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THE LAST*PLAGUE OF EGYPT.
Exodus, xii. v. 20. 30.
Yes ! brightly does the sunlight fall !
On temple, tower, and princely hall;
Wild gleams afar the mighty Nile,
As if each wave had learn and to smile ;
And every light and stealing breeze
That loves to grace the morning hours
Hath dallied with the spicy trees,
And kiss’d the young and rising flowers.
Yet there is in Memphis now-*
A cold despair on every brow ;
From him who toils his life away,
The victim of a tyrant's sway,
To him w r ho from his gorgeous throne
Looks down on Egypt as his own.
All shudder as the morning sun,
Reveals a woe they may not shun ;
That sun in mockery resteth now
On pallid lip and rigid brow—
On manhood’s features, har&h and grim—*
The beamless eye and pulseless limb—
The cold paie lips of childhood wear
The last faint smile that quiver’d there—
And beauty’s raven locks are thrown
O'er features fix'd as sculptur'd stone.
Wild—deep and long the wail is made
Above the unregarding dead—
The loud lament for glory gone—
The wail for Egypt's elder born!
The monarch from his eye of pride
Hath dash'd m scorn the tear aside,
And check'd within himself the groan,
When fell the heir of Egypt's throne l
The princely hall—the mailed shed
Have each their own devoted dead,
Each hath the mourner’s thrilling cry,
The mother s tear, and father s sigh.
Groans Israel ’neath t e spoiler’s tread ?
Rises her wail above the dead ?
Not so—from bondage, chains and toil—
The tyrant's jest—the heathen’#-spoil—
Unharm'd by all the plagues that bow'd
The spirits of the stern and proud,
With cymbal tone, and minstrel lay,
Her joyous thousands pass away,
And brightly in their pathway rise,
The grateful fires of sacrifice.
ADVICE TO THE YOUNG LADIES.
BV JAMES HOGG.
She that giveth heart away,
For the homage of a day.
To a downy dimpling chin,
Smile that tells the void within—
Swaggering gait, and stays of steel;
Saucy head and sounding heel—
Gives the gill of wo and weeping ;
Gives a thing not worth the keeping,
Gives a trifle—gives a toy ;
Sweetest viands soonest cloy.
Gains ! Good lord! what doth she gain ?
Years of sorrow and of pain ;
Cold neglect and words unkind ;
Qualms of body and of mind ;
Gains the curse that leaves her never ;
Gains the pang that lasts for ever.
And why ? Ah ! hath not reason shown it ?
Though the heart dares hardly own it;
Well it traces love to be
The fruit of the forbidden tree.
Os woman's wo the origin ;
The apple of the primal sin;
The test of that angelic creature,
The touchstone of her human nature;
Which proved her, though of heavenly birth,
Au erring meteor of the earth.
And what, by Heaven’s sovereign will;
Was trial once is trial still;
It is the fruit that virgin’s eye
Can ne er approach too cautiously ;
It is the fruit that virgin’s hand
Must never touch but on command
Os parent, guardian, friends in common—
Approved both by man and woman!
Else wo to her a maid or wife,
For all her days of mortal life ;
The curse falls heavy on her crime,
And heavier wears by length of time;
And, as of future joys to rest her,
Upon her race that follows after.
But oh 1 if prudence and discretion
Balk the forward inclination,
Cpol the bosom, check the eye,
And guide the hand that binds the tie—
Then, then alone is love a treasure,
A blessing of unbounded measure,
Which every pledge of love endears :
It buds with age and grows with years—
As from the earth it points on high,
Till its fair tendrils in the sky
Blossom in joy, and ever will,
And woman is an angel still. •
The letter which we re-published below,
is from the si me highly intelligent young
gentleman to whose kindness we have been
frequently indebted for those letters which
we have, from time to time, laid before our
readers, giving descriptions of the climate
and soil of South America, and furnishing
useful information with regard to the politi
cal state and relations of the different na
tions of that portion of the Now World,
among whom he has resided for some time.
The manner in which these letters are writ
ten evinces, on the part of our correspon
dent a spirit of observation and enquiry,
which is at once honorable, and worthy of
imitation:
[Balt Gazette .
<I U. S. Ship Vincennes, )
u Uarbour of Valparaiso , February 12,1828. $
“There is no news of moment in this
quarter; nor is there any of importance
a ong the coast. The late conspiracy
against the Government of Lima you
will, in all probability, have been informed
of, before this reaches you. By letters re
ceived from Peru dated 19th January, it
appears the parties arrested, charged with
the crime of an attempted subversion of the
government, are now undergoing trial,,
whether it is before a military commission,
or civil judiciary, I have not understood.
The temporizing measures of the govern*
mem, growing perhaps out of a want of
euergy, have a tendency to fostdr, rather j
than to repress those iuternal commotions;
a few examples of punishment, I have no
doubt, would have a salutary tendency in
suppressing the military spirit that is con
tiLuaily disturbing the public deliberations.
‘‘The Politics of Chili appears to be
more settled than any other of the repub
lics on this side of the Andes, and it is to
be hoped in a few years the fruits of Good
Governmeut will be visible in the happiness
and growing prosperity of the country
In the ordinary course of human affairs
there is tioifirrg tn defeat. this anticipated
result. A general view of the public con*
dition is highly encouraging. A modera'e
public debt within the capability of the
country speedily to discharge—-an econom
ical administration—a military and naval
apparatus organized upon a peace estab
lishment—an unexplored mineral wealth
iu the bowels ofner mountains—a luxuriant
I il—a rapidly multiplying population, and
the industry of the natives invigorating
from the prospects of individual prosperity
open to them by a free trade, are healthful
features in the body politic and, from
which is sanguinely expected a beneficial
reaction upon the country at large.
“The brig Geo Gardner came into har
bour yesterday and has brought as passen
ger Mr. Tudor, our late Consul, who, I
understand, is succeeded in his consular
functions by a Mr. Radclifte ofNew-York.
Mr. Tudor is on his way to Rio de Jane
iro and was promoted from Consul at Li
ma, to Charge des Affairs near the Court
of Brazil. Mr. Tudor is spoken of with
much respect both by natives and resident
foreigners, and as his sentiments are known
to be favorable to the existing order of
things in Peru, and he has taken an inter
est in the welifare of the Peruvian Repub
lics, his translation is reported as a matter
of regret. The sphere of his duties will be
greatly enlarged by his recent appoint
ment, and it is to be expected at this crisis,
eminently calculated to elicit a display of
intellectual resource, and diplomatic man
agement, his talents will sustain him in the
more arduous and responsible functions he
is about assuming at the Imperial Court.
“A Short time a pirate was reported to
be cruising on this coast, she however
proves to be a Spanish privateer, armed
with 16 guns and a complement of 160
men. She has made several caplines of
Chilian /essels, which have been ransomed.
It has created some excitment in those
who have property afloat under the Chili
an flag, but no depredations of any kind
have been committed on neutrals. The
Chilian armed brig Achilles, Commodore
Woodster, we learn, is in pursuit of her.
“We sail from this to-morrow for Cal
lao, having arrived at this anchorage on
the 7 f h inst. from Juan Fernandez and
Conception—we remained at the Island
three da}’, giving a free indulgence to our
imagination and taste . To the one in
calling to n ind the memorable history of
Robinson Crusoe, the other in regaling
our appetites upon a most delicate assort
ment of crustaceous fish, with which the
waters in the neighbourhood of the island
abound, and for which they are deservedly
celebrated—a spot upon the globe encir
cled by so bright a halo of intellect, would
perhaps justify description, but time and
inclination are both unfavourable. We
found two Yankees and six Otahetians on
the Island ; the former have made a settle
ment for the purpose of supplying whale
ships with dried fish and vegetables, and
poultry—fish are taken in great plenty
and the astonishing fertility of the soil will
doubtless reward the toils of tillage—l
have no doubt but in the course of a short
time, thesettlemet will attract the attention
of whalers coming into this sea—as provis
ions will be obtained cheap, without the
danger of losing the crews of vt-sse s, by
desertions, which is usually the case on
their touching on the Continent.
“To day is the anuiversay of the battle
of Chacabtico, which immediately prece
ded the independence of the country—it is
kept as a festival day, in which we joined
by following the salute of the batteries:
The Brandywine is at present at Callao,
about sailing for Panama The squadron
is in good heabh and spirits. The brig
Melville of Baltimore has arrived safe, and
is now in the harbour.
BUENOS AYRES.
The editor of the Delaw tie Advertiser
acknowledges the receipt of advices from
his intelligent correspondent at Buenos
Ayres, to the sth of April. The state of
the markets aud public opinion decidedly
expressed that peace between that govern
ment and Brazil was not very far distant
The propositions received by the Heron,
British sloop of war and sent back by the
same vessel to Rio, with the modification
by the Buenos Ayrean government, was
not exactly known, but it was expected
they would be accepted. The return of the
Heron was daily looked for. In the mean
while, says the correspondent, “ this event
has had its full effect on all mercantile ope
rations. The mere rumor of a pr< bable
speedy peace has caused a sudden depres
sion of 50 percent, in the prices of evei y
article of foreign produce in our markets.
The great embarrassments into which opr
merchants find themselves suddenly plugg
ed. are productive of the most melancholy
results. Failure follows upon failure, and
the commercial distresses at presenr pre
vailing, are said to be without example in
this country.”
It was positively stated that neither of
the belligerents could retract, even if they
wished to do so. That having accepted
the mediation of a neutral nation, and
agreed upon the basis of a treaty, they have
compromised themselves: and that a peiue
honorable to both parties will ensue. This
idea received confirmation from a letter
received by the chairman of the Liverpool
Portugal and Brazil Association, to a me
morial forwarded to the British Ministry.
The same paper contains a long and in
teresting letter from the same source,which
furnishes a melancholy account of the pol
itical dissentions which have distracted the
Argentine Republic. The writer says
“ The former province of Buenos Ay
res, suppressed by a strong at and impolitic
measure on the part of Mr Rivadavia, is
resuscitated, and its government temporari
ly charged with the foreign affairs of the
nation, and the prosecution of the war with
Brazil; but all the elements ol national as-
sociaticn appear to be dissolved, and the
epoch when anew and durable union will
take place of all the provinces—when a
firm snd perfect structure shall be formed
of what we have been using ourselves to
call the Republic of La Plata , I appre
hend is removed far fioni the present mo
ment. It is useless to disguise the truth,
tetter as it may be to the friends of real
liberty. Still it is not necessar} to enter
hire into an investigation*of all the causes
wliich have operated to bring about the
crania which is now acting—we see, we
,e * r effects ; and a very slender ex
position of facts would suffice to arrest the
lf°S iess miscouceptiou abroad. Per
haps there is not one among all the seve
ral provinces that does not conceive the
very aspiring idea of constituting itself a
separate and independent State. The bel
ligerent Brazilian laughs and exults at our
dissensions and our disorganization. The
constitution, to frame which a Congress was
expressly’ convoked, and which was pro
duced only after years of labor, is spurned
and rejected ; and a most unaccountable
spirit of diseetd prevails in all the interior
provinces. This is fanned by the machin
ations of a few restless and ambitious mili
tary leaders, who, from time to time, break
ing” up the sanctuary of internal peace, the
blast of civil war is blown throughout the
whole territory of the Republic. The ri
val chiefs leading on the knights errant of
the Federal system on the one side—on
the other, the champion advocates of Uni
terianism, or the consolidated form—march
forth to oppose each other in the field, and
stain the soil of their country with the blood
of their fellow citizens.”
“ A six years peace under the late pro
visionary ministerial government, the oper
ation of wise laws, the influence of liberal
institutions, and of that spirit and emulation
which must ever be productive ot social
prosperity—proved not to be sufficient for
the regeneration of people whose principles
in theory, and habits in practice unhappi
ly stand in the most direct and positive
perversity. It is now only the lenient hand
of time and restorative repose in a long and
undisturbed peace, that can heal the body
politic, and weave for them the bonds of a
National Compact that shall be indissolu
ble.”
The Seat of War . —As it is now cer
tain that war has been undertaken by Rus
sia against the Turks, it may not be unin
teresting to give some little detail concern
ing the countries in which it will be carried
on, and of the forces likely to be engaged
in it. The Russian army, commanded by
Count Witgenslein, is said to amount to
about 150,000 men of all arms—well disci
plined, well provided, and burning for the
onset We find no account in our London
papers of the precise situation occupied by
this army; nor does the proclamation of
the commander in chief, which we publish
this evening, relieve our difficulty—for it is
merely dated from head quarters, without
stating where those are. We presume,
however, that they are quartered in Port
land the vicinity of the Pruth, which con
stitutes the north western boundary of
Moldavia. The distance from this position
to Constantinople is about 500 miles. The
Pruth after separating for a considerable
space Moldavia from Poland, makes a turn
to the south and continues a southerly
course till it falls imothe Danube between
Galatz and Ismael—and divides the prin
cipality of Moldavia, in its length into two
almost equal parts. B th Wallachia and
Moldavia are without Turkish garrisons,
being governed by their own Hospodars, j
who are tributaries of the Porte. Walla-‘
chia is separated by the Danube from Bul
garia, where properly the Turkish empire ,
begins and where the first Turkish forces
will probably be met The Russian army
will traverse the two principalities without
opposition in some 15 days, which will
bring them to the Danube. This river will
be crossed, it isVmpposed between Hirsko
va and Ruscliuck (both fortified places)
which will, if the object be to proceed with
all haste to Constantinople be masked—for
the Russians have learned by experience
not to lose time in laying seige to Turkish
fortresses—and the march be pushed for
ward to Shimula, the position that com
mands the passer* of Mount Haemus, and
where the Turkish force, amounting by
computation to eighty thousand men, inde
pendently of thirty thousand scattered along
the fortresses on the banks of the Danube,
are concentrated. Here then must be the
battle The invaders, with their left rest
ing on the Gulf of Varna, accessible to
their fleet from Sebastopol, in the. Crimea,
distant about three hundred miles—and
therefore assured of supplies and succour
of all sort, w ill fiybt with every advantage
The Turks, with the conviction that their
position is 1 lie key to the passes in the
mountains, which, once carried, opens the
way to ihe Capital and with the advantage
| of mdmate knowledge of these passes, will,
if animated by any thing like the pristine
, zeal of the Mahometans, and directed by
even a moderate degree of skill in the art
of war be enabled to make a de
fence. Ve do not believe, however, that
it can avail against the superior number and
discipline of the Russians. This one bat
tle will probably decide the whole cam
i paign. Either the Grand Seignior, on learn
i ing bis defeat, will agree to terms of un
; conditional submission, or, animated by
(despair, defend ins capital to the last, and
either fall with his throne, or pass over in
|to Asia, and thence renew the war. Our
own belief is, that at the moment we are
writing these remarks,the Russian standard
is floating from the Seven Towers, and that
: die Northern Autocrat, like another Colos
sus, bestrides Europe fiom the Gulf of Fin
land to the Sea of Marmora.
A x . Y. American .
From the Philadelphia National Gazette.
BRITISH STATISTICS.
According to the official accounts for the
year ending sth January, 1828, of the Bri
tish manufactures, those which exhibit the
most decisive signs of improvement are the
I: or. and Brass and Copper manufactures.
Though the Cotton exhibits a considerable
increase in 1828 over 1326, at the offieia
rates, the declared value for 1828 is con
siderably below 1826. But the branches
above alluded to exhib : t an increase both
at the official rate and declared value —-
Thus :
Brass and Copper Manufacture , Hard
ware Cutlery , Iron Steely wrought
and unwrought.
Ye sthJan mg } 1826 1827 1828
£ 485,118 £ 571,149 £ 726,800
1,391,112 1,179,105 1,390,428
1,048,063 1,105,618 1,214,948
In the remotest districts af the Conti
nent, where every other article used is ot
domestic manufacture, the Hardware and
Cutlery of England will be found Every
carpenter is indebted to England for his
tools. For the Iron Manufacture she pos
sesses, indeed, particular advantages. 1 lie
Shipping exhibits an apparent decrease on
the 31st December 1827, as compared with
the two preceding yeais ; but this re attri
buted in a Note to “ the operation of the
Registry Acts, 4 and 6 Geo. IV. which
requited all vessels to be recognised de novo
within a limited period, the consequence
has been that many vessels which were
supposed to be in existence were found to
be no longer so. ’ The decrease, however,
is oniv in England. Scotland and the
Plantations exhibit a regular increase.—
Thus, for instance, the tonnage of Scot
land on the 31st December. 1825, was
259,537 ; on the 31st December, 1826,
290,006 ; and on the 31st December,lß27,
300,836. The Plantations for these years
had, of tonnage, 214,875 214,183, and 279,
362. The tonnage of England is 1,958,
716, 2,001 295, acd 1,752,400.
Scotland has now for its population more
shipping than England —and from its hav
ing more coast in proportion to its extent,
it may be expected to grow upon England
every vear. The number of seamen for
England on the 31st December, 1827,
was 101,039; for Scotland, 21,846 ; that is
more than one-sfth,. while the proportion,
according to the population, is about one
sixth.
The Report, by the Commissioners for
the Herring Fishery, us their proceedings,
for the year ending sth April, 1827, shews
the extent to which the Herring aud Cod
Fishery of Scotland has been carried.—
The total number of persons employed in
the fishery is 79,794. The isumber of fish
ermen and boys is 47,371 Os this number
of fishermen no fewer than 37.607 belong to
Scotland. When we include the wives and
children of the men, w J shall find that a
verv large portion of (he inhabitants ofScot
land derive their subsistence from the
water. \
The navigation of Ireland exhibits a re
gular increase. On the 31st December,
1325, the tonnage was 80,583,-the men
7090; on the 31st December, 1826, ton
nage 90,768, men 7327; on the 3lst De
cember 1827, the touuage was 96,369,aud
the men 7609.
We have before us a very interesting
Report of “ the Liverpool East India As
sneiation on the subject of the Trade with
India.” It treats of the American com
merce with China, thus—
“On the average of the first years of the
American commerce, down to the year
1800, their annual exportations of tea did
not exceed 2,785,0901 b. On the average
of the three first years of their renewed in
tercourse with Cnina, after their last war
with Great Britain, they exported 8,607,
173 lb. yearly. On {he average of the
years 1824 and 1825, their exports had in
creased to 13,314,4401 b.
“ The exp rts of the Amtuicans from
Chi..a, it will be seen by this, have increas
ed in 25 years 387 per cent. Those of
the East India Company, in the same time,
have increased only 28 per cent —indeed,
for the great part of the time, they have
been stationary or retrograding.
‘ Excepting that to Great Britain and
Canada, the East India Company have no
trade from China to any other country
whatsoever. The Americans carry on a
trade from thence to the continent of Eu
rope, to South America, to the Philippine,
and Sandwich Islands, which to the three
last countries is increasing year after year,
so that the exteut of its Chinese valu
ation, amounted in 1825, to £229,505. —
In the year 1805, the whole imports of the
Americans into China, amounted to £740,
795. In 1825 they rose to £1,620,062
and their exports being £1 823,542, made
their whole Chinese trade £3,443 504.
“ The export trade of the East India
Company, from Europe to China, has long
been stationary On the average of the
six years, ending with 1820, it amounted
annually, at its Chinese valuation, to £l,
491,173; their average yearly exports,
fiom their Indian territories to China,
amounted in the same period, also at the
Chinese prices, to £368,521, making their
total exports into China £‘,859,694. Ex
cluding, of course, remittance of territorial
revenue in merchandize,which is not trade,
their exports from China may be taken at
the same amount as the imports, which will
make their whole Chinese commerce £3,
719,388.
“ With a population of 22,700,000, and
after an intercourse of 150 years’ standing,
our trade is but 8 per cent, greater than
that of the Americans—with less than half
of our population—with not one half of our
taste for the great staple of Chinese export
—and with so comparatively recent a
knowledge of the Chinese trade. V\ hen we
go a little further into the matter however,
we shall find that the profitable and effectu
al trade, of the Americans is much greater
than that of the East India Company.
44 The East India Company laid before
the Trade Committee of the Lords, in
1820 and 1821, a statement of their Ex
ports from Great Britain to China, for a
period of twenty-six years, commencing
with their last charter. In the first year of
their statement, their exports, consisting of
woolens and metals, amounted to £731
559 ; in the last year of the last charter,
there was an increase upon this of 50 per
cent.
44 Os the eight years of the present char
ter, of which an account is exhibited, there
is, with one inconsiderable exceptiou, a
decrease of exports year after year ; and
in the last year of the statement they are
less by 15 3-4 per cent, than they were 25
years before. Upon 15 successive years,
there is a heavy loss sustained ; and out of
26 years, three only exhibit a pr fit, and
this a very trifling one. In the whole pe
riod the loss sustained is £1,668,103.which
is of course so much of the national capital
wasted and destroyed.”
THE LOCK OF HAIR.
The course of true love never rihlrun smooth
iSkakspcart.
‘ Well, take it, Henry!” SHl( j
lovely girl, as she cat a tress ot hair f ro ‘*
her amber locks, and which, as she tvvu/" 1
it round her ivory fingers, appeared
gold contending for beauty nub alabasie r
—“ But how long will thy love for her wi,
once owned it continue 1 and she faj lu i
snnled, as Friend* b • does when smooth
ing the pillow >1 tiering, while lie,- heart
whispers, it is in vain. “ Nay, nav, El
len, has not that love been the orb"wh;oh
has cheered my morning of life ; and
you that I will forget its beams among u le
difficulties winch may impede my noon
day path X Ah no ! on the bright current
of pleasure, and on the storm- tossed wa\ u
of adversity, thou shall be the polar star u>
guide me from destruction * “Be it St ,
Henry, and remember that death must a ( 1
rest the pulsations of faithful woman’s
heart, ere it will cease to love! ’
Months rolled on, and saw Henry e s .
tablished in a subordinate mercantile situa
tion, exposed to the temptations of a disv,.
lute metropolis, and far from the scenes
consecrated by the pure feelings of a fust
affection. Still Ellen was gladdened Mi
llie continuance of his love, still she , uisf.
ed with delight the repeated, ardent dec],,
rations of his affections. Bui, alas! i 0
soon did those declarations become l ess
and less frequent ; ruo soon was their tou e
chilled hy estrangement ; too soon did thei
total discontinuance dash into a thousaij
atoms the defences erected hy hope for th e
preservation of the heart’s peace of Ellen
happily for her,-she knew not the cause.-!
The infatuated votary of dissipation fur
this phantom, Henry bad sacrificed all his
virtuous principle ; at the gaming table
honour, fame, fortune, all were squander!
cd ; and fi iding his resources unequal to his
wants, he had determined to forge a draft
in his father’s name, hoping to replace the
money before the act was discovered. To
imitate the signature with exactness, he had
recourse to one of his father’s letters • it
w s the first which Henry had received on
his arrival in the capital, and contained all
the admonitions to virtue, all the disua
sives from vice, which a parent’s heart
could dictate. Though buried in the si
lence of night, arid in the soliiude of his
chamber, stiil the consciousness of his pur
pose paralysed his hand, he falteringly
opened it, but started on discovering that
it hehEjhis still loved Ellen’s tress of amber
hair. Tfie sight of it revived all (he recol
lections oT joy and innocence connected
with her image : he paused even upon the
threshold of crime ; perused the admoni
tions of iiis father, and vir.ue conquered
But too transient, alas ! was her empire:
Henry impelled by vanity, and lured by
the fascinations ol a beauty, who, bound
to no authority but that of passion, prepar
ed o fly from a husband only too indulgent,
from ch Idren whose only fault was, that
their helplessness and innocence rej reach
ed their mother Tiie day previous to that
had arrived on w Inch Henry had resolved
to separate from muocence for ever; the
arrangements for his departure were com
pleted, except packing the few valuables
he possessed, which were contained in an
antique cabinet; aud he proceeded with
hurried abstraction to remove them into a
small casket. One ring only, and that the
most valuable, was missing ; there still re
mained a small box unexamined: with a
mind absorbed in the contemplation of one
idea, he mechanically opened it; the ring
was indeed there, but with it was the hair
of that once loved one, whose image bad
gradually faded from his soul, as the bright
rainbow of heaven retires from the ap
proach of the whirlwind and the storm.—
He remained for a few moments rivetted to
the spot; but in those minutes the electric
spark had flown through memory, and the
picture of early happiness and love appear
ed glowing as the sea when it blushes a wel
come to the morning. Distracted by re
morse, he instantly resolved to abandon his
present design, and wrote an eternal fare
well to her whose love had seduced him
from the path of honour. He then remem
beied with agony the time which had elaps
ed since he had written to Ellen ; and re
solving to tell his tale of penitence in per
son,he trusted the persuasions of love would
obtain his pardon. On arriving at her cot
tage, he tound the roses blooming as when
he it, and the brightness of a summer s day
diffusing loveliness and animation over na
ture. Vv ith a heart vibrating between hope
and fear he entered the cottage, and ‘here
found all that remained of Ellen Exhausted
by disease, she was reclining on a sofa pale
as the snow drop, -which reared its gentle
head to meet the sunbeam which it loves, is
withered by the winter’s Mast, then droops
and dies. After recovering the shocks
which Henry s presence gave her, slttf
calmly listened to ihe recital of his errors
and repentance; then fixing her mild eye
upon him, “Henry,” she said, “ I feel that
my very hours are numbered. Believing
that you had trampled on a heart which
only beat for you, death has long appeared
as the best gift of Heaven. How much,
how dearly I have loved, my grave will tell
you ! May God bless you for soothing with
your presence my dying moments ! and oh!
may he doubly bless you, for cheering me
with the hope that we shall meet in abet
ter world ; that has extracted the last thorn
from my death pillow; that has’ —she
clasped her hands as if in prayer—she look
ed up to heaven, and expired.
European Magazine,
Alabama Steam boats. —According to a state*
ment in the Montgomery paper, the value of steam
Boats and Barges lost on the Alabama river, since
the year 1621, amounts to $378,000, and other los*
ses are supposed to have been sustained, sufficient
to swell the amount to $400,000. Frequently f°r
six months in the year, that river is not naviga
ble.
The New-Haven Journal ofthe 17th inst. sat 8
—“Geo. Hoadley, Esq. late President ol
Eagle Bank, was committed to jaii in this city ° n
Wednesday, at the instance ofthe acting A” cm*
of said Bank, upon the claim, we understand, 0
$1,500,000.”
*