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POETRY.
A PARTING SONG.
BY MRS. HEMANS.
When will ve think of me my friends?
When will ye think of me?—
When the last red night, the farewell of
flay,
From the rock and the river is passing a-
way—
When the air with a deep’ning hush is
fraught,
And the heart grows burden’d with tender
thought
Then let it be!
When will ve think of me, kind friends?
When will ye think of me?
When the rose of the mid-summertime
Is fill’d with the hues of its glorious prime;
When ye gather its bloom, as in bright
hours fled,
From the walks where my footsteps no more
may tread:
Then let it be 1 •
When will ye think of me, sweet friends?
When will ye think of me?
When the sudden tears o’erflow your eye
At the sound of some' olden melody;
When ye hear the voice of a mountain
stream,
When ye feel the charm of a poet’s dream;
Then let it be! %
Thus let my memory be with you, friends;
Thus ever think of me!
Kindly and gently, but as of one
For whom ’tis well to be fled and gone;
As of a bird from a chain unbound,
As of a wanderer whose home is found,
So let it be!
From the Vermont Chronicle.
WHAT IS LIFE LIKE?
Like the shadow that declineth;
Like the transient flash that shineth;
Like the dreams with night that vanish;
Kike the pleasures pain doth banish;
Like the joy of love in fleetness,
[Butoh! how unlike its sweetness;]
Stranger such was life to me:
Shall it not be such to thee?
Like the broad and boundless ocean; ’
Like the billow’s ceaseless motion;
Like the deep and silent river;
Rolling on its course for ever;
Like the mine’s exhaustless treasure;
Like the gulf no eye can measure;
Stranger, sucli is life to me:
Must it not be sucli to thee?
ANECDOTE OF A DUELIST.
There is a French general, a man
man of fortune and of a highly respec-
able family, who lfas fought an almost
incredible number of duels. 'It is a
positively certain that he has killed as
many persons as forty in different du
els; and he is\novvn "to be so excellent
a shot, that he can cut off the snuff of
a candle at any distance to which' a
pistol will carry. Being conscious of
this advantage, he values himself upon
it, and will challenge upon the very
slightest provocation. As,,however,
his character became known, he was
avoided as much as possible; even the
cafe he frequented lost some of its
custom in consequence, and such per
sons as could not help seeing him there,
studiously endeavored to take their
meat on the other side of the room.—
One day, by chance, there came in a
stranger—a very fine young man of a-
bout twenty-two years of age: he was
sittingwvith a newspaper in his hand
when the General entered, but not in
the seat he usually occupied, and
therefore could not be said in any way
to interfere with him. But the Gen
eral was in a humour for defiance,
and perhaps at that moment was in
want of something by way of exite-
ment. He walked up to the young
man, and looked at him with an air of
great impertinence. The other, how
ever, was intent on his news, and did
not observe him; but there was next
a loud hem, and he raised his eyes.—
The impertinent look was continued.
The youfig man, at a loss to compre
hend it, made an involuntary gesture
of surprize. “What do you mean by
that?” said the General: “surely I
may look at you if I think proper?”—
“Undoubtedly” replied the other;
“but I thought you was offended.”—
“Perhaps I might, when I had a great
lubber like you before my eyes,” re
turned the General, in a contemptu
ous and teasing tone. The young man
was perfectly astonished: but a lit
tle anger could hardly fail to be
mixed with his reply. “Surely 1
have as much right to sit in a public
cafe as yoursqlf,” said he, “in faith,
have you? A pretty fellow, truly!”
retorted the General, in the same ir
ritating manner. •‘Aud I shall contin
ue to sit here as long as it suits my
convenience; so I beg that I may not
be annoyed,” added the young man,
with a decided tone, and some slight
judication of warmth. “Mighty fine!”
said his tormentor, laughing at the
same time in his face, and expressing
2J muclt cwitampt as he could by an
appropriate shrug. The poor fellow
begau to ioso his patience at the wan
ton and inconceivable insult to which
he found himself exposed, and he be
gan to express his resentment. All
he said was anwered in a vexatious
manner by the General, till at last he
upbraided him in no very measured
terms. The General then replied—
“As you have thought fit to be so an
gry, young gentleman, we had better
settle the matter t.o-morvow morning.”
They accordingly exchanged cards,
and the meeting was appointed.
The young man left the cafe, as may
be imagined, in some agitation; and,
when he reflected on what passed, he
could hardly believe that it was a re
ality. He seemed rather to have suf
fered from tin* delirium of a fever,
than to have passed through an actual
scene; U19 affront he had received was
so totally unprovoked and cause
less, that he could hardly persuade
himself it had absolutely 0 curred;
he could not bring himself to believe
that he was now standing in jeopard)
between life and death. In the mean
lime, his friends had heard of what
had happened, and gave him addition
al information respecting the person
who had challenged him. They told
him of his character and exploits, and
too truly convinced him that, accord
ing to the usual mode of firing, he
•could have no chance of his life. He
was of course unwilling to tight with’
the odds so fearfully against him' f and,
being the party who received the
challenge, he resolved to avail him
self of the customary privilege of
choosing his weapons. lie therefore
proposed, that one of the pistols should
be loaded and the Other unloaded, and
that each parly should choose them
while they were covered with a nap
kin. The General consented. Ac
cordingly they inet on the appointed
ground, and each drew his pistol.—
The young man by right was to have
the first fire. He tired- His had
been the unloaded pistol. The gen
eral walked up to him, and tauntingly
showed him his pistol. He held it up
—turning it in all directions—boasted
of his skill—asked him how far off he
would wish him to stand. “For it is
all the same to me,” he said; “you
may choose your own distance; I am
quite sure of you. Perhaps, indeed,
people might say it was a pity; you are
certainly a fine young fellow; you have
only just begun the world, and might
perhaps do something in it. I have
half a mind to let you go. Hey, what
do you say to it? shall I? Do you
think you are worth more than
my powder and shot?” He went
on in similar strain for about five min
utes, playing with his victim as a cat
does with a mouse, and holding him in
suspense, just vibrating between life
and death—sometimes directing his
arguments towards the one, and some
times towards the other. The sec
onds concluded that it was all a jest,
and it was a sort of justifiable tormen
ting. The young man congratulated
himself on his escape; when the Gen
eral put his pistol close to his heart,
pulled the trigger-—and he fell down
dead at his feet.
This General may he seen almost
every day in the most fashionable part
of Paris; and he is pointed out to stran
gers by the words “ Voila i' assassin.
MAXIMS AND REFLECTIONS.
From the Ladies Magazine.
Good humor is like the light which
spreads every where; though like the
light, too, it pleases most where it is
least looked for. To carry on the re
semblance, like that it will be some
times obscured;but like that also, we
cannot bear its being long absent. *
Starts of petulence may be forgiven
to prosperity; fits of fretfulness are
natural to affliction; but what can he
pleaded for harboring a passionate or
peevish temper, easily provoked, and
hardly pacified.
Where an easiness of temper is par
ticularly prevalent, and the heart is
uncommonly susceptible of warm e-
motions in the way of love and friend
ship, there, without question, a pecu
liar strain of prudence and fortitude
is required to prevent a young person’s
being betrayed into great inconvenien
ces and dangerous tendernesses.
Those who have a just sense of
their own infirmities and failings, will
be naturally of a forbearing and for
giving temper. The reverse of this
is the offspring of pride. There is no
act of kindness, no instanco of conde-
scensipn, which the self-diffident are
not ready to perform.
Roughness and ferocity in man we
often overlook, and are sometimes di
verted with them: they always hurt us
when we find them In a woman. A
loud voice, bold gestures, a daring
countenance, and every mark of brave
ry may please in the former, when his,
courage is particularly called forth;
but in female we wish to see only
tenderness and love reigning: when
they reign, very different effects will
be produced by them.
Female modesty is often silent; fe
male decorum is never bold; and true
discretion dreads every thing the least
ostentatious.
Were women to contemplate the
fatal effects of avarice, ambition, van
ity, luxury) the violence of love, and
the fury of revenge, as appearing in
the ruin of families, the devastation of
provinces, and the fall of empires, they
would, it is to be hoped, be less daz
zled with those objects, and less af
fected by those occasions that are apt
to foment such propensities which, in
their situations, though not so conse
quential to others, are yet many times
extremely degrading, as well as per
nicious to themselves.
They are strangers to human na
ture who would affright the young by
the frown of austerity. True religion
ever was, &ever will be, of the friend
ly kind. It is not zeal, but bigotry
that refuses to make allowance for
juvenile sports and gayer tempers.
Cheerfulness is the most natural
etffect of real goodness; it is also its
most powerful recommendation.—
Wisdom is never so attractive as when
she is arrayed in smiles.
A wife ought in reality to love her
husband above all the world.
Great are the hazards which a young
and handsome woman has to run who
enters too deeply into a life of gaiety.
The grave part of the world will cen
sure her conduct, as arising from the
levity of her mind; and the dissolute
will form schemes for lier destruction
of that innocence which is the only
true foundation of cheerfulness or vi
vacity.
The world’s good opinion is neces
sary, as well as our own, to make us
completely happy; but they must not
be equally esteemed: those only have
a sincere love for virtue, who adhere
to it as strictly when disgrace follows
it,as if popular applause & the greatest
rewards were to be the consequence.
I11 others it only shares the heart with
vanity. Approbation will give pleas
ure to every person, but it should be
looked upon as a valuable effect of,
not as a worthy motive for, a virtuous
action.
If a man and woman do not truely
love each other, where can the pros
pect of felicity he in the marriage
state? They mqy, perhaps, be equal
ly amiable; yet, from a dissimilarity
of sentiment, tfiey may not experience
happiness. It is necessary that a co
incidence of opinions shoold subsist, to
create the harmony of souls.
his servant took the opportunity to At- *Why, the snake kiUtt was a mero c*.
tempt discovering the object, of her tail dealer to the catcher.
master’s study. Her attention was
engaged by the furnace, in which
A Faithful Physician.—“I do not
profess,” said a physician, “to be a
religious man myself; indeed, my
practice seldom allows me an oppor
tunity so much as to hear a sermon:
but 1 make it a rule never to allow a
patient to remain ignorant of his dan
ger; though by my adherence to this
rule, I have, in numberless instances,
incurred the displeasure of my best
friends. I will give you an instance,
which occurred hut a few days ago. I
was consulted by a lady, who was hro’t
from ; and I saw her case was
hopeless. I therefore said, “Madam,
do you wish me candidly to give you
my opinion of your case?” Sh& start
ed, shuddered and was silent. I re
peated my question; and she replied
“Why, yes; I came to you for that
purpose.” “Then, Madam,” said I,
“I am sorry to have to say, that I be
lieve nothing can be done for you. I
do not. know to what denomination of
Christians you belong, but my advice
to you is, send for one of your Clergy,
and make the best of his advice and
attentions during the few days you
have to live.” She replied, “My
pain is too severe to allow me to think
011 those subjects noW.” I called, in
a day or two, and I saw that she was
dying; and was just in the same state
of mind. I therefore said, “Madam
do you know tha’t you are dying?”—
She replied as before, “My sufferings
are too severe to allow n\e to think of
preparing for death now!” and, alas!
she died.”
THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE.
The following curious circumstance
occurred a little time since at Tot
tenham. A person who had misspent
his time in search of the philosopher’s
were several substances. Her cu-
riosty in ’need her to stir and try to
bring out some of the materials with
a very large spoon, which was always
used at dinner. To her great confu
sion and surprise; it melted and fell to
bottom. Terrified by the circum
stance, she llevv from the room. Her
master soon returned, and on extin
guishing his chemical fire, was de
lighted to find a mass of pure silver in
his furnace. Now he imagined he
was successful m the great object of
his past life, and that he should soon
realize a fortune by converting the
baser into pure metal; and, on the
strength of this idea, he invited a large
party to dine with him the next day,
lor the purpose of communicating his
good fortune. He did not sleep all
that night, for joy. The next day he
saw his table decked with the most
costly viands; his friends congratulat
ed him on every side. In the midst
of this triumph he missed the large
silver spoon, and asked where it was.
The servant now confessed she had
been induced to try to extract the ma
terials from the furnace with it, and
that it melted from her hand. The
poor philosopher turned pale—the
harmony of the day was disturbed—
his friends retreated—and he still lies
in a disconsolate state.
ANOMALY OF VISION.
A child 7 years of age, the son of a
distinguished artist, commenced tak
ing lessons in drawing from his father;
but it may be imagined how great the
parent’s surprise was, at finding all
the objects which the child represent
ed upside down. It was first
supposed that the child might be prac
tising this inversion of objects in joke,
but he afirmed that he drew the ob
jects as they appeared to him; and as
the drawings were, in other respects,
very accurate, there was no reason
’for doubting the child's word. Every
time the object was turned, before he
took a sketch of it, he represented it
in the natural position, showing that
the sensation received by the eye cor
responded perfectly with the inversion
formed on the retina.
This state of vision continued more
than a year, after which time the
child began to see objects in their na
tural position. Many analogous cases
have been observed; a very distinguish
ed lawyer, for instance, saw, for some
time, objects inverted; the houses ap
peared to him to rest on the roofs—
men to walk on their heads, &c. This
aberration of vision depended on a dis
turbed state of the digestive organs,
and disappeared with the cause which
gave it origin. Doctor Wolloston, af
ter considerable exercise of body and
mind, suddenly found that he could
see but one half of the figure of per
sons whom he met, as well as •ther
objects which came before him. Dr.
Crawford relates the history of a wo
man who was attacked with a slight
hemiplegia of the left side, who, from
that period, could see but half an ob
ject, not even after the power of mo
tion had been restored to the paralys
ed side. Another person had, for sev
eral years, a derangement in the right
eye, to which every single object was
represented multiplied seven or eight
times. [Lancet.
SNAKING EXTRAORDINARY.
Franklin, (Tenn,)
July 18.
We have been informed by two re
spectable gentlemen, that some time
about the 4th of the present inst. per
haps on that very glorious day, a man
by the name of Hicks living in the
noighborhoed of Nolcnsville, this in
co. caught, on some small wager, 15
snakes in about twice that number of
minutes, from a neighboring stream
called Mill Creek. He had what he
called a diver to assist him, whose du
ty it was to turn over the rocks, when
woe betide any unfortunate water
Moccasin (no matter how great his
size, or how terrific his appearance)
who was lurking below: quick as tho’t
Hicks would jfouncc upon him; nab
him some where near the head, and
by no very friendly pressure cause
him to opefi his mouth, when he would
bind him with some convenient strip
of pawpaw bark round the under jaw
and proceed on in the hunt. We have
heard of a man living in one of the new
counties of the Western District, who
killed one hundred in a day, and pro
nounced it “no great snaking at that.”
Truly after the late exploit of Hicks,
Advantages of an empty purse.—Peo?
pie may talk as they please about in-
dependence. Your only real inde-
pendant man is he of the empty purse.
What is the rise or fall of stocks ts j
J im. What cares he for commercial
ailurcs? What for commotions, reJ
volutions, the decline and fall of em
pires;—Nothing. He smiles at the
robber by night and the tax-gatherer I
by day, and regards the exciseman and I
pick-pocket with equal indifference.
Arnold.—Arnold, who on the cap,
ture of Major Andre, had escaped, |
was immediately appointed a briga*
dicr general in (he service of Great |
Britain. But, though his new com-
paions had wished to profit by the I
treason; they viewed the traitor with-1
contempt.—“What treatment,” in
quired Arnold from a British officer,
“am l to expect, should the rebels
make me their prisoner,” “They
will cut off,” replied the officer, “the
leg that was wounded at Saratoga,
and bury it .with all the honors of war
but,- having no respect for the rest of
your body, they will hang it on a gibu
bet”—Grimshaw' , s United States.
A well drawn Conclusion.—Abulle-
da, the Arabian philosopher of the de
sert, being asked how he came to
know there was a God. “In the same
way,” said he, “that I know, by the
prints that are made in the sand,
whether a man or a beast has passed
before me. Do not,” he added, “the
heavens, by the splendour of the stars;
the world, by the infinity of the waves
that it rolls, sufficiently make known
the power and the greatness of their
author?”
Travelling Dentists.—A writer in
the Albany Daily Advertiser, who
signs himself a sufferer, cautions the
public against a set of persons gene
rally called “travelling dentists,” and
who are frequently grossly ignorant of
their business, and exorbitant in their
demands. He says—“One of these
gentlemen, now in this city, charged a
lady, a few days since, only seventy*
five dollars for setting three t teeth; an
other $20 for tivo; a third $25 for
plugging two teeth and scraping the
rest, (about one hour’s labour;) and a
gentleman $30 for merely scraping
teeth!
The “New York Mirror for Trav
ellers” states that the city of New
York contains one hundred churches,
one hundred lottery offices, six thea
tres, twenty-two banks, good and bad,
forty three insurance offices, solvent
and insolvent, one university, one aca
demy of arts, one Athenium, one pub-*
lie library, two medical colleges, &c.
&c. and is also renowned as an : eaU
ing city,’ containing at least a thous
and cooks, who are “eminent in the
science of gastronomy.”
stone, having left his laboratory open wo are inclined to the same opinion
Figure of Speech.—The Editor of
the Yankee, after exposing one of Mr.
Walsh’s plagiarisms from Burke—re
marks, “He might as well hope to
hide a thunderbolt in a snow-bank, as
one of Edmund Burke’s thoughts in a
page of Robert Walsh, Junior, Es
quire.”
HYPOCRITICAL DEVOTION.
A preacher who kept a huckster
shop; was heard one day to say to his
shopman, “John, have you watered
the rum?” “Yes.” “Have you sand
ed the brown sugar?” “Yes.” “Then,
like good Christians, let us go to
prayers.”
REQUISITES FOR GOING TO LAW.
A lady asked an old uncle, who had
been an attorney, but left off business.,
what were the requisites for going to
law; to which ne replied: Why,
niece, it depends upon a number of
circumstances. In the first place,
you must have a good cause. Second
ly, a good attorney. Thirdly, a good
counsel. Fourthly, good evidence.—
Fifthly, a good jury. Sixthly, a good
judge. And lastly, good luck.
IIOW TO AVOID DANGER.
“The best way,” Said Sir Boyle
Roche, “to avoid danger is to meet %t-
plump.”
FORGETFULNESS.
A rogue asked charity, on pretence
of being dumb. A lady having asked
him, with equal simplicity and humani
ty, how long he had been dumb, he
was thrown off his guard, and answer
ed, “Five years, madam.”