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the Lombards in Italy was occasioned by !
a repartee of the Empress Sophia. Two
Norman barons fought a duel, and there
by was established the kingdoms of Ni
pies and Sicily. England and France
were involved in bloody wars bv the beau
ty of a young Turk. Vl'hree Khans of
the Tartars, and several cities were de
stroyed, by the agency of a yellow gent.
Francis I. came near losing France, by
falling*ip love wijha young lady and
promising to meet ner at Lyons. Brit
tany was reunited to France, and Eng
land'disturbed by civil commotions by the
love of a duchess dowager lor a J e«v.
A German struck a Genoese with astiek
and caused the Austrians to he driven:
front the city, and Genoa recovered ner |
liberty.”
Tnr. TitWKU.ii in Bf.i.gu m. The:
European corresprtnueiit ol the 1 . S. Gaz
ette sa vs he performed the distance from
Antwerp to Belgium, near BO miles on
the rail road in an hour and a quarter;
and his seat, which was a very cloati'and
neat one, cost him ‘25 cent', 'i'iiere is .1
peculiar neatness about these cars, and
the machinery, ton, a dutch neatness. —
These things are kept like wax work.
The train is really a show to see. Von
do not have much leisure to view the
country around you : and the scat is some
times too low to do it to advantage, But
there is not much lost that way. The
country is every where the same in Bel
gium. Any ten miles may he taken as a
sample of the whole. It is 'all flat ami
moist, and thoroughly cultivated; and
though not all equally productive, indi:.-
try has gone as tar it can m making
amends for what nature lots defied.—
Some of it is marsh land, redeemed, dyked
and drained. Some of it is loose, dry,
sandy soil, built up, Ground over, enrich
ed and so wholly revolutionized as to have
become like a garden. The farms are
small and every body makes the most of
what he has. Fences are not used. That
would be bad economy here, for they
want both the wood and the room, and as
tor stones they hive none. Tile estates
are divided therefore by ditches, which of
course do both to drain and define them.
These again are lined, almost invari tl b
with a thin row of brush or trees; some
times fruit trees, hut oftener wood which
appears to Ira used fit. fuel. That is kept j
trimmed closely, and grows fa-1, and tints
a good deal of fuel is had, at the same)
with the shelter, the boundary and .the 1
ornament. 1 presume this row is ser
viceable also by ifcs roots in sustaining the j
soil.
In fact, everything tells here. No
room, no time, no labor, is wasted. 1 see
fruit trees trained over not only tho hous
es, but the barns and sheds, taking tip as:
little space us possible, standing on tiptoe 1
as it were, against walls, and in corners,
and at the same time, like grateful tenants !
as they are, paying liberally for the little
indulgence allowed them, l»v coverin''
n . .. . .
their owner's houses «l! over with dusters
of fruit or a network of foliage and hhium.
Nothing in the sh ip.'of fuel, c-qieciallv,
escapes. You sen a pile of brush in every
yard, which has been ‘picked up’ and
‘trimmed down.’ The roads are rather
narrow, but wide enough too, ami very
clean. Few beggars or idlers are visible.
Mon, women, and children, are at work
—spinning, or ploughing, or weeding, or
something else—in house or held. They
hardly stop to stare even :t* ny t unity
Diligence driver as he rattles by, crack
ing his whip cs he docs most outrageous
ly, for the purpose of making them do so.
Tra(.!i .\l livi n: . I’.ecoiit letters from
Kardina speak of a tra 'icil < vent of w hich
that Island has Jut - . y tn--a tit** timatre. —
Tile ties’.tit of t!iancien.t sovereign
of tlm 1-: '. a yo::n r man twenty ve tr
i.f a.g . the I . t ,-c: i.i of t !:•• i
house of Villa her mis i, had, ;t spy c . .
conceive*! a pm.-i ui hr a young girl o'
plebiun cxtmeti.m. He had f*r some
time continued h;s assuhuUo.s to in r, and
rumor began to ascribe to him better
chances of success perhaps titan he really .
possessed, when one morning his servants !
brought him tue cloak of ;i lishennau
which had been found fixed in the pannel
of his door by the blade of a poiuard. The :
young nobleman understood the signal ; j
it was a tenthlla, of which fair warning!
was thus given h:m, and his grandfather. J
with whom lie resided, prevailed on linn
for some days not to leave the house unat-;
tended. The young Count of Villa Her-;
niosa, however, was too hiavc and proud.
long to submit to these fatiguing precau-i
tious. He declared h:s determination to'
go out in the same uurestraiued manner;
as formerly, and lie did so. At night he
met the rival who had planted the poniard •
and viaiitle at the door ot Ins hotel. What
passed between them is not known, but it
has been ascertained that the body of the
fisherman was carried by the Count to the
beach and there concealed under a heap
of stones. The Count now paid his ad
dresses to the girl as freely as before, to
the astonishment of those who knew the
history of the poniard, and who fully ex
pected some signal act of vengeance.—
Meanwhile, the family of the fisherman
who had disappeared, entertaining some
auspiciooa of the truth, began to search
for the body. It was found, and among
stones under whicb-i* was concealed, was
also found a seal-ring, on which was en
cravedrthe arms of the Count The ring
had probably dipped from hie finger, while
he was engaged in his deed of darkness.
The body wu immediately conveyed to
the hous" of a magistrate, and the ring
which had been found was produced. An:
investigation commenced, and the proofs
against the Count werf so'strong, that lie
w :s found guilty of murder, and condemn
ed tn death. The sentence was submit
ted to the King for confirmation. Charles
Albert was anxious, if possible, to save j
the list scion of a royal race, and accord*!
1 uiorlv caused a communication to the'
graiidi'ithcr, tli t if lie applied for mercy,!
it would probably not lie withheld. The
answer ofthtjold Spaniard was, tint, h iv
ing !o choose between justice and his
own blood, he could not hesit ite to de
cide in favor of the former. The young
Count i'ii Villa IJeruiosa has since been
beheaded.
.
Tnr. Nott-tn. Etstern- Buindary.— j
The apathy oft he General Government, as !
well as t.he Government <4 Maine, upon
the North Er-:oni Boundary question —
invoking a« it does a tract of land nearly
as hr as the whole state of Massachu
setts —is really extraordinary and inex
plicable. V'. e and i not understand it.—
Time was when the repeated imprison
inmitcfr.ii American citizen, acting un-j
o'er tic: .nil‘.iori-\ of a sovereign state, by
the minions of a foreign power, would
have thrilled throughout the land, and
roused to the quick every feeling of na
tional pride and national patriotism.—
Time was when every true American citi
zen would have felt such an indignity as;
an insult offered to himself, and resented
it in the stern language of wounded pride j
and conscious honor. But the times j
have changed. The political parties in !
this country are so intent upon watching!
each other, that they have no time to j
watch the movements of their neighbors, j
If they would adjourn the question of
whigism and democracy for six months or!
so, ami in the mean time settle the:
Boundary question, they might afterwards!
fight their own domestic and political bat
tles with (lean hands,- and perform their j
l self immolation, if need be, without for-j
, eign reproach.
I The latest accounts from the Boundary :
represent that two hundred men of the |
British Province have volunteered to run
the line * peaceably if they can,' forcibly i
ii" lIn:y must. ’ 1 f i he veomanry of M line |
look tame iv on and permit this to lie done
without an effort to prevent it, all we can!
! say, is, they ought to change places with
; lire Indians who have gone West of tin.';
,M is-;; >sinpi. They are not suited to the j
: soil offreedom and tlie quicker they emi
grate the hi..-t:*-r.— [Boston Tunes.
■ Thu Great American Desert.-—The
1 vast barn-n and trackless region, stret -h
--1 ing for hundreds of miles along the foot
of the Rocky Mountains, and drained
bv the tributary streams of the Missouri
j and Missis.-qipi, is thus described in Ir
ving's ‘Astori id
"This regie i, which resembles one of
the iin:ii"asur;ili!e steppes of Asia, lias
. not inaptly 1»« :i termed ‘The Great A
j merican Desert.’ It .spreads forth into,
: mulu! iting treeless pi tins and desol ite s to
dy w istes, wearisome to the eve from
their extent an 1 monotony, and which'!
j are supposed I• \ geologists to h :ve form-i
ed the ancient floor of the ocean, outwit-i
less ages since, whence its primeval wax es
;he ;t agiiu-t the granite bases of the
1 Rocky M >:julai:ts. jt is a-la ml where no 1
! ;n m perm men! yal > i les ; for, in c, t it
stewon of the yc .r, there mi ' food eith
er for the p! in' ror Ids steed. The licr
i huge is parched and wit hered, the brooks
! and streams are dried up; the ImiVdo.the
elk, and the deer have wandered to dis
tant parts, keeping within the verge of
! expiring verdure, and lent ittg behind them
a vast numb luted solitude, seamed bv
ravines, the he is of former torrents, ba:
. now serving <vdy to tantalize and iu
-1 crease the I’.iVrki ul the trawler. Orica
, .'iotli.ilv tiie ■ a.netouy pf tills \ ast wiilh-l
--ne.-s is mu rrupti'd In mountainous belt
'of sand and i e'stone, in broken and
confused mas-' with precipitous cliffs
and yawning vatinrs, looking iike the ru
ins of a world : or is traversed bv lofty
barren ridges of rocks, almost impassa
ble, like those denominated Berk lulls.
Beyond these rise the stern barrier of
Rocky Mountains, the limits, as it were, ;
of the Atlantic world. The rugged de
files and deep rallies of this vast chain i
form sheltering places for restle.-s and
ferocious bands of savages, man v of them'
the remains of tribes once inhabitants of
the prairies, but broken up by war and
violence, and who carry into their moun
tain lnuuts the fierce passions and reck
less habits of desperadoes.’
Spirit or Co\r ra*dhtion.— Cornelia 1
is not absolutely a scold, but she has an 1
unpleasant habit of never agreeing with
your views on anv subject whatever—
there is always some shade of distinction
between her opinions and yours, which
she expresses in a most dogmatic manner,
as if it were quite impossible for Iter to
be mistaken. The argument seems to be
endless, though you yield every point to
her. Is there any cure for such a malady
but absolute silence, till her yarn is w hol
ly exhausted I For the least contradic
tion, or even the most perfect verbal as
sentation avail nothing, and induces Cor
nelia to direct in the sound of your voice
some mental reservation, and therefore
that her victory is not perfect ! Profound
silence seems to be the only remedy.
Antidotb for Arsenic. —TlMpugof
Prussia has given a gold medal to Profes
sors Russel and Berthold, for the discov
ery of ox by drate of iron, as an antidote
(for ar&enk-.”
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
Foreign Items. The coronation of!
the Queen of England will take place in
May. Many foreign Princess, it is said,
will witness the ceremony.
The Bulk of England has reduced its
rate of discount from fiveto four per cent,
hut was not likely to loan its money at
that rate ; for the best bills were readily
discounted lay the out-door money deal
ers at 2 1-2 per cent.
.Mr Siiici, the Irtsh orator, h is brought
up the subject of emigration to America
before the Town Council of Eiverp ul.
Tiie British association for the advance
ment of Science, was in Session at Liver
pool, on tiie loth Sept. More thin five
hundred members dined together. A
inong the foreigners named in attendance,
are three Amtric ms, Mr M axey front
Washington, Mr. Ilurdman Philips, Pa.
and .Mr. S. W. Roberts, of Philadelphia.
Among other papers laid before them,
was one from the High Constable of Liv
erpool, giving a return of-all the inhibi
ted ceil ;rs in .that town, which were m
number 7,802 —estimate;! to contain :>!),-
>1 id ! Nearly 40,0 ff) human beings liv
ing under ground in the second city of
England 1
Joseph Buonaparte, ex-King of Spain,
and now known by the name of Count de !
Survilliers. has taken Bretteaham Park,!
in the neiglihorhoo 1 of Lawshall Suffolk,
for a permanent residence. The arrange
ments of the household on a most prince
ly scale.
The Count ITorolawski, a Pole, and a
once celebrated dwarf, died at Durham
in the ‘.M)th year of his age. lie was ex
actly thirty-live and a half inches in height,
and liis person was a model of svifunetrv.
An Englishman, Mr Griffith Williams,
has been ordered to quit the French ter
ritories, for calling for the Marseillaise
hymn in the Boulogne Theatre. It is
said, tint the King himself, recently at
Versailles, command the performance of
the revolutionary air.
Mrs Trollope’s new novel, “The Vicar
of Wrexoill,” is just published.
It is intended, in 1809, to hold a cen
tenary in commemoration of the first for
mation of the Methodist United Society
in 1789.
Capt Back, who went out in June, 1800,
in seareli of Capt Ross, in the ship Ter
ror, returned in that ship to Lough Swil
ly, near Dublin, after hiving been confi
ned in the ice near Southampton Island,
from August is:)b, to August 1807. The
ship was nit brought to anchor, hut was
wedged in the ice, and in constant danger
of being crushed. She was very much
injured. They saw the natives but twice
during their detention. The" crew were
much exli msted on their arrival. Three
died during the winter, of scurvy. Capt
Back had reached London.
Tim Marquis of Waterford, who receiv
ed a (1 tugerous wound in the head, from
a watchman, in mi affray in,Bergen, was
iikeh to recover. The Marquis inherited
an income of A* I (IP,ODD a year.
The London Stock Exchange was
thrown int > an uproar on the 9th of Sep
tember, I)v the disc ivery th it a man iriin
■l Cltrko hid absconded with about
t‘2 ),‘K)O, which he Ind borrowed from
various parties. He was confidential
clerk to a broker.
Efforts are ,no\v made to extend tlim
j culti vati i:i of the cranberry in Engl uid,
! so as to furnish a regular supply to the Lou
don m ivkets. At present it is confined
to the Nnihern counties.
Owen M os, of tiie long firm of Long
man, Hurst, Rees. Onno, Brown and
Green, publishers, died at his residence
in (i 1 miorganshire. on the •">il l of Sep
tember. He wastl - ve trs old.
i Mrs Graham undertook to make an
other ascension, on the loth of Septem
ber, but the balloon hurst in process o!
inflation. The ncHd'vit was not accom
panied bv any explosion, and no cause
for it is assigned.
\t tin- July fetes, at Itheims, a balloon :
ascended, ami the aeronaut fell from the
car when the balloon was in its “pride of
place.” The aeronaut was a stuffed fi
gure, and not a living being : a practical
joke of great cruelty to the spectators,and
calculated to blunt the feelings.
Kennebec Dam. The bold enterprise
of damming the'waters of the Kennebec 1
river at Augusta M line, to the height ot
fifteen feet, for the purpose of producing i
an immense mill power, is so far comple
ted that the passage of the water has been j
closed, and it now Hows in a uniform!
street over the top of the dam six hundred
feet in breadth, presenting a beautiful ob
ject to tlie eve. After the Dam was clos
ed, it was found to be so tight, that a
person could w alk across the channel, be-j
low the Dam. The basin above the Dam |
is so large, that it was five davs in fii-'
!| "S-
Emigration to Texas.— The last Lit- j
tie Rock (Arkansas) Advocate, says —:
"Hardly an hour in the day passes but a
party from eight to ten well mounted horse-1
imen is seen passing through our town,
| bound to Texas. Wagon alter w agon
throngs our streets —all passing on to j
Texas. Not a night but our taverns are j
thronged with travelers and emigrants for
the Red River counties and Texas. It is
thought hat the influx of emigrants into
Texas this year will amount to something
like 6090. The majority of these are the
j better class of Tennessee ms and Missou
rians, »Scc. and appear to be mcuof intel
ligence and wealth.”
! Tiib Price of Tea rose from fifty to
\sixty percent in London between the
] l3th Aug, ami the loth Sept.
St. Pierre. In this late discourse he- j
fore the Philermenian Society Hon. A. !
11. Everett spoke of a visit which he
made to Bernard de. St. Pierre at Par
is. The author of Paul and Virginia had
always been a favorite with the fair sex ;
and Mr. Everett met with a most con
vincing proof of the fact. St. Pierre,
then 80 years of age, of a most venera
ble appearance, had just entered into the
holy bonds of matrimony for the second
time ; and with whom, prithee reader ?
Perhaps with some prudent and well pen
sioned widow, or a worthy old maid too
long neglected : No such thing. His
wife to tiie astonishment of Mr. Everett,
was a blooming girl of fair scvtiitteu, rich,
and of a rank in the \v6rld, Good hea
ven ! A Frenchman never grows old or
rather lie is never too old. Would I were
a Frenchman !
Mr. Everett mentioned a curious an
ecdote of St. Pierre.—At the time whgu
atheism was rank in France, the amiable
St. Pierre still adhered to the ancient
pri• jurf.ee of the tri? truce of (Jod ;
and in a discourse before the French A
- lie took occasion modestly to vin
dicate this great doctrine from the con
temptment into which it had fallen. His
discourse gave the greatest offence to the
Academicians, and, incredible as it may,
seem, after the meeting had closed he
received from several of them challenges
to singh combat! What testimony this
to the depravity of the leading men of
France ! The atrocities of the Revolu
, tion can be easily accounted for. [Prov.
i Courier.
The Sen Flower. The Sim Flow
er is a plant of much greater value than
is generally known. Insteid of a few
being permitted to grace a p irtorre, and
considered only as a gaudy (lower, expe
rience warrants my saying it should be
cultivated by every planter and farmer as
part of his provision crop. It can be
turned to profitable account on ail plan
tations ; for certain purposes it is more
valuable than any other grain known to
us ; inasmuch as it can be made to yield
more to the acre in exhausted soils, with
little labor, and with greater prospect of
success.
Its seed are wholesome and nutritious
food for poultry, cattle and hogs, and very
much relished by them.
From the sved an oil is obtained, with
great facility, as delicate, it is believed,
as that of olives.
They are also pectoral. A tea made
of them is quite effective ns flaxseed, or
any other, in cat lrlial affections. On one
occasion, this tea, sweetened with honey,
w is of so much more service to me than
the prescriptions of my physician, tii it I
attributed my early restoration in health
to its agency alone. Certainly a favora
ble change cl id not occur until 1 used this
tea, which I did upon the recommenda
tion of a citizen of one of the upper
counties of North Carolina.
Its leaves and stalk, in the green state,
are preferred by cattle to any other prov
ender, I h ive thrown green grass and fod
der in one heap and sun flower leaves in
another, to try the cattle, and they have
j even commenced eating the latter first;
[this 1 hive tried often with the same re
[still. The whole, cut up in the green
! state and boiled with cotton seed, or a lit
tle moil, affords a delicious food for cat
lie and hogs.
Gi.ouiols Reply. --The United Ser- j
vice Journ and relates this anecdote of Sir
Sidney Smith. The reply to his protest
ing ollicers, is memorable alike for its'
justness and its spirit :
"lua furious attack that Buonaparte,
made on Acre, in April, 1699, Sir Sid-;
nay Smith found it necessary to risk his
rdiii) (the Tigrr, 14,) by Wurping'lier into
the shoal w iter on the south of tiie town,
in order to !l mk the French batteries and
trenches, and such were the fire and ef
fect of this movement, that all w is reduc
ed to silence in a very few minutes. On
this occasion, as Sir Sidney was going!
over the ship’s side to land and hasten to
the beach, the First Lieutenant anjl inns-j
ter chose that unseasonable moment to
serve him.with a written protest against
, "placing his majesty’s ship in danger of
[being iost to which he calmly replied
j. “Gentlemen, his Majesty’s ships arc built
!on purpose to be placed in danger whon
j ever bis majesty’s service require it, and
of that the Commanding officer is the
j best judge.”—N. Y. American.
Hire's a compliment to the la lies of
A. ir England from the South. —The ed
itor of the Norfolk Beacon, says —
“There is nothing more fascinating
than a New England lassie ol eighteen,
with her finely intellectual face, admirable
in feature and coloring, and beaming with
new beauty in the gleiw of conversation.
There is an absence of that girlishness,
which is equally at war with good taste
and manners, and which, we regret to say,
is sometimes assumed as something ex
cessively captivating. * * * But we
i have no time to talk of the Boston ladies
as we would wish, and vve are not sure
that our grey hairs are not more plentiful
than when we first saw them: but, be this
as it may, we aie decidedly of the opinion
that the women of New England are the
richest as well as the lovliest treasure th at
she holds.”
’ Tiicv are piiihug di vn the American
Hotel, in Bro l.viy,, New York, to erect
| another Astor House, or one as large.
The following jeu (Tesprit, from the Cincin
nati Gasette, is a home thrust at the vitiated
taste which has almost banished the legitimate
drama from tiie stige
Lines written for the Prologue of the New
Theatre, an I rejected on account of their
being too good for the occasion.
Friends of the stage,
Once more the charms of Shakspeare’s glowing
page
Shall greet your ears,
And from the heart draw forth its hidden tears.
We welcome you again,
In a hunJred-dollar strain.
Most glorious drama! here, in all their pride,
Belbrc your sight shall ranting actors g.ide,
And teach.you how to play !
We’ll follow not the rules
Os other schools,
But clothe our Trojan in-a Highland dress,
And Platt’s neat tights, sage Cato’s limbs shall
press.
A black Othello
In Dc-sde mfn i’s ears Ins love sh ill bellow ;
And Indian chiefs shill go to war in boots
And fashionable suits.
i
Kind friends, for you
What will not we, poor humble actors, do?
Since you decide ’lis welcome to your taste,
By clowns and monkeys shall tiie stage be
graced!
And sometimes, as a treat,
A cow and calf we’ll purchase from the street,
j And deck’d with plumes and gaudy ribands too,
Parade it to your vie w.
j The good eld stage that blest the and ivs of yore
Shall rise no more.
Talk not of decency—we scorn the name,
! All that we wish is your applause to claim.
Reform is nil the go,
The King of Taste at present is “Jim Crovy;”
; Miss Horton’s strains please not like “Long
tail Blue,”
| Ah! who so fit, kind friends, to judge as you?”
j
In vain does Romeo speak the words of love,
In vain does Hamlet seek the Soul to move,
Vain are the tears of Lear;
The half-filled boxes damn them with faint
praise,
But when Jim Crow his blackened face dis
plays,
llow throng the thousands here!
• Though fpallack’s art
Could draw the tears from beauty’s heaving
heart,
A few, a very few,
Was all that to the house ho drew.
Bur ah, how crowd, of high and low degree,
Night after night the city’s hosts, to see
Fair Celeste ! stop!
There let the curtain drop.
Sweet friends, farewell! Be sure, be sure, that
here,
W h it taste approves to please you shall appear,
And this proud city, Queen of al! the West,
By mammoth hogs :ui 1 monkeys sh ill be blest.
Nicknames, A late English periodical
states, “it is notorious ill it in the moor
of Lancashire there are numerous instan
ces where females, after having enjoyed
the married state for several years, only
know their liege lords by the nickname
custom has given them, and not in their
names; nay in .-ome cases, it has actually
happened that men do not know their
own names. We have heard of a simd ;r
case which occurred at Salem several
years since, of a Marblehead man, who
actually knew not his own name. A
case of law being tried at one of the courts,
and the name of John Florence was called,
as one oi" tho witnesses. There was no
answer. Tiie sheriff bawled out. “Is
John Florence in the court?"’ No an
swer. Judge J?tory, who was then apr ic
titioucr at the Essex bar, rose and said,
“May your honor, .! will call the
witness. “Skipper Flurry ?” Upon this
the old weather beaten m iriner twisted
Jiis cud, and squirting histobiceo juice,
sung,out, “Here l am, Sir,” to the infin
ite amusement of the whale emit, who
were instantly convulsed with l uiMiter.—
[Dad iyun Advertiser.
M ock Thule. One of the new
Brighton jukes last summer is an on fit
about a certain Philudelphi in, who, in
visiting his affianced one, left an Irish'
serv ant standing so tie ir him in an ante
chamber, tint the latter could distinctly
hear his master saluting the lady, accom
panying each caress the while with the
epithets, “My sweetest —my dove—my
turtle—my sweet turtle!” Suddenly,how
ever, he was interrupted by an outcry
near, and a black chambermaid rushed in
to claim the protection of her mistress,
followed by Pat, whose face seemed redo
lent of a joke. "You scoundrel, you,
what’s the meaning of all this cried the
exasperated lover. “Mane, your honor ?
why, it only manes that while you were
enjoying your turtle in tin? parlor w ith my
lady there—bless tier rosy lips—Patrick
thought he’d just help himself to a little
mock turtle in the entry, by the favor of
this dacent young woman, with a skin
like a pot itoe peeling.” Apropos to mock
turtle. There is a good deal of quiet hu
mor in that question of Jarvis, w ho while
eating some of Gassin’s best at the house
of a friend, coolly asked the latter : “is
this from an old recipe, or did you make
it out of your own head ?”—[N. Y. Mir
ror.
The Richmond Enquirer should h we a
patent for the penning of obituary notices.
The last number says of some deceased
friend, that he possessed “the spirit of a
true Israelite without guile, was a inemlrer
of the Anabaptist church, and opposed to
the Bulk of the United Stites ind the
tiriflf.’’ This association of virtues in
such ludicrous propinquity, reminds us of
tiie touching elegy to the memory of Juba
Grimes:
‘‘lie had no malice in his heart,
Nor rubles on his shirt.”
[N. Y. Commercial.
The" Arch-General. In a letter from
the Rev. Mr. Cooper of Boston, dated
June Ist, 1778, written to Dr. Franklin
who was then in Paris, is the following
anecdote : “1 have long intended to give
you an anecdote of Lord Percy, Before
General Washington took possession of
Dorchester Heights, which frightened the
British troops from this town, to cover hia
design he for several nights threw some
bombs into the town, not having aminuni
tion sufficient for a more continual bom
bardment. During these .nights, though
the damage was trival, his valiant Lord
ship retired to the cellar of William Vas
sal's house, in which he then lived and
slept in liis wine arch. His servants made
themselves very merry upon the occasion
and g ive him the title of tli£ A/r/i-Gan
eral. This story, 1 mgh it may be
is the child of truth llis'' Lordship’s
m< rhs jn the American service have been
so puffed in Britain, and his behavior
here, on several occasions, particularly to
our friend Mr Bo.vdnin, was so dishonora
ble, that it mty not be amiss f»r this tde
to follow him to Europe. ” [AJ vertiser.
Revenge Beyond the Grave. The
Duchess of St Albius in leaving <£lD, )i)0
a year to her husband, clogged it with a
condition that if certain members of her
husband’s family should reside with him
for more than eight days in a year, the
bequest should be'void. Her Grace’s
vindictive spirit, however, has defeated
itself, as anything contrary to morality
cannot be sustained in law. The ani
mosity evinced by her Grace towards
Lord Frederick Beauclerk, of the Roval
Navy, one of the Duke’s brothers, arose
out of liis refusal to meet her wishes in an
alliance with her intended heiress, Miss
Angela Burdett.—[Hudson’s Express.
The Staff of Life. Mr Barton, an
English medical gentleman, has publish
ed statistical tables of the number of deaths
in seven manufacturing districts in Eu
rope, compared with the rise or fall of
wheat. In 1800, when wheat was sold
at 110 shillings the quarter, the number of
deaths was 50,000. In 1807, when the
price was Lit) shillings, the number of
deaths was 55,(500. Butin 1801, when
the price was GO shillings, the deaths were
only 45,000, and in 1804,-when the price
was 70 shillings, the deaths were 48,000.
\\ hence he deduces the fact, that a rise
or fill in the price of wheat, is, to the
laboring poor, a question of life or death.
A Trifling Property. George Rob
hius, the celebrated London auctioneer,
had an offer, I itely, of Hi .009 guineas
—m round numbers ‘Mi },090 dollars—
for a siiijle est ite in Yorkshire, England,
which lie was employed to sell. It be
longs to Sir Bellingham Graham.
Comfortable scraps for men of
Genus. Horner was a beggar; Plautus
was a miller; Terence was a slave ; Boe
thus died in Prison; Bogerce starved;
Tasso had not money enough to purchase
candles to write by ; Cervantes died of
hunger ; Benterogho was refused ndrriit
t nice into a hospital which he had found
ed ; Agrippa died in a workhouse;
V augelas left his body to the surgeons to
'p iy his debts ; Cnmoens ended his days
in an alms-house; Bacon lived in distress;
R tleigh and Moore ended their and lys up
on the scaffold: LeSago never knew coni-
I lort in pccinii iry matters ; Spencer died
in want : Collins went mad from the
world s neglect ; Milton sold his Paradise
Lost fur J! i > in three instalments,and cli
! ed in obscurity : Drvden died in distress;
Otway died prematurely and in want;
Lee died in the streets ; Steele was dog
j ged by the b iihff’s ; Goldsmith sold,through
l Johnson, the Vicar of Wakeford for a
I men; trifle to release him from prison ;
Fielding lies without a stone to m irk his
j grave ; Swage died in Newg.te, at Bris
tol, where he was imprisoned for AS ;
Hitler ‘lived neglected and died poor;'
and the immortal Chutterfon, in conse
quence of want, put an end to kis exis
tence in his 18th year.
Bridge of the Nile. The construe
tiou of the gigantic bridge of the Nile, so
long projected, is at length about to com
mence, and will lie completed, it is said,
in less than six years. This colossal
work is to be erected at the point of the
Delta, five leagues below Cairo, at that
|) art of the river where it divides into two
branches. During w inter and a part of
spring the waters of the Nile are too low
to be turned to the account of
the bridge will therefore he made to form
a kind of lock, to keep the w aters at all
times at the necessary elevation. The
husbandman will thus he spared an infini
ty ot labor, and will only have to direct
the irrigation into the canals of absorp
tion. The preliminary works of rectify
ing the bed of the river, raising dykes,
and digging the lateral canal, will require
24,903 laborers, besides which the arse
nal of Alexandria is to supply 349 smiths
and 659 carpenters. As Egypt cannot
easily furnish so great a number of men,
it is in contemplation to employ four or
five Aegiments of infantry upon the works.
The stones are to bo transported by a rail
road, to extend to the mountains of Mock
atam, which are t.vo leagues distant from
the Nile,
Tne fortune to which Miss Angelina
Burdett has succeeded by the will ol tne
Duchess of St. Albans, is only
J'JJsay uiue millions of dollars. Sho
has changed her name toCoutts.