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POETRY. From the Philadelphia Casket. THE VICTIM. “Hand me the bowl, yc jovial band,” He said—“ ’Twill rouse my mirths” But conscience seia’d his trembling hand, And dash’d the cup to earth. He look’d around, he blush’d, he laugh’d He supp’d the sparkling wave-, In it he read—“Who drinks this draught, Shall dig a murderer’s grave!” He started up, like one who slept, And trembled for his life; He gaz’d around; his children wept; He saw his weeping wife. In his deep dreaip he had not felt Their agonies and fears; But new he saw them as they knelt. To plead with prayers and tears. But the foul fiend her hateful spell Tlrewo’er hiswilder’d mind. He saw in every hope a hell; He was to reason blind, He grasp’d the bowl to seek relief, No more his conscience said: His bosom friend was sunk in grief, His children begg’d for bread. His peace, his fortune, and his fame, “ ft; lhame, From him'were doom’d to part; of si His orphans were the heirs His wife, a broken heart? Through haunts of horror and of strife. He pass’d down life’s dark tide; He curs’d his beggar’d babes and wife; He curs’d his God—and died! ■gas; the spot whence it was discharged.— By the trepidation which it spread tar and wide this enormous master- piece of pyrotechay at least bespoke the gigantick schemes of conquest on which the grasping mind of its owner was intent. This cannon, together, with two smaller pieces, which discharged balls of 1G0 pounds weight, was subsequent ly employed at the siege of Constanti nople, where it was stationed opposite the gate of St. Romans, which was afterwards denominated the “Cannon- gate,” a name it has retained to the present day. It consumed two hours in loading, and, on the first day, was discharged seven times, the eighth firing was on the second day, when it gave the signal for an attack. Tho’ it afterwards burst, and destroyed its founder, it was speedily repaired and continued to be used seven times a day, hut without producing the effects which had been anticipated from it.— Von Hammer's History of the Turks. ENORMOUS CANNON. One Orban, a Hungarian metal founder, having passed over from the Emperor’s into the Sultan’s service, received so mauy gifts and sich a li beral-appointment from bis new mas ter that had lie been offered but a fourth part as much by the Greek mi nistry, he would never have dreamed of quitting the imperial city. Mo hammed inquired of him whether he could cast a cannon capable of crum bling the walls of Constantinople? “It is in my power,” replied the Hunga rian, ‘to cast a cannon of any calibre that is desired, and grind the walls of Constantinople and Babylon into pow der; I will answer for my science ex tending thus far, but 1 cannot pro nounce to what extent the shot will range.” The Sultan gave him dircc tions to proceed with thecasting, but not to trouble himself about the range of the shot, which should be subse quently determined. As a specimen of his skill, Orban cast a cannon foi the -great tower on the Bosphorean Channel, and a trial of its range was made upon the first vessel which sail ed past without hauling in her sails.— A Venetian ship, commanded by one Rlci, was made use of as a target, and afforded satisfactory evidence of the perfectness of the casting, as well as the range of the shot. It was struck, severed asunder, and sunk.— The captain and thirty of his crew escaped the dangers of the turbulent current in a boat, but, on reaching the shore, fell into the hands of the Turk ish garrison. They were loaded with fetters, and brought before the Sul tan at Didymotichon; by his orders tho sailors were beheaded, the captain impaled, and their dead bodies ex posed to rot in the open air. This barbarous scene was witnessed by Du- cas the historian, who was a resident at Didymotichon at that period. Mohammed was so perfectly satis fied with the founder’s skill, and the result of the trial, that he directed the construction of a prodigious bat tering piece, twice as large as the first; in fact the largest which is recor ded in the annals of the “tormentorum ballicorum.” It vomited stone balls, twelve spans in circumference, and twelve hundred pounds in weight, was moved with great difficulty by fifty pair of bullocks, and was committed to the manipulation of seven hundred men. When the casting was completed, the piece was transported to the gate of the palace Dechthannuma (or the spectacle of the world,) a lofty pile which had just been finished at Adria noolo; and on this spot it was, for the first time, loaded with infinite trouble. Notice was then given to the inhabi tants that it would be discharged the next morning; it was feared that without such « warning, the terror oc casioned by its report might have been attended with the most disastrous ^consequences. The morning dawned, the piece Was fired off, an immense cloud of smoke enveloped the whole city, its thunders were heard for sev eral hours in the ditance, and the shot buried itself a fathom deep in the ground, at the digtapoo of a mile from CITY OF EXTENT OF THE CANTON. The Canton Register remarks, that foreigners in China are prohibited en tering within the walls of cities, ex cept on special occasions, but that there is no law against their walking in the suburbs. They are, however, by usage, limited to very narrow bounds. These bounds have been oc casionally passed, and Europeans have several times extended their walks a- round the walls of Canton. This ex cursion is commonly effected at the expense of an occasional battle with the idle natives, who may be fallen in with by the way, aiul an English Ba ronet ouce paid for the indulgence of his curiosity by being robbed of his watch and clothes. In March last a party of three gentlemen sat out at 6 o’clock in the morning, to make the circuit, and accomplished it with im punity, in about two hours. They es timated the distance te be nine miles. A few days afterwards, two persons sat out for a walk; and were less for tunate. They were violently assaul ted by a rabble of men and boys, and pursued with bludgeons, brickbats and stones, and were obliged to fight and run alternately, for a distance of several miles. iug, contemplates nothing, but his sel fish meals; and in the intervals be tween them, sets apart in his unsocial chair, with a gross and heavy counte nance, and in a state of the most tor pid indifference to all that stirs about him, till another bell lings him to the table. It is the curse of. gluttony,—I do not say its retribution—that gluttonous livers are disappointed in the pleasures which they so much set their eyes on. Their’s is not the healthful appetite of the temperate aud active, but they experience that satiety which is a kind of permanent disgust, The dainty pal ate isjjlike a spoiled eftild, difficult to be pleased in proportion's it is indulged. “Continual repetition" says an English preacher, “wears away the equisite- ness of al| sensual pleasures, and grad ually dulls the most lively delights in to flat and insipid sensation. The most costly opulence, are but bread to him who makes his daily meal up- en them. The cordial that exhila rates the sober, is but a cup of cold water to one who is accustomed to the draught of intemperance. And the softest couch into which languor ever sunk, is only a seat to them who never reclined upon one less soft.”— “Loathsomeness,” says another wri ter, “is next neighbour to fulness, dis eases follow, and death hastens to the mansions of gluttons.” Many have been the preachers against voluptu ousness, but if the moral evils which are written against it in the word of God are insufficient to turn men from it, it is not to be expected that any however forcible exhibition of its phy sical consequences will prove effectu al. It is an awful text for the glutton ous to meditate upon it, in which an aposlle has joined these two things to gether as things which are inseparable —“Whose god is their belly,” and “whose end is destruction.” Christian Spectator. DJSPEPTIC HOURS. “5th 1st mo. 168L This day my, country was confirmed to me, under the great seal of England, with large powers and privileges, by the name of Pennsylvania, a name the king would give it, in honor to my father. I chose New Wales, being as this, a pretty healthy country, but Penn being Welch for a head, as Penraanmoire in Wales, Penrite in Cumberland, and Penn in Buckinghamshire, the highest land in England, called this Pennsylvania, which in the high or head woodland: for I proposed, when the secretary, a Welchman, refused to have it called New Wales, Sylvania, and they add ed Penn to it; and though I much op posed it, and went to the king to have it struck out, and altered; lid said it was passed and he would take it upon himself—nor could twenty guineas move the under secretary to vary the name; for I feared lest it should be looked upon as a vanity in me, not as a respect in the king, as it truly ;vas to my father whom he often mentions with praise.—Poulson. LUXURIOUS LIVERS. “Frugcs consumere nati. ,T Where some come to get rid of themselves, and some to dress and dance, and some for the more ration al purpose of health and relaxation, and for the pleasure of meeting their friends, there are always some who come merely to eat. “There are a number of us creep Into this world to eat and sleep.” I have noticed a plethoric English man among us (whom the servants fa miliarly call lord II.) who slights his breakfast, and foregoes his supper al together, that he may gorge himself at dinner,--a sort of compromise which 1 believe is not uncommon with luxu rious livers. To this one meal he braces his stomach with four kinds of liquors; porter, brandy, and two kinds of wine. He has his own cups to drink it from, which are graduated to his power of enduring stimulus. He knows at the commencement of his feast the quantity of the several li quors he will swallow, having ascer tained by experience the exact ne. phis which he can sleep off during the heat of the afternoon. His servant wakes him at a bidden hour, brings him his boots and takes his slippers, and if the air be good, drives him abroad in his gig, to shake off the remains of his sur feiting and sleep. It is a pity that such beings, who all their lives long render no services to the world, should of all men require the services of oth ers. There is a certain Jew, frorj one of the southern cities, at the house op posite this—one of these monstrous gormands—who, I verily believe, would make it a serious matter with himself, whether he were to die be fore dinner or after; nay, who would dread death itself chiefly because there are notables spread in the world of spirits. It is said that he has spent the last fifteen seasons here uninter ruptedly, being the first to appear in the Spring and the last to leave in the Fall—and that having neither health nor diversion for his object, he uses the Water merely as subsidiary to his faculty of digestion. One would judge from his appearance that he had made up his mind to spend his days between t eating and dozing. He expects noth- From Hook’s “Sayings fit Doings.” Third, Series. , THE LAST TIME. In one only situation can a' man be placed where the awful doubt is con verted into a tremendous certainty— not the sick patient on the bed of death, whose pulse beats faintly, and whose subsiding seems to announce the coming of his release. He may lin ger for hours; lie may recover—the ray of hope beams, and those who love him share his brightness. His hours are not numbered. The sink ing mariner clings to the last fragment of his ill-fated ship, and holds on while nature gives him strength; and as he mounts toppling wave, strains his anxious eyes in search ofassistance.— A vessel may heave in sight; he may be drifted to some kindly shorb; his fate is not decided. The unhappy wretch who alone lives his last day hopeless and in un mitigated misery, is the sentenced convict on the eve ol execution; lie sees and hears all that is passing round him with the terrible consciousness that it is for the “last time.” He beholds the sun gleaming thro’ the bars of his cell, in all his parting brightness, and knows he sees his gold en rays for the “dast time;” he hears the prison clock record the fleeting minute*—how fastly fleeting to him! throughout the night each hour sounds to him for the “last time;” Seven strikes upon the bell—at eight he dies! His wife, % his children, his beloved parents* come to him: he stands a- midst his family in the full possession of his bodily health, and all his ment al faculties. He clasps them to his heart—they go: the door of his cell closes and shuts them from his sight: he has seen them for the “last time.” He is summoned to the scaffold— the engine of death stands ready: he feels the pure air of heaven blow up on his face—the summer sun shines brightly; for the “last time” he sees the green fields and trees, and ten thousand objects familiar to us all.— The cap is drawn over his tear fraught eyes! the objects vanish, never, never to be seen again by him! He hears for the “last time” the sacred word of God from human lips; in another moment the death struggle is ou him; and he breathes for the “last time!” To him'alone, then, is the exit from this world of cares regular and cer tain; in every other case it is a myst ery when the “last time” shall come. From the Pandect. MISS FRANCES WRIGHT. We have received two numbers of the Harmony Gazette, since it was under the control of Miss Frances Wright, and know not how to employ language sufficiently forcible, to ex press our horror of the indelicacy and impiety of the editor. Born in a pol ished circle, and educated in a manner which entitled her to mingle in the most refined society; with talents which ought to have been employed to enlighten the world—she has plunged into unbelief and heathenish darkness; adopted the sentiments of the French school, and set herself up as the priest ess of infidelity and a leader in the van of the impious. Roaming from place to place without a protector, she has given plausible grounds for attacks up on her character, and we very much doubt whether any of the ladies of the Atlantic cities, with whom she once associated, would receive her under their roof. She will live, perhaps, to see the day, when repentance for this course, will bring with it the “sting which never dies.”—Penn. Gaz. In the Gazette, Miss W. labours to impeach the authority of the Scrip tures, as is common with those, who never intend to reform. We give the following quotation as a specimen of her delicacy. “In the days of the Colonists, white men were too few, and a prize might with reason he claimed by the woman who should patriotically have given five children to the weak state. But our exigencies are not so great. Even in America, children come rather fas ter than the means to foed them; much faster than the means to edu cate them. And, seeing that the world, is so active in this way, what if the command to “increase and multi ply,” quoted by Polly Baker, were struck out of the stereotypes? Should indeed the mother of five children tell us that she could and did maintain and educate them well, by her own indus try, the state would be, undoubtedly, her debtor, and why she should be whipped for doing this without the aid of a husband, might require lawyers to show. But what it would require something more than lawyers to show is. how the state is indebted to man tall, the ears set low, and the greatest number of good sizeable! ears of the best quality; let it <W[ speedily, and from corn gathered as last described, plant your main crop, and if any hills should be missing, rel plant from that first gathered, whicb will cause the crop to ripen more re- gularly than is common, which is * I great benefit. The above method \ I have practised many years, & am sat-1 isiied it has increased the quantity,| and improved the quality of my crops] beyond what any person would imagine] wno has qot tried the experiment.” | Dr. Deane observed that “some! recommend gathering seed corn be- ] fore the time of harvest, being ears that first ripen. But It wbuldl be better to mark them and let theta remain on the stalks, till they become sapless. Whenever they are takes in, they should be hung up by the husks, in a dry place, secure from early frost; and they will be so harJ dened as to be in no danger of injury from theTrost in winter.”—N. Em aland Farmer. or woman producing children whom he and she together cannot maintain, and cannot educate. This happens every day, and no one thinks of bring ing the thoughtless animals to justice. Look at this and blush, ye thought less multitudes, who have been run- even on the Lord’s day, to listen to the impious effusions of this Priest ess of Infidelity. What females have made themselves her companions? Let them receive special attention! J. L. W. Pennsylvania.—William Penn, the founder of this state, in one of his let ters to his friend Richard Turner, gives the following account of the ori gin of the name given to the state. SELECT SEED CORN It is highly important that your seed corn should be selected from the best samples which can be obtained, as the offspring whether vegetable or animal will in a great degree partake of the good or bad qualities of the parent.— The following directions on this sub ject are from a scientifick and practi cal agriculturist : “When the first ears are ripe e- nough for seed, gather a sufficient quantity for early corn or replanting; and at the time you would wish your corn to be ripe, generally, gather sufficient quantity for planting the next year, having particular care to take it from stalks that are large, at bottom, of a regular tgper, iiof oyer VINEGAR. The method of making this liquid out of cider, wine &c. is too general ly known to need any description; but it is not so generally known that a ve ry sharp vinegar may also be made out of whey. The method of making it, as described by Mr. Gene, is very simple, “After having clarified the whey, it is jioured into casks with 1 some aromatick plants, or elder blos soms, [as suits the fancy] and expos ed in open air to the sun, where it soon acquires an uncommon degree of acid ity.” Vinegar may also be made Vom the juice of elderberries, mixed with a suitable proportion of water and exposed to the sun, as before mentioned. It may also be made from the juice of the black birch, or of the maple, when either is boiled down sufficiently: or from the juice of beets carrots, turnips; potatoes, &c. when boiled and the juice pressed out, and exposed in like manner.—Farmer's Assistant. sh fcn jf. 1 I Copy of a Receipt for making Yeasty taken many months ago from an En glish Paper. Yedst—This useful article, of which there is frequently a scarcity in this country, is thus prepared on the coast of Persia: Take a small tea-cup, or wine glass fall of split or bruised peas, pour on it a pint of boiling water, and set the .whole in a vessel all night oh the hearth, or any other warm place: the water will have a froth on its top the next morning, which will be good yeast. Mr. Eton, when in Persia, had his bread made with this yeast, and in the English manner, of good wheat flour. In our climate, especially in a cold season, it should stand longer to fer ment, perhaps, four and twenty hours. Of all methods of making Yeast hith erto known, this is by far the most simple and commodious. Quizzing Extraordinary.—A wick* ed hoax was played off a few days since upon the Editors of the politic* al papers in Washington. A circum stantial and apparently well authen ticated account of a “numerous & re spectable” meeting of the citizens of Athens, Ohio, favorable to the “good cause,” was sent te the paper alluded to for publication. This document ornamented with the usual requisites for high sounding names, titles, &c- was published with expression of great satisfaction by the Editors. On in vestigation however, it appears that the whole account w r as entirely ficti tious, and the “venerable chairman, General T. T. Taylor,” is a descend ant of “Africa’s sable race,” and'that the other names belong to little boys from five to ten years of age, who are highly indignant at being supposed to be the partizans of a cause they have been taught to detest t The 11 Old Boy.”*—The last Porta* mouth, N. H. Journal says—-We yes terday saw in our streets Donald Mc Donald, who \a seven'yean older than Dr. Holyoke. He seems much ad dicted to intemperance, for which lie frequently has received correction, with little hopes of reform, however,. He has served in several wars, Near? ly 50 years ago he offered himself for re-enlistment in the American army.^r Washington told him he was too old f and'Vvith a present dismissed him.— Since visiting this town last year, Jms ipys he ha,8 travelled to JJ.afrfc*; *1 *# a *3 -C-2