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From the Portland Transcrifjf.
We have read some little poetry in day and
haveheert variously affected by it, but o tr feelings
were never so wrought upon as in n ading the
following lines. We do not believe th re is to be
found in all the poetry that has bee ;i written,
either ancient or modern, three stanzas ontaining
more of the‘real ore’—the pure un dulterated
essence—than will be found in the art cle below.
This is high praise, but we unhesitatir submit
our better opinions to the better judge icnt of our
brethren. Our correspondent has out Shanks for
this exquisite production :
Stanzas, j
When the cold storm howls round door,
And you by light of taper, *
Sit cozily by the evening lire, j
Enjoying the last paper i
Just think of him whose work thusjhelps
To wear away the winter, *
And put this query to yourself— I
Have I paid up the Printer P |
V
From east and west, from north and «iuth,
From lands beyond the water, i
He daily, weekly, brings you news ;
From every nook and quarter. «
No slave on earth toils more than h i
Through summer’s heat and wint t:
How can you for a moment then
Neglect to pay the Printer P
Your other bills you promptly pay, !
Wherever you do owe, sir,
The butcher for his meat is paid,
For “sundries” is the grocer ;
The trader and the shoemaker,
The hatter and the vintner,
All get their pay—then why neglec 1
To settle with the Printer P
Woman. j.
I admire in woman that innocent expression
which wins by its simplicity and unafflctedness,
that artiess unadorned beauty with v|hich the
God of Nature has been pleased to m' ntle her. |
I admire that sparkling internal gem, the jewel of
intelligence, which shines dispensing light and
diffusing its all-poweiful influence to the soul, in
facinating and virtuous affections and kirjdly char
ities, which never looses their reward. 'I admire
an emulation of that taste for whatever refines
the manner, enlarges the mind, strengthens and
purifies the heart; thus engaging the attlniion by
the vivacity and spirit which it gives tet the per
son and conversation. I admire that iif-genious
ness of disposition which makes her society so
attractive, pleasing, and at all times desirable;
throwing around those within its kindly influence
a charm and a facination which the sac p, the in
dex of the heart, unceasingly makes oanifest, i
through the unwonted smiles of pleasi re, made
irresistable by its captivating charms. |l admire
her for those humble, retiring and ur. .btrusive
virtues, wr.ich although their lights mi y not be
dazzling and resplendent, yet throw ar >und hu
manity a soft and heavenly radiance, which, in
woman, is particularly to be admired and imita
ted. I admire to contemplate her as li.be swift
winged messenger of love bent on errands of mer
cy, in which character and altitude she t|o bright
ly shines, being charity’s loveliest almonbr, where
‘ The poor’s her client, and heaven’s smile her fee,’
as well also in that sphere where the v,arm and
generous impulses of a susceptible hear| throb in
listless joy at the happiness its own presence cre
ates within the domestic circle. I admins woman
for her virtuous influence upon society. I Wheth
er at home or abroad, at all times and all pla
ces, like the genial influence of the su;L her ra
diating virtues are every where to be ?cen and
felt, enlivening, refreshing and invigorating the
nobler pulsation of society- -thus quickening into
new and active energy by her presence, |er beau
ty, her affection and her love. I admin* and love
her, when elevated by a religion capahlejof being
so personified in her as to discover its truly noble
and animating principles, the full sablii|ity of its
faith, and the invigorating aspirations o? its hope,
causing the outpouring of the heart, first!, to deep
@ en in subdued reverence and gratitude to God,
and next, to overflow in unbounded lovi; and be
nevolence to mankind; thus in the lift! fid ac
tions, teaching and informing us, thatjthe great
object of existence ought to be, in vieF of that
one event which happened) un.o all, njinifested
in the advancement of human happiness, which
we have the divine assurance, will nit fail to
meet its just reward.
I admire her for these, and all other vi tucs; hut
let me pause here to inquire what is it t lat gives
to woman these, so much to be admired; fascina
ting, virtuous affections, kindly charitit s, refine
ment of manner, ingenuousness of dii position,
controlling moral influence in society, and the
suchlike] It is kiiucation ] It is the cultiva
tion of the latent powers of the mind, i lat is to
be found in those brilliant hues that em bant the
world ; it is in this rich casket that is i ontained
the precious elixir, by which may he ransmit
ted that witchery to the eye, benigni y to the
countenance, and grace to the gesture.
To fair and beauteous woman. I wo ild then
say cultivate the n ind; then, though 1 ‘side her
may be seated the daughter of nohiliF enrobed
in all the richest tafleties of the Indies, d splaying
the most precious of Golconda’s riches without
the jewel of intelligence, still will she but the
more conspicuously shine, outvieing he in that
jewel of the head, which emits its hea\ nly lus
tre and thrilling beams of intellectual lii '. Cul
tivate the powers of your mind; then, through
the heart and affections, will be convey dto the !
world an imprint of the most exquisite < liselling
of the intellectual sculptor; for in worn n, more
than in man, may be exhibited that loft; scale of
being—that point of highest human exc Hence—
such as, from her pure mind, raises her at nrations
after the higher and irmre refined gra txcation,
and truly fits her for the gre_t and nobl .
From the Raleigh Register.
Vincennes.— We have lately been favored
with an able, well written Address by Ji |ge Law
delivered before the Vincennes Histo cal and
Antiquarian Society, winch contains sc ne stri
king and in teres,ing tacts in relation t< the his
tory of that valuable portion of the Unio —some
°t which we extract for the entertainme t of our
readers. •
Clouds and darkness (says the Judge rest on
the o,arl\ history of V incenncs. It is al im
possible to determine at what date firs became
a military position. In the la; p ar of the
1t th century the I rench attempted an nion of
their Settlements watered by the Ohio * a d Mis
sissippi and their tributary streams, with their
possessions in Canada. To effect this, bev es
tablished a cordon of p.ists from the 1 ,ak s to the
Balize, including a military station or two on
the Illinois and Wabash. The project w s a good
one, and but for the concurrence ot circu nstances
usually attendant on national schemes v hen col
onies are to be formed at a distance, m ght have
been successful informing a territory vvl ieh lhc>
meant to have called New France. But the
War with Great Britain, which was coni luded by
the peace of 17 63, transferred Canada to the Brit
ish dominions, and Louisiana, by a sec et treaty
with Spain in 1762, to th latter pow r, which
stripped France of all her possessions ii the new
world.
It appears from a work, entitled “Edil l ing and
curious Letters,” published at Paris in 1 61, that
incenncs and Kaskaskia, were at that time oc
cupied by French troops; butthe tract of *ounfrv,
lying to the e si ward, now abounding i all the
materials which constitute a great nal on, and
which contains upwards of two millio s of in
habitants, was then all but a desert, to t e banks
of the Delaware.
During our Revolutionary war, in Ij'bruarv,
1779,Gen. George Rogers Clarke, aide- by Col!
I a.-c-” • Jud a comparatively smai number
| of troops, look possession of Kaskaskia, Vincen
nes and some other posts on the W abash and
Ohio, and was the means of securing to us the
whole territory now covered by three great flour
ishing States, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, and
j yet, great as w ere the consequences of these con
quests of Gen. Clarke, we scarcely find a page
of our Revolutionary annals filled w ith an ac
count of the important events.
The act of Virginia, transfer-ing the Northwes
tern Territory to the United States, passed in De
cember, 1783, and in 1787,The celebrated Ordin
ance for its government, which came from the
pen of Nathan Dane, of Massachusetts, was pass
ed by Congress—an ordinance, which for its wise
; and wholesome provisions, and for the blessings
i which it will carry down to posterity, is unequall-
I ed by any legislative act ever framed here orelse
| where.
! In 1800. Congress passed the act dividing the
Indiana Territory, from what was called thefer
ritory Northwest of the river Ohio, and in 1801,
j General Win. H. Harrison was appointed its Gov
[ ernor. The whole population did not then ex
ceed 5,000 souls. The census which is about to
■ be taken of the several States, will soon show the
j present population of the three States. They
j have in the present Congress six Senators and
; eleven Representatives!
As Extraordinary Trial. —A trial took
place not long ago, before the Criminal Court of
Grenada. For some years past there had been
residing in the village of Ugijar, a charitable in
dividual, named Don Vincente de Bentaval-y Sa
-1 zar, fortune was devoted to improving the
condition of the villagers and relieving the poor.
To such an extern did Don Vincente carry his
charity, that he denied himself almost the neces
; saries of life in order to succor the necessitous,
! and he has been known to take the cloak from
I his own back to cover that of a poor female who
j was without one. Suddenly, the peaceful inhab-
J itanls of this village were alarmed at accounts of
murders committed in their neighbourhood, and
all attempts to discover their origin were vain. It
j was merely known from the circumstances at-
I tending them, shat they must have been com
mitted by the game hand. Suddenly, however,
the mystery was to be revealed. Two peasant’s
who had entered a recess to shelter themselves
from the sun. and eat their mid day meal, were
startled by the firing of a gun. and running out,
they saw the body of a murdered man, and the
murderer standing over him rifling his pockets.
They threw themselves upon the assassin, and
having secured him. were in the greatest aston
ishment at seeing that it was the charitable Don
| Vincente. As the denial of the crime before him
I was impossible, he admitted that 1m was the au
thor of all the murders which had been commit
ted, and stated that his only motive was to obtain
money—his own resources being exhausted—for
the poor. In his defence before the Judges, he
declared that Ids first murder, that of a wealthy
Driest, took place under the following circum
stances :
In Don Vincente’s village, two young persons
were betrothed to each other, hut a sudden ca
lamity which' occurred to the father of the female
j prevented bis paying the promised portion with
his daughter, and the marriage was on the point
of being broken oil’. Don Vincente, hearing of
the circumstances, resolved to raise the money,
and applied to several of his acquaintances for a
loan, hut received a refusal from all. Shortly
afterwards he met the priest on his road, and
asked him to lend him 30 ounces of gold; the
priest, who knew him well, said he had 100 oun
ces in his portmanteau on the hack of his mule,
and that he was welcome to it all; but Don Vin
cente having afterward, in his joy, told him for
what purpose the money was intended, the priest
laughed at him, and said he was mad, and that
foi such a purpose he should not have a single
| ounce. Don Vincente, irritated at this, shot him
dead ; and having taken his gold, gave the wed
ding dowry, and distributed the rest ; n various
acts of charity, Having committed this murder,
he resolved to make the robbery of the rich the
means of supplying the continual demands of his
poor pensioners; and as this was only to he done
by taking life, he committed murder after mur
der until he was detected. On hearing the sen
; tence of death pronounced upon him by hisJudg
i es, he exclaimed, “ my God ! who will now
, take care of my poor?”— GalignanVs Messen
| S&.
Babies. — ln my bachelor visitations to my
married friends, I have often chuckled over the
bashfulness, contending with love, which distin
guishes the young lather. In the pride of his
heart, perhaps, when his little man has first given
e\idence of that degree of mental exertion called
“ taking notice,” he clasps the crowing baby in
his arms ; it rests its little feet upon bis knees;
he endures with philosophic patience all the
“gouging,’’ kicking, and pulling, with which the
young hero may testify his triumph ; and while
the young mother stands by, her eyes beaming
with mingled love and pride, he becomes warmer
! in his romps; makes faces, as the nerveless fin
gers of the little one seek, with more earnestness,
his eyes, or pull with a greater eil’ort at his lips;
and amid the screams and laughter he chases thn
1 flying hours, until at length “ a pale cast of
! thought” flits over the baby’s face, like a cloud
in a summer sky. This is a signal for imme-
I diate seriousness. The father grows grave—
: then frightened. He raises him gently from his
! lap, and with a signal exclamation of “ Take him
mother,” consigns the precious charge to her arms,
and darting a hasty glance at his pants, he walks
in silence from the room. Nor do we bachelors
always escape with impunity. Anxious to win
a smile from some fond mother, more than one of
| ns may have dared to approach with a kiss, the
j hallowed lips of her darling. But mark the
i quick wing of vengeance ! Darting from its iurk
; ing place in the mouth, out flies the little fist, and
i slams a well beslabbered biscuit into the face of
the intruder. He recoils, with his “ reeking hon
ors fresh upon him,” and the little squab coos in
tjiurnph at his failure.— Knickerbocker.
The way to exsche as early delivery.—
Numerous are the expedients adopted by letter
writers to expedite the delivery of their letters ;
out the following memorandum, written on a let
ter addressed to the Natchez Post Office, capsev-
I ery thing of the kind we have ever seen :
“The postmaster will confer a favor by inform
ip Mr. W eof this letter, or sendingit to
him by the first opportunity, as he moved into
your country about the first of December last, and
I think lives at a distance from your post office.
If you are a single man, it will be worth your
I trouble to go, as he has a very p;cttv daughter !”
Affecting Incident. —At the great Con
| vention of the | eoplc of Ohio, at Colombus, on
| the twenty second, the last of the Life Guards of
i ofthe Immortal Washington, appeared as a del.
egatc. In the procession he rod ; a white horse,
: and led another, which was caparisoned with
’ one ofthe sadoles and housing that had been in
actual use by the Father of his Country. The
1 spectacle must have been one of deep interest.
He that tails into sin is a man ; that grieves at
j it, is asaint; that boasts of it, is a devil.-—fFul
ler.J Praise is no match for hi ime and obloquy;
! for, were the scales even, the malice of mankind
would be thrown in as the casting-weight. Fame
istheinhoritai.ee, not of the dead,°but of the
living. It is we who look back with lofty pride
to the great names of antiquity, who drink of
that flood of glory as of a river, and refiesh our
wings in it for future flight.—l will show thee a
way t> increase love without philtre, herb, or en
chantment. If thou dost wish to be beloved, love.
—Seneca.
From the New York Express.
Extract from Jonathan Slick's descrip
tion of a Grand Fancy liall.
“ Why dont’t you give .Mary yoerarm V ’ sez
John to me, jist as I was poking along toward
the door.
*■ It’ I’m to play Injun to-night,” sez I. 4 *l’ll
do it according to my own notion if you’d jist as
lives. I never see an Injun and squaw a hooking
, arms yet,—so cousin Mary may jist walk behind
me. if she aint too stuck up.”
With that I lucked the woodchuck under my
arm, and walked right straight ahead as stiff as
a crobar. Gracious me ! what a smasher of a
room, that was, it was all sot off with yaller and
blue setees and benches, and every sich thing,
eenamost as slick as my pussy cousin’s room, and j
the darndest set of critters were a dancing and a i
sidling about that ever I did see. There wan’t |
no carpet on the boards, and if they’d a been a
mind to, they might have shinned it down about
right, but instead of that they went curchying and
and scooting about, jist like so many tom-tits*on
the bank of a river. It ialy made mv grit rise to
see a set of lolks come from all the four quarters
of the globe, to a party, that didn’t know how to
dance an eight reel or munny-muss as it ought to
be done. i hey didn’t seem to mind us when we
went in, or else I should a felt awful streaked a
standing up there like a darned injun with Mary
by me. I was purty sartin of not being known.and
so I kept a purty stiff upper lip, and looked on
jist to see how foreign gentjy acted when they
were to hum. There was a swad of tarnal
handsome women in the middle of the room cur
chying and twistifying and wriggling about one
another, and making believe like all natur. But, i
oh forever ! how they was dressed out! One on
’em had on a great long black sick cloak, with
sleeves to it, and a sort of a white bib hanging 1
down before, for fear she’d spill the wine and
sweet sarce on to her dress when she eat, I spose, j
and she looked sort a like a nice handsome chap,
and sort a like a gal kinder a half and half, like
a fence politician. There was a gal close by her
dressed out to kill, her shoes was tied on with red j
ribands, over a leetle stuck up foot, that looked
good enough to eat; and she had on three open j
dresses, over t’other, made out of white silk and
| thin shiny stuff', bound and trimed oft’ with strips
of gold ; the sleeves hung down like a feller’s i
shirt, but there want no risband to ’em, and they
hung wide open, so that her pesky white arm
shone out enough to dazzle a feller’s eyes. She
had two alflred great breast pins, one on ’em spread
out like a sun on her bosom, and another down
to her waist, all sot chuck full of stuns, that kept |
a glistening in the light, like a hand full of sparks
i out of a blacksmith’s chimney. She wore anoth
er of these glistening leetle suns on her hand
some white forehead; her long shiney curls
hung down on her shoulders, and a white veil,
that looked like a cloud with the sunshine p ur
ing into it. dropped over them. I wispered to
rny cousin Mary, and asked who the darned like
ly critter could be. She said she came from Peru,
and was a pr.estess, or something, of the son.
Before 1 could get a chance to ask whose son it
was that she preached to, and to say that I ;
i shouldn’t grumble if such a critter as that should
I preach a leetle easy to Mr. Zepheniah Slick’s I
| Son—up come a leetle black eyed gal, about knee
high to a toad, with a stick in her hand, and curls
a hanging all over her shoulders.
“Hellow, sez I, none of that arc,” as she hit
; my woodchuck a dab with the slick, and run oft'
larfing, ready to burst her leetle sides. Before I
knew which eend my head was on, uo come an
other set of leetle queer looking gals, so young
that they didn’t seem much more than babies,
that ought to have been spanked and put to bed,
instead of being there. They were dressed off
in short frocks, and glistened like a hail storm;
but where they came from I couldn’t tell, for they
all had wings on their shoulders, and I never
read of such winged critters on this arth, and it
; didn’t seem as if children would be sent from
tother world to a York hall. Be.ore I could say
. Jack Robinson, they made themselves scarce,and
• then sich sights of men and women cum a walk
i ing about, some dressed like angels jist dropped
, down, some in regimentals, and all sorts of ways,
that cvca a feller dreamed of. I swan, if I didn’t
begin to git dizzy looking at ’em,
I kept by the door yet, a hugging my wood
chuck, and a wondering how on arth the man
that gave the party made out to send round to all
parts of the world to git his folks together, when
I happened to give a squint toward cousin Bcbee,
and I burst right out a larfing, all I could do to
help it. There he stood with his mouth sort of
i open, and both hands dug down into the pockets
of my old pepper and salts, a staring about like
a stuck pig. Arter a minit, he went up to a
slick leetle gal, right from Spain,' with shiney
; black hair, eyes as blight as a hawk’s, and a
i great long black veil a streaming down her back,
and he made a how and asked her to dance as
■ genteel as I could a done it myself. Pokchontasl
but did’nt he make the old cow hides flourish a
bout. The way he balanced up and pla\'ed heel
and toe back agin, was Weather field all over.—
, The old blue and pepper and salts had put the
; grit into him about right. I don’t believe he'd
i felt so nat’ral afore since he left Connecticut. I
thought Marv would a gone off’the handle, she
was so tickled, and I had to go away to keep
. j from haw-hawing right out.
'
M Slave-Ship Troubles. —Captain Green, of
the schooner Arabella tfom St. John’s, Porto Ri
co, informs us that when he left there was diffi
j culty between the United States consul and the
Governor, which it was expected, would loud to a
demand of passports by the former, and dopartuie
from the island. The trouble arose from the
presence of two slavers, under the U. S. flag,but
undoubtedly Spanish property, which the consul
endeavor to prevent from sailing. The frigate
Macedonian and sloop-of-war Levant were daily
expected at St. John’s.— Com. Adv.
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Extravagance.— Mrs. Walker, of Newark,
Ohio, presented her husband with twin boys, be
ing the third pair since their marriage in 1837.
No matter; wheat at 37A cents a bushel, and pork
at two c ms and a half per pound in Ohio—plen
ty to eat—they may go on ; all that we have to
say is, that it would be deemed very extravagant
here in New York.— Eve. Star.
I he Greatest Man. —‘‘The greatest man is
he who choses t;ie right with invincible resolution;
who resists the sorest temptations from within
j and without; who bears the heaviest burdens
! cheerfully; who is the calmest in storm and the
j most feailess under menaces and frowns, whose
1 reliance on truth, on virtue, on Gcd is most un
j faltering.”— Dr. Charming.
Thf. Great Bcbman Bell.— Next to the
• great bell of Moscow, which weighs four hun
dred and forty-four thousand pounds, is the bell
of Mengoon, mentioned by Mr. Malcolm, who
describes the Burmese as particularly famous for
casting bells. Their bells are however, dispro
portionately thick, but of delightful tone. The
raised inscriptions and figures are as beautiful as
on any bells in the world. They do not flare
open at the mouth like a trumpet, but are pre
cisely the shape of an old-fashioned 'globular wine
• glasses, or semispheroidal. There are several in
; the empire of enormous size. That at Mengoon,
near Ava, weighs as the prime minister informed
' me, eighty-eight thousand viss—more than three
! hundred and thirty thousand pounds! It seems
“ almost incredible; but it is nevertheless true. The
f hell, by actual measurement, is twenty inches
thick, twenty feet high, including the ear, and
1 thirteen feet six inches in diameter. A friend
• distinguished as a civil engineer, ccmpute’d the
■ weight, from this measurement,to exceed live hun
dred thousand pounds, supposing the bell metal
to consist of three parts copper and one part tin.
The weight was ascertained by the Bunnans be
fore casting, and its bulk in cubic inches proves
them to be correct. It is suspended a few inches
from the ground; and like there other great bells,
is without a tongue. That at Rangoon is not
j much smaller. It will be recollected that the lar
gest bells in the United States do not much ex
ceed rive thousand pounds.
Col. R. M. Johnson and Abolition. Here
> is a nice bone for the Southern loco focos to pick.
,To them we toss it. It is an extract from a
1 speech on the Missouri question delivered by Col. i
i R. M. Johnson in the U. S. Senate on the Ist if j
| February 1820.
! The engineers of the Christian world are now
' combined in the diffusion of evangelical light, i
i and (he principles it inculcates are every day re- i
laxing the bonds of slavery. Providence, all
wise and inscrutable in its ways, is gradually es- i
feeling the ultimate object of our wishes, which
your ill-timed opposition is calculated to retard.
| Individual exertion, acting in concert [Anti-Sla
very Societies] can alone prepare the way.
Encourage Sunday schools, multiply Bible so
cieties, increase missionary exertions, animate
TO DEEDS OF BENEVOLENCE AIIOLITIOX SOCIE
TIES, and perfect the system of colonization, then
| trust the kind Providence of God for the result,
j and you will perform the duties of Christians and
j patriots in the service of God and his creatures.
: Lou. Journal.
The best specimen of quackery which we have
heaidof for a longtime is related below, from
Chambers’ Edinburg Journal,
j “ Mantaccini, the famous charlatan of Paris,
; was a young man of good family, and having in
i a few years squandered a large estate, and redu
| ced himself to beggary, he felt that he must ex
. ercise his ingenuity or starve. In this state of
j mind he cast his eyes round the various devices j
which save from indigence, and are most favored j
j by fortune. He soon perceived that charlatanism
j was that on which this blind benefacti ess lavished :
I her favors with most pleasure and in the great- ;
j est abundance. An adroit and loquacious do- j
i mestic was the only remaining article of all his j
j former grandeur; he dressed him up in a gold 1
j laced livery, mounted a splendid chariot, and
1 started on the tour under the name, style and
; title of ‘ the celebrated Dr. Mantaccini, who cures
■ all diseases with a single touch, ora simple look.’
, ‘‘Not finding that he obtained as much prac
i tice as his daring genius anticipated, he deter
mined to resort to still higher flights. He left :
Paris, and modestly announced himself at Lyons
j as the celebrated Dr. Mantaccini, who revives
j the dead at will.’ To remove all doubt, he de-
I dared that in fifteen days he would go to the
common churchyard and restore to life its inhab
itants, though buried for ten yeas. This decla
ration excited a general rumour and murmur
against the Doctor, who, not in the least discon
certed, applied to the magistrate, and requested
I that lie might be put under guard to prevent his
j escape, until he should perform his undertaking.
| The proposition insphed the greatest confidence, |
' and the whole city came to consult the clever em
| piric, and purchase his buumme de vie. Hiscon
j sultations were most numerous, and he received |
I large sums of money. At length the famous day
approached, and the doctor’s valet fearing for his
shoulders, began to manifest signs of uneasiness.
* You know nothing of mankind,’ said the quack
to his servant; ‘he quiet.’ Scarcely had he spo
ken these words, when the following letter was
presented to him from a rich citizen :
‘ Sir, the great operation which you are going '
to perform lias broken my rest. I have a wife ;
buried for some time, who was a fury, and I am
unhappy enough already without her resurrec- |
tion. In the name of heaven do not make the ex
periment. I will give you fifty louis to keep your
secret to yourself.’ In an instant after two
dashing beaux arrived, who, with the most earn
est supplication entreated him not to raise theii I
old. father, formerly the greatest miser in the city, i
as in such an event, they would he reduced to j
the most deplorable indigence. They offered
him a fee of sixty louis, but the doctor shook
his head in doubtful compliance. Scarcely had
they retired, when a young widow, on the eve of
matrimony, threw herself at the feet of the quack,
and with sobs and sighs, implored his mercy. In
short from morn till night, the doctor received
letters, visits, presents, fees, ro an excess which
absolutely overwhelmed him.
The minds of the citizens were differently and
violently agitated, some by fear and some by cu
riosity, so that the chief magistrate of the city
waited upon the doctor, and said “ Sir, I have
not the least doubt, from my experience of your
rare talents, that you will be able to accomplish
the resurrection in our churchyard the day after
to-morrow according to your promise, but I pray j
you to observe that our city is in the utmost up
roar and confusion and to consider the dreadful
revolution the success of your expeiiment must
produce in every family, I entreat you, therefore,
not to attempt it, but to go away, and thus re
store tranquillity to the city. Injustice however,
to your rare and divine talents, I shall give you
an attestation in due form, under our seal, that,
you can revive the dead, and that it was our own
fault we were not eye-witnesses of your power.’
lius certificate was duly signed and delivered
and Dr. Mantaccini left Lyons for other cities to
work new mirai les. In a short time he return
ed to Paris, loaded with gold, where he laughed
at the popular credulity.”
On being Dunned.
Oh, no! I never mention him.
His name is never heard;
My very shadow seems tj bear
A hatred to that word.
From court to court they hurry me.
In spite of ni} r regret;
And when they win a note from me,
They think ihatl forget.
They bid me seek, in change of scene,
The charms that others see;
But were I in a foreign land,
They’d find no change in me.
’Tis true that I behold no more
The prison where we’ve met;
But then I see, my chere amie —
And how can I forget?
They tell me he is careless now.
And thoughtless of ‘‘the day”—
They hint that he forgets me too—
But heed not what they say;
Like me, perhaps, they’ll struggle with
\V i its, creditors and dent;
But if they’re dunn’d as I’ve been dunn’d
They never can forget.
XJmbrella fok the Queex.— We have been
highly gratified by an inspection of the umbrella :
that has been in preparation, and is now nearly
completed, by Mr. Samuel Stears.of this town- 1
The cover is of the very best rich write satin,'
the stick a Pastriza cane ; the hand-part is beau
tifully carved pearl, with gold eyes. The top !
which is in the form of a crown, is of the finest
chased solid gold, with a beautiful silver string I
and tassels in the form of English acorns. The ■
slide and other inner parts are of silver. The I
case for the reception of the umbrella is lined
with rich crimson velvet, and is covered with
scarlet morocco. Altogethe. the appearane is
most chaste and elegant.— Leeds Intelligencer.
Attaching a Steam bo at.— A steamboat be
longing to the New Jersey Transportation Com
pany has been attached at Providence, by the
owners of the cotton destroyed by the burning of
the Lexington. It has been attached upon the
ground that the company, as public carriers are
responsible for property lost, while in their nos
session, through carelessness. p
9
1 .Twilight. i
There is an evening twilight of the reart,
When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest,
And the eye sees life's fairy scenes depart,
As fades the day t eam in tiie rosy west.
’Tis with a nameless feeling of regret
We gaze upon them as they melt away,
And fondly w ould we bid them linger yet,
Hut Hope is round us with her angel lay,
Hailing afar some happier moonlight hour:
Dear are her whispers still, tho’ lost her early
power.
! In youth the cheek was crimsoned with her glow;
1 Her smile was loveliest then; her matin song
Was heaven’s own music, and the note of woe
Was all unheard her sunny bowers among.
Life’s little word of bliss was newly born;
Wc knew not, cared not, it was bom to die.
Flushed with tiie cold breeze and the de\* ofmorn.
With dancing heart we gazed on the pure sky.
And mocked the passing cloud that dimmed its blue.
Like our own sorrows then—as fleeting and as few.
And manhood felt her sway too —on the eye,
\ Half realised, her early dreams burst bright,
Her promised bower of happiness seemed nigh.
Its days of joy, its vigils of delight;
I And thought at times might lower the thunder
storm,
i And the red lightnings threaten, still the air
W as balmy with her breath, and her loved form,
1 he rainbow of the heart, was hovering there.
’ i'is in lile’s noontide she is nearest seen .
Her wreath the summer flower, her robe of summer
green.
! But though less dazzling in her twilight dress.
There’s more of heaven’s pure beam abo-t her
now;
! That angel-smile of tranquil loveliness.
Which the heart worships, glowing on her brow;
That smile shall brighten the dim evening star,
j That points our destined tomb, nor o’er depart
Till the faint light of life is fled afar.
And hushed the last deep heating of ti e Heart; •
j The meteor-bearer of our paiting breath,
! A moon-beam in the midnight cloud cf death.
Halleck.
I Consignees pe r Month C arolina Rail Road.
Hamburg, March 13, 1840.
j C A Greiner & Co; D’Antignac & Hill; W E
i Jackson; Clarke, McTeir&Co; W K Kitchen; S II
j Peck; W Hatticr; Bones k Carmichael; Gould &
Bulkley; J Bridges & Co; Baird k Rowland; Rus
| sell k Hutchinson; E B Glascock; P Carrie, Stove!!,
Simmons k Co; T M Simmons; Rees & Beall; S
Kneeland;G Parrott; Anderson & Young; J F Ben
son; Jeffers & Boulware.
Cj* Consignees wiil attend without further no
tice.
COMMERCIAL.
Latest dates from Liverpool, Feb. 20
Latest dales from Havre. Feb■ 17
Manchester, February 14.
T kings have again become exceedingly dull, and
both Cloth and V arn are to be had to-day on lower
j terms than on I uesday, and no disposing of eiiher
; to any extent. It is only the low price of the raw
article that gives the least encouragement to keep
I their hands in full employment'at the present rno
: ment. Prices are now as low as they were six
j months ago.
Liverpool, February 17.
Cotton —There was a fair attendance of the trade
in the early part of the week, and full prices were
| obtained for all descriptions of American; and tho’
j the demand rather abated on Wednesday, owing to
the reports of the dull slate of the trade in the in
■ terior, yet the inquiry has since revived, and the
market has closed at rather higher rates for the bet
ter classes of American, whilst Brazil and other
; kinds continue heavy, at previous prices,
j The sales amount to 27,680 bales (of which 3,-
300 American are on speculation, and 1500 Ameri
can for export,) and comprise 60 Sea Island at 13A
to 22d, with 40 stainea at 6d to lOd, 6550 Bowed
i 5A to 6j, 4,600 Mobile, Alabama and Te nnessee,s^
Ito 7d, 13,000 Orleans to
! Paraiba, <vc. Sfd to 9£d, 370 Bahia and Myccio 8f
1 to Sjd. 140 31aranham 7jjd to B^d,Caithagena Ogd,
20 common West India
lid, 1,090 Surat 4d to Madras at 5d
per lb. AbouCoOOO bags have been sold to-day at
steady prices, 800 American have been taken for
export. The sales consist of 500 Surat at 4gd to
sd, 150 PcinamSgd, 159 Bahia the remainder
American to 7d. On Saturday 3500 were
I sold. ®
Liverpool* February 19,
The stock of Cotjon in this port is estimated at
j 208,000 bales, of which about 152,000 is American,
f being very nearly as it was at the end of last y ear!
The import since Ist January is 175,000 bale's of
which 144,000 is from the Knifed Siates, and ’the
sales of all kinds during the same time have
amounted to 190,000 bales ; 160,000 of it taken by
consumers, 20,000 by speculators and 16,000 for
xportation.
Though the business has been rather extensive
and the demand nearly all the time regular and
steady; the tendency of the prices lias been down
waids, and during January they declined about -,d
per lb Since tire Ist instant the complexion of tire
market has not changed—the demand being just
sufficient to maintain prices about as they then
were—and at present the state of the Manchester
market would not seem to warrant higher rates •
there is consequently little or no speculative de
mand.
Interior qualities still maintain relatively higher
rates than tire better classes—as s£d is about°ihe
lowest quotation for any merchantable American
cotton; while 6§ is about the highest price to be
obtained for goad Upland, and 7d for good Orleans
and Mobile; there is nothing selling above these
rates except fancy lots and brands. Farr qualities
6g a 6|d per lb. 1
. oi' e -nn V , for the " cek cnded 7th inst. amounted
to 30,500 bales, and tor that ended 14th inst they
were 27,670 do; of the latter 6,500 were Upland at
a M; 1 5,500 Orleans at 5§ a 7sd; 4,660 Alaba
ma and Mobile at of a7d; and 50 Sea Island at 131
a 22d, with 40 stained at 6 a 10d per lb. On SatuiC
day the loth instant, tire business was about 3500
bares. Gu Monday the 17th about 5000, and yes
terday auout 0000 baies. The demand is steady
Ut ‘ h . e accounts of yesterday’s Manchester
iTi.ii ket are gloomy.
The duty on Wheat is now 21s 8d nor Quarter
and on Flour 13s id per banel-nor^Terf U
I P lp sent anj indication of a change. The latter
I th p r n°in ti l m ° nt . h Ihe most part of American Flour
An i 111 th f m.riket was disposed of at 9s per bbl
| ln bond—since when the price has fluctuated he
Ir- f 9S ft “ d ®° s 6 A n * * nowrS dull
| pI bbb Ihe future course of tire Corn
! m,j S t depend mainly on the prospects for
; the next crops. 1
Havre, February 1.
Though our Cotton sales were less numerous in
onrn. ? t r e preceedin S week > consisting of only
2060 bul( ‘ s Louisiana, Georgia, Mobile and Virginia
on the spot, as well as on delivery, yet pr.ces are
more regular. Louisiana went offal 73 t„ innr
ASlff 1 ?9 ~ l ° BU ’ MOhl]e at 83j ’ and V Lginia
.. . February 8.
Our cotton prices have again this week run very
irregular, and our sales yvere composed of 3307
i bales Louisiana of very ordinary to good current
i < l u | li y> on , tbe spot, as well as on delivery at 73 '
to 80*, am SJA 67 f, 768 do ordinary to god „ J
co„ sists of adout S
bales are from the United States! U ’ OUO
Cotton remained neglected f
and our sales ih s day took 1045 bales ) ast ,
and Georgia C. S. out ofthe marke In
Bugars as our holders decline seDine- "tr *
curre.i .. llue setting, notlnng oc
quest ’and t° n \ ™ conU **y continues in re
fr. in bond." ~ la ° AVCIe p!aced at 61 ito 68£
The transactions in cotton
first part of the \yeek were again carried on with a
great deal of activity, and from the Bth to the 1 It!
mst 10031 bales on the spot as yvell as on iilvl
were on the following terms disposed of—inferior
84 t0 d1 94/ y r aD ordinary Louisiana at 7s 81
? 4 t( ? , *»Georgia at 74 to 84, Mobile at 81 o-’
149 bales ordinary to good ordinary Pernambuco a’t
102*, to 105, and 13*i bales do do 8t Dommgo at so
to 90f. It must, hoyvever, be observed that our
market still has a very uncertain appearance and
many holders to whom present prices seem too
low 7 not to leave room for an improvement, decline
to sell altogether.
Fresh imported were during the yveek 19941
bales from New Orleans, Mobile, Savannah <fec
and our present stock, as far as yve are able to as
certain, may be estimated at about 78,000 bales of
which 70,000 are from the United States.
Hamburg, February 11.
Cotton remains still neglected, and those from
the United States, of wliicii very little is noyv re
maining in our market, only sell in small parcels
for local consumption. 200 halesSSurf,a f , however
yvere taken at 5 sch, against yvhich we received 2uo’
bales Georgia, from C harleston.
31ARIXE INTEIXIGENCe7“
Savannah, March 10
Arrived. —Bark Lagrange, Doano, Nexy- York >
Schr. Mary Reed, Gray Philadelphia ; Ship Cellar
Porter, N. York ; Ship Persius, Rowen, Havre; llru’
Mary Ann, Curtis. Providence ; Steamer Cherokee.
Gould Augusta ; Steamer Lamar, Cresswell, Au
gusta.
Cleared. —Ship Burgundy, Lines, Havre; Schr.
Crescent, Short, Philadelphia.
Went to Sea. —Schr. Foster, ColcolJ, Boston;
Schr. Crescent, Short, Philadelphia.
Charleston, March 12.
Arrived yesterday.— Brig Yeoman, Gooding, To
hasco; C L brig Buenos Ayres, Stuart. New York;
schrs Joseph Marsh, Poland,Attakapas, (La.) Mes
senger, White, Bath; Mandarin, Webster, Balti
more.
At Quaranti? c— Line ship Congarc e, Doane, Bos
ton.
Cleared —Brigs Monaco, Wording, Marseilles
, Emma, Fernald, Havana.
AUMmiSTH VTOR’S SALE.
be sold at the court house in M e riweth-
V V er county.on the first Tuesday in May
next, in pursuance of an order of the Court of Or
dinary o f Richmond county, Lot No. 7, in tiie se
cond district of said county of Meriwether the
property of Reading Wood, deceased.
March 5, 1840. SAMUEL HALE, Adm’r.
CLOCKS, WATCHES, & JEWELRY,
No. 242 Broad street, near the United States Hotel.
T be subscriber havincr
bought out Mr. John fi!
U Murphy, now offers, at the
j.jJ % old stand > a rich and fas,,.
A ..X f lona ble assortment of GOLD
/ I T* patent
)L 1 levers, duplex, r.
/' v ' Vn T . ■ EPIXE and VERTICAL
—Wr fA- WAICHES, ol the most
approved manufacturers-
also, line MANTEL CLOCKS. A general assort
ment of JEWELRY and SILVER WARE, yvitli
a variety ol other articles, which Ire will sell on
reasonable terms, and respectfully solicits a share
of public patronage. G. C. GORDON.
(Pj tdocks, Watches, and Jeyvelry repaired,
feb 1 yv2m
From an acquaintance of six years with Mr. G
C. Gordon. I cheerfully recommend him to my 7 old
( customers, as oeiug yvortny of tlrcir confidence and
patronage, and respectfully solicit tor him a share
of the same. JOHN 11. AHJRPHY.
T.N. POL LLAIN & SON inform their friends
, and the public generally, that they have
received by late arrivals, and are now opening a
fresh and general assortment of GROCERIES* at
the stand formerly occupied oy Clarke, McTeir k
Co., immediately opposite the Globe Hotel, and yvill
be pleased to fill all orders sent them.
Ail Cotton confided to theircare will be sold free
of commission.
A sto k of Scull Shoals Manufactured Goods
w-il! be kept constantly on hand.
j dec * 2 wt 1 may
STOLEN from the subscriber on the 12th day
of May last, one GOLD LEVER WATCH
imitation double case; raised eagle on tire dia' Fn
gine turned, chased edge, D. Brothers maker, Liver
the Creek nation, Alabama, and bonds for titles for
three other pieces of land. The above, yvilh a va
riety of clothing was stolen one mile from Ham
burg. supposed to be stolen by- negroes belongin' 7
in the vicinity of Hamburg. 1 will give a liberal
reward lor the watch or papers. Silversmiths are
particularly requested to keep a lookout for the
said watch, JOHN T. WIBE
dec _ 3myv*
rpO CONTRACTORS.—The Committed
X Streets yvill receive Proposals until the Ist
day ot April next, to pave the side yvalks of Jack
son street from the Kail Road Depository to Broad
street.
Also, lor - materials sutficicnt for pay-in - the cen
tre drains leading trom Broad street, to ”be of the
l est hard bunn 'nick—the quantity necessary yvill
be made known by application to the Committee.
G. F. PARISH,
WM. M. D’ANTIGNAC, {-Com.
C. B. HITT, S
_march2 W 4w
HIGH SCHOOL.
P JOHNSON proposes opening his School again
• ° n Monday next, live doors below W. K.
Kitchen s. Druggist, on Broad street. He w-ill in
struct in all the branches taught in the Male Acad
emies ot this state. The hours of school yvill be
from .) to 12 am, and from 2t05 p M . His prices
of tuition yvill be—for beginners, or those in Read
ing and Spelling, per quarter, cqj oo
I - or scholars in the primary studies, 800
For all tiie common studie's of an English
education, jq qq
for Latin. Greek, Book-keeping, and all
the higher branches of education, 12 00
v Lustomary prices for yvood—Tuition money to
be paid quarterly in advance. d itwtf jan*3
MULES ASTRAY.
O 1 RAV ED irom the subscriber late in August,
, a / ocd Slzed %bt bay colored Alare Aiule,
about s years old—A’, o, a Horse Mule, Deer skin
color, with considerable white on the breast and
4 mV ai * IZO bcdn r ‘^ e well. Any-person yvho
will return them or give information yy here they
are shad be liberally rewaided.
feb 25 wow a . SIB Li: V.
WHOLESALE.
| 1 L JG LAKIAIER is just receiving from
T.r%. x * ork a very choice selection of STA
PL AA D FAjSCY DR\ GOODS, purchased at
the present very reduced rates, to which he invites
the attention ol country merchants generally-, and
especially the friends and customers of the late La
mer, Whiting & Co. feb 11 —1 wd&4tw
OTICE.— the co-partnership heretofore ex
isting under the style and trim of SMITH 4-
GRESHAM, is dissolved. The business hereafter
yvill be attended to by JOHN L. GRESHAAI.
Social Circle, Feb. 24, 1840. w j m
the true pom ah e divine.
N 1 ENS[\ EL\ used in Europe, never before
introduced into America, an infallible cure
and a delightful preventive of Chapped Hands and
Lips, Brc. This elegant article gives a delicacy of
ragranco and that natural healthful appearance to
kn **!» no ot . her Preparation of the kind has been
m ° pi( ) duce - It immediately removes PlM
i?J]r7?i^o? ISagreeable ERUPTIONS, pie
and SCA7DB S f , r , om . tuniin g bl ack,cures BURR'S
. ALDS a^llevmting pain, and preventing
l>/?p2 lso e xeeedingiy useful for SORT
■ ' in valuable is this compound lor
every inconvenience to yvhich tire skin is liable,
wii!inS ie r Wh °- h , 3Ve proved its benefits will ever
willingly be yvitnout it.
(,bls; ' es 25 and 50 cents each, with
11 particulars, and directions for use. Forsaleby
ROBERT CARTER, Druggist,
Broad si. and at
„ T - H. PLANT’S Bookstore.
1 re certificates ot its successful application
may be seen. june 2i swtf_
IVr o^. L T Ali person * indebted to the estate
T n 01 harles M. Curtis, deceased, fate of t hat"
ham county, but formerly resident of Aug«-' t3 >
Richmond county , are requested to make
to the undersigned, and those having claims
him, are requested to hand them in, duly attested,
within the time prescribed by law.
, JAMES R WEBSTER,
March 11, 1840. Qualified Executor-