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£K«r0tf —- aua. 1 1-tea THE MINSTB.EE. INVOCATION. E/nr or the West l thiit slumbering long hast lain, Amidst the changes that have shook thy hills; Nor roused tlice oncc't^my a single strain, To waft to imm*o5iality thy rills— Wake front thy leaf}’ couch I Bnrhnntrtn, wake! Arts, science, tommeree.nll demand thy songs Xhy rust wornttrlngs attune—the silence break, And let inspired Minstrels round thee throng. If s’eep rett/d chnln the accents of thy strings, While nought but savage hordes possessed your land; Since like the dew, the wild hath taken wings, And in its place fair Freedom’s alters stand;— Oak.mi/I'i**'* pfoeld waters swell with pride, (The Naiades now their realm no longer holding;) The stately strenm shall benrto oct-.n’s tide, The wealth its fertile banks are now unfolding. And where the savage yell but lately connded, Tha hand-maids, Art and Science often meet; Where forests drear in vast extent abounded, Friend now meet friends With hospitable greet— And Nature’s fairest work,' eisdwosuk, smiles, Where late tbc savage beasts roamed uncontroll'd, Kotv social joys,the care of man beguiles, And Piety the worksof Heaven unfold;— Then let tby chords awake the vales among, Audscbolag hills reverberate the song. SELECTED. DREAMS. OH! there is a dream of early youth, AnJ it never comes again; Tis a vision of light, of life, and truth, That flits across the brain: Ami love is the Ihcmo of that early dream, 8 j wild, so warn, so new, That in all our after years 1 deem, That early dream we rue. Oh! there Is a dream of maturer yean, - More turbulent by far; Tis a vision of blood, nnd of woman’s tean, For tbc tbeine of that dream Is war: And we toll in the field of danger enddonth, An(l shout lu the battle array, Till we find that fame Is a body less breath, That vanUheth away. «lJ’-e the buselcss fat re of a vision, • Left not a wreck behind. Around the secluded spit, tl o romantic and picturesque prevail m a high degtee. It is! situated in a green valley, well pkm’ed yfllr umbrageous trees and 1 f:" 1 , ! . i Vive willows droop over the blank tablet, nnd waving in the breeze, throw ul-cinatc l.ght and foado on this unlettered monument, rusl- 1 ng, at the same time, ilt a sort of mournful cadence. On the left side of the grave are peach trees, which bear feint; «nd a spring, as bright as chrystal, glides on the outside ol tire railing which is about the tomb, and it* self encompassed by a hedge of geraniums. A sergeant and a private arc placed here on guard, and have orders to prevent peo ple from gatherin'.' leaves, aud cutting pieces of the willowlrces. I had intended to write a line by tiro wuy of epitaph, wtih my pencil on tho stone, but the thing was impossible.— My attempt was resisted, and I bad some dit- ficulty in obtaining a small niece of one of the trees, but was freely allowed Jo gather some of tho poaches and tho geranium, the hue of which reminded me of the ribband ol the Le gion of Honor, founded by the deceased, and elevated by tho blood of so many a battle field. I now prepared to depart, when an in cident of some interest arrested my steps for a while. A young and pretty French lady approached, and was soon leaning in a pensive attitude over the railing before described, with her eyes is tears, bent on tho grave which it enclosed. Site was one of a party of natives of France who had landed from a ship :n ihe bay, to visit this memorable sepulchre. Her companions speedily arrived, and. after a look or two persuaded her to quit tho spot to which she seemed almost immovably attached. The only male in the parly evinced that trivial disregard which signalizes the character of his countrymen. lie shrugged up his shoulders, and as they fell again uttered something illus trative of tho shortness and uncertainty of hu man glory. Then (speaking of the island) he said, Mo foi e'esi un endroit execrable. The young lady remained without speaking all the time, and in a few minutes I lost sight of her. I now regained my ship nnd made sail for Euglnnd; but tlio.barren rock, lone grave and weeping girl, have over since been in my thoughts. great itterests come in collision, it is reasonable to suppose that the contract was not obtained without great difficulty. The French, Italian, and Splnif.it inteiests were easily disposed of; ihc British held out to the last and died hard. Their ] red diction lor commanding positions all over tl ? world, and their possessions at Balize on the Jay of Honduras, were used with great effect t ^tinst them.” Oh I there Is a dream of hoary age, ’Tis a vision of gold In store— Of sums noted down-on tlio figured page, : To be counted o’er and o’er; And we fondly trust in ourglittcring dust, Asa refuge from grief and c*lar, Till our limbs are laid io that Inst dark bed, VVhtflb the wealth of the. world i, vain. And is it thus, from man’s birth to his grave- lathe path tvblch all ore treading t 1* there nought iu that long cancer to save From remorse and sell-upbraiding ? ’ O vei, there’s a dream so pure, so bright, That the being to whom it is given, Hath bathed in a tea of living light— And the theme of that dream it Heaven. THE CHAMBER OF PSYCHE. Tread softly through these amorous rooms; , For ovory bough is hung with life,' ' And kisses in harmonious strife Unloose their sharp and wing’d perfumes. From Airic and the Persian looms The carpet’s silken leaves have sprung, And Heaven in its blue bounty lluug Those starry flowers and azure blooms J Tread softly—By a creature fair The Deity of love reposes: 11 is red lips open like the roses round his I \Vhich round"his byaclnthine hair Hang In crimson coronals; . , Aud passion fills the arched halls; ( And Beauty floats upon the air! Tread softly, softly,—like the foot Df Winter, shod with fleecy snow, Who cotueth white, and cold and mute. Lest ho should yrmkic the -Spring below. Oh, look! for here lia Love and Youth, Fair spirits of the heart and mind; Alas I that one should stray from truth, And one be ever,"ever blind 1 Here He they, like lost pleasures flung From Eden’s rich aud massy bower*/ Nourish’d both by tread of flown s; Once, and still d;vine and young: Sure somewhere a green home must be. Though paradise and faith have flown, Where these two mny slumber on, 8»yeet friends, Into eternity. • SKETCHES. , Isnhf flu BONAPARTE’S GRAVE From the journal of a gentleman just returned from Our touching nt St. Holona would have been an incident devoid of in.crest to me, had l not been for tho opportunity of viewing the Tomb of him whose d v-mating arms spread terror over the fate of Europe. St. Helena ^ appeared to nte to be in .tsolf a frightful isl- "**' ami—a rock of desolation—au emblem for tho teat of exile—an iuiulnioj p>;.n n ~a scene, nl’ Oil others the most likely to break tho hcait of one banished to its abrupt and rugged strand, it cost me a world of trouble and fatigue (which v i-t Tor tlio object I had in view would have been ill repaid) to mount tip die steep, ser pentine windings nnd constant twistings and turnings, which relieve the traveller to a cep- 'tn’ii degree in tho almost perpendicular ascent. Vu my tray I passed by the country house cuilod the Briars, which was the habitation of Napoleon on his arrival in the island. It is ?erjr sweet spot, when contrasted with the sur rounding horrors of the place, and owes much Oi its attraction to the water-fall, which invites to fliusing and meditation; but the haunts of tho Lv >ne were not die objects of. my expedition; iu d I at length gained the tomb. ' Ko who looks for the lofty or sublime in th is mansion of the dead, will pe wholly disap pointed; not a trophy, not a wreath, no bro ken trumpet nor fallen spear, no glaive nor Mroet; a plain slab, formed of three Port land flag stones, taken for tho purpose from The fire place of the ex*empcror’s kitchen in Au now house, is the only cover ng on his grave:-on this, not a lino, oithcr descriptive ly or coramemoratively, is writton; no name, ' date, m if ho had gone—» TRUE GLORY. Front the first annual Oration delivered before the Union bilosopkica! and Belles Lettres Society of Dicker on College, delivered on the2fith ult. by Richai » HexrvI.ee, a member of the Union Pm- losophi a) Society, we extract the following, being one air many excellent passages; “ Bt j the glory of a people does not consist only iri heir physical wealth and strength— their trt s glory is their moral force; their greater tiengtli, the power and influence of their mo al character. This glory of our coun try shine across the Atlantic, and is reflected from the voters of the Pacific. In the vision of it, reinrc Isles sing with joy, and oppressed continent stretch forth their-hands.—-Therich est sourpof this moral wealth and strength of a count iyjs the number and fame of its great men. Wo hatenot yet the walls of Chinn, the Pyra mids ofEpyptj nor the mines of Golconda, but our ltistpy is alreadythc study and light of the world ! The peculiar value of this history is the cxampl s it presents of so many great, because enlighi ted men. With a comparatively few instnnr i of exception, the nursery of such men will be the learned institutions of a country. Let n popular jealousy awake at this remark. The c lightened talents of one fellow citizen are, bj a wise and inevitable constitution of GUATEMALA. We have been permitted to take the following ex tracts from the journal ol an American gentleman who paid a visit to the capital of this interesting country in May last. He landed at Omoa, sailed thence for Isa bel, 150 miles distant, and proceeded over land to Guatemala.—Norfolk Herald. “Wo set out from Isabal (says the writer) mounted on mules, and arrived nt Guatemala, distant from Isabal 210 miles, in 9 days, one of ewant of mules.” This was slow tra* nssutes us that he in less time than is usually taken. “Th^road (ho con tinues is a veiy bad one. An t^np'lish ffentle- mun who is here, informs me that he has trav elled much through ’I'/" F.nst nnd Wnat Indies, and South America, nnd that he has never seen so had a road as that from Isabal to Gautemala. Wo never made less than 18 nor more than 30 miles per day. The country through which we passed is an alternation of high mountains, mostly without timber, and rich valleys. For seven days tho journey was through an exces sively hot country. There had’been little rain since December, and the air was like the at mosphere of an oven. Tho clouds of dust, want of water, and the vertical rays of a blazing sun, rendered the journey 3Dy thing but agree- ablc. “Gautemala is in latitude 14 Ni, in a rich valley, and in a delightful climato. Its eleva tion is 5000 feet above tlio sea. Within 20 leagues there is every climate. In 6 longues and in view, is the great volcano called here the votcan de Aqua, which destroyed old Gautcma- la, and from which this city is supplied with ice, supposed to bo 15,000feet high. Within a few leagues from thence, on the shores of tho Pacific, is to bo found the climato of Africa under the equator. This variety of climate affords an e- qual variety of productions; hence is to bo seen in thismarket the productions of all countries, Tho population of this city is variously stated at from 40 to 60 thousand. The s'roets are 36 feet wide, well paved with limo stone. Tho public square Is 450 feet,rectangular. The ca thedral with its appurtenances fills up one side of the square; on tho other three sides there are public edifices. The houses mo all one story high, except the churches, with thick walls to re sist the frequent earthquakes, plastered inside nnd out with limo and covered with red tile.— Tho yards and gardons aro ornamented with flowers, orange nnd lemon trees, and other shrub bery common to tho country, and each has ono or more fountains of pure water. There is a u- niformity and neatness in this city which I have not seen equalled any whore. Thcro aro about 4Q churches and 4 or 5 hundred priests of tho tFflbicm orders. Mo.it of lire chinches are mag nificent buildings. Tho priests have absolute dominion over the religion nnd cash too, of the people. The operation of tho Government will in the progress oftimb in a great degree cor rect this evil, “On the arrival of Col. Williams, tlio Charge d* Affairs of tho United States tb Gautc- mala, tho Government made considerable prep arations and gave him a splendid reception.— The United States have foe first place in the affections oftliose people. Co). Boneski, for merly of tlio French army, but now the agent of a Now York company, has obtained a contract to. make a ship communication between tho North and South Seas, through the Lake Nic- horaqua. The English wore very desirous of procuring this contract. Their agent at one timo thought ho had it, and wrote home to that effect. The English in thij city are mortified at the disappointment. It is perhaps fortunate for the commerce and navigation of the United States that this channel has not fallen into tho British hands. Col. Boneski thinks tho arri val of Col. Williams, contributed essentially to his success. The contract was concluded on tho 16th June. This magnificent enterprise has attracted the attention of tho capitalists in different parti of tho world, and when so many They Piovic nee, the property of another, cannot exclusively act. They are essentially diftusiw. That country is most truly rich which host abounds in talented and educated men. (hall we hear this questioned? Look at the plicy of some of tho wisest, most pow erful, md most famed of our sister republics. New-Y»rk, whilo she annually provides from her puHc treasury, for the education of 430,000 of her ihildrcn, liberally endows institutions for their infraction in the higher and highest de- partmcits of knowledge. Conscious of .Her tvisdon and of her dignity, she displays the list of ler colleges, her students and her schol ars. Virginia, by others than her own sqns, eulogised ns “ the land of heroes, statesmen, and otetors,” does not seek for the sources of her wtalih and glory only in her navigable streami innumerable, in her wide spread apd various territory. She does not attribute to warmer suns the glory of former lipics, jipr looks to brighter skies for the wisdom nnd elo quence of her future politicians. She loolts.for these lit her colleges and her university, among which she annually distributes her public revg* world; with all its attendant circumstances, to bis children, grand children, &c. till tho day of Methuselnh. Methuselah handed it down to Noah; Noah to hischildren; nnd these again to succeeding' generations down to Moses, who committed it to writing. Thus did this most interesting history, exists only in memory, for about 3500 years, withont suffering the slight est variation in authenticity. | Europe- has produced some remarkable in stances of memory; but none to equal that of a Rev. Professor, in a respectable college in the United States. This gentleman is said to have improved his memory to such a pitch, that he can recite the scripture verbatim; and ho feels confident, of his ability to give a true, and exact copy of the hible, were that inestimable volume ontiroly destroyed. It is worthy of notice, that , strong mental im pressions, made in early life, are very rarely obliterated. Tbus many old persons recollect the transactions of their youth, with scrupulous exactness; end will toll a story or relate a vol uminous history, fifty times over without the least variation, either in style, diction, or ver bosity. But so exceedingly dull does foe per ception become, in old age, and so weak are the impressions, made by external objects, that each succeeding day, destroys ,tbc sensations which have been produced the previous one; and many old people do not remember from day to day, the common occurrences of life. nue with unsparing hand. Is she asked for a T *- lt -t0'expire - when he pleased; perient SCIENTIFIC. mamoBF r IHNFJdGNirS. Or the art of improving the Memory. Memory would appear to be the act of re- calling|to mind, impressions, which have pre viously been made, in’the iensorium commune. But! for the exercise of this faculty, scjoxa- 1 — lXi perception,'seem indispensable.’ An tion ai trattsmtted by thb pervfcs, to tHe braittf it Is pcrcei id, or Ml by : tliat organ: it then be comes icrception. In this Tvay we form an i dea of iSurids, colors, magnitude, dec. The whole art of improving tho memory consist in the proper fixation or joegtipn, and astociation of impressions, or idea?, jh order for impressions to be firmly fixed, or located in tho sensorium, it would seem re quisite that only one sensation J>e propagatcc by tie 'sentient nerve j,' at once. JFor if all the orgnts of, sense' bq influenced ait the same lime, syo am only acquire confused notions of those bodies which have ‘'produced the differ ent sensatiins we experience, and one parti- cularajhd sponger r tho other yeakcr orips, and fixe? i Thus (he terosti plcasii siriiult may t >n who ha? his eye on |ome In- , oqect which produces in hi? mind, a sedation, is not susceptible tip othpr cout sensations; although impressions m r male on his’ear, or other organs of sense,; at tie same moment: nor docs he Hear the raise ol passing carriages, or the'yoice'qf one tho asis him a question. For^the location of ideas, it is also Access- aiy, that sensation continue for Sjorne time; for when a sensstion is of short duration, the per- ceptioi we have of it, is so weak, mat soon afterwards there does not remain any, remem brance oi having experienced it." Thus wheft wo" hsi$ti(y pwuw--«‘Vili. C.n ->wt- dotes, each iitcrests us for a moment, but ma kes, no pernment impression on the mind; and when wj have completed the narrqtiye^ wo are been the sion of ide thing but a ] particularly rcmcmbranc d to find, that so short have tion, and so rapid the. supces- that we have forgotter, evejry iw actions, which served more i demand our attention. The will be more or less lively, in proportion tj the stronger, or weaker im pressions, wlich have beeq produced in t}ie fibres of the Ira in. Impression' sometimes bgcome obscure, and the memory cm only give an idea of some Qf the qualities if those objects, which have ex? cited such impressions. But by the exercise of the sensor,um, they are re-produced, with all ’heir connexions, and attendant circum stances. TIib re-productive faculty, is term ed imagination When the brain combines and classifies deas, in the same order of suc cession that thry were found, the connexion is called association. The memory becomes retentive in propor tion as it is exercised: and some of the most accurate histories have been transmitted to suc ceeding generations, by memory alone; or as we say, have been handed down by tradiiipn. It was Adam who communicated by frequent rehearsals a true account of the creation of tho From Ihe Quarterly Bevieio. SINGULAR NARRATIVE. Dr. Reid’a first essay (on Nervous.affectlons) con siders the question how far Nervous diseases can be resisted by the will. Patients are told not to give way to their complaints; and Buchan concludes the treatment of hypochondriacWm ly advising the suffer, cr above all thidgs to keep up bis spirits—as if the essence of the malady did not consist in inability to do so. Dr. Reid, however, cites some strange instances of the power of the will over the actions of the bo dy ; particularly, the following extraordinary narra tive: ' ' “Dr. Cheyne, in one of his medical treaties, narrates a case, the accuracy of which is es tablished by an irrefragable combination of e- vidence, of a man .that could die, to all ap- E a ranee, at any time ho cjlO^o ; apd after ving lain for a considerable period exactly as a corpse, was able, it seemed, by a volun tary . effort, to restore to himself the ap pearance and all the functions, of animation And intellect. It is to he inferred from ftps.latter part of the story, that tho unnatural arid pain ful exertions by which' this person assumed the appearance of disease, produced at length a fatal result: Death would no longer be mocked with impunity. Tho counterfeit corpse, a few hours after its last revival, relapsed m'tb a state which was capable of no -longer re suscitation. But the case is so interesting and but children of the forest.” The following Recount of the celebrate remarkable as to deserve our civiua it in-all Ghesnut, of Mount -iEtnn, is from Bp the detail with which Dr. Cheyne presents ^’fTrovvls: “ ^oaving tho Cataum roa tne aetau wi n i t . the left, they beran to ascend the morn and yet, by an effort, or somehow, he could come to life again. Ho insisted so much upon our seeing the trial made, that we were at last .forced to comply. We all three felt his pulse .first; it.was distinct,.though.small and thready, aodhishparthad its usual beating. He composed jhipuelfoA Jhl* hack, and ,lay in a Still posture for som.e time. While .1 held hj? right hand, Dr. .Baynard laty Jfiji'ji&d jyt Iwwh and Mr, Skrine hej.d a cle.ar looking-glass to iu? (nouth. I foupd his pidse sink gradually till at last f could not feel the Jpast .motion in his heart, nor could Mr. -$Jtripc perceive ffie least port of breath on the hnght pfoirn Jp.gl? fo his mouth. .Then pach pf .us by (urps cjtapipr ’ his arm,hjart, and hrpath; but copld riot, ). y .dip nicest scrutipy, discoyer in him fop least symptom of life. We reasoned a Ipjiig time, as well as we could, about this odd appear ance ;apd finding he continued in that .state, be gan to coptdude that he .carried foe experiment too far. At last wo .\yprp sqtisfipd foat ,hp actu ally was dead, apd #ere rpaijy to leavp hm. This continued half an hpur. By pfop o’duck in the morning as wc were going away >ye ob served some motion about the body, and j tip- on examination found his pulse and foe motion of Jtis heart gradually returning; bp began jp brpafog gently apd speak softly. Wp yerp ??- toqished al foi? «nP8PPftSd foange, and after sorng further conversation but) »dtb each other, W§nt tne particulars of . .m satisfied p? to all is fact, but not count for it. He afterwards called tor ah at torney, added a codicil tq his will, and calmly apd composedly died, about % v Q o’clock that eypqiDg.”. ]LAR4r5h5?s. Chardin, the traveller, tells us that in the King’s Garden at Shiras, (in Persia) “ he obser ved a tree whose trunk was eight yards in dr* tumferenee. From the great age of this tree, it" was treated with peculiar veneration by the clothes on its boughs.' The sick, or their friends, resort here, to burn incense, to fix ligh ted candles to the trunk, and to perform' other superstitious ceremonies, in the hopes of their health. Throughout Persia, are many other trees thus superstitiously reverenced by the people." “ The Chatter Oak" in Connecticut. “From the best information that we can ob tain,•*. says a Hartford paper, '.'this tree is no less than four hundred-years old: it is torn- ty-eight.fut in circumference near the ground, and at the height of seven feet, it is seventeen feet in circumfereftce; the height, of the tree, as near as can be ascertained, is. about seventy feet; some of its branches. extend nearly twenty feet." ; In May, 1826, there was an Elm blown down in Wells, (Maine) which "measured twenty-xvcnftet and four inches in circumfen- ence, making the diameter something over nine feet} and was forty feet from the foot to a thence it was twenty feet to the first limb running to tho height of sixty feet from the bottom oefore it had any limbs, whenit expanded to an immense size. The exact height of tho tree could not be accurately ob tained, M the top was much broken, but was computed to bo upwards of on* hundred feet." “ An Elm tree standing near the bouse of Captain Joshua Avery, in Strathara, (Massi and reared since his recollection, at f our - *1 from the ground, measures eighteen feet in tl , cumference, and one hundred feet from the tremity of the branches on one side, to tho cj! tremity of them on tho other. It was plan,’ ed 80 years ago; and to use Capt. A’s. ei. pression, was then “ smaller than his thumb.’ Mr. Nelson, the Botanist, who accompanj. ed Capt. Bliou to the South Sea, for the pig. pose of conveying the Bread-Fruit Tree to the West-Indies, when on Van Dieman'i Land, “ found a tree in a thriving state, of the enormous size of thirty-three feet and a halfi girth, and of a proportionable height.” In Coon’s first voyage, Sir Joseph Bank? and Dr. Solanper, (I think it was in New. Zealand) measured a tree that was "ninety, eight feet high from the ground to the fa) branch, quite strait, and nineteen feet inarcun, ference; and they found still larger trees a; they advanced into the.wood." ’ On Cook’s third voyage they saw India* Canoes on the North West Coast of Ameri. ca—“the largest of which carry twenty person! or more, aie formed of one tree. Many o| tbom ore forty feet long, teven broad andabou for^etleep.” Wo aro told in the narrative of Governot Phillip, in his voyage to Botany Bay, that ot Norfolk Island, “ tho pines arrive at a magni- tude unusual in any other part of tho world roaK of them are one hundred and sidy, or even i hundred and eighty fed infdightt and nine ten feet in diameter, at the bottom of the trunk They frequently rise to eighty feet without branch." The Elm in Hatfield, (Mass.) is said to bi the largest tree in Nqw-England. “It measurc in circumference thirty-four feet, at two fed from the ground; at tne height of five feet, th smallest place in the trunk, tho circuraferenct is 24 feet 6 inches. There is a cut in tlio tree four feet from the ground, whicji tradition sayi was matjc by foe Indians, for foo highest rise ui Connecticut River.” The largest tree in Great-Britain, that 1 have ever read of, is’ the ono cited’ by Smel- lie, in his Philosophy of Natural History; which was growing at Cowthorpc, near Woth- erhy, upon the estate ,bc!-)n;.lng to the Rieb Hon. Lady Stouhton. “ The dimensions rn almost incredible. Within three feet of tfo surface, it measures sixteen yards, and close b] the ground,.twenty six yards. Its height, in ij ' 1776) is about ciehty foe left, tliey began to ascend the mountain, ii order to visit tho celebrated tree, known hy the name of the Chosnut-Trce of an hundred Horse which, for some centuries, has been rcgardci as one of the greatest wonders of dStna. " At foe etitlof the first region, the ascent bq. f trae muchmorp rapid, till they arrived atfoe be, ? “ inning of tho second region of /Etna, called Li legoine Sylvain, by tho natives; because if? composed of one vast forest thatextends all irouw foe mountain. [“ Tho woody region of JEtra ascends for about eight or nine miles, and form a zone, or girdle, oft he brightest verdure, a! round the'mountain.”] The same author. “ Near this place, they passed through som beautiful woods of cork and evergreen oak growing put of the lava ; and proceeding aboui Jive roues farther, they caino to the Chesum tree already mentioned, which, in the old map! of Sicily, always makes a conspicuous figure.— Mr. Bryson says ho was rather disappointed as it appeared rather a duster of five tree* growing together,than a single root; however he was qssured that they were all,once unite; in foe same stem, nnd that in the days of old i was regarded as the beauty' of tho forest, nnd visited from all quarters. It measured no les than two hundred ahdfourfcet in circumference, nnd if, os it is protended, it was formerly one trunk, jt.jnust, indeed, have beon a wonderfe phenomenon in the vegetable kingdom. Then are many other trees 111 this vicinity, of oxtr.ior> dinary magnitude. Our author measured ont which rose in a fojid trunk to a considerable Height, fojt was not loss than seventy-six feet i) ardmfatntc, at two feet from the ground.” The ^egington,(Ky) Public Advertiser says, thatthere now stands on the bqnk of foe Ohio river, in foo State of Indiana, opposite the mouth ofSalt river, a Sycamore tree, which Ilat stabled fourteen head of horses at one time wifo ample room, It takes 75 long paces ti go round its truifo, and you may with perfect case turn a fourteen foot pole in the inside o! In Lewis and Clark’s Expedition, thoy sav Pine trees, at the mouth Columbia river,jo! twelve feet diameter, and, tw.ajiundredfeet high. The lareest tree, I believe, In the ncighor* hooid of Charleston, is a Live Oak near th? Goose Creek road, about nine miles from towo- It takes, fifteen long paces.to go round it, near as., you can trqad between, the roots.-- About four feet feom. the ground j foo smallest part of foe trunk measures eighteen and a half feet in circumference; and ono of its arm! measures twelve and a half feet in girth. Thr .. .. J ..... tree, with a vertical sun, would cast a shado of 370 feet in circumference. There is. a Live Oak tree on the Charles tot Race Course, that has a limb extending seven* ty-five feet from its trunk, in a horizontal posi tion. The abovo trees have all-grown within thi temperate zones, and with the exception ol that in Great-Britain, between the latitudes of 30 and 48. Charleston Courier. dull eer- A Country clergyman preaching a'very um> moil, set all his congregation asleep, except one po 01 fellow, who was generally deficient in intellect. Al length the Reverend Orator, looking round, exclainj: ed, with great indignation—*‘whnt all asleep hut tbc poor Idiot 1” “ Aye," quoth the fellow," and if! has not boea on Idiot, I shouldharo gone to sleep too";