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[For the Brunswick Advocate ] DEATH—THE GRAVE I know not why death always should be clad In dismalness and horror, for methinks He oft the messenger of mercy is ; The liberator of a prison’d world Oh when my soul has been with care depress’d And all my hopes of happiness destroy'd, When on my brain the dead’ning height lias press'd Os misery and torture —exquisite and keen When scorn and wrath, and all the various ills. That clog and cumber our diviner parts, Have caus’d this fragile tenement of earth To live a thousand deaths—it death be horror. And the enshackl and soul writhing with pain In its dread agony and fierce dismay, To chafe beneath the gulling bonds ot life, Then, then, this Death, this cold and icy death Would have been greeted as a bosom friend Oh what were death to being like a slave - Paltering with pain and most abjectly seeing A transient respite—which if gained portends Renewal shortly and more dire still. I would notbe the dastard weak and doting Upon this life, clad « ith infirmities, And crouching as a lowly suppliant To beg a little, little longer space, Which space, lie knows, will be but as the last. A scene, where wo# is deity supreme. Ah I but the grave, the dark and lonesome grave Where all is desolation black and cold True the grave is cold and lonesome—very •hill— But when the throbbing temples quake with fire, That speeds like boiling lava through the veins, And fritters all the intellects away— Who would not love the damp anil cooling sod And press and press it in Ins ecstasy, Where levers and where chills alike are hurt less. The selfish worm that in that dark abode Gloats on the pamper’d sons of luxury Is hut an emblem of his reas’ning brother, Who, in his cursed thirst for worldly gain, Will not alone our substances consume, But fix his fangs in happiness and bliss Yea ! he will tear tlio vejy last, lone stay Os life away—if, but flic form it cherish'd, Will in its ruins—compass his desires. Who then would not prefer the silent worm, 1 That with no guile deludes—no threats alunin. But does his work in secrecy and ease— To him whose smile is but a glitl'ring fang, | Which he inserts while friendship's on his tongue, And whose fierce anger sends that poison in, ! Which nothing bpt u man prepares for man ZENOIMII'S. [From Lockhurt’s Life.] Closing Scene of the Life of Sir Walter Scott. The render longs ear- 1 neatly, at last, in love and veneration to wards Scott himself, for the concluding] scene. The following is Mr. Lockhart s account of the return to Abbotsford, al ter the air of a sea voyage to .Malta and Naples had been tried in vain. “On this his last journey, Sir W alter was ■ attended by his two daughters, Mr Ca-j dell and myself—and also by Dr. James Watson, who, (it being impossible for Dr. Ferguson to leave town at that, moment)! kindly undertook to see him safe at Ab botsford. We embarked in the James W alt steamboat, the master of which, (Capt. John Jamieson,) as well as the agent of the proprietors, made every ar rangement in their power for the conve nience of the invalid. The captain gave up to sir Walter’s use his own cabin; which was a separate erection, a sort of cottage on the deck; am! lie seemed unconscious after laid in bed there, that any new removal had occurred. On arriving at New Haven, late on the 9th, we found careful preparations made for his landing by the malingers of the shipping company, (Mr. Hamilton,) and Sir Walter, prostrate in his carriage, was slung oil shore, and conveyed from thence to Douglas’ Hotel, in St. Andrew’s square in the same complete, apparent uncon sciousness. Mrs. Douglass had in former days, been the Duke of Bncclcuch's housekeeper, sit Bowliill, and site and her husband had also made the most suitable provision. At a very early hour on the morning of Wednesday, the 11th, we again placed him in his carriage, and he Iny in the same torpid state during the first two stages on the road to Twecdsido. But as we descended the valley of (iala, he began to gaze about him, and bv de grees it was obvious that he was recog nising the features of that familiar land scape. Presently lie murmured a name or two —‘Gala W ater, surely—Buckliolm— Torwoodlee.’ As v.e rounded the hill at Landope, and the outline of the Eildons burst on him, he became greatlv excited, and when turning himself on his couch, his eve at length caught his own towers, at a distance ot a mile, lie sprang up with a cry of delight. The river being in flood, we had to go round a few miles bv Melrose bridge, and during the time thus occupied, his woods and house being within prospect, it required occasionally both Dr. Watson’s strength ami mine, in addition to Nicholson’s, to keep him in the carriage. After passing the bridge, the road for a couple of miles loses siHit of Abbotsford, and he relapsed into In stupor, but, on gaining the bank immedi ately above it, his excitement became again ungovernable. “Mr. Laidlaw was waiting at the porch, and assisted us in lifting him into the din nig room, where his bed had been pre pued. lie sat bewildered for a few mo ments, and then resting his eve on Liid law, i how often have 1 thought of you ! By this tunc, his doijs had assembled about Ins chair —they began to fawn upon him j and lick his hands, and he alternately sob 'bed and smiled over them, until sleep op ■ pressed him. ‘ I)r. Watson, having consulted on all things Mr. Clarkson and his father, re signed the patient to them, ami returned to London. None of them could have any hope, but that of soothing irritation. Recovery was no longer to be thought of; but there might be Kuthanasia. “And yet something lik ' a ray of hope did break in upon us next morning. Sir W alter awoke perfectly conscious where he was, expressed an ardent wish to be carried out into his garden. W e procur ed a Bath chair from Huntly Burn, and 1 wheeled him out before his door, and up and down lor some time on the turf, and among the rose beds then in full bloom. The grand children admired the new ve hicle, and would be helping in their way to push it about. He sat in silence, smil niir placidly on them and the dogs, their companions, and now and then admiring the house, the screen ot the garden and the flowers and trees. By and by lie con versed a little, very composedly with us, said he was happy to he at home, that he felt better than he had ever done since lie lell it, and would, perhaps, disappoint the doctors after all. “lie then desired to be wheeled through his rooms; and we moved him leisurely for an hour or more up and down the hall and the great library; “1 have seen much, he kept saying, but nothing like my am house; give me vine turn more!’’ He was gentle us nil infant, and allowed himself to he put to bed again, the moment we told him that we thought he had enough tor one day.” Still in his ashes lived their wonted fires. Two novels (which Mr. Lockhart hopes will never see the light,) had been written in Naples, and the “last glimpse of daylight,” m vvliat remained of the great novelist’s life at Abbotsford was one filial ell’ort at the de>k. “Alter breakfast on Tuesday the 17th, he appeared revived somewhat and was again wheeled about oil the turf. Pres ently he fell asleep in his chair, and after dosing fur perhaps half an hour, started awake, and shaking the plaids we had put about him from oil’ his shoulders, said, “tins is sad idleness. I shall forget vvliat . 1 have been thinking of, if I don’t sa t it down now. Take me into mv own room, ! and fetch the keys of mv desk.” He re peated this so earnestly that we could not reluse; his daughters went into his study, opened Ins writing desk, and laid papers, and pens in the usual order, and l then j moved him through the hall, and into the spot where he had always been accustom ed to work. AN lien the chair was placed at the desk, and lie found himself m his old position, he smiled and thanked us, and said, “Now give me my pen and leave me for a little to myself.” Sophia put the pen into his hand, and he endeav ored to close 1 1 is linger; upon it, hut they refused their ollice—it dropped on the paper, lie sank back among his pillows, silent tears rolling down his cheeks, but composing himself by and l»v, motioned me to wheel him out of doors again. Laidlaw met us at the porch, and took his turn at the chair. Sir \\ alter, alter a little while, again dropt into slumber. When lie was awaking, l.aidlaw said to me, “Sir Walter has had a little repose.” “No, Willie,” said he, “ no repos,' for Sir Waller hut in the grave.” Thu tears again rushed from his eyes. “l'i muds, do not let me expose myself—get me to bed —that's the only place." “With this scene end and our glimpse oi daylight. Sir Walter neve r 1 think left liis room afterwards, and hardly his bed. except for an hour or two in the middle of the day, and after another week he was unable even for tin-." The death “As 1 was dressing on the morning of Monday the 17th of September, Nichol son came into mv room and told me that his master had awoke in a state of com posure and consciousness, and wished n> see me immediately. I found him entire ly himself, though in the last extreme of feebleness. 11 is eve was clear and calm —every trace of the wild tire of delirium extinguished. “Lockhart, said lie, 1 mav have but a minute to speak to vou. .Mv dear, be a good man—be virtuous—be re ligious—be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie hero.” lie paused, and 1 said, “shall 1 send for Sophia and Anne?” ‘No,’ said lie, “don’t disturb them. Boor souls! 1 know they were up all night—God bless you all. With this he sunk into a very tranquil sleep, and indeed, lie scarcely af terwards gave any sign of consciousness, , except tor the instant on the arrival of lit* ; sons. They, on learning that the scene | was about to close, obtained leave of ab sence lrom their posts, and both reached Abbotsford on tin- 19th. About half past one. B. M , Oil the gist of September, Sir Walter breathed his last, m the pres ence of all iiis children. It was a beauti ful day, so warm that every window was wide open, and so perfectly still that the sound of all others, most delicious to his car, the gentle ripple of Tweed over its pebbles, was distinctly audible as we knelt around the bed, and his eldest son kissed ' and closed his eves. The funeral “The court yard and all the precincts ol Abbot.-ford were crowded with uncov BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. ered spectators, as the procession was ar ranged; and as it advanced through Dar nink and Melrose, and the adjacent vil lages, the whole population appeared at their door in like manner, almost ail in black. The train of carriages extended, I understand, over more than a ftiile, the Yeomanry followed in great numbers oil horseback, and it was late in the day yre we reached Dry burg. Some accident it was observed, had caused the hearse to halt for several minutes on the summit of the hill at Bemerside, exactly where a prospect of remarkable richness opens, and where Sir Walter had always been ac customed to rein up his horse. The day was dark and lowering, and the wind high. “The wide enclosure at the Abbey of Dryburg was thronged with old and young; and when the collin was taken from the hearse, mid again laid on the shoulders of the afflicted serving men, one deep sob burst from a thousand lips. Mr. Arch deacon Williams read the burial service of the Church of England; and thus about five o’clock in the evening of Wed nesday, the iiiith September, 1832, the re mains of Sir Walter Scott, were laid by the side of his wife, in the sepulchre us his ancestors.” “So fades, 3'j languishes, grows dim, aud dies, Ail that the wurld is proud of.” From tin- London Morning Chronicle, Mar. 2-i Bank Gossip. There is beginning to he a good deal of conversation in the higher monetary circles of the City about ail important letter which has been re ceived at the Bank of England from Mr. Biddle, and which is said to contain a de cided declaration of war between the Bank of England and the Bank of the | United States. It seems this letter has i been provoked by the treatment which! Mr. Jaitdouhas received from the Bank | directors since his arrival in London; and particularly in the refusal to allow him to , open an account at that institution which has been considered as an affront bv the Bank of the United States. This would appear to have been totally unexpected by Mr. Biddie, wlio supposed that his estab lishment was upon the best of terms with the directors of the Bank of England, wlio had nisi previously sent out oilers of credit to the Bank of the United States, but which were very courteously refused. Mr. Biddle is now said to have foreseen the danger of taking any credit of the Ban!; of England; the irregularity of the management of w hich had been exhibited in the'destruction of the large American houses in London and Liverpool, and which caused him to abstain from all ob ligations to an institution which would not hesitate to withdra# their advances at the first moment of panic or alarm. The very circumstance of the Bank directors having sent the letter by the Bnst ollice, consequently bv way of Halifax, and causing it necessarily to be nearly a month behind the time at which it would have been received by the regular packets from Liverpool.or London to New York, was itself an evidence of the superannu ated manner in which Mich important ne gotiations continued to he conducted bv the Bank. Under tie. ,-e circumstances it was thought more advantageous to estab lish a direct agency in England, and Mr. Jamton, in coming here, requested, as we arc informed, neither credit nor favor of a ll v description from the Bank of Eu qland, but solely to be allowed to deposit his monev am! draw upon it in the ordi nary way, and which the directors in sii si tuess had nut the right to refuse. In the meantime, Mr. Cowell, the agent of the Bank of England, arrived in the 1 - mted State.’', and was received by Mr. Biddle in the most hospitable manner, be ing turnislied w ith apartments in the Bank, and Ins mission facilitated in every possi ble manner i>\ Mr. Biddle, and to an ex tent which is allowed to have largely con tributed to the successful collection of the monev of which Air. Cowell went in search. In the midst of all this came out the advices that Air. Jaudon had been so degradingly treated bv the Bank di rectors; and the letter which has now been received is said to bo one in which Air. Bghlle expresses great indignation against the hoard, requesting at the same time that the remaining business of the w hiding up of the all’airs of the suspend ed houses, in conjunction with Air. Cow ell, might lie instantly removed elsewhere. Bagamm's rotT.Tii S'l'imno. 11l order to refute the inanv tales and rumours re lative to the occasion which induced the celebrated virtuoso to acquire such a won derful power of execution on the fourth string of the violin, an Italian publication lias lately given the following particulars, professedly in the words of the meat mas ter himself;— “At Lucca 1 always led the orchestra w believer the reigning family attended the opera. 1 was so frequently sent into the Court circle, and I gave a grand concert every fortnight. The Brinccss Eliza( Bac ciocchi Napoleon's sister) always retired before the conclusion, because the harmo nic notes of my instrument effected her nerves too powerfully. Avery amiable lady w ho 1 had long since secretlv ajjore.d, was frequently present at these parties,and 1 soon perceived that a pleasing secret at tracted her also to me. Our mutual passion imperceptibly gained strength. < >ne dav I promised in the next concert to suprise her with a musical piece of gallantry,which should have a reference to tlie terms upon whieh we stood. At the same time I caused the Court to be apprised that I meant to perform anew composition, with the title ! of“A Love Scene.” Great curiosity was excited,hut what was , the amazement of the company when I en tered with a violin with but two strings! I 1 had left only the G and the E string. The latter was intended to express all the feel ings of a young female; the former to im-{ itate the voice of a despairing lover. In j this manner it executed a kind of impass-; iona! dialogue, in which the tenderest tones j succeeded expressions of jealousy. At ] one time they were caressing—at another, tearful aceords, cries ofanger and rapture i of pain and felicity. A reconciliation j formed the close; the lovers, more ena moured than ever of each other, performed a pas de deux, which terminated in a bril- 1 limit coda. The ‘Scene’ was highly applau ded. I say nothing ofthe delighted looks : w hich the lady of my thoughts cast upon me. The Brinccss Eliza after loading me w ith praises said to me flatteringly: “You ! have done the impossible on two strings:! would not a single one be enough for your talent!” I promised immediately to make the trial.” This idea flattered my imagination, j and in a few w eeks I composed for the j fourth string a souato entitled Napoleon, j which 1 performed on the 25th of August, before a numerous and brilliant court. — ! The success surpassed my expectations. From that time dates my predilection for! the G string. Beople were never tired of listening to my pieces composed for that, string. As one keeps learning from day to day, so I gradually attained that pro- j ficiency, in which there ought now to be nothing astonishing.” Our Means of Defence. The Ar my and Navy Chronicle of Thursday lust contains a table prepared w ith great care by Col. Croghan, one of the inspectors general of the army, w hen a rupture with France was anticipated, in relation to ar- ! niament required for the fortifications ot the seaboard. From tins statement we l learn that there is a deficiency at the forts j with reference to the war armaments, of LA72 guns, 18 a -12 pounders, 18U carro-i nades, LAG mortars, 2054 guu carriages, 102 mortar beds, 1,258,229 shot for guns and carronades, 78,753 shells for howit zers and mortars, 79,(151 rounds of grape and canister shot, and 10,049,398 pounds of camion powder i For present purposes there is a defi ciency ol 418 guns, 18 a 42 pounders, 93 carronades, 57 mortars, 82G gun car- ‘ riages, (i t mortar beds, 0(5,583 shot for ! guns and carronades, 2072 shells, 9542 pounds ot grape and canister shot, and I 875,457 pounds of powder.—[Mobile i Chronicle. Iron Steam Boats.— \Ve learn from the (iazette, that some of our Iron Man-! ufucturcrs have determined to build an ‘ Iron Steamboat. AVo trust the design will ; not be strangled in the birth. It is proper that Pittsburgh celebrated for her j j iron manufactures, should have the honor of building the first Iron Steam Boat con-' 1 strutted in t his country. [Pittsburgh (Pa.) ; Advocate. ; British Army in America. The following is the proposed distribution of her Majesty’s troops in North America, their number and strength. I hilt far. Pile 23d, 73d and 93d roij iincnts, consisting of 590 men each. Anr /irtntstriik. The 11th and (55th regiments, consisting of (590 men each. Canaria. The Ist Dragoon Guards '•and 7 1 li Ilnssnrs, consisting together of 500; the second hattallions of the Grena dier and Cohlsteam Guards, consisting of TO men each; the Ist, 15th, 20th, 24th, •A’-tl, 31 1 h, 43d, (iGtli, < Ist, 83d and Ssth foot, consisting of GOO men each. The entire number of British troops in Canada will thus he seen to he 10,000 infantry and 509 cavalry, exclusive of nr i tillcry and engineers. I 8. Navv. The Navy Register states that the number of our national ves j sels is fifty-live, rated as follows:—One (the Pennsylvania) is rated at 129 guns, seven at 80, four at 74, one at 54, four teen at 14, two at 32, eleven at 20, three jat 18, six at 10; the remaining seven are under 10 guns. There are 50 captains! iin the Navy, 49 masters commandant, 270 lieutenants, 49 surgeons, 24 passed j assistant surgeons, 33 assistant surgeons, 15 pursers, 9 chaplains, 181 passed mid shipmen, 247 midshipmen, 27 sailing masters, 25 boatswains, 25 carpenters, and 24 sailmakcrs. The marine corps : I comprises 1 colonel, 1 lieutenant colonel, 1 I majors, 13 captains, 19 first lieutenants and 20 second do. The Fulton, steam ship, is not included in the list. AN c hear conflicting accounts oi her fitness and unlitness for service; hut one thing is certain—if she is not fit, steam vessels can be made so. AN'ith our stretch ot coast, our inland seas, and mighty rivers, we should have the largest armament in the world. Steam warships —one at least—should be on every lake, and every principal harbor should be pro vided with one. I lie Athens (Ga.) 11 hig states that Gem Scott and Suite, passed through that place on the sth instant, on their way to their head quarters in the Cherokee country. The tnusquitoes of Florida, (says the N. , O. Picayune,) not only carry grindstones ( to whet their bills on, but also take a j little bov aiongto turn the crank , Frauds in the Custom House. AVe i mentioned on Saturday the seizure, by our Collector, of a quantity of English woollens, for alleged violation of the Rev enue Laws, at the port of New York, were it was supposed they were smug gled. They were forwarded to an auc tion house iiere, lor sale. The N. York American says that for some time past, a regular system of defrauding the revenue j has been practiced there by importing high-priced cloths at the duties on cheap cloths. This required collusion on the part of the officer in the Custom House charged with selecting the packages to be examined, and is supposed to have been done in this wise: A. B. imports ten packages, numbered from 1 to 10—No. 1 and 10 containing cheap cloths. The Custom liaise officer directs, according to arrangement, N'os. 1 and 10 to be ex amined ; and they being found of the quality specified, the* whole invoice is passed ; and thus, cloths worth 5 or 8G per yard, were entered at the duties of cloths worth only 8l 25. The suspect ed importers are said to have tied ; and the recent resignation of Mr. Campbell,! soon after his promotion to the Deputy Collectorship, seems to fix upon him sus picion of being implicated in these frau dulent transactions. [Boston Transcript. d> The .late Cot,. Shei.lman. Since our last another Revolutionary Batriot has been translated to another world. Full of years and the patriarch of a nu merous household was Col. John Siiell inan, our late fellow citizen. Attached to the free institutions which in his day and generation he personally contributed to establish, Col. S. prized liberty not for the name alone, but as the source of those blessings, civil and religious, so peculiar ly American. On his “Revolutionary” services we are not prepared, with our limited information, to dwell, blit esm merely state that he served two campaigns in the Maryland line at the commence ment of the war: was at the battle of AN'hitc Plains; and subsequently captain of a volunteer corps of cavalry from Maryland, raised in part for the protec tion of the state of Virginia. His mortal remains were yesterday at tended to the grave by a large concourse of his feHow citizens, anil military hon ors awarded him by the volunteer corps of the Ist Regiment under the command ol Major AN illy.—[Savannah Georgian. Accident. AVe regret to state that private Jasper AV. Jewett, of the Chat ham Light Artillery, unfortunately lost his right hand, and lower part of the arm hv the premature discharge of one of the guns, while he was in the act of ramming home a cartridge for the salute of minute guns at the funeral yesterday of our late venerable citizen. The arm has been amputated below the dhow, and Mr. Jewett, though throw n to the ground and his clothes partially ignited by the dis charge, was last evening as well as can he expected.—[lb. Briso.nf.r.s of AN ar. General Gaines made application yesterday to the First Judicial District Court of this city for the release of a number of negroes, w hom their masters from Florida had claimed and seized by virtue of a writ of seques tration. They were found among the Seminolos, when they surrendered and were regarded as prisoners of war. Under these circumstances they were treated as members of the hostile tribe. Their owners, however, having heard of their capture pursued them to New Or leans, and by the help of the law' stopped their march to the Far West. The ap plication of the General proved iiiisuc cesslul, the court having overruled his motion. The negroes will now re main in the custody of the sheriff, until the question of ownership is decided. It appears to us that the government merit some censure in this transaction. The ! iact was well known that many runaway ! negroes were among the Seminoles, be-! longing to planters in Florida and Geor-; gia, and yet they are hurried off to the west without enquiry, or giving their masters any opportunity to claim or iden trfv them. “Alack-a-day !” cried an old sawyer J upon hearing of the loss of a sloop load of j grindstones; “the times were dull before, 1 but now I suppose they will be duller than ever.” Morning. The best part of the day for most purposes—is in a great measure lost by most persons. There is no question of it. I t is either lost in sleep—between sleeping and waking—feeble efforts to arise*—buttoning up at the toilet, or in a state of trilling indecision "hat to take hold of first. Let habit have its due influence in the case, and there can be no doubt, but that early morning is the most advantageous time fur effort, of awv kind, i physical or mental. AA’liat an important parti of most people’s lives are lost! Sir Walter! Scott’s evidence in any thing which relates to experience in great performance " ill be taken without reserve. lie says, when I got over any knotty difficulty in a story, or have had m former times a passage in a poem, it has al ways been when I first opened my eyes that the desired ideas thronged upon me. This is so much the case, that I am in the habit of re- 1 lying upon it and saying to myself when I am ! at k loss, “we shall have it six’o’clock to-mor-, row morning.’’ If l have forgot a circum- j stance, or a name, or a copy of verses, it is i the same thing. 1 think the first hour of the ! morning is favorable also to bodily strength. ] Among other feats, when I was a young man I was able to lilt a smith’s anvil, bv what is called the horn ! —but I could only do this be- j lore breakfast—and required my whole strength undiminished by the least exertion. Horrid Murder. By a letter from a friend residing in Cherokee county', we learn that a most atrocious murder was committed upon the person of Mr. Janies Copeland, at Air. Donaldson’s Ferry, near the town of Can ton. on Thursday night of the 19th ult. The letter informs us that “Mr. Copeland was sitting in his door, washing his feet pre paratory to going to bed, when hearing a yard dog barking fiercely', at some object from which the paling divided him, on scolding the dog, was fired on by the assassin, who was in the road, on the opposite side of the paling One ball, or shot, entered high up in the chin, near the mouth, and passing one side of the jaw, shivering teeth and bones, lodged deeply in the neck; another, passing through the lap pels of his coat, slightly grazing across the throat and passing over the head of a little daughter, wounding the scalp for an inch or two, finally lodged in the log of the house. The alarm was immediately out (as the as sassin no doubt anticipated,) that it was the act ot Indians, and the next dav, presented a scene of the greatest excitement, under that mistaken supposition. In a very short time however, the strongest suspicions were excited against a certain individual living in town and is it not mortifying to humanity’, and to our caste, to acknowledge this creature a white man!! Mr. Copeland has left a wife and six or eight small children, who by his death, are deprived ot their only means of support. The circumstances proving the guilt of the accused, are of the strongest character. lie is confined safely in the dungeon of our Jail, where the good people of the county unani mously determine him to remain, until legally discharged.”—[Standard of Union. A cunning Rogue. A clerk yesterday coming down NVall street to make a deposite, had his bank book peering and peeping from his coat, pocket while lie stopped to gaze at the numerous caricatures near the new Custom House. A well dressed rogue came up be hind him quietly, and while winking and smiling to the mob, and inviting them by signs to look at a neat trick, lie slipped the bank book out of the pocket without disturbing tha clerk, who was still gazing at the pictures. The bystanders, believing him to be an inti mate friend of the clerk, were highly tickled at the trick, and laughed and chuckled at tho anticipated surprise of the clerk. Tho rogue walked slowly ahead, turned smilingly to tho crowd, put his finger# on his lips to enjoin si lence, and actually disappeared with a large sum in bank notes, thus obtained openly while hundreds were looking on. No one knew wlio lie was, nor has the money been recovered. It was a bold and yet a dexterous robbery.—N. Y. Star. The Cotton Crof. Some of the English papers are making very erroneous calculations oil the profits accruing from the crop of cotton gone or going to market this season. They set down the e«3t of production at (51-4 cent* and the selling price at 12 1-2 and thus err botli ways. On very rich soils, such as the bottoms ofthe Mississippi, Red River, and Brns sos, cotton may remunerate at 9 1-4 cents; but much that is raised in South Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, is done at an expense varying from 7to 8 cents. Then again, a large portion of the present crop of Uplands has not been sold on this side of the Atlantic for 12 1-2 cents per lb., and many planters have not re ceived perhaps one cent more than the raising of tho cotton and sending it to market has ac tually cost them. Instead, then, of 40 or 50 millions of dollars set down in England as tho profits on the cotton crops of the United States we may venture to say that twenty millions have not been made by the American mer chants and planters. Indeed, if we consider that, fully one half the exports of cotton has been made by the Banks, we shall be compell ed to reduce the profits of individual merchant# to a trifle, compared with that ot former years. [Mobile Advertiser. Lovf Affair. 'Flic New York AV big gives a romantic account of a love ■'(flair between a member of the New York Legislature and the chambermaid ot the hotel where lie boarded. She is 22 years of age, beautiful and amiable. Thu legislator was smitten at first sight, and proposed to accompany her to the thea tre. She stated the case to the landlord, who advised her to accept the invitation; which she did. At the theatre, the wor thy legislator proposed matrimony. Thu maid refused, giving excellent reasons. She said, his daughters were educated, and she was not; she was poor, lie weal thy—he would he subjected to the ridi cule ot his friends, and his wife had not been dead a year. A few days after he, again proposed, and was again refused. AN idowers are persevering fellows, and a third time the member was at her feet. He could not resist her unassuming grace and soft allurements. He now offered to lurnisli her with every thing she might re quire, hut lie was again dismissed; or rather, she told him to consult his friends. He did so—he consulted many of his brother members—stated his wretched condition, and was advised to leave Alba ny immediately. Notwithstanding all this, lie returned to the fair chambermaid —she reluctantly consented, merely to preserve his senses, and they were mar ried.” Something Singular. The Lawrence burg la. Beacon, has tho following:— AN c have been credibly informed, that on tire evening ofthe 13th inst. a daugh ter of Mr. Williams, n6ar Wilmington, in this county, died of the Small Box, or was supposed to be dead. That she was dressed in the usual manner, set up with all night, and on the following morning was found to be alive. She is still living and represented to he convalescent. ANY cannot vouch for the truth of the story, although it has been more than once rep resented to us as an absolute certainty. A celebrated toper, intending to go to a masquerade, consulted an acquaintance in what disguise lie would advise him to go, and received for answer, ‘Go sober for once in your life, and I will under take to say that not one of your friends will know vou.