorder happened.
On the HOlh, the Colony embarked on board
a sloop of seventy tons, nnd tivo pcriuugcrs,
and made sail, hnt were forced bv a storm to
pul in a place called the l.ook-Out, and to lay
there ull night. The next day they arrived
at John’s, where they round huts capable to
conluin them all, and it plentiful supper of
venison. They re-embarked the next day,
and jn the nffornuun arrived at the place in
tended lor the town.
Being arrived on the fir.it o] February 1733,
at Iho intended town, before night they erect
ed four large tents sufficient to hold all tho
people, being one for each tytliing; they land
ed their bedding, and other littlo necessaries,
and all the people lay ntt tho shorn. The
ground encamped upon, is the edgo of tho riv
er where tho key is intended to he.
Until tho 7tlt was spent in making a cratte
and unlading the goods, which done, Mr.
Oglethorpe divided tho people, employing part
in clearing land for seed, part in beginning the
palisade, and the remainder in fulling of trees
whero ilia town is to stand.
Col, Bull arrived hero with a message from
die General Assembly (of South Carolina) to
Mr. Oglethorpe, and a letter from his F.xccl-
lincy Governor Johnson and the Council, ac-1
/udion Curiosiliet.—The Cherokee Phcp-
riix, in a laic issue, gives, in a communication
from a correspondent, it curious account of
certain mining appearances of an ancient cha
racter to ho found in that nation. The writer
reports himself to liavo visited Valley River,
in search of gold, where from reports which
lie had heard, lie felt disposed to visit some
cortam location upon the north .side of this
river, in which those appearances ore rnet.
The ridge in which they appear, is covered
with Indian tumuli, the skeletons •nly
partially conccnlcd by loose rocks from
the eye. In the immediate m ighhorhond,large
bodies of curt It have been thrown, evidently,
says our visitor, for the purposes of mining,
and ill search of some metal, lit supputt of
• his, n well of antique construction makes its
appearance near thirty Icet in depth—hern too
through tho ridge ur hill, runs a canal, six or
eight feet deep, about ten wide, utd thirty
vurds long. Two or three hundred yards dis
tunt and the mining evidences, broken by the
numerous t mult, re appear. Here we have
a pit of considerable depth; calculated to men
sure 30 feet in diameter. The earth is thrown
up around it, in such a manner und quantity,
as proves it to havo been tho result of human
labor. At a little distance, tho remnins of a
furnace ore found, convenient to a small foun
tain ul the head of n rnvino; nnd supposed to
havo been erected for the purpose of separat
ing the gold or silver or less valuable metals
Irout Iho rocks. Tltoso works are all antique
in their nppearunec, and resemble nothing of
their supposed nature, employed in modern
times. 'Flic mid,tinn of tho natives uniformly
agree, that about one hundred yenrs ago. n
company of white people came over the great
waters in pursuit of gold and silver ; and that
they spent several months nt the above named
places.’ An old Indian who resided'within a
low miles of the place, says that he is one
hundred yours old; nnd that whon he was a
very little hov, it large company of white men
manufactured lead and gave to the inhabitants.
This company it is stated took their departure,
pruhahly finding their labors unproductive,anti
huvo been traced, snys tho.writer, back to Eli
ropo from whence nnd whom letters in rein
tion to these relies, have been received. He
docs not tell us flom what quarter of Europe
they came, or to what quarter they went. The
article is devoted to a good deal of tho local
politics of tlm Cherokee nation us it now ex
ists; und the preceding statements have been
sifted from it at intervals, hero and there.—
Cur. Cat.
From the Seme.
Tlic MERIDIAN OF UFP„
Th« sparkling jov« that bubbled on tho sirtsm
Ot iftrly days, have vanished as a dream.
ThelaugtiiULr hoy, and ardent youth,give placo
“it to sober manhood's thoughtful lace:
Full i
The tile, t' at secned one joyous day of-piing,
VVithbu ivan' spirits, ever tin the wine,
Vroin idle flights has been compelled to bow—
The tl -wers that atrew’d y,.•« path aie faded now.
r . Thus I 'I iW tn die, that we may souner soar
To Ir p, s ab.it" ihis earth, not 'sought before.
f , No ■. while th" noon,of lii'« may give ns nine,
Krc evening's shadows nn our until decline;
Thu wlieu our win haa set, and hie is o'er,
Aa endless morn ooy nte, and vain regrets no mete.
■ 1 ' i *
quninting him that the two Houses, upon a
conference, luid ugrecd to give twenty barrels
of Rice, and n hundred head of Cattle, besides
Hogs, to the Trustees; .nnd tliul they had
roinnmmlcd a detachment of the /fniigera,
(which nro horse kept in the pay of Iho Pro
vince fur the scouring the frontiers) and tlic
Scout Rout, (which is nn armed barque em
ployed for the snino purpo.su by water) to at
tend him, and take his orders.
Col. Bull brought with him four of his ne
groes who wero sawyers, to assist the Colotiv
and also brought provisions for them, being
resolved ro pul the trust to no expense, nnd
by this nteatia to bestow his beneluctioii in
j tho most noble and useful rnnnner. On the
Off, day, Mr. Oglethorpe and Col, Bull marked
out the square, the streets, nmi 40 lots fur
houses fur the town; und the first house which
was ordered tu he mndo of clapboards, was be
gun on that day.
Tho Town lies on the south side of the riv
er. Satnnnah. upon n Hut on Iho top of a hill,
and 00 yards of it is reserved between it and
the Key. The river washes the foot of tho
hill, which stretches along the side of it about
u mile, und forms a terrace forty feet perpen
dicular above high water.
From the Ivey, looking eastward, you innv
discover the river a* far as tho islands in tho
sea; nnd westward, ono may sen it wind thro’
the woods above six mile*.
. The river is a ihnusand feet wide, the wa
ter fresh, and deep enough for sloops of 70 Ii may be noted the' the enthusiasts oi
tons, to come up closo to the sido of tho Key. learning and revery h- e, ct er.o lima or nno-
Sayfrtgj from Eugene Aram.—It has been
observed, that wherever you see a flower in a
cottage garden, or u birdcage at iho window,
you may feel sure that tho cottagers are bet
ter nnd wiser than thoir neighbours.
The colours of our existence were doomed
before our birth—our sorrows and our crimes ;
millions of ages hack, when this henry earth
was peopled by other kinds, yea! ere ils
atoms had formed one layer of its present
soil, the cteinal and the nll-seoing Ruler ol
iho universe, had hero lived the moment of
our birth and the limits of our career.
“ It is a hard life wo bookmen lend. Our
enjoyments nro few and calm ; our labour
constant. Wo grow old before our time ; wo
wither up ; the sap of youth shrinks from our
veins; there is mi bound in our step ; itis’n
bitter life—a bitter life—a joyless life. I
would I had never commenced it. And i/et
llte harsh world scowls upon us : our nerves
aro broken, and they wonder wo are queru
lous ; our blood curdles, and they ask whv
wc are not guy ; our brain grows dizzylnid in
distinct, and, shrugging thetv shoulders, they
whisper their neighbours the' wo arc mad "
ly tend towards equality ; and whero is equali
ty to be found but in tho state of tho savage ?
No : I thought otherwise once : hut I now re
gard the vast Inznr-houso around us without
Hope of relief: Death is the solo physician !”
“ How poor, even in this beautiful world,
with the warm sun and fresh air about us,
that alone ure sufficient to make us glad,
would ho life, if we could not mako the hap
piness of others I"
Youth, beauty, potnp, what are these, in
point of attraction, to a woman’s heart, when
compared to eloquence!—the magic of the
tongue is the most dangerous of all spells!
There is a curtain charm about greut supe
riority of intellect, that winds into deep affec
tions, which a much more constant and oven
amiability of manners in lesser men,often fails
to reach.
A Socrates may claim it to-day—a Napo
leon to-morrow ; nav, a brigand chief, illus
trious in the circle in which he lives, may cull
it forth no less powerfully than the generous
failings of u Byron, or the sublime excellence
of the greater Milton.
" This, to my mind,” said Arum at length,
" is Iho most pleasing landscape ill the whole
country- Observe the bashful water stealing
awuy among the woodlands. Methinks the
wave is endowed with an instinetivo wisdom,
that ii situiis the world ”
Ihe sterner powers that wo arouse within
us to combat a- passion that can no longer bo j
worthily indulged are never afterwards wholly]
alluycd. Like the allies which a nation sum
mons to its bosom to defend it front its foes,
they expel the enemy only to find a sottlemcnl
for themselves.
In t ii pure heart of a girl loving lor Ihe first
time, I ve is for more ecstatic than in man,
inasmuch us it is unlevered by desire—love
then and there makes tlic only state of human
existence which is at once capable of calmness
und transport!
Menial activity and moral quietude are tho
two states which,were they perfected and uni
ted, would constitute perfect happiness. It is
sue It a union which constitutes ull we imagine
of heaven, or conceive of the majestic felicity
of a God!
We do indeed cleave iho vast heaven of
Truth with a weak und crippled wing : and
often wo uro appalled in our way by a dread
sense of ihe immensity around its, und of Iho
inadequacy ol our own strength.”
‘ As you see the spark fly upward,—some
times not fulling tu the earth till it lie dark
and quenched,—thus soars, whither it reeks
not,-so that the direction tm above, the lumi
nous spirit of him who aspires to Truth ; nor
will it hack to tho vtlo and heavy clay from
which it sprang, until the light which boro it
upward be no mori
” The susceptibilities that wo create or re
fine by the pursuit of one object, weaken our
general reason ; and I ntay compare with some
justice Ihe powers of the mind to the faculties
ol the body, m which squinting is occasioned
by an inequality of strength in tho eyes, nnd
discordance of voice by tho samo inequality in
the cars.”
There are seasons, when wo aro suddenly
called from ourselves, by the remembrances
ol early childhood : something touches tho
electric chum, and, lo ! a host of shadowy null
sweet recollections steal upon us. VVe are
born ogam und live anew. As tho sccrot pugo
in which tiie characters once written seem for
ever effaced, but which, if breathed upon, gives
them ugnin into view ; so the memory can re
vive the images invisible for years; but while
wo gazo, the breuth recedes from the surface,
und all one moment so vivid, with Iho next
moment has become once more a blank !
11 W hat is tho world which wc ransack, but
a stupendous cknriiel-houso I Every thing
thut wo deem most lovely, ask its origin—
Decay ! When wo rifle Mature, nnd collect
wisdom, nro wo not like tho hags of old, cul
ling simples from Iho rank grave, and extract
ing sorceries from the rotting bones of tho
dead ? Every thing around us is fathered by
corruption, fattened by corruprion, nnd into
corruption returns at last. .Corruption is at
once the womb and grave of nature, and the
very beauty on which we gaze nnd hang,—
the cloud, und tree, and Ihe swarming waters,
—all are one vast panorama of death I"
scription “ Here the 22d of February, 1732,
Washington was born.” Tho duty performed,
the party rc-umbarked, and, hoisting their co
tors, fired a salute from the vessel, thus com
plcting the interesting, nnd surely not unirr.
pressive ceremonial, of placing the first stone
of tlie monument.”
Too Drunk for a Bargain.—Tom tlobb:
lived at a period when there wero no temper
ance societies, or ho might have been a sober
rnan. As it was, Tom was sadly addicted to
the bottle, and was six days in the week most
gloriously drunk by the timo he had dined, so
that he was unfit for business till the next
morning. Tom was well aware of his infirmi
ty, and would never suffer himself to make e.
bargain, while in his cups.
One afternoon, a stranger called upon Tom
for tho purpose of purchasing a fine horse, of
which ho was tho owner. The gentleman in
troduced himself as Mr. Jcremtah Johnson,
and announced his business.
“ Mr. Jeremiah Johnson,” said Tom loek-
ing him full in the faco, “ you have a notion
after my hor-hor horse, have you
“ I havo,” replied Johnson.
“ You are perfectly responsible, Mr. John
son, nro you I”
11 I am.”
“ And cun pay a pret-pretty good round pri-
prico I”
“ I can.”
“ Well, Mr. Jeremiah Johnson, if you will
call to-morrow morning at nino o’clock, I’ll
tell you what I’ll toko for him,—I am too—
too drunk this afternoon to make a bargain.-
A", Y- Cons.
A Matrimonial Tale.—A fiddler and his
wife, who rubbed through life ns most couples
usually do—somolimas good friends, at other
times not quite so well—happoned one duy to
havo a dispute, which was conducted with be
coming spirit on both sides. The wife was
sure to be right, and the husband was resolved
to havo his own way. What was to be done
in such a case l The quarrel grew worse bv
their explanations, and at last their fury rnsc
*.o such a pitch, that each made a vow never
to sleep in the samo bed with the other for tho
future. This was the most rash vow that
could he imagined ; for they were siill friends,
nt bottom, and besides, they had hut one bed
in the house. However, resolved they wero
to go through with it, and as thoy had not se
parate hods, at night the fiddle caso was laid
between them; in order to make a separation.
In this manner thoy continued three weeks- ■
every night Ihe fiddle case being placed ns t.
harrier to separate them. By this time, how
ever, each repented of their voty—their re
sentment was at a:t end, and their love began
to return. They both wished tho fiddlu case
away, but eqclt had too much spirit to sumbit.
Ono night, however, as they were built lying
awake, with the detested fiddle case between
thorn, tho huahund happened to sneeze. To
this the wife, us usual in such cases, hid, Dear
bless hint!—Aye, but, replies tho husband,
“ do you say that from your heart, Jenny 1”
“ Indeed I do, my love, Nicholas.” “ If so,”
said tho husband, “ I fancy wo might as well
remove the liddlo case.”
Brunswick Jelly Cetkc.—Stir together. ItaU
a pound of powdered white sugar, and half a
pound of fresh butter, till -perfectly light.—
Beat tlireo eggs till very thick and smooth,
omitting tho whites. Sift three quarters of n
p'ound nf flour and pour it into the beaten eggr
and butter and sugar. Add a tea-spoonful ot
mixed spico (nutmeg, mace, and cinnamon
and halfu glass of roso-water. Stir the wholo
very well, and then lay it on your paste-board,
which must first he sprinkled with flour. It
will he a soft dough ; hut if you find it so
moist ns to ho umnanngcnblo, thrqw on a littlo
more flour. Spread the dough into a sheet
about halt an inch thick, and cut it out i:t
round cakes with (lie edge of a tumbler.* Lay
them in bullcrcd pans and bako them about
ftvo or six minutes. When they aro cold
spread over, tho surface of each cake a liquor
of fruit-jelly or marnteladc. Beat iho white
of three or four eggs till it stands alone. Tiietl
heat into it by dogrecs a sufficiency of powder
ed loaf-sugar to make it as thick as icing.—
h lavor it with a few drops of strong essence
of lomon, and with a spoon heap it up on each
cake, making it high in the centre. Put tho
cakes into a coal oven, nnd ns soon us iho
tops aro eolorod of a pale brown, tako them
out. These cakes aro delicious.
Washington's Birlli Place.—At a titno when
all that relates to Washington attracts so
much attention, and whon his tomb is made
the subject of n Nation’s anxiety, a notico of
the Birth Place of tho Father of his Country
will not be deemed inappropriate. We have a
noto front Mr. Guslis, of Arlington, which
contains the memoranda of sumo incidents re- j Pumpkin Pi c.—Cut up the half of a smafl
lalive to this subject which have not beforoj dark colored pumpkin, and stew it till dry.
been published.—Alex. Gat. II hen ruk it through a cullender and set it
Gen. Washington was horn on a Plantation ] away to cool, ndding to it sugar and snlt to
ii..j w..i—r. n i.. -e v-. yotir tasto, and a largo spoonful of ginger or
beaten cinaa ‘.on. Having boiled a quart of
rich milk, Set that also nway to get cold. Bent
four eggs till very light, and mix them with the
milk und stewed pumpkin, a little at a lime.
This quantity of the mixture is sufficient for
two pies which must bo without lids. Cream
if you can procure it,ia for this rurpose prefer
able to milk.
called Wakefield, now the properly of John
Gray, Esq. of Travellers Rest, lying on
Pope’s Creek, in Westmoreland county, (Va.)
The house in winch he first saw the light was
about 300 yards from the Crock, half a mile
trout its enlranro into the Potomac. The
mansion ha* long since fallen to ruins. Some
■it the trees of “ olden day*,” arc yet stand
ing nroeud ti. Y*'"ro i* cotbinpthe-n at pre-
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