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Notice of the sale of Personal property, must be given in like manner, forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice to the debtors and creditors of an es tate, must be published for forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sill land or negroes, must be published fur Pour Months. Notice that Application will be made for Letters of Administration, must hr published thirty days, and of Letters of Dismission, Sit Months i V % - - /'p' . AT. ♦‘ 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, iTfo. 8..
