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♦‘ LIKE ORIENT PEARLS AT RAND ITRI
110 R
Hail, lovely cot,
Delightful spot.
The poor man’s lot!
Contentment, Hither come !
Let others bound
'l’he wotlil around;
No peace is found,
Like this, 1 find at home.
With musing head,
The meads 1 tread,
And mountain’s hca 1;
Nor e’er regret my doom—
Poor and obscure,
Enjoy the pure,
Unenvicd peace, at home.
The horrid car
Os bloody war
May roll afar;
But hither will not come;
While thousands slain
Bestrew the plain,
1 here remain.
Secure in peace, at home.
For sordid gain,
The merchant train,
O’er all the main,
With toil and danger, roam;
While 1, resign’d
•To want, here find
More peace of mind.
Secure and safe at home.
The statesman proud,
Amid the crowd,''
Mp.v bellow loud,
In noble congress room —
1 envy not
His shining lot,
While in my cot
I live in peace, al home.
With curious taste
And mad’ning haste,
< )Tr all the waste
The traveller may' roam ;
I can explore
All nature’s iore,
Here safe on shore,
And never stir from home.
When morning bright
On mountain's height
Spreads out the light,
1 from my cottage roam;
And when to rest,
Adown the west,
Bright. Sol is chas’d.
Return, and sleep a! home.
Ilcav’n grant, I may
Thus pass away
Faeli live-long dayi
From innocence ne’er roam;
’Till that last day,
When God shall say,
‘ Soul! come away,
• To your eternal home.’
A JIOTIIEB’S LOVE.
BY REV. C. F. LEFEVRE.
“Give her the living child, and in no wise
slay it.” 1 Kings, iii. 2(1.
O spare the babe! let not its blood
The sword ofjnsliee stain,
Nor let a wretched mother’s voice
For mercy'plead in Vain.
Sweet innocent! if thou art safe.
Thy mother's wish be blest,
Though cradled in a stranger's arms,
And pillowed on her brea-t.
I'll anxious watch thy every want,
Thv infant woes beguile.
Thou"still shall share a mother's care,
If not a mother’s smile.
And when to years malur r grown,
I'll bring the truth to view.
And thou sha’t read a mother's heart,
And know her tale was true.
Then wilt thou shed the filial tear,
Impart the filial kiss.
And 1 once more shall own a son,
And tas:e a mother’s bliss.
Then spare my' child ! let not his bio !
Tlie sword of insrice stain.
Nor let a mother’s wretched voice
For mercy p’.cau in vain.
“LIBERTY AND I NION, NOW AND F. fVKRj ONE AND INSEPARABLE.”
HI ISC 2; So LAYEOIS.
Scene witli a Police Officer.
“ It’s a miserable piece of Business,”
said Neddy Brown ; “ living’s a miserable
piece of business—and mankind is a
miserable dog. I’ve been threatening to
reform any time these ten years, because
I love Jiipior. I hate tostication, and
vet here 1 am the same old two and six
pence, I was last night before that which
I can remember. I’m pretty tollo! for
an old man every'night about twelve
o clock. Now to-morrow morning I’ll
be passing the reform bill, for the benefit
of my constitution; bat at night the reform
bill will be laid under the table. B’posing
I was to join the temperance society bv
way' of a slant, and taper oft’with a quart
or two ot cider? But what’s the use
" hen I can taper b!F without joining ? T
won t be ruled by others, when 1 can go
straight bv myself, it I’ve a mind to !”
observed Brown, as lie brought up against
the wall. “ Temperance ! fiddle siicks!
I must have a httie now and then, only 1
can’t never hit the right quantity'. I’ve a
great mind to go and get gauged ! But
if them temperance folks will go the en
tire animal, the whole sucker, the com
plete cat fish, I’m the boy to join them.
Quit tlie cities and go into tlsc woods,
and dine upon acorns. Veto pigtail, long
nines, and macoboy. But tliev won’t.—
They are just like my dad, who used to
hammer me for lying in bed, when 1 was
a boy, and it was.only because his cop
pers were so hot he could’ut sleep, that
made him get up himself. Hot coppers
is an earlier riser than a chicken, and the
way' to get up earlier is to take a treble
allowance. Bless myheart?” said Brown,
“ it 1 ain’t getting thy ichere-to-gn in my
head.”
“ What’s the matter, neighbor V’ said
a man with a badge.
“I’m dizzy—got thy wlicro-to-go in
my head instead of my feet.”
“Shall I assist you?”
“Sir, you’re too polite. You’re as
insinuating as a corkscrew. I’ll not
bother von.”
“No bother, not by no means. It’s my
duty.”
“ Here’s a philanthropist! Ilis duty'
to assist people in distress ! Why you’re
a bird—a perfect tom tit Chesterfield.”
“ Don’t run your rigs upon me, larkey,
or I’ll give you another guess sort where
to go. I’ve a sort of impression that
you ii; .-prong. You've lmd too much
tea, and too Jiitle water.”
“ You hurt my' feelings, and brush the
blue off the delicate pliim of my charac
ter by your insinuations. After to-mor
row, 1 won’t touch a toddy, if it should
cry for me to kiss it.”
“ We!!, you shan’t be tuck up on sas
p cum. Can yon walk a crack, foot over
foot, twisiilied fashion?”
“II it wus’nt that I’m troubled in my
mind, I’m sure I could. 1 know 1 can
to-morrow if you’ll step in after dinner,
take off your tilings, and bring your
work, and stay to ten, as tlie gals say.”
“ That will never do. Walk a crack,
or you must walk your chalk before the
Mayor.”
“ Well, 1 will. You niusu’t laugh
though, or you’ll put me out.”
“lire away, Flanagan. I’ll be as
grave as a jackass, or a justice of the
peace when lie wants his dinner.”
“Stand aside !” roared Brown. “Here
goes!” He made a desperate rush to
escape, but his accommodating friend put
out Ins loot, and Neddy Brown typified
tlie decline and fall of the Roman em
pire.
“I’m down, and it’s all up,” sighed
lie.
“ It’s F for figs, I for jigs, N for knuck
le bones, and I S for Jask-sduics, with
me. My knees are stuv’ in and 1 can’t
tell whether I’ve got any bands or not.
II I’d passed the reform bill or joined the
temperance society', this wouldn’t have
happened. I’m a prey to the law, though
I’ve prayed not to he many a time. I’ll
knock off, and come out cat-bird for the
luture. It wilt be a great saving of figs
and clothes, too, for my pants are tore
tantamount to tlie slack of fifty cents;
old Canvasback will charge full that for
sewinga pancake on each knee.”
“ Why didn’t you behave nice, and do
credit to them mtfotcli you up, instead of
trying to break jail, with no more man
ners than a boss ?”
“Ah, now, let me go, that’s signed
man, and i’ll never do so any more.—
Ah ! do—you’re a clever fellow.”
“ llowoften upon your deed,and deed
and double deed, and cross your breath,
have you promised that?”
“ Don’t ask me, for I can’t tell. !
havn’t got my cyphering hook. Long
sum : always bother me so.”
“ Then, the case is all Dickey and
and ran Dei.nis. M hen you’re once t- ok,
and you’re took now, as fur as my read
ing goes, tin re’s no screshinnary power
vestrated under the constitu i >tt of ih
city, or the corporosi-y of the Ft ite, in
me lor stillering you to mosey home, or
cut slick any where else, lor (be law
thinks n you’re had enough scorched to
betook, you’re bad oc man-core lied to
be hung onto ; and I’m inclined to think
so too, soi'iujr your didoes in another
ease; and men what’s corn'd can’t go
si re a home, if they was to try. It also
appears ilia*, you’re flint has been fixed
afore, and as often as it has been fixed,
so much the bigger js my ’spoil limit'..—
WASHINGTON, (ll \lkts County, Gy J^T E*Y, OC'TOIIEP *i7, &535.
The nntur’ of the case is as clear as lilac
tnud, especially as you tried to scratch
gravel, brake bail, atm* make vourself
scarce. It’s my opinion that 1 must (at
tic off with you, and hand you politely in
to quod.”
The court was so prolix in delivering
his opinion, that Brown had fallen fast
asleep before the awful termination, which
consigned him to quod, was reached.—
\V ith some difficulty he was aroused and
carried to the grand depot of the bibulous,
an 1 in the morning was disposed of sc
cundem artem.
From the Christian Advocate, and Journal.
A C!i<it>ter o:t Ureamiug.
Men are ever running into opposite
extremes in their opinions on an almost
endless variety of subjects within the
compass of human knowledge. This is
“"ring to a dilfigiyncc in the natural am
plitude of mind, (Tor surtfy sbuTern tfSSS.
' ored by nature with more extensive and
capacious intellectual powers than others,)
to education, habit, and example, to the
darkness and mystery in which many
things are shrouded, and to tlie conse
quent imperfection of our views concern
ing them, while the mental mail is clog
ged with the flesh and blood ofthe bodily.
There are perhaps few subjects which
illustrate and corroborate the proposition
..t tlie commencement of this article so
much as that of dreaming. Many per
sons put more confidence in a dream,
liowt ver absurd, than in an evangelical
sermon or the .express declarations of
God's word ; —they regard the fantastic
freak of a distempered liyain with super
stitious reverence, while the voice of con
science and tlie dictates of the Holy
Spirit are little heeded ; and they
mark, and study with the most
lons exactness the significant interpreta
tions ot their dream books, and consult
with unwearied diligence those of pro
fessed skill in this art, while the solemn
invocations of their prayer books, and the
timely admonitions of their friends, are
entirely neglected. But others may be
found in large numbers, who disregard
these nocturnal operations of the mind
altogether, whether they arise from bodily
or mental causes, or are produced by
good or evil spirits. The most .Scriptural
representations of death, judgment, heav
en, and hell, made in this wav, are not
suffered to make any serious impression
on tlie heart, but arc laid aside as nolli'me
more than the airy vision of a dream.—
Hoff. t>’■-* *l«f. tp... ,■ v!r:"; 1 .“1 ,1:.'., 1
believe in dreams,” says one; “1 think
there ts much in dreams,” says another—
and so do I—but what is it ? It is not
always
“ Snivelling and drivelling nonsense v.ilhoul
end,”
nor yet always sober, Gospel truth, of as j
much weight and importance as the Bi
bb'. This is evident, that God frequently
chose this method of communicating his
will to his creatures, previous to tlie full
completion of tlie cation of Scripture. In
a dream, or vision, lie or his angel ap
peared to Abraham and Abimclech, to
Jacob, and Laban, and Solomon, to Jo
seph, the husband of Mary, to St. Paul, j
and many more in the Old and New j
Testament times. But as we now
bis will concerning us circiimsicnti.!'ii'«l
recorded in his word, and all relating to
the essential doctrines, the practice and
experience of religion made plain, so that
the wayfaring man though a fool in world
ly wisdom need not err therein, we should
not look for light and direction through
this medium, except in a very few partic
ular cases; and not then, unless con
science, tlie spirit in our walking hours,
when implored in earnest prayer, the
written word in its common-sense mean- ,
mg, and the advice and experience of the j
good and the wise, fail to relieve us, or j
give the necessary instruction.
Dreams have been divided into six j
classes. To the first class belong those j
springing from a deranged or disordered j
intellect. To the second, those arising j
from a diseased - state of the body. To
the third, those flowing from the exercises ;
of the mind th,"“— h the t.nitnw
day, and especially immediately prece
ding tin: failing asleep. To the (Wurth, i
those caused by the previous employ
men's ofthe body. The fifth class of
dreams are produced by the directngency
of Satan, or wicked spirits, and those in
cluded in the sixth class arc instilled into
the rnind by the Spirit of God, or good
angels, and to these last alone wc should
pay attention. Tlie above division, is an
abridgement of Dr. Clarke on the sub
jec'.
After all that has been said pro and
con, this is certainly one of the most sin
gular phenomena of the inner man, and
has been urged as a very strong and con
clusive argument in favor of the immate
riality, and as some think immortality of
the human soul. But tlie immateriality
of a thing does not nccc: airily imply its
triflh ss duration. In dreaming, the mi: d
fuldoni receives ideas or inipre.o leas ;
through tlte medium of the senses, as
these ere in a great measure closed or
locked up, and therefore acts in a nr li
ner cpnrute from and independent of tlie
!> . !y. Ileji.ee tlie son! can, not on!'.' ex
ist, but exercise its various povt rs without
tr: eo-operatioii ofthe m i.ol man. —
And ii tlie brum is the organ ofthe rnind,
or tlie seat'of reason, which Ido not dis
pute, and if the brain is even a plural
organ, den ; articular portion ofthe organ
be love, and another that of fear, aucl
another that of comhati ..... : !. .
the rest m the phrase hook of phrenology,
v by may not these organs be locked up,
s > to speak, or by sleep be rendered to
tally incapable of communicating asingle
id-alto the mind, as well as those of see
ing, nearing, &.e. And if so, it would
appeal' that a connection of the mind
willi the brain is not indispensably neces
sary to the operation or exercise of its
faculties, even while the soul and body
arc um'*:d. lain not now speaking of
any phrenological bumps or protuberan
ces of the cranium, produced by the in
creased size of particular parts of the
brain—nor ofthe moral tendency of this
net -born science; yet I would like to
know if a man has any brain at all in the
back part of his neck,to causcthe humps
ofuuuitivciiess and piiilo-progcnitiveness
to appear, as 1 have seen them “mapped
c i,’ .u soma J.‘ scientific” plates. And
aH like ts know, way a man
. *v red by dame nature with large eyes
and large ears, can’t see farther, and hear
more than one with small eyes and cars ;
as ivell as a man who has developed on
hi- head by some protuberance the dis
position say of fear, or combativnoss,
fear more or fight more than one who has
not. And if exercising continually any
one faculty of the mind, increases the
.)r'- of that part of the head where the
Jortion of the brain lies, which is the
rgan of this faculty, why does not liear
lig increase tlie size ofthe tympanum of
man’s ears, or seeing the size of his
rcs, and so of lib*, other organs of sense.
H is supposed by some that the soul bus
an exceedingly thin and refined materia!
(levering, shrine or tabernacle, of ethereal
or electric fire, which accompanies it in
£~the world of spirits, and answers the
■jEggUFTurpo ofthe body daring her
in a separate state, as well as
in the strange mental operations spoken
efi in this communication. Mr. Wesley
thinks il is to this ethereal shrine the
aposil.: Haul refers, when he prays that
tlje Thessaloniaas may he sanctified
wholly, and their “ spirit and soul and
body he preserved blameless unto the
coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” lie
say , “ Flesh and blood are not the body,
fmt its covering,” and the soul here is not
the spirit or spiritual part of man, hut the
imru-diate covering of this spirit. Dr.
Clarke, however, supposes that by the
word soul and spirit, the apostle means
the heart und head of man, —the seat of
I is .-’flections, &,e. and the active think
j . jMi’ukl, or the reasoning principle.
* Insf agrees better tilth Itoly Writ' nftd
v. :.h what we really know of this matter.
J. 11. V.
llcrwick , Pa., Aug. (J, J slj
(snitTr.l B><‘iar«licl Arnold.
Mr. Sparks, of Cambridge, the intelli
gent and industrious historian and bio
grapher, lias written the life of the fa
mous, alias infamous traitor, Benedict
Arnold. And it is an extremely interest
ing work. Mr. Sparks seems to have
spared no efforts to collect every thing re
lating to Arnold, which would serve to
make his biography entire and complete.
The great events respecting the alarming
treachery of General Arnold have been
Jong known to almost every American.
Volume will amply repay for the
though that he a small tax of
i :-mey and time. One likes to know tlie
duplicity and wickcducss'of men, (when
they are detected,) however humiliating
it is to learn hotv bad human nature is
capable of becoming. General Benedict
Arnold was born in 1740, at Norwich, in
the State of Connecticut; where his fa
ther moved some years before, from New
port, in Rhode Island. The family was
one of the most ancient and respectable
in that State.
In iiis youth and early manhood, Ar
nold was headstrong, refractor}’ and mis
chievous. When an apprentice to an
apothecary, he gave his master great
trouble. He was often unfaithful, and
exhibited a degree of recklessness, not
often seen in well educated and well gov
erned young men. Whether lie was prop
erly restrained by his parents dots not
"... * 4E"v»i a*,, „ he enlist
ed in the army then at the northward op
posing the French from Canada. When
the war of the revolution broke out, in
April 177.7. lie was living at New Haven.
He raised a company, and inarched to
Cambridge with many others from Con
necticut. Early in the month of May,
there was a plait projected at Hartford
for taking possession ofthe British forts
on Lake Champlain. Arnold probably
had knowledge of the project. He appli
ed to the provincial congress of Massa
chusetts for authority to take a regiment
and march to that quarter for the capture
of those forts; and he soon proceeded on
the enterprise, being joined by some men
from the country of Berkshire, Mass.
Ethan Allen from the Green Mountains
(afterward Vermont) was commander of
the Americans assembled for the same
A*- »., when Arnold arrived. And there
was a dispute between them, as to the
chief command of the wh' le. Arnold
complained against Allen; but in vain.
In the fall of 1777, lie commanded tlie
troops which invaded Quebec, by the
way of Kennebec river; when ihey suf
fered greatly in travelling through a wil
derness of I S') miles. That expedition
was unsuccessful; ad General Mont
gomery the commander in chief was
slain. Colonel Arnold was weuod'.d. IF
was distinguished in 1777, in the attacks
on Genera! Bourgoyue, j.r< v.ousij to !;:
surrender, witch the Anu’j 37 gg’
pursued the British ironi 7.
in June 177F, Arnold was ' left in com
mand of that city, by General Washing
ton. His conduct in that situation was
very arbitrary, and in other respects rep
rehensible. lie was accused of retaining
property left by the British, which be
longed to the public. And both the citi
zens of Philadelphia and members ofthe
Legislature complained loudly against
him. A court Martial was ordered, touch
ing those complaints by General Wash
ington. But lie was acquitted. Yet was
probably so mortified and embittered, that
lie was seeking an opportunity to injure
the country ever after, lie was too ava
ricious and too envious to he a good pat
riot. But he had the policy to cloak It is
designs, till lie tliotitrlit he had a fair op
portunity to gratify his revengeful tem
per, or his love of gold, lie was detect
ed, and tho country saved. The partic
ulars of his conduct in this atrocious af
fair, are detailed liy Mr. Sparks with
great accuracy and interest. Arnold di
ed in London many years ago. And
while lie lived, he was tin object of dis
gust and abhorrence to every honorable
man.
Obnerviifiou* on tin* f.crrli IVorm,
111 / a gentleman who kept one for sever
al years, to indicate, the approaching
weather.
A phial of water, containing u leech, I
kept on the frame of my lower sash win
dow, so that when l looked in the morn
ing, I could know what would he the
weather ofthe following day.
If the weather proves serene and beau
tiful, tlie leech lies at the bottom of the
glass, motionless, and rolled together tu
a spiral form.
If it rains, either before or after noon,
it is found crept up to tlie top of its lodg
ing, and there it remains until the weath
er is settled.
If we are to have wind, the poor pris
oner gallops through its limped habitation
with amazing swiftness, and seldom rests
until it begins to blow hard.
If a remarkable storm of thunder and
ruin is to succeed, for some days before,
it lodges almost continually without the
water; and discovers uncommon uneasi
ness, in violent throws, and convulsive
like motions.
In the frost, ns in clear summer weath
er, it lies constantly at the bottom: and
1 in snow, as in rainy weather, it pitches
its dwelling on the very mouth ofthe
: phial.
What reasons may be assigned for these
effects, must leave philosophers to deter
mine ; though one thing is evident to
every hotly, that it must he affected in the
same way with the mercury and spirits
in the weather glass. It has, doubtless, a
v ery surprising sensation, that the eliangu
of weather, even days before, makes a
visible alteration in its iiiamier of living.
I'erhaps, it may not he amiss to note,
that the leech was kept in a common eight
ounce glass phial, about three-fourths
tilled with water, and covered oil the
mouth with U hit of linen rag. In sum
mer. tin! water is changed once u week,
and in winter once a fortnight.
Old Paper.
Tlie Drankartt niai the Sot.
The drunkard is n lean uad sunkea
cyed being, the current of whose life is
reduced to a poor half-pint, and one-half
of that is settled in his nose. He drinks
for the sake ol’llie stimulus, and seems
scarcely to live when the excitation is tit
an end. You see him, then, with blood
shot eyes, and mean and trailing pace,
crawling along the earth,or standing still,
with his limbs bunging about him, like
those of a pasteboard clown, when the
child has ceased to pull its string. All
his sober moments are employed in ef
forts to appease the anger of those fronds
whom lie has offended in Ins maudlin
tits. He takes indignities with patience;
I not the patience of a Christaiu, hut that of
Ia coward—who murders his friend in
heart while he crouches to him in appear
i mice. Every feeling, every ease, every
project, every obligation is slighted ; lie
promises any tiling, hut performs noth
ing ; lie is a great boaster, hut little doer;
his life is one continual lie; and every
affection is surrendered to the quenching
of his insatiable thirst which increases
with tin: means lie takes to allay it; still
lie persists in tlie gratification of his fatal
j habits, till his manners become so 011-
jectionable that Ilia society is tacitly re
nounced by the respectable portion of so
ciety.
The sot is a sensualist of another or
der, dilferent in appearance and different
in character, lie is 11 huge, bloated
creature, with n lead-colored complexion,
and stujiid sleepy eyes, into which no
human excitement can infuse a spark of
! fire or intelligence. Ilis drink is ale, or
i some heavy malt liquor, which will grad
ually Hlupify and beget a dull oblivion,
j wit!.out at any time whi lly depriving
i him of consciousness. The drunkard
1 nets os if his brains were converted fcito
: tire. The tot would lead you to believe
| that his crainum contained a huge lump
[of mud. He smokes tobacco and gulps
down his coai so draught for the sake of
the sedarive ; not like the drunkard, in
| pursuit of stimulus. But both are noth
ing better than tin: brute.
I, mis ana Advertiser.
There was manufactured j 1 Kcnnwha
county, Vu., during the quarter, ending
'tlie Ith u1t.,0!4,814 bushels of Salt.
> School Journal.
lijtst w/Vyßrseltir;.
i gave an extract from '.lr'VsTdvv’s
I work on India, containin'' an instance ot*
(lie insensibility of tliu Hindoos towards
tli* sufferings of their fellow creatures*
The quarterly paper of the American
Hoard of Commissioners for foreign Mis*
sions, published tiiis mouth, furnishes ;*
case equally illustrative of the litutors of
Paganism, which occurred in a tribo of
North American Indians. It is ns fol
lows :
“ In some respects at least these /ti
dinns are without natural affection.” In
the iall ot 1821, s;a i, my informant, who
was an eye witness, a few lodges of Sacs
were .encamped upon the Dee Moines,
about ten tildes from its mouth. At this
place there was an Indian who had an
aged, infirm, and blind mother. He said
she was ot no use to him, and he had
been troubled long enough w iiii her. It
was now late in the fall, and the weather
hail become cold. Just before departing
on his hunt, he went out upon the hank
ot the river, set some stakes in the ground,
and put n mat against them so as to break
oti the wind. Here he put his poor old
mother, without food or lire, and then
put oft'in his canoe up the river. While
in that sad, forlorn condition, she was
continually crying for bread, being help
less; but the hearts of the Indians, as
hard and unfeeling as that of the muliiti
lul son, were unmoved by her entreaties,
and they talked about knocking her in
the head, because her cries annoyed them
so milch, tu this condition she remain
ed until slip actually starved to death
within a low rods of four or live lodges!
How tii 'tfrt ybur Paper. —When you
call at the office for your paper, and tho
post-master very promptly tells you, lie
has no paper for you, request him to look
over his tiles ; and w hen lie has carefully
glanced over them once, and says there is
no paper, ask him to be so good as to look
again— it nitty lie he has overlooked it.—
And when he shall have examined care
fully and reports no paper, it is a close
question, hut ask him if lie recollects to
whom lie loaned it? And if lie has no
recollection of having loaned it, inquire
if any of his idle customers (for country
post-ollices are frequently kept in stores)
have been lounging about his counting
room that morning? If lie has not been
visited by tiny of those drones, inquire if
any of tho children huvo been about the
; office since the mail were opened. And
it you cannot get on the trail, go to your
neighbor who takes the same paper, anil
ask him if lie has received his ? And if
ho has not, you may conclude the mail
has failed, or that nil is not as it should
he with the printer, or that .some inter
mediate post-master lias not done his
duty, lint ifyour neighbor lias received .
his, go hack and tell the post-master that
your paper must he in his office if lie has
not loaned it out. And after a diligent
search, it may be found in some dark
nook.
These remarks arc tint applicable to all
offices. There are many diligent post
masters who discharge their duties punc
tually. They have the thanks of the
whole community, and especially of the
printers.
In a conversation as to the proper divi
sion, or employment of the twenty-four
hours, ol day and night, how much was
suitable for rest, and Imtv many to labor
or study, or other business, there were
various opinions expressed—and the say
ings of ancient eminent men on the sub
ject were quoted—so many hours for la
bor, and so many lor sleep, and so many
for recreation, and so many for medita
tion and prayer—. Sir W. Jones said,
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber
seven.
Ten to the world allot, ami all to heaven.
Anew way to learn a dunce to spell. —
A printer had a hoy who was an incura
ble blunderer ill spelling, and who gave
him great trouble by his mistakes. Jle
made many efforts to tench him ; and lie
scolded and threatened in vain; and as n
last resort, ordered him to boil a diction
ary in uil/c anil eat it for his supper.
Mysterious Vault. —There is a myste
rious vault in llarlmdoes in which no one
has courage enough to deposit the dead.
In 1(107 the first coffin was placed in it,
and since that period in 1818, 1812, 1810
and 1810, several others have been placed
there. At each time, however, notwith
standing every precaution to prevent its
recurrence, the coffins have been found
thrown out of the place in the utmost
confusion. The door of the vault re
quires the efforts of six men to open it*
and yet this invariable result has been
witnessed. t here is no secret passage?
to the vault, nor is there any possible*
way of explaining the mystery.
A poor pitiful worshipper of the whis
key bottle hi this town, one day InsC
week, being without the wherewithal trr
celebrate the rights of his fiery god, went
to his wife, and by fair or foul means,
induced her to cut off" a beautiful head
of Imir, telling her among other things
that short hair was ail the fashion. No
sooner had the confiding wife complied
w ilk the demand, and made herself a per
fect fright, than the wretch seized the
prize and bore it to a barber, who gave
him two and three pence for it. He was
of course beastly drunk iirtrncdiately.
Hampshire Gazette,
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