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we descried an army in motion, as if leav ing by the gate opposite to the one in front of us. . It was once more the unseizable enemy who had slipped through our hands from the Niemen to that Moskowa, and who was plunging into the east. At that moment, as it the French army, eagle like, had spread out its two wings, Eugene Beaubarnais and Pouiatowski ex tended beyond the city, whilst Murat, whose movements Napoleon watch ed with increasing anxiety, reached the ex tremity of the suburbs without any deputa tion presenting itself. The Marshals then gathered about him, deriving their anxiety from his anxiety.— Napoleon beholding their clouded brows and wistful looks guessed that his thoughts were the thoughts of all. “ Patience, pa tience,” said he, “ those people are so savage that they perhaps do not know how to sur render.” In the meantime Murat had penetrated into the city; Napoleon, no longer able to resist his impatience, sent Gourgaud after him; Gourgaud galloped off, entered the city and joined Murat just at the moment when one of Milarodowick’s officers was declaring to the King of Naples that the Russian General would set fire to the city if his rearguard were not allowed time enough to retire. Gourgaud galloped hack and conveyed the news to Napoleon, whose reply was, “ Let them go; I want all Mos cow, from the richest palace to the humblest hut.” Gourgaud went back with the answer to Murat, whom he found amidst a party of Cossacks who were gazing with astonish ment at the embroidery of his rich polonaise and the plumes decking his cap. Murat in formed them of the armistice, gave his watch to their leader, his trinkets to another, and, when he had nothing more to give, borrow ed the watches and lings of the aids-de-camp. Meanwhile the Russian army, sheltered by this verbal convention, continued to eva cuate Moscow. Napoleon stopped at the gate, still expect ing that some of its inhabitants would come out of the enchanted town. No living being appeared and every returning officer utter ed the strange words, “ Moscow is desert ed.” Yet he could not believe them, he looked on and listened ; it was the solitude of the desert—the silence of death. He was at the gates of the city of Tombs—it was Pompei or Necropolis. Nevertheless, he still flattered himself that, like Brennus, he would find either the army at the capitol, or the senators magna nimously awaiting his arrival on theircurule chairs. To prevent any from escaping from Moscow who had not such right, he ordered the city to be surrounded on one side by Prince Eugene, and on the other by Ponia towski; the two armies spread along like a crescent, and enveloped Moscow. He then ordered the Duke of Dantzic and the Young Guard to push on, and penetrate to the heart of the capilol. At length, after delaying his own entry as long as he could, as if he would still doubt what his own eyes beheld, he determined on passing the Dorogonstoff gate, summoned to him his secretary inter preter, who was acquainted with Moscow, ordered him to keep close to him, and whilst advancing towards the deep silence which was only interrupted by the noise of his steps, he put questions to him about all the deserted palaces, monuments, and dwellings he beheld before him. Then as if afraid to venture into that modern Thebes, he stop ped, alighted from his horse, and took up a temporary abode in a large inn which was abandoned like the rest of the city. Scarcely had he stationed himself there when his orders succeeded one another as if he had just pitched his tent in a field of battle. He felt the want of combatting a solitude ; and silence to him was more aw ful than the presence and ftucus of an army. The Dukede Trevise (Mortier) was appoint ed Governor of the Province, the Duke de Dantzic (Lefebre) was ordered to ocaupy the Kremlin, and take charge of the Police of that quarter, the King of Naples was to pursue the enemy, not to lose sight of them, to pick up stragglers and send them to Na poleon. Night came on, and as it came Napoleon grew as gloomy. Some carbine reports had been heard in the direction of Koloma gate ! It was Murat, who, after marching nine hundred leagues, and being present in sixty actions, and crossed the capitol of the Czars as lie would have done a village, and overtaken the Cossacks on the Wladi mit road. Some Frenchmen were announc ed, who had come to solicit their Emperor’s clemency. Napoleon ordered them to be brought in, anxiously questioning them, thanking them in some measure, for having come to him with news; hut at the first words they uttered he frowned, flew into a !>assion, and gave them a denial. They re ated indeed strange things. According to them, Moscow was doomed to dcsti action : Moscow was condemned by the Russians themselves, by its own sons, to fire. It was impossible thought he. At two in the morning the news arrived of a fire having broken out in the Commer cial Palace, or the finest quarter of the city. Rostopchin’s threat was being realized, yet Napoleon still doubted it; it must be the imprudence of some soldier that had caused the conflagration. With this belief he is sued order after order, and despatched mes senger after messenger. Daylight came without the flames being extinguished, fora Strange circumstance, no where had any engines been found. Napoleon then has tened in person to the scene of his disaster. It was the fault of Mortier—the fault of the Young Guard ; all arose from the impru dence of the soldiers. It was then that Mortier turned the attention of Napoleon to a closed house which was kindling by it self as if by magic. Napoleon sighed and slowly ascended with drooping head, the steps leading to the Kremlin. He had at length reached that desired ob ject of his enterprise; in front of him stood the ancient residence of the Czars ; to the right the church enclosing their tombs ; to his left the Senate’s Palace; and in the background the lofty steeple of Ivan Weli koi, whose gilt cross, beforehand destined by him to be substituted for that of the In valides, commanded all the domes of Mos cow. He entered the palace, and neither its architecture, the vast and splendid apart ments which he went through, nor the mag nificent view of the Moskowa, with a world of houses, golden domes, silver cupolas and bronze roofs, could rest him from bis reverie. It was not Moscow lie had in his grasp, but its shadow, spectre and phantom. Who was it that had kindled it? On a sudden lie was told that the fire was extinguished, and he raised his head again. It was another foe vanquished, his fortune was still that of Cresar. Reports succeeded one another. Accoiding to them the Krem lin arsenal contained forty thousand Eng lish, Austrian and Russian muskets, a hun dred pieces of cannon, a quantity of lances, sabres, aimors and trophies captured from the Turks and Persians. At the German gate 400,000 lbs. of gunpowder, and a larg er quantity still of sallpetre, had been con cealed in isolated buildings. The nobility had abandoned their five hundred palaces, hut those palaces were open and furnished, and would be occupied by the supeiior offi cers of the army. Some houses, which had been deemed empty, would be opened; they belonged to the middle classes of so ciety, and they would tame or attract others. Lastly, we had behind us 250,000 men, and might await winter. With spring war would revive, and with war victory would return. Napoleon fell thus asleep betwixt con tending apprehensions and hopes. At mid night the cry of “ Fire !” was again heard. The wind was from the north, and the fire had broken out towards the north. Thus chance seconded the flames. The wind drove them to the direction of the Kremlin, which they approached likeaburningstream. Already did the sparks fly to the palace’s roof, and fall amidst a park of artillery sta tioned under its walls, when the wind shifted to east. The flames changed their direc tion—they extended, but removed to a dis tance. Suddenly a second fire kindled in the east, and advanced like the first, pushed by the wind. No further doubt could lie en tertained ; it was anew scheme of destruc tion adopted by the enemy, and the evidence Napoleon had so long shrunk from began to gnaw his heart. Fresh columns of smoke and flames soon arose from various parts. The wind being still uncertain, and constantly shifting from north to east, the conflagration enveloped the Kremlin from all sides. At every mo ment torrents flowed from those streams of fire, which spread in their turn. It was no longer a fire, but a sea of flames—an im mense tide, even ascending towards the foot of the Kremlin walls. At night Napoleon beheld with terror the fiery tempest; there his might expired and his genius was conquered. The sun rose over the furnace, and daylight exhibited the night’s disaster. The fire had accomplish ed its enormous circle, driving the workmen before it, and drawing nearer and nearer to the Kremlin. Reports then succeeded one another, and we began to ascertain who were the incendiaries. In the night of the 11th, the very night of the occupation, a globe of fire had fallen upon Prince 1 roubetskol’s palace, and set fire to it. It was no doubt a signal, for at the very moment the Exchange was on flames, and at two or three places the con flagration mode its appearance, kindled by the tarred lances of Russian police soldiers. Howitzers had been concealed in almost all the stores, and the French soldiers, in light ing them to warm themselves, had made them explode, so that the howitzers had kill ed the men and set fire to the houses. All night had been spent by the men in flying from house to house, and in seeing the house they were in, or the one they were entering, spontaneously inflamed without any visible cause. Moscow was evidently doomed to complete destruction. Napoleon was then compelled to acknowl edge that the fires simultaneously kindled at a thousand places were the woi k of one and the same will, if not of one and the same hand. He wiped his forehead, whence the copious perspiration flowed, and uttering a sigh, exclaimed, “ Voila done comme iis nous fotila guerre ! La civilization of Saint Petersburg nous a trompes, et les Russes modrenes sont toujours les ancieno saythes!” He immediately ordered all who should he seized kindling or stimulating the fire, to be tried and shot; the Old Guard occu pying the Kremlin were to stand to their arms, and everything was to he kept ready to quit a city which had been sought from so great a distance, and on the occupation of which somuch dependence lmd been placed. An hour after the Emperor was apprised that his orders had been executed—some twenty incendiaries bail been shot. They had avowed that they were to the number of nine hundred, and that before evacuating Moscow, the Governor, Rostopchin, had concealed them in the cellars in order that they might set fire to all parts of the city. They had faithfully obeyed his commands. In that hour the flames had made further progress ; the Kremlin looked like an island cast into a sea of fire. The atmosphere was loaded with burning vapors ; the glass of the Kremlin’s window, which had been closed, cracked and fell to pieces; the air was filled with ashes and dust. At that moment a last cry was raised of “ The Kremlin is on fire !” Napoleon grew pale with anger. Thus even the ancient Palace—the old Kremlin, residence of the Czars—was not sacred to those political Erostrates; at least he who had set (ire to it had been seized. He was brought before the Emperor. He was a soldier of the Rus sian police. Napoleon questioned him, when lie repeated what lias already been said. Each bad his task allotted to him; that entrusted to him and eight of his com rades was to fire the Kremlin. Napoleon drove him out with disgust; and he was shot in the palace court itself. The Emperor was then earnestly urged to quit the palace where the fire pursued him, but he would resist still the evidence he had before him, clinging to his will, and neither refusing nor submitting. He re mained deaf, inert, and in consternation, when all at once a vague rumor of the Kremlin being undermined circulated about him. At the same moment wereheard the cries of the grenadiers calling for him. The news had spread among them ; they would a<D ®m3EIB St HI 33® SHEILA SIT* have their Emperor, and declared that if lie came not to them immediately they would themselves bring him. Napoleon at length made up his mind. But how was he to get out ? So much time had been lost that no outlet was left. The Emperor ordered Gourgaud and the Prince de Neuichatel (Berthier) to ascend to the Kremlin terrace and strive to discover a passage. Several ortlovnance officers were also ordered to explore the neighborhood of the palace for the same purpose. All ea gerly obeyed, the officers rapidly descending all the stairs, and Berthier and Gourgaud ascending the terrace. Scarcely were they there when they were obliged to cling to one another ; the violence of the wind and rarefaction of the air wcie such that they could not resist the commotion; it was im possible to see any thing but an ocean of flames, without apertures or limits. They returned and made their dismal re port to Napoleon. He then no longer he sitated ; at the risk of rushing headlong through the flames, he rapidly descended the north stairs, on the steps of which the Strelitz had been massacred ; but on reach ing the court no aperture was discovered— the flames blockaded all the doors—it was too late. At the moment an officer hastened up out of breath, covered with perspiration, and his hair half burnt: he had found a passage : it was a dosed posterngate, which must open upon the Moskowa. Four sappers rushed to it, and shattered it with their axes. Na poleon advanced between two walls of rocks; his officers, marshals, and guard followed ; to retrace his steps would now be impossi ble—he must go on. The officer had been mistaken ; the pos tern-gate opened not on the river, but into a narrow street, which was blazing. Napo leon set the example, and l ushed foremost beneath an arcade of fire; all followed, deter mined to die with him. There was no more road, no guide, and no stars. They walked at random, amidst the crackling of the flames and falling roofs. All the houses were burning or burnt down, and from the windows and roofs of all that still stood the flames rushed forth in pursuit of the fugitives; beams fell, melted lead flowed in the kennels—everything was burning; some of the fugitives fell, suffo cated for want of air, or crushed under the falling wrecks. At that moment the soldiers of the first corps, who were in search of the Emperor, appeared almost in the middle of the flames; they recognised him, and whilst ten or twelve surrounded him, as if to defend him against an ordinary foe, the others walked before him, crying, “Patici! parici!!” Five minutes alter Napoleon was in safety,amidst the ruins of a quarter burnt down since the morning. He then dashed between two rows of vehicles. He asked vvbat wagons and caissons they were. The answer was that they belonged to the Ist corps park of artillery, which had been saved. Every vehicle contained thousands of pounds of gunpowder, and fire-brands lay between the wheels. Napoleon ordered the road to Petroskoi to be taken : it was a royal chateau, situate outside the city, half a league from St. Pe tersburg gate, in the centre of Eugene’s cantonments. There were his head quar ters to he henceforth established. Moscow burned two days and two nights more ; at length on the morning of the third day the flames entirely disappeared, and through the smoke, which covered it like a mist, Napoleon could behold the blackened and half consumed skeleton of the holy city. ———g—a m 0 ® © IE !L L A INI Y □ A NIGHT WELL SPENT. BY H. It. ADDISON. Every society, every ship, every corps, every grade has its established butt. Paid, liveried fools have given place to the fool, par excellence , of the present age, the easy, good-natured fellow, who takes every jest kindly, every practical joke as a matter of course, and almost fancies himself slighted when no one condescends to turn him into ridicule. Jemmy Thomson was a griffin (i. e. new comer from Europe,) and Jemmy was a goose. Jemmy, however, was one of the best tempered fellows alive, so every one played off their tricks upon him. Now it so happened that a ship bad just arrived in Diamond harbor, on its way to Calcutta from the Levant, and, as the plague was said to be raging at the latter place, the said vessel had been ordered to perform strict quarantine for forty days. The sen tries on shore had received orders to shoot any one who dared to land from her, and, under pain of death, every one was forbid den to approach her. Os these circum stances Jemmy was profoundly ignorant. Our friend Jemmy hud annoyed several of the members of a reading club in Cal cutta, by daily seizing the (the daily paper,) and pestering everybody to know if the “ William and Mary,” a ship which he had reason to believe was bringing him out some Madeira, had arrived ? Tlius stood matters, when one day, on his entering the club, and making the usual in quiries, Captain Molloy quieliy arose, and assured him that the wished for vessel had arrived, and was even now lying down at Diamond Harbour, taking care to describe tire exact position in which the tainted ship was moored. Jemmy ran home, ordered his palanquin, and arrived that evening about eight o’clock at his semi-sea-port. Impa tient to convince himself that his treasure had arrived, he did not hesitate, even at this late hotir, to order a boat, and instantly caus ed himself, to the no small surprise of the persons who looked on from shore, to be rowed to the plague-stricken ship. When he approached near her, a person from the deck desired him to keep off. This Jemmy did not understand. He had no idea of having taken all thistiouhle for noth ing, so he drew still yearer; nor was it till he was assured that his boat would be sunk, and the fact explained to him that the vessel had just arrived from Turkey, that he con sented to sheer off. When, however, lie ‘ learnt these little facts, he was just as eager to return to shore as he had been to board the merchantman. What was Jemmy’s honor and indigna tion on beholding, as he approached the strand, a musket levelled at his head by a sturdy sentinel, who swore, intolerably round terms, that if he attempted to set foot on shore, he would instantly blow out his brains. “Here’s a go!” quoth Jemmy; “and, pray, why am I to be thus treated 1” “ You come from a plague-ship ; my or ders are strict; advance nearer, and I fire.” Under these circumstances Jemmy thought it would he better to retire ; so he ordered his dandies to pull up the river. Here, how ever he was instantly stopped. If he at tempted to force his way up, a gun, protrud ing his ugly head through an embrasure in the fortress, was instantly to be discharged at him. The boats of the board of health forbad him, on peril of instant destruction, to proceed down the river. What was poor Jemmy to do ? He had but one chance. He quietly approached a man-of-war that was lying at anchor. Seemingly unobserved he came close to her, when, lo ! a sudden re port, and a ball knocked off his hat into the liver! Jemmy roared loudly. His boatmen took the hint, and sheered off. What was now to be done ? Thomson had neither had sifjin nor dinner. He had no covering for his head, no place of shelter. The weath er was stormy; the waves began to knock him about, and bring on sickness. It was the rainy season, and the poor little fellow was drenched to the skin. Yet here he must remain, here abide, or run risk of being sent into the next world by a musket-ball. He certainly did not relish either alterna tive; but alas! “ Necassitas non habet leges.” A!1 the night, and until noon next day did our wretched little friend remain exposed to the elements, rowing about in despair, fear ing that, like the flying Dutchman, he was destined to cruise here for ever. About noon oneof bis quizzers, perceiv ing the scrape be would be in, obtained an order, by which Mr. J. Thomson was al lowed to land. The little gentleman instant ly called his facetious friend out, and shot him through the leg, inflictinga wound which lamed him for life. Jemmy himself was laid up with a severe rheumatism and ague for nearly three months, and the whole affair finally turned out, like every other practical joke, a subject rather of sorrow than of fun. The Scotchman's Advice to his Daughter, on leaving Home for a Boarding School. — Now, daughter, ye liae just four things to learn in Edinburgh : you hae to learn to manage your head, your hands, your feet, and your heart. Your head will require a little redding up, baith outside and inside. It is not the bobs and curls, the ribbons, and the knots, the gildet kames, and the toppins o’ weel sleek it up hair, that are to stand the test for life; and yet these area’ becoming in their places. But there is something else required. Ye maun leant to think foryour sel, and act for yoursel, for you canna always have your mother and me to act fur you.— You maun learn to calculate and weigh not only your own actions, but your motives of action, as well as actions or apparent mo tives of those with whom you have to deal, and stick aye by that, my child, o’ which you are sure never to he ashamed, either in this world, or in the one that’s to come. If ever ye be spared to he a wife, there will he mair depend on your head than your hands ; hut yet you are nae the waur o’ be ing able to cook your family a neat dinner, and make yoursel anew gown at orra time, or a frock to a bit wee ane. But now for the heart, daughter ; that is what requires the maist care, and the maist watching ower of all, and there’s nought else that I am sae unqualified to gie advice in. Keep it aye free o’ malice, rancour and deceit; and as to the forming of any im proper connections, or youthful partialities, it is sae dangerous at your time o’ life, that no advice nor guardianship can countervail. I maun therefore leave it entirely to your own discretion and good sense. I might have mentioned the management of the tongue, as another, and a separate point of attention; hut it is a mere machine, and acts only in subordination to the head and the heart; and if these are kept in pro per order, the other winna rin far wrang.— But dinna be ower the matter punctual about catching the snappy English pronunciation. It looks rather affected in a country girl to he always snapping at the English, and at the same time popping in an auld Scot’s phrase that she learned in the nursery, for it is impossible to get quit o’ them. But mind aye this, my child—that good 6ense is well faured and becoming, in dia lect it be spoken ; and ane’s mother tongue suits always the lips ot either a bonny lass or an auld carl the best.— Ettrick Shepherd. Swimming Masquerade. —A letter from Berlin, dated August 3, which we find in the New York “ Courier des Etats Unis,” says: “On Wednesday morning last, we were witnesses of an exhibition probably unex ampled in modern times, at least in Germa ny—a swimming masquerade. It was got up by the pupils of the Royal Swimming School of Berlin, to celebrate the twenty fifth onniversary of the foundation of this establishment, which, up to the present time, lias produced in all 23,360 skilful swimmers. “ At five o’clock, 1200 swimmers, for the most part military, assembled in the grand court of the barrai ks of the infantry of the guard; and after having been addressed by Messrs. Ziiichen & Scholtz, professors in the school, repaired to tents pitched on the hanks of the l iver Spree, for the purpose of dressing for the sport. At eight o’clock there swam out into the river the following procession: A large flat bottomed boat, transformed into a bower, in which were four numerous military bands, performing favorite musical pieces ; a car in the form of a sea shell, containing Neptune, his hair and head formed of sea weeds, and armed with the trident, the car being drawn by six dolphins and surrounded by nereids and tri tons, the latter blowing trumpets and heat ing symbals ; a numerous troop of Ameri can Indians, their head dress with brilliant feathers, their necks and arms adorned with necklaces and bracelets of coral, and seve ral of them armed with war clubs; Scotch- ‘ men, Norwegians, Spaniards, Italians, and Russians in their national costumes; Bac chus mounted on a gigantic barrel, crowned with vine and ivy leaves, and brandishing his thyrsis, with which he directed the move ments of a bundled bacchantes swimming around his throne and executing grotesque evolutions; the king of the frogs, represent ed by a frog of enormous size, reposing on a car of sea-weeds, and followed by two hundred sailors in their appropriate costume, singing national hymns. “ The extraordinary celebration, which was favored by delightful weather, attracted more than forty thousand spectators, who traversed eilher on foot, horseback, or in vehicles the banks of the Spree, or sailed along the river in boats tastefully adorned with flags, flowers, and garlands.” Scientific. —A fact of great interest has been proved by the borings for Artesian wells in the suburbs of Paris, viz: that as we go towards the centre of the earth, the temperature increases at the rate of about one degree for every fifty feet. That the whole interior portion of the earth, or at least a great part of it, is an ingenious ocean of melted rock, agitated by violent winds, though I dare not affirm it, is still t endered highly probable by the phenomenon of vol canoes. The facts connected with their eruptions have been ascertained and placed beyond dispute. How then are they to he accounted for ? The theory prevalent some years since, that they are caused by combus tion of immense coal beds, is perfectly pue rile, and is entirely abandoned. All the world would never afford fuel enough for a single exhibition of Vesuvius. We must look higher than this ; and I have no doubt that the whole rests on the action of electric and galvanic principles, which are constant ly in operation in the earth. We know that when certain metals are brought together, powerful electric action is evolved, and a light is produced, superioreven in effulgence to the splendor of the sun. Now, if a small arrangement produces such results, what may we not expect from the combinations of those immense beds of metals to be found in the earth 1 Here we have the key to all the grand phenomena of volcanic action. Illustration on a small scale, may be seen in an instrument called the themso-electrical battery, made of zinc, bismuth, and antimo ny, packed in a box and varnished. In this, heat is evolved below, while the top is cold; and here we have the very case of the vol cano, when in the interior a fiery ocean is heaving its surges, while its peak is capped with everlasting snows.— Professor Silli man. TVtfr.—Voltaire thus expresses himself on the subject of war: “A hundred thou sand mad animals, whose heads are covered with hats, advance to kill or he killed by a like number of their fellow mortals covered with turbans. By this strange procedure they want, at best, to decide whether a tract of land to which none of them have any claim, shall belong to a certain man whom they call Sultan, or to another whom they call Czar; neither of whom ever saw-, or will see the spot so furiously contended for: and very few of those creatures who thus mutually butcher each other ever beheld the animal for whom they cut each other’s throats! From time immemorial, this has been the way of mankind almost over all the earth. What an excess of madness is this ! and how deservedly might a Superior Being crush to atoms this earthly ball, the bloody nest of such ridiculous murderers!” American Credit Abroad. —From the Pa ris correspondent of the National Intelligen cer, vve observe that in the pleadings on a trial which took place in that city, against M’lle Ellsler, for a breach of her contract with one of the Theatres, allusion being made to her having received here an aggre gate sum of 740,000 francs for 178 perform ances, it was remarked “that the Ameri cans might have reserved some part, of it for their European creditors /” Richly do we merit this severe sarcasm. The prostrate condition of American credit abroad lias be come a by-word and reproach through infi delity at home. And yet the people rest as easy under it as though all was fair in poli tics ! When the Roman name was impeach ed, a Roman citizen felt it burning in his cheek like a leprosy : we vaunting Yankees merely write it down to profit and loss in the ledger !— Daily Advertiser. Multicaulis Paper. —An interesting, and, as far as our information extends, novel dis covery, has been made here, to wit, that pa per may be made from the leaf, of the fa mous morus multicaulis. The idea, we un derstand, originated with Dr. P. C. Spencer of Petersburg, and it lias been carried into practical effect by Mr. William Miller, the superintendent at the Mgtoaca paper mill, near this place. Dr. Spencer favored us with some sheets of new paper upwards of twelve months ago, and this is the secret to which we have playfully alluded once or twice in this paper. The discovery is inter esting, and there is good reason to antici pate that it will prove of extensive r public utility. Great credit is due to Dr. Spencer and Mr. Miller for the prosecution of a hup py idea to so successful a result.—Peters burg (Va.J Statesman. The Boundary. —The Woodstock Tele graph states that Major Graham, Captain Talcott, Lieut. Mead and Messis. Aylmcs and Glass, American Commissioners, passed through that place on Wednesday last, on their way to the St. Francis and head waters of the St. John, to make an exploratory sur vey of the new line of boundary. The Telegraph expresses the hope “that the Government will not manifest their usual dilatoriness in this matter, but take immedi ate steps to procure such information as may be necessary for the guidance of such per son or persons as may be appointed to run out the line conjointly with the Commis sioners appointed by the American Govern ment. Hard up. —A western paper in default of ink has to be printed with tar. They must have tar-nation hard times in that region ; or the editor must be atarr-iff man ! A poisoned. Spring. —Some one is writing to Mr. Gwin, Representative in Congress from Mississippi, giving him an account of a poisoned spring of water that had been, discovered in the unsettled part of the Slate of Arkansas. One report says, “ Some hunters, on arriving at the place, being thirs ty, a part of them drank of the water, and were immediately affected, and in a few hours died ; upon which the rest became alarmed, and refrained from drinking ; an j on examination, they found the earth f or 8 mile or two around the spring, strewn with hones of birds, beasts, and some hunim bones.” . n The New York Herald states that Mr Tyler “has a plan in contemplation, by which the currency, the tariff, the public lands, distribution, assumption, and all the financial questions questions connected with the general and State governments may be finally presented to the next Congress and forever settled on the most stable basis’ and most just and honorable principles, to all in terests and all parties.” Suicide of Hr. Peters.— This gentleman, says the New-Yo.k Taller, of the I7th ulti mo, well known as the manufacturer o r Pe ters’ Bills, and Medicated Lozenges,’ was ound in his room on Sunday morning, dead hanging by the neck, to the bed bo dy partly lying on the floor. He has recently met with severe losses in some coal speculations, and became some what involved, hut not seriously. Enough however, to produce a state of derangement’ in which he put an end to his own existence I he cause of his death may he considered a curious and uncommon one in this com munity, being a morbid sensitiveness to debt. TH E H iyj M© [& 0@ T „ Be always ns merry ns ever you can For no one delights in a sorrowful man. CC/ 1 ’ Spoons, of the Sunday Mercury, re cently turned off some very good poetry from his machine, but getting tired of the work, he directed his Strieker to trv his hand, who had not ground out more than five or six lines, before crash went the ma chine, showing that experience and genius are as necessary in grinding poetry as in grinding coffee, or music on a barrel-organ. After Having turned off the stanza of the longest measure,to the tune of the “Exile of Erin,” Spoons remarked to bis assistant “Now try yourself, Nimrod, without my feeding the machine, and perhaps it may produce something better,” upon which Nimrod took hold, delighted with the idea, and went off at a canter, just as might have been expected of such an ambitious youth, especially as it was his first effort. We give the result. Cliekerty ClncWiy, Whiekerty whnckeriy Off we go: Ripping and tearing Cursing and swearing— Fire below !r s n Thumbing and th a ■= i g Tearing a -a clash n in n g , “ Hold up ! hold up ! I thought so,” cried Spoons, “ another smash! Now, ye see, Nimrod, when vve have a plain, common job of doggerel on hand you may possibly manage it yourself w ithout my assistance; but when we come to the fine, fancy touches, it takes me —and I can’t, hardly.” V efind this in the Cincinnati Microscope, about A valuable Boy. —What “ can you do 1” asked a traveler of*a country urchin whom he saw in front of a farmer’s house, tickling a toad with a long straw. ‘* O, I can do mor’n considerable, I rides the turkeys to water, milks the geese, cords down the old rooster, puts up the pigs tails in papers to make’em curl, hamstrings the grasshoppers, makes fires for flies to court hv. Keeps tal ly for dad and mammy when they scold at a mark, and cuts the buttons off’ dad's coat when he’s at prayer in the mornin !” “ Will you marry me ?” said on eccentric looking youth, sticking his head under a girl’s bonnet last Sunday morning, in the St. Louis cathedral. “Yes, I will, cuss your ugly pictur, just as quick as you knows on,” said the girl; and the young people were married.”— N. O. Picayune. Pedantry rebuked.. —A young student, vain of his Latin, was invited by a seafaring uncle just returned from a long voyage, to pay a visit to his ship. The lad, to parade his learning, pointing affectedly to the wind lass, asked, “ Quid est hoc 1” His uncle, who though lie had gathered a little Latin in his youth, scorned any ostentatious dis play of it, took a twist of tobacco irom his mouth, and gravely presenting it, replied “ Hoc est quid.” hew Medicine. —We intend soon lo offer to the public anew article in the medicine line, which is bound to take the shine off all the patent pills and medicated lozenges in the universe. It is nothing more nor less than the Compound Extract of Sand Paper, for scouring out foul stomachs, brightening rusty ideas, and giving a keen edge to the appetite. Technical Remark. —A printer observing two bailiffs pursuing an ingenious but dis tressed author, remarked, “ that was anew edition of ‘ The Pursuits of Literature,’ w bound, but hot-pressed.” “ Pray, Miss C.,” said a gentleman the other evening, “ why is it that ladies are so fond of qfficers?” “How stupid)” replied Miss C., “ is it not perfectly natural and pro pet that a lady should like a good offer, sirt” A little further. —“ Put out your tongue a little further, ma’am, if you please : a lit tle further still.” “ Why, Doctor, do you think that a woman’s tongue has no end !” cried the fair invalid.